Name: North Attleborough School Committee | May 4, 2026
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Description: I mean, if you've read those texts that if you saw those news reports after it, it just made me realize that in an emergency in a crisis.

[0:38] I kind of do some bus re-rooting and some stops. So just because we're impacting their traditional pedestrian access, we felt kind of obligated really. I think it's a right thing to do to provide them transportation.

[0:51] So a letter is going to be sent out to the neighbors, probably the next day or two. I have a written and ready to go with all kind of the details behind it, but it's something I just think we're trying to be good neighbors.

[1:03] It's temporary, but it's still three years, and so I just want to let you know if you're

[1:08] getting everything that don't go out, but I think it's a good thing, it's good solution.

[1:12] You want to see what I'll say about it, and it's not really a kind of extended conversation

[1:17] about this necessarily, but you know, in the existing building, there's a lot of memorials

[1:24] and that building, and some of our spaces are named after which were people in town, you know,

[1:32] the name of the Pickering Journal Museum and the theater's name, the Judith Cobb Theater,

[1:37] as people who've committed, you know, some cases decades of service. And so there's always

[1:43] a discussion that I've been through a couple of times in the career that does some new buildings,

[1:49] is we're taking down the old building, you know, a building in a building. So what do you do,

[1:53] you know, what do you do with the names, what do you do with the memorial, or else. And so

[1:56] we've been talking about this for a long time. It carries been part of these current decisions

[2:01] that we're working with level.

[2:04] And so one of the things that I'll say is that I strongly believe

[2:09] that it's not a decision that this school administration

[2:10] should be making.

[2:13] I'm not from North Addero.

[2:15] So I don't know, I don't know if it hits you here.

[2:18] I don't necessarily have a future here.

[2:19] I mean, I hope I have a future here.

[2:20] But you know, I mean, it's not my hometown.

[2:23] So what we did is we engaged with the high school

[2:27] a non-association, that's where we started, and the last month, the last month, we had a meeting

[2:34] with a non-non-association, and we kind of kicked it around, and then we've done a lot

[2:39] of just informal conversations with anybody we can kind of get in front of, and the consensus

[2:46] is this, is that the consensus is to carry over the names to the new building.

[2:51] Because I, you know, T.J. has a more particular way to say this, but the naming isn't really

[2:54] about this space necessarily.

[2:56] You know, it's about their commitment to this community,

[2:58] the commitment to the school community itself.

[3:02] It's not something that really went to a vote,

[3:06] but we addressed it at the school building committee meeting

[3:08] last month.

[3:10] And I, in character, you can agree with it's very,

[3:12] but it was just, I think, broad consensus

[3:15] that it's the right, it's the right move.

[3:17] So that is the, that's the path that we're taking.

[3:21] It's not final final yet.

[3:23] because we have an order to the side and for example, but it's, I think it's going to, I

[3:27] don't know if anybody has a response to that or a question about it, but I would just say it's

[3:31] not something that we felt comfortable, it's not a decision that we felt comfortable making here.

[3:37] So we kind of put it up to the people who have been in this community for their entire lives

[3:41] that have a role in the community trust and so. For us, I just thought it was important to mention

[3:46] Here, because it's kind of a very public public party, but then any questions on that?

[3:54] I mean, I'll just add that I think what's the balance to me was that everybody on the

[3:57] Alumni Association, I was not that meeting, but it was reported back that they were all

[4:01] in a very advanced way to keep these names because they meant so much to North Outerboro.

[4:05] So I think that's what the balance, it wasn't like it was a mixed review, but it was everybody

[4:10] really thought it was the right thing to do in the Alumni Association.

[4:12] 7. Keep the point also made the point at the building committee meeting that one of our

[4:18] high school history teachers, Seanville, Karen, there's a real North Out of Rome historian.

[4:23] It's actually a bit very actively engaged in the project. I think he presented the question to

[4:27] his students and just from his talent, there was also broad concern from the students.

[4:34] Not that, I mean, it's an interesting perspective and it's important, but you know those kids have no

[4:39] idea of the name not.

[4:40] I just think it was presented.

[4:42] OK, why would we strip that away?

[4:45] No matter what, we're going to be recognizing

[4:49] these people in some form of fashion.

[4:51] But it's just, it's almost like a technical decision.

[4:53] It's like, do we just keep the name around you?

[4:57] Do we replace the memorial or keep the memorial?

[5:00] And so, we think it's a great decision just to find

[5:02] a role forward and well, it might not be the exact memorial,

[5:06] and it's going to be in a different space.

[5:07] But everybody who's been honored will continue to be honored and I think that's the that's the take-away message

[5:13] I think it's nice too because you're friendly again

[5:15] Are you giving Judith call the theater worth having name after?

[5:19] Yeah

[5:20] Right and it's actually it's actually honoring someone now versus punishing. Yeah

[5:29] I think that's I just want to kind of let you know that conversation with husband I'm going and I think it's gonna be too

[5:37] But yeah the project's in rich

[5:39] Stay tuned.

[5:48] Thank you.

[5:49] Thank you.

[5:50] Thank you.

[5:50] I just wanted to say a big thank you to Meg and Andrew and Jean for coming to our

[5:54] education meeting.

[5:55] We have 13 districts come to me graduating seniors, the college that are going to education.

[6:02] And it was awesome for me just to be like that for my whole term.

[6:07] And it was also really cool for me to see my students go to whatever has positions and

[6:12] Look at their high school and I want to work in the high school. It was really exciting,

[6:17] energizing. It was warm, like everyone was so excited to talk. It was a big line behind

[6:23] North Outer Girl, from New York to North Outer Girl, from North Outer Girls. So I thought that was

[6:27] something that was really awesome, and it was cool to see. And I was trying to do that, but I

[6:33] thought I was like, it's a cool one right there.

[6:37] So it was really, that was something that was really

[6:39] on a great way to see how our our community is represented outside of, you know, the walls

[6:47] come to the boundaries of our photograph. So it was exciting. And it was good to hear my

[6:52] students' perspectives after as well as we have multiple students who applied to work for this

[6:57] wonderful. So, proud moment. Bye. I just have quick updates as that there's many,

[7:09] many

[7:09] I know on that website, but also I just want to echo your previous comment about teacher

[7:14] appreciation week. I know some schools are celebrating a different week throughout the

[7:18] district, but I know that we are celebrating staff appreciation week to encompass everybody

[7:23] at this wall. I just want to thank all the staff at this wall to see.

[7:30] When I was looking at it, it was started by El Roseville back in 1953, so she lobbied Congress for

[7:38] a national teacher's day, which is tomorrow May 5th, and then the National Teachers Association

[7:44] added the week to it, which is not long enough, but maybe we can expand it. But I thought that was

[7:51] great to learn, because I hadn't. And then we don't have any seniors with us, but I was going to say

[7:57] graduation to our seniors because we don't see them because they graduated for an

[8:02] week. It's just what I don't look at.

[8:05] And that's it.

[8:10] It's also natural and nurses week. So thank you to all of our school nurses who do

[8:15] the women's work of things I would never be able to do with other people's children all

[8:19] they long and love it. They're like the mom to walk the building. So who's the

[8:24] I also wanted to mention May is foster care awareness month and there are over 365,000 kids in

[8:31] United States and foster care. So I know some of the people here have been in juvenile court.

[8:36] I don't do a lot of juvenile court work myself, but it is heartbreaking to watch parents and children

[8:40] be separated from each other regardless of the reasons. I've found this great resource on Facebook,

[8:47] the source of all great knowledge, but this is actually very helpful.

[8:50] is a woman who's a foster care parent, and she talks about the way that she works with her children,

[8:55] and it was very informative to me just to see the struggles that these kids go through,

[9:00] and it's helped me in mind when we work during the day as well, but just it's interesting to watch

[9:05] the struggles that she has to go through as an adult to help all of these kids, um,

[9:10] kind of acclimate to their constantly changing life. And I know we have a lot of foster care

[9:15] kids in our system as well, and a couple of children from McKinney-Vento. And so it's just kind of an

[9:19] interesting watch if you have the time to know it's like so this woman's and it just

[9:23] Laura foster parent partner and she goes from babies up until I think 13 she'll take

[9:30] in her home and then if you watch her you'll kind of go down around with some other people as well

[9:35] there seems to be sort of ages that certain people will take but it's an interesting watch if you have

[9:41] the time. That's it for me. Awesome. I had the teacher appreciation to all of our wonderful teachers

[9:48] this time here. I also just wanted to mention a couple of months there coming up to my night.

[9:54] We do have the Heroes on CPAC Awards. We will invite it. It is from 6 to 7 in the middle school

[10:02] in the Media Center and it is celebrating Heroes in our district and community who have gone

[10:08] above and beyond to support students with special needs. So if you're around tonight and want to

[10:13] this. Please come. It is a wonderful night. I also just want to mention the last seat packing

[10:19] is May 26. It is a virtual meeting at 7 o'clock. All are welcome to attend with me

[10:25] from the bike. We'll be kind of wrapping up the air, which is kind of crazy because the air

[10:31] just started and I'm going to go for some things. I also wanted to mention that the

[10:38] Pantry, the new Lord Pantry is now open. John Toshen, I work at the

[10:44] The Rippen Cutting couple weeks ago now. If you have not seen it, if you haven't seen

[10:50] pictures yet, it is awesome. It is something that I think just brings so much to this community

[10:57] and to the people who are utilizing it. It is basically a mini grocery store and it's beautiful.

[11:05] Honestly,

[11:08] the time and dedication that went into bringing this to our community is incredible,

[11:12] and I want to thank everybody who is a part of that, particularly the town in the YMCA,

[11:19] the YMCA will be overseeing the North Pantry, which is a regional food pantry. It's not just for

[11:25] North Out of our own families, so just to spread the word, it is now open. I believe this week is

[11:35] appointments that are available in Tuesdays and Thursdays. It is open for walkins and Wednesdays.

[11:41] So if you or someone you know is in need of support, this really is such a wonderful pantry that

[11:49] just really eliminates so much. They stigma that can happen with food access. Definitely. And if you

[12:03] I think it was midnight and we got invited to a meeting over at the Y with them, and I don't remember the exact title, but it was with the YMCA USA as director of Food and Security of International.

[12:18] And she had come to do a tour of the little bit, and she was so blown away by the site, and if we haven't got a chance, please go and check it out.

[12:26] what this town is doing, the knowledge of redist system,

[12:30] and by giving people a dignified shop experience,

[12:33] or food insecurity, it was really, like a really,

[12:36] we were just kind of participating as community partners,

[12:40] but it was like inspiring.

[12:41] I think it's the right word for it.

[12:43] And I credit to the town for pulling the Indians,

[12:46] and people like Sarah Stone for pulling this off.

[12:49] It was very impressive.

[12:51] And to get that kind of national lands

[12:53] and that national recognition is something

[12:55] And we should all be proud of, I guess.

[12:57] Yes.

[12:57] And just to add to that too, I was with them earlier in the day two as that group toward

[13:03] the actual country.

[13:04] And just the comments and conversations that were happening.

[13:08] It really is something that is pretty unique to America in general.

[13:15] And it's just something that we should all be very proud of to have an opportunity.

[13:26] Yeah.

[13:26] Wednesday, and I think it's really great that we're taking time both PTOs and also the

[13:32] schools themselves are taking time to really give that attention and deserves. I also

[13:37] last week they had Kyle Cares Day at that falls on May 1st and that was a really nice thing. I

[13:44] think we think about Kyle Johnson and he was a former fall student and getting that message

[13:49] of mental health into the conversation really young in our schools is really great. I also think

[13:55] kids, because my daughter got some questions. I think they had a lot of, there was some like an extra

[14:03] meaning because he was local and it reinforces the need to support and prioritize local

[14:10] organizations that are doing good work because the kids will have connections to them too.

[14:14] You know, and we had the hoop for heart thing for at NAMS and that was very, every gets jacked up about it,

[14:20] but you know, we've set 1.6 million dollars outside of North Outerboro to a national group that raises

[14:25] a billion dollars a year, and then I think about how cares, where it's local, the meaning

[14:29] is local, the money matters, and there's a little bit more of a reciprocal relationship.

[14:34] And so that was just a kind of difference between those two as they were happening in the interest

[14:38] in both.

[14:39] It was really kind of, you know, eye-opening for me.

[14:43] But those are my things, and then I also just wanted to officially in person, welcome Katie.

[14:47] Okay.

[14:49] And I'm the new kid.

[14:50] I'm just going to sit here and be a sponge, and listen and ask lots of questions.

[14:53] So thank you all, very much.

[14:55] Happy to be here, looking forward to getting to work.

[14:58] Thank you.

[15:21] That's a great way of finding all those useful funds. Yes, excellent. Thank you.

[15:28] That's a student, but it's doing well.

[15:31] Thank you.

[15:32] Thank you.

[15:36] All right.

[15:36] So I'm going to move next to subcommittee updates.

[15:39] Last meeting we talked about subcommittees in general.

[15:42] I asked Mary just to put together a Google spreadsheet, which she did.

[15:46] She's sitting here because she's the girl of all things.

[15:49] And put together that spreadsheet.

[15:51] So please go into it and sign up for anything you might be interested in.

[15:54] Even if it's full, just put yourself in there.

[15:56] And I can ship people around and talk to people about what you're interested in.

[15:59] but we do need to fill those just to recall back

[16:03] that there are some that are meeting this year.

[16:05] So I'm probably not until next year

[16:06] trying to do what you can in terms of your ability.

[16:09] And I give questions reach out to me about what's meeting one.

[16:14] I don't think we've had any subcommittee meetings.

[16:16] No, can I kind of go ahead and add one thing?

[16:18] I don't want to make this a disincentive two or one.

[16:22] We don't want to be able to policy something,

[16:23] but we have to get back to work.

[16:26] not our MSC policy updates. We have the midnight and we actually have the meeting tomorrow

[16:31] of the kind of it's a success where we work. For those of you, it will be a bit of it, yeah.

[16:36] But it's withdrawing this thing on, but where we've accomplished quite a bit, we've gone through

[16:42] all of the subjects A to I, which is the bulk of our work, but we just need to bring over the

[16:49] finish line. And so I actually emailed MSC today just to say, hey, just just heads up. Sorry,

[16:54] What was interrupted? We're going to get that done. Great. It's going to be exciting.

[16:59] Can I be almost angry?

[17:01] You can.

[17:03] Good soon.

[17:04] I like calling.

[17:09] Anybody in question?

[17:11] What are the actual items?

[17:12] You looking for a motion to approve the bill's data to April 2,

[17:15] I think it's not 16, 20, 20, 30, 20, 30, 20, 30, 30.

[17:20] So, yeah, I'm going to need the session on the motion.

[17:24] Almost in favor say aye.

[17:25] Okay.

[17:26] Okay.

[17:26] And then the other center.

[17:28] This motion carries over no.

[17:30] I'm going to be looking for a motion to implement it.

[17:31] See that April 8th, 20, 26.

[17:33] So, that's it.

[17:35] And I think the pressure on the motion.

[17:37] I was going to be here today.

[17:42] All right.

[17:43] All right.

[17:44] but not the normal thing, yeah.

[17:47] You can take it to the same as well.

[17:48] You substitute it around.

[17:50] I have the same.

[17:52] Learning.

[17:53] So let's go into the motion here.

[17:57] Next, I'll be looking for a motion to approve the revised language

[18:00] and the north-east get a little perspective.

[18:02] Officials out to our track, Damon.

[18:05] So look, that's epic.

[18:06] Please turn on the pressure.

[18:08] So when we close this back in August,

[18:13] And then revised an April, we outdoor track fees for our started officials, we're transcribed from the original one.

[18:23] Actually, prior to the original one, we didn't actually expect that.

[18:26] That's how we did it.

[18:27] Pay them the talented.

[18:28] Because we'll be another right.

[18:30] These guys will.

[18:31] So, we have to wait till this day to do that.

[18:34] It was just there was a clerk there on our part.

[18:36] So many versions out there trying to make sure we hit everything before the season started.

[18:39] Is

[18:42] this a retro adjustment or is it only we haven't paid any one yet? No, it's for this season right now

[18:48] Just it's for outdoor track. We haven't been able to pay those officials since the start of the season. So

[18:54] It's one to make sure anybody's down here think they're gonna get paid for it. Yes

[19:00] I'm sure you told us before

[19:03] Does this what is this per game for out? Some like some other it's pretty event itself. So boys and girls outdoor track

[19:10] back, they're at the same time, so some of the other, like we'll use a varsity or a baseball

[19:20] umpire.

[19:20] They do the game alone.

[19:21] It's the feet, plus it's one and a half the feet.

[19:24] They don't have that for track, it's everything at the same time, because the locations and

[19:28] venues are so limited.

[19:30] So it's usually have two or three officials, one for running, jumping, field events, et cetera.

[19:38] and then there's one starter,

[19:39] is the version of fire is the gun for all the events.

[19:43] So we'd be asking if we had tired of this.

[19:45] Yeah, just in general.

[19:46] No, I'm not.

[19:47] Let me get through a little bit.

[19:48] Yeah, yeah.

[19:49] Yeah, it's a bit.

[19:50] I'm going to do a picture.

[19:52] That's a good.

[19:53] All good information.

[19:56] I don't have any other questions.

[19:59] I'll go to the papers, they aye.

[20:00] I need to find any of these.

[20:02] I need to find any of these.

[20:03] I don't know.

[20:04] That's the stuff we have discussion on the superintendents

[20:08] Yeah, so just kind of briefly, we, you know, I guess kidding, I knew a new person this year back.

[20:17] We tend to look at my idea of evaluation in June, but as part of that, we'd like to provide kind of an update on the goals that we presented early in the year.

[20:28] and then the evaluation, it doesn't about evaluation instrument that the state has felt that you'll also go through a week and we could talk about that, not tonight, but this is a process, but this is sort of just a snapshot or kind of look back at the work we've done this year.

[20:46] I'm not going to go through one by one, but just to refresh you, we do, we kind of organize it around four goals.

[20:55] one of the student learning goals, one of the professional practice goals, and then the final

[21:01] two were just district and crew of goals. I don't know, that terminology comes from the state.

[21:08] And so in red here, you'll see that we tried to just give you as much background as possible

[21:15] on some of the work we did this year towards these goals. I see this all the time and I

[21:19] I go with Michael's earlier district goals because of the work, you know, and work is to help lead

[21:25] the, you know, lead the district and a lot of this work.

[21:28] For example, the work talk, Pete talked about whether I measured a rocket here in the deep learning initiatives.

[21:33] A lot of it's done by the principles and curriculum coordinators and peanuts.

[21:40] So, you know, they're, they're efforts and ultimately, I don't know how to say.

[21:47] It's like my success or not during our towards the goals.

[21:52] But I think we've got a great year is what I would say just as a start.

[21:56] And just a couple of comments on each one of the people

[21:58] learning initiative.

[21:59] This is not new to anybody at this table.

[22:01] We've been talking about this for so many years now.

[22:04] I'm really, I don't know what the right word is.

[22:06] I think the proud maybe is the right word of like,

[22:09] it is no longer, it is just so deeply embedded in everything we do.

[22:14] And if you go through the bolts and red, everything from our school improvement plans to

[22:20] our professional development offerings, to our monthly faculty meetings, to our PLC meetings,

[22:27] we're talking about deep learning and we're pushing the country.

[22:36] All the time, but it's taken a long time, but I think we're at a point where it's becoming truly part of the culture of the district. The work's never going to end. But this work, it's not even really called out that much of this document, but the vision of a rocket to your work. I have to tell you, maybe some else is doing it. I don't know over another district in the Commonwealth that's talking about what we're talking about.

[23:00] came up, which is making sure that every student pre-cated 12, you know, it's kind of um,

[23:09] it's like we don't have a benchmark for kids pre-cated 12, where a benchmark for, you know,

[23:13] for older kids, and the work we're doing, I think it's going to be a game changer, you know,

[23:18] and I don't know, maybe 10 years ago we were back and we're going to read that for more, it's

[23:22] about things that are just going really well. It feels like I've heard and the one has to do with

[23:25] to this team and make it hurt her team.

[23:30] So I wanted to slowly go through those beyond saying I'm really happy with where we are.

[23:35] The professional practice school, you know, you know, we don't have a brand new leadership

[23:39] team this year, but we certainly have a team that's evolved over the years.

[23:43] Again, I can't be happier from where we are, but we spent a lot of time this year trying

[23:48] a great, really robust, thorough, kind of,

[23:53] meeting, leadership team meetings.

[23:56] We talked about everything from budget,

[23:58] the freshman development, the vision of a raw criteria,

[24:01] teacher evaluation, and that's important, right?

[24:03] Because we want to make sure, and someone else,

[24:05] certainly, we want to make sure that every administrator,

[24:07] every school, is in alignment with our visions

[24:10] and our values and our tools.

[24:12] And so that work this year is really exciting to watch.

[24:16] And our team, and you see them in action here,

[24:18] They're cohesive, they're collaborative, they have fun, they work really hard and that

[24:25] that work.

[24:26] It doesn't happen by accident.

[24:27] It kind of works with a coordinated, really focused effort.

[24:31] B9 and I'd say thank you for begging Gil.

[24:35] We interact with our leadership team on a daily basis multiple times a day.

[24:41] We're not the city of Boston.

[24:43] We're working through problems.

[24:45] We're collaborating on issues big and small.

[24:49] kind of picking each other up, helping each other up, that's the culture, at least that's

[24:54] how kind of why there's some stylists. And I think it's paying dividends.

[25:03] And then

[25:03] the last bullet in that section actually is above the vision of rocketeer. We each and

[25:06] all do this work without the buy-in of the leadership team and the skill of the leadership

[25:13] team to watch them and we've worked all year or now that it can

[25:18] consult and we have them from West Ed. Watching that work kind of kind of

[25:24] come alive is, you know, again, it's inspiring, but it's also, it's

[25:32] all leading to a better educational experience for our kids. So we're in the

[25:36] right leadership team at the place. I just think generally moving in the right

[25:41] direction. Well, we're working really hard to make sure that we have cohesion and everything

[25:47] we do. And I hope you're seeing that, they are. I don't want to go back to a specific thing,

[25:52] but the school equipment plans that you saw. Like, I'm just telling you, just for experience,

[25:58] not in every district, you're going to see a lot of wild variation between school programs,

[26:02] not here. We want to make sure that the work we're doing is valuable and leading towards

[26:08] of growth that are proven instead of just doing a task to do a task to do a task that makes sense.

[26:14] So that works hard and fun and I'm going safety and security.

[26:24] Again, it's work that's never going to be done.

[26:26] And I have to credit P on this one, but the major action here this year, it would talk to both a lot of the fall, is making sure that the entire leadership team is engaged in this work.

[26:39] It's not something that can be done to about the central office level.

[26:43] We need to make sure it's expensive and kind of deep at all levels of our organization.

[26:49] So this year we've developed this very comprehensive safety and security plan.

[26:53] We created these six domains which are listed in here.

[26:56] We have task forces for each of those domains, domains.

[27:00] They've all met multiple times throughout the school year,

[27:03] and they're all assigned with various tasks.

[27:05] And ultimately,

[27:09] you know, I keep going back to this term, but with strengthening, strengthening

[27:12] alignment and consistency across all schools, just in generally, we are never can guarantee

[27:18] you say it, right?

[27:19] The world's kind of scary, but the work we're doing in the area of safety and security,

[27:24] I think is top notch.

[27:25] I just think we've come so far in the last five years, and we're not going to rest.

[27:31] You know, I definitely feel like this could be a goal for the rest of our time.

[27:34] But that particular work kind of a very organic look in a holistic approach to safety security is going to pay dividends no long in the long amount.

[27:46] So, and yeah, we can give anybody a detail on that that you want.

[27:49] One question.

[27:50] Yeah.

[27:51] It's okay to ask questions.

[27:53] Yeah, of course.

[27:54] The frequency and focus of the district safety drills and they additionally noted, what was it before and what's it increased to?

[28:02] Like was it once a year or now it's?

[28:03] Well, here's the thing.

[28:05] And two we really want, really read this thing up

[28:07] a few years ago.

[28:08] It was sporadic, sporadic, except for fire drills.

[28:13] But when we rolled the kind of our new protocol out

[28:16] now four years ago, we hadn't done training in a long time.

[28:21] Things like lockdowns, just approached the violent intrusion.

[28:25] And so now we're doing the multiple times a year.

[28:28] So we've gone from, I don't want to say zero,

[28:31] But especially coming out of COVID, it really stalled.

[28:35] So now we have a very regular rotation.

[28:39] Is that your question?

[28:40] Yeah, and that is each school principle.

[28:42] Just responsible for when those are settled.

[28:44] There is a kind of a line, right?

[28:46] So we give everybody a window.

[28:48] Like we surveyed for the superintendent of the leadership team.

[28:50] Here's what you're going to do.

[28:51] Here are the case studies we're all going to cover.

[28:54] Here's the video we're going to cover.

[28:57] And you want to say one thing about 16 security.

[28:59] So, you've all heard me talk about our protocol which we adopted now four years ago

[29:05] of the four else, and really the four else was just the run-hight and fight-bottle

[29:15] kind of package differently, and we're going to change.

[29:20] We've worked with the Wimbledon Group and the retired chief John Riley.

[29:27] He was a Homeland Security and the FBI and all kind of national security groups.

[29:35] I really adopted run high and fight as the model.

[29:40] Again, the four rels was just that with a different name, but it really struck us as

[29:44] winter.

[29:44] We were talking a lot about this at the leadership team level.

[29:48] When the Brown University shooting happened,

[29:51] when it's a people on the issue team that has spouses working there,

[29:55] and just from what you saw on the news,

[29:58] because they had adopted a run high fight.

[30:00] The messaging that evening from the administration to the community was so clear, it was unhide and fight.

[30:09] I mean, if you've read those texts that if you saw those news reports after it, it just made me realize that in an emergency in a crisis.

[30:20] I don't know how far else protocols, but it would have been hard to message in that actual crisis.

[30:24] And so we're now working to just repackage our package to the run-night fight model.

[30:34] It's not going to take a lot.

[30:35] It's just going to take a little bit of refreshing our safety training videos that we have developed.

[30:40] We're working with that person now.

[30:43] And so next fall we're rolling that out.

[30:45] And so that's going to be our adoptive model.

[30:47] I'm not even going to go to the path, but it's something that may be nervous

[30:51] after that project and say, okay, we really prepared to message it properly.

[30:56] Our kids are trained, our teachers are trained. We know what to do.

[30:59] But in an actual crisis, what do you need to know?

[31:02] Unlike us.

[31:02] And that's our whole lens of security saying,

[31:04] and we have to go to the experts.

[31:06] Any questions on that?

[31:09] Thank you.

[31:09] I have a question just about the CIC, the personal development.

[31:12] What did that cover?

[31:14] We have development.

[31:14] No, that's not that good.

[31:16] Sorry.

[31:18] We just, a large group of us, including our research officer,

[31:20] just went to the one in terms of child prevention for sexual abuse sexual

[31:26] expectation last week. And it was very well done. I think it's called

[31:32] culture respond was the group of them I sent it out to the principal's afterwards.

[31:38] They quite cover quite a bit in a vast changing environment in terms of social

[31:42] media and what our kids might have access to and sort of signs and symptoms that

[31:46] more importantly there's just the different apps and different platforms that

[31:48] on. They also spoke quite a bit around healthy language and appropriate language and how it

[31:54] aligns sort of with health curriculum and what's being taught in schools is sort of almost

[31:58] balanced out some of the unhealthy perceptions that students get by way of being access to social media

[32:04] and then the other presenter was more specific to sexual exploitation of self in terms of what

[32:10] students are posting or what children are posting. We've got we have been an active part of CAC so

[32:17] this school research officer, Melissa Tudigan myself,

[32:19] go to their quarterly meetings too, down in Fall River.

[32:22] I mean, Bristol County, everybody knows it's sort of wide-ranging.

[32:26] But it's been great, I think, just to go and hear some of the presentations

[32:29] whether it's from State Police, FBI, DCF's always there, DMH.

[32:33] So it's a really nice network.

[32:35] We brought CAC into it, also do professional development.

[32:38] So we facilitate a monthly online meeting with administrators, school

[32:44] Just in the council, there's nurses, these VAs.

[32:46] I think you've heard me talk about that.

[32:48] And each year, CAC has joined us to talk about any of the offerings

[32:51] that they might provide students.

[32:53] Other than just forensic interviews for a child who might

[32:55] have experienced tons of level of abuse, so it's been great.

[32:59] And those are all free services.

[33:01] So just for our professionals to know about them,

[33:03] to refer a family who might need to know, like,

[33:05] know your impact is one of their big offerings right now.

[33:08] And so our ministry is hopefully to know that language

[33:11] to suggest to a family of like, hey,

[33:14] with utilization of their device, and so they might refer them to access some of these programs

[33:20] through the Child Advocacy Center. It's great, and it's all free. You have to have a Child Advocacy

[33:27] Center, and they're just a really great resource for our schools to continue to utilize.

[33:34] I can't remember what I put in the document at this point now, so I've got the look that I cover

[33:37] all, just all of it says this is during participation in the CAC professional. Yeah, we've just sort of

[33:42] and what they came to us, they did a whole presentation a couple years ago.

[33:45] So we've just tried to really put more of that around on the nap

[33:48] in terms of that partnership with the CAC and what that looks like.

[33:51] It's great.

[33:53] Just final thing, fourth goal is about MSBA.

[33:55] We talk, you know, the building projects.

[33:57] I mean, I love to work, but I would say it take it is a core part of my role

[34:03] and responsibility right now.

[34:04] It's kind of laughing today.

[34:05] I was trying to put it today alone.

[34:07] And every time that I touch it's project and it's probably like almost

[34:10] between four goals, emails, memos, like all these, and it's a blast, and I would just say,

[34:18] and I said earlier in my regards, but project is in great shape. We're primed for a great success.

[34:24] It's going to be, it's just going to be a blast to watch this thing being filled.

[34:29] And the experience is not kids are going to get, and it's a really exciting time to be working on North Islander.

[34:34] So that project, though, as it should be attended, that is takes up a lot of time.

[34:41] I love every minute of the project. There's a reason it's on the goals.

[34:45] I really appreciate this today.

[34:49] Being at it as evidence for leadership team survey.

[34:52] This is here as evidence, you know.

[34:54] I love this.

[34:55] Yep.

[34:56] That's going to get to you guys.

[34:57] I mean, I'd be glad to put that out in the comments.

[34:59] Yeah, I'm sure you talked about it.

[35:00] Yeah, I think that would be really great.

[35:02] That's what it is.

[35:02] I think that's important for us to see that.

[35:05] I think that's a great piece of evidence to include

[35:08] especially across the professional practice school.

[35:12] So thank you for adding.

[35:17] I remember, sorry.

[35:19] The CIP.

[35:20] I know there was this, we saw the list of 10.

[35:23] But I couldn't, I think we just saw it here.

[35:25] And I'm not even sure if that was the final,

[35:29] what was the final version.

[35:32] But do we have the existing security CIP projects?

[35:35] for next year.

[35:37] We do.

[35:38] Go ahead, please.

[35:39] We had two individual projects that were put together and I was blessed with a global

[35:45] finance company.

[35:46] We were able to unite that result in hopefully $550,000,000, and we could have came to a new

[35:53] exterior and interior of the board, some cameras, a new hardware, new fast skaters, a new

[36:00] safety film, and anything in that round, that will include the exterior of the

[36:05] And Andrew, I think that was important inside of you.

[36:11] Yeah, credit to Chris and Gill, they've been working really hard on this.

[36:15] Chris has talked about, which if we had these pieces of old project, you know,

[36:19] like unspent funds from some old projects and they were really hard to develop

[36:23] a really comprehensive list.

[36:25] And it's a reallocation is really what it is.

[36:28] It's going to allow us, it's going to allow us to tackle the sort of real focus,

[36:33] you know, kind of professional way.

[36:34] We've benefited by the fact that money and already validates in schools, but for a lot of reason now that it wasn't included, we spent a whole, and some cases it wasn't spent a whole, so we feel that it proved, and now we're in the position of the two years to spend a lot of money, but it's not like that, it's great.

[36:55] I want to skip over the FYS 7 project of day, I don't think it's time.

[36:59] We don't think I'll say it's what we're going to find is going to be right out to this and what I'm presenting to them is just a bit of a consolidated version of what you've all seen

[37:09] No changes from from our last meeting with kind of our primary list

[37:15] Okay, next up would be input on future agenda items in such committees that I've never hear right from this up if there's anything that you like added to the agenda certainly just email me or text me or whatever

[37:26] Don't turn it in a group message because then it's

[37:41] The next one is the end of the year calendar of events. So, right now, we're going to have a look at the

[37:51] question.

[37:52] The next one is the end of the year calendar of events.

[38:02] I think this camera is one of just together. Is that right? I just want to give credit where credit is to.

[38:09] Thank you. So this is mostly, it's mostly, it's mostly high school or middle school that used like the district right calendar, but.

[38:17] So I thought it would be good to have all one place. I always feel like it's a new week. I want to remind myself of what we do it.

[38:23] And hopefully we can afford me of who's going to want

[38:27] so that everything gets covered.

[38:30] I certainly can't go to all my own respects, anyone else

[38:32] to go to all of them either, but if we can all kind of

[38:34] cooperate, it may or two makes sense to do Mary

[38:37] and he's doing another Google on where we sign up.

[38:42] Just to make sure because I'm making

[38:43] much people if something's not covered,

[38:45] we can make sure that we're not creating a warm

[38:48] or any sort of issue.

[38:50] So I'm sure if we're sitting at a band concert

[38:52] We're not talking about the budget anyway, but you are just a way to do your job, you can be a bit of tense.

[38:57] Yeah, so we're not talking about the graduation.

[39:00] Yes, we can.

[39:01] You can, but I buy a lot again.

[39:04] So just a reminder, again, now if you are there, we're not, we're not shit chat,

[39:07] and about anything other than, don't they?

[39:09] So I think that's it.

[39:12] I think that's it.

[39:13] I think we have questions about it.

[39:16] I'm always amazed by the amount of stuff that just kind of comes on all at once.

[39:20] there.

[39:27] Alright so next up we'll be a couple of comments and we'll be here. My

[39:31] chairperson report was just about the subcommittees. I think we can adjourn

[39:35] it a little bit early. 6.13 by my watch and we'll be back at 6.30 for a

[39:40] Thank you.

North Attleborough School Committee | May 4, 2026

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