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Welcome everybody. I'm Glenn Pasterchairs, wants a school committee. You are at the regular regular session meeting for Thursday, June 11th, 2026. It is 6 o'clock. We are at Swamp's Good High School, 200 Essex Street, room B-129, and if you are so able, let's please stand for the evening.

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We'll like allegiance to the flag of the United States and the world.

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We'll like, for which stands, we're all the nation in the United States and the world.

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We'll live already in justice tomorrow.

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All right.

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Welcome everybody.

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Special night here tonight.

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And we'll let Superintendent Calichman talk about that.

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Right as I look around the room.

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You see a lot of faces that taught my own kids.

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So, with that, is there anyone here from public comment?

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Don't be shy.

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We live all comments.

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With that, stun silence, we'll say no.

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Anyone online?

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We go?

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No.

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There's no one online, so we will move forward.

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Community comments.

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Yeah.

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Start us off.

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All right.

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I don't have so much to say.

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I know the school year is winding down now.

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I know that all the spring sports that ended.

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The girls I've seen made it very far.

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It was great to see how they made it to the final four.

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And our across-season ended.

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The boys for us ended, as well as the track came to and after states.

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And last night there was Anakasa Awards ceremony.

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And it was really great to see how our students are

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excelling in the academic areas.

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Great.

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Thank you, which is, I think, sports is very important.

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But the academics are what's going to get everybody

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college and go from there. Thank you very much. I appreciate Katie.

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I just want to thank Dr. Palazato and her team for putting on a phenomenal middle school

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science fair. The kids were fantastic. I just loved seeing their enthusiasm and I can't

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read to see what they do with that event. It was great. Great. Thank you Katie. We got

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I'll second up a science fair was a lot of fun to see all the hypothesis that the students

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have and the way that they went through testing them. I also say I was at the farmer's market

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for the grand opening and it was great to see parents and kids just running around and listening

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to them about how much they've been enjoying the school year and all of the communications.

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So hopefully we can keep all of that up, moving forward.

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Great, thank you.

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Rather.

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How does thank you?

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I threw into the middle school science fair, and I just so happy to know that in fact,

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if you drop something on the floor and it stays here a little bit too long,

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it doesn't get that much more bacteria that you can still eat it.

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And I told the staff that my mother always told me it was good to eat a little bit of dirt.

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By the time we do that.

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The other thing I did this week, I'm a member of Shore,

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which is a community committee in town.

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And I just want to remind people

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that the town-pripes celebration

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is this coming Saturday from 4 to 7.

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And I will be scooping Rainbow Shurber Ice Cream.

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The other thing I want to mention is the Frederick Douglass

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speech on July 2nd.

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And I have flyative, would love to have scooping numbers.

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We would love to have families.

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Last year, we had some students.

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and it was so impressive to have the students stand up in the state.

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So I have these here and I'll pass them out later, but not now.

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Thank you.

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Great.

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Thank you, Martin.

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Thank you.

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I just wanted to say a couple words about the great graduation ceremony from Saturday.

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My daughter was one of the graduates, so I was especially happy to be able to present her

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diploma.

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So thank you for the Principal Zotto and Superintendent College for allowing that to happen.

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And I also thought it was great that I saw other teachers be able to hand their diplomas as well, and Doug Glenn with your knees.

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I thought that was a really nice addition to this ceremony besides everything else that was terrific.

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And also just wanted to recognize Scott for her great national anthem.

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It was even where we were sitting, which was hard to hear sometimes.

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We heard her a lot in clear.

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And she did a terrific job.

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So I just wanted to recognize that as well.

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It's just a great day.

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So thank you to everyone who helped make that possible.

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Thank you, John.

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Or me, I'll wait for me.

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Anything else from the group?

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All right.

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I just have a few things for an update.

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One, I do want to call out Superintendent Kalashman, Missato.

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First, I know you're here somewhere.

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First, graduation.

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I thought you guys did a great job.

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It's not easy getting everyone together with the threat of rain.

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You made the early call.

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So, it's a great job for you.

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For the first time, you know, being in charge of that.

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It was excellent.

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Congratulations to the girls.

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It's kind of steam, you know, make it to the final four of the division three states.

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That was that was great, a lot of just great things as we worked wrap up the school year.

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I just want to take just 60 seconds or so and talk about just probably one of the bigger things that has been in the news.

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And that's what's gone on in Epswiction.

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I'm certainly not going to talk about that because if it was here, we would have no comment on that anyways.

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Whatever happened, you know, who knows, I think from me, and I know we talk a lot about athletics here,

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but I mean, I'm going to publicly say that I'm really disappointed with the response from the head of the MIA.

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There are rules that will clear, you know, I read the paragraph, everyone read the paragraph,

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and the director of the MIA said, well, no, it's not us, it has to fall back to the local community,

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and the local schools.

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And I just have such a problem with that.

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We pay into the MIA, every district pays into the MIA.

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I know we could do a lot with that money, personally,

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from an education point of view, to a better,

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gendered, or special education.

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So I would just ask the MIA, de-job.

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If it's against your rules, say it's against your rules.

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If you're going to let it slide, let it slide.

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But don't throw it back on a small district

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who's in the middle of this crisis of however it happened.

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So I want to leave it with that.

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Again, great job in the graduate.

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Thank you.

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It's all he got.

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Do you see there?

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There he is.

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All right.

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At this time, we have some legends of the game here, retiring from the small

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Scott.

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So I'm going to start.

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This is auto.

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If you could come up and start us off.

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Poor you.

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Yes.

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We're getting you and me.

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I'm just going to read the link and I'm just going to go.

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I have had the distinct privilege of working alongside with Peter Franklin this past year as the principal, but have worked with Peter Franklin for almost your entire tenure and certainly mine here as well.

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For almost the last 20 years, to truly understand Peter's impacts, you have to work with the legacy that he has built over the last two decades, it's once got high school and quite frankly, I think it's helpful to look at how he answers his phone.

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If you've ever called this classroom in the school, you didn't get the standard bureaucratic

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boring greeting. You were invariably met with Franklin's Fun House or House of Franklin

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or House of Fun. So I want to share a memory that really sticks out in my mind about navigating

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his house of fun more as a counselor. Working as a school counselor for many, many years,

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one of the roles as a school counselor is to help students facilitate the course selection process,

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So picking their classes for the next subsequent year.

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During course election time, especially when talking

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to 10th graders, rising 11th graders, and discussing

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the possibility of taking either an AP language

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or some years ago American studies, which Mr. Franklin

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has been known to teach over the last many, many years.

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You could see the look on their faces

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of being very visibly tentative.

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They've heard the rumors.

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They knew Mr. Franklin's class were rigorous,

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that is standards were absolutely unyielding and that as classroom was a place of intense

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intellectual challenge, a lot of laughter and students were thinking critically, working hard

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with each other, collaborating, and occasionally sharing a tear frustration. And I say this

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because year after year after year, the counselors would say it to the students. Listen, this is

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going to be tough. You are recommended for you are going to take on this challenge and they're

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going to be part of the year where it's going to be particularly difficult, you're going

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to face challenges, you would never know you were going to face before, and I can guarantee

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you that by June, you're going to sit in this chair and see the same thing that every student

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does, which is that was the hardest, that was the best class I've ever taken in, and undoubtedly

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this was the experience of the Swankah High School students going to Mr. Franklin's classes.

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So you're after year that prediction held true because beneath all of the rigor and alongside

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that, is Peter Franklin's true gift of empowering all young people to find their

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to authentic voices.

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Whether guiding students through the complexities of the AP language curriculum, creating

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an accessible and empowering speech-elective class, or introducing mindfulness activities

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and workshops to help both students and staff help them navigate and increasingly complex

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and anxiety-provoking worlds.

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Peter has consistently championed all of our students growth with profound compassion, and

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this is truly the essence of Peter Franklin.

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What makes him an exceptional educator is that he speaks from a place of immense

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life experience. He's a master of reinvention.

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Long before he arrived in Swamp's guide, he lived a life of many vibrant chapters. He's

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been an English teacher in California, a consultant in Jakarta and Venezuela.

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A lost student in award-winning pastry chef and an entrepreneur. He's a man who embraced

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the art of the pivot most certainly. He lives to learn and to master something new. Fortunately

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for us, his journey led him here to Massachusetts with certainly a nod to your wife, Jacqueline,

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where he connected with former principal Larry Murphy, and then ended up again, reconnecting with his love of really being in the classroom as an English teacher.

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Peter, you have modeled for our whole community what it means to live a life with passion, purpose, and true lifelong learning.

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Given your incredible history of reinventing yourself, I'm absolutely certain that you have a solid blueprint for what's to come next for your chapter.

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And on behalf of the Swamp's High School, thank you for 20 years of unwavering dedication, academic excellence, and for always keeping the house up on open to all of our students.

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We wish you the very best.

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Ms.

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Minzeri.

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And Mr. Nulls, come on up.

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I'm sorry, Peter, did you want to say something?

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You want this is your time to shot and you want no use Mr. Frank said it all along

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Frank on Saturday, but

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No, no, no, no, no, no, come on up. Come on up. Come on

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Sorry about

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think I began my speech with 20 years ago and

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to employ college professor and third year in law student,

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wandered into the principal's office at Swamster High School.

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We had a retirement party last night, and Larry Murphy was there.

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We both regaled in the fact that it was one of the most awkward and awful interviews

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either one of us has ever been in.

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In fact, he had just come off his interview where, on the way home, he'd flown

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his wife and said, there's no way.

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We just checked the box that was not going to happen.

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I said, well, Erie, you did the same thing to me.

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He was 45 minutes late, it was public knowledge.

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I hardly got a word in edge wise.

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And I called my wife, Jacqueline, on the way home,

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saying, I'm driving to Salem State,

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and I'm going to sale, take a couple classes in the fall.

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Next day, the phone call came in.

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I didn't think I was going to be here

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more than three or four years, because as Emily said,

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I kind of reinvent and pivoted some times.

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And I said, well, this is just like the kind of thing

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that I'm going to do in 20 years later, I'm here.

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It has been awesome.

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I had more fun.

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I hope I've made an impact

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and I thank you. I'm very

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I would try that again. Sorry, this was a good role. Come on up.

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I would like to first say that this was written in conjunction in collaboration with the fifth grade team.

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So these are not just my words. Good evening members of the school committee, Superintendent and members of the Swamp Scott community.

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It is an honor to stand before you tonight to recognize and celebrate an educator who embodies

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the very best of swamp-spot public schools.

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Anita Papas.

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Anita is the kind of educator every student hopes for and every colleague cherishes.

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She is kind and deeply invested in the success of everyone around her.

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Anita's incredible journey in swamp-spot began in 1998 as an aid at the former middle.

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In 2001, to transition to teaching fifth grade at the Clark School during what many fondly remember when fifth grade classes were held in the portables outside.

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In 2008, Anita moved back to the middle school as part of a pilot program to integrate the fifth grade. That transition was an overwhelming success, largely because Anita became the cornerstone of the program.

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Beyond her classroom, Anita has been a pillar of leadership for nearly two decades,

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team leader for 19 years and teacher mentor for five years.

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We have been incredibly blessed by her steady guidance throughout shifting administrations,

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field trip planning, and the unprecedented challenges of COVID-19, and so much more.

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While her professional resume is highly decorated, it is Anita's character that sets her apart.

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Not only is she an amazing teacher, but she is also a cherished friend and colleague.

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She has long been the mother hen of her department and great and constantly checking in to ensure everyone has what they need.

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As a fierce believer in collaboration, she has always championed the idea of working as one cohesive unit, making decisions together to ensure fairness and unity for every student.

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When she advocates for her team and her students, she does so with a signature grace and elegance that commands respects.

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Lastly, we want to acknowledge her warmth and width.

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We have shared countless laughs over the years, and her humor has brightened everybody's

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day on the toughest days.

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To say, she will be missed by the Swamp Sound Middle School community as an understatement.

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There is a whole leaving with her that will be incredibly difficult to fill.

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Anita, you are leaving behind a true legacy of excellence.

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Thank you for making us a wonderful place to grow, learn, and teach.

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We wish you nothing but the best in your next chapter.

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Thank you.

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Thank

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you.

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It has been a privilege to work in the past 28 years.

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Leaving my classroom, my students and my fifth grade colleagues, who my Duke

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consider family, is truly bitter sweet.

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Thank you for the gift.

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I hope I did make an impact on my students and my colleagues.

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Samborn and Miss Hogan.

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is an honor to be here seeking on behalf of all of my teammates.

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Tonight we have four retirements to honor at from Swam's Law Elementary School.

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I'm going to start with Christine Morgan.

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After 27 years in education, Christine Morgan retires with a career marked by dedication, care,

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and a lasting impact on her students, colleagues, the principal, and the Swam Scott School

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community.

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Christine spent the majority of her career at Clark School, a place she truly valued

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and called home for many years.

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While she taught in different settings over time, her years in Swam Scott kindergarten were

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especially meaningful to her.

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She loves being a kindergarten teacher

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and found great joy in helping children navigate

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their very first school experiences.

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From teaching letters and sounds to tying shoes,

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building confidence and encouraging friendships,

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Christine understood how important those early years were

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in a child's life.

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One of her greatest joys was watching her kindergarten students

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blossom over the course of the school year.

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She treasured, seeing children grow, from shy and uncertain learners, and to confident, independent

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students ready for first grade.

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Her classroom was a place filled with warmth, patience, encouragement, and care, where

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every child felt welcomed and supported.

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Throughout her career, Christine made a difference in the lives of many children, informed

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countless meaningful relationships with families and colleagues.

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She built life-long friendships with those lucky enough to work beside her and became a trusted and respected presence within the school community.

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Outside of school, Christine enjoys spending time outdoors on Hikes, relaxing during summers, on Fry Island with her family, and making memories with her husband, Jim, Son Joey, daughter-in-law, Anna, and her grandchildren, Jude.

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Grinch, child, Jude, I'll Jude, the Owen Ruthie.

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Family has always been at the center of her life.

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She also holds close the love and memory of her daughter Abby,

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whose spirit remains an important part of her family,

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and of who Christine is.

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Christine's strong faith in spiritual nature

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have guided her throughout her life in Korea,

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helping shape the compassion, kindness, and steady presence,

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So many have appreciated over the years, as she begins her well-earned retirement, Christine

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leaves behind a legacy of commitment, friendship, kindness, and love for teaching that will

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be remembered by generations of students in colleagues alike.

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Wishing you many happy adventures, especially family moments in your retirement, Christine,

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we will miss you at Swam's Got Elementary School.

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Honestly, I absolutely promised myself I wouldn't talk but

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I just have to say one thing and that is being a teacher was such a privilege

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and it saved me so many times like for my second family

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and I just knew that just going into that classroom with those kids

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which has helped me rise above anything they had to endure.

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And I just loved every minute of it.

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I

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would like to honor the retirement of Donna Kelty.

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There are people who do their job well, and then there are people who bring something extra into everything they do. They bring creativity, compassion, patience, and heart. Donna Kelty, that is exactly the educator you are. Your creativity inspires not only your students, but everyone, lucky enough to work alongside of you.

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You have a special way of turning ordinary moments into meaningful experiences.

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You consistently create an environment where students feel excited to learn and grow.

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Your ideas, your energy, your passion, brings so much vibrant life into Swamska Elementary

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School.

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At the same time, your organization and dedication keep everything moving forward, even on

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absolute busiest days. You are someone people naturally turn to because you bring calm,

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structure and thoughtfulness to every situation. You make challenging days feel manageable,

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simply through your steady presence and your endless willingness to help others. But what stands out most

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about you, Donna, is your patience. In fact, I can safely say, I have never once heard you raise your voice

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in the two years we have worked together, but word in the swamp is that Donna has kept

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this street going for 35 years. The kindness understanding and grace you show to both

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students and colleagues never go on a list. You meet people exactly where they are. You

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encourage them when they struggle and you celebrate them when they succeed. In a profession

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that asks so much of us, your compassion is truly remarkable. Beyond being an incredible educator,

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you're an amazing coworker and a deeply valued friend. You make our school a better place,

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not just through the work you do, but through the wonderful person you are. Your positivity,

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support, and genuine care have a lasting impact on everyone around you. Donna, thank you for everything.

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We will miss you immensely at Swarm Scott Elementary School, and we wish you the absolute best as you step into this next well-deserved chapter of your life.

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Happy retirement.

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Surprise, Donna.

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It's declining the mic.

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Next, I would like to honor Catherine Quinn.

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It is difficult to put into words what you have meant to our school community.

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Your kindness, compassion, warmth, and unwavering support for both students and staff have touched countless lives and ways you may never realize.

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You have always gone above and beyond, not because you had to, but because caring for others is simply who you are.

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Whether arriving early each morning, offering advice to a colleague in need, advocating for children and teachers, or taking the time to truly listen, you have been someone everyone could rely on.

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Your organization, dedication, and work ethic are remarkable, but is your heart that sets you truly a part.

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you see the good in every person and in every child.

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You have always treated students with love, patience, dignity, and compassion,

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making every student feel seen in the adults too.

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Your willingness to stand up for what is right has made an immeasurable difference for so many families and educators.

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You have brought so much joy and positivity to our staff through the Sunshine Committee,

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supportive cards, and flowers, your prayers, and thankful Thursday initiative.

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You have reminded us all the slow down.

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I appreciate one another and find the good in each day.

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Your positive spirit, encouraging words, and calming presence, have helped so many people

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through difficult moments.

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Thank you for being an extraordinary teacher and incredible colleague in an even even better human being.

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The love, compassion, positivity and strength you brought in every single day for 21 years

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have made Swarm Scott Public Schools a better community for all of us.

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Your generous spirit will be sorely missed.

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I hope your retirement brings you joy, rest, and all the love you so freely gave.

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With infinite gratitude, all of your teammates at SES.

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I'd better say a few nice words for hearing all of that.

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I came to the JLVSP at Clark School,

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feeling that it was a job I could devote myself to and also take care of my children and my family also

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Well, that's where I came but I stayed because I fell in love with the job all these years later

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I had been in regular red and

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this job I have

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Just brought me so much joy

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way more than when I had been in regular red nothing about regular teacher's here just my own

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I had done it because I didn't have to wear myself out with less than playing in papers.

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I could just devote myself to the children and their need and give them a moment.

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When my former students right there, I wouldn't down there.

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So it's just with great joy that I had an opportunity to serve in my own community,

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Here's Womskut and...

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Just to know that each day was special.

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And even the hard times were opportunities to learn. And I certainly learned so much from my students.

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I remember one particular student many years ago getting frustrated with me and telling them,

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that Irish woman from Ireland, I can't learn anything from her.

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So the next day, the Mama told me, I said,

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can you show me how you couldn't learn that multiplication?

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You show me and she was so simple and it changed how I thought

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about my lessons and how I was going to deliver them.

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She said, if I can use all the colors, I can do it.

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So she was doing two digital times, two digital multiplication

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and just using different color for each number,

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she could separate the value of the numbers.

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And it was just so simple and that thought,

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well, I'm too complicated.

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I need to get it down to the brass types here.

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She just showed me what to do, and it's just a matter

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of a few colors.

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I mean, this is great.

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So I won't go on.

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We've got all the amazing people coming after.

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And I just wanted to thank you, infinitely,

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for the opportunity I've had to spend it joy.

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And the friendships I've made with parents and students

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And my colleagues, I mean, I'm not a blist woman,

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that's all I can say.

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Very blist.

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So thank you all so much.

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And last but certainly not, we're here to honor Allison

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Norton and her retirement.

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Today, we are celebrating a true living legend,

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our very own Allison Norton.

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Her incredible journey started mid-year as an ESP,

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kicking off a phenomenal

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36 and a half-year legacy.

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Allison spent every single one of those years dedicated to our Swam Scott Public Schools community,

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starting at Stanley School, moving through Blaney, and finally finishing right here with us

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at Swam Scott Elementary School, for 34 of those years, Allison ruled her own classroom,

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shaping young minds across kindergarten, second grade and fourth grade, to put her dedication

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into perspective. She survived 12 total classroom moves, including this massive final move

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to the new elementary school. She has truly seen it all and done it all. Allison successfully

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transition from chalk boards to smart boards. And finally, to Promethean boards. She survived

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the era of the Inc. Stained Minio Machines and moved us right into modern day copy machines.

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Through decades of change, she remained a pillar of strength as a long-standing curriculum

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content leader, a fierce union building representative, and an absolute leader in our new building.

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Who I don't know what I'm going to do with it.

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Allison, thank you for your years of unwavering dedication. Thank you for bringing your

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shark wit and daily laughs that lightened even our busiest days. Your event planning and pamphlet creating

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skills made everything feel effortless.

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Your uncanny talent, as our resident medical expert,

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kept us all informed and cared for.

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And we will always be grateful for your internal optimism

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and your variability to put things

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interperspective when we needed it most.

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Allison has been here so long and has made such a massive impact

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that Allison has officially achieved

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The ultimate legendary status, teaching the grand students of her very first pupils.

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And we had to this year, right?

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We had to.

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We had to.

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Alison, we will miss you more than words can say.

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But we are excited for your next chapter, and we are grateful for everything you did for

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us.

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Thank you.

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did,

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it's so weird, it's surreal, but I won't say long, although I did when Stanley

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Clinton Blaney closed, we had a little party at the end of the year, and it was like

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based on the dummies, and I did when the never-giver in the microphone award,

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but I just

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And we have a lovely celebration for Christine and Donna myself the other day.

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I just want to say, and Martha actually hired me, and so I just want to say that I truly

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feel just so lucky because I knew I wanted to be a teacher not right away, but when I

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out, I just landed in Swamp Scott and 36 and a half years. There were dinosaurs, Roomy, and

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but I just wish for everyone that they felt as blessed as I felt because every day even

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on the hard days, I've looked forward to going to work and I just thank all of you and it's been

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my privilege, so thank you.

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And I just wanted to thank everyone, all of our Swans Battle

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and Dreeti Mates, that helped me find the words to honor such amazing, beautiful humans,

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so I just wanted to also acknowledge our teammates who helped me write all of this. Thank you.

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Thank you everybody. Before you guys take off, we'll definitely want to picture of all of you,

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but let me just go around the room. Marathon, when are we start with you?

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You can make a comment, if you're such as.

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Well, I'm just always overwhelmed when I, when I hear of a teacher retiring, especially someone

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who's worked their whole lives, giving their all to little ones of the classrooms, to bigger

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ones of the classrooms, and even growing up ones in the classroom.

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And I just think every day, and I'm just so thrilled that I'm part of this profession, and

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that you are all in that profession, too, and thrilled to congratulations.

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Thank you.

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So, I realized there were three, three persons were retiring that I actually had a touchpoint with with our fan.

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And I just wanted to recognize them. So with Mr. Franklin, both my daughters went through his class. And I think I can say, without hesitation, that they came away at the end of your course, both of them, with an appreciation, or why you did things the way you did them. And, you know, came away with with the skills that they're still using to this day. So I wanted to recognize the great job you did there.

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for Mr. Jordan, my daughter Hallow went to your class.

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It seems like a hundred years ago.

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I'm sorry to say that, but I think that's more on me.

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That's more on me than on you, trust me.

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So if you just turned 21, I don't.

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I turned 21.

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So thank you for everything you did way back when with her.

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And Ms. Quinn, I just wanted to acknowledge,

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You were on the negotiating team during the last contract negotiation, and the perspectives

462
00:38:33,860 --> 00:38:40,800
that you brought were unique and informative, and I can only speak for me personally,

463
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:47,820
but I think I'm safe to say that it helped everyone on the committee understand what it was

464
00:38:47,820 --> 00:38:52,120
that was concerning to you or help explain an issue better for us.

465
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,800
Thank you for that. Thank you, Jen.

466
00:38:57,140 --> 00:38:57,340
Okay.

467
00:38:59,820 --> 00:39:02,220
I mean, there's no...

468
00:39:02,220 --> 00:39:04,020
The key and the tool. Sorry.

469
00:39:04,420 --> 00:39:04,720
Should I go?

470
00:39:04,980 --> 00:39:05,020
No.

471
00:39:05,540 --> 00:39:08,140
Oh, I'm so sorry.

472
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:10,860
Well, you know what?

473
00:39:10,900 --> 00:39:15,580
I'm going to throw Helen under the bus on that one, because I said,

474
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:19,140
I asked, you know, who did you guys have decide to be prepared

475
00:39:19,140 --> 00:39:25,460
of my apologies. So, what grade was that? Fifth grade. Okay. Well, thank you for that, too.

476
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:37,020
Good. I just think, you know, so Miss Kelty had my oldest Miss Morgan, you know,

477
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:42,740
dealt with me at the PT, you know, all through Clark and our educators, I can't look at

478
00:39:42,740 --> 00:39:52,800
Miss Brendan. We're going to need to know Kate in the agenda that we're going to need like

479
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,840
and miss Quinn got a little girl. I'm just,

480
00:40:00,530 --> 00:40:04,290
you're just fantastic. Thank you. Thank you.

481
00:40:04,470 --> 00:40:05,210
Thank you, Kay. We go.

482
00:40:05,810 --> 00:40:17,110
I'll save John and thank Miss Pappas. She had my child when he came into our family. I know he was

483
00:40:17,110 --> 00:40:23,870
difficult, so I thank you for the patience that you gave him during his transition there.

484
00:40:23,870 --> 00:40:29,750
And I want to thank everybody else too, I may not have gotten to interact with you.

485
00:40:30,610 --> 00:40:36,690
Well, I think we got to interact around a boop in the negotiations when I got thrown in there.

486
00:40:38,130 --> 00:40:45,010
But thank you for everything that we've done since the students here, when I interact with them, have great memories of their teachers,

487
00:40:45,650 --> 00:40:52,730
or they have great fun memories of the classroom, or just the building itself, and you're the people that make that happen.

488
00:40:52,730 --> 00:40:54,870
So thank you.

489
00:40:54,910 --> 00:40:56,270
Great, thank you.

490
00:40:57,350 --> 00:41:00,270
For me, let me start with Mr. Finkel.

491
00:41:00,810 --> 00:41:07,110
I had my twin boys and your support of them and our family.

492
00:41:07,590 --> 00:41:10,210
And just seeing you in action these last several years,

493
00:41:11,330 --> 00:41:14,150
this part of the negotiations and all that,

494
00:41:14,290 --> 00:41:16,430
I appreciate everything you've always brought to the table.

495
00:41:17,050 --> 00:41:19,450
I've always been very clear, succinct

496
00:41:19,450 --> 00:41:24,690
Um, and to the point when someone either was or was not, um, meeting up to your standards

497
00:41:24,690 --> 00:41:30,350
and that certainly helped us as parents, so thank you, and best of luck, uh, to Miss

498
00:41:30,350 --> 00:41:30,590
Quinn.

499
00:41:30,790 --> 00:41:36,870
I'm going to adopt Taylor Words at John said, you taught two school committees what you

500
00:41:36,870 --> 00:41:45,690
do and what your colleagues do and that changed thinking and anyone who changes thinking

501
00:41:45,690 --> 00:41:49,050
is an amazing human being, especially when

502
00:41:49,050 --> 00:41:56,630
those of us up here tend to have a relic relatively large you go. So thank you for that and

503
00:41:56,630 --> 00:42:03,410
obviously we go back a long way and so what you did for Sam and my family is always

504
00:42:03,410 --> 00:42:03,790
appreciated.

505
00:42:05,570 --> 00:42:06,690
Ms. Noron.

506
00:42:07,810 --> 00:42:16,530
Way back one. I can go more than that so let's see. It's too old for 20 years now. There

507
00:42:16,530 --> 00:42:27,710
some young adults at my home last night chatting about you and just want to say thank you

508
00:42:27,710 --> 00:42:32,770
for all you've done. We've got to know each other, you know, as your teacher and on the

509
00:42:32,770 --> 00:42:39,050
ball field as well, you know, with boys being friends of Patrick, best of luck to you and

510
00:42:39,050 --> 00:42:46,330
your family. Thank you for way back when for corraling Russell into a rather challenging human

511
00:42:46,330 --> 00:42:52,490
being into just someone who can just recognizing what some of the issues were and calling it out.

512
00:42:52,930 --> 00:42:58,790
And we thank you always for that, that time and second grade was always just very important to us.

513
00:42:59,470 --> 00:43:04,610
To everybody else, you know, my boy's mom is a teacher, fifth grade math.

514
00:43:04,810 --> 00:43:06,550
She's made a math curriculum person in Brooklyn.

515
00:43:07,250 --> 00:43:12,110
So I think I know a lot about really what you do, but you guys surprised me every single day.

516
00:43:12,110 --> 00:43:18,230
And we sit here, you know, the five of us who are smart enough to run for an election.

517
00:43:19,290 --> 00:43:21,930
And we were saying this earlier at a session we had.

518
00:43:22,350 --> 00:43:24,330
You know, our job is, yes, we are watching the budget.

519
00:43:24,370 --> 00:43:25,670
You know, yes, we deal with policy.

520
00:43:26,110 --> 00:43:27,590
The end of the day, our jobs are the kids.

521
00:43:27,830 --> 00:43:29,790
And it's really the same job you guys have.

522
00:43:30,210 --> 00:43:35,810
And I hope you've always felt supported by the school committees that you dealt with.

523
00:43:35,810 --> 00:43:43,270
Because that's what we do, the kids come first, then all of you and the parents come last.

524
00:43:43,890 --> 00:43:48,350
Because that's what we're elected to do, and that's what you guys have chosen to do.

525
00:43:48,810 --> 00:43:53,790
So from the bottom of my heart, from bottom of all of our hearts, thank you.

526
00:43:54,310 --> 00:43:54,550
All right.

527
00:43:54,990 --> 00:43:57,930
We just grab a picture with all of you. Please, before you take off.

528
00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:04,100
We got you want to snap a picture there.

529
00:44:04,100 --> 00:44:04,280
Sure.

530
00:44:17,100 --> 00:44:20,620
I love a plan.

531
00:45:05,620 --> 00:45:07,600
Thank you everybody. Thank

532
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:23,740
you everybody. Thank you

533
00:45:27,540 --> 00:45:28,220
everybody. Thank you everybody.

534
00:45:40,630 --> 00:45:41,590
Thank you everybody.

535
00:45:41,650 --> 00:45:43,290
You can give her the one I put in.

536
00:45:44,990 --> 00:45:47,770
We're going to head to Ms. Ken's presentation.

537
00:45:48,570 --> 00:45:51,950
Our director of teaching and learning with an up into the eruptate.

538
00:45:54,900 --> 00:45:56,180
Let's let them all exit.

539
00:45:56,180 --> 00:45:56,820
Yeah.

540
00:46:11,460 --> 00:46:12,680
We gather you my-

541
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:12,880
Yep.

542
00:46:30,720 --> 00:46:31,280
Yep.

543
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:32,760
Okay.

544
00:46:37,460 --> 00:46:37,800
All right.

545
00:46:39,100 --> 00:46:43,700
Welcome and thank you very much for taking the time to hear an update on the Department

546
00:46:43,700 --> 00:46:47,740
of teaching and learning if you did click, can we go?

547
00:46:49,140 --> 00:46:55,340
We're shutting it all right now, there we go, there we go, there you go, okay so if you

548
00:46:55,340 --> 00:47:00,940
get just click, okay so tonight I'm going to talk about some very good news it's all happy

549
00:47:00,940 --> 00:47:06,760
good stuff I think we have three basic big projects that I'm going to be talking about and then

550
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:10,740
give you a little bit of a preview for next year but before I started I just wanted to say that

551
00:47:10,740 --> 00:47:13,900
The work that is shown here is a team effort.

552
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:18,360
We have lots of people that have contributed to this.

553
00:47:19,060 --> 00:47:21,940
We have PD facilitated a few of teachers.

554
00:47:22,260 --> 00:47:24,120
We have curriculum leaders.

555
00:47:24,380 --> 00:47:26,240
We have the administrations of the buildings,

556
00:47:26,540 --> 00:47:28,700
as well as central office, who all work together

557
00:47:28,700 --> 00:47:29,580
to make this happen.

558
00:47:29,900 --> 00:47:33,160
So I happen to be, get to be the person to talk about it.

559
00:47:33,940 --> 00:47:35,860
But it's really the work of a lot of people.

560
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:38,880
So the first thing I wanted to talk about

561
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:42,060
was our early-released professional development this year.

562
00:47:42,740 --> 00:47:48,980
We had three PD themes, based on multi-tiered systems of support,

563
00:47:49,100 --> 00:47:52,040
meeting the needs of all children, and that's both academically,

564
00:47:52,500 --> 00:47:55,440
but also socially and anything that they may need.

565
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:58,600
The second was partnering effectively with families and caregivers,

566
00:47:58,900 --> 00:48:00,960
which I think you've been talking about the communication

567
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:05,040
and all that's been happening, and then also designing rigorous standards

568
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:13,260
aligned tasks. We had six sessions and we broke it into two series of three. When we took

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00:48:13,260 --> 00:48:19,300
a survey at the end of it all on a scale of one to four, how effective has this PD series been

570
00:48:19,300 --> 00:48:29,020
in supporting your professional growth? You click 96% of our 187 respondents responded favorably.

571
00:48:29,340 --> 00:48:34,100
And that means that it was meaningful. And the key components that made that, that they brought

572
00:48:34,100 --> 00:48:37,660
out, if you click one more time, sorry for the animation, I'm used to working with myself.

573
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:44,200
The key component is that they brought out, we're having choice because we ran it like

574
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:45,280
a conference, right?

575
00:48:45,420 --> 00:48:49,860
So people made proposals for what they would like to present to their colleagues based on

576
00:48:49,860 --> 00:48:54,040
these themes and then the educators had a choice of what they took, right?

577
00:48:54,100 --> 00:48:55,600
It was most interesting to them.

578
00:48:55,880 --> 00:49:01,140
And I will say, I was pleased that we were able to get, I think, 94% of everybody got either

579
00:49:01,140 --> 00:49:07,880
first and second choice and everybody got their first and third choice. So, you know, it was, it was great.

580
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:15,300
And then also the big piece was relevance. Since it was educators mostly teaching educators, it felt real, right?

581
00:49:15,300 --> 00:49:21,180
It wasn't somebody from some college or something talking about theory. It was like down and dirty stuff.

582
00:49:21,220 --> 00:49:25,900
You can bring back to your classroom the next day. And since it was a series, they could learn something,

583
00:49:26,180 --> 00:49:29,920
go back to the classroom and try it, come back and talk about it, learn something new,

584
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:32,460
And it was just more of a, I don't know,

585
00:49:32,700 --> 00:49:34,500
I want to say a respectful learning environment

586
00:49:34,500 --> 00:49:36,380
of their professionalism.

587
00:49:36,660 --> 00:49:37,340
One more click.

588
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:40,040
And then they love collaboration time.

589
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:43,100
We built into this time to learn about something,

590
00:49:43,100 --> 00:49:45,360
but time to work on it and do it,

591
00:49:45,580 --> 00:49:47,160
so that they could bring it back to their classroom.

592
00:49:47,540 --> 00:49:49,120
And then they love the facilitation.

593
00:49:49,260 --> 00:49:51,420
It's just so good to work with your colleagues.

594
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:56,160
So the other big announcement that we have,

595
00:49:56,160 --> 00:50:01,920
going to know is that we have been designated with a third innovation pathway.

596
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:08,820
We've had a team working hard on a big application to be designated by Dessie.

597
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:14,100
As you know, we have two, we have advanced manufacturing and we have business and finance

598
00:50:14,100 --> 00:50:17,300
currently and we're adding a third.

599
00:50:17,460 --> 00:50:23,180
I did a little bit of digging just so that there's one third of eligible high schools have

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00:50:23,180 --> 00:50:24,820
innovation pathway, a career pathway.

601
00:50:24,820 --> 00:50:30,540
So the eligible part is they don't count high schools that have CTE programs.

602
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:36,660
So but only one third have them and that's about 31 districts in the state of Massachusetts.

603
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:40,700
10 are actually new this year, those districts.

604
00:50:40,980 --> 00:50:44,640
So we were one of the 21 that already had been doing this.

605
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:49,780
And near us, the only other ones that are near us is Lynn and payroll.

606
00:50:50,420 --> 00:50:53,460
Those are the only other two school districts near us.

607
00:50:53,460 --> 00:50:58,600
So without further ado, our newest pathway, I'm sure it's not going to be shocking, is called

608
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:00,440
Media Arts and Communications.

609
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:06,820
So we're going to take all that Joe and his team does and form it into a pathway, add

610
00:51:06,820 --> 00:51:13,520
some new stuff, but make it something that is an official sort of designation that kids can

611
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,200
have on their diplomas and use when they're applying schools.

612
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:17,740
And it's just a awesome program.

613
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:19,400
Anyway, we all know what they do.

614
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:20,940
Like, what they're doing right now.

615
00:51:20,940 --> 00:51:27,160
So, and then the last thing I wanted to talk about tonight was targeted instruction.

616
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:32,500
I know I've been here before talking to you about it, but I wanted to show sort of what

617
00:51:32,500 --> 00:51:36,640
has happened over the year, both with data and sort of with some reflection.

618
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:42,840
We, one of the things about rolling out a new initiative is that you never quite can predict

619
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:45,500
how it's going to go and what we're going to need and how we're going to do it.

620
00:51:45,860 --> 00:51:50,540
So I would say that one of the biggest strengths of the program this year was continued

621
00:51:50,540 --> 00:51:55,780
adaptation from feedback, right, and student need. So we kept hearing from teachers,

622
00:51:56,080 --> 00:52:00,840
heard parents, heard from students, what was it that we needed to do better, or how to adapt

623
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:07,140
the program to make meet the needs better of kids, and we kept doing that. Another big plus to me,

624
00:52:07,340 --> 00:52:13,400
where what I would call it tier two data team, I know that sounds funny, but putting all the reading

625
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:19,920
teachers in a room and looking at the data and coming up with proposals, or putting all the math

626
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:25,300
interventionist in a room and looking at the whole picture and coming up with proposals of groups

627
00:52:25,300 --> 00:52:29,980
and topics that we would then take as a proposal to the classroom teacher.

628
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:36,840
Who then would look at the list and the proposals and stuff and tweak it based on their experience of the children in the classroom?

629
00:52:37,380 --> 00:52:44,740
Because the tier 2 team was really just using numbers, right? We don't, we don't spend all day with these children, like the classroom teachers do.

630
00:52:44,860 --> 00:52:53,840
So they'd be like, yeah, that kid really, I ready score is not really representative of what he or she can do in classroom, much better.

631
00:52:54,020 --> 00:52:56,960
They don't take, you know, and we can move them around according to that.

632
00:52:56,960 --> 00:53:03,980
So, that was that collaboration and that work to meet the needs of kids was really an amazing thing.

633
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:07,780
And I think something to be honest that happened a lot more when we were in smaller schools.

634
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:08,400
Right?

635
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:12,860
Now that we're in a big school with seven teachers, it's harder, right?

636
00:53:12,860 --> 00:53:17,200
And I think that in the move and all the stuff that happened to change in the new language school,

637
00:53:17,240 --> 00:53:21,880
a bit of that was lost, that individualization, personalization, and we're getting it back.

638
00:53:21,980 --> 00:53:22,940
And it's really exciting.

639
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:29,060
And then, one of the things that came up was, okay, we're doing this new thing, what are we going

640
00:53:29,060 --> 00:53:36,800
to use to help teach kids? And so we adopted some new supplemental math resources. We adopted

641
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:43,760
Bridges Math Intervention Program at the elementary school. And we are trying a new program called

642
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:46,380
media, math, swam Scott middle.

643
00:53:47,580 --> 00:53:50,640
And the cool part about edia is it's got some coaching

644
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:53,960
involved and it's a total personalized path.

645
00:53:54,460 --> 00:53:59,280
And then we're also using fundations and into reading pieces,

646
00:53:59,620 --> 00:54:02,640
those programs are so big that we never get to all of it.

647
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:05,100
So we're pulling other little pieces that we never

648
00:54:05,100 --> 00:54:07,720
get to to support what kids need.

649
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:12,440
And then I ready, of course, is the data platform that we're

650
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:17,240
using along with other data points, like one-on-one literacy testing and all that kind of stuff.

651
00:54:17,740 --> 00:54:21,840
And then we're using open architects, the data platform that I've shared with you that

652
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:25,540
I'm about to show you graphs from, that helps us crunch the numbers.

653
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:32,280
So I just want to sort of, the big reveal of the data for the year, we'll start with ELA.

654
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:40,060
And in the elementary school from Keta 4, we've had great growth and great movement of

655
00:54:40,060 --> 00:54:49,840
students. So right now, 76% of our kids in elementary school are on or above grade level. I know

656
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:53,960
that you're saying, oh, what's happening with the other 25%. Yep, that's our job and that's what

657
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:59,020
we're working on. And I will say, I want to say to you, can you click one more time? Let me go. I do want

658
00:54:59,020 --> 00:55:03,940
to say that this is not just targeted instruction, right? They're learning all day every day,

659
00:55:04,220 --> 00:55:10,040
but this is sort of the new component that we've added into the mix. And you can one of the things

660
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:12,860
that if you go to the middle school for ELA,

661
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:20,840
you'll see that they are at 57.6%, one more click to,

662
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:23,080
or grade level or above.

663
00:55:24,180 --> 00:55:27,040
And what that seems a little, you know, like only 57.

664
00:55:27,660 --> 00:55:30,620
But nationally, I sense the pandemic,

665
00:55:31,500 --> 00:55:35,140
that's mostly 50 to 70% of kids are on the grade level

666
00:55:35,140 --> 00:55:36,020
in reading.

667
00:55:36,240 --> 00:55:37,920
And I just want to help you read these bars.

668
00:55:38,580 --> 00:55:41,620
Green is, dark green is mid or above grade level,

669
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:45,780
like green is early grade level, yellow is one grade level below,

670
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:48,140
like red is two grade levels below.

671
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:51,640
And dark red is three plus grade levels below.

672
00:55:51,980 --> 00:55:53,920
And one of the things that I'm really proud of

673
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,120
is that the middle school, if you look in the fall,

674
00:55:56,580 --> 00:55:59,300
we had 46 students that were in the dark red.

675
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:03,480
And we've cut that in almost half by the spring.

676
00:56:03,500 --> 00:56:04,940
And that means we're closing gaps.

677
00:56:04,940 --> 00:56:06,880
And that's really exciting.

678
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:11,720
Also, totally off the record, but I can say.

679
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:16,780
We have gotten some preliminary MCAS results back.

680
00:56:17,780 --> 00:56:18,880
Just the multiple choice.

681
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:22,320
It's not the writing, but they're looking really good.

682
00:56:22,500 --> 00:56:24,600
I will say, and we're really excited about them.

683
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:28,100
I'd all love them from third grade all the way up.

684
00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:30,100
So hopefully we'll have good news there, too.

685
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:32,080
All right, moving on to math.

686
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:41,200
In Massachusetts grades 3 through 8, about 41% of kids are on grade level in mathematics.

687
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:44,660
And you will see that we're doing a nice job here.

688
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:50,880
If you click there, we're at about 2-3rds, both in the elementary school and the middle school

689
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:53,020
of our students are at grade level.

690
00:56:53,420 --> 00:56:56,920
And again, that gap closing is pretty amazing.

691
00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:02,420
when you look at, for example, the pinkish color in the elementary school.

692
00:57:02,660 --> 00:57:10,140
We went from 69 students who are two grade levels below to only 22 students.

693
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:14,000
So we're moving them up, you know, they're starting to slide up.

694
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:18,140
Of course, as the grade level goes on, you expect those greens to get bigger,

695
00:57:18,300 --> 00:57:19,640
because, you know, more kids achieve.

696
00:57:19,980 --> 00:57:23,620
But they are going into the next grade ready to go, which is great.

697
00:57:23,620 --> 00:57:29,540
The last thing I would just want to mention about this is that we also are starting a summer

698
00:57:29,540 --> 00:57:35,660
school program this year in the elementary school for rising first, second, third and fourth

699
00:57:35,660 --> 00:57:43,920
graders. And it's only going to be three weeks and it's four days, but it is going to be an

700
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:48,980
hour and 15 minutes of math and an hour and 15 minutes of literacy and a snack and a recess

701
00:57:48,980 --> 00:57:55,440
in the middle. But for three weeks in July, and we've got some amazing teachers signed up to

702
00:57:55,440 --> 00:58:03,060
teach it. And kids are going to fight that summer slide a little bit, right? Hopefully it's

703
00:58:03,060 --> 00:58:06,480
just going to keep them in rhythm. That's all we want to do. We're not going to be climbing

704
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:10,380
huge, you know, academic mountains here, but we're going to keep reading. We're going to keep

705
00:58:10,380 --> 00:58:15,040
doing our math facts. And we've got some teachers coming down from the middle school. We've got

706
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:17,940
some great elementary teachers that are doing it,

707
00:58:17,940 --> 00:58:19,520
and it should be fun for everybody.

708
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:23,540
If you just class one is the middle school math.

709
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:25,840
Again, it's about two thirds.

710
00:58:26,380 --> 00:58:30,580
But you can see that we had about a 30% increase in kids

711
00:58:30,580 --> 00:58:33,140
that are on grade level from the beginning of the year

712
00:58:33,140 --> 00:58:33,800
to the end.

713
00:58:34,380 --> 00:58:37,800
And 20 kids move from that dark red.

714
00:58:38,860 --> 00:58:40,440
I would have that dark red into the pink.

715
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:49,670
So, a quick preview of next year from my department, we have targeted instruction moving up to grade seven next year.

716
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:56,140
We're going to try it out. See how it goes. We're going to have, we've had meetings with parents.

717
00:58:56,380 --> 00:59:01,680
We've had info sessions and explaining, we're trying something new. We'll see how it goes.

718
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:12,060
The idea is that the content teachers from both teams will take that group and co-teach a smaller group in their subject.

719
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:22,780
So they'll be doing things like pre-teaching, what's coming, mediating what might be missed, helping out with prerequisite skills that kids may not have, which will be great.

720
00:59:22,780 --> 00:59:29,360
And we're also going to continue to support target instruction with resources, time, and expertise.

721
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:34,380
Like, that's going to be a real focus of meeting the needs of all kids through K through 7.

722
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:40,120
Meanwhile, at the high school, we are going to be piloting some new assessments.

723
00:59:40,660 --> 00:59:41,840
It's called the Star Assessment.

724
00:59:42,780 --> 00:59:48,340
And what that will do is give us the kind of data that we need that we're using in the elementary

725
00:59:48,340 --> 00:59:50,840
and middle schools to help us support students.

726
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:59,300
We'll be doing that in MAP and ELA in grades 9 and 10 in order to be able to know who to help and who to push, right?

727
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:08,120
And we're also thinking about, and we're going to be messing around with seeing if we need a different assessment in K to 2 literacy.

728
01:00:08,740 --> 01:00:14,120
I already just seems really tough for a kindergarten or to be answering on an iPad.

729
01:00:15,460 --> 01:00:26,840
And we're seeing quite a discrepancy between what they're doing on the computer and when they sit one-on-one with somebody, especially through the dyslexia letter process we've done both.

730
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:32,820
you know, we flag them from I ready and then we sit with them one on one and about half of the

731
01:00:32,820 --> 01:00:38,720
kindergarteners who didn't do well when I already do fine one on one. So we're starting to think

732
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:45,920
about maybe we need something different, just cater to in just for literacy. And then in the

733
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:53,280
fall we've been working really hard this year to create common curriculum maps and what we're

734
01:00:53,280 --> 01:01:08,160
calling scope and sequence documents that we're going to be putting on a website this summer so that parents can see not just like the little blurb that's in the program of studies, but like what happens each quarter or what what's going on in the classroom to help with that communication.

735
01:01:09,660 --> 01:01:21,020
And we also internally will have really good scope and sequence documents that will help new teachers that will help coherence across the classrooms and make sure everybody's getting sort of the same experience across classrooms.

736
01:01:21,020 --> 01:01:27,760
Sort of the what not the how right you know every teacher makes it their own and sort of the art in the science of teaching the art

737
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:30,280
We'll still be there of course, and these are very

738
01:01:31,420 --> 01:01:35,780
General and I want to say they're big right, so it's not like a day-to-day thing

739
01:01:35,780 --> 01:01:40,340
It's like more of a unit by unit thing. Like that's all learn to do the same units at the same time

740
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:44,780
Which feeds into my last bullet point here, which is focusing on common assessments

741
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:50,460
You know unit assessments test that we can look at across classrooms

742
01:01:51,020 --> 01:01:55,860
and see how kids are doing, not just on the big I-ready tests or whatever, but like a long

743
01:01:55,860 --> 01:02:01,920
way. And then finally, our PD themes for next year, you'll see that two are the same, but

744
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:08,980
we've swapped out the middle one. The PD committee has been keeping in touch with, you know,

745
01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:14,000
the news and everything else. And our new theme is going to be high tech planning for low-tech

746
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:20,760
engaging instruction. So we want to help teachers leverage technology to make their jobs easier

747
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:25,700
for differentiation, for ideas for all that kind of thing, but we really want to get kids off

748
01:02:25,700 --> 01:02:31,080
screens as much as we can and have them engaged in the classroom. So that's what our third

749
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:35,820
PD theme for is for next year. And I would be happy to take any questions.

750
01:02:36,800 --> 01:02:41,460
Oh great. Thank you. What are we start with the UK?

751
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:50,020
I love the targeted instruction. I appreciate the entire presentation. I'm thrilled to hear

752
01:02:50,020 --> 01:02:54,960
about the I ready and taking kids, you know,

753
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:58,660
or counter balancing what they do on the screen versus in person.

754
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:05,020
I think that shows Tenshou a good scope of what they can do.

755
01:03:06,300 --> 01:03:09,660
And I appreciate the presentation.

756
01:03:11,460 --> 01:03:12,080
Great. Thank you.

757
01:03:12,140 --> 01:03:19,480
I would say second on the trying to get them off the screens to do a little bit more.

758
01:03:20,260 --> 01:03:26,740
paper to pen or talking or talking. Since some of those social skills were definitely lost

759
01:03:26,740 --> 01:03:30,900
during COVID and just trying to get people to actually look you in the eye and sometimes

760
01:03:30,900 --> 01:03:38,840
be difficult. So that would be great and also just seeing the numbers like jump from 41 to 76%

761
01:03:38,840 --> 01:03:48,420
throughout a year is substantial. And I feel like parents should be very excited that like the subject

762
01:03:48,420 --> 01:03:56,040
from a 24% at the beginning of the year, we're not, well, we're, they knew what they were doing,

763
01:03:56,320 --> 01:04:03,980
but now we have it up to 67%, so I know it's not a favorite subject for most, but I'm glad

764
01:04:03,980 --> 01:04:04,720
that we're getting it.

765
01:04:04,760 --> 01:04:05,160
It's mine.

766
01:04:06,860 --> 01:04:09,620
And Leah, I skipped you if you have anything to add.

767
01:04:10,560 --> 01:04:11,240
Do you have anything to add?

768
01:04:11,540 --> 01:04:12,080
You don't have to.

769
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:12,460
It's fine.

770
01:04:12,620 --> 01:04:14,080
No, I think that was a great presentation.

771
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:18,720
I really like seeing how you're planning to use like less technology on teaching

772
01:04:18,720 --> 01:04:21,960
it's special and they're younger. I feel like that's definitely really important.

773
01:04:22,360 --> 01:04:25,960
See at the hands on like laying a style. We're actually talking about that in my

774
01:04:25,960 --> 01:04:30,280
laying class. Yeah, they're a prank on this. I think that's great.

775
01:04:30,280 --> 01:04:34,260
Great. Thank you. Worth it. It was great. Very informative.

776
01:04:35,140 --> 01:04:41,240
I am so impressed with how targeted everything is because it's obviously the way it has to be.

777
01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:45,980
One of the questions I would ask is it's a tremendous amount of data collection and I'm wondering

778
01:04:45,980 --> 01:04:53,420
how teachers are able to get all that data collected, analyzed, and then ready to teach

779
01:04:53,420 --> 01:04:54,240
the next lesson.

780
01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:58,160
So, I already, for example, does it for us?

781
01:04:58,500 --> 01:04:59,100
That's easy.

782
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:02,140
Well, I mean, we get the data and then we have to interpret it, right?

783
01:05:03,020 --> 01:05:10,840
But the one-on-one things, it's hard to be honest, like for the dyslexia letters and a screening

784
01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:15,280
that we did. It was all hands-on deck. I mean we had the reading teachers, we had the classroom

785
01:05:15,280 --> 01:05:19,280
teachers, we had the special education teachers, we had the MLL teachers, everybody had

786
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:25,820
their assignments and everybody breaks up. It only takes about five minutes a kid, but

787
01:05:25,820 --> 01:05:31,400
you have to get the kids at the kid down. We all try to do it, they try to do it with students

788
01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:36,680
they know, so that there's no I have to introduce myself until you who I am kind of going

789
01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:42,380
on. Yeah, it takes time. But I do think it's worth it. I mean, is the planning time made for

790
01:05:42,380 --> 01:05:46,840
the teachers to do this to have the actual discussion about, yes, but they have collaboration

791
01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:53,180
time. Okay. Yes. So the data and the talking about groups and who's going to teach what and

792
01:05:53,180 --> 01:06:00,820
how to do that is during their collaboration time. Thank you. Sure. Thank you for that. It's actually

793
01:06:00,820 --> 01:06:07,460
very informative. I think what stuck out for me was that it sounds like there's an ongoing

794
01:06:07,460 --> 01:06:12,920
process to evaluate how you assess and see if things are working and see what's not

795
01:06:12,920 --> 01:06:16,520
working. So I was really really glad to hear that piece of it.

796
01:06:16,520 --> 01:06:23,120
Yeah, there's no perfect assessment. Every assessment has its faults, right? And I mean, some

797
01:06:23,120 --> 01:06:29,220
are higher stakes than others. Like, you know, I'm cast as a bigger one because it's statewide, but

798
01:06:29,220 --> 01:06:38,180
They all have their flaws. And so what we got to try to do is create an assessment framework that gives us the different pieces of the puzzle to figure out how to help kids

799
01:06:41,020 --> 01:06:41,500
Great

800
01:06:42,340 --> 01:06:50,060
Like I want to say, thank you for the presentation. I actually have a couple questions. Great. Can you talk a little bit more about the tier two data teams?

801
01:06:50,300 --> 01:06:50,960
Sure. Yeah.

802
01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:56,040
So we have a protocol that we've used every cycle in

803
01:06:56,040 --> 01:06:57,700
and targeted instruction.

804
01:06:58,900 --> 01:07:02,860
And what the first step is for us, not the classroom teachers

805
01:07:02,860 --> 01:07:06,380
because they're so busy, but to pull a group of teachers

806
01:07:06,380 --> 01:07:09,440
together and we have these crazy colored spreadsheets

807
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:12,440
and we sort and filter all kinds of different ways.

808
01:07:13,440 --> 01:07:16,720
And figure out what kids have similar characteristics

809
01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:20,400
that could be in a group that would work together to move.

810
01:07:20,980 --> 01:07:23,360
And the benefit of that is, I mean,

811
01:07:23,360 --> 01:07:29,960
This is not, it's qualitative and not quantitative, but I had a first-grade teacher yesterday explaining to me how she has a

812
01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:52,880
A child who was sort of mathphobic and never said anything in class, and then ended up in a math group, with other kids, with the similar struggles, and suddenly she was like, oh, I'm not the only one here that doesn't get this, right, gained confidence, and now she's raising her hand in class, because she's gotten, gotten some confidence around it.

813
01:07:53,560 --> 01:08:08,360
So anyway, this team puts together proposals of those groups looking at the data that we then bring to the classroom teachers who, you know, move kids around according to all kind, you know, whatever they feel would be best.

814
01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:08,800
Great.

815
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:09,440
Does that make sense?

816
01:08:09,560 --> 01:08:10,020
It does.

817
01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:13,400
And then just for because the public does spend their money on it.

818
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:17,660
Can you talk a little bit about bridges that use the elementary school?

819
01:08:17,660 --> 01:08:18,340
Yeah, sure.

820
01:08:18,340 --> 01:08:25,560
The Bridges program is an alternative math program to the IAM program that we use.

821
01:08:26,400 --> 01:08:28,280
They have different components.

822
01:08:28,840 --> 01:08:31,760
They have a tier one component that's not what we're using.

823
01:08:32,060 --> 01:08:34,600
But they have a really great intervention program.

824
01:08:35,140 --> 01:08:37,780
And what you can do is you can sort by standard.

825
01:08:39,260 --> 01:08:43,400
And it will give you lesson plans and that are usually pretty hands on.

826
01:08:43,400 --> 01:08:47,300
like games, standing up and moving, you know,

827
01:08:47,300 --> 01:08:50,740
more interactive, more than worksheets, you know.

828
01:08:51,460 --> 01:08:53,740
You do something like that, then you sit down

829
01:08:53,740 --> 01:08:54,940
and try it on a worksheet,

830
01:08:55,140 --> 01:08:56,460
and then there's a little exit ticket

831
01:08:56,460 --> 01:08:58,380
so that the teacher can see how you did.

832
01:08:59,160 --> 01:09:01,500
But what's really nice about it for the teachers

833
01:09:01,500 --> 01:09:04,300
is that it comes with the box of all the stuff,

834
01:09:04,380 --> 01:09:06,740
all the dice, all the, everything you need.

835
01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:10,140
And it also allows them to sort, like say

836
01:09:10,140 --> 01:09:11,320
you're a third grade teacher,

837
01:09:11,320 --> 01:09:18,320
But you need to go back and teach second grade edition that you can click that standard and

838
01:09:18,320 --> 01:09:22,600
comes up with a couple lessons for you and you can go back to teach second grade,

839
01:09:22,620 --> 01:09:25,480
but it's not the same way they saw it before in second grade.

840
01:09:25,880 --> 01:09:31,700
They learned it with IAM the first time, the Lester of Mathematics, but this will be a different

841
01:09:31,700 --> 01:09:34,840
way to teach the same thing at a different level.

842
01:09:35,460 --> 01:09:36,200
That makes perfect sense.

843
01:09:37,020 --> 01:09:37,500
Yeah.

844
01:09:37,500 --> 01:09:41,220
And this is kind of two questions about some of the data.

845
01:09:42,320 --> 01:09:44,200
When you're measuring all the students,

846
01:09:44,480 --> 01:09:47,980
that include Gen Ed and Special Education,

847
01:09:48,340 --> 01:09:49,100
that's all combined.

848
01:09:49,440 --> 01:09:50,160
They're all in there.

849
01:09:51,120 --> 01:09:54,860
For example, I think there were 740 kids at elementary.

850
01:09:57,260 --> 01:10:01,240
It's interesting to see the learning loss coming in for the summer.

851
01:10:01,920 --> 01:10:04,480
And I think, I mean, I know I've done this for a long time,

852
01:10:04,480 --> 01:10:07,000
But I think we've all said there's always going to be learning laws.

853
01:10:07,920 --> 01:10:13,220
What's really interesting is you can actually see that learning laws and I think it's

854
01:10:13,220 --> 01:10:15,300
great that we're having the summer program.

855
01:10:15,480 --> 01:10:20,560
And yes, I know that we live in a community that a high percentage go to camp or vacation

856
01:10:20,560 --> 01:10:26,660
or whatever, but it's a great idea to have it very condensed three weeks to make it as

857
01:10:26,660 --> 01:10:27,420
fun as possible.

858
01:10:27,620 --> 01:10:32,860
And it'd be really interesting to see these stats this time next year if some of the loss

859
01:10:32,860 --> 01:10:36,200
in the fall is a little bit less than it has, man.

860
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:41,020
So we have 87, 88 as of this morning, students participating.

861
01:10:42,700 --> 01:10:45,940
Most of those are three weeks, some are two weeks.

862
01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:48,720
I think there's a couple of one weekers, but we didn't say no.

863
01:10:48,900 --> 01:10:51,840
And this is all being paid for through our Title 1 funds.

864
01:10:51,980 --> 01:10:52,200
Great.

865
01:10:52,980 --> 01:10:53,720
So it's going to ask that question.

866
01:10:54,280 --> 01:10:59,360
Yeah, Title 1 is we had a little bit of extra funding in Title 1 due to some things

867
01:10:59,360 --> 01:11:01,140
and we're putting it towards this.

868
01:11:01,200 --> 01:11:01,600
Great.

869
01:11:02,280 --> 01:11:05,080
As always, great presentation, thank you so much.

870
01:11:05,440 --> 01:11:07,560
We appreciate everything you brought to the table to share.

871
01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:07,980
Thank you.

872
01:11:08,020 --> 01:11:08,520
Guys, good.

873
01:11:08,620 --> 01:11:09,180
One more thing.

874
01:11:09,180 --> 01:11:12,120
The bridge is also gives us a challenge.

875
01:11:12,740 --> 01:11:14,560
They're called concept quests in there.

876
01:11:14,780 --> 01:11:20,280
So the bridge is, we have a piece in there that we can use with kids that are meeting grade

877
01:11:20,280 --> 01:11:24,680
level standards but want some fun application job, you know, project.

878
01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:29,140
For example, they were designing zoos with a certain area and you know, that kind

879
01:11:29,140 --> 01:11:29,400
of thing.

880
01:11:29,400 --> 01:11:32,920
So it helps both remediate, but also accelerates kids.

881
01:11:33,340 --> 01:11:33,560
Great.

882
01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:35,880
Anything from the University of California?

883
01:11:35,960 --> 01:11:39,540
Now, I'm just going to say, along with the, hopefully,

884
01:11:39,600 --> 01:11:43,060
they introduce the lack of learning loss for the next fall,

885
01:11:43,080 --> 01:11:45,200
I think the implementation of TI2.

886
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:46,820
And I know you said that it's not just TI,

887
01:11:47,980 --> 01:11:49,180
and everybody needs to understand that.

888
01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:52,220
But the fact that we implemented this year with the health

889
01:11:52,220 --> 01:11:56,240
of this can't really be the driver, and the teacher is being

890
01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:58,860
on board, and you see the improvement throughout the year.

891
01:11:58,860 --> 01:12:01,340
I think next year, I can't wait to see what the results are next year.

892
01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:06,020
Once that we happen, because we've learned sort of what didn't work, what does work, how to fine tune it.

893
01:12:06,400 --> 01:12:10,640
And I would expect it next year we key on the rise.

894
01:12:11,400 --> 01:12:11,700
So, great.

895
01:12:11,700 --> 01:12:13,700
Well, I can't wait to see the MCAS results.

896
01:12:15,220 --> 01:12:15,300
Yeah.

897
01:12:15,300 --> 01:12:17,440
Are we going to, is that good?

898
01:12:17,700 --> 01:12:19,320
It says moving up to grade seven.

899
01:12:19,580 --> 01:12:22,240
Are we going to potentially move it up to grade eight?

900
01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:23,560
Are we just keeping it at one?

901
01:12:23,980 --> 01:12:28,840
That's, so, what happens is you need parent buy-ins.

902
01:12:28,840 --> 01:12:33,280
So basically once you get to the language, this parents that might say, I want to choose a language

903
01:12:33,280 --> 01:12:35,380
instead of take this out of our class.

904
01:12:35,960 --> 01:12:39,640
So just to be so little trickier, so as long as I think, well, that's the goal is to move

905
01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:43,560
a TA-3, but if we don't have the numbers, we don't have the numbers, we'll have to see.

906
01:12:44,260 --> 01:12:48,940
Yeah, and I think in seventh grade, when we were strategic about it, the kids that are moving

907
01:12:48,940 --> 01:12:51,980
up to seventh grade had had this program in sixth grade, right?

908
01:12:51,980 --> 01:12:57,540
So the parents have seen it, the kids have enjoyed it, and it's moving up.

909
01:12:57,540 --> 01:13:05,240
It will be a little different in 7th grade and that it will really be the students that are struggling the most.

910
01:13:06,300 --> 01:13:10,220
We're not going to have the groups for the Excel because they'll be in world language, right?

911
01:13:11,040 --> 01:13:14,860
So it will look a little different and it won't be the entire grade involved.

912
01:13:15,700 --> 01:13:19,700
But we've used data to target who we think needs help.

913
01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:22,700
And we're going to give it a shot next year and we'll see how close.

914
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:23,160
You know?

915
01:13:24,020 --> 01:13:25,620
I think it's really helpful that they haven't sex.

916
01:13:26,040 --> 01:13:26,100
Yes.

917
01:13:26,100 --> 01:13:29,800
that was the key. So they used to do it and then you move up to seven.

918
01:13:29,940 --> 01:13:35,060
And they haven't chosen a language yet. And we've tried to explain. You still have a language

919
01:13:35,060 --> 01:13:41,760
when you get to high schools. And actually we promise to. If a kid excels and needs to go back

920
01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:45,840
into a language in the middle of the year, they can. Or next year, they're going to be in a

921
01:13:45,840 --> 01:13:50,840
language in eighth grade. We'll have a section that will work. We've worked with a world

922
01:13:50,840 --> 01:13:55,140
language teachers. I think the other important thing is that you touch on as well. It's not just

923
01:13:55,140 --> 01:14:00,120
already or MCAS or the reporter. It's all these things combined and then you can

924
01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:01,600
really paint a true picture of what?

925
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:04,620
It's great. Yeah. Great. Thank you very much.

926
01:14:05,440 --> 01:14:06,220
I do the surplus.

927
01:14:08,680 --> 01:14:15,400
Yeah, sure. So moving on to the surplus on the agenda. So it's

928
01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:21,480
kind of thinking it was ironic that we were welcoming all the retirees. Well I've

929
01:14:21,480 --> 01:14:26,580
another 5,384 that I'd like to retire here in the surplus list.

930
01:14:29,720 --> 01:14:31,320
There are ages.

931
01:14:31,820 --> 01:14:42,700
Average age is a 1996, 30 years old, and the age range is from 1951 to 2013, and the books that

932
01:14:42,700 --> 01:14:48,320
are on the surplus list are all being recycled by a company called BASTEAT books, and what they do

933
01:14:48,320 --> 01:14:52,540
is they send what they can to different programs

934
01:14:52,540 --> 01:14:54,920
like Operation Paperback that goes to troops.

935
01:14:55,820 --> 01:14:58,180
Or there's a prison component,

936
01:14:58,260 --> 01:14:59,980
they send them to prisons or friends of...

937
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:07,620
Libraries and their big mission is to keep them out of the landfill. Either recycle them or give them to these programs.

938
01:15:08,320 --> 01:15:15,280
But we've done a lot of spring cleaning here at the high school. The book rooms were a disaster, I'll be honest.

939
01:15:16,380 --> 01:15:21,500
And this is the result. So we would like your permission to surplus these.

940
01:15:21,500 --> 01:15:29,280
All right, great. We'll vote on that a little bit and on behalf of the 1951 book, the voice that is great within

941
01:15:31,860 --> 01:15:35,080
All right, thank you. We'll vote on that in a few minutes

942
01:15:36,740 --> 01:15:49,420
And yes, I know I have my presentation. Yeah, thank you very very the last superintendents report over a year

943
01:15:49,420 --> 01:15:50,960
This is coming up right now.

944
01:16:04,110 --> 01:16:04,490
Thank you.

945
01:16:05,010 --> 01:16:06,590
You know, you know, that first line.

946
01:16:08,470 --> 01:16:13,810
So the robotics team finished 10th in the state, which is incredible.

947
01:16:14,350 --> 01:16:17,750
When we talked about the pathways again, we've discussed a lot.

948
01:16:17,910 --> 01:16:20,730
We want to have every reason the kid wants to come to school.

949
01:16:20,870 --> 01:16:22,070
We want to have that for them.

950
01:16:22,350 --> 01:16:23,590
And the robotics team is thriving.

951
01:16:23,850 --> 01:16:28,290
I told you last year they had a world record for like three minutes of whatever until the next team broke it.

952
01:16:28,710 --> 01:16:30,170
But 10th in the state is really impressive.

953
01:16:30,170 --> 01:16:34,410
So congratulations to them, next slide.

954
01:16:35,890 --> 01:16:38,090
The girls tennis team made it to the final four.

955
01:16:38,230 --> 01:16:40,690
They lost a heartbreaker yesterday to do a virtual run.

956
01:16:40,830 --> 01:16:45,130
I went down and watched it came down to our number of player Nikki Carr,

957
01:16:45,250 --> 01:16:49,450
versus the other one she was incredible incredible incredible incredible.

958
01:16:49,570 --> 01:16:51,370
I don't want to, you know, I'm don't tend to scout.

959
01:16:51,710 --> 01:16:56,590
I don't pretend to know a bunch, but she, the player on the other team just kept on

960
01:16:56,590 --> 01:16:59,850
having it back, and Nicky was so fierce and so competitive,

961
01:17:01,930 --> 01:17:04,730
I think she just, it was like

962
01:17:04,730 --> 01:17:05,590
a strategy.

963
01:17:05,890 --> 01:17:08,710
You know, the strategy in tennis is sort of like four year appointed almost.

964
01:17:09,650 --> 01:17:10,030
And it worked.

965
01:17:10,190 --> 01:17:11,690
It was 95 degrees on 97 degrees.

966
01:17:11,930 --> 01:17:12,930
There was tremendously hot.

967
01:17:13,250 --> 01:17:14,430
She was so incredible.

968
01:17:14,990 --> 01:17:18,210
The whole team was cheering each other on.

969
01:17:18,390 --> 01:17:21,570
It was when you talk with teams representing the town representing the school.

970
01:17:22,150 --> 01:17:25,110
The girl's tennis team was phenomenal this year.

971
01:17:25,110 --> 01:17:28,190
and congratulations to the kids and to Coach Selina first year.

972
01:17:28,710 --> 01:17:31,850
It was quite a feat, so very impressive.

973
01:17:35,080 --> 01:17:37,560
This is a picture of, you know, 5.30 a.m.

974
01:17:37,820 --> 01:17:41,740
The morning that the kids went to DC, the kids were so well-behaved.

975
01:17:42,620 --> 01:17:44,340
Every year, I mean, listen, I've said it before,

976
01:17:44,480 --> 01:17:46,220
when I used to present as the principal that, you know,

977
01:17:46,220 --> 01:17:47,600
this is not exactly luxury travel.

978
01:17:47,700 --> 01:17:49,360
This isn't like a typical business trip.

979
01:17:50,660 --> 01:17:51,520
The kids are so good.

980
01:17:53,260 --> 01:17:56,040
They, you know, shout out to the teachers who volunteer their time

981
01:17:56,040 --> 01:18:00,800
their own families to go on this trip. The kids had a blast, they was so well behaved,

982
01:18:02,080 --> 01:18:06,160
and respectful. They, every year, sort of, like, judge everybody else, because we talked

983
01:18:06,160 --> 01:18:09,800
with those no cell phones, other schools will have them. You're going through, you know, leave,

984
01:18:09,880 --> 01:18:13,600
we'll tell you, right, that we went to, you guys, you guys, you guys, you guys, you guys,

985
01:18:15,580 --> 01:18:21,380
that, you're, you're some, that's some pretty sort of, you're revered places,

986
01:18:21,640 --> 01:18:25,540
and there's kids snapping their phones and video tape and our kids don't. And then they become

987
01:18:25,540 --> 01:18:33,420
They're judging them which I love that they shouldn't do that. We'd never do that. Why are they doing that but the kids is a great job in

988
01:18:33,420 --> 01:18:34,640
Another tremendous trip

989
01:18:36,020 --> 01:18:42,740
The senior prom, the seniors like quite a week of themselves. I have to say they had the senior awards. They had prom. They had Fenway. They had the senior barbecue

990
01:18:44,580 --> 01:18:44,940
And

991
01:18:44,940 --> 01:18:46,260
You know

992
01:18:46,260 --> 01:18:51,040
Obviously prom night everybody's sort of nervous nobody sleeps because you're waiting for that call and there was nothing kids

993
01:18:51,460 --> 01:18:53,820
Not they did a great job ever. We got home safely

994
01:18:55,280 --> 01:19:02,220
I will just say one quick thing came up after Red Carpet that people were wondering why we don't announce their names.

995
01:19:02,580 --> 01:19:09,020
This is when they come down. First of all, I mean, I think it's, you know, they're getting a lot of attention to themselves anyway on the Red Carpet,

996
01:19:09,240 --> 01:19:11,820
but some kids don't want that. You know, they don't want to be called out.

997
01:19:12,860 --> 01:19:18,160
And we have to respect sort of everybody's wishes. And I think that, again, if you don't want to walk the Red Carpet, you don't have to.

998
01:19:18,160 --> 01:19:21,540
adding your name being announced for all those people would be sort of an added sort of

999
01:19:21,540 --> 01:19:24,820
stressor, and we want the kids to just have a blast, and they did.

1000
01:19:25,780 --> 01:19:32,620
So it would be like great graduation, like I said before, 320, I started stressing when the

1001
01:19:32,620 --> 01:19:33,360
rain came down.

1002
01:19:33,500 --> 01:19:39,160
This is all I took off our score code to uncovering the diplomas, but this is a, I'm so proud

1003
01:19:39,160 --> 01:19:39,580
of this class.

1004
01:19:39,740 --> 01:19:44,720
These kids, for my first year to have these seniors sort of representing the school and

1005
01:19:44,720 --> 01:19:50,780
the leaders of the district, they were a tremendous class, they were that ways since I had them

1006
01:19:50,780 --> 01:19:55,720
in fifth grade and we're really proud of them and are excited to see what they go on to

1007
01:19:55,720 --> 01:20:03,740
accomplish. I won't talk about the scars today. The next event we had the Underclassman Awards

1008
01:20:04,940 --> 01:20:09,480
that the categories are English math science, social studies, world language, innovation pathways

1009
01:20:09,480 --> 01:20:15,400
and under the arts we have banned film media fine arts as well as the book awards for the

1010
01:20:15,400 --> 01:20:19,800
juniors from universities. Within those categories there's a communication award, a literacy

1011
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:25,760
award, a problem-solving, community and critical thinking. It's just another example of our kids

1012
01:20:25,760 --> 01:20:30,700
is shining academically. We already posted it and talked about the schools that they're getting

1013
01:20:30,700 --> 01:20:34,960
into. It doesn't mean that that's everybody's just because you get into this great school. Doesn't

1014
01:20:34,960 --> 01:20:38,220
mean that's where you should go. You should go where makes you happy and what makes the most financial

1015
01:20:38,220 --> 01:20:40,320
sense, but the fact that they're getting into these schools from

1016
01:20:40,320 --> 01:20:44,300
Swarmskate High School, again, I don't know why anybody would go anywhere else.

1017
01:20:45,460 --> 01:20:48,220
And shout out to Dr. Paul Azadi and the science teachers for the

1018
01:20:48,220 --> 01:20:53,220
science team, sorry, the science fair, I had marked the five-second rule

1019
01:20:53,620 --> 01:20:57,500
too, because that was a shocker. I go the opposite way, where it's just like

1020
01:20:57,500 --> 01:21:02,860
pick it up, eat it. And now, the other interesting one I thought, you know, there

1021
01:21:02,860 --> 01:21:07,200
were all great, the back theory and the school water fountains we get from the

1022
01:21:07,200 --> 01:21:13,780
surface. I guess when you have hundreds of kids thrown their hands on a after Jim class that will happen,

1023
01:21:14,240 --> 01:21:18,020
but the kids are a great job. Also the ice cubes that changed color when you turned to put the

1024
01:21:18,020 --> 01:21:24,960
lemonade on it was impressive as well. We had a Internet safety speaker come in to talk to our

1025
01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:37,180
middle school kids and our high school kids, Kate Greer. She talked about again, what does

1026
01:21:37,180 --> 01:21:41,780
information really private. I think something I've been talking to parents about since, again,

1027
01:21:42,180 --> 01:21:44,580
they weren't fifth grade, and parents are coming to the middle school as principals.

1028
01:21:44,860 --> 01:21:48,600
Like, the longer you can wait to hold off on the phone, the better, the longer you can hold off

1029
01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:52,820
on social media, the better. It's hard. It's hard.

1030
01:21:52,820 --> 01:21:55,740
I'm just really talking about this in presentation a few weeks ago. I mean, we're trying to teach

1031
01:21:55,740 --> 01:21:59,780
them off in English. And they're used to that instant feedback from their phone or their iPad.

1032
01:22:00,100 --> 01:22:07,160
If we can get them off the iPad, get them off the phones. You know, everybody's going to

1033
01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:16,220
sort of make our jobs easier and as far as, you know, the discipline concerns, I mean, I can't tell you a weekend doesn't go by or something happens on the weekend on the phones that then

1034
01:22:16,820 --> 01:22:23,520
Misato or Ms. Minter or Ms. Samord are dealing with the next week so the longer we can hold that off the better

1035
01:22:24,440 --> 01:22:29,960
and she's coming to speak to our families on September 29 as well so parents can come

1036
01:22:30,050 --> 01:22:39,610
And hopefully, you know, sometimes when we have those parent nights, so we people show up, it would be great if we can get the vast amount of our families to come, especially with the younger families.

1037
01:22:41,410 --> 01:22:45,070
This, this council meeting of some of you this picture, this is just hilarious. I thought Paul is a graduating senior.

1038
01:22:45,190 --> 01:22:47,550
That was he and I in eighth grade and then at the senior barbecue.

1039
01:22:49,590 --> 01:22:57,530
He's looking great and after UNH, and then we have the moving on ceremony on the 17th for the middle school.

1040
01:22:57,530 --> 01:23:01,770
that happens again here at the social high school and the moving on ceremony for the fourth

1041
01:23:01,770 --> 01:23:07,290
graders is on the 18th in the morning. And that is it for my report.

1042
01:23:07,970 --> 01:23:12,930
Great. Thank you very much. Any thoughts? Questions about that?

1043
01:23:13,530 --> 01:23:18,050
Okay. So, please. Policy. Let me go.

1044
01:23:18,050 --> 01:23:20,890
I have all the things.

1045
01:23:23,330 --> 01:23:25,450
Let's see another policy.

1046
01:23:27,170 --> 01:23:30,050
We went over these last time,

1047
01:23:30,790 --> 01:23:33,950
like the access to the buildings and the grounds.

1048
01:23:34,970 --> 01:23:38,370
Where that one is just adding some clarifying words

1049
01:23:38,370 --> 01:23:43,350
about staff members having access to the building after school hours

1050
01:23:44,970 --> 01:23:49,310
and like any contractors or people for events,

1051
01:23:49,870 --> 01:23:52,050
since we're only really adding a sentence,

1052
01:23:53,190 --> 01:23:55,350
where personnel's who's work requires it,

1053
01:23:56,730 --> 01:23:59,170
and in the authorized event,

1054
01:24:00,570 --> 01:24:02,870
to make it clear why people are entering the building.

1055
01:24:04,630 --> 01:24:05,530
The parental advisory.

1056
01:24:05,930 --> 01:24:08,130
We got, I'm sorry, could it? Before you go to the next one.

1057
01:24:08,130 --> 01:24:14,730
Yep, are all of these new or some of them existing that have been updated, I wasn't sure.

1058
01:24:15,370 --> 01:24:24,190
Yeah, so last time I said it was three of them are new and four are ones that we are updating.

1059
01:24:25,170 --> 01:24:33,130
If you give me a second, I can tell you which ones we are working on here.

1060
01:24:33,630 --> 01:24:40,980
It says it on the bottom, the very bottom of the F. It tells you if it's updated or it's new.

1061
01:24:47,280 --> 01:24:51,980
Yeah, it just says source, source, M-A-S-C-2026. That means it's brand new.

1062
01:24:52,040 --> 01:24:52,340
Okay.

1063
01:24:52,700 --> 01:24:54,160
I saw the update that I can see.

1064
01:24:54,400 --> 01:24:55,020
Yes, I do.

1065
01:24:55,660 --> 01:24:56,540
That's all it says.

1066
01:24:56,600 --> 01:24:56,880
Okay.

1067
01:24:56,920 --> 01:24:57,300
I don't know.

1068
01:25:03,590 --> 01:25:07,010
But I don't have any feedback on that one.

1069
01:25:08,490 --> 01:25:09,870
Any feedback here?

1070
01:25:10,030 --> 01:25:11,810
Did you go with self-medication already?

1071
01:25:11,990 --> 01:25:12,390
No.

1072
01:25:12,390 --> 01:25:29,260
The next one is the parent advisory council where that one is just updated to remove best practices and include guidance around

1073
01:25:29,260 --> 01:25:40,620
Hacks not being subject to open meeting laws. So just letting essentially know that the PTOs and other organizations don't have to follow open meeting lots

1074
01:25:40,620 --> 01:25:45,260
I'm posting their meetings or anything like that.

1075
01:25:46,950 --> 01:25:48,850
Any questions on that one?

1076
01:25:51,590 --> 01:25:55,090
The next one is around the self-medication

1077
01:25:55,090 --> 01:25:58,130
and self-carry medication.

1078
01:25:59,230 --> 01:26:00,670
Where is that one?

1079
01:26:03,930 --> 01:26:08,750
This one was being updated because there's the new policy,

1080
01:26:08,970 --> 01:26:10,130
which was the other one.

1081
01:26:10,130 --> 01:26:34,830
They want it to align with 105 CMR-210, which is a regulation issued by the Massachusetts Department of Health to provide safe and proper storage and medication to students in the Commonwealth public and non-public primary and secondary schools.

1082
01:26:34,830 --> 01:26:42,210
It also permits the school nurses to delegate responsibilities to administer medication

1083
01:26:44,030 --> 01:26:50,230
to train, nursing, supervised, on licensed school personnel.

1084
01:26:51,630 --> 01:26:59,470
So that one makes clear the policy around administering it, and then also essentially gives

1085
01:26:59,470 --> 01:27:06,050
the school nurse's ability to delegate those responsibilities if they need to as well.

1086
01:27:07,330 --> 01:27:11,310
So I get my question, and I don't know who I should address it.

1087
01:27:11,530 --> 01:27:15,270
But it seems to put another sort of responsibility on the teacher.

1088
01:27:16,350 --> 01:27:23,010
So in the self-ministration and the seven minutes of the nurse will establish a plan for safe storage and self-ministration.

1089
01:27:23,590 --> 01:27:25,190
And it's necessary to consult with teachers.

1090
01:27:25,190 --> 01:27:35,210
Does that leave the responsibility up to the teacher to make sure that when it is stored wherever they are that the teachers responsible for it?

1091
01:27:37,420 --> 01:27:40,320
So the hot one, let's see.

1092
01:27:41,040 --> 01:27:42,520
So number seven.

1093
01:27:47,730 --> 01:27:50,470
The administration of medication to students.

1094
01:27:50,890 --> 01:27:51,510
That one.

1095
01:27:56,930 --> 01:27:58,990
Procedure for solving questions between school.

1096
01:27:59,730 --> 01:28:02,990
I didn't, it's interesting to say that because I had the same question initially.

1097
01:28:02,990 --> 01:28:10,370
But after reading it, it subtly says it consults with the teachers, the student and the caregiver,

1098
01:28:12,170 --> 01:28:14,450
to me, it's still in nurses responsibility.

1099
01:28:15,730 --> 01:28:16,930
But it's certainly not clear.

1100
01:28:17,550 --> 01:28:18,630
It doesn't seem clear to me.

1101
01:28:18,770 --> 01:28:20,610
It's like a little great area.

1102
01:28:21,710 --> 01:28:32,270
It's one of them, one of them is all about the medication administration system and how that all is supposed to work.

1103
01:28:32,270 --> 01:28:39,150
like the nurses perspective and the administration areas where it covers everything in the department

1104
01:28:39,150 --> 01:28:46,310
of public health regulations and procedures, it details like the opioids and epinephrine procedures

1105
01:28:46,310 --> 01:28:54,970
and how they're supposed to log things, have their medical plans, and the other one is around

1106
01:28:54,970 --> 01:28:58,410
like the student having to carry or self-administer

1107
01:28:58,410 --> 01:29:02,710
like some of that medication and how it references

1108
01:29:02,710 --> 01:29:05,110
the emergency meds as backup storage,

1109
01:29:05,330 --> 01:29:08,970
which is I think the part that you might be asking about

1110
01:29:08,970 --> 01:29:12,570
is I am when I was looking at it

1111
01:29:12,570 --> 01:29:14,110
and trying to get clarification around it,

1112
01:29:14,130 --> 01:29:19,250
I think it's more of if they have like an inhaler

1113
01:29:19,250 --> 01:29:20,590
or a pee pen or a pee pen,

1114
01:29:21,110 --> 01:29:24,770
like trying to figure out where the teacher is gonna put it

1115
01:29:24,770 --> 01:29:31,750
as a backup for that room, so that way they know where it is to then be able to administer it when needed.

1116
01:29:32,290 --> 01:29:34,850
But it doesn't specifically say in inhaler.

1117
01:29:35,050 --> 01:29:36,170
I can understand that.

1118
01:29:36,290 --> 01:29:43,370
And that's the part where we don't want to add that into the policy because that's the procedure thing at that point where this

1119
01:29:43,370 --> 01:29:46,810
or nurse will be the one to decide what the procedure would be on.

1120
01:29:47,110 --> 01:29:47,730
How that is handled.

1121
01:29:47,750 --> 01:29:48,750
On all medications.

1122
01:29:48,750 --> 01:29:50,570
Mm-hmm.

1123
01:29:50,790 --> 01:29:57,390
Can I, um, to ductal what Martha sang and this is one of those that the policy procedures

1124
01:29:57,390 --> 01:29:59,190
are incredibly gray.

1125
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:14,960
Can we, if we don't vote on this today, and I know, and I'm going to talk later about what we're going to have another meeting or two during the summer, could we make certain that this is run by Ms. Seely?

1126
01:30:15,480 --> 01:30:23,000
Just to make sure, I mean, I'm not, I don't even sure how much we can change of this, but we just make sure that

1127
01:30:24,120 --> 01:30:29,480
I'm feeling has seen these, if she has any questions, and maybe Miguel, you can go back

1128
01:30:30,540 --> 01:30:34,600
to the Mass Association of School of Committees to see if anyone else has had questions.

1129
01:30:36,460 --> 01:30:41,740
Because again, I agree with Martha, and I agree with you, is that there's the policy versus

1130
01:30:41,740 --> 01:30:49,520
procedure thing, but given that this is way out of our even remote understanding, and let's

1131
01:30:49,520 --> 01:30:56,320
make sure that the nursing staff is in agreement of all this. I'm sure they are and I'm sure that

1132
01:30:56,320 --> 01:31:03,120
the the MSC did what they needed to do but could we just since school is letting out and we can

1133
01:31:03,120 --> 01:31:08,040
always meet and approve this before the new school year. Let's just make sure that we're covering

1134
01:31:08,040 --> 01:31:12,940
all our bases and let's make sure that Missilea has signed off. Not signed off and we're just as red

1135
01:31:12,940 --> 01:31:19,660
And if she has questions, we can then, you guys can go back to the M.A.F.C. and just get some

1136
01:31:19,660 --> 01:31:23,220
clarifying and then just come back. When next time we have a meeting, we can come back

1137
01:31:23,220 --> 01:31:24,400
and just approve this.

1138
01:31:25,040 --> 01:31:25,200
Yeah, that's great.

1139
01:31:25,320 --> 01:31:33,300
Glenn, I actually had similar thoughts to both of you, and I guess my, my interpretation was

1140
01:31:33,300 --> 01:31:39,800
more of a compliance thing, is both seven and eight talk about establishing a plan or implementing

1141
01:31:39,800 --> 01:31:47,140
a plan, and I guess where my head was, are they actually doing that? Is it a written plan,

1142
01:31:47,380 --> 01:31:53,820
or is it a, is it something that's done by practice? Is that the plan? It wasn't clear to me

1143
01:31:53,820 --> 01:32:00,820
what the plan was, or if it's something that's formal, and I guess I'd be more comfortable if it was

1144
01:32:00,820 --> 01:32:08,860
maybe not volumes of written down, but something written down, so hopefully there's a chain.

1145
01:32:08,860 --> 01:32:15,500
Yeah, hopefully very unlikely event is an issue that, you know, there's this, we can point back to someone that's written and that was followed.

1146
01:32:15,920 --> 01:32:17,400
That's kind of where my head was at.

1147
01:32:22,080 --> 01:32:26,620
The next one is around the bus driver examination in training.

1148
01:32:27,420 --> 01:32:34,280
This one is literally to remove one sentence, which is to provide proof of freedom of tuberculosis.

1149
01:32:35,180 --> 01:32:37,620
That is no longer a legal requirement.

1150
01:32:39,980 --> 01:32:44,060
So there isn't really much on that one.

1151
01:32:44,360 --> 01:32:46,000
Actually, can I ask a question on this one?

1152
01:32:48,920 --> 01:32:51,880
When it's, this is on number four on that one.

1153
01:32:51,920 --> 01:32:53,980
The contract will furnish to the school committee.

1154
01:32:54,340 --> 01:32:56,180
A list of names in their records.

1155
01:32:56,840 --> 01:33:00,880
Is that just, I'm assuming that's a high level thing that

1156
01:33:00,880 --> 01:33:04,980
The school committee will be provided a report from the administration about

1157
01:33:05,620 --> 01:33:09,920
What's going on as opposed to someone in the school committee going through these records?

1158
01:33:10,640 --> 01:33:18,380
Yeah, I think that one is the Mr. Kalishman would get it as the superintendent, which then we would have access to it.

1159
01:33:18,560 --> 01:33:20,440
That's what I figured I just wanted to extend thank you.

1160
01:33:20,660 --> 01:33:24,200
He's the one that handles the contract negotiations on that and

1161
01:33:33,290 --> 01:33:34,910
the school choice.

1162
01:33:35,970 --> 01:33:41,510
The only thing that is changing here is that the state law,

1163
01:33:41,510 --> 01:33:48,050
mass general, legislative chapters, 76, 12 B.J.,

1164
01:33:48,050 --> 01:33:50,030
is including a sibling priority.

1165
01:33:50,670 --> 01:33:54,210
So if there is already a sibling in the district,

1166
01:33:55,530 --> 01:34:04,890
that any sibling of a student already enrolled in the district

1167
01:34:04,890 --> 01:34:10,250
sections to accommodate that being added as a line item.

1168
01:34:10,490 --> 01:34:12,230
I ask you to add a question about this, too.

1169
01:34:12,390 --> 01:34:14,010
Of course, we don't have school choice.

1170
01:34:15,810 --> 01:34:24,240
If a teacher brings in a student, and then that teacher leaves the district,

1171
01:34:26,610 --> 01:34:27,450
does their student

1172
01:34:27,450 --> 01:34:28,790
automatically leave the district?

1173
01:34:30,270 --> 01:34:30,890
I believe so.

1174
01:34:31,630 --> 01:34:34,750
And this, that this does not cover that though, right?

1175
01:34:35,630 --> 01:34:36,770
Do not believe so, no.

1176
01:34:36,770 --> 01:34:37,390
Okay, great.

1177
01:34:37,450 --> 01:34:43,190
I just want to make sure that, you know, when the edged getaways and they're not from

1178
01:34:43,190 --> 01:34:43,950
the district of the student.

1179
01:34:44,030 --> 01:34:44,310
Absolutely.

1180
01:34:45,550 --> 01:34:45,950
Thank you.

1181
01:34:46,070 --> 01:34:46,290
Yeah.

1182
01:34:46,470 --> 01:34:50,750
Because I think that all follows under our requirements that we have, if there are

1183
01:34:50,750 --> 01:34:51,230
non-resident.

1184
01:34:52,730 --> 01:34:54,130
I mean, we might make a consideration.

1185
01:34:54,190 --> 01:34:54,470
Right.

1186
01:34:54,670 --> 01:34:55,390
It's a senior course.

1187
01:34:56,230 --> 01:34:56,630
That's it.

1188
01:34:56,630 --> 01:34:57,630
That's always at the discussion.

1189
01:35:00,420 --> 01:35:01,220
Thank you.

1190
01:35:03,040 --> 01:35:03,780
Let's see.

1191
01:35:03,780 --> 01:35:13,420
The next one is the one that is required by August 17th to be in our books, the time-out

1192
01:35:13,420 --> 01:35:20,880
seclusion and restraint of students. The policy has been entirely rewritten to align with new

1193
01:35:20,880 --> 01:35:27,840
state regulations, the severe requires of this policy in accompanying procedures being placed by August

1194
01:35:29,100 --> 01:35:38,060
17th in this one we did have Martha review for us. She didn't see anything crazy or anything that we needed to adjust

1195
01:35:38,960 --> 01:35:42,460
Yeah, any other so to that point actually

1196
01:35:42,460 --> 01:35:49,420
Speaking to the MFC about something really different and I brought this up and they were about as clear and they're never clear about

1197
01:35:49,420 --> 01:35:53,240
Normally it's well when do this they actually said this is one of those

1198
01:35:53,240 --> 01:35:56,800
except and in full, because it's been gone through

1199
01:35:56,800 --> 01:36:00,500
at quite the vetting process, so we don't want to make any changes to this one.

1200
01:36:00,700 --> 01:36:02,220
All right, that was actually my question as well.

1201
01:36:02,420 --> 01:36:04,420
We've gotten glad to hear that you looked at it too, Mark.

1202
01:36:04,460 --> 01:36:07,240
At that point, we're training in July.

1203
01:36:07,540 --> 01:36:09,240
I mean, it is a little...

1204
01:36:09,940 --> 01:36:11,100
I'm going to say it's actually commercial.

1205
01:36:11,500 --> 01:36:16,560
But all the controversial among school districts to changes in the policy.

1206
01:36:18,260 --> 01:36:22,340
But we're going to be training, and we'll have a good guidance

1207
01:36:22,340 --> 01:36:24,380
and protocol for our district.

1208
01:36:24,600 --> 01:36:26,120
We've already worked on it this year.

1209
01:36:26,380 --> 01:36:28,520
There's just a couple of new changes,

1210
01:36:30,180 --> 01:36:33,860
not unrestrained, but more on timeout procedures

1211
01:36:33,860 --> 01:36:37,060
and subclusion that really, really changed,

1212
01:36:38,660 --> 01:36:41,300
including, you know, so I guess for example,

1213
01:36:41,620 --> 01:36:45,980
like a student who maybe really acting out

1214
01:36:45,980 --> 01:36:49,160
and being disregulated or wanting to leave the building.

1215
01:36:49,400 --> 01:36:51,440
And this is more our younger students,

1216
01:36:51,440 --> 01:36:58,180
You know, we might have them, we have them in a quiet area, with a bean bag, with a

1217
01:36:58,180 --> 01:37:08,200
staff member, but there's a little discrepancies or talk within our community, especially

1218
01:37:08,200 --> 01:37:15,360
in special education that we now be considered seclusion rather than a timeout.

1219
01:37:15,360 --> 01:37:22,500
exclusion requires and a physician to sign off and a parent permission to sign off and

1220
01:37:22,500 --> 01:37:27,360
and a licensed medical health professional, mental health professional to sign off.

1221
01:37:28,360 --> 01:37:29,980
And there actually are not the same.

1222
01:37:31,000 --> 01:37:39,220
Requirements for restraint, which is interesting. I'm not sure how it's going to be implemented, but I do know

1223
01:37:39,220 --> 01:37:46,860
like a lot of places, special education schools, who work with students who might have significant

1224
01:37:48,080 --> 01:37:52,200
emotional regulation issues that might have acting out behaviors. You would think,

1225
01:37:52,200 --> 01:37:58,760
a calming and soothing space to be with an adult, not separate, you know, never separate. We don't

1226
01:37:58,760 --> 01:38:04,000
have any places where we have students that are not with an adult might be less restrictive

1227
01:38:04,000 --> 01:38:07,080
than actually having to put your hands on somebody.

1228
01:38:07,880 --> 01:38:12,700
So I'm a little worried about it, but I'm not feeling a person who's worried about it, and

1229
01:38:12,700 --> 01:38:19,020
that's why I am going to a training throughout this collaborative and that purpose, expensive,

1230
01:38:19,480 --> 01:38:23,780
which is, I mean, $1,000, which I guess, to be as expensive, but it does provide me with

1231
01:38:23,780 --> 01:38:27,740
a lot of training materials I'll be able to utilize because it's going to be really important

1232
01:38:27,740 --> 01:38:32,740
that all of our principles and all of our staff, especially at the elementary, so we'll have

1233
01:38:32,740 --> 01:38:37,820
good guidance on it. But I will say there is even question among Dessie and the attorneys and the

1234
01:38:37,820 --> 01:38:43,800
people who wrote it that they, you know, when people write things that aren't in the, um,

1235
01:38:43,800 --> 01:38:49,000
actually doing the with the student might not quite understand how they wrote it.

1236
01:38:49,620 --> 01:38:57,040
So could I ask, um, superintendent and, uh, Martha if you guys could, when you go to that class,

1237
01:38:57,040 --> 01:39:03,680
maybe have a obsession, and maybe include Miguel and the policy

1238
01:39:04,320 --> 01:39:06,620
subcommittee into that, discussion and if...

1239
01:39:06,620 --> 01:39:10,140
The policy is correct, like that is it. I just need, you know, we're going to have to write the

1240
01:39:10,140 --> 01:39:15,440
protocol. And that I'm happy to, I'm going to do, and I've already started, so that piece is

1241
01:39:15,440 --> 01:39:20,960
done, and I'm also happy to come back. And here is what we're doing, and where my concerns are,

1242
01:39:20,960 --> 01:39:24,940
which are important to talk about because, you know, it's really, it's going to be hard to get,

1243
01:39:24,940 --> 01:39:26,480
I don't have a licensed mental,

1244
01:39:26,680 --> 01:39:28,320
and I'm not even gonna find one in district

1245
01:39:28,320 --> 01:39:31,320
who's gonna be willing to sign off on this.

1246
01:39:31,500 --> 01:39:33,280
So then where am I going to,

1247
01:39:33,280 --> 01:39:35,280
or are we gonna be paying for that,

1248
01:39:35,480 --> 01:39:38,560
which we would have to ask parents to do anything

1249
01:39:38,560 --> 01:39:40,080
that we need appropriate.

1250
01:39:40,580 --> 01:39:47,440
So I might have to get talk to pediatrician or pediatrician's office.

1251
01:39:47,480 --> 01:39:49,500
I know we do have somebody that we consult with,

1252
01:39:50,060 --> 01:39:52,520
could they give us access to a licensed mental health professional

1253
01:39:52,520 --> 01:39:56,820
do, that might help us for more, you know, needing to have that sign off.

1254
01:39:57,360 --> 01:40:01,460
Okay. Um, so I mean, to me, you know, again, we'll vote on this, but I think it's no problem

1255
01:40:01,460 --> 01:40:06,840
voting on it, but if you, if all of you could maybe at some point after, after you do that, you know,

1256
01:40:06,840 --> 01:40:10,580
whether it's a conversation over the summer and, you know, if anything needs to be adjusted prior

1257
01:40:10,580 --> 01:40:15,280
to the school year, let's, let's, let's do that. So just kind of go back to what you said a minute

1258
01:40:15,280 --> 01:40:17,000
to go about the MASC.

1259
01:40:17,480 --> 01:40:22,420
So it sounds like what they're telling you is it's been well-vetted.

1260
01:40:22,740 --> 01:40:27,240
This is the recommending the schools to accept this in all.

1261
01:40:27,260 --> 01:40:29,360
Yeah, we have to have this.

1262
01:40:29,360 --> 01:40:30,600
We have to have this.

1263
01:40:30,600 --> 01:40:31,540
I understand we have this.

1264
01:40:31,540 --> 01:40:32,740
I just think the interpretation.

1265
01:40:33,000 --> 01:40:35,820
I guess a lot of it is a hot topic in my field.

1266
01:40:36,140 --> 01:40:40,420
Yeah, I guess my question is where we don't need Darren or anybody else to give this a look.

1267
01:40:40,680 --> 01:40:42,720
Or if they're recommending this.

1268
01:40:42,720 --> 01:40:44,700
I'd like we will have our protocols

1269
01:40:44,700 --> 01:40:47,060
vetted through our special education theory.

1270
01:40:47,420 --> 01:40:48,040
That I will do.

1271
01:40:48,320 --> 01:40:49,540
Yeah, I think Martha said it great.

1272
01:40:49,760 --> 01:40:55,820
Is that everything, the lengthy thing that's written is great.

1273
01:40:56,720 --> 01:40:58,720
But there's been a lot of consternation

1274
01:40:59,540 --> 01:41:03,180
of Martha and Martha's peers that the actual input,

1275
01:41:03,720 --> 01:41:07,060
to bring this to a trueism at a school district,

1276
01:41:07,200 --> 01:41:11,540
may or may not be 100% doable, accurate, et cetera.

1277
01:41:11,540 --> 01:41:17,220
So that's what we're kind of stuck with this until they probably make you know, I get

1278
01:41:17,220 --> 01:41:22,540
I bet or we're sitting here next year and then made an update to this or they do it made a year

1279
01:41:22,540 --> 01:41:27,760
You might have to do this with surprise right exactly after people try to do this right

1280
01:41:27,760 --> 01:41:32,500
We all know there's been some local time. Yeah, right exactly right. That's really why I wanted to bring it up

1281
01:41:32,500 --> 01:41:35,480
Yeah, so I mean we know is we're talking about this

1282
01:41:35,480 --> 01:41:38,980
We you know will have a vote to approve this

1283
01:41:38,980 --> 01:41:44,980
But at the same time, I think the professionals are all telling us throughout the Commonwealth that

1284
01:41:46,480 --> 01:41:57,560
certain things are going to maybe need to be changed and locally we'll have the staff will have procedures in place that day I'll come to work.

1285
01:42:03,200 --> 01:42:08,960
Before if nobody has anything else before we move on I'm going to move make a motion

1286
01:42:08,980 --> 01:42:12,000
to move these into the consent agenda as a group.

1287
01:42:14,160 --> 01:42:22,240
So I make a motion to move the policies ECAB access to the buildings and grounds.

1288
01:42:22,920 --> 01:42:31,260
The QBG parent advisory council, the EEEA bus driver examination and training.

1289
01:42:33,020 --> 01:42:41,740
The JFB school choice and the JKAA timeout exclusion and restraints of students to be moved into the consent agenda.

1290
01:42:42,840 --> 01:42:44,700
I will suck at that.

1291
01:42:44,800 --> 01:42:45,680
I'll listen there.

1292
01:42:45,920 --> 01:42:46,060
All right.

1293
01:42:46,380 --> 01:42:47,260
Okay, good.

1294
01:42:48,440 --> 01:42:48,700
All right.

1295
01:42:48,820 --> 01:42:49,180
Thank you.

1296
01:42:49,260 --> 01:42:49,620
There we go.

1297
01:42:51,800 --> 01:42:52,380
Okay.

1298
01:42:53,000 --> 01:42:53,880
Before we start taking.

1299
01:42:54,040 --> 01:42:54,560
I'm sorry, guys.

1300
01:42:55,140 --> 01:42:55,700
I'm sorry.

1301
01:42:55,880 --> 01:42:56,120
I'm not.

1302
01:42:56,120 --> 01:42:56,320
I'm sorry.

1303
01:42:58,040 --> 01:42:58,620
I'm sorry.

1304
01:42:58,620 --> 01:43:00,580
that I'm having a tough time hearing down here.

1305
01:43:00,800 --> 01:43:04,600
So the last one, the JLCD, that's out.

1306
01:43:05,860 --> 01:43:09,260
That one is part of the other medication one

1307
01:43:09,260 --> 01:43:13,320
that you both were asking questions around that we're

1308
01:43:13,320 --> 01:43:14,980
going to have the self administration one.

1309
01:43:15,200 --> 01:43:19,620
Yeah, we're going to have miscealy just weigh in on that.

1310
01:43:19,920 --> 01:43:26,040
Because they used to be one, they've split it into two.

1311
01:43:26,040 --> 01:43:36,520
So, one is all about is very detailed around logging the medication plan and it's very

1312
01:43:36,520 --> 01:43:38,660
extensive on like the staff training.

1313
01:43:39,560 --> 01:43:46,320
While the other one is all about the self-carry, it's very short and focused mostly on nurses

1314
01:43:46,320 --> 01:43:48,080
approving the process.

1315
01:43:48,260 --> 01:43:49,860
So, we're going to vote on two of them.

1316
01:43:50,580 --> 01:43:50,600
Okay.

1317
01:43:51,260 --> 01:43:54,920
That way, she can review both and then we'll accept both.

1318
01:43:54,920 --> 01:43:55,200
Okay.

1319
01:43:57,060 --> 01:43:57,620
Okay,

1320
01:43:59,960 --> 01:44:08,060
so before we get to the consent that you're actually, can I have a motion to move the text book surplus to the consent of your other.

1321
01:44:08,500 --> 01:44:09,880
Second, all the favor?

1322
01:44:10,340 --> 01:44:10,440
Hi.

1323
01:44:10,880 --> 01:44:10,980
Okay.

1324
01:44:11,900 --> 01:44:12,240
Great.

1325
01:44:13,560 --> 01:44:16,280
So let me read my little thing here.

1326
01:44:19,040 --> 01:44:19,600
Please.

1327
01:44:20,700 --> 01:44:24,500
Oh, thank you before we get there.

1328
01:44:24,500 --> 01:44:33,160
So, as a reminder, last week, we were somehow it fell off the list of subcommittees

1329
01:44:33,160 --> 01:44:35,500
was the liaison for Mecca.

1330
01:44:36,540 --> 01:44:43,020
We've had a few superintendent couchmen and I had a brief conversation about it, and

1331
01:44:43,020 --> 01:44:46,460
Miguel and I had a conversation about it.

1332
01:44:46,480 --> 01:44:53,320
And so, Martha, I know you were interested in that liaison, after speaking about it, I think

1333
01:44:53,320 --> 01:44:59,960
We're going to have two people on that liaison and for what I understand we got you've been nice enough to volunteer for that.

1334
01:45:00,800 --> 01:45:16,700
Thank you. Miguel had the great idea, too, is that throughout the year we really think of how we want that subcommittee to be with the potential of maybe rolling that into the communications group, because that really kind of where it goes.

1335
01:45:17,380 --> 01:45:24,580
Every district has it a little differently. Some of the districts that have, you know, a, you know, two or three or four times as many medical students.

1336
01:45:24,580 --> 01:45:28,740
This wants to get a set up much differently, but we don't have to go down there.

1337
01:45:29,100 --> 01:45:36,900
But can someone make a motion for Martha and Miguel to serve as liaisons for Mecca?

1338
01:45:37,320 --> 01:45:42,960
I'll make a motion for Martha and Miguel to serve as liaisons to the Mecca.

1339
01:45:43,080 --> 01:45:43,400
Thank you.

1340
01:45:43,920 --> 01:45:44,040
Good job.

1341
01:45:44,820 --> 01:45:45,140
All second.

1342
01:45:45,380 --> 01:45:45,920
All those in favor?

1343
01:45:46,840 --> 01:45:48,120
I, and that is unanimous.

1344
01:45:48,380 --> 01:45:49,220
Thank you.

1345
01:45:49,520 --> 01:45:49,540
Thank you.

1346
01:45:49,540 --> 01:45:49,940
All right.

1347
01:45:50,240 --> 01:45:51,840
Thank you for bringing that to our attention.

1348
01:45:52,020 --> 01:45:53,820
And then I still have no idea how that fell off from that.

1349
01:45:53,820 --> 01:45:54,560
Okay,

1350
01:45:56,620 --> 01:46:10,970
so let me read my thing, and then do we have any, do we have any, we do, it's not okay, it's not on here, it's not on the, it's not there, it's on the next.

1351
01:46:11,150 --> 01:46:16,970
Okay, great, oh two pages saying, if I looked at it, it would be really helpful. Sorry, hold on a sec.

1352
01:46:18,690 --> 01:46:24,270
Oh yeah, there we go. Okay, so let me read the consent agenda, and then I will read the donation.

1353
01:46:24,270 --> 01:46:28,760
I think I would know this by heart at this point.

1354
01:46:29,280 --> 01:46:34,020
All right, the consent agenda, the consent agenda is designed to expedite the handling of routine and miscellaneous

1355
01:46:34,740 --> 01:46:39,080
business of the district, the school committee may adopt the entire consent agenda with one motion

1356
01:46:39,080 --> 01:46:44,580
at the request of any committee member or members, any item or items, maybe remove from the consent agenda

1357
01:46:44,580 --> 01:46:47,200
and place on the regular agenda for discussion.

1358
01:46:48,040 --> 01:46:53,520
We have moved a few things to the consent agenda in addition to two donations

1359
01:46:53,520 --> 01:46:56,760
and the regular session minutes of May 28, 2026.

1360
01:46:57,780 --> 01:47:01,500
As is our practice, we'll read the donations.

1361
01:47:03,420 --> 01:47:06,100
The donations from the Swanska High School parent teach a forum,

1362
01:47:06,980 --> 01:47:10,520
PTF, the funding source, parents,

1363
01:47:11,040 --> 01:47:14,780
Gargoy Cooper, Steven Gatchel,

1364
01:47:15,340 --> 01:47:17,800
Allison Duffy, Tim McCarthy and Joe Ford.

1365
01:47:17,920 --> 01:47:21,740
They have made donations to the class of 2026,

1366
01:47:21,740 --> 01:47:28,660
class of twenty-six, class of twenty-seven, class of twenty-eight, class of twenty-29, and a big

1367
01:47:28,660 --> 01:47:36,960
blue award. So, to those parents, thank you very much for that generous donation. I am quite

1368
01:47:36,960 --> 01:47:42,540
sure those funds will be put to very good use, and thank you very much for spreading that

1369
01:47:42,540 --> 01:47:50,980
among all the classes up here at the high school. Thank you. The second one is donation from

1370
01:47:50,980 --> 01:47:53,160
I'm going to butcher this, and I really apologize.

1371
01:47:53,280 --> 01:47:55,740
I don't have the key to say that one more time.

1372
01:47:56,400 --> 01:47:57,320
A whole del haze.

1373
01:47:57,820 --> 01:48:00,280
All right, thank you, USA Incorporated.

1374
01:48:01,240 --> 01:48:06,400
They are donating a sum of money to the middle school,

1375
01:48:07,480 --> 01:48:09,560
and, I'm sure the middle school will put those funds

1376
01:48:09,560 --> 01:48:13,540
to very good use to that organization.

1377
01:48:13,860 --> 01:48:14,900
Thank you very much.

1378
01:48:14,980 --> 01:48:16,280
We really appreciate it.

1379
01:48:17,200 --> 01:48:20,360
they are located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

1380
01:48:21,400 --> 01:48:26,300
Again, thank you so very much for these dollars.

1381
01:48:27,220 --> 01:48:29,740
They will absolutely be put to good use.

1382
01:48:30,180 --> 01:48:31,020
Thank you.

1383
01:48:31,720 --> 01:48:33,980
All right, so with that, can someone make a motion

1384
01:48:33,980 --> 01:48:35,800
to approve the consent agenda?

1385
01:48:36,780 --> 01:48:39,460
Make a motion to approve the consent agenda.

1386
01:48:39,760 --> 01:48:41,160
Great, thank you, can someone second please?

1387
01:48:41,720 --> 01:48:42,480
All those of favor?

1388
01:48:43,140 --> 01:48:44,980
I, all those opposed, it passes unanimously.

1389
01:48:44,980 --> 01:48:54,800
So just before we do take off, this is our last regularly scheduled meeting for the school year of 2526.

1390
01:48:55,460 --> 01:49:00,800
We are going to have a couple of meetings through in the next several weeks.

1391
01:49:01,240 --> 01:49:03,760
We're going to have an executive session or two coming up.

1392
01:49:03,980 --> 01:49:14,080
Then we're going to, we will have a session that we will run through the review of the superintendent as required by law.

1393
01:49:14,080 --> 01:49:21,420
will post that as we go forward into the month of July. Also in July I believe it's the

1394
01:49:21,420 --> 01:49:27,440
22nd on home. We're going to have a workshop with both cobalment and page and the M.A.F.C.

1395
01:49:28,920 --> 01:49:34,200
and we will take it from there. So you can someone make a motion to adjourn.

1396
01:49:35,520 --> 01:49:42,240
Motion to adjourn. And someone second. All those of ever? Hi. It is unopposed. Thank you very much,

1397
01:49:42,240 --> 01:49:44,160
Everybody have a great day.