Okay. >> Like to call the meeting to order. And if everybody would rise for the pledge of allegiance. >> Get up. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for stands one nation under
God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Before we begin, I'd like to ask for a moment of silence for the passing of longtime former school committee member and friend, Mr. George R.
Thank you. >> Is going to be >> Mr. Sheen. >> Yes. Here. >> Mr. Gia. >> Yeah. >> Mr. L. >> Yeah. >> Mr. Bahu. >> Mr. Richardson. >> Mr. Richardson.
Mr. Richardson. >> Okay. >> Mr. NCO >> here. >> Mr. Hogan. >> Present. >> Mr. Morris. >> Yeah. >> Mr. Narco. Has anyone signed up for public appearance? >> No, they have not.
>> Thank you. Uh, school committee communications. Are there any school committee communications? No. And we'll have the report of the student representative, Anna Deona. Thank you, sir. The Skills USA schoolwide technical
assessments took place December 10th to the 17th with all students in all grades participating. These assessments launched the Skills USA competition year. The students with the highest scores will represent Greater LOL Tech at the district competition in March. In addition, Skills USA hosted its annual
community outreach challenge in conjunction with our eighth grade openhouse. All of our technical programs as well as the skills USA freshman achievement program and freshman digital literacy program hosted interactive stations to assist students in understanding what it feels like to be a
technical education student. National Honor Society National Technical Honor Society is currently hosting a food drive to help support the Griffin community. Donations can be made in math classrooms Wednesday, December 10th until Monday, December 22nd. All food items will be donated to our school's
food pantry. The music club has had an active few months. They completed filming of the holiday show, which will be live streamed on Tuesday, December 23rd, and senior Lucas Norton performed a blazing rendition of the Star Spangled Banner at our Thanksgiving prep rallies. In
addition, the music club's a capella team, Dissonant Escape, recently qualified for the international championship of high school ac cappella and will perform in the Northeast quarterfinals on January 25th at Danfers High School. The outing club visited zoo lights at the Stone Zoo earlier this
month. It was a very cold night, but they bundled up and enjoyed flamingos, reindeer, and arctic fox while taking in all of the winter lights. Their next event is on December 22nd when they venture out for a guided solstice hike at the Charles W. Ward Reservation in
Andover. The math club is laser focused on competing at the Worcester County Mathematics Lead Competition on January 28th. The competition will be held at Doherty High School in Worcester. The questions in this competition are extremely rigorous, but our club members
are up for the challenge. The junior class planning committee is pleased to report that this year's junior prom at Lenses was a great success. Over 235 students enjoyed a wonderful evening filled with music, food, and fun. This year's theme was Once Upon a Dream, and we couldn't dream
of a better night for our juniors and their guests. Educators Rising has been completing their micro credential for flexibility in the workplace, strengthening their professional skills through hands-on activities and reflection. Members have also been getting valuable opportunities to work directly in the Little Griffin
preschool, allowing them to explore real classroom experiences and discover whether teaching is the right path for them. In addition, the state organization announced this year's conference competition categories, and the club is now looking ahead with excitement to the educators rising states conference at UMass Boston on
March 4th. The freshman and sophomore planning committees have been busy getting ready for the holidays. The students created ornaments for the Tingsboro Festival of Trees as well as a 4-foot wooden snowman titled Griffin Nation for the stroll area at the Festival of Trees. As vacation
approaches, they are getting they are creating holiday cards and treat and treat boxes to send to a local nursing home. Winter athletic programs began recently with over 500 student athletes trying out. Indoor track was fast out the gate with a season opening win in
their first meet at the season on December 9th. Both the girls and boys teams figure to be among the top in the league this winter. Girls basketball opened their season on Friday, December 12th with a thrilling victory over cross town league rival LOL Catholic.
Wrestling battled to a pair of wins in their season in their season opening quad meet on December 13th over Noshoba Tech and Conquered Carile. Varsity ice hockey skated to a 5 to1 win over Keef Tech in their season opener on December 13th. That is all. Thank you very much.
>> Thanks. Thank you. >> I try off to a great start. Motion to approve the minutes for November 20th. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Sheen. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gian. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lame. >> Yes. >> Mr. Richardson.
>> Yes. >> Mr. No. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hogan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mor. >> Yes. Motion to wave the reading of the warrants. >> Please move. >> Second. >> Mr. Sheen. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gia.
>> Yes. >> Mr. Lame. >> Yes. >> Mr. Richardson. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> No. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hogan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mo. >> Yes. >> Motion to approve the expenditures of 5,341,224.87. >> Second.
>> So moved. >> Mr. Sheen. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gian. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lame. >> Yes. >> Mr. Richardson. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hogan. >> Yes. Uh >> yes, sorry. Recorded general counsel.
No. Uh I will re turn the meeting over to the superintendent. >> Thank you uh chairman. So the first item on my agenda would be I would like to invite the boys and girls cross country teams and their coaches to come forward.
Uh head coach Matt Murphy is with us tonight. Yes. Just if you could come forward over here. We'll push this out of the way so you can all unless somebody wants to sit here and also gather around here
students. >> Yes. Don't be shy here tonight to celebrate all of you. So please come forward. >> Okay. Great. So our cross country teams, both boys and girls are here with us tonight. We have
coach Matt, head coach Matt Murphy, assistant coach Nick Vani, assistant coach Peter Fortunado here with us with both our boys and girls teams. And in a minute, I'll have uh them introduce themselves, but I would like to
acknowledge and celebrate while they're here tonight. Both boys and girls cross country teams have earned the titles of, get ready for this because it's a long I might run out of breath. CAC champions,
state vocational champions, the MIAA Division 3A champions, and the girls cross country team went on to capture the MIAA Division 3 Allstate Championship, the first in the history
of school. And the boys came in fifth, which is also awesome. So tonight, we're here to celebrate these student these student athletes and these accomplishments along with their coaches. I can't say how proud enough we are of all of you and your
accomplishments uh this school year. So now I would like you each to come forward to that little microphone there one at a time and introduce yourselves and just tell us a little bit about yourself, your name, the program that you're in. And I I have more to say
about all of you, but if you want to highlight something about your cross country career this year, something uh maybe about a competition that you won or placed or a time that was an incredible time that you had. I'd like
you to do that. Who would like to start? Let's I'm going to call out a name then. Hannah. >> Hannah. Hannah. >> It's all right. It doesn't bite. It's fun. >> Introduce introduce yourself. I already gave you a >> name. I'm a freshman. I'm an
exploratory. >> I'm an explorator. I'm a hand. And um one of my biggest accomplishments this season was I ran a 1943 5K and I won our CAC championship meet.
>> Congratulations. And something else that everybody should know about Hannah. Hannah was just named one of the low star allst star. Low sun all star. So congratulations to Hannah. >> Awesome. >> Who wants to go next?
>> Don't make me call you out. Come on. >> Yes. Here we go. >> My name is Lillian. I'm in exploratory. And my biggest accomplishment this year is probably n my time of 1927 and I won state vote.
>> Congratulations. And also I'd like to add that uh Lillian Zirkus was just named a LOL Sun Allstar. So congratulations. >> Don't be afraid. >> Hi, I'm Tegan Galvani. I'm a sophomore.
I'm in medical assisting. Um give me a second. Um, I got second at State Vogue, I think, and I ran a 19 30 something at one of the meets, I think.
>> And you are also named a low sun allar. So, congratulations to Tegan. >> Don't be shy. This is We're celebrating all of you. You should be proud of these achievements. >> Yes. >> My name is Jesus. I'm a senior here and
I'm in masonry and one of my biggest accomplishments is going 1636 in the >> in a 5k. >> Yes. >> That is awesome. >> My name is Matthew Garren. Um I'm a junior in carpentry and uh one of my
biggest accomplishments is running a 1625k at the Twilight meet and the boys team getting second place. That's awesome. And I I have to add that Matt has also been recently named a lon allstar. So congratulations
allar. >> You just get dumped dump. >> My name is Tula Sabrio. I'm a junior in medical assisting and my biggest accomplishment was just being a part of the varsity team that like won everything. >> That's awesome. >> Great answer. >> It takes a team, right? It's everybody
working together. I'm Audrey Yan. I'm a senior and I'm in health. And I'm really happy with this season because I improved a lot. And my favorite memory was probably the girls team winning the Division 3 title. >> Nice. >> Awesome. Congratulations.
>> I guess the boys are timid, huh? >> Guys, just going to start calling them out, >> guys. Just get it up. Trust me. Just get it over with. It's quick. >> Um, my name is Matteo do Santos. I'm a sophomore in metal fab. Um, one of the biggest accomplishments I got was running at 1841 at CAC U me and got and
getting third place at stay voke me. >> Congratulations. Awesome. >> Any my name is Patrick Sullivan. I'm a freshman in exploratories uh right now and probably my best accomplishment was
an 18 flat in the 5K. >> That's awesome. Congratulations. >> My name is Tim Sullivan. I'm a junior. I'm an electrical. And I think the greatest accomplishment was just the team and how like it was like a family for everyone and how we all got along
and ran together. >> I love that. I I believe that's what it's all about. >> Hi, my name is Ethan Lec. I'm a junior in electronics. Um, my biggest accomplishment this year is returning from a major surgery in June and getting
close back to my time from previous years, >> which is awesome. >> It's hard work. Hard work. >> U, my name's Alyssa Piscopanis and I'm a junior in medical assisting and my biggest accomplishment this year is being chosen to be a captain for cross country.
>> Congratulations. My name is Oliviana Green. I'm a sophomore in cosmetology and my biggest accomplishment this year was probably setting a new PR almost every single meet. >> Wow. Congratulations. >> Hi, my name is Olivia Stack. Um, I'm a
junior and I'm in medical assisting. And my biggest accomplishment this season was probably coming back after like a really big like mental thing at the beginning of the season. And a lot of my races were like DNS and like actually being able to come back from that and like finally breaking 21.
>> That's great. Congratulations. >> Is that everybody? >> No, it is not. Two more. >> Two more. >> My name is Mackenzie PL. I'm a sophomore in early childhood education. And I think my biggest accomplishment is
just like how well we worked as a team. Nice. >> Congratulations. >> For last. >> My name's Dar Alasa. Um Oh, I'm in health assisting. Um my biggest accomplishment was um probably making
varsity my first year of cross country. Um and I'm a junior. >> Congratulations. >> So congratulations to all of you. And what I heard a lot from you is about team, about working together, about family, and and really that's what it's all about. It takes a it takes a team.
And a team wouldn't be possible without your coaches. So I'd like to ask the coaches to come forward. The three coaches again. Uh >> I got too many babies. >> Assistant coach Vani, assistant coach
Peter Fortunado, and head coach Matt Murphy. And I'd like to recognize coach Matt Murphy. This is his eighth year coaching our uh boys and girls tracks team. And he has an awesome uh record of
38 and4 approximately 38 and4. And uh coach Murphy was just recently named the Suns Coach of the Year. So we want to congratulate him for that. as well as some new information that
just recently came out is that he was named the Mass Track and Field Coaching Association coach of the year as well. So, congratulations to Chris Murphy. Uh, eight years of incredible hard work and
your hard work uh has paid off. Look at the success of the team and the comments that they make about teamwork and about family. So that's a a testament to all three of your coaches and the support that you provide to to these student athletes to be able to achieve the way h
they have achieved. So congratulations to an awesome season and I hope that you all get to work together next year and come back and uh we can celebrate you again but a celebration worth having. So congratulations to all of you again.
>> Thank you. >> Awesome. Awesome. >> Thank you so much. Thank you to all of you again. >> Good job, guys. >> Congratulations. >> Great job. >> Great job. >> They did a nice job on the sweatshirt.
>> Okay. Yes. Share that with your >> Thank you. So now it's great that we're celebrating so much student success tonight. So next on the agenda, I'd like to invite model UN club advisors Jillian Chapolski and
Mr. Rich uh Callahan up along with their students along with their students. And I'd like to congratulate them for uh an a an awesome uh season, current season,
right? An an awesome current season and how they performed at the recent UMass LOL Model United Nations Crisis Conference that was recently held and uh they have won many awards. two best
delegate awards, which is first place, two outstanding delegate awards, and three honorable mentions. So, uh, I'd like to ask each of the students to come forward to introduce themselves and also to share one of your accomplishments or
whatever you would like to share about your experience as being part of the model UN club. Hello, my name is Maya Zukovski. This was my first crisis conference and my biggest accomplish had to be taking
home a first place placement. Um as well as helping our school reach uh best delegation as a whole. >> That's also great. >> So Maya, do you want to share what your role was in that? Yeah. >> So I was a part of the Paris Peace Conference. Specifically, we uh
reenacted the Treaty of Versailles. I was uh chosen to react as Woodro Wilson. the I don't remember what number president, but one of the presidents of the United States. Oh, that's embarrassing. But yes, >> that's okay. We understand that you're a
little nervous and under and under some pressure, but thank you. Thank you, Maya. >> Hi, my name is Jasmine Gonzalez. I am very proud of my people, um, all of my fellow delegates. I was not able to attend our most recent conference, but I
was of assistance to people who needed help with research papers. Um, and my most favorable part of Molly UN is getting to meet all these new people and being able to debate issues that used to or happened in the real world
>> and to be be be there to support your peers is is very very important. Again, it's about teamwork and your team received best delegation and that's part of your support that you provided to to them throughout the process. So, thank you. You're welcome. >> Thank you. >> Great job.
>> Ask my vice president. >> Oh, and vice president. Okay. >> My name is Aiden Simmons. I am a senior in the engineering shop. Uh during this conference, I earned first place in the Pearl Harbor, which this was the award
for it was a custom gavl. Uh my role was the vice president of the United States, Henry A. Wallace. As I said again, during the attack of Pearl Harbor, basically that entailed me or the Americans coming up with a plan to strike back against the Japanese for the attack on Pearl Harbor.
>> Cool. And I just want to say I'm very thankful for the school for offer offering this opportunity along with my adviserss for and the vice president and president for being there and being open supports for everybody excuse me inside
club. >> Very good. >> Thank you Aiden >> and Anna. >> Hello everybody. My name is Anna Deona. Um I am the president of M United Nations and I'm very proud to be alongside Jasmine Gonzalez. Um, if I had
to say what I'm most proud of, it's how much I've seen this group grow. Um, I was a member my freshman year when there was like five or six of us that would appear and these three lovely people and Maya now were part of that five. Um,
it's so great that now we have full seats every single Tuesday and Thursday morning. Um, and it's just it's just wonderful. Um, so I'd like to thank you guys for these opportunities. Um, >> congratulations Anna. >> Awesome. >> So, I want to highlight a a couple more
things about the club. First, I want to bring the two advisers up because as we say, uh, it's teamwork and it's through the support of these adviserss who have worked for the last four years. This is volunt volunteering and this was the
first year that it it became a full-fledged club. >> So, we want to uh congratulate them. on on uh their uh job as adviserss. I also want to make no make it noteworthy
that uh Gradelo Technical High School was the only technical school in attendance at this competition at UMass Lo, which is great. And the only school where the model UN club was actually a club. All the other schools, the model
UN was part of a full academic course. So, it really goes to show you the strength, determination, and the excellence, the academic excellence of our our students uh as a club to earn the uh the achievements that they did at
this competition. I I'll also like to bring forward, >> Mr. Mayott. >> Mr. Mayott, >> you don't want to start it. >> Okay. Mr. who is the uh social studies and English
uh chairperson who uh brought this club to fruition. So we appreciate Mr. May uh for bringing the club, getting the advisors to volunteer uh to get the club off the ground and uh getting a
group of students and working with them to do the awesome job and to accomplish what they did at this recent crisis uh competition, best delegation, which is awesome, the first in school history. >> So, we want to congratulate all of you
for your for your accomplishments. We are very very proud of you and we want to wish you well in the second half of the year. When I heard that the competition gets really tight >> and uh we know working together you'll do your best and that's all we can ask
for. Look at look at what you've achieved uh this past fall. So congratulations. Thank you again both to our adviserss and to our students and to Mr. Mayott. Awesome. Thank you again. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you.
>> Thank you guys. Thank you. >> Thank you guys. >> Thank you. Nice seeing you again. We've seen some of these faces before. >> See you next week. >> See you Monday. So, uh, the next item on my agenda is,
uh, the cooperative education report. >> I love that they have something specifically for learners. I love that they specificate students that may have higher educational needs. I'm so sorry. >> Do you want to make your comment out loud or
>> Oh, I was asking um >> I was reading over um the Where did the guy go? >> Agenda, >> the new standards, the competency standards. >> Um, and I was just looking at how they
specifically have sections about how to support success for English language learners and students who may have some higher educational needs. And I didn't know if that was something that greater LOL was really seeking out how to grow in through this or if that was a
requirement of the state. It's just a requirement of the state, but we we'll get to that on Yes, we will get to that on the agenda. >> So, the next item on my agenda is the cooperative education report, which is provided to you in your packet. And the
report in your packet indicates 215 senior students participated in cooperative education programs at the end of November. But I'm happy to report that at this time in December that we are at uh 235 senior students
participating in co-op which is 44% of the class of 2026 out on co-op. So which is awesome. And again, thank you to Stacy Bazansen and Brian Jones for the hard work they do and to our technical instructors and our CTE
chairpersons who all work together to get our students out in co-op and get them working. So, thank you. Any questions about the cooperative education? >> It's just a great job. We just keep going up and up. >> Yeah, it's wonderful. So, the next item
on my agenda, I'd like to invite uh our director of practical nursing uh Mrs. Jen Mashado to join us to review the changes to the 2526 Greater Lo Technical School of Practical Nursing Student Handbook and we're going
to need your approval afterwards. >> High school committee members, Miss Davis, Mrs. Edmonds. Um, I just wanted to let you all know some great news that on December 10th, the um, Board of Nursing voted to remove our CAP mission and they also removed our warning
status. So, for our next cohort for next year, we can go back up to our 40 for our day cohort, 40 for our evening cohort, and now we are at full approval status with no warning anymore. So I I'd like to just thank uh >> great job >> Jen Mashado for the hard work that she
has done over the last several months to restore >> to restore that status and Jen has really done a great job uh getting that status back. So thank you Jen for >> um so the packet in front of you doesn't reflect that actual change yet until
your approval today because it was actually on the same day we were getting the documents in to you. Um so trying to do that simultaneously but the um packet does reflect the board of nursing was here October 14th through the 16th and they made some recommendations for the
effectiveness of our program. So we included a lot of that in this handbook. You're going to see some added layers of accommodations. They didn't want just one person approving the accommodations. So we included some layers so it's not one person that's >> and that layer just to explain would be
working with the director of >> human resources >> human resources >> as well as the admissions coordinator so that that there is that layer of that. Um we added a our veterans access choice which we did have on our website but we didn't have it in the handbook and that was one of their other concerns is that
what we have in our handbook also reflects in on our website publications um some curriculum where it was developed from. So, we added that language in the handbook. The T-cores, we um had some discussion with our advisory committee and then and made
those changes as well. And then clinical placement language that we had online. We didn't have the exact language within our handbook, so we updated that as well. Um and then some added support resources that was also recommendation by the board of nursing. We worked with
the director of counseling to now have services available to the practical nursing students. So, you'll also see that update as well. And those are the recommended changes that uh we'd be asking for approval for. >> Motion to approve the updated student handbook.
>> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Le. >> Yes. >> Mr. Richardson. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hogan. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. Thank you for all your help and great job. >> You're doing a great job in her new support.
>> Great job in fixing that. appreciate it. It means a lot. >> Thank you. And the final item on my report this evening, I would like to ask the assistant superintendent principal, Mr. Barton and Mr. Mette to join us to review the competency determination
policy and answer any questions before asking for your approval. Mr. Barton. >> Oh, thank you, Superintendent Davis. So, good evening. Uh, so I'm here uh joined with Mr. Mayette from the humanities clusters whole studies and English cluster. Uh Miss Arfanikis couldn't make
it this evening and Mr. Hos couldn't make it this evening. So um specifically what I'm what we're here to talk to you about tonight is the change in competency determination. So what does that mean? Um as you know in November of
2024 the state of Massachusetts voters decided to um repeal MCCAST as a graduation requirement. So as a result of that, the state of Massachusetts asked school districts to provide uh a new requirement, a competency
determination requirement for high school students to prove that they have earned their competency in specific subjects in order to um pro prove that. So as a result um we worked um
diligently with um each other to come up with um a policy that I want to present to you tonight. So that CD policy uh really combines two basic things and that is completion of coursework and endofear assessments. So um essentially
for the class of 2026 they will have to complete uh English language arts mathematics and science technology and engineering requirements. So for science, technology and engineering they have to complete one course in science successfully as well as a successful end
ofear assessment which is created by the state and scored by the state. Class of 2026 will have also have to complete two English courses. English one, English two, and mathematics, geometry, and algebra. Okay, so those are basically the broad brushstrokes of
the CD requirement. You have to take these courses and you have to successfully pass these courses. Now, if you don't, your graduation diploma is not going to be withheld from you. So there are what's known as safety nets put in place in order to ensure that
kids can um acquire the necessary content to be successful. So what are those safety nets? Safety nets. Well, the good thing is um we have been very successful in our school district by providing interventions and supports for students whether they be regular mainstream students, ELLL students or
special education students. We have done things like credit recovery tutoring um additional um attention for them. um summer programming if possible um excuse me um things of that nature um in order
to try to enable them to pass these courses and and these assessments. Um there is also and I'm giving a lot here but there's a lot to this and Paul will probably go into detail about all of the work we did. Um there's an appeals process. So if for whatever reason a
student is not able to acquire mastery in the content area, English, math, science or history, um which will be for 2027, there's a portfolio possibility as well. So they would put together a portfolio of all of their schoolwork,
all of their projects, lab reports, assessments, etc., and that would be put forward to a review committee. Um so essentially the big shift here in the state of Massachusetts is um no longer is the test going to be a graduation
requirement. However, they're looking at making sure that districts are teaching these courses that I just that I just outlined, English, math, science for 2026, history for 2027, um specific courses, end of year
assessment, which will be created by the state, um and scored by the state, and um if students can't be successful with those courses or end of year assessments, they'll be given an opportunity for a portfolio within in that we'll we'll do our best as we have
been in the past for you know in an excellent fa fashion for interventions to help kids be successful. Um wanted to I'm sure Paul has plenty more to to be specific about and add because we've worked >> quite hard on this in the last few few
months. >> Yeah, we we were meeting all summer and it was it was a large >> very intense. Um, I think the the most important thing to to take away from that is that the conversations brought in a lot of voices and we were really working to balance rigor and the the
academic standards that we want to uphold for the students along with fairness and making sure that we weren't setting a hurdle that was setting students up for failure. We wanted to make this something that they were achieving but achieving something meaningful. Um,
we also discussed in depth that we didn't want to do something that would take away from this year's learning by putting this whole new pile on teachers plates and having them have to recreate the wheel and and everything else. Um, so that's where where we landed on this.
So for English, um, by and large the seniors are are all in a good place. They were able to have their their MCCAST still counted and all of that moving forward. Freshman and sophomores will be taking the exams that are set up for them at the end of the years. It's the juniors that we're focusing on because they landed somewhat
in the middle. Um, so all of the juniors will take their competency determin determination this year as a midterm. And the reason that we decided on the midterm was that that gave them an opportunity if somebody should not pass, it gives us an
opportunity to see where they struggled. um it's broken out into sections so that we can very easily determine that this was a you know the area that held them up. Um and it gives us time to work with those students between January and June. Those midterms will be happening the two
weeks when we return from vacation. Um and give them whatever support they need, whatever remediation they need, and have them be able to retake the final at the end of the year. If that's still not successful, then as Mr. Barton was saying there's the opportunity for
portfolios and and processes there. Um that will take care of them in English. In history it was a little bit different because history has never been um a requirement. Before there was never a history mcast that was part of the graduation requirement.
>> Um and the other difficulty there is that because of our programming very few of our juniors actually take history. So Greg worked over the summer identifying students that either needed to take a history course because they had been
unable to take it as a freshman or a sophomore because of extra things that had been put onto their schedule or students that for whatever reason had not passed their history finals in p in past years. The students who needed those courses were placed into those courses. They're there now. We're
tracking them. Uh we'll take a look at the midterms once those are done to make sure that they've done well and at the end of the year they should be fine. The students that needed an exam um we pulled them aside told them that they would be taking an
exam that would cover the the history material for freshman and sophomore years. So most of them have taken it and passed it at this point. We have fewer than 10 students left that need to retake it another time. um I will be working directly with those students. Um
I'm waiting again till after the midterms. I don't want to put one of the difficulties of this is a number of students had to do this for more than one subject area. Um and that's a lot to put on someone's plate uh all at once. So that's why we wanted to try to knock out as much of it as we could in the
beginning of the year. So once we get past midterms, I'll work with those students, talk to them specifically about what they needed to work on. um again with the goal of not adding to the teachers workload um so that they can continue there and we'll have them retest uh over the course of the second
half of the year and continue to monitor that and hopefully those those few students left will um get through with that. Um yeah that's >> thank you. So within all of that which is which was pretty complicated the the
the main goal two main goals here were ensure ensuring that kids had exposure to the content to get them to be successful to to graduate um and to achieve that CD. And then the second piece was just to make sure that they had their technical programming time. We
wanted we we preserve that. That's that's really the m you know as we all know the main mission of why they're here. So we did our best to preserve that and that's what we did. So complicated process uh lengthy process but broad brush strokes are no more graduation requirement for MCCAST.
The state is putting the emphasis on coursework um primarily in sophomore and junior year um as well as end of the year assessment which they're going to create they're going to score and there'll be more information to come about that in the near future. So
looking for an approval for the CD policy which will be uh once it's approved it will be translated and posted on our website >> to go into effect now. >> Exactly. Yep. So that's that's what >> it has to be done. Right. So I'll make the motion to accept it.
>> I'll second Mr. Hogan. >> Yeah. >> On the uh algebra and geometry. Mhm. >> When do you introduce those? Are those freshman or >> Those are freshman and sophomore. Typically their freshman and sophomore
courses >> and geometry. >> Typically sophomore year. If you have some real highf flyier, they may take it in their freshman year if possible. >> And the kids entering from the district high school are eighth grades. How are
math skills? Um, I can't speak to them specifically in terms of like how they're scoring in their their entry level scores. Um, I can tell you that every student is taking algebra in their ninth grade now, which is a change from what we
previously have done. Uh, previously we have given remedial courses, but we're finding that we're offering algebra for as a baseline for every ninth grader. And that's proven to be successful because we've had limited number of students who have been going to summer school and limited number of students who have been in credit recovery. Um
>> we also have a lot of support for the students who struggle within those classes. >> Right. So they have inclusion classes or they'll have classes that are paired up with an elelll instructor. >> We have tutors. We have >> I was just wondering if you had some
sort of not all the kids coming in to the high school are really prepared for algebra. If you had a pre-alggebra course, >> um we're finding that if we introduce the algebra concepts to them initially, they seem to be successful.
And that's a turnaround that I I wish um Miss Aranis was here tonight because she would speak directly to that. But that has been uh an area of focus that she has she's done successfully and I think last month or the month before we had our MCAT scores where we talked about
them and you can see the results >> which has been positive. >> Very good. >> Yeah. Right. And I think that comes with exposure to the content initially. Yeah. >> I just wondering how you approached it because you don't want to wait till senior year. I think it's introduction
to the content and and ensuring that they can um have the interventions when needed. >> Yes. >> Um most junior high students in seventh and eighth grade take a pre-alggebra course as an eighth grader, if not as
>> it sounds to me like you're doing a great job. >> Yeah. >> Well, the MCAST has proved it. I mean, I I I know we we voted on the shift >> with the tutors to come in. I mean, we voted on more tutors. We knew we knew we needed them. >> Um, >> and I know I know the math chair, I
remember being here outlining exactly what she thought. And I >> Yep. >> I think we do. I think we're doing a great job. So, guys, I mean, this is to back up to make sure we're graduating people that are confident. We need to do it. So, >> we just can't send people out there saying, "Hey, okay, we trust us." That's
why, you know, I wasn't in favor of getting rid of MCAST because we need to test people >> to make sure we're holding ourselves accountable also. So, I'll make a motion to support the the policy. >> Second. >> Okay. >> Mr. Sh.
>> Yes. >> Mr. G. >> Yes. >> Mr. Le? >> Yes. >> Mr. Richardson? >> Yes. >> Mr. Yes. >> Mr. Hogan? >> Yes. >> Mr. Warren? >> Yes. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Great job. >> Great job. Thank you. you do history.
>> I'm going to turn that over to Mr. >> The question, >> what year do you introduce history? Is it >> We have US history one for freshman that generally covers the Revolution up through about the Civil War and US History 2 picks it up from there. >> Uh for sophomores. >> Um
>> do they need both to graduate? >> I know. >> They need one of the two to graduate by the state requirements. Yeah. >> Thank you, gentlemen. >> Are you in that category, Mr. Hogan? of of senior or >> of history. >> He's lived it all.
>> Good history. >> Well, you you should you've lived most of it. >> Mr. >> Thank you very much. Have a happy holiday. >> Please extend the appreciation to the entire team for the hard work they did to prepare that and the amount of time that we had to do so.
>> Thanks guys. >> Thank you for your time. >> Math is money. Report of business management. >> And that's the last item on my agenda. Thank you. Thank you. >> Is it man? >> Right. Just one item this evening. Uh
and that's the approval of the um disposal of an older vehicle. We've got a 2012 bus that we're no longer using. We replaced it with one of the vans that we purchased. I think it was over the summer it was delivered. Um but it's 2012 E450 with about 21,000 miles. Um
after declaring it surplus, we'll go through the uh disposal process in the school committee, which would be offering it to our communities and then auctioning it if no interest existed. >> Sounds like a good work truck. >> Yes. >> Mr. G. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes.
>> Mr. Richardson. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hogan. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. Thank you, sir. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Um, old business, new business.
The facilities naming committee member appointments. The facility naming committee currently has six seats that have expired. Two school committee members seats which are appointed by the school committee chair,
which I have done so at this point. Or do you want me to just continue with this? >> Yep, you continue. uh that uh the chair and a parent aluminum current administrator and current teacher seats which are appointed by the superintendent. I will
be appointing committeeman Gia to fill the three-year chairman term and committeeman Richardson to fill the one-year term. Superintendent Davis will now appoint the remaining >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So, I will be
appointing uh Mrs. Jennifer Nolton to fill the three-year term of the parent seat, uh Miss Valerie Bronco to fill the three-year term of the alumni seat, and Mr. Michael Knight to fill the one-year term of the current administrator
and Mr. Chris Andros to fill the one-year term of the current teacher. And those are my appointments for the facilities naming committee. Mr. Chairman, >> thank you. >> Move approval.
>> Yes. >> Okay. Committeeman motions. Nope. A subcommittee. Nope. >> Yes. Mr. Richardson really quick. I know we're coming into the Christmas
break. My understanding is there's a skeleton crew that works uh Friday after Christmas on the 26th. The same thing uh January 2nd of 26 uh the day after New Year's. So uh instead of putting the heat on the building it's been off all week for a small group of people. I
propose that we let these people work from home. They can do the duties from the building upend. >> No. Uh, open for discussion. >> Open for discussion. We don't >> Kelly. I I don't think I don't think
working from home will uh will work because we >> in the past we we had the policy of not working. >> Yeah. We don't we don't set a precedent for working from home. We don't work from home. >> We don't we don't work from home. We just have how many people come in
that they should come down? >> Well, administrators uh come in and support staff come in to the building. I can't tell you who's taking vacation time or who's coming into the building. I don't have that uh in front of me right now, but uh on those days, you
have the option to take vacation or you have the option to come to work. >> Okay. Then we just have to with motion. >> Sure. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay.
>> Okay. That's that's been standard. >> Yeah. Right. >> We we don't work from home. We >> No, it's understandable. >> Yeah. >> I know. I know. Last year we >> set up a precedent. >> I I know last year. >> Absolutely. I know last year we we ran into a problem because we were doing two
projects in the building and we had to pay overtime to have the guys come back in because we gave them the day off and we needed people in the building to do the project. >> I mean, >> yeah, >> these people have days they can take if if they want to take them. You know what I mean?
>> P positively in my opinion. >> I think it's a great motion in theory if it would work. I mean, we shouldn't I understand rewarding the the workers, but we can't reward them and then pay overtime on a project. >> I understand, Mr. Rich. Good intentions. >> Great intentions.
>> I mean, and uh but uh at this time, I'm going to uh we're going to have to go into executive session. >> Motion to go to executive session, >> at which time you're going to have to leave. >> Okay. Also, I
>> Well, so before before we go, thank you. >> Yeah. Have a good Christmas. Have a great Christmas for your time and I want to wish uh you and your family a happy holiday. >> Thank you. And we'll see you >> in January. >> Thank you. Awesome job with the UN. >> Thank you.
>> Congratulations. Uh motion to enter into an executive session pursuant to Mass General Laws chapter 30A section 21A to to conduct strategy sessions in preparations for the negotiations with non-UN personnel
or to conduct collective bargaining sessions or contract negotiations with non-UN personnel. Superintendent Director >> motion. >> Will we need to return to open session? >> Hold on one second. You got a motion.
Mr. Sheen, >> Mr. How many How many non-UN person we >> we have to resp? >> Yes. >> Mr. K. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lain. >> Yes. >> Mr. Richardson. >> Mr. Narco.
>> Yes. >> Mr. Hogan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mor. >> Yes. Motion to approve the six-month extension of the superintendent contract to go from 7126
to 123126. >> Mr. I think you need to come out. Go back >> to vote to come back. >> Come back into session. You need to do the roll call. >> Run again. >> Come out. >> Yep. >> Because that was up to
>> We call the meeting back to item. >> We'll make a motion to come out of executive session. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Sheen. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gian. >> Yes. >> Mr. Line. >> Yes. Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hogan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mor. >> Yes.
>> Now motion to approve the six-month extension of the superintendent director contract to go from 7126 to 123126. >> Make the motion. >> Second. >> Mr. Sheen. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gian. >> Yes.
>> Mr. L. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hen. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mur. >> Yes. Motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. So moved. >> Appreciate it. Thank you. >> Merry Christmas everybody. >> Yes.
>> Yes. Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hogan. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Thanks everyone for your attendance tonight and >> everybody have a happy holiday. >> You too.