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Part 1 (Video ID: PRAY2A0RsuE):
- 00:00:00: Introduction to Artist Ariana and Her Art Journey
- 00:00:52: Thanking Sponsors and Promoting Arts Programs
- 00:01:49: Public Comment: Appreciation for Ariana as a Person
- 00:03:47: Public Comment:  Iron Was Amazing
- 00:06:24: Long Meadow School Committee Meeting Call to Order
- 00:07:25: Pledge of Allegiance and Approval of Minutes
- 00:08:36: Public Speak and School Committee Announcements
- 00:09:15: Student Representative Report: Events and Graduation
- 00:11:14: Committee Chair and Superintendent's Report
- 00:16:42: Subcommittee Reports: Curriculum, Evaluation, Finance
- 00:21:22: LPVEC Board Reports and Energy/Sustainability Update
- 00:21:54: New Business: Building Use Request Approval
- 00:23:04: New Business: Discussion on Middle School Naming
- 00:25:06: Evaluation Process and Superintendent's Annual Goals
- 00:45:53: Motion to Adjourn the School Committee Meeting


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own stories and all that stuff, >> but at that time I said, "Well, we can at least switch to illustration because you're still telling stories. It's just not the way that I envisioned it." Um, so that's why I mostly went into illustration. It was a redirect

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essentially, but the core is still the same. I still want to make stories. It's just in a different format. So instead of it being animated or helping make animated movies, it's um making children's books. um in writing those and hopefully maybe one day somebody

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picks it up and they can make it into an >> That's neat. >> That's neat. I look forward to the stories that you create because your drawings are so incredibly animated. >> Thank you so much. >> Well, thank you so much for speaking

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with us today, Ariana. This has been great. >> Thank you. Please join us for her art gallery during our January Arts Saturday where you can see more of Ariana's works. We'd like to take a moment to thank all our sponsors for making this program

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possible. Please tell them thank you. If you're interested in being a sponsor, please get in touch with us at dragetarts@gmail.com or go to our website dragetarts.com/donate. For more information about our programs

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and our arts Saturdays, please also go to our website, that's draetarts.com. This and all our programs are archived on the dragetarts YouTube channel. That's youtube.com/draetarts. Thank you so much for being with us.

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You I see an amazing woman. I see I think a woman who always had it inside of her to be the amazing person you are today. And I'm so thankful that I was part of your

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journey and that I get to watch the next phase in your life and to see what it's going to bring because I know you're going to do amazing at whatever you do. Gosh, I see the person that I want to be in life.

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She's everything. Gosh, I can't like she's everything I want to be. She's an amazing mom, an amazing worker, an amazing wife, and every day that I wake up, I'm always grateful.

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That's funny. Nicole, how was Iron? >> Yeah, it was >> amazing. >> Amazing. Uh, it was particularly made extra amazing by the fact that us in. >> Yep.

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>> All right. Take it away, Doug. You can count us in. Welcome to the Thursday, May 14th, 2026 meeting of the Long Meadow School Committee. Mass general law allows for remote participation at public meetings until June 30th, 2027.

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All votes while there is remote participation must be made by a roll call vote. This meeting is being recorded and aired live on LCTV. School committee members, when I call your name, please say here for the record. Nicole >> here. >> Kate

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>> here. >> Emily >> here. >> Um, is that it? And me? Is that it? >> That's it. Yep. >> All right. Pledge of allegiance. >> All right.

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United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Um, do we have >> Nope. >> No, no correspondents. Okay. Then next

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we have approval of minutes. >> I move that the >> So we have Oh, sorry. Go ahead. I move that the school committee approve the minutes of the April 28th, 2026 school committee meeting as presented. >> Second. >> Yep. Thank you. Uh Kate, >> yes. >> I I have an amendment.

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>> Oh, go ahead. >> Sorry. Um 10 C other reports. It says that the seal update was given by me, but it should be stated that it was given by Michaela. >> Thank you, Emily. You're welcome. Um, so

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can we uh I have another motion where we approve it with the amendment. >> Yep. I move that the school committee approve the minutes of the April 28th, 2026 school committee meeting as amended. >> Second. >> We have a motion. Thank you. Uh Kate, >> yes. >> Emily, >> yes.

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>> Nicole, >> yes. >> And a yes for me, too. Uh public speak. Is there anyone here for public speak? >> Not here. And it doesn't look like there's anybody on Zoom.

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All right. So, next we have school committee announcements and recognition. Does anybody have any announcements or recognitions? >> No. Uh business. We don't have any business with guests. And next is our student representative report. Is uh

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Donica there? Yes, I'm here. >> Hi, Danica. >> Hi. Okay, so last Tuesday or this Tuesday was LHS Unite, which was where um freshman and sophomores from LHS um

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go and then they are uh directed by the peer leadership um with different activities where it really bonds all the students and they learn about different forms of discrimination, how to handle bullying. and I went when I was a freshman and it was a really memorable

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and um really great experience to be a part of this like bigger community. So I think it's one of the like best sort of field trips like day field trips that we have. It it's one of my favorites for sure. Um and then this town meeting some

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students volunteered to help out and then learn about local government. Um and then tomorrow night will be the class of 2027 spring fling dance. So, my sister is going. She's excited. >> Seniors have eight more days, academic

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days, um, and then finals after that for anyone who has to take a final. Uh, and then June 3rd is going to be prom for the seniors and graduation is June 10th, uh, 6:00 p.m. And please RSVP if you

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haven't done so yet. And uh the awards ceremony will be June 5th. So it's a lot of stuff over the next few weeks. >> Busy time of year. >> Yeah. >> Thanks, Danica. I hope you have a good um rest of your school year. I feel like

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the next time we meet, um they'll be like basically done. >> I know. Thank you. >> All right. Uh does anyone have any questions or comments for Danica? >> Good luck. Thank you. >> Um, so next is my school committee chair

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report. So, uh, I just wanted to say congratulations to all the students who worked hard at the end of the year on MCCAST. Um, I know it's only one measure and tool of assessment to show learning or progress, but a lot of students work really hard and focused, so I just

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wanted to give them a big shout out. And thanks to the Long community. Um the at the town meeting on Tuesday, the residents voted to approve the fiscal year 2627 school budget. So um just feel really grateful for the community for

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the continued support and trust in the schools and in the important work of providing a highquality education for all the students. Um, a reminder that there's the town election taking place on June 2nd.

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And thank you to all the election volunteers and town meeting volunteers. That looks like a lot of work. So, um, I'm thankful for all the people that put in work to help those things run. And then uh today I stopped by the office to sign some papers and I got a little

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glimpse of the kindergarten screening and it was just so heartwarming to see the newest little students right at the very start. So sweet. It just looked so warm and welcoming and such a nice way um for the kids to have their very first

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start. All the kids looked so cute and confident and excited. Uh and then just good luck to all the students and staff at the end of the school year. That's it for me. Uh superintendent report.

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>> Sure. I'll I'll uh echo uh your comments on the kindergarten screening. I think we have an excellent class of 2039 uh lined up. So um yeah, just a great great opportunity to welcome uh the the

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next public school students. Um, we have, yeah, it's a busy time. Danica captured so much of the the activities. Uh, May is a is a is a busy time for families. It feels like we try to pack in all the standardized testing, all the field trips, all the concerts, all the uh all the end of year activities uh

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into May. Uh, but uh we have such an engaged, supportive community and and uh just and also really thankful for um all the parent groups that supported uh teacher appreciation activities last week. um uh our parents stepped up and

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provided lots of treats and and special um gifts to our staff. So that was greatly appreciated. Um graduation uh June 10th. Uh so uh school committee members who are interested in sitting up on stage, let us know. Uh we have the um

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the screening is underway for our new Long Meadow Middle School principal. Uh expecting interviews to be conducted on the 21st. That's next week. Um, thank you to Kate for joining uh the screening committee as a member of the school committee. Um, the 21st is also the day

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of the witness stones ceremony. So, school committee is cordially invited to that. I think we shared the flyer with you. Uh, it's at the first church. Uh, I think around 10:00 a.m. or so, but uh, >> 9:30 >> 9:30. Thank you. Um, I was actually over at Williams today watching um and and

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met with some students who were preparing the biographies of Zickery and James, the the two enslaved individuals who they're studying and who will be commemorated this year. It's really such a special project um that brings together the community in in really

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important way. So excited for that. Um I think spring concert is tonight. Uh do I have that right, Danica? Do I have I have it on a calendar but maybe okay. Um we have um uh personnel action letters uh are typically sent out in the two

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weeks following town meeting. So uh staff that need to be uh reassigned or transferred uh will receive notifications uh at the end of next week uh as well. uh and middle school project. Uh it's not on our agenda

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tonight, but the middle school building committee approved the 60% design submission to the Mass School Building Authority. Um so we're 60% designed. We are uh preparing to break ground in

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June. Uh Fontaine will be on site uh and the enabling work as they call it uh is beginning. they are beginning to enable the site for um for the for the construction. So, super exciting time um as we sort of simultaneously construct

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the building but also construct a new program for the new middle school uh in 2028. Very exciting. So, that's all I got. And on that note, if you watched the meeting yesterday, and I'm pretty sure it's actually also on YouTube, there's a very cool um video that folks can check out um that shows sort of a

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flyby and fly through of the building. Brings it to life a little bit more. >> Love the reminder. Actually, I think we put it up on our website already. Um so, it's a little fly through of the new middle school, a little virtual uh rendering of it. Uh it is very cool um because it it so much of the

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>> the hard work of so many people um sort of is represented in that in that fly through >> starting to come together. >> Very cool. Yeah. Yeah. >> Cool. Okay. I'm excited to see it. >> Yes. Exciting time. >> All right. Sub a subcommittee reports.

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Um curriculum subcommittee. I know that you met earlier, right? >> Yep. Um, so to kick us off, speaking of building a new middle school, um, when it comes to curriculum, um, we started out by talking about middle school program of studies, um, the middle school, uh, staff, um, has been hard at

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work with Beth Nelson over the last year to build a program of studies, um, that aligns both schools and gives information that parents and community members can see about what is taught along the way. So that is still a work in progress. Um but is hoping to maybe

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be shared um with the community at some point later this summer before the new school year. Um but very helpful to see that um and gets a good good grounding or foundation for the work that's coming with bringing two middle schools

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together into one. Um, we also talked about the middle school ELA curriculum and um beginning work on um getting ready to start the curriculum review process in phase one um for a self-study phase for the first year um in the

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coming school year of 2627 with the goal to have implementation of a new middle school ELA curriculum in time for the opening of the new school year in the fall of 2028 as well. Um so that underway and ready to start in earnest

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in the fall. um some extra information on professional development um that has been um worked on over the course of the year, particularly with um a partnership with Bayath focused on um UDL or universal design for learning um and

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providing some professional development across all grade levels and with administration on supporting that and doing um learning walks and providing more um practical information for teachers on how to utilize UDL on a daily basis.

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We also talked about science and social studies curriculum review, both of which are um set to begin in the um K through five grade levels and particularly looking at aligning those across the grade levels, but that phase one um for

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science and social studies at the K through five level is also underway. Now, um there's already been over the course of this year a lot of work done on that. looking at sort of what has been working, what is um maybe in need of some review, developing a K5 science

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and social studies vision statement, creating a um crosswalk of science and social studies um topics that come up in the current um CLA elementary literacy curriculum that we use. um and beginning to prepare for year two of the

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curriculum review cycle on science and social studies um in the 2026 27 school year. Um and then we closed out our conversation talking about MTSS or multi-tered systems of support in Long Meadow and um what the alignment of that

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has looked like across different grade levels and also um really getting a little bit more out of the um Panorama tool that we have um as a way to have a central data warehouse that provides information um for all members of the

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team including parents um for various student um information including getting that aligned with our um elementary math um curriculum and CLA as well so that some of the data from those common assessments is also available in

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Panorama. So, we covered a lot in a pretty quick amount of time. Um and Beth Nelson is available for any committee members who might want to go over any of those things more in depth and I'm sure we'll see her um at a meeting coming up to talk about some of these things more in depth.

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>> Thanks, Nicole. Um, does anyone have any questions or comments about the curriculum subcommittee report? >> Um, evaluation subcommittee, we're meeting uh next week, right? Or the week after. We're going to tonight, it's on the agenda for us to um Dr. O'Shea's

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going to present about his um his plan and the evaluation process. So we'll meet after everyone fills out their own individual evaluation to review and synthesize them. So that's it. Um I don't think there's

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no policy subcommittee report. Finance subcommittee. >> No meeting. >> Not have a meeting. >> Did not meet. >> Yeah. >> Um LPVEC board of directors. >> Uh our next meeting is May 20th.

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>> Thanks Kate. LPVEC board of governors. I don't think we have any more meetings this year. >> Okay, thanks. Um, SEAL, same thing. The last meeting was um last night and it was a presentation on DDS. So, um there'll be uh at the beginning of

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school year, another meeting to start the school year off. So, look from that um from the school district. All the schools send it out when it's going to be sometime in September. Um energy and sustainability, >> we can our meeting this month because it was today and hardly anybody could make

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it. So, we're going to meet again soon. >> Okay. Thanks, Emily. New business, building use request. >> So, Mr. Maza is not with us uh this evening, so I'll I'll take this. Um this is a building use request that uh did

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not make its way through uh finance sub, but it does have Mr. Maza's recommendation. It is to uh from the cap kids basketball session uh to use the gymnasium Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday uh June 22 to 25 and then again

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from June 29 to July 2nd uh anticipating 40 participants using the Long Meetal High School gymnasium. >> Thank you. So, um, do we have any comments or questions or possible motions? >> I move that the school committee approve

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the building use request as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion. We have Thank you. Um, Kate, >> yes. >> Nicole, >> yes. >> Emily, >> yes. Jamie, >> yes. >> And a yes for me, too.

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So next um on new business is the naming of the new middle school. >> Sure. Happy to take that uh Michael. Um so we have um we are at the exciting time that juncture where we need to begin to think about um the colors for

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the new middle school, the mascot uh that might be associated with the middle school and even the name of the new middle school. Uh, I wouldn't expect any action by the committee tonight, but I just wanted to put it out there as an initial uh, placeholder and maybe we can

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revisit it uh, at your next meeting. Um, we we anticipate um, I had been talking to JWA, the design team, the other day about putting out a um, sort of a fun survey or contest out to uh, students

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around uh, the colors and a potential mascot. And then but the uh the middle school the naming of the middle school is something that we also has to take on because at this point they with all the design documents they that have to be submitted uh we have to figure out a

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name for the school. The name that we have embraced in ter with the MSBA and with the middle school building committee and as we've referred to it over the last couple of years is the long metal middle school. Again, don't expect uh that the committee take any action on that tonight, but I wanted to

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just kind of put it out there as uh an initial um opportunity to think about that as and maybe we can bring it back at your May 26th meeting. But if you have any thoughts or ideas or comments at this stage, um happy to kind of talk

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to you now or or in the in the weeks ahead. >> Thank you um for the information. Um, it's helpful. Does anyone have any comments or questions about it? >> Thank you. >> All right. Yep. Thank you. So, next on

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our agenda is the um evaluation process and superintendent um goals. >> All right. So, I'm happy to uh just share a um a a document that will both um assist

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with the the process um of completing the evaluation, but also offer some initial uh reflections on the goals that uh I've worked on throughout the 2526

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school year. So, um, give me one second. I'll pull that up. Um, you should be able to see that at home. Uh, let me know if not. So, a uh you know there are several several

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educators on on our committee and are familiar with this uh with this rotation with the evaluation cycle that all educators including superintendent are subject to uh period of self assessment a period of goal setting which was accomp which I

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accomplished back in uh September and October and then obviously the implementation of the plan and we are now at sort of the uh the 10:00 uh mark here, the the the time for the summit of evaluation of the

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superintendent by the school committee. Uh as you know, there are three uh components to uh a superintendent's annual plan, a student learning goal, a set of professional practice goals, and then uh the the progress on the is also

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a factor in the superintendent's annual plan. So this is a this is a u a desi uh department of education uh rubric and framework for evaluation mirrors the framework that all educators uh follow

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here in Long Meadow and across the state. So, I want to offer uh uh just a recap of my 2526 goals and then just share some initial reflection on some of the progress that I've made um and perhaps some areas that uh are, you

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know, still require some additional work heading into next year. Um the uh the student learning goal focused on uh safety and the promotion of academic rigor and relevance and just wanted to

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offer just some share some thoughts on some of the progress indicators. uh Nicole mentioned earlier our work around Panorama and using that to standardize the uh multi-tered system of

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support process the MTSS process and um the the the standardization has come from uh having similar meeting formats uh entrance and exit criteria for students that might be receiving MTSS services. uh also trying to standardize

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our practices in terms of how we uh log discipline and um attendance uh data in Panorama. One of the nice uh things that we have worked on this year is if students are receiving intervention

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plans through the MTSS process that that Panorama allows those plans to get carried over uh to the subsequent school year. So, as students transition from fifth to sixth grade, so the sixth grade teachers can immediately see uh what interventions uh benefited a student the

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prior school year. So, that's that's been a that's been a a welcome benefit. As I talked to staff about Panorama, that's something that I've heard repeatedly is that they uh feel like it it really has uh improved the transition of students from grade to grade. Uh we've tried to use Panorama to uh ensure

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that intervention goals have have great specificity and and consistency across the schools. Um the the Panorama is essentially a data warehouse. It allows us to uh capture team notes, intervention plans, assessment data.

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It's uh all in one place. Um there have been some technical challenges associated with Panorama in terms of um making sure that it can uh that external assessment data can be integrated into the into the platform. Um and so that's

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something that we've been working through. We want this to be uh something that's not burdensome to staff, but rather a one-stop shop uh place where they can uh really, you know, manage the

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intervention process. So, um we've made progress, still some room to go. Um at the elementary level, uh our principles and uh administrative teams have been using Panorama this year to log uh behavioral incidents. Uh and it's also a

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great repository for SEAL and engagement data. As you know, we we're conducting uh climate and culture surveys uh and engagement surveys so that we're having some sense of how students are feeling about their own well-being as students, their own sense of belonging. And so

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Panorama is a great place where we can, you know, kind of easily um understand or see how students are feeling about their own social emotional well-being and their engagement in school. So, um, still some work to do with our integration of panorama, still some work

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to do with, uh, how, you know, standardized MTSS practices are across all schools, but I think we've made some some significant progress there this year. um in the area of of student safety and belonging. Um

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uh more staff trained on ruler protocols. Um uh I don't have the number this evening, but I would like to get that to you because I think it's been a considerable number. Uh all hazards security drills. So um with our we have monthly safety meetings or quarterly

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safety meetings I should say with LFD, DPW, uh LPD and we have really move towards uh all hazard security drills so that uh as as we call a lockdown for example that you know we're in a a

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position where um the students and staff can be prepared to respond if it requires something more than a lockdown. if it's something that if a more dynamic response is needed. Um, you know, there is Ari uh had a really great uh family

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ruler night really trying to uh push the ruler tools out to families so that um you know what they hear in school uh maybe is echoed at home as well in terms of you know kids understanding or being tuned into their uh emotional

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regulation. Um and so that's been that's been great. Uh the hate crimes prevention grant has has fueled a lot of our work around um creating schools of belonging. Um standardized school climate and culture surveys. And I will this this is kind of breaking news. I' I'd like to share with the committee

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that one of the things that we're intending to do at the end of this year is to do some uh climate and culture surveys for staff. Um we we've done them sort of uh I'd say intermittently or um sporadically in past years. uh but as an

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administrative team, we're going to conduct the same uh climate and culture surveys and issue it to staff. And so I think it's hopefully a statement to the staff that you know about how important we believe climate and culture is for staff as well. So I'm excited about

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that. uh digital safety presentations. Any opportunity we have to to present to students or families on uh digital safety um safe online behavior uh is become increasingly important. Really proud of the ADL work um the ADL aligned

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work that we've done to create schools that have been designated as no place for hate and our our support for multilingual learners. Um you may have noticed uh if Michael you joined us for the uh kindergarten screening uh you may have noticed that part of that

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kindergarten screening is to make sure that we are welcoming uh families from in homes that are not native English speakers. So, um that's been a a point of focus of ours is is to make sure that um as students register and Tammy is

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often their first point of contact that we are uh being welcoming and receptive to uh to students who are not um native English speakers. Um, in the area of academic rigor and re relevance, uh, exploration studio, VOG recognitions and

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showcases, um, the I I'll hold up our our show and tell the the middle school program of studies as a way to really capture and have agreed upon um, course descriptions, agreed upon uh, sets of resources and texts. So, this is a this

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has been a a really important uh lift for us this year and it really will be the springboard to help us um kind of reinvent the middle school program as we prepare for 2028. So, I'm really proud of the work the staff has done. Uh UDL

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continues to be a focus. uh we had conducted walkthroughs in partnership with Path University uh and provided UDL training for administrators and pre-K12 staff. One of the things that the committee has encouraged us to do is to

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try to make sure that there are uh models for universal design that that it's that the training is goes beyond the conceptual and gets into some practical tools. Uh so we continue to work on that and I think we have a clear idea of what our next steps next year

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will be with regard to uh promoting universal design for learning. Our six-year curriculum review cycle fully integrated with the with the uh with the budget planning that goes with that. Um so I I thank uh Tom Maza and Beth Nelson

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for for their collaboration on that to make sure that we are being uh intentional and purposeful in planning for curriculum adoptions and ensuring that all adoptions any textbook any resources that we adopt uh fit that highquality instructional material

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definition that it's it's researchbased uh instructional materials that we are providing to uh to students in the area of uh my own professional practice. Um really, you know, trying to work to uh ensure that our district improvement

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plan, the DIP, uh apologies for the acronym there, uh is aligned with school committee goals, school goals, educator goals, and our professional development practices. Uh I'm I'm proud that our educators have embraced a uh a new

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approach to conferences this year, which is that conferences uh really happen when it makes most sense for the child rather than relying on sort of static fixed conference dates. We have uh really had some um

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great conversations with our educators and our administrators to ensure that uh that the conferencing, the meeting, the connection between parents and teachers is happening uh regularly throughout the year and that we're not waiting for uh a

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fixed conference date. Um the the nice thing that you know one of the one of the um benefits of doing this is I think it's cleared room for next year with the committee support we will have the the four uh early release days in our

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calendar to supplement the professional development days and those early release days will really be critical for us um as we you know as we continue to evolve the curriculum in the ways that that Nicole mentioned. mentioned earlier, um the middle school project, local

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approval, uh the outreach, the websites, the community meetings, the LCTV broadcasts, uh and then we're at that 60% design. So, um that's been uh some really gratifying work this year uh to to get

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us to meet every MSBA milestone along the way. uh with the in partnership and and with the leadership of the committee. We uh completed negotiations, we have contracts in place that will carry us through um fiscal year 27.

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Uh and then a day in the life. This is something that I still want to try to do more of. I did spend a day uh as a third grade substitute teacher recently. Um, and uh, it gave me a good appreciation for a day in the life of an elementary

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educator. And uh, I can attest that I was exhausted by the end of the day. Um, I can attest that um, the principal wasn't too impressed with the way I lined students up to mo move to the specials. So, um, I need some coaching

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as a as a substitute teacher. But it honestly it was a I did it happened to do it during teacher appreciation week and it >> gave me a good appreciation for elementary school teachers having been a high school teacher. >> Um it was it was an eye openening uh helpful experience for me. So um so

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that's just a a quick overview of some of the work that lines up with my annual plan as I look to next year and next steps defining competency. I didn't get as far along in in in that work this year as I wanted um in terms of like

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thinking about what competency means for an LHS graduate. So that's an area that um candidly I you know didn't get to the way I wanted to but it's something that I need to carry over to next year. the middle school. I anticipate that being a

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focus uh in my goals for next year, un universal design, panorama, uh parent engagement and education, online safety, cell phones, social media, etc., etc. And then something I do want to put on the on the radar of the committee that I think is really

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important to this community and I think it's something that the committee can help with and that is the uh community. So we in um the the federal grant uh the drug-free coalition uh grant that fuels the work of the close

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community will expire in about a year and a half and they've done some amazing work over the last 10 years and it's something that I think we need a a conversation with town officials with the school committee about how we can sustain the work of the of the close um

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community coalition. It would be it would be a a sad thing frankly if um that federal if when that federal grant expires if we don't have a sustainability plan in place. So that's something that um that work is been

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important to me. I I I think um you may see even uh signs as you drove on campus today around uh parents who uh parents who host um the dangers of of parents uh that are hosting uh graduation parties

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um uh where there's alcohol involved. That type of community education and that type of community norm setting that the close community has been involved with has been really really important. So I I think that's something that um perhaps in partnership with committee uh

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we can we can talk about in the year ahead. >> Um so to uh get to the uh the nuts and bolts of the evaluation process

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uh it's essentially a a two-page report that will need to be submitted to the evaluation subcommittee. Step one would be to assess me against the uh goals that I just reviewed with

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you. Step two would be to um review my progress against uh Desi's standards for leadership. There are four standards that the Department of Elementary and

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Secondary Education has outlined. I can give you sort of a a short reference guide to those standards to sort of assist you measuring my leadership against those standards. So

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that's step two. And then step three is to uh provide a summitative performance rating. Uh rating me is either unsatisfactory, needs improvement, proficient or exemplary. Uh and then

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um at your discretion, you can add evaluator comments in any way you want. Um the this form that I've depicted here uh what uh Nicole and I discussed earlier was submitting that to the

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evaluate to submitting that to Tammy, excuse me, uh by Wednesday, May 20th at 8:00 in the morning. That will give Tammy time to process and collate those forms and then turn them over to the evaluation subcommittee that's meeting

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on the 21st. Um so >> and then we'll pull those together into one formal document that we'll bring back to the next meeting after that for us to review and vote on. >> So and and if if any committee member um

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you only have the opportunity to do this once a year. So even I have I have to refresh my memory on how it works and I've been through it many many times. Uh but if you have any questions about the process or the forms, Tammy or I can assist. And then what I would also invite um is a conversation. If you're

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if you're wondering about uh my work in relating to any of the goals or standards, I I would love to, you know, sit down and talk with any committee member. If there's something that you want to uh talk about if there's if it's an unknown or a concern, um I'm I'm available to to talk that

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through. So, the um I will uh all of this information is compiled. Tammy, you did a nice job putting it into a couple of folders for you. I think you should have all the forms and documents you need, but if you

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feel like there's something else, you please let us know. >> So, all the evidence and everything for yours is already in that folder. And then just a note to newer commun uh committee members that if you're um trying to get kind of a handle on what this can look like, you um have access

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to previous years documents as well. Um so sometimes that can be a helpful resource to >> um if you look back in previous agenda and >> collection minutes, >> we can we can maybe put some sample uh pre you know individual evaluations or

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the or even the summit of evaluations from past years. We can >> and of course feel free to reach out to Michaela or myself at any point. Um we've both been on this committee and done this >> several times. Appreciate that. >> Definitely. I I feel like I we both know

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a lot about evaluations. >> That's right. That's right. >> In a lot of spaces. >> It is pretty I I feel like it's it is cool that it's like all the same categories, you know. >> Yeah. So, it's the same for like a principal and >> yeah,

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>> um a teacher and a superintendent, but then it's just defined differently by the role, but the same like overarching category. >> And I'll uh what I represented on the slide deck tonight, I'll I'll I'll try

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and pull that together in sort of more of a narrative form for you as well. >> Thank you. >> All right. Um, so next we just have one final motion. >> I move that the school committee adjourn the May 14th, 2026 school committee

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meeting. >> We have a motion. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Emily, >> yes. >> Kate, >> yes. >> Nicole, >> yes. Jamie.

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Jamie. >> Yeah. >> Oh, there you are. I didn't hear you. Sorry. >> A yes. Yep. >> Thanks. I hear you now. Thank you, Jamie. >> And a yes for me, too. >> So, that's that's it. Have a good night,

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everybody. >> Good night. Thank you. All right. Have a good night. >> Good luck with your last two weeks.