There was a lot streams on. >> Sorry, Julie. I just got to it. So, you should be okay. 10 p.m. on June 11th, 20126. I also need to let folks know that this meeting is being recorded.
Start with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the government of the United States of America. Right. So, our first item is school committee reorganization. But first, I'd like to acknowledge our two newly elected folks to this
committee, Melissa and Amarie. So, it has been my honor to serve as the chair this past year. As my last act as a chair of this school year, I would like to hear interest in nominations for the school committee chair for next year.
>> I nominate Ker. >> We'll make a motion in it. >> Yeah. [laughter] Uh but I think we know how you have any other adventures through. All right. Um Melissa made a motion uh for Kate to be
the new chair of the school committee. I will second it. Any further discussion? All right. All those in favor? All right. The motion passes [laughter] the motion passes five and zero. And
with that [laughter] >> I know a little disappointed. [laughter] >> Um okay. So next we need to appoint a vice chair. So we'll follow the same process. Are there any nominations for vice chair? I'd like to nominate Melissa as the vice
chair. >> You want to turn into a motion? >> I like to make a motion that Melissa Lucas becomes our vice chair for the upcoming year. >> Second. >> I'll second it. >> Sorry. >> Any discussion?
We'll go to a vote. All in favor? Motion carries 5 to zero. And so then we need a secretary. Do we have any nominations for that? Click to nominate Henry. He's done such a wonderful job of it this year.
>> I'll second. >> All right. Make a motion. I'll make a motion to nominate Henry as secretary for this upcoming this upcoming year. I'll second that. Great. Excellent. Hy special votes. All in favor?
Right. The motion carries 5 to zero. U we have a lengthy agenda tonight. So I think instead of talking about subcommittee appointments tonight, push those off to our school take those roles then our business see.
>> Yeah, it makes sense. And if you know folks, we did a really good job last year. Kate had a lot to do with that, but just the chart like the details around what each of the subcommittees do. So you obviously for the member too, you know, it's a good chance to kind of read up on that what you might be
interested in before we meet next. >> Yeah. Do we have any commendations? >> I have one. >> So I I'm I'm really proud to be able to present to her superintendent John Rodau
one of the most prestigious awards. um awarded to any educator in Marblehead district. This is on behalf of Steve Vulpi. This is the fishing record largest [laughter] potato squeeze. >> I don't know who who verified the
accreditation in there. >> Don't go there. Thank you, sir. I feed you. [laughter] There will be paid back soon. >> Thank you so much. >> I'm honored and blessed and it's wonderful. >> Any other
>> I have one that's a little more serious. Um I wanted to >> serious going right next to my uncle. >> I wanted to offer a commendation to Girl Scout troop 64458. It's a troop of 16 village school six fifth graders, excuse
me. And they earned their bronze award this year by restoring the entrance signs at the village school. Um, if you've seen them, they're among many around town that were made by Carl Seagull and they were in deteriorating condition. And so they learned about restoration of signs and then they found
an artist at TUS and they worked with him to fix the rotted wood, restain and repaint the signs which are now back in place at Village. So congratulations to that troop for their award and for their contributions to our
>> great also. Okay. So next on the agenda is public comment. Um before we begin just a reminder that the policy and public comment allows individuals up to three minutes to speak and limits the public comment portion of the meeting to a total of 15 minutes. If you would like
to submit a comment that exceeds those time restrictions, you can submit it to the committee via email. A reminder, public comment is not a discussion, debate, or dialogue between individuals and the school committee. It is your opportunity to express an opinion on issues within the school committee's authority, budget, superintendent
performance, and school policy. We'll give speakers a 15 minute, excuse me, a 15-second prompt to let you know that your time is expiring. Right. Mary McCarthy. Mary McCarron Pine. I'm here to say congratulations.
I am so happy. The last few years has been taught and I know each one of you are going to do the best you can for our teachers, our students, our administration, our parents and the town. So do the best
job you can do. Okay, >> let you know I'm not going to be a king. [laughter] >> Thank you. >> Um, do we have anyone on the line? >> I can see no one can answer. >> So, that'll close public comment.
Um, I would like if it's acceptable to the committee to take the agenda out of order. We have students here from Brown tonight to do your spotlight. You can go ahead and do that before. >> Yeah, I was going to suggest. >> Thank you. >> Right.
>> I got it. Mayor, >> just moment. Miss Maxwell, let's get ready. So, we we just for everybody out of Katie, we have spotlights from every single one of the schools to shine um on student um voice and student leadership. And um this is Brown's spotlight. Last but not least, this school year. We're
really excited about um being here from the students um from Browns. Take it away, Mary. >> Hey everyone, thanks so much for being here and thanks for having us here. I'm Mary Maxfield, the principal at Brown. >> Aaron, the school counselor at Brown, one of the school counselors.
>> Yes, she's a counselor for third grade. So, we work together uh with a group of students. They're going to explain to you how they became student uh leadership council members, um what they've worked on this year, and how they've grown. And we are just so
incredibly proud of them from where they started to where they've come. I mean, they they have grown into really great leaders and we're just great excited to share what they've been learning. >> Great. So, we're just going to let them take Hi, my name is Harby Casselli and um
this is how we got on the third grade leadership council. First, we wrote a speech for our class and our class voted for two representatives. The winners were announced and um in our first community meeting, we set our goals.
Um, hi, my name is Kylie and the first thing we did was we set our goals to make the Brown School a better place to be. The um, a couple of them are we helped people with the things that they needed. We used teamwork and we tried
new things throughout the year and we made sure that everyone had a fair chance at everything and we listened to other people's ideas are helping people being in the lunchroom. We help people by making sure
they're being in the classroom. They be role model. Let me make sure appropriate and >> Hi, my name is JJ and once a week um at lunch recess time and we talk about like what we're going to do like
we talk about like community meeting and like we highlight these scripts like when we talk in community meeting and we um like to switch the partners up every time and um it's really important to listen to each other too. And also we
organized Earth Day. That was fun but also really hard because we had to um give a vamp to every single person and this is how we organize our dualings. Once a month, we come together
and we like talk about what we should um what we should like update the school on and like what and like what celebrations we should talk about. And then we do our farmer updates and our PBIS. And our
PBIS means that like how like well we're doing on safe, kind, brave, and ready to learn. And we just like see how we're like like what we're doing right and like how we're doing where we need to
improve. And then we share our every and then every community meeting a new class from a new grade gets to um share something that they're learning. And then we sing our school song and
then we huddle up at the end and we talk about what we did right and what we still need to learn. Sorry. >> Hi, my name is we share our learnings. Um, first grade shared fluency.
Second grade shared about the Buffaloos and the West. Third grade shared about Jock Kustoau and how he was a famous brain biologist. Kindergarten sang two songs from the concert.
And we always try to include messages of kindness and working together. and Bird Grave shared a book about that called Say Something and it was
about being an upstander and like not just being quiet. >> My name is Elena and my name is Cole. And later in the fall, we planted bulbs and set our goals. Ways we helped them was we made holes for them and gave them
seeds and after they planted them, we dig them back up. And right now in the spring, flowers bloomed and so did we. >> Challenging. First, we had to do a lot of organizing and many of students were in one group.
First we did, then went to the front of the school and planted seeds. And we also mulched our gardens. >> Hi, my name is Stella and one of the most important things that we do as Brown School Leadership Council members
is that we listen to others. Um, at community meetings, we listen to others. Take a breath. Deep breath. You're good. You're good. You're good. It's okay. All right. So, we listen to others. You're absolutely right. It's one of the
most important things we do. And one of the things we do is why do we listen? Why do we listen to people about incub books? >> Because we want to make sure that they all have books that they would like to read. >> Exactly. And did you do some of the interviewing? >> Yeah, we interviewed teachers to learn more about them.
>> To learn more about them. And where did we play that? >> Community meeting. >> Yeah. Did everybody love that? Yeah, it was awesome. Nice job. Is this your son? >> My name is Hunter. And when you first got on the leadership council, we felt
nervous, scared, excited, and we did not know what to expect. And speaking was hard, especially in front of crowds at community meetings. But as the year went on, it got so much easier and we got more confident doing
it and we got and we got prouder at ourselves. Yeah, she's good. >> Great job, everybody. It's not easy. Not easy to take a picture cuz I take a picture of my own face. This is a close
one. Awesome job. >> All right, >> let's go pedal up. >> Great job. >> Have a great summer, everybody. >> [clears throat] >> Do you notice how when you came in and random. [laughter]
>> Yeah. [laughter] >> Um we have our superintendent update. Thank you. >> Um, so, uh, my update is going to be short today. We have a lot of stuff on the agenda, so I'm just going to go through it quickly. Um, first of all, congratulations to Melissa and Emory.
Well job well done. Welcome, Marie. I look forward to working with you and Melissa continuing to work with you throughout the next couple years. Um, so great job there. I'm so excited for the approval of the override as it lets us take a breath, reset, and begin planning on how we move forward together for the
benefit of our staff and especially for our students. Um there so many end of the year activities and accolades taking place. I'm only going to be able to find some of the awesomeness. So, I'll just kind of reel through some of these and um there's a million that I'm going to miss, but um so firstly, congratulations to our recent class of 2026 graduates.
Um ceremony was great, the weather was great, it was just everything was awesome, speeches were were great. Well, our student rep was as well represented us. So, that was it was awesome. Our student athletes who had their college signing day recently, so congratulations to them. And I just read through them
real quickly. Cindy Ball um signed with Temple University for women's soccer. Madison Bet signed with College of Charleston for cheerleading. Braden Callahan signed with John Hopkins University for football. Uh Elen Drooker um Kobe College for men's soccer. Finn
Gallup Sal Regina University down my way for football. um Declan Gibson, Presley College also for football and Satie Halburn for Kobe College for track and field. So, congratulations to all our student athletes. That's awesome. Uh let's see. Our sixth grade national math
olympiad olympiad winners, Angie Graziano and Jonathan Heler um celebrated our students who had placed nationally in the math Olympian olympiad Olympia I can't say that word contest. Um so I just want to share the the students names because it was really cool. Um both assistant superintendent
Ferrar and I were invited into the classroom. We got to see the great work that they did. Um it shared all the data. It was national um Olympian Olympian that word Olympia. Okay, it's not sounding right. Um and like we we the children scored like really high
percent 15% of nationalists. So it was really cool. So, um, Lily Brock, Jack Bryant, Anton Graves, Alex Elim, Sebastian Gurling, Zoe, um, Goldstein, Daniel Cotch, Reese Leonard, Aria,
Peggy Balone, Luke Murphy, Bulock, Oliver, Caroline Patterson, Charlie Rush, Margaret, Smurka, Brian Spziel, Speziel, Juliet Strong, Grace Thompson, and Mariana Basel.
Um it was just it was great. They they did such a nice job and I really appreciated being invited to just um sharing celebration. So thank you for that. Um we had a vision of the graduate logo and um I I should have put on the thing but I'll hold up. That was one by
um Fiona Var at high school. So um we decided we're doing a vision of the graduate. So um I'll hold it up but it's it's our M our M. And there was uh let's see 57 people um voted we received uh 57
responses and 56.1 of those who voted chose this logo. So this was um chosen um by by majority votes creativity, communication, critical thinking, collaboration, citizenship. So it's kind of really cool. Um but that'll that's
that's their vision of the graduate logo contest. That was really neat. Um we also had at village there's a letter to an author award winner Peggy Balone. Um she was recognized um for writing a letter to an author and um was recognized and she was the paper um she
got an award for that. It was for the uh let's see sixth grade from moral head school recognized for second place letter author Laura Miina the book the foo at the edge of the world. Um so it was really neat. So a lot lot of really cool um um student recognitions as well.
Uh, let's see. We had the seniors do their walk through all the schools after the graduation rehearsal. I love this. I used to do this in my previous district, too. And it's so cool to see that tradition is already here in Marblehead. It's really I was actually able to get to Glover and I was at Village and so I got to see all the seniors go through
both those schools. It was really neat to see the preschoolers. They were all excited, high-fiving, know they were high-fiving, all excited, but the the seniors um just I think they were, you know, nervous like they were like, "Oh, what are we doing for?" And then they were so excited. And they were they were high fives. They were it was just
awesome. It was high energy throughout that explor. And then you know down each hallway was playing different music. The kids were you know just it was just all the high energy really cool. They went in the cap and gown. So realistically the seniors get celebrated not just on the on the field but doing that the
younger students get to see kind of what they're working for and a lot of our veteran teachers kind of get to see the fruit of their labor. It was really neat. In fact I want to work with Dr. crossing cuz one of the one of the requests kept being like, "Oh my gosh, these kids got so huge and I can't recognize them. So, we got to see if we can get name name tags from next year."
Um, so they're like, "These are full grown men. We don't know who they are." So, but I love that and I'm so glad we do that here at Marble Head as well. Um, and then we had the Elpac um parent event yesterday which was hugely successful. Students were able to choose their summer reading books and get to know each other a bit more in a space
that was open and welcoming. You want to mention a little more about that? just cuz I through that resources like that. >> Thank you. We have our um we have English language learner population. So by law we have to have an English learner parent advisory council and then we have been really strategic in strengthening and we have a really
amazing community and last night this is our second year doing it where we provide through our um title three funds that we receive for English learners. We um purchase summer reading books. So, I work with the school librarians to get their summer lists and then we order the books. Um, and we order food and then we
had parents, they brought some extra some food that they had made and we were at the Brown School playground and the kids were playing and having fun and they all walked away with many summer reading books and they made some bookmarks and it was really a wonderful culminating event and it's something um just had the privilege of working with
Christy Honos who is one of our um English learner teachers at Brown School um and Shelley Burns was there as well English language uh teacher English learner teacher and our school librarian at Village School this year too. So, um, it was a great turnout and we just had this really amazing community of many different families, different
backgrounds and they the kids were playing and it was just this awesome community. So, it was great. Yeah. Thank you. >> Thank you. Sorry to throw that all day. >> That's okay. I know you wouldn't mind. Um, I also want to send a huge thank you to our PTOS PCOS for the support they provide to our school throughout the
year. Without their passion, so many activities would not be possible. Um we have field days, GE glow run, brown fun run, the eighth grade boat cruise, teacher appreciation week celebrations, Holocaust survivor discussions, local authors, artists, motivational speakers, and so much more. And I just, you know, I just remiss if I don't say thank you,
thank you, thank you to all the work that they do. Um, you know, just just amazing. And we wouldn't be able to do a lot of what we do without without their help and support. So, thank you. Um, thank you. Um, uh, also happy happy Pride Month. June's Pride Month. Happy Pride Month. And
finally, um I'd like just to make sure that I wish everybody happy, healthy, and safe summer. Um as we kind of round off the school year, head off into summer break. Um use your heads. Do the right thing. Watch out for each other >> and be safe. That's all I have for my updates. Madam Chairwoman,
>> you are still up. It's the next um is a report on staff retirees. >> So we have some retirees this year that I'd like to um recognize. And uh let's see, it's going to go the way I happen listed. So we have uh Judy Cowen who is instructional assistant at Village. Um
she's retiring after 20 years of service here in Marblehead. Um we have Mora McMahon. Um special education teacher also village. Uh looks like she's been employed here for 11 years. Um our first grade teacher, Ron Judith Flynn, uh has
been employed in the district for 16 years as a teach as a teacher. We have custodians Jamie Brackie is is retiring at the end of the year. He's been here 21 years. So, thank you. Let's see. Mary Roberts is an instructional assistant at Glover. She's been retiring after four
years in the role. And Christine Simard works in her bus of food services. She's been in the district 10 years. And Mark Ty, I think this number is related to his athletic assistant athletic director um years that 17. I have a feeling he's been in the district longer than that.
Maybe not. Um but anyway, either either way, um I'd like to recognize their uh hard work and dedication to the district. It's great to see folks that have been here, you know, 10, 17, 20 plus years. Um I think I mentioned this last year, my opening um welcome back. I
always kind of have everyone stand up and and go through how many how many years folks have been here. And we have folks that are been in this district for over 25 30 couple people over 30 30 plus years. So I think that's just great. is worth celebrating. So, um, thank you for letting me do that this evening. And if
I missed anyone, I'm sure, um, Sally and John will let me know and I will apologize if that's the case. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you to all the staff at West Service Schools. >> All right. Um, next agenda is Mike for
financial. Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Um, so in your package this uh this evening there was a financial update. This is through 11 months of the year. So I actually ran the data on June 1st.
I know we're now at the 11th. So this data is a little bit out but it shows the trends that we've been doing all year. Um as of June 30 June 1st or uh May 31st May 30th May 31.
>> Yeah. 30. There you go. Um, we had an expended balance of $1.703 million. Um, that's about $285,000 less than we had a month ago, which is ideal. Um, and just
to kind of give you an update, we're going to go to a budget transfer later or request for a transfer later. So, we'll get into that later on the agenda. But right now what we're what we're working on is we have reached out to our special education out of district providers and asked them for invoices so
we could prepay tuitions for next year. You probably all know we balance our budget next year by prepaying tuitions this using money from this year to prepay next year's tuitions. So we are in the process of that. I think right now we've got about half of it already encumbered and ready to be paid. uh so
we can get these numbers really pushing them to get the numbers in so we we kind of have a better feeling on where we're going to land at the end of the year. Our biggest tell is going to be June 23rd probably probably June 18th when we push the final payroll through. The checks don't come out till the 23rd. Don't get excited back there. Um we
right around June 18th or you know not the 19th but the 21st maybe we'll have a really good idea of once the majority of the salaries have gone out who we're going to win. We've done a really good job encumbering. Carlen and Kristen have done an amazing job on the payroll side. So, uh, kudos to them. And, uh, I really
I feel like having $200,000 at our disposal for the last month. There are bills that come in every day that are not on purchase orders, they're not expected or they're not expected by my office. They may be expected by the person who placed the order, but um, I feel $200,000 right now is a comfortable
number. We'll I think we'll find we'll get to the end of the year. We'll be in a really nice place. Uh that's that's it for the budget budget update. There is the line item budget is in your packet. It is not reflective of the uh budget transfers that I will be
recommending uh later in the agenda. >> Are there questions for anyone? >> Okay. So that brings us to our consent action and agenda items. I'm looking This is going to take me a minute. I'm looking for a motion to approve the
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Motion carries 5 to zero. All right, that brings us to our school committee communication and discussion items. And first, we have a request for a high school performing arts chair to go. I imagine that's why Colleen is sitting um in the audience.
>> Hi, I'm Colleen Engles. I am the uh course teacher for grades 7 through 12 and forc and um I'm going to ask uh permission to go on a trip to Disney World for um the high school music crew. So, it would be available for u around
100 students. I estimate probably closer to 50 to 60 we'll end up going. Um based on last year we went to New York City and that's about what I think we have each gift that trip. Um but the cost of this trip is going to be $2,481
um per child per student and that includes uh five five or more depending on how many um end up signing up uh shack. So, we'll do a 10 to1 ratio since it's a one night trip. And um this includes 5 days in Orlando, staying on site at Disney
World, four days in the park, their roundtrip airfare, uh breakfast and dinners covered every day. And then they'll also be doing um a workshop with Disney professionals where they get to um site read some music and then put their recording to um a movie trailer
and kind of create their own trailer and then they get to also perform in Downtown Disney. And so it's just a really fun opportunity. Um it's continues to be a recruitment and retention tool for us and it's a great way for our kids to to connect and really make those important notes.
>> Any um questions? >> Any questions for meeting? >> I'll make a motion to approve the high school trip. >> I'll second. Um any discussion vote? All in favor?
Motion carries. Thank you so much. >> That would be fun. >> I remember my high school. [laughter] >> Thank you, Colleen. >> Um the next item on the agenda are the handbook updates.
[clears throat] >> You want to walk us through those and then >> Absolutely. Um, so I worked with the superintendent and our principles to do our annual updates to our um, student handbooks. Um, I dropped a memo in try to capture all of the updates. Um, I can share it on the screen if you'd like.
Um, we did our annual updates of staff names, website links. We did a lot of website upgrading this year. So, there was a lot of websites stuff uh, links to update. Uh, we updated with our user fees for next school year that the school committee approved, calendar information, um, etc. We also added some
more information about the annual information update that we asked parents to complete. It's basically the online version of like an emergency card update. Um specific to Marlhead High School, we updated the lang language in the metco section. Um and I should say these all came from Dr. Carlson in her
work with the her team. Um added language about behavior on the bus. Um a lot of field trips, a lot of extracurriculars. So we added they wanted to add some language there. They updated um 9:00 as the time to be in school to participate in extracurriculars. It does now then align with the athletics expectations. And
then we added um and I worked with Michelle on this, we added an absence categorized attendance chart because there's many different reasons that students may be absent from high school and there's many different codes. So we just trying to clarify and we've had some feedback from families that that could be helpful. So we've added that in
there. So that's specific to high school from middle school and our principal of Angie there. Um we updated our cell phone electronics language and included smartwatches as technology changes. Um updated uh we are moving away from the um term just read um which is that 30
minute block as um that coincides or is opposite of lunch for our students to win which stands for what I need which is reflective of our K8 um process for our multi-tiered systems of support. And then um we updated the bell schedule the little tweak from last year. The
elementary school principles worked together um and they added um some updated language regarding attendance and did some direct quotations from the school committee policy and they added information under the student health section uh about communication with between families and the school nurse.
Um and they said the elementary came packet. Sure. There was one for I get the language in there, but the crux of it is that the principles at the elementary level are supposed to notify the superintendents um before they actually go through the suspension
process of their their students. Um the whole process is in there. It's just that one sentence has to get added. So I know I just it was just made aware this afternoon that that was missing. So I think when we have a discussion board, we just kind of keep that in mind. So thank you.
>> Thank you. No, thank you for letting me know. So, we dropped them all in as drafts and hope we can make any changes. Are there any comments or questions on the >> Well, I'm glad to see the smart one. >> Me, too.
[clears throat] And I don't think I noted it, but we just we put a kind of a forget the exact phrase, but u it was brought to our attention the AP testing um they can't wear the meta glasses. So we put something about like other electronic devices. I think just in general we didn't call out specifically
metagasses, but they're very strict about that with AP testing. So we felt that to prepare our students for that. So we there could be a new device anytime, right? So we just kind of have a category. Um but smart watches in particular seem to be um on the rise with our um younger students. So we
wanted to >> I'll make a motion to approve the handbook updates. >> I second that. Can we >> I'm sorry. Can we just add maybe the the small edit that uh Super Rob mentioned as part of the motion so we don't have to come back?
>> Sure. >> Yeah. Um, I I'll make a motion to approve the handbook updates for the with seven. >> I'll second that. >> Okay. So, we have a motion from Henry to
approve the handbooks with the head that was discussed. Second by Al. Any discussion? Oh, favor zero. Okay. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Please do that.
>> Okay. So our next agenda item is the plan for success. >> So just just to kind of remind folks, we we started our risk improvement plan. You you have approved that um at the last meeting that's set to commence uh for the fall. And um that kind of closes
out our plan for success that was in place. And uh this is for our thought we should uh kind of just acknowledge the work that was done and where we landed and and so um I have to do a little update to the committee what we achieved through that plan of success and where
it landed um or start moves if anybody wants that and I'm I'm going to share it on the screen if that's okay. Thank you. Thank you, superintendent. Thank you, school committee for the opportunity to present. Um on behalf of the Office of Teaching and Learning, all of our staff,
um I'm really pleased to be able to share our five-year accomplishments. Um we set out in 2021. Um I was an administrator in the district in a different role at the time, but we really have worked hard to achieve um our goals as laid out in the um plan for success, the strategic plan. And so I
did request that we have the opportunity to um celebrate and recognize the work that has gone into this um over the last few years. Um so you might be familiar the document looks like this. Um I was not part of the plan for success team but I know it involved administrators,
educators, school community members. Um and it really set out our um where we're going to go in 2021 for the next 5 years. Um and so part of it highlighting obviously our mission, vision, core values, our theory of action, and then our focus areas. And we took that very seriously of where we wanted to improve
as a district. Um and we identified that where we were and where we wanted to be by the by June of 2026. In particular, when I um stepped into this role in three three years ago, now I'm at the end my third year in this position. Um we the groundwork was laid
and so much work already started in the teaching and learning um goal areas that it was um was really my honor to step in and continue that work and help it grow. And we really truly focused on the uh teaching and learning. Um but of course the work we do does speak to
professional culture um diversity, equity, inclusion. So you're going to see um aspects of that in today's presentation as well. Um overarching um you'll see on many of the documents that I send out to our educators whether it's a professional development plan or um the meeting agenda we always have our
teaching and learning goal on there which is to fully align teaching and learning with our multi-ter systems of support framework to ensure all students meet or exceed academic social emotional learning expectations. So, as I mentioned, at the very end of the plan for success, there are outcomes that we were hoping to achieve by June
30th of 2026. And seeing that this is our last potentially last meeting in June, I wanted to recognize um that we have made uh tremendous gains um and met several of these goals. Um so, I'll be primarily focusing on the teaching and learning, professional culture, diversity, equity, inclusion, all again connected to the work through the office
teaching and learning. As I mentioned, that work of aligning ourselves and integrating the multi-tered systems of support framework really drove our work. You're going to see key accomplishments on each side that seems so simple um but truly the
amount of of work that went in from our educators, our administrators. Um you know, first accomplishment in the school um was that we completed a six-year curriculum review cycle. the amount of committee work and the amount of time and then the school committee support
thousands of dollars invested um into new curricula for our students. We had an opportunity postco um with some federal funds to make large purchases which was hugely needed for our district. Um so then when you walk from classroom to classroom, our teachers are
teaching highquality um curricula and students are having equitable learning experiences and we're there and it's really exciting. So it looks like a little bullet point, but it's been a tremendous amount of work. And um we've so some recent ones that um through my time in the office, we've done literacy.
So uh that's our wit and wisdom K6. Our math was the year before I stepped into the role and we are using um illustrative math there. In science, we just last year. We're in our first year of integration of a K12 science um upgrade to our curricula. And then for the first time ever in the district, we
adopted a social emotional learning curriculum K12. We previously had that the lower grades but never for K12. Um we updated scope and sequences that is a map or you know roadway um yeah road map is what I'm trying to say there. Roadmap for our teachers um the week by week um
to really overview and align our instruction. We continued um growing our professional learning communities. That is where our teachers work together in grade levels or content areas to support our MTSS framework. We look at MTSS in tiers one, two, and
three. So tier one is all at for all students. Tier 2 and tier three is based off student need. And we have um embedded a dedicated enrichment and an intervention block grades K through 12 in the district to support our students. Um common schedules aligning um to allow
for that intervention enrichment time for our teachers to meet with our students. And then most recently we added the win at vets and the magic block which is essentially win at the high school. We also have added over the last few years a very robust data and assessment system and that is really
important because as I get into the presentation I'm going to be talking specifically about some data points and we can do that because we have the systems to do that. So very happy with that. Um we have uh integrated just two years ago MCLclass which is dibbles. It's the gold standard um for uh early
literacy assessing assessments. Um and then ongoing MCCAST. Um and we have a lot of internal documents that I would like to keep internal but I just there's so much that we're doing to support or and analyze our student uh learning. Um and then we use I already growth reports and we are expanding our use of EXL as
well. >> Can I for a second? >> How many years of what you would consider robust data do you have at this point? We feel very comfortable going back to 22 23 school year. Great. So a lot
happened with the first year of the plan for success in that 21 22 school year. So we feel when we look at data we beyond MCCAST has been forever even though the ch the tests have changed over the years. Right. >> Our internal local benchmark assessments we look at the 22 data on.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. And I'll reference that. >> That's great. Yeah. Um you're going to see throughout some pictures. If I may just highlight because you know what they say about pictures, right? Um and I love to take pictures. In the left um this is one of our um when we went to uh we use Wit and
Wisdom for our new literacy curriculum. And we did classroom visits. And this is Kman and her amazing sixth graders. And we went in and we went to errands and we like helped plan a lesson with her, a bunch, a group of us, and we had a trainer come from the program. And then we got to see her in action. and then we
gave feedback and then we learned together and it was just it was amazing. So that kind of on the you know in the classroom learning um and then in the bottom right when we implemented uh wit and wisdom uh we definitely needed to have uh grade level conversations. So
these are our second first let me see first grade teachers uh meeting together um like so Brown school and Glover school coming together to talk about how things are going. So, I just want to highlight some of the pictures as we go through. Um, before I move on, sorry. I also want
to say you might not see in all the pictures, but behind all of this work are our instructional coaches. So, I'd like to thank Rebecca Brand, Mary Llen, Emily Perez, Angie Graciano, and Danielle Mosher. We have instructional coaches, K12. Again, you might not see them in the pictures, but they are
behind every amazing accomplishment um working right there with our with our educators. So, thank you to our coaches. All right, let's continue the little snapshot that we are uh looking into. Um we have our um the second objective uh
focusing in tonight is by June 30th, 2026 instructional practices will reflect the sorry the aligned curriculum and the diversity, equity, inclusion initiatives of the Marvel public schools. Um and what we have done our key accomplishments there. We do have equitable instructional practices. So
beyond just the curriculum that I mentioned, we are talking about how we're teaching that curriculum, how we are supporting our students, how we're engaging our students. We also I mentioned the wind block to ensure that all students have access to the tier one instruction, have those opportunities
for some retaching and um further, you know, explanation of to support them. Um and then you'll see in the picture here, this is a group our social emotional leads. um the last two years they received a small stipen to help us integrate Lefinder um at the school
level. So this is um you'll see there's high school all the way through Glover Brown Village, middle school all represented here and the team you can see them we worked really hard um and after just two years of waying we feel like we're in a really great spot. We have we've learned a lot of lessons and
we have some more room for growth. Um but thank you to our educators um for doing that. >> I want to mention before we go live on um that when we look at data and I'll integrate as we talk about this our instructional practices with our aligned
curriculum we are ending the school year this year um with some some really great data points. So we have concluded our end of year assessments for our K3 students. We have 81% of our K3 students on or above grade level in math and we have 87% of our K3 students on or above
in reading. So those are really great benchmark um really great um goals um and continue to exceed our benchmark expectations from the middle of the year beginning middle and to where they are now. It's it's amazing. Absolutely. >> All right, let's keep going here. All
right. So, um I've talked a lot about the curriculum cycle. Um and and what's really important is that we wanted educators to be confident in their capacity to implement that curriculum. Um and to ensure all students graduate as conscientious members of society who are career and college ready. Um we have
spent the money. Uh we've had tremendous support from the school committee and the superintendent. Um and we're greatly appreciative of that. the every um department, every subject area that goes to the curriculum review, they all have um educator involvement in one of the
items in the review process is to ensure that it's um culturally relevant, it is equitable for all learners and it has access points. um whether it's with our recent science curriculum, they really wanted something where students could do more online um and do some labs online
and also where the text could um like read to the students if they wanted to practice some of the academic vocabulary. So we have embedded that into our curriculum review uh with our educators. Um so we're very proud of that. We also um we as part of this and
this is what's in the picture um we do our data meetings and this is a group of our um third grade at Brown School professional learning communities are working with our instructional coach Mary and Rebecca's just not in the picture. Oh, she's over to the side. Um and what they're looking at here are
student groupings um based off of data and how students can work um alongside the instructional assistants who are also pictured here um in the wind time. So again, because we have PLC's, because we have the assessments, and because we have amazing educators who care deeply
for our students, that all works together um to ensure that our students are getting all the support that they need and we're meeting them where they're at. Um I also do want to mention since I talked about college and career ready um we also recently integrated at the high school level our um
manufacturing engineering and technology our ME pathway and Connor Ryan is overseeing that and he has done a really nice job um securing the state um state grants >> um to have uh the pathway what it basically means is if a student's interested in manufacturing engineering
technology that they will take a series of classes um and by the end of the program. They're in AP courses that are preparing them for um the next step of uh college and career readiness. They do some really cool field trips, too. Um and Connor's been growing that as he's
now in his second year in that role. So, kind of cool to think about from our youngest learners to our oldest learners. Um this one is really great and I'm so happy that I Okay, first we did not achieve our goal. We are not going to have a free full day kindergarten by
June 30th. I am so thrilled though that we are going to be able to uh beginning the 27th 28th school year. Um gosh, this is just such a problem for us. Yeah. >> So, while we met the goal, we do have a full day Kate program and we have had that for a couple years now. So, we did
technically meet our goals, but a very important part of that was for um access for all of our members. So, we're very, very happy about that. Here's a picture of our young learners at Glover School. Um, they're talking about PBIS. Um, with the support of our school counselors right there and all the teachers around
them. Um, and you know, this year we just New York to year, we're seeing really strong data kind of from our kindergarteners, especially when they start in kindergarten and by the time they're taking MCCAST in third grade and then beyond, we're seeing that that growth is really huge. So, we're really proud of our kindergarten program. Um
and um Lisa Marie Leo, our superintendent, assistant superintendent student services oversees our preschool program and she's doing really great work there as well. Um and they have uh just tremendous gains with our students and just it's really an honor to watching grow. >> Yeah, I think that you know the the kindergarten programming the way we have
it you know set up in each of the eight eight um classrooms and teacher dedicated IIA plus you know there's need for a special educator in there um instructional IAS. It's it's really um really robust programming and you know a
lot of conversation about numbers in the classroom right now but we feel very confident of the fact that we have it set up so that students can be successful. We have we have classrooms in 2122 um at at Brown and like we similar at
Glover and um students are achieving at very high rates and it's it's all due to everything that um that Ferrar just talked about and uh and just really how we focus the extra supports in the classroom. So I just want to take a moment to kind of add that in. We'll talk about kindergarten. Some really
good stuff. So >> my youngest sort of kindergarten graduation today. So, I deeply appreciate the the everyone who works in our community. >> It's [clears throat] great. It's awesome. >> Yeah. I just had to celebrate because
we're just Wow, this is so exciting, right? Just so exciting. >> Great. Um All right. Objective um 2A. Okay. So, Marblehead public schools um in conjunction with the MEA's uh professional development committee will develop a long-term professional
development plan 5-year to address deficits, increase capacity, foster DEI, support in structural technology, facilitate aligned curriculum development, and attend the to the social emotional well-being of educators. Um we have an extremely active PD committee. It is such a pleasure to work with the adults who
volunteer their time to be on this committee. Um it really allows us to have that authentic educator voice in planning our professional development. Uh we do have a PD plan. It is continuously evolving though. Um and that is intended to be so and be flexible based off of educator need um
with specifically uh in the last few years our educators have wanted more um professional development on artificial intelligence and we've included that into our annual PD training throughout the year. Um we just launched we just uh ended our third annual PD survey. Um
each year we have seen uh the number grow. We have over 200 survey responses from our educators to go through. Um, and I really do believe more and more are doing that because they know we're listening and that is a amazing thing. Um, and very gratifying for the work that we're doing that they know we're
listening and integrating that into the next year's plan. um for desi lensure our educators also need to have what's called professional development points and um Angie Graciano and I established a process where they're going to be able to get those PDP points that they can
submit to DESIE when they have to go for relicure and that's a newer system that didn't exist and um has been really um helpful I think for our educators um and then we also have uh per the contract we do have designated PD time and those are usually on the Wednesdays and I have
days and we do listen to um our educators for feedback. In addition to our annual mandated trainings that we have to do, anything we're doing in terms of our especially our new district improvement plan, anything kind of district specific, we'll include in the PD calendar. Um, and then also allow
time for our schools through our school improvement plan so they can hit those goals as well. Um we are going to see continued focus on professional development in the new district improvement plan um because we know our teachers um have been really enjoying the continuous learning and we
do believe um as educators lifelong lifelong learning is important. Um on the left you can see that's Jay that was at our March um educators teaching educators PD day. That was a huge success. I'm just so grateful for that. I wanted to capture um a really great
moment for us of the this district on uh our M March PD day. And then on the bottom right, I'm going to explain this just for a second. So these are this was Brown School and Glover School at Village School. We have done a complete overhaul of our placement process. So
our third grade teachers are collaborating with our fourth grade teachers. They've never done this. They've never all gone to Village and worked with it. And you'll see Cara who was here earlier, our counselors were there, our special educators. You'll see Matt, the assistant principal. They're literally looking at students and working together to make the best
possible group needs. Um so our students can feel safe, connected, and really engaged in their learning um while meeting all of the other needs they may have. Perhaps they already have an IEP and we want to make sure they're getting all the services that they have. So this picture is actually from the village
cafeteria. We needed some extra space. Um and a big credit to U. Jenny Conrad, our assistant principal at Village, Angie Graciano. um as well as um um uh Liz and Colleen Colleen Miller and Liz Puit who helped at village um because we
saw that we needed to make improvement and we we did wanted to make it better for third graders. So yeah, >> okay, I'm almost there guys. Thank you so much for Okay, >> important stuff. >> I'm going to keep going. Okay. Um >> as I mentioned, we're very proud of our
curriculum review that we completed. uh the work did uncover areas that we need to align on and continue to do so. Specifically, more recently at the high school level through our NEAS process, we also did a little bit deeper dive. So, we are going to continue that work. I'm very excited as we start the next
cycle of our six-year cycle that we will have a really clear uh idea of what we need to do um to ensure that we're aligned um K12. And then we have throughout the budgeting process, we've been focusing on protecting the instructional core. And I think when we
talk about um having the community trust us and knowing that we are looking out for our learners, um that's something that we value and we're going to continue to prioritize this protecting instructional core through our budgeting process. All right. Uh we've got our third graders in Miss Bruitt's class on the
left. They had a visit from the AVIT director, um Kim Grad. And on the right, another picture from our PD day. That's Andrea Evers, um teaching some of our teachers. All right. Objective 3B. By June 30th, 2026, Marblehead Public Schools will have reduced at risk at risk measures
and outcomes for all marginalized and or at risk students to the point where all students feel safe, supported, and included in school. So, we are, as I mentioned, we have Wayfinder, the social emotional learning curriculum. This is um year two of it, and this is the first year that we did a
beginning of the year and an end of year measurement of how students are feeling in terms of their social emotional learning skills. And um we were just looking at that data on Wednesday with the leads. Um so we are working towards that. We have now a system of like so year one um but we'll continue that work
to make sure our students do feel safe, supportively included. We have uh work to improve our communications with families especially if our students are receiving intervention enrichments. Um we want to make sure our families know how we're supporting our students. Um you'll see in the bottom u picture here
um our METCO program our Kesha Johnson our MECO director has done a really nice job of collaborating with administrators, educators, and our community partners. Um you'll see in the picture here uh to strengthen that program and um thank you the superintendent for shouting out our ELPAC which we're working on
strengthening as well. And then um you'll see um Emily was working with some of our third graders on the left. They were doing a science lab. they were um figuring out how long um a dinosaur's stride would be. So they were doing like
like leaps through the hallway so of our new science um curriculum and we have integrated data meetings. So we're continuously looking at and examining our data um as we have new curricula we're also looking at how that is going. So we are not only how our learners are
doing but how is our curriculum supporting emergency. Um we did in terms of data for this goal I want to mention the high needs category um to specifically for this goal high needs is our English learners our socioeconomic disadvantage or low income and our students with
disabilities. We did see from that 22 as I mentioned uh Henry the uh 22 to 25 data. We did see an increase in our student growth percentage in ELA for our high need students. We are uh we've seen an increase in our meeting and exceeding category from 27%
um to 34% in math um since 2022. So we're seeing increases there. We are not seeing an increase or no change really at this time in the science. We knew this though. That's why we have the new curriculum. So I'm super excited to see what happens. Um because we knew we had kind of hit a plateau. Um so
>> percentage was growth growth percentiles, right? We said the growth percentiles. No change in the growth. No, but they don't do growth for science for >> the other two. I'm sorry. >> Oh, I actually used two different data points. I'm sorry. So, the first one was when we looked at the high needs for
ELA. Um, not you don't see as much in the percentage change with the meeting exceeding, but you do see the growth of students. It's really high. >> Yeah. I just want to I just make sure we are only cheating 27% 7%. >> Oh, no, no, no, no. But the next one,
I'm sorry, is increase in needing and exceeding in math. if I switch my data points there. So, you know, two different categories if you look at data from 27 to 34% in math. So, we're looking at that and that's just MCCAST. That's just one data point. But I do
think we can talk about data, right? Because we've added those data platforms in addition to MCCAST, which is, you know, once a year um to ensure that we are targeting students needs. Our goal was to provide inclusive and diverse curriculum instruction and extracurricular practices and activities
that ensure all students have equitable access to highquality educational and personal development opportunities. We're very proud of our educational programming that reflects an inclusive membership. Um, specifically, I'm going to call out performing arts. You go to any of our performing arts concerts in
this district and it is a tremendously amazing inclusive community. Um, and a real credit to our teachers who make the students feel so welcome and safe in those in that community. Um, in addition to other extracurriculars, and we have so many um, but I just wanted to
highlight that as well. Um, and we have worked with c culturally responsive experts to revise curriculum assessments as I mentioned throughout our curriculum review process. And we're always always looking at how to identify, create, and evaluate practices to ensure all students have that access um to those
high level high quality educational opportunities. >> We also I just another shout out for uh we did an a um advanced placement AP presentation and we increased those to also help meet the needs of our high achieving students. So in conclusion, we
have set a very strong foundation. I look forward to the work ahead and all that we're going to accomplish. um under our new district improvement plan. I'm beyond grateful for the countless hours dedicated these last five years. Thank you to our educators. Thank you to the school committee for your support. Thank
you to the superintendent, our administrators, educators, school community for all the support and I just wanted to um we're looking forward to moving forward together. So, thank you. >> Lots of good stuff. >> Lots of good stuff.
>> John, I do have a question. So, of of maybe some of the goals that you weren't able to meet or weren't able to fully meet from this point and or or goals that you're excited to continue to build on. Um,
and and this is really more of a forward-looking question, not not a backward question. So, what goal do you want to continue to strive to meet and and what's one that you did meet but you want to build?
>> Yeah. >> Um, in addition to our curriculum work, um, which I feel we're in a really great place, I want to continue look at our instructional practices, um, and how we're engaging all learners. And we know our students come with different interests and different backgrounds and different learning styles. And we
definitely want to continue. So, we've been talking as a team of also we've spent so much talk time talking about curriculum. Now, let's focus a little bit more on the instruction, how that's being actually taught in the classrooms. Um, but what's great is we have our professional learning communities. We have the structure to have those
conversations and data helps us know if we're meeting. >> Thank you. >> Building on what Henry was saying, it's more of a statement or an observation as opposed to a question. Now um recently uh we
talked about district being recognized for um being one of the few districts in the state to really improve their attendance um chronic absence uh chronic absences and um I think those are important data points as well and I'd
love to hear more about in addition to uh what the data is showing in our assessments also especially with our high students are it's improved attendance making an impact, key systems of support, um all of those pieces and
can we how do we >> measure that? >> Yeah. Yeah. And I think I think those points are are salient points to to continue to explore because I think everything that Julia was just talking about the MTSS, the sports, the social multiple learning is all important. We're seeing the growth of students.
We're seeing students be more comfortable in in what they're being asked of. We're setting expectations and then helping students achieve those expectations. And I think globally um the communication and the collaboration that we're having amongst and between um teachers and schools and educators and
horizontal line vertical but also um the the support from the school committee um the allowance superintendent and the team to kind of help um with the operation of the district to make sure all those things are in place um are all really important. you have to look at that and so the clear communication
collaboration um across the board is going to is going to impact all those areas and I think when you look at product absentism it's not just one thing like what did you do well today you know it's all those things and um you know really have those conversations sometimes it's hard conversations with parents like hey what
can we do to help you to get your kids to school like I know you know we're struggling because of xyz let's let's implement some strategies let's talk about the other we find in social emotional learning is is something that's really impactful for our students, but we're are struggling in a
in a black world ways. And you know, I think the more we embed um and the more we continue to evaluate and look at the data points, you can ignore those things with products and even though we expect that to achieve higher rates for sure.
I'm really interested to see, and I guess this is 10 years off, but the the impact of of the Wayfinder program on someone who started it in first grade or kindergarten and then what what it looks like, how it's different in 12th grade
for someone who who didn't have that continuous instruction. >> That longitudinal data is is important. It's also a little difficult sometimes difficult to follow and and part of the impediment right now is and Joy's touched on several times when she's talked about is you know at the
elementary level and stuff and there's there's some buy in fairly quickly and you know we're kind of still pulling a little bit at the upper level and but once we get it kind of ingrained into what we do is it it's not an add-on like wayfinder is not an add-on social emotional learning is not an add-on it's
it's how we it's resources supports for how we educate students it's all part we do. So I I I agree with you. I think 10 years from now, oh yeah, like you'll see I think you'll see a clear D mark a shift between when we had wayfinder and when we did that we fight back and
>> we'll hear some feedback from kids of like some of the activities we'll ask them when they just started these like exit tickets so they could like shade in the stars they liked it and like the less active we're getting feedback right student voice and um like one of them was so cute was like oh I had so much fun in class right like to like the
class flew by it was so fun what they don't like fun what we say is they were engaged they were actually engaged. They were talking to their peers. They were talking to the teacher. And like they're them having fun means that they're going to keep buying into this and and and coming back to school. We just we want
our kids to have fun, but that means that they would engage. So that's really cool. So we're getting feedback. Some lessons we are finding really resonate with the students, some don't. And that's why we're in here, too. And we know that we're going to continue to improve um looking at that K12 side.
That'd be cool though, right? >> Thank you. Thank you for putting that presentation together. We're really looking forward, but I think it's important that they look that achieve. >> I think I mean recognizing the hard work staff did all those five years. It's
it's not throwing, you know, just because of creating new district, but it's not thrown that can maybe out back or what can we do from that student plan for success to to grow up and >> thank you. >> Okay. So, that brings us to the budget
transfers um which are detailed in a memo from Mike that's in the packet for tonight's meeting that you wanted me just highlight. Um, you know, budget transfers are something that's sometimes we'll do every meeting. Um, I think this
year was just a little [clears throat] out of the ordinary, not ordinary. Uh, in my opinion, I think that you usually don't transfer more than 1% of your budget between lines. You know, for in our case, $490,000 would be 1%. Uh, this is an extraordinary year. We froze the budget
early. Uh, we knew that we needed to prepay tuitions next year in order to make our budget work. And uh if you recall, we prepaid 1.1 million last year at the end of the at this time last year for this year's budget, which meant that because we budgeted everything that we
knew that we had for out of district tuitions that we if our budget came in exactly where where it was projected and it never does in special education. That's not a of a a it's not something anybody can control. It's it's out of you know, it's very out of control. Not
out of control, but it's very outside of our control, right? Um, so had it been a perfect world, we would still need to transfer $400,000 because we would have been short that amount of money. We're asking to transfer just under $800,000 uh between salary lines, about uh
$488,000 in salary lines, 69,000 in uh contracting services lines, 101,000 in supply lines, and 73,000 in professional expenses and professional development lines. Um, and
in the memo kind of goes into some examples of what the kind what types of lines these are and why we had surpluses in them. And I go into those, but you all have the memo. That would be my recommendation is that we transfer $731,000 um
in uh those those categories I just mentioned in the amounts that I mentioned in order to allow us to repay the $1.5 million distributions for next closure. There any questions in the committee before we sort of walk through the
motions? >> It all made sense to me. Yeah, I think generally like good planning, there's obviously like unforeseen things, but we needed that. Um, so makes sense. >> All right. Um, so we're going to do this
in a series of motions for each line. So I'm looking for a motion to move 480 to transfer $488,000 from the district salary lines to the out of district tuition lines. So move
>> second motion seconded by Melissa. Any discussion on this? So we can go to a vote on the motion to move $488,000 from the district salary line. All in
favor? Motion carries 5 to zero. Okay. Next, I'm looking for a motion to move $69,000 from the district contracted services lines to the out of district tuition lines. >> Any discussions?
vote on the motion to transfer $69,000 from the district contracted services class. All in favor? Motion carries five to zero. Next, I'm looking for a motion to transfer $11,000 from the district supply line to the out
of district tuition lines. >> Second sent by Melissa. Any discussion? Okay. So, we are ready to vote on a motion to move $101,000 from the district supply. All in favor? Motion carries as well.
>> All right. So, finally, we'll wait for a motion to transfer $73,000 from the district professional expenses all >> second. You want to be here for a second? >> Second by ending discussion.
>> Okay. motion expense. >> Thank you. Okay. Can we amend the motion to be a motion to transfer $73,000 from the district professional expenses lines to the out of district tuition lines?
I I'll make that amended motion. Amended the motion. I do. >> Any discussion? Okay. The amended motion to transfer $73,000 from the district professional expenses
lines to the out of district line. All in favor? Motion carries five to zero. So next um on the agenda is the high school auditorium naming. John, can you take us? Yes. >> Um so thank you. Uh several months ago
um this came before the committee around looking to name the auditorium after Gregory Dana who served more than 150 years um in Marblehead public schools and the performing arts. And what we asked was like what would that look like? Sign looked like how big is it? How's it you know it's going to cost?
who's going to fund it. So, um Ashley Steington, she she shared it. They put it in your folder, but um it's a it's a plaque that looks very similar to the uh the last one that we did for the uh sign. So, it says the Gregory Dane Auditorium dedicated in recognition for
more than 50 years of Austin services to Marblehead Performing Arts. There's two options that both say the same thing. It's just set up a little bit differently. The sign is 18 by 24, 18 in by 24. So roughly 2 ft by 2 ft or less. Um rectangular. It's total in bronze. Um
and the cost is uh looks like it's $2910 for the cost. Shipping's $150.99. Installation is $285. And uh actually let me know that they were about $800 away from this. So at least about $800 away from that total. They they think there was an issue. So I
said, "Well, it has to come back in front of the committee just to finalize that approval." Um so with the committee's um discussion and approval tonight I'll give her a go ahead and then um know when that's going to when that's going to transpire I'll let the committee know and kind of just haveation but looks like we're going to
do that um as soon as they can get it off pay for signed they'll be able to pay for all the component in here >> correct >> I liked option A >> option A for me too >> I don't know if they were asking
>> [laughter] >> down. [clears throat] >> Um, any discussion around the decision to use the >> No, we got a lot of really wonderful notes about >> universally. Yeah. >> Enus.
>> I don't really have a a comment on the decision. It's a great move. At the time we were talking about revising our policy or creating a policy around naming. >> Did did we approve that? >> No. So the policy still exists in the
form that it did before um there was talk about bringing a draft policy before the or revision of the policy before the policy subcommittee that didn't get done this year. Um I think that it is something that should be a priority in my opinion for the policy
subcommittee next year. Um I expressed my discomfort trying to change this policy when we have pending for things. >> Um but it is something that really take a look at. >> I know John has some ideas um I have
some ideas on that we can consider. >> Great. Thank you. Well, I'll make a motion to approve uh well, we're approving the purchase of >> the name. So, I'll make a motion to
approve the naming of the fairway data. >> I'll second motion and a second. Any further discussion? Okay. So, we can go to a vote on the motion to name the high school auditorium for date. All in favor?
Motion carries 5 to zero. >> So, keep this posted on. >> Yeah. Process. >> Okay. >> All right. Next is a request to declare our items as us. Um, it's I believe all
outdated high school science textbooks. Memo that was in tonight's packet. >> Pass back over to Miss Julia. she's going to share that with her. >> I have something to pull to add to this. Um, so as I mentioned, we have our new science curricula. Um, but Dave Valinoski, he's our teacher leader for
the science department here at the high school. Um, he had a student, she's super interested in science and um, her name is Victoriao. She actually asked to do her senior project with him and to work on this project. So, because of our amazing Vikas in our senior, he's now graduated.
Um she did a very thorough in inventory um and with all of the incredible new curricula um uncovered just really outdated um material we do not employ in our classrooms anymore. Um so we were just um she also helped me um she
reached out to charter schools and both Marblehead and Salem uh and they did not accept our donation our offer to potentially donate. [clears throat] Um so we also did that before graduating. So, um, really cool that this was a student led project. Um, I've
previously come before the committee. We knew, um, pretty early on what our K6, K8 materials that we were, but the high school was very complex because of all the different classes in the course levels. So, uh, thank you to Vika and, um, and I just wanted to, um, ask if we
could please, um, declare surplus and then we would, um, look to dispose of these as well if, if that's the Thank you. Um, are there any questions about this? So, I think we're going to do this in two steps. The first would be a motion
to declare Marblehead High School science curriculum materials detailed in Juliet's memo as surplus property because they are outdated, no longer aligned with current curriculum standards or otherwise no longer needed for instructional purposes. So
>> second assessment by Henry. Any discussion to a vote? All in favor? Motion carries. Five to zero. So then next I would be looking for a motion the administration be authorized dispose of these surplus
science materials. >> Second. Any discussion? Go to a vote. All in favor? Harry's f. Thank you. >> Okay. So, next on our agenda are
executive session minutes from October 17, 2024, November 20th, 2024, November 24th, 2024, January 6th, 2025, and January 15, 2025. On May 21st, 2026,
the school committee met in executive session in order to review those those meeting minutes and determined the executive session purposes cited for those sessions still apply. The school committee will be releasing the executive session minutes from October 17, 2024, November 20, 2024, and January
15, 2025 subject to any lawful redactions. The school committee will continue to withhold the executive session minutes from November 24, 2024 and January 6th, 2025 because disclosure would defeat the lawful purpose of the executive session and because of
attorney client privilege. >> And then next on the agenda is a report on the June 2026 MOAS with the Marblehead Education Association. In the fall of 2025, the MEA petitioned the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations to represent the
district's occupational therapists, physical therapists, board certified behavioral analysts, physical therapist assistants, occupational therapist assistants, and certified nurse assistants. The school committee and the MEA have reached an agreement to add the
OT's, PTS, and DCBAs to unit A and to add the PTAs, OTAAS, and CNAs to the instructional assistant unit. Memoranda of agreement have been approved by the school committee and are included in the packet for tonight's meeting. So that regrets
that assessment, which is great. >> Excellent. Thank you for that. The work that we did on that between the union and the argument committee. I think that's um it's that's what we're getting to happen and just one more one more item that we have all buttoned up and
ready to go. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Sorry. >> We're getting close to the app before our computer dies. We'll see. Um okay, so next is item J on the agenda, which are some policy updates. The first one
is policy GB, staff conduct. Um, and the committee may remember this policy came before us in January. Um, and we sent it back to the policy subcommittee and to consider a more robust version of the policy um, that Jen had found from another district. The policy
subcommittee voted on May 28th to bring that more robust policy to the full committee for approval. Um, and so the version that's in the packet tonight includes a fair amount of detail on how the school committee expects district staff to conduct it. Um, I don't have any comments.
>> Yeah. So, so we kind of went back and forth on this because initially our staff conduct um policy was pretty, you know, pretty straightforward. And um it I agree that it need a little bit more, you know, um discussion. And so when when it was brought to the subcommittee,
uh we mirrored we mirrored uh policies from other districts that just kind of gave it a little bit more detail. So it left um some it now leaves less interpretation around certain things. What I did say to the subcommittee was that a lot of what's in the policy is
mirrored in our handbooks and our so it's I think it's all good because it's you know it can be found in multiple places. So although it's a lengthy policy and typically the policies wouldn't necessarily kind of talk about operations of how I think this is a this is one of those policies that makes
sense to you similar to our wellness policy how it outlines and how you know in kind of the processes. So um initially I was a little reluctant but you know we had some discussions make this is the way to go for life >> any questions or comments.
>> So I'm looking for a motion to approve the revisions to policy GB staff conduct >> second. We have a motion by Henry, seconded by Melissa. Any discussion?
A vote on revisions to policy GB. All in favor? Motion carries. All right. Next, we have revisions to policy JKA, timeout, seclusion, and restraint students. Um, these are MASC revisions
to our existing policy. Um there are new DESIE regulations that take effect in August regarding timeout submission and restraint and so this policy will bring the district into compliance with those >> and it also kind of informs the training that needs to be um implemented and done
for staff. Um I will say that you know there's some interpretation of this policy and the regulations we kind of need to work through a little bit more. Um, but I think overall this this is this is in line with what the regulations say we have to do. I mean, so it's it's we have to do this one. Two, I think it's great because we're
ahead of the game on having this in place. We're not trying to catch up. Um, should I feel comfortable with this policy is right exactly align with what it needs to be. >> Any questions or comments? Okay. So, is there a motion to approve
the revisions to policy JKA timeout seclusion and restraining of students? Second Melissa. Okay. So motion by Henry, seconded by Melissa. Any further discussion? Go to a vote on the
revisions to policy JA. All in favor? Motion carries. So the next one is policy KCB, community involvement in decision making. Um and this is a recommendation to descend the policy. That recommendation came from
MASC. Um the basics being that the intent of the policy is covered elsewhere in our policies. >> They do it's just like MASC does this once for a while. I say it's like you know redundancy or it's you know it's just they did that huge thing in fears
but they wiped out like eight or nine different policies because they captured. Any questions or comments? >> So is there a mobile room to rescend policy KCB community involvement in decision making? >> So
second motion by Henry, seconded by Val. Any further discussion? The motion to send policy KCV. All in favor? Motion carries 5. Um so then I would just note there are
four new policies that are on the agenda tonight for second readings. Um these were all reviewed by the policy subcommittee and voted to be brought forward. The full committee is currently in approval. So those are policy KDC community use of digital resources. KDCB
district website and social media JLCDC self- administration and self-care of medications and JICK harass and of students. Um so if there you have questions or you know proposed revisions we can discuss those tonight otherwise it'll come back to us at a subsequent
meeting or a third meeting. So just let that stand as the second meeting. Um so just just so folks that we did um you know we did have some conversations with the folks that you know um Calpin
lead nurse biotech had them kind of also review um things make sure that they were in so when we get to if there are any minor tweaks that I'll be coming
>> um and there are also a number of other policy revisions that will be coming before for the committee that were sort of too robust to put in the consent agenda and it felt like it was going to make for hazing experience for Anarie. So
[laughter] um we will address those you know maybe in bits and pieces as we move forward. >> One thing before you jump off the policies um having been a superintendent for decade now I can say with unequivocally that um the policy
subcommittee under Kate's um supervision and Jen's work um did an enormous enormous amount of work this year. Um it's gen the work that was done is generally a two to three year process to be honest with you. I've seen is kind of it takes a long time to go through the
the uh policy. So I just want to recognize that the work that was done like kind of behind the scenes is was enormous. Um there was some good conversations there was some robust conversations past conversations but I think realistically what we've done I'm
speaking French but most mostly you know most of the policies um I think that need to be rebound >> by the end of today this the full committee will have voted on over 100. that that's that's that's unheard of. That's like unheard of. So, you know, we be doing the in peace now. You don't really notice it, but I was like,
here's the 72 thing. But it it's good. I mean, it's it's good that you you stayed with it and you and Jen really worked through. Um, so I just want to recognize that cuz that goes unnoticed sometimes and having done this several times and and I think, you know, working towards Sorry, I don't want to keep going. Let
me keep going for a minute. working towards getting the policy manual online that is up to date, hopefully searchable. Um, you know, there's still some work to be done on the policy manual itself. We've had conversations do we have to see post it or not where that is an option. Um, so those those
conversation things still happen, but yeah, proponents of work has been done through chance. Um, so I just want to thank you for that. >> Thank you for tolerating me every time that you lots and lots of times. Is this one that's like an ongoing we're always reviewing?
>> Yeah. So hopefully you don't build up to the backlog that we have and then it's just kind of a continual process. >> Got it. It's it's not totally that happens cuz with committees that change over I mean it just sometimes gets put off the way you really if you can keep up on it. It's so much better if you cuz
they send out those updates at least I think. So >> yeah. >> Yeah. just just >> and I'm hoping you know I have built this tracking spreadsheet and that that can be something that can kind of be handed off to you know whoever takes this on when I'm done with it and it
will just sort of keep track of where we are in terms of get brought up great >> thank you um so that brings us to subcommittee and the budgets have a quick one from the communications
subcommittee u Melissa D sent out the newsletter Um, and we got to cover a wider variety of topics this time because we didn't have to write as much about the budget and the override, although we did quick overview of what
we were asking for on the ballot. Uh, we were able to talk about the district improvement plan. And then, uh, I was happy to be able to highlight some of the achievements in our district that that, you know, you may not hear about if you don't attend school yet. So,
we're still getting good engagement with that. We're getting good feedback from people that they're saying, you know, I didn't I didn't didn't know that the middle school had this much and you know, um so um I'm still hoping that we'll be able to increase our
distribution among people who maybe don't have direct connections to the school, but that our list is slowly growing. Yeah. Well, thank you for all the work that went into those new settings were really well done. >> We had a goal subcommittee meeting
that yesterday. >> Yeah. >> Um and we sort of reviewed where we stand on a piece of the goals that our subcommittee was responsible for. And so we'll think of like retreat sort of in the ready to talk
about that. >> Anything else? >> Can I just go through a couple I did just I mean that lean on stuff but just so folks know the wellness committee um that that we're on. Um we met the final time this year. We did a lot of great work in that committee. I talked about
the plan for next year. Um so we're you know we're excited about doing that that work come back. That's great. Um similarly um the uh information committee kind of talked about that we we had final meeting. We finalized the
um the [clears throat] reporting of forms that we were reviewing or creating and reviewing um to for implementation in September. So I want to meet with the admin team to walk through those or Stephen get them in electronic form and paper form or hopefully QR code form
seven forms but at least um have access to QRS. Um so I was really happy with the way that that kind of finalized. Um those two committees looking to kind of probably meet quarterly next year um and more frequently if needed. Um and then we have the two safety committees. One's
internal that with the uh with the union and the admins and one's kind of admins and police fire charter um tower school. Um I didn't have a final meeting of the of the year and I still try to squeeze in if I can't what I generally do is I meet the summer with police fire uh SRO
kind of talk about you know if bad things happen what does that look like and then beginning of school year we'll start off on that meeting board on that as well. The internal one Sally and I talked a little bit. Um we I think we did a lot of good work there really what was um discussed in the last couple
meetings was about um you know reporting in aspen of student discipline. What does that look like? How is it recorded? Uh how do how do teachers know kind of what transpires if if kids are being disciplined in the front office or anything? Um what that looks like. Uh
then that's that's an ongoing conversation, but I would I would surmise if we're in a much better place than we were when we started that yet. Yeah. Um and then you know we'll kind of continue to have those conversations uh the admin team and you know if we need to continue that committee we certainly
will. Um you know Sally and I talk about that for the school next school year to see what that looks like. Did I miss anything? Is that pretty good rec? >> And you mentioned bus. >> Oh the bus ticket. Yeah. So the um uh conduct reports there was a big push for
when kids are misbehaving on the bus then you know how how do we track that? How do we communicate that collaborate with parents and back and forth with the school and that's actually working out really well. Um you know the principles getting bus drivers when when schools are not doing what they're supposed to be doing not being safe on the bus. So
that was about it. So thank you. Um cuz I just want to share this not all superintendent committees but >> thank you. Okay. Um do we have any correspondent
and I'm looking for a motion to return? off. [laughter] >> All right. Um, we're ready to vote in the motion to adjourn in favor. Carries 5 to zero. We are adjourned.
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