Right. Good evening. Calling the Norfolk School Committee to order. Today is Tuesday, October 21st, 2025. I'll start today's meeting as we always do by reading the mission statement. The Norfol Public Schools offers a safe, joyful, and challenging learning environment that meets the
needs of our diverse students. Through school, family, and community partnerships, we provide an education that inspires lifelong learners and cultivates caring and productive citizens of our everchanging world. Have a roll call, please. >> Peter Schwalda. Lauren Vivas, >> Grace Lock, >> Lisa Sheldon, >> Inger Dei.
>> First item on the agenda is public comment. Does anyone wish to speak tonight? No. Next is correspondence, which there is none. So, moving on to the school committee chair for the first item on the list tonight is a list of gifts for
approval. Um, listed on here, there are four of them. The first one is from the Norfol PTO of $800 to go to the chorus stipen. The next one also from the PTO, $3,000 uh going towards Camp Burgess. The next
one also from the PTO in the amount of $1,39.20 to go towards the box at the active kids morning session 2. And the next gift is from the C friends of CPAC for $1,000 and that is going toward the unified
champion school field day. So I am looking for a motion to approve the gifts as listed. >> So moved. >> Second. Further discussion. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All those in favor? I
>> All right. Next on the list is the paraprofessional negotiations update. So Madora Madora and I are the school committee members on the negotiations team. We met about 2 weeks ago and we collaboratively came up with ground rules for the discussion. The pair of
professionals presented some mostly language that they'd like us to consider. We didn't get to any financial components yet, but we're meeting tomorrow where I believe they'll probably be presenting those and we'll continue the process. So far it's been good. Do >> you have anything to add Ingred or
>> No, I think that um as you said we had a good first meeting. We um collaborated and uh identified the ground rules. Um they shared some preliminary proposals that we will have expect to have some responses to uh tomorrow and um you know we have uh future meetings scheduled for
November 5th and November 19th. Any >> questions on that? Okay, moving on to listening sessions. I just wanted to update you on this. This came in in a email I received. So, if you remember back in March, we signed on
to a resolution really encouraging the state to reook at chapter 70 funding and how state aid comes to towns because right now towns like ours who um rely very heavily on property tax and don't have a lot of commercial are struggling
and the chapter 70 funds are not enough right now for what the schools need. and towns like us are really feeling it. So, the Healey administration announced a series of public hearings to really review the statewide formula and they
put out a press release on it and said that, you know, this is how we fund schools, but we're hearing the concerns. Um, so they're going to host a bunch of listening sessions starting um at the end October 23rd in Boxford, October 30th in Worcester, November 6th in
Greenfield. There's going to be a virtual one that anyone can register to attend on November 18th and then one on November 19th in Lakeville. In addition to these um public hearings, they also encourage
people, individuals, committees, town officials, educator, anyone to write in if you have thoughts on the matter. and Ingred and Alan Cameron who's a superintendent of Rentham signed up to speak at the virtual hearing and just
wanted to throw that out there to you all. We know we've gone through tough budget cycles. We've talked about our budget. Um we know this is so important for towns like ours. If anyone had any thoughts, do we want to write something? Should we write something jointly with the select board because this really
affects our whole town, not the school. um do we want to make a statement? Do we want to just say we are in support of Ingrid's testimony? So, so many options out there. So, I just wanted to throw it out there to see if people had thoughts
on how we can best help this effort. That's a good idea to put something together. um the correct me if I'm wrong the one the thing that we utilized you know several months ago can it just kind of be reworked um easily to to submit again and say like this is what we're
kind of >> I think that these listening sessions are in response to the number of people that submitted that original um uh comments on the chapter 70 formula. >> Yeah. >> Um uh as Lisa said uh Dr. Dr. Cameron
and I have registered to provide testimony at the online um forum on November 18th. I'm happy to share the the comments and arguments that we'll be bringing forward at that with the committee. Um and if you want to um attend, you can attend. Um if you want
to again write a letter in support of the testimony, there's there's lots of options. We will have a November school committee meeting. Um but uh um we are still working on that. I have a preliminary draft, but as Lisa said, some of the real challenges that we've
had are Proposition 2 and a half is is capped at 2 and a half%. So, when you have rising educational costs that are far exceeding that, um that um towns that don't have large comm uh commercial revenue um are really facing significant
budget shortfalls that are negatively impacting our ability to maintain class sizes, our ability to maintain quality educational programming. and it's not realistic that municipal municipalities like Norfolk can bridge that gap. It needs to be a broader state um re-evaluation of school funding. So,
happy to share those comments. Alan and I are meeting uh next Wednesday to fine-tune and finalize them. I can send them out to the committee um and talk to people individually. Obviously, we we have to be conscious of open meetings, so we can't discuss them, but I can share them with you and have individual conversations if people have questions
or or feedback. um and then you can make a decision if you want to write something individually or we could discuss at the November meeting if you want to submit um something to the state as well. >> I do think it might be powerful if to see if the select board would be willing to
cosign something with us because I do think that's you know it's not just the schools it is the town and it is all of our town's people whether we utilize schools or not. So I do think that could be, you know, an extra level of
>> Yeah. >> I agree because it does I mean schools are a large part of the town operational budget. Typically around 65% of all of Norfolk's budget goes to fund education. So um and the rest is police fire. So when we have a shortfall, it impacts all community members. So, I mean the other
thing is if if um Lisa as the chair, if you want to reach out to the chair of the select board and craft a joint message, then you could bring it to both boards to sign, you know what I mean? Like that might be another avenue um uh because of the time restrictions. Um but if they're interested, um we could and I
can support that effort in crafting a joint statement that then both committees could consider signing on to. >> Do you think that would be the best way because I know you're you both are going to give the verbal testimony. Do you think that would complement it nicely? Like a letter following up um from both
select boards, school committee? >> I think so. I think I mean you could also speak if you wanted to speak that day. I just don't know how many people they're taking and how many people have signed up. Like we signed up early because we really wanted to make sure that small suburban districts were represented. Um I know there's a lot of
urban superintendents that are planning to speak, but the issues are very different. Um, so we wanted to make sure we got a a spot in that so we could talk about the issues that some of um smaller suburban districts are facing. So, um, I I don't know if there's still slots. Um,
>> right. No, I think the letter might just be >> better if you're taking care of the >> the testimony part and then we can complement it with the letter. >> Sure. >> Um, I don't know if >> encouraging community members to write in too. Um, >> just letting people know that this is an
issue we're really trying to bring attention to as best we can and >> join effort. So, >> is everyone comfortable? Maybe we craft a letter and reach out to the select board, see if they want to >> and the letter will probably just >> emphasize what you're saying. So, maybe we send it after and we can bring it to
the next >> school. I think it's great to look at. >> I think that's great. >> All right, that's awesome. That is all I have. >> All right. So um we'll move on to the next part of the agenda. So I just have some school
highlights, things that I wanted to share with the committee. There is a lot happening across the district. So I'll try to capture some some of the key highlights fairly briefly and then we have uh both of our school principles as well as our technology team presenting tonight. So some of these things you'll hear more about uh in the presentations
to follow. Um first of all, I'm excited to report that we are almost fully staffed at this time. All of our open par professional parap profofessional positions have been filled. Um we've recently onboarded uh a licensed practicing uh an LPN uh practicing nurse
to support our two um school nurses um to provide services for some students that we have. Um but we're really in good shape and that's uh that's uh exciting because last year we went through most of the year with open par vacancies. So this was uh nice to to
start the year in this position. Um we are uh implementing our new math program and that has gone very well. I think uh prior to the opening of school we did have a full day PD day with amplify um who provided some some training for our c our teachers and our support staff. Uh
it is a big transition. It is a different way of teaching math. There is as you're learning any new program there's material preparation and and getting to uh become familiar with all the online tools and and things. So there is a learning curve but I think overall our teachers are excited about
it and students are excited about it. It really pushes kids to be active problem solvers to talk about math to um think critically. It's been exciting to visit classrooms and see uh the work that students are doing. So um stay tuned but uh that is going very well. Uh we also
have unit day coming up tomorrow. Um so you probably just a reminder kids are wearing orange. Uh I have to look for orange clothing. Um, but it is a great day that really focuses on community and kindness. And our students do paired lessons. So students from sixth grade um
and and the upper grades travel to the HOD, they're paired with uh students in a lower class and they participate in a shared lesson and a kindness community activity. Um so we're looking forward to that tomorrow. Um you'll see pictures in the upcoming school newsletters. Um, we
also have the Norfol PTO and and we did talk about this last spring um has funded graciously the purchase of Museum of Science uh technology engineering kits. Um we have our tech integration uh specialist Robin Tuseri here tonight and they will be talking about and she'll be
sharing a video with you later. Um but we are rolling those out and she has begun teaching uh the first unit to our fifth grade students and the unit the fifth grade students are exploring looks at the effect of plastics on the marine environment and the ecosystem and they
engineer they uh work on a design project to engineer filters to reduce plastic waste um uh from entering the ocean. And next month she'll be starting with our first graders. Uh this will be new experience for our first graders and they are working on a unit called
engineering nightlights and they have to design nightlights um that will uh with materials and that would meet user preferences and communicate a message. So she'll share more about that. But those are also exciting opportunities for kids again to be active problem
solvers, think critically and and and hone some of those design uh skills. We had great open houses at both of our school buildings. they were very well attended. Um, Holiff Day was able to uh host a a community resource fair uh uh
con at the same time as their open house. So, we had lots of uh organizations and local groups like the Cub Scouts who had come and requested uh consideration for school partners were able to share information with parents and the community members at the open house during the resource fair. Um so
that was a big hit. We have an upcoming professional development day on November 4th. Um, last year we partnered with King Phillip and we hosted a joint PD day where staff could um, uh, participate in a wide range of workshops. We expanded that. This year we got really good feedback. People
enjoyed having a chance to work with colleagues from other districts. This year both Rentham and Planeville are participating. So we have a regional PDI offering on the November 4th and we have over 60 workshops that we'll be offering for staff. Many of our staff are hosting um, and presenting workshops that day. So we're really excited about that.
Uh a few things from the schools. Um at the each olive day, they've rolled out a new PBIS uh positive behavior incentive program. Last year, you know, kids were working on earning kindness coins. This year it is um uh what's the buzz? Be responsible, be respectful, and be of
the month. Um students can earn B stickers for showing responsible behavior. um uh whe es especially in unstructured places like recess and lunch. Um they also can be entered into a raffle to be recognized uh during uh a
monthly draw. Um over the summer we also had our custodial team um installed new playground surfacing at the day playground. We talked about that previously when our facilities director updated. It's really given a uh faceelift to that playground and made it
safer and more user friendly. Uh and in recognition for that on custod national custodians day the age of day um teachers and staff recognized our custodians that were part of that project. Our preschool students made um uh superhero capes for the custodians.
Our first grade students um made uh cards, kindergarten classrooms made pictures, and grade two wrote class poems. So they were celebrated. It was a really nice um and touching day uh for everybody involved. Freeman uh has many things going on as well. Um you probably saw in the
newsletter if you have students at Freeman that they're implementing a new peer leadership program which aligns with our district strategic plan and our goal of providing more leadership opportunities for students. They're in the process of nominating um students for fifth and sixth grade students to
serve on that PE in as part of that peer leadership group. Um students can either self-nominate, they can nominate a peer, and teachers can also nominate. Um they're developing that selection criteria and once that that council is formed, students are going to attend a full day of training for peer leadership
at Bridgewwater State. Um that's sponsored by the Mark uh center, which is the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center. Um so that is exciting and uh a great opportunity for kids. Mark also did two assemblies for our students. U they were held today. Grade
three and four participated in a workshop on friendship and conflict and grade five and six on bullying and cyber bullying basics. So we continue to work closely and partner with Mark. We also had the chance to host some student musicians from the King Phillip Regional
uh high school band that came down to demonstrate instruments for students in grades three who may be interested in participating in beginner band. Um, and then the students here, uh, as I said, Holiday Day has a new program, the B, uh, what's the buzz? Uh, Freeman is in
their second year of the Soore program, third year of the SOAR program. Um, and they met, the students met their first goal, which was 10,000 feathers uh, awarded for demonstrating those um, target behaviors. And as a reward for reaching the goal, they had twin day um,
where students could dress with a buddy or teachers could dress as twins for the day. Um, they had a lot of fun with that. And that just happened last week. And then lastly, I just want to call out uh we have a teacher at the Freeman Kennedy who uh led the unified school champion schools initiative last year.
Uh worked with the committee and we the FK was recognized for the high quality programming they offered. Again, unified uh champion schools has really replaced Special Olympics and the goal is to make all of your athletic programs more accessible and inclusive and to build those team building opportunities in
throughout your school. um FK hosted a unified school cornhole tournament in the spring um that the uh founders from unified school and our representatives came to and were just wowed by what was what was happening. So one of our teachers was asked to present at the
regional uh recent conference and we had four other teachers from um the district that attended that as well. So, in a in a nutshell, that's a snapshot of what's been going on. And as I said, you will hear uh more about each of those things as our uh principles and our tech team
present tonight. So, happy to take any questions or or we can delve into the next presentation. >> I will just say my daughter gets off the bus every day telling me whether she got a B sticker or not. She's like, "Mommy, do you want the bad news or the good news first?" And I was
like, "The bad news?" She She's like, "Well, I lost it, but I got a B sticker. Very nice every day. >> All right. So, I'm going to turn it to um Trish Kelly, our technology director, and Robin Fuser, our technology integration specialist, who are going to
share an update on the technology committee's work, our technology team's work. Welcome. Okay. Hi. Um, it's nice to see you all again. Um, the last time I was here was in June. I was updating you on the progress
that was happening with the tech steering committee. And when I wrapped that up that evening, I said I was hoping to come back in the fall to present to you um some great things happening in inte, you know, the integration with technology in the
classroom. So, I'm here tonight with my colleague Robin Tuseri. Uh Robin's been with the district for uh 20 21 years. Um she was a fifth grade teacher and I've had the good fortune of having her on my
team for the last n and a half years as the technology integration specialist. She's doing the whole district right now because we're down a technology integration specialist. So Robin is here tonight to present on what some of the students are doing in tech integration.
Um about a year and a half ago, Robin was selected from a national pool of educators to uh attend this two-day immersive workshop. It was sponsored by Dell Computers and it was hosted by the
Museum of Science in Boston. This workshop focused on centering uh integrating engineering and computer science into the classroom through that yes curriculum. The yes curriculum is youth engineering solutions and Ingred
hit on two points earlier tonight and Robin is going to show you what the third grade class did uh last year with this um new focus. Um, I want to also mention before Robin um
presents to you that um as we discuss the positive uses of technology in education, we also recognize there is a national conversation um about the overall impact of digital
health in our youth. We strongly encourage all parents here and maybe your neighbors don't send your children to this school, but bring your neighbors as well. Um, so it's for parents and guardians to attend. Consider attending a special viewing of
the movie Screen Aers for the elementary school. This is going to be brought to you by King Phillip. We partnered with King Phillip, Healthy King Phillip. Um, and Dot Pearl, our wellness director, got us a grant to have this. And the
film is a thoughtful, nonjudgmental look at navigating the complexities of children's screen time, addressing the reality of young students being constantly saturated with the deluge of information. And the film aimed to
support parents as they guide their children through the digital age. Movie is about 45 minutes and at the end of the movie we'll have a 30 minute discussion. We have a pediatrician uh a psychologist, an SRO officer and
school administrators will be doing a Q&A when that's over and that will be held on November 6th at 6:45 here at Freeman Kennedy in the cafeteria. It's for all parents and guardians in Norfor. And if you have a sister-in-law or a
friend in another town that wants to join and come in, we're more than welcome to have anybody and everyone. So without further ado, I'd like to present Robin to Siri. >> Hello everyone. Nice to be here. Um thank you Trish for sharing a little bit about our program. I want to start by
thanking the PTO. Ingred mentioned how um important they were in this whole process of bringing these units to us. Um, as soon as I came back and started talking about them, Jen Wolf got right on it with the PTO and she secured the funding for us to bring these to every
grade and we're we're rolling those out as Ingred mentioned. Um, thank you to Lisa for supporting me as I navigate the district and Kristen also were actually piloting um for the museum a unit with first grade. we started um just
yesterday with Jenny Foster's class and it's a unit on sound where the students will be designing um drums. So that's been that'll be really fun and thank you for that. Um and of course Trish for always supporting whatever whatever we have on the docket. So thank you. Um I
have um some friends that wanted to be here but they're probably getting ready for bed. So I'm going to have I'm going to show you some um eager engineers here. Uh last year the third grade students, all third grade students participated in the magnetic dog door
unit and to say that they soared excelled would be an understatement. Um to hear them speak about the work that they were doing to use the vocabulary was just unbelievable. And it was all um inspired by the YES curricula. So here's
a little bit about it. Um it's standards aligned. It's meant to supplement. So, it's not a replacement for our curriculum, but it's a it's a wonderful supplement and it takes them through the process and um as they go from grade to grade, the process is the same, the vocabulary is the same. It just changes
um a little bit in terms of the expectations for students. It's a little bit more about the standards alignment and to ask what are the steps that students are following. Whenever you hear about engineering, there's usually some sort of um format that it's it's the same type of steps.
There just might be different wording. So, my students here, our students are going to tell you. >> Hi, I'm Emma. >> And I'm Finn. >> We were in third grade last year, which means we got to do an awesome magnetic dog door project. Our challenge was to
design a special door for a dog shelter. The door had to be easy for a dog to open, but strong enough to keep out sneaky rats. We used magnets to help us make it work. We use engineering design to help the
dogs. They that means we use six steps. Hi, I'm the steps for the engineering design process are ask, imagine, plan, create, test, improve. In the next step, my clips and my friends and I will tell
you exactly what we did for each step. Hi, I'm Gabby. The project we want to share with you is the magnetic dog doors. The part was figuring out the problem. The biggest rule was the dog had the the door had to be easy for the
dog to push open, but it also had to close really tight to keep any rats out. It was like solving two puzzles at once. >> Hi, I'm Grayson. The next step was imagine. We brainstormed lots of ways the door could open and close. How could we make it easy for a big dog but hard
for something small like a wrap? We drew different ideas for the for the flaps and where to put the magnets in to make the doors stay closed. We had our own ideas, but we had to imagine with our partner on final design. Hi, I'm Charlie. After we brainstormed
lots of ideas, the plan was when we picked the best one. We had to agree exactly where to put the magnets to keep the rats out. We needed the flap in the door frame to attract each other so the door would snap closed.
We also knew that we had to have the magnets repel so the dog could open a door. planning to help this measure and get ready to build. >> Hi, I'm Grayson. Finally, it was time to
create. We made the door. We made the We made the door frame and cut the flaps. It was tricky to line up the magnets perfectly because even if they were even a little off bit off, the door wouldn't close right. We had to make the We had
to make sure the magnets on the flap and the frame were facing the right way to attract each other. We We used what we learned from magnets to make the design just right. After we built our model doors, we had
to test them. We We had to make sure the dogs could open and close the doors again and again. We figured out we needed the magnets to repel. We attached a magnet on the dog's collar and a magnet with the same pole
on the door frame. We also had to have we also had to keep the wraps out by keeping the door closed. That meant the magnet on the flap had to strongly drag the magnet on the door frame. If the pool wasn't strong enough, a
little raft could probably nudge it open. So, we knew we needed a strong force of attraction. The last step was to improve. Once we saw what went wrong in the test, we fixed it. My team accidentally put two magnets in backwards
and then they would repel each other, pushing the door away from the frame. You flipped one of them so they would attract and pull the door shut to keep those wraps out. We learned that being an an engineer means always making your
design better and fixing your mistakes. Thank you for taking the time to learn about our project. Have a great day. So, as you can see, the students explained it much better than I could. I want to thank Natalie, Grayson, Emma, Elelliana, Grayson, Charlie, Finn, and
also Mrs. McFaten, who's always willing to collaborate. Um, all of the teachers have been so wonderful, especially with a new ELA curriculum, a new math curriculum, being willing to invite me in and collaborate with them. So, thank you. And if you have anyone have any questions?
>> Oh, that was so fun. That's so great. >> It's so fun. >> Thank you for sharing that. >> My pleasure. >> Thank you. Awesome. Thank you. >> Thank you to to Rob, both Robin and Trish. And I think, you know, we like to have our different department heads be able to come and share some of the
things that are happening in the department. Um, as you saw from Robin Robin's presentation, these supplemental unit units extend our science curriculum and really give kids the opportunity to actively engage, problem solve. They're also building skills around collaborating with other peers, um,
evaluating and determining, um, you know, which design is going to be the best fit, testing and refining. So those are are skills that apply across uh across subjects and it's if you had a chance to see I don't know if any of you had third graders last year but the level of conversation as you walked
around to the different groups and asked them about their design they could all tell you well we tried this and it didn't work and this so we made this modification but their content understanding of magnets and forces really was uh rich because they were actively engaged in in building and
constructing their own knowledge and understanding. So, we are very grateful to Robin and to Trish and the other two members of the tech team who are not here tonight who are our unsung heroes behind the scenes. Raphael Sardy and Mark Peasy um do a tremendous job of uh
supporting the technology across the district in all of our classrooms. As you know, much of our curriculum relies on technology. Um we have a large user environment and a very very thin team. So, thank you uh for all of your work and and helping us to make sure our students are successful. So, thanks for
coming tonight. >> Thank you. >> Great. >> All right. Next, we have the uh Kristen Kaffoon, our new principal at the Hol Day School. As you know, um under the Mass uh legislature, all of our schools
have a sightbased school council. Uh I mean, I'm sorry, they do have a sitebased school council, but they have school councils that are comprised of community members and staff that are responsible for developing a school improvement plan. the school impair improvement plans that they have developed were presented to the school
committee and voted on um and approved and they are here tonight to provide you with an update of where they are in terms of the progress towards the goals that were established. Um and so Kristen is up first. Great. Thank you. Um that's a really tough act to follow. Um but uh thank you for welcoming me here to
present. Um I'm Kristen Don. I'm the principal over at the Holiff Day School. Um, and so as Ingred kind of set me up, uh, our agenda is to just review our school improvement plan, um, that was developed back in 2023. Um, we're ending it this year. Um, and to give you a
little bit of our progress update on our goals and action steps. So, we do have four focus areas or four goals in our strategic I mean in our school improvement plan. They are aligned with the district strategic goals. Um, our first one is around social emotional
learning. Uh second is environmental responsibility. That's our being green goal. Um our curriculum implementation that's has an ELA focus. Um as our third goal and our fourth is um community partnerships and uh around communication. So I'm just going to kind
of dive in. Um it's just an overview of of the the goal and our action steps. So as I said, our goal one was focused on integrating social emotional learning throughout the school day. We had four action steps um in that strategic I mean in that you know school improvement
plan. One was our paired lessons and our bullying prevention units and our kindness celebrations. As um Dr. Alardi highlighted um our paired lessons are taking place tomorrow where kindergarten is going to be um collaborating with grade five uh first grade with grade
four and our second graders with the sixth graders. Um it's lessons they'll come co-e together around kindness um friendship and anti-bullying. Um so that's happening that's been happening for the years of this plan but it's also being completed for this year
tomorrow. Um our second action step was around a parent night focused for social emotional learning and curriculum. And throughout kind of the process of this plan, that that action step was was changed a little bit last year um with the previous principal and that was
changed to having parent coffee hours with the principal around social emotional um items and the so four parent meetings were completed um throughout the school year last year. One was on school anxiety and family separation. Um with the little ones that
can be really tough in the mornings sometimes. Um the the second parent coffee hour was around um transportation and the safety of transportation coming to school. Uh the third one was on parent teacher conferences and questions you could ask um your your teachers
about social emotional learning um in the classroom. And the fourth one um was revolved around the summer slide and how to engage students in social emotional growth um during the summer months. Um so those took place last year. Um, also
part of that plan was doing learning walks and reflection discussions. We used an equity walkthrough tool that we used. The equity walkthrough tool really focused on relationships um rigor uh effort um you know when we as as an
admin team um last year and as you know lead teacher team we focused on student engagement ensuring student voice um as well as relationship building within the classroom. And then our all school meetings, our monthly all school meetings that were
involved in our kindness initiative last year and our friend and and our friendship initiative uh or kindness two years ago and our friendship initiative last year. Um this year as Dr. Alardi said we we've rolled out what's the buzz be respectful be responsible. I love that kids are going home talking about it. Um it it's been a successful roll
out. Um we didn't start as a whole group meeting. uh we started in the CLA at the classroom level with uh teachers and students at an individual level and and then our school monthly meetings will continue. Um they won't necessarily be involved in just what's the buzz but
more of um some of those um important events that are taking place in November. We're going to have our um gratitude assembly um where we talk about friendship and what we're thankful for. So those assemblies will continue throughout the year as well. Um, our goal too was our being green
goal. Um, it was really just trying to integrate how we can be more green and environmentally um, responsible at HOD. Um, this uh, was near and dear to a previous principle and it was put into the plan years ago and we we've held on
to it. Um, it's a go we had our go green lessons that was incorporated in our action um, plan. Those were lessons that were around Earth Week and ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle and the the students all did a different type of lesson depending on the grade level. Um
during Earth Week, um we also have our Earth Day activities, which are our schoolwide assemblies. Um Johnny the K comes every year. He's been coming to HOD's, a singer that talks about how to um keep uh our environmentally responsible and respectful. Um he wears
really cool hats and is very engaging for the kiddos. Um and that usually takes place right around Earth Day. Um and we'll also be bringing back our um Earth Day assembly in Kundai Forest this year. Um which was voted on for staff to return. Um so we're going to continue that initiative as in tradition as well.
And then our third action step for this goal in particular was just expanding different access points as being green in the building. Um right now we're working on um visuals and bulletin boards for the cafeteria for so students can have more visuals on how to reuse and redu um recycle in the cafeteria. We
also last year sent home our kind of family packet of um over April vacation of ways to kind of get out into the into nature and and celebrate ways to be um green at home with um with their families as well.
Um our goal three is around uh the ELA implementation and our roll out of the new curriculum. We're in year two. Um and in those action steps were really to revolved around um professional development and training for the staff. Um again some of the walkthroughs um
having staff really collaborate with each other. um do some buddy lessons where an older grade will join a younger grade and support each other in co-planning um and in staff and peer observations um so giving giving staff so those are also in progress um and
then our data meetings and MTSS process um to help support tier 1 and tier 2 students in the classroom um we're continuing those are ongoing as well um around you know our MTSS process our our NEST process um data meetings and curriculum meetings to ensure that we
are meeting kids and ensuring growth um in all the all of our young learners. And then our goal four was around community um and communication. Um this really was was a drive through our school council and um to to add this in.
Um and so our action steps were around communication and making sure that expectations were um around communication were defined and and clarified for staff um and making sure that they were consistent across grade levels. um our monthly newsletter. So, the principal newsletters that go out um
the first of the first Wednesday of the month and then the uh Wednesday's where its goes out the second Wednesday of the month. That's new that was new to HOD when this plan was developed. Um and then I send out a family buzz for the HOD staff members weekly um on Sunday night. So, um that communication was
also added. Um and then our outreach, our community uh resource fair that we've added, it's our second year we had at open house and it's been a huge success. Uh we've had um CPAC and PTO have tables. Uh Cub Scouts, um soccer
programs, basketball programs, um police and fire. Uh, our specialists also set up tables um during open house to show some of our new curriculum that um where our enrolling our our math and literacy specialists were there as well as our PE and wellness teachers set up a table um
in our music and art. So that you know those aren't always highlighted at open house. So, it was really nice to see them right in the middle of our community fair um at open house and it's been um that's been a success and a tradition we can we hope to continue at HOD. Um and you know, so I just wanted
to thank you for welcoming me today. I am happy to to answer any questions you have about um the the plan or or anything that's taking place at HOD. Uh we're excited our school committee I mean our school council is super excited to get started on a new plan. um are we've already been discussing it and
brainstorming some ideas of ways we can align to the district goals. >> Any questions for Thank you. And as Kristen said um under the state statutes, the the school council is required to develop this plan um and present it to the school committee for
approval. But in the interim in the life cycle of this plan, there were three separate principles that that were carrying it out. So this is a plan that's been inherited by Kristen. It was it was actually developed and written by Miss Balffor. Um so each principal has
made it their own but it just so you know there's a new new members on the school council and new uh administrators that have been leading those initiatives. So it looked a little different each year. >> Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Thanks Kristen.
[Music] And then next we have uh Lisa Alam Hickeyi who will present an update on the Freeman Kennedy school improvement plan. And again, both of these plans were three-year plans. We are in the last year of implementation. So later this spring, probably in June, um the principles will be coming to present a
new proposed uh school improvement plan with their new councils. So >> turn it to you, Lisa. [Music] >> Hello. >> Thanks for having me.
So, I'm just going to do an overview of um the FK school improvement plan. Um first, I'd like to just thank um all the school council members. There have been various different school council members through the years. So, I think it's always important that we have teacher
reps, we have parent reps, and we have school community reps. So um Samantha Moore is a grade 5 teacher and um Missia Fance were on the 23 24 committee, Mrs. Sarah Nichols a parent and Matthew Buick was another parent on that school um
school council. Um in 242 I had Carrie Mweenius bed teacher, Tom Cavender, a grade 5 teacher, Janet Turner, community member, Megan Graham a parent, and Taes Hickman a parent. and this year um and they literally just started. So um
Marissa Harmon um Amy Kimo, Megan Graham, um a parent and Janet Turner um a community member. So I just wanted to make sure to recognize them because they are part of you know the school council. Um the purpose is to share the progress
on the Freeman Kenny school goals. Um I'm going to highlight basically how our district initiatives align with the school improvement goals. Um, and the overarching goals that we really focused on here is curriculum, diversity, equity, inclusion, and social emotional learning and strengthening
relationships. So, um, the first overarching goal was curriculum um, and that during the um, 23 to 26 school years, we would support the adoption and implementation of a highquality research-based literacy
curriculum. Um so our first action step was to support the implementation of our new ELA program. I can say that we have successfully implemented basically our new ELA curriculum and in grades three, four and five that is into literacy and
in grades I mean no in 3, four and five it's in um to literacy in grade six it's into reading. I think one of the big things basically is is that we had ELA committee to kind of support that. We also had great literacy coaches and our
literacy coaches really focused basically on our first year of implementation in regards to actually modeling um and co-eing different parts of this ELA curriculum. Specifically, they're um broken down into modules. And
within the modules, there's key components that um our coaches actually went in and modeled for their teachers. So some of those were vocabulary routines, foundational skills which actually align with phenemic awareness, grammar and book
clubs. So I can say that we are highly in progress. We are in year two of that and um everyone's doing a really great job with that. Um one of the other things that we really wanted to do is is to make sure basically our literacy and math blocks were aligned basically with
new curriculum. So when you're looking at adoption of new curriculum, you want to make sure that you know your time on learning is matching all the components of each of the programs. So we were able to actually make changes into um this past year's schedule um which is which
is in progress for ELA. Um right now we're gathering data based on a new implementation of Amplify of you know what I'm guessing right now from what I'm hearing that we're going to need some more time basically in the math. Um but that is all working well. Um one of
the other things that happened even prior to us adopting our new ELA program was um we really wanted to provide some rich professional development you know what around the science of reading approach. Um and we did that prior to the adoption of our literacy program. Um
and there was a lot of professional development um that happened in that year. So teachers really have a solid background you know of the science of reading. So we are in good shape there. This is another curriculum area that continues. Um one of the things um that
was really big um a few years ago was um the new dyslexia law that went into place and and I think that was in 2023. And as a school district we had to adopt a universal screener to make sure that we were you know what measuring students
reading. you know what from kindergarten all the way through grade 6. So we adopted a new tool um which is called um Aadians which I'm sure a lot of you are very familiar with. We do a lot of communication about that, but there was a lot of training that had to happen
behind the scenes, you know, with our staff in order to learn how to administer a tool, interpret the data. And on top of that, you're having data that you really want to make sure basically now students um that need support in certain areas that we've
identified is progress monitoring. So you have to actually we did a lot of work that actually connects to what Kristen was talking about too about MTSS and tiered supports intervention because when you're providing that tiered support intervention that tier two has
to happen in the classroom with the classroom teacher but on top of that you have to make sure that you're progress monitoring what the students are doing because you want to make sure you know what that the intervention that you're providing with the students are making progress on um as well and there's multiple different compon components
when you're looking at that acadian screening tool that you're looking at fluency, you're looking at accuracy, are you looking at a total reading composite score, things of that nature. So, um we are doing super well with basically that
Aadians tool like we are in year three and I was just looking at kind of the progress that our students have made but what our teachers have been able to do now um in regards to that. So, I think that's awesome. And there was a lot of support also between our reading coaches
actually supporting that. Um, like um Kristen talked about, you know, we actually did have a MTSS committee, so a multi-tered systems of support um who really actually looked at, you know, what providing resources for teachers
and where teachers could go, you know, what if they needed to provide tiered supports um interventions in any content area. So it could be social emotional learning, it could be math, it could be reading. Um a a teacher website was provided on the
teacher start page that is full of resources in regards to teachers being able to access that. So that has been completed. Um there was an overview of the nest process underneath the tier of MTSS which is basically our Norfolk educational support team and that's
comprised of um all staff members. You know what? It's a team of staff members that meet um if there is a concern about a student, right? So, if there's a concern about a student and a student's not making any progress, right? And they are using progress monitoring tools,
they might do a referral to the Nest team and they that team is made up of sped teachers, regular ed teachers, our SEAL staff, um and administrators. And they actually go to that team to be able to say, "This is what I've done this
far. I'm looking for this team to provide me some more help on what other interventions I might try. What they did on that team, which I thought was really actually great, was they put basically a number of hours that they had a teacher
had to actually provide intervention for. You know what? So, usually you say 6 to 8 weeks. With that 6 to 8 weeks, they're now saying, "I want seven or eight hours of intervention and I want you to come back with the data. You know what?" And then that team's going to evaluate that. And then if that child's
making progress because of the tools and interventions that they put in place, then that's great. If they're not, then that team might come back together and say, you know what, what other things can we do? Or maybe it's a special education referral at that point in time. So, um, they did a great job with
that. Um, moving on to the next goal, diversity, equity, and inclusion and social emotional learning. um our SEAL team, our social emotional learning program continues to actually grow and be enhanced. I mean, one of our
overarching goals was to have a strong second, we have a curriculum, second step, which really um hits the six castles of competencies, which is self-awareness, self-management, decision-m, relationship skills, and social emotional awareness. Um and those
are skills that carry into everyday life. And what we talk about is these are skills you also need basically when you're adult, right? An everyday job, you're going to use all these different types of skills. So through our second step lessons and then on top of that, our unity day and our kindness weeks,
we're um constantly um improving, you know, what and hopefully um giving students tools they need in their toolbox to be able to actually use all these schools tools. Um there was an antibbias tool created um and it is used
now when we're adopting new curriculum as well as you know teachers can use this resource if they're planning a lesson or if they're actually looking for resources. Um this is a tool that we introduced probably three years ago as well. So that is completed it in place.
Um we also have done a great job I feel in regards to um increasing you know at school community awareness basically and respect for our diverse population right so we have disability awareness month
month that is now in um March um we have implemented I care with fidelity I would say and that's in conjunction with CPAC um parents are trained to come in to read books books are identified for each grade level questions are developed. CPAC um for the last two years has
sponsored the thousand mile club. Um and that's Jennifer Ford and um her son Gavin who has spobifida um that they actually go and they the our grade five students and our second grade students actually participate in a
lesson, right? And what is it like in the life of of GA Gavin who basically is in a wheelchair, you know, what is his life like? So, um, that's been great. Um, Mr. Tarzik and I, um, a couple summers
ago, um, took a course basically on restorative, um, justice and community circles. Um, we were able to actually teach that in some courses basically here within our school. And last year, um, I presented over at KP, you know,
how, um, we use, um, restorative community justice circles. And really it's to work on problem solving skills. You know what and our goal is is you know what to teach kids basically you know what when there's a conflict or something happens you know how do we come together and talk about those
things. So um we have been doing that a lot and um Adam and I definitely see basically you know a lot of progress around that area as well. Continue on diversity, equity, inclusion, social emotional learning.
Um I'll talk a little bit and a lot of you probably know a lot about is um after COVID we saw a huge increase um of behavior basically in within the schools and we knew that we needed to make shifts you know what um in regards
to um our PBIS our positive behavior support system um at Freeman Kennedy. So a committee was formed um one summer and we came up with basically our overarching um schoolwide expectations of so our safety, ownership, acceptance
and respect. Um and underneath that goal, one of the things that we really wanted to do was is we wanted to have common expectations basically um within our school to support you know what all students feeling safe um and valued and
especially our teachers as well. So that was completed. Um underneath the overarching sore um expectations is is that we have expectations outlined in every single every single environment. So
classroom, restroom, buses, hallways, um wherever in our environment there are there are schoolwide expectations. um that committee created actually lessons and lesson plans that are specifically taught that are actually aligned with
our um secondstep curriculum. There's visual posters, you know, what throughout our school about our school, you know, expectations. Um let's see. We also created um a positive
um reinforcement for students. You know, what in regards to our feathers, right? So, we really wanted to make sure that students were being recognized individually for actually modeling, you know, what anything within stores. And we wanted to create a schoolwide incentive to make sure basically kids
knew like, you know what, hey, how am I going to get to the next level to to have something be recognized as a school? So, we did that successfully. We are in year three um of uh our implementation. We have school spirit
days individually. Weekly re rewards are done on Fridays here. Um we've done a lot of schoolwide ones as well throughout the school year whether it be basketball minute to win it. And we're constantly tweaking and trying to get feedback from students too through
surveys. Um so there's lots of tweaks happening. I think one of the things that um as a school that we are super proud of and I'm just going to click on this very so we Adam and I started tracking basically office referrals
basically but when this started so if you can see here in 2022 2023 we had 286 office referrals the next year we had clarify an office
referral means that a a behavioral issue has happened within the classroom that the teacher has attempted to address and and is now referring the student to the office. Just to >> clarify. Yeah. >> Um and then um in 23 24 we had 181 and
then um just last year it went down to 131. So we are continuing to see a decline based on you know what we have implemented and some of this you know what sometimes I think it's important to know you know what sometimes some of these are
multiple students so that kind sometimes inflates basically your data too so it's important to recognize that too um as well but it's all going really great um part of this goal was to create basic
basically log logical consequences basically that teachers were involved in too. So what is a logical consequence in the classroom? You know what is something the teacher is doing as a logical consequence versus you know at the admin level what do we think is
basically a logical consequence. Um Adam and I worked with an outside consultant you know what too to kind of run by things with him too. So that was really helpful. Um and let's see
we did a lot of surveys that helped us as well. And one of the other things that um last year that we did and this well the past two years but we just got our data back actually over one year is is that we started participating in the vocal survey that DESIE administers
which is on views of climate and learning and that is administered at the grade four level and five level after their MCCAST and they really measure basically engagement, safety and environment and the data really shows basically that our students actually
feel safe at school, that they feel safe in their environment, and they're engaged um as well. And we received great data last year. I did present it to the admin team as well in regards to that. Um let's see, this is fostering strong
relationships between the Northfor public schools, town departments, and local businesses. One of the great things that Rob McFadden has done a great job with is is actually partnering with, you know what, our schoolwide Northfor um garden and they have
basically, you know what, um learned a lot about gardening today. They actually harvested out in the back. We got to see them harvesting. They made they made their own salads. Um so, a lot of great things happening there. Um
let's see. We Ingred talked a lot about our peer leadership program and our Falcons to Falcons. So, we're very excited about that. So, that's go ongoing. Um, schoolwide community events. We have partnered with PTO for um Heritage Night. We have partnered
with um CPAC for I Care. Um, and we've done a really great job with Unified Champions as well. Um, and the other great thing that we did was, um, I sent surveys out probably for the last two to three years, actually trying to see if there's any parents
that would be interested in actually running courses for, um, our AIM. Um, and we have had parent volunteers teaching robotics, um, teaching art classes, and they are very, um, excited, um, to be here.
And that's it in a nutshell. So, I just want to, you know, thank our teachers, you know, because they're the people that um work really hard behind the scenes to make a lot of these goals actually happen, too. So, I want just wanted to say because there was a lot of
excitement in my house, just the fact that you have been involving the kids in surveys and asking them what they think is so has been so impactful. It was like, mom, they care what I think, >> right? And like I think that's just so empowering for for little ones. So, thank you for that. Yeah, we we asked
them at the beginning of the school year basically what they wanted their spirit days to be. So, Adam and I like, let's see, like we've started it, but what do they want? So, you know what? And then that's how we kind of form. So, it's it's good feedback for us, too. You know, having them have a voice is really
what we want them to be able to do, too. >> So, it's awesome. >> Thanks. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Thanks, everybody. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Lisa. So, as I think you see from the presentations, both of our um principles and schools are on track to
complete their goals within the timeline um and are beginning the process of looking at data and establishing with their school councils um proposed new goals to bring to you at the end of the school year. But, um incredible accomplishments. I think the PBIS incentive programs at both buildings
that they've talked about, the Falcons Falcons and the Soore program here and the um what was kindness uh coins into the uh what's the buzz have really helped focus on those positive uh peer relationships, positive behaviors, ways
to be good citizens and good members of the school and the community uh and are having a definite impact. So the work that happens at HOD is rolling up to the Freeman Kennedy and as you saw and I did talk about this when we presented the equity report. We've seen a dramatic decrease in the number of behavioral
incidents as well as a closing of the equity gaps. When we presented this before, we talked about um we were seeing more of our students that have special educational needs represented in the discipline data. Those gaps are starting to close. So these programs are having the desired impact and have had
um a lot of effort and and thought uh behind them in planning and as uh both Lisa and Kristen said they rely on the teachers um who are implementing these in the classroom. So great job uh to both of you. Thank you. All right. Then last on the agenda for
me tonight is fundraiser approvals. So you have in your packet um requested fundraisers for both the Freeman Kennedy, the Hol of Day School as well as the PTO. Uh we did approve a new fundraiser approval form last year and
so there is one new fundraiser that the PTO is requesting. The other fundraisers are um annual fundraisers that have run previously. Uh so uh I leave it to you again in Lisa for the FK only you have the season of giving Santa Foundation
November December jump rope for heart in May 2026 and Art Sonia which is the program that archives visually all of students artwork and parents are able to purchase um uh images or stationary or cards or things with student artwork um
at each of day. the fall food drive for the Norfolk Pantry, uh, Coats for Kids and the Hatton Mitten collection which happens in November, December. Uh, they do another food drive uh, for Norfolk to gather for the food pantry in February and March. Read Across America is um,
they do a basket raffle that is run uh, primarily through the Norfolk Teachers Association in March and then they do a rally for cancer opening day at Fenway Park, the Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy fund in Dana Farber in April and Jump Rope for Heart in May. Um, I've been here for 14 years. I think all of these fundraisers have
happened since then. So these these are well ingrained in the community and the culture. Um and then you also see a separate uh proposal for for PTO and highlighted is fun pasta which is a new fundraiser. Um and they did complete the
uh form and you'll see the new fundraiser form attached on the back for fun pasta. Uh this is a uh sales of different shaped pasta. You can see the flyer that would go out similar to what they used to do with Yankee Candle and some of the other cookie dough
fundraisers. Um, but all of the information that was requested on the form is completed. Um, you can see the profit margin. You can see um uh um again how they plan to pursue this by distributing flyers um and parents will
be purchasing the goods uh if they so choose. It does not involve student participation during school hours. Um uh any other questions? They gave some additional information. So looking for discussion, but they are
looking for motion to approve the proposed fundraisers. >> Cool. So moved. >> A second. Any questions on any of these? [Music]
Just so everybody knows too, the the one fundraiser that we do to kind of that's through PTO that helps um our physics grade promotion committee ended up um candle fundraiser which was actually a local person that we were actually
supporting and they're no longer um doing it anymore. So, we had to find something else and we are trying the pasta. So, >> or hoping to try the pasta with the school. Yes. >> But it does, thank you for pointing that
out. It is replacing a a similar type of fundraiser that has been run in the past. >> 90% of my children's diet, I think, is pasta. So, >> shape pastas now. So, diversify their diet, >> different shapes. in favor. It's right
to your house. >> Cool. >> Any further discussion on this? >> All those in favor? >> I I for us tonight. >> Moving on to committee and liaison reports
policy. >> Yes. So, we met tonight and it was our first meeting as a newly formed policy subcommittee. Um in short, we had two agenda items which was to review potential policy changes for
um well actually the first policy is a net new policy that we don't have in existence but we currently follow by basic standards in terms of food and nutrition food and nutrition standards and meal modifications and parental
requests for meal modifications for students who have special dietary needs or restrictions. And so this policy um will basically put in writing what we already do as a school district and we discussed it initially and will
be coming to the committee in a in the next meeting hopefully to uh review discuss. The second item is um potential modifications to public comment uh simply to allow a little bit more
space and time for um members of the community, parents, um those who wish to speak at during the public comment period at the start of our school committee meetings. Um, so we're looking at potentially um increasing time slightly to allow for
just a little more space for people to express their uh views and and um made them known make them known to uh the school committee. And so that there again we'll be bringing uh some proposals to you in
the next uh in in an upcoming meeting likely not the next but the one after. And those were the two main items that we discussed. Anything else, Lisa or Ingred? No, >> I think I covered it. >> Okay.
>> I think we also looked at um you know, potential future policies that we in prioritized what we would talk about at the next meeting. So, >> yep. Y >> budget. >> Um the last time we met was in September.
>> Um like middle of September. Um and trying to refresh my memory exactly what we has been jump. >> Yeah. It it was about um the additional funding um from Yep. Yep. >> and and from chapter 70. >> Yeah. So um the the uh state increased
the per pupil allocation for chapter 70 funding funding after the budget cycle was complete. Um so that happened over the summer. So, the town did receive some additional state funding for chapter 70 um over the summer and we met to talk about um how we could potentially leverage that. At the same
time, the town lost other sources of municipal funding. One of the most notable is prison mitigation, which they had planned on in order to support the school budget request. Um however they uh in balancing their budget, there is a
surplus of about $40,000 um that we have requested be restored at the fall town meeting to the special education stabilization fund which we had to pretty much decimate um in order to fund rising costs this year. Um, so the town
is going to look at making that transfer uh and request at town meeting um to put some money back into that fund so that it remains functional and viable and would allow the district to absorb unexpected costs going forward. >> That's good news which we don't have a
lot of in budgets up. >> When does that process kick off again for budget? >> Yeah, that's what >> November meeting will start thinking about next year. All right. Um, building committee. Um, no new updates. Just fingers are
crossed. >> Still waiting. >> Yeah. Waiting to hear from masking. Not from mask. From MSBA. >> Did they give you a time frame when you should know? >> They said, uh, no. November, early December we should have a decision. So >> hopefully soon we will hear something.
>> Thank Phillip. Um, so the KP school committee meeting for um, October, there's usually two, one every other week. They only had one this month. Um, it was rescheduled just due to the needs of the agenda. Um, and it unfortunately
fell at the same time as my work board meeting in PaloAlto, so I missed it. And then liaison reports. I'll start with the CPAC because it's listed. I had a call with Kayla Costa and let me just pull up my
notes from that. So, their big trunk or treat fundraiser is at HOD this Friday. It's one of the greatest events. Uh my kids went to it every year. They were at HOD. Um it's such a they do such a great job with it. They're looking forward to
it. The weather looks fantastic. So, fingers crossed. >> So, that is coming up. They're also putting on a free parent art therapy workshop on November 20th and they'll be sending out information on that. They're
looking forward to start the I care reading program which we heard about in the January February time frame and they are also putting together a free workshop rethinking social development in a post-pandemic world which will be
in February. Um, and then as we also heard, Falcons to Falcons is also in full swing and doing really well. And again, they are always looking for volunteers in any capacity. You don't have to serve on the board. They look they will appreciate if someone wants to
volunteer for an event or for an hour. So they're a great organization and um are always happy when people reach out to them. So that is CPAC. And then Dora is PTO I believe.
>> Yes. Yes. And then any other leaison updates? Um just in regards to the Norol Community League. Um believe it or not, the holidays are coming up really soon. Um they have a save the date for their annual artisan winter craft festival,
which is a a town favorite for November 29th, um in the morning, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Um so it's going to be here before everybody knows it. Exciting, right? Anyone else? Moving through. Moving to the new items.
We have school partnership applications from the Lions and NCTV and from the CPAC. These are all renewals. So, I'm not going to read you the full um the full um document on what we need to
think about. I will just reiterate that the criteria is partnership, a two-way benefit to both parties, working together or separately towards accomplishing a shared goal. The organization's school partner proposal establishes a direct educational benefit to the Norfol public schools and the
organization's purpose is aligned with the Norfol public schools mission. So the first one is from the Lions, a community-based organization and a 5013C charity. And some of the things they do
in conjunction or for the Northfor public schools are Camp Borndale scholarship. They donate a free family pass to the Norfick public library to the library for children to visit the children's museum in Boston. They sponsor the haunted train ride. They provide presents to several Norfick
families in financial need um through the Santa Foundation. They put on the Santa Day parade. They provide four college scholarships to Norfick students who demonstrate a strong commitment to community service. Um they have funded scholarships for Norfick students to
participate in summer programs. They donate money in food each year to help struggling families in Norfolk during challenging time through the food pantry. They sponsor the Norfolk Community Day. They put on the Young Performers variety showcasing Norfolk
students talents such as singing, musical instruments, and creative arts. They sponsor quotes for kids um and a v variety of other activities. So they we would be looking for a motion to approve the Lions renewal
application. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any further discussion? >> All those in favor? >> I ITV here with us tonight. >> Um they provide training and filming and
editing for all ages. The staff covers various school events at the Freeman Kennedy School and the HL of Day Schools, making a publicly a available and archive for posterity. This allows family members worldwide to share in these moments. And they plan to cover events requested by HOD and Freeman
Kennedy and record all school committee meetings. They also have a variety of different classes that are held several times a month and are open to all ages. Looking for a motion to approve the renewal application for NCT. >> So moved. >> Second. Further discussion. All those in
favor? >> I >> I thank you. >> And then the next one is from the CPAC, also a renewal application. I talked a lot about some of the things the CPAC did. They are a great resource for families um with children with special
needs. They put on the trunk or treat. They put on workshops throughout the year. They hold monthly CPAC meetings. They're a resource to families who have questions. They put on parent workshops. They put on I care. Um they really work
hard to educate all community members. So they would be looking for a motion to approve their renewal application. >> So moved. >> Second. Further discussion? All those in favor? >> I
[Applause] [Music] the minutes from the September 9th meeting. Looking for a motion to approve those as written. >> So move second. >> Session. All those in favor?
>> I >> I. >> And our next school committee meeting is Tuesday, November 4th. I believe there's no school that day. That's what I was going to suggest that we look at changing that because we ended up pushing the October meeting back and so
kind of a quick turnaround for um so I would suggest we move that meeting back. Um just to be aware there is no school on the 11th uh and then the 12th is town meeting of November. So we may want to
look at the 18th. Well, that's the same as the virtual listening session. >> Yeah, but that's during the day. >> No, it's 4 to 7. >> Hold on. I just got to I signed up to speak to >> I have to double check. Um,
>> yeah, but it would be still before 4 to 7 would be it's virtual, so it would be before we would >> Well, okay. Do we have to discuss the letter that we're going to submit for that before? >> I think the letter is an ongoing >> process. doesn't need to be done by that
date. >> Gotcha. It doesn't need to be sent. I can send you your comments and if you have individual questions or feedback, you can reach out to me before. >> I know we had to discuss. >> Oh, that's a good point. Thank you. >> So, we do have our business manager
scheduled to present a budget update and I think um we had talked about I think the November 18th was a possibility for for Mariam as well. >> Yes. Yes. The 10th or the 18th. Yep. >> Yep. And I think the 10th we might have a conflict with parent leaders. >> Does that work for people the 18th?
>> Yeah. >> Yes. >> I think so. >> We could do Monday. We could do Monday the 10th, too. If that >> I can do either. >> Yeah, I can do either. >> Should we? >> She she could do the 10th or the 18th. So, >> wherever you guys want.
Wait, the 10th. >> The 10th is a Monday, but I don't know if >> we off Tuesday. >> And then Wednesday is town meeting. >> Yeah. Then maybe the 18th. >> That work. >> Okay. >> So, we landed on what date?
>> 18th. >> The 18th. >> The 18th. Okay. >> And we'll reach out to Madora and make sure that works for her. >> Great. Hey, looking for a motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. >> You have three. Okay. Well, I'll second it together.
>> One, two, three. Second. >> All those in favor? >> I >> I thanks everyone.