e e en all right good evening everyone like to call the March thir March 17 2025 meeting of the pum school committee to order for please join me in the pledge I pledge allegiance to of the
United States of America and to the Republic for it stands under God indivisible and justice for all next up we'd like to read Our Land acknowledgement M Jackson can you do that
sure we acknowledge that we are meeting meeting on the unseated ancestral homeland of the indigenous people people whose uring presence we humbly recognize we honor the Wampanoag people as the original stewards and the
hering Pon wag as a surviving tribe indigenous to these lands in our commitment to lifelong learning we acknowledge historical and justices to the native people of this land and vow to educate ourselves our community and our students on the first peoples and
the hardships they've endured we offer this as a small but essential step towards building a culture of respect truth and accountability thank you Mr Jackson uh next next up we have a need for an executive uh s um Mr Morgan or Mr
Jackson if we could get a motion for that I'd like to make a motion to go into executive uh session for collective bargaining reasons second all right will a roll call vote Miss Bryant yes M Morgan yes M
Jackson yes Dr senson yes and I vote Yes we are now executive session we will um plan to return around 7 o'clock for General s thanks e e e e
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e e e e e e e e all right good evening everybody we are back in a regular session um before we
begin tonight's uh meeting I want to take a moment to honor The Life and Legacy of um Marg claw and Burgess who passed away um on March 14th after a short illness a lot of us had the you know pleasure of serving alongside with her up until about four years ago Margie
was a dedicated member of the pet school committee for 23 years from May of 1998 to May of 2021 during her time with the committee she was a passionate advocate for the children of our community and a strong supporter of the Visual and Performing Arts her love for children was evident in her in her own family as
well as to welcoming home of to dozens of foreign exchange students over the years a lifelong resident of Plymouth margi dedicated herself to her community in many ways she served under a variety of town committees including the capital outlay committee the permanent School building committee and the energy
committee among others she was a pillar of support to many local organizations including the Plymouth rotary and the Spire Center and she worked tirelessly to strengthen the connections between the Plymouth and its sister City sichi kahama Japan Margie's contribution to our schools her dedication to public service
and her warm and caring Spirit have left an indelible mark on Plymouth we are grateful for all she gave to our town and to the generations of students whose lives she touched let us now observe a moment of silence and honor of Margie Burgess and the lasting impact she made on our community thank you
all right our first uh matter of business we' like to welcome our um high school students from uh from China let's come up I'm not going to try to pronounce your name so you can tell
me ladies and gentlemen good good evening I'm Grace the teacher of the 2025 Exchange program I'm Andrea I'm Boris Boris today I'm honored to share with you a charming and profoundly meaningful project the sangi number one
high school International cor Center Exchange program this program is like a friendship Bridge spaning the Pacific Ocean continuously uh infusing Vitality into the growth of students on both sides and writing touching chapters
first I would like to briefly introduce our School sangi number one high school since the establishment in 1995 it has raisen to prominence in Shan C Province educational landscape ranking among the top two schools over the past decade we have
produced numerous top scores in the college entrance examination today we have over 3,000 energetic students with about 500 pursuing International curricula like AP and a level courses aiming for top univers ities worldwide
over 1,900 of our alumni have successfully entered pres teers High universities including Harvard Stanford it Pennsylvania as well as Oxford and Cambridge showcasing our school remarkable achievements and
Leadership our school has always valued International Education as a Cornerstone for cultivating future talents we began our exchange journey in 1998 with Brook high school and deepen our cooperation with California sers high school in
2006 in 2019 thanks to Dr master and Mr G we connected with Plymouth North and South high schools in 2025 I and seven students traveled thousands of miles to pouth
these students were warmly welcomed by four enthuastic hosted families to join pouth South High SCH School while the other five integrated into pouth North High School The Exchange is more than just academic it's a deep culture
integration a wonderful journey of personal growth and a warm continuation of sincere friendships at the start the students explored Plymouth principal posing warmly welcomed them to Plymouth nor North High School and Dr Master vividly
narrated The profound history of Plymouth helping us touching the important coordinates of this land in the long river of American History at Plymouth South High School the encounter with the Ambassador students sounded
like the Prelude their uh the Prelude to their uh exchange journey in each school students had access to a wide range of selective courses such as oceanography US History world literature um health
studies environment Al science and physical education in Mr Str Snider's oceanography class they were like explorers on covering the mysterious veale of the ocean beyond the academics students had
access to a wide range of elective courses sorry Beyond academics students immerse themselves in American culture they tried aess throwing cheered at a basketball game both shared dinners with the host families visited major
universities campuses and enjoyed a performance had town this entire experience has allowed students to immerse themselves in American culture this week the excitement continues the students will visit the
gate Capital with the state representative Michelle Badger and Kathy latra have lunched at pouth South High School and enjoying thanks day giving dinner at playus
pit the program's impact is profound take take Co who participated in the program last year he used to be introverted and shine his host mother Dr BOS encouraged him by the end of the
program he confidently shared his growth back in China he became cheerful and confident actively greeted others maintained the top grades helped his classmates with difficult problems and led a successful physic project his
parents credited The Exchange program for his transformation then there's Tom who participated in 2019 once introverted and had little interest in activities and sports he is now admitted to PHD
programs at top universities like MIT and Princeton his exchange experience ignited his passion for quantum physics leading to significant research result Tom's independent research began
in his school year of high uh and lasted for two years his seci paper was published in the journal physical review a published by the American physical society and he was the sole first author in addition he has maintained a deep
friendship with the nav family who hosted him yeah the Friendship formed inure students revisit host families sometimes with friends Chinese families also traveled to the US to reunite a student
who participated in the program in 2020 now at Harvard in the atically helped to arrange a campus tour for this year's participants this this program not only transforms individual students but also builds a communication bridge between
young people from both countries the students have participated in the program have have already demonstrated great future potential Helen is shining at Harvard Camilia and shuhan are pursuing their dreams at New York University and many other students have
been admitted to top universities at the same time the pro this program also provides opportunity for Mutual visits last summer will set foot in China and now is studying abroad majoring in international studies this
year Dr battos and Allison received an invitation perhaps soon they will embark on their journey to China this program provides Youth Opportunity to form a positive Bond and connection between the two
countries it can be said that the 2025 cohort of the sang number one high school International core Center Exchange program is experiencing an extraordinary journey in life the opportunity will provide students with experiences that deepen culture
exchanges and will sketch a beautiful blueprint for our future finally I'd like to thank everyone who has contributed to this program thank you Dr master and Mr ghoul it is your unring efforts that have propelled the project
forward thank you to the principles for arranging the reception and ensuring the students can study with peace of mind thank you teacher Allison for your attentive Care thank you to Dr banon and Mrs kale for their great help thank you
to every warm hosted family for showing love making the students feel at home and a special thank you to Dr batos for your warm welcome and help with this presentation thank you all for listening I hope we can continue support and
expand this significant project together and on that note I'd like to invite two of my students to share their experiences with you uh let's listen to their stories good evening everyone I'm Andrea I exchange students from China it's
truly an honor to be here today and she receive my incense and gains for my study and life in the United States when I first arrived in the United States The aref Familiar environment and the culture differences filled me with anxiety and apprehension however the warms and
friendliness of American people quickly dispel the Gloom in my heart my host family Dr beos treat me like her own child she not only took medic care of me in daily life taking me to coffees for breakfast to arcades and exess three for
fine and driving me to and from school every day without fail but also spent her lure time chatting with me me patiently sharing with me the American culture and history at school my teachers and classmates were extremely
kind they took the initiative to communicate with me inviting me to have meals with them and helped me adapt to this entirely new learning environment this warm gestures enabled me to integrate into the local life
swiftly this exchange experience has been incredibly incredibly rewarding in terms of of languages I have come a long way from struggling to express myself to now being able to discuss various topics confidently and fluently with American
friends this breckel has not only made my academic life much smer but also greatly boosted my self-confidence as an only child in my family I really had to handle household choices in China where my parents
usually took care of everything however in the United States I have the opportunity to help with cooking to my surprise my Fred R is a big hit to my whole family this experience marked my transform transformation from a kitchen
novice to a capable shift who can prepare some to dinners I have learned how to select ingredients and Bas and cook them based on their characteristics and now and I no longer worry about not having meals to Ming while living abroad
before coming to the United States my goal is to attend a university in Australia however through this ex Exchange program I had the chance to interact more with American teachers and students who are all very kind and
friendly this experience also give me a deeper understanding of the American educational education system as a result I'm now considering American University that align with my major this experience has filled me with confidence for my
future studies and life most importantly this experience has told me that dispite our different nationalities languages and culture kindness and Care are Universal the worms and that across the Pacific Ocean has told me to be grateful
and to carish what I have these people around me who are not related to me by Blood have been so willing to accept and embrace me in the future I hope to help help others just as they have helped me I look forward to the day when most
American students Vis the China if given the chance I I would be more than happy to host them and let them experience Chinese culture in depth thank [Applause]
you hello everyone I'm Boris today with uh heartful of the gratitudes and excitement I want share I want to share with you my own forgettable experience in the United
States when I first arrived in the United States a sense of um un familiarity over meled me like a T wave the host family that will call me was a
t typical American household with a special house and a beautiful garden however where we Beil he only Haden my sense on of the on
is the language braier and the VIS is difficult in cultural custom made me um cous in everything I did during MS defecting the
facing food whose name I couldn't even prounce I feel so awkward that I could only cover my discomfort with with a smell clam isly uh inting their actions
but as a time went on a wonderful transformation talk Place almost imperceptibly the host the parents were patient and friendly they will speak slowly when talking to me and often took the
inactiv to ask about my preference they invite in they invite me to cook wisdom to go to the arcade and have fun at 11 at night in the Lively and joyful um aome
fair I gradually open up when I practice Pate in preparing dinner and successfully make cookies the joy of the truly feeling like a part of the family with the
inable of inscribable all of this was thanks to their goodness after arriving in the United States I had arranged my life on my own with
plenty of free time uh I had many opportunities to explore uh independently I no longer just focus on completing School subjects but began to
study my longer my longstanding interest in the polymer materials chemistry and try more sports for example my host family bring me to go to try the pickle ball I really
like it it is and never tried that in China it's a fun Sports the one month exchange life passed in a twistling of an ey but this experience deeply showed made the impact
and the growth that come from cultural convs I transform it from a tate visitor into a confident member of the family
able to enjoy different life skill with is this ex Exchange program not only uh improve my language skill but also me to
respect and embrace different cultures I become more disciplined and gain a deeper understanding of my interest and the future crina
Direction all the change statement from this Exchange program I am deeply grateful to my host family and to my teachers classmates in the United States who gave me warmth and
patience when I was most une easy make me feel at home in the foreign country if one day they come to the China um I am very welcome
to I will I'm very welcome you um to my house and I will show so many Chinese culture yeah this experience is an incredibly picious memory in my life it
has opened a brand new window to the world for me the filling me with with anti ption for the future and strong desire to explore more of the
unknown W wonders okay that's all thank you so [Applause] much all right thank you for that Boris
I'm sure as hard as it was your English is about a thousand times better than probably 99% of the people Chinese here so do not feel bad at all um thank you for everyone that's making this uh exchange possible I'm ask just m shave or Dr B B Les and the host families like
Miss Jackson her family and everybody else that's making this possible it's wonderful that you know our students get to um you know welcome these students and have them be part of our schools for for the month so thank you everybody's making it possible I know if you want to share anything Miss Jackson you've been
close to this yeah I'm I want to say that it's been a wonderful experience uh having Boris in our home has been wonderful he's a he's a great person and we've had a lot of fun with him and we'll be sad to see him go at the end of the week we we've already talked to him about coming to have noodles and
Shan uh we watched a show together and uh also interacting with all the other students has been wonderful interacting with Grace and learning so much about a different culture and being fully integrated is a really life-changing experience for us
too awesome Dr sson I I just want to share with the speakers not too many years ago Dr meses and myself went to China and we addressed High School administrators many of them in Shanghai and then we visited many schools and I'm
going to say to you what you just said to us everybody was friendly hospitable helpful and we can't wait to go back anyone else have anything no thank thank you again wonderful look yeah
please thanks for thanks mices all right all right give folks a minute to clear out all right next up we have our uh comments from the public I believe we have one person wanting to speak tonight just state your name and address
and sure good evening John at 11 Chapel Hill Drive in Plymouth um I'm here to share an experience that I had with the uh pcis uh school um very positive experience in a
very unfortunate situation that occurred um I have a uh son who's graduating this year he's a student at the harbor viiew Academy if you guys ever need a uh parent advocate for that program please reach out I'll be glad to do that it's been an amazing program and I can't say
enough about it thank you for anybody that's involved with that making that program work um but I'm here tonight because my daughter she's a seventh grader at pcis um she's 12 years old I've been in public safety for 28 years and part of
my job uh where I work is putting together a program for uh terrorism situations active Shooters uh things like that and we've I feel we've been very successful with what we've done um and unfortunately my
daughter had the uh opportunity to be involved in a situation that occurred down in Dallas Texas on March 1st um there's nothing worse than getting a phone call from your daughter that when she calls you up and tells you that
there's a shooter 10t from where she is and she's been whisked away and and they're in a lockdown situation um the Fright that she had the begging for her dad to be there was very difficult to experience um
we and when I say we I mean everybody on this committee every administrator behind me has a passion for keeping our students and children safe and there's a mindset that it won't happen here uh it won't happen else it
happens in small communities um it didn't happen here it happened many states away and thankfully she was in a situation where they they were able to take her keep her safe put
her put her in a place where uh she couldn't be harmed she was separated from her mother for a period of time um it's giving me a new uh perspective in the mission that I certainly have and and what you guys are accomplishing and
once again I'd like to offer my services as a parent and a community advocate um if there's anything that I can do to help you guys with what you're doing um as a parent I'd like to offer that and please don't hesitate to REO [Music]
um we conduct fire drills um fire drills are normal for students we haven't had a child die in a fire since the 1960s um unfortunately we now have to do different kind of drills and I hope that the kids kids are very resilient that's one of the biggest things that I took
away from this 10 10 people got hurt in the situation down in Dallas Texas a couple weeks ago so uh by the grace of God it was nothing serious broken bones and I know I know that's serious but considering what it could have been that's minor when you have thousands and
thousands of people that were running from a from a building it's a small price to pay for what it could have been um my point tonight is that we're teaching the kids uh and staff for that matter uh life safety lessons that may
not be used here in plmouth I pray that they never are pray that they never used any place but in our situation they were and I'd like to thank you guys for putting forth the effort to to help keep my daughter safe um in that
situation um when we got home Cadence's mom reached out to pcis and the response that she got from the from the staff at pcis was nothing short
of aaz amazing um and on behalf of Cadence's mom and myself we would just like to extend a sincere thank you to everybody that was involved um from the very start they they talked to Cadence explaining to her some of the
feelings that she um experience and basically let her know that people were there for her if she need it um and although I didn't have the contact Cadence's mom did um there were
three people that specifically that her mom asked me to reach out and and mention and thank and the first one was Lori Rush the school psychologist um Courtney salvucci the adjustment counselor and Michelle Maguire the Gemini
counselor um so from a dad from somebody that's on your side of of the room uh um just thank you all for for the great response thank you thank you thank you
for sharing that thank you sir thank you all right all right next up we have our updates from our uh student High School Representatives first up we have uh Shay BRZ and then we have uh Quinn haes from uh Plymouth North you want to go first Shay yeah of course hi my name is
Shaylen BRZ I'm a junior at Plymouth South high school so over the weekend we had a very exciting few track meets for a winter track team we had a few individuals and two teams go to the New Balance Nationals meet and we also have one team going to Nike Nationals in New
York City and on Thursday night we had a freshman in the 400 who ran his best time and we also had another freshman Alex Las Nikki who competed in long jump and placed eighth place there and on Friday night we had the boy Sprint medley team team of Zack hog
Elliot Michelin Matt Gregory and Anthony Lions ran great and missed the school record by 37 seconds very close and we had the weekend was finished off with the girls shuttle relay team of Zoe wja Lily Morse and Victoria Kavanaugh who
finished 23rd at Nationals next we have a congratulations to our sophomore Charlie Walker who went to the National History Day regionals in Foxboro this weekend and we also had a senior Madigan chub compete in the state finals for poetry out loud for the second year in a
row congratulations to her pshs was the host to the children's business fair this week um the pshs DECA members chose kids to give Awards to I give out the most sustainable product award I love that experience I think that the kids are super
cute um pshs was fortunate to host the Secretary of Education Patrick tutweiller on Thursday our culinary students planned and served a fantastic meal to our guests Dr toiler then visited our Panther TV who was recently given a grant of $200,000 thank you so
much and we had six musicians from Plymouth South participate in the senior excuse if this is not how you say it SBA Southeastern Massachusetts school of band Masters Association and these students selected competed with other
schools and they I believe they did a very good job it is March Madness spirit week at our school and student council has a number of activities today was St Patrick's Day obviously and tomorrow is Scrabble day where the kids wear a letter on their shirt and then you find your friends and make
words recently our AC capella group South Avenue performed at the woman OD um annual luncheon in the Pine Hills and the guests loved their performance our boys basketball team had an exciting run in the division 2 Mia state tournament they upset the fifth seed Whitman Hansen with a big win and
then lost in a one-point game in the elite a this was the furthest they've ever made it so that was super exciting for us and this week spring Sports began with wonderful weather as we all know we hit the track today next week our sophomores
will participate in the great 10 Ela mcast and we've begun our scheduling for the next school year and our um program of studies has been sent out to all the parents at this point thank you so much thank you sh any questions for all
right good all right um thank you for North updates uh for seniors seniors can celebrate a 2025 graduate with a lawn sign class of 2025 lawn signs can be ordered for $18 the deadline is March 28th please return uh check or money
order along for um along with the form to miss Walcott in Room 331 for student council student council is hosting their annual spring craft fair on Saturday March 29th from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. admission is free but donations are welcome
we will have over 100 handmade crafters and vendors selling their handmade items there will also be door prizes Raffles food a food truck and a photo opportunity with the Easter Bunny um plyo student council participated in uh participated and competed in the Massachusetts
Association of student council's annual conference student council received a gold Council of Excellence this year and our unified basketball bananza fundraiser was awarded one of the top 10 student council projects in Massachusetts P North's uh student council was also
awarded the prize from Special Olympics for raising the highest amount of money for Unified sports and Special Olympics of any School in Massachusetts at the conference and Emma laier was recognized Statewide as a 2025 unsung hero it was an incredible year for student council
and the recognation um they earned is a testament to the work they do in our building to make it a better place for all kids for NHS the National Honor soci Society is asking for help with March Madness with the March Madness food drive the food drive will be accepting
non-p perishable food items until the end of March for ply North players congratulations to the cast crew and all involved in the amazing Plymouth Public Schools spring drama production of Hades toown teen Edition thank you for dedicating so much of your time to
making the show a huge success with two soldout shows I went to the show it was very it was probably the best show I've ever seen in North um for math team our outstanding math team has uh been competing all over South Eastern Massachusetts this year they currently
sit in first place uh in the Southeastern Massachusetts mathematics League congratulations to all math team members as well as their coach uh Miss neelon mcast testing while mcast has been eliminated as a requirement to graduate from high school mcast is still
being administrated to all students as usual all grade 10 students are scheduled to take uh Ela mcast on Tuesday March 25th and Wednesday March 26th at the end of the school day testing is important to both uh both for you and your child to understand their
progress and learning growth as compared to others and to themselves in uh in Prior years as well as uh for staff to understand how better or better how we are performing as a school for students and compareed to
others um for guidance uh attention seniors if you filled out a local scholarship by application please be advised that this Friday March 21st is the deadline to submit your Sai student aid index from your fasta as well as
your College financial aid packets to um to miss Kendall and guidance um and Yeah March 21st at 2m is the deadline lastly um Athletics today is the first day of spring Sports practices students must be registered in
family ID prior to the state please email a Varsity head coach or the athletic uh director Mr Dominguez with any questions thank you all right thank you for those great updates all right all right next up we have our out of town overnight and field
trip request we've got a request from Plymouth North from Mr uh Fabian for Seville Spain for 2026 all right good evening everyone thank you so much for having me um what a great night to hear about intern National travel we got kind of a double
header here so um this is Mrs gogin she is also one of part of the planning process for the trip and she and I have also gotten a travel together so we're excited to present um briefly I know it feels not briefly with this big packet um but these are just a lot of the details for a follow-up trip that we
would like to take in 2026 over April Break um a little further north than our last trip in 2024 to Seville so we're a little closer to Central Spain um but the program we'd like like to Endeavor upon is very similar to our trip from a year and a half ago last April and that
was an amazing experience it's less of an exchange program like we heard tonight about from uh the Chinese program but it's more of an educational based we're partnering with a the Carlos Kino Institute which offers uh dormatory stays dormatory food um educational
experience a certificate of completion of with linguistic Mastery demonstrated um and we really love this model and we took in the past year the same contact that's helped us helped us plan the trip has been working with me in the planning stages and um we were just be really
thrilled to take our students on this trip and uh we would love to field any questions and answer any way that we can make this um more clear so we can make it the best trip possible all right questions so we have quiet crowd today
Miss BR sorry so thank you for sharing the additional information here um I do see that this trip is being offered from grades 9 to 12 if I recognize correctly how are you going to maintain Equity to
ensure that you know you may have two ninth graders etc for the experience and in addition to that um for students who cannot necessarily afford toward the trip I know that
there's um some suggestions by which um funds would be raised but is there any outside of this that you could possibly share that would help support um an equitable experience absolutely yeah so I'll Feld the grade question first and
then the finances one second um so as far as our marketing for the trip would go currently we we're planning to keep it at the 10th to 12th grade level for school year 2025 26 it's not set in stone but we just feel that we have more time in person to
recruit if we can keep it within our building um so in my vision um we would have students who would be rising 10th graders 11th graders and 12th graders enrolled and that in a way helps us to give them a better leg up in their Spanish cours workk because they will
have be involved at least with that third year of language one in the Middle School two in the high school so in a perfect world that's where we would begin we'd go from 10th 11th and 12th with the practicalities of running the trip with the number of students we do need to have the 15 um for that sort of
safe threshold number to make sure that the uh chapons are approved but um we do have the opportunity to recruit at the pcis level um in order to sort of Garner that so in in like I mentioned in a perfect world we are kind of keeping those nonf freshmen along on the trip
but we also have that opportunity we've got lots of room left in the year to recruit down um at pcis to present the opportunity um as far as the fundraising goes I did like like you mentioned from this kind of top top cover sheet we did put some fundraising opportunities we've used in
the past that have been successful both um from our language program from the foreign language Honor Society as well as um from some of the class fundraising so Mrs gogin is a great resource she's the sophomore class adviser part of that team um so we do have a wealth of
experiential knowledge there in that regard um as far as additional concrete programs we don't have those yet um we would love to this is the second year we've run this we're we're planning to run this trip exactly through this program so it would be an awesome opportunity that we'd love to build
towards to offer say a renewing scholarship for students to be able to apply and make that equitability a little more accessible um but we don't have anything concrete beyond what we've put here I don't want to speculate before you and say this is a plan when we don't have that yet appreciate
it others Dr sson this conversation on how to entice the uh students who don't have the means uh we've been discussing it with all of these very expensive trips I can inform the committee that the policy committee has just about finished its work on a
new policy that is going to have as a prerequisite uh for an expensive trip such as this to have a to have a very clear way whereby the children who are less fortunate
financially will not feel left out that doesn't mean they all will get approved right but there will be as a prerequisite a vehicle the list here is nice but we're asking children to raise $3,400 a lot of chocolate BS are in 30
so so there's got to be another way and that's what this policy is going to address okay thank you and that's certainly we we welcome that and it's certainly not that brings me that's the first time hearing it and I love that that's the more of our student body that
we can bring along the better um from what we've heard from our friends who've done the exchange on the other direction I want every student in Plymouth to experience that that's part of why my passion is to teach award languages to bring culture into our very insular uh
Community here and and allow people to sort of experience what is out in the world and so from the dollars and cents point of view that's not my specialty that's not my expertise but I love that that's what's being brought in and I would love to rise to that challenge once that is a part of it so comments I will say on the other end
I know it's a little bit of salesmanship but we've worked really hard with this company to make that number the number that it is and I I um gave kind of a comp in in another email there where out of the blue when Mrs gin and I went on our first trip together it must have been eight years ago um we worked
through this other company promotor and they actually sent us within $5 that hey we've got this special this is you know not knowing we were tra traveling so I feel really strongly that um this trip does have the features that far exceed the trip that we were advertised for and
I also feel strongly we're within the range and we fought a lot for that so I'm not saying it's it's a low dollar amount our last trip was almost $1,000 cheaper just in 2024 and it's the same feature set so obviously we understand costs are rising and we want to do everything we can and make this
accessible for as many people as can possibly go yeah no I appreciate you putting the break down too cuz I mean noting that the $3,400 assumes a $1,500 flight which could very well be much less so if it's you know ends up being like 3,000 that's almost $1,000 dollar cheaper than some of the other trips
we've been seeing that we have more issue with and I do like that it's so more immersive than just the touring trip my my we had actually signed up my daughter for your last trip and unfortunately we had to cancel because she had a dance conflict which but I was actually very very uh supportive of this
just just because is so focused on you know Spanish education um so all right do we have a motion Mr Morgan uh I'll make a motion to approve the um uh field trip to cevil Spain as presented all right do we have
a second Miss say with seconds all right on a question please Mr chairman U could we just change the wording of that motion from field trip to international trip please all right I think we're good to vote all right you are approved thank
you very much thank you very much have a good evening enjoy it my agenda I go sit next all right next up we've got our Middle School school Improvement plans first up we've got um pcis yes
thank you all right uh to continue the international travel theme the picture to the top right is uh one of our Milan students with a pcis student they were in Boston they took them to Boston so we're going to continue that theme um through the night so it's a great great uh program uh I am here to present the
last year of our school Improvement plan that I've been waiting to get through uh we started this right when we came out of covid so I'm pretty excited to have a plan that is outside of Co that that that we can talk about um but our our objective one was uh around mcast with
the ELA map uh in stte um 10% a total students will metor exceed expectations um so we have been working hard with that um as you can see um in the in math 34% of our sixth grade uh 26% of our
seventh grade that's always been a dip in our seventh grade historically even in the state the seventh grade dips um and then it came out a little bit in eth grade uh moving in in the math direct but you look at growth I mean I spend a lot of time looking at growth because we want to see where kids were when they came in and when they leave I spend a
lot of time looking at that and you can see Going Through The Years our uh you know moderate to high growth percentiles go up as they go through grade six seven and eight and up to 61% are in moderate to high growth percentiles and they leave uh in e8th grade and that again
that's important to me uh looking at how kids are performing how they're growing uh compared to their peers uh we've done a lot uh over the last years last few years um Freckle math has been something that our math coordinators brought in uh that our students use and it's nice
about is it gets them it meets them where they're at and it tracks their progress and then it'll keep them on track and and progressing so not every kid starts at the same place uh it's something that the kidss can not only use in a school but they can use at home uh We've brought in uh the math workshop
model math menu I know uh Dr Campbell you kind of have seen this in action we walk into classrooms where kids uh have choice in what they're doing there the required things that they have to do but then they have a lot of choice and it keeps those kids uh engaged in their math uh I'm going to speak a lot about
the monthly walkabouts and I want to kind of do it at the end it's going to tie into where we're going uh because we've been able able to get into a lot of classes I think uh over the last uh two years of doing this we were tracking it um I've been over 150 classrooms uh
throughout the years um and looking at teaching and learning and then providing feedback to help teachers uh progress and have been able to see some uh best practices uh that we're going to be sharing uh as part of our next um our
next uh cycle of uh School Improvement plan uh collegial observations when we see things that are happening classrooms that we like and we feel that someone else should see that we find time for those teachers to go in and observe and observe those best practices uh we provide them coverage and we get them into those classrooms so they can see
what's happening in other classes and we're going to really intensify that moving forward um so some of the other things that uh data teams just making sure our our teachers are looking at their students data um we used to have our math coach and our literacy
specialist that did a lot of that work uh We've pushed it to the Department so the Departments are spending a lot of time looking at their data including the special education teachers because that's one of our focuses uh we we are continue with the math Essentials uh program that's where it's targeted
support for our sixth and seventh graders um and just continuously through those walkabouts giving constructive feedback and what's nice when we go in again another time we use the feedback form that we previously did because
we're going to note we we we suggested this this and we went into your classroom we saw it actually happening and so you took that feedback and you you you ran with it so that's kind of where we want to want to move and this making sure we're providing time for our teachers to meet and talk about those best
practices um Ela uh this is uh meeting expect exceeding expectations you can see sixth grade and then it dips a little bit in seventh grade and and uh back up in in 8th grade and um again I what I focus a lot of attention on is just making students a grown 57% are
moderate to high growth percentiles in six so it basically stayed the same from six to 7 but they're uh they are progressing moderate the high in uh in in in middle school so um and for our Ela um spending a lot
of time uh together as collaborating and that again I'm going to talk more about that theme just making sure our teachers are collaborating and talking about pacing and scope and sequence to make sure when we walk into a classroom we do these walkabouts we you know we should see basically some of the things the
curriculum the same in every class that we go if they're not then the pacing is off the scope and sequences off and we try to address that um as a team um again those data team meetings with special education um Workshop models in
ela which allows teachers to really Target their support uh we'll walk into a classroom we'll see kids working independently so we'll see kids working in groups and we'll see two or three kids working with a teacher at a table the kids that they work working at a table require a little more support than the kids that are working independently
at at a and they and they kind of rotate through um we're seeing this consistently in almost all the classes that we we visit and I think it's important to note um we've been trying to get our 7th and eighth grade teachers to do some vertical teaming so not only
we seeing consistency in the classes for grade level but we're also seeing it vertically through the grades and into high school um again more uh collegial uh sharing of best practices and our literacy team we were fortunate enough to uh continue with our literacy team uh
doing some professional development to make sure that we are in a lit literacy Rich School uh with different things that happen throughout the year including drop everything read they do uh book tastings they do starbooks where they're reading and they're showcasing their books but also every term we have
a different strategy that the teacher teachers are required to to work on um every term so right now in a writing strategy uh and then we'll end with speaking literacy and they showcase that work that they're doing at the end of the hall we have like a little literacy
Spotlight uh at the end of every house where they showcase some of that work all right science uh 33% meeting and exceeding expectations we don't have any growth to that because it's the only time they've taken that test um but it's something we continue to work with uh
One Foundation um uh we do a lot of work with them uh coming into uh into the building and supporting our teachers um and we also uh again a lot of uh I didn't a lot of communication with the coordinators and I I I go back to collaboration because that's a big piece
of what where we're going to be going is just making sure we're communicating we're collaborating with everybody the coordinators um the teachers the par professionals uh they were all collaborating together in the best interest of help supporting kids
um and we uh through all of this we started and I think I mentioned this a little bit last year we started our Falcon Academy and that uh over the last two years we've targeted new teachers to pcis so not just new teachers to teaching but new teachers to pcis um to
go through uh some professional development um in designed to help them to uh learn where we're at with some of our expectations um but what this is kind and it gives them on the job uh time to meet with teachers that have been doing this for a while um and it
what we're trying to do and and it's administratively we don't touch it because we want to provide a safe place for teachers to talk about what's working what's not working we and we don't want them to think well I can't say it's not working because I don't want my boss to hear it so we want to give those teachers that safe
environment to collaborate listen share ideas uh and so they can then go back to their classrooms and implement it with support those facilitators our Falcon academy uh facilitators actually go in and do observations and work with those teachers
and then those new teachers go into the facilitators classroom and watch them do the best practices and things that they want to do and then the third step is really uh providing those guided observations so they're going in with a facilitator and talking about what they're seeing and how they can
implement it in their own classrooms um and then that the last piece is they get to choose as uh Falcon Academy teachers what do they want to go see what do they feel like they need the most help with and then they go and they they they line up with teachers and they do observations with them and we're going
to um really make this more building wide than just with new teachers we're going to kind of amp it up a little bit uh so we're all uh we're all part of that um and some of our um this kind of actually this will go through the kind
of the cycle of what we do we do the professional development in the beginning we do the Falcon Academy observation the new teachers observe the Falcon Academy facilitator and then the teacher obser observes um the Falcon academy uh teacher observes the the teacher and then there's a guided observation a focused evaluation that I
just talked about um this really becomes like an unofficial mentor and what's happened from this even though we're not requiring them to do it after we do it they're asking on their own to go in and see classrooms so they wanted to see something that uh that they heard about so they're they're actually initiating
some of this on their own without us facilitating it which is what we want we want to be less Hands-On and let the teachers be the ones that feel comfortable it's kind of the environment we want to create uh where we're learning from each other we're collaborating with each other um and then with that being said
um you know there's a lot we've had I don't know I feel like hundreds of people walk through the building whether it's at the state level uh whether it's at like 18 Foundation brings in school leaders and school teachers throughout the state to come in and observe our classrooms we've had uh obviously the
learning walks uh with Scott borell and all of our our walk through feedback has been positive around the interactions between kids and teachers the high levels of Engagement the critical thinking uh the safe environment the relationships that they uh their teachers form with our students in the
class that they can feel it and they've come in pretty interesting times they've come uh on costume day uh for for our Halloween uh ball we've had them the week before our holiday break which is great because there's learning this learning should be happening every day
uh but they they're they're able to see uh what's happening every day and that's evidenced in a lot of our learning walks um the second piece is the uh uh chronic absenteeism uh we've done put a
lot in place uh we do case managements back to we do a lot of case management just if there are kids that we're uh concerned about their attendance uh we're meeting with them we're meeting with their families we're giving them um suggestions on how to
help with that we're putting things in place for them to to uh to get into school uh we have our anel dog that will sometimes meet these families uh in the parking lot to have them walk them in they get anel time they have access to uh one of our uh we're very fortunate to
have the bright transition room so some of these kids will spend the morning um in that classroom with that teacher getting ready strategizing for the day uh a lot of go a lot of work goes into this with all of our teachers our counselors our administrators you know really trying to help kids uh get into
the classroom so what we've noticed once they're in they're typically fine it's just getting them into the uh into the building uh kids that have been out for a long period of time making sure we have reentry meeting so we know what's happening with them you know whether it's a surgery whether it's you know anxiety whether it's you know an injury
that they haven't been able to get in we want to have all the information we can so when they do come to the the school we're able to support them um we have a support period once a month it's during our half a day it's a time for our students to work with their teachers um
uh to get academic work done we uh we bring all of our there's usually two uh sometimes three teachers in a room because everyone is assigned to room whether you're a Fed teacher an art teacher they're all working together to support kids during that sore time um so
that we can go to and then you know evidence from that you could see this uh a lot learning environment allows academic risk taking is safe and inclusive this part inclusive positive relationships among students uh and students and staff it's a safe environment uh students and staff
demonstrate enthusiasm joy and curiosity for learning those are the time type of things that where we want kids to feel comfortable coming into those classes and that's been a focus of ours to make sure those classes that we're creating are safe and our are there's there's a relationship with a teacher a lot of it's just about relationship and knowing
that those people are in those classrooms and our attendance has improved uh we went through a pretty tough month of January um where we we I would say we we were 30 39 per grade and it was not kids missing school because
they didn't want to go to school there was the nurses were reporting a lot of illness and we didn't want those kids in the building because uh they were causing more kids to get sick but overall our attendance definitely has improved um in the building
jumps it um and this is our subgroups uh with same thing with math uh Ela stste uh we are looking at students with disabilities and economically disadvantaged uh so you can see our students um are are growing actually at
a higher their growth percen percentiles are higher than the non-disabled students again they're getting a lot more support um with uh their their special education teachers um so there's a lot more services that are put in for those students so know the services
we're providing seem to be working um and you can see that's Ela um and then that the growth percentiles are just above of um or in math as well so our special ed students are growing at at a pretty good rate uh for our our
tests um our high need students that's are socioeconomically disadvantaged um they again they're right at the about the same growing at about the same rate as our non disabled students um so they are are are too progressing uh in that same same
rate um lot of work going into into that with Len me I'm pretty proud I have to put my glasses on yet pretty impressive I made the font a little bigger learned from last year that's the key um our our coordinators are great in working with
our special education teachers on special uh on professional development our we have two MLL uh teachers that work with our teachers to make sure uh that they're supported in the class room um the open Sayed uh is something that
uh Allison redid brought in is it was very supportive and now Sarah vedi has taken that as well has done a nice job making sure we're supporting all teachers special ed teachers and the regular teachers making sure we we're providing that data uh for our uh our
special ed teachers our MLL teachers uh and make sure that they're constantly looking at that to help them improve what they're doing I'll tell you the phone's away all day has helped with distractions um and Dr Campell you were in the school just last week and uh and that's been noted here that they they
don't really see uh kids on phones and it's just one less distraction um that would cause kids not to be focused and not learning um definitely helping teachers uh with the new teach Academy and those collegial uh walkthroughs again some of the learning
walk again it's safe inclusive environment which all students can expand and deepen their learning through scaffold supports um you know Equitable opportunities for students so there's a lot of positive things that have been noticed by people that don't necessarily work in the District um and it's
interesting because we've gone I've gone to um 18 uh conferences outside of Plymouth and you're watching their presentations and they're actually talking about the things that they took from pcis that're now presenting for 18 they talk they talk specific about what
has happened in the bill what we're doing and helping them expand um we've been asked to present at those conferences um we go into a room and you see the uh engagement Continuum and they say oh we got that from pcis when we were doing one of our walks there um and
then in one of uh my wife teachers in mfield and they were talking about the walkabouts um at the mfield U PD for their teachers we're talking about what we've been doing with the walkabouts so it's definitely something that people are noticing and and and bringing to um
to where they're they're doing their professional development so um this is a fun uh so keeping students engaged in their learning and reduce the amount of students suspended we've definitely be able to do that with some creative thinking and creative planning uh just one of the things I'd say we just
promoting positive opportunities uh just making sure the kids have something positive to do uh after school and I feel like this is the last two years we've really seen an increase of kids doing things outside of school our half our cafeteria is full F buses plus we
probably have about a hundred or so families getting picked up if you ever tried to get into the parking lot at 3:45 on a Tuesday or Thursday you would see it um again those uh just connecting it I think we lost that with Co and I hope this is the last time I have to say that but there is much stronger connections with the school uh because
of those opportunities after school um also um you know looking at keeping those families engaged um making sure sure they know and highlighting some of the things we do through our school newsletters our emails our teacher
communication uh We've definitely seen um a increase uh or a decrease in discipline uh we're at about I would say 97% are uh are zero infractions and then
you have about 3% with low level and then one in and and that's including kids who have uh emotional impairments that make it difficult for them to uh to follow rul so we work really hard with those kids so um and what's nicest and I should knock on wood somewhere we don't
aren't seeing those major type of you know the more age appropriate um if kids didn't make mistakes and mess up I'd have a pretty boring job um so it's important that you know in our thing is always you learn from your mistakes so you don't make it again so uh you know if you do make a mistake it's fine we
all did uh just making sure we're encouraging it um again that so this is something we changed a little bit this year we used to do uh so we have our PBIS where you get points a point system uh you know coming to school being
present get your points after school getting involved in extra help being a good citizen uh and behaving yourself showing respect to students and staff that'll allow you to get points towards a reward we change it up we have a uh every grade has a Connect for oh we we did increase so when we started this you
only had to earned 500 points um to to earn that end of the term reward and we increased it to a thousand and the kids have stepped up to do that we actually already have uh teams at the thous at the Thousand Point level and we still have a formal weeks of um of term four
but the Connect Four is something that we started this year uh so kids could see the reward on a weekly basis so every week um the team with the most uh acts of kindness will get a chip and any team without any office referrals will
get a chip and we play Connect 4 in the lunchroom on Friday and the kids really love it um so and then the winner uh which we just had a winner last week Gemini 6 wins that pizza poy like we've done before for um so it gets them to see where instead of just saying oh
Gemini won the most points so they get their pizza party this is now they see and they're strategizing and they're telling them where to put the chips and it's really funny uh and I'll say uh this year at a it was Friday because it was a day 120 and we've had 6,075 random
acts of kindness happen uh in the building uh and those are the ones that have been recognized so it's it's really uh and we we see it you know whereas things drop where someone might normally have just stepped over it kids are looking to to help pick pick things up and throw things away um this just shows
you the pizza parties that we have uh for that and this is kind of what the kids see in the lunchroom their points where they're at um and that window uh you see there is where we hang up those uh random acts of kindness so the kids get a little slip and they go on the
office window but they also go into the classroom so the kids can see it's constantly reminder of how important it is kind and these are just pictures of our Fall Fest in the fall we go skating we're fortunate enough to be able to walk right over uh in the uh in the
winter and then we had a mind reader for term three this is all last year and then we get an ice cream truck for the term four rewards so there's weekly rewards and then there's end of the term larger rewards and we're actually able to I I put this up here because we
basically everything goes by the points you have so the kids that get called up to the lunch line first have the most points the kids who want to eat outside we have two we're expanding with a help from Plymouth North High School to put two outside eating areas uh one in the back and one in the front so the teams
with the most points have the opportunity to eat outside as well so there's different ways those points help um and when you play Connect Four the team with the most points gets to put the first chip in so it's kind of tied to everything that we do um and that is
our again positive things to do after school that's a little of our after school activities there's a ton of stuff we just had stuff starting this week with a flag football tournament uh so teachers are coming up and kids are coming up uh we had a Pokemon Club just start uh so there's different clubs for
everybody it's not just strictly Sports it's not just strictly theater it's not just strictly art um there's leadership uh programs um there's service learning program so there's a little bit of everything uh in our after school program and then just keeping making sure there's opportunity for our
community to come together this year we started a pcis ski trip um our core students are going to be singing the National Anthem in May at the Red Sox game they go in next week to the Providence Bruins uh coffee houses dances barbecues so again just trying to
keep our community engaged in what we're doing so uh it makes our job a little easier when everyone's on the same page I went through fast and I promise you guys can ask questions I'm Miss Barrett's keeping keeping track of my time how am I
doing I think you I think you used all our time up um I mentioned uh just collab goal one or objective one is really just taking that collaborative culture and expanding it through the throughout the building where uh we are going to require teachers to observe
certain amount of teachers every term so they're going to have uh and we're going to provide the time we're going to provide the support but we want them to be able to go in and see other ways of teaching other things that are happening in the building get them outside their comfort zone and and and then use that
time afterwards have some time afterwards to talk to think about what they saw and what they think they could Implement and also have input on what type of teacher they would want to observe and then build uh build from that and just again allowing time for uh
teachers to learn best practices and and share ideas in a lot of different ways and there they're listed on that we want to keep with the absenteeism because that's still a real issue uh we want to make sure we're still supporting and addressing uh the absenteeism because um
even though we other than that month of June we were actually doing pretty well uh but once you you're out a couple days you can very easily follow with that trap you want we want to make sure we're Contin with the supports and adding new supports uh for those students and I think you know one of the most important
parts is just make sure we're uh we're engaging uh those stakeholders uh in with communication in their and their languages and talking points uh just making sure that we're uh we're not forgetting about a certain group because they all those kids come to our school
and we want them all to have the same access uh to what we do and understand what we do and know who the people are if there is something happening or they need information know where to go uh so we've done a transition meeting for high school with our MLL population their
families um we've done um we're doing a a translated fifth grade orientation um for uh for families so the fifth grade orientation we translated into the uh native language so we're trying again just to bring that to another level to
to make sure we're all in the same page so we're excited to move with that new school Improvement plan and and really because I think you know there are mcast tests they're important they give us information but that's two weeks out of your school school year there's 180 days of
great things happening in schools and that's and I feel like if we can get teachers uh the support and the collaborative nature of what we do everything else is going to fall into place all right that it's a little over 15 minutes all right thank yeah yeah
unfortunately Miss B's only have like 10 minutes and she used up like you know 75% of the time all right do we have any questions from Mr padio M Jackson I just want to say um from the learning walk and also from what I see Lucy coming home with every
day I can see like the level of Engagement is much different than when I was in school I mean you can see people like talking and being excited I mean you know like she comes home talking about math and how excited she is about
some of the projects that they're working on and it wasn't you know what I saw 20 years ago so it just speaks to the amount of work that you guys do every day and I appreciate it thank you appreciate it that's right so I I would be remiss
not to say my fourth child um attended pcis and it was absolutely my favorite field trip that I was ever on and you wouldn't expect somebody with four kids to stay you know still enjoying field
trips but the community that your building cultivates it's not about houses it really is everybody working together coming together for whatever the goal is there's some friendly competition but I
think that's really what builds to your point the excitement around coming and doing things together um I also think that it really set um my child to up for
Success transitioning into High School it was a very different experience um not necessarily hesitant about what they were going to experience or meeting new adults or meeting new kids because he had gained such a
comfort of you mentioned the collaboration and being able to go up to any adult with any question and get what he needed or being directed to what he needed so I I Echo the sentiments and
thank you and the team thank you others I actually have a question for Mr palino um your your your your plans were always comprehensive and that's certainly appreciated and I was I was particularly um impressed uh with the
previous three goals and I didn't know how you were going to top them uh but this year you left out from your three new goals there's no reference to uh growth you have three new goals absenteeism professional development and
I forgot what your third one is but engagement engagement are you going to weave in scores and growth into one of those or all of them yeah well well they're always going to have mcast scores and growth in that because that's what we do um but it's going to be about that's
going to be part of that it's going to be hopefully it's going to be tied to the type of things that we're trying to do to improve instruction uh for our for our students so is is there a rational as to how come you didn't have a goal related to uh growth I really wanted to
F focus on for me teaching and instruction to improve so as a building uh we're creating a uh classrooms where it's high levels of learning and thinking happening which would then in turn hopefully support okay I understand so the growth will be a consequence of
of goal number one is what you're saying that's what I would that's what I'm hoping three I'll let you know next year yeah thank you thank you I mayew the chair yeah please just I think two things to Mr Paladin know credit that I
think has been really transformative to what's happening at pcis one is the PBIS model and there's a lot of data behind that and he continues to do that in terms of like the behaviors when I say that there's been a like profound change
in uh positive behaviors and and and the decrease in in you know suspensions and in in referrals in general is profound um and again everyone working to your point Miss Bryant together healthy competition but they're working
as a community and the other one is the learning walks I know we've been doing it uh for four years as a district but Mr Paladino and his building um in every Department every month is doing walks by discipline as well and that has led to a
lot of initiatives whether it's the new teacher Academy which is fostering that sense of collaboration among his staff new staff and staff that a new dith um a lot of the initiatives that are taking place and I have no doubt that through
that you seen a lot of like anecdotal data regarding the best practices but you'll see that all those measures are just going to continue to improve as a result of that it's really really impressive I encourage if anybody wants
to join us I think Chris has the schedule you can join us on any of those walks we uh quite frequently every month we're good all right thanks as always as much as probably do thank you thank
you next up we have Eric and Barrett from P South I apologize for Brian taking up all the time some things never change you're not going to be 15 minutes 36 slides 15 minutes yeah I like your nine
side deck just you know I'm a little not as wordy sometimes but you're going hear a lot of similar things it's just that uh we're at the beginning of a plan where is there at the the end of a plan so our first goal around enhancing student social and emotional growth and
health and development of civic responsibility we too have implemented now a PBS model this is our our first year uh so so the admin team worked together to look at attendance and behavior citizenship and academic performance as our four areas our
teaching staff then took that information and they developed their team Norms so they spent time in the fall during PD developing team norms and deciding how they were going to make this their own how they were going to award those citizenship points uh and
they are going to be re-evaluating that come our April PD to see where they want to move going forward for the next year with our with our PBIS plan we've also implemented uh end of the Year Awards for all three grade levels there was no Awards program that really acknowledged
uh the balance of theal and the academics so we are implementing those Awards the teachers have developed the awards by grade level we had them work and we had our enrichment teachers develop Awards as well uh we also implemented principal assemblies for
expectations and a strong focus on phones being away this year and we implemented safety assemblies as well um it was interesting to listen to the the pcis parent talk because I was very concerned about our sixth graders who have not really been exposed to our safety drills and how we were going to
have a presentation on school safety and our protocols for lockdowns without um completely making them nervous so we talked about all sorts of things that they learn everything from you learn as a child to look both ways when you cross the street to how common fire drills
have become for them and how they you go outside for a fire drill and the building is not engulfed in in Flames um so that they they understand when we're practicing these drills it's just that that it's practice uh also increasing our club opportunities this year uh we
have a start with hello club which is coming from Sandy Hook promise uh that was actually a grant that the district awarded we started with sixth grade uh and they just started implementing things over the last couple of months we also have an orts club and a poetry slam Club new this year uh and we are teaming
with pcis and having that flag football as well so that is our PBIS model that is what it looks like very similar uh we are like I said at the beginning phases so we are actually awarding kids uh at every grade level so there is only two
teams in the seventh grade and two teams in the eighth grade at pumma South Middle School so one team in each of those grade levels wins each quarter and then two out of our four sixth grade the ones with the highest number of points we're not capping the points which just whoever is the highest are going to be the ones that are getting those those
rewards so so far they've gone actually uh both floors seventh and eighth grade have won a quarter so they both did ice skating trips and then we had the same sixth grade team win so we did pizza and ice cream actually last week uh for them for Quarter Two and that is an example of what our
start with hello Club is doing this month so they are on Thursdays having conversations in the cafeteria in sixth grade so their ambassadors are walking around from tables and just sparking conversations on different topics so that they are incorporating different
kids learning things about different kids and seeing what commonalities they may have with people that they they might not have known before uh they are also going to be helping us with some of our transition stuff that we're going to be working on so goal tool goal two is around
enhancing academic achievement for all students and we are focusing on um similar things a pcis has we do are doing the curriculum walks we are doing two per content area for this year hoping to increase that as the the years
go on the assistant principles are each attending one per content area this year and I attend all of them um providing teachers with ongoing professional development on the student engagement Continuum is going to be a goal moving forward I've been looking for videos
that that show what this looks like in the Middle School level I think our our students are participating but how we move them to that investing in that driving I've been trying to find videos uh with no luck so at this point I've just decided that I'm going to try and work with our teachers whether it be our teachers at South Middle maybe
incorporate some pcis teachers that our curriculum coordinators uh pick as having classrooms that they're they're seeing this level of participation and creating our own videos so that's going to be part of the professional development for next year um I think in all of our walkthroughs whether it be
the district ones or whether it be the curriculum walkthroughs that we're having they are saying that students are engaged enged they're positively engaged it's just now how do we move them to the next level uh I volunteered to be the liaison for the advanced studies and Leadership
program that's run out of Mass Maritime in the summer so this is the first time we've had a large group of students participate they gave us 10 seats we had five students that have followed through with the application process so hoping for that to grow as time goes on uh it provides students with stem
opportunities and Humanities opportunities it's a it's a great program actually from what I see and we have a number of kids like I said that are participating that are that are excited they just submitted their applications they're waiting I think they hear next week whether or not that they got into that program uh I know the
program was happy to hear that Plymouth was was interested in having some students to participate and that's something that we can move forward and ask for more seats if that that becomes more popular and again recognizing our students at the end of the year for their academic achievement as part of
our award ceremonies so that is an example of our curriculum walkthrough feedback from a recent Ela walkthr so on the left the blue was all of the the great things that we saw and then the things to consider were our suggestions for
forward and as you see the third bullet is had to we move the levels of Engagement to driving and investing uh because that is something like I said we're seeing as a constant theme so that is going to be part of our PD moving forward but the teachers I think enjoy seeing us come into the room and they're
enjoying getting the feedback as well and then that is an example this is I think sixth grade if I remember correctly uh the awards that they came up with for end of the year so I had the teachers working by grade level and they came up with Awards and then I had the
enrichment staff working separately so in addition to some of these Awards there's the tech engineering there's an art there's a music award that they came up with uh the grade levels like I said had the opportunity to work individually but they could see what the other grade levels were doing doing uh so some of them did some some stealing um so there
will be some similar Awards when you look from grade to grade but again just trying to acknowledge students for for not just their academics but their behavior and um their ability to be citizens in the school as well um in terms of like Mr s Dr senson asked about
growth we're I'm looking at trying to motivate students to see why they they need to succeed what is important about Middle School uh I find middle school students to be like the most difficult to motivate because they're not seeing the reason yet you know Elementary School a lot of times they're just
excited to be in school middle school they hit that kind of Lull in the middle and then high school it's things like participating in sports that a lot of times Drive students so just trying to come up with other ways to celebrate our students so that they understand why it's important to
succeed and then our last goal around increasing family and Community engagement that's actually a picture from our Veterans Day assembly uh that I don't take credit for our teachers have done that for years it was a a great ceremony actually Margie Burgess was there this year uh for that that ceremony I was trying to find the
picture of her uh today but I could not find one uh but that was a great assembly that our sixth grade teachers one of our sixth grade teachers put together and they invited a lot of veterans from the community in to acknowledge them uh in terms of our work and our school council's work we're
looking at the transition plan for fifth graders coming up and how we are going to work on that program so we have a parent night that's going to be in I believe I scheduled it for the end of May um that'll be coming up uh we're
going to have our students come up for our tours the school council I have a lot of sixth grade parents and they liked I can't remember who brought it up the video that we did years ago during covid when we had to do our transitions remotely uh and we had a video of student voices and that came up as
something that we're going to work on redoing so that we do have that student voice piece for the parents to hear during our parent night uh and looking at implementing a fall event so that once our sixth graders have transitioned into the school year what can we do in the fall uh to get them together so that
parents can maybe meet new parents for their child's friends uh and the teachers can attend as well I've been doing a lot to increase our communication with families whether it be through email uh or social media we had our Facebook account our official
one but it wasn't very popular it wasn't the one that was most followed followed by families families had their own private account that they were looking for for official information and I'm trying to get families to come to our official page to look for communications uh and have the family page be something
that the PTA uses that they use to plan some of their end of the year events uh so I we've had a lot of increased participation in our social media uh our Weekly Newsletter gets a lot of views every week U trying to again communicate with families not just what's happened
already but what's upcoming uh last week I published all of our end of the year dates now that we're out of snow season so that they know what's coming because some of the things that we're doing like the awards are going to be new to our families and again inviting our families into the building that's our new thing
uh the end of the Year Awards to get them to be um more involved in the school and the academic piece uh continuing to explore resources to engage our ml population currently we only have four students that are in that category however I know we have many
more coming up from the elementaries now that they're staying in their home schools so we're looking to not just support those kids but we're going to be looking to being involving those families as well as we move forward and other than that I just thank our school council and thank our PTA our
PTA has been great about wanting to support our PBIS model and some of the things that we're doing this year all right great presentation we have questions question no questions just just a comment um two comments actually one I really
like the awards and the fact that they're not just based on academic achievement and that you saw some stuff in there like greatest gains I feel like that's really a huge motivator even if somebody isn't going to attain High Honors that they see that they moved from one section to another can be
really like highlighting the effort that people put in and I like that a lot um and I've had the the pleasure of being part of your school council and I really like a lot of the things that you brought up in there I feel like you're very forward thinking and um I just
wanted to share that uh I won't share all of your ideas because I know you'll share them at a different point but I really I really have a lot of respect for all the work you're doing thank you I appreciate that yes we're doing a lot of implementing in this year one miss Bryant uh quick question on
aslp there's tuition and that's associated with those spots how are the costs of those tuitions um handled are there scholarship spots what does that look like there are scholarships that the program offers so when the students
completed their application packet it it's $1,500 for the two weeks but there is a um a scholarship page so they can apply for that money as well um thank you very much for your presentation I also had the pleasure of also being on the um the uh school
council as well um and having a child um at the your school and so um I just wanted to thank you for um the intention that you had surrounding uh the safety meetings um or the the
um the the drills in terms of those students who were transitioning from um the fifth grade to sixth grade um making sure uh that there was an assembly prior to um just to explain the situation um and
to kind of um mitigate some of that fear that's associated with something that they um probably weren't exposed to um at this level so I just want to um uh thank you for that and also um thank you for taking um uh uh I guess suggestions
um from um the parents within that group because I do recall um the the video um uh suggestion and so um just thank you um for the work you've done as an interm you know principal um in this uh just in
this role so thanks all right thank you for your time M Barett just to just to kind of reiterate um I just wanted to thank Miss Barrett too um she's done a remarkable job and stepping in the last minute for us um is has has
demonstrated um just how capable she is um as a leader and has done some remarkable things in a short amount of time really to get into to know that Community uh the needs and really come up with the plan um she and Mr Paladino work well together too so it's nice to
um have them working in collaboration even though Mr Paladino takes more time all the time but in all seriousness I think um I'm glad you're still sitting back there what you see in their leadership style is very common we're looking at
Community we're looking at uh connectedness we're looking at opportunities for kids we're looking at um creating systems to make kids feel safe to support them and to promote a certain kind of community within the school and getting kids to rise to that
occasion and I have no doubt that Miss Barett will continue to to do that as she did when she was over a piece definely couldn't agree more thank you Mr bar all right next up we have a superintendent report P Campbell oh
thank you very much um so busy week last week um so as was said by one of our student reps education secretary um Patrick tart came to visit um as well as the govern's office
lieutenant governor um had intentions of being there uh um she was unable to attend at the last minute due to some circumstances outside of her control but last Thursday we had the great pleasure of Hosting secretary tatweer at manat elementary school and self high school
was a great visit really showcasing the work of our students and our staff I think it was a great day the secretary stayed with us from 9:30 in the morning until almost 2 o' in the afternoon it was great we visited uh the preschool classroom at South Middle School an opportunity to talk about the the
community partnersh preschool initiative grant that we have where we're providing uh through iin ART staff support at our private preschools which has been a game Cher for us um and I think for those families and for the preschools uh which is something that we can hope to
continue to receive um the the um commissioner for the early Ed was there as well we had an opportunity to speak with her as well we spent time uh observing and investigating history lesson for with fifth grade which was really kind of the connection to the
secretary's visit and the governor's office visit around um Massachusetts revolutionaries bold stories bright legacies where students K to 12 across Massachusetts are encouraged to submit projects that they're choosing that tell the story of a revolutionary from
Massachusetts so uh we look we were very excited to be a part of sort of that kickoff U but again it was just a great opportunity we went over to sou High School had an opportunity to to have a an amazing culinary experience Tak come behind the kitchen um we have one
student who who is a Avid barbecuer uh Grill Master who prepared something special for the secretary which um is his favorite food um quite impressive and then had an opportunity for both husky TV at manat as well as Panther TV
to do an interview uh with the secretary so it was it was wonderful and we thank him for his for his entire day with us um mentioned the children's business Fair earlier too again uh this year for the first time we went from West Elementary School basically shutting
down Route 80 in year one to literally um to South High School the next year um for next couple years and this year we had to actually split it up to to two high schools it was just so much um enthusiasm and um and participation from
our fifth graders we had sixth graders come back to look at the fifth grade projects Rising fifth grad has come in to see the the the businesses that the students have started in fifth grade um just a great opportunity great Community event just want to you know thank you
know our amazing staff our student volunteers Deca students our principal EDTV staff the math leadership team as well as the Chamber of Commerce um and the Plymouth Regional economic development foundation for just the amazing support to this annual event
which just just spectacular um students now are taking venmo so you know cash is not just the option we had students just remarkable businesses they continue to do it on this you know on their own uh just a great entrepreneurial enthusiasm it's been
built from this and just so impressive to see what our kids are doing um seems like a while ago but on March 5th we had our orientation meeting regarding the Hedge eligibility project so it was an orientation meeting with
our uh facilitator we reviewed all the initial compliance requirements the school building committee School building committee composition all the article motion language which is good for town meeting we're set for that so we're continuing with that process look
forward to uh April 5th the town meeting to secure that um Article 5 uh Dr Rogers and I had an opportunity to attend the mass uh sore legislative breakfast last last Wednesday representative Badger was also in attendance it was a great
opportunity for us to discuss um common concerns and Educational Funding from Chapter 70 to special ed program prices regulated by the operational service division uh Transportation um and Miss Badger also had an opportunity to share the bill
which she hopes to to to get passed uh at the state a lot of interest as you can imagine in the room from that a lot of other represent Representatives came up to representative Badger as well as um some business op managers and
superintendent so um it was a great it was a great meeting um this Wednesday we will be hosting through the pouth family Network our annual getting ready for kindergarten uh family orientation it's through zooms um we typically have at
least 100 families that take part in that um very good turnout um anyone who's still interested just reach out to the family Network um they can get access to that Zoom link as well look forward to to greeting those families uh and then just lastly um our committee of
Precinct chair presentation Dr bla and I will present uh Thursday evening I think it's at 6 o'clock if I'm not mistaken six o'clock um so we look forward to um presenting our budget to the chairs of
the you know to the copc on Thursday that's all I have this evening questions seven s o' oh any questions for Dr Camp all right thank you for upate you all right next up we've got a retirement
announcements M chy yes good evening I have three retirements to share with you uh Jennifer stinchfield will be retiring at the end of this year after 12 years serving as a par educator for a special needs students at Nathaniel Morton uh Dena Barker is retiring at the end of
this year as well after 26 years as a kindergarten teacher at Indian Brook Elementary School and Maria Dyson is going to be retiring as well after 26 years she will start the year with us uh at the beginning of the year at Indian Brook uh but we'll be retiring in just
the beginning part of October uh first grade teacher also at Indian Brook all right M Jackson thank you to miss tfield miss Dyson and Miss Barker for their combined 64 years of service to the district we wish you all well
thank you all right uh next up we've got reports and proposals from committee members anybody have any uh reports they want to provide Jackson um I had the opportunity
to go along with secretary Tut weer and uh number of other people from the district and I just wanted to say that it was a really great opportunity and he is one of the nicest people and we are very lucky to have somebody like that that's so invested in our community and
just really really engaged it was really a pleasure meeting him and getting to know more about what he does and what he contributes to our district you know and have some more context around that and I also want to Echo what Quinn said
earlier I had the opportunity to go to Hades town and see the musical and I feel like it was by far and way one of the best performances I've ever seen they just did a really really phenomenal job and Mr Keele and Mr Gman already set
the bar very high so I mean that was just a really outstanding performance it was it's awesome all right anybody else all right you I also had the opportunity to be at the the lunch with Dr top wer and yeah made me feel very
good about the uh you know the the having the state's education system in his hands and where things are going so it's definitely great to uh have him come visit us but yeah definitely a very downto Earth he's a guy to talk to I think really got to know know him in a
couple hours yes and um for those who may not know the commissioner so commissioner Riley stepped down last March I think and they be looking so uh interm commissioner Russell Johnson has been in his place as they look do a
search for a new commissioner well uh interm commissioner Johnson has stepped down at the end of this month he's taking a super superintend a position in Pennsylvania so the secretary is assuming both roles until the position is summer is filled he's just he's doing
that um he he's a genuine he's a liong educator and he he understands and gets to know he wants to know sort of what's happening at the local level so we appreciate his support and he definitely knew his barbecue and was a very high phase to
the barbecue that was provided all right um Mr Morgan updates from the master planning committee um yes we did meet last week and we're working with our consultant uh we got a lot of data in we also had a
presentation from uh C Plymouth and um you know there's going to be a few uh several more public um forms but we're getting close to wrapping those up so it was more of a business meeting that we had this past week excellent all right
thank you for that I know the Plymouth building committee doesn't meet until next week so we'll actually this Thursday yeah I'm sorry this yeah this Thursday hasn't met yet that's all right and back to personal reports for Mr chopi yes uh tonight I can share with you that we did receive and accept uh
six resignations we did approve five medical leaves and we did have one classified appointment right thank you for that next up we have unfinished business we have any unfinished business any wants to bring
up and how about new business all right cruising right along so than that we just have our consent agenda does anybody have any items they would like remove from the uh agenda all right if not do we have a
motion M Jackson I move to approve the consent agenda submitted all right you have a second second all right Dr s in seconds and we can vote all right I think we're good
[Applause] I think I got kicked out technical roll should we do a roll call or you were able to plug in I just oh you got it perfect just in time all right Perfect all right and that passes
unanimously all right so with that despite you know Mr Paladino you know taking his time on his presentation we're still able to finish up by you know before 9:00 so I'll call the meeting to close at 851 e