events jazz night some advance this week jazz night us on the february seventh at seven o'clock on february eighth at seven o'clock because the key to this trivia night and as well it's the coach lions naming ceremony at the high school which the girls team are going to play at five thirty the ceremonies at seven and then the boys have a game of seven thirty on the thirteenth at six o'clock is the grade eight our show on the fourteenth at and eight gold key awards and then one of the five american vision awards was given to an eleventh grade student victoria shah and that's a very they're on the sideboard so it's a very rare  not able to come to our meeting tonight so we have janice here for your report to give i just want to share one thing i put the copy of this on at your place since this is our speaker series announcement for this year we are running the in the benefits for all children debbie or mean is the author of waking up white and she lives nearby in cambridge and she'll come and her topic is i'm a good person isn't that enough and talking about learning about race her own journey learning about race and finally the third speaker is dr police warner who is a really dynamic speaker who's looked at all staff on opening day last year last september and her topic is how to talk to kids about march twentieth is the first one wednesday april tenth is the second one and wednesday may first is the third one so hoping to get a great attendance and we're really excited to bring th against it we don't have any unfinished business so the next the first item of major business is a class size working group report out this report is from our contract we agreed to have an addend everyone clifford principal at the burbank school this group met several times over the past few months were able to come together and discuss many things which we'll talk about tonight the members of our group are myself  maybe groups of students making up one caseload so for middle school educators a total caseload is how you can join just just alluded two hundred twenty plus students and the encore teachers which are teachers such as art music p e health tech engineering very high low because they teach so many sections i know just just listening to john talk about the complexity of him having to schedule in the kids around and somebody drops here or somebody drops they're having to move the whole idea of a seems really daunting to me  so for high school educators again as a teacher of burbank that some of this is so eye opening to me so back in two thousand to twelve three high school teacher kids those were one twenty five seventeen eighteen was twenty and now we're down to fourteen which is great so we're trying to get that six seven eight by the time middle school scheduling so having teachers who work in multiple schools whether it's an elementary or middle or middle to high school districts soon when a class can be within the schedule so that they can travel through from and again that speaks to something we talked about earlier with regards to supporting the social emotional aspect for our students and then lastly if i school when we do have these intervention courses or these tutoring classes that we have often opportunity consolidate traveling teachers to one building when possible to allow for classes to be made at multiple times throughout the day of those to keep those classes class sizes smaller additional f t's so that we do not have to share those t building to building and then again looking at how can we choose develop create a flexible schedule that allows for advisories or intervention type of blocks of ice so much focus on the facility needs that we've had and a lot of other g going towards that but i think it's really important to keep sight of all of these challenges as well have been fathomed first question  in terms of adding a team to grade six seven and eight was there any consideration given to considering adding a half team at each of those grades before two thousand and twenty three or or is that something that other districts are doing you know there's a model for every did you guys invent bad and how might that be the one person who is absent tonight is the one who invented it and is the physics teacher and the scientist and  while we were talking i think i did in our first meeting he was like drawing these diagrams on his paper and i had this really it's a very intriguing idea but it's really just a theory right now it i don't know of anyone that has something like that but i but now we don't have anything concrete always something that you know it makes a difference for the kids to have the most valid side of me is that obviously for the teachers oh and then i'm down to just one more question in terms of talking about the limitations of the schedule for advisory and support and interventions how is that impacted by the new schedule with the hey school for next year is start time to eight o'clock the school day will still started seven thirty five but the schedule to eight o'clock and and dan you can correct me if if this needs clarification but essentially that in a free that might have occurred in the middle of  day is now at eight o'clock i mean that first modern up until eight o'clock so if it's it i don't know what it will do to the scheduling you want to come in i mean first let's this week as we kind of think about this and look ahead i think it will be comment i was just thinking this whole idea so i was on the search committee for the new principal of the high school and a big concern that came up with the students was the student teacher relationship in the student ministration relationship and how the amount of students in my class sizes that has been increasing has made ok with you up to this one sitting down explain to the educators and the staff what the plan is for doing the work that needs to get done between now and four years from now when we have the facilities and some shifts in the district so you know for some of the when we go to the schools for some of the teachers understandably they haven't been involved in the process of building project so just giving them a little bit of a context every time i see this so i say wow we've been working on this for three years and we've been working on this for three years from submitting the application through  authority last summer and then finally and happily very gratefully received a positive vote from the town to move forward with the construction so all of that is wonderful you have seen this picture many district is really what the rest of the presentations about so again going through and making sure people understand that we have we're finalizing plans right now in this school year that they'll be they've already actually done it you know some additional work on the building over the december and groundbreaking will be starting as soon as june maybe even a little bit earlier than that and then two years after that three years after that we'll move our nine through twelve students into the new building and when that section is done then fourth grades into the upper elementary school the summer of twenty twenty four and one of the things about that is is particularly knowing that sometimes struction projects don't always finish exactly when you think they will and it will be already a very big move to move into a seven eight wing and all of the teachers move into that wing so not wanting to try and also move at the same time fourth grades into  while at the same time prior to the vote all we were hoping that we would have that positive outcome we were also starting to plan and think about the work that has to go on in terms of the district configuration education plan what are all of the pieces that sure everyone has some questions or concerns or things that they're wondering about so at that time we invited people to share questions with us now we've also said as we've gone around to the schools to do this presentation recognize that back in september before the vote happened and while it was thinking about the first day of school it may not have been of course first and foremost in their minds to think about the project so we're continuing to invite people if they have questions now or if questions after they see our presentation please share them with us we did receive a range of questions over fifty responses we took those questions did work with our leadership council in october and november basically took the fifty questions cut them up on the pieces of paper and handed six groups of leaders a packet of the fifty questions and said if you were figuring out how to sort these into categories how would you do it and then each group shared their version of the sorting and the naming in the purpose of the committees and these committees of educators to do this work and and then we took that superintendent hill and i read that back to the office and mulled over it some more and looked at it some more brought in a smaller subset  of district leaders volunteers who wanted to come in and look at it another time and then we took a hybrid of some of the different versions and and put it together to what we are now sharing with all of the  educators and the goal of doing all of that was to make sure that first of all that the voices of the people who will be impacted by these changes the educators were included in home think about it what other questions are you are you thinking and recognizing too that depending on what your current role is in the district you are impacted more or less by these changes and you might have different worries and it's important for everyone to know that while we don't have all the answers we certainly have a plan for how we're going to try and come up with the use of how to address these issues so so we will show you show you two ways of looking at it we started with sort of a conceptual map of the work and then john put that together in a visual way that sort of puts it all on one page and then i took it and said ok so if this is the the bulk of the work how do we map it out how the sequence it in the way that really helps us get get to a good place at the end of it and does it in a in a logical sense is the conceptual map and i think the most important thing to the vision is after that the first work is to really have a shared understanding of what do what do we expect for students pre k through twelve and on the compass and a lot of that work was started through the vision conversation and then what's the scheduling model and talking about some of the things that the class has working group talked about you know what are the things that we want to make sure we incorporate into the schedule that allow the flexibility or the whatever it configurations of what is the culture of each schools having some time to think about the community as both adults and students and and and so for example for the seven eight school it's two grades that are currently in this building that will be now in a different building how to giving them time and space to really to really think about that and own that culture themselves what is the instrument technology that supports the vision   and there was also keeping in mind that when we start doing this work we're not starting from scratch we've had some really important goals that we're working on in those schools to be at the center of our work our social emotional learning work or actually responsive teaching work and also keeping an eye on the class size the space the capacity and in particular in this building during the years before we're able to move grades to the new building  invited to join and to participate or teachers and administrators to consider these different questions and then bring recommendations to the school committee to you for your review and approval  configuration you talked a lot about the key three and the four five six but that's something that we need to start with and revisit the research that we looked at i think it was a year ago  see if there's anything else that's that's important for us to consider as far as options for addressing space and challenges in the cape grades k through six and then bring that to this body for your also planning to start this year the teaching and learning and professional development planning committee i envision that starting being a pre k through summer to come back in the fall and really on that that work and you'll notice that it's color coded so you see the same colors going across that teaching and learning work is you'll see continue all the way through the years of  next year that work will continue and i should share with you that the original version of this slide show has changed as we've met with different schools they've provided some feedback so we've added things in that oh that's a good idea that simple to consider  to really do some focus work on the school culture and part of what we talk about what we see and you'll see in the questions around culture is also involving transitions and how do we help students and from one grade to the next within a school and what what it would be like to be that in this new school facility finalize the work on the schedule and start to think about will the schedule in the four to six the other piece that's important to really think about in and we think the timing for that is twenty twenty two is the staffing for the seventy eight school clearly if you're a seventh grade teacher or an eighth grade teacher you know that you'll be in the new building if you are physical education teacher  building we have four and some of them will need to go to the new school and some of them will need to stay but that right number one likewise for art and for music and for special education for speech and language and for all of those things  think of it as like you know you have a tapestry that has a beautiful picture and we're going to kind of undo that tapestry and make another beautiful picture but we need to know which threats need to happen how do you and that's a conversation with the educators doing the work and making sure we understand for the people doing the work how does that how does that work for you and how to best use the resources of the educators that you have to create the right the environment  be a wonderful opportunity for educators who don't all currently work in the same building to come together before that that opening that beginning together as a school to really think about who they are  and how to be a great learning unity in the space the schedule created three was another addition suggested by the we don't know that there will be a big change if we are simply moving a grade out of the school but it's something that that might have some impact particularly again with different the specialist teachers and an understanding of how that works and knowing that now are they doing what we thought they would do or are there differences and how does that in fact staffing and scheduling in the last year when we have that that final shift of grades have our last school tomorrow will be going to the high school because we want people to know that while we may not be working on that fourth grade thing right now we know it's something to work on and we'll start thinking about it in terms of teaching and learning because it is if you can't talk about well what do you expect in high school in isolation i say isolation from like you how you teach what your religion is from the other guys together and i think each of these on their own will be an exciting conversation exciting opportunity to really think about how what we do and why we do it and is that the right way and what are the what other things can we do and it will be a lot of work  my first ask would be if you want to sign up here that you would offer them all the way through the next very soon that technology was group that steve was over would like to get that started soon as well on some of the questions about technology that happened early on in the design as part of the design process  learning and i think i think i may share with you that we are one of the things we're looking at that came out of the vision the workers project based learning where does that have an opportunity for us that work that would match what we're thinking about so we were very fortunate to receive a grant from the foundation for them an education on and we'll be offering that three days project based on the institute to teachers and grade spikey of the student led by the buck institute which is a nationally internationally known organization that provides that's done a lot of work on understanding and teaching people how to do project based on a well a so they will be coming  digestible over and over time so thank you i found it very clear and thoughtful i realized when i saw culture on here that i was probably making assumptions about what i think you might be doing a culture but about you know how a lot of schools have their core values and the what i think the walk the burbank way are we have our you know habits of life assemblies or that each school has their unique character and and and rituals and do some more work on how do we gauge students so that they're more in tune intrinsically motivated and excited about the learning particular as they go up through the grades sometimes see a decrease in both the engagement and the excitement about learning so ut for now our focus is on the to secondary teachers giving them the opportunity to try that out we're actually in one of the things we've tried to be very careful of is to not overload any one grade with two mean to start thinking about how it affects teaching and learning start planning now for opportunities where staff can be situated near each other for the first time and that will naturally afford opportunities to collaborate and get waiting for something before learning about i 'm curious to know what you feel like in the discussions that will happen this year in terms of convention for the particularly kids report of sex i i feel like the discussions of culture and to sex really also need to be a part of that before the decisions are finalized so what kind of time is there to allow her to be at least the beginnings of those discussions about make an important decision about that i feel like those discussions about culture and staffing efforts for the sex and how that might change from what it is now needs to happen talk about that and think about that and i don't think you can do that all the more in depth fleshed out work until you know that that's the right look at the big picture but they will be part of and then will they have time to meet and have those input just because i know there's a lot of students who are really invested in the whole new school thing because these like for me i know i'm the last grade graduating from the old high school so for me i want to thank me as much but so i know i and other people in my grade would be interested in helping shape the new high school like i have younger siblings who are going through the highs for who are going to be in the new high school i'm certain that student voice i'm not sure exactly how but that's but especially as we get into middle school and even in concerns that people have in terms of well if it were unconquered to have like a high school say you know it could be open later it could take up this amount of space it could use a could do that all seem to be things that  would be addressed in drafting we are a p c so how soon i mean i guess we have to decide on the site before we start drafting it aren't we but it seems like a little bit of a circular issue where there are a lot of these concerns people have that if we drafted the r p in such a way that it addresses those then i think it would alleviate concerns of one site versus another but how can we move forward with that staff work and play so you know if if if indeed students need to schlep to practice and transportation becomes a factor like there are things that we do need to think about at either site so it's gets back i have siblings who play hockey and i know there's this one rink the edge and that's right and if you know and it's two stories and one is on the ground and one is on the top but they're not directly above each other it's like one is down here and you walk up the stairs and go to the right and then the other ones one thing that i don't understand is if there's forty feet of ash on the site and they have be kept in some way whatever structure is going to be built there if it's like that's going to take structure would have to have the support structures down in there but how do you do that if you have a calf without compromising the function of the calf to keep everything and so that would be you know an important thing to figure out because if they compelling reason to do something right and i think tom's question to being was if we do that how will the school committee feel about nice and i think it's still a question as to our green as to what it is that would be put there no going to happen this is where it's going to  so the policy subcommittee didn't send out an email yet i prefer going to set a date to review the survey results and then just something to know that there are still ongoing want to mention for this body is that everyone is curious what our thoughts are about the name of both wings of the building so it gets confusing for you know the architects rendering images with no words or so that people are curious and i don't you know thinking about the configuration group and the other committees these things will be discussed but even if we have a temporary placeholder that can speak to some vision or values that we can put on renderings that would be helpful for folks but i think it's something that our group i want to consider so that the community can start thinking about the buildings and we've been referring to the high school building but it's too early to think you know units and then at the last the last couple of meetings there's been a conversation of course about plans that are evolving and everyone's doing just an amazing job it's really quite a process thinking about committing to purchase a tense roles moving forward breaking into different groups focusing on everything from landscaping to furnishing to technology and then also planning board concerns about how do we move things a small number of weeks and what the impact of that would be and i wasn't  about the work that they're doing she will probably come to our meeting on the twelfth of march to give us an additional update because they have three meetings before that and i think we'll have more discussions and they'll be more to report out to the school they want to begin she said our p process by the end of march or the path of beliefs but the group is looking at and apparently twenty five percent of the design they're having discussions about those being done by certain dates and then they also she also said that they talked about having a public forum about the pa to that i think we need to hear from the building committee before making any decisions about that thousand dollars to maintain the existing ranking i think it would be more clear for people reading this later if we had it per year which was the thing that was getting talked about th