recognition when you will seven fifteen approval of minutes seven twenty teaching and learning highlights two minute tips a student initiated organization if h s students alex descends  sod car i pronounce that correct mike peifer seven thirty ter field update mr york now seven forty eight awards busted and update on generator bennett seven fifty school career services eight very relaxed i have to say one day i think it's time not being here i guess is agreeing with you we have a life we want to thank you for coming tonight so that the school committee has a chance to recognize you and all the work that you've done for the town of foxborough school district seventeen years and seven superintendent though you beat me to a bevy ok that's right that's that's quite an accomplishment and we wanted to have you here this evening to recognize you and to give you a little something and to have a chance for the committee members to thank you for all your years of service all your support i have to say i remember when i first joined the committee seven years ago and you were definitely the go to person always having questions about things and operationally and you were a great resource and continue to be so i personally i just want to thank you because i learned a lot from you just in very  beginning other members i want to kind of open it up to other people to kind of share their thoughts and then i know better you're going to don't know if you want to start because i know you do have something for oh maybe we should do that at the very ok ok  i just want to say thank you i think you have been a wonderful resource to me the past couple years i'm just sorry that i didn't get to work with you longer but i wish you the best in retirement and enjoy every minute you deserve and i'm working o here and i think i will have your cell phone number if we have to call you right thanks and wendy from my perspective it's appropriate to have you here separate from the other retirees because you were one of us at this table and we're sorry to see you go one of the things the public may not know that you do is help keep a straight with all our paperwork whether it's the warrant signing every friday that we come in and do to approve all the expenditures or the you and had to answer so many many questions of mine i would always go in and greet wendy with here comes your special needs school committee member so she kept me very much in line and wendy thank you was not enough for all that you did those many many years and i decided we kind of were going to call this your diploma as the school committee meeting and may it bring you many hours of happiness and can you please come so we all may shake your hand unless you'd like to add something no i guess i'd just like to say that i really liked my job my job was very interesting it was ever changing  i met so many different one hundred four people and seventeen yes i was lucky i was very lucky i worked with a lot of really neat people had a lot of fun and  seventeen years went by like that but i do have to say every time and just the way to go well i got to tell you it really is it's i'm having a ball so i was going to ask you what what your plans are for retirement or what you maybe could tell us what you've been doing because you know that would be i think july you know she was retiring then and it was wonderful that we got to celebrate you you know in the office and with us but i'm happy that you i know you don't like the spotlight but i'm happy that you came tonight so that your public role is as a school committee recording secretary is separate from what you've done for the superintendents all these years so i'm happy that you said yes that you would come and let everyone thank you publicly because we we had our own little thing in internally with gifts but this is a totally separate you played and when that was really important and i'm still sometimes asking you about so it really works thank you for you when you have phone calls from us probably for help whilst any time and you know i think bruce brings up a really good point that there's so many things that you did behind the scenes that people aren't aware of and you gave us a little bit of into that you know this evening so you know we certainly appreciate and thank you but i think you know it's important for people out there to understand to all the different roles that you played for us the school committee so do you really really do appreciate  because twenty six regular meeting you could not bring up a question when we say members present do you think it would be a good idea if we asked janet to perhaps put in parentheses the person that might be absent so that they know kind of how the votes are are following and then that you know if if sudden later on in another year or so up you know if somebody needs to refer back to it they might not be able to remember who the fifth member was or what is the committee august fifteenth meeting at the i go do i have a motion to approve a move to prove second so for the discussion all those  meeting about what they were trying to do and i was really impressed and i thought well what are some we discussed some ways that i can help them get their word out about what they're what they're trying to do and we've we met again last week and we have a lot of plans but when i met them in july i said this really should come to school committee because this is going to benefit students and the community and what better way than to start with you a school committee and let you know what these three young men are up to so i'll just to put turn over to you and you can tell us all about it sure thank you i'll start off i'm sorry i'll be introducing too many tips this new organization that we have started so my name is sonne i'm a senior foster high school this is mike he's also senior and my friend alex also se n high school we're all co founders of this new organization that we have started over the summer and the point of tuna tips is to create a healthy environment for the we started back in july of last year and it's in foster mass and it's dedicated to promoting the public welfare of the community through various campaigns and outreach methods and these methods include a brochure a brochure a brochure campaign a website presenting two different elementary schools and also the program which michael explained later so it's committed to raising awareness about the health related issues encouraging the public to lead an active and balanced lifestyle and we did this because we've been living in foster a whole lives and we would we want to give back to the community in one way possible and this is what we want to do and we want to see how much of an impact we can have on the younger students children of fox growing courage this active and healthy life and we also want to incorporate it into the national honor society and have it just stay we have students continue with this program after we graduate so it continues for as about these topics is through brochures and informational brochures now we pick brochures because it really fell into place with our name two minute tips we want these brochures to be things that students can pick up in two minutes they're easy to read and that give them information about things like what they should eat the nutrition how to read health labels and even exercise so we really want the students to be able to benefit from these brochures and these brochures will be handed out to every student in the elementary schools from grades two three and four and we plan to do this in about a month or so and then and we plan to launch this entire brochure drive about mid october and of course we're going to we plan to have several brochures not just one in which we can have a theme for each one so for example the first one we have planned is nutrition and so we have brochure with nutrition articles like health labels what are healthy beverages things that the school can supply for health related materials and for foods what they can get their lunches and various topics similar to that we can do one on infection control we can also do one on exercise so if the students do want more information and if they are interested they can always visit our web sites but we plan to have supplemental readings and more detailed articles on each one of these topics all the information that we've presented in our brochures and on our website is approved by the department head of food services mrs johnson and by the wellness department head mr skin so now look talk about how we'd like to talk about how we want to go further than just a brochures and michael talk about his new program and a stance for acknowledge the concerns combat the concerns and evade the consequences so mike  website that if they eat healthy they get the right meals they exercise the engine plaster a top contender then they will be rewarded with a ticket this ticket can then be spent on our website where they can get prizes that of course encouraging healthy and more more physical activities and so things like trampolines stuff like that basically we want to integrate this program into law just so when kids actually buy their lunches they will get one handed to them or a watch tenant will anima ticket based on what they're eating so basically the is program going to pull up here  the idea is that kids will be able to get redeemed boards but this is only after they go through a certain process of ranks and levels for example if a kid just started the program they will start at level one but they cannot get all the top tier awards but as they continue with the program they continue to eat healthy they continue to exercise and gym class they continue to do other outside activities then they will increase in their level and they will earn more points or badges which is a very cool feature on about the pretty cool stuff that we have plan and how we're going to employ implement them but of course an organization can run with just three co founders so we have asked for volunteers and one of the ways that we are getting volunteers is that the last and s about this community service organization and there's a lot of people willing to actually donate their time towards this cause and we really ask about their support and we hope that we can give them the hours that they need and hopefully that week they can see the impact that they're actually making and mike will talk about very well actually in late december the new members of the n h s will be inducted the junior class right now and we're hoping to find maybe two or three more students that would take our rule after we graduate and will try to handpick the student ourselves and pass this on to them so they can start it in their class and just keep passing it down every so we hope it would just stay in  coordinators planners or what we use as a form bulletin board online software so they'll be foreign ministry it is a form moderate is a form is used to parents to ask questions and for us to kind of communicate jobs and things that need to be  done within the program and we can organize in a quick and concise way to get to all the volunteers so basically the log on to the forum and they'll see what needs to be done and then they can post basically what the articles are being viewed by both m johnson and mr skin and i will be appropriately put in the circuit so that's basically how our form works i think it also said you reach out to ms kelly the school nurse that she can help you with the  think one more thing we want to talk about are nonprofit certification and i think hopefully the next week into next week or two we should become nonprofit certified officially in the state of massachusetts this is not me we're federally example but that will come with time but on this is really handy because once we get our nonprofit certification number we'll start to go if we start to go to stores to get sponsorship we already talked to shah's stop and shop reebok and they were willing to do this and put their name on the brochure and sponsor us give us money prizes and stuff like that but they're just waiting for our certification number which we should be getting in the next week or so and yes it's ok that's why i mean it's just a great example of how we want students to be mentors and and role models for younger kids and to have them do all this work themselves i thought is certainly worthy of us stepping forward to help them and you never know where this can go and how far can go really and i think even today i had a call from have association we want to know do we interest didn't a lot of things they have to offer but one being ideas for non food rewards you know for kids so i thought of you i haven't gotten a list yet but i thought sure we're interested in that you know the elementary principles are how do you reward students without food items for example you know the old you know we said cupcakes and candy we know we don't have that you want so i said sure so you just don't know what the potential is for this but certainly impressive enough that is as i see it it's you know creativity leadership execution and a plan to sustain you know you're doing this and i'm really interested in what was the genesis of your thought to get this going because i see strange first point it's really cool what we've done so far and yeah we really want to make a difference in the community we feel we need to give back to us to a certain extent on the school systems here unbelievable the teachers are great the great influences towards the kids in the schools and we really want to just repay what we we've we've gotten an education and just everything's gotten much better especially over the last few years back to a sense it's not you know one of us has has had this idea every single one of us has added their own part to it to make the way it is today can you model this to other others ghouls or other or gives you have actually our website when you first type  in there's a parent's page you can click on to students page and the school administration page it's like where other schools can apply and right there it's to refer things guys i was going to ask is the website live for public things so i think that's really going to appeal to the younger kids not finitely and hopefully they can you know get access to this in their wildness classes when they're going through the nutrition tips or exercise and they can bring in a t v and show one o clips that kind of dovetails with our technology play and that we're going to discuss later in the meeting and i just give you guys you know two thumbs up this is fantastic you've already put a ton of work into it thank you and it's really a great effort and as mrs  said it is the best thing the younger kids can see is all the kids modeling good choices and smart behavior and this is it make you know yeah like you said with the videos mike actually has a green screen a house so we're going to film in there and there's like so many outgoing and funny kids in the national honor society so we're going to try to get them in the videos and also helpful and entertaining for the children at the same time we many resources to contact this person that person every really really been integral part of why we're able to get this far and opening go even farther i just want to say one more thing on alex and then about the national honor society kids  haven't mentioned impressed me is that when they start to launch at the elementary we're having a meeting actually this wednesday right after a regular i mean to meeting the only difference was going to stay meet with them to talk about how they're going to communicate this to the elementary students and mr johnson will be there as well so  want to ok i might have already said yes and probably forgot to mention it but so they're going going to be doing it personally themselves and like i said to them kids will listen to other kids we were there was into adults so i think this will snowball and really really and in that month all of the drainage has been installed they excavated about four thousand yards of material which has been moved to the back for the future baseball field area  they have re some place that material with gravel so that will have good drainage underneath this time they've put up a curb around the entire field itself which gives us the anchor for the rug that was actually put down the components the first one is green acres doing all the site work and prep and then spring for which is actually the company that was awarded the turf material takes control of the field area once the find great is done so they'll come in and actually were in today interview tomorrow morning again and they validate that all the grades are proper that the compaction is right and that the field is ready for the the turf field because if it's not anything that you do or don't see by eye right now will transfer through and you'll see it when you finally get the final carpet down where you feel when you walk on so there's a very detailed process which is undergone part of today's summit to morrow and once they sign off then they will take control of the field itself and then will be coming in over the next few days is the actual rubber pellets that get installed into that turf want it's laid out that will take up a good part in the parking lot against things a little bit again left earlier but so far  everything is going to extremely well the contractor has been phenomenal the site actually was which probably did pick the best site to do this because of the curial that's underneath that they have done six of these just this year contractor work with a lot of them but this this group is extremely responsive to the point of working back and forth that we needed something on the parking area or they need something that you know was just very simple and easy not a lot of dried out issues so we're virtually about fifty percent actually were probably about it that i wrote but sixty five percent through right now it will take about two and a half weeks once they start putting down the turf itself and you'll have a feel field they have the ability to track stuff off their shoes on a you know hard surface before they actually get onto the turf field itself and so you know virtually you know two half weeks from now there but a week ahead of schedule on cleveland able to jim develops in the chair of sub group everybody's keep an eye on everything and staying involved in deaths that's how things get done really in a good way and one of the big issues obviously is a fine using on this and as you know part of the money that's coming from this there's about  well it's about three hundred seventy five thousand of the money that was left from the high school that's going to this there's more money left but that is going to this part of the field there's two hundred thousand coming in the n f l the n f l we actually received the first check of that today so that was ninety thousand were submitted for the second check so we should have that within a couple weeks it would take a couple weeks to turn it around and then the last twenty thousand is done by completion and so i think you know from from a financial point of view we to the head of the superintendent's group they've they're pushing i've pushed as hard as i can without probably breaking something so i think at this point were a little bit of in a holding pattern but hoping that that's very quickly know i spoke to the head of m s b a personally in july the superintendent's conference but it's the communique it is just say a little slower than we'd like oh that would be good for us at this point so that we can move forward  d we're just waiting sake of not knowing also halakhah ribbon cutting ceremony and since this did start not only with the trip subcommittee with the n f l grant i have reached out to mr crafts team and they are looking to get back to us as a first stage some dates where he's in did make a lot of alternative arrangements during the summer to get ready for this and in talking to the football coaches as well as the band they all seem to be very comfortable that we did what we said we would and they've been able to to get through this so far with little impact and you know the facilities we said we give them we gave them so i think that's it's been very good and i think everybody's kind of feeling comfortable that we're performing as we as it w seventy seven passengers buses that we were looking to replace we're also looking to replace one of our smaller thirty passenger buses the the bid was written because we've had issues with the thirty passenger buses where  most of the buses that are currently offered have a secondary step behind the bus driver which means that a the kids are raised very hard for them to see what's going on within the bus second of all that they have to react to something they've got to step a trip step that could be issued and the third thing is it's a race that now you know step up that you have to bring in we use these buses not only for our regular students but we also use it for special needs students so those are kinds of things that really you know create problems for so we wrote the spec spec very specific to be a flat floored bus the only one i could find at the time was an upper level style bus and we have since found another one the unfortunate thing or i guess fortunate in the in the sense was when the bids came in nobody could bid except for one company could bid the upper level boss and that one company didn't bid the way they were supposed to they actually mean a stake in their bid so they were disqualified so we have found sense another boss that will meet basically given us the offer on two buses at seventy nine thousand two hundred twenty four piece and what they're giving us for a trade on are two older buses both of which are just one to ten ones eleven years old and both are over one hundred thousand miles seventeen thousand in total so that obviously allocate that so our net bid for the the two seventy seven passengers is one hundred forty one for forty eight and as i said just made an error on their things and they didn't send in all the information so therefore they were qualified to dad go has been the bus company we've we've actually bought buses from for the last few years o'connor bus sales we bought from a number of years ago they are out of maine  which obviously would give you your normal concerns as far as more team stuff but they have a deal with tri state which is right up in framingham and they actually will pick up losses and deliver parts and everything so we're no worse off than we concerned you know about that side of it i did even go to the extent of having our town mechanic glen go down home with dennis to actually see one of these buses because again it's something we have to watch over in a few years and there were a number of with so which buses you want to know aren't are going to be what they're going to be replaced with the numbers sure i don't know if i'm going to be honest with you do not bring that with and i know that was one of the questions i was thinking about actually had to get to that point but the other side of it is without any emergency generation and all obviously won't have any kind of power failure at that school we can't run anything we can't run refrigerators freezers so we always if it stays out run for your time we arms it transfer  food to another school that does have that backup capability so the concept was to obviously put a generator in when we looked at the building you know we've all talked about the girl as being the next project to be done and taylor would be the last project system through renovation however this would be one of those items that you don't have to worry about you know losing in a revelation the negative is that the power supply in the panels inside of the taylor school are so old that if you were to actually go for smaller generator and just do life safety items in their freezers you have to do so much electrical work internally to redo leave the power supply inside that your cost gets elevated significant so what we looked out to it as an alternative to that it which would make this even better would be an entire school generator so it would basically be able to run at schools if the power was running from the national  grid and the fact of the cost that we would be is currently right was mitigated by the cost of what we're taking to redo all the electrical panels and switches and in that way the and again we had to generate a company's come in and go through the whole thing and it seemed like the numbers so the the issue here right now is really that i think we have exactly did seem to have enough money and what i'm basically looking to see if the committee would like us to go back and see if we could use on the revolving account so we have one hundred ten thousand that we had allocated for this generator and what were the bids because we don't hold with one hundred thirty three dollars but right now you can't accept of it because we don't know what a dedicated we have any idea that this was what was what the is what you were factoring into is the increase in cost that would be that twenty five thousand well we're not exactly sure why it's coming up higher than one hundred five we know what the generator cost is a generator cost about sixty five thousand dollars for the generator the size that we would need very similar to what we just did  a library but again i think what some of the issues that are coming up is it's an older building that a lot of the attractions are nervous about that connection that they're going to have to make to enter here over switch here so i think they're probably protecting themselves on the bed was really not what you can do about that my question is do you want me to go back i have a window of time here now to look for other resources to determine how come up with enough money or do you feel two hundred thirty three thousand is too much to spend on this project how much of a i virtually have about like you know i can make it for you next meeting you know what i'm sorry i don't have time for it to to make to the next meeting i would like have enough time for what this early to do the work to see if i can come up with the resources in which to pull together know the you know lifetime expectancy of the unit with the frequency it might be used in this region as opposed to in the arizona desert versus knowing it and the cost of the long term cost of ownership do we know those numbers yet they've built into the hundred thirty don't know one hundred thirty three basically is your insulation turnkey to your point and it's the only thing that's not inclusive of that and that is if we have to ask the gas company duprey the line but they've always done  to to us for gratis in every building so obviously they're looking for a figure users that way so but they have come out already once and they think that they have enough supply it's going up to the meters right now the building is not a big gas user most of our suppliers utilities and there are a lector right now so that the system that was brought up was running for the heating system and it was oversized system at the time so we think we're ok with the gas but again that would be the gas company working with us to resolve the as far as the  maintenance and i'm going we maintain obviously for other generators throughout the district we have service contracts on all of them this would come with a five year warranty so during the five years obviously we have very limited exposure after that we've got a couple thousand dollars a year on our meetings costs or service contracts which is you know to run a test and change any of the issues that go along again this being a gas powered one and not a diesel powered one us some advantages on the mean it's two it's it tends to be a lot less than a diesel or so after five years we we would expect about a two to three thousand dollars addition to our maintenance for this new unit has installed it under thirty three and you don't expect any change orders to be coming out at this hundred thirty three this is a very i mean i did have i did hire electrical engineer to develop a plan and put together is protecting them selves from what i'm sorry i'm working on the inside power supply or that what they have to connect because it's an older building so right so they they want to improve upon it or they want to integrate with it have to integrate into it ok probably less than a few days of tough time usage in a normal year last year we probably used a total of about two weeks because we had those outages so you said the lowest bid was one thirty three can you share with us what the other bids were so we have an idea of the episode i did was two hundred fifteen over one hundred thousand more so it does these things happen i visit depends on what somebody feels ok what's the what's the timeframe again with these bits that we have i have virtually another twenty days in which to accept or reject these gap funding from and come back with that at the next meeting yeah counts in reason not to do that and that's the real question so motion we accept motion that we allow the administrative staff to look for other funding was time for next meeting to get that so what i think what will need is a real i am ised list of exactly where those sources are and any revolving accounts that you're going to be suggesting we take the funding for with the balance are like you normally give us and and a copy of all those requests so we can review that before the meeting ok all right can we move on then shoot for your services yes the committee knows one of the goals when we met and our july goal setting workshop one of the goals in our shared school district goals with the committee ministrations shares this new for two thousand and thirteen fourteen  states to continue guidance services at all levels which best support academic achievement with school committee review of career planning opportunities and school to work life skills so this kind of a and if i say renewed or new focus for us as a team here so we've been having a lot of discussions in the last few months with you as a committee and with our minister of team about how do we expand those practical school degree or school to life school to work pack on her team were here at their last meeting to present the senior project pilot proposal the committee voted in favor of we're talking about how we're going to have someone tornado was extra chips and keep an eye on it so as always been interested in more school to career opportunities for students rather than fewer so we formed a plan of how how can we get more services right now we belong to the edinburgh area school to create partnership which we intend to continue to belong to but we are not in bristol county which is the other three towns are in bristol county and we're not so some grant opportunities exist for the other three towns that don't exist for us so we we pay basically what i would consider of a full assessment to the partnership so as you can see from the memo that we prepared for you that through our review of our current school degree of services in meeting with key staff members discussed our structure what we came up with was an alternative model that we feel we'd like to recommend to the committee that you consider voting for us to move to and that is to take our school to career specialist who now works for the partnership and employ that staff member directly ourselves in the fo republic schools which gives us more flexibility it allows that career specialist to work on projects that we have interest of that may not be part of the partnerships particular goals for that year or focus areas if you will and it would also have a skiing time so right now in the school to clear specialist works forty hours a week if we were to employ that person directly as a staff member then we could increase to five it's not something we can direct the partnership to do for example so we feel that bringing the position in house would give us that extra time flexibility and allow us to expand and take the already exciting programs that we get through the partnership and do some work things for students that are that are good so i'm going to turn over a little bit to this is my spackle to explain why she also thought it was a good idea so having somebody four days a week is great but to have them five days a week and to have that flexibility of that individual in this building for planning purposes for meeting with students for being able to plan those field trips so many of our students have been able to go out on that you all have heard about in the last year that we've been able to and to and to have us is the final determinant of what we are going to do and when we're going to do it  would be wonderful instead of in some cases being on the calendar or at it when you use the term mercy negative but you know if somebody else is out there who can also say no that doesn't quite work so that this for this role in this individual it's just going to benefit our kids you know and benefit our i think our students five days a week one hundred eighty five days out of the year one hundred eighty days out of the year and really we can begin to expand and i think further develop what we already have going on now you can see on the second page we have the cost analysis outlined for you bill and i did meet with the attleboro erie school to create partnership director this afternoon to make sure there were no obstacles or roadblocks and there are not we would still be a member of the partnership we would still have the ability to fully participate in all of their partnership activities we would just pay i would call it in a while so call it a membership or subscription rate which is much lower so that's that's part of the increase cost is that we would be taking on the salary but still paying a membership or subscription rate for that would have you not sure exact word for that but we met with her for about an hour this late this afternoon and there were no barriers and there's no financial negativity for the partnership because they're not carrying that person as well and they're getting our fee so it's really we decided you know after meeting with her there were no barriers and it's really kind of a win win win for everybody that we can you give us an example of the type of thing we would still perhaps  maintaining our membership with them yes as you know the partnership as any agency establishes their goals and their focus for any given year and over time so actually they provided us recently with with a list of activities that our kids get through the partnership that our school specials would still be involved in helping with the planning and the organization for all these events i think that the most visible is the credit fair for life that we've talked about before and we are trying to send more of our kids there there's to be some cost so that we're looking at part of the high school guidance of career budget for that so we have we had one hundred ten and slash you go to the credit fair for life i'll just read you the whole list why not these are all career exploration activities future aviation day green airport in rhode island thirty nine students went there twenty one students went to something i should know but it's empty what i think it is in a minute twenty five kids went to new england tech to explore the opportunities their seventeenth didn't want to johnson wheels twenty six to porter in chester as a career up exploration opportunity fourteen to bob's discount furniture twenty three students participate in future educators day seven future nurses day he said one hundred ten credit for life twenty two construction career day which is always popular the certified nursing assistant program with three that's quite a media program with three students and that's in alberto that four in the teacher apprentice program we had one hundred eighteen job placements students national portfolio day eleven students went to boston for that with guidance support this is also this is what we do in partnership ninety went to the national college fair that and that's it and this year they expect to have an opportunity is fair which we were interested for some heard about today where they're hoping for some time in the winter post for high school students who don't have college plans or unsure of that that they were being opportunities for to identify kids who weren't sure they wanted to do want to hire read and what opportunities exist for them in career and work in the military you know other options for them so we would identify students who are interested in going to an opportunity for so those the kinds of things the partnership does regularly there's a great benefit to us and then beyond that it could be anything really that we're interested in the sky's the limit i think so so basically you're saying the difference between these two pos chris specialist work full time forty hour work week which would be an additional day at the it working right now and a few additional days that would be basically what the teachers work about one hundred not that they would be part of the teachers association but one hundred eighty five day work career then give us gives us an additional day to expand absolutely our school to career opportunities which of course we've been talking about the end of lee i mean i've always been very impressed with the list he's brought forth every year and  they're giving you know students an opportunity for a real life experiences it's just you know you just just i think invaluable i don't know what other members you know other members they want to speak to this whether they have questions or i would like to know when you think you could start and how or where you think the additional fourteen thousand would be funded from we we are down half a position in particular department that we didn't need in i'm just going to say case loads give us the very thing i can say so we're not going to fill that position we looked at case was very carefully so that's a half of a teacher's salary  so that actually is is going to come in handy because there are there the happy news is we have a lot of people expecting babies this year so some of those some of those things that we don't expect that we have to account for we guess every year but we seem to i think will never be a year in that case so we will need some of that too to go towards things like that however we won't need the whole amount so i think it's very fair to say that if half a teacher's salary at this point even a veteran teacher or some experience is say up to thirty five thousand dollars for salary that this is where we would get that so given that that recently happened we felt pretty comfortable that rather than wait a year and put it the next budget which is what we're talking about in july you might see it really could happen now we did we went over the financials with the partnership coordinator and what we would really do is that whatever pay the payments have been made to the person as a partnership staff member we would reimburse for as part of this and then pay the the membership because we haven't paid our membership fee to them yet we haven't paid our assessment yet so it can be done still it's still early in the year we just got the bill for the assessment a few weeks ago so they're good if if the school committee is in favor of this and vote in the affirmative then i will speak to her tomorrow and they would issue us with a new assessment at the rate that you see there six thousand two hundred forty and then we go from at our retreat about you know school career being incredibly important and i think we're always impressed with how many programs guidance from our school of course specialist do but i think we thought this was increasingly important i personally like this very much you know the same person sort of being here four days be here five days under our direction for a incremental fourteen thousand that we think we already have in the budget from being down have teacher position i'd love it till you know it sinks in a little bit and i am a little lost in what the actual net net dollar figures are we going to increase is it going to be an increase in benefits or a burden that we have to factor in there i don't know be eligible for benefits but we're just why we're down the one staff member and then up this so we felt that we're not seeing you know surprising the town with an increased load you know with that because if we did have a  risky in a bad way but do we want to put this forward to your thoughtful consideration now or the senior project and not only just new project but as you know we're interested in and we are pursuing exter and ships and job placement opportunities with companies in the area we need somebody to coordinate that we cannot ask the existing korea specialist to coordinate those things because she doesn't work for us in so she her job is to carry out the the focus areas for the partnership so our what we decided was it was worth putting out for your consideration now because without that we don't have a designated person to coordinate these new extreme chips and community partnerships that we're reaching out toward nor do we have someone who should be the point person for the senior project so that might bumble a little bit without a point person so everything just kind of came together and said you know we just said to me it's worth certainly bringing it forward to you in september and it certainly we have a qualified person who has has demonstrated her full commitment and her capabilities is really about changing to a new model right you know not about the person i want to make sure it's changing to a model that and going forward will benefit our students and all of us with more time and flexibility and to be honest a sense of direction that we want that that may be different from what for the town is very valuable i think to be able to do that we'll continue to have the opportunities that have been available in the past plus whatever we choose to add in the future is right i think it's actually kind of a given given we're always working as a team you know with ideas that we're coming up with and can we can we do how would this fit where can this where can this go in and to have this is as an expanded full time position it's just we just see it as a win win for the reason i think if we agree to it and you know it's sounding like we're getting there i think part of what i'd be interested in at least is you know your thoughts on what the this brings us right i think we get excited about what we think it will bring us and then i think i'd be great to see the actual absolute is already on hand who could look at step into this and handle it very capable so i would like to make that motion that we were voting on the fourteen thousand four hundred sixty dollars to correct you vote and then people can decide if they want to or abstain or you know the majority will dictate whether it passes or not right and rightly so any other further discussion does it work well i start a little bit of an introduction you know in talking about a new version of a technology plan for quite a while  coming up with a new technology plan was really important to me and i know to the committee because we all share a desire to have a tech plan that doesn't just communicate what we need for infrastructure or that i would say the traditional things tech plan that for example is to be submitted to the state but really a desire to begin discussion and in something for your consideration i'm going to call this a first pass so to really develop a technology plan that can be easily communicated to parents to students to the community about where we're trying to go with technology in terms of its central role in advancing the learning process and that's the kind of tech plan that you don't often see the more traditional tech play and with infrastructure and how many computers per student that's what we're used to seeing so because this is such a complicated task i want to just take you back in terms of the steps that we went through so we didn't just look at other people's plans and write something up quickly we really took this whole school year this pascual year just about and the first thing we did as there is an entire ministry of team some just doing the back an introduction i'm going to turn it over to the detail people  we together read empowering the twenty first century superintendent five themes and action steps for technology leadership which you see the overview of the core design of this because we realize that we need to understand more about what's out there for information about the role of technology in education what is the central role and what are we doing to define that role and to communicate what we're trying to do so we read this and we actually took each of the themes and action steps separately at and ministry of team meetings one at a time and we went through and all of us contributed to what does this mean for us what things in the theme do already have in place what themes what action steps or recommendations are they making within each of those five t that is an implication for us that we haven't really thought out of we don't have in place yet so this that took us several months to go through we started with that from that we took a logic model and we took all of our thoughts from that minister of team we were the four actually the five of us it was paul amy bill myself and only gruber the director of special education so we put on a logic model that we brought it back to the full ministry of team and we went through that so we really took a step by step calling it a thought and learning process i don't know what else to call it the third thing we did is we took this two thousand and thirteen new media new media consortium it's called the enemy which horizon report k twelve version they also have a higher ed version and one of the findings they publish is every year and this was helpful we read this and we we went through it at the august ministry of retreat and what they talk about in here is what are the ongoing themes in technology and education in the role what are the primary her mary challenges involved in current use occasional k twelve systems and then what's on the horizon in the next one to three years what's happening in the next three to five years what  expect to be happening in the next ten years so we thought in learned through that we took all of these ideas and put them into leadership teams activities and benchmarks we also reviewed the department of justice department of education technology benchmarks and there were six those some of them were the standard things that you know about infrastructure in those things and some of them are aligned with the educational technology primary role we also looked at the national  technology goals and standards that any found for us so you can see our vision i'll just read that in case people can't see it the facts of public schools envisions a compelling pre k twelve learning environment in which students and staff have access to technolog that promote twenty first century teaching and learning this environment leverage is technology to provide access to authentic learning experiences that maximize student prepare students to be productive citizens in a competitive global society now everything in here is open to feedback and input as i said this is our first pass including the vision so we're really looking for some p back from the committee we're also in the next few weeks on invite community members of anybody out there is watching his interest in the area please let me know we're going to a small group a focus group of community members come in and go through the plan with us going to bring it back to the ministry of team and we're also going to put it out for teacher comment and feedback as well and have it available for public  so that our vision i won't go through the introduction but you can see that from the consortium for school networking which is one of the primary sources of educational technology  information the cosen group talks about three waves of educational technology the first wave is that infrastructure the hardware the software the networking the band with the funding community support educator capacity the second wave is the supporting and enabling applications in the past few years you've heard a lot about that second wave applications we've purchased in order to streamline what we do to make it more effective to include student information systems online testing distance learning  type things that we do all of the applications we purchase to me and it's data those are called supporting enabling applications and we've to the third wave is really what we're where we're trying to go it's the transformative applications that fully infuse integrate technology into asked aspects of educational system so that for us is really where our biggest challenges think we've kind of got the infrastructure down where we've certainly moved along in the last six years in the supporting and and now we're really going to try to concentrate more thoughtful way on the transformative application so we do consider this a working doctor and we hope that it will communicate the examination and adaptation of the role technology plays in our schools as bill and paul is she goes through so clearly when we think about those three challenges those waves that third one that he was mentioning with the integration of technology sustainability is really important how do we monitor that how do we make sure that it's taking place and it's taking place effectively so the sustainability plan is really important what we do have in plan and have had in place for a number of years is the technology steering committee this particular group is made up of administrators teachers and meets monthly myself and paul co chair that group and that really is a think tank in a sense so you can see here in this section the purpose of the technology steering committee and i'll just read because it is kind of small on the screen there for those that might be listening at home and that really it is a group that examines our technology systems our current systems that are in place and how we're using those and we talk about whether it's hardware software or the technology integration it's also a group that provides guidance on any issues or a challenges that arise when it comes to implementation of any of those things and as far as infusing the technology into our curriculum it's really important that technology is not separate it is something that maximizes and engages the student learning and it really motivates engages them it also is a group that helps identify the strengths of where we're doing really well of infusing technology and then in those areas that are are challenging to us as far as from the curriculum the instruction the pedagogy side and then really importantly to prioritize those needs and so some of those things that have become priority that we've talked a lot about recently are things such as the new data analytics system with pearson and form and that really drives the data that we look at and so that we are not just data rich and information poor but we're really looking at how we're using that data to improve student achievement so the technology steering committee is one group we also have other systems in place such as our professional development committee and we connect those dots between those two groups purposes are slightly different but really it's the same goal and that is to maximize student learning and what we're doing for our students so the goals of this plan as debbie was talking about all of those different sources that we went to in anything that we do we need to triangulate our data and take from different sources so many of the things that came into play here where those things that she mentioned before and looking at the national technology plan that was done in two thousand and ten from many experts across the country we looked at those goals those five goals and saw that they really match up with everything from all of these other sources and that it made sense for us because that is what we're doing to adopt those goals as is so what i'd like to do is to go through those five goals i will stop after each one give you a couple of examples any discussion that you have on each of those goals and what it looks like from the curriculum instruction and then the infrastructure so the first goal is that all learners will having gaging and empowering learning experiences both in and outside of school that rare them to be active creative knowledgeable and ethical participants in our globally networked society so some of those key words that you see there might remind you of those twenty first century skills very much things that you saw just in our teaching and learning highlight this evening so clearly it really is exploiting the flexibility in the power of technology here to reach all of our learners anytime anywhere that is the goal so as a couple of examples when we look at how the district is encouraging innovative strategies for delivering content and high quality courses one of those examples is virtual high school looking at the number of seats that we have are we meeting the needs of all of our students do we need to look at increasing the number looking at opportunities for those courses for our students another example when we look at and see their classroom applications for virtual learning including courses projects field trips and discussions that is a piece here for the technology steering committee looking at how we're investigating different virtual learning opportunities for our students when is it being used there are so many different open educational resource resources that are out there but to what degree are people using those it really does transform how students learn it is a way they're learning so much outside of the classroom in addition to in the classroom so that potential there to really increase student learning is is huge another example here and he is again it goes back to that technology steering committee and reviewing and looking at it as a very simple c f o of our digital citizen ship curriculum looking at when does it take place we worked a lot of our technology skills curriculum for grades k to for the test the internet safety the being a good digital citizen talking about how that translates in a digital world versus just being citizens we talk about a caring school communities and then taking and transferring that into a digital world so looking at those existing curriculums and where that takes place in our we maximizing that this particular figure is why i'm that gets from the national technology play and that it really shows what learning should look like and you see the student is here at the center of a it's plain that it's not just the student it's all of these critical pieces that are here they're at the center and they take control of their own learning but at the same time it's talking about how they should learn so when you see things such as learning communities we're having students in gauge with other students blogging through wikis that are in place to be able to take learning and maximise time extended time outside the school day the knowledge building tools you might be familiar with some of those things that your own children use to to build content knowledge such as wolfram alpha is one that students can go to when they're looking for to torrijos in a certain way there are things like khan academy there are so many free resources that help extend time on learning for students that we are showing those to students so they can learn in multiple ways outside of the classroom the own videos that our own teachers do you saw the document camera here in the past and having students teach other students and loading those to school tube those are so many different ways that we can extend opportunities to show learning in a different way the personal learning network you might be involved in a personal learning network appeal and yourself students being involved in those through collaborative discussions through edmodo that feeing used here at the high school and really this this group or learning it enhanced is the students learning on the partnerships that they're able to form by their participation in blogs and wikis and so many different of these vehicles that we have to extend their learning whether it's through experts in particular content areas we know that really the  world is flat and connecting with experts outside of our school walls whether they're scientists or writers and authors and there's just it really is it's opened up so much that we can do so i really think that here is showing how technology helps students express themselves and many different ways game or learning outside of the school walls and that this particular diagram was one that we thought that was really important depicting how the student learns and that they're at the center that it's the teachers and it's the parents and peers and coaches and such that really extend the learning so that that's the first goal and those are just some of the exit examples of things that we've started to include but obviously as we continue to these different stakeholder groups there will be more that will go towards each of these goals so i'll stop there with that first goal for any discussion or question mean get into what kind of devices kids have access to at home and extending the learning day in analysis of that kind of thing it does it also that's also incorporated into one of the later goals when it gets more into the construction in the  construction the the curriculum and the different tools such as our digital our e books and those kinds of things but this one is really to show that it's the students in the middle and there's all of these things outside of education take education is driving technology so you know how our students you know communicate within all these goals that we're trying to set up are things that we're trying to make the technology actually be able to achieve so you know whether it's a device that they have or a device that we supply we're trying to look at the ways that we need to meet using technology to get there so this whole plant basically it turns the tables around and says ok where are we taking our curriculums where  taking the learning experiences and what do we need to do in our long term plans to basically achieve that and again yes we will still have links to you know the different you know technology that we have in place today in our c people still reflect the model that we have today as far as what we're going looking for going forward but all of those are based on what the curriculum basically saying we need to be able to provide but i really like it i love this packet this is my favorite thing in the packet this or here's what i really like particularly if we if we if we look at that diagram i think the folks at home probably can see it clearer than the folks here but we have it resources it's holistic in the sense that his mentors and people that support them with this is the bring your own technology or and or down the line we will provide or have available technology for you but i think one of the important things also is looking forward to this program the implementation is going to make sure the parents and caregivers are in on this and made aware of this i had trouble with the domino math in elementary school and my children came home with it let alone you know a tablet device so i like that there's already a community built around the student and then i looked and you know it like the  stuff that that's referenced in here in the pearson stuff and it always says let's all come together and that has that's the execution and the elegance and the execution i think we're completely on the right path it really is a model that's powered you know learning is powered by technology and to your point talking about the parents involvement so when you look at that right there next to the mentors and coaches and the online tutoring and guided courses one of the examples that comes to mind is you heard this earlier and back later at the end of the spring the the fact fluency the different apps on i pads are online where students could go and they actually e mailed their results to allison melo and she responded back so here's a way of having someone else and we heard from parents being so excited and the kids even this past week one of the students at the middle school when he saw mrs mallow said you emailed me back because and they're still summer's over but she still has students going on and accessing these particular to turiaf and just sending her the results because it's  engaging and they're getting feedback from somebody else that's kind of a mentor or a coach in a different way that's not their teacher i hope you're going to do parent technology night again this year because that also to your point about getting parents involved  really instructive as to what's going on in the classroom at all different levels elementary middle and high school and i found it very helpful my kids have so far surpassed me in the technology area that is seeing what they were doing and learning how i can you know help them or they can help me with really great information to have so i hope you going to do that and i think the immediacy is wonderful too i know we saw with our kids a lot of the turnitin dot com the feedback that they get from their teachers you know like that and that's the medium that they're used to now that's how they communicate with each other they play games and get information i think we're doing great things and i'm glad to see it in this format though and i can't wait to see what our community members think of this play and contribute to it i think they'll have a lot to say about it but you mention can technically we should have an action step in there that says about sustaining that i hope so i really i'm thinking that it's temperance and you know a certain elegance to the way this is the way i read that you want to do your point as far as that so here's an example the technology steering committee we've had the technology parent night for two years in a row and having parents come out again it's challenging with a number of nighttime activities or babysitting and those things and by going back and really reflecting on what kind of message we're trying to get out to parents and to show these things what's another way that we can engage more parents so this year we are intending to do the same thing but we're going to tweak it a little bit by having students there for them to show the power of technology and how they're using it in their classrooms and i think that our students here are high school tonight when they are really giving kudos to what they've learned from their teachers it's true we're very fortunate to the degree of what they're doing with students and to have the students come in to showcase those applications right thank you second goal is assessment and it's really measure what matters and looking at the assessment data that we're using for our continuous improvement and example he here is that we look at the products that we're currently using and how they can improve teaching and learning one example are the electronic response systems the wisdom is that we have it provides very quick formative assessment where we can check for understanding very quickly a lot of time students are reluctant they do not want to raise their hand in class they may know the answer or maybe they're not sure using a device such as the quizzed allows teachers to pose a question the kids have these little clickers you know they answer the question the teacher can see who's answering it correctly who's not it's a quick way to check for understanding the kids like it because it's like a game show in a sense but it provides another way to get information as far as where is their learning and any stumbling blocks that they have right then and there so that's a way to have a formative telling us what we need to do next for assessment the conducting an audit for our current assessed and assessment system and how we're using our formative assessments  summative assessments of those when learning is still taking place in those of whom we're checking for understanding at the end of summit and using analytics that's the pearson inform we had a full training where we trained all of our teachers in august on using that system where all of our information about students where we can track student progress over time we can look and see where are they if they're starting to falter at a particular time of year we can look back at their their course their academic course and see not just report card grades but whether it's in cas whether it's our own district assessments anything writing samples that we do and having that within this system you know let x and the conversations that we have around student work is powerful and the direction that we move teaching preparing connect this is really looking at our professional professional educators being supported and the team's technology that connects them to data on ten resources expertise learning experiences that enable and inspire more effective teaching for learners we've had the good fortune of having colleagues teach colleagues we really do have our teacher stepping up and we talk about students will listen to students colleagues will listen to colleagues and when they're using something effectively in their classroom and seeing student student results they're going to want to see that practice and learn from that our own teachers not only are they teaching teachers here you've heard from them through our local staff development opportunities going out teaching teachers in other communities they learn from other teachers just by teaching them as well so it provides opportunities for them to learn about other resources that are free from their colleagues next door through professional learning communities meeting together again learning things to enrich content and to extend students learning outside of the classroom looking at our own curriculum and assessing opportunities for problem based learning inquiry in the application of twenty first century skills that's one of the things that we're focusing on we talk about the critical thinking and the twenty first century skills the amount of opportunities and how students are being able to be creative and show their own way what they've learned and many different ways so it's it's giving some common definitions with twenty first century skills to students but to make sure that there's a collective understanding across teachers and what that looks like in a classroom and learning from each other technology literacy looking at our students and we assess them in fourth and eighth grade on a twenty first century skill assessment that's something that's done each year and it measures our students as they're leaving elementary and they're leaving the middle school on specific twenty first century skills where are we doing really well where are areas of challenge and looking at our curriculum and how that impacts our instruction and what's taking place so we have measurable goals here at least ninety percent of our eighth graders to show proficiency in all of the technology literacy standards looking at the skills by fourth grade and then our teaching staff looking at their  identified within these assessments because how students are doing are a direct reflection of what we're doing in the classroom with teachers as you can see as this gets into the teaching and learning there's many many more goals and action steps that connect here to this particular goal and this goes back to professional development and making sure that it's sustained over time and that we're supporting our educators through just in time workshops through professional development days that we have during the school year and that any of these common technologies that are used such as the quiz dumbs that teachers understand how to use them and then to train the trainer model would be one of the action steps that you see there create the train the trainer model for common technologies such as the wisdom of the document cameras and providing accessible go to people in each of the buildings it's not surprising that you have some teachers that jump right on to particular technologies and they see particular applications right away others might not see it as quickly but when they see something that's taking place with one teacher then they're more apt to say i think i can do the same thing because i definitely see that can be used in this particular area so professional development that ongoing train the trainer is really important in this is really referencing that we're looking at the new standards which are the national education technology standards there are standards that are set for teachers for administrators for students and now most recently for coaching these standards tell us what students should know and be able to do in the area of technology one thing i'd like to point out throughout this plan is you'll see in the footnotes that there are links we want this to be a working document one that not only you can look at here but as we date other things whether it's our mission statement on the website whether it's other documents that have to do with the cia and the budget and those things that we're linking to those who if you want more information all you have to do is click on this document because it's live to go directly to those so here as an example at the bottom of this particular page it links to all of the net standards what do those look like for students teachers if i click on those it will take me directly to that document i can look to see well what are expected here this is do the international society for technology and education it's an international organization that really is the leader in education so if i go to the net's standards for teachers i will be able to look at the standards for all of the different indicators here what does it look like to facilitate and inspire learning and creativity and then it goes through and it just explains these are the expectations for teachers and what they should be doing in classrooms to enhance content and learning  instantly if we decide as we did leave in the spring that to do with wireless forward on the high school side of things wasn't in the dock and it wouldn't have been in the document at that point time now not only can be updated quickly and  people can see that we're making the moves and why we're doing it instead of having a fixed document doesn't change it when you look across all of these standards really shows that these are not discrete skills this is what should be embedded within teaching and learning so i kind of went through goals two and three of year without stopping any questions on two and three go forward this is where i'm going to turn part of this over to have these gentlemen on either side of me as we look at the infrastructure here because this really is looking at having that copper and hence of infrastructure in order to support what taking place but know what let me just back up for just a minute before we go there because i skipped over and it's really important that i don't this is the second diagram here and the first one showed the student at the center and this one here is showing the teacher at the center and  this is really showing that we have all of these things around us that support the teacher the learning community is there for teachers just as it is for students it's looking at how we're teaching particular concepts teachers looking to other teachers some of us have looked at well i didn't do math that way i don't know how they're teaching math the different ways that teachers teach teachers can go and look i mean that's something that we had when i when i was in the classroom we didn't have this opportunity to go and look at i have a student struggling or not understanding the concept what's another way to teach this the opportunities really are there out there and you can connect to anyone and looking at different ways to try to reach students and the teacher created content that's there it's amazing we talk about what we learn from teachers next door what teachers learn from other teachers from what they've created i think that some people they just live and breathe this and they they create content that's there that's unbelievable i've heard teachers talking about oh i went on pinterest and i'm looking at just the classroom and how they set it up and i want to live in that classroom you know the things that they're able to learn it really is amazing that even notes so the cross pollination happens almost naturally of people by the end of the what are they call it becoming facilitators and collaborators you know for each other truly cool stuff in the  increase in teachers taking whether they're hybrid courses are online courses you've had some that would not go anywhere near an online course and they may be started off through a hybrid course where it's a little bit of face time in a little bit on line and they started to realise that i can i can really learn a lot through online courses and if you've taken on my courses the amount of work because it's like you're on twenty four seventh's constantly having to post discussion and it becomes much richer because of the kinds of discussion that will take place so it willie is connecting teachers to other experts in the field and as a result impacting students in a very positive way levels of students testing facilities at the same time so having a plan that basically would get us there you know one of our steps towards the wireless environment we felt would give us some of that accessibility not having to be locked into labs and rooms that way  having the ability to deal with you know individual users that might have devices they can bring in and then some that obviously we might to supplement so it gave us some you know thought on how we have to achieve some of these goals in that sense when you look at the the benchmarks and the general education curriculum for all students including states with disabilities you know you all know a couple years ago you adopted the i pad concept you know our spend programs again being able to take even those type of programs further within our district and give additional access and additional capabilities is one of the standard gen our technology infrastructure is going to have to be able to maintain not just in the smaller clubs that we've done it already i think in in all cases you'll see that one of the problems with infrastructure and access basically is that there's always a top dollar value tied to this and so as the plan originally said tying everything to a you know  you know a way of doing this but a way that we can afford to do this also is very important for our prioritizing our entire network of whether it's computers or you know connections software the whole thing we have to look really into the structure on a core basis and on a program basis to decide where that money goes each year and how to best spend it so most of these priorities will see that me sickly its life cycle has seen a lot of it in the past you know we know our computer basically with a five year life but what's that next phase going to be like we've already started to allude to the fact that we won't be looking to replace computers every five years at some point here we're going to make the switch to this one on one whether it's you know the ability and access for  people to bring in their own devices and again that's a key component to this so we're always again trying to use our c h p and our community outreach to under let them understand how our budget process is going and what the plan is to move this whole process for i think it's good that what you've been doing with the infrastructure you know building a good strong skeleton first because if the infrastructure is strong in future proof to the money for that one and one gear that we may need down the road if if we do if we have slot guards instead of actually i think the switches with the blades in a mirror something like the future yeah and i think you know we look at a lot of what other communities have done and i mean one of the fortunate things in  building a new building as an example is you get the ability to just jump out and get some support from the state on your first run the problem is and you go back to the original comment sustainability here is while that's really nice in that the state supported maybe doing a whole high school with a one on one  five years from now or four years from now you're going to start something again and that state funding is gone our plan really needs to look at it more from the perspective and i don't want to say that i'm happy we can just get everything i want shot and not have to figure out that's not but what really is is that we're happy that we're actually be able to take this step by step and and move forward now to your point were unfortunate not starting at the court going all the way back and saying well how much you know share our information i would look like as far as coming into those we're kind of back feeding a little bit but we least think we have a good plan that solid based on you know the the ideas and concepts for this internet access is obviously one of the main ways obviously all this information is going to flow going so the connectivity again i think the wireless does a lot for us we know we need to move that down in the levels of high school but down to the middle school and at some point we're also looking at what the concept will look like on the elementary level we know it's not the same on each of the three levels so again you know looking at the way the technology group kind of lay this out how they see an interview interacting  is very important you know how we actually move forward with you know the speed of our processing though we're actually almost in a test mode now with the wireless just starting to come online here we'll start to get an impact over the next you know few months exactly what our capabilities are today and what we need to be and again that will help us to understand what the plan is for the next three to five years on the data that needs to be able to move through the system during the day and even after  school because as you know some of the programs have been put together you know last year one of the ones that was introduced basically gave the children the students there the ability to come into our networks after hours to get their own homework in their own data and look at things that way that also is using our band was they had to move within it so you know as we go here we're going to continue to expand and if you know of areas that we're concerned over here we believe to get the all the information moving at the speeds that everybody's expecting it to happen  do can i ask a question there's a lot of material here and i'm trying to kind of for people at home listening and as we look at these action plans in the timeline and you mentioned bell about the three five years and all of this data that you're going to hopefully gather now i'm assuming to then provide the basis for how we're going to be moving forward between this three to five year plan these these dates is this something that at a future meeting that we're going to be seeing because these are  of these identified benchmarks are obviously the goals that we and actions that you're going to take to achieve our goals but how does this kind of fit into this this broader timeline that's in that in each of these  benchmarks in terms of real specifics about how we're going to move from two thousand and thirteen to twenty fourteen twenty fifteen to twenty sixteen where we really get more is that the work to be done kind of down the road i should because some some of actually are timelines and some of the benchmarks you see actually come from the department of ed expectations which sometimes when you read them it's like we're not going be able to achieve that by that certain time i think they have sometimes have a glorified you know  vision of how all the school districts can snap to make all the suddenly appear so some of the but all the benchmarks you see are noted with the massachusetts expectations for benchmarks but you're right our timelines right now are kind of general general because this is our first pas what we did was go through and say we need to worry about the content and not all the details right now in the first pass so what we kind of did was say are we going to be able to move ahead with this particular action so this year if yes let's put it down if it's going to take us two years and you'll see a two year span if we think we're not going to get to it to a year from now or two years from now than you'll see that noted so right now they're sort of our generic ballpark's about when we think we're going to start moving on some of these action items but there is a lot you're right you don't see specific months necessarily yet because this is our first pass at trying to get the content in the air properly so some of the things we didn't worry about so for example the question mark provide wireless connectivity in our classrooms in the elementary schools we really begin to talk about that yet in detail so i had no problem put i put the question mark there because i felt that we really had that discussion and do we want or think we need wireless in the elementary and we probably do but without the conversation we're guessing that it doesn't suck going to look like it does the high school where every classroom has it can have to have the capacity for the student is probably going to look something like maybe along the corridors or somebody happens to have some thing they need to wireless there's an access point but not to the extent it would be here so because we really haven't talked about it in terms of that's something we're definitive on but the department of ed says yes that you should be thinking about it i've got a question mark as they really don't know right now it's not a big priority so i don't even know when we'll get around to really discussing i mean that's a great point to be it's almost like when we view this almost as our strategic plan for technology and it's fluid it's going to be changing right as we move along we'll be inserting dates will be  identifying responsible parties will be looking at the current status it's kind of our roadmap right now in terms of how we want to view technology for the next five years in perfectly state and you'll also see i mean as this evolve band you know assuming everything we're doing is just tying to it all rather things where our budget you know will you'll see it reflect on whether it's you know potentially a staffing wars or services or whatever we'll tie to how these goals lay out the c i p budget as you know is a five year project that lays it out and you'll see that a lot of these things are laid out in there already obviously will be modified as we move through this in this get refined further but there are already out there as goals that we know we need to do to achieve the back door of what this is basically telling us to do so it's not technology's telling curriculum what to do it's i reckon is telling us what to do on the right side and that's the other point i was going to make which i love which is that the educational requirements as you might benchmarks are providing the rationale for these action plans and they're providing the rationale for why funding will be spent on particular x y or z technology to support that education in a classroom yes ok so i mean it's just there's a lot of information for people at home who's you know we're kind of walking through i just wanted to kind of provide an opportunity for people to understand how the bigger picture because there is so much detail certainly appreciate all of all the work that's gone into develop this a lot of important information here and i think something you know we're talking about the bring your own device we have to look at our broadband connection is it going to be able to support that when you have a a lot as far as the number of devices that are on the network at once and being able to have that simultaneous traffic if you well be able to handle that and we could we currently have twelve hundred ninety two works was just lying and while it's at the at the high school in would for while it's every classroom has the potential of the number of students and staff of well over a thousand more devices on our network in a very short amount of time so just just one correct so that each student can bring one device or as the how that goes and we do try to be thoughtful and then proceed i think that's one reason why you were successful you're not jumping in when you're stopping looking and listening before you cross the street you're not jumping in with both feet and in another piece here on our networking when you look at it in the example here of remote access this is something that teachers are so excited being able to access their computer from home and access their files to file sharing but the other piece now is being able to access software so if there's a particular software on their computer at school that it's a school software piece but they're wanting to access it from home they may not have that software on their computer at home they're going to in the future be able to log in through remote access and access that software and utilize it  know i think that the the key there is obviously you know we all have different levels of papers at home it's not like at least in the schools where it was somewhat marginalized the entire base of systems out there even though there are different agencies you know we're running  basically the same operating system so with that when you get to you know twenty seven hundred students in x amount of homes you can pretty much be sure that someone's got a ten year old son who's got a one month old and and that whole process of how they can access the exact same thing every day again it's up to technology to come up with ways of doing it and it's this type of remote process to actually run our software at their software eliminate  an issue so these are these are the steps that you know when you look at what paul and his group had to do you have to constantly do through the process here every single one of them is how do i make sure it's still available to everybody and how do i step backwards  because we can come out of the great technology but if only ten percent can use it really doesn't do us much good so this ensures that you're going to be working from a long long time doesn't it well i don't know about working for a long long time but working an awful where if we pick the device then we can manage the device and we can make it work in one single fashion the challenge with many devices is is what he wanted to but in a way where we're using the horse power that we provide so that then minimizes the quality of the device it's on the other end so it's an area that we've been working out for quite a long time and we will continue to work out but we're starting to see the light if you know five i'm just i want to point on go for is that you know when we look at what the department of ed requires in the technology plan it's looking towards the safety and security of our students and so you see there that it's not outlined in an action plan because that is something that we take obviously very seriously is balancing connectivity with student safety so you also see those pieces from the department of ed requirements that we have what we have to be simple compliant and looking  at the internet and the network use and in student safety so goal five our education system at all levels to redesign processes and structures to take advantage of the power of technology to improve learning outcomes while making more efficient use of time money and staff and within this school here we're really looking at how we're using our staff and being resourceful and being fiscally responsible and looking at the hardware and software applications that we use and how we use that in conjunction with professional development in our contracted services whether there's the subscriptions that we use and we think about some of our online subscription such as the k twelve insight that is a subscription we pay but the information that we get back from that is enormous and it really provides great  information to us as far as in culture and climate and looking at how we're meeting more than just that the student achievement needs so that's really looking at how we're we're being efficient with our time and with our staff to with the technology integration specialists looking at how to maximize time and resources of things that we have in place and making sure that any of the purchasers that we make whether they're human resources or computer resources that all of that is very impressive extreme  bring some of those people in and have a focus group where the four of i sit with them and really listen to feedback on really what the play and says and in whether we have adequately represented the role of technology as as we see it in as bill's point we see technology being in service of the curriculum delivery and if it is going to do it so we don't want to do technology for technology's sake it's only if it's in service of some of the goals that we have for the general curriculum so have updates going on so that's our plan but he wants to weigh in we'd welcome it we expect a better iteration of this by the end of october and then as you say as we said going to be a life document my credit paul for the life link idea i think that's every little piece and everything we've learned and all of our as i thinking evolves so it finally is our first step at trying to communicate where we're trying to go and we hope that we continue to be able to do that i want to thank you for ine and six hundred planning in sustainability what we would like to do if you look at that second paragraph under the planning and sustainability headline the text during committee as it is now with teachers administrators and c paul needs to continue its current role which is to really look at everything we're doing in part two we're doing however that is the same committee you don't want to invent a new committee for example to monitor this plan but that is the same committee that she also be charged with keeping track of what's in here and inviting a wider range of stakeholders so what our plan is is to keep the check steering committee together as it is and most of the meetings will be about our internal business as all of our teams and committees are but that twice a year we would like it to temporarily expand to include that we're calling it adjunct advisory members so we would like a school committee member or two and this is this is also a team that exists to inform the leadership team or the superintendent about our direction so it's not something we have to post again because it's in service of the superintendent if you will so wanted to school committee members would be great we hope that some of our community leaders that expressed interest in looking at the first draft of the will come forward and in one or two parents that twice twice a year we sort of blow up that committee a little bit to look at this for sustainability and for ongoing planning so that's that's what we mean by that so it's we're calling the other people adjunct advisory members right on going community involvement to provide feedback on the tech play and going to action ok so we will need representation from the school committee are you looking for that tonight or you mean  living i don't think you're buying anything from us so i think i'm ok to comment otherwise i'd abstain but you know i travel the country working with school districts on this exact thing that originally when i first started in education and we were in that phase one where we sold the computers that you were buying through c ip and now we're focused on that stage three which is how you make transformational change to teaching and learning and it's a pretty cool thing i enjoy it i'm lucky i get to do something that i enjoy as well a couple thoughts first o think this is spot on and you guys didn't ask me for any ariel's to guide you you did it on your own and it's awesome i think it's really really well done and some of the terms that you used in the presentation you know are things that you can i suppose pick up from reading a trade rag or something but it's clear you know what they are mean paul when you talk about anytime anywhere any device learning that's exactly the goal i guess i would just offer quickly right now i think there are three areas from my experience that i think we should prioritize and this isn't a scientific thought in my part it's quick reaction so i will participate in the adjunct group and provide further thought but i think one is bring your own device i think that needs to be one of our top three priorities and i know that's a band with issue but i think that's coming fast and furious from what i see from other districts the second is on the top of the page with your second diagram amy where the teachers are at the center in the first sentence i captures it real well it says in connected teaching classroom educators are fully instrumented with twenty four seven access to data about student learning and analytic tools that help the math on the insights the data provide i think those teacher tools were there portals to the systems is again top priority and you got a lot of priorities in here but i think that one is is really really important i think that's where we get to transfer transformative change in and third which underlies really that second one is your peers system in the analytics and getting insight in reve in seeing now school leaving school systems that are doing predictive analytics where you can set up modeling so you can see intervention required before it even gets to that point based on a student third grades missing this  and as these socioeconomic factors and these backgrounds and these learning management styles and that kind of thing you can really derive some pretty cool and that's down the road but i think i think you've got all the key points in here i think those three are the ones that will make busy for a while but you won't be out of a job but you've got your have to also have a time much you want us involved in this and i think i think some of these details will have enough of an impact on how we go through day to day teaching and learning that  at the looking at some of it certainly not but but i'd say those three or three that jump out at me as you go through but i thank you i think you might bring your expertise if we have the adjunct advisors working with them after that maybe the first meeting to have plan or i b m s plan or i don't know if that's a broad view but i would love to share what we're seeing in leading districts and bring in your you know something interesting the smaller districts are having the hardest time and i guess a sponsor prior to the biggest districts which is where i spend a lot of my time i have steve just to add to bruce's three great hits right on the money too i mean there's a lot of love here right now this is going stuff right i also think we should have a fourth and that is budgeting and forecasting you know we get a look down the road you know the chair mentioned you know where are these timelines and right now they're fluid or in sand right now so we nail them down but you know we have to think about how much money we're going to need in three years a turn key and you know to get a fat pipe in here with you know big data and all that so right on so nobody's like you know one hundred twenty more to some feel the money but some of it also is capacity know that's what you know a couple of years ago the department of and it is known as now so it d e s c when i say it is the department of elementary and secondary education well it is a pleasure we have a wonderful superintendent she's had another second strong year and we have had all of us have evaluated her and this was the second year of us using the new massachusetts d e s e evaluation framework this model assesses progress toward establish performance against four state determine standards to arrive an overall summative evaluation which i am delivering now the results for each of these areas will be summarized below goals there were six established goals one in the area of professional practice one in the area of student goals which will come into play at the state level and twenty four teams so that it's not a value weighted but she's already being mindful of that i'm looking forward to that three in the area of district improvement and one in the area of other goals these goals were evaluated to arrive at one of the following ratings exceeded map significant progress some progress and did not meet the committee members its area of instructional leadership management and operations family and community engagement and professional culture each standard area had several indicators which are individually assessed by each member of the committee available assessment ratings were exemplary proficiency needs improvement in and satisfactory from these individual indicator assessments an overall assessment was arrived at for each of the four standards overall in the area of instructional leadership mrs mi each standard there were exemplary areas noted by standard and i would like she has several i would like to indicate please to all of you what an outstanding leader we have in instructional leadership under curriculum slattery that was standard one standard two management in operations human resources management and development indicator adair lord three family and commitment engagement in engagement exemplary by bellenger gardner lord slattery sharing responsibility lord slattery communication  dare balance your award family concerns gardner lord under the standard for professional culture commitment to high standards i dare ballenger slattery cultural proficiency gardener communication adair bellenger gardner board slattery this remains a very high strength of our leader continuous learning proficient there were many comments many thoughtful comments were written in the allotted space allotted for each and i'd like to just read a couple of the highlights this is banally stepped forward to be the first person to undergo the educator evaluation process this is one example of her strong point of leading by example foxboro chose to complete one hundred percent of new the new evaluation process so that they could all learn it together even though the state required us to do only fifty percent and i think all the administrators that is commendable for everybody they don't they need to be commended here to mrs spinelli actively participates in the norfolk county district attorney's office school safety task force it is a very meaningful and very essential she wrote a grant for a school resource officer in concert with the police chief and the assistant superintendent the professional culture remains one of the strongest in the entire school sector contract negotiations with all bargaining groups and this is highly exceptional were successful they were concluded within two to three months and without the need for legal assistance this is an almost unprecedented action in public education and it's seeks to i think the trust that we have helped been able to establish and another thing the way the school is going now and in the past six years we have changed so on forward i mean this was just i just became aware of this today foxboro high school ranks second in the state graduation rate and i remember it not being of this percentage to all of ninety nine percent we were beaten out only by men feel they had ninety nine point one percent so i think that statistic speaks to the kind of curriculum that has been to stablished and it is being fought fall on sound kudos to mrs span l a for a strong second year thank you for your support and couldn't do because the meetings i had the opportunity to have individually with you also provides me with another level of feedback that i found really really helpful important reminded me of some things that we all have some growth areas and it really that was very helpful to me the individual conversations as well as see the overall but i think when i took over two years ago i worried about my technical you know applications in skills in what i've learned is it's really a job done with the heart and it's really a made you buy the five committee members each for you mrs slattery was very helpful on this very much because she we were the five that served  during that year and preceded so given that evaluation then we need to speak about compensation for this year so i'm going to kind of open that up to a committee to have a discussion hopefully we can from there well i don't mind the beginning that if it's ok certainly you know first of all the great job i think you know as your first chair and then bevy is your second chair you made this process easy and you're right tina she does it with the heart and i think that's very well said and i would say don't change ok you know i don't know we don't have access to school superintendent data across the state but i have a second year superintendent who gets rated two  see it probably more up toward the exemplary scale but i just you know i know it's become half of all of us that you're doing a terrific job and we're very thankful to have you so as the public knows we've had a couple of executive sessions the last few weeks to begin talking about mr spinelli is compensation but also her length of contract which expires at the end of this year the committee has considered a number of factors let's talk with the compensation get me out when we talk about that it's a yes you know one of the things that we complimented the superintendent on is our ability to renegotiate all our union contracts which was terrific well done minimized expense to the town minimal legal requirement which speaks well to so many things your relationship with your clarity of communication well thought out negotiation strategy and you know our feeling as a committee i think was that you are due a raise you have not had one since taking this position and we wanted to send you a strong signal through both the  compensation in the contract status and we felt it was appropriate to consider something similar to what we gave the largest bargaining unit the teacher group so one of the things i'd like to do as part of this discussion is make a motion and then we can have further discussion as a committee that we consider a two point four percent raise for mr spinelli for the current school year the teachers received a two point five percent raise knowing her like we do i'm not sure she would want the same or certainly more but we've looked at areas superintendents we have looked at and considered the fact that you've not received a raise the last couple of years and so i'd like to make a motion for the committee that we approve a two point four percent raise for the school year for mr spinone and we also want sorry we also think that's commensurate with the the rest of the nonunion staff that have received increases so that's that's the motion i'll put forward and on of want to discuss in i mean i certainly feel that you raised some good points bruce definitely the evaluation process and how the leader of the district has has been the role we talk about role models we talked about it today and certainly is is a role model and we talked about the contracts and the communication and the trust in the culture that's been established and that has lend itself to be able to move ahead with these contracts  without legal you know however we want to kind of phrase it i mean she's been the voice that has been along with obviously the school committee members that have been present but she you know it's it's she you have built a foundation that's that's really when we talk about this in so many different areas of what everyone does on a day to day basis this kind of foundation and i certainly support this motion because i think that it's representative and well earned for all the work that you've done those are my thoughts i don't know if other people want to weigh in as well i agree with you i agree with what bruce has had to say i think it's a recognition of the value that you add to our you very much i have as i have to say i i really thank you for the knowledge meant really of the hard work but i have two of the strongest central office partners sitting right here in the me and bill and yes could you ever ever hope to have you know i think that way for your support and i sincerely mean that because individually and collectively you really are very supportive but i don't often get a chance to thank the teachers and they are the other half of collaborative relationship that we've built and i wouldn't ask for a better faculty to work with than they are so they amaze and delight me every single day cleaning out our open houses and i visit their classes so i think it really takes a village and so the village has done well by me while thank you village you're doing well  no cost to us required thank you thank you very fast two years yes which leads us to our kids you never get a great segue which leads us to the discussion about the extension of your contract this being your third year and again as for so duly noted no raise and no no we increase last year so so now the committee needs to talk about it and make a have a discussion about if the board wants to go along with that i think that would be a really good thing for a time in our students as a father was students here so that's on the road to making money i think favor by zero they is that way that is the best news of the even if there are thank you i really appreciate it so seeing that will we have voted to extend your contract then we need to discuss this  you have a great team and you've built a team and that's a sign of a great leader we appreciate everything you guys do you know that you do and i hope they were standing to you cannot retire early none of the three of you think i mean even more than i have years i would really like to thank our ministers and our teachers and everyone who did all the planning for facilities and maintenance folks who worked like dogs as you found out the end of august to do all the regular in special project but every single school i visited said it was one of their best openings this is so the kids came in all the rules were established everyone is off and i think that really is the work that the teachers students care for the kids to come and the  strong principles that we have and they've all reported when this moves openings and the kids are wonderfully behaved we have great kids here and they they feel that it's one of their most positive openings so i give them all the credit for that i've been able to have a couple of open houses the fifth and sixth grade open house at the ahern last week and the elementary open house at the i go for grades one and three that was the same as the others and they were just but it's a fun some of the kids will be there for the elementary so and all the preparation  teachers do in the first few weeks for that is amazing how much i really want to thank me for the p t days in august they were the next few days after we last met i said to her afterwards and this is somebody who did that job for many years and districts i think it was probably the strongest to p d s i've ever experienced and for a couple of reasons her planing the team's planning the principals involvement but really meaningful in a couple of ways one we did the darkness to light training as you know which is our partnership with the y m c a and very important our community about child protection recognizing the signs of protecting children from child sexual abuse probably one of the most important issues of our day and we trained about three hundred fifty seven staff members and we had previously train about forty amy coordinated all of that is what you're saying is because this is the kind of thing that the public is totally unaware of right and i think you know we enter the partnership with the y two years ago really before we had any idea that it would affect our community in such a personal way but we did it because it's an uncomfortable topic and we're not we don't necessarily have the tools of the knowledge to deal with it and so we felt it was important at the time and certainly had much more  renewed importance in the last year so or so so that was one of the main reasons i felt was so strong we had bus drivers cafeteria workers i mean every single category of staff members to the training because we felt that  logistics of that i don't know how he did that but you know you never know who's going to see something that's of concern and it may not be in the classroom where busy learning is taking place and with his you know children working together on projects so that was really important for us to commit to the pearson data analytics training i mean big kudos to amy in that she's the leader in all things data and technical pretty smart and  but she wisely trained whole bunch of teachers as teacher leaders last spring and summer so she had people in every session that were there colleagues that were already unafraid of it doing the training and it was amazing to see teachers which was always my dream a true empowerment of teachers and it was a snapshot that you know was jaw dropping and teachers and so many of the workshops so for those two reasons to see two teacher empowerment and to see the some kind of lucky lucky lottery but i found out of the superintendent's luncheon last week that actually most districts in massachusetts were selected each of us with three schools so we're in the norm so the high school and the i go were selected to pilot the online if other districts are educating their staff in this it's a dark place to look to my program because you know i'm in the in the old of of mental health services and i just i think it's extraordinary what the district has and just we don't have anyone yet yes made the full commitment we have but we hope to be role models and leaders and act as an example of what's possible i just think it's wonderful and it is really