say time for questions at the end first thank you for inviting me out to actually speak to you about what worse or near a current technology center is about we are a career and technical center we're not the same vocational school that used to be around in the early seventy's and eighty's the state had made us a current technical center because we do more than just the trades that you see every day with mason ery in carpentry we offer academic programs as well there's english math science social studies it's a part of our program for students that may need those credits in order to graduate are offered within our program as well we do adult training as well as high school training in the adults are mixed with high school students in some cases they're called intergenerational students and what that is is that a person has to meet all the clarences all the acts of child abuse child neglect in f b i clearances once they do that they get the opportunity of integrating to get the skill during the day so the opportunity to do some employment and be able to get jobs within the short term this intergenerational normally is a four month program so they dull comes in and during that four month full time they're able to go out and start finding work the areas that we're really proud of of course we're growing rapidly the group of a bunch of other areas we're in the process of building right now a new well being facility and we will be the largest welding facility in the western part of the state we will be able to have fifty students welded one time the building will be ready by april the fourteenth what that and the reason why we did this and we've built this building is there's a great need for welders out in the washington allegheny area so what we're doing is we are helping us supply the need for this employment opportunity for students and it's both for high school and for adults we have our dog programs two nights a week and on saturdays our gold our high school kids are there five days a week the program that i'm looking at that is only our third year for this program to be in existence the mechatronics program does students that are interested that are out there to studying engineering to actually get the practical hands on experience of coming in and working the machinery and building things like robots were getting ready in two weeks to be in a robotics competition out of cali you were high school kids are building robots and if you ever heard of a bot psych you or the robots compete against each other and then you pick a winner our high school kids do the  a piece of getting ready to compete against the other vocational schools and high schools through the western part of the state the goal for that is for us to go on in compete nationally we're also in an international robotics competition and i think if you come out and visit our school when i and i open that up to everybody in the peters area flooding all views well i want to take a look at how vocational education has changed and how we've adapted that into a career and technical center with robotics being a piece of it the new welding field facility being the other part machining another area that it's one thing to get the practical experience and the theory piece of it but when you combine the two of them and come out and take a look at some of the things that we're doing with machining with  to give you a better understanding of what the students do and i say both adult and high school and the reason for that is one of the things that we're implementing that will go into effect hopefully by january first is we will be the second vocational school in pennsylvania actually offer a two year associate's degree out of our skoal that's unheard of for a high school to actually be a college as well but we will be giving it a s t degree to start out with which is a degree in mech everybody's going on to college we know that and we're glad that we could be a stepping stone with that two year degree we've already have got articulations to agreements together so students will be able to come through to us and move on to cal you were to the university of pittsburgh to get to degrees after they finished with ours and the reason for it again is that you're getting the opportunity of getting and so on experience in the career the technical part of it the college piece of it which should be the associate's degree if it's something that the population is interested in doing we're not talking that we don't think that everybody out there needs to have a college degree but having the theory piece of it is one part of it with this particular degree you're you're doing the hands on portion of it as well was having the theory piece of it almost half of the curriculum is doing things like building robots doing the robotics piece of it doing while doing in machining so they are able to take the knowledge that you've learned in your college classes and actually apply them by using your hands in order to make or to build so we're seeing current technical education changing western area that's kind of what we're trying to do as well as stay with the times really build our programs in order for you to really get a big picture of what we do you've got to come out and see what we do you really have to through the facility and see how mechatronics is growing in the area we're getting calls from the heinz corporation delmonte corporations in the area even something as simple as pharmaceutical industries out there that have to fill your prescriptions those machines those robots break down if you're getting into the medical field you're talking going into doing surgery and that probably the next ten years or so in the pittsburgh area it will not be unusual for your surgeries to be performed by a robot that robots not doing its function somebody needs to be able to go in reprogram it take it apart and put it back together these high school students are learning that you're looking at tenth eleventh and twelfth graders that are learning how to take a robot apart learning how to build a robot from scratch and be able to use it for industry medical right now the robot that we built we're shooting t shirts off at the wild things baseball games in the summer the kids built the robot last we took it out of the baseball field we shot t shirts the full length of the baseball field for people to be able to catch it we could probably replace one of their pitchers if we continue doing the job that we're doing but the idea is kids are doing this and kids have the ability and the patience to work with these robots to be able to build that and that's what this mechatronics builds on and so on practical experience to do robotics not only in a competition fun thing but to be able to do these robotics for things that's going to help us  medical and distribution you look at u p s you look at the post office all of that mail is done through an electronic type of a device the kids that go out to these programs learn how to build it they learned how to repair it and they're learning how to make it  it so it's faster so that these devices that are being built can be used year after year and that's what mechatronics thousand and i think that the population in peter's would be very interested in going out and seeing what we do and seeing how that's going to help augment with their already learning in the classes iraq from here in the high school as a new director i can make all kinds of promises i would love for and again i don't want to be the traditional school that you say i don't want to go there because this is what you do you know you go there fold they take mason or you take electronics i'm willing to build off of whatever you have here so that we can augment in enhance what you already have so if you need something where you only need x amount of hours to come in with your hands on experience so we can offer that to you if it's coming out and doing welding for so many hours so you know how well they're operates if you want to come out in machine apart so you get an idea what's a lathe what's a mill what's a c n c machine we are willing to make with ever adaptions we can so students get the practical hands on experience that they need so whoever we can do that however we can work with you i want to open that door because i won peter's to be a part of us we have nine sending schools that feed into western area and you're one of our nine and i want to stop partner i want to be able to share ideas i want to be able to hance to students that you have and if you're something that i don't have tell me what i don't have i'm going to either creating or having somebody create so that we can gain can be partners in our educational process and we're going to be able to help your students get the experience that they need to do want to further their education in the colleges that they choose and i again ipod's you for what you send to us and we appreciate when you send to us we want more we want more we want people to come and see what we do we want to come out take a look at how we can make those changes because the students that we have are excellent students we don't have behavioral problems like other career center sap our kids are there because they want to learn and i want to incorporate dead and open that up as a over welding programs follow a ws for a while doing they get a ws certified when they're in the wild in program right now predominately what we do is a lot of welding for the marcellus shale wells washington as you know was a big marcellus shallow area but i our students t go through those programs get three ws certification in the rape of a quad at that point they do overhead while doing pipe while doing make take stick welding so it's all part of the incorporated in the three years that they're there and then the weekend evening programs for adults get the same identical curriculum except it's abbreviated and i mean we do have the fifteen technologies we have the mason area vs v a c in the electrical and the part that is good about that is that the graduates come back to us and tell us that even if they're working in the automotive area they're looking at sixty thousand dollars that they're starting with because if you take a look at a car today cars today or more electronic than they are anything else these kids have to know electronics have to know different aspects of the automobile it's not just going in there change your t changing your oil and what winds up happening in these these car car dealerships in the area are contacting us saying we need your students to come down and work we have more job openings and we have students to supply them with so there is a need for it and then when you get into like looking at just a general student that's going through a program it's picking up a trade and you know when you're looking at what it costs for a plumber what it costs for someone to come in and fix a furnace they're making decent money from the skill that they've gotten a lot of their skills are high school years that they picked up they may go on and do some advancement or doing the associate's degree or first three programs are mechatronics machining and welding when we finish those three three months from now it's going to be h v a c sharp injury and electrical construction because we're being told by the state that if you have an associate's degree and you've learned this trade you have the hands on experience going in and opening up your own business becoming an entrepreneur is where a lot of these kids are going from so a twenty five years old you look at a kid that's making between sixty and a hundred thousand dollars that's a good chunk of change for someone that doesn't have technically the four year degree type that you're going out and getting they're not getting the student loans and paying back student loans they're working which is good because they're able to provide services that we need within our communities those that are going on to college those are going to go into medical or go into other fields all we're saying is just get an idea hands on what it is that you need to do when you're out in the field because everybody's you can't work at burger king or mcdonald's where you're in college here's an opportunity to earn some real money while you're paying off the student loans  s high school students who articulate from the high school into the college still probably wind up with the first half of the semester will be articulated through us western area will be articulating with our college which is called sw southwest's institute for technology so they will give the lose some of the technologies depending on which one you're in if you're in mechatronics you may get fifteen credits while you're in that program those fifteen credits it's attract up to two years that you're there sixty credits for the associate's degree fifteen it would be eliminated and then once you finish your sixty and you get your degree from us you would transfer your sixty credits right to cal you and again it's a cost savings for those that are not looking to go one directly into a four year college it may be that you don't want two year colleges at all and might just be that it's a high school student a once enhanced skill while they're here at peter's in their senior year and they've already taken all the classes that they need and they're sitting there saying gee i have a semester you know what can i do with that given to us with a hands on portion of it let us bring him in a couple days a week for a semester and let them actually fill it and take a look at what it is to build a robot and be able to do some competition in building and working with the machinery just so they can put because pennsylvania with current tech which occasion parents look at current technical education like it was when they were in high school and they were they were dirty old buildings to kids that were truant then bad and you know what to do with them you threw them  into a a of a tech school back in those days and that's not the current technical education that's out there today there's a big change and a big shift in that if you take a look at the map that you need in machining emeka tronics it's equivalent to the a p map you take in the high schools at your home schools because you need to get into work with micrometers you need to going to do weighing and measuring so the map the similarities are almost the same the people don't look at it because they think of the occasional education and it's not that figure parents in that i think we do and we're trying sooner than they graduate to take them into the programs and they put them into their apprenticeship programs which is similar to putting them into a college because you're getting the hands on experience that they need we just need to educate the parents in all of our communities to let them know that the vocational schools today aren't the same as what they were before and we don't want you to give up the idea of going to college most people think it's an option either go to career intact or i go out to our virgilio or paid or penn state and it doesn't need to be that it could be you still could get that dream of going where you're going to get some practical experience so that you have that knowledge to apply to your book learning as you get further in your college area that's going to be a big a big thing for all of us to be able to find a way to educate parents to let them know before you make that decision come out toward the facility come out look at the curriculum come out take a look at what we do and talk to the graduate center out there come up to an open house see the students come back to brag about the money that they're making in the companies they're working for and they're not all range resources and in mark west i mean there is a variety of companies across this region that have hired students that are making decent money but we've got to get through the parents to let them know it doesn't have to be black or white we can do some mixture between both and that's why i think making in an open invitation to peter is dead if you have students to want to come out and even come out spend the day be running a machine for him or not you know will get safety glasses for much of my text the machines are really experience what we have is outdated but we are in the process next wednesday we're being filmed by bill flanagan is coming out to our school to film our kids actually our technical center children are building the class room in our new weld shop what i did was i took all of our technologies and put them all together we have masonry doing stuff inside carpenters building the walls electricals do all the electrical wiring but it's kind of a project that i wanted to get everybody to work together to build this thing and i gave them six weeks to build it so you should see those kids hustling to get that done but the idea is that that again we do the same thing we're in worst enemies we teach you practically how to do something and we give you some shop work to do in the shop but are you really in truly building so i said we're not  do this we're all going to come together we're going to build and i think that when he gets his video filmed we'll be able to use that just to let them see at least what those different traits do and how they do the work we do need to update our video and if we do get that update out that we make sure we send that out to  i have a question you would talk about a trick elation i had the pleasure of coming down to western area on saturday to do an open house and i got a wonderful tour from one of your instructors and i was credibl impressed and he talked to me about some of the programs like a blended program that i think you were just talking about where you have a student say somebody who's not interested in  unary or masonry or welding or that but they want to be an engineer they want to go on to school they know already they want to get a four year degree but they have never worked on anything sort of hands on it's all been theoretical for them in the high school and i think we have a lot of kids in peter's or like that that's what they think they want to do mechanical engineer electrical engineer software engineer or something like that but they don't get hands on until they go to college is this the kind of thing that you can do a blended program for us so they don't have to spend your entire afternoon every day five days a week at your facility but they can continue to take their on ers and a p classes focusing too or they're what they expect to do in a four year college but somehow get that hands on real world experience that western area and i think that's a possibility i think that something that we can do in the best way of doing it is even if we start small with having the students come out for an afternoon and taking it take a look at what we have in those areas and once we get the students out and we know what their needs are if you have some of once you get into you know software engineering have them going door networking program and take a look at what they do in networking meet with the instructor and maybe sit down and do some of that work that the kids are doing out there building computers tearing them apart programming and then come back and say ok now i've actually physically touch something this is something i'm interested in they come back to states to that and figure out how can we work at that maybe one day a week they come out you already have a bus that comes out there you probably have a bus that said day or bust it's partially empty fill it bring them all out little provide you know two days a week one day a week and spend the time out there experiencing that and then have to say the full school year maybe and somebody says hey you know what after i did it i really don't want to do software maybe i want to do something else but the only way they're going to really know what it is that durbin to be doing other than reading about it and not getting the opportunity to sit down in these classes and into do that and i would be willing if it was something that you wanted to do to incorporate them into would i be willing to do a summer program put together something in the technologies that you show that you have the strongest interest and if it's children some students sign up for it and it's it's to to match them with say somebody in the medical field or or there's theater or an art and kind of just to be able to that student would shadow them and it's organized right now so that it's offered as a nine period class and the students are have to provide their own transportation and then they go off to the physical therapist and work with him during that nine period and and or you know work in that scenario would there be any ability when you say if you just created say one class but it would coincide with the students to have it be their nine period class at the end of the day if students wanted to take that one class would there be any any possibility because our kids leave it three so if there was a peace for they were coming out between two and three you're probably not going to get as much at that end of the day because it's at the till when the day and the different schools leave but i mean it's something that we can so we're going to pull those schools and put them in the morning so the daedalus instructional time so we can work out something where if that's a part of your program that we can at least get them to come out and pick up the pieces they may be missing but i mean again i'll be as flexible as i can be  i really and truly one peter's to be a part of us and i really want us to figure out how we can work as a partnership to bring you on board to take have you take a look at what we have and then take a look at what changes we need to make that's the feedback that we get from the superintendents and we have our meeting that's what our school board does who has a representation from all nine schools and one from you know from peter's as well but if we're going to try to grow this and we're going to try to give everybody a good opportunity for an education at a current technical center we need your input on the changes we need to make and i'm open to anything so i said that on live what you want to but i'm open to anything we can do not only to get your students on board but to help enhanced our education when they leave peters to go on to their own careers and what they want organizations the national governors association for best practices in the chief of the council of chiefs state school officers the stance is to really be developed with the group of industry interests and educators coming together with the content specialists and in the english language arts and the math fields the focus and this is really important is to provide a clear and consistent framework to prepare our students for the rigors of college and career workforce and i really want to emphasize the clear and consistent and i really want to emphasize in the words i've been there all students that is really key and this is the emphasis actually for the rationale and it says the rationale for the ph standards is to be effective in improving education and to prepare all students with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in college and work force training and the standards must be partnered with the bro world application and are evidence and research base with guidance on topics to include when to introduce the content and are clear consistent and focus to do notice my three words and keep using clear consistent  focus when we're talking about core standards now the next three slides they're going to give you a little bit of a lake of progress to see like what we have checks or things that we've done and then there's a few of them what we're going to be showing you with the next flights are in progress so we started back in eleven twelve and that you can see on the right hand side this kind of what the p v responsibility was and then our district responsibility so we really worked on the curriculum and the structure and just starting to review the curriculum and then that that point pv was just coming around giving us some guidelines reworking with our i use staff and being trained in it was really just that introductory beginning process of the common core are coming and again you get those naysayers no it's not going to yes it's going to come we're going to be prepared and you know some of the timelines kind of were removed a little bit but as you can see d and our in service that allowed that all here we really worked on what was called crosswalks with the teachers they had what was what was proposed in the new core and they looked at what the current pace standards and we highlighted like you know what was like pain was not in going to be in our current war and yellow we were in both and so the yellow green made blue so we kind they had it has tabs and it's a nice binder so you can go straight to the common core that linked in we gave them a scavenger hunt to be had a rap song and so it was just something to introduce the staff along the way as you noticed that is still in progress in the middle block because we're still in constant evaluating of the curriculum so we're moving about a way but we're still you know making sure that we've hit all the crosswalks and the very last block that we've had last year we had the i you come in we did literacy design collaborative we had consultants from tri state come in to talk about rigor and the common core so what p d is done they have you know again provided the ongoing populate that to give us some tools so i just wanted to emphasize that we really emphasize with our staff and then last year is also that first year with the keystone exams so we really have to work with the staff with the curriculum and the state came up with what's called eligible content and assessment and of course we really worked with a staff on getting them ready for the keystone week see us now for this year the twenty thirteen fourteen we you know looking  piloting us the curriculum our mouth program we're continuing our professional development with our principals and our i l t this week they're actually you know we're going to dig deeper into the matter it's just the can't wait that's going to be on fifty different administrators and then principals attend we're focusing this year on the brink and the common core mcmurry actually had our guest speakers from tri state come back twice this year to work with next year it's going to be our common core in my mind so we're definitely getting ready to move in making sure that the students are prepared for the substance now for next year we're going to continue you know really working with the principals going in the ok any questions on that aspect before we move on ok now i'm going into the ships this is talk a little bit about the literacy and then we'll go into the map if you can see the common core state standards are in the middle are a little diagram all around it of all the aspects of the curriculum that that affects the living so it's the reading literature of the information the writing speaking language comedian technology so we're  briefly touch on what are the ships there is for major ships and sometimes you'll see three ships sometimes you'll see six but basically they're all craving the same information so i don't want to confuse because you may go into some of the literature that i passed out from new york engage they will say six and another one that we're working with will have three we're going to focus on for tonight so the four major shifts in the letter c articulate would students need to know and be able to do and to assist with the differentiation as we think about what it takes to help students become ready for college and career there are major changes or shifts in the way teachers will teach this shift represent what the standards now expect students to learn and teachers to teach they are the headlines it describes somewhat change and it is that and we will see a progression k to twelve so forth standards are going to get harder as the students progress through to the grade so the first shift is emphasizing the informational tax as holes implement these new standards students will be asked to read increasingly  with an emphasis on nonfiction notice the increase from grades four to eight to twelve in the informational so in fourth grade it's fifty percent in eighth grade you see it fifty five in twelfth grade is seventy nine with the the percent remember also it's just not from the english literature class but that's also from the social studies the science the media it's from all of the different subjects the second shift is the literacy standards for our concepts so when cater by the standards are invented so a social studies teacher a science teacher of the music teacher our teacher pay teachers all everything's in so they are all going to be teaching the shifts in six to twelve you have a little bit more of a separation that into their literacy and history social studies science and technical subjects actually broken out into the six to twelve so now it is a shared i think that's key it's a shared responsibilities for student literacy the third shift is tax complexity and this was the a c t has been a key in research in the tax complexity and as quoted one of the peers to differentiate those who are more likely to be college or current ready from those who are less likely is their proficiency in understanding complex text it has been noted that many students are prepared under prepare for college incur literacy demands and  is reporting that more students are on track to be ready for college level reading and eight in tenth grade than they actually get than they actually are reading ready by the time we reach twelve great that everyone get that so they're  the level of difficulty the comedy of scientific journals and magazines increase so we actually see a decline in school tax complexity of wrong so what you can see if you really notice is the bottom line where it says eleven to the college the four in the eight and the twelve and we are going to be really emphasizing the argument of say this is where the students are really going to need to read and understand the tax it's not going to be so much on their personal experiences for really going back to the tax and finding those solutions they're going to need to make counter claims you make their claims on factual evidence and make some convincing statements to the audience so that's the literature kind of in a nutshell what will come you keep going over these and helping your understand and i have a few and out tonight that actually has the ships with it and it's for parents and it's the one with the blue and it will actually go like how can i help my children understand how can i help them with the shifts so the next steps will be the math jokes and this is important in relation to the math is that it's really what students are able to do in mathematics through grade specific understand about the concepts of that all american arts like cafe near review we're going to really make sure that they have that fluency and understanding of the math concepts before we move on so that there's the three major shifts in the mouth of the cohere it's articulating that progression of topics and performance it's a focus it's under standing the key ideas understanding the skills that are identified and the clarity and specificity so and one of the keys is a what's taught in fifth grade is going to be taught in fifth grade throughout the all the districts so we're going to keep that now how we go about doing that is sorry and structural strategies and how we present it into the classroom i'm shopping out so and each grade would say each grade can go up and down the aisle tossing topics into the cart losing focus each grade k to twelve draws from the same or isles so i thought that that was a pretty neat that every year k to twelve you would just do the same for concepts number of operations measurement job g l two functions to stick some probability now the comments were domain structure communicates changing emphasis throughout the elementary years and to the high school so now this is what the new prime in poor approach looks like as you can see it's not those of the same grocery aisles in contrast to standards in mathematics actually have to shape the early focus on numbers an operation actually built to an understanding in the middle school of expressions and an expanded understanding of the number system in contact to the previous diagram of the or parallel disconnected strands  representation of the common core shows how strands develop into more advanced so does that make those pictures how whenever you do that and you see you're starring  k i can see how there would be no problem but is there a transition problem when you're starting in six and you've already had a little bit of everything how does that change it is that an with our new math program and with the new common core the students will be able you know to know like which of the standards that their lessons are focusing on and so like number five using appropriate tools for team to cli this is where it's going to come program and i just want to just touch base with you about our research process our math committee to have a call from committee from the community that we started in twenty twelve thirteen  but we had many meetings in this room and talked about you know what was the mathematics you know what was their philosophy you know what to say what was the research where's the common core what other standards were bringing in fully and then we looked at programs and we've visited programs so we might we actually saw this program that in europe we're presenting tonight after st clair we went to see map expressions of moon we saw him out of focus at northfield and we had a presentation on to two we had expressions and visions and about the focus was only it was going to be a very big paradigm shift to that we thought and then they go mouth was very similar to what we were already doing so the committee really down to those those two programs and came up with the envisions so our next steps that we will be is once you know of course you know board approval of the program we would need to do the curriculum lining the program is aligned to common core but we will need to have that written we're looking right now i'm talking hopefully we're going to have some our leaders at each grade level we are starting pilot programs that cater to teachers cannot wait to get started  we're doing is now getting some materials and they have a pilot lever ready to go so that the parents will know so we still look for if you have any students in grades k to two will be doing some piloting of the programs and in grades  three to six are going away to after the p s a testing to do the pilot program but mr carr purse figures already has done all the professional development training on the teachers and it was fall into your basis to do the pilot and first staff development and the key to the documentation is a staff developments are worley working with the teachers and the administrators to see what the is the best program and process to implement a new program into the grid so professional development can be a key piece to that so it is if you want to take a break like any questions on the actual comic or the shifts before i introduce mr carr person from the board you so i have a lot of fond memories so i'm glad i'm back to talk to you about this program a lot of baby is up to date and the common core came out first then pearson hired the common core authors to make sure everything we put in this program was correct matched common core the common core authors on the program did not write the program but they did approve everything that our specialist did all the topics are focused as you'll see and if you have children going through you'll see that they are going to repeat the same domain which for those blocks the dr carter because showing you but it's not going to be the spiral that we're used to in the past we've done a spiral for three years so that in second grade we might have introduced place value to the ten's and this column then that was the intro year they would go to third grade they were brief you it orthe ra they would mastery so some people and some children already had it mastered that first year but they had to do it a second and the third year that was the traditional math throughout the whole country now the emphasis on better teacher instruction so the teacher is the key that in one day when i go through you're going to see how much the teacher they're going to be exhausted after math ok but the children are going to learn so much better because the next day is another day  right so that these domains that and focus topics that dr carmen because showed you are going to be mastered at a certain level and then added on to in the next grade level so they're not going to have to take all this time to read you it and reteach starting with the big broad question working backwards and so graham wakens was hired by pearson and he wrote a map topic opener for each of the topics sixteen topics throughout the year and the first day of each topic is something enriching for all children whether it be a story a game a project or literacy connection a stem connection so the children have a chance to get an advanced organizer into what they're going to be learning to write that that if the parent calls or the principal says why are you doing it this way they're going to be able to refer back to look it up and back so it's quite well done like that there is also called a map diagnosis an intervention system and this is for children who move into the district from another district maybe in october november december or any time during here and we want to see what common core they're missing that has already been started in the grade based on this  elementary superintendents vision is all of their knowledge there all of them now some community down there where they make rockets and everything so he bought the program because he had the whole a father you know father mother not a lot of power a softball game they can actually look at their reading story and study it's go over there rap again so everything is online now the new two thousand and fifteen is even better so this is a first year this is like the first couple years of any kind of platform digital so everything is new so there is little quirks in it ok excellent technology department the cops now you're getting the two thousand and fifteen wood which when they built this lady was three different it's not a shock the teachers have a walk through every day and you can see over here on the last to be their domain their cost or their national standards and those mathematical practices are checked off and the cases i've just been later our parents will say i don't know what to do in the case and that's easy let's look at our four so you can see it's a learning tool already to make the children accountable if they are well there you need more practice we're going to give them practice homework in the private sector and the most important piece is the intervention the reteach we're going to give them free teaching work and then the teacher is going to reteach them that  out but it did not work and this is how we get the differentiations piece in the past children were labelled they were left in the load math class for every period of twelve now but in math you can get them out by proper instruction so that's the progress and then you can see that we're going to reteach every day there are teachers who have a lot of many less and then the same here's the centers of the teachers because and or is it is it different than what our curriculum is now as our curriculum is structured wine and two if it's not how do you get that by hand to also for when they're using and they had to bring in another also they had to bring in another company just a supplement but there was everything the teacher had to do themselves so if the teacher just hopped right from the book they simply tots you know they showed a few manipulative zhan and overhead and they said now do this on your own then we'll come around and monitor and just and then we'll give them more worksheets so if you can see the trend is away from th ey're going to teachers well now i'm going to make sure that every teacher has a hands on some dad and we're very effective other showed a few and then never the kids didn't touch to get your day so yes it is very structured but it's a very good way of sixteen more days one day to get them interested to read they can at the end of the folder they can do it review day and then a test so there's still plenty of things to do with that but the teacher they have a craft project matches this very they have freedom to do that if they have a national video from discovery the streaming and i can streaming there's all these things out there if they feel there's something that matches there's jeopardy games on there where you know you have to find  mentioned that it's aligned to the common core now is it correct that some of the states like ours is called the p eight corps and does that differ at all from the national poor or do the  intervention look at that there's two pieces for the intervention you're looking at make sure she takes your home their story there's no program out there for the learning to speak for all of these so this good it can be something along that mrs bowman talked about with respect to the calculators and censure writing the curriculum i have just heard that the s a t s are changing so that there's going to be a portion of the m middle school and the elementary school and so we actually did have an administration reading so we were working on some structure in guidelines you know so that we really you know when to when this is appropriate to utilize and we're doing some research on the different mr carpeting a question about i heard i should worry about something that i saw in the one of the workbooks where it showed a block of one hundred to block ten and just individual blocks long ago when i was teaching those are known as queens in iraq i mean i didn't see any manipulative in the pack it looked like that you had those backpack it was only the ones for the senators there's a whole nother  they'll be able to project the text right to the screen and there's a writing toll so the teachers can circle also children aren't don't say where or what am i doing which problem so there's a lot of nice features to make it very visual so the teacher has more time to teach rather than you know having to say get this page you know she rejected usually on this so a lot of nice visual effects are there any task on line test so that they can do it and know right away if it's right or wrong there's a little there's a little mini very informative thanks for united you can use so i guess the last portion of the meeting is public comment any of the members of the public out there have any questions or comment so right that just a question in the  ships and what they are for the high school and just something to you know look for possibly in the future is there are no you know you know mentor ships available for engineering students that i'm aware of and i know we were talking about you know increasing our staff presence and that sort of thing but i know we have it in theater or and in business and medical field but i did not see wind on engineering and i just thought in a future that might be something to look into well i have a comment that was something that was supposed to be work in the works three years or four years ago and seem to have gone by the wayside but that's why i asked dr mccarthy about that because i was so impressed with the program i have down at western area when i was there when i was thinking is that instead of us having to sort of reinvent the wheel they've already got this fantastic program going on maybe we could have kids who are interested in doing braintree right well and i'd never heard about that when i was talking to dr mccarthy before the meeting started he was telling me they have the summer program i'm like really i never heard about it so i just think there's a lot more communication that we can do to push this information out to the parents and be really useful ok well then i guess if there are no other questions from the board i think sir john thank you very much for coming appreciate it