good evening everyone i'd like to call to order the june first two thousand and fifteen regular meeting of the school committee of the town of boxborough tonight we will have an agenda as follows will entertain any visitors we will approve minutes we have teaching and learning highlights featuring smart awards will then have a discussion on the dr distributed education clubs of america challenge mr mccabe we have some policies to do some first readings of our policy subcommittees been hard at work as usual regarding field trips late night and overnight student travel and graduation requirements will then get an end of year updates on the progress against our foxboro public school strategic plan for twenty fourteen through twenty seventeen will begin the discussion of the review of the superintendent and the evaluation process that we follow we will entertain other matters following that and then for the first time in a while the committee will be going into executive session tonight for the purpose of discussing negotiating strategies with the union personnel specifically this is the custodial workers association in the foxboro crossing guards that will be discussing in executive session and then we will return to open session after what we expect to be a relatively short executive session with the intent to vote on the proposed twenty fifteen twenty eight hundred bucks for a crossing guards memorandum of agreement and discussion and come before the first reading policy thank you so i was in to begin on a lighter note as we always do i enjoyed mistreatments comment to mrs weiss that she did return and we didn't scare her away after her first me about half way down word starts with discussion among the committee followed see that i just want to stay that we we did also confirm with the staff their expert opinion on the textbook adoption for an additional sentence or what was your thought just please add textbook adoption and assurance of one term utility to the school department for the  anybody else have any comments regarding the minutes things that i was probing on a little bit in doing so was just wanting to understand how it was going with regard to our athletes you guys will recall that discussion and whether or not we felt that we had done the right thing in really requiring of course the state requires complying with the state requirement for peace even i thought maybe we should just include in the minutes what janell's comments were and alas the committee to help me with the recollection although i am i am looking at my notes and what i remember her saying was that actually the electives turned out to be not quite as popular as she expected in the reason is because even the athlete still felt that he had the normal p curriculum one hundred twelve they still get life skills are valuable and that she really hadn't received any negative feedback and therefore didn't recommend any change and i think with that being relatively new policy was just indicate that in case we ever want to go but you have to because that's the reason that the way one recalls it yes all right so i don't think when we just add a sentence then at the very end janet and let me see if i can fumble my way through it but i'll take from the amendments but maybe just to comment that mr skin  also indicated positive participation from student athletes and therefore recommended no changes at this time there's a cap it is good know they they really are so i'm thrilled that before the school year ends we're able to have some of the students the art students here to talk about that and some of the turnover mr kushner to introduce them and to tell you all about art awards and everything so both seniors are here with me they can speak on behalf of scholastics their multiple school asked to go winners and then also the street painting festival and both of them were in our inaugural a p class this year too so they could speak about  it so just an overview scholastics for people who aren't familiar with it on the school asked to garden writing awards program is the country's longest running in most prestigious national awards program offering recognition arts exhibition opportunities to students in gr seven through twelve it's been going on since about one nine hundred twenty three so this is a long time it's been running each year the fox for high school our teachers select the strongest student produced pieces to compete at the regional and national levels  so we sit together and we look at pieces from all the classes over the the year we think about what's the strongest pieces that meet the categories to compete against other students across the state wants it sent in a select group of distinguished distinguished judges all professional artists at both the regional and national levels based their final decisions on three criteria so it's all done blind judging they don't get to see the students names nor what school they go to the judging is based on originality technical skill personal voice or vision and then this year over fifteen thousand submissions were entered into the boston scholastic art awards with two thousand students being recognized so that gives you a little bit of a scold him out so we're proud to congratulate sixteen of our foxborough high school students who this year want to total of twenty seven scholastic are towards so if you're keeping track we are staying one above last year so increase and creasing our awards each year which is every day we have six gold keys eight silver keys twelve honorable mentions and one national medal and just going back if you look at the top when you hear us talking about scholastic so here key is a lot so at the regional level students will get keys which are a little pins at the national level they'll get medals that are like a limb pick medals so the sixteen students who were recognized this year there is a selection of different grades ranging from ten to twelve and also you can see the different classes so digital media design ceramics sculpture drawing mixed media boger grade twelve who got a gold key and a silver key bailey collins grade twelve who got a silver key in design amber dothan e three here got our national silver key this year gold key and mixed media gold key and drawing silver key digital art honorable mention design and honorable mention our portfolio on top of other ones that we've got in past years  brianna julia dillon grade twelve who got an honorable mention in sculpture ethan hicks grade ten so only a sophomore who are to got an honorable mention in digital art sophia very grade twelve who got a silver key for heart portfolio an honorable mention sculpture sophia is also a graduating senior she's going to be going to serach use next year for industrial design devon lovely grade eleven got a silver key for drawing a livia mansingh grade ten honorable mention for digital mention from mixed media molly sliming grade twelve honorable mention our portfolio that stamina top grade twelve to silver keys for drawings one honorable mention for his our portfolio nick she grew grade eleven who got two gold keys for design one of those gold keys is the seniors yearbook cover so if you see the yearbook this year that's one of the and holly wilbur grade twelve who got an arm a mention for a sculpture seventh through the fifteenth and it was hung up with all the gold key pieces from across the state so you can see this is on the scholastic website you can see brianna's piece in the top corner and ambers national piece on the podium so in our list one of the things that the art teachers and i are so excited about is our five senior our portfolio winners in the past we have seen one and maybe two of her lucky portfolio winners but to get five is incredible  to have five means that a senior received an award for their entire portfolio which consisted of eight pieces so all eight piece it had to meet that criteria and then they also had to submit they were an artist statement so  portfolio winners work in four pieces for each of the senior portfolios just so you can get a little bit of a taste of what their portfolio looked like angel because after my father passed away really wanted to focus on the ordinary everyday person and i made a lot of my pieces people  the time they took to explain their theme on for the gallery opening was was really wonderful and that it probably was the over the years i just don't know why didn't it just didn't hit me until this year so they know that that's actually a good thing that you recognize that's a testament to the a p class because the a is really pushing a concentration and developing a story within twelve pieces of work that was transferring art for there's the other artist statement their concentration so this is sophia's and you can see the difference of these are sculpture pieces and sophie is a p concentration was her inner light and her flexion of her religion as part of her f and so the math cards from last year place and ambers to talk about your concentration my concentration was basically i have a love for nature and camping with my family every year when i was a kid and really carrying on their my life and i wanted to show an appreciation for natural beauty and life around us and i feel that a lot of times you know kids are glued to their phones like you got to the restaurant you'll see all the little kids on their talents and stuff and i kind of wanted to pull away from that and  this is amber as national piece from last year so last year we had two national medals and this was one of the two so amber is a two time national medal winner and then this is her piece from this year doing talk about this and this is my sketchbook for me drawing in a nice sketchbook it's a it's almost unconventional to destroy a blank page and sometimes can be a little intimidating so i actually took an all so the national winners get invited to carnegie hall for their medals there's a ceremony at carnegie hall and this is last year again amber this is the second year that she's one and national medal so last year both tran who is now a junior got national medals and they attended to the national ceremony soon to talk about what that's like it was an amazing experience a once in a lifetime opportunity the entire time we were there my dad kept telling making us look more like tourists each time he would approach random people and tell them about how his daughter was going to carnegie hall and no it was amazing i actually i teared up at that moment when everybody said up the only other final a use it was truly something to work for every year and i look forward to it going i think the day after graduation i'm going back  so that's the last ix we also had another big event this year we had the fox for a street painting festival which happened on may second at patriot place and a little bit of background on this one last year in around october we took a group of arts and culture club members to the providence tree painting festival and if you remember this policy you know had come in and talked about it last year she invited us down and the students had an amazing time and were looking so forward to doing it again this year except for we found out that they were going to have one this year so literally about four students approached us in september saying you know when's when's the stripping festival when we're going to have it when's it go be and we felt just like so broken hearted that we were going to have it and we missed that opportunity so in talking to the students and the other teachers we thought you know foxboro such as an incredible community we have so many amazing artists here why don't we just see if we can host one here so at that time i had talked to superintendents spinelli who had told me that there was an interested business in the area who wanted to possibly do a community art event and i met we met with with dr lang in the foxboro dental associates and dr barrows in october we propose doing the street painting festival here in foxboro and that was in october and then from there we got in contact with diana griffin from patriot place the director of marketing at patriot place she was all about it because she had seen pictures from this from last year and it just it skyrocketed from there so once we had be ok and that incredible support from our sponsors the next step was ok well how to do we start this event if this is our first annual event and something that we want to continue on so we went into branding this is all part of our senior  class which is like an in house graphic design team so these logos poor the facts painting festival that you see on the signs and you saw on the digital war these are actually embers logo for the event so amber designed the logo for it so this is just again coming up for the brands for this new event and then the next step was to market the event so this definitely could have been done without brianna and lindsay kind of who is at the black and white dance right now but we definitely give her credit  brianna and lindsay worked countless hours as part of our senior project just to make sure that this event took off and it was as strong as it was so they would go down to patriot place they would meet with diana griffin they would go and deliver all the posters to the local businesses they did a huge mailing to local schools just to get participation for the event at the event we had four different categories that artists could enter another reason why we wanted to do this here is because again we have so many great artists in the area but not a lot of collaboration between the schools and with the fox for our association who are also missing so this is an opportunity to grab artists from all different ages so one of the categories was k through fo and this is all in patriot place in picher plaza so wonderful it literally they let us have the sidewalks going all through the stores taking up all the patriot place so the artists would register for twenty five dollars to get a square and they received a box of pastels for their square and they could go and they could get more pas that that would pop up on yeah my husband was involved in one of the drawings says brianna so brianna was not only part of our planning and running around that day but she also did her own drawing sophia this is a cue because she did you know centauri greece and there are people who would walk by and say oh that's where we had our honeymoon and just take a picture in front of the reminded them and then the final category was adult so nineteen plus because we had a lot of alumni who go to art schools and we thought you know this would be really good to get them in our house is one of the artists who's part of the fox for art association so she purchased a square and this is kar who is one of our alumni members kara so keira got first place for the theme for smiles come alive and here is now going to master the so there was the theme there was also people's choice and one thing to say about people's choices you know brianna and lindsey worked hard coming up with this idea of a people's choice and put in buckets by each of the squares so people could vote on their favorites all the proceeds from that went to a second scholarship so tomorrow night during the  presentation of those scholarships by the town there's going to be two foxborough association scholarships because of this and we were very fortunate to have pat patriot come and help  absolutely your hard work is very appreciated and this is what we talked about with the gallery so at the same time we have the a p work shown in the gallery this is our crew so all this couldn't have happened without our sponsors patriot place in fact fox dental associates they were huge and literally you know we had this little tiny idea and without them this one of happened so it's huge thank you to them and then also we had guest judges so dwight darian the creative director creative services for new england patriots frank quinn and his wife joanne quinn from the fox for our association they went around and judged every single square they took their time they were very thoughtful in the judging we had sasha green hall who was another alumni who came and did all of taare for photography for us and then all the students and the teachers that were there from about eight o'clock in the morning till seven at night just working and making sure that everything went smoothly and it was an incredible event and i heard a lot of people say they really want to do it again next year so we're pushing to make this a tradition that's our dream to to make this a tradition in foxborough so we do have a couple of social media networks where people can follow us through twitter facebook and then also there is a website you could feel the excitement there was just it was unbelievable i hope he can do it again i can't wait to go back and i do too yeah yet we had about the ones who were saying twenty largest and we're hoping to get even more next year seeing things thank you that that get me right there and you thanks just before we go i would love to hear a little bit more about the a p class because it was very exciting when you brought it forward order for it to actually be a quality piece the time will show it's not like you can go and you can write out a paper for your a p history class in an hour whereas an a p r piece will take up to five maybe sometimes weeks and to be able to produce twenty four pieces and just a short amount of months is definitely a challenge and i you can see that that was not to discourage  hearing myself say it there are many ways to be brilliant and when people like you are here that's why i say to myself again here's another way to be really there's not just one way to so many ways so really are passionate about and want to pursue so in mr mccabe said he wants to decca had some knowledge of deck in the past the district game as well and the size packed with us so we all just went this is great of course is a lot of work and we don't have to do it so we're just going to turn it over to the to mr mccabe and the student leaders who are coming forward with this new program too so we can learn all about yes i take that and sort of turn it to face whoever is speaking well first off i just want to comment a student because they're the ones that brought it forward to me and asked me if i would be the advisor i would help i'm going to start and i said sure let's do it and i respect want to thank mackenzie because i mean she just ran with it and first meeting we had over fifty kids show up so i was just like wow because i tried about eight years ago to star one and i think we had like ten kids it was different back then if you had to be enrolled currently in a marketing class to participate so it was more restrictive but i was just overwhelmed then we've already done so many things already like as far as getting fundraisers going things like that so i'm trying to keep up with them actually so i guess yeah i know exactly define what it is for those who don't yes you're right and actually i'm learning every day what it is to myself you know it used to be referred to as the distributive education cause of america they actually don't go by that any longer because they are more than that now i guess you'd say they're not just in america and they're international in there also it's not just what used to be distributed cation which essentially was sort of like you start off in colleges and it was more of a sort of like almost like training a sales force kind of thing like getting people insured in  sales and all that stuff and educating them about what that is and how that works but now it is so many other things as you can see in that package as far as just the various competitions that they offer so essentially there are those five  fields marketing being the biggest probably entrepreneurship business management administration finance and hospitality and tourism so i mean the main thing is the competitive events that's the that's their big thing about i guess and  basically students can enroll or sign up to be in a competition and there's essentially three levels there's the district level the state level and what they call international level which is basically nationals in the u s and they qualify if they make it if they get a certain score they get a certain percentage of students in the district level then they can move on to the state and then they can move on to the national they make the next qualifying round  so i guess the main thing is is what we're here tonight for anyways is to basically you guys know about decker and what it is and we're there we're starting this activity and that there's the possibility of overnight travel in the future and you know in the  springtime late late winter early spring things like that and as as far as far as deca it's just as i learned more about it it's just amazing how much it does align with what's currently going on twenty first century skills well with what's going on in education today i guess the last time was it before i got to kind of let them speak is there are different ways to do it in some schools it's an all encompassing comprehensive program where the actual like classes they run are essentially like a preparation there is they're essentially educating the students and getting them ready for competition as their assessment is essentially i see it as of right now as being more extracurricular at least next year just we can see kind of how things go and then maybe in the future we can add it more into the actual curriculum in terms of classes sort of where we are right now if you have any other awesome ryan and i'm the vice president and what drove me to take it to you guys is we recently visited where my school to sort of got introduced to the program by a pretty prominent program itself as it has i think they said two hundred fifty three members and going to that school was actually incredible because they had members and it's not only the smart kids they said that for the most part the kids who struck who strived in this program are kids who are better with hands on and i could actually real world wearing and there is stories such as kids having ninety one thousand dollars in scholarships there's actually a kid who got a full time job at a bank because of his presentation at a competition there and we really think that it's a very effective way to get kids who aren't so much into the school wearing to sort of come to their own and express themselves in a way that  about his experience with decca and how much he loved it and how like he felt it really pushed him not only in the classroom but to be able to get into the next level college and i just thought that was so amazing and he told me all these stories about competitions and how much he learned in the new people that he met throughout that not only different states but like the country that he still kept in contact with and the new contacts that he's made not only with students but like businesses and i just thought that was amazing so i asked mr mccabe if we could started up and he's like well i only write their names and we ended up being like four more pieces of paper and just throwing them around i was like just like you i don't care it's right whatever so it was a huge success and i hope that next year we do super well competitions and i just can't wait to see what's   i my name's courtney seeley and i'm the secretary as soon as mackenzie brought up tech that to me it just sounded like a great experience it would give you a life experience that you needed to get out into the real world and exceed and give you like all these different things that could be really useful for life and education furthermore so when i'm when we took attendance now we have about seventy kids are already in rolled and that's before we even have have even really began that many preparations for the for the competitions and everything like we just started and we already have such an epic great outcome so it just seems like it be the perfect opportunity for everyone to exceed and do well in things that would really matter and really really help the students out with their lives and to do well in their careers through their lives oh i'm the treasurer of deca and what really drew me to the program was that it put kids puts kids in real life situations not just learning with like a pen and paper and you couldn't really expand upon your knowledge of subjects by getting thrown into it and writing reports for like financial statements and like there are situations where you're supposed to play and it'll put you in a situation where you have to pretend you're a clerk at a hotel in a customer has a complaint and you have to calm down the situation yourself and  yes just like class will come back to you when you were but it was just like that you know you're doing me a favor too because we've been talking a lot about we want to provide more experiences for students in global  ectivity and this is an international program so you will learn a lot more about it and compete with international you know on an international level in with other students who are interested in entrepreneurship marketing finance hospitality management business type things and and hopefully find your niche in that area so it's it's definitely something that we don't provide a lot of opportunity here if your passion isn't that to find your niche there but it's also another example of of global  always aspired to go to college and have a business major so when my friend call in did bring this up i was like oh that's even better like i can basically start now so it was just another way for me to get like the edge on other schools and like be like i already know this about marketing and i already know this about finance it's just another way to up your resume and up your knowledge great story because we are very interested in making sure that we're providing for you guys in the students of fox borough some real room type things beyond the traditional academics which of course you have to have so it's really great that you can't bring this here or commas have i mean i think it's fabulous i love that  often had to say about it appealing to students at all different levels who might not you know enjoy the book so much but want to get some hands on experience i mean it's just like when you said about there are different ways to be brilliant and this is another perfect example of that so thank you all i can't wait to hear you come back and ask us for overnight travel for the next ye community service as well as what dylan was saying was the importance of immersion in the real world situations that that's it because austin to your you're in courtney's point being seen is one of the best advice pieces of ice i ever got in in my career or whatever for it's worth but to be seen and matter right and do well and be kind and this just loses the opportunity to do that and use your your skill sets and superpowers that you have with the personalities and your interests and those sorts of things so you know run like heck with it and i think it sounds like a great program for you and the community service company that really like to see what you do because they help the mass muscular dystrophy association as well that's there there are a favorite charity i think so will be interesting to see what it bears fruit from what the students are going to come up with really see a difference over time being much more able to speak publicly or think on their feet very quickly with the roleplaying that you were talking about it really does give some great opportunities that allow you to do things that are not and i really wanted to get like a big club that talks at the high school so i figured i might as well try and i really enjoy like graphic design stuff h you know what i think that probably happens with a lot of kids really don't know what they want to do but they're willing to jump into something good for you thank you how many are seniors are going to be  to be big because you having experience with it it's not only exciting and interesting and competitive which you know competition is always interest always exciting but it's also so practical and they can already see this this is going to lead to careers and jobs and companies and it doesn't take long to see that so i think that's great i don't want to give mr mccain a little shout out here because you know obviously the kids energy drives us to say yes let's do this let's do it but even and we can speak from personal experience as as a parent the course the elective courses he teaches sometimes can really be the most exciting part of the day and and he teaches all of the business classes but a variety almost you can't repeat a thing twice because you do everything you know differently so he preps for five different courses every semester but those are sometimes the classes that really inspired and and kids to do different things so i want to make sure you're not just sitting had the success that we did is because of him like the reason that some of these kids come to the club is because they love him so much as a teacher and he just drives everyone to want to push themselves and just having him there just brings everyone's energy up i remember the first meeting everyone was like mike k the back am and we all walked in and they're like chuckle let's go to internationals of like ok you know i just want to give him some problems because he's just motivated me to want to make this club as big as it can be i can't walk down the hall by mr mccance room without hearing someone yell along similar lines and i've talked to mr mccabe about the school store and you know the i remember the school store thirty plus years ago when i was in school and i know the school stores kind of going it's not it's a slow death but it certainly is  little outdated right mr mckibben i'm happy to see some energy brought yes i'm hoping that with this deck a program we're going to kind of revamp things and different direction because given the you know the guidelines with food and whatnot it's just  it's has changed a lot and it's not really viable the way it currently exists i guess so but i think with this i think there are opportunities because a lot of things involved with that there are things that you can do things through a school store and you know create marketing plans and market involved and so a lot of money to take a point for example went out for a national was last year and they actually imagine you guys have heard of the cape cod baseball league their concessions for their all go team actually runs through and that brings some i'm advising there are said and asked made about ten thousand dollars a year which they put into scholarships into the program and it all started through the school store through concessions and the kids and th advisor said she had nothing to do with it the kids call coco they order all the food and they bring everything there and it's all run through them and it all started up through decca through one person's idea that they presented the company  everything runs through that so we've got some there's a rule we could all play which is try to seek out and connect them with potential potential business  sponsors they sign like a small bank inside of this one of the school stores where him so the students can access the bank open a student account and they can access the a t m during the day they can set it all up so that it can run with their know well what he's saying is that contributed to the demise of the schools too and we couldn't sell the illegal sweets food once the once the federal nutrition regulations came in a few years ago you know that shocked us all they can't sell the stuff just a thought i smell a power house here oh i think i really do i think this thing's going to be big and maybe you want to keep this in more depth there might be other groups within the school that need to raise funds that you could cross pollinate with to help the weaker fundraising organizations that are as important as deca to those and see if there's imaginative ways your brain trust can it is something different in that the typically new appointments you know don't come here for a public interview so what we've always done in foxborough it is a school committee appointment is that the school hiring the school at the school or so i will tell you a little bit about the school nurse who is being recommended to you for the full time position at the her school i can't be a surprise at this point two weeks from now we're going to be celebrating it here at the table anyway has been a long time schooners the middle school is retiring so this is for her full time school nurse replacement so the candidate that we are all recommending to you is jennifer rosenberg who lives in north a she has been a district school nurse working couple days a week on this part of that team and and has been a substitute school nurse a parent volunteer she's matured with the american stroke association society she has taught at a community college for a year back then she's worked at it at the basic medical center back when she first became a nurse and at the memorial hospital for alan so she's got a variety of experience and  college i'm certainly not a nursing expert but i always like to see you know real world application which she did for a number of years in memorial hospital in iowa as you mentioned of a state medical center and then taught as you said and then has been a school nurse before this  first ride on the merry go round you know i do think that's important because nursing nursings nursing but nursing in a school setting kids can be a little bit different with all well pediatric clients as we go in on a daily basis and i think that's license licensure application is currently under review is that a formality but yes i most most she is a license nurse as you can imagine so the nurses and speech and language of the colleges for example to maintain two certifications one with a professional organization just to be licensed nurse and then with the department of ed if you want to work in a school setting so not unlike therapists and specialists she has she has have two different certifications so she has applied for school certification with the department of education i think by the time school opened she will have it so it is pending so her hiring which could occur tomorrow morning if you were to get fable favorable vote would certainly be you know as a long term substitute pending the  obtain middle of the certification which is what we did last time which was about three years ago so yes that's thank you for asking thank you for clarifying but she was very impressive i just have to say  have three policies for first reading field trips late night no night student travel and graduation requirements right yet i'm not saying a word as we have a policy subcommittee that is way ahead of me so i'm just going to turn it over to our marvelous policy subcommittee and you know i just want to say we really try to work well together and it isn't the light thing and the two of us got up she went into the into the office to speak with janet first and then i  at field trips we decided we should look at the late night and overnight student travel and make sure that the chill policies kind of go hand in glove and yes so we wanted to make sure they were consistent so we made a couple minor changes and then just did browsing through the policy manual i noticed that the program in requirements were not up to date to some of the changes that this committee has made over the last couple of years so just to be very  accurate and so we've made a couple changes in there and we already know because of the wheel that's been set into motion by twenty sixteen something's going to happen by twenty seventeen something trying to happen so why not know that now because it's already in the pipeline i think their timing on that second one the graduation is good because if you had done it before this then you basically writing policy that did not apply to this year's graduating class so now learning experience is provided my field trips are a most effective and worthwhile means of learning it is the desire of the committee to encourage field trips as part of and directly related to the school program and curriculum specific guidelines and appropriate procedures shall be developed to screen approve and evaluate trips and to ensure that all reasonable steps are taken for the learning and safety of the participants it was that we dropped and are there so we're a so it's not the leaning on earning that's a correct spelling the learning and safety of the participants said guidelines and procedures should be developed by the administration and reviewed and approved by the school committee these guidelines and appropriate administrative procedures shall ensure that all field trips have the approval of the principal and that all overnight trips have the prior approval of the fox for a school committee field trips can bring the school in the community closer together which can result in real life experiences that enrich the curriculum for students and also bring about better public relations the foxboro school committee will also encourage field trips as an integral part of the instructional programs in the schools the superintendent establish regulations to assure that one all students have parental permission for trips to all trips are properly supervised three all safety precautions are observed for all trip contribute substantially to the educational program all overnight trips must have advance approval of the foxboro school committee fund raising activities for such trips will be subject to approval by the facts from school committee policy adopted three twenty four zero eight so we struck the language out of state or extended overnight trips and excursions because we do have field trips you know that are day trips to rhode island that we feel that this is we do not need to approve in the title we struck late tonight and it will just say overnight student travel all student trips which include overnight travel must have the prior approval of the fox for a school committee foxborough school committee shall only consider shall consider only trips that have been previously approved by the school principal and the superintendent fund raising activities for such trips will be subject to approval by the foxboro school committee we struck the prior senate and inserted that senate because it's consistent with what is in the field trip policy so we wanted to be consistent the foxboro school committee will also consider the educational value of the trip in relation to the costs prior to granting initial approval overnight trip should offer significant educational benefits to students that clearly justify the time and expense of the trap such trip should also be appropriate for the grade level final approval will not be granted until all the preparations for the trip have been completed including but not limited to all logistical details involving transportation accommodation arrangements adult chaperones and fundraising efforts final approval sh no less than thirty days prior to the scheduled trip dates and properly supervised teachers and other school staff are prohibited from soliciting for privately run trips through the school system and in the schools the foxborough school committee will only review for approval school sanctioned trips the facts for a school committee will not review or approve trips that are privately organized and run without school sanction policy adopted twelve twenty two all for policy amended one  fire legal references chapter three forty six of the acts of two thousand and two at all approved on ten nine zero two messages its general law chapter sixty nine paragraph one be chapter seventy one ones are celebre tory in nature like to help kids celebrate so i guess educational in celebrating school achievement is probably ok well in this educational value to socialization and being with your the next one is just is our graduate it's not just it is our graduation requirements file i just k f in order to graduate from foxborough high school a student must have a minimum of it will be twenty four credits as follows change from twenty two and remember these are all graduation requirements we have previously approved and they recorded currently in our fox for high school student handbook this is just to make the two  one so english for credit science one of which must be a laboratory science three credits social studies one of which must be a united states history and it can we put another parentheses on the end of that we didn't there but just to person three credits mathematics will change from three credits to four credits there is an ass tricks there that says will go down and say beginning with the class of two thousand and seventeen four credits will be required in mathematics so can i ask our friend question while you're reading so for the class of two thousand and sixteen yes they will only need three right that's what we designed it and so on i'm wondering when you come back for the second said just make the two match so i think it's a good clarification especially when seniors are sitting down to you know make their schedules and make sure they have everything they need to get moving if i'm understanding with them we need to address the language in the first something to write why i think they still need twenty four credits only three of them have to be math but if i'm remembering this correctly i mean it says well so the asterix down at the bottom beginning with  class of two thousand and one from two thousand and sixteen twenty four credits will be required to graduates true ok i think we changed this two years ago i think when you change the math requirement we change the overall graduation requirement to twenty adding this in the paragraph below it says of the student does not need to tweet you know that's got to say twenty four i just actually oh my god can i get back to that reading part and then through it and then we'll go back to any questions because i don't want to miss anything so we're at world language parentheses in the same language two credits wellness grades nine and ten are required now you know what actually that we need to change that it says wellness grades nine and ten are acquired but now we have a requirement for all four years you know should we just strike yeah it's just a wellness just as wellness you know it's a change it's actually a change from one credit to two credits which makes sense because it's a half credit exact year so we should strike that i see parsing of our graduation requirements electives six credits and a passing score on the m cas examination including approved alternatives per state mandates so that remains the same as that's currently  then we do need to include the language i think at the bottom which says beginning with the class of two thousand and sixteen twenty four credits will be required to graduate if a student does not graduate with his or her class in june all credits must be completed by december thirty first of that calendar year in order to be considered a member of the june graduating you need beginning with class of two thousand and sixteen since we're not doing it for the other part just having twenty four credit card graduate i guess i mean a student does not that statement is down below so you're meant that to replace the paragraph below if a student because you know old on said august thirty first so this is a replacement for  correct august thirty first or december thirty first if i am going to have to ask no tomorrow but that basically if it is now december thirty first that basically replaces or is the correction for the last sentence of this policy correct that correct ye have a first reading i think the next will be considered a second reading but you don't have to vote on it since so much of it is substantially tweaked you could decide today to wait till the third reading before proving this particular writer i just have questions and may not matter but on the wellness where it is taking wellness each year two credits does it need to specify that it's each year no no no because really interested in so he should not limit your policy to what you're there to take things in so a student could not take wellness junior year they if they couldn't arrange a schedule and take an entire year of it if say the magic sure example that are what she thinks but let me hear update i don't think offered a lot because only a few months into the play and i don't know how much when it comes to these really broad goals we actually accomplish month to month more year to year so i think the end this end of the year didn't progress  very appropriate and i think i'd like the committee to consider next year not having the mid year because we didn't we didn't have a watch remember me here so here we are at the end of year one of our new strategic cleon and i think we've been over the vision and mission of the values incorporated and i will do a quick review from the short of broad objective one to continue to offer journey with you learning experiences within a rigorous curriculum to promote critical thinking creativity communication collaboration and foster high levels of achievement for all students by preparing them to be responsible global citizens so you can see when it comes to our three year goals and strategies that a lot a lot of it is in progress to suffer so you're still working on practically everything  here one of the things that you'll notice in the three year goals is if it is something that's measured by our culture and climate in you will survey which we do in the spring which of going out such as goal number two to increase the percentage of students who feel challenged at school by six percent and that our baseline in two thousand and fourteen was seventy four percent of all students in grades three through twelve report that they feel challenged by the work at school goals to increase it to eighty percent we have yet but in those results so in progress in the strange thousand and fifteen means that we are collecting the data we're looking to see how well we've progressed toward a goal we don't expect to get the full six percent in the first year but we are working towards that everything else you see a change a lot from our data in february you can see that when it comes to our strategies around those global connections as we heard tonight that we are constantly looking for those global connections and increasing them and  you know that's that becomes of a strategy increase opportunities at all levels for students and faculty to participate learning experiences so we have a couple of things that were completed but most of it is in progress to me and if you want to comment on the change that i think some of the other things in addition to the culture and climate survey as we had a very extensive professional development survey that was completed this spring with our teachers that assistance everyone and it was very lengthy and we're using that to really drive a two year professional development plan and it speaks to some of these things such as specific training for educational systems to support students and high needs group and really see what support is at a high level of familiarity and what is that a level of priority as far as interest as well and looking at how those two cross reference with each other and that information we've been taking that through our professional development committee and going through the full inquiry process and really looking at how that will play out in the next couple of years in relation to what our district initiatives are at the same time and they only other piece here to add i think it's what we've talked a lot about as far as technology and technology integration there's a lot of work behind the scenes that's being played out through curriculum development and expectations and technology proficiency with teachers and then with students much thought on objective one ject of to to continue to strengthen school culture ensuring that students staff parents and all stakeholders feel valued safe and have a voice and a lot of the three  were around analyzing our perception data how people feel about the school the public schools here in foxboro and we continue to collect that data in the spring of each year and as you can see we had some baseline data that spoke to the goals about a percentage of teachers just a cry of reporting that they have collaboration time available with colleagues and that was identified he reviewed for us because only sixty three percent of teachers reported they have that time kind of built into this schedule and that is quite a challenge in in education i will say so that that is why our goal specifically called out for the three years is to foster and extend those opportunities because we do think that that teacher collaboration really is key to all of the instructional proven to me king and how we're really going to reach the outcomes for students that we desire and we definitely have either completed or we have made some really pretty good progress on a few of the strategies which is close to the baseline data developing the entry plan for the integration of school resource officer that's been completed and at the end of this year actually in line with that i want to mention we are going to meet and discuss what worked really well with the school resource officer where we'd like to go next year so we've got that on our docket to do the one thing you see not yet it is one of the more challenging areas which is this plan is intended to target mental health services because we have many more emerging needs for students and families in the area of mental health whether it's social emotional psychological need and that is something that is quite complex and we're we've been studying this year but we don't yet have a plan for how we're going to adjust that understand where where the workings to be focused so we are working on that you should expect to see some good progress on that year to i don't want to make a lengthy com about those but while we're on the point about school safety you have something to do you have to deal with here at the high school that was a good test i think of working with the police department them communicating to the community in a yes so without saying a lot because sometimes the more you say the more it makes something  parents and staff members did receive communication today that there had been also a rumor circulating over the weekend and our police department really responded exactly as we hope we have a partnership agreement with them and we did have the information prior to start of school they had to term and it was still safe school environment but i would say that just talking in generalities which can be helpful the our police department particularly our school department particularly myself i will speak for we are never going to put students in a situation that we deem unsafe so if we thought that any school was an unsafe environment we wouldn't bring kids in morning so that that would not happen but we do believe in an over abundance of caution which i know there are in our committee most of your parents here currently and i certainly know mrs ford well enough to know that she certainly concurs we we believe in the philosophy of over abundance of caution so sometimes our thorough follow up can appear to the outside to be an unsafe situation that we have kids in and it doesn't necessarily make it so so we don't have to always follow through with an over abundance of caution and if we didn't nobody would have known anything but we do believe i personally would rather take that exposure having to explain things to people and feel confident that we have engaged in over abundance of caution i'll say but that is always preferable but that's what it was so it can appear to people that things were and concerning but we never believe that but we will always act i think from where we sit this is a good you know if we're talking about school safety everyone feeling safe i think this is a good litmus test to look at our polls our strategies our procedures and i think so as some of us you know worked with you today i'm communicating with you today we were able to see that you know the right things have been done to make sure that people are safe you know foxboro high school class no i don't think it's bad for us to have fire drills if you will mean it's a bad term but using that as a as a general term having experiences yes put our policies our so when we have a state like teachers keep teaching students go to the bathroom or the nurse they just go with an escort so we know where kids are to be to meet allow us to accomplish something that we want to do without students passing in huge groups of the hall and sometimes to do it in privacy so that when the same would be the case if if we had a student that fainted for example and we had called ambulance to come and take the student with fainted and seems to be fine but we want the student checked out we would also do the same thing we did today which is  stay in place to keep kids out of the hallway and away from witnessing first tunes dignity and for the for the ability to allow our young teens to do their job to be able to come in and take the student and go out whatever their copra door is without a lot of so important to us because we believe without this without both a culture and climate that is strong and positive and people feel safe in a voice nothing else can happen right so that's why it's very important to us and we not only  decided we had to do that but the burning question was now that we've identified we need to do how do we do it that you're also a lot of no question i was also thinking of this having just done the update when the kids were here some of these things so we have a lot of things that are still in progress with some functionality of our school safety measures and school security measures our infrastructure for technology bill can certainly speak the detail language better so i want even significant progress in some areas such as expanding the full campus of the high school so you know we are taking that completion of the same burns community field and all its for feels quite seriously what we're going to continue that expansion effort until you know until we have a complete campus here fox for high school so that that's my goal and many of the technology improvements that have been amazing this year as you've heard before someone turned over to bill to talk about some of the specific systems throughout we're literally within days of signing off on the phone system and we've been waiting for a final you know read numbered set up on the camera so we hope to do both those programs or summer when the kids are out of the building because of where you are involved and so with that so both of those should be you know completed by back to school time frame as far as you know the public safety thing is i think as dave said we did do one in the fall of two thousand fourteen we had both police and fire involved and can go through the buildings with us and we still have a little bit of work there to do is ours the planning side of of making some changes as deb said on the full campus here obviously we have the lighting part that will be  signed off to go forward this summer and we're still working on the concession side of it the brawl school we actually did do the submission in december i mean in january february timeframe and  so that's out there so now the next update they'll come back to the committee will be with the and s b a does back in the december timeframe of two thousand and fifteen hopefully with an approval to move forward from there and then the final thing on the efficienc concept is about a two year to two and a half year payback but also gives us much improved lighting which will also help us on our security side so it is a twofold piece there it's being actually funded through the rebate process so that we won't pay anything additional during the you know the two year to three year time frame but we will get the energy savings so it comes in to a net equal each year so and i was expected to last how long that's why i was twenty two years i mean i won't be here when you  look over these be brighter lights all right or better more actually only the lighter more focused light and so it's it's it's not that it's brighter but it's concentration is more in the area that you're actually trying to light where the old agencies a great example was the street paying festival we just saw a local business came forward to support that as well as peter place which is a huge business in towns we had a large and small business that came together to support that initiative so that's we always will probably report that is ongoing because we're never done i'm always looking for new ways to be transparent in new ways to support partnerships and to and to expand those maintaining strong citizen taxpayer support the evidence is the approval of the  budget in budget request a town meeting and i will say this is my fourth year superintend in our budget in our c i p pass without questions concerns of comments in the audience and i really credit all of you and our partners at the town side in the advisory committee that we do a lot of work on scenes leading up to that so it isn't that we just put a number forward in it which is going to vote for it there's a whole lot of work that's done in the months leading up so that people can have confidence in what we're putting forward but i also think that this will always stay on going because strong citizen checks peer support to me is is a is a year round goal so every day the interactions we have with the things that we do in partnership maintain that strong citizen taxpayers or so the evidence is a town meeting but this is something that we think i personally think goes on every day and then promoting the fox for public schools within the town is on a personal informal level as well as a formal level that we have been doing the district report card each january and we completed that particular strategy in the budget process was as transparent as it has men this year which is very transparent we report our student achievement data regularly  the one thing that is a little bit more complex to us to just as we're a few minutes ago in the other one is is how do we really use our website to make it a little bit more life and that is that is an issue for us not in terms of the content because there's so much richness to pick from but who is actually going to be responsible for maintaining and posting things that we're struggling more with the with the with the human resource side of that because there's so much to do but we'll figure that out so i would say expect to see more progress on that in year two census of three year plan i actually i'm ok with a couple of things that don't really get underway to the point where we'd like to report on them two years  fun i think i might have enjoyed it more than they did i know i've talked about it already but i saw vicky lowe last week from the council on aging and human services and i will tell you that she said the seniors are still talking about it and those who didn't go because they had a  thing the day wish they had gone more came out of that it was focused on technology but i think i've said this before but seeing even the students through their eyes maybe even more proud of the kids  go to school here because their observations of things that they were while by were things that i notice every day but for an outsider to say i had no idea second graders has that much confidence to get up and talk about math and from that i no idea high school students use technology to increase their world language proficiency i had just it made me so proud so we're going to try to repeat that and do that because we're all day that's something well it wasn't on coral day when we planned i so that's what happened but when we first picked it it was their choice day so these people are too busy so we just had to you know a great time so we continue to look for those because they are pretty  the additional comments or thoughts on the strategic plan update you know we don't i don't think we have to do this formally where we do a budget but i think you'd be good to read into director voted to record our approval of the update just i'll just go over a few basics we do have a new committee member so i think it's always helpful each year to kind of review what you do so i know everyone is a fan of a huge chunk of paper information i have to put in the packet but i think it's important in here even if it it in encompasses documents that our members have seen before to put them in their year so i don't expect you to go back and chase them down either so for the public's purpose so i've included a bunch of things the first is an overview of that five step the valuation cycle which begins with a self assessment where i think i am and then goal setting which you approve my goals at the beginning of the year i implement the goals in those plans and then around february you do my mid cycle review which is the formative assessment and a few years ago so far no you suggested a way to do that that we have not only found so helpful but i actually use it with principals as well and so my mid cycle as you read will recall is kind of focused around rather than my given killing trees to give you documentations on the twenty odd standards and elements in in my particular job description rubric what am i most proud of what am i working really hard on which might not be something that's accomplished but what am i really working hard on and and then what do i what am i most challenge in so that those three questions really serve this well to focus on the standards that have been my focus for the year i feel and the same thing has been helpful for principle so i want you to know that those that that way of theming so it included that that overview as well as a simple overview of the four major standards which are instructional leadership management not peroration family and community engagement and professional culture under each of those four standards there were many subtopics if you will which are called elements in the massachusetts educator evaluation system so what you have attached to that is the department of education's employment teaching guide for superintendent evaluation which is quite lengthy and it includes all of the considerations that are made in the superintendent's evaluation that is followed by somebody of report forms what they generally look like and why i think that's helpful is the summative forms identify each of those elements so for example under professional culture standard for he will see for a commitment to high standards and how does that mean a festive itself throughout the year and in my role for these cultural proficiency for c is communication which is written verbal and interpersonal communication four d is continuous learning for each shared vision and then it's got a little something in there about smart goals so that that really provides all committee members with all of the overview information in the massachusetts system for educator evaluation which is the same one we use with teachers and administrators and certainly me so after that what i did is take the department of ed what i do we care and i customize the department of ed forms to me so the next section that you see stapled together that says forms two thousand and fourteen fifteen school year you will see it's got my name and then blank for the name of the school committee member because the next step is for each of you to do an individual evaluation or assessment of how you superintendent completes that so you remember in the past people who rotated off the committee for whatever reason have completed an evaluation after the fact so it really is the five members who serve the majority of my superintendents i'll be ready for her but i will say what i said to miss you last year is that i would still find it very valuable for you to look at that and come in to meet with me individually as the others will do anyway and give me your impressions from whatever seat different and have that conversation because i think it's really helpful for me to understand each member's viewpoint and how you view it and what you would like me to work on for next year because those conversations actually really helped me with my goal and we have forms to fill out as individual members and then you meet with me one on one and we go over your individual evaluations after that the committee submit your individual valuations to janet that will be in july august august last year we presented the brick the readout on aug eighteenth the sure we're meeting on the twenty fourth of august i don't know if you feel that's going to be too busy at that time but it doesn't matter to me but one of the things that sometimes we don't say waffle is it's not waffling but in the school district gold is the one to share each summer we talk about the timing of the superintendent's evaluation so you will see th also included in the package or self assessment we have completed so that is a requirement for me to tell you how i think i did i will say if in case you don't have your papers from last year when it comes to reading myself from the students elements you know in terms of were thought i was with a little x box as i didn't change any of those i would really looked not because i didn't want to but the time they really look carefully at where it's assessed myself last year in year three and this being your four and i really felt that what i thought of my performance last year was similar i think that it gives a good picture of what i think my strengths are and what areas i think i'm ok in and i didn't feel the need to change what i did change was the description the comments boxes on to update out of anything and i think it happened and obviously what changes each year are my goals so that first page that you see my specific goals there's one  l practice called a student learning goal and there are three district improvement goals in there is one other which is the culture but it's not something that doesn't fall in one of the first three categories so i do have six personal professional goals and that certainly is customized where i think i am in myself myself on that as well so you will see that that on some of them i felt i have met most of those goals but i hope that every year i have a where i say significant progress or not because i don't want all of the goals to be something i can achieve in one year so if they really need the enough there ought to be one or two that's going to take me a while to really get there where i can say i feel confident i did it so that's as an explanation i think that it's logical to that you would have a similar assessment of your of your own performance from year to year unless something really dramatically gin and have a one on one with and then it won't take me long to put stuff together do you guys feel comfortable we could have that done assuming we make a mess actually we have a meeting and you know mid july which is called which is six weeks to six weeks we would love that we could put this back on the agenda tears already on the docket and we don't want to go to the beach but i think tonight it is that last year i thought it worked well so i think you do have your you know you have all your ducks in order last year by the end of june i think i had met with each person individually so by that by july first or thereabouts all say by the fourth of july weekend the individual assessments have been turned over to to the chair so that seemed to be a good timeline and so that there will be in this a similar agenda item two weeks from now and the reason we will keep the super intense evaluation on it as we have other years is so that you have two weeks to consider all of this and the goal of this is an agenda item next time since my evaluation is entirely public except for the individual and his is to for you to really think seriously is there any other evidence that you need me to come back with at the next meeting is there an area a standard element where you don't feel you have enough information to make that judgment as i have as you remember if you asked me the individual meaning of what she said for stuff and provided for you and that was helpful last time but if it's something that generically you think the whole committee would be interested in the deck is me an opportunity in a window to come back with more information so rather than do what we did the first year as a learning process which is to give you the big big binders with so much in it this is this is a little bit more customized now with the standards are everybody seems to understand them is there an area you would like further documentation and all of that meeting and then we're off stephen bev you feel like six weeks is enough to get through the process you just for the record i will reach out to mrs adair and ask if she would like to participate i'm comfortable if she chooses not to because i don't anticipate us having dramatic variations of the new and i don't know what her situation is elements you saw in here with specific documents that i showed how i met those standards and so once you realize what kinds of i will say what every day are regular things i do to make those standards you don't need to get that level of detail every year so i think that's actually a great idea so when we meet individually we'll start with the evidence i provided that is quite detail and then you'll see i can explain how the process has evolved and there's really no other thing to sit in on it's individual meetings and then your individual evaluations go performance was student choice and they decided on the murder mystery did theater i'm happy because that's that's the idea they had that they came up with and rave reviews everybody i've talked to this been there but that night even though it couldn't be there i feel like it was because i was getting texts from this is wonderful psychologist in to speak to parents joanie gelt men who was there last wednesday and did a lecture on atlas and psychology that i personally found very valuable but the herd tax funded that it was  item in the next meeting with you because we have to i just that was where i was going to go with one of mine too so i'm glad you i know you have more of a great partner with us talking about the business community partnership so we expected to have a fifty fifty split on the proceeds from that night and they gave us one hundred percent that night they came home after the event it started out and said yeah we have discussed it and we're not going to take any of your ticket sales fifty fifty fifty is a good sport people are saying wow for any this is a twenty percent to give you a fifty fifty it's usually twenty thirty percent so they gave us all of it and they gave us twenty percent of the  champions bowling event after school next tuesday so talk to mrs brown and get a bunch of kids to enter the teams and i haven't even got a chance to check with her every i meant to today but then other things were happening students or faculty it's after school three thirty to five and give prizes to the top three teams and then and we have the same burns community t shirt sales we have a lot of preorders and we have a lot of current orders and we're going to be selling them at a booth and found day so that is a big fundraiser and then we're going to see where we are as we and school see how much we've raised and then we're going to develop some other plans for that but i will wait for that yes but i'm going to have that at the next agenda but i can't say melissa mailing mary jo carney you know kind you know enough because those two dynamos it's all you need committee and caitlin brown obviously and myself but we're in the war determined women determined to really raise some was our boxer against diabetes five k i wanted to congratulate all of our students who ran in the race really it's one of the best things about that race is that there are so many kids that run and they do the running going does the running club at the tailor and as one of the grade had a phenomenal concert on thursday i have gone to a lot of concerts lately and this one was one of the most fun shows and this pink did such a great job with the course i mean the orchestra was fantastic the band was fantastic but the seniors i hope you really enjoy this week and it's just there's so many wonderful celebrations going on this week and then sunday is going to be my list but i do want to mention that yesterday i thought st mary's had a wonderful sendoff for father steve who's done so much for schools i know this meant something to you to recognize him as well and i thought they did just a terrific job acknowledging the role that he's played in our community as many of our clergy do and we will miss him terribly but he's done an awful lot of our school so i wanted to mention that and i had his first day in the new place is tomorrow morning so not a lot of a big break so thank you father steve for everything you've done and for just he's just part of the fabric of the community so janet to help me get a response i want take time to discuss it now but our next meeting is june fifteenth i believe and i have to present at a school board meeting in texas that night for business we discussions resulted in a consensus that we are ready to support a new contract for the foxboro crossing guards per our discussions active session and prior discussions between our representatives there