good evening we're going to call the foxboro school committee meeting to order being seven o three march seventeenth the agenda is a follows for this evening seven o'clock visitors seven ten minutes seven fifteen teaching and learning any revisions or addition ok so our curriculum review this year we're still looking at social studies and wellness and where well underway with those two program reviews next year with our cycle we have science technology engineering that is slated for review as well as world language at this time we're not requesting any changes and would like to go forward i would like to just note that with the science technology engineering the draft standards are released now for us to look at but they have not been formally adopted and will not be until the end of the two thousand and fifteen twenty sixteen school year so anticipate a longer curriculum program review for science because of those standards and the department of that has done that intentionally it's with the next generation science standards and at the same time they're looking at those other initiatives that are taking place as you know educator evaluation and many of the other things so they're releasing them which is a little backwards than what they've done in the past so they're releasing them for us to look at for two years but they're not formally adopting them for two years and so we will do a lot of review we've already started looking at those and go from there so it doesn't make sense noted like keep on track if you start to an issue it really does because there's a lot that's there am too with the english language arts standards where they have the literacy standards for science technology embedded within there's a lot crossovers so it really does make sense we weren't ready this year because the standards have not been released so it's really been like thirteen years since the department has had a full revision of their science standards and they've done a little bit here or there and even with the new draft standards it doesn't change the courses for high school but it takes a really integrated approach for k to eight so when we look at those the other piece that it does just as a little teaser we've talked a lot about with our science cast is we've had great spans for the standards in the past catered to three to five and then it's up to the district to choose which standards you're going to focus on with the new draft standards they're being specific by grade which is nice so the standards have been released they have been released but they have not been formally adopted by the department of education and will not be until twenty sixte the only changes between now and then that they're talking about really are just refining them a little bit not any changes for what we see is what we're going to go with it's just a matter of really looking at  the definition of college and career ready ness and what that means within the science technology and refining them a little bit but as far as the the meat if you will of the standards that is what they're into supporting on adopting there's been a lot of talk at the national giving teachers more time that this rushed to expect everybody to automatically adopt and do it well that i just read something but he's recommending slowing it down to give teachers time to really absorb the changes so i guess i'm not surprised that they're going with two years to give it a little bit more time but that doesn't mean they're expect states and districts to start working with them to see so that they think they're trying to which is what we've been saying slow down the change the pace of change not not just slow down do with in the in the direction of science education in the united states and how we then change what we do to go with that yes same thing  so if you have been beer with us but i know it hasn't been a formal agenda item so back in october and the mask you conference i mean i went to a session called mask you evaluators and they gave us an overview of a program that the mass cube which is a computer using educators in still with it is now in massachusetts and they have this new program teaching school districts how to evaluate and assess your technology initiatives and we thought that was perfect timing for us having rolled out a new technology play in and they contract with an agency called sun associates that's all the that's all they do is professional development for school districts in how to evaluate individual technician lives whole tech plans whatever it is you're trying to evaluate hard how you're doing as you go along so we felt the timing was really great even though normally somebody would say well wait to the end of your first year to see it coming along but we really wanted to participate in the process during our first year so that we could see if any aspects of the plan weren't really being addressed and to really get a baseline for where we are right now so we went ahead with that and it includes four days of professional development for a team of ten minutes traders here in foxboro and so we have  elementary principal our secondary principal we have a me myself and bill our tech director the and represent teacher representatives so it's been a lot of hard work we've learned a lot and so what you see tonight so just for the public to me not be having something in front of them to mask to evaluate is project provides district leaders with tools and techniques for evaluating district wide technology initiatives gauging how instructional technologies currently used to support teaching and learning and building our capacity to ensure effective integration of educational technology so i expect this process will help us monitor the implementation of the plan not only year one but also going forward to guide our instructional decisions about technology in the future so i've already talked about our mass q team internally and so the what the team did in the first few days of training is we looked at our whole plan and we developed a set of descriptive indicators  and and we will be measuring our performance against those indicators so i'm going to turn over to him in a minute but what we've provided to you in your packet is a copy of the four broad indicators in the the general categories are in a very lengthy lead described indicator for students skills and outcomes an indicator for technology teacher skills and pedagogy indicated for administration district policy around technology an indicator for infrastructure so we're what we're doing is starting our data collection process this month and will continue until april seventeenth and what we hope to do is to be to collect evidence of where we are in those indicators so very broadly the indicators describe in terms of students what do we want students to know and be able to do with regard to the use integration of technology and the indicator outlines more specifics around that in terms of our teacher skills and pedagogy what skills both support their desired student outcomes and in terms of infrastructure broadly what sorts of technology supported learning environment should the district have in place so i just put students teachers and administrators in their work to reach the desired student outcomes so that's where we're starting that's the core and the indicators are quite lengthy people want to read them they will just ask and in terms of our data collection that will also be quite comprehensive all turned over to me to tell you where we are with the data collection process and how many different types of data will be cooking all right so those those indicators really are a measure of success there are action steps so to speak and in order to measure those we needed to collect multiple forms of data in order to triangulate that data and we wanted to bring in perspectives of everyone everyone has different opinions from parents to students to teachers to ourselves and how we're using technology really to support learning in classrooms so with that being said all of those indicators we then develop that team of ten of us questions that would be asked either in a focus group in an online survey through walk through through every single classroom and learning space in all five of our buildings taking all of that information in addition to things such as inventories infrastructure kinds of things that we have as well aggregate all of that data all of it is anonymous through surveys in the focus groups and we're going to then have a deliverable in the end of this that will really kind of give a current state of the state so focus groups as an example we have nine focus groups that are going to take place we have focus groups for parents we have an elementary and a secondary parent focus group which will take place on monday march twenty fourth and we sent out communications to parents if they were interested to please contact their building principal if they wanted to serve on that one time commitment one hour on that monday evening actually it's a two hour commit a commitment i should say for the time it's said and if you because it's not going to half an hour as can be a lot of information but so will have the secondary focus group will have an elementary parent focus group and it's really important that the person leading these groups is really unbiased and doesn't have a connection to the constituents that we're talking with so whether it's a focus group for teachers if it's an elementary focus group it's not going to be elementary teachers that are facilitating that group it's people that really are unaware i'm known to them so as an example with the parent focus groups myself and bill will be leading those particular focus groups on that evening so we have the two parent focus group the staff focus groups we have an elementary middle and a high and again it's going to be for instance a high school teacher that would be leading the elementary focus groups and vice versa so there's three focus groups their students we're going to have a focus group of middle school students where it's going to be approximately two students per grade because we really want it to be an intimate group at the same time eight to ten people in order to collect information across grades but where people really have the opportunity to speak their minds if you will in their thoughts and opinions the i t department so all of those that work with our networks and really behind the scenes technology that will be a focus group and then we'll have a focus group that are department heads and curriculum director so our ten department heads here at the high school along with allison and diane that's a focus group so those are our focus groups we have online surveys that will be sent to parents and t teachers that we're in the process of working with actually k twelve and site who does our culture and climate survey to administer those and then the school walk through that's going to be going through every single learning space and we have a protocol that is being used to collect information what are the students doing what are the teachers doing what's going on in that classroom what are the devices that are available to students how are they being used and it's and announced as far as the walk through so it's not something to you know where you could like stage technology if you will it's really on a daily basis what's happening in our classrooms in our labs in guidance we you know we talked about now beyond a little bit so there's technology being used in many different ways and that is totally anonymous as well in that of course the person doing the walk through knows who's room there but not somebody that's and the value to them in any shape or form or somebody's even known to them and it could be another teacher from another level for example or from the from a check steering committee or teacher that serves our evaluation our check or mask you evaluators and they're really just going to collect and aggregate the information so that we paint a picture of how technology is being used every day and that that will help us know where teachers want to go or what they currently are doing that we've provided and if we don't see something we expect to see that help we provide it so even that will be aggregated no one or it's for us to really know what's going on on a daily basis so that we can triangulate that information with what people are saying is happening the and what parents and students feel happening as well so it's going to be a lot of information and once all of that's the other reason by april seventeenth we wanted all of this data collected because we need to then make sense of it and put it into a report where we see the evidence towards those four indicators and how it matches up with those because that data really is to go back towards measuring those indicators and then help really are planning for the future and where we're going with technology and where are areas of strength and where are areas of opportunity so the  collected by the seventeen yes then there's going to need to be time obviously to aggregate we will come back together as a team and take all of that information again as debby said it's all anonymous it's just it's a lot of information starting to the sun associates it working it feels that that is within the timeframe of what they typically do it does it does push us but in a way that's great because we really want you to know where where we think we are in the first year of our new plan and we like the summer to do some things with it to plan for and we'd like to start the new year fresh knowing a bit having a better idea of where we are and what our goals are i think that will really help us a lot and it is just as i said it's perfect timing we went to this session and we went up afterwards and we want to have that information at the same time that we're starting a strategic planning process it would be probably either inefficient duplicative or maybe not even on point to have the strategic planning committee working on that fourth objective in technology and trying to figure out where to get information so we need our goal is to pull this train into the station a little bit ahead of you planning so that most of the bulk of the work is the data collected and then the street planning group can just say what parts of this new information report do we want to pull out to speak to the district why it's a future plan and what parts of it just rest internally with our interest we're team in terms of our next step action steps that we want to take in terms of it could be anything budget capital improvement you know you name it so we hope to get some of those broad directional items out of it that will help the city  spend a lot but it's life that the map is there you know what you're going to do it's been nice to with a nice g p s and they did it with a group of ten we're also taking that information for example the surveys that are going out to teachers and parents not only did it work with us developing it then we took those surveys that it through the administrative team so all administrator had a look at the survey questions and then it went to our technology steering committee for a second look to look at that is it clear did we miss anything we know that it goes back to the indicators but we really are trying to make sure that all stones are you know uncovered was usually you're engaging all the  sounds like you're going to be incorporating i mean not only are you getting input from all of the different stakeholders but you're trying to make it as sort of thinking up as unbiased and as kind of clean as you can in terms of setting we're following here process which has been tried and true so to speak so that's been really helpful for us to have a template in a framework in an expert's process and we'll learn from that and then we'll also retain the skills so that the next time we implement something with technology we could do a smaller version of this and just focus on that one initiative right now we're trying to measure everything by this this type of training will help us in the future because it's not like a curriculum review or you know what after i was just struck with that when we discussed this last week at the parent leaders meeting but i was struck with the program review indicators at the just to hearken back to the theme of focus how you distill the that very extensive need to do with that i was going to just compliment you for the design and thermoses always but also try to provide a little bit of thought from the stable that is i would i would encourage you all to be very honest with where we are not that you wouldn't be but maybe from what the committees perspective and by nodding and friends maybe there's some consensus i just think that this is going to be such a differentiator for public education school going forward that i don't think we should just say oh yeah b y o d bring your own device to say we've got that right you know let's not stop there let's say ok we've got that house of being implemented is a being implemented how many kids are using it i just feel like the we were at such a critical time for technology that you know from my perspective at least i would love to see you come back and say you know what yeah we've got to bring your own device policy at the middle school for example but we really need to take it to the next level me and here's what it will take and i don't know if we can afford that as a community and we'll figure how to do that but you know if kids are going to start to really use technology in school where they do at home or in their everyday life this is what i would really take so my own perspective not that you wouldn't do this already but just be very honest and thoughtful and tell us what it's going to take because it's so new to public education still this is the total technology immersion that our kids are and so important i couldn't agree more and i actually feel much that the work is not relaxing but i feel relaxed about this because this is not for us to measure how well we've met certain goals and so right we're approaching it with this in a way i hope our data supports what we think is happening we don't think that at all we know we're absolutely at baseline so this is this is our way of really facing openness and where we really and while we're trying to do so many things what does this really mean for our next step so i feel relaxed about the fact and i think because that is kind of unknown and we have so there's so much distance to go in terms of this that i think that we also should hold back on what our vision is what we want it to be and again to come back and give us that information and then again we can look at it and say you know the budget can't support it or maybe we can try to get these kind of extra resources to help support it so it is a very exciting time that we can kind of look at the broad arise and then see what's out there what can we do and so yeah and i think it also relates to if you remember you know i've been open about saying in the past they didn't feel we were doing a good enough job the collective minds of a small administrating but it we couldn't really communicate publicly and that's why we worked so hard on that on creating a new version of the but not in version completely new tech plan back in the summer and into september and shoot it because we knew we weren't where we wanted to be and so we had to have something to be able to try to describe that and communicate it and so with this i think this just brings a new level of first of all what do we want to communicate about where we are and where we're trying to go and specifically you know how we're going to get there and in where is a focus going to be so i think it's just another better phase of trying to do a better job communicate to the public about our status and our vision well the issues are so challenging right the kids get on the school bus they pull out their devices they're texting or talking or communicating all the way to school they get into school and then what they've been in a locker or put it in your pocket or turn it off you know and if you want to do that every to say ok let's let them keep learning on that one i mean you guys all know this but you know look the question is how does an impact daily instruction now on what's good and what's not good and what's appropriate what's not a permanent it is a set of really interesting challenges now but it has to be grappled with so i would just encourage you be as honest as you can be and let foxborough be another you know with this being in the area we can be a leader in terms of how we navigate these waters working with certain associates which is it larry ellison coming in from sun microsystems i think we'll do that but can this data be reaped repurposed feel like writing grants once we find a needs analysis in there somewhere like is there any long range of things we can do with that data in case that you know we find out that there's a certain number of students or or families or however it works out that might need a device to be y o d and they already know that actually will carry our culture and climate surveys collect information about where the kids have access to technology at home so that isn't necessarily one of the key things he has we actually do get that we get exact numbers it's just small  are trying out for softball and for lacrosse so as much as i want them here i'm happy that they're playing sports and wall around it too so i'm wishing them luck tonight the scholastic art and writing awards is the country's longest running a most prestigious national awards program authored that recognizes student artwork from grades seven through twelve and offers opportunities for our exhibition and scholarships this year the school of the museum of fine arts decided to partner up with the boston globe to sponsor the art awards and to help support the arts in schools across massachusetts usually what happens is the high school our teachers so mis together only pulled the strongest pieces that students have created from may from the previous year up till about january and then submit we the work this year with the school of museum fine arts coming in we were allowed an unlimited amount of pieces  so we decided on entering about forty pieces into scholastics and come to find out that in massachusetts massachusetts alone there was thirteen thousand works of art that were entered that's at the regional so thirteen thousand works of art were submitted and then judged by a panel of distinguished artists and luckily our students continue to do extremely well and to beat their records last year we had in the record at twenty two in this year they took twenty five so they continue to beat the record which is awesome so we got eleven honorable mention awards eight silver keys and six gold keys along with those numbers we had two gold pieces that were won by a parasitic which is very unusual we had a silver key that was one for a community service project part of the empty bowls project where the students helped to raise money for the foxboro food pantry and we had a senior who won for honorable mentions including an honorable mention for the two thousand and fourteen year book design the cover and also for her entire senior portfolio she'd won an honorable mentions it was a pretty big as well and then one more fun fact out of the thirteen thousand works that were submitted only eight hundred so out of thirteen thousand only eight hundred were granted gold keys those pieces are in exhibit right now at the boston city hall and we have our six hour there right now so those eight hundred were sent to new york city to be judged at the national level and today at one fifty we found out that two of our gold key winners got national awards birch and then read all the names and what they won absolutely so again out of the eight hundred that went there only seventy four massachusetts go very exciting so i actually brought the pieces if you want me to show you can use it just as we don't have the students this year but we have their work so again we have six school he went ours and i want to point out that to our siblings this year to be very blue is the freshman and sophia who is a junior andre one for digital peace and a sister one for a draw you can also see the range which is really nice the gold key is we have freshman and then we have a couple of soft moore's and then it goes all the way up to seniors so this is a goal key piece by patricia eva patricia couldn't be with us tonight because she's actually in new york city right now touring schools that she got accepted to so she got accepted to school of visual arts and she got accepted to believe parsons and she's looking for their photography program so she's coming back from new york city right now this is andreas of this is our how is that created what is a medium this is done in photoshop so our graphic design courses they will start with photoshop and then go into illustrator so this is part of your technology photoshop is one of the softwares that's used in the industry so you use it in design studios and this first piece is called where i'm from and it's actually based on a poem by george l i and scald where i'm from and the students read that poem and then they write their own poem about where they're from and then they create additional piece based on so this is piece so all the images are he either took himself to high school or he scanned in and then he put them together in photoshop and this is his sister sophia's so this is a drawing she did this is an etching i believe this one's called over a lining this one's nixa grew and this is his graphic design piece this is for a social issues in graphic design they always have to do a social issues poster where they deal with something that's their target audience is students their age so a social issue that they face and this is ambers so this is our national silver key one of our big pushes this year because next year we're going to have a p art which is wonderful so one of our big pushes this year has been to have students find their own voice in their works and not just do projects for projects sakes but really like flesh out a theme and come up with their own personal voice in their pieces so this is a piece of amber all year portfolio has been dealing with nature in the figure so she did the two smaller pieces are watercolor paintings and then she actually constructed the frame out of metal and piping and so that hangs that way on the wall and i'd like to thank mr recchi who's also helped us a lot this year with our multimedia pieces and this is our second national piece this is kelly tran who's a sophomore she actually did this one last year as a freshman at the end of the year they have to in graphic design reinterpret the alphabet so she did the alphabet you know we've had students who've done it before as sign language or a s l but she did it where the shadows cast on the wall create the  being plugged into the wall we talked about the students going to plugged in all the time when they're off the boss or at home so she's  boger so again talking about emergence of a personal voice brianna's been doing a lot of her pieces in portfolio based on how people see her and then what she sees of herself so she does a lot of pieces on mirrors and glass that huge that is a s is something that they dealt with in photography with dark rooms but we're taking those techniques and using them in photoshop so these are two images the woods were actually shot outside of the school so in the back of a school parking lot and then he shot in the studio the picture of himself and then in photo shop he did the exposure this is the empty bowls piece so the sculpture and pottery to students created bowls and they sold them in the school and the funds that were raised they were able to raise over two hundred dollars that went to the fox for food pantry and then the senior class decided that they wanted to help out so they created a logo for them to project and this is molly sleiman and molly took this logo and then we made t shirts and we sold the t shirts for the profits to go to the foxboro food pantry too and the interesting thing about this piece is juliette weiss who you may have known she's an alumni came back saw this piece loved the logo so much that she referred molly to a local company so now i'm always doing a logo for a local alphabet so it's cool seeing the different directions kids take on the same project as well so she did her alphabet as titles of books in  and then robin store herself portrait sones rachel williams rachel is the senior who won the multiple wards so she won a silver key for her travel poster this is done in illustrator so this is a second software program that we use and graphic design and literally all of the colors that you in the shapes are you see are drawn on the computer so there is over four hundred layers of colors and shapes in that poster and honorable mentions we have eleven honorable mentions we were really excited this year because it's been a couple years since we've had pottery pieces so we're really excited you know misuse or and missed her cot sat down and really looked at the curriculum and they pushed the students were really concentrating on the form and because of that we had three this is a piece by lindsay and this is an illustrator piece so this was interesting they had to take their day and what they did during the day and they had to draw it out in icons so this is how lindsay spends her day so it's hand drawn in her sketchbook and then she scanned it into the computer and read through it so it's digital images  the school website and you check out the art department and amber is actually painting this piece and that video and then another one of our pottery pieces it's jackie mcnabb she is a junior it's a beautiful piece from one side but if you see it from the other side it looks like an open rib cage but she did it as as a wings they're folding robin store again this is a drawing that she did as an etching so you saw sophia's etching of the trees before this is robin's take of the trees of labels yeah very surreal and then this is rachel's honorable mention so this is going to be the two thousand and fourteen s yearbook cover and this was done in illustrator and this is a project that they didn't see that where they have to redesign one of the book covers for a book that they read in on their english classes the alphabet again it's hard to see but all those little lines are colored pencils so she laid out colored pencils and then the negative space is what creates the letters  and then this is a project with figure ground so they study how they interpret figure out a positive and negative space using just their initials and this is a three piece book and then i just wanted to add real quick that we have a show april eleventh through the twelfth at the artist's studio and gallery patriots place frank quinn and the wonderful people at the fox mart association have have welcomed the high schools show their so our weekend is april eleventh through the twelfth and we're going to have a on april eleventh and since we have so many seniors in portfolio class this year we decided to really focus on the senior exhibit so each of the seniors will have three pieces and the show and then we'll have the gold keys who was being rebuilt yeah and then we also have the mini mental show so last year you guys saw there were a lot of little tiny pieces on the wall the mini mental show is going to be here this year our theme is dreams so the deal with the monumental show is that it's an all school exhibit and i actually have entry forms for all of you and teachers staff students to take our in don't take through may we have a lot of our shows happening may as all be elementary in the middle school our show which is wonderful it's amazing scene the students get so excited about their work and parents walking around with the cameras taking pictures kids are all excited to show  should be hearing about we are here we are we're pushing it a lot how long have you been here i have been here this is my eleventh year here and my second year is department head but i've worked at all the the levels of schools i started in middle school went to elementary and high school what do you attribute all this success to i attribute it to the support from the town first and foremost i think this incredible amount of support you know the facilities we have and we have people come  torrent they're constantly so while this is like a college you know they they look at r c bad mom and they look at all our studio spaces so absolutely the support of the town first and then just the support of the schools and you know the students and the  and we really push that we push for a community in the classes so you know i'm just thinking as you were talking about these i mean this just so impressive and i'm thinking about sports and how we recognize sports in the gymnasium where we have those i can't think of worry about spanners thank you banners and i'm just wondering do we have a place where we are recognizing again the incredible work in the art department and the accolades that our students receive as a great because you know you talk about students that have come and gone you know and then are coming back and giving to the students that are here but i guess in some ways we want to leave absolutely recognize the absolutely i would i would love that and we're really pushing the community that we have a twitter account now so if people want to follow us on twitter we constantly tweet what's happening but you can see like when juliette stopped by we try to keep that community going and talk to people about when the common and get to talk to the other students so we try to keep connected to our alumni colleges and we have a number of students this year who are going off to art school so it's pretty incredible just thinking of all the creativity in this in your department whether you know they could come up with some kind of idea of this of i think that would be great for allies ing of who wins those i think it makes it i mean with so many creative students but i think it makes it hard because their performance requires somebody to go in view and i think it's harder when you know then say music which is performance based where everybody gathers in one and the performance begins and ends so i think that's the challenge is how do we how do we take that concept like the reception is a good one so the reception at gillette is a good time to gather people for the right to experience the art but i think thing you know every time i say that though the our teachers we have a very strong our department every time i have said that i would love to have it back i always give the same answer that if i feel that way is because i didn't have a really good art teacher and i've been there right now see if i think about the cross curricular connections they're making within every department it's unbelievably are high on the connections that are there and the people that are from other departments that are on board see the success read the poem then write the  then digitize it or take it into the on line all right we're going to move on to strategic planning process and timeline yes so it's probably tell from reading the end of the school year because it's a three year plan the approved in may two thousand and eleven so we are with that in mind we're forming a strategic planning committee so that we can review the current play and at the end of the school year we'll have the final update on what was   to have just a direction for three years not so much that we're into three years saying gee we hardly do anything and not so little that we weren't ambitious so i think that's really the mindset that i have going to the next three year plan to keep them in mind so we want to review when you are in to establish who through your goals and objectives and our committee will consist of school administrators teachers parents school committee members and community representatives who have that interest in really working with us about looking at the future direction of our schools and shaping that a bit we have a few teacher volunteers already we haven't set any of the committee members yet so for us we have a few we have a few teachers volunteers we have a few parent volunteers  hoping the school committee between last meeting in this and discussed amongst yourselves or thought amongst yourselves about hopefully two of you know that would like to serve on that and then as you know this is a committee that's formed to advise the superintendent about the developments chiefly and so it doesn't require posting but it would be helpful to have two of you and the community representatives that are not parents i haven't heard from anyone yet but as you know i sent the district report card out to all postal customers with the invitation to participate so if you know anyone that would serve as a community representative let me know otherwise i may fish around for one or two myself and that we do plan to follow the same playing process we last time which was analyzing data establishing our priorities developing overarching objectives and then specific three your goals and strategy to achieve chief those we have set six meeting dates and we thought that was probably enough for now we're going to hold them in the evenings from six thirty to eight thirty pm because we have a lot of people who are working either working parents or working community representatives we'll see if as we proceed if the committee  divide just smaller work groups to get a certain task done they can meet in between and then come back to the whole group on the dates that you see there and wednesday night seem to have worked out the best with the fewest conflicts where things are going on in the different schools so we do hope to wrap up the main part of this work some time in june but honestly we're going to have to take it you know one meeting in time and see how far we get we may need the summer we want to do it well but we do hope to have the draft before this committee for your full review before school opens or around the time school so realistically will have to take it as it goes that's our so anyone got excited about this in this last meeting all the difficulty i think will be sifting out the data that the strategic planning committee feels is important to the vision and future direction of the district and it's hard to sometimes ignore something you're interested in versus what's important so we might i'm actually that's actually a literacy comprehension strategy and i might use it for this so i do have some ideas like to look at everything and say let's separate it into what's interesting versus what's important and go to just what's important for this purpose blueprint at all to go by and we saw good one and we would see how we've how they outlined successes and yes i also served on that committee so i don't know whether you would like offered a relatively new golf carts two thousand gas powered as you know we use one currently for our trainer to be able to get when we have all the fields in motion it's a little harder if they need to move around  we did buy a larger piece of equipment to use on the turf field but that's really more me this type of thing all over has more capabilities of most tractors and things do but this one is actually kind of neat because it's a two seater in the t but it would give us especially with the new expanded fields that we're going in six directions here on the campus and again being able to get a trainer or trainers around is it would be very good so i think  powered engine very simple as far as that goes and as far as the you know liability obviously where we adults use it when it's not something that you know we have kids i mean we have an old one that was donated some a point in the past year now we have the congratulated for their ceiling performances at the massachusetts sociate of jazz educators in you will se district jazz festival which was on march sixth few weeks ago and this is one of the one of the festivals where they were and both of our bands the jazz lab labby and the jazz and were awarded gold medals as a result of that they'll now perform at the state finals in framingham on saturday march twenty ninth in three members each from everything associated with that and we'll be bringing you an update on school safety in general everything into that within the next month or two but we do actively continue work at that is something i don't say very often but we spent the day today three elementary schools with him will be going to the middle and high school the next week and it just so far viewers at home to that there are certain things that you'll be able to write disclosed to us about that but there are some things because of safety issues right yes that will be kept and for privacy so we can see for example just i think people should know that we do this thoroughly so mostly what we're talking about is today was we have very confidential plans about if something were to happen even say a suspected gas leak i don't want to say about where do students go out which we were to so if we were to have to walk students out of the building where do they go and review reviewed all of those plans for the three elementary schools and we're going to change some of those  locations based on what happens there and what we went over all of that and then chief will leary and his people work with the metro lek people who made the the safety plans in the first place about five years ago and it's time five or six six years ago at this point it's time to take a fresh look and kind of re evaluate some of those plans and change it up into some of them will remain exactly the same some are shifting slightly and others just don't seem to be workable and we're changing some of those there's never just one location either there's this a few and some are preferable for certain things and some are pro forgive others so in general those are the things that we review and make changes to along with the police department that we we do look at that regularly but but congratulations on doing that i have had people i do not know who they are and say thank you to me and to thank the school committee so looks like we did a good thing and then thanks to mrs bell and your for telling me in the first place and then reminding me because i misplaced my first notice just before our next  of you could get here on april seventh a little after six for maybe about a half an hour before a school committee meeting for the world language department is going to have the first ever ruled language and culture night right here in between six and eight in our high school cafeteria they're going to showcase student videos musical performances specialty foods art and much more and it is the first time that they have to have done this to celebrate our rich diversity with the community thanks so we could come a few minutes early and just go through going to be able to pull yourself away from  field some of the other schools have that we're able to utilize at this time of year and it's so nice to be able to say oh yeah we want to foxboro now as well on the news tonight they actually had a feature one of the town's urrea towns or seven used their  field for baseball and lacrosse and softball and because everything else is under water under snow still have you had any kind of oh we didn't prep you for this but i and somehow we're going as we start to turn our attention toward spring and baseball try outs of this week and i know everyone's doing what they can to make the best of this challenging spring season will be and that was always the the assumption was that it would be the first place we could get athletes back out  saw the schedule already which is laid out for the entire spring with what the high school and how it will be used i would say if we had lights it would be even more amazing but it's every bit of daylight time is right now i kind of scheduled between the high schools caitlin and i both met with the fields committee which is basically all of the other organizations in town whether it's baseball you know on the youth soccer lacrosse as to how they'll get on the community feel that it's obviously going to have a lot of impact on what we think the high school can do because we will have access to the outside faster than we normally will i know lacrosse is out there this weekend using it does melt faster because the black rubber  y tell us that are in there actually it will bring the heat up faster just like it doesn't pavement than it will on regular ground so we are staying away from shoveling after speaking to a number of the local towns because it really can destroy the no concerns of you know water i think like that so i think we'll have a lot of use out of there already like i said you could see the fence was open today so i know they're all out there today from my school side but the community side also looking very much as interested in getting out as quick as interesting i thought the same thing it's not been a great winter for but on the other hand it's a great late winter early spring to have a chair feel yes it is the time to have turf so thanks her reading that we had read past me and i was very impressed with myself that i could read in front of children without getting all jammed up but i had  students in from the fifth grade one nice young lady and three good young fellows and we read hardy boys book chapter one and i was surprised at how polite engaging exciting the kids were and you know i have to be selfish i got a lot out of it you know these these kids were were excellent and  i'm quiet for the whole chapter he did they were looking at me and wondering when i'd leave what they were interested in when i was you know not quite sure but to the staff and there was a million people there you were there at all where they i don't designed it's built around dr seuss's birthday and it's designed to have one time in the year to get younger kids who are still learning to read excited about books so you should already be excited by the time of high school right to into executive session the purpose of discussing strategies with nonunion personnel individual contracts including the superintendent the committee will not return to open session so i need a motion to go into