right good evening everybody i'd like to call out tonight's meeting of the school committee the town of fox marked order october nineteenth two thousand and fifteen tonight's agenda we will recognize any visitors we will approve minutes will have a teaching and learning highlight regarding invision the future of twenty fifteen southeastern massachusetts stem summer program for middle school girls at bridgewater state university where they're going to take up a new reading first reading of it to the policy on the internet acceptable use policy for students we have an appointment to make for the town of foxborough or audit committee for the school committee representative mr you know will give us an f y sixteen budget update the by county collaborative the bike go quarterly update we have acceptance of feel donations for the same burns community field will address any other matters and then the committee will be going into executive session tonight the purpose of which is to discuss negotiation strategies with the union personnel specifically the custodial workers association will also be having a discussion regarding our strategy around school safety and security and we visitors who want to be recognized tonight seeing none we're going to take up minutes and we're going to take up the regular meeting minutes from o  report not reported it's just in it and then further down that paragraph i guess for some answers from the bottom where it says the district currently has twenty nine students i was looking  section i thought it might be worth noting that this program this was noted at least one or two terms in the meeting that this is an unfunded mandate from the state and that we recognize that because  was very valuable perception data and that we also noted that participation in these surveys are very valuable to us in the future and we've seen a rise in people participating but i thought it might be good to say something like the board encourages people to participate in the service as a couple got push you in the future  you'd like and where sure it was noted that this is valuable perception say that at the school committee that's the last sentence and then also that the school committee recognizes that more participation in future surveys like this i think we did have a very good update from ms brown regarding the athletic programs but i do want to noted if the committee is ok the end of the second paragraph this would be the last sentence that the committee did discuss  areas of potential improvements such as uniform processes of cross teams and asked mr brown to come back with an additional update and my reason for that is i think first of all we did have i know i i learned some of that discussion but continued to get some suggestions from people who listen to the update that night and have continued suggestions on how we can consider potential improvements which is great for happy to receive that i'll be forwarding some of that feedback to mr brown and i'll copy ms miers factor in the superintendent so that they see it but i think it was a very good update i think it's possible some response and so i just like it noted that we're going to ask critic continue working that area and come back we know she's got a challenging role managing a lot of teams and student athletes and coaches and whatever we can do to support her i think is important so nobody ok with that  establishing some more process from the father cough this would be helpful i think she represented some challenges in doing that i think she spoke about for example number one i was email access retractions frequently but i think the extent to which we can look at potential additional process might just help with the uniformity of how we approach everything from booster roles to communication strategies and your pay up here to give you better find a ration on this terrific opportunity which is in vision the future of two thousand and fifteen so eastern massachusetts stem summer program from middle school girls held a bridgewater state university and here to tell you all about it are the fabulously talented in a market stall on the right in and grace groves on the left or in the middle right there so welcome girls thank you for doing this and the dream to come you know very excited to have you here it's quite unique so i was going to turn it over to the criteria for this opportunity one of which was the girls had to sell it and get funding from our community and i have to do a shout out to the partners in patriotism who fully funded for girls going to this program so the parent had to pay did two dollars apiece partners in patriotism approved our grant and so we have our stem leaders here there are two other girls who couldn't be here tonight andrea king and  went to the one week at bridgewater and after they show you we're making plans to replicate because that's another criteria of being part of this program going to replicate what they're doing and bring it possibly down to the elementary schools at the appropriate grade level for this concept so i turn it over to the experts and alfie and the back  electricity and that's something that we both remember from the fourth grade year and i went to school connects to the computer and we have this too and when you touch this it closes the circuit so we can demonstrate we have it hooked up to these base far i think  so you know how to do the game but basically it just shows that the human body can conduct electricity and something like this which has water in it we could say can conduct electricity and when we add alligator clips to the circuit board which is connected to the computer it can manipulate the computer to believing it is using the keyboard when it's really just using these things that are outside of some computer and then so objects that you use in your everyday life professors professors there and four of her students and they showed us how they learned about everything we also learned about stuff that was like everyday life like some people made an where you can see where there's things like really bad traffic or like bad construction sites where there's detours and we could there's a setting on it where you can go around and you can write like oh there's a bad you know bump in the road here or something and we got to go around like bridgewater campus and right were things might have been on safer like walkers that bike commute from their dorm to school every day or something so that was  very practical thing we learned about yeah and we say definitely is a really great experience and a lot we work from like seven in the morning to seven at night every day the question were you interested in science before you do thing and when i saw the email that it had that special family quality or activity i was really interested in it so that was what made me want to do initially but like grace said i learned so much more about really about like getting girls interested in science in fields where like women and girls are really the minority especially in college is and even at younger levels girls don't show as much interest in m science that would tell us that we're on the right track with that sort of thing well i think i was one who like remembered a little bit more than grace like once i said she got it but i was one who said like this is what i didn't fourth grade basically so i remember that we got to use a battery to light up i think a light bulb or you know make a flashlight go on you know i don't remember exactly what we did but like the point stuck about how to conduct electricity so that's what really made me think with this as we were given certain materials and told to connect them to create a close circuit yeah to turn on a light bulb or something like that a it's kind of important to us as if we were to provide those kinds of hands on experiences when you're younger so that you get not just you just just reading about science so i think that whatever you remember about it that if you experience science as an active subject that you'll be more interested in it as you go along into middle school and high school so i think that's one of the things that we've tried to do is give you active experience with materials and doing things with science rather than just reading about science and this is a classic example world like looking it said giant w r the golden globe yeah it comes to our middle school and actually the man who brought it he brought a picture of it at a school and it was actually our school there is a conductor and you can use your imagination to take other conductive materials out there to move the keyboard from say your desk to someone who can't reach the keyboard somebody who may be disabled temporarily or permanently so you thought of any other applications of what you could do with this technology using a banana or other materials because now we want you to dream and you know invent things are a this this open the door for  know yeah well actually we i wouldn't say we really thought of that but that's actually a really good idea you know where i mean we just focused on how we could bring a back to the elementary schools as a learning experience  most and we could take anything that we did at the camp and make a presentation on it the last day camp that's what we did we can make a presentation on anything we did and we really liked a lot of the stuff like the making programming robots and the forensics lab but we thought this would really be the best one that could actually have an impact on our schools it's great i think the ones that yeah i'm very impressed with just your age and  and look forward to hearing all about your great science adventures in the future thanks for having us thank we did a lot of policy updating over the late summer especially around the area of technology with all the technology improvements that were going on and we had a parent come forward and point out an area that they thought we so we did take another look at it we have some suggested changes that i think make the policy a little more clear and concise and convey the intent of the policy even better than we  be internet acceptable use policy a u p students is the goal of the foxboro public schools to provide a world class education to all students the internet is one of the many information resources available to students as part of that process through the internet students can access data from colleges and universities scientific research facilities government resources and many other informative sites throughout the world due to the global nature of the internet and the lack of effective control over its content access brings with it the potential for misuse and abuse of the facts for public schools will make every reasonable effort to ensure the internet is used responsibly and will take every reasonable step to control access to inappropriate material the fox real public schools expects all students to use the internet in an appropriate and responsible manner period access to the internet is a privilege offered to the students at the discretion of the administrators and staff at each school while it school students may lock only log on using the school account and or appropriate counts for educational use the public school account is to be used for authorized educational purposes only including research for school projects and intellectual inquiry the school district will educate all students about appropriate online behavior including interacting with other individuals on social media and cyber bullying awareness and response age appropriate training on online behavior slash cyber bullying will be conducted annually through the district's technology skills curriculum and social skills curr students are expected to use the internet in a responsible manner students or not to transmit receive submit publish or otherwise access information deemed inappropriate including but not limited to material that is defamatory inaccurate abusive obscene profane racially or gender offensive unethical sexually oriented or illegal in the next paragraph we would like to strike the first two sentences and then show read  foxborough public schools technology exists solely for authorized educational purposes any use of school technology that results or is reasonably predicted by school administration to result in any disruption or disorder to the school environment is subject to school disciplinary policies and or loss of privileges unauthorized game playing is prohibited hacking any attempt to gain prohibited access to a malicious attempt to harm or destroy show or refrain from plagiarizing the works of others of teen over the internet and are to respect copyrighted material and to properly credit all works cited internet resources students must immediately notify his or her teacher and  system administrator if a security problem is discovered inappropriate behavior on the part of any student while using a foxborough public school to schools computing device so off where data and network and internet in loss of privileges or disciplinary actions under appropriate circumstances law enforcement officials may be notified to foxborough public school system along with any other persons organizations associated with the school internet connectivity  not be liable for the actions of anyone connecting to the internet through the school all user shelves full liability legal financial or otherwise for their actions while connected to the internet in addition the public schools takes no responsibility for any information on materials accessed or transferred from the internet parents or guardians agree to accept financial responsibility for any damages or expenses incurred as a result of inappropriate or illegal student activity while using facts for a public school technology for a public school system makes no guarantee implied or otherwise regarding the validity of information accessed on the internet nor does it guarantee protection against corruption of electronic files when information is downloaded the foxboro public school system reserves the right to monitor our local network and internet traffic this includes information sent or received through our online connections or stored on our computer systems student should not expect their use to remain private the facts for a public school system reserves the right to modify these guidelines at any time and for sources sources facts for a high school hand by cross references j c f e bullying prevention i j n d v or acceptable use policy technology j i c student conduct and discipline in the legal reference is mass general lot chapter seventy one paragraph eighty two we deleted were perhaps not written as artfully as they could have been you know the intent of the overall intent of the policy is to make sure that the public schools technology is used for authorized educat purposes we want to make sure our kids are safe while they're using the internet and that we're using the internet for academic purposes well at school and so we took a look at the massachusetts student free speech protection act and made sure that our language was consistent with the protections afforded to students and that we don't want anything restrictive and that's that's that's where our changes originate from i think meeting but it just gives you a chance just marinate as steve has said you know to think about it and reflect on the changes and then if there were any you know additional changes we could make them we couldn't it's really you know we we can make a remark thank you recommendation to waive the reading of the entirety citing only the highlighted red so that people will understand that's where we are because like our last i mean the last cross reference we had didn't have that before so as you remember from last month mr frank was a served long in well on the town's audit committee in which helps the town finance department conduct we have audits they mailed the of the books and the processes that they use and it is a committee that is active in some periods and not active in other periods and distances knowing no longer able to continue so the town hall folks asked if the committee could appoint another representative  and i believe you all took that undertaking very seriously and my understanding you have someone to recommend i do have someone to recommend i spoke with mr johns binney who is a fax from resident he lives at twenty four windsor i mean look at my mama that's a good that's a good idea let me just give me a second to look at the town audit committee  we're just saying length of service let's see what the initial ok you're right two years for the school committee appointment that is correct so would you accept a friendly amendment just to work your we send john i'm sure he's watching that will we send john a letter to his nice family and we need to notify in writing down town hall so that they have that and they'll be thrilled because they were hoping for this appointment by the end of the month of october so right on time would in a one have to be first grade position to equalize the class sizes to be comparable to those in the other two schools so we used up fifty just under fifty five thousand of that eighty thousand and then as you may recall last to bring we proposed a change that was actually being supported by both the schools and the town which was the addition of and ministry to assistant tech department again with the amount of stuff that's now kind of flowing between all the towns departments it was getting a little overwhelming not having somebody kind of managing the process so we did put a deposition in place but again it was after the budget process so we were funding that position again with some of the surplus here and it will be part of our budget process going forward and again that's a supported town and school number but because of the budget process were the ones you know supported currently  of our vehicles was taken off the road more for the maintenance department that could no longer was considered safe as you know most of our vehicles we inherit from other departments so this is a pickup truck th i'm fortunately we do need vehicles for the meanest farm to go around to different buildings so what we're looking at is is the purchase of a new pickup truck to read to replace that one he one of the first that we've bought but again there's just no other adjustments to come up with that and that as you know is under the capital ceiling so it'll be something that we have to do right now  you put and take to different things and still come out homer to the good you know is a testament to to you and your staff and you know here it is rolling in october not a long way to go from the years up but you're already you know you're not disabilities or or special few that can be better accommodated in a collaborative type of setting so they currently have one hundred seventy three students enrolled and had quite a lot of new referrals over the summer doesn't mean they can meet the needs of all the referral so i think they'll be giving us a great report they enrolled sixty seven percent of the referrals that they received over the summer and i think the biggest highlight in this quarterly update is that i think michael was doing a great job as you know d gruber who was our special education director is the by county collaborative executive director and i think one of the things that i've certainly have noticed and she's been the executive director is that they're increasing professional development has gotten much more robust and  and mean so you'll see that they held a forty hour register behavior to mission training for paraprofessionals so they did that training this summer for their own paraprofessionals that work for the collaborative but they will be this year offering for our care professionals so we have  who are a b a certified applied behavior analysis this is sort of the next generation so this eventually the certification will place that old system in but basically it's an international sort of haitian program that's recognized by the behavior in the certification board do hope that many of our care professionals will be able to take advantage of this and we certainly do recognize a reward a pair of freshmen who has a specific specialized training in behavior and that's very important for any school or a school district so that certainly and you can see they have other professional development offerings that they have instituted a teacher leader forum for their teachers they have a new professional development curriculum board meter dr lori sullivan who is going to be offering several things for sheltering the submersion for teachers of students who mistress language is not english and we've spent a lot of time at this table talking about that growing challenge so i think the uptick really does do a bridge is required by the state but i feel it's to great job keeping people beyond me informed of what they do why is it valuable to belong to that what services do we get for that membership so i think that was a good update on their heart so thank  you i try very hard not to ask questions where i think i can be sceptical because but i'm going to ask this question out of ignorance maybe you can i think that the paraprofessional f for our staff is an important expense we may need to incur is that something that's already budgeted or do we need to consider as a school do a lot of work with trying to get the transportation costs down the shared all the things we set as what's the future of the collaborative what programs and services should be offered that meets district needs and we are the governing board if you will of of the collaborative but also sits on her group of special education directors from all the from all of the member communities and she is working with by coach to provide that so typically when we need that sort of specialized training it does come from one of our special education dance we have had significant special education funds from the federal government in this in the state of massachusetts commonwealth of massachusetts so i believe dr handel is planned for that within her special education grants but if we will certainly follow up with her and if if there if it is the case of that we will certainly come back to you for that but i i think we're i think we're pretty good on that because we've we have anticipated that and plan for it thank you it's great raising season to begin our fundraiser for the for the seabirds community field concession stand and outside of money that we get for people buying the same burns me feel t shirts to live to inspire teachers to from the scene bring committee field and we had events splitsville and adult other fundraisers and there were many donations that as you know several of you from the list that people provide toward the concession stand field so we thought that rather than having to accept individual donations at several several meetings or constantly that every once in a while we'd bring to you a bulk of the donations and we're at the point where where we need to regroup and figure out our next fundraising step i can't yet tell you what that is going to be but at this point it's a good time to stop and recognize the myriad of people who have donated at the end so this list that you have toward the future future concession stand includes gifts from individuals families businesses and corporations who sponsorship levels meet or exceed the diamond level which was five hundred dollars the platinum model which was two hundred fifty dollars the gold level one hundred fifty dollars of the silver or silver at level fifty dollars and as you know this is led by two boosters the boosters so working  this i have to give the blue just credit because our boosters will do anything that's good for children to get their time and a lot of it toward this so on behalf of the boosters going towards our same burns community feel donation this the long list of people who have donated towards that and in the total that i would ask you to accept is nineteen thousand four hundred fifty five dollars thank you every now would you mind just reading the list and i don't think you can exclude the amount of donation but sure i think there's a lot of nice donation people like to recognize those who would be happy to contribute to the donors are the fortune family the mailing family scott burns and leslie gorton the way one family christopher and christine fein robben ford sales incorporated the bridge loan family matt and susan like brian and claudine gilbert i want to pass on that one because that actually came about from last month's meeting where we're at this table and i was talking about our need to get someone raising going in that we welcome all ideas and actually i got a wonderful email from mr gilbert who said that his children are getting a lot of enjoyment out of the field  michael and mary jo carney you know mary jo you know being one of the booster parents who's key in this fund raising effort and i think we already went by the mailing family most of mailing b being the other thomas and jennifer kean the was million times already is the most important feature that will allow looking misters our town youth groups and outside groups to raise money during events and so it is a money maker of money it's investing money to generate money so done i'm always willing to talk about are almost every one of our high school booster clubs is represented here and i know all of our parents you know in the various groups are working really hard behind the scenes at fund raising for those groups in them for those groups to then donate their finds to this everybody's got a stake in this great you know you could have to have all of the individuals who are if you want you know that's legit booster that you did not hear your booster club listed then please go to your next meeting and our sport is not represented in this terrific effort that's going to make our booster more money later on so if you didn't hear your sport represented that it hasn't contributed yes this is our first collective group so right yeah actually the lights are functioning we're working now on the programming side scheduling but we will be having an event there one of the youth soccer organizations as well as a team from canada we plan the twenty fourth under the lights and i do believe we will have something just before that with one of my high school teams who needs extensive time games going to start at five am it's a much darker five now so but you know that really worked very well we did test on the other night as i sent a few of some pictures so you could see it it really does exactly what we said it focuses the light on the field the spillage is very minimal and it does a phenomenal job lighting the feel and what will be the track area it lights up very well so that part's done the same burns closet as we're kind of calling it now now is is about eighty percent done right now what they've done is  honor that will be on it and the concrete basically in between those flagstones the inner side for the s was a darker grade material in the hours i was lighter so it really stands out very nicely when you're on it there will be a couple  the intended entry point to the complex down the road well it's interesting because you know there was no real master design of what was going to be where so it kind of had to work that out very quickly before we did this so what it appears to be is the actual main entrance  then the existing opening will go away at that point in time so but that gives us the ability to focus and control you know you know people coming in and also coming closer to the bathrooms and concessions and through so i have a high school sophomore who is was there with his father actually and bill maher was there doing the red side chris mcnamara and his staff were were doing all the concrete work so it's really been a community effort again you know putting this together and as i said  barbecue so get them ready for high school and that's all that's all folks  just make common school football game too bad the tsunami take their first loss but you know tempers got a little heated toward the end of the game and i think it was ok but i guess i'd like to remind everybody that you know everyone's doing the best they can and no one likes to lose our teams had a lot of success this year but anyway it's nice to see all the crowd turn out great reporting suppression tough game s scheduled on thursday october twenty two at four pm and our visit to the new editions and updates at the stadium should last about sixty to seventy five minutes i think going to be really helpful there and i'm not sure i can be there by the way i mean business travel but i think one of the really interesting news i think we plan to talk about future is going as well to the extent they know them and so that will help us i know everything from revenue planning to  as a school on a school committee encourage as much as possible for experiences for our students i would like us to take into consideration when we add new possibilities that it doesn't take away from other existing things had that have been proven successful now because of economics french exchange is on an every other year cycle because of these social studies trip this year to italy and slightly into paris the roman french exchange is down thoughtfully put together for several years a program during february vacation which they do historical things plus a lot of theater in london and because of the no social studies  trip that probably is not a go either this year so free successful programs that we've had going have been deeply affected so i'm not aware that  exchanges are way down and i mean there are three times as many french students here tonight as are going to to france and i just saw shannon today and she said probably the london for won't be able to run this year so with economics for everybody being as it is maybe and some things are already in once every two year programs we can we can balance it so the opportunities that we are providing and offering our students don't conflict but in every other year cycle what do you think is affecting these numbers i guess i'm missing there are we voted that the spanish the social studies that the socialist as could take it trapped right and the interesting thing is the social studies trip versus french in that part but how many how many of them are offered at the same time  small questions re so i guess i would want to know how many of the kids that are going on the social studies trip would have gone in one of those i don't know that with that would require a lot of i have no idea they may or they may not have i don't i don't know i don't know what i don't know i think it's a good observation good awareness recently for us to think about and i guess my thought we would leave with your contacts was shannon if she has any thoughts or observations thinks that they will have enough to make it you know you and also sports because i know our sports programs practice over our school vacations and it does force our student athletes to make choices about their priorities which i'm not saying that's wrong but it might give some more  where you know why students are making the decisions that they're making credit i think it's good to have its options for kids it definitely is but i think we ought to be aware of impacts and participation to do the roles that i think we see the oh what we saw some great leaders in the old school earlier in this meeting who see it carried over with our high school students and what they do in all the different aspects of leadership they take on was our inaugural group so they will be having three days of training this week and some of our high school ever get from last year actually attending the mass coupon francis week up at gillette with the i school initiative people to showcase can do itself very proud of our i school advocates of last year great group this year so i think they're enjoying it i think you might be hearing something a little bit more about that in your home and last but not least we are officially on twitter take a roll call vote to go into executive session again for the purposes of discussing the strategies with the union first now specifically the facts prove the studio workers association are also going to be discussing some strategy regarding school safety and security we will return to open session bargaining agreement so do i have a motion to that effect