eighteenth two thousand and fourteen seven pm argenta tonight we're going to begin as always with visitors approval of minutes and then teaching and learning highlights we have two very exciting new members to our community that i know going introduce we're going to have an update on some of the summer work that's going on and the overall preparation for the opening of school we have a vote by the committee to approve the two thousand and fourteen to two thousand and seventeen strategic plan which we've done some for this coming school year we will close the chapter on last year with the formal superintendent's evaluation acceptance of donations will follow that and then a by county collaborative quarterly update followed by other matters the television the press we did have a rescheduled to tonight and that was did my calendar for not appreciate that and just want to say thank you personally i do appreciate that some of whom had to travel a distance to get here who i'm indebted to and i also want to just welcome back i was just know a quick comment for me is wonder way back when i feel like even though some take a little slower pace but i was calling on had a meeting with the clark county school district which is the school district of las vegas nevada i think it's the third largest or fourth largest schools and i asked the assistant superintendent who is visiting with have you had a chance to get a breather of the summer and she said agreed and she knew school board and she said we have three committee meetings in july and three in august and that's a reduction from our normal schedule oh let's just have a first i did have one one comment or change actually the last paragraph on the first page under review a first draft f b s a teacher plan go halfway through the senate step against special attention was given to objective three and then a quote the objective quote is not complete so i think we need to just make sure that it's consistent with objective three in the plan that we're missing a few words it should read it reads currently to enhance district take the logical capabilities and in first infrastructure to provide a supportive school environment it should say to enhance district technological capabilities and infrastructure to provide an increasingly safe and supportive physical and academic school environment just to make sure the quotas and that's if you recall one back me that was our regional rough draft  mystery retreat today all day up until it stadium's who i think the craft group who hosted us for today they've been very generous about that pretty much every year so we appreciate that and so we had a lot done today and by and just i just want to say i really appreciate our entire team but every addition brings new strength and new excitement to the team and that certainly was true today so i'd like to start with actually i'm going to do a reverse order on your gender i'd like to start with our newest hundreds book in middle school dr david excited to have him join our team i think sue and her team made such a great recommendation and for us it's been really nice to get to know him over the summer and i can't wait to see what he does when the when the kids come we have a full team now as you know this was a goal that the school committee supported to have the middle school fully staffed administrative leave with two full time assistants he and i know that that will really enhance the school and really have the support there throughout the entire i am a psychologist by trade i was the i was in a forensic track working for the department of correction you mass medical and part of the correction for seven years and decided that i would like to get ahead of some of these problems before they became kind of societal big deals and so i decided to get into education i was director of clinical services mansfield for a few years and then went to midway as a psychologist and then for the last three years i've been in  regional high school in lakeville or as an assistant principal at high school and when an opportunity arose to get to a district that had a very laser like focus on supporting and helping kids in and being involved  in teaching and learning and having that be the focus i jumped at it and i you know i had i know some people in the district that do nothing but rave about the administrative team and about the community and the town and all the different administrators so it seemed like a great fit and i'm thrilled to have been chosen to be here questions for today i have won sure so tell us a little bit with your clinical psychology background how  you apply that to the teaching environment and how you interact with the students or the staff as a result tell us a little about how that i'm sure sure i think what i try to tend to do is be able i think one of my strengths is to be able to know that everybody comes into the building every day with a whole bunch of stuff that we may not know about or be able to see and there's a lot of stuff on the surface and if we can kind of help the kids along my big hope my big kind of area that i like to help teachers and students with is understanding that the history in physics and math and english and science they're super important but there's also a whole nother piece about conflict resolution and how to handle relationships and how to  advocate for yourself and how to be happy and how to get kind of through some of the more difficult pieces of life without falling apart because if your ships are good generally everything else falls into place so i kind of take every day as a clean slate with every kid and we you know there's a lot of time with the discipline piece it's less punitive you know we have to have our punitive actions sometimes on the big ticket items but i like to have i spent a lot of time with kids trying to get them to discover why they acted in the way they did what led them what were the steps that led them to be so kind of emotionally label that they might have said this thing or done this thing and if we can get them now to be able to reflect and have the skills to be able to look back and say alright this is where i was this is where i want to be and then we can work together to get how to get there and if you can get that kind of stuff straight now now you can really jump into the teaching and learning but until some of that stuff straight out you can have the greatest instructors in the world delivering content and that's not really going to be as fruitful as it could be if we can get some of the emotional stuff and the life skills stuff straight away and i'm sure i have a question i just want to share an impress with this particularly with you know like drug and substance abuse and the whole busa and those sorts of things that we need to continue to have an awareness of an expertise in behind with with the with the programs that we develop here at the school where i think you found again a very welcome atmosphere here dude but we really it sounds trite but our kids are what we're all about it in that we want to make sure that the emotional instability and mental illnesses that these are not bad people lot of these people they just didn't have the tools to deal with the stuff that was happening so they made the wrong choices and trying to get them back is is kind  of that's your goal once they're kind of the horse is out of the marne but if you can give those tools early then you can really steer them in the right direction thanks for thank you for thanks for coming on board well thank you i'm like i said i'm thrilled i'm learning it on the other parts of i also would like to compliment you know it's a great body of work very impressive resume but i was struck just in this just a comment not really a question but i was struck reading your resume how nicely your experience ducktails with some of the things we're trying to do in our strategic plan which we're going to similar to what mr della did or how you'll be responsible for different things or i think that i'm going to continue to do seventh and eighth grade which he had and mark and i and mark crane and i will split up all the rest of the stuff but he's going to stay with five and six i'm go stay with seven and eight and going to take over and you know there's new things every day that she's teaching me about the middle school and about this community in general so it's great for here i have one more question so coming from the high school level as assistant principal wh services we set up the middle school programs as well and it's really just i think you can like you just said jump the gun on on really starting to teach those skills early and a lot of respect and teach them why respect is important not just to have the respect but why it's in for and why accountability is important not just to say you need to be accountable but the process why and the thought process before and just be able to mold kids i don't know if there's really a lot of challenges maybe you know getting back into understanding and good luck thank you just one more compliment as of another thing i so if i may bruce place i was also i also circled with that then put a star next to your dept of physical education experience  you know there's there's so many different technologies now in trysting engineering feats that are going on with adaptive sports and adaptive technologies and those sorts of things be interesting to see what contribution you can bring in  exciting announcements tonight personnel yes so i'd like to invite ms to arun higher up to the table aaron is our new director of technology he also started on an honor about july first  beginning of july and you have air to me and i think i know you have a lot of really great technical questions for aaron and he's also on the next agenda item to give you no date of all the things he's done this summer but i can say is to a  person people have said to me already what a tremendous difference in his me to just such a short period of time in school hasn't even opened yet so it's been absolutely one of the best things that's happened to us as a team and with all of our emphasis on technology and moving forward that hopefully with a little bit more of a progressive pace i think aaron's been a perfect fit for us and so he's certainly busy i'll just say that so aaron welcome thank you i just like to start by saying i am just so grateful to be here working with the ministry of team here that supports technology it's been a busy summer had to hit the ground running i've had my work cut out for use leverage to improve instruction soem are excited to be here so and tell us a little bit about your background if you would been working in both the municipal and educational technology since about two thousand and one working with  the city of brockton the brockton public schools for a number of years before moving to the adding to public schools were i was the the director of technology services oversaw all technology infrastructure and instructional technology support as well as assisted with the implementation of assistive technology in their assistive technology plan and why foxborough well foxboro became aware i became aware of the opportunity here in foxboro instantly intrigued in terms of a community again that's that had a vision for technology a read through the foxboro technology plan and it just it just was so well done and prescriptive in terms of having a vision having a plan to implement it having a professional development plan to support the use and really defining how it would improve instruction it was it was very impressive so sort of be part of that you know it was an opportunity that it really really caught my eye  questions or comments for air steve this is not a softball this is another thanks for bringing a skill set with us because i work in the industry that uses a lot of technology and we see things come and go and we also see what works and what we can optimize to the bitter end but but to the benefit of our company and profitability at all times but one of the things that jumped off the page at me here was in your consulting experience you had a d r p disaster recovery plan background and when i looked at overall the types of public schools municipalities and your experience i could see that you've been in big operations maybe old operations that could be improved or whatever so there's lots of things you can do but in the end if we're not backing it up and we don't have a way to get it back this is really nice to have it as a as a town you know jeff and with three hundred gallons of finance director because that piece is important as you know aaron brings both a municipal in the school side experience so it's just that was another way of the reason why it was just a natural fit and i think i mean i just want to add something because there and very almost nonchalant about his resume the the big one of the big issues to me is the consulting experience he has and he's continually been in the consulting side of it since two thousand and five with a number of different districts and they're about twelve that he's worked with and you know in doing that as is anybody who knows is on the the i t side you realize that you get exposed to a lot more than you do when you're stuck in a single location and i think what he  already brought to us is a skill set that we will benefit in a lot of ways and that is his knowledge of the different systems that are out there his ability to buy you know much better than what typically you would buy in state contract which obviously gives us the advantage of going much further with the money that we do have i was already resource things so i think you know when we were really in the interview process that was one of the things that really clicked for me it's almost like having you know the private sector has experience in a different way a a triple double edged sword you know i'm going to sound like a broken record but i was also struck when i read your resume about how nicely your experience dovetails with our strategic thinking and particularly objective three that i mentioned earlier so i can't wait to see what you bring to the table as we move forward only if there are a couple things that are specific i know implementing that technology play and it is one of them yes we were going to play a critical role in that and you certainly have the experience to do it so well cool or raise i think connection we spent half the day today looking at the technology valuation report you saw recently and really going through that in depth with our entire team and then we spent time on the tech plan to see were might be tweaked as a result of how much more we know now and i'm glad tina bar the objective three because we jokingly called it the the bill and they are an objective because it's just all about the infrastructure so it's been it's been really good to have his insight and his experience and things that you know were new to us or ways of looking at things that were new so it's been great so far it's only been a few weeks on both counts and i think you're here to you know exciting time and i'm glad you chose foxborough i think techno i work with technology in schools more around personalizing instruction and optimizing outcomes for kids but you know we often think about technology in schools as a great opportunity but a great challenge how do you fund it how do you manage how do you help train staff we know the capability what technology can do you know education we are at a really revolutionary time so i think you the exciting time we do have a great community with a lot of support for schools and yet we've got the same limits that any public school system has so we're going to need to tell that individual to help us balance that but we're very excited about moving our technology program forward  so like with dave you know coming in at a great time with a great background can help us in another area we're delighted to have you here excited to have you look forward all the great things you can help us to create thank you very much so if you have no further he's going to stay where he is for the next  the rector so the three busiest people during the summer months are these three gentlemen and so they're going to give you a sense we have an open school yet after we do open school in september we'll have a back to school update how the opening went per usual today we thought we would spend some time with these three talking about how much work actually goes on over the summer so they provided you with a list of their talking points but it is astounding for anyone who doesn't see it from the inside to see how much they actually get done over the summer to prepare for the opening of school so i personally appreciate all the work that you do that you didn't been doing this summer is as well as your team but i think the community really should appreciate it and maybe you know a little bit more about it so  recurring items that we have to deal with but you'll see in this one there was a number of fairly large project with very short time frames to be accomplished that will take you through so well we'll start of the  some stacks up in the back there with cast i replaced them with stainless steel for the safety of the kids and we're going to be putting some protective padding that's on the water for that we added some where it's an old building we've added some new circuits and logical and some of the classrooms to so and then the new fencing of course so to get that up and running before school starts getting false good luck bill told me that once pushing us right to the end you were doing a lot of replace and now five hundred feet of concrete curb into granite you know over the years the stuff gets beat up and it becomes a safety hazard so we're in the process of doing that and hopefully next year and the c i people will try to you know asphalt the whole the whole area and finish all the carving we replace some older condenses on the roof that over you know that put in twenty five years ago you know sooner or later they go also you got to replace we had a couple of old rooftop units out there from back in the seventy's that weren't being used at all and back hundred fifty k w generator which will run the whole school so that's probably the only building in the whole town to run one hundred percent you know which is very very good i think we lost power and i want to go and no one even knew that there was power in this thing now the whole thing and pretty much it at dia her and over at the high school we're working on a new data for now we've brought in a two hundred amp service designated just for that rob we're going to have a generator that that also takes care of that room not nothing to do with a generator in the building here but a separate generate a separate conditioning system we took all the rooms that had all the data all the switches and the wiring and all that we brought all the feeds back to the to the data center so that any time we lose anything you'll always have data and it is a good thing and the generator will be in new furniture and that and also the cafeteria with some new chairs and keep going and to stick rod you know the guys you know i got a bunch of good guys and i've been working hard to keep everything clean clean and all the rooms plain and all the furniture strip also you know it's like i have a great you know i couldn't do it it's you know everybody together makes a team and that's how we we can take a lot of pride in you must have a staff of about two hundred people on it is not that many acres which is the company that stalled because we did do a late seating we'd hope to have done the seating last fall but obviously we weren't done you get a lot more we in the spring season so what we're going to end up doing is receding this fall you know to bring the quality of the turf itself is kind of counsel we do this with all of our fields which is going to be doing this when we look weaker but we had all kind of recognize we're going to need to do it so that by next spring we have a good growth pattern but if you go out there the growth is actually pretty good but there is you know the normal you know weeds that you would see if you do a survey springs thing so i think overall it's working very well we have a our own well system out there which water so we're not in town water out there which is important for the residents to know that we're not running that but we are capable obviously and we have been able to run that that twice a day which in a sense is almost twenty two thousand gallons a day when we're at full peak on it so obviously we don't need to now we're back to once a day and that's going to work well but that's that's one of the few things that will really guarantee that those fields end up being you know sufficient down the road all the fields out there there's three fields all of them are under that that's regular system so you know where we're working their way there it's again that's why there's signs up that says no use until next spring because we really mean that if we keep everybody off and we keep doing what we know we have to do they've done i think two maybe three fertilisation already you know so the whole plan here to just keep this thing going and working well one of things i want to make a point of and i and i if there was a citizen of the year award i'd give it to chris mcnamara from the mac the effort he has put in with tony and myself on the playground has been amazing he has volunteered his time his people's time his staff has done a phenomenal job when you do see this track you'll see they actually took care to do things that you that you know you would print pay extra to have done if you did it your own house or something because they just thought it was the right way to go and he has helped coordinate the whole project you know he's brought in subs to help us when we you know when we needed the wall done he got the sub that come in and get and install that whole thing so he has been absolutely phenomenal i just can't say enough about you know the work he's done for so i think that's you know a big thank you to chris mcnamara and see mack you know country specialist and i think the only other thing is at work you know what tony is talking about some of the things that we do like the polyurethane on the gems which is something we just actually instituted over the last couple years that used to be done every so often we were doing it now almost every year and that's because we do rent these gym floors as much as we use them ourselves and and and use it for all of our sports so really trying to keep them up so that they always look good versus you know every three or four years look good so i think there's a again which we're taking out a little bit different philosophy on the overall mean is just putting more and more emphasis on keeping things up to the best you possibly can and yes it does cost a lot of money for materials and stuff like that but in the long run these floors will last a lot longer you know and again i can't thank tony and his staff enough because when you do walk  and i've walked through a lot of other schools when you walk through this building knowing the ages of some of the buildings that we have and you see those floors shine and you see the paint the walls you know cleaned all up you know ceiling tiles replaced lights are all working you know everything is doing what it's supposed to do no matter what the age of the building is i think that's an extremely important statement to how we you know look at our buildings and our facilities so his staff is really what does that well just to build on that i think you know our staff and our students you know know absolutely you know just driving around the district a little bit today you know the marching band out there starting to practice atlanta's a team the football teams out there i know that you know there's a lot of other activities that the fields just to feel but look they look spectacular and i know that's you know the town as well and highway department and but i think based on the summer we had not getting too hot in the fields are going to be as good as they've been open school all the paving that's gone on around town i saw today they were out striping the cross walks to some of the buildings which will be good before school of i mean it's really going to be an exciting time and tony this list i mean i know a lot of it is maybe routine summer activity but i think there's a lot of here that isn't that were things that were needed that you guys talk and i was forced joking you know you don't have a p w highway side of it and you know and dave all of bertie but you know pete in general has really worked with his crew to help us on the i go project as well and you know why we pay them for their labor side of it we obviously benefit greatly by having their equipment and and you know everything else that goes along with that so it does save the town a lot of money we're using the resources that we have as a community but they do a great job piece really again another super resource for the for the community and he's been great operates that are in there now the scoreboard i believe actually goes in to morrow the the final design on it actually worked out very well working with jim develops we decided where we were going to located and what will happen is at the last minute because we kind of figured out where we're going we had the entire school board painted on both sides so typically the back side just a silver reflective not the most attractive thing to have but the advantage of also having the whole thing be blue on the back side will also be able to put the same burns community field thank your team force for their hard work as you should we shift over to arizona for should technology certainly has been other similar summer for technology as tony has had with a lot of routine but then a lot of extra projects my staff in the technology department and in tony and his staff because they've been one step behind us all summer long lending a hand and it's just been a really collaborative can do attitude from from the maintenance department in the of services and really been able to get quite a quite a bit done this summer as you probably know the summer is one of the busiest times a year for us in technology in terms of preparing the classrooms for instruction so one of the first things we do is we remove the computer equipment from classrooms in conjunction with the custody of staff to allow the rooms to be cleaned and the floors to be waxed is roughly  twelve hundred computers in the district just about all of them at this point have been set back up on top of the regular computer maintenance things like software of the hardware updates we've done the memory upgrade computers at the and approximately one hundred fifty instructional units replaced as part of our replacement cycle here at the high school there was a significant upgrade at the  conferencing and language software to come in in the next next week or so to do an installation of of their software which we're going to pilot this year it's been a number of shorts roll projectors an interactive project projection systems installed throughout the district some are being installed and will continue to install them through the first few weeks of school so approximately eighteen interactive systems throughout the district and nine here at the  systems allow people to law students to have a hearing and listening experience as if they were sitting in the front of the road matter where they are in the classroom it's something we continue to do and it's in we feel it's important in terms of providing every student this this important experience and accommodation we now have them in all the elementary classrooms yeah and we're going to and many of the middle so we're moving  correct them and i believe our goal is to get them in classrooms k through eight and then in lecture halls in foreign language rooms here at the high school as well we've done all the design work and planning and scope to upgrade a significant network upgrade throughout the district upgrading our current networking equipment which which appears to be an average of about ten years old for data voice video security and internet services so this really is a foundation for us to build on and this will be significant in terms of people will will see the difference in terms of the speed of access to the internet and their their ability in terms of capacity and as we plan to move to one to one computing or b y o b initiatives for your own device initiatives this will give us a we continue to work on the implementing the middle school wireless face to which will provide us with both the capacity and coverage needed in the building and again to assist with the implementation of mobile computing one to one computing bring in one device really supporting our twenty first century learning experiences for students allowing us to bring computer equipment into the building and be able to mobilize it in ways and really  meet the needs of today's instruction working with the town and public safety on a redesign of the town's fiber optic network relocate the town's hub from the town hall to to this building here the high school and the it's the new data center again i can't think tony and after his and his staff my first day here we we rolled up my sleeves and got right in there in terms of getting the room ready and no sooner did i get it currently actually starting tomorrow we'll be starting the implementation and installation of a quick man and facilities in the data center we've been planning on migration from old equipment and from from our  old data services to the new services that have been designed and will be implementing over the next few weeks and months again working with horizon and comcast to bring in dundon internet  connections really today you know we hear these buzzwords like cloud everything and everything is really moving to the internet and away from the data center and terms of service and software and more to the services that are available widely available through the internet this brings a number of advantages in terms of expanding the school day and providing students access beyond the hours again it's a significant operation coupled with the network backbone which which will allow us to do things like in in classrooms where we bring in mobile labs or students bring in devices simultaneously stream was every website people couldn't get to so we want to make sure that that both teachers and students have access to the resources that they need every day to provide a rich teaching and learning experience for them we've gone through provisioning of making some upgrades around content filtering to allow students to have access to the most current materials and to keep them safe you know so that you know safety safety is very important it's a high priority put also we don't want to inhibit learning either again working with with tony i think i think this is about the fifth time i've said thank you and i really mean it working with with tony in provision with them on a number of times throughout the summer i don't know if they work during the summer but they've been here just about every day and we've been working collaboratively to gather on and making some adjustments adjustments to professional development program around technology to provide both the direct you know professional development and differentiated professional development for them but also to provide some coaching a summer to work at the middle and high school levels and they are pretty impressive singularly and together beyond great and again i really i'm really looking for is exciting is this infrastructure stuff is to me i'm really looking forward to teachers coming back and since coming back and being able to help support instructional program and again i can't say enough about how excited i am to be here in fox o to really have such a district that has such a clear vision around the use of technology to improve and support instruction and teaching and learning is it's very impressive again from from the support here the school to mr you first oh please go no no i'm just getting good she had a feeling that and again i think i think you both have said that we've seen about fifty million and but i want to thank you for that because it does that i've done it three times for corporate and it's no picnic and the other part is to staff and the whole the whole faculty and that is it was in error in your your resume another thing that jumped out was that you were involved in liaison training because i think doesn't matter how good this stuff sings if there's no adoption and no conveyance of a way to do it it's just clinging on to some people and it's nice to see that you're you're all part of this because the ownership is everywhere but it really is when i use that when it when i use the word collaborative can do attitude i mean that's really what it is and that's what i've experienced everywhere i've gone it's been very welcoming you know people are just eager really you know to some to support the education of the students here in foxboro and you know i think we have a long way to go honest i didn't say this earlier but you know i'm excited you're here because i think we've got a long way to go in terms of our wireless capabilities and i was excited to hear you talk about some of the technical upgrades it will allow us to do more  wirelessly in the cloud with b y o d n one one and all the new initiatives that are going to be so important i know that a lot of families are going to be very interested in us continuing to advance our agenda there so we're very pleased as a committee that we're taking this on as a as a key focus item going forward so you're right it's an exciting place to be and yet more more we can do what we will do and i think that's why we're really having aaron join us is great because they as we all know the next couple  this summer i mean you hear all that the techie piece here and all of the infrastructure piece but the instruction piece in the conversations that we've already had with julia with darlene but even you know other conversations and hearing other teachers that have had the opportunity they've been around to meet him to be so surprised at the conversation and really you heard him say teaching and learning a number of times he talks both sides he will it does get the instruction piece as much as you hear all the infrastructure so i am ok to talk about being very excited to get into iowa i am as well because it's really exciting just the things that we've already been planning over the summer i just want to add a couple things the again would be very remiss here we didn't you know thank randy and the town side randi is really going out of this where this summer as far as helping us find additional funding for some of these things that came up last minute that we weren't you know quite there on so he's caught with and you know some of the money they had on the municipal side thirteen i guess at this point for the camera systems and stuff like that the reality was when we really looked at what we had we didn't have the platform on which to put all that on that was going to work properly so fortunately we didn't spend the money and do the wrong thing we held back because we wanted it to be you know go forward in the right process and we start talking about this in the spring that we knew we had some major upgrades to do to get this all to work what aron has basically done in his designs and his concepts here basically give us that platform now and so once this concerned about timing and obviously we're we're you know concerned about issues happening that before we have the stuff up but i think we'd be remiss if we didn't tell the public that it's a big priority for us however it was kind of like we didn't have the training wheels on the bike so we really couldn't get the thing moving way so that's been that's been good for us you know what the underlying issues that we have but you're right we have a lot of work to do and i think now we're really poised to do all the things we hope to do anything else new teacher orientation wednesday i think we have about six to seven thousand new teachers a couple of new ed assistants a few and some of the new staff members we have two new extended day supervisors two of our schools the borough and the i go so we've really added a lot of quality people in other capacities as well so to overall we have about twenty five people about seventeen sixteen seventeen professional staff  and other people so we're ready to reroll welcoming the new teachers on wednesday you know you'll be there to welcome them as always one of my favorite days welcoming our new teaching staff into the district and we'll go from there so thanks thanks  for that though yes we have lots of new people ok school committee vote to approve the foxboro public schools twenty fourteen twenty seventeen strategic plan thing we can we talked about this today we talked a lot about the net standards with you and the originating group that developed those national education technology standards is the estate group international society for technology and education so they have decided to change the name of their standards from national education technology standards to international standards basically so the standards are the same the documents haven't place of nets that would be the most current so going forward when we do the update on the street plane you can hear us talking about the standard so that that's where e news that we get started with that lingo but the standards themselves have not changed standards so probably is best that you with that change we talked about that today and thought since this is a three year plan probably best to make the change now although when we developed this it was still net now i understand  well as you mentioned we had a chance in our last meeting in our summer retreat to go through this in detail so i don't expect we need to do that tonight's meeting but it might be worth publicly just reading our objectives and just  comment or two around our focus team and would that be smart and i know you've been very involved in the strategic planning that would be that would be enough to put you on the spot i'm happy to do it but do you want to just read them and maybe offer a perspective on where our you know our fo involved in our yes and twelve other people so i read all the names when we finish they've done the pull to work and you know so objective one is to continue to offer dynamic learning experiences within a regular this curriculum that provides that that promote critical thinking creativity communication and collaboration and that foster high levels of achievement for all students by preparing them to be responsible citizens and i recall that one of the things that might be a new emphasis was the global part that we're going to look to include developmentally appropriate global curriculum connections in all  in all grade levels and i know that resonates with me with the world becoming smaller and smaller and more globally interconnected i think that's a great number and the for the public we've got a lot of strategies and agenda items under each objective the team is reading and this document of course is available but that's just one highlight that i would bring out publicly now i think that's probably the right highlight because three or strategically inspan three years and three years ago when we went through our process of identifying our priorities looking at our data and sifting through objectives two is to continue to strengthen school culture ensuring students parents and all stakeholders feel valued safe and have a voice this is stayed the same because we felt that it was  it's the same objective as in the first strategic plan that we put together that it continues to be a very important part of our our school culture and the difference here though is you may remember the last  centered around gathering the data we didn't have any culture and climate data and so this time around we have lots of we've been gathering data for the last three years so he had three years worth of culture and climate data to look at in addition to bullying survey so we had a plethora of data that we looked at and we tried to in addition to having a goal wrapped around continuing to collect this perception data which we see very as very important we try to wrap our goals and strategies around the data that we've gathered so we mine that data to come up with which just goes to speak to the importance of the surveys and when our parents in our community take the time to complete them we use that information and we try to focus on what we're consistent themes in in the surveys that we saw and we use those that multitude of ways so not just for there to develop a new strategic plan but we use the me annually for mr nichols we went over the two thousand and fourteen cultural climate data today at our retreat in the afternoon so that day i mean we had a huge team so this is what i call a full team which is about thirty people including all of our department heads and so they could see where you know what spoke to each school so they're not only you know sort of the coaches for their content area but they also are able to go through what our parents teachers and students saying about the high school that they would need to know so that they can communicate to their departure so the cultural climate surveys really use a number of different ways for us to all be aware of where we are in and in what it is that people want to work on specifically inform the school improvement plans that each school that's true one other item that we discuss it length was the need for extended opportunities for teacher collaboration so that's going to be an area of focus under this subject was a hot topic today trying to show creative about how do we provide more opportunities for teachers to collaborate within the confines of the work day it is a challenge and that's why it's in here and we have several strategies some for him to continue to work on that objective three as we discussed earlier is too intense district technological capabilities and infrastructure to provide an increasingly safe and supportive physical and academic school environment and really the summary we just got from bill and aaron and tony i think speaks a lot to the goals and the strategies that are underneath across all kinds of things the safety drills we practice in place our plans for the new timeline for the cameras lots of things so i think that that should be you know security is interested that should be its own agenda and it was well as what have we been doing to improve school security that speaks to both infrastructure in play in the emergency response improvement in objective or is to maintain strong support for public education within the town of foxborough this also remain the same it's clearly a very important goal for all of us and i think some of our goals and strategies under this will tweak just a little bit is this finale had some more ideas she's had some great ideas for continuing to  maintain the strong support from going to continue to partner with local businesses and community partnerships and continue to develop the interject intergenerational connections within the community which i think yes we talk about it today too because that's  fall that we talked about today and if i could call attention to the last rather g s that we can give people who might be watching heads up we're trying to develop relationships to parents who have expertise in real world experiences that connect to the curriculum could be any curriculum so that we can establish a speakers bureau which would be a list of people what they do what they're interested in it could be what they do for work it could be a hobby they have a background expertise they have whatever it is and interest so that we can keep that list and growing every year so there's a teacher in seventh grade unit on something in science can look at the speaker's bureau and say cheek you know i just like to being a parent and just talk to my classes about this thing that they have  beekeeper i don't know you know it could be something small it could be something large so that's something that i've had on my radar for a buddy year but we don't really have a speakers bureau together so we're going to be reaching out to parents this year to see if they want to put their name on it doesn't mean that they're going to come in necessarily for formal occasion but that they could do as you do the career day outreach yourself but it could be for just to meet with a group of kids it could be an after school club with like an them so that's something we're going to definitely do so if you're hearing this and you have an expertise or a passion that you're willing to share with students that teachers could have your name which area is and how to contact you then they'll have read it readily available because what's happening now is if you happen to know a parent or if it's a parent in your class or a student you have the high school then you would have an awareness and you reach out but it really is situational if you happen to know them or somebody happens to mention it you're able to do that but if we could have how to get people interested in pitching in there any one i know we we have specifically said to develop relationships with parents but we have a hole in the unit here you know i'm sure somebody had had students who graduated or we have wonderful seniors with so i really felt like you know i was able to contribute from the perspective and it's a great learning experience for me i'm very glad to hear you know that is a great advertisement for getting involved you know if you didn't around and i've had the pleasure with and serving on both strategic planning committees that's been a great experience but phil and amy brought so much to the table this time around i mean we didn't have to reinvent the wheel and so many great ideas from i just had to tricky last time this is how we got through it so that to me i probably not knowing if i was the only person that went through it or know if i would have he did in a way with knowing cholesterol severing so we have for people who have been through the process and so when you have that experience and the steps of very concrete even though you can get slugged down to so much information but we felt pretty comfortable i think that we that we could use our past experience to move forward but they always bring a lot to the table so i know why you don't invite week with the school committee offsite and we evaluate where we were last year as a tire team and what we want to focus the school district on in this is what we use to update at the school committee meeting we use that as a guide throughout the year but it really becomes the most important work that you as members of the community school committee and representing the community want us to work part and so that's that these are kind of things that we know  your priorities and then we know we're working on the things that you feel important so it's a value exercise for us to refocus and we shift each year so that we know that we are on track and i would just add to that but these do not change perhaps as much as the strategic plan there's a fair amount of continuity year in year three categories which are communication community relations student achievement financial management policy development and superintendents performance they are consistent year new year with a few minor tweaks by the committee as we go from one year to the next on the stock and of course as a public document as well bill from public if they want to read it in detail there are a number of specific tactical comments or requests or actions including some dates when the committee will receive updates on various areas and one of those are categorical subjects i just described or just read i'm not sure we need to go through this one a whole lot more detail most of the committee would like to do so it ain't broke don't fix it and our culture and climate survey tells us how we're doing our or our public interactions in our small town day to day tell us how we're doing so well so you're not a lot of change so we're not going to take a radical left turn right now you know the only really the only addition big additions involves the technology program evaluation report and implementing the recommendations in the technology program most of them we we've heard a really good summary of where we're going and where we're at where we're going program evaluation report and we are still what one of the most important things that we know about student skills comes in technology and we prioritize those and what in that section is a need to know so a staff who's back to school they need to know those things so that we're not going to count on every staff member reading the whole report that absorbing the holy port by themselves so for the absolutely need to know where the most important things in there that we want  her teen are going to incorporate what we came up with today into the back to school p d that revolves around technology and then we also identify the couple of nice to know so what are the absolutes and where the other things that are being nice  infrastructure so we really were able to take that very lengthy report and come up with the most important things in it that we want to communicate to staff and we can do the same at this so that that would be another way of looking at it and a way of summarizing the important so probably going to be helpful you know it's always dangerous to share a thought without giving it a whole lot of consideration but at the risk of doing so you know three years ago when we want if you like that idea i think because we had a lot of we actually had a lot of that's true that's a good project right technology but i haven't approached it with that yet sort of if something's going on it's timely that's how we decide but  if i had it in my head that we're going to look for one technology highlight a month that would be a way to really focus on things that are happening so yes the folks are so while we're noodling yes and i think it's good i think we should we should call that at least in this conversation a targeted because there's no sense in having you know while we're building something you know like yes this immense drawing you know and then target that in so  to technology for the sake of speaking techno for technology when where or when the administration has made of the things to do but i think it's a good target you know it's a big it's a good day you know it's a good target you know and i bet for the most part will be successful so much of what's new and exciting has a technology i think it's a great target ok we will have the need here in end of year report as we just wrote it in our goals is yes so we're going to get a lot of same time i think that you're going to have it's incorporated still for the teaching and learning yes and it's going to just emphasize how you're using technology to deepen content around because one of our mantras is we are totally against technology for technology s year and we have a policy some complete and we've put in place every year i'm not going to ask the same two people to do the same job again i think there should be an opportunity for for change i did speak to mrs there earlier today and she politely requested to be a member of the budget subcommittee and i'm willing to do a role if a judge in a position stays open and would like off a position but let me just put it out there would anybody like to serve in either embarrassing but i like  that ten years ago i haven't as i wrote the continuity you know so if you would like i was not i was certainly not going to ask the two of you to do policy again because policy and you know in all seriousness is a lot of hard work conduct a readout because she's not able to be with us tonight unexpectedly she did ask me to represent her and i've gone through the report i probably am not quite as prepared as the she was but this is material i mean he's been working on for several weeks now so i'll do my best to summarize it but i will gladly take interjection addition comment or counsel or anything else so this is the this is the end of cycle suspect the community knows how fortunate we feel as a school committee and as a set of parents to have deb and all of her team in place and you didn't hear that borne out in this repor so regarding goals of her performance against her professional practice school as a committee we agreed that she met her professional practice goals for her student learn goals we concluded as a committee that she exceeded based data in the little evidence that we collected throughout the year we concluded she seated the student learning goals and in terms of the district right unless you want to interrupt so then we had several standards that as i mentioned that we assess the superintendent on each of us assesses individually and then the the prior chairman sabir does the overall rating based on the input standard one was instructional leadership the categories for rating are on satisfactory needs improvement pro fission and  family and community engagement and we assessed mr spinelli exemplary in that regard in the final standard is professional culture and we felt she establishes an exemplary professional culture so based on that in terms of the overall sum of performance and i think this is probably pretty unusual across the state in having what i would describe as a fairly young superintendent in place in terms of number of years if not  here and i almost got a little shaken up when i read that because i think that's i'd love to get statistics on what percentage of the state superintendents are rated exemplary i suspect it's a pretty there were a few comments that i had written up to in fact we all write in comments in each of the different sections as we feel and i'm not going to go through this entire document that's several pages that we have to go through but i want to read just a few of the comments that were made by individual members of the committee in this process quote foxborough public schools as a true leader in this but knowing quote discipline l he continues to be a strong effective superintendent who is an asset to our schools and our community miss benelli is a gifted and effective communicator who actively engages all stakeholders for the benefit of our students quote mispronounce the utilizes data for informed decision making quote misspell the strengths are numerous and the number of new programs she oversaw the implementation of in the school year is impressive the superintendent is a role model for all feel very humbled by it i'm going to quote you this still a lot of work to do i agree with that my visual meetings with each committee member were really helpful to me because we all know that this is a lot of work to do and those individual meetings as well as the overall report really helps me know what i'm doing well but it also helps me get to know an individual basis what it is with to lead me to work on and i found those really really helpful and informative to me as a superintendent i think one of the things that i try to keep in mind is that this is the only place that would ever want to be a superintendent the only place  were even had more than a fleeting thought of doing the job and i feel that we have a great team i definitely empower people to do their jobs i feel i'm involved but i'm not without being in my community but i think that being a hands on superintendent is what makes the difference that that's my belief system that i do want to know what's going on and i do want to have my own ideas that to come up with solutions for whatever people are identifying if there's a need at the high school i'll chase after solution  to have a very hands on approach to solving the problems of filling the gaps that our own people identified so i think that's really what's helped me be a very actively involved superintendent is that mindset i have a don't get all your teachers when we go through women who are different data for their strategic plan the teachers had all positive things to say about the administrative leadership and that i think says something very important about your leadership role and you also are so connected to the students and you know you're not leading from you know some off to suit you go to the schools you meet the kids you go to all of the all  situation was so appreciated by our community so many people said that you know it's hard i know when you first came you told everybody you were so happy with your job y going to stay there until you retire absolutely i'm glad you changed your mind and i am i can honestly say i'm very glad i changed my mind it was never my intention but i am really glad that they took the s oh i just want to make it clear that i unfortunately due to some personal matters was unable to contribute to this report but the spirit and and what the outcome of it is is right in line with  where i think i would be in a deb knows i haven't had a chance to talk to her about this but i just wanted to make that clear to the public and the only the only other comment which is probably  community and i think that's it i don't think it's been that i think it's been defined that way but it is going to make it very clear that some executives have community involvement and others are part of the d n a of the what carries on to that also is a comment is from thirteen this is the outcome again this is of of the team when she's the skipper of the boat and she has to keep the right people on and doing the right things and i think i think i'm very i'm very happy with what we have going here so thank you to have a good team and they are more than willing to tell me when to through your well we're  organizational capacity and i think we all know what a good instructional leader you are how active you are in the community how the staff feels as tina mentioned i am so proud of the job you have done building organizational capacity you know and i just look at a couple of members of the table here a couple members who are at the table really or some of the other changes you've made or people you've brought in or and it's one of those things that i don't think our parents get to see unless you sit here they may see one or two that impacts them but if you look at the systemically and your focus on your came here and how you've done that i think you will leave your legacy in many ways i think that will be one of them just my opinion completely agree with that other than getting excited when i see kids doing great things or enjoying themselves or being what they are i say to building the organizational capacity as we have is probably my greatest source of pride so that a retreat today when everybody introduce themselves in the morning my question was say who you are to have a new team members and what are you most for to this year and honestly mine was i get so excited every year but the new people join the team really do because you just see the possibilities and you know the two people you met tonight think you're going anywhere and you know just to respond to something he joked on earlier we could be the number one performing school district in the country and i still would find areas that we could do better but i just think that's our job as school committee members i know you feel at your job direct they are pros and cons they are things we can get better at as you talked about so this isn't like let's just rater example removed to the next agenda item i think we all take our roles of seriously and and i know we're pleased that we can have that kind of frank discussion we don't always have to agree on points but we do have i think a very good productive and i'm glad you mentioned in your comments so you value those discussions and  so i think it's a while that's a rather lengthy process and we've talked all the forms the state requires i think it's been a good one and a lot of standards think this twenty eight students were superintendent all together that you have to consider really there's a lot to do but i do think that the the feedback that i do get especially in an individual setting where we can be the most candid the smallest suggestions for how i can improve the job that i do sometimes a small suggestions that were helpful because the broader suggestions we talk about here at the table and we have a like mind if we were going to sometimes a small suggestions make the most difference to me appreciate it and the other  you were going to mention so today well we back up we have a very special group of twelve year old run around twelve year old boys going to cooperstown new york next week to in for my retreat and go into my space and i did see her looking and thinking oh my taking up so i got out of my car and she said edging forward and she said oh i'm sorry i didn't know in the summer what hours people work and they said no no no please come back in this bike is i know a me step children to runs with i mean it was four thirty so i said i know she's the children's and she's not coming back please you can park there go ahead and back up and then i directed to me and behind her to pull back a little so she had space you never know who's around that's right it's that great job and and all we're off into another school year absolutely have a good start already very exciting looking forward to it can't believe three isn't worthy of that if not we'll be there to help so i think we know the value and serving and talking frankly about strengths and gets thanks to all my people who make me look good funds to allow the reno will of our software license for the high school computer aided design and architecture architecture design software so that's the cost of that rough to go to teachers in the amount of one thousand six hundred juvenile group we were looking to purchase some additional booster car seats for the buses and dance watcher reached out to the group again and asked if they could assist  they are now that it's more viable collaborative i think so they were down to i think somewhere in the seventy's at one point so that's certainly something that the board of directors which of the super in the members superintendents serve on that we were watching they had an issue with space especially for high school programs that there were any space available to rent in any of our high schools but i think she really did nice job of partnering with d d a the  collaborative and in some shared space that they can use for that so i think that that's the public day program in walpole that you see so the tech collaborative has newly renovated building that there that they're using and they will have  you remember at one of our last meetings you voted to approve the capital policy because they had no program in place for capital savings or capital planning so that's you see that is the fourth bullet that enough of the member districts which are cried two thirds member vote ok thank you i believe we are on to other matters excellent not surprisingly i always have something that a couple left with your packet th some of the p d ask for anything ask amy for the most recent because there have been some changes due to a change of scheduling and in one of the presenters so but just to give you an idea of how many different things go on in those p d days they're extending opportunities for learning outside of the school day and having that opportunity to have students more collaborative with their teachers and teachers more collaborative with each other and all of the functions with the math so that's going to be something that know students have different proficiency levels with technology where we're rolling out the office three sixty five and it's really thanks to darlene reed and julia greenstein the new technology integration specialist the two of the really working with myself an era in the summer to have a very interactive session with teachers that scaffold for them to have sessions that are at their level and really push them in ways that are differentiated for teachers which will then also inform future professional development so i think that's a huge piece and then another big piece is with pearson and form our data warehouse as we continue to add all of our assessments in there with district of terman measures really the analysis piece and how we're housing that information to look at student protests over time so it desk connects back to technology that it really can expect collaboration and how we're impa student learning and at the same time with our ed assistance a survey of how we're going to meet their needs professional development wise and it's really looking at the students that they serve in the classroom and how do we really help students to be more independent learners and then the other piece is looking with our some of our service providers areas we've talked a lot about the social emotional needs of children where schooling exaggerating school phobia and bringing the nurses then with our service providers at the same time for those opportunities where we're bringing in some expertise in that area to really make sure that we're meeting students needs both in the academic and the social environment putting together this you can imagine is of a lot of work so  it's nice to have amy at the helm and i'm sure a lot of fun and now you've been here long enough to know exactly what you want to do all that well we've got you know we talked about the whole team piece before it takes a village it really does when we have a professional development committee but at the same time you have every one of your principles on that committee get addition to all your teacher representatives and assistance that represent and even the department heads at the high school we just do it we're really fortunate money from fox for high school so i hope we have a lot of people from our community because even though this is the thirteenth the end will produce the research fund race it is the this year it's named in honor of our beloved sam burns so we want to have a good contingent so i expect students to rally have spoken to kill step the who's the president of seems class the next year seniors this year seniors and i sense a staff as well so we hope to have a good continue so any help we can get getting word out through the media through our peer network would be a great date again it's a temper six and you can register online it's only fifteen dollars to walk you can fundraise if you want you can be on the team if