condition business for the next item on the agenda is the book ational steering committee update we have groups here from that working group and they're going to give a  we have this group together with the charge of investigating quality programming for us students who currently it could be to be in a book to thank the school for doing a lot of detail work and get a review of all those programs and they come before you to follow through with the charge that we gave them in that town meeting we lead our to meeting though that it was an important subject that we were to explore so i think the group i think totally for this work throughout the year and i'm glad you give the report th i know this group has worked really hard i'm glad that you provided the link to the website there's a full report there's a larger presentation available with all the research materials that we want the public to be able to see and take a look at i appreciate th and the shift in the gap between member districts in our movement issues around the capital cost of that is a big shift from the last time we worked with me in town decided to withdraw and i think that that's something that's the real looking to explore for our students i think our next steps will be to revisit this in the fall into your point provide a forum where we have the board slightly to the school committee together to maybe have a more in depth presentation give them the materials to work through and we have a two year window for that to school year so we have the next school year which is eight hundred nine hundred and then nine hundred twenty before that actually happens so we are very much in a strong position to have some time to think and feel you know because of the group staying together the high quality of programming a brand new building all points towards a good experience for our students so that being the task at hand i appreciate you bringing all that to light and i look forward to bringing th interest people were really gauged and right different perspectives in it and really everyone had a hand that shaping how we approach the work and how we navigated through all the data and the different options and it was it was very beneficial to have for the next steps in the meeting that we had together it was really important to point out and i'm glad that we framed it in the work is that consistent and predictable access is a really big deal for us students to go as a cohort for us to have one place for our eighth grade teachers to to go and interact with the one school to commit to make the presentation to talk of our what the school can provide in terms of quality programming and not have our children separated at different potentially different schools that might be neighboring in close but not go as a cohort and we thought that that was really important to the students and so i appreciate the group got only looking at the quality of the vocational program be education but also the experience of students going as a  well it might feel like to some folks that we're back to where we started but i think it was a really important time for the town a few years ago we talked about potentially and ultimately moving out of it because it was a discrepancy in how the that that number will go down so we think that this is a renewed opportunity for the town of the students so thank you very much you go to the group of the crowd in the audience for your hard work and we look forward to bringing this back up in the fall with the information that i think will impact decisions of town meeting going forward as well so thank you tha since shared understanding of profession performance develop common terminology and structure and make an informed professional judgment and there are four standards for administrators include structural instructional leadership management operations family and community and professional culture the department of elementary and secondary education advises districts to use the rubric that is given to us  and agreeing upon indicators and elements that should be high priorities for the district all the indicators and elements in this year's evaluation were high priorities for one of them primarily being the high school building committee and included all four of the standards whether they were explicitly indicators are not in most communities committee members and their comments in evaluation acknowledge work related to each standard in the ratings  each year a new goals actions of benchmarks are developed in accordance with the priorities for the district but tonight we're looking at this past year and reflecting on the goals and accomplishments of this past year so looking at what was presented to us goal number one is effective strategic planning who is to lead the district through strategic planning of our space and great configuration work this  simultaneously working with the leading with the belmont high school building committee and the school committee on action steps needed to resolve the enrolments faced challenges that face the district this process will also support and for the long term educational strategic planning for the district the overall scoring for this was exemplary their reasoning is that superintendent failing has exceptional leadership skills that continue to drive the district superintendent failing confronted the district spiling spiralling enrollment issues head on working as an affective leader to solve these issues examples of leadership include working with parents and and the local community to install modular units at the burbank school and overseeing the work to plan for a new high school securing funding for a temporary modular classrooms was done in a quick fish efficient and impressive manner another comment and again this is just sort of a summary and there are other comments too that will be included in the report that submitted to the department elementary secondary education another comment that we noted as superintendent phil and efforts on the new high school are specially deserving of the sussman of exemplary the project is highly complex with many moving parts and intersecting communities to instill listen to all views and work with architects c m s began a public high school building committee to reach consensus on all facets of the project the high school project is obviously a team effort but superintendent felix leadership is a large part of why the project is moving along so well one note is that some members believe the community needs further engagement in discussions regarding the great grade configuration from grades k to six while most committee members understand this is an ongoing discussion with ideas in mind for configuration there is a slight misunderstanding that the district has made final decisions making clear communication in this area imperative superintendent failing continue to work effectively with partners across the district to ensure that the educational needs of the district are met he conveys confidence and support for every project an initiative that emerged over time  evaluate this evaluation for this element is between her fish an exemplary superintendent feeling about all the key actions in benchmark i am sour identified throughout the academic year which is a major accomplishment to the multiple initiatives that were layered goals this required much time in court a nation as well as strong ships and trust that motivate different groups to contribute to the work the leadership team has been included in key initiatives which speaks to the willingness that superintendent failing models to share the planning and execution subtasks superintendent feeling as positive and receptive to the thoughts and opinions of others and works effectively in meetings with teachers staff and ministry and community members further moving across to the direction superintendent feelings work on forming the seven through twelve education educator steering committees especially commendable as a provides a form for teacher input into the new high school  addition the courageous conversations about race have been hard but honest and members hope this will lead to improved outcomes for students of color in the next school is to improve my practices in prove the superintendent's practices in coordinating effect of administrative teams through the use of leadership council meetings principal meetings and retreats to provide a continuous learning opportunity through the collective implementation of the district strategic exemplary superintendent failing continues to promote the high standards of teaching and learning that are the hallmark of the belmont public school system he maintains a positive receptive attitude in spite of numerous initiatives he has worked effectively in meetings and continues to adapt to new challenges by including multiple perspectives and representatives from various groups stakeholders efforts to address your goals related to addressing student achievement gaps in continuing the district wide implementation of some of social emotional learning have been while the board made it it's because of this work that membership chose that exemplary designation for the school the way in which professional development teacher p l c teams and teacher smart goals are substantially aligned to these cool areas throughout the district supports teacher learning and growth in the district will just note too that there is a comment that while this current strategic clearly no it's changes each year as the initiatives are added or modified members are asking for information on how to plan for the next thirty years so our overall assessment is does anyone have any other comments or things they want to add