all right good evening everybody it is november twenty ninth two thousand and sixteen as i just confirmed by looking at the paper in front of me college is for the late start the school committee was in an executive session as of five pm this evening and so now we will begin an open session at seven twelve ish for the twenty ninth and we will begin with the pledge of allegiance paid citizens concerns is the next item on her agenda and concerns to be shared seeing none then no adjustments to the agenda very brief chairs  report just want to focus on honors coming off of a few days where the focus in the united states tends to be on gratitude and considering how we treat others and have treated others throughout history so thinking about something to smile about and some honors the belmont high school honor roll is currently available on the web it was also featured on the belmont citizen herald website which i saw on facebook so that was delightful to look at the many many many names on that list the regular list  the high honors as well so it's something to be very proud of then the belmont high school music student honors there are several things and again all of this is available on the website so i encourage folks who don't often to visit the website and those who do often to keep doing it because there's so much information so thanks to everyone who continues to keep us up to date on all these honors and accomplishments the music student honors there was the massachusetts music educators societe and ne senior district festival there were fifty one students who were accepted with twenty of them receiving all state recommendations which i guess is a tremendous amount of students receiving such an honor and the names are all there for everyone to read and acknowledge their so that's quite an accomplishment similarly but different the national association for music education all eastern festival three students were selected for vocal excellence mary please forgive me if i mispronounce that georgia parsons  recognized with that honor so congratulations to those students and then just another quick announcement it's that time of year it happens a couple times of year where the foundation for belmont education star awards program is open to the public and for those unfamiliar with this program for a donation of twenty five dollars or more teachers and staff members can be recognized by family and community members who wish to make such recommendations and share their feelings of goodwill with others at this time and that donation goes directly to the education which is then dispersed throughout the district for various programs so on the website there's plenty of information about how to contribute to that program and if you do it by december ninth which is a week from this coming friday you will have the opportunity for the teacher or staff member to receive this before the winter break so i just wanted to mention that and then on the web there are numerous concerts that are coming up so starting with an event on december first there is this great six eight band concert december second the fifth grade chorus concert and the list goes on throughout the month of december with snow dates available so you can plan everything accordingly so it's very well organized and executed so we're in for such a treat because the talent is absolutely tremendous and i've just i've i am not a musician so i'm always quite impressed when others can do things in a way that i sure can't and it's just delightful so if you're in the mood for some music in the month of december you will have plenty of opportunities to enjoy you guys a couple of the goals of things we've been working on so far this year and students said it and so we've got really two major things that we've been working on first is school spirit and then also reducing student stress and promoting student wellbeing and i'm going to talk about student well being for just a second and because so far this year we've we're we're going to create a survey to compare the amount of homework that teachers thin giving the students and the amount of homework that students think they're actually receiving and it's only i talked about with mr richards in a meeting with him about a week ago which he gave a thumbs up to and it's basically to be we're go and teachers it's going to be public questions asking them what level classes they take what what level classes they teach and what classes they teach and how much homework they think they typically assign prevent it and then for the students and how much homework do you typically receive pernod and so we're planning on giving giving that feedback to teachers at a faculty meeting in either april may or june with the rest prior to the faculty meeting so it's a little bit of a farmer for the teachers and what they're thinking about this social motional learning edition initiative that public high schools worked a lot recently and we've experienced a lot of benefits from it additionally we want to target some more stupid well being of teacher awareness of test during peak sampling which can be a very stressful time for students and we want to tell the teachers full students through through that time period so another goal we have this year is to increase school spirit and continue to increase it to create a greater sense of community and just this past wednesday before thanksgiving we had our annual pep rally which was great great able to honor a lot of our chairs which created a sense of unity among the greens and it was a lot of fun we also here in our second annual look down at pep rally which was a lot of fun and a great success and we had a lot of school involvement and that here with the administration was here last year because it was an award that was given out to the faculty in a ministration of the same christmas st george and her team so far congratulations to those folks we had a space taskforce meeting this morning it was the second meeting we have had we have reached out to teachers to get a steering committee for teachers to participate in that work as well we have a building high school building committee meeting next week open to the public it is on  exciting car work to do we also want to make sure we highlight that this friday is the necco professional development conference that is held for all the medical communities throughout the state coast turning fifty  old this year and we have over seventeen staff and faculty attending the ministers attending that that's a record number i think it really speaks to the work that's happening in our chief task force in our prioritization of focusing on this work as adults and educators in the community i was also lucky enough last sunday to go to the belmont co parent event that was held in dorchester a struggle right around the corner from my house we socialized in the afternoon and had a bite to eat so i think all the folks that read that from the it is a fairly long and involved process but in fact the process is as important as the product because through the process teachers who are doing the work come together and think deeply about what what is it that we're doing what is going well what is for students and then what can we do better so it's really this process that supports thinking about changes in terms of curriculum in terms of it's a little bit challenging to predict out seventy seven years is is a lot can change none of these plans are written they all come with the disclaimer that should something happen in the state comes up with new standards or some other hypothetical building project you might have some changes in how you do things but it does give you a nice roadmap and a nice opportunity to really think about what you're doing and how it impacts  that here we are today where the fans want to introduce a plan and that's the the beginning part of your seven years as you go into phase two you're looking at developing going through the action steps that you've laid out  it's not an exact science but you're implementing it in phase three which can be up to three years if you have time and you're also still doing continuous feedback loops as well but you're really trying to implement the things that you thought would be important and then you're lenses to the work and give us both commendations on what they see that's really powerful and going well and suggestions and ideas for things all of that comes together in developing the plan and the planning is developed by the steering committee and then all of the teachers and in fact i was privileged to join a meeting earlier this year when all of the teacher is k through twelve art music theater we're together looking at sort of this list of the visual from our faculty k twelve parents and high school current high school students in the so they would then they would have been our high school students last year so in total we surveyed we got responses from over seven hundred individuals and were able to compile that down and look at really what the experiences have been like for students and parents in the program what teachers felt their needs were and get a really good kind of overview of how people felt about our programs and then really the meat of the self study is in the visiting team that can stretch in the earlier and we got to invite in four individuals of our choice so we've got to sit down as a steering committee and i think if you can bring in four all stars from anywhere in the state the program for a couple days who would they be which is really fun process and then actually having them come in and spend time here and give us their feedback was really great so they gave us commendations and recommendations the bulk of the plan of action is going to be areas for growth and things that we need to improve on but they did have some commendations for us as well that i will share with you because we're the individuals who came in on hagen who's the visual art director in bedford susan emilie is the final performing arts districts that were similar enough to belmont that we felt like their their experiences in their school districts were comparable to the things we might expect here both in terms of the overall performance of their arts programs and also in terms of the size of the school districts and  demographic makeup there so what the visiting team actually did prior to the visit was we handed down stacks of data and information about our program including the survey results and basically everything we could get our hands on that would tell them about our programs before they arrived we also were able to tell them a little bit about how we felt we were doing what our strengths and weaknesses were and give them an idea of where we might want to be going over the next few years so that when they came in for their site  provided us with two separate reports one for visual art one for music and theater they were both really detailed and again including accommodations and recommendations for us i'll shall go through their general commendations briefly before we get into the areas for growth because i do want to accentuate a lot of the positive things that we have going on the first thing that they commented on and that i think that the teachers here was that backed them up on the level of student work we're seeing in all areas at all grade levels is really remarkable this fiore of earlier mention that we had fifty one students accepted to senior districts and three into all these during when the boston globe scholastic artworks come out later in the year you'll see dozens of high school middle school our students recognize there it's not normal for school district to have that level of achievement from individual students so as teachers i know i'll speak from the teachers and said we feel really fortunate to be able to work with if you play you know as an artist you know make sure that the materials you have a really high quality and we do get to work with a good player here so that's a really great thing the teaching faculty we that we have here likewise is exceptional not only in terms of their level of skill and expertise but as the visiting team noted there's really no better way to say this that when they talk to teachers about the students they got the sense that the teachers really like the kids like working with the kids in most cases teachers in visual and performing arts work with the same students for several years and as a result you get to know the families really well that you have siblings after siblings so the teachers here are really there's you know the state tells us that we have to teach music in heart in our schools but they don't necessarily tell us that we have to teach it well or correctly and here in belmont the community make sure that we teach well and we teach it correctly and that we funded and we support not only do we fund it but you show up to concerts and you show up to our exhibits and you show up to the high school shows and that's that that is just as important as the funding part of it and we really appreciate that and the visiting team also noted that when they talked with art and music and theater are important parts of the curriculum not just on the surface level to say that we have it and not just for the kind of fluffy s c l reasons we like to talk about it but that there is actual educational merit in it and therefore going to bother doing it we should do it well so now we get into our initiatives in action steps of the plan of action is pretty detailed so i did my best to pare down to just the highlights here for you i have not yet put the full plan of action on the website and i will try to get to that tomorrow so i don't want to fall on such a performing arts website they can do that i'm so here are kind of the highlights they are separated into four different categories the first are sort of department like it there is that there are visual art initiatives that only will apply to visual art music initiatives and then theatre and dance initiatives will be grouped together because believe it or not dance is one of the four areas of vi supporting them overall the improvement in overall program maddux the ability so this is to us with staffing and funding and things like that where we may be currently lacking in how we might have a kid for some changes over the next few years and goal c is just making sure that the teachers that are in front of our students every day are prepared that they have access to professional development and that we have access to the highest quality teachers and most qualified teachers in their field so some of the department wide initiatives we have that applied to tradition and goal is the first and foremost is that in all areas we're going to work on strengthening our curriculum alignment and continuity meaning that we want to make sure that the curriculum that nicole is teaching in her class tonight from a bank is lined up with what actually christos teaching is for when i make sure that students are having similar experiences and learning similar skills and right now we're pretty sure that's happening but we want to make sure that we have solidified that moving forward and we want to make sure that students through through the schedules at the high school have access to more exploratory options in visual performing arts because on participation fees which were put in place i believe in two thousand and eight as it's really a stopgap measure to save a lot of our programs and i know we've had conversations over the past few years about trying to find ways where we can means trying to get one music teacher and one art teacher in each elementary school instead of putting them up and having them drive around town and developing a plan to fund the maintenance of our performance spaces and i have a staff member  's responsible for a lot of this is you know thinking forward we know that a new belmont high school is on the horizon right here and there's a there's a real temptation to to kind of sit back and say well when we get a new high school everything is going to be better but we're going to see almost two full graduating classes come through belmont high school before we actually move into a new space so as educators we're really concerned with making sure that the students we're going to have over these next six seven years  school get the best experience possible and this is part of in visual art for goal anyway making sure that we have ethical spaces and technology in each building developing some digital art curriculum at the high school and hopefully middle school as well and the implementation of a foundational art class at the high school something we'd like to consider for goal be we have a music technology lab at the high school right now that is really not not usable used for digital art as well as for music technology and goal c would be towards the professional development goal of finding time for a collaborative planning time for for  our teachers for music these are ok the twelve goals are finding and finding in a adopting and implementing a uniform approach to music literacy right now we've got really great teachers vocabulary this second one is aligns with our work towards the achievement gap and this is increasing instrumental music participation among african american and black students which is i think very important to us  so that's not something that we will continue to work on for the next few years instruct the instrumental music instructional model in grades three through five is something that we will hope to address developing project base units for classroom music in grades five through twelve chamber orchestra standalone class at the high school be very important james and rachel who are both appear earlier are currently chamber orchestra players at the high school and that means that it was tuesday morning they were at school at six forty foundational class so it's tough to fill the seats in that a p class and it's also tough to make sure that the kids who are filling those seats are prepared for go be making sure that all of our teaching spaces meet the minimum standards as a teaching white board that they could resemble a classroom would be greatly reducing the number of traveling teachers in an instrumental music program would go a long way to solving that problem we currently need five spaces in every elementary school when we teach instrumental music so y can't blame the principals for sticking them in a storage closet or across this room so if we needed fewer spaces that would be helpful a class size solution first the middle school course is looking wonderful i observed a great course rehearsal today that had one hundred see we would like to consolidate some of our staffing in the spring program so where we currently have a couple of very small fraction of teachers if we could find ways to schedule things differently we could take a point to win a point three and make it a point five  and then maybe even add to it so that we would have teachers available to schools one year in the school finally we get to our theater and dance initiatives we would like to have some electives in grade seven and eight that are taught by licensed theater teachers in the past we've had an eighth grade fever elective that was taught by music teachers which was which was fine the music teachers and in their role did a really nice job but it's important that the people even destruction or  often having a fall production of the middle school we have a screenplay a spring musical every year and so we'd like to have a fall production as well so the kids get a full year of theater experience here at the middle school we would love to collaborate with the p d department and implement some dance all actives here at the middle school as well as at the high school not something that jim davis is the p e director that he and i have talked about working together on over the next few years and adding a second level theater course at the high school is something we would love for her the theater arts director position at belmont high school to be a full time position and we think we've identified some creative ways to accomplish that that's really for to provide stability to that program which is so visible in the community and so important for students that not having a full time position means that every couple of years we've got a we've got a new theatre director and we've been lucky that we've had d go see his hiring licensed and highly qualified teachers to lead the instruction in theater arts and dance and all th steps it seems like i read all forty seven of them but i did there are actually forty seven actions in the plan of action each each action step is aligned with one of the strategic plan goals and it identifies who the responsible parties will be for the implementation of that goal in many cases it's going to involve folks like palms and the f t e who have been so vital to our programs over the last for ever last year alone  we received tens of thousands of dollars in funding from the f t and from homs that helped with a virus instruments and they bought this class from equipment it is really i don't know what we would do i to be honest and so that will be the work that we do it was we were commenting earlier how funny it was to see two thousand and twenty three up there we were looking at the grid and then we realize that the next plan of action that we present to you will be the two thousand and twenty four to two thousand and thirty one plan of action so it seems like forever away but it's really not that far so finally i just want to say really again how fortunate we all feel as educators and i speak for the students and their families too to be teaching and learning in a community like this that their values arts education the way that we do the administrative support the community support is really second to none i hope that folks in town will view these programs as not just school programs but also just as a community resource so as lisa was saying before there's about ten thousand concerts in the month of december so there's no reason to be border cooped up on a weeknight if you just come here to chancery or over the high school is bound to be something going on and it's going to be done at a really high level and most of the time it's even free and so if you follow us on facebook you'll see most of those updates i can also head over to the school department's website visual and performing arts website and i just have a comment i was at a conference recently for the massachusetts our educators association and one of the deans was giving some opening remarks and mentioned used the phrase the right for all students to develop an aesthetic instinct and i just love the phrasing of that and i just think this whole process reflects not just aesthetic but just the whole arts experience is a just an add on but a fundamental right that all children should have so it's really lovely to see spelled out so beautifully you know the work that's already being done and where you like to take it so thank you to everybody for that hard work and those listed here who aren't in the room thank you thank you paintbrush have changed thousands of years right so we're in the arts we're sort of slow adopters of technology although we we do find ways to get hyped as involved in a band and things like that but there's also something to be said for the fact that of individual art which is a really important thing in graphic design and computer animation all these we would love to get experience as the students not that we're going to teach them how to you know they're not to be ready to work for pixar when they're done here but we'd like to maybe give them some tools to decide that that might be of how they choose to go down at the university level but you know when you're working in photoshop for example you can try a hundred different things that if you make him a few mistakes you click on do a few times and  isn't first of all i'd like to thank you very much out of this is a great presentation and i'm glad that paul and john and nicole and kate are here and i've actually seen each one of their classrooms or seen them perform so it's so great to have you support a night in and when you watch paul at harvard square performing or john on a veterans day or a kid introducing her class to what's going on in the classroom in relating it to things when i did a long walk with tricia in the cold  every month so we can't thank her enough in these experiences aren't just for the folks that when the golden key or for the folks that come into they these these experiences are huge learning opportunities for students so as many as we can get in the better so the the foundational our class at the high school is huge you know all those getting everybody involved in the theory class you want to have the support the a p music theory i think is so so important because everybody's everybody needs that learning experience with exercising that part of their brain that then enhances all the other good stuff that they can do whether they're really good at it or just experiencing it so i really value that part of the you the widespread value of can get bring in it so that the high quality the value and if we can build those foundations in introducing dance i think in in providing that cross pollination with with p this is a visual arts community this is the group that values music performing arts visual arts it's a great place to to have a child go to school with this group of faculty working with them every day so thank you very much additional early release day for the middle school to hold conferences with parents and guardians for the high school and the elementary schools the number of days is the  the other change that i've noted here in the memo is that you know we have for the past several years had an early release day that was you there was it toward the end of september being back from teachers and particularly the last couple of years when we've had teachers on their social mission use during his developing the professional development having a little bit later gives them more time to plan and the teachers also share with us that you know having september really focused on the classroom  so this is the first reading this would not be expect to be voted on tonight there but it can be eligible to be voted on at the second meeting which we could have a see this twelve thirteen which is our next meeting i don't think anybody should because we started early enough in this year for fusion feel pressured to have to do it quickly but we set our own goal to have a tender early this year so this is our attempt to provide that provide that work to parents as to whether or not it's working or not working or how challenging the president has been so it out chairperson of yours requests we asked the teachers to give us some feedback to have we have not received any feedback from anybody about the holidays from parents or staff that was unsolicited no it's been calling saying whether they liked it or didn't like it because it's been very very quiet on that front but we did want to ask the teachers how they are get a sample of how they felt about the calendar in ball started to pending on whether labor day felt really late it seems like if we wanted to try some hybrid next year would be the year to try it since it is so late and i think in the surveys that i had done of the good districts there were a few that said you know when labor day falls late you know that was the specific date that th to make two comments one one in general and then went to the company bowed before labor day first of all i think that this calendar educationally is very sound because it has long stretches of academic time in what we normally see in the fall because it is between holidays in election days and other days that we would observe that the fall tends to be a choppy time frame for students to come back to school so we really have a clean september october all the way to november that's that's very rare so that to me that builds a nice learning momentum which i'm very very happy about in terms of what i would see is good educational  in my opinion of my experience let's help the hardier of that polluted starting school the next day on that tuesday where over the weekend they they can build up that time to get nervous about what their teachers going to look like what bus is going to be on time what they're to wear what supplies they need going to school prior to leave a day allows them to get that experience get that information released that concerned enjoy that three day weekend and hit the ground running on the tuesday after  and i would always say the two days early before labor day a far more productive than two days at the end of the so i'm open to that conversation about started before labor day i'm glad folks but regardless i think that we have a very clean and educationally sound calendar by how it just happens to fall the share with our with the one that you have in front of you so the recommendation in that case would be to do thursday friday it could be any it could be anything you want it could be some districts do when state there is they are friday some districts do tuesday wednesday thursday friday it really depends on how many days you want to get in and i think some folks do the same thing every year it's always staff on tuesday students on wednesday thursday and give the friday off some folks do stuff on monday and tuesday and then have students tuesday wednesday thursday friday have a full week because you are getting a three day vacation and i don't know whether some of that is influenced by when labor day false which impacts the last day of school so there might be more ambitious before labor day if they feel like they want to pull some of those states back from the end of the year so i think just different schools of thought on that and we did  hundred eighty days you have to do one hundred eighty you can't do one hundred seventy if you do have a bad year still they make it to the full year so there are some constraints around what we have to do is it as it relates to state then you have to do so many hours which we are in compliance with as well and at this point in time with our contract with our teachers in our educators we don't have any full day professional days you know except for the one before school starts so our teachers cover the table for e i was away way with my family and my niece started an act and two days before a new brand new school thought everything was great and was completely relaxed about going back to school again on tuesday and everything was fine and my own daughter was starting first grade in the new school what was her stomach was bothering her all weekend and you know she's in the first grade and realized i think it started to click that she was starting a new school and but that sort of did her and for you and trying to give her reassurance but you know you know all these people that didn't know where is was enjoying herself and you know now i'm in a new school but you know and she used you know going into the seventh grade so i think that that's also considering it's harder than going to the first grade and that sort of so maybe think that it's probably think kids and families are in school in september and you know so i don't think if we if we were to try something for this year it doesn't mean that we will always turn school before labor day i really think it's good practice when labor day falls so late to do that so that school is in session in september you know it would be it seems like it would be the perfect year to do it and you know going forward depending on how how is the feedback is from unity and teachers you know we could set a policy that is yes or delineates when it falls x but so that there's some predictability so people can have their vacation plans and not you know worry but i do think given that it's that it's so late you know most families wouldn't necessarily continue their summer all the way into september sixth they would be back at work and then have kids needing places to i recall some of the objections to starting before labor day if it's some things like marching down the various sports boards actually start before that and i'm that did impact some people's holiday plans but also that you know those things were starting when it was to really really hard you know became very very difficult so i think we should look at that too i mean that but the fact that it's you know start some people actually some students actually start some activities in the week before so if we start before labor day then they're really starting quite early come from the british system where labor day doesn't exist and it's not it's not this year either so just for clarification clarification the current policy is that if the it's september one is  before labor day we go before labor day so this is actually though we start on the first wednesday instead and september correct right so one day away from that the ship so this is actually the latest start we have would never have without it is the first wednesday because the because of the  thursday is the first so we missed it by one day so you know we could make a policy that says if it's the first you know wednesday of the thirty doesn't it we can do anything we want to because this does seem long so i so i agree but i want to remind people that the policy currently  flexible but this is the longest stretch that we would have without starting before labor day so that's why it does feel long to me anyways and when we did explore the issue of folks starting before marching band in some of the some of the activity stop before but the a sets to start dates regardless of when your school started isn't this a mechanism for them to stop the athletics to fall off the tax based on labor day not based on your first day of school because the first day i think half to districts in the commonwealth start before labor day and half don't so they they have this kind of running structure that supports that regard the so but marching band is a good example that's not covered by the mit so those folks might be otherworldly and then the normal  so we can i guess the questions that we would have is if we start before labor day should we give you a model that has it was two or three days before the start of school with the friday off or is it a teacher's on tuesday students or wednesday thursday friday off is it you know we are how do we can give you a couple of pre labor day start options that you can actually see at the counter it looks like but that's probably what the option would be would be teachers monday four days of school which under these circumstances because we're ending early enough we might not need to have to get foreign teachers on tuesday because we do do new teacher work before students we do a whole week's worth  before school starts so technically for a lot of teachers the year starts before the week before that and so if we could do some of that work and have new teachers and have teachers start on tuesday and go to school wednesday thursday and then have friday off is that that was the model that we did two years ago that seemed i think it to have received good feedback from our staff one of the suggestions that we got from parents if we were if we look back and feedback was  if you start early then with this do it for my children to go i i think that i may be heard that wrong but if if we stop before labor day that actually is three days of something for students to do before we actually start school so i think that the big  flat zone for towns in terms of no coverage or no school no camps is that last two weeks of august so this would actually start school and at least have zero one two or three days of classes before school started which would or if no snow day is the eleventh and i'm thinking about so if graduation is on june third that still gives the high school another week to do violence and a little bit on how to get those sort of end of year  speaking to policy and language and copies of our policies have to be filed with us to comply with this legislation and then it's it also to provide copies to families and students but they have access to all of our policies out the procedures that would support that so mary come in is really working on that and i imagine at some point when this unfolds to a place that it feels like it's a little more to the sort of done stage in terms of guidance coming out from the state and so on and so forth  know well perhaps maybe down the road we'll have to see others unfold but remember that schools are always i mean you know a lot of alcohol on a school campus so one would assume that that would be similar but we'll have to wait and get legal so only a few policies actually have a procedure that follows behind on your on the website follows find this one will have one we had our language about the policy of news analysis from plays and we changed the language we're actually looking in the schools around educators about just transgender what might what might their experience be like and how what can we do what do we need to do to make sure that they feel safe and w what to look for somebody who is but again the anti bullying is you would want to single out groups because of his you leave out a group and then yes i think anybody in you can't believe these five people or these five groups and you forget one and they said we staff and how is this i mean the high level policy changes seem to be pretty simple right for transgender rights i'm just concerned and thinking about how this plays out actually in the schools and you touched on a little bit  the bullying policy you know on at the bottom or somewhere here under the equal opportunity not discrimination because i believe i think this time suggestion to reference the homework policy somewhere on a different page so that there is just simple link i could be misremembering but i feel like we referenced another policy shortly after a policy for quick cross referencing i don't know that update on the work that tony and the team are doing with our principals and other administrators regarding the budgeting process and looking both historically as well as make a detail expenditures and try to make sure that all of those non story lines are being allocated in the most efficient way possible so good work you can see the visibility there and we'll have a good discussion about the kindergarten grant or the lack of the  next couple of next couple of meetings and then there was a brief discussion of some additional staffing that may be required to support the cherry modulars and moving students safely between the modula were on camera so we successfully completed module a one we signed the feasibility study agreement we phyllis marshall and i in the bill of allah the chair stay for orientation for modular two which gave us guidance on  the hiring protocols for the owner project manager in the design architect it's a very lengthy document and they have a lot of rules to follow that we have to study up on and prepare to present to the building committee of next week's meeting next thursday at seven thirty am in the home building we have a prep meeting tomorrow to get ready for that and we are interacting with the facilitator to help us do the work with the teachers and the community that will do that work some some thoughts together and crystallize what those options will look like to every community member so we can have a common idea of what they would look like if they if any one of them moved forward so that's the work that will be engaging on the school side to support the work of the high school building committee moving forward one other comment another active topic of conversation is what's the right way to get the message out more broadly to the community about the progress and various different opportunities and i think there's a recognition any updating updates that we have from that group susan and tom sure of the next group but i think it will be good again keeping the public aware of the challenges that we have in the work that we're doing towards the high school  work and also towards the space in task task force work in general which right now is really focusing on the other metry level because that might not be addressed in our bigger issue of the cultural project so keeping the community abreast of all the information that would be helpful on a regular basis and thoughts or comments that are just direct all right so that when we simply move them to the approval of a stack of great thank you