we can begin the first item of business that we have this evening is a presentation to be made for outstanding service of fifteen years leading to get we know you're working so you can put that on your office wall along with your before we start the meeting i have a few things a couple of things and i'd like to say first of all i hope that no one left the meeting last time feeling comfortable feeling that it was a job well done because it wasn't  i think that we we talk continuously about students and what we expect from students what we expect to provide to students  we have policies that address student behavior and professional behavior and i think in many cases we ran amuck of those goals the last time so i just want to say that henceforth our meetings will be held with a respectable tone for each other from community members for community members we aren't going to tolerate any namecalling any finger pointing any accusations any questioning of others integrity the bullying if you will which some of what went on last time  amounted to so with that being said we will proceed with civility and respect for everyone do we have any comments from community members what this represents is every ten years all schools are run and it's a very lengthy process and there are several credit agencies throughout the country there say midwest one in the south is our zone but what i want to do is today is just summarize what is in here i ask that you all read this there's a lot of really valuable information a lot of really valuable critiques of our strengths and also our weaknesses and will post it on our website right on the front page either tomorrow or on monday so it will be available on the right hand side on one of the dropdown slang links you here's the timeline for three years we did a self study and then we had folks come for four days they met with some board members and then they produced a report and this is the report we have been told that by november two thousand and twelve which is in a very few short months we need to do some very specific items and those are not negotiable it's something we need as a school to do and it's based on what best practices are out there what research says is good for students and good for learning and then ongoing we have two to five years to respond to there's there's thirty five recommendations and we have two to five years to respond to all thirty five but we do need to respond to them for me it's very exciting because it's really really cool so that if when you read the document there's an introduction introduction and summary then there are seven standards and then at the end it's that summarizes it but the end of each standard their strengths and weaknesses and that if you to get a snapshot you can just look at those points and here i have we received after what happens after we do the report we the committee comes we do a self study we  committee reads our report and then they write their own report and then that goes to the new england association which meets four times a year and they look at it and they say here's what mt mansfield really needs to do and then they send us a letter saying out of all your strengths and weaknesses here's what you need to do and so i've highlighted some of the strengths here and what what this is for for our faculty for our students for everybody it really highlights some of the hard work that we've done over the phone over the years and i've taken words out to summarize you know it says the ability to be there so there's some course of action birds in there so anyone have any questions about what any of these strengths are most of them are our topics that we've covered at some and needs this is what we need to do by november we need to adopt specific twenty first century learning expectations and then we have to have all school rubrics if i could if i have linda streeter for english and then i have english and then i have jen akeson for english and you write a paper the format for the paper is the same we use this point point quote relate so every student graduates from out means that when the graduates come back by say house college they say i know how to write that's something they always say what me ask says to us is you don't you need to do that not only with writing but with five or six other areas and what we as a school need to do is determine what those areas are every teacher is going to use the same language they're going to say you're not projecting you're not having good eye contact or you're having great eye contact you're projecting students will hear that all for years and you know in chorus you're singing a song in history you might be talking about the suez canal in art you may be talking about van gogh but you're presenting so our students will graduate we are charging what me ask said to us is not just with writing you need to have several pieces you need to do across content areas and it's very exciting because what it says to me is in four years students will graduate and they will know what it means to give a good presentation because all the faculty several times through the year will have used the same language so so that's those are the needs it's all except for the last one which is we need to fix this if you go to the gym and you look up there's boxes and in the s committee felt as though that was not safe so we need to put bars or something up there so that questions about that yes david is a peer run peer evaluated organisation and if we choose not to do this we get a warning and then if we still don't do it then it could jeopardize our accreditation you do not want your school's accreditation jeopardized because that too once that happens there is there's a sky not to be mentioned school in the state where this happened because of their facilities the facilities were really just not safe and that may ask is on them and all over them and it's not a good thing in terms of college colleges people looking at your school communities property values there's all sorts of implications if you don't follow the recommendations that into your question i was at a rabbi meeting the richmond area business association and we met and then afterwards i was talking to several the members saying what do you want graduates to have when they are working at cafe or working on software for your company and what they shared with me is they need to be able to communicate well burbling they need to be able to stand with a group of people and present something and it's it was amazing to me how what they shared mirrored what our faculty said hey this is what we need to have a common language as we as we go out the door here's a question over there and then these are other needs that we need to do in the next five years x disciplinary means cross disciplinary learning so that means if in the elementary schools when they're introducing the concept of multiplication five times four they may do five plus five plus five plus five four times or they may do an area problem where you have five times four so students  understand ok five times force twenty but there's a couple ways of representing it when you get into algebra and you're factoring you have an x and then you have a plus three x and to finish that factory you think that it's an area problem so the visual representation is articulated in the elementary the middle and the high school v professional development i would love seniors instead of saying i got sixteen credits and there's three credits and that occurrence of that thanks for the diploma i'd love for them to stand up and get on line should send the link of the work that they've been doing on online made maybe it's a website maybe it's a comprehensive in depth presentation of them self's that they've sent that to their college and they're presenting that to the community their parents here's what i learn here's who i am here's what i know and then the last bullet that you know they may ask really when when you when you're in a position my brother in law works for this company called raghav mountain and it's in jackson new hampshire and they sell outdoor clothing it's like a ski rack of small ski rack type store he now talks to people in taiwan and japan and california he's not just getting the inventory from all the mills in massachusetts and said selling the fle he has to talk to people all over the world and our students when they leave here are there not to say ok here is history just look at that here's english just look at that they need to be able to move back and forth between different disciplines and connect them and when we look at that we look at ok over the four years how can we embed interdisciplinary work in this or so these are some of the ideas that we have that we need to be doing and then the question is what does this mean for us aboard what does this mean tomorrow the next day next year or next budget cycle for a couple years from now you know i really think that we really need to look at graduation requirements for instance we have a technology components on the computer in their science class they years learn how to use excel manipulate spreadsheets within the context of earth science not this class over here where they're doing something different so in the ninth grade here the technology is very important and  of driving time with the driver and then the state mandated passenger time where you are watching other students and then there's also stated mandated other driving time with your parents so you have to fit that you know over the course of when it begins in order to meet the budgetary needs for what they're doing or is this it all go away expectation that we would not provide the subway structure to guess what i'm getting to is this is this to fill the gap because we'll put it in the subsequent letter i sent home saying you need to be able to commit from this day to this day please do not send this back with your signature a copy of the driver's license to your interest unless you can commit  they're currently using meyers and they have had some some issues around consistency pick up home meyer said the lowest bid in total but we are recommending go up here based on some of our experiences that we've had that i just mentioned currently it's a new business they have one truck on and they don't have additional staff this time and they think it could be a rest too to hire them with the equipment and the personnel already in place as well as we don't have a really good way to reference do they have the capacity to expand this much so that's the reason why we are don't know that i can find that out for you what the current rate is and that would be telling i think it's worth asking