right feels like it's been this is the first little one out and now it's long into september fourth is sunday but a lot has been going on tonight we're going to always start with visitors approval of minutes and a teaching and learning highlight featuring the foxboro special education parent advisory council we will have a back to school update from a spinelli we'll discuss educational assistance evaluation tool with a number of guests joining us will take up substitute teacher pay rates and get an update from mr you know on outdoor facilities here at the high school related primarily to the turf field we need to do a school committee appointment for the delegate to the m a s c convention i wonder who that will be then have an audit like it's fall it's a problem we have an audit committee appointment and we will then take up other matters and i just apologize for the way i sound and probably look i never i never looked great but it was struggling a little because then if you do he might actually be able to just focus on you for a second so people  cd so most meetings we have a little side table there for the for the media but i don't see one tonight but that actually is your water on the corner of the table so we put a little side table with the water for you yes been a great partner of ours for the last several years and we appreciate all that the reporter does for support school systems we're one big community and you guys are a big part of it so well you will maybe we should also reintroduce our student reps for the beginning of the year do you guys want to say hello and remind the audience who you are what what class you're in and why you choose to spend some time sitting at this table after you mol my name's macallan or guys and this year i'm a senior and i really want to come back this year and last year i felt like i really had a voice in the decisions you guys made obviously you guys vote but we got to represent our school and the students who go to our school think about everything that you guys are doing so i really appreciate being back here thank you guys picked a good night to come back because i don't think our agenda is to long term but we do value your opinion and you're representing the schools and your fellow students for you so thank you sincerely any other visitors tonight seeing them will take  parent advisory council or c packets cathy hickey in the back and kathy she's the shy one she's been helping out she's been a longstanding member of our pac and works for the federation as well so she's a terrific resource to our school community  we've recently sandra insoles in the back to try and sell a special education director and we met recently with the state pac and very excited about what they've been doing for planning and moving forward in the future so in the interest of highlighting a great community partner that we have we were looking for a resource in town that would help us navigate the crazy and frustrating system that is special education at times so we decided to get involved in town the foxboro special education parent advisory council for short known as c pac is a parent ladder organization that serves as a resource for parents and caregivers of special needs students all school districts are required by law  to have a parent advisory council to advise the public schools on education and safety of students with disabilities foxborough has over five hundred students on five or four accommodations  out of district placements and the fox mercy pact will provide resources resources education and support to the families of these two students we had the pleasure of attending the apple leadership training program that stands for advantage in parent professional leadership in education this past spring and we did so with special education director sandra insult it was there that we were able to create an action plan to get the seed pack in front of families who so desperately need it and our mission for the c pac is to provide a forum for families to share information discuss concerns and find support to encourage understanding respect acceptance and inclusion of children with disabilities and to collaborate with the schools to continually improve the educational opportunities available to special needs students and our goals for the upcoming year are to build an active board increased current membership so we can reach more families in need of support to expand awareness of see their function and mission to build relationships within the school and communities to fundraise in order to bring quality programs to our members identify areas of opportunity within the evaluation process and this will be accomplished by promoting the c pack o meetings the school councils committee community events and through social media social media is a big one now i think that's one that where everybody is touching upon now creating us an informational brochure that will be handed out at all i i eat  the meetings in the foxboro public school i think that will help actually you know make people aware that there is a support there and that you know there really is a process to go through it's not just you know this raise quite crazy thing that these people think it is  we were you don't utilize local newspapers and cable access to help promote the mission of the c pack my monthly meeting meeting every other month meetings and special speaker events on related topics such as autism communication disorders sensory processing disorders difficult disabilities and cognitive delays and we will hope to accomplish developing a survey to quote feedback from parents his experience with the i e p process are certain success will rely heavily on the support of the foxboro school and community partnerships in around foxboro we thank everyone for their support and we look forward to this year see pack of events and workshops thank you and he and pretty well first of all it's a great have a strong and well respected voice there but i think it's terrific that we have parents who are as committed and i guess one of the things you're looking for the parents to join and participate absolutely just i think that one of the things that i found because my son's only in first grade at this point and being a mother with a relatively young student i didn't even know that there was such an organization that existed when you hear of school p t o s it's kind of a name that is just known across the board and you know you understand and know what that p t o serves and what their purposes and i think see pac when people hear that term they don't know what it is and therefore don't tend to get all i think that one of our goals personally as parents of young kids in foxboro would be to get the sea pack need to be as recognized as the p t o so that this is a resource where not only parents and families can access but the school whether it be special education instructor you know i think teachers in general sometimes need some support in how to handle children with special needs within their class and i think we can provide some resources there for  continue to exist you know with fresh new ideas this is the best thing to do so yes margaret and kathy are certainly still involved yes but it's i think that i would speak for them i think the best thing is to see somebody else take over what's been your your passion in your you and your mission and and carry it on so i think that's that's what i view is the two of you doing cathy's beaming and we are relying heavily on the c can you know grab onto in that context you absolutely and the same question spear the same question is any businesses out there that might find a good alignment with you that might be a good fit for your goal because we do live in such a wonderful community i think that one of the things that we recognize right away we're going to training would be that foxboro schools have a really good relationship with the community and i think we're really lucky to live in a town where that happens because it's not always the case so we have the support from the schools we know for sure and now it's just about getting out there in front of businesses that might be able to even if it's just a business that is welcoming to children with special needs and not just that sounds silly to say about it as a mom of a young child who it was difficult to go out with some of the places in public to just know that you're not going to be kind of child charlotte that differently because you know your child might be disruptive in a room in a place is a huge relief and i think that just knowing where those places are and that they're there is is a great way to get out of the house for a mom who might just desperately need to go and yeah so i think that that's where our hope is to build this to be a support system as well for families and to speak to the school part we're looking for actually parents who might want to get involved but don't want to take on the role of a board you know a board position because of the level of commitment so that position would be how we would kind of get our word back to school we are back to school or you are and it's your we have been for a while so i wrote down three words it's been quiet very smooth opening and hot yes i think the preparation that all of our schools engage in over the summer really showed every year i say this will require the smoothest opening we've had and then the next year i say it was even better so lots of kudos for that we had not one glitch all and word on the street is that people really like the calendar that you created and voted on that the option they went with because it allowed our staff to have their three professional development days the same time we always have the end of august  kids back a week later but allow that long weekend and then another long weekend so if i really felt from staffer's reporting to us really felt like a really smooth way to transition in get the kids started without being too intensive curious as to what our students thought i mean i was excited to go back to school so i don't mind the transition but then i like how when you went to school wasn't the full week right then and think it really did ease that ease everyone into the school year you started with three days four days and then the big five day week if he didn't feel like a huge undertaking we got there so yeah good too it's he did go on as the parent of an incoming freshman it was a great way for him to get acclimated to the school and i suspect the same probably true each of the first years of each of the different levels so personally enjoyed heller so i'm glad to hear that's the general consensus pretty well i think if i think because labor day was late it was kind of hard to remember that we actually were back at the exact same time we always have just came back last week of august kids came back the first week of september so it always is but it is just because you know it's our fault labor day decided to be late this year but  really worked out quite well and everybody's very complimentary about how that helped the transition having such the first two weeks not be four weeks well let's see what kind of winter we have made it may pay dividends as we go i think it might if you if you read the farmer's almanac phone saying not to jinx any thing that's it ok so how was it for you you were very excited that the kids classes underwear you sing the turf field activity and the weather has been phenomenal hot it's out of the buildings been ok with the heat you mentioned hot for you i mean the second floor isn't really good place to be but you know we  live in new england we don't have very many weeks words that were really is that intensely hot i would say was the second floor wasn't very popular at the high school or the i go which is the only two places but that the hottest hottest day actually stayed out went to three of the schools in the second floor wasn't it but it seemed to be cumulative not necessarily a how to say it was the worst was come the day after when everything was very stuffy but you know it is what it is and we certainly can't control the temperature of the weather  escaped doing that having to do what some of the other local districts did which was actually canceling classes during some of that heat some of them did which i can only imagine what they'd be like going back to school and all the sun's canceling classes to have lost a day workshop with wendy day when he and i were the at assistance in august when they came back and she did she's going to continue to help out in that in their relationship so she's been absolutely valid as to when the fates educational system here at the high school so what what how this came about is that as you know we've had three years of a new teacher evaluation system the massachusetts educator evaluation system and a few years ago several districts in the areas that are taking up the question of the educational assistance the similar role to our teachers in that they support what's going on in the classroom with our typically with a media student so we had had a very traditional decades old  checklist and really it didn't allow for a lot of really defining their valuable contributions educational assistance do do provide for us so we went to two years ago initiated the idea of having a lot of area school districts get together and consider what you can't use for an educational system valuation tool and are you interested in working on something a little bit maybe year that clearly define mark can tell you a little bit more about the committee's work to basically put together the basics of it which is to define the standards that applied to their role and how they would define proficiency and then left it as a basic document to say if you want to do work on something more than that than you have to tweak it at the local level so that's what our committee did and we took up that and met several times throughout the spring and took what we had that the regional committee had done in terms of identifying specific standards we looked at them to see if we agreed if we want to just meet those we do that to some small extent and then how would we flush out the rest of the tools you would have to do that so that's where we are so i thought maybe we could have each go down the line and just tell you a little bit about what stood out for the process for them very informally and then we'll follow up with making sure that we have communicate all the specifics of the tool as we wrap up but i think it might be a better idea to a special educator myself i work very closely with educational systems and i realize just how much work they do and it was really unfortunate that we'd get to the end of the year and have a checklist and it became just a task and it wasn't any good dialogue or back toward the great work that they do so i was very happy to serve in this regional board and kind of go through and see how different levels and different districts and how we all had so many different evaluation tools but basically they were all checklists and they didn't say much and they didn't help people grow in their role and didn't give us a great opportunity to tell them getting the perspective of windy and sue in terms of what they thought was really important and really needed to be extent you waited in their work and it was a really good dialogue we came to understand the assistance jobs much more in depth and i think it gives a nice guideline for everyone at assistance and those that are working with them what is expected and i would have to agree with that  the goal was really to reach as many in that diverse area of educational assistance as we could so we did have to chip away and eliminate some of the elements that just did not apply at all and i think we did a very fine job of that and we took very careful thought in the wording the dialogue the language thinking of respectfully putting out some sort of tool that would guy the observation process so at the end of the day our evaluation would be valued and respected opinion from our administr and as a form our educational system myself that's actually how it started all coming into education out of police work and so i have a lot of experience of doing some of the great work that they do and i feel that the tool was a disservice to what they gave to our kids the bottom line is they're with these kids day in and day out and some of them are very demanding and they have very specialized tasks that need to happen so to really go to a checklist was a complete disservice to them and i think that it it hurt me professionally did to do it so i definitely want to be a part of this and and have been we're where they are and i think that we are taking steps to really kind of solidify their role in the school as truly professionals and they are and that's how they should be treated and we finally have a tool that can do that and have the conversations that we need to have as far as what we can do for professional development to help them to reward them for what they do and happens discussion so i think it overall it was just a phenomenal process i mean we spent an entire session just like on one wor to make sure that we had it all covered and that is actually presentation and then asked what areas they select questions on and we use that information to tweak the professional development in august when it came to doing professional development in august as you know typically that's that sort of left us and i said so start planning a workshop and sue and wendy actually planned the workshop right and it was phenomenal so they planned all of their activities for how they were going to help their colleagues understand the role because it is change so let's be honest it's a change is hard and this represents a huge change but they had such engaging activities and a little fun in the air and they invited us to come at the beginning to do a little intro and then we stepped away for most of the workshop and then when they were ready they invited to spec into the room to answer any last minute questions they had and i can't say enough about the workshop that suing in wendy did they wish i didn't have a family serious issue going on right now that she could be here because she worked very you both worked very hard and we didn't even get involved in what amy met with them once before they were when they were planning their workshop but there workshop was terrific and it was all of them so really give them credit you know so as you can see it is quite and there are four elements under that professional knowledge child and adolescent development lesson plan implementation and data collection so under each of those four elements you can see that a very specific description of what proficiency looks like as you meet standards in your daily work and throughout the year are very clearly articulated and then the right hand column is really what knowledge skills and responsibilities do you have  speaks to that so that actually helps clarify the definition of the expectations contained within the element within the standard so it's more you know a layman's language about what they do every day it's a connection to the daily responsibilities  are elements are under supporting all students are quality and effort of work student motivation and engagement meeting diverse needs a safe learning environment collaborative learning environment and under cultural proficiency maintains a respectful environment and respects differences under expectations clear and high expectations that's pretty meeting and then under stand three professional culture there are elements the elements there are professional learning in for both shared responsibility judgment reliability and respons the frequently asked questions that we developed to go in tandem with and gives a little bit of background as to why this change happened as all of our presenters here tonight that we really do value their role as educational systems because their role and we want to ensure that their evaluation which is a record of their skills and their contributions to students was more than the checklist and i would go back to the day the checklist always bothered me as not being sufficient and  joke because when her first year here came to the spring she's very straightforward person has a mind she held it up and she said what is this and i said yes i know it's a not so good checklist she said good because i hate it and then i said then you solve that problem get it done and beth is definitely that person so we wanted to definitely clarify their role but we wanted to bring consistency across the district with people in this role so that we are very clear about what our standards are for your performance in this area and that and that we can articulate your areas of strength and we all have areas we want to focus on for improvement even if the improving the small we all have that every single year so that we would also be able to do that and contribute to the professional growth so i think it was a great process mostly because it was led by them and then this is our pilot year so we're trying this out doesn't mean it won't count it's not that kind of it does count as their evaluation this year and we're going to see how it feels from our side and they're going to see how it feels from their side probably will i know will reconvene in the summer the extent of the tweaking it's yet to be determined but i think will will really get a good look at it this year and if you will to share the no i haven't actually had a chance to meet with the freshman development committee to go over the actual written evaluations of the workshop but overall there was a buzz in the room there was a lot of unification going on a lot of issues concerns or positive comments came out of this so it's opening new doors and it's  moving forward and we really have a lot that everyone realizes that they all are part of this and can bring it to the table too so it was really meaningful you know but as i said i haven't yet seen the the evaluation so it would be interesting to find out about the next clip this is coming right up i think the most important thing to remember though if there is anyone watching at home in this room is that it's not going to be perfect the first year of nothing is so we always revisit so the feedback that we get from people in the world is just some portion is at the feedback that we get from being evaluated so i think that's most important it's not going to be perfect and open and honest way communication is the best way to get to where we want to be and change is hard i think this is certainly example of good change over comments you know i had just written down you know on my notes when i was making  it speaks to the level of being there oh is that in my role i hear from other people in other districts and they're asking have you tackled this with the ed assistant and so many people wanting to not wendy said it's much more meaningful and it's something that's going to make sense for your district and based on the different roles that they play one those are the words i underlined in that cover letter i dabbed did to outline the roles and responsibilities of the education in our classrooms and maybe i think that you can tell when you read through the criteria and especially that last knowledge skills and responsibilities are going down the line there what are and assistants are doing in the classrooms in our that's what i broke down and five will be in the yes and i think our i p's are actually in the four hundred so great but nonetheless a sizable percentage of our student population that we're talking about these people helping us ensure that we're doing the best very important to me personally in terms of the a role in how much they contribute and to get it right so we'll see where we are i just think we're really fortunate to be in a place in the school district where we can tackle some of these things i'm sure the checklist going to survive forever but know this wasn't up to par and so you took it on so i just want to say thank you to beth and all of you for doing that i think that's terrific very admirable steve i think of our parents for this meeting i spent is going to come about somewhere for improvement the bang for our educational dollar but what happens to the students and maybe even return should an improvement of subject matter experts that we have with us who may need with us i mean i know that it's not the end of the conveyor belt here like wow even if they have to redo the whole pilot if they're going to know a heck of a lot more than i did before the detail in th story about beth jumping on board it actually started two years ago at by go the click special education collaborative that we belong to had a board of directors michael meeting it was brought up that would there be people in the area that we believe do it and several of us said yes and  professional i contact that sometimes causes of a lot of work i'm sure right amount of substitutes for our professional staff and when i say just the right amount it means not so many that people aren't getting enough work but not so few that we can't cover it and we usually do at that line where often we can't get enough but we only have an excess of substitute teachers typically when our college students are home for the january cap or in june we seem to have plenty of people that want to earn a little bit extra money and you can you can substitute after your second year in college so you're able to do that so other than that though it is difficult to find people in a daily basis with the credentials to substitute teach in and we want to make sure that we stay competitive in the local market for substitute teachers so bill and i worked on this a little bit every year we kind of thought about it should we be bringing this forward should we not and we actually thought about the last few years but haven't brought it forward in so we put a renewed  focus on this just in the last couple of months and we did some data searching in june and helped us with that and what we discovered is that our average daily pay rate for a certified teacher i want because we have as you can see many do we have daily substitute rates for someone with no college degree with someone with a bachelor's degree in something else and then a slightly higher rate for a certified teacher and what we found out we especially certifying this sort of serving the certified teacher reads is that we weren't that far off from the thirty four districts that we were able to get information from so we presently pay certified teachers seventy five dollars a day given the the minimum wage is going up to ten dollars an hour in january this coming jean marie that certainly since it's a seven hour day thirty five dollars a day is much less than that so we thought this was the time that we should definitely consider this so what we're recommending is an a dramatic increase but it would help us with our goal of staying competitive in the local market and we're proposing to add to go from for a daily substitute teacher with no college degree to sixty five dollars a day to seventy and then it is a five dollar increase if you go beyond a fifteen so if you wind up with somebody with an extended leave when you're going to stay in that role then you go to a higher pay rate on day sixteen  with a bachelor's degree seventy dollars a day and we're proposing a five dollar increase to eighty dollars a day and first certified teacher we're currently at seventy five dollars a day and we would like a ten dollar increase for eighty five dollars a day which would put us at around twelve dollars an hour this year and then we do have two other substitute rates if you will and we call that an intermediate term substitute which is an assignment more than two weeks but less than ninety days so let's say it's a maternity leave of you know eight weeks or it's less than ninety school days which is half the school year but more than two weeks then it's one hundred fifty dollars a day because you're in a consistent assignment where you're doing a lesson planning and everything else you the grading and the assessments same along the same lines if you have an assignment greater than ninety days we call that a long term substitute and that currently that that assignment is paid to the teacher salary we're not recommending a change at that at all because that as you know is subject to cole is every year so that and so that on its own goes up each year so we're not worried about that we're not recommending in the new rate increase for that we thought we would explain to you why we've brought it forward now that has not been increase in more than seven years so here we are by thirtieth i think the last thing you said was my first question when was the last time we did this about seven years ago i believe it was just after i returned maybe christmas his first year in my first year back so that could be eight years i don't remember that years i don't remember this being a topic in recent past so i don't i'm not surprised i believe it was brought back up in my first year back w this two thousand and seventy eight school year i think and if they were going by that when i was at its size or committee and the writing is on to the school's library and then i think it went from seventy to seventy five for the certified teacher so it wasn't it was again not a dramatic increase but when you're not increasing something every year the eventually start falling behind so questions for deborah bill steve who do we have to vote on this in are we voting on it tonight or what's the plan to do that all ask me questions based on th this a substitute teachers do they have an evaluation or some kind of quality measurement we see for that that the talent that cycles through our school so no they're not evaluate because they're they're doing a an intermittent day here or there but how do we just policy wise is our department head or a principal you know it's a principal in the principal keeps track of the substitutes if a substitute is not working out or let's just say their skill set doesn't match that level they would not be invited back so we have a substitute coordinator the the needs of the building is certainly communicated to her and the assessment of how the subs are doing just from a general policy building and building administrators in department heads or anyone else who sees that our total budget but i think steve's question was going to remind us well you know what is the impact we're talking steve other comments are going to start that if we're going to vote on it tonight and you know i always like to wait but i think it's an eminently staff member does that but she contacts them each summer they willing do they want to stay in the substitute pool and they do fill out information for her what what's their preference what level it's a sub do they have an expertise in a particular content area is there a constant area they do not want to be assigned to so she gets to know their their wants their wishes where they feel more comfortable and then and some some will suffer and where but typically you'll have more people that like either secondary or they like elementary some betwixt and between but it's the rare person that will say i'll go to kindergarten but also go to a p chemistry you know it's not going to have that's not going to be the same person and so there are certain people who are good in some things and they make that known so we have basically profiles of them she context i mean you're only going to stay with a pool yes or no and then every once in a while if she's having trouble or things we took span the poor will try to do that by either advertising or allowing it we've had times not often where we've actually closed the pool because we have enough people and if we keep adding more people than no one's getting enough work to be happy something in foxborough so we want people to get enough work here and not say well they never call me so i'm going to go next door for the majority of my time so on occasion we have closed down when i see on occasion i mean two or three times in the last many many years that we'll have to close and say we're just not take them up we take the application we hold it and then if we open it back up they're contacted so she has all of the contact information and communicates with them regularly and actually over the weekend if she knows the assignments ahead she lets them know about the assignments and they can say yes to the ones that they prefer so she lines a lot of it up ahead of time which is very very good at it granite the two centers of the last curves myself one will actually have a thirty foot flagpole in it which will serve as a five hole for the stadium section and then the other one will actually have a memorial that's in sam's  the the lighting we have been in a process with national grid and we truly hope that within the next couple weeks that will be completed as you've seen we've trenched from all the poles back to a to same a similar situation with the d p w building as far as their timing so you know we've been trying to put the pressure on them to move forward we've done everything we're supposed to from our perspective they came out with just matter of fact last week for the first set  conversation we noted they didn't like a tree in one location that was gone the next day so i don't think we can react and you faster to try to keep their process going and with any luck as i said within the next couple weeks that should be up and running and  yeah we've had to i mean it's the process itself i think has gone fairly smoothly moscow was pretty much on their original time frame as far as getting all of the fixtures up to us i don't lighting out of norfolk  you know is very very good as far as within virtually a couple weeks of the all the things showing up they came right out did all the drawing and they did it some granite in one corner but they managed to work their way through that those poles are sixteen feet into the ground with a three foot wide you know drill bit so it's they did a great job on that they got upset they got to heavily into concrete there's enough concrete there to build a small building for the four of those so they really shouldn't be moving anywhere and then you know once we knew we had that set then we could you know go into what we just did with all the conduit to bring it back to a central location this is i think we talked about before is a very high tech system in the sense that it's fully programmed and it can be done dark very quickly now so i'm sure the youth organizations would love to have the field up and running as quickly as we can and that not that i think this is necessarily under our purview with curiously where's the ship going to go the power should actually go where the old baseball diamond site which they do and so what they're doing is overlaying now everything that i want to do on this field long term so they're actually putting where the electrical lines are the cream of the gas lines are there and so now we think we have an area where the concession stand itself will go electrical substation that we're building basically will be right off of that so that will all work out pretty well coordinated and so as we can make our steps down the road the track and the bleachers we already have are all designed on plans and you know we'll go pretty so we are starting this fall to try to me figure out how we're going to keep the energy flow going so any and all the ideas will be welcome we are going to be selling more sand burns me to feel t shirts at the homecoming game on friday so day but other than that we need some new ideas some fresh ideas or some really generous donors to come forward and help us out with our concession stand project i think with the more we get on the field such as the lights and the move moral the more people will want to start using it in in a more fully fleshed out way and we really can't do that without the concession stand in the public bathrooms the public bathrooms we feel is our responsibility to build but the concession scene itself is going to take roughly seventy seventy five thousand dollars and so we need some fresh ideas from the committee from people in the community from parents from our student athletes from anybody at all to help us get region really energized and continue our fundraising something we can't afford yet ok i'll be looking forward to all your ideas but i think you know every step of the way the fields being done well that is i think i think that's helpful you know the community teams are interested in continuing to use it as a community feels rather long as we can make the sure there were s time i think that would be well received as true but whether it's a community group or our own boosters don't forget the concession stand is the next most important phase because whoever of the user groups will earn money off it so people watching this in town if you're using it for any purpose and in the town would be able to rent it better which they can't rent it right now without the facilities so we need those the joint facilities of the concession stand on it so as soon as we get the concession stand built the revenues are going to see come in for the rec department for the town where the various user groups of their own boosters to youth sports is going to really take off so that's my goal as i've got to get us to the point where people can make money look at any one person i'll get you all right all right someone to blame it on the cold but you build i'm sorry did you mention that when you you know i always have to ask you this and we certainly won't hold you to it yeah ok i think also the facilities in general are of the turf and specific you know i think we had a pretty smooth start you know as far as the buildings and facilities that we really didn't run into any issue high school driveway yes one of one of your members decided that there were some issues but now we actually been looking at that for a while because what happens is the we know there's a lot of times either people in office all three or even even you know students and others leaving without that line tended to really go from one side to the other and when you have the big buses coming in and stuff and really kind of hands or so we were kind of hoping to have it be you know shape so we're we're still we have the annual convention we have a person who's done a lovely job for a number of years but i think i don't want to put them on any names i think anyone who is interested should volunteer this chair if there is anyone interested would like me to serve in that capacity i will be more than willing to do so again this year i find the whole process very stimulating and in love with the network is something i hope to make a motion that you know i think it's a question in all seriousness of are you willing to do it again because you've served this board in the computer science well for a number of years while i but i have the time and so i go down from from the get go through my office that they need a representative who serves as a school committee appointment mr frank sue is a very long standing well respected town community member resident has long served the town well in this regard as your school committee representative but he can no longer continue so i first would suggest that we all collectively send a lovely letter to mr suzy surfer many many years and from as were a prospective so that creates a there creates a vacancy that is an appointment of this committee you notice that the memo doesn't have anyone who stepped forward and communicated to me their interests and yet so you have it's a task to do and the opening has recently been announced so we haven't had a volunteer come forward yet so i attach them information as to who has been serving and you can see from the information that was provided from who's been serving on that  and from the from the terms of the membership and the vacancies are also included in what the duties they make recommendations to the board of selectmen on the selection scope of services for an independent auditor review the any one financial s and this audit committee is a key piece of that the oversight that it provides so they would like representative by the end appointed by the end of october say of two more meetings and so that's your ch charge so let's just highlight a couple things you kind of went through there quickly for those of you in because i know we have a lot of people in the community including parents who have been interested in getting involved in different ways and this might appeal to first one under the first paragraph two years for the school committee appointment ok so the individual would like to volunteer for this position in the community row thing for two years they serve as advisory to the board of selectmen with respect to the town's financial condition financial management systems and controls in your financial on it and special audits reviews so is yours and you said some of the specifics but this person really can have an impact on recommendations around the town's finances and in this case as relates to the school particularly for the next two years so i think that's a nice place responsibility also i think it's important you know what they're with looking for somebody who does have financial  experience expertise and you know it has to be somebody that's independent the day to day operations of schools but realizing you're trying to appoint somebody that's really looking out on the financial side in the best interest of the school site because there are others that are guess of some of the questions they might be able to call randy's office or your office even bill yeah and i spoke to really about this this is this is not a heavy long term commitment it tends to be short spurts so you know they would probably be very active for a couple of months and then may not get back together again for another year or two i mean it's literally can be that kind of a kind of an interview and yes so ma take your name might change and in the meantime we can all think independently about some good candidates good and great thank you appreciate them and their you mentioned quickly will we just found out about today so an e mail came today from andre tippett who is the executive director of community a few years and we patriots charitable foundation and it says congratulations to fox for high school the football team and head coach jacques martin only on the team's two zero record so far this year and a huge congratulations to coach jacques martin only becoming the fifteenth coach in massachusetts high school the week award deaths tomorrow tuesday september twenty two at noontime here at the high school very excited to honor foxwell high school and present the coach captains and the athletic director with our first coach of the week award of the season and in conjunction with that the award of one thousand dollars will be donated to foxboro high school football program an honor of coach martin nellie so that is tomorrow committee members i'm sure invited to attend to watch the excitement and this is there are twenty if year in which the patriots joined the national football league in conducting the high school coach of the week program recognizing outstanding high school coaches and promotes youth football throughout new england so organizations who are always very generous which is the fox for alliances in the rotary club of foxborough have each donated five hundred dollars toward a new printer for the art department of the art department has huge printers that can print all kinds of things much more so than any of understand and so five hundred dollars if you are ready to do so tonight i would ask for a motion to accept the donation of five hundred dollars from the foxboro from the rotary club of foxborough and five hundred dollars from the are they always come up with new ideas to create a new exciting senior year book every single year and this year they have a new green with a local resident who owns a drone to fly a drone over the football field during the homecoming game  friday that's why you bring it you and attached to the drone would be a go pro camera owned by nick in the purpose of using the drones to bring a new feel on dimension to the senior video they do a senior video and they do the year which will be given out with the yearbook just seniors and in june items of importance related to that so we had a lengthy discussion at the end of last week i want to start by saying we think involved a school resource officer frank is a veto with every regulations we need to know about with personal drones i personally was at a wedding in august where they had a drone to people coming out of church it was part of their whole wedding video so i was pretty sure people can fly those things around because we've all seen them but the foxboro police are aware he did research and in particular there are no laws in massachusetts banning personal drones at this time and he's fine with it but a few things that we thought were important are that there will be an announcement made at the beginning of the football game and again at halftime that a dr may also in the same span of a few days take some other of the varsity games you know with the with the using the drone so they can be with it as well so it may not be limited to just the high school game but they will name the games and they will let the opposing teams and the coaches know about fox where police will know every time it's in use case they get calls from the community that there's something over the neighborhood the drones we use at the end of the second quarter have time and the beginning of the third quarter for this friday and there will be no usable audio from the footage and the footage will be used exclusively for the scene of your video when the worlds so that's what's happening you have questions or concerns i am here to answer we videotape we've all of our games anyway the only difference is it's from above and i'm just saying if another let's say another high school wants to do the same thing we do and they want to bring their drone do we have to approve it as a board an administration to say yes you can use your drone to shoot your team our game our field well they've i i i i don't think we do because there are no current laws in massachusetts about the use of drones from currently doesn't mean it won't be in the future but frank said he would let us know if there were ever worried me but i don't think so because it's they come up with videos right now so i think we just have to look at it from instead of from the sidelines at however many or from the top of the bleachers this is a little bit about that and moving around a bit more but everybody videotapes everything now anyway and we didn't see any of the every right you know i'm sorry i'm i'm not being clear i'm not against this at all ok i'm just saying if someone wants to come onto our public school property and use a drone for any reason in the universe do we have to have them say check in with the superintendent's office and say we're bringing a drone we're going to shoot something parent who has served on the school council or on a p t o or a pact in any kind of leadership role and they can stay on afterwards that's tomorrow morning and hope to see many of you there and then for the general public parents g so those are opportunities just a quick comment on that because this is something the committee talked about when we were looking at the school district goals back in retreat but i think the superintendent offering these times for these town meetings beyond the four parents who sit here i think are very valuable so i would just encourage the community to please you know we often receive questions i think as individuals on the committee which is absolutely fine and appropriate but i think people should take advantage of an opportunity to dialogue with you directly i take it as a compliment or a sign of faith that we don't get a lot of noise along lines like that but and i certainly am pleased with how smoothly the district has been running and we've talked about that before but i just want to encourage the community if you haven't before come to one of debbie's coffees or leaders meetings please do i think there are a great way to get to know the leadership team and i also think it's very valuable to us as a committee to have other people's input so thank you and amy contends both those as well so come ask her some questions if you don't have any for me to all the hard questions and then last but not least i should have mentioned under school painting that we've had many of our open houses already of school based open houses i thought the fifth and sixth grade open house was absolutely fabulous theater in middle school seventh and eighth is this week or next week so there's think there's this  in the class and the teacher was just starting a presentation and said you know unfortunately my plan my pen will hold this charge so i'm going to stand behind the desk and i said i'll click so i sat and clicked so she could be she doesn't amazing job so i just thought professional click here now i click for her and i tell you i'll tell you this is the city so i will i think i said to that email i'll be a clicker person any day but it's really was wonderful and food service had taste testing going on which i think two parents were swarming the elements here you are and you try different things that you know because their theory is that kids might try something new if their parents are there with them so they had the the wild butter that's not real peanut butter that was i may have tried all of the above that was delicious they had hummus they had the little fish nuggets the healthy fish it was delicious so they had you know place today a top off the presses was a press release that was embargoed until five pm so it's safe for me to put it on the table at seven you didn't get that earlier and that's the latest press release from the commissioner's office about what's going on with them kasim park although as we all know we are highly awaiting the decision in november about whether the board of elementary and secondary education in massachusetts which way they will vote whether they will switch from  this is the latest hot off the presses press release so i want to just belabor that for a minute to hear i was saying was going to talk a lot tonight and then if you want to chime in you're really are our expert but you know i'm aware that there is concern in the community about our our course in this in this topic area in other words preparation for park and nation reasons for our path forward and what i don't want is the community to think that we have our heads in the scenes at this table i think to your point we have a decision coming from boston and what timeframe november november seventeenth and i know that this is a topic that the two of you look at on an ongoing basis and just because of the line of work i mean i see this topic daily as well but i feel very comfortable where we are and i feel very comfortable with the discussion with the committee and i feel very comfortable with the extent to which the two of you are involved in following this topic so i don't know that all of our parents see that quite to the extent the committe does but i think it's important people know this is an issue that the nation is looking at the various states are looking at closely and that we here in foxboro continue to look at do you want to add anything to that from your perspective and i think a couple of things that are really important and that when the results do come out i think that we need to make sure that we keep in mind that it is a very different test across all states that have taken this or even the other consortium which is the smarter balance it's going to be an opportunity for us to really look at a new baseline this is the time of year that we start thinking our you know myself and others are preparing the baseline and benchmarks report to be able to give that overview it will be different in october being that the only impasse data will have is grades five and eight and ten for science and then grades at ten because it still is the competency determination for l a and math at the high school so when the park information comes out it's going to be new we're going to need to look at that with an eye that it is a very different test and then it setting a new baseline for ass because of the way that it is assessing content which and cast as we've talked about is more of a skills based assessment and this one is more about process it really is going to be very different and i think that it's important at this table to keep that in mind and as we hear all other districts and states even with the information that comes forward and to take it and to really look at it for what it is the last couple years always says we're our job is to prepare kids for a future we can envision to solve problems that we don't know about yet and so given that that's the reality to have our kids experience an assessment system where they're expected to apply what they know and do something with it rather than just retain it or regurgitate it is becoming more and more important and i think in the workplace you all see that so we will never regret going down that road because it's necessary regardless of the assessment system and the second thing is that our kids have now had practice with online assessment that this high stakes that counts and that's how they're going to be assessed in the future by the time these kids get into high school and in college they're going to be taking paper and pencil to us so the sooner that they can become more confident in that type of test taking in there will be a dip in the beginning that the better off we're preparing them so regardless of the outcome that the steps that we've taken both here at the stable and in the classroom and in the schools is the right direction for preparing kids for the future and not just staying glued to the way that is in the past so six they can't afford to do that are kids so we're comfortable with what we've done regardless of the citizens there is no chance the m task as we know it is going to continue to exist because it's already outlived itself and its usefulness in the kids will tell you that when they take them castes yes that's not the way they are taught in the more they recognise the new form of assessment is the way they are expected to be a very day the classroom you know something but be able to do it or to be able to communicate it or solve a problem so those things are more and more important in we will never regret doing that so whether it's m cassar part it will be m cast as we know it so i am very comfortable and confident with the steps we've taken regardless of what the with the name of the assessment in the future matters less to us but that being said massachusetts put a lot of work into the shift toward that so we're very well i just know that it's out in the community and you know i makes me very thankful that the committee this committee and the committees that have gone before this current constituted committee were so focused on instruction and hired a very structurally focused superintendent in a very dynamic and structurally focused assistance or prevent and we said very well to tackle this and look at it smartly both from your leadership and focus and also our technology preparation and  just everything that we've done so i will continue to look at it i mean that's the main point we will continue to look at the stuff and be smart about it so i don't think i have a college graduate and i've seen the changes in the school system from when my oldest started a shout out to all of those that were instrumental in our professional development that we had we this is the first one back so we had three dates or really two days of professional development a lot of work went into that professional development committee meets next monday to about the feedback and the technology department really heavy on them to have a lot of that ready for us so we thank them and look forward to continue with a lot more professional learning i had as i think everyone knows i had the opportunity to represent us a good new teachers orientation day and then at the welcome back there for all the staff and i just i still enjoyed it so much it was just a i'm sure the freshman development was fantastic and i did have someone recently in a community say to me why do we do three days of professional development then i think it pays huge dividends and the tone that you set with your story and todd kayser addressing the group always entertaining because just a great way to start so thank you for all that you did personally they were trying to reach out throughout my head but i do know there was a lot of participation and i want to thank the the parents that are on the force burmese are associated with those that are going to volunteer to be on in the future  and cans so jack and i took care of the team effort well i'm looking forward to a successful year in my first year in school committee you know i've done lots of meetings so far but my first official year  i thought of some you know well before we feel that we did talk about the exciting finish to the football game but i did want to give a shout out to the marching band because september eleventh was the very first home football game in the earliest day think they have ever had to play a half time show and they did exceptionally well wolf on the eleventh and last friday night and i'm sure this friday will be very easily wonderful but they have some difficult music and they did a great job and it was pretty hot in those wall band uniforms and they did well in those circumstances as