i want to formulate my thoughts  the only piece at night that does work a little bit of this argument is that your overall g p a for some very competitive schools or maybe some programs with in some schools they may have they may just have a straight up g p a caught up now a lot and you can work around that with your letter actually reaching out to the university say you know my last two years look look what i've done the last three you know it took me a then some back to me they're working on velocity and in speed and one of the young persons people in the classroom asked about notes so instead of the classroom teacher you know giving the information dots it was the search box you know in groups of two or in groups are using google calendar and then you use google presentation or a google site and within that you know they're expected to use two to ass and ninety and that's the methodology of showing this next one this is a six so sixth grade teacher the seventh grade teacher they're both doing a poetry unit they've developed this site and as the seventh graders in a freighters they have to read a variety of poems and they have to  respond to the poems on line on this site and they have to post their stuff so all that information that kids are going to be asked to do and interact with between the sixth and seventh graders is on the site so this is you know sort of a bone through textbook this is what they're going to be asked to do you know i can tell you i can talk about the learning outcomes and all that you want but you know that's not the point of  term so you'll see a lot of similarities between actually between remarks and my presentation of a common thread the interesting thing is there's the different devices that we're using online so you know just sounds resources are used that i haven't seen little bit more we did we did again velocity as well with our sixth grade ten classes and we use google spreadsheets to go through and chart their doubt come up with graphs and get all the information out have a presentation for what they learned  twelve yards per minute for the second car this time was two point four the car was doing fifteen yards per minute but indigenous people of the western hemisphere even though they're a little project based on what the assignment is here there's a rubric that they can go to they can see what they need to do in order to get a one two three or four for their assignment and then again it's going to be integrating that technology moving technologies and creativity and then you we started our one to one this year with our ninth graders next year will will be up to fifty percent i'm so what i have is examples of nine tenths in eleventh twelfth grade for you to take a look  i'm going to try not to close and steve over here so here's my night great example this is from a history class in a macauley state and there was a civics in for info graphic product so what they had to do with do some research and i'm going to click on this one for so they they did research on this one with homelessness and i believe i can make it  kind of project that you would do on a poster board this is because you know if you get you up in front of the house and you're in front of the room to talk and the the thing about it is now kids not only learn how to do this and present it but they all learn a little bit from each other so these are presentations and in while they're not earth shattering they're an example of technology being used differently than we would use without it the next and we get the crusades i don't know if it's going to go all the snow  project goes on as each through history class is broken up into groups of three or four to create this then they show their classmates the movies the best from each class and then put forth to enter into the tenth grade film festival which all the tenth graders and come together in the watch is judged and the kids own this a lot more than they go to that essay they wrote on that tenth grade  one of the ones that was brought forth now there's something called an elemental learning management system and when you have a one to one initiative each classroom teacher uses th to get the information to the students computers this year would be using a program called edge you two point zero it's essentially a free program and it's not a bad for free program but it's free and sometimes you pay for what you get next year we're moving to school edgy which is a four paper ogram and bill actuals our a p bio teacher is one of our teachers who's taken on grabbing hold of this in in test pilot a p bio is a scheduling nightmare you need two periods for people because of the amount of review within it what bill's been working on is what they call a flipped classroom so for the topics that are review he's created online lectures so what students will be asked to do for homework is to if they need the review to go in to watch a lecture i'm going to show you one  you can i can i click on this without showing kids names i don't think i can so you have a teacher post a discussion question and typically in correct me if i'm wrong i know you have gone or you're required to answer the question as well as comment upon two or three of your classmates intercity having a discussion online so it's replicating all that all the parts of a classroom discussion then are better valuable roger for just one course but i'm going to go to my courses and all my courses are going to be lifted there each teacher is going to have their each course on school a g some of them are going to do more some are going to do less to begin with depends on you know sort of how many kids students you have though maybe if your arms are brand new to you for many kids maybe buy at the point in time this was going on it's a review it's already been covered once so this is there so the student can go back in review  doesn't have to hit it again in class and that's those are some examples of tech integration at m m u and i'm going to the other thing i had here i'm going to skip it right now because we've all talked at tech integration with morning it also opens a lot of doors my a p language classes here we were learning about rhetoric and especially in politics during election season and unfortunately since we're often reminded me of more or less similar views so we can really  debates and our teacher miss agnes and one online posted for other a viewing winter composition courses throughout america and we actually partnered with the school from oklahoma and had after presidential debates where we'd watch and we'd have formed discussion questions and we'd have a back and forth with these kids from oklahoma about politics and it's just that i could not happen without this tech integration that are going to church and it's really made available for all of our courses  was just a really great experience that otherwise would not even be close to being a very nice long have you have most of the students that doesn't matter what school have  we don't want to go all one way but technology is being more and more part of our life in their life to move forward so i hear very few complaints about it at the at the there you know if there was a movie things and to practice work i would speak it without having the trepidation necessarily of standing in front of a whole group of people so it seemed to me that that would encourage  standards you'll notice that they're very similar almost verbatim on water cases and so the point being a lot of twenty first century skills are being addressed through the from our technology the technology that my colleagues show media to collaborate and so forth so we are counting for the g eight and some of our years of cider curriculum professional development this year last spring we started  traditional technology teachers at the middle school who are transitioning to be interesting it to gratian specialists themselves a little working with teachers to get technology integrated this p l c her professional learning communities they still do face to face people conference to approve about half an hour we chat on tuesday after news about what's going on within our own because these guys are pretty isolated this is a great opportunity or principle sometimes they're here to talk with each other but without actually physically coming together and ah we have lots of summer classes happening even locally international society for technology education been exposed to that how would you ever get started here and we know that it would like to dot com there is what we need programs there aren't enough programmers around that area and there's a lot of opportunity i'm sure all lot of other schools are doing a lot of what we  it's not just a program i spent thirty years working in nineteen and it's it's also learning how to integrate things in terms of like got a bunch of different knowledge base you know a father son you know a little bit of knowledge to start so they would know whether or not they want t questions thank you very  central school so are there are three people who know that they would be very would be willing to volunteer to be the voting member that would be very  executive committee had met last month from that meeting that's in the of are available to everybody there was a request from the executive committee for all the boards to begin discussions again about the topic of school district governance and merger again one of the things that was planned around this was to have that as a topic for the carousel meetings that were happening for the elementary boards so last tuesday night for forty five minutes before the boards met individually there was a presentation that john gave about the legislation and just about the history and basically talking about what's available now for district governance merger possibilities and where the legislation chair is headed because john knew he wasn't going to be able to be here today he wants to have that discussion when he can do the presentation so we decided that you know he would just hold off on that but i volunteered since i went to that presentation to just let you know that it occurred that it was a lively discussion after the presentation all of the towns were discussing and all of those boards went back and had that as a discussion item on their agenda so i would ask that you go back to your local elementary boards and ask them about what was discussed already and then just be prepared to hear the discussion when john does present it there is some new legislation if you saw your v s p a legislative update that has some of it  we hear that there's even more occurring somewhat in the back rooms but somewhat you know maybe pushed out very rapidly into onto the floor specifically in the area  of making small school grants go away changing the average daily membership you know nothing seems to be off the table in terms of where cuts could that you would have to have two years and those two years would give you a number that either put you into either those small schools or put you into other categories where you would or wouldn't get advantages or discounts from the state computation i will not say that i am great on all of the tax laws around that but i know that some of the districts not just are deserters but some school boards who are pretty alarmed at how some of this could force them to have to do different things within their budgeting it seems like it's a pretty much of a big push to say that the part that the state provides is too high and we need to find ways to push that back on to the local and then make them make some tough decisions that's the kind of impression that i'm getting but that's my impression of what i'm seeing from the legislation that's coming out there to try yeah i saw  happened to it i would say it's not dead that's all i would say but i usually look it up through the legislature which i can i can do now but we do it all the well i can do but i would tell you that that that your check your you know committee meetings and public hearings and talk to your representatives if you see something but work and pay attention when the bisbee updates come up the legislative updates because we have somebody in those committees john hill do his presentation give you the update and then we will have a discussion about the various ideas around district governance and merger discussion and please go back to your local towns and ask your elementary is what their thoughts were the next year at the end i don't think it's going to be at the annual meeting i think that they've already figured that out but legislative it might be we i haven't seen the agenda legislative updates was something that we had talked about putting on for the responsibility to deal with this issue which is we're using a methodology for funding that started in the midst you know long before that and going back to you know when the owners in in the you know early sixteen hundreds and wherever and i understand that you know that that is not going to be easy to do a state wide funding basis as opposed to you know reliance on property taxes but it's a discussion that needs to take place and all these legislators i talk to they seem very reticent to get into this you know maybe they don't the problem down to the population at large are supposed to do their job i think my thought from hearing this right now is that when we put this on the agenda we had better budget a good amount of time for discussion that sounds like there's a lot of people that will have a lot of the couture house which is similar to our student council except it's through the advisory and it's a much larger area we had a meeting this week in which we're really trying to have a groundwork for what we will possible and we have a very large number of that are in caracas and one of the big things was let's break it into little or groups and have smaller discussions so everyone's voice is heard and that when we come to a large body we can then discuss th and i believe that with mr carl spearheaded cougar house that next year we will have a much more productive group but this year has been compared to last the two years i've been a part of it this is been it's been of we've been bound we have made strides to have the no homework very brave guidelines for the policy which i believe will be looked at to come into effect next year and it's julia done it's been the head of that committee that we formed and she's just been working so hard and i think if we can find another thing to put our hats on the poor house really did it just changes the whole mindset  program i remember to your house my freshman year was still say we made it so you can listen i pods and study halls and just by saying that a lot of students said we can help make a difference in our school and i have a newfound  house after going to a meeting him up here with other students from other schools for a think tank for student representatives on school boards and when i explained that we have this program where kids through advisory can say what their problem within our school and we can discuss it just jaws drop like you have something like that that's incredible and i didn't quite realize how lucky we are that we do have a body to field our opinions and our ministration is even taking a next step with our lunch with weston in the crew the heads of our schools will sit down for lunch period and kids will come up and have conversations with questions or concerns that they have and with the new student voice committee that has been formed i feel like students in the upcoming years will have a more significant say in their education and i think that with the amazing student body we have we'll have a lot of support from students and i'm really excited to see what we can bring to the no extra fees so a piece students are officially freaking out as of now including myself to start reviewing for the test we're going to questions what level security is down more leave jail or prison and just really help them with that and we had discussions with one of the six people four of them were murderers and two armed robberies and it was just so it was crazy that the second they started talking it's almost like i remember they were people and it was so interesting to hear their perspective and i felt so comfortable around these people and the school made it super like i never felt alone comfortable a maximum security jail with murderous which is i think a state super program and it's very intense the big thing that they do in this program is they have a group of people that are in the program and they pull one guy in the middle and have all the other inmates ask questions about their crime how they're weigh what they're thinking how it will change and it's just it was a very unique experience and i and i hope that the trip continues throughout the years because they have a perfect track record of trips like that nothing bad has happened and also it's just a very powerful experience did you learn anything you know i had a friend of mine was former commissioner mental health and i had a discussion with him about the people who ha greatest mental health issues came from abuse back rooms you know family members or whatever using it was there any discussion about you know what had happened to any of these people in there y that really baffled me is we started with asking students to raise your hand if you were seventeen or eighteen and every one but two people raised and i'm still only sixty three on and they said all of these men were pretty much still kids so we didn't talk about the nature of versus nurture discussion and for the most part you could see how a lot of them have had parents that have been in and out of prison and there was some way that you could from a like third perspective i could see it but there was one boy who earthmen he was thirty eight years old and when he was eighteen he went to a private catholic school he had apology acceptance letter he was going to play college basketball straight a's both his parents had a job in the spine and he had a cousin who asked him to help break into a house and it was one of those things that he knew his cousin did crime and never got caught and said with kind of fell into peer pressure and what was going to be just held me indicated if or not he or she would be willing to do the chair so this is a draft reflecting the choices that were turned in everyone i believe received his or her first choice of assignment look it over if there's anything there that you are truly i'm happy with will be happy to make adjustments district's assessment administrative responsibilities with the advice and consent of the author of accounts the secretary of education superintendents of the stablish and maintaining a cool system of accounting for the proper control reporting supervisor your individual school district  officer and so you know it was basically his opinion that these should read the way they do to help him do what he does financial reports and statements it's the policy of the chip in a supervisory union member schools to create  reports and statements in accordance with the generally accepted accounting principles that will allow the administration to demonstrate accountability while providing the board with needed information and superintendent should be responsible for submitting financial reports for all funds to the board so those two were pretty much straightforward and then we got into the fun one gift accepted this donation and fund raising so that when actually we kept it simple we did approve the policy but there's a whole list of guidelines that we actually sent back and i want to make sure that the committee and doris's them just because they tend to get really complicated on what you c but in general it's the policy it should not be supervisory union and then member school districts to accept or reject any public or private gift or donation funding for non grant related gifts may be accepted for school related activit acceptance of this funding is at the discretion of the and we decided to change that building administrator or local school board authorization court nation of all fundraising activities for a school of responsibility of the building administrator and he questions arising over the appropriateness of three requests for fundraising in the school shall be reviewed by the superintendent of schools and or the local school board think you guys know we've been down this road with different kinds of fundraisers and so forth but the guidelines were like a page and a half wall and so we will be reviewing them but those three policies will move to the executive committee for final approval and so i just wanted to make sure that you were aware of it next up on our policies as a whole host of personnel policies that are actually covered in the master agreements but we had separate policies some of which are in conflict with the master agreement so we need to make sure that we get rid of them and that is just what's in the master contract so that's the next project i just wanted to like update you guys on that and we're having membership all the boards are coming lively discussions that's got any questions about policies and policy direction i know it's a hot topic  did receive a follow up letter from this person and john howard dean was going to respond to that moment with a phone call the other issue that came up this week there was a discussion about cooking the cameras up in the high school again the hallways and the entrances and the feeling that after newtown connecticut that probably would be a good idea and it will be on next month's agenda we did put it out on the front porch for mike has he been collecting responses and while many people say they wish it didn't have to be there they understand what it would be fair so we will be meeting for a couple minutes before the next full board meeting to decide if we're going to bring that as a second that motion we are looking at but bob wanted to get our firm numbers for us so we can decide when we're going to go out for this peterson had sent me an email just asking if i received the information letter that came from the depor rosten library in underhill which is putting out a large bond to expand their facility so close question is do we need to be looking at getting our bond information out sooner so that people are going to be looking at all of that information in front of them and go from there  we had a presentation regarding solar proposals and based on the the s b a recommendations and the information and what was given to us there were a lot of questions and we decided to kind of hold off on that one that we needed more answers and we needed more information before we were going to the way the camera system was set up is that it's on a loop and i don't remember how long but the only time it's accessed is if there's an instant so in other words it video tapes over itself so i don't like thinking about the current situation that would get you there right but that's that that ability exists understand i mean i've had people middle schools we have cameras there because the entrances are funneled through a single point and at this point the doors were being updated for us river i believe audit that was being offered by a resident who was going to do camel's hump richmond elementary and smiley at no charge which was the right price  for us and at that point when we get that information back it will apply both middle school so i think at that point we'll have more to go on and decide where we want to go from there at this point that single entry coming through the offices does help there will be more anything else are there any additions or corrections she gets to the previous previous meeting hearing there will approve them is rare and the words they have the dharma i do it's a really nice amalgam because there's only one number missing from this six and no repeats so one million three four  and how many students do not get driver's ed prior to turning say seventeen and the idea i would we can get sixteen five seventeen can get driver's ed or the school year the concert really issue for some students is there may not be time in the schedule for it so that's the that's the the issue  forth as a sacrifice where as a saloon we had to cut it is that it is interesting course and there's no buses that run for it so parents have to get their students here on their own that time so it is a bit different in that way i don't think i have anything for this summer but i do have ideas about how maybe to make drivers at work and still have a student who has a full schedule but it will be for this little school year you know i don't personally view it as an educational but something offer by the same token because we are so dispersed geographically it is an educational tool that allows children or students delts who are happy to find employment to you're outside of the burlington south burlington new ski area so while it may not be an academic course per se it's a life skill or understand that i'm just saying against safety as i learned through drive the course things that my parents never would have thought to say like test your grades before you get off highway as if your brakes fail and the highway ramp isn't long enough to pump and even to be sick are just little things that i think driver's ed is a very valued thing of especially among student body it's something that keeps morale so high and we look at some of the safety things that are learned that might not be learned elsewhere and it's i believe it signifies the i think the differences none of us would doubt the driver said a wonderful class  teaches a valuable information invaluable information the fact is for thirty kids in the summer to spend that money right isn't the best investment it's going to be offered through the school no  having not been a part of this discussion before had we considered offering it to nonresidents for the supplement summonses that ever consider we've talked about it i'm i don't remember a suburb doing we have that done here we talked about is a relative to students who moved in the community whose families were residents discussion what's happening here and is perfectly legitimate what the parent is doing the parent is saying i see this is a particular need that ought to be met and a lot of us are responding by saying well is it a good deed is it not how might we do it but the problem is i think that misses the big picture the big picture is what we we're dealing with a spending item and this is a dollars and  we're making choices this is not in isolation and what happens in our budgeting process is that we set a series of priorities and we ask our administrator and them then we rigorously grill them it's not an easy process what are your prayer these do they really do they really make sense or are they stacked up correctly and then we figure out which ones we can meet and so it's in that context that you really i think as a board ought to be king spending decisions because if you just take any one thing in isolation and especially if you speak to a constituency that has a legitimate concern it seems great but you haven't compared it to the other parities now my recollection and i that asked the administrators if i'm mistaken in this there were several other priorities that were much higher than this that did not make our budget this year much higher than this and that's not to say this isn't worth it but i think we ought to be cautious when we have these discussions as a war to remember gotten the answers that's always the first step to seeing if something can be worked out yet said so the real question is then we get it we had a long discussion to explain to her that this is just going to run into some of the same you for it and she understood that you know it was really a question is there a way to go forward and i think you know the practical sort of question is if the board i don't think i can you know i feel bad i don't think i can solve this mom problem this year i think there's ways to address the issue without having drugs on the strivers and i think there's ways to look at the scheduling of driver's ed  so john you've done the right thing you brought it to the board we've discussed it look at the crazy answer but the answer was no any other announcements or other business we do not have a need for an executive session so