 Good evening. I'm calling to order the meeting of the Arlington School Committee on Thursday, June 23rd 2022. I'm next in the chair. I mean to confirm that all members and persons anticipated on the agenda are present and can hear me. I'm just going to do the people on on the zoom so this front a the a a rep is she not yet. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm and now we have some public coming. I think that's all that's on line. Okay. We're in person mostly tonight's meeting of the Arlington School Committee is being conducted in a hybrid model on February 15th 2022. Governor Baker signed into law a new session law extending certain COVID-19 related measures. The new law chapter 22 of the acts of 2022 includes an extension until July 15th 2022 of the remote meeting provisions of the governor's March 12 2020 executive order suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law. The governor's order which is referenced with agenda materials on the town's website for this meeting. Well, it's public bodies to meet entirely remotely so long as reasonable public access is afforded so that the public can follow along with the deliberations of the meeting. Before we begin permit me to offer a few notes. First, this meeting is being conducted by a zoom is being recorded and is also being simultaneously broadcast on a Cmi persons wishing to join the meeting by zoom may find information on how to do so on the town's website. Persons participating by zoom are reminded that they may be visible to others and that if you wish to participate you are asked to provide your full name in the interests of developing a record of the meeting. All participants are advised that people may be listening who do not provide comment and those persons are not required to identify themselves. But zoom participants and persons watching on a Cmi can follow the posted agenda materials also found on the town's website using the novice agenda platform. And all of the members are in person this evening so we do not have to take roll call votes for all of our votes this evening. Our before we get started with our first agenda item I just wanted to acknowledge that this is the last school committee meeting of the 21 22 school year and I want to say thank you and congratulations to Dr. Holman on completing her first year and Arlington public schools. I have a little. Well. So can you have our first year. So thank you. I was not expecting that. Thank you so much. It's been amazing first year and I'm I did not have any words prepared. So I don't have any at the moment besides to say it really has been an amazing year and I've gotten to know a lot about the Arlington community and I still have a whole lot to learn and I'm looking forward to that over the next several years. So I'm really grateful for all of your support and all of your support and the work of our students and for my incredible, incredible team because they really just go above and beyond every single day and support the work that we all want to do and that I've been really energized to do since I got here. So thank you. Thank you. All right. Our first agenda item this evening is recognition of National History Day competition winners and I will let Dr. Holman introduce them. All right. So always good to end the year with a little bit of celebration. I have been absolutely enjoying all all spring long. I think watching the progress of the National History Day students and the projects that they have been doing and they have progressed from doing exceptionally well at local competitions to doing exceptionally well at state competitions to now doing exceptionally well at a national competition. So their teacher, Mr. Levy is here to introduce them and they're going to tell you a little bit about the amazing projects that they did for the Nationals and I'll turn it over to you. This past year, Audison Middle School had their most successful year ever at the National Competition. National History Day is a year-long competition where students research a topic of their choice based off the theme. This year was debated in diplomacy and these students spend countless and endless hours researching and putting their projects together and unlike a lot of districts who participate at Audison, it's a club. So this is all outside of school hours. So now we'll hear from students why they decided to participate in History Day and why they picked their topics. So first will be Ruby and I think we mostly decided to do History Day because it sounded like an interesting and academic start to our middle school careers. The way we chose our topic was quite interesting. Looking at some of the example projects on the National History Day website, I saw one that particularly interested me about the AIDS crisis in New York and I thought that currently with the global pandemic going on, public health was an incredibly relevant issue and I look further into that and I discovered all of the diplomacy which fit with the theme that surrounded the polio epidemic that went on during the Cold War. And if there's anything you want to add to that, I think that would be great. Just one thing to add is the fact that it was mostly on a vaccine and how they work together to make a vaccine. And at the time, a polio vaccine had been crazy and new and everybody wanted to get it. While in the present day, we had people debating over the COVID vaccine. Our group chose to participate in the National History Day program because it allowed us the opportunity to explore our interests in history. In addition, we gained many valuable skills such as teamwork, website design and presentation of information. This year's topic, our group decided to explore U.S.-China relations because of the situation's volatility. And we decided to go back in history and see how it all began. Research into the subject led us to the topics of ping-pong diplomacy and Henry Kissinger's subsequent visit to China. We took a special interest in these topics because they were not born out of traditional diplomatic channels. So for the 2021 through 2022 National History Day year, we chose the topic of ping-pong diplomacy. Sersha and Ruby did a documentary on polio and they won the State Affiliate Award for Massachusetts, the first autism group to win that at nationals. And Harry, Josh and Ali got second place nationally for their website. Thank you very much to any committee members. Mr. Heiner. People often worry about the future. I don't. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Heiner. Mr. Schligman. Yeah, if you could point us to the website, I'd love to see this. I will send you, I will send you to the website, a link to the website and to the documentary so you can all see it. Great, love to see that. It's wonderful. Thank you all very much for being here. It's really exciting to have students in person at a school committee meeting again. So we appreciate you attending and congratulations to all of you. Thank you. Moving on to public participation. For members of the public who wish to address the committee, there will be 20 minutes of public comment depending on the number of people who sign up. Time allotments may be reduced but will not exceed three minutes each. I will be timing the speakers and give you a signal when you have 30 seconds left. If the number of people who sign up exceeds what can be done in 20 minutes, the number of speakers may be capped and will be invited to speak based on the time stamp of their email to Ms. Diggins. The school committee respectfully requests participants of the public to utilize their camera if possible while speaking and to adhere to the public comment policy BEDH that requires participants to provide their name and address. Speakers may offer such objective criticisms of the school operations and programs as concern them. But in public session, the committee will not hear personal complaints about school personnel nor against any member of the school community, except for the school committee or the superintendent in their capacity as the operational leader of the Arlington Public Schools. The public is reminded that the school committee does not hold jurisdiction over the performance of school personnel other than the superintendent. Additionally, the committee will not hear anything that might identify and or infringe upon a student's privacy by name or incident. Our first public comment this evening is Angela Cristiana. Is she on her. Good evening. Thank you to the Arlington School Committee administrators and others who are here this evening. My name is Angela Cristiana and I resided 82 Ridge Street. I'm here tonight to request that the school committee pass a secure storage notification resolution to raise awareness in our community to help keep children and teens safe from gun violence. The resolution has the support of Chief Flaherty, Director Bungiorno and Superintendent Holman. I'm joined by my colleague who will also give public testimony tonight. We are volunteers with mom's demand action for gun sense in America, a nonpartisan grassroots organization that works to prevent gun violence in communities across the country and we are Arlington residents and parents. We all know that there's a gun violence epidemic in the U.S. but we want to share some information tonight to give a clear picture of how this affects our youth and something we can do to help keep them safer. According to CDC data as of 2021 firearms are sadly now the leading cause of death for children and teens in the U.S. surpassing motor vehicle crashes and cancer. More than 1800 children under the age of 18 are killed with guns every year. An average of 5 children every day. If we include statistics for 18 and 19 year olds, the number doubles. This includes homicide, suicide and unintentional shootings. In addition to deaths, 6,000 children suffer gun injuries every year. Teens are particularly at risk for suicide and the rate among young people is at a record high. 10 to 24 year olds have the fastest growing firearm suicide rates of any age group. Firearms suicide makes up nearly half of suicides among young people. And over 80% of children who died by gun suicide use a gun accessible to them from their own home or that of a family member. When it comes to school shootings, 78% of perpetrators under the age of 18 obtained their guns from their home or the homes of relatives or friends where they were unsecured. We have all been horrified too many times by school shootings and Massachusetts and Arlington are not immune. We know that in the U.S. 4.6 million children live in homes with at least one loaded unlocked firearm. In 2020 and 21 there was an unprecedented surge in firearm sales both nationally and in our state. The increase in firearm sales translate to an in translates to an increased risk when firearms are not securely stored and kept out of the hands of children and teens. School districts can help to normalize the conversation around gun safety and add their important voice to other community advocates by actively educating parents and caregivers about how secure firearm storage can save lives. We encourage you to pass this common sense resolution for the safety of our schools and families. Thank you. Thank you. Can we see can we have speaker going forward? Okay. Can you switch that one to just the speaker view? No. The one that we're the big one we're staring at is we don't need to see ourselves. We know what we look like. All both of them. I can't I didn't even see her on the TV one. So our next speaker. So Laura Giddelson will be our next public comment. So if you want to just come off mute and then I think I'm off mute now. Correct? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. My name is Laura Giddelson and I live in precinct 17. I am the parent of a first grader and incoming kindergartener at the Pierce School. I am speaking tonight to urge the school committee to pass the safe storage resolution. There is no one solution to reducing gun violence, but there are many evidence-based solutions. Raising public awareness about the importance of secure firearm storage is one of these solutions. Secure storage practices are promoted by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, National PTA, and many other organizations and they are codified in our Massachusetts state laws. I was so glad to recently learn of measures above and beyond those mandated by the Commonwealth that the Arlington Police Department takes to educate recipients of firearm licenses about their safe storage obligations. Asking our schools to do what they are best positioned to do, educate parents and caregivers is an important next step. Massachusetts has enacted strict safe storage laws including measures addressing child access prevention. Massachusetts schools have already undertaken many measures to increase student safety, including informing their communities about threats and or relevant gun violence related issues and putting additional security in place if warranted. Some schools have implemented threat assessment programs, hardened physical infrastructure, adopted the Sandy Hook Promise Know the Science programs, and or chosen to implement Alice training. However, something simple is missing. Schools should also proactively inform their communities about the critical importance of secure firearm storage and current Massachusetts safe storage law. Schools care about and have a vested interest in all aspects of student safety. Raising awareness about the life-saving effects of secure firearm storage should be included in their safety messaging just like messaging on substance abuse, internet safety, fire safety, and more. According to Everytown, over 2 million K through 12 students nationwide now attend schools with firearm storage awareness policies in place. These policies demonstrate school district's commitment to raising awareness about the life-saving effects of secure storage practices. Secure storage notification resolutions provide a framework for implementation, are proactive evidence-based, entail no cost, promote a simple but wide-reaching message, empower the public, and do not create extra work for teachers. Moving forward with safe storage education through the schools is the first step in a broader community-wide effort where we hope to work with both Chief Larrity and Director Bonjorno to further this message. The Plymouth School District was the first one in Massachusetts to adopt a secure storage notification resolution in May of 2021. Most recently, the Newburyport School District has adopted one as well. I urge the school committee to vote yes on the resolution and show that Arlington is the leader we all know it to be. Thank you. Thank you. Karen Ter was next. I don't know if she's on. Okay. Michelle Lambert. Hi, good evening. Can you hear me okay? Yes, we can. Great. My name is Michelle Lambert. I live at 176 Brattle Street, and I have two kids in the Arlington Public Schools. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak this evening. I'm here tonight to speak in support of continuing the overnight science camp experience. My daughter attended science camp two and a half years ago, right before the pandemic shut down in her fifth grade year at Stratton. And she will tell you that it was her absolute favorite experience from all of her elementary school years. And as her parents, we saw this incredible leap forward in her self-confidence, her independence, and her connection to her peers after having this experience of spending several days and nights away at overnight science camp. It truly has been one of the most valuable experiences that she has had so far in terms of her social connections and her emotional growth, as well as these memories that she's made with her peers for a lifetime. So, as we're all very well aware, kids in all grades have missed out on so many opportunities over the past two and a half years. They've missed so many in-person opportunities to build connections with their peers. There have been so many missed field trips, in-classroom presentations, group projects, science fairs, school concerts, and school celebrations. I think that science camp deserves a full study of the possibilities for continuing it in the future, despite the camp that Arlington Public Schools has gone to for a number of years, that Jones camp now being closed permanently. I wrote an email to you a couple of weeks ago where I outlined some ideas and suggestions for alternative camps and for ways that we can continue this overnight camp experience, while also addressing some of the challenges that existed prior. I know that there were a number of challenges, including a few financial equity access for all children to be able to attend and staffing challenges. But I do believe that Arlington is a creative and dedicated community, and that we can work to problem solve these challenges if the experience is important enough to us as a community. So, I just wanted to point out also that there are no other experiences like this in any other years in the Arlington Public Schools that offer this opportunity for students across the district to attend an overnight multi-day immersive experience. There are other trips that are available for like select sports groups or select music groups, but nothing else like this that is open to all kids across the district. We have this opportunity right now that we can ensure something incredibly valuable and important to so many of the families across the district and make sure that it doesn't just fall by the wayside because of COVID. So, I would ask that you give it a full and thorough study to identify some alternate camp options and determine ways that we can give this experience back to our kids for the future. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Our next item are possible votes to approve a number of memorandums of agreement. We'll start with AEA unit. Liz, yeah, sorry. Oh, I think there are people that signed up here. Okay. Miss. A former member of the school committee please. We show a little difference. I'm going to let her speak, but I just, we need to have a conversation because our agenda right now says that people need to sign up regardless of whether it's in person or on Zoom by 12 o'clock with Ms. Diggins. Oh, I didn't know that. So, want a motion to suspend the rules? Second. All in favor? All right. Yes. Opposed? Okay. Now you're going to have as long as you want. Thank you. I guess I wasn't paying attention. You're testing my skills as the chair. Finding the way we used to, you know. Yeah, used to be. Yeah, I get that. So it's great to see everyone. It's actually great to see the hybrid meeting schedule and I'm looking forward to talking to you guys about how that's been. I'm here today to talk to you about something else. So I, something that I felt I couldn't bring to the school committee when my children were in school. In my six years on the school committee, I had many parents come to me who are upset about a disciplinary action that was taken against, you know, to their kid. Sometimes it was about the consequence, usually suspension, and sometimes it was about language that was used or ways that things were framed. What it left me with, and I obviously do not know the details of any of these cases, nor should I have ever, you know, that's not, that wasn't something I should do. But what left me with is a feeling that I wasn't sure the purpose that was being given for these disciplinary actions. You know, I didn't, I didn't get a sense of it. What I heard from the parents is a lot of use of the term restorative justice, but not connected to at least my understanding of that term. And just sort of a real sense of, you know, so if, for example, a kid is, is drugs or alcohol is involved, there's usually suspension and there's question, so why is there suspension? What are we trying to do with that? What is, what is the goal of that? What is it doing for that individual kid? What is it doing for our community? Just sort of, again, not privy to the inner workings of either the administration decisions or the particular cases. I just was never sure what the purpose of these disciplinary actions and whether there was sort of any sense of, of, of direction that things were going in. So I would urge the school committee, I would love for you guys to take this up to sort of look in greater detail about the kinds of suspensions, the kinds of disciplinary actions are being given to students and, and sort of really probe what, what the purpose is of those actions. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you for indulging. Thank you. Thank you, Jen. Yes, that's our hander. I just follow up with you, I'd like the chair to find some way to communicate with the entire community about how this policy works. So we're not caught in a position like this again, because we do have the sign up there. Mr. So he wrote the policy, you can change it as, and okay, so it's not a policy of the school committee. Okay. That was language that he put in place. Okay. And so it was, or you did. Okay. So with a hybrid meeting, I think it would be appropriate to go back to the hybrid. Okay. Thank you. All right. There's not a, no, no, no, it's all right. Somebody wrote it. It's not a policy. I mean, it doesn't read to me that, that you have to sign up and like it doesn't specify, it doesn't, it doesn't specify that if you're in person that you can't sign up. I don't know. Anyway, I, I, as somebody who in, in many years decided to show up to a school committee meeting at about 605 when I was driving down Mass Ave. And I thought, you know, they needed to, to hear my thoughts pulled over and came on up and wrote my name on the list. I, I definitely want people to be able to show up and speak in person. So this is something that I was thinking about. So I, it's good to hear that it's not something that we have to put through policy. Okay. I guess whatever way we go, make it clear to the community. That's all. These MOAs. So let's start with the AEA unit D, our paraprofessional unit. So Mr. Cardin and I worked on that negotiating committee and Ms. Keys, I understand that unit D ratified that agreement. And so before, before we take a motion, I just want to say thank you to Ms. Keys and the other members of the negotiating committee for working with us. We're very excited to have come to an agreement and continuing to support our paraprofessionals in the incredibly important work that they do for our students and for our schools. Any one more? Mr. Heiner. Move to approve the AEA unit D contract and authorize the chair to sign. Second. Motion by Mr. Heiner. Second by Mr. Schlickman. Do I, I don't have to do a roll call for this. Well, any discussion? Yes. Thank you. Any discussion? I'll just add my thanks to the negotiating committee and both the administrative team as well that was on that committee. We were able to adjust the salaries of our lowest paraprofessionals significantly. So hopefully that will help us in the market and also help our existing employees with inflation and everything that's going on. But unfortunately, you know, as with inflation and everything going on, we also have a constrained budget. So we can't quite do what everything we want to do. But we did strike a reasonable balance and I'm thankful for everyone. Thanks. All in favor of approving the AEA unit D contract? Aye. Aye. Opposed? All right. It's unanimous. The traffic supervisors, MOA. Somebody want to speak to Mr. Schlickman. Traffic supervisors contract. Mr. Schlickman raised his thanks. I'm sorry. Okay. You know, I'm just trying to move things along. Move to approve the traffic supervisors MOA and authorize the chair to sign on our behalf. Second. Any discussion? Mr. Schlickman? I mean, I was involved in a couple of these negotiations and I just want to be thankful to the people who not only on our side who were really resourceful. Mr. Mason is a genius with Excel spreadsheets. Mr. Spiegel's got a real great sense of working with the folks who work with us and there's a good relationship. This is a foundation of this, which made it all work. Plus the people who are on the other side of the table were just reasonable, thoughtful. And we understood each other's position and it was a pleasure to work with them. I we're blessed with some really great people in this district. All in favor of the traffic supervisors contract? Aye. Yes. Aye. Aye. Opposed? It's unanimous. The bus drivers. Does anybody want to speak? I move approval of the MOA for the bus drivers and authorize the chair to sign on our behalf. Second. Any discussion? We appreciate working with the bus driver in that contract as well and appreciate Mr. Spiegel and Mr. Mason's work on that. All in favor of approving the contract? Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? It's unanimous. And finally the AAA, the administrative, no excuse me, the, it is administrators, administrators, like unit, which Ms. Kiesem, that was also, that hasn't. Okay. No. Oh, but it was, but it was about it. Yes. Okay. All right. Sorry. Thank you. Just want to make, well, I want to make sure it was ratified before we, okay. All right. Emotion. Mr. Sikman. I move approval and authorize the chair to sign on our behalf. Second. Discussion. Mr. Sikman. Yeah. I was on the comparable union side of the table when I worked in law and it gives me even greater appreciation for the work our AAA folks do and the professionalism that they brought to the table. There was never a time when I didn't think that what they were looking to do was in the best interest of kids in the district, a real professional group. Anybody else? All in favor of approving the AAA MOA? Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? It's unanimous. Next, we have a professional development summary from Dr. McNeil. Thank you very much. So I want to preface that this report spans from last summer as we came out of the pandemic and spans this whole school year. So all the things that you'll see within this report will include just a high level view, some highlights of different things that were part of our curriculum planning and professional development as well as some of the professional development we did when Dr. Holman came into the district at our all administrative meetings. So as you can see here, just some of the objectives for what I'm going to talk about. I kind of already stated highlights from the summer planning PD from last summer and the PD completed throughout the year. And then I'll open it up for comments or questions. So again, looking at a high level view, some of the objectives for our curriculum instruction from last year coming out of the pandemic was definitely to focus on developing a strong Tier 1 universal instructional program for each content area which included looking at assessments looking at digital and instructional resources that we adopted for during the pandemic in order to facilitate remote instruction and also to provide access for all of our students and updating various curriculum and instructional units based upon the experiences that we had during the pandemic which included really narrowing down our focus and including those essential standards in each one of the content areas and understanding what students missed during the pandemic and being able to make sure that we accounted for that as we move forward. So I'm just going to start off by each content area and pick one thing to highlight. Looking at the digital learning and library, they created and updated tutorial decks for teachers, especially around Pear Deck which was a online resource that teachers utilized for remote instruction that they continued to use when they came back into in-person learning. Looking at the Google suite of apps that we have, we definitely maximized Google classroom and introduced teachers who had never used it before during the pandemic. So we continued that type of tutorial. So again, teachers could utilize and access that throughout the year and then looking at Screencastify, which is another online tool that teachers adopted for online learning. Looking at our ELA in English, I just, you know, I don't want to be redundant and repeat this, but we did a lot of work around the early literacy, adding kindergarten third grade foundations curriculum provided PD on the use of decodable text and we updated the progress report to align with our standards. Looking at history and social studies, you know, made adjustments to prepare for in-person learning. We piloted a fifth grade common assessment that looked at the type of writing that is needed for students and historical thinking. You know, some of the other units that we updated at the high school, we added units on Afghanistan, Haiti, and Zimbabwe, and then to 10th grade US History 1, we focused out of the unit that focused on race in North America and Indigenous history. So those are some of the curriculum updates that occurred. Looking at math, one thing I want to highlight is that Director Coleman worked with special education staff to add a special education course and quantitative reasoning, which is a senior level math course for sub-separate students. So I'm really proud of that. Nursing, you know, again coming out of the pandemic, they worked on COVID-19 recovery planning. As you can see throughout the year or experience throughout this past year, we had many of the updates to, you know, we updated the policies to make sure it was in line with what was happening. So looking at the masking and the testing, the pool testing program, performing arts, the artists of the month, they updated those units to include composers and music from diverse cultures, science. One thing I want to highlight is that they created a unit in seventh grade on natural disasters and Director Dr. Hoyle worked with the ELL teacher in seventh grade to create that unit. And then I'm highlighting it there. And then visual arts, we continue to work on implementing the teaching for artistic for behavior format of instruction, which gives more choice and voice to students. Wellness, we updated our human growth and development curriculum to make it more inclusive, less binary. So thinking of the non-binary students we have in our district in order to make sure that they felt included. And then world language, we provide a curriculum for level one and level two classes. Moving toward highlights for the year, as you see up there, all administrators. We worked on certain topics and this was during our all this administrative meetings, working on building trust, developing instructional leadership teams at the building level. We just had our last session that we were together was an all day experience where we had administrators, coaches, teachers that were being recognized or had been recruited to be on these instructional leadership teams. We all convened and we had a wonderful day that was led by Jill Berg, who was an expert or a consultant that we've been working with on instructional leadership. And we look forward to continue that work next year in implementing instructional leadership teams throughout the district so we can have that distributed distributed leadership model so that we can include more teacher voice and also provide build more capacity at the building level for leadership experiences for our teachers. And then we explore equitable teaching practices and the vehicle that we used to do that were our instructional rounds and learning walks. We utilized various items or topics from the school improvement plans that each one of the building principals worked to create and they presented to the school committee and so the building principal really led that work where they identified something that they wanted the each one of the administrators to focus on as we did our learning walk and then we would debrief afterwards and then we would have the principal talk about that and those were very well received because it was a focus on instruction and it got us out to see the different buildings and what was going on in each one of the buildings and gave us a global perspective of what was going on within the district. So I look forward to doing that again. We will continue that work during our all administrative meetings next year and even expanded even more and within my department as we're going to have more learning walks between curriculum leaders and principals. And then looking at the curriculum leaders. These are the meetings that I run. We focused on learning about the universal divine design for learning guidelines. We focused on social emotional learning topics such as ruler which is the secondary explicit curriculum that we're rolling out for grades 6 to 12. And then looking at the social emotional learning indicator system looking at the type of data that we can utilize from that particular assessment in order to inform our instruction. And then at the K5 level I would like to highlight that we piloted choice based PD sessions which was very which were very well received from our teachers during this time the last I think 4 or 5 sessions of during the early release schedule teachers got to choose from a list of different sessions that were led by our coaches and our director of the diversity equity and inclusion. We also had a session on digital learning tools and the teachers really enjoyed that we have feedback forms and they also should suggest the topics that we should explore going into next year and we can use this information is data in order to inform us as we go into next year because we have worked doctor home and I have worked together to make sure that we can have a district wide choice based PD so we will look at the data that we collected for that and inform how we're going to move forward as well as I look at the different topics that teachers are interested in exploring as they make so that it's relevant to what they're doing every day within the classroom. And then looking at the social emotional learning. Looking at second step. The teachers were oriented and receive training on implementing that is again that's explicit curriculum that we rolled out at the elementary level and we have to continue the training on implementing that resource and then we worked on or provided opportunities for K through 12 staff to get trained in mental health first day for youth and adults and then looking at 6 to 12. Some of the topics that were explored of this past year were equitable grading practices and heterogeneous courses as you as you can also remember that we had a study group of that included parents and teachers and you voted on us to have to explore that pilot for 9th grade English going into next year so that work will continue this summer. Director Perry will have a one week where she will work with teachers administrators in order to explore different pedagogy and instructional practice in order to support that heterogeneous object objective. And then I'll open up for questions and comments. Questions and answers or questions and comments. Thank you. Absolutely. Thank you for recognizing that. Thanks. Yeah, thank you for all the hard work. Just 2 suggestions. One is I know last fall was sort of chaos reopening but next fall would be great to do a report to the public and one of the superintendent's newsletters about all your accomplishments. A lot of great work that you did that people aren't realizing it got done last summer. Okay, so it would be great to promote what you do fresh in the fall. I'm sure you have a full plate for this summer. And then the second question, second request actually for the chair. I was just looking up. So this presentation reminded me about ruler and the new cellist tool and my request to hear more about our K to 12 social emotional learning approach. But I saw that it's not on the agenda till next June. So maybe we can find an earlier time to do that. I also want to say thank you. This is a lot that's going on and as you're presenting one of the things that I was thinking about was you know how many teachers are are participating if it's not during that that early release time and then when you talked about that and having a choice-based. I hope that that leads to sort of an increase in engagement and increase in an investment just knowing from the feedback from Dr. Homan's listening sessions around PD and our vision and mission statements and all of the strategic priorities, just that interest in staff feeling like the professional development is what they're looking for and relevant to them and it sounds like from what you shared that that's the direction that you're going. So I appreciate it. Absolutely. That's definitely the direction we're moving towards. An update on K to 5 literacy working group also Dr. Yes and I have a procedural question on this as before when I presented on our updates around our literacy program. I had to and Mister card pointed out that I have to request to submit this to the school committee is it is this part of that or is this just I give the report and then you make a motion to accept it because it is talking about a new curriculum resource. So is this part of this. I don't know if I'm confusing people but procedurally I just want to make sure I'm doing the right thing. So I begin because it was procedurally would be up to you can present and then it would be a motion to receive from one of us. Okay, but what I so sort of the long term picture because this is a process that you're going through is that during the next school year while you're I'm exploring this more and making decisions the CIA committee would receive updates from you on the process and the feedback and making a decision and then make a recommendation to the full committee to miss Morgan does that we wouldn't we don't need to adopt it until like I'm assuming you don't have a proposal for us tonight. No, no, right. So I feel like we would have gotten lots of indicators that that definitely would have. This feels to me like I'm excellent like this is what's going to happen. Previous like right, right. Okay, perfect. Okay, so this spring we I worked with Dr. Homan, Ms. Elmer and other and Ms. Perry director Perry of K-12 ELA in English and we put together a process in order to create a literacy core team and we talked about it. We also included other administrators. So we spent a lot of time meeting and talking about this and planning. And so this is this is a report that's going to show the progress that has occurred since we put created the team and it would also talk about the process of how we selected members for the literacy core team. And so we had 4 meetings this spring. So the objectives for this presentation is to update on the work completed by the literacy core team. And it will definitely cover the selection of the team, the meeting topics that were part of the each one of the agendas when we when we did meet and we're going to talk about also next steps. And I review, if we remember in my last presentation on the literacy program, we talked about we presented a timeline of things that we want to accomplish in the milestones. And so we will definitely review that as well. And then I will I have a list of the team members that are also embedded in the slide that then I'll open up for questions. So the selection process, the goal was to create a diverse team of members who have different levels of experience, knowledge and roles in the district. So we want to make sure that we had a diversity of voice and opinions applications were sent out to staff members and any staff member who was interested responded. We had a question that they a couple of questions that they answered and then we utilize that in order to review who will be selected for the core team. And the members include building and district administrators, coaches, classroom EL reading and special education teachers. So the overall goal for the spring meetings was create and agreed upon vision for an effective K-5 literacy program. So I want to also emphasize that we're not just looking at adopting a core literacy resource because we understand that that also we have to look at our instructional practice and make sure that it's updated and that we're using current research research in order to drive what we're doing within the classroom. So we're able to respond to the different needs of our students. So some of the essential questions that we pose going into this is what do we need to change? What do we need to keep? What is the data telling us and what is the research we need to include in this process? And what process will we follow for assessing possible programs? So the first meeting occurred on May 10th. I tried to make sure and I worked with again Ms. Elmer and Director Perry as we talked about what would be included as the agenda topics and what the objective for each meeting would be. And so you can just see here is a couple of the highlights of where these are the objectives or for each one of the meetings. Of course, for the first meeting we did some team building activities where people got to know each other. And then we also wanted to get perception data for what was going on for how people are viewing our current literacy program. So we had to establish a mission and purpose for why we were meeting and we view perspectives about our current literacy program. And so we also included so we met as an all administrative group that included curriculum leaders, building principals, and we did a chalk talk. We talked about our perceptions and we had various prompts that each one of those members responded to. We collected all those responses during the chalk talk, which is an excellent protocol to make sure you are getting everybody's voice. And then I replicated that activity with the literacy core team and then we took all those responses and we narrowed them down to various themes for each one of the prompts that we provided for the chalk talk. And so we were trying to again slowly come to a consensus of what are the things that we need to make sure that our next literacy core program has some examples like make sure it's evidence-based make sure that it's provides a diversity of materials where our students can see themselves in the instructional materials make sure that's promoting a joy for reading and learning. And so and also providing direction for teachers and how to implement the program. So we had that we and so that was the purpose for that meeting and we came out of it you know with some things that we know that we needed to include as we went forward to select our next literacy core program. And then on May 17th we met again and we also want to indicate that we partner and are now partnering with the Hill for Literacy who also works with the state and the executive directors. I'm working directly with the executive director Darcy Burns and I recruited her to come in and to give us all the members because not every member on that literacy core team is a literacy teacher. So they are coming from different backgrounds. So we wanted to have a some understanding of what the science of reading is so she came in and provided an overview of what the science of reading is and how it how we need and how we can include those principles into our instruction. And then we had our kindergarten the second grade literacy coaches present to the team so they can give an overview of all the things all the updates that we've done. So they can understand where we're starting from so that went very well and so now we're still shape we're shaping a picture of what our literacy program where we are right now and what we need to do to move forward. And so on June 7th we met again. The meeting objective this time was to provide 4th and 5th grade updates and we had a literacy coach present and then we dealt into some of the data that we've collected throughout the past year which included our impasse data so we looked at district data we looked at item analysis and you know we broke up into various groups and so one group had to go through first grade. Another group had we didn't have any to be honest with you didn't have the second grade data because that was our doubles we had to add the subtests to our doubles assessments in order to get a composite score so we now have that going into the summer and I'm going to be able to analyze all of that doubles data over the summer. So we didn't have the second grade data that we wanted at that time we had 3rd, 4th and 5th we use the impasse we did item analysis we broke into separate groups and each one of the teams used a protocol to to review the data. So you know looking at the perception data understanding what we need to include and then looking at where we are and how our students are currently performing so again we're shaping that picture everybody's getting an understanding of what we need to do and what we need to focus on moving forward. And so on June 16th we met again. And this was our last meeting for the year and we had again I called in recruited Darcy burns the executive director of Hill for literacy and she came in and gave an overview of what the process includes in order to assess various literacy programs and it's quite an undertaking and she shared a couple of models that we could utilize and I've already you know come to back to home and to talk about what model I would like to use which in which is including all of our teachers and personnel and parents to have an opportunity to review the literacy programs and we would narrow it down over the summer to maybe 3 or 4 and so and we also create a timeline so what that's going to look like for the part from September to February the process will take in order for everyone to have an opportunity to to review the literacy programs that work that we're thinking about and I can get more into the details of what that process looks like in September as we unveil the timeline we can also present the the finalist if you will the 3 or 4 literacy programs that we're going to consider and I'm going to ask miss Elmner if she wants to add anything to anything I've just said because she's been a thought partner or as well as director Perry did you have anything to add no I think that folks are excited to engage in this work I think having a representative group of both special educators general educators other content area leaders so not just ELA but our science director and those team members is going to make for a well-rounded process and we look forward to community engagement in the process as well and we look forward to it's certainly something our department has been eager to engage in absolutely so going back and reviewing the timeline we're exactly where we're supposed to be we are ready to start reviewing various programs in September and our goal for me is to meet with miss Burns and miss Elmner and miss Perry over the summer so that we can develop that timeline and we can start to narrow down the the list of programs that we want to review down to 3 or 4 so we can hit the ground running in September. So and I just show here that there might be a slight adjustment there as it relates to the review of different programs and like I said it probably is going to go from September the 4th February and then we will also also want to say state that we're going to intertwine you know that more science of reading PD and really look again intertwining the professional development that teachers will need in order to implement the literacy program because we want to make sure that when we come out of this we are all on the same page as what is best practice what we need to do and and what is the best way to do the implementation so we'll be looking at scheduling looking at our literacy blocks and see what needs to be adjusted to make sure that we're focusing on all the right things and we have all the components are ready to go once we adopt the new literacy program and then we'll also talk about the implementation of it like what grace we're going to start with because we won't we won't be able to do this K through 5 will have to start in various components so we'll maybe start with grace 4 and 5 because we already done a lot of work around the early literacy and by then teachers will probably be very well versed in all the things that we've already introduced and we'll be ready to go. You know kindergarten through 3rd grade and then we'll parse it out to make sure that it said that it that we're doing this very strategic and that teachers are able to they won't feel overwhelmed and then this is the last couple of slides are just who's on the literacy core team and as you can see it's a diverse. It's an array of different people from different roles. So they have different perspectives. I will now open it up for questions. Mister Heiner like to commend you and the team of the home and having not only literacy people but special education in the LL programs have seen in the past don't include them and the program that accepted has to be adjusted or developed or those people those constituents end up having to fit in it doesn't always work. I thought you for doing that up front and getting it done the right way. Thank you very much and I just want to add to that point at our last meeting we also had a LL director and the LL teacher that's on our literacy core team. They also gave a presentation as to what our LL students need so that we can take that in consideration as we're selecting the next literacy core program. Miss Morgan can you talk a little bit more about how the team I know that you gave us the team and it sounds like you collected application. For me it it it feels pretty in administrator heavy as a group just I would have thought I would have expected more case we probably gen ed teachers. So I'm just curious was it just that they didn't apply or like I guess I without being specific obviously. Like I guess what sort of percentage of applicants ended up being put on this I would have to go back and we look at the spreadsheet because we created a spreadsheet for all the people that did apply. But I will say this I wanted to make sure that we had you know maybe one or 2 people from each area and that we did have early elementary we had upper elementary and that all of the buildings were represented. So and again it is based upon who applied as well so you know this again was a very tough year for some teachers and you know coming out of the pandemic we were still in a pandemic be honest with you so you know it's based upon who applied and then how we felt and then we also want to make sure that the team wasn't too big want to make sure it was manageable. So all those considerations went into evaluating and assessing who applied their answers and you know what making sure that we had a diversity of different you know roles and experiences so that's that's probably the best way I can repeat right I mean I repeat but say right now about the process. But I would have to go back and look at the spreadsheet in order to the percentages of who actually applied. OK you're on the horizon indicates that fall 2023 would be full of implementation feels ambitious. So there's really going to be a lot of and they say fall fall 2023 it says full full implementation fall 2023 that red box in the on the horizon. That's an adjustment. Yeah. Right. Yes we're going to make it slow. OK. Yeah I felt ambitious. Right. Right. My only other question is I guess we don't know where we're going with this and what kind of program we which program would be choosing. But I'm anticipating a difficult year. So if we if we are apprised as we're going along of what budgetary implementations might be before us because an implementation of a new program usually involves buying a bunch of new material as well. But that definitely will be taken in consideration. I've already had a conversation with Darcy Burns reason why did select the Hill for literacy is because they've done this with other districts and they've done this and they've helped they've also like look at the different rubrics that you use in order to evaluate and assess a literacy program and they've made adjustments and they've looked at various ones and they've combined and made their own so they've taken you know and they've taken in consideration teacher feedback that they've received when they've done this in the past. So I think that one of the things that she did mention is that most of the literacy programs are around the same price point. So I could come to Dr. Holman as we narrow it down to 3 or 4 and say here's an average of what the cost may be so that we can consider that. And so I don't I don't give Mr. Mason a hard sack as we start to talk about future budgeting things that will need resources that will need for instruction. You sat with us through all these budget things absolutely way so you know what our schedule is absolutely. That's why I would be able to come to the school committee and first to Dr. Holman and say here's an average of what it might include it which may some variance in cost depending on what we finally land on in February. But I think that we would have a good idea. It wouldn't be you know such a dramatic change if we were to suggest one and from the average that we're able to put together from the 3 or 4 that we select for those are doing the right thing and we know what the impact is going to be that that's that seems reasonable and also will like I said before we like we're not going to do all at once so will maybe do grades 4 and 5 and so you buy the resources. If those implemented and then move on and look at the other grades and then purchase the materials as you move as you go forward. Thank you. Just to return to this patient we had 4 administrators of the 24 people who are on that team. And 12 folks who were not accepted into the group who had applied. We really had tried to cap at 20 and we ended up adding a few more in there were a lot of coaches on there that's at least in part because they have to help us roll it out. And have been sort of at the center of a lot of our conversations around this a lot of letters we we included almost all literacy coaches who we did but we're also really trying to make sure that we represented some of the constituents on the outer you know in outer roles support the kids we did also not include some teachers reading specialist and a few classroom teachers. But I just want to emphasize the process that works that I'm leading tours that I have presented doctor home and includes everybody. So you know it includes setting up vertical teams at each school. And so we would go to that publisher the different publishers make the final list of 3 or 4 we get those materials we set it up in an area in the room and then we would go to the principles and they would create vertical teams. And so every teacher would have an opportunity to use the rubric that we're going to use to evaluate the literacy program and then we would collect we would do different rounds so we would do one round with one resource collect the data and then the steering team would collect the data and be able to look to see and look at the scoring of it and understand like how each one of the resources. You know is faring against each other and matching the rubric and the things that we know that we need to include as we move forward. The things that we're going over right now say we want to make sure that it has this and so every teacher in this particular model would be included and have an opportunity to assess the literacy core program that we would eventually select for the district. That's really somebody I I do a lot of learning resource selection as part of my job and I know that the hardest thing is at the end of the day none of them are actually what you really really like that they're all like you know they're they're all various shades of like good to acceptable and the hardest thing at the end of the day is to make that decision where you're like well this gives me like a lot of what I want. So I I I'm very empathetic. But the process sounds sounds good. So right so that the literacy core team really works as a steering committee. Right and not necessarily it exclusive a selection committee. I shared some similar concerns just about the representation of classroom general education classroom teachers on the steering committee just in the sense that this is looking for a a core curriculum that general education teachers are going to be expected to deliver. I do feel better about it hearing that it will be presented to every to everyone which leads me to just add that I continue to appreciate the weekly early dismissal time force teachers to have these kinds of opportunities because when these things happen after school even you know with the workshop. Right. There's less you know you don't get every single teacher participating and so when it's built into when the professional development is built into the day you get input from everybody. So I just wanted to add that as a benefit for our schedule to thank you. So now we are going to move on to our second read and possible vote to approve the vision vision mission statement vision statement and some strategic strategic priorities. Dr. Howman I'm excited to be able to share what I think is a final version of a new vision mission for new strategic priorities for the district. This is the foundation of what will become a 5-year strategic plan. And I'm so grateful to the community members who helped us come up with initial drafts of these and to the school committee for helping us get them to where they are at now through a lot of really rich conversation. So with no further ado just a quick reminder on timeline that right now we're at June 2022 right where we were hoping we would be finalizing vision and mission statements possibly strategic priorities was on the timeline and I'm hopeful that it won't be just possibly tonight and then over the summer we're going to have an into the fall have some community dialogues to start unpacking and processing the final statements. We are slated to start doing that with the administrative team on Monday of next week. We will start drafting some action steps and then in the fall and into into the winter we will establish a process for drafting and gathering feedback on the 5-year action steps and hope for final approval and beginning implementation of the strategic plan in January. So I'm going to read through these statements because I think they're worth hearing out loud. So our new vision statement if the school committee approves it would be that the vision of the Arlington public schools is to be an equitable educational community where all learners feel a sense of belonging experience growth and joy and are empowered to shape their own futures and contribute to a better world. Our new mission statement would be that the Arlington public schools focuses on the whole child to create inclusive and innovative learning opportunities for all students values diverse identities and ways of learning prepares all staff to maintain high expectations while providing necessary supports and sustains collaborative partnerships with families and the community. Strategic priority one is focused on ensuring equity and excellence and it reads that the Arlington public schools will ensure equity excellence and access to rigorous learning experiences for all students. All graduates will be prepared to achieve their choices of post secondary education career and community contribution. Strategic priority to is focused on valuing all staff. It reads that the Arlington public schools will recruit and retain an excellent and diverse workforce by creating a collaborative and supportive culture for all staff providing high quality and relevant professional development. Expanding opportunities for leadership and shared decision-making and prioritizing representation diverse perspectives and expertise. Strategic priority 3 is focused on improving infrastructure operations and sustainability. It reads the Arlington public schools will maintain a system of schools that is safe while maintained sustainable and physically responsible with the appropriate tools and resources to support educational practices and an optimum teaching and learning environment. And strategic priority 4 is focused on sustaining collaborative partnerships. It reads that the Arlington public schools will partner collaboratively with families in meeting the educational needs of all students. Facilitate consistent to a communication and provide timely transparent relevant and accessible information to all stakeholders. Unless the committee feels differently we can take this all as one. So I I'll entertain a motion to approve and then we can have a discussion of people. Just be more precise to approve the mission statement vision statement and the 4th teacher priorities. So we have a motion by Mr. Cardin to approve the vision statement the mission statement and the 4th strategic priorities second by Mr. Heiner. Any discussion. Mister second. Having gone through strategic planning and the sort of thing in low. A couple of times. I've got to say that it was just a joy to do this here in Arlington. The the group that met up at the Odyssey was just a fantastic group of people and we learned a lot from each other particularly particularly from the students who were participants. So the let the big lesson we have from this and you can see some of the words that they asked for in the mission and vision statements. Is that they're really smart really thoughtful really care about the school and their siblings. I was at a table with one young man who and I asked him why did you do this. I want this to be better for my younger sisters at the Odyssey. It was really great. It was a wonderful experience. So we should just do what we can to keep our students involved in the decisions we're making going forward. I just want to say that I just think it's important to explain to the community that this is a process that involved multiple groups in the community district leadership teachers and the school committee met on Tuesday of this week under this Morgan's leadership. The curriculum committee to for 90 minutes or so to finalize the wording of the document that's why the public isn't seeing a robust discussion or debate about nouns and verbs. So we call and semicons but we kind of that the public should know that we did that at curriculum committee meeting on Tuesday and that's why I think we're at a point to vote. The curriculum subcommittee recommended that we approve this and somebody who is sort of skeptical that this was doable in the time frame that was set up. I am I love to be wrong and I'm really glad I think that it's great that we're at a place where we can do this. Now and there's you know such broad agreement around what we're we're voting on. So I'm really happy about that. I think this is a big deal. So I'm going to do a roll call vote. Mr. Heiner. Yes. Mr. Cardin. Yes. This Morgan. Yes. Mr. Slickman. Yes. Mr. Thielman. Yes. And I vote. Yes. It's unanimous. Can I say one word before we move on from this one. First like I want to thank all of the staff members who gave up time in the evenings. Miss Kees was one of them. After a very long days at 1.1 week on a Monday followed by a consecutive Tuesday. They gave a lot of time in order to do this work with us and I'm very grateful for that as well as for all the community members who went to work and then came back home to their communities and stayed with us into the evening. Our facilitators were fantastic and thanks to Miss Thomas because she's the one who ended up connecting you with them and an extra special thanks to Arlington Education Foundation without whom we would not have been able to do such a comprehensive and inclusive process with so many stakeholders at the table. They really were incredibly supportive of this work and I had a lot of thought partnership from members of the community and imagining what this process could look like. And without that I don't think it would have been as successful as it was. So thank you. We're going to do a second read and possible vote to approve the district goals for 2022-2023. And my understanding is that the strategic objectives are the same. They've just been organized to match our newly approved vision and mission. Correct with a couple of exceptions. In strategic priority for we have added one strategic objective on the new website because we know that we're actively working on that now and on the development and piloting of a before-care program and increasing and expanding access to after-school and enrichment programming for families because those are aligned with that one. And then other than that they've just been reordered to fit within our new strategic priorities. Any discussion from the committee? Would someone like to make a motion to approve the 2020-2023 district goals? Second. Motion by Mr. Thielman. Second by Mr. Schlickman. Any discussion? All in favor? Yes. In a post? The same. No. Okay. It's unanimous. I have a really quick question about it. So I guess what will be helpful is to, at some point here, so we're going to want to get updates on these, the pieces of these goals, right, and probably not do it all in one go. So that just sort of keeping track of when we hear about those things so that we can kind of reconcile that to the, because this feels like this is the first time that we're approving a list of goals under the superintendent who's actually going to be held accountable for implement, like for, for, for accomplishing those goals in actually quite a few years, right? I mean, we, because we've been sort of off, off schedule. So I just want to make sure that we, you know, that, that that's part of what we hear about next school year as these things, you know, sort of as they happen, which I have no doubt that they will. Just to clarify, are you saying she can't leave until it's all done? The problem here, she can leave whenever she wants, right? So that we all, we can all go. So we have that, that keeps us all accountable to each other. Yes. Next item on our agenda is science camp. And Ms. Morgan, I, I signed your name to this as the chair of the IAA. Excellent. I love being the chair of the IAA. I serve, I serve in that role with, with an incredible amount of joy. So, in Novus is a motion that we discussed at CIA. I, I'm getting a lot of credit for this, although Mr. Thielman was the one who wrote it. But so we've heard a lot from families and the community around science camp. And I think that this motion provides the district with a framework for thinking about it and analyzing any options that there might be. I hope that it's received in the spirit in which if it passes, I hope that it's received in the spirit in which I think it's intended, which is to, you know, to, to, to provide some sort of way to think about this, because it's really important to, to a lot of people. And it's, you know, certainly work that the school committee can't engage in directly. So the, the motion that we voted on at CIA and is in Novus is move that the school committee requests the superintendent to prepare a report by the first school committee meeting in October of 2022. I believe that meeting is October 13th. Analyzing any options for the district to offer or partner to offer an educational overnight experience to students in their fifth or sixth grade year. So I guess I will make that motion and then look for a second. Motion by Ms. Morgan. Second by Mr. Thielman. Any discussion? Mr. Thielman. Okay, Mr. Carter. Yeah, so I, I, well, I just want to, maybe Dr. Homa can just speak a little bit of the process the district readership is going to go through between now and October. So the public is aware of some of the thinking research conversations that will take place. Sure. So I actually might differ a little bit. Oh yeah, or Dr. McNeil, because I think you were thinking about it. Right. So I think we've collected data and we've had a survey. We've done some work already on this. And I think what we're going to do is just continue on. So some of the things, so let me just say an example of that. We've gone out to nature's classroom. Myself, our science coach for elementary, elementary science coach, the science coordinator and Dr. Hoyle, the director of K-12 Science. And that was last year around this time. We went out there, we did a field trip and we talked to the person who manages that venue. And we talked about our concerns, the different things that they could offer. And then we came back and then we also, Dr. Hoyle has recruited a couple of teachers from the high school who are biology and environmental science. And so we're thinking about, we were thinking about like, what does this look like from a scientist's perspective? So that is some of the work that we've already done, looking at the data, looking at the students who are able to go, the students who cannot go, looking at the liability that's included. All of those things will go into consideration as we move forward. And we'll start back this summer and in the early fall with the teachers that were part of, that were recruited from the high school, working with our science coordinator at the elementary level, who was the coordinator for the camp trip. And then we'll get together and we'll continue that process. And then we'll present something to Dr. Holman. She'll give her feedback. And then we'll come to the school committee and the community at large. But we also want to also, I skipped ahead a little bit, I also want to have a pair of form. I want to let the parents know that we hear them. I receive one or two emails a day about science camp starting a couple of months ago. So I, and I've definitely spoken to a parent on the phone. I definitely understand how passionate they are about continuing this experience for our fifth grade students. But we have to make sure that it's equitable, that it's accessible to all students and then all the other things that go into supporting students who need supports in order to be able to participate in an experience like this. Another example is making sure like, you know, the nurse that's on duty, medication. I mean, all the things that I think that parents see that the children are having a very, you know, it's a fun experience. I've been up there myself. I understand the experience. And so those are the things we're going to take into consideration as we move forward. And I just want to let everyone to know that we hear you. And then we're going to do our best to look at this and provide the best experience possible for our students. Yeah, the only thing I want to thank you, Dr. McNeil. That's helpful. I think it's good for the community to hear that. You know, the thing to be aware of is that there is a lot of parental support that would support and get involved in whatever options. Oh, I know that. So I think it's something that is not lost. The program was largely parent run for over the past three decades. So it's there's people know how to do it. Yes. Thank you for that. Mr. Carter. Thank you. So I want to address whatever parents are still listening because we have a lot of activity and emails about it. I mean, I think when we had Allen Jones and a longstanding summer program, the inertia was kind of behind the program to continue it, even though there were issues with the program. And unfortunately, the issues were not publicly discussed. They were a little bit slept under the rug, but the primary issues are of non-participation. Kids who couldn't or wouldn't participate of financing and of issues with volunteers who provided students overnight, basically. So there were significant issues that weren't discussed publicly and are coming to light now because the inertia isn't there anymore. The program that Allen Jones is gone. So the inertia now is we don't have a program and it's going to take a lot of work and effort to rebuild a program. And I see it more as because of these issues, I see it more as an enrichment activity like Last Blast or some other types of enrichment opportunities that are mainly driven by an outside organization in partnership with the district. And I hope that's one of the things that we'll look into along with some of the other suggestions that we've had. Moving it to sixth grade would make it more equitable because those students that are left behind, it's not going to be the entire sixth grade that's going to go at the same time. So we'll have portions of the sixth grade go and it won't be two or three students left behind at the school. So there are different ways to address some of the issues, but it's not easy. It's not going to be easy. And it's not going to be done by October. But I do hope that by October we'll at least start to have the conversation, get some options to move forward and see where we can go with it. Thank you. But I would, again, I would encourage those parents who are out there to continue to be involved, to start organizing themselves, to support whatever options get identified. Thanks. So we had a motion by Ms. Morgan, seconded by Mr. Thielman to request the superintendent to prepare a report by the First School Committee meeting in October analyzing any options for the district to offer or partner to offer an educational overnight experience to students in their fifth or sixth grade year. All in favor? Yes. Opposed? It's unanimous. The motion passes. Financial reports from Mr. Mason. Good evening, school committee members. There's a couple of documents for your review. That are not the normal financial reports. You will see that included in Novus and as well as I sent you via email, is the before school pilot budget draft as well as fiscal 23 tuition and fees as well as fiscal 23 updated budget by budget transfer categories and as well as a current year, fiscal 22 year-to-date spending by budget transfer categories that include encumbrances and actually a projection as well. I'll start off with the last one that I just mentioned which is the fiscal 22 year-to-date spending by budget transfer category for both for for the town appropriated funds of these represent the spending as of June 21st 2022 for the actuals and encumbrances and the projections we have at this point released all payroll encumbrances due to the preparation for the closing of the financial year. So all our projected summer salaries costs are in the projected column along with other project spending that was known at the time. There are some additional costs that are going to happen so that remaining projected balance does not necessarily reflect our year balance. What you'll notice also is a motion that is recommended for you. I'm recommending you for the proof based on the variances from what we spent actually in the budget compared to the budget that was approved by the school committee last year for fiscal 22. And what you'll notice is that as I've been discussing in the monthly reports for quite some time is that the special education budget does have a remaining balance and that was mainly driven due to out of district tuition as well as unfilled positions. And other balls that were not spent in that category. And that those funds are mainly going to offset the spending in in other areas where there are deficits and it's notable to note that the other category. We have an increase substantial increase because of $800,000 increase in utilities of electricity which is time mainly tied to a largely portion tied to the new high school phase one when which we took over. At the start of the calendar year or near towards that and with that we had a quick turnover of the building with us taking occupancy and normally in the construction projects. They would flush out the ventilation equipment systems and those systems were being flushed for multiple months after occupants occupying the building and we were getting charged at a rate that was over 200% our contracted rate on from our electric from usually electric supply vendor and that's because the new phase building was not part of the original procured contract. Also included in that is about $400,000 tied to HVAC supplies and once again HVAC contracted services. So one of our commitments during you know to prevent spread of COVID-19 our buildings which was to install higher higher standard filters that required more frequent changes are changes of the filters. I'm sorry I can't get the words out but but as well as we have to use a contract services to either repair equipment or provide those like changes to those filters because we are we're actually short staffed in the facilities department. And we're trying to rectify those issues there. Others is tied to just spending in terms of an either an increase in structural materials or our other direct way of spending to the instruction at the elementary and district wide level for curriculum instruction. I'll stop there if you want to you want me to stop or continue to go for it through the documents. But when we stop. So I move that the school committee approved the budget transfers as a force in the document in Novus there's 6 budget transfers. Second discussion. No, I do you want to say that there is no discussion. Those in favor. unanimous. Thank you so the next document that will be discussed would be the fiscal 23 of the budget document. So you'll see that that document includes the top chart is the budget transfer categories based on all funds and then the bottom chart is based on the town appropriated funds. Which is the ones that we include in our monthly reports. And so this this these 2 budgets reflect you'll see the the original approved budget amounts is in the first the first column under I see approved for fiscal 23 and then we have the updated. Amounts which all of these changes were will reflect. You know the rather all the ratified contracts as of today any projected contracts that we're going to meet that we do need to bargain still. As well as the adjustments to what we're expecting to spend if we cannot handle all of the ventilation issues or the ventilation hiring and electrician hiring that we need for facilities department. So we did do some adjustments to those budgets as well as adjust some of the out of district spending we did see some out placement that happened after we created the budget. This led to how we pull this off the intro in order to balance the budget was looking at the department budget throughout the district including the facilities budget and having to reduce what was requested from departments that necessarily reduce them to what their amounts were a little last year but what they requested and as well as also I'm sorry it also includes the increase of Fte's for director level positions. I'm trying to think of there's any other things to note that but I don't think there's any I would leave up to school committee of obviously there's no motion here for you guys to make unless you wanted to make one motion but this is more for your information. I can move on to the next document if you're ready. So the next document is the fee schedule and actually before I guess before we talk about the fee schedule I guess I would hand it over to Dr. Holman to talk about the before school care pilot program. So we are looking at coordinating a pilot program for school care which started 7 o'clock in the morning and go until 8 o'clock the daily fee for families would be $15 they would need to sign up ahead of time and let us know when they were intending on coming and pay ahead of time. And that would allow us to make sure that we are staffing appropriately and that we have a sense of what our enrollment will be on any given day we would have a lead individual sort of a lead teacher at each program and we would have a support person at each program. The lead we would add another one if we went above 30 we don't anticipate that based on the feedback we've received from the community and we wouldn't start there we would start with a cap of 30 and have support people available to support that lead and if we went above 15 students we would add an additional support person. Right now we're looking at Pierce and Thompson for before school pilots because that's where the highest level of demand was in the community. We know that there are sufficient individuals who would want to do this and would participate in order to help us get a sense of how the financial shakeout in the first half of the year and then we would be willing to assess at about the midway point of next year whether or not we can expand it to some additional schools in the community. These would be housed in the cafeteria is at each school. There is a line in there for some additional custodial support because they would need to open up the school a little bit sooner. And the financial breakdown is there in your materials. You explained it very well. Besides just the one line at the bottom which I'll talk about in the fee schedules which is my school books is a software that will be rolled into a lot of our our revolving in special program budgets. When we're collecting fees instead of tacking on a fee at checkout it actually be built into the fee of the software that we already use on the for our lunch program and we're going to expand the use for collections for just student activities and special programs. We've seen a lot of principles and the classes and that the high school have requested ways to collect funds digitally versus physically collecting funds and so my school books would be the solution that we would be moving towards for all those opportunities and it would also help with efficiencies of building and collecting in the business office as well. So that's what's shown. The rental fees that per hour. But the gymnasiums and that yeah so. No so the so every fee I haven't got to the I'll move over to tuition and and so all the fees that are reflected there are actually based on 3 hours. 3 hours. Yes. That covers salaries and maintenance. That's just the rental of the facilities every right. We have to pay salaries for custodians and so I'm so I'm sorry so every you go down on the speed chart. Every every rental they do get charged a custodial rate because there's a required minimum amount of hours that we have to pay based on the contract and so there's a 3 hour minimum and so that custodial rate is there we charge a 100 and where I'm proposing $120 you'll see that is on the second page and as well there's a for a long-term rental rates we do charge other other costs which is includes utilities and administration fees which is the $30 that we're asking to increase from $20 which hasn't been increased for quite some time. This question may not be for you. The athletic fees have been what covers uniforms are safety equipment and stuff like that we do that or is that left to the individual. Somebody's playing ice hockey somebody's playing football things of that. So in in the current budget there is before there's limit I would have to touch base with John bowl to see what exactly he covers in his budget. But we we were covering some a lot of the supplies for a lot of the sports previously out of the general fund. And so now with the elimination of the fees what's going to get absorbed mostly on the general fund is the cost of the stipends to pay for coaches and some of the transportation related to getting to certain events. So the things I just mentioned would be left to the individual. I don't think so I think a lot of those might depend for sport whether or not they're paying for things like uniforms. But uniforms are covered. I know the uniforms are covered by the we have a schedule they get replaced every 4 years. That part I do know but some of the other equipment like that the extra gear or safety for that I'm not sure I would have to touch base back with the athletic director. We had an issue several years ago that some of the equipment football homes and things of that nature were not updated on a regular basis and individuals were buying their own safety reasons. It was resolved at that time. I don't know. Maybe something you might want to look at. As Morgan it's inconsistent across sports like what is provided and what that and it I think the way I see it is that the elimination of the fees is a great like first 3 steps and then once like the dust settles there it would bear an evaluation across sports because yes if you have to buy at $90 leotard to do gymnastics or a $79 suit should be a swimmer. Then it still is a fee less. You know it's kind of the experience that you understand. Yes, but I'm coming need to know that elimination of the fee may not cover everything. That's all. Thank you. And I asked Mister Mason for you to share the enrollment in instrumental music. Last year to this year. Oh yes, I can just pull it up. So my school books question but go ahead. I just it's the enrollment was recorded to our one of our staff members sent over was last year's music and some of the music program we had 392 students. And now we have enrolled 589 students with the elimination of fees. Could come with additional cost we will work out. We're very glad to have them in the program. So can you and I think you talked about this at the budget subcommittee last night but the my school box. The fees that my school box charges us to as a service. Is that tacked on when someone tries to pay or we've embedded it in whatever it is. So all the prices that are included on this on the speed schedule are inclusive of the my school box. I'm out so the currently if individual wanted to pay for activity fee this year that the option to go online and use invoice cloud which is a town option. So the town is in discussions on moving from that solution and but that current option is when they use particular certain forms of payment. They had to pay a percentage fee and I think only electronic checks was waived of the fee and it would get tacked on so you would see that that fee added so all of these fees include the processing fee that my school box. This is the appropriate time to move adoption of the fiscal 23 tuition fee schedule. Just so if it's watching work clear. So this this we've been discussing about it for some time discussing this for some time but this is the official vote that will remove fees for instrumental music and athletics for the next next fiscal year. Just fees for the other programs which are transportation before school after school after school not on here or school and the minority preschool we have to do after school what to do that separately. But it's a we've been talking about it but this is the official vote. After this we can be official notice can go out and people can celebrate we can celebrate. I just want to say thank you for working on the before school piece. I know that there are a number of a large number of parents in the community for this has been a challenge and so I think a pilot is the right way to approach this as there may be some bumps and things about enrollment and showing up and how much care people families might need. But I think that this is a really great step in moving forward and supporting our families on either end of of the school day. I forget who Mister motion by Mister Cardin second by no me was a minister like in second by Mister Cardin all in favor. Yes, opposed. Okay that motion passes unanimously and we voted on this budget transfers to superintendents report that your home and all right. So I will no longer be updating you on covid statistics, but we will keep a we will keep a dashboard next year. I'm just not sure it will include all of the various statistics that we've been keeping track of this year, particularly pool testing because as I've noted I believe in previous meetings. We will not have the testing program in the same capacity as it is we continue to have cases in the schools, but they have been going down. Thanks to our ability to open up some windows and spend more time outside over the past several weeks which has been lovely and it's also been wonderful to have a lot of in person celebrations of the end of the school year and and close out the year. Seeing everybody celebrate so administrative hiring searches. I have a few quick updates for you this evening on these we are welcoming Caitlin Moran as the new K 12 director of history and social studies that was announced last week. We have reposted for bracket assistant principal and for Arlington High School special education coordinator in the latter case the preferred candidate to not accept our offer. The strat and assistant principal interviews will begin next week. The audison assistant principal interviews I believe are also they're either starting this week or next week. You know when auditions next week. Auditions next week. Oh stratton hasn't so flip those to sounds like audison is next week stratton posted but hasn't started yet. And then for K 12 director fine performing arts initial interviews for that role will be next week. So we are still very much in the throws of these hiring searches and looking forward to finalizing those a few additional updates the last day of school is tomorrow and it's been a wonderful year. It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride. Especially when it comes to all the changing dynamics of the pandemic. But we it has been a great year and it has been wonderful to have everybody back fully in person. I was reminded that actually in September it was the first time we had all the kids back since March of 2020 because we had so many students who are remote. So we we set out to have fully in person school and to close as little as possible and to keep our services as intact as possible and I think we've had a successful year we you know Omicron certainly through us for quite a loop in the middle there. But I'm really grateful for the team we have and the work that they put in because it has resulted in a fun and and good year. I will be sending a year in review update to the community tomorrow. It highlights some of the things that we have accomplished this year and some of the things we're looking forward to accomplishing next year. Let's celebrate for a moment the wonderful people on the screen who are bracket teachers who were serving ice cream with the ice cream social this past week. There was a lot of karaoke and fun and dancing at bracket at the ice cream social one of many celebrations we've had to end the year. We have 2 new mentoring and induction program coordinators Dori Poulisi who will oversee the mentoring and induction program for pre K to 5 and Kirsten Silverman will oversee the induction program for grades 6 through 12 is a slightly adjusted model from what we've had in the past and we're excited to have current acting teachers in the district overseeing the mentoring and induction program because they'll have a really good sense and pulse on what it is that teachers need from the mentor and induction program as we move forward. These 2 also plan the new teacher orientation for the fall and we're looking forward to them bringing some ideas to the mentoring to the induction process and the onboarding process for new teachers and paraprofessionals. We have an admin retreat as I mentioned earlier today on Monday and our goal is to unpack and understand our new vision mission and priorities and to do a bit of work unpacking some instructional rounds that focused on their own during the spring and I have updated moments in your packet I sent you an update earlier today for the enrollments for the projected enrollments that had a few adjustments to sections that doesn't change the overall sections that we're projecting for next school year we have a couple spots that we're watching one at Hardy kindergarten because we've moved that down to 3 sections and so we just want to keep a close eye on that one at down in kindergarten which is a little high at the moment making sure we use buffer zones to keep as many students from entering that grade as we can stratton kindergarten is very low so we're watching that and trying to sort of understand if their enrollments that are still going to come in at some point and I think those are the remaining sort of hot spots that we're keeping close eye on. We are going to take a possible vote to retain new council starting on July 1st 2022 we talked about this. The subcommittee updates at the last meeting and so just wanted to the committee have that information before we took it for a vote. So Mister Garn do you want to say anything more before. I know where we discussed last week. This is a lawyer who used to be with the firm we currently engage and a lot of years ago to a different firm and now for me for me her own firm can education law. So I move that the superintendent is authorized to engage can educational law as one of the district's attorneys. Second. Motion by Mr. Cardin second by Ms. Morgan discussion. Why specify what area is it necessary. It would be good to just explain the problem. Yeah. So this this is in the area of special education law for public for public to represent public and charter schools. So she will help our team with special education matters. And school discipline so all school all yeah. All in favor. The post unanimous discussion on school committee chat format for school year 2022-23. Mr. Heiner. Just briefly I wanted to bring the attention of the committee prior to the pandemic. The school committee chat was we did in coffee shops and stuff. I think one of the benefits out of the school out of the pandemic was that we've had better attendance in the school committee chat and more involved. So if it's just I am in charge of setting it up and everything. There's no objection. I'm going to continue doing this. There's no issue with the meeting law or we check with town council on this not a school committee subcommittee and it's going to form a lot of major purposes to list not engage. Thank you. Okay. Your report though. Thank you. So the next is our safe storage resolution. So I brought this to the committee. As you heard from some of our public commenters. The Plymouth school district and the new very poor school district had passed this resolution. Asking the school district and the community to work together to inform the community members about securely stored securely storing by our arms and their legal responsibilities around that. So there is a piece about the superintendent and her staff communicating to parents and guardians about their obligations and then there is a piece about the school committee and the superintendent working with local law enforcement agencies health agencies and nonprofit organizations to collaborate and increase efforts to inform Arlington parents and guardians of their obligations regarding secure storage of our arms and their homes. Mister silicon. I very much appreciate the folks who brought this forward. It's always been our practice when things come before us to send it to subcommittee so we can take a look at it talk to the people locally and come with an informed decision. Both in terms of whatever we're at resolutions we might have for steps we might want to take. So in that vein I'd like to move that we refer this to the community relations subcommittee. I'll second for discussion. I mean we did a resolution on MCAS last year that didn't go to some committee. We did a resolution wasn't there one. We did the we did the ones that went to MSC without sending them to some committee. So I mean we can certainly discuss sending it to the subcommittee. But I don't know that it's been a that that's always been that has not been my experience that to have been the practice. If I'm a man chair if I may just in response. This is unique in that it directs the superintendent to do something. Mr. Heiner did you want. I'll go I'll go with whatever the vote is. I think this is an important issue. I understand what Mr. Schultz when it's coming from. I'll be honest with the committee. I'm going to call it subcommittee meeting as soon as possible. Because I think that this is a issue that we deal with. Mr. Cardin. So I actually think it belongs in policies and procedures. Our policy. No, let me let me let me let me get our policy BDDB file BDD school committee superintendent relationship. The committee will leave to the superintendent all matters of decision administration that come within his or scope as an executive officer and professional leader of the school system communications with the public is part of that. So if we if we want to have a policy as a district to make a communication like we do with the land acknowledge acknowledgment that should be a policy of the district not a motion from our committee or for community relations of committee so mean I I respect what what's trying to be accomplished. My first question was going to be though was whether there was any discussion with superintendent about whether she was willing to to undertake such communication before this came to us. Yes, and I also have been in communication with chief Flaherty and Christine Bonder know the director of Health and Human Services and Kayla vodka the executive director of I'm going to get this wrong the Arlington Arlington youth health and safety coalition. Because my personal perspective is that the second cause of this this resolve that the school committee and the superintendent will continue to work with local law enforcement agencies is the part that I feel strongly about I think that this should be a community responsibility in a community conversation. So I we can move it to policy. I would also I realize I'm not supposed to be making motions, but I would also be opening open to removing the first resolved cause if that was more amenable to the to the committee. I if I have concern about either of the causes it would be that first one and just what the expectation is with regards to said communication and and the obligation to inform parents of of secure storage of firearms and what that I did have questions from a section about what the expectation would be in terms of what that looks like and I don't quite have clarity on exactly what that would look like or what the expectation is of what that would look like at the moment. So those would be my thoughts on this. Mister Simon. So I I know 100% agree with the sentiment to this. I I think it would be a good thing to have the policies and procedures subcommittee me and see if we could shrine this policy. I I mean I think that's a worth worthwhile because I think that'll make it stronger. That that's what people want to do. I don't know what you feel for that. I mean because that I certainly agree with the sentiments of this I just need to think through what the communication of it. I think we're going to require the district to do something require. I think the good place for us the policies and procedures subcommittee and the benefit of that is that it becomes you know a policy that might have reports might require reports once a year periodically. There's a lot of it can be a stronger it can be stronger than it is right now. I take that as a friendly man I really have no opinion as to which committee it should go to in fact I went to the chair before the meeting asked which subcommittee she thought it would go to and I went along with the suggestions the time but it seems the majority of the committee now would like it to go to policies and I'm more willing to make sure I kind of are you thinking you're thinking it could be a policy correct. Yes, I'm not saying I'm not saying that I think it should be I think that it if we're going to do this it has to be a poll. Yeah, right. Okay. Fair enough it should be discussed in the policy because you just have a committee it should come out of there in the form of a policy recommendation. Depending on how it's worth you may be right we all may have different opinions. Okay, I think that I think that's the process. Okay, I think for me I don't know I can't I don't want to but if there's for people want to vote for this and we move on and that's fine. Well, I guess what I'm I do feel a somewhat sense of urgency around the community piece and so I guess I'm wondering where the committee might sit with some way of working with Chief Flaherty, Ms. Moderna, Ms. Vodka to expedite some kind of community communication while this moves through our process. Mr. Heiner asked me to correct me if I'm wrong but can't the superintendent meet with these people and come up with a a townwide recommendation of the community? Well, she can but I mean the need is communicating parents for safety of children and the community as a whole. So whatever way works I'm far as soon as possible but I understand procedural things that have brought forward but to meet what you're just saying I'm sure there are very considering things of this nature. Ms. Morgan there was a what I thought that again not being an expert on this. I thought Chief Flaherty and Ms. Vodka wrote an excellent memo on this topic already and I don't know if there is some communication that the superintendent potentially has planned over the next. You know as we're going into the summer we don't have kids in school at you know it is there an opportunity as you know people want to think about this is there an opportunity to share that more broadly because I happen to read it because I go digging around on you know town websites but most families. Most families don't. So that was something that feels like it has been sort of you know has been addressed at the town level and and I think speaks to the intent of this motion whether it's as directive as it is that would be something that you know could be considered as you know being shared out somehow with families. You know I think the intent here is that the superintendent has you know has access to distribution less by email that nobody else does right and so that's one option it that seems to me that could be used in the interim to increase awareness and to demonstrate partnership with the police and and the town. So yeah and my understanding was that the document was created but has not been sort of publicly officially disseminated. So I would like to see that whether that's my role as chair to to do that work or a new relation but that I would like to see that document get put out into the community. All right let's take the vote on referring this to procedures. Those in favor. Yes. Opposed. OK so we will refer this this resolution to policies and procedures and I will I will work with Dr. Holman and Chief Larrity and Ms. Bonjourno and Ms. Vodka to put that document out more broadly to the community. All right. Thank you all. So we have some policies for first street. So Mr. OK. So we've taken a look this first batch of the first couple of policies that we have here deal with ABC supplemental which is the set of general interim policies on covid related issues. We adopted this policy in the beginning of the pandemic which gave the superintendent bunch of powers to do things that are are different than the normal policies. They were very much pandemic specific things like waving phys ed requirements because we weren't bringing kids into the gym. But it's time to make this policy go away. So it is a recommendation of the policies and procedures subcommittee that the school committee delete policy EBC supplemental and that is the first read for this to delete EBC supplemental and in this particular policy we would want this to be deleted before the first day of school because it has an impact on the school year. So it the so we I'm assuming we're going to have a meeting at some point over the summer. If not we need to do this to suspend the rules and adopt the removal. So I don't I don't know the answer to that but that question at this point. But that's where we are with the EBC supplemental so it is now presented for first read to delete that policy. A discussion. We don't we don't have lands per se for a meeting we can certainly do that is the center. We can we have the option that the committee wants to suspend the rule and do a second read immediately. People are open. Are you moving to suspend the rules or to suspend the rules. OK I second that discussion. How many rules are we I know where we're going to suspend the rule on second week on the second reading. I don't I don't I'm pretty nervous by expanding because I get corrected which I that's why I left it open. We're spending the rules to adopt the recommendation of deleting policy. EPC supplement after a first read that would we but this would be our second read and we'd be adopting it. All in favor. The post. The second one is J. L. C. B. which is it. I thought OK so we are suspended the rule. OK. Move to approve. It be with a deletion of E.B.C. supplemental second. Motion by Mr. Schlickman second by Mr. Heiner to delete file E.B.C. supplemental discussion. All in favor. I opposed. It's unanimous. OK now we get down to J. L. C. B. the question we had in subcommittee which we could not answer. For the full committee it really deals with the back to make the vaccination requirement for participation in school sponsored sports and rostered extracurricular activities. If we wish to retain that policy. We have to put it somewhere because we have now eliminated the carrier where it sat before because that was an E.B.C. supplemental. So if we want for there to be a vaccination policy we would need to adopt language here for that purpose. Now the subcommittee had a difference of opinion on whether or not we should have this remain or not. So that was a subject discussion. Dr. Allison Ampe said definitely wanted to retain it and I think I won't speak speak for Mr. Heiner but I'm open to letting that go with E.B.C. supplemental and the superintendent has talked to the health people and has something to say on the issue. Yeah, I did connect with Miss Bonjono. I have not had time to extensively connect with her. We haven't gotten to have a conversation. We've been back and forth via email a little bit and she has indicated that she doesn't see direct benefit to maintaining the vaccination requirement and that she would support elimination of that requirement and doesn't think that there are there is significant evidence that it makes a difference when it comes to the spread or potential infection of students to have this requirement in place in part because vaccination has become not necessarily a protector from getting infected. So if you consider the fact that other towns may not have the same vaccination rates that Arlington does and that if that they may potentially be more contagious therefore if they were to if another student who wasn't vaccinated were to get infected they may be more contagious. I'm sorry I wasn't really to is there any is there any reason that they may have something in place that would prevent our team from getting vaccinated. I'm sorry I wasn't really to is there any reason that they may have something in place that would prevent our team from playing. No. Okay. Thank you. That was my concern. Belmont's the only other town that has. Okay. This policy. Hearing this and hearing Dr. Homa connecting with this point I'll go with Mr. Shulikman and support removing it. So this is also a first read. Yeah. So for first read we could we could just leave this out here is first read and not take it to second read or we could vote to vote to not advance it to second read. So those are the 2 options we have. Dr. Homan I do I had an interaction with Miss Allison they're Dr. Allison and be separately and I know she had some concerns about us eliminating this policy. One of the things that she requested that I haven't been able to connect with Mr. Jordan on acquiring is a memo from her some additional explanation from her as to why this isn't necessarily necessary. And so some time to acquire that and to get a little more detail from her. I imagine would be appreciated. Then we'll be reasonable to do nothing at this point. So my just in terms of the time line here. Do we need to vote doing this prior to start a school in September? No. If we wanted to have a requirement in place to start a school year. Yes. Requirement. Okay. But. But we just I mean we just killed the EBC. Right. Yes. So there is at present. There's no requirement. That's right. As of that. So we would have to decide that we are going to bring this up again. Okay. Yeah. So. Do you want to. I'm making no motion. So there's nobody else does. Okay. We've had first read in. We can bring it back if we so choose. Right. This this is tricky. Next up is policy. F F dash E procedures for naming new spaces at Arlington High School. This came at the request of the superintendent who's looking at the new spaces and we worked with her sent to craft. To craft. To craft. To craft. To craft. To craft. To craft. To craft. To craft. To craft. A policy or a procedure for dealing with the spaces at the high school. Again, this is for first read. And just as a little bit of clarity, this would only be for the process of naming new spaces at this high school while this project is underway, not something that would be ongoing beyond the scope of this project once it's completed. So this is for the process of naming new spaces at Arlington High School. This is ACAB. Oh, I'm sorry. This is just for this. The wording here doesn't work. So charge of the plant, the advisory panel on naming and memorials at Arlington High School recommendations. I assume it's make wreck will make recommendations. For the seven major namespaces. So this is just for those seven. So for this, could we get the list of those seven spaces so that when people ask us about it, we can be like, they're right here. These are the ones that are that fall under this. That would be helpful. There are seven committee members to. Mr. Cardin. Yeah, just another edit. I mean, it says nor name it. It sounds like this is actually for both new and existing. Yeah, that needs to come out. I think. Missed it. We've done a few edits to make this high school specific. The intent is very clear that this is only for the high school. We can edit it before second read. Yeah, and but we don't need to do that. So we're going to pass it until our next. Regularly scheduled meeting. The other one. Are we ready to go? Yes. Okay. The other one is a CAB. If you recall, there was a package of sexual harassment. And, you know, student right policies that MISC recommended to us and we passed most of those. And so we went and fixed that and now have that before us. For first read. This is one that I would recommend just getting into the policy books now. Because it is part of the rest of the package. It is just a matter of aligning to current federal and state law. And we've adopted the rest of the package. So I'm going to first move to second read. Second. Any discussion about suspending the rule? Vote to suspend the rule. All in favor? It's unanimous. Move adoption of a CAB replacing the current policy. Second. I have a quick question. This is the one that you worked on. Is that right? Yes. I'm trying to put this in the framework of my memory of when we dealt with these. Or did we? This came from MISC. We did the other batch a couple of months ago. Help me. You're thinking of the restraint. Thank you. I'm here. Thank you. Motion by Mr. Schlickman. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? The motion passes unanimously. All items listed with an asterisk are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the committee so requests. In which event the item will be considered in its normal sequence. Warrant number 22283 dated June 30th. In the amount of $682,708.95. Approval of school committee regular meeting minutes June 9th, 2022. So moved. Second. Motion by Mr. Heiner. Second by Ms. Morgan. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? It's unanimous. Second by Dr. Allison Ampey is not here. Mr. Cardin do you want to? Sure I can fill in. So we had a meeting yesterday where we basically discussed the items that we went over and approved this evening. That was it, right? Community relations, Mr. Heiner. Nothing to report. Curriculum Instruction Assessment Accountability, Ms. Morgan. We met this last week and went over the items that were approved tonight and talked very briefly about science. Facilities, Mr. Thielman. No report. Policy and procedures. We met on the 15th for the purpose of making proposals we had tonight. The draft minutes are before you. High School, Arlington High School Building Committee, Mr. Thielman. It's moving along. We're doing great. We had a vote. We had a meeting the other night to finance the moving of the photo the solar panels to the new building. So things are moving along on schedule. Anything else? They're piled driving outside our office and everything shakes all day long. Some administrative complaints. We're getting through it. The committee has a process to hear those complaints and we're concerned. She had several hide-hat guys up the other day checking it out. They looked out the window and they said, yeah, it's doing what it's supposed to. It is worse for us. We were a little worried about the kids taking their finals right next to some of those windows, but it shakes more on the sixth floor because we're at the top and you're a little more insulated in the classrooms where the kids are. So they get the thunk. We get the thunk and the shake. I just hope it doesn't advance the demolition schedule. Well. We need the reports. Mr. Heiner. Since this last meeting of the year, I'd like to thank Dr. Holman the administrative cabinet for a phenomenal job. In any year it would have been a tough year. This year it was 10 times this stuff. I would like to also add special thanks to Ms. Diggins for putting up with all of us, especially me this year. Thank you so much. And I'll throw in a thank you to the teachers, to the AEA who's getting us through this year with all the ups and downs and you made it almost. One more day. One more day. Teacher agenda item, entertain a motion to adjourn. So move. Second. Third. I. And you're 19 minutes early. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am. I am.