 Hello Arlington voters my name is Jane Morgan and I am running for a third three-year term on the Arlington School Committee. I've been a school committee member for almost six years now and during that time I have served as chair of the committee, I have served as chair of the curriculum instruction assessment and accountability subcommittee, I've been a member of the budget subcommittee and I have I came in before COVID, I saw what happened to our schools during COVID and I've been here for the recovery process. I've worked with two different superintendents, a number of central office administrators and I am looking forward to having the opportunity to serve the Arlington community for another three years. I have four children in the Arlington public schools, I've lived in Arlington since 2003 with my husband, we have a fifth grader at Stratton, we have three students at Arlington High School, two ninth graders and an eleventh grader and for my full-time work I work as an administrator and an associate dean at Southern New Hampshire University. I care deeply about how our students, our staff, our teachers, our administrators experience our school, I care a lot about what school looks, sounds and feels like for our families, what messages we're sending home, how we engage with guardians and for the people who take care of our students for the majority of the time. I have a lot of things that I'm looking forward to seeing over the next three years and a lot of things that I think that the Arlington public schools needs to continue to work on. I am looking forward to the completion of the Arlington High School building project, I am looking forward to the continued rollout of the new literacy curriculum in our elementary schools and I am looking forward to seeing how we transition our largest cohort of students who are currently in fifth grade through their middle school years. I think that APS has a lot of work to do around how we engage with the parents and guardians of our students who receive special education services. I would like to see continued emphasis on how we communicate with all families, what the caliber of that communication looks like, how consistent is it, are people having similar experiences at different schools across the district, as well as I'm looking forward to having a student graduate from Arlington High School in the spring of 2025 and having sort of experienced that full K-12 arc as a parent. So I love talking to people, I really like engaging with our community, I like hearing from our students and from our families. So I look forward to another three years with my colleagues on the school committee and I hope that you will come out to vote in the town election. Thank you.