WEBVTT

1
00:00:03.503 --> 00:00:04.337
Welcome, everyone.

2
00:00:04.337 --> 00:00:06.439
Thank you for being here for April 8th.

3
00:00:06.439 --> 00:00:08.475
Curriculum Council meeting.

4
00:00:08.475 --> 00:00:10.577
See you being present.

5
00:00:10.577 --> 00:00:13.580
We have lots of things on our agenda.

6
00:00:15.348 --> 00:00:17.751
We do have a review of our summary notes.

7
00:00:17.751 --> 00:00:20.820
Just when you look at these,
keep in mind that they're from February

8
00:00:21.054 --> 00:00:24.591
and we did cancel our March meeting
because we only had one thing

9
00:00:24.591 --> 00:00:26.426
on the agenda at that time.

10
00:00:26.426 --> 00:00:29.496
So it does say that
the next meeting is in March.

11
00:00:29.496 --> 00:00:31.731
That's the meeting
that actually ended up canceled.

12
00:00:31.731 --> 00:00:34.067
But at the time it was accurate.

13
00:00:34.067 --> 00:00:37.070
So that's why our minutes say that.

14
00:00:37.470 --> 00:00:40.240
And we are obviously here on April 8th.

15
00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:41.541
So thank you.

16
00:00:41.541 --> 00:00:44.511
And we did not have
any informational items for the agenda

17
00:00:44.577 --> 00:00:47.714
for this month,
but we do have items for discussion,

18
00:00:48.481 --> 00:00:51.284
and that is our goals
for the 1920 school year.

19
00:00:52.652 --> 00:00:53.686
For those of you who are

20
00:00:53.686 --> 00:00:57.991
new to curriculum council,
we do develop goals

21
00:00:58.324 --> 00:01:02.595
at the end of each school year,
projecting into the following school year.

22
00:01:03.063 --> 00:01:07.567
And I didn't think I should have attached
the old ones on here for just a second.

23
00:01:07.567 --> 00:01:10.637
I just met and discussed
and we discussed many things

24
00:01:10.637 --> 00:01:14.240
and I did not even think to attach
our current set of goals to this.

25
00:01:14.908 --> 00:01:17.210
But we do have three goals.

26
00:01:17.210 --> 00:01:20.980
Our first goal is to bring them with me.

27
00:01:22.382 --> 00:01:25.385
Our first goal is to examine curriculum
for areas of need

28
00:01:25.618 --> 00:01:27.053
in order to make recommendations

29
00:01:27.053 --> 00:01:30.356
regarding curricular issues to the A48
Professional Development Committee.

30
00:01:31.024 --> 00:01:33.560
These recommendations,
if any, emerge, should be presented

31
00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:36.863
to the Professional Learning
Subcommittee by January 1st of each year.

32
00:01:38.598 --> 00:01:40.800
So that's
our overall, it's kind of a standing goal

33
00:01:40.800 --> 00:01:45.205
because that is one of the major pieces
of oversight for curriculum council.

34
00:01:45.238 --> 00:01:49.142
It's one of our major jobs
is to kind of keep an eye on those things.

35
00:01:49.676 --> 00:01:50.643
So as Mrs.

36
00:01:50.643 --> 00:01:54.180
and I were, were talking earlier,
some of the things that have come up

37
00:01:54.180 --> 00:01:58.618
this year that we know
that we are definitely interested in

38
00:01:59.853 --> 00:02:01.621
charging the district with looking deeper

39
00:02:01.621 --> 00:02:04.591
into our to revise

40
00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:07.594
well, we're looking at revising goal

41
00:02:07.594 --> 00:02:10.597
one to include the sex education
curriculum

42
00:02:11.431 --> 00:02:14.434
in the secondary levels in particular,

43
00:02:14.701 --> 00:02:17.971
and to look at collaborating
with the community for equity

44
00:02:17.971 --> 00:02:22.242
in diversity, learning opportunities
for our staff and students.

45
00:02:23.042 --> 00:02:23.476
Both Mrs.

46
00:02:23.476 --> 00:02:26.012
Seger and I have been attending,
she's been attending for quite some time

47
00:02:26.012 --> 00:02:29.015
and they've graciously allowed me to start
attending the All Things

48
00:02:29.082 --> 00:02:30.617
Diversity meetings in Hershey.

49
00:02:31.951 --> 00:02:34.921
So we
were looking at that collaboration piece

50
00:02:34.921 --> 00:02:38.224
and how we could bring in some more
of that learning for our staff also.

51
00:02:39.058 --> 00:02:40.960
So that was one of our thoughts.
Her goal Why?

52
00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:43.229
I'm just going kind of
I should have precluded it with this.

53
00:02:43.229 --> 00:02:43.496
Also, I'm

54
00:02:43.496 --> 00:02:46.633
going to kind of go through everything
and then just open it up for discussion.

55
00:02:46.633 --> 00:02:48.434
It's not really something we vote on,

56
00:02:48.434 --> 00:02:51.437
but certainly we're looking
for your thoughts and opinions.

57
00:02:52.438 --> 00:02:56.676
When we created our second goal
to maintain full day kindergarten

58
00:02:56.676 --> 00:03:00.780
oversight or to have full day kindergarten
oversight, that is a three year goal.

59
00:03:01.648 --> 00:03:06.819
The way that we had written most things
take a good three years to get in place

60
00:03:06.819 --> 00:03:10.123
before you know what is working
and what is not working for

61
00:03:11.357 --> 00:03:13.359
full fledged.

62
00:03:13.359 --> 00:03:16.362
So we've been having full day
kindergarten updates throughout this year.

63
00:03:16.429 --> 00:03:17.897
And the way that the school is written

64
00:03:17.897 --> 00:03:21.668
is that will continue through the 2021
school year.

65
00:03:22.268 --> 00:03:26.339
So we did not suggest any changes
or revisions to that goal.

66
00:03:27.273 --> 00:03:31.678
And then our third goal
this year was charging the district

67
00:03:31.678 --> 00:03:33.246
to examine grading practices

68
00:03:33.246 --> 00:03:36.282
and reporting at Hershey
High School during the school year.

69
00:03:37.550 --> 00:03:41.621
And while that has definitely
been happening and some some great things

70
00:03:41.621 --> 00:03:45.525
are going on with conversations
and we're looking at the four point scale.

71
00:03:46.926 --> 00:03:49.562
Our thinking
was that probably extending this

72
00:03:49.562 --> 00:03:52.665
into another year because it will be
a roll out implementation

73
00:03:52.665 --> 00:03:55.702
with the report card in particular
and the transcript.

74
00:03:56.803 --> 00:03:59.539
And certainly one had no discussion
with Mr.

75
00:03:59.539 --> 00:04:00.640
Smith on this so far.

76
00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:02.809
So I'm very glad that you're here to do

77
00:04:04.477 --> 00:04:05.878
to be a part of this.

78
00:04:05.878 --> 00:04:09.916
But we were thinking to keep
and rewrite the school to extend

79
00:04:09.916 --> 00:04:13.353
into the 1920 school year
to ensure full freshman implementation

80
00:04:14.921 --> 00:04:17.724
because it will have to roll out that way.

81
00:04:17.724 --> 00:04:20.727
So at this point in time,

82
00:04:20.994 --> 00:04:23.997
we would love to hear your thoughts

83
00:04:24.030 --> 00:04:27.033
on these schools.

84
00:04:27.233 --> 00:04:30.236
If you had any.

85
00:04:36.943 --> 00:04:39.512
You're both kind of on the.

86
00:04:39.512 --> 00:04:40.246
So I understand.

87
00:04:40.246 --> 00:04:43.883
So the four day kindergarten is obviously
three years, three year part of the plan.

88
00:04:43.883 --> 00:04:45.151
And the grading obviously takes time.

89
00:04:45.151 --> 00:04:48.154
Just rolled in
with the appropriate entering class

90
00:04:48.521 --> 00:04:51.524
And then the change to sex ed,
how many years of

91
00:04:52.292 --> 00:04:54.327
the first goal was the term on that one?

92
00:04:54.327 --> 00:04:56.029
This first piece of it is

93
00:04:56.029 --> 00:04:59.932
just to charge the district, to revise it
and start taking a look at it.

94
00:04:59.932 --> 00:05:02.402
We didn't actually put a time frame.
All right.

95
00:05:02.402 --> 00:05:06.439
So basically what I'm getting at is
we have a full plate going forward.

96
00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:11.411
Yes. So, yes,
is there bandwidth if we wanted to add

97
00:05:12.779 --> 00:05:15.515
a fourth goal or are we are we full?

98
00:05:15.515 --> 00:05:18.518
We have since I have been in this role

99
00:05:19.052 --> 00:05:22.221
and Mississauga actually,
and I just had that conversation also,

100
00:05:22.722 --> 00:05:26.659
I am not sure if that is in your board
guidelines or not.

101
00:05:26.659 --> 00:05:29.128
It did not take the time
to look that piece up.

102
00:05:29.128 --> 00:05:32.131
As far as the subcommittee
goals are concerned,

103
00:05:32.832 --> 00:05:34.300
it is something that I can bring up
with Mr.

104
00:05:34.300 --> 00:05:36.769
McFarland. Since I have been in this role.

105
00:05:36.769 --> 00:05:40.406
The subcommittees have been charged
with developing three goals

106
00:05:40.773 --> 00:05:41.974
and sticking to three goals

107
00:05:41.974 --> 00:05:45.912
because that's usually about
how much you can actually accomplish.

108
00:05:46.112 --> 00:05:47.880
And you know what?
Everything is a priority.

109
00:05:47.880 --> 00:05:50.583
Nothing's a priority sort of thing.

110
00:05:50.583 --> 00:05:54.587
But I think it is a very good question
because if we are locked into only three

111
00:05:54.587 --> 00:05:57.824
goals, are these
the three that we definitely want?

112
00:05:58.691 --> 00:06:00.960
So I don't have a straight answer for you.

113
00:06:00.960 --> 00:06:01.928
I'm sorry.

114
00:06:01.928 --> 00:06:04.163
We are because we just had two
in our conversation.

115
00:06:04.163 --> 00:06:06.165
We'll be looking into that.

116
00:06:06.165 --> 00:06:08.601
And I should have said this to the way
this process has worked

117
00:06:08.601 --> 00:06:11.637
in the past is in April
we've had discussion on these.

118
00:06:12.605 --> 00:06:13.072
We do

119
00:06:13.072 --> 00:06:16.142
a workup
that we then present to you in May,

120
00:06:16.809 --> 00:06:20.046
and if you're good with that,
we actually do vote on that in

121
00:06:20.046 --> 00:06:23.049
May and June for the goals.

122
00:06:24.851 --> 00:06:26.819
So sorry, that was a bird walk. No.

123
00:06:26.819 --> 00:06:29.822
And it was kind of almost
a rhetorical question because obviously

124
00:06:30.189 --> 00:06:33.059
so we got we're offering

125
00:06:33.059 --> 00:06:36.062
I guess I'm wondering if it's possible to

126
00:06:37.430 --> 00:06:40.433
consider augmenting a goal
to make it broader.

127
00:06:40.666 --> 00:06:42.101
Like, for example, grading practices.

128
00:06:42.101 --> 00:06:44.670
What was what's the overarching theme
of grading practices?

129
00:06:44.670 --> 00:06:46.172
Why do we want to change them?

130
00:06:46.172 --> 00:06:50.109
And a lot of it was equity in our students
having

131
00:06:52.378 --> 00:06:54.213
admissions.

132
00:06:54.213 --> 00:06:58.184
Acceptance is similar to areas, schools
with different policies, whatever.

133
00:06:58.184 --> 00:06:59.218
So the overarching thing is

134
00:06:59.218 --> 00:07:03.089
what can we do to better
our students getting into colleges?

135
00:07:04.223 --> 00:07:06.659
Because there are a couple of things
that we could prioritize under that

136
00:07:06.659 --> 00:07:11.798
besides just the grading
without leaving the three goal maximum.

137
00:07:11.798 --> 00:07:13.099
Just just want to throw that out there

138
00:07:13.099 --> 00:07:16.402
because there are a couple other things
that I think the school could also do

139
00:07:16.402 --> 00:07:20.173
in the under that same bucket
that are smaller pieces than the grading

140
00:07:21.140 --> 00:07:23.376
that I would certainly wouldn't
throw on the table.

141
00:07:23.376 --> 00:07:25.912
We can we can definitely have discussion
about that.

142
00:07:25.912 --> 00:07:27.013
I just think it's really important

143
00:07:27.013 --> 00:07:30.016
for us to remember
that our goal is oversight, not

144
00:07:31.184 --> 00:07:34.954
actual implementation
and change of practice.

145
00:07:36.088 --> 00:07:37.924
Right? Makes sense.

146
00:07:37.924 --> 00:07:39.592
But we can definitely,
if there are a couple of things

147
00:07:39.592 --> 00:07:41.461
that you want us to consider
and to throw in there,

148
00:07:41.461 --> 00:07:44.464
we can have conversation
about that for sure.

149
00:07:44.464 --> 00:07:44.897
Excellent.

150
00:07:45.865 --> 00:07:47.533
Mr. Steiner, did you have something?

151
00:07:47.533 --> 00:07:49.569
Yeah, well, I was kind of.

152
00:07:49.569 --> 00:07:52.371
And the similar ballpark of Mrs. Dr.

153
00:07:52.371 --> 00:07:56.342
Cronin about adding on to it,
if that was a possibility.

154
00:07:56.342 --> 00:07:58.911
I just wanted to share

155
00:07:58.911 --> 00:08:00.947
a little tidbit of information.

156
00:08:00.947 --> 00:08:03.749
I just went to the National School Board
Association

157
00:08:03.749 --> 00:08:07.420
meeting in Philadelphia last weekend,
and one of the keynote speakers

158
00:08:07.420 --> 00:08:11.691
was the president and CEO of the Society
for Human Resource Management,

159
00:08:12.625 --> 00:08:18.464
and he gave a lot of information
about what hard skills are needed

160
00:08:18.464 --> 00:08:22.401
and lacking in the workforce right now
and the soft skills that are needed.

161
00:08:22.401 --> 00:08:26.606
And that creativity, agility
and adaptability are more important

162
00:08:26.606 --> 00:08:28.508
than degrees

163
00:08:28.508 --> 00:08:32.478
and the hard skills
that they need to have from

164
00:08:33.312 --> 00:08:37.316
for people to be an industry are writing,
he says.

165
00:08:37.316 --> 00:08:39.485
This is critical.
We can't get enough of writing.

166
00:08:39.485 --> 00:08:42.522
And he said that kids are graduating
without knowing how to write a two

167
00:08:42.522 --> 00:08:45.525
paragraph memo about a customer complaint.

168
00:08:45.725 --> 00:08:48.728
So so we can't do enough
writing in school.

169
00:08:49.128 --> 00:08:51.597
Problem solving kids need to know

170
00:08:51.597 --> 00:08:54.634
how to build their mental muscle,
have agility and critical thinking.

171
00:08:54.634 --> 00:08:57.637
In a complex world, technology.

172
00:08:57.637 --> 00:09:02.108
He says that kids need to understand
business, not just how to be a consumer,

173
00:09:02.108 --> 00:09:06.178
what technology
that iPads and apps are great, but

174
00:09:07.179 --> 00:09:07.980
they need to know how to

175
00:09:07.980 --> 00:09:11.217
use an Excel spreadsheet
and what you know,

176
00:09:11.217 --> 00:09:14.720
what programs are being used
in offices and industry.

177
00:09:15.988 --> 00:09:19.292
And another big key point with public
speaking

178
00:09:20.026 --> 00:09:22.361
presentation skills are a must

179
00:09:22.361 --> 00:09:25.464
in industry right now,
and our kids are graduating

180
00:09:25.464 --> 00:09:28.467
without that critical skill,
without any of this critical skill.

181
00:09:28.467 --> 00:09:31.938
So those are the hard skills
when they're all communication.

182
00:09:33.539 --> 00:09:36.842
And then the soft skills are dependability
and reliability

183
00:09:37.443 --> 00:09:40.646
because people are showing up,
they're not taking things seriously,

184
00:09:41.881 --> 00:09:43.983
adaptability and training,

185
00:09:43.983 --> 00:09:45.818
because we don't know
what the jobs of the future will be.

186
00:09:45.818 --> 00:09:48.821
So to have diverse experiences

187
00:09:50.222 --> 00:09:52.625
and prepare kids for for an unknown

188
00:09:52.625 --> 00:09:55.628
future decision making

189
00:09:56.596 --> 00:09:58.230
so that kids are able to take risks

190
00:09:58.230 --> 00:10:01.200
and not afraid to try new things
and have confidence in that.

191
00:10:02.134 --> 00:10:05.638
Have a customer focus
the yes or no, ma'am.

192
00:10:06.172 --> 00:10:08.107
Politeness and having a giving spirit

193
00:10:09.241 --> 00:10:10.176
teamwork

194
00:10:10.176 --> 00:10:14.046
says there's too much focus
on the eye and individualism

195
00:10:14.046 --> 00:10:17.049
and that we have to teach our kids
how to learn

196
00:10:17.450 --> 00:10:20.786
and work within a matrix environment
and get along with others, he said.

197
00:10:20.786 --> 00:10:24.090
Basically, the brilliant jerk
is not going to get a job,

198
00:10:24.423 --> 00:10:29.161
so you can be as smart as you are
and amazing.

199
00:10:29.161 --> 00:10:32.965
But if you can't work with others, you're
not going to survive in the workforce.

200
00:10:34.266 --> 00:10:38.371
So I thought those were really key
takeaways for us

201
00:10:38.371 --> 00:10:44.310
to go into our curriculum, because he also
said, you know, what can educators do?

202
00:10:44.310 --> 00:10:47.713
We can identify strengths sooner,
don't focus

203
00:10:47.713 --> 00:10:51.150
on weaknesses, play to kids strengths
and build their self-esteem.

204
00:10:51.150 --> 00:10:54.987
Because when they have self esteem,
everything else will come after that.

205
00:10:55.688 --> 00:10:58.958
And to build curriculum,
to talk to industry, to ensure

206
00:10:59.158 --> 00:11:02.862
these life
ready skills that the educators employers

207
00:11:02.862 --> 00:11:05.865
should be building this curriculum
together to prepare the kids

208
00:11:06.198 --> 00:11:09.402
and to measure our
successes differently, not

209
00:11:10.603 --> 00:11:11.671
to have

210
00:11:11.671 --> 00:11:15.541
quality and numbers and test scores,
but to have a job ready diploma

211
00:11:15.541 --> 00:11:18.778
so that kids can actually function
in the workforce.

212
00:11:18.778 --> 00:11:21.614
So anyway, I just wanted to share those.
Thank you.

213
00:11:21.614 --> 00:11:24.617
Because I thought the communication skills
was was crucial.

214
00:11:24.750 --> 00:11:28.220
I'm chuckling
because you mentioned at least six things

215
00:11:28.220 --> 00:11:29.989
that we have literally just talked about

216
00:11:29.989 --> 00:11:33.459
in the last couple of months
in looking at curricular revisions

217
00:11:33.459 --> 00:11:36.662
and things that we're working on
and particularly at the high school.

218
00:11:37.797 --> 00:11:41.801
So those are very much
in the realm of things that we are

219
00:11:41.801 --> 00:11:43.469
we're already working on.

220
00:11:43.469 --> 00:11:45.671
So yeah, that's great.

221
00:11:45.671 --> 00:11:50.042
And there might be a way to incorporate
that somewhere in here in that way.

222
00:11:50.042 --> 00:11:52.611
So thank you. That's good.

223
00:11:52.611 --> 00:11:53.979
I'd like to second everything she said.

224
00:11:53.979 --> 00:11:54.647
We didn't plan this,

225
00:11:54.647 --> 00:11:58.117
but one of the thing that I was thinking
about in terms of that bucket for college,

226
00:11:58.117 --> 00:12:02.388
which really is really work
to workplace, was internships.

227
00:12:02.388 --> 00:12:03.789
I know we have a new intern

228
00:12:04.990 --> 00:12:07.159
instructor at the high school,

229
00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:10.930
but I think our numbers are still pretty
small, maybe 60 to 70 students.

230
00:12:12.131 --> 00:12:16.102
I would love to see every student
who wants to have an internship,

231
00:12:16.102 --> 00:12:19.972
not only have one,
but be more of a proactive facilitator,

232
00:12:19.972 --> 00:12:21.841
because right now it's what if you find it
interesting?

233
00:12:21.841 --> 00:12:23.008
Okay, great.

234
00:12:23.008 --> 00:12:25.978
And sometimes that's hard for students.

235
00:12:25.978 --> 00:12:31.917
And if we could somehow be more proactive
in identifying whether it be corporations

236
00:12:31.917 --> 00:12:36.255
or partnering with the medical center,
Hershey Foods, etc.,

237
00:12:37.723 --> 00:12:40.993
because that's where these kids
get those soft, soft skills, for sure,

238
00:12:41.660 --> 00:12:44.196
beyond just having their little part time
job where they call off

239
00:12:44.196 --> 00:12:47.199
if they have a test or a hockey game
or whatever it is.

240
00:12:47.700 --> 00:12:50.369
But going to that internship is critical.

241
00:12:50.369 --> 00:12:52.772
And then I think some of those hard skills
become part of it

242
00:12:52.772 --> 00:12:54.974
when they get more
given are given responsibility.

243
00:12:54.974 --> 00:12:59.545
So yes, I think that's a big important
piece that fits very well.

244
00:13:00.980 --> 00:13:01.547
Thank you.

245
00:13:01.547 --> 00:13:04.049
Thank you both very much.

246
00:13:04.049 --> 00:13:07.019
Other questions or thoughts with

247
00:13:07.019 --> 00:13:10.022
this discussion at this point in time?

248
00:13:16.395 --> 00:13:17.963
Can I just comment on

249
00:13:17.963 --> 00:13:20.966
Of course, that was that's that's well,

250
00:13:21.667 --> 00:13:23.869
and I'll tell you that I will

251
00:13:23.869 --> 00:13:27.573
I can say with a high level of confidence
that students that are in Hershey

252
00:13:27.573 --> 00:13:31.911
High School from nine through 12 have
an opportunity for just about all of that.

253
00:13:32.778 --> 00:13:34.680
That's not everything.

254
00:13:34.680 --> 00:13:35.948
But we do have a program

255
00:13:35.948 --> 00:13:39.451
that supports a lot of what you were
you were just describing there.

256
00:13:40.252 --> 00:13:44.456
And I just want to add on that Victoria
Smith is doing a pretty phenomenal job.

257
00:13:44.590 --> 00:13:47.526
She was tasked to expand the program
when she got here

258
00:13:47.526 --> 00:13:51.630
and she's using her contacts
from a prior district to grow and expand

259
00:13:52.131 --> 00:13:53.432
our offerings here at the high school.

260
00:13:53.432 --> 00:13:56.368
And it's hard
because there's all these different

261
00:13:57.303 --> 00:13:58.137
issues when you

262
00:13:58.137 --> 00:14:01.140
want to put a child into a workplace
when they're in schools.

263
00:14:01.173 --> 00:14:04.677
And so she's really good at navigating
and she understands

264
00:14:04.677 --> 00:14:05.845
that we want these experiences.

265
00:14:05.845 --> 00:14:09.748
I asked her to double the program
and obviously we'd like every child

266
00:14:09.748 --> 00:14:13.319
to have that experience,
but she is giving it some attention.

267
00:14:13.752 --> 00:14:17.523
But I mean, that that that's speaker
that's that's a pretty phenomenal list.

268
00:14:17.523 --> 00:14:21.360
And I can speak toward some of our blend,
some of the blended opportunities

269
00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:22.394
for our students.

270
00:14:22.394 --> 00:14:25.664
A lot of what you spoke about there,
when our students that are taking blended

271
00:14:25.664 --> 00:14:30.002
courses, they are they are doing that
and it's pretty phenomenal.

272
00:14:30.002 --> 00:14:31.503
Amazing to see them out

273
00:14:31.503 --> 00:14:34.506
and about around the school,
in the library, wherever it may be,

274
00:14:35.007 --> 00:14:37.877
engaging in some of these skills
that you've read a lot about this,

275
00:14:37.877 --> 00:14:40.045
you know, the 21st Century employer.

276
00:14:40.045 --> 00:14:44.917
And the difficulty is a lot of people
love to pontificate, but the reality is

277
00:14:45.284 --> 00:14:47.553
we don't know what something's
going to look like in ten years.

278
00:14:47.553 --> 00:14:50.356
So we try to do what we think is best now.

279
00:14:50.356 --> 00:14:52.458
So I really appreciate you sharing that.

280
00:14:52.458 --> 00:14:55.928
And if you could email me that, that would
that would be phenomenal

281
00:14:55.928 --> 00:14:57.496
because I'd like to share
with our department chairs.

282
00:14:59.899 --> 00:15:00.566
Mr. Smith.

283
00:15:00.566 --> 00:15:03.435
When you say that they do the blended,
does that mean on the day

284
00:15:03.435 --> 00:15:05.371
they're not in class,
they're actually collaborating

285
00:15:05.371 --> 00:15:08.707
with their classmates on like the homework
they have or whatever

286
00:15:08.941 --> 00:15:11.710
content they're supposed to be reviewing
so that they might not just be sitting

287
00:15:11.710 --> 00:15:14.346
by themselves. That's correct.

288
00:15:14.346 --> 00:15:17.516
Very quite often you can see

289
00:15:17.516 --> 00:15:20.519
a lot of the blended students
working collaboratively.

290
00:15:20.920 --> 00:15:24.990
And it's it's pretty interesting
to walk around and watch and just listen.

291
00:15:25.424 --> 00:15:30.162
And it's it it's not that every student
does that every day,

292
00:15:30.529 --> 00:15:34.366
but so many so many more students
now have the opportunity to do that.

293
00:15:35.234 --> 00:15:38.570
Very, very rarely
do you see kids like we don't have kids,

294
00:15:38.904 --> 00:15:42.174
you know, wasting time and doing things
that they shouldn't be doing.

295
00:15:43.609 --> 00:15:46.612
It just need to walk around and listen
to some of their conversations

296
00:15:46.712 --> 00:15:48.781
because they don't even really know
we're standing there most of the time

297
00:15:48.781 --> 00:15:53.218
because they're so involved and engaged
in their work and giving them the choice

298
00:15:53.752 --> 00:15:57.122
of how they want to spend that time
and who they're working with.

299
00:15:57.523 --> 00:16:00.192
Because quite frankly,
it might be during an English period

300
00:16:00.192 --> 00:16:04.163
someone's really good at English,
but they may need help in calculus.

301
00:16:04.863 --> 00:16:07.566
So that period turns
into a calculus period.

302
00:16:07.566 --> 00:16:09.768
And because they're a fabulous writer

303
00:16:09.768 --> 00:16:12.104
and they don't need that, they might not
need the assistance with that.

304
00:16:12.104 --> 00:16:15.007
So it's it's been pretty amazing
to watch it grow and expand.

305
00:16:15.007 --> 00:16:19.445
And we're probably up over eight,
800 seats and blend in next year.

306
00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:22.748
This started with seven classes last year,

307
00:16:22.748 --> 00:16:25.751
27 this year
and probably upwards of 40 next year.

308
00:16:26.352 --> 00:16:29.321
So it's been really
it's been a healthy expansion.

309
00:16:29.321 --> 00:16:32.624
I'm glad you mentioned that
because I pictured them working

310
00:16:33.092 --> 00:16:35.761
on their own on their off day.

311
00:16:35.761 --> 00:16:37.229
But now I understand what you're saying.

312
00:16:37.229 --> 00:16:39.932
They go to the library
because we reorganize our library.

313
00:16:39.932 --> 00:16:41.433
There's the ice cube space.

314
00:16:41.433 --> 00:16:43.435
There's so it's more of a club.

315
00:16:43.435 --> 00:16:45.037
You can work with someone else
if you need.

316
00:16:45.037 --> 00:16:47.306
And we've we've,
we've taken some other spaces.

317
00:16:47.306 --> 00:16:49.675
We have a place
called the Blended Learning Lab.

318
00:16:49.675 --> 00:16:52.678
We have blended teachers in there
that supervise.

319
00:16:52.711 --> 00:16:54.380
We have our innovation studio.

320
00:16:54.380 --> 00:16:57.416
We've opened up the cafeteria
for all periods of the day.

321
00:16:57.683 --> 00:17:01.920
So I mean, this is you know,
we have a teacher here

322
00:17:01.920 --> 00:17:06.025
that's in the innovation center that sees,
you know, a blended teacher sees,

323
00:17:06.025 --> 00:17:07.826
and you can see
what's going on around the building.

324
00:17:07.826 --> 00:17:10.796
And I'm lucky that, you know, I'm not
I don't have to be in a classroom

325
00:17:10.796 --> 00:17:13.799
for four or five periods
that that's what I get to see.

326
00:17:13.832 --> 00:17:16.802
And it's pretty special
to watch young adults

327
00:17:17.102 --> 00:17:18.404
because

328
00:17:18.404 --> 00:17:21.173
I think a lot of schools we like to
you know, you kind of like lock them down

329
00:17:21.173 --> 00:17:23.042
eight periods a day.
You have to be here at this time

330
00:17:23.042 --> 00:17:24.910
and they're at this time of year,
at this time.

331
00:17:24.910 --> 00:17:28.313
And we have a lot of students
that are incredibly responsible

332
00:17:28.313 --> 00:17:30.416
and they've earned it.
They've earned that.

333
00:17:30.416 --> 00:17:33.018
I don't want to call it a right,
but they have enough responsibility

334
00:17:33.018 --> 00:17:34.253
to handle themselves.

335
00:17:34.253 --> 00:17:36.355
And if for truly
preparing them for college,

336
00:17:36.355 --> 00:17:38.791
we have to teach them
how to use free time. I mean,

337
00:17:39.925 --> 00:17:41.360
there's I believe so many students

338
00:17:41.360 --> 00:17:44.363
are not successful in college
because they don't know how to balance.

339
00:17:44.696 --> 00:17:47.433
And this gives them an opportunity
to balance in a safe environment.

340
00:17:47.433 --> 00:17:47.666
You know,

341
00:17:47.666 --> 00:17:50.669
we have all these adults in the building
that want to make sure they're successful.

342
00:17:51.003 --> 00:17:53.972
So it's been pretty amazing to watch.

343
00:17:54.106 --> 00:17:54.673
Thank you.

344
00:17:54.673 --> 00:17:57.843
Do they also have the option
to go to their classroom with the teacher

345
00:17:57.843 --> 00:17:59.178
on those off days, too? Right.

346
00:17:59.178 --> 00:18:01.346
That's that's that's the option as well.

347
00:18:01.346 --> 00:18:04.883
And a lot of a lot of our teachers
will have an almost

348
00:18:05.150 --> 00:18:08.821
a schedule of when they're interacting
with smaller groups of students.

349
00:18:09.121 --> 00:18:11.790
Or we also have something
in place of an average

350
00:18:11.790 --> 00:18:14.326
every if an average drops below
a certain percentage,

351
00:18:14.326 --> 00:18:16.428
they bring them in to make sure like,
what's going on?

352
00:18:16.428 --> 00:18:17.463
How can I catch up? What?

353
00:18:17.463 --> 00:18:19.665
What are you not understanding?
And so it's

354
00:18:19.665 --> 00:18:23.168
when we talk about differentiation,
it's true in in all senses.

355
00:18:24.403 --> 00:18:25.237
So thank you for that.

356
00:18:25.237 --> 00:18:26.305
I appreciate that.

357
00:18:26.305 --> 00:18:29.942
And I think it
I think Hershey does offer amazing courses

358
00:18:29.942 --> 00:18:32.911
and rigor and the blended
learning is amazing opportunity.

359
00:18:33.212 --> 00:18:35.981
And those aren't
the kids that I'm worried about.

360
00:18:35.981 --> 00:18:40.018
Honestly, the kids that I'm worried about
are the ones that get like everybody else

361
00:18:40.018 --> 00:18:43.021
that get squeezed out
and are trying to compete with all these

362
00:18:43.021 --> 00:18:47.826
really amazing kids that are
that already have that motivation and that

363
00:18:48.861 --> 00:18:50.863
that, you know,

364
00:18:50.863 --> 00:18:52.831
to get where they need to be.

365
00:18:52.831 --> 00:18:56.034
And part of the point that the speaker
made, too, was that a third

366
00:18:56.034 --> 00:18:59.037
of the college students,
once they get into college,

367
00:18:59.037 --> 00:19:03.408
they drop out their first year
and then a lot of others don't finish.

368
00:19:03.742 --> 00:19:06.512
So there's only 48%

369
00:19:06.512 --> 00:19:10.282
that are actually graduating college
and then the other 32%

370
00:19:10.549 --> 00:19:13.552
are in the workforce
without a college degree.

371
00:19:13.619 --> 00:19:18.090
So it's so it's reaching all of our kids
with these

372
00:19:18.657 --> 00:19:21.560
these skills
needed to survive in the environment

373
00:19:21.560 --> 00:19:25.831
because the ones that are already doing it
and having these this exposure

374
00:19:25.864 --> 00:19:29.001
like they're going to make it, it's
the other ones

375
00:19:29.001 --> 00:19:32.638
that are struggling that need to make sure
we have these skills to give them.

376
00:19:33.238 --> 00:19:35.140
So that's all I want to say,

377
00:19:36.542 --> 00:19:39.411
which then leads us to

378
00:19:39.411 --> 00:19:41.980
the support that the board has given us
in the Church and Foundation

379
00:19:41.980 --> 00:19:42.881
with Lynn Crew.

380
00:19:42.881 --> 00:19:46.351
So we talk about the social emotional part
of learning and the learning experiences

381
00:19:47.019 --> 00:19:47.719
we had today.

382
00:19:47.719 --> 00:19:51.523
We had our Linklater sort of interviews
and it was a group interview

383
00:19:51.523 --> 00:19:53.892
and to watch and see what these students
were doing

384
00:19:53.892 --> 00:19:56.895
in interacting with each other,
there were about 90 of them

385
00:19:57.229 --> 00:19:58.830
just simply fabulous.

386
00:19:58.830 --> 00:20:03.001
And this is this is a way to truly
make sure that we're connecting,

387
00:20:03.001 --> 00:20:06.305
because that's all that's what in
high school you want everyone connected,

388
00:20:07.573 --> 00:20:09.575
getting everyone connected.

389
00:20:09.575 --> 00:20:11.109
So they feel like
they're part of something.

390
00:20:11.109 --> 00:20:14.146
And that's really
the ultimate overall goal. Yes.

391
00:20:15.147 --> 00:20:17.549
And if I could add, sorry, I was like,

392
00:20:17.549 --> 00:20:20.152
okay, I keep an eye on your principal.

393
00:20:20.152 --> 00:20:25.157
We're getting some of those connections
right down to the elementary schools.

394
00:20:25.157 --> 00:20:29.628
We have many high school students,
many more than ever coming down,

395
00:20:29.628 --> 00:20:32.731
and we're matching them up with students
that need connections

396
00:20:33.565 --> 00:20:36.368
based on interest, based on me.

397
00:20:36.368 --> 00:20:41.306
So I feel like this piece
of real good pieces all over the district.

398
00:20:41.907 --> 00:20:43.709
We're thrilled with the support
that we're.

399
00:20:43.709 --> 00:20:45.010
Getting from high school.

400
00:20:50.515 --> 00:20:53.518
Any further discussion with the goals?

401
00:21:04.963 --> 00:21:07.466
Okay, so thank you.

402
00:21:07.466 --> 00:21:11.036
There's a lot of great ideas
and we'll miss the sicker

403
00:21:11.069 --> 00:21:14.072
and I will start the process
then of working through this.

404
00:21:15.073 --> 00:21:17.409
And we will bring you a draft

405
00:21:17.409 --> 00:21:21.613
next month for you to actually
look at and and vote upon.

406
00:21:21.613 --> 00:21:24.783
And if we need to make revisions
or make some revisions

407
00:21:25.350 --> 00:21:28.320
and then we try to have this finalized
by June.

408
00:21:28.320 --> 00:21:29.521
Okay.

409
00:21:29.521 --> 00:21:32.524
Any questions?

410
00:21:32.557 --> 00:21:34.293
Great. Thank you. All right.

411
00:21:34.293 --> 00:21:37.262
We do have quite a bit of new business
that is textbook season.

412
00:21:38.497 --> 00:21:41.566
And even though the law has changed,
we are old habits die hard.

413
00:21:42.734 --> 00:21:45.270
And so we're
bringing our textbooks in April.

414
00:21:45.270 --> 00:21:47.539
That's what we're very used to doing.

415
00:21:47.539 --> 00:21:49.775
And we have modern, modern

416
00:21:49.775 --> 00:21:52.778
content here to start with us,

417
00:21:52.811 --> 00:21:55.147
for some novels

418
00:21:55.147 --> 00:21:58.450
for world language
in French, up to the microphone.

419
00:21:58.617 --> 00:21:59.785
This is her first time here.

420
00:22:01.286 --> 00:22:02.220
Pardon my dress.

421
00:22:02.220 --> 00:22:04.823
I actually led the crew in this way,

422
00:22:04.823 --> 00:22:07.826
so I was dressed down
a little bit for that. So

423
00:22:08.293 --> 00:22:10.595
so I last summer

424
00:22:10.595 --> 00:22:13.598
I was rewriting the French five

425
00:22:13.598 --> 00:22:18.337
and AP and French for curriculum, spending
some days doing that.

426
00:22:18.337 --> 00:22:21.340
And we're sort of readjusting some of the

427
00:22:22.207 --> 00:22:24.009
the reading that we are doing.

428
00:22:24.009 --> 00:22:27.012
I feel like it's very important
that students are always reading

429
00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:31.650
something to correspond
with what we are studying

430
00:22:31.650 --> 00:22:35.420
so they can see literature and action
analysis and so forth.

431
00:22:35.787 --> 00:22:38.657
So what I'm asking for

432
00:22:38.657 --> 00:22:40.592
and we have fully budgeted for.

433
00:22:40.592 --> 00:22:43.929
So just so you know that that's a part
of our regular budget, we're looking

434
00:22:43.929 --> 00:22:46.932
for our approval for these three titles
that I have

435
00:22:47.532 --> 00:22:49.301
decided to work with.

436
00:22:49.301 --> 00:22:53.071
And and of course talked with my colleague
about as well,

437
00:22:53.071 --> 00:22:55.140
my other French colleague
at the high school.

438
00:22:55.140 --> 00:22:58.810
So in French for we're looking at a

439
00:22:59.311 --> 00:23:02.914
a and a
they're all abridged versions of classic

440
00:23:03.949 --> 00:23:05.984
one is a classic film

441
00:23:05.984 --> 00:23:10.389
that has been put into a book text.

442
00:23:10.389 --> 00:23:15.026
I do you have those copies there
and if you need them, I don't know.

443
00:23:15.260 --> 00:23:17.929
We will come around them.

444
00:23:17.929 --> 00:23:19.731
So one is a classic task.

445
00:23:19.731 --> 00:23:24.736
It all is on file and it's a classic movie
of the World War two period.

446
00:23:25.537 --> 00:23:26.438
One of the privileges

447
00:23:26.438 --> 00:23:29.941
of kind of being French teacher
and being able to create some of my own

448
00:23:30.709 --> 00:23:33.945
interests and so forth is a unit
that I developed on the Holocaust

449
00:23:34.146 --> 00:23:37.949
and particularly what that's like,
how that impacted French history.

450
00:23:38.283 --> 00:23:41.386
So by the time the students get to French,
where we have some opportunity

451
00:23:41.386 --> 00:23:46.892
for them to explore topics
and learn some actual content versus just,

452
00:23:47.793 --> 00:23:51.363
you know, the typical
maybe what would be typically done

453
00:23:51.363 --> 00:23:52.664
with grammar and so forth. So

454
00:23:54.266 --> 00:23:55.700
it is a very popular unit.

455
00:23:55.700 --> 00:23:59.738
I felt like it needed some literature,
So that's why I wanted

456
00:23:59.738 --> 00:24:03.442
to add this particular novel
to this, this unit.

457
00:24:04.543 --> 00:24:06.578
And then

458
00:24:06.578 --> 00:24:09.681
and then the other two are the five AP.

459
00:24:11.383 --> 00:24:15.120
I wanted to add the genre Fluoride,
which is a it's a conference.

460
00:24:15.487 --> 00:24:17.055
It's a classic French novel.

461
00:24:17.055 --> 00:24:19.658
And this is an abridged version,
like I said before.

462
00:24:19.658 --> 00:24:23.762
And what's unique about all of these is
that they also have corresponding films,

463
00:24:23.762 --> 00:24:24.596
which makes it nice to

464
00:24:24.596 --> 00:24:28.400
if I wanted to do some film study
along with it or vice versa,

465
00:24:28.400 --> 00:24:30.535
like one year,
I wanted to do the film with one year,

466
00:24:30.535 --> 00:24:33.538
one year out
and do the literature or both.

467
00:24:33.572 --> 00:24:36.541
The students really enjoy pairing
the literature with and with the film

468
00:24:36.541 --> 00:24:39.811
and seeing how those and the comparing
and contrasting is all stuff

469
00:24:39.811 --> 00:24:42.214
that they need
to be able to do for the AP exam.

470
00:24:42.214 --> 00:24:47.118
So I don't know what else you need for me
other than the this is gene flow

471
00:24:47.118 --> 00:24:53.658
that is a is a classic and great story
about the south of France. And

472
00:24:54.926 --> 00:24:57.863
it's kind of a fun, tragic ending
the students really like

473
00:24:57.863 --> 00:24:59.331
they're like, what?

474
00:24:59.331 --> 00:25:01.566
That's not,
you know, like that kind of thing.

475
00:25:01.566 --> 00:25:02.534
So that's fun.

476
00:25:02.534 --> 00:25:06.037
And then the other one
that is Les Miserables,

477
00:25:06.037 --> 00:25:08.974
which I don't think
really needs a lot of introduction.

478
00:25:08.974 --> 00:25:09.941
Everyone knows that.

479
00:25:09.941 --> 00:25:13.478
That is a great story,
wonderful character development.

480
00:25:13.478 --> 00:25:16.481
I can really talk a lot about characters,

481
00:25:17.215 --> 00:25:21.253
the period of literature,
you know, the the romantic period.

482
00:25:21.586 --> 00:25:23.822
There's so much that can be discussed
there as well.

483
00:25:23.822 --> 00:25:26.791
And so

484
00:25:26.791 --> 00:25:28.093
is that enough?

485
00:25:28.093 --> 00:25:31.096
Does anybody have any questions

486
00:25:32.464 --> 00:25:32.898
from that?

487
00:25:32.898 --> 00:25:37.435
And so the Jean de Flora
that I'm passing around is an older

488
00:25:37.969 --> 00:25:41.139
the text will be the same,
but it'll look more modern than that.

489
00:25:41.706 --> 00:25:44.943
I made sure that it
had the same text series, so

490
00:25:46.778 --> 00:25:49.781
any questions?

491
00:25:56.821 --> 00:25:57.322
Would you like

492
00:25:57.322 --> 00:26:00.525
to do the motion separately
or combine them?

493
00:26:00.525 --> 00:26:02.694
Let's combine them. Okay. Yeah.

494
00:26:02.694 --> 00:26:07.566
May I have a motion to combine
the French novels for standard?

495
00:26:08.133 --> 00:26:09.734
Thank you. In a second.

496
00:26:09.734 --> 00:26:10.669
Thank you.

497
00:26:10.669 --> 00:26:15.040
Okay, so just to remind everyone,
so I know there are some people here

498
00:26:15.040 --> 00:26:18.043
that this is your first time
doing textbook approvals.

499
00:26:18.510 --> 00:26:22.380
The way that this works is that we approve
the text for a first read

500
00:26:22.914 --> 00:26:25.383
at this period of time for presentation.

501
00:26:25.383 --> 00:26:28.186
They then go out on the credenza

502
00:26:28.186 --> 00:26:30.689
or credenza in the lobby.

503
00:26:30.689 --> 00:26:33.692
They stay out there
for public review for 30 days

504
00:26:33.758 --> 00:26:36.494
and then next month
we will do a second read.

505
00:26:36.494 --> 00:26:40.398
Assuming that this council vote
to approve the second read,

506
00:26:40.665 --> 00:26:43.902
then I will write up a board memo
and we will give a full board

507
00:26:43.902 --> 00:26:47.739
recommendation
that the texts are approved for purchase.

508
00:26:48.073 --> 00:26:51.876
If they are approved for purchase,
they will then be purchased on July 1st

509
00:26:51.876 --> 00:26:55.046
or slightly thereafter
so that Madam Kit will have them

510
00:26:55.046 --> 00:26:56.681
for her students in the fall.

511
00:26:56.681 --> 00:26:58.950
Does anybody have any
questions about the process?

512
00:27:02.187 --> 00:27:02.787
Okay.

513
00:27:02.787 --> 00:27:05.790
May I have a motion for a first read
for these

514
00:27:05.790 --> 00:27:08.760
three novels for the French text moved

515
00:27:09.527 --> 00:27:10.328
second.

516
00:27:10.328 --> 00:27:12.330
Thank you.

517
00:27:12.330 --> 00:27:15.734
All those in favor
say I only opposed same time.

518
00:27:17.102 --> 00:27:19.337
Wonderful. Thank you so much.

519
00:27:19.337 --> 00:27:21.473
Can I send a related question? Maybe.

520
00:27:21.473 --> 00:27:23.642
I don't know.
Maybe Mrs. Stuckey can help with this.

521
00:27:23.642 --> 00:27:24.943
When does the.

522
00:27:24.943 --> 00:27:27.212
When do the high school students
cover the Holocaust?

523
00:27:27.212 --> 00:27:29.247
The news.
They used to read an English book.

524
00:27:29.247 --> 00:27:30.782
Then I'm not sure if was covered
in the second grade.

525
00:27:30.782 --> 00:27:31.850
A second?

526
00:27:31.850 --> 00:27:34.786
Well, 10th grade world or 11th

527
00:27:34.786 --> 00:27:37.922
grade A-plus or AP US or any U.S.

528
00:27:37.922 --> 00:27:39.290
district. Sorry.

529
00:27:39.290 --> 00:27:41.993
I was just wondering where it marries,
because I think it's a great

530
00:27:41.993 --> 00:27:44.362
way to have something repeat
in different subject.

531
00:27:44.362 --> 00:27:44.763
Right.

532
00:27:44.763 --> 00:27:48.967
I can tell you that at the freshman level,
we do

533
00:27:49.768 --> 00:27:53.672
take the kids
to the Holocaust Museum for English

534
00:27:53.672 --> 00:27:57.876
and then the honors nine read
it is the girl in the green sweater

535
00:27:58.443 --> 00:28:03.381
and C.P nine
They do read Night by Liesl as well.

536
00:28:04.082 --> 00:28:09.421
So now I know history has changed,
so I cannot speak to that

537
00:28:09.421 --> 00:28:12.457
as to when at one point
and then they repeat it right.

538
00:28:12.457 --> 00:28:15.960
And unfortunately
I wish that we could have those coincide.

539
00:28:15.960 --> 00:28:19.764
But we're on different years now,
so for the now,

540
00:28:20.131 --> 00:28:23.568
yeah,
I believe the Holocaust is covered in

541
00:28:24.836 --> 00:28:28.106
U.S. history
during their time of saving World War Two.

542
00:28:28.106 --> 00:28:28.807
Okay. Okay.

543
00:28:28.807 --> 00:28:29.441
Thank you.

544
00:28:29.441 --> 00:28:32.277
I'm glad the whole trip is back. Yeah.

545
00:28:32.277 --> 00:28:33.411
So that's back.

546
00:28:33.411 --> 00:28:35.046
Thank. Okay.

547
00:28:35.046 --> 00:28:37.115
All right. Our next meeting. Thank you.

548
00:28:37.115 --> 00:28:38.516
Our next presentation is Mrs.

549
00:28:38.516 --> 00:28:42.220
Fitting, and she is here to talk to us
about read 180,

550
00:28:42.220 --> 00:28:46.458
which is a reading remediation program
for the middle school.

551
00:28:46.991 --> 00:28:49.461
And just to give you,
I don't want to steal any of your thunder,

552
00:28:49.461 --> 00:28:52.464
but just to give you
some background on it,

553
00:28:52.597 --> 00:28:57.001
we have been investigating this
for at least six or seven years,

554
00:28:57.635 --> 00:29:03.208
looking for something
that would really accelerate our students

555
00:29:03.608 --> 00:29:06.811
at the rate and level
that we are looking for

556
00:29:07.979 --> 00:29:09.581
them to achieve.

557
00:29:09.581 --> 00:29:10.448
And we really want.

558
00:29:10.448 --> 00:29:14.185
Our goal is to get students
out of remediate remediation for reading.

559
00:29:14.185 --> 00:29:17.622
You want them to be full readers,
ideally by third grade, but

560
00:29:18.690 --> 00:29:21.459
sometimes it goes to middle school.

561
00:29:21.459 --> 00:29:25.263
So this has been quite a bit of work
to find something

562
00:29:25.263 --> 00:29:28.233
appropriate for middle school students.

563
00:29:29.100 --> 00:29:32.070
And we had looked at Read 180

564
00:29:32.804 --> 00:29:35.106
somewhere in that process before

565
00:29:35.106 --> 00:29:38.710
they used to having a structure
with their program

566
00:29:38.710 --> 00:29:41.713
that just did not fit our students needs

567
00:29:41.713 --> 00:29:44.716
and did not fit our schedule.

568
00:29:44.749 --> 00:29:48.520
They have since moved
to a more hybrid model that this is being

569
00:29:48.520 --> 00:29:51.523
can answer questions about
because she's been piloting it this year

570
00:29:52.590 --> 00:29:54.325
and I think it's been very successful.

571
00:29:54.325 --> 00:29:55.627
Still a lot of learning to do,

572
00:29:55.627 --> 00:29:59.264
but lots of really great things
happening and middle school reading.

573
00:29:59.931 --> 00:30:04.068
So I will stop talking now
and let her present.

574
00:30:04.068 --> 00:30:06.471
Do you want me to pull that
PowerPoint? I'm sure you can.

575
00:30:09.541 --> 00:30:11.276
So I'm Tracy Bedding.

576
00:30:11.276 --> 00:30:14.612
You might recall that I was here
in the fall talking about the pilot

577
00:30:15.146 --> 00:30:17.515
for the middle school.

578
00:30:17.515 --> 00:30:20.351
I did want to give you
a little bit of background on how

579
00:30:20.351 --> 00:30:22.854
we kind of ended up here.

580
00:30:22.854 --> 00:30:26.524
We had purchased a program back in 2008.

581
00:30:26.891 --> 00:30:30.662
So when she is talking about how long
we've been at this,

582
00:30:31.863 --> 00:30:35.867
we had purchased sort of success
that use reciprocal teaching

583
00:30:36.301 --> 00:30:39.003
and then

584
00:30:39.003 --> 00:30:42.473
at the end of 2009,
we decided we needed a little bit more.

585
00:30:43.074 --> 00:30:46.411
So we purchased
a supplemental program in 2010

586
00:30:47.011 --> 00:30:49.514
and that was Reading Advantage

587
00:30:49.514 --> 00:30:52.217
and that allowed for more critical
thinking

588
00:30:52.217 --> 00:30:55.220
and some higher level materials.

589
00:30:55.587 --> 00:31:00.925
And then with that, we are balancing that
with some supplemental lives.

590
00:31:00.925 --> 00:31:03.494
Some of you might be familiar
with that as well,

591
00:31:03.494 --> 00:31:06.497
which also had comprehension
and fluency with it.

592
00:31:06.831 --> 00:31:09.834
And then since that time

593
00:31:09.934 --> 00:31:14.505
we have been searching C She was principal
during one of our searches and

594
00:31:15.473 --> 00:31:16.674
we have

595
00:31:16.674 --> 00:31:20.278
been supplementing our instruction
with different materials

596
00:31:20.745 --> 00:31:24.916
because we couldn't find anything
that really was meeting our needs.

597
00:31:25.516 --> 00:31:28.453
We have done pilots,

598
00:31:28.453 --> 00:31:31.923
we have done site visits,
we have done countless

599
00:31:32.423 --> 00:31:37.328
presentations and web meetings and I mean,

600
00:31:38.429 --> 00:31:42.901
it's done the gamut of looking
at a multitude of programs.

601
00:31:43.201 --> 00:31:47.138
And that brings us to read

602
00:31:47.138 --> 00:31:50.642
180 Universal, which is their new version.

603
00:31:50.742 --> 00:31:54.779
They did have a version back in 2011
that we had looked

604
00:31:54.779 --> 00:31:57.782
at that we weren't interested in.

605
00:31:58.783 --> 00:32:01.786
And then when they

606
00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:05.323
reworked the program in 2016, we gave it

607
00:32:05.323 --> 00:32:09.494
another look and liked the updates
that they had

608
00:32:10.528 --> 00:32:12.664
included in the program.

609
00:32:12.664 --> 00:32:14.866
So what is it?

610
00:32:14.866 --> 00:32:18.303
It is direct instruction still,

611
00:32:18.503 --> 00:32:21.506
which is one of the things
that we were definitely looking for.

612
00:32:21.606 --> 00:32:23.341
We were also looking for

613
00:32:24.409 --> 00:32:27.412
targeted small group learning as well.

614
00:32:27.979 --> 00:32:31.983
We liked incorporating the technology,

615
00:32:32.550 --> 00:32:36.487
but we wanted to have an effective balance
of having the teachers

616
00:32:36.487 --> 00:32:40.458
and the technology so that everyone
could do what they do best.

617
00:32:40.725 --> 00:32:44.262
And that is one of the things
that this program

618
00:32:44.262 --> 00:32:47.265
really brings together for the students.

619
00:32:49.300 --> 00:32:51.703
So with the blended learning rotations,

620
00:32:51.703 --> 00:32:55.239
there's four different rotations
and with that

621
00:32:55.540 --> 00:33:00.345
the whole group learning, which is like
traditional full class instruction

622
00:33:00.712 --> 00:33:05.783
in the skills that they need for reading
and writing and responding to text.

623
00:33:06.351 --> 00:33:08.386
And then with that

624
00:33:08.386 --> 00:33:11.656
they have different rotations
that they go to their small group.

625
00:33:11.656 --> 00:33:14.192
There's independent reading
and their student application.

626
00:33:14.192 --> 00:33:17.628
So in the small group learning,

627
00:33:17.996 --> 00:33:21.966
you can use the data to target,
you know, what particular skills

628
00:33:22.800 --> 00:33:26.804
they might need, you know,
based on the reports that we're running

629
00:33:26.971 --> 00:33:30.942
and make sure that, you know,
they're getting the instruction

630
00:33:30.942 --> 00:33:34.045
in the skills that's going to
help them make the most gains

631
00:33:35.146 --> 00:33:37.882
in the independent reading rotation.

632
00:33:37.882 --> 00:33:41.552
They have quality literature,
which was one of the things

633
00:33:41.552 --> 00:33:45.990
that we were really looking for
while maintaining accountability.

634
00:33:46.357 --> 00:33:50.194
You know, that it's still time well-spent,

635
00:33:50.528 --> 00:33:54.332
you know, and that they have choice.

636
00:33:54.499 --> 00:33:57.502
You know, there's audio books,
there's paperbacks, there's

637
00:33:58.236 --> 00:34:00.204
you know, short articles,

638
00:34:00.204 --> 00:34:03.207
there's longer e-books
so that we're able to really,

639
00:34:04.409 --> 00:34:07.412
you know, find something
that the students are interested in.

640
00:34:08.413 --> 00:34:11.716
And they're really motivated by seeing

641
00:34:11.716 --> 00:34:15.086
the number of words that they're reading
and their quick scores and,

642
00:34:15.086 --> 00:34:19.424
you know, really seeing their progress
during independent reading rotation.

643
00:34:20.591 --> 00:34:23.728
And then the last rotation
is the student application.

644
00:34:24.095 --> 00:34:29.667
So that's where students are working
independently for one, an app on the iPad.

645
00:34:29.934 --> 00:34:34.906
And with that, they still have
a lot of ownership in their learning.

646
00:34:35.239 --> 00:34:38.743
They start out with one segment
that everyone does,

647
00:34:39.043 --> 00:34:41.045
and then once they're finished, that

648
00:34:42.113 --> 00:34:43.014
they are able to

649
00:34:43.014 --> 00:34:46.417
choose, you know,
what topics they're working on.

650
00:34:47.218 --> 00:34:51.722
And those topics are all heard
at a variety of levels,

651
00:34:51.989 --> 00:34:55.560
you know, covering
the essential reading skills.

652
00:34:55.793 --> 00:34:59.564
So the technology is really adapting

653
00:34:59.564 --> 00:35:02.567
to the needs of the students

654
00:35:02.967 --> 00:35:06.104
and the feedback
that they are getting from

655
00:35:06.104 --> 00:35:09.173
that was one of the things
that we really liked in the update.

656
00:35:10.708 --> 00:35:14.612
You know,
it wasn't generic and it was personalized.

657
00:35:14.612 --> 00:35:18.316
And even if you're in the exact
same segment on the same level,

658
00:35:18.483 --> 00:35:22.053
depending on how you're doing
because it's adapting, you're

659
00:35:22.053 --> 00:35:23.821
you might be doing something different

660
00:35:23.821 --> 00:35:26.991
than someone else because someone else
might need more writing,

661
00:35:26.991 --> 00:35:32.163
whereas another student might need,
you know, more word work or more fluency.

662
00:35:32.163 --> 00:35:36.901
So it's more of a personalized path
within each,

663
00:35:36.901 --> 00:35:40.771
so within the segments
that the students are working on. So

664
00:35:42.073 --> 00:35:42.540
they're kind of

665
00:35:42.540 --> 00:35:45.543
rotating between these different options

666
00:35:46.410 --> 00:35:49.380
while taking that ownership.

667
00:35:49.981 --> 00:35:54.485
And then as far as research goes,
we you know, you can find

668
00:35:54.485 --> 00:35:58.489
lots of different research to support,
you know, different programs.

669
00:35:58.489 --> 00:36:01.492
But we really had a committee,

670
00:36:02.460 --> 00:36:06.497
some of the interns and the school
psychologist, everyone was working

671
00:36:06.497 --> 00:36:07.031
with us.

672
00:36:07.031 --> 00:36:09.934
And, you know,
what are the best programs out there?

673
00:36:09.934 --> 00:36:14.372
And, you know,
this is the most thoroughly researched,

674
00:36:15.473 --> 00:36:18.376
proven program for reading.

675
00:36:18.376 --> 00:36:22.046
And it is touching

676
00:36:22.046 --> 00:36:25.049
1 million students every single day.

677
00:36:25.683 --> 00:36:30.555
And one of the reasons
why it dates back to 1998,

678
00:36:30.955 --> 00:36:35.893
and they've been continually updating it,
you know, and improving on it.

679
00:36:36.194 --> 00:36:38.429
And while they're doing that,

680
00:36:38.429 --> 00:36:42.967
they continue to support the professional
development of the teachers as well,

681
00:36:43.334 --> 00:36:46.671
you know, to make sure that the teachers
have everything that they need.

682
00:36:46.671 --> 00:36:52.043
So, you know, anything from a webinar
to a video to a phone conference,

683
00:36:52.076 --> 00:36:56.013
Stacy's done
something with me like this year.

684
00:36:56.013 --> 00:36:58.182
So they are very supportive.

685
00:36:58.182 --> 00:37:00.318
And then they also have,
you know, like your typical

686
00:37:00.318 --> 00:37:02.320
they're on Twitter and Facebook
and all of that.

687
00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:07.858
So we have been most appreciative
of the support that we've had,

688
00:37:07.992 --> 00:37:11.262
you know,
while implementing this and feel fortunate

689
00:37:11.796 --> 00:37:16.767
that we were given the opportunity
for like a bonus year

690
00:37:16.767 --> 00:37:19.670
because honestly, we really thought
that they were going to say,

691
00:37:19.670 --> 00:37:22.974
Oh, you compiled this,
you know, with one of your classes

692
00:37:22.974 --> 00:37:26.110
or maybe even, you know, one grade level.

693
00:37:27.178 --> 00:37:30.181
But this was a full out

694
00:37:30.481 --> 00:37:31.349
pilot for us.

695
00:37:31.349 --> 00:37:34.352
So it has worked out really well.

696
00:37:38.289 --> 00:37:39.957
And then with the cost,

697
00:37:39.957 --> 00:37:43.194
we are looking at perpetual licenses.

698
00:37:43.194 --> 00:37:46.230
Stacy will help
if we have any questions at this part

699
00:37:47.398 --> 00:37:50.234
because we're looking at

700
00:37:50.234 --> 00:37:52.870
a fee over time, you know, So

701
00:37:52.870 --> 00:37:56.540
we do have a set number of students
that we're kind of looking at.

702
00:37:56.540 --> 00:38:01.779
But, you know, our class is really based
on the needs of the students.

703
00:38:01.779 --> 00:38:04.615
So we don't have like a set number.

704
00:38:04.615 --> 00:38:08.185
You know, every year
it changes depending on how, you know,

705
00:38:08.352 --> 00:38:12.089
many kids need to be supported
by reading at the middle school.

706
00:38:13.024 --> 00:38:15.926
So it makes it difficult to budget,
you know, exactly

707
00:38:15.926 --> 00:38:19.196
for how that's going to play out
because it's changed every year.

708
00:38:20.765 --> 00:38:22.366
I do want to share the costs.

709
00:38:22.366 --> 00:38:26.804
Looks like a little like when you first
look at it, they are perpetual licenses.

710
00:38:26.804 --> 00:38:29.807
This is for 70 students.

711
00:38:30.241 --> 00:38:33.511
And when I said, well, you know,
what does perpetual really mean

712
00:38:34.145 --> 00:38:35.513
is, well, it's perpetual.

713
00:38:35.513 --> 00:38:37.982
It's like, okay,

714
00:38:37.982 --> 00:38:39.750
I don't want to be six years
down the road.

715
00:38:39.750 --> 00:38:42.753
And you tell me
that my perpetual license is up

716
00:38:43.054 --> 00:38:43.287
there.

717
00:38:43.287 --> 00:38:44.822
Maybe a point in time

718
00:38:44.822 --> 00:38:48.092
where a lot of companies
are switching to a subscription model.

719
00:38:48.759 --> 00:38:51.762
There may be a point in time
where they will want us to examine

720
00:38:52.129 --> 00:38:54.432
switching to a subscription model.

721
00:38:54.432 --> 00:38:57.702
We have been, as a district
pretty resisting of that so far

722
00:38:57.968 --> 00:38:59.670
because it sets us up

723
00:38:59.670 --> 00:39:03.040
for something that we're not quite
sure what we get in the long run.

724
00:39:03.674 --> 00:39:04.041
And Mr.

725
00:39:04.041 --> 00:39:05.543
Friends has been actually really great

726
00:39:05.543 --> 00:39:09.113
in helping us to negotiate and navigate
some of those pieces.

727
00:39:10.014 --> 00:39:15.219
The other pieces that do come with this
full teacher library we are looking at.

728
00:39:16.220 --> 00:39:17.221
We have

729
00:39:17.221 --> 00:39:20.224
a couple decisions to make,
but it will not change the price.

730
00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:24.562
Tracey is very concerned
about her eighth grade students

731
00:39:24.729 --> 00:39:28.132
and making sure that there is
enough material to extend them.

732
00:39:28.699 --> 00:39:31.802
So there is what they call A stage
B and a stage C

733
00:39:33.237 --> 00:39:34.839
reading library.

734
00:39:34.839 --> 00:39:37.742
So we're looking at

735
00:39:37.742 --> 00:39:39.176
instead of having

736
00:39:39.176 --> 00:39:44.915
initially when we went into this, Tracey
and Sarah Smith were our piloting.

737
00:39:44.915 --> 00:39:47.218
We do have to pay for the materials

738
00:39:47.218 --> 00:39:50.688
that they gave us in the pilot
for the classroom library piece

739
00:39:50.688 --> 00:39:53.691
that they're not free
because it's a full library.

740
00:39:55.159 --> 00:39:58.195
So right now we have to be libraries.

741
00:39:58.396 --> 00:40:01.532
So we're looking at exchanging
one of those B's for a C

742
00:40:01.766 --> 00:40:05.403
so that we have further information
for the students.

743
00:40:06.170 --> 00:40:08.672
The other piece of this is a hosting fee.

744
00:40:08.672 --> 00:40:12.143
I do not have the technological language
to totally explain this to you,

745
00:40:12.143 --> 00:40:15.146
but we have made them
explain it to us at least four times.

746
00:40:15.246 --> 00:40:18.249
It makes sense when they do it,

747
00:40:18.516 --> 00:40:22.153
and that is something that
the middle school that would be a small

748
00:40:22.153 --> 00:40:25.322
fee that the middle school
has to pay each year

749
00:40:25.322 --> 00:40:29.894
to maintain the hosting
for the application and for the program.

750
00:40:30.895 --> 00:40:32.696
And one of the things that we did
investigate

751
00:40:32.696 --> 00:40:34.231
was whether or not that was sustainable.

752
00:40:34.231 --> 00:40:37.201
We needed to make sure
that we're paying this upfront.

753
00:40:37.201 --> 00:40:38.169
Is that smaller?

754
00:40:38.169 --> 00:40:41.338
I think it's about 1500 dollars,
but it's all wrapped up into this

755
00:40:41.739 --> 00:40:45.176
initial fee, about 1500 dollars
a year for that hosting

756
00:40:45.176 --> 00:40:48.245
fee, depending on the number of students
that we have in the program.

757
00:40:48.245 --> 00:40:52.450
So it will vary just a little bit,
but it's only in the first year of program

758
00:40:52.450 --> 00:40:54.985
that it comes out of our district
curriculum budget.

759
00:40:54.985 --> 00:40:58.055
After that, it has to be sustained
and maintained by the building.

760
00:40:58.389 --> 00:41:00.591
So that was one of the pieces
that we investigated.

761
00:41:00.591 --> 00:41:03.594
Also, she did do

762
00:41:04.462 --> 00:41:06.063
sales reps are wonderful at trying

763
00:41:06.063 --> 00:41:09.166
to package things for you in a way
that makes it palatable.

764
00:41:09.867 --> 00:41:13.170
We were able to cut about $11,000 off
of the initial quote

765
00:41:13.170 --> 00:41:16.740
that they gave us by
doing this bundle package.

766
00:41:16.740 --> 00:41:17.875
It sounds like Comcast,

767
00:41:19.410 --> 00:41:21.212
but it did bundle like

768
00:41:21.212 --> 00:41:26.550
workbooks, classroom library, online
library, the teacher licenses and manuals.

769
00:41:26.851 --> 00:41:27.985
And there's included in this.

770
00:41:27.985 --> 00:41:30.354
Those are also professional learning.

771
00:41:30.354 --> 00:41:34.291
And they wanted to do some face to face
professional learning coaching

772
00:41:34.992 --> 00:41:38.829
because this is being
is the reading teacher going forward.

773
00:41:39.630 --> 00:41:42.900
We thought
that an online presence was enough

774
00:41:43.067 --> 00:41:45.669
so that she can do webinars,
so we were able to cut the price

775
00:41:45.669 --> 00:41:47.404
a little bit with that
because the webinars have been

776
00:41:47.404 --> 00:41:50.641
super helpful this year
and it's like having a person there.

777
00:41:50.641 --> 00:41:55.379
So instead of flying you in here,
well, we're good with you being online.

778
00:41:56.714 --> 00:42:01.151
So I think I've hit all of the pieces
and if you have questions,

779
00:42:01.952 --> 00:42:05.856
now would be the opportunity
to ask those in any aspect of this.

780
00:42:06.790 --> 00:42:06.991
Yeah.

781
00:42:06.991 --> 00:42:09.627
And they've been very flexible
with the professional learning.

782
00:42:09.627 --> 00:42:10.794
They said if we need it,

783
00:42:10.794 --> 00:42:13.797
I feel like we really need
something different, you know, that

784
00:42:14.398 --> 00:42:15.432
they would absolutely work.

785
00:42:15.432 --> 00:42:17.601
Yes, I think they've
been wonderful to work right?

786
00:42:19.203 --> 00:42:21.105
Yes, I have three questions.

787
00:42:21.105 --> 00:42:24.608
Number one, what is our average
the average student load

788
00:42:24.742 --> 00:42:29.480
if we're we have 70 Perpetual's
what is the range of average students?

789
00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:32.917
I know they're in and out as needed,
but will that accommodate it?

790
00:42:33.450 --> 00:42:34.518
Yes. Yes.

791
00:42:34.518 --> 00:42:37.922
So currently there's two
reading specialists at the Middle school.

792
00:42:38.188 --> 00:42:41.191
Next year there is going to be one.

793
00:42:41.258 --> 00:42:44.828
I currently have I think about 48 students

794
00:42:45.362 --> 00:42:49.400
and I had five exits.

795
00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:53.470
So I probably started out,
you know, around 53 or 54,

796
00:42:54.271 --> 00:42:56.173
you know, at the beginning of the year.

797
00:42:56.173 --> 00:42:58.709
And actually I just got two new students.

798
00:42:58.709 --> 00:43:01.712
So I'm I'm probably at 50 now.

799
00:43:01.779 --> 00:43:02.313
Yeah.

800
00:43:02.313 --> 00:43:05.449
So it keeps changing,
but yet we anticipate that

801
00:43:05.849 --> 00:43:08.252
we should be fine with that.

802
00:43:08.252 --> 00:43:11.021
And we haven't gotten to the point
where we needed

803
00:43:11.021 --> 00:43:14.892
to get so nitty gritty,
like where somebody is moving out,

804
00:43:15.125 --> 00:43:18.896
you know, and what exactly
is going to happen to that license.

805
00:43:18.896 --> 00:43:21.065
And, you know, could I recycle it?

806
00:43:21.065 --> 00:43:24.835
You know, if if we got to the point
where we are really cutting it

807
00:43:24.835 --> 00:43:30.140
exactly that closely, we'd be comfortable
asking that question. Yes.

808
00:43:30.140 --> 00:43:32.876
And I'm
sure they work with us on that as well.

809
00:43:32.876 --> 00:43:33.143
Yeah.

810
00:43:33.143 --> 00:43:36.513
Because everything that we've come to them
about and kind of

811
00:43:36.513 --> 00:43:40.551
looked at the pricing and,
you know, itemizing out versus the bundle,

812
00:43:40.951 --> 00:43:43.921
yeah, it's it's gone
very well in our discussions.

813
00:43:43.921 --> 00:43:46.023
And, you know, they followed up with

814
00:43:47.157 --> 00:43:48.726
Yeah, they've been really great right.

815
00:43:48.726 --> 00:43:51.328
Something that seems to be working. Yeah.

816
00:43:51.328 --> 00:43:55.499
And then my second question is
is there anything that it lacks

817
00:43:55.499 --> 00:43:56.667
or that you wish it did

818
00:43:56.667 --> 00:44:00.270
or is this pretty much this covers
everything you need for your for your

819
00:44:00.337 --> 00:44:03.874
for your reading students without having
to go elsewhere to supplement?

820
00:44:04.174 --> 00:44:06.644
At this point,
we haven't been supplementing.

821
00:44:06.644 --> 00:44:11.248
What we have been doing
is trying to learn more about the program

822
00:44:11.248 --> 00:44:12.182
because, you know,

823
00:44:12.182 --> 00:44:16.453
we just started the pilot in September,
you know, and that was where,

824
00:44:16.487 --> 00:44:20.290
you know, not knowing the needs,
particularly of the eighth graders,

825
00:44:20.324 --> 00:44:24.628
that was, you know, the concern
that I had mentioned to Stacy, You know,

826
00:44:25.396 --> 00:44:27.031
particularly
when we're looking at the independent

827
00:44:27.031 --> 00:44:31.902
reading library and the choices, you know,
and we do have some students

828
00:44:31.902 --> 00:44:34.638
that are in reading three years, you know,

829
00:44:34.638 --> 00:44:37.007
and starting to look at some of the books
that are there.

830
00:44:37.007 --> 00:44:38.976
And they're like, oh,
I already saw that one.

831
00:44:38.976 --> 00:44:42.379
You know, as well as, you know,

832
00:44:42.379 --> 00:44:45.649
the readability
of the materials for the whole group.

833
00:44:46.917 --> 00:44:47.718
There were

834
00:44:47.718 --> 00:44:50.821
a lot of supplemental things
to pull for the small group

835
00:44:50.821 --> 00:44:54.091
instruction for,
you know, different skill areas.

836
00:44:54.925 --> 00:44:58.529
But the whole group,
they have the recommended path to follow.

837
00:44:58.529 --> 00:45:01.532
And I was concerned about, you know,

838
00:45:02.032 --> 00:45:05.703
the instructional level,
you know, in making sure that I was going

839
00:45:05.703 --> 00:45:11.175
to be hitting, you know, the the needs
not knowing exactly what they would be.

840
00:45:11.709 --> 00:45:16.113
So, yeah, we're kind of looking at,
you know, that as well.

841
00:45:16.113 --> 00:45:20.284
And, you know, we had a phone conversation
or a what do we do

842
00:45:20.284 --> 00:45:23.821
a web meeting last week again with them
and yeah,

843
00:45:24.555 --> 00:45:29.259
they've been very flexible in meeting
what we're not sure our needs are

844
00:45:30.694 --> 00:45:33.330
at this point
just to make sure that we're covered.

845
00:45:33.330 --> 00:45:33.697
Yeah.

846
00:45:33.697 --> 00:45:37.768
So we want to make sure that, you know,
we're incorporating all of these options.

847
00:45:38.635 --> 00:45:39.837
So it sounds pretty comprehensive.

848
00:45:39.837 --> 00:45:41.739
So even if you don't know,
we don't know yet,

849
00:45:41.739 --> 00:45:44.174
they probably are able to sell,
right? Exactly.

850
00:45:44.174 --> 00:45:45.109
There's some

851
00:45:45.109 --> 00:45:48.679
there have been a couple of times where
we've been on a phone call or a webinar

852
00:45:48.679 --> 00:45:51.548
and the ladies will ask a question
and they were like,

853
00:45:51.548 --> 00:45:53.417
Oh, did you go to the blah
blah, blah, blah, blah.

854
00:45:53.417 --> 00:45:55.085
I can tell that as one thing.

855
00:45:55.085 --> 00:45:57.921
And they're like,
Oh, you know, And then, you know,

856
00:45:57.921 --> 00:46:01.291
there's that piece that that is
they're so super supportive.

857
00:46:01.291 --> 00:46:04.962
There's just it's a it is a comprehensive
it's a complex system.

858
00:46:05.229 --> 00:46:08.499
And just getting to know it well,
we'll probably take a couple of years

859
00:46:08.499 --> 00:46:10.801
to really have it.
Like the back of your hand.

860
00:46:10.801 --> 00:46:12.436
Yeah, as long as it's robust.
That's that's good.

861
00:46:12.436 --> 00:46:16.440
And my last question was, does it bridge
well with the Reading Support

862
00:46:16.707 --> 00:46:19.543
Elementary School
and you alluded to the eighth grade

863
00:46:19.543 --> 00:46:23.747
to ninth grade, but it's a
and a good flow for those students.

864
00:46:24.114 --> 00:46:28.285
That's something that we're working
with the elementary with to make sure

865
00:46:28.786 --> 00:46:32.990
we started some transition meetings
and just recently,

866
00:46:33.857 --> 00:46:36.860
maybe like two or three weeks ago,
getting ready for fifth grade

867
00:46:36.894 --> 00:46:40.697
and sixth grade and making sure
that it's going to be a smooth transition.

868
00:46:40.697 --> 00:46:45.435
So we're the process of making sure
that our changes

869
00:46:45.435 --> 00:46:49.006
won't have any impact on, you know, the

870
00:46:50.207 --> 00:46:52.943
adjustment from fifth Dyslexia as well.

871
00:46:52.943 --> 00:46:54.044
Excellent. Thank you.

872
00:46:54.044 --> 00:46:56.680
Have you gotten feedback
from your students?

873
00:46:56.680 --> 00:46:57.581
Like, do they like it?

874
00:46:57.581 --> 00:46:59.583
Are they engaged or excited about it?

875
00:46:59.583 --> 00:47:01.919
Yes. The materials and everything. Yeah.

876
00:47:01.919 --> 00:47:06.490
The other reading specialist Sarah
Smith is in micro conditioning right now

877
00:47:06.490 --> 00:47:12.095
and she had the instructional coach
for some of her students and,

878
00:47:12.362 --> 00:47:15.365
you know, survey them on, you know,

879
00:47:16.533 --> 00:47:18.735
what they like, what to do,
all of those things.

880
00:47:18.735 --> 00:47:21.738
And we've gotten very positive feedback.

881
00:47:21.805 --> 00:47:26.577
There was one area that a couple of my
students were critical of, and you know,

882
00:47:26.577 --> 00:47:31.882
I had mentioned it in one of the webinars
and they and it's small things, you know,

883
00:47:31.882 --> 00:47:35.686
where, you know, they're typing something
and then the next line is capital.

884
00:47:35.686 --> 00:47:39.122
And then it was marking it as an error
and just little things

885
00:47:39.122 --> 00:47:42.359
and things that they probably weren't
aware of in the program,

886
00:47:42.359 --> 00:47:46.363
but it really matters to the kids
and we brought it up to them.

887
00:47:46.563 --> 00:47:49.566
They're like, Oh,
we'll definitely look into that, you know,

888
00:47:50.200 --> 00:47:53.203
like one of the prompts
that the kids were doing on the app.

889
00:47:53.837 --> 00:47:56.907
I had two students,
you know, say, you know, I'm

890
00:47:56.907 --> 00:47:58.842
not really sure about this prompt.

891
00:47:58.842 --> 00:48:01.245
You know,
when when we were looking at the text

892
00:48:01.245 --> 00:48:04.715
and the video that went along with it
and we were looking at the evidence,

893
00:48:05.782 --> 00:48:08.085
you know,
I could see exactly what they were saying,

894
00:48:08.085 --> 00:48:12.022
you know, So,
I mean, I had emailed support, you know,

895
00:48:13.624 --> 00:48:15.559
email, and they got back to me

896
00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:19.396
like right away with what we should do
and how it could be changed. So

897
00:48:20.597 --> 00:48:24.968
it doesn't seem to matter
which format we have reached out to.

898
00:48:25.002 --> 00:48:28.005
You know, it's
they've been very helpful and

899
00:48:28.739 --> 00:48:31.375
you know, had followed up on everything
that were happening.

900
00:48:31.375 --> 00:48:34.711
You know, And I say to the kids, well, I'm
going to contact them about this.

901
00:48:34.711 --> 00:48:37.214
You know, is there anything
that you want me to mention

902
00:48:37.214 --> 00:48:39.683
just to make sure
that I'm not missing anything?

903
00:48:39.683 --> 00:48:39.983
Yeah.

904
00:48:39.983 --> 00:48:43.053
So just those little things,
you know, matter.

905
00:48:43.520 --> 00:48:46.290
So I think this is the first year

906
00:48:46.290 --> 00:48:49.760
I've ever heard a student saying,
I'm excited to go to reading,

907
00:48:50.961 --> 00:48:53.931
which is really nice,
because when when just to be very clear

908
00:48:53.931 --> 00:48:56.934
about what happens with reading
remediation is that students

909
00:48:57.601 --> 00:49:00.070
don't get the opportunity
to take a world language

910
00:49:00.070 --> 00:49:03.974
if they're in reading support
because those are held at the same time.

911
00:49:04.274 --> 00:49:07.177
So a lot of times
students are very disappointed

912
00:49:07.177 --> 00:49:10.981
to be placed in
in reading yet again in middle school.

913
00:49:11.682 --> 00:49:15.585
And I think this has given them
an opportunity to really feel like

914
00:49:15.585 --> 00:49:18.755
they are progressing and learning
and this is worth their time in there.

915
00:49:18.755 --> 00:49:21.625
While

916
00:49:21.625 --> 00:49:23.560
yeah, it's very difficult
when you're missing out on

917
00:49:23.560 --> 00:49:27.030
something
to get something that you know you need.

918
00:49:27.831 --> 00:49:30.033
So it's always been a challenge
at the middle school

919
00:49:30.033 --> 00:49:33.036
with the way our schedule has worked. So

920
00:49:34.604 --> 00:49:37.140
the students have been very motivated by,

921
00:49:37.140 --> 00:49:39.076
you know, numbers
speak to middle schoolers.

922
00:49:39.076 --> 00:49:43.080
So when you're saying, you know,
look at your lifestyle, you know, it's 300

923
00:49:43.080 --> 00:49:46.083
and now it's 900, you know,

924
00:49:46.817 --> 00:49:50.687
and that far exceeds,
you know, the typical growth

925
00:49:51.922 --> 00:49:54.458
for middle school students in the program.

926
00:49:54.458 --> 00:49:58.495
You know, like they're
they're very motivated, you know, so

927
00:49:58.762 --> 00:50:01.765
they like to see their numbers
on everything that we do

928
00:50:03.100 --> 00:50:04.868
because it makes it concrete.

929
00:50:04.868 --> 00:50:06.803
You know,
they can feel like they're trying and,

930
00:50:06.803 --> 00:50:08.238
you know, they're making growth.

931
00:50:08.238 --> 00:50:12.075
But seeing that number, you know,
I just had Dr.

932
00:50:12.075 --> 00:50:16.480
Shuman do like a smiley face visit
with one of my students the other day.

933
00:50:16.480 --> 00:50:17.547
And, you know,

934
00:50:17.547 --> 00:50:21.752
a lot of these kids are struggling
learners, you know, and getting positive

935
00:50:21.752 --> 00:50:26.223
feedback from me is one thing, you know,
but getting feedback from a principal,

936
00:50:26.490 --> 00:50:30.227
you know, and being called in the office
for something that is positive,

937
00:50:31.294 --> 00:50:34.498
you know, I mean, he was
he was blown away.

938
00:50:34.498 --> 00:50:39.169
But then the student was and,
you know, like she's been trying all year

939
00:50:39.169 --> 00:50:40.337
and she's been up

940
00:50:40.337 --> 00:50:44.141
and worked up a little on this and up
a little on that, up a little on this.

941
00:50:44.141 --> 00:50:48.111
And to see, you know, this point in the
year, the way her scores are, you know,

942
00:50:48.545 --> 00:50:51.948
all coming together, going into the high
school, it's very exciting.

943
00:50:53.417 --> 00:50:54.317
Thank you.

944
00:50:54.317 --> 00:50:57.320
Are there any other questions

945
00:50:58.321 --> 00:51:00.624
that you want to keep us moving along?

946
00:51:00.624 --> 00:51:01.625
But more things. Yes.

947
00:51:01.625 --> 00:51:03.960
Thank you for your time.
Thank you so much. Spinning.

948
00:51:03.960 --> 00:51:06.663
May I have a motion for a first read
for everyone?

949
00:51:06.663 --> 00:51:09.633
One so moved and second, second.

950
00:51:09.966 --> 00:51:13.170
All those in favor
say I all those opposing same.

951
00:51:14.671 --> 00:51:18.375
I do have a little sample
pack of information

952
00:51:18.375 --> 00:51:20.944
that I'll put out on the credenza
that has to do with Read 180.

953
00:51:20.944 --> 00:51:23.013
But obviously it's a very complex system.

954
00:51:23.013 --> 00:51:25.982
We can't put the whole library out there.

955
00:51:26.016 --> 00:51:26.783
All right. And Mr.

956
00:51:26.783 --> 00:51:30.220
Sirak is here to talk about a physics
textbook

957
00:51:30.554 --> 00:51:33.557
in physics.

958
00:51:34.391 --> 00:51:34.791
All right.

959
00:51:34.791 --> 00:51:36.393
So I am Jason Sivak.

960
00:51:36.393 --> 00:51:42.032
I teach physics at the high school
and the book that I am proposing

961
00:51:42.365 --> 00:51:46.036
for recommendation
is Fundamentals of Physics 10th Edition.

962
00:51:46.703 --> 00:51:49.639
We currently use the eighth edition
at the high school,

963
00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:53.176
and they're about 11 years old now,
so they're starting to fall apart

964
00:51:53.176 --> 00:51:53.977
and deteriorate.

965
00:51:53.977 --> 00:51:56.980
So we were looking for a new model.

966
00:51:57.013 --> 00:51:59.850
The thing I really like about the book is

967
00:51:59.850 --> 00:52:04.921
it has very nice explanations
the amount of problems,

968
00:52:04.921 --> 00:52:09.025
the number of problems,
and the variety is perfect in terms of

969
00:52:10.026 --> 00:52:10.460
giving the

970
00:52:10.460 --> 00:52:13.797
students the skills that they need
for success.

971
00:52:13.797 --> 00:52:17.767
On the AP exam,
the organization is very much in line

972
00:52:17.767 --> 00:52:20.837
with the AP curriculum,
so they do a really good job with that.

973
00:52:21.304 --> 00:52:23.607
I'm new to this addition.

974
00:52:23.607 --> 00:52:24.307
It comes with

975
00:52:24.307 --> 00:52:28.845
what's called Wiley Plus, and right now
we just have the standard textbook.

976
00:52:29.379 --> 00:52:32.649
Wiley Plus would give us
a lot of online resources.

977
00:52:32.649 --> 00:52:34.784
So there's an e-book

978
00:52:34.784 --> 00:52:38.321
that includes the content that kids
can access any time they want to.

979
00:52:39.022 --> 00:52:40.857
There are

980
00:52:40.857 --> 00:52:43.293
animations, videos

981
00:52:43.293 --> 00:52:47.731
video explanations for every single
one of the sample problems

982
00:52:47.731 --> 00:52:51.301
so somebody can talk them through
how to solve the problem.

983
00:52:52.035 --> 00:52:55.405
There are some
some different applications,

984
00:52:55.438 --> 00:52:59.543
a copy of concepts to real life
presented through animation.

985
00:52:59.743 --> 00:53:03.213
And then they have a diagnostic tool
where kids can actually go

986
00:53:03.513 --> 00:53:06.249
and self-assess reading questions

987
00:53:07.517 --> 00:53:08.852
just to kind of see where they're at.

988
00:53:08.852 --> 00:53:12.656
And it gives them a score
as to what skills they're good at

989
00:53:12.656 --> 00:53:14.357
and what skills they need more work on.

990
00:53:14.357 --> 00:53:18.728
So it's a great kind of check point
along the way for students.

991
00:53:19.296 --> 00:53:23.033
They have icons on in the e-book
and also in the textbook

992
00:53:23.300 --> 00:53:27.370
for what areas include online content.

993
00:53:27.370 --> 00:53:30.373
That way they can either
click right in the e-book or

994
00:53:30.840 --> 00:53:35.245
look it up on on the site and access that.

995
00:53:35.378 --> 00:53:39.783
And one of the things I really like as
well is the program that Wiley created

996
00:53:39.783 --> 00:53:44.154
is fully compatible with Canvas,
so we can actually link

997
00:53:44.921 --> 00:53:48.158
assignments,
reading assignments, problem assignments

998
00:53:48.391 --> 00:53:51.861
directly through canvas,
and kids can go to my canvas site

999
00:53:52.128 --> 00:53:56.633
and access all of the content with Wiley
without having to go to a separate website

1000
00:53:56.900 --> 00:53:57.667
and log in.

1001
00:53:57.667 --> 00:54:01.371
So it works really nice
with with the canvas that we already have.

1002
00:54:02.739 --> 00:54:05.442
So does anybody have any questions?

1003
00:54:05.442 --> 00:54:06.009
Is it a question?

1004
00:54:06.009 --> 00:54:08.311
Are the books to the books
stay in the classroom

1005
00:54:08.311 --> 00:54:09.613
or the kids get them assigned?

1006
00:54:09.613 --> 00:54:12.616
Typically,
we give the kids some book and then with

1007
00:54:12.616 --> 00:54:15.719
with the e-book
they kind of have the two options.

1008
00:54:15.719 --> 00:54:18.922
So I always tell them, if you want to
leave your physical book at home,

1009
00:54:19.022 --> 00:54:21.157
that's more helpful to you. There.

1010
00:54:21.157 --> 00:54:22.325
You could certainly do that.

1011
00:54:22.325 --> 00:54:25.328
So if a student didn't
have web access at home, you know,

1012
00:54:25.328 --> 00:54:26.596
that would be a nice option.

1013
00:54:26.596 --> 00:54:28.932
Or if they tend to do their work
at school,

1014
00:54:28.932 --> 00:54:31.835
they could keep it in their locker,
work on it there.

1015
00:54:31.835 --> 00:54:34.771
And then if they need access elsewhere,
they can use the e-book.

1016
00:54:34.771 --> 00:54:39.476
So it kind of depends student to student,
but it does give them the two options.

1017
00:54:40.510 --> 00:54:42.512
Some students love the electronic.

1018
00:54:42.512 --> 00:54:45.515
Some students still like the flip
through the paper version

1019
00:54:46.916 --> 00:54:49.919
You mentioned
you are using the eighth edition

1020
00:54:50.787 --> 00:54:52.622
in that state, ten or 12 years old.

1021
00:54:52.622 --> 00:54:55.759
You don't think there's an 11th coming out
any time now because it is 2014.

1022
00:54:55.759 --> 00:54:58.228
Right now there is an 11th.

1023
00:54:58.228 --> 00:55:01.231
And we actually talk with Stacie
about this.

1024
00:55:01.431 --> 00:55:04.701
The 11th edition was released
electronic only,

1025
00:55:05.101 --> 00:55:10.173
and we're looking at $133 a year
to have the 11th edition.

1026
00:55:10.507 --> 00:55:14.911
This is 195 with the Wiley Plus content.

1027
00:55:14.911 --> 00:55:16.212
And we get to keep the book.

1028
00:55:16.212 --> 00:55:19.683
We have the Wiley Plus for six years,
and there's really

1029
00:55:19.683 --> 00:55:23.753
no content difference
between the 10th and the 11th.

1030
00:55:23.753 --> 00:55:26.756
Other than that
they switched over to electronic format.

1031
00:55:27.223 --> 00:55:30.927
I did talk with Wiley and they said

1032
00:55:30.927 --> 00:55:34.764
that they do not know if they will make
an 11th edition in print.

1033
00:55:36.633 --> 00:55:39.602
It sounds like they're catering
to college students

1034
00:55:39.602 --> 00:55:43.039
$133 for the year for college students.

1035
00:55:43.039 --> 00:55:45.842
Not so bad, but very high school.

1036
00:55:45.842 --> 00:55:47.143
Yeah, over six years.

1037
00:55:47.143 --> 00:55:51.915
We're talking a ridiculous amount of money
for the same book.

1038
00:55:52.082 --> 00:55:54.718
Thanks for looking into that. Sure.

1039
00:55:54.718 --> 00:55:54.918
Yeah.

1040
00:55:54.918 --> 00:55:57.721
I would never recommend $133 a year.

1041
00:55:57.721 --> 00:56:00.323
That doesn't make sense.

1042
00:56:00.323 --> 00:56:03.326
Any other question?

1043
00:56:04.828 --> 00:56:05.962
Thank you so much.

1044
00:56:05.962 --> 00:56:10.500
When I hear a motion for a first read
for the AP physics text, so moved.

1045
00:56:11.434 --> 00:56:13.970
Second,

1046
00:56:13.970 --> 00:56:15.472
all those in favor say I.

1047
00:56:15.472 --> 00:56:18.475
I opposed same thing.

1048
00:56:18.508 --> 00:56:19.676
Great. Thank you.

1049
00:56:19.676 --> 00:56:21.811
All right, we have one last set.
This is stuck.

1050
00:56:21.811 --> 00:56:22.679
You've got 3 minutes.

1051
00:56:22.679 --> 00:56:25.682
Use your speech skills.

1052
00:56:27.417 --> 00:56:29.052
Okay.

1053
00:56:29.052 --> 00:56:30.620
Hi, I'm Sherry Stuckey.

1054
00:56:30.620 --> 00:56:33.089
I'm the English department here
at the high school.

1055
00:56:33.089 --> 00:56:36.693
And the three books
I'm going to go ahead and present

1056
00:56:36.693 --> 00:56:39.963
today are Monster by Walter Dean Myers

1057
00:56:40.730 --> 00:56:44.667
Monster is a Caldecott winner.

1058
00:56:44.667 --> 00:56:47.670
It is a National Book Award
winner as well.

1059
00:56:48.271 --> 00:56:53.309
This book would be part
of the contemporary literature curriculum.

1060
00:56:53.943 --> 00:56:56.646
Second is, the hit you give that is

1061
00:56:56.646 --> 00:57:01.351
by Angie Thomas, and this would be
part of the hero's journey.

1062
00:57:01.351 --> 00:57:04.854
A college
prep English 11 year long course is well.

1063
00:57:05.255 --> 00:57:07.891
And then the last book is Tim O'Brien.

1064
00:57:07.891 --> 00:57:13.163
The Things that Carried an outstanding
book that would be used at the English 11

1065
00:57:14.431 --> 00:57:16.533
curriculum level

1066
00:57:16.533 --> 00:57:17.801
earlier in the year.

1067
00:57:17.801 --> 00:57:24.774
We ended up asking the Curriculum Council
to move our CP English 11 classes

1068
00:57:24.774 --> 00:57:28.678
from a semester long course to a year
long course, and we thought

1069
00:57:28.678 --> 00:57:31.681
that this was very, very important
because we were having difficulty.

1070
00:57:31.681 --> 00:57:35.485
The teachers were having difficulty
going very deeply with the literature

1071
00:57:35.485 --> 00:57:36.753
that we were studying.

1072
00:57:36.753 --> 00:57:40.190
In addition, we found that
the writing was very much suffering.

1073
00:57:40.857 --> 00:57:44.327
We did not have an opportunity
and we didn't feel that we were preparing

1074
00:57:44.327 --> 00:57:45.495
our college level kids.

1075
00:57:45.495 --> 00:57:49.132
And this is our college prep level kids,
not necessarily our honor students

1076
00:57:49.432 --> 00:57:53.970
or those who are in AP English,
but our kids who are still looking.

1077
00:57:53.970 --> 00:57:55.472
They want to go to college.

1078
00:57:55.472 --> 00:57:58.475
And we were not preparing them
to the best of our ability.

1079
00:57:58.641 --> 00:58:01.277
So what we decided
was that we would go ahead.

1080
00:58:01.277 --> 00:58:02.979
We would definitely do more writing.

1081
00:58:02.979 --> 00:58:06.349
We would have a research project as well,
and then we would offer

1082
00:58:06.349 --> 00:58:09.686
another novel as well
that the students would study.

1083
00:58:10.053 --> 00:58:14.357
Therefore, the teachers chose these novels
because they felt that they ended up

1084
00:58:15.158 --> 00:58:19.028
hitting some issues that with students
that were not being addressed

1085
00:58:19.295 --> 00:58:22.298
within the different curriculum,

1086
00:58:22.832 --> 00:58:25.969
the content of that
was part of an individual class.

1087
00:58:26.469 --> 00:58:28.538
So I'm going to pass these around.

1088
00:58:28.538 --> 00:58:31.574
Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried,
this is a series of vignettes.

1089
00:58:35.278 --> 00:58:35.912
It's about the

1090
00:58:35.912 --> 00:58:38.882
Vietnam
War, but it's more than the Vietnam War.

1091
00:58:39.349 --> 00:58:44.521
Tim O'Brien uses the Vietnam War
as a setting, but each individual chapter

1092
00:58:44.521 --> 00:58:50.493
focuses on a different gentleman
who ends up going through the Vietnam War.

1093
00:58:50.760 --> 00:58:51.661
Some are survivors.

1094
00:58:51.661 --> 00:58:53.029
Some do not survive.

1095
00:58:53.029 --> 00:58:55.532
But it talks about faith.

1096
00:58:55.532 --> 00:58:57.667
It talks about personal relationships.

1097
00:58:57.667 --> 00:59:01.037
It talks about all the things
that they carried into war.

1098
00:59:01.304 --> 00:59:02.972
So the focus is not on war.

1099
00:59:02.972 --> 00:59:05.975
It is not necessarily glory,
anything like that.

1100
00:59:06.142 --> 00:59:08.611
It's about the human experience.

1101
00:59:08.611 --> 00:59:12.181
The hit you give is about a young woman.

1102
00:59:12.181 --> 00:59:13.383
This is very appropriate.

1103
00:59:13.383 --> 00:59:18.288
Both of these books,
I feel, are very timely for dealing with

1104
00:59:18.888 --> 00:59:21.691
race relations and diversity
and some issues

1105
00:59:21.691 --> 00:59:24.694
that are are occurring
within our culture today.

1106
00:59:25.128 --> 00:59:28.131
The heat you give
is about an African-American young woman.

1107
00:59:28.731 --> 00:59:33.169
She is her parents want her to go
to get out of the inner city.

1108
00:59:33.436 --> 00:59:36.439
They want her to go to a private,
all white school.

1109
00:59:36.706 --> 00:59:40.343
She really doesn't want to go there,
but for educational purposes

1110
00:59:41.010 --> 00:59:43.980
and to get into a good college,
she decides to do that.

1111
00:59:43.980 --> 00:59:47.617
Unfortunately,
there is an incident that occurs

1112
00:59:47.850 --> 00:59:51.521
and one of her friends is shot and killed.

1113
00:59:51.854 --> 00:59:53.957
An African-American young man.

1114
00:59:54.924 --> 00:59:57.927
This I, I have read this book.

1115
00:59:58.127 --> 01:00:03.032
It does deal with some brutality in it
there.

1116
01:00:03.032 --> 01:00:05.935
But it's really interesting
to watch this young girl.

1117
01:00:05.935 --> 01:00:08.871
She's trying to navigate two worlds,

1118
01:00:08.871 --> 01:00:11.874
being in a world where she's a minority

1119
01:00:11.941 --> 01:00:17.180
and a world that she finds is in
where she belongs.

1120
01:00:17.180 --> 01:00:21.651
She feels she belongs, and but she really
is trying to get the education she needs.

1121
01:00:21.651 --> 01:00:25.488
She is also dating
a young Caucasian man as well.

1122
01:00:25.888 --> 01:00:30.393
So and it really ends up
we see two different perspectives.

1123
01:00:30.660 --> 01:00:32.261
And to different perspectives

1124
01:00:32.261 --> 01:00:34.831
on various issues
that are occurring in the world today.

1125
01:00:34.831 --> 01:00:37.734
It's an outstanding book.

1126
01:00:37.734 --> 01:00:40.937
And the last one is Monster by Walter
Dean Myers.

1127
01:00:41.738 --> 01:00:43.640
The first I was I was looking at this one.

1128
01:00:43.640 --> 01:00:45.842
I was concerned about this one
because of the reading level.

1129
01:00:45.842 --> 01:00:50.580
I thought the reading level was a little
little lower than it's an 11th grade

1130
01:00:51.648 --> 01:00:52.015
book.

1131
01:00:52.015 --> 01:00:55.284
But as I
looked at it, there's so much more to it.

1132
01:00:55.284 --> 01:00:59.489
It's written the screenplay version,
and this young man is on trial.

1133
01:01:00.023 --> 01:01:03.526
He is 16 years old
and he's been convicted of a murder.

1134
01:01:03.960 --> 01:01:06.496
And it talks about the prison system.

1135
01:01:06.496 --> 01:01:08.264
It talks about what he has to go through.

1136
01:01:08.264 --> 01:01:11.467
It talks about decision making
and the effects of society

1137
01:01:11.467 --> 01:01:14.470
on the individual.

1138
01:01:15.838 --> 01:01:17.573
Sorry, that was very quick.

1139
01:01:17.573 --> 01:01:20.443
Are there any questions
that you would have for me

1140
01:01:20.443 --> 01:01:23.446
at this time?

1141
01:01:24.447 --> 01:01:25.081
I just want to say

1142
01:01:25.081 --> 01:01:28.518
thank you for having these topics
discussed in the classroom.

1143
01:01:28.518 --> 01:01:29.886
I think it's really important.

1144
01:01:29.886 --> 01:01:34.190
We in we debated about this,
but these are 11th grade students

1145
01:01:34.190 --> 01:01:39.429
and we feel that our young people,
they're talking about these issues anyway

1146
01:01:39.429 --> 01:01:43.599
and it gives them a very safe
place to explore these issues

1147
01:01:45.001 --> 01:01:47.970
and to explore multiple

1148
01:01:49.072 --> 01:01:52.075
perspectives.

1149
01:01:54.177 --> 01:01:57.013
Their questions know, Thank you so much.

1150
01:01:57.013 --> 01:01:59.882
We like to combine the vote. Sure.

1151
01:01:59.882 --> 01:02:02.018
May I have a motion to combine
the textbook

1152
01:02:02.018 --> 01:02:03.753
recommendations for the English novels?

1153
01:02:03.753 --> 01:02:06.355
So most second.

1154
01:02:06.355 --> 01:02:07.590
Thank you. Okay.

1155
01:02:07.590 --> 01:02:11.427
So may I please have a motion for a first
read for the three English novels?

1156
01:02:11.427 --> 01:02:13.830
The Hate U Give a Monster
and the Things They Carried.

1157
01:02:13.830 --> 01:02:17.834
I will just say these are all really
phenomenal books and all summer.

1158
01:02:18.034 --> 01:02:19.368
Second. Thank you.

1159
01:02:19.368 --> 01:02:21.804
All those in favor say I oppose him.

1160
01:02:21.804 --> 01:02:24.040
Say it's wonderful.

1161
01:02:24.040 --> 01:02:27.043
We have one piece of old business.

1162
01:02:27.777 --> 01:02:31.481
It is the textbook recommendation
for the American history A.P.

1163
01:02:31.481 --> 01:02:33.583
edition

1164
01:02:33.583 --> 01:02:35.051
that has been on.

1165
01:02:35.051 --> 01:02:39.622
It's actually been on 60 day display because we did cancel our our March meeting.

1166
01:02:40.623 --> 01:02:43.092
So I'm looking for here is a

1167
01:02:43.092 --> 01:02:47.864
motion for a second read
for the AP history US history textbooks.

1168
01:02:48.664 --> 01:02:51.134
And that if that is approved,
I will send that on to the board

1169
01:02:51.134 --> 01:02:52.802
for full board approval.

1170
01:02:52.802 --> 01:02:54.804
May I have a motion? So moved.

1171
01:02:54.804 --> 01:02:56.806
Thank you, sir.

1172
01:02:56.806 --> 01:02:58.107
Thank you very much.

1173
01:02:58.107 --> 01:02:59.542
All those in favor say, I.

1174
01:02:59.542 --> 01:03:02.545
I as opposed to him saying

1175
01:03:02.612 --> 01:03:04.680
okay and not to rush us,

1176
01:03:04.680 --> 01:03:07.683
but I know there's another meeting
waiting to take our seats.

1177
01:03:08.551 --> 01:03:11.821
Our next meeting is May 13, and with that

1178
01:03:12.622 --> 01:03:15.625
I will adjourn at 504.

1179
01:03:16.392 --> 01:03:17.126
Thank you very much.