WEBVTT 4 00:16:22.800 --> 00:16:34.470 meredith heuer: Okay, so let's begin the meeting. I'd like to call to order the August 11 2020 regular meeting of the Board of Education into the school district and in 5 00:16:35.880 --> 00:16:37.020 meredith heuer: Stanford affordable Asian 6 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:44.700 American. American 7 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:49.620 Public which it stands, one nation under God. 8 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:03.750 Kelly Pologe: Mr case. 9 00:17:06.630 --> 00:17:07.080 meredith heuer: Delay 10 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:08.250 James Case-Leal: I'm here. 11 00:17:08.580 --> 00:17:10.110 meredith heuer: Oh, sorry, James. 12 00:17:12.030 --> 00:17:14.790 Kelly Pologe: Can't see everyone I'm this one. 13 00:17:16.410 --> 00:17:18.780 Kelly Pologe: Here, see you miss Stadler 14 00:17:21.360 --> 00:17:21.900 meredith heuer: Delayed 15 00:17:23.940 --> 00:17:24.450 Kelly Pologe: You're saying 16 00:17:26.130 --> 00:17:32.310 18452245146: I'm here on the phone 2466 I'm having a problem getting online asked me for password. 17 00:17:34.350 --> 00:17:35.970 meredith heuer: It's at the bottom of the 18 00:17:37.650 --> 00:17:39.750 meredith heuer: Of the info into me. 19 00:17:41.340 --> 00:17:43.440 meredith heuer: 965 too long. 20 00:17:45.390 --> 00:17:45.660 18452245146: Oh, 21 00:17:46.710 --> 00:17:47.490 18452245146: Okay, thank you very much. 22 00:17:49.590 --> 00:17:50.400 Kelly Pologe: Mr. White 23 00:17:55.110 --> 00:17:57.240 Kelly Pologe: See listed here. 24 00:17:59.340 --> 00:17:59.910 Kelly Pologe: See you. 25 00:18:02.250 --> 00:18:03.090 Kelly Pologe: This better fit. 26 00:18:03.660 --> 00:18:05.910 Kelly Pologe: Here I see this year. 27 00:18:10.410 --> 00:18:11.220 meredith heuer: Thank you. 28 00:18:12.750 --> 00:18:15.030 meredith heuer: We're going to go straight into open to the public, but 29 00:18:17.820 --> 00:18:23.190 meredith heuer: I would like to have a motion to wave policy to zero and 1230 30 00:18:27.420 --> 00:18:28.110 meredith heuer: No second 31 00:18:28.410 --> 00:18:28.650 I 32 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:33.720 meredith heuer: Don't know if it was a Christian. 33 00:18:39.030 --> 00:18:40.440 meredith heuer: Any questions. 34 00:18:42.360 --> 00:18:43.530 meredith heuer: The first policy is 35 00:18:44.580 --> 00:18:51.210 meredith heuer: Is the order of our meeting just for everyone to understand the second policy is to 36 00:18:51.870 --> 00:19:02.250 meredith heuer: Waive our public column common policy which normally is a four minute limit. So I would ask people that do want to make public comment to please here to that, but we haven't yet adjusted it for this new meaning. So 37 00:19:04.530 --> 00:19:08.490 meredith heuer: So please be respectful of that. Any other comments or questions. 38 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:12.480 meredith heuer: Kelly do see that Flores here. 39 00:19:14.430 --> 00:19:15.390 Kelly Pologe: Okay, yes. Okay. 40 00:19:16.410 --> 00:19:19.410 meredith heuer: I'm calling FAVOR, AYE. 41 00:19:20.790 --> 00:19:21.600 meredith heuer: Opposed. 42 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:25.050 meredith heuer: Passes eight zero 43 00:19:27.600 --> 00:19:32.640 meredith heuer: Okay, if there's only one public comment that they would like to make 44 00:19:34.740 --> 00:19:38.340 meredith heuer: And I would ask you to maybe put your name in the chat. 45 00:19:39.540 --> 00:19:40.350 meredith heuer: I can calling you. 46 00:19:42.570 --> 00:19:46.230 meredith heuer: To possible if you're on a phone and it's hard to speak up. 47 00:19:52.650 --> 00:19:53.430 meredith heuer: Public comment. 48 00:19:59.850 --> 00:20:03.360 meredith heuer: Okay, I'm gonna move on to the workshop with Matt. 49 00:20:05.340 --> 00:20:11.910 Matt Landahl: Hey, we are just going to give an update on reopening planning tonight and so 50 00:20:13.650 --> 00:20:15.180 Matt Landahl: We can get those slides. 51 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:23.010 Matt Landahl: You can just go to the 52 00:20:24.300 --> 00:20:25.620 Matt Landahl: Next one. Alright. 53 00:20:27.390 --> 00:20:38.490 Matt Landahl: So the goal tonight is just to kind of, you know, give an update on where things are. And some of the things we are working on right now and 54 00:20:39.870 --> 00:20:49.260 Matt Landahl: And try to lay out a little bit of some of our next steps. Like I said back on July 31 that 55 00:20:50.040 --> 00:21:07.590 Matt Landahl: We did, you know, submit a plan on that date, but we, there are many details that we're working on adding and strengthening and evolving parts of the plan. So indeed, it was submitted to both the Department of Health and the State Education Department 56 00:21:09.480 --> 00:21:09.960 Matt Landahl: We 57 00:21:11.070 --> 00:21:24.510 Matt Landahl: We are on the list with I guess 107 other districts. That said, we did not complete the plan and it appears that I can't speak for all 107 districts, but I think most of them. 58 00:21:25.410 --> 00:21:39.870 Matt Landahl: Neglected to click on the Add a station link that said that we read the guidelines. I think that was one of the primary reasons that we post the plan to the public on that day and we submitted it to both departments on that day. 59 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:47.970 Matt Landahl: So it's sort of an odd way to communicate with one seventh of the districts in New York that they forgot to do that. 60 00:21:48.600 --> 00:21:52.980 Matt Landahl: But I guess it's water under the bridge now and I have spoken with both the governor's office. 61 00:21:53.460 --> 00:21:59.550 Matt Landahl: And the Department of Health at the New York level and our plan is in and they're looking at it and everything is fine. 62 00:22:00.150 --> 00:22:12.240 Matt Landahl: For the timeline and we continue to work on it daily. We have meetings either small group large group community large staff meeting small staff meetings, etc. So when we make an official change to the plan. 63 00:22:13.020 --> 00:22:19.170 Matt Landahl: We will notify everyone about that addition that we're putting in there or a change. Next slide. 64 00:22:21.240 --> 00:22:25.200 Matt Landahl: All right, so, Governor Cuomo announced on Friday, August 7 65 00:22:26.820 --> 00:22:33.720 Matt Landahl: Really no surprise that he is allowing districts to reopen. And I said, no surprise because of the 66 00:22:35.220 --> 00:22:44.460 Matt Landahl: coven 19 transmission rates are some of the lowest in the country here in New York and with the levels that he laid out quite a while ago. 67 00:22:45.180 --> 00:22:57.120 Matt Landahl: You know 5% is sort of the monitor things 9% is a school closure, at least at the state level 9% transmission rates that US hovering around 1% for quite some time. 68 00:22:58.800 --> 00:23:05.850 Matt Landahl: Means that he's given the green light to reopen or for schools to make decisions all 700 of US districts to make decisions. 69 00:23:06.270 --> 00:23:19.620 Matt Landahl: So he wants us to communicate by the end of this week, a little bit more specifically, or at least make it easier to find on the website information about how we're going to do contact racing or how at least we're going to work with the Department of Health. 70 00:23:20.790 --> 00:23:21.900 Matt Landahl: Information about 71 00:23:23.520 --> 00:23:24.360 Matt Landahl: How will 72 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:27.420 Craig Wolf: Utilize testing if needed. 73 00:23:28.260 --> 00:23:37.020 Matt Landahl: And that, again, working with the Department of Health, to be more specific about remote learning and kind of he's making some communication requirements. 74 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:44.460 Matt Landahl: I'd like to give ourselves a little bit of a pat on the back, because I think we were ahead of that curve. And we've been doing 75 00:23:44.940 --> 00:23:54.660 Matt Landahl: Internal either small group or town hall meetings with our employees, we've been doing, you know, we did for Community Sims before even July 31 76 00:23:55.200 --> 00:24:08.160 Matt Landahl: And we have plans to do many more. So that's not an issue with us. I, it appears that he made that recommendation because it seems some districts have not really been doing a lot of communicating 77 00:24:09.240 --> 00:24:10.680 Matt Landahl: Around their planning so 78 00:24:12.090 --> 00:24:19.080 Matt Landahl: But we have some work to do on these. And so we're going to talk about each one some a little bit longer than others. Next slide please. 79 00:24:20.730 --> 00:24:34.530 Matt Landahl: All right before we get to that, and this is I'm not asking for a board approval and what I sent you has as a draft has a couple of issues. So before we share the draft public, we need to you know make sure the calendar is correct. 80 00:24:35.580 --> 00:24:48.090 Matt Landahl: But we want to make a couple of changes our original calendar had September 3 and fourth as professional learning days. We'd like to take the two that are during the school year and move them up to the beginning of the year. 81 00:24:49.590 --> 00:24:58.680 Matt Landahl: And I would add whatever we're doing, you know, if everything changes in the next three or four weeks and and suddenly there's like outbreaks of 82 00:24:59.970 --> 00:25:07.920 Matt Landahl: And for whatever reason we're all remote, I would still want this. So we would like to front load professional learning days and have four days with our staff. 83 00:25:09.120 --> 00:25:18.540 Matt Landahl: Before the before we start working with our students and so that that's one of the changes. So I'm just sort of sharing this on a conceptual level with the board. 84 00:25:18.990 --> 00:25:27.150 Matt Landahl: And the community. We really like. And we've been talking about this as an administrative team to September 10 and 11th to do orientation. 85 00:25:27.870 --> 00:25:35.550 Matt Landahl: Days for really all levels and so that's pre K through 12. So we're kind of picturing different things at different levels. 86 00:25:36.210 --> 00:25:46.440 Matt Landahl: For for new students at the middle school in high school really like them in to get tours of the building. Of course, we have to really schedule this so we don't have 87 00:25:46.950 --> 00:25:55.980 Matt Landahl: You know, huge, large numbers of students in the building at any time at the elementary level the elementary principles, obviously this is slightly weather dependent, but they love to do. 88 00:25:56.400 --> 00:26:05.370 Matt Landahl: Some outside socially distance meet and greets with both parents and students or parents if if their children will be in person can drop off supplies. 89 00:26:05.850 --> 00:26:22.560 Matt Landahl: Where people can pick up Chromebooks and where people can meet the teachers that they're going to be working with. So we think right now that we can accomplish that. On September 10 and 11th AND THEN ON SEPTEMBER 14 we would begin both hybrid and remote learning 90 00:26:24.090 --> 00:26:28.530 Matt Landahl: And this is something that we're still working on working on this, both with administrators and teachers. 91 00:26:30.300 --> 00:26:48.240 Matt Landahl: We're looking at some possible modifications to the to the day. And so that would be start times and and possibly n times the day and that would be to provide our teachers extra time to work with students remotely. 92 00:26:49.380 --> 00:26:53.880 Matt Landahl: So, or to have more flexibility within the school day. And so 93 00:26:55.110 --> 00:26:56.370 Matt Landahl: So anyway, we 94 00:26:58.350 --> 00:27:12.870 Matt Landahl: Were still kind of playing around with that and working with our teachers are some that that we think that's a possibility to kind of pull off what we're working on here that we're going to need to make some modifications. So our next board meeting is August 24 95 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:23.460 Matt Landahl: I haven't spoken about this with the whole board or board officers. I mean, if you know if there's a need to have another meeting between then and the 24th. We're happy to do that. 96 00:27:24.300 --> 00:27:40.170 Matt Landahl: But we would for sure be talking about these changes to what the school day times would be by probably mid next week sometime, if not earlier and then start working with the board about adopting those changes. 97 00:27:41.280 --> 00:27:41.790 Matt Landahl: Next slide. 98 00:27:44.880 --> 00:28:01.410 Matt Landahl: Communication is one of the big things Governor Cuomo spoke about. And again, I guess, I don't know, valid validation is the word, but I feel like we've been trying to take some proactive steps here, but I also just want to be clear. We feel like we have a long way to go. 99 00:28:02.610 --> 00:28:12.360 Matt Landahl: With trying to answer questions that people have every time we do one of these more questions pop up. And so we're working really hard to 100 00:28:13.230 --> 00:28:19.560 Matt Landahl: To try and answer them. For instance, today, elementary principles, got together and did an elementary zoom 101 00:28:20.160 --> 00:28:30.570 Matt Landahl: And right after we tried to kind of go through some of the chat questions. I tried to help out. I'm not sure I did a good job or not, but I tried to both chat answers to questions but also 102 00:28:31.350 --> 00:28:37.710 Matt Landahl: Help out the principles with the answering, but we immediately met right after the zoom ended to go through some of the 103 00:28:38.430 --> 00:28:41.190 Matt Landahl: Questions that people hadn't developed plans on answering them. 104 00:28:42.060 --> 00:28:50.130 Matt Landahl: On a beacon high school administration is going to do a zoom on Thursday at three, by the way, the elementary one was recorded today. So we'll post that on our reopening website. 105 00:28:50.940 --> 00:28:57.030 Matt Landahl: We're going to record all of these speak in high school is doing one Thursday at three, we're still talking about what the schedule look like 106 00:28:57.450 --> 00:29:03.630 Matt Landahl: But the initial plans for remote learning will look like just sort of day to day, how's it going to look and feel. 107 00:29:04.200 --> 00:29:12.180 Matt Landahl: At the high school are PPS department is going to be focusing on students with disabilities and their tentative time 108 00:29:12.600 --> 00:29:28.020 Matt Landahl: Is Tuesday, August 18, a week from today at seven o'clock, we'll do the same Ron bout is working on a time since we get that will share that out but that will be in the next few days, and then also just continue doing a weekly zoom 109 00:29:29.910 --> 00:29:42.450 Matt Landahl: So my I'm tentatively planning, one for Thursday at 11 I might need to shift that based on something that's come up on my calendar so I didn't have a chance to change the slide, I'm thinking of trying to on Thursday or 110 00:29:43.770 --> 00:29:47.640 Matt Landahl: If I am to be in town on Friday, there's a chance that might be out of town. 111 00:29:48.720 --> 00:30:00.330 Matt Landahl: That I might do on Friday, too. So, I will confirm that by tomorrow when I'll be doing those. And I'll also just be trying to answer questions. We have an FAQ that we're kind of at least putting some 112 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:16.350 Matt Landahl: Final Thoughts on at least version one of the FAQ, and we're aiming to put that up on our website. Hopefully tomorrow we're having weekly meetings with our also our employee groups in a number of different ways we're having in person meetings, we're having town hall zoom meetings. 113 00:30:17.610 --> 00:30:27.810 Matt Landahl: And we're working closely with all of our different bargaining units on both safety and with our teachers and CA's on the instructional side of things as well. 114 00:30:28.920 --> 00:30:39.150 Matt Landahl: And the instructional part, you know, is something that is is very complex and is is taking some time, we're trying to do it well and 115 00:30:39.720 --> 00:30:51.060 Matt Landahl: So anyway, we we've had a lot of good meetings and I just want to personally thank all of our union leadership and beacon because they've been really proactive with us and helping us set these meetings up helping get questions to us. 116 00:30:53.040 --> 00:30:54.030 Matt Landahl: And 117 00:30:56.460 --> 00:31:02.940 Matt Landahl: And, and, you know, working with us and trying to get answers to things just the last message and I will put this 118 00:31:04.770 --> 00:31:10.260 Matt Landahl: I'll put this in a I'm going to do a robo call tomorrow. We're going to remind folks and I'll remind folks that 119 00:31:11.100 --> 00:31:19.890 Matt Landahl: The email that we sent out about making a decision about hybrid a remote I think based on just the zoom. Today we're going to give a couple extra days for people to think about it. 120 00:31:20.340 --> 00:31:29.610 Matt Landahl: And I also if people really feel like they need more time like we're going to allow that. I'm not trying to pressure. People are just absolutely 121 00:31:30.360 --> 00:31:39.990 Matt Landahl: ruin things for them right now. They need a little bit more time. So I'm going to remind people about it they can send the letter back to us, or they can do the link and will include the link 122 00:31:40.890 --> 00:31:45.960 Matt Landahl: In the email will will text, people will leave a message, but I'm also going to ask folks. 123 00:31:46.440 --> 00:32:03.150 Matt Landahl: If they have questions for them to reach out to me and I'll make sure I have my email address on there because I have tried whenever I have a question from a parent or staff member that I try my best either answer it or put it on our list of things that we need to work on. 124 00:32:04.230 --> 00:32:10.110 Matt Landahl: So please reach out to me if you have questions, we will work on getting answers to you as soon as we can. 125 00:32:11.400 --> 00:32:12.090 Matt Landahl: Yeah, sorry. 126 00:32:12.900 --> 00:32:21.630 meredith heuer: Um, someone asked me if the commitment to either hybrid or learning is that for one semester or 127 00:32:24.420 --> 00:32:28.680 Matt Landahl: It is from one semester they can switch in January, however. 128 00:32:30.330 --> 00:32:44.160 Matt Landahl: I think this only makes sense if someone is doing the hybrid in person model and either a health issue develops, or they just don't feel like it if they feel uncomfortable with it or whatever we will switch them over to remote 129 00:32:45.540 --> 00:32:55.980 Matt Landahl: Whenever they asked her, that switching from remote to in person that we would ask you to wait to do that in January, just so we can manage the class size aspect. 130 00:32:56.700 --> 00:33:06.120 Matt Landahl: And we also don't want to just sort of be moving people back and forth all the time that I really, and I'll make this clear to folks I tried to make it clear on the on the elementary zoom today. 131 00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:08.520 Matt Landahl: That if people 132 00:33:09.540 --> 00:33:13.740 Matt Landahl: If people at any point if they're doing the hybrid in person thing. 133 00:33:14.220 --> 00:33:23.520 Matt Landahl: If they again have a health issue that comes up, or just some reason that they feel like they need to switch to remote. We are not going to make them wait till January. That does not make sense. 134 00:33:24.330 --> 00:33:35.640 Matt Landahl: We just don't want to be moving people back and forth all semester, which I think most people would agree. Make sense that, yeah, that if that helps. And maybe that might help people make their decisions as well. 135 00:33:37.140 --> 00:33:40.620 Matt Landahl: And, you know, just on a personal side of things. I 136 00:33:41.910 --> 00:33:48.690 Matt Landahl: I'm a dad, too. And you know, it's a it's a lot to think about and we tried to take a 137 00:33:48.720 --> 00:33:52.170 Matt Landahl: Little bit of a vacation last week and of course the communication came out. 138 00:33:52.500 --> 00:34:04.620 Matt Landahl: And we are attempting to have a vacation. And so, you know, we started all the family discussions which I know many of you are having about a so you know we're going through the same stuff. And I understand that it's hard. 139 00:34:05.910 --> 00:34:11.520 Matt Landahl: I will say this, some of the details. We're working on the instructional side I think we'll have some hammered out in the next few days. 140 00:34:11.820 --> 00:34:16.320 Matt Landahl: But some are going to evolve over time because we need more time to work with our teachers. 141 00:34:16.770 --> 00:34:30.750 Matt Landahl: And that takes time. And so I am asking folks if they can make a decision to make it. They sent health or comfortability reasons, right now, because if the more kids we know about by the deadline, the more it helps us plan. 142 00:34:31.770 --> 00:34:32.520 Matt Landahl: So next slide. 143 00:34:58.080 --> 00:35:04.350 Matt Landahl: So anyway, the next slide was just going to be a very brief statement about contact racing and testing. 144 00:35:06.030 --> 00:35:06.990 Matt Landahl: So, 145 00:35:08.160 --> 00:35:21.930 Matt Landahl: A Governor Cuomo asked for a couple of things. He asked for that information to be more readily accessible by us on our websites that will make that more readily accessible any also asked 146 00:35:22.860 --> 00:35:35.100 Matt Landahl: For us to kind of add more detail to that as well. So we're going to work on that. So we think it's best in Dutchess County to try to address these things as a county 147 00:35:35.490 --> 00:35:44.670 Matt Landahl: So we have a meeting tomorrow as a superintendent group and we have a meeting with the Department of Health this week as well and Dutchess County to work on that. 148 00:35:46.080 --> 00:35:46.890 Matt Landahl: To 149 00:35:49.320 --> 00:35:58.740 Matt Landahl: Get to get a better not a better planet to get have a more like informative plan and easier for people to reach. I will just say this. I find 150 00:36:00.240 --> 00:36:05.550 Matt Landahl: I don't want this to sound like a political statement, but I think it's interesting. 151 00:36:07.230 --> 00:36:07.680 Matt Landahl: That 152 00:36:08.940 --> 00:36:25.890 Matt Landahl: That the governor's asking for each district to come up with a testing plan when I've always felt the mantra of this entire experience has been that plans that we shouldn't have every district sort of out there trying to figure things out or every locality or even every state. 153 00:36:26.940 --> 00:36:39.840 Matt Landahl: So it's curious to me why it came out that way, but we will do it were asked, and we in Dutchess County will try to do it as a county, both with the Department of Health and the other districts, because we want to be on the same page as a career. 154 00:36:42.210 --> 00:36:43.590 Matt Landahl: All right. 155 00:36:44.790 --> 00:36:45.720 Matt Landahl: So, 156 00:36:48.540 --> 00:36:54.480 Matt Landahl: All right, I am just going to go. We're having a little problem with the slides, but I'm just going to go over just some other questions that are coming up. I know there's 157 00:36:55.560 --> 00:36:56.580 Matt Landahl: Many more. I'm sorry. 158 00:36:58.140 --> 00:36:58.650 I'm sorry. 159 00:37:03.990 --> 00:37:10.290 Matt Landahl: I want to talk about remote learning. Sorry, I got a little, little messed up in my head with where we are. 160 00:37:11.190 --> 00:37:17.190 Matt Landahl: So remote learning that that's probably where we're getting the most questions right now deservedly so the governor's asked us to be a little bit clear 161 00:37:17.970 --> 00:37:24.210 Matt Landahl: We are trying to work closely with teachers and how this looks. And you know, I said it on the elementary zoom today. 162 00:37:25.080 --> 00:37:29.460 Matt Landahl: This is it's a challenge. It's not a. It's not a bad challenge, but it is a challenge. 163 00:37:29.730 --> 00:37:38.520 Matt Landahl: Because essentially we're trying to pull off two things at once. We're trying to pull off a remote learning experience for students and a hybrid experience which has in person and remote as well. 164 00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:44.370 Matt Landahl: So it's complicated. And I don't mean that in a way that makes it impossible, but we 165 00:37:45.060 --> 00:37:56.040 Matt Landahl: One of our first task was at each school at each level that we asked our administrators to develop hybrid schedules that would easily convert into remote schedules for all students at a moment's notice. 166 00:37:57.030 --> 00:38:02.730 Matt Landahl: We're going to, I'm going to dig a little bit deeper into that and we're looking at ways to have a remote experience. 167 00:38:03.330 --> 00:38:13.530 Matt Landahl: Be something that is connected to our classrooms here in person where those students are getting regular and scheduled interaction and teaching from teachers. 168 00:38:14.190 --> 00:38:21.780 Matt Landahl: The remote students, whether they're on the hybrid remote or full remote they're getting interaction with their peers and they feel like they're part of the community. 169 00:38:24.810 --> 00:38:37.230 Matt Landahl: So that, that takes a little bit of thinking outside the box to use that cliche. It takes some work with teachers across all of our buildings and it takes a lot of planning. So we're trying to get the structure and 170 00:38:37.860 --> 00:38:47.010 Matt Landahl: Just sort of the sense of what it's going to look like done in the next few days, and then really work on the like instructional sort of training for it and the weeks. 171 00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:57.330 Matt Landahl: Leading up to the school year that remote Wednesday, you know, part of that day is going to be professional development for teachers and extra planning time for teachers, along with working with all of our students remotely. 172 00:38:58.050 --> 00:39:04.890 Matt Landahl: So we're going to have time every week to refine and work on making this multifaceted plan work. 173 00:39:06.090 --> 00:39:11.250 Matt Landahl: But it's complicated. One of the complications is we're sort of in this catch 22 with the community. 174 00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:22.020 Matt Landahl: Which we will we will work through. But it's hard for us to plan exactly what it's going to look like when you don't have the number of students who are opting for remote and I totally get on the parents side. 175 00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:30.870 Matt Landahl: That they want a little bit for information before they commit to it. So we're going to work on the assumption. Right now it looks like it's sort of splitting 70% 176 00:39:31.230 --> 00:39:41.790 Matt Landahl: Of families are requesting the hybrid model and 30% of requesting the full remote. So we're going to kind of move forward with those numbers just as just as a planning tool for us. 177 00:39:42.240 --> 00:39:50.610 Matt Landahl: And work on what this is going to what it's going to look like. One of the things that we're thinking about for remote is we'd like to have a model also 178 00:39:51.930 --> 00:40:04.620 Matt Landahl: That deals with students who we may have students that need to quarantine for family reasons or students who just get sick. And so obviously there's going to be other illnesses besides coven 179 00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:15.840 Matt Landahl: And so we also think it'd be great to have a model that those students who may be choosing to do the hybrid model can just sort of slide into remote model at any time. 180 00:40:17.370 --> 00:40:35.670 Matt Landahl: And they say, you know, in a learning community where they're with their peers and their teacher. The same could be said for an entire learning community that they may need to you know quarantine at any moment. And so we would want that learning community to remain whole so 181 00:40:37.080 --> 00:40:47.250 Matt Landahl: So I we got great feedback at the elementary zoom today that we need to get much more specific with this. We are working very hard on trying to get more specific at the middle and high school 182 00:40:48.270 --> 00:41:00.420 Matt Landahl: We're working on having our remote our full remote students follow some sort of schedule either where they're checking in with teachers or getting either stream lessons or lessons that are videotape that they can view at a different time. 183 00:41:01.740 --> 00:41:07.200 Matt Landahl: Not every class will have a screen or videotape thing every single time because it just wouldn't make sense. 184 00:41:08.100 --> 00:41:14.040 Matt Landahl: But we are going to greatly increase the number of sort of direct teaching experiences students have 185 00:41:14.430 --> 00:41:17.460 Matt Landahl: And the level of interaction that they have with their peers and their teachers. 186 00:41:17.820 --> 00:41:27.810 Matt Landahl: So our administrators are working hard on this. We're working with our teachers on this. There's a lot of questions we need to answer. I totally get the frustration that people have. We are working through it. 187 00:41:28.980 --> 00:41:29.940 Matt Landahl: And it's complex. 188 00:41:31.110 --> 00:41:36.690 Matt Landahl: But I feel like we're getting a pretty good handle on it. And I think we're going to come up with a model. 189 00:41:37.890 --> 00:41:47.070 Matt Landahl: That that keeps our community whole that tries to meet the needs of our students but but also probably doesn't make everybody completely happy. 190 00:41:47.760 --> 00:41:57.270 Matt Landahl: Which I share it. I think at the very beginning of this like six weeks ago that you know the consultant that I worked with. All right, tended to zoom thing. Way back in June. 191 00:41:58.050 --> 00:42:07.890 Matt Landahl: Talked about this as the year we're kind of no one is happy. So that's going to be a part of this as well. The one thing about the remote learning part that I do want to be clear about is 192 00:42:08.820 --> 00:42:17.820 Matt Landahl: We only have so many staff members. And I think, you know, I feel like I've tried to read everything and not really on the beacon Facebook world, but I've tried to 193 00:42:18.270 --> 00:42:29.400 Matt Landahl: Read every sort of thought piece essay, What have you about how people think in person school can happen. And one of the things I think that said a lot 194 00:42:29.730 --> 00:42:38.010 Matt Landahl: Is, well you just split your teachers and you have like this group of teachers teach their kids and you have this group of teachers teach the in person, kids, and it works out perfectly. 195 00:42:39.210 --> 00:42:52.080 Matt Landahl: I would sort of think that a lot of those people who write those maybe either aren't in my seat or they're in a different district, because we've looked at that very closely for us to pull our number of teachers out to just teach remotely. 196 00:42:53.190 --> 00:43:05.160 Matt Landahl: Would, would make some of our in person, education, almost kind of impossible to do our elementary schools are all on the small side and pulling you know numbers of teachers out of each of those buildings. 197 00:43:06.030 --> 00:43:08.460 Matt Landahl: Would make kind of everything we do almost impossible. 198 00:43:09.450 --> 00:43:17.490 Matt Landahl: So that being said, we are working on a model that teachers are going to be working with both groups they have time to do it. They feel like they're supported 199 00:43:17.850 --> 00:43:25.860 Matt Landahl: And that all kids feel like they have a good level of interaction of direct teaching of support, etc. And that they also feel like they're part of a community. 200 00:43:27.270 --> 00:43:27.870 Matt Landahl: So, 201 00:43:28.890 --> 00:43:40.260 Matt Landahl: It's complicated. We're working on it, we're going to be trying to communicate some clarity with this by Friday. And then next week schedule some more information sessions where we can dig into it more 202 00:43:41.430 --> 00:43:51.600 Matt Landahl: And I am okay and I'll say this in my robo communication tomorrow if people need an extra few days to decide what they want to do for next year. That's fine too. Next slide. 203 00:43:54.150 --> 00:44:05.910 Matt Landahl: I sorry I kind of messed up in my head. So I spoke about this. We're working as a county to further develop what we're doing in this model. And I think doing this, not trying to do this just independently as a district. 204 00:44:06.750 --> 00:44:13.680 Matt Landahl: But as a group makes sense. That's what we're trying to do in Dutchess County. I think a lot of counties are trying to do it that way to. Next slide. 205 00:44:15.930 --> 00:44:19.650 Matt Landahl: So just other questions that have popped up. And this is not an exhaustive list. 206 00:44:21.810 --> 00:44:32.430 Matt Landahl: So, uh, one of the big questions we've gotten is what, just what is the class size and a hybrid model going to be. And so my best estimate right now is its class size and this is 207 00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:42.150 Matt Landahl: Pre K, all the way through 12th grade A class size in the hybrid model will be probably anywhere from six to 12 kids. I think most of those hybrid classes are going to be under 10 208 00:44:43.110 --> 00:44:48.750 Matt Landahl: So that's great and I, we want to start really broadcasting that one out a lot more that 209 00:44:49.650 --> 00:44:58.920 Matt Landahl: With those small numbers, we can do a lot more social distancing and and really, you know, work with students in that in person model. 210 00:44:59.310 --> 00:45:05.130 Matt Landahl: And also incorporate students working remotely as well. But the class sizes and the hybrid model will be very small. 211 00:45:06.120 --> 00:45:14.610 Matt Landahl: Where are we with the outdoor spaces we have ordered the tents and we have will have multiple tents that all of our buildings. 212 00:45:15.270 --> 00:45:30.900 Matt Landahl: The state has required that anything any structure that either. Were you know is being built or rented or us has to go through the state approval process, they are trying to expedite it. So we are working with state officials are architects. 213 00:45:32.040 --> 00:45:35.310 Matt Landahl: Fire code, all of that kind of stuff. So 214 00:45:36.360 --> 00:45:43.680 Matt Landahl: Of course, it's a little bit more complicated than, you know, then some of the outer work that we've done 215 00:45:44.340 --> 00:45:51.240 Matt Landahl: Things like outdoor gardens and whatnot don't have to go through this sort of approval process, but any sort of structure, at least my understanding is 216 00:45:51.630 --> 00:46:00.660 Matt Landahl: Has to go through this state approval process. So we are working on that right now. That thing's been ordered. We're going to have it ready. They sent state approval for the start of the year. 217 00:46:01.230 --> 00:46:14.130 Matt Landahl: I do always say this every time I talk about outdoor learning spaces. It is not the solution, but it is a really great option. And so we are, we're going to work with staffs to make use that option as best as we can. 218 00:46:15.330 --> 00:46:24.450 Matt Landahl: We get asked about mass a lot. I have a teacher and TA town helps of our which we'll talk about mass, a lot more as well mass will be required of everyone. 219 00:46:25.350 --> 00:46:35.190 Matt Landahl: But I also want to make it clear mass brakes are also required and we are going to work as professionals each level to develop mass break guidelines and parameters. 220 00:46:36.750 --> 00:46:44.550 Matt Landahl: So what that means is we're going to give direction to students about when the mass breaks are and when they can do it. 221 00:46:44.970 --> 00:46:53.220 Matt Landahl: We, we don't want to leave that up to you know all of our individual students to just sort of decide when the mask comes off. We want our staff to feel safe. 222 00:46:54.180 --> 00:47:02.760 Matt Landahl: Working with the students in person we want our community to feel safe sending their children. And so that's going to be something that we're going to work. 223 00:47:03.180 --> 00:47:14.790 Matt Landahl: In a compassionate way in a supportive way but also a clear way. And the reason I say professionals at each level are going to work on mass break guidelines. 224 00:47:15.240 --> 00:47:30.330 Matt Landahl: I think mass breaks at the kindergarten level are going to look different than mass breaks at the junior in high school level, it's just it just kind of makes sense. And so, so we're working on that. But Master required mass breaks the record, we will develop 225 00:47:32.340 --> 00:47:38.460 Matt Landahl: Kind of a process. It's spelled out in the state guidelines. We just need to make it set for beacon. If people have 226 00:47:39.450 --> 00:47:55.380 Matt Landahl: A medical issue around mass process for people to to make that known to us. And so we can make accommodations for folks we've purchased large quantities of disposable mess up to 25,000 and we also are purchasing reusable cloth master students 227 00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:13.740 Matt Landahl: It seems like I have not had a chance. I've had a very busy day or I feel like I've been on a different zoom pretty much all day but I've just been seeing some studies, a study came out today about mass and which ones are more effective than others. So I need to take a look at that. 228 00:48:15.390 --> 00:48:24.000 Matt Landahl: But we will make sure that we whatever we're requiring of our suits and staff meet the Department of Health guidelines for sure. Next slide. 229 00:48:26.880 --> 00:48:31.680 Matt Landahl: I already kind of talked about this. If you need more time to make a decision. I'll talk about that. My robo call tomorrow. 230 00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:45.420 Matt Landahl: It'd be great to know by Friday, if you can make the decision for health reasons. By Friday that helps us plan. So we will give some additional time next week for people to do that. And if they need to talk to us further, we will talk to you further 231 00:48:47.220 --> 00:49:01.590 Matt Landahl: What if I want to switch to remote of hybrid in persons not working for a family or an individual student, we will accommodate that spoke about this one too. If you want to switch in person hybrid from remote. We asked that that change happens in January, so we can control for class sizes. 232 00:49:03.330 --> 00:49:08.700 Matt Landahl: This was a huge question say on our elementary zoom can changes to be made with the group. 233 00:49:10.200 --> 00:49:22.320 Matt Landahl: Of families child isn't so you can make those requests. I asked that this request to be made to individual building principals, but we can't guarantee that we can grant all those. I know some people are trying to form. 234 00:49:24.270 --> 00:49:39.660 Matt Landahl: Alliances or maybe that makes it sound like a reality show too much. They're trying to form pods, I guess is the word and and you know we will try to work with folks but we absolutely cannot guarantee that every quest is granted is we have to pay attention to the class sizes too. 235 00:49:41.850 --> 00:49:43.800 Matt Landahl: So, uh, next slide. 236 00:49:45.360 --> 00:49:46.470 Matt Landahl: All right, so what's next. 237 00:49:47.940 --> 00:50:05.700 Matt Landahl: We were going to be doing. I'll be doing some weekly zooms I forgot to mention, and I sent an email out to the community about this today that I'm also doing a zoom tomorrow night at seven with the Highland current islands current. And so I sent that zoom information with them so 238 00:50:07.380 --> 00:50:13.920 Matt Landahl: Perhaps people are getting tired of seeing me on zoom. So I won't be offended if you do not log on to that. 239 00:50:14.820 --> 00:50:32.970 Matt Landahl: But they will be taking questions from I understand from people viewing and I will try to answer all questions that come my way, it will be moderated so me attempting to follow what's happening in chat. I'll be doing some weekly updates and town halls with both staff and community. 240 00:50:34.110 --> 00:50:46.020 Matt Landahl: More robust and detailed FAQ will be coming out in the next day or two really going to be working on trying to clarify questions people have especially about what the instructional side looks like. 241 00:50:46.680 --> 00:50:55.410 Matt Landahl: So that takes a lot of work with teachers and administrators and honestly for the first few weeks, our planning process we're spending a lot more time on the 242 00:50:56.010 --> 00:51:06.210 Matt Landahl: Health and Safety part and we're still spending time on that with our teachers are ministers, but we're also seeing a lot of time on the instructional part so that should be becoming clear in the next few days and weeks. 243 00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:13.650 Matt Landahl: So we're just going to keep going back and forth between planning communication and we'll be doing that all throughout the summer. 244 00:51:15.030 --> 00:51:25.500 Matt Landahl: whatever is left of it, it will be a challenging and amazing year I am most assured of that and just want to open up for questions for folks. 245 00:51:29.220 --> 00:51:33.180 awhite: I have a couple questions in regards to the in person for the hybrid piece. 246 00:51:33.510 --> 00:51:43.290 awhite: Keynote corruption as to what that school day for the in person children will look like for the elementary than the middle school and then high school like are the kids going to be staying in the same classroom all day. 247 00:51:43.590 --> 00:51:50.490 awhite: And elective teachers pushing in. Are they going to go to a different classroom for elected powers lunch going to be disseminated and all that stuff. 248 00:51:51.180 --> 00:51:52.170 Matt Landahl: Yeah, I'm 249 00:51:53.940 --> 00:51:55.110 Matt Landahl: at the elementary level. 250 00:51:56.430 --> 00:52:14.490 Matt Landahl: Kids will be staying in the same space for almost the entire day. So at the elementary level. It's the most easy way for us to pod kids. And so that's what we'll be doing. So most of our specials classes will be traveling to the classroom those teachers are preparing for that. 251 00:52:15.780 --> 00:52:25.080 Matt Landahl: We do. We're working on trying to have p outside, you know, to make use of the of the outside and and so there will be some travel 252 00:52:25.710 --> 00:52:33.150 Matt Landahl: And lunch will be held in the classrooms will be working on planning for students with allergies to make sure that 253 00:52:33.600 --> 00:52:40.200 Matt Landahl: The classroom is a safe space for the students. And so we talked about that today at the elementary level for them to have plans. 254 00:52:40.830 --> 00:53:00.390 Matt Landahl: For what those classes will do instead of eating in the classroom. So the elementary kids will be in a very tight pod and really won't be traveling except really for p and some individual students will travel to meet with their like OT, PT, you know, social workers, that kind of stuff. 255 00:53:02.040 --> 00:53:04.830 Matt Landahl: at the secondary level kids will be switching classes. 256 00:53:06.780 --> 00:53:16.260 Matt Landahl: That we really looked at for a long time at that I know in some districts, they were able to pad like some districts were able to pad their sixth graders. 257 00:53:17.700 --> 00:53:22.650 Matt Landahl: Some were able to pot a little bit beyond that. Some were kind of in the same boat as us. 258 00:53:23.730 --> 00:53:31.320 Matt Landahl: But kids will be switching classes at the middle school level kids will be switching classes on a staggered level so 259 00:53:31.860 --> 00:53:44.820 Matt Landahl: You know, at round out just with the number of kids who are choosing remote and the number of kids for hybrid my estimate is we'll probably have around 200 kids in the building at any one time. And whenever we do a class change will be staggered, so probably 260 00:53:45.870 --> 00:53:51.960 Matt Landahl: I want to say 50 or 60 or 70 kids will be in the hallways at any one time because they're going to stagger the class change by grade. 261 00:53:54.480 --> 00:54:05.730 Matt Landahl: You know, all our surfaces, I sort of veering into the, you know, like the cleaning part of it. All of our all of our surfaces in our classrooms that includes tasks. 262 00:54:06.300 --> 00:54:16.230 Matt Landahl: Tops to be treated with this bio shield material or cleaning product that's a EPA approved product and also works against coven 19 263 00:54:17.850 --> 00:54:26.730 Matt Landahl: That that allows for for the desk to be virus free once it's applied correctly and it lasts on there. 264 00:54:28.110 --> 00:54:31.620 Matt Landahl: For a pretty lengthy amount of time and Maria, I cannot remember the amount of time. 265 00:54:32.670 --> 00:54:41.070 Matt Landahl: That bio she works for so kids will be changing classes at the secondary level at the high school level. So sorry at the 266 00:54:43.200 --> 00:54:51.390 Matt Landahl: At the middle school level they're working on a schedule where they're trying to kind of compress their schedules. So teachers will have like an extra an extra teaching period. 267 00:54:51.750 --> 00:55:04.230 Matt Landahl: That they are compressing there in person teaching at least they're working on this before for teaching period. So then the teacher will have a remote teaching period for their kids who are home on hybrid or kids who are home and remote 268 00:55:06.090 --> 00:55:13.650 Matt Landahl: And so, so they're working on a schedule that kind of meets the needs of all the kids, whether their hybrid mode or I'll remote 269 00:55:14.490 --> 00:55:25.170 Matt Landahl: High school kids will be changing classes, it's a little bit harder for them to stagger because kids go and many more different directions at the high school they're working on protocols for the class. 270 00:55:26.670 --> 00:55:34.560 Matt Landahl: For the hallway changes, both with markings in the hallway and really monitoring students and giving students, a little bit of extra time. 271 00:55:35.370 --> 00:55:43.710 Matt Landahl: So they're not all sort of ever come together. I think everyone was kind of collectively freaked out last week by the pictures. I hate to pick on schools. 272 00:55:44.520 --> 00:55:59.400 Matt Landahl: By the pictures coming out of Georgia, the Georgia high school where kids were like crammed in the hallway, a class change that will not be the case for us by any stretch. So we'll do whatever possible to make sure our well a. The kids will have mass on 273 00:56:00.570 --> 00:56:15.780 Matt Landahl: In a situation in a situation like that, but also that they're not all jammed into a hallway. I think with the number of students in our buildings for the hybrid model that will never happen anyway then anyway uh so So Rob about Schedule A, 274 00:56:16.950 --> 00:56:22.920 Matt Landahl: rhombus schedule will be so let's say the kids are hybrid for the first two days. 275 00:56:25.200 --> 00:56:32.610 Matt Landahl: Sorry there in person for the first few days and then wednesday thursday and friday they'll be switching over to remote they'll still be having classes with 276 00:56:32.970 --> 00:56:39.750 Matt Landahl: With some of their teachers, especially their core teachers on a schedule on those remote days that all remote kids will also be having 277 00:56:40.560 --> 00:56:49.290 Matt Landahl: Classes on a schedule for round out. And so our hope is that we can figure out a way to advance instruction every single day. 278 00:56:50.130 --> 00:56:58.050 Matt Landahl: That's what we're trying to work on, you know, we need more teacher input and teacher help with trying to pull this off. But that's the initial plan High School. 279 00:56:58.620 --> 00:57:04.860 Matt Landahl: It's a little bit more of a challenge because we have so many singleton classes advanced classes, etc. 280 00:57:05.790 --> 00:57:12.360 Matt Landahl: So high school still kind of working on what their plan is going to look like, but it will be an eight period day for high school 281 00:57:12.870 --> 00:57:20.190 Matt Landahl: And the kids who are in person will go to their classes on Monday and on Tuesday, and then they will be 282 00:57:20.610 --> 00:57:31.710 Matt Landahl: Either getting independent work to do from their teachers and or also have like check ins with classes by streaming with some of their classes or video lessons with some of their classes for the remote days. 283 00:57:32.580 --> 00:57:44.820 Matt Landahl: The remote seen as well. So have kind of a five day version that at the high school so high school. We're still working on round, but we're still working on some of the details. Some of these will evolve really in the next few days. 284 00:57:46.380 --> 00:57:53.100 Matt Landahl: And I know Lisa at her zoom on Thursday we'll get more into detail about what the high schools schedule looks like. 285 00:57:53.580 --> 00:58:01.020 Matt Landahl: Brian and his team, they're aiming to do their zoom. I think on Monday or Tuesday of next week, and there'll be doing the same like getting more into detail. 286 00:58:01.380 --> 00:58:15.540 Matt Landahl: We're trying to create something and I'm probably not doing this justice, but we're, we're trying to do something where kids, whether they're all remote, whether they're hybrid like they are advancing their learning every single day. 287 00:58:16.680 --> 00:58:21.900 Matt Landahl: They are having interactions with teachers and peers every single day. 288 00:58:23.400 --> 00:58:33.270 Matt Landahl: They are engaging every single day and teachers are we're bait, you know, we're building time into the day that teachers have the time and the support to pull this off. 289 00:58:34.200 --> 00:58:45.750 Matt Landahl: I think the teachers from the teacher side what we're hearing from them as they they're, they're kind of game to do it's needed for the kids, but they don't want to be creating multiple different lessons. 290 00:58:46.590 --> 00:58:53.160 Matt Landahl: For different groups of kids. So they're going to be trying to create lessons that can will sort of work in person. That also translate 291 00:58:53.700 --> 00:59:05.310 Matt Landahl: To Google Classroom, or possibly being filmed again some of the high school and secondary classes. Don't film easily. So I don't want to just say that every secondary class is going to be filmed because it's not that simple. 292 00:59:06.360 --> 00:59:19.920 Matt Landahl: But we're trying to create a model that just every day. The learning gets advanced whether a student, as in person, whether their hybrid remote or whether they're on the road. And I know some of this stuff feels a little jumbled with folks and I get it. 293 00:59:21.390 --> 00:59:27.690 Matt Landahl: And I think trying to do both these things is the right thing to do, but as a level of complexity. That's tricky. 294 00:59:28.320 --> 00:59:43.350 awhite: So just to follow up to that Matt so basic when there's a when someone confirms that they were around on that tested positive for coven or has coven basically the isolation for the middle school and high school would be because the kids are 295 00:59:44.280 --> 00:59:45.660 Craig Wolf: Switching classes and stuff. 296 00:59:45.660 --> 00:59:50.940 awhite: The school would probably have to shut down. But at the elementary level, maybe it would be just that class. 297 00:59:52.710 --> 00:59:55.620 Matt Landahl: at the elementary level I think it would just be that class. 298 00:59:56.670 --> 01:00:10.350 Matt Landahl: at the secondary level, you probably would be looking at. I mean, you know, if we're just looking at students, obviously, but during the next who would just be students who just be the students in that blue or gold group that the teachers would be involved in that. So, 299 01:00:11.460 --> 01:00:17.100 Matt Landahl: This has been a struggle. I mean, I've tried to be sort of open and transparent every single time on one of these zooms and 300 01:00:17.670 --> 01:00:26.760 Matt Landahl: And you know every district is kind of doing this, uniquely, I think some of the smaller districts were able to pod. The secondary level a little bit more. It was just 301 01:00:27.450 --> 01:00:39.600 Matt Landahl: Kind of beyond our scope to be able to do that. So to quickly answer your question. Yes, if there is a positive case we would most likely having to be quarantine a pretty large number of secondary students 302 01:00:40.800 --> 01:00:49.410 Matt Landahl: Now it's working with Department of Health, they would talk to us about contact tracing and they would talk about, let's say it's a sixth grader. 303 01:00:49.980 --> 01:01:02.610 Matt Landahl: And there's like a staggered class change. It might be that that sixth grader really only connected with other sixth graders. So hypothetically, it could be just that we're asking sixth graders to quarantine. 304 01:01:03.810 --> 01:01:13.440 Matt Landahl: Or the ones that you know we're with that student, but there's the reality side of all of this, where, you know, people will have concerns. 305 01:01:14.850 --> 01:01:23.760 Matt Landahl: People will maybe not want to send their students, people are going to want to feel safe staff is going to feel the same way. So there's kind of like the logical 306 01:01:25.050 --> 01:01:31.980 Matt Landahl: I don't say logical, but I think you know what I mean, like the, you know, on paper version of this, but also like the community reaction. 307 01:01:32.790 --> 01:01:44.370 Matt Landahl: To a positive case and and so that's something that we're going to be working through. I mean, the one thing that I've tried to be very clear on if we have a positive case of a student 308 01:01:45.090 --> 01:01:51.480 Matt Landahl: Or a staff member that will be communicated, I think, and it'll be communicated as soon as we know about it. 309 01:01:54.060 --> 01:02:05.490 Matt Landahl: I think where I've seen other states or districts have issues is when they don't communicate it right away. And it kind of spirals, a little bit that this is a complex thing but 310 01:02:05.490 --> 01:02:14.160 Matt Landahl: Yes, Anthony. I'm getting long answers to to direct questions. But yeah, the secondary level there's going to be a more opportunity for 311 01:02:14.160 --> 01:02:16.200 Matt Landahl: quarantining for sure and at the elementary 312 01:02:16.200 --> 01:02:17.880 Matt Landahl: Level, because of the 313 01:02:18.060 --> 01:02:23.100 Matt Landahl: pretty strict potting I think we're going to be able to isolate things a lot better. So the 314 01:02:23.700 --> 01:02:27.420 awhite: Part that goes with that pieces around who said for the hybrid. That's the 315 01:02:28.500 --> 01:02:34.020 awhite: End Times might be a little bit different to accommodate for the remote and I look at remote learning there be then 316 01:02:34.410 --> 01:02:44.700 awhite: The online learning, like so, if we were a district that was fully online. I think that would look differently than if it was remote because there would be two populations in person. 317 01:02:44.940 --> 01:02:52.710 awhite: As well as the remote that you're dealing with. Where if it's a fully online program. It might look a little bit differently. Am I reading that correctly or understanding that correctly. 318 01:02:53.130 --> 01:02:54.630 Matt Landahl: Yeah, I, um, 319 01:02:57.600 --> 01:03:04.980 Matt Landahl: We yeah we are not able to create like the beacon Virtual School, like we just don't have the staff to do it. 320 01:03:05.910 --> 01:03:09.840 Matt Landahl: I'm not really aware of other districts even attempting to do that. 321 01:03:10.770 --> 01:03:24.510 Matt Landahl: So yeah, the remote learning at the start of the year. Like, if we go all remote, it will look a little bit different for sure, or a lot different. In some cases, because teachers would be completely switching their classes over to Google. 322 01:03:25.800 --> 01:03:34.530 Matt Landahl: To Google meat or video conferencing tools and other ways to interact. Instead of using it, like, half the time, so to speak, or part of the time. 323 01:03:35.100 --> 01:03:40.800 awhite: So I guess I'm asking if there was a widespread and we were at that 9% and it went online. 324 01:03:41.190 --> 01:03:49.890 awhite: How would that look differently than the remote piece like are we planning as a district to be, Hey, this is what full online instruction is going to look like. 325 01:03:50.160 --> 01:03:56.820 awhite: If we had to be because I'm thinking that the remote piece is different than a full of the district was fully online would look like. 326 01:03:57.060 --> 01:03:58.290 awhite: Or we did for 327 01:03:58.680 --> 01:04:05.040 Matt Landahl: Sure. I think the difference like at the high school. The difference would be instead of in a period day 328 01:04:06.540 --> 01:04:15.810 Matt Landahl: For for online, like if the whole high school when remote instead of a period day we would switch to more of a block schedule. So, you know, having kids like do eight 329 01:04:16.800 --> 01:04:24.420 Matt Landahl: Periods remotely just seems really cumbersome. So the high school would switch to a block where they'd have half their classes every other day. 330 01:04:26.040 --> 01:04:34.710 Matt Landahl: Middle School wouldn't quite switch to that. But they would have kind of a modified schedule where they probably have like five classes a day, something like that. 331 01:04:36.210 --> 01:04:50.100 Matt Landahl: So the high school, the high school schedule would probably switch the mouse but they're prepared to do that on a moment's notice, or preparing rabbits schedule is actually going to look somewhat similar. If it's in person or if goes fully remote 332 01:04:51.630 --> 01:05:02.970 Matt Landahl: You know, at the elementary level, I would really like a little bit more time to work with the elementary teachers to get their input. We've just kind of really gotten into the remote part with them just recently. 333 01:05:05.490 --> 01:05:07.530 Matt Landahl: So at the elementary. I don't want to get 334 01:05:08.850 --> 01:05:15.270 Matt Landahl: Extremely concrete, but at the elementary level. My thought is that a learning community of kids. 335 01:05:16.290 --> 01:05:21.420 Matt Landahl: You know, instead of being like partially remote and summer in person. It just switches to all remote 336 01:05:23.010 --> 01:05:36.690 Matt Landahl: To me, that makes sense that teachers managing both at the start, because I want them to build a community and we want to maybe change the elementary schedule where they're able to meet the needs of both groups of kids. 337 01:05:37.200 --> 01:05:48.930 Matt Landahl: It also helps the kids who are hybrid, you know, stay connected on the off days, not the off days, but the remote days so that my thought is that we have to go all remote that class just slides right into remote 338 01:05:49.350 --> 01:05:57.750 Matt Landahl: So I may not be explaining this as well as I should. But we're really trying to design stuff at each level that just can go remote at a moment's notice. 339 01:05:59.550 --> 01:05:59.760 wright.e: That 340 01:06:00.300 --> 01:06:09.150 Matt Landahl: I think one of my concerns about the notion that we do like the beacon Virtual Academy and like the and the hybrid Academy 341 01:06:09.390 --> 01:06:14.850 Matt Landahl: Is that if we do go all remote, it would make dealing with both of those things really tricky. 342 01:06:16.080 --> 01:06:30.900 Matt Landahl: It's how the almost like you'd have two different districts that you were then trying to merge and but I mean you're getting at, you're getting at with the thing that everyone's thinking about is that, is it inevitable that we just have to go all remote at some point. 343 01:06:32.640 --> 01:06:38.070 Matt Landahl: And and that's that's the question that everyone is pondering right now and I 344 01:06:39.180 --> 01:06:41.490 Matt Landahl: Guess people feel like it's inevitable. 345 01:06:42.060 --> 01:06:42.720 James Case-Leal: Now is 346 01:06:43.260 --> 01:06:44.400 James Case-Leal: This a follow up to that. 347 01:06:44.910 --> 01:06:52.230 James Case-Leal: It's related that you kind of answered it with with any of these questions, but less about the the community of an emergency or us all going back 348 01:06:53.160 --> 01:07:03.570 James Case-Leal: If I can send my kids to hybrid and they have their in junior high, so they have their courses that they're signed up for. If they have a friend who signed up for the same courses. 349 01:07:03.990 --> 01:07:12.210 James Case-Leal: But is going full remote, will they have the same lesson plan, the same teachers, you know, or maybe another way to look at it as if 350 01:07:12.570 --> 01:07:20.910 James Case-Leal: My kids were in hybrid and then they switched to remote, would they still stay with the same teachers in the same class work or would that be a totally new schedule. 351 01:07:21.810 --> 01:07:28.110 Matt Landahl: The middle school, there might be some tweaks to the schedule but they would mostly pretty much stay with the same teacher in the same curriculum and the same 352 01:07:30.090 --> 01:07:31.140 Matt Landahl: progress forward. 353 01:07:31.680 --> 01:07:35.220 James Case-Leal: Okay, so it sounds like. For now, the hybrid and remote 354 01:07:35.250 --> 01:07:38.580 James Case-Leal: Are pretty in sync. In terms of, of course work. 355 01:07:39.330 --> 01:07:41.730 Matt Landahl: Yeah, I mean that that you know we've 356 01:07:43.260 --> 01:07:49.110 Matt Landahl: We've been working and thinking about this a lot. And in a sense, it's like the only way we can 357 01:07:49.980 --> 01:08:06.030 Matt Landahl: The only way we feel like we can move forward with this just from a staffing perspective and also just trying to create a model that's fluid is to do it that way but yeah that's that's that's the thinking right now is that they stay they stay kind of connected and fluid. 358 01:08:07.980 --> 01:08:22.620 Matt Landahl: Many of our teachers are concerned about how to pull all this off. Right. And so, so that's what we're trying to work through with the teachers. And so I and they have many legitimate concerns. So, I, I'm not going to pretend 359 01:08:23.760 --> 01:08:30.150 Matt Landahl: That we have this all figured out. But that's, that's where we are and and and I will also say like 360 01:08:31.170 --> 01:08:39.960 Matt Landahl: You know, our teachers are also like how do we, how can we make this work. And let's figure this out and they're excited about it, too. Like, it's not. This isn't this you know 361 01:08:40.950 --> 01:08:58.200 Matt Landahl: Negative challenge like it's it's it's like a new challenge for folks. But yeah, we're trying to keep it all together with the thought of kind of back to an Anthony was saying, if we all have to go full remote, it kind of slides together very nicely. 362 01:08:59.280 --> 01:09:05.130 Matt Landahl: And and we also don't. I mean, people may have different opinions about this but I 363 01:09:05.970 --> 01:09:15.570 Matt Landahl: We've been trying to do a lot of community building initiatives, you know, over the last few years, whether it's Responsive Classroom or restorative practices and 364 01:09:16.170 --> 01:09:23.010 Matt Landahl: And so I want to sort of start with a foundation in mind of like it. Whether you're full remote or hybrid you're part of a community. 365 01:09:23.610 --> 01:09:34.290 Matt Landahl: You know, you're still with your peers, whether it's, you know, through the computer or in person or some version of both your soul, with all your same teachers, you know, we're trying to 366 01:09:35.370 --> 01:09:38.640 Matt Landahl: Build that model. However, tricky. It's going to be 367 01:09:39.150 --> 01:09:51.090 awhite: The concern I have is that the hybrid model is like a ball of yarn, where you have a bunch of knots that are getting tangled up in that's going to be glitches, whereas our we spreading the district resources so 368 01:09:51.360 --> 01:10:06.840 awhite: I can come up with a hey, here's our plan. And look, it's a straight line where it's remote because it's going to be a when it's not going to be an F. Like, when is it going to happen. How are we going to do it. And should we be tying our resources to develop a very 369 01:10:09.480 --> 01:10:21.090 awhite: Comprehensive online program and start that way and see how we could do almost. I don't want to say a phase in because I don't think that's the word I'm looking for, but like 370 01:10:21.570 --> 01:10:28.350 awhite: It's I drew a picture of a hybrid and I'm working on this in my district of a hybrid model. And it looks like a ball yarn. 371 01:10:28.590 --> 01:10:40.980 awhite: And for someone that doesn't even work in that like I work in educational field and it's confusing. There's so many moving parts. What it's going to happen with this and you know we don't have the answers. And I know that I'm not expecting you guys to have all the answers and stuff. 372 01:10:41.250 --> 01:10:41.670 Matt Landahl: Right. 373 01:10:42.240 --> 01:10:53.070 awhite: How can we put our resources to say, Okay, listen, because honestly if they go in person. I get, we cannot mimic in person instruction online. I totally understand there's no replacing for in person. 374 01:10:53.550 --> 01:11:01.080 awhite: But I also think that at the elementary level the socialization aspect is going to be a mute point when they're in person anyway because of the 375 01:11:01.410 --> 01:11:08.760 awhite: Small amount of kids in the classroom. They're not transitioning the recess component, they have to social distance. It's going to look vastly different. 376 01:11:09.180 --> 01:11:27.540 awhite: Whereas I get the socialization piece might be there more at the middle school and high school. But yeah, I'm not seeing I'm trying to do the pros and the cons. I'm seeing a lot more cons with an eye and my kids will go in person. If it's going to be there, but I'm just looking at it from 377 01:11:28.800 --> 01:11:30.510 awhite: One point of view of saying 378 01:11:31.740 --> 01:11:38.580 awhite: I don't know if it's worth the battle and just come up with the remote online piece and have it become pensive 379 01:11:39.330 --> 01:11:39.750 Matt Landahl: And I 380 01:11:40.020 --> 01:11:41.070 awhite: Own it for in person. 381 01:11:41.460 --> 01:11:51.360 Matt Landahl: Right, right. That's something that I've been wondering about to just, you know, and kind of going through what we need to spend and just keeping track of those expenses, because 382 01:11:51.780 --> 01:12:02.790 Kristan Flynn: Of looking at, you know, so many things that have gotten shoved down to the local level on to school districts, we have all of these additional expenses. We're going to have to take on and then 383 01:12:03.600 --> 01:12:12.930 Kristan Flynn: For a certain length of time that I agree with Anthony will pivot probably inevitably has one of the things that when you were talking about. 384 01:12:14.220 --> 01:12:22.140 Kristan Flynn: When you're talking about contact tracing and you're like, well, they were be that sixth grader and that would or, you know, let's move into elementary and keep it simple. It'll just be that pod. 385 01:12:22.620 --> 01:12:35.070 Kristan Flynn: Of kids in that one class, but that child also has a sibling, you know, and so they're in a different school and they're with a whole different group of kids. I think that 386 01:12:35.850 --> 01:12:45.270 Kristan Flynn: I this is not to say that I I'm different than anything that I'm planning to opt for fully remote because, for me it's just even having the 387 01:12:45.720 --> 01:12:56.340 Kristan Flynn: Having to switch days and I just need like a steady plan for having to work and I do take very seriously that I think the buildings needs to be open and available for 388 01:12:57.600 --> 01:13:05.550 Kristan Flynn: children with special needs so that they don't regress. And so that they will continue to make gains and also recognizing that 389 01:13:06.120 --> 01:13:15.180 Kristan Flynn: They it's a harder time for their entire family unit sometimes to be managing kids with these things at home, then I think that there are kids. 390 01:13:15.510 --> 01:13:33.960 Kristan Flynn: For whom school is the safest warmest most connected place and the most likely location for a, you know, regular meal, and I know. Well, I wanted to sort of separately asked about the meals program and how that will work. But then beyond that. There's kids whose parents have to 391 01:13:35.700 --> 01:13:39.630 Kristan Flynn: work outside of the home. So I've been saying my approach is personally 392 01:13:40.710 --> 01:13:51.060 Kristan Flynn: I won't use this the sort of more colloquial term, but I'll just say lean into the challenge like this is a challenge that I know and I have some resources and I can 393 01:13:52.260 --> 01:13:55.500 Kristan Flynn: Have my kids at home because I want to have fewer bodies. 394 01:13:55.920 --> 01:14:09.120 Kristan Flynn: In the school interacting with the teachers and, you know, taking a space from I want those kids that have to be there to be there and that our plans and our resources, our masks are cleaning services could go towards them, but 395 01:14:09.600 --> 01:14:16.110 Kristan Flynn: I feel like that's that's a personal feeling. And that's how I've prioritized it, but I do think that 396 01:14:17.340 --> 01:14:23.400 Kristan Flynn: You know, one of the questions that came up is if a kid test positive and then we have to tell everyone else in contact trees. 397 01:14:23.820 --> 01:14:32.790 Kristan Flynn: We're going to be expected as a school district to tell everybody where they can get tested, which means we have to know the places and having been somebody who 398 01:14:33.330 --> 01:14:42.360 Kristan Flynn: Needed to get a test and couldn't get tested. It's a, it's a hard thing to kind of go through. So we'll need to know where there's affordable places where there's places that have tests. 399 01:14:42.750 --> 01:14:48.090 Kristan Flynn: That will have to have waiting times from when they come back, and I know that a lot of that's going to fall on 400 01:14:48.630 --> 01:14:53.250 Kristan Flynn: Your staff. I already see it now I see the questions that are that come up in the zoom chat. 401 01:14:53.670 --> 01:15:06.630 Kristan Flynn: And they're not necessarily the purview of the school district, but they're going to become the purview of the school district. So I just, I feel like I think you've put together very good plan. I just think that we also have to recommend is that 402 01:15:07.740 --> 01:15:13.530 Kristan Flynn: It might not last long. And then it'll probably last longer if if you were people put their kids in the 403 01:15:14.820 --> 01:15:24.420 meredith heuer: But I think you make up, make a really good point that there are you know for some students. That is the best place for them and we are lucky in your case. 404 01:15:25.500 --> 01:15:31.920 meredith heuer: As low as it is right now. We all know that that might change my change even before school begins. But, you know, 405 01:15:32.700 --> 01:15:42.570 meredith heuer: I think it's hard to put so much resource into something that is probably temporary, but at the same time I think about what you know how long a year seems to a child. 406 01:15:42.990 --> 01:15:54.120 meredith heuer: And if they can get a little bit of in person learning and connect with their teachers in person, which is, you know, a very different situation than online. I don't think you can put a price on that. 407 01:15:55.110 --> 01:16:03.750 awhite: But I think we could do the in person, even on a full remote, whereas the teacher does hey let's come to the school. This one class and go to the outside classroom or 408 01:16:04.080 --> 01:16:14.460 awhite: Let's do this field trip and stuff. I think there's ways to get the online cheap, even for the students with disabilities, there's a way to get them into the school for the extra support words low 409 01:16:14.910 --> 01:16:19.650 awhite: minimum amount of people and and stuff. So that's what I'm saying. With the online piece I 410 01:16:19.650 --> 01:16:27.390 awhite: Don't have to be just fall online. I think that that we could be creative with supporting the students that need the support and developing 411 01:16:29.910 --> 01:16:35.460 awhite: A big armed piece could be supportive to individual needs. 412 01:16:37.380 --> 01:16:37.860 Anthony 413 01:16:39.300 --> 01:16:45.150 James Case-Leal: Anthony. Are there specific online educational platforms you have in mind that you're thinking about is that 414 01:16:46.080 --> 01:16:54.840 awhite: No, I mean, I mean, there's tons of them out there. I'm not, I'm not going to promote any one of them or or say the names of anyone. I think that 415 01:16:55.560 --> 01:16:59.610 awhite: Beacon has the resources of hey, we went online last 416 01:17:00.420 --> 01:17:11.790 awhite: Two. I think that they could build on that piece to make it okay like Dr. Lambert was saying like, okay, the high school, instead of being eight periods, a day, maybe they'll do periods, one through four on Monday. 417 01:17:12.060 --> 01:17:19.440 awhite: Periods five through eight on Tuesday, right, and then wednesday periods, one through four again. Then they had periods five through eight obviously the lunches study or 418 01:17:19.680 --> 01:17:28.710 awhite: Whatever their schedule is but they would follow that for every other day, half, half their schedule so they have more time to have that I've synchronous instruction piece. 419 01:17:29.040 --> 01:17:35.700 awhite: And they could at the middle school level, and then the elementary could set up something where they're doing reading, writing, math. 420 01:17:36.090 --> 01:17:47.250 awhite: Everyday lives and maybe science, social studies every other day, you know. So I think that there's ways to be creative with the online piece and bolster up what that might 421 01:17:47.280 --> 01:17:49.170 Matt Landahl: Look like structural be 422 01:17:49.620 --> 01:17:53.850 awhite: Separate online from because remote is more hey I have 423 01:17:54.870 --> 01:18:00.330 awhite: Kids here and I'm also managing kids remotely and I think it's different plans. 424 01:18:00.510 --> 01:18:01.920 Kristan Flynn: I don't understand what that means. 425 01:18:03.090 --> 01:18:03.540 awhite: The remote 426 01:18:04.920 --> 01:18:09.600 Kristan Flynn: Me like we're using kind of the same. I'm just trying to get it straight in my head. You're saying 427 01:18:10.530 --> 01:18:18.780 awhite: Well, remote. Basically, I look at was saying, Okay, we have some students that are in person. And these are the lessons that we're doing now the remote 428 01:18:19.470 --> 01:18:31.530 awhite: Be. Hey, how can the students every online how what what assignments. Can I talk to them to complete independently arm or hey, here's a video lesson. Oh, here's a 429 01:18:32.040 --> 01:18:39.840 awhite: Video of a lesson that I did with the inline students. And this is what it looked like. And then the student on remote is going to see that piece where if it's a 430 01:18:40.170 --> 01:18:51.240 awhite: Fine piece that me I'm taking online as being everyone. There's no one in school and that instruction. I think would look a little bit different than if it's a hybrid piece with the input and kids remote 431 01:18:56.280 --> 01:19:01.440 James Case-Leal: Matt, can I root kind of related a question I've heard come up a little bit is 432 01:19:02.730 --> 01:19:06.990 James Case-Leal: People who want to opt out for remote learning, but don't have a 433 01:19:09.510 --> 01:19:17.880 James Case-Leal: Don't have like a documented health issue or an at risk person they're just not comfortable with it is that is that permissible and encouraged. 434 01:19:19.230 --> 01:19:24.690 James Case-Leal: Yeah. And also, just to follow up is, is if if there is a benefit to having fewer people in the classroom. 435 01:19:25.890 --> 01:19:27.900 James Case-Leal: For people that are kind of on the fence. 436 01:19:29.010 --> 01:19:35.640 James Case-Leal: Who might feel like maybe they're doing something wrong by saying that they're they're choosing for remote doesn't actually have any benefit. 437 01:19:36.780 --> 01:19:38.850 Matt Landahl: Um, you know, 438 01:19:39.930 --> 01:19:43.590 Matt Landahl: Districts. I think have approached this a little bit differently. We 439 01:19:44.670 --> 01:19:51.570 Matt Landahl: We are taking the route of. We're not asking for medical documentation. We're trying to use the Department of Health guidance that came out. 440 01:19:52.530 --> 01:20:03.480 Matt Landahl: That you know member with a health issue, the child or the health issue or or uncomfortable returning to school. So my sense of the responses. We've gotten we have 441 01:20:05.190 --> 01:20:06.780 Matt Landahl: About 1100 right now. 442 01:20:08.280 --> 01:20:20.700 Matt Landahl: I haven't seen people having an issue with saying all remote. So, and we're. I mean, that's another thing we're not equipped really to try to assess people's medical reasons anyway. 443 01:20:22.410 --> 01:20:31.890 Matt Landahl: The number is as high as they are, I think, some districts are being a little bit more controlling with that. But, uh, you know, this came up in the elementary zoom today. 444 01:20:33.480 --> 01:20:38.040 Matt Landahl: I think that's sort of a personal decision that people would make. I'm not going to say 445 01:20:39.570 --> 01:20:54.480 Matt Landahl: Do and for the team and keep your kid at home, you know, for someone else who needs to be in person like that. I think that's more of a personal sort of thing that someone might have, um, you know, I just back to the larger conversation. 446 01:20:59.550 --> 01:21:19.890 Matt Landahl: You know it, for lack of a better word, this is basically like an obsession right now trying to figure all this stuff out and and you guys talking is sort of like my mental internal chatter every day and night, and sometimes in the middle of the night when I'm up so 447 01:21:21.120 --> 01:21:24.780 Matt Landahl: You know, I think all the same things and have a lot of the same concerns. 448 01:21:28.650 --> 01:21:29.220 Matt Landahl: I 449 01:21:32.340 --> 01:21:46.260 Matt Landahl: And this is just me. You know, I, and this is why I think I've been trying to push this forward is I struggle with, just like I understand the argument like just go remote and make it really great 450 01:21:47.670 --> 01:21:51.270 Matt Landahl: And I know you're saying something more complex than that I Anthony 451 01:21:53.370 --> 01:21:54.210 Matt Landahl: So I'm kind of 452 01:21:55.770 --> 01:21:59.700 Matt Landahl: Kind of not really doing it justice but I struggle with not attempting 453 01:22:01.950 --> 01:22:03.180 Matt Landahl: To have kids come in. 454 01:22:05.220 --> 01:22:05.730 Matt Landahl: Just 455 01:22:07.410 --> 01:22:22.020 Matt Landahl: Like whatever we do we know we're going to do better than last spring. And I'm not saying I you know we had a lot of amazing efforts. Last Man, I'm not, I'm not being critical when I say that, but we have time to plan and think about it this time around but I I struggle just 456 01:22:23.790 --> 01:22:25.470 Matt Landahl: Seeing kids out and about. 457 01:22:26.910 --> 01:22:28.020 Matt Landahl: Kids. I know. 458 01:22:29.370 --> 01:22:30.300 Matt Landahl: That the 459 01:22:31.980 --> 01:22:40.770 Matt Landahl: Not being in school was really tough. A lot of kids and I struggle from from a superintendent level of not trying 460 01:22:42.960 --> 01:22:49.410 Matt Landahl: You know but i and this kind of leads to an interesting question because I'm kind of plowing forward. 461 01:22:50.460 --> 01:22:58.170 Matt Landahl: With, like we're offering hybrid and we're offering this remote and, you know, we're trying to create a thing that could easily switch into 462 01:22:58.830 --> 01:23:07.830 Matt Landahl: To use Anthony's terminology like online for everyone. So we're trying to and working on planning for all of that and to create a model that kind of 463 01:23:08.760 --> 01:23:17.400 Matt Landahl: That is kind of this fluid and can go back and forth and one that we try to build community with our kids and have them feel part of the community. 464 01:23:19.560 --> 01:23:23.580 Matt Landahl: So, so I've always that's been my goal. 465 01:23:24.720 --> 01:23:31.140 Matt Landahl: I'm starting to see a handful of other districts sort of announcing that they're starting fully remote 466 01:23:32.940 --> 01:23:36.450 Matt Landahl: And that they'll switch over to some sort of hybrid in October. 467 01:23:38.760 --> 01:23:42.000 Matt Landahl: I don't have a list for you, but it's starting to pop up. 468 01:23:45.810 --> 01:23:51.600 Matt Landahl: I don't I don't personally know what will be different in October than then September. 469 01:23:54.480 --> 01:23:58.740 Matt Landahl: You know, because we have several weeks left to plan and get things in place. 470 01:24:00.450 --> 01:24:01.650 Matt Landahl: But if if 471 01:24:03.060 --> 01:24:20.070 Matt Landahl: So I don't know. I started throwing this back to the board. I don't know how y'all want to do this is kind of an interesting thing that these plans don't don't like legally require board approval, you know, and but obviously I'm trying to work really closely with you all, and 472 01:24:21.120 --> 01:24:38.850 Matt Landahl: And hash this out. So I don't know if you know anything. Yeah, but like it but if we want to do something different that we do. That way I maybe need more input from you or another conversation or continue this conversation or something because I would want to start shifting 473 01:24:40.200 --> 01:24:48.690 Matt Landahl: You know, and getting the community ready for that. I mean, I think all the community knows that could go out remote at any moment's notice because of an outbreak. 474 01:24:50.130 --> 01:24:57.600 Matt Landahl: But I mean we are getting 70% around 70% of our families opting right now for the hybrid. And that's a pretty large number 475 01:24:59.040 --> 01:25:03.150 Matt Landahl: So you understand where I'm getting out like I maybe need direction from you all. 476 01:25:03.390 --> 01:25:16.740 Matt Landahl: These are all great questions. I didn't take I'm not offended by any of them anytime apparent ask you a question. I don't get offended or a teacher or a staff member. This is like the most challenging time I think any school districts ever been in. 477 01:25:17.220 --> 01:25:20.490 Matt Landahl: It's a, it's a historic time. So, like this is 478 01:25:20.520 --> 01:25:22.770 Matt Landahl: This is what we're doing and thinking through every day. 479 01:25:26.760 --> 01:25:28.650 Kristan Flynn: Hi, Kristen. Okay. 480 01:25:28.980 --> 01:25:36.960 Flora Stadler: Can I ask you for parents who don't who don't make a choice, who don't send in the form or they automatically going to be registered for 481 01:25:37.050 --> 01:25:38.160 For all online. 482 01:25:42.060 --> 01:25:47.100 Matt Landahl: We haven't actually decided that I think what we would assume as we'd read a certain for hybrid 483 01:25:47.910 --> 01:25:54.570 Matt Landahl: But I think what we try to do over the next several weeks is to track them down and get an answer. And now we have we have 484 01:25:55.080 --> 01:26:03.120 Matt Landahl: Staff available to do that. So I'd prefer to do that, you know, not just be really confused at the beginning of the year. I mean, our 485 01:26:03.720 --> 01:26:19.620 Matt Landahl: I know a lot of people want more information to make a decision. We already have a lot of people that have already kind of indicated with the decision is so I'm feeling pretty HOPEFUL WE CAN GET we can close this out in terms of finding out what every family is thinking okay 486 01:26:19.710 --> 01:26:29.850 Flora Stadler: Guys it's changing tracks, a little bit and but it's, you know, we had a wellness committee planning meeting this morning and 487 01:26:30.930 --> 01:26:40.980 Flora Stadler: I know in one of the presentations that you had done. You had talked about, you know, planning with the, you know, with district mental health professionals and 488 01:26:42.090 --> 01:26:49.500 Flora Stadler: And, you know, future plans to sort of address the unique set of needs that students are going to come into the school with, and I was wondering 489 01:26:49.980 --> 01:27:07.410 Flora Stadler: If we can hear a little bit about those plans how that's working are, you know, does it involve additional resources or new resources or, you know, in terms of staffing or programs and you know how you're anticipating that looking i'd really I'd really like to know more about that. 490 01:27:09.300 --> 01:27:20.340 Matt Landahl: I mean, some of it is focusing on some of the things we're already doing like Responsive Classroom and restorative practices. And we have another large group of elementary teachers trained 491 01:27:21.180 --> 01:27:30.750 Matt Landahl: Part of it is bringing our mental health professionals in early to plan so they can work with their school staffs because i think i think this, this can't 492 01:27:31.440 --> 01:27:43.050 Matt Landahl: I know you know I know people have different you know different skill sets with this but tending to the most social emotional needs of our students can be the job of one or two people in a building. 493 01:27:43.830 --> 01:27:56.220 Matt Landahl: Especially with this happening. And so we really need. That's why I want that additional time for staff at the beginning of the year, because I'm envisioning a fair chunk of that time being preparing all of our 494 01:27:58.440 --> 01:27:59.580 Matt Landahl: All of our 495 01:28:00.810 --> 01:28:04.080 Matt Landahl: You know staff are dealing with the emotional 496 01:28:06.090 --> 01:28:08.520 Matt Landahl: The emotional needs coming in. 497 01:28:09.720 --> 01:28:11.010 Matt Landahl: We, we have 498 01:28:13.020 --> 01:28:18.540 Matt Landahl: You know, kids having really strong and appropriate feelings about 499 01:28:20.040 --> 01:28:20.760 Matt Landahl: You know, 500 01:28:21.810 --> 01:28:30.840 Matt Landahl: Black Lives Matter and and you know George Floyd and many others. Getting killed and seeing that on TV and, you know, wanting to talk about that. 501 01:28:32.100 --> 01:28:47.370 Matt Landahl: When they come back in and what it means for them as an individual and what it means for them in the school. We have kids worried about catching the virus. So, or, you know, Do I have the right mask on. 502 01:28:48.840 --> 01:29:02.580 Matt Landahl: Or, you know, just do I feel safe. I mean, I'm envisioning the first really several weeks of the year being not so much focused on just jumping in the curriculum, but just really going slow and helping people feel safe, so I 503 01:29:03.780 --> 01:29:16.800 Matt Landahl: Probably my large motivation for changing up and giving teachers more time at the beginning of the years to really get some training and planning around how to create, you know, some really safe spaces for kids. I mean, just as a dad. 504 01:29:17.970 --> 01:29:28.950 Matt Landahl: And I know you've probably ever experienced this, as parents, like we we did a little traveling last week and we, you know, just to be clear, traveled to the states on the safe list. 505 01:29:29.670 --> 01:29:42.300 Matt Landahl: So we don't have to quarantine or anything, but my son was extremely cautious and observant of some places we went, people were not as into wearing masks. It's but he's used to saying in New York. 506 01:29:42.930 --> 01:29:50.100 Matt Landahl: And you know, I think as as adults we kind of can work through that a little bit and just move on. 507 01:29:51.390 --> 01:30:06.270 Matt Landahl: But he, he was blown away. And, you know, obviously we're not gonna be seeing that in school, but it just made me think how every child is in a different place every one of our young people's in a different place around basic health issues. 508 01:30:08.400 --> 01:30:16.170 Matt Landahl: You know reintegrating if they're doing hybrid with their peers in person if they haven't been seeing a lot of friends. 509 01:30:18.690 --> 01:30:20.670 Matt Landahl: fears about that and also just 510 01:30:21.750 --> 01:30:23.340 Matt Landahl: Fears concerns. 511 01:30:25.020 --> 01:30:29.520 Matt Landahl: A lot of really justified feelings about the state of our country and community. 512 01:30:30.660 --> 01:30:32.220 Matt Landahl: Around issues like race. 513 01:30:33.780 --> 01:30:46.500 Matt Landahl: So there's a lot. So, you know, we're not going to do it perfectly, but we're trying to bring like all of our experts in early to plan to do a lot of training and supporting all of our staff. 514 01:30:46.920 --> 01:30:51.210 Matt Landahl: I think my main message to the staff is, this is not the job of just a 515 01:30:51.960 --> 01:30:59.130 Matt Landahl: Couple of guidance counselors in a social worker or a school psychologist, like this is everybody this is an all hands on deck kind of thing. 516 01:30:59.670 --> 01:31:11.250 Matt Landahl: And everybody has feelings about this. And I think, I think as adults have found ways to like talk about this with our friends and our peers and our colleagues and I honestly think a lot of our kids haven't 517 01:31:12.090 --> 01:31:20.370 Matt Landahl: And again, speaking as a dad, I would probably label my family's being a little bit more on the cautious side with playdates and whatnot. 518 01:31:21.090 --> 01:31:33.510 Matt Landahl: And but when we do do one outside we see again. I hate to talk about my son, but I think this is part of what everyone's going to experience like he's a little more cautious when he's getting together with friends because he's not used to it as much, and 519 01:31:34.230 --> 01:31:48.210 Matt Landahl: So we're going to be integrating like hundreds of kids into like not being used to being used to the class and they have a mask on. And so it's daunting, but I also think there's a benefit. 520 01:31:50.040 --> 01:31:54.570 Matt Landahl: To trying and there's a benefit to try to have some of that in person human contact 521 01:31:55.680 --> 01:31:56.790 Matt Landahl: If we can pull it off. 522 01:31:56.880 --> 01:31:59.190 Matt Landahl: And I think we can but sorry I kind of 523 01:31:59.280 --> 01:32:04.560 Matt Landahl: rambled into a long thing there. But it is huge for us. And I think also 524 01:32:05.640 --> 01:32:14.190 Matt Landahl: You know, we're building PD into the remote Wednesdays. And so I think part of that PD. I think half of that PD is going to be 525 01:32:14.970 --> 01:32:20.670 Matt Landahl: How to be a great online teacher kind of what Anthony's getting at that Royce preparing for the inevitable. 526 01:32:21.660 --> 01:32:26.820 Matt Landahl: Or what people are calling the inevitable. And then the other part of is how do we deal with all these feelings and emotions. 527 01:32:27.180 --> 01:32:35.460 Matt Landahl: And I think, I think the last thing I want to say is it's not just for the kids coming through our doors, it's also for the kids who are choosing the all remote and 528 01:32:36.510 --> 01:32:40.770 Matt Landahl: You know I'm reading a lot of stuff right now online about ways to 529 01:32:41.820 --> 01:32:48.090 Matt Landahl: Make us feel welcome in an online environment and and not being so rules oriented. 530 01:32:48.750 --> 01:32:54.450 Matt Landahl: You know I'm seeing these districts that are a little bit ahead of us and they're doing like dress codes are online. 531 01:32:54.930 --> 01:33:10.560 Matt Landahl: And you have to have your video on the entire time or you're not counted as resident, you know, we want to we want to honor the individuals be, you know, in all of this, and provide some flexibility for kids is I think we all as adults have had moments where we need to turn the video off. 532 01:33:11.910 --> 01:33:20.760 Matt Landahl: Or mute ourselves for a little bit, you know, or whatever but but i. We want to make sure we're attending to the emotional needs of our students who are 533 01:33:21.330 --> 01:33:34.140 Matt Landahl: Who are you know staying at home and going all remote because I i mean this is probably my biggest worry with all of this is just really worried about the emotional state of everyone, to be quite honest. 534 01:33:34.530 --> 01:33:37.410 Kristan Flynn: Well, I think, to that point as far as your 535 01:33:38.640 --> 01:33:50.520 Kristan Flynn: Description of I think the fact that 70% are opting to come in person says a lot about the confidence in the plan that you have and the measures, you've put into place. 536 01:33:51.210 --> 01:34:02.100 Kristan Flynn: I think probably where when you're saying you're looking for direction from us. I can just say, from my perspective, PERSONALLY I FEEL MORE I'm 537 01:34:02.820 --> 01:34:11.550 Kristan Flynn: Kind of protective of everything that you have all been doing in the sense that what I see in terms of communication is 538 01:34:12.000 --> 01:34:21.210 Kristan Flynn: A lot of like, well, well, they didn't get this right, or this what they don't know about this or why hasn't been addressed that. Or why isn't this figured out yet and i and i think that that's 539 01:34:21.840 --> 01:34:30.450 Kristan Flynn: The piece that we really you know that I would urge the community to really think about which is nobody's ever done this before, really, you know, 540 01:34:31.110 --> 01:34:56.550 Kristan Flynn: I see a lot of examples of what happened during the polio epidemic and the flu pandemic. But you know what, we don't have it was a nationally coordinated plan, you do not have a we also do not have agreement of everyone in our community about how real the threat is how 541 01:34:57.900 --> 01:35:09.990 Kristan Flynn: How to really address it. You know, I think masks are now commonly accepted but maybe if we had done this at a different time they wouldn't be so I think that there's a lot of it's not just 542 01:35:10.530 --> 01:35:23.370 Kristan Flynn: On you and the administration administrators and the teachers, it is on all of us as a community to prioritize the needs of kids and to prioritize each other and I wondering if 543 01:35:23.910 --> 01:35:35.100 Kristan Flynn: What kind of mental and emotional supports are there for teachers and administrators to you guys getting circles or any sort of support in that way because I've seen a lot of anxiety from teachers about 544 01:35:35.520 --> 01:35:43.950 Kristan Flynn: Going back into the classroom and then their kids being in a different school and they're having sort of double exposure. So I think that I think that 545 01:35:45.180 --> 01:35:54.090 Kristan Flynn: You know, a lot of the questions that are appearing can't be answered until this starts rolling along. I think that if you feel 546 01:35:54.600 --> 01:36:01.800 Kristan Flynn: That you've put as much thought into it. And this seems like it works. And I personally want to support and vacuum in it. I just think that 547 01:36:02.580 --> 01:36:12.060 Kristan Flynn: For the community. This can't be a gotcha. They didn't think of this, it has to be like this grace and understanding that we all need to solve this problem together. 548 01:36:12.660 --> 01:36:20.850 Kristan Flynn: It's a collective action problem and that's a great example for kids, but I feel like it requires grace and compassion and understanding and 549 01:36:21.360 --> 01:36:31.680 Kristan Flynn: Respecting that other people make personal choices. And it's not a judgment on your choice. And that if there's something you see that you feel is important, communicate it, you don't have to like 550 01:36:32.310 --> 01:36:42.000 Kristan Flynn: Blasted on Facebook is people not getting it. You know, just like you said about just that report that came out today about mass that's important information and we're all responsible to share it with each other. 551 01:36:43.410 --> 01:36:54.090 Matt Landahl: Yeah, no I yeah I mean we sometimes we're so I mean I like everyone else. I'm not trying to make a special, but we're so busy on all of our zooms and what 552 01:36:54.450 --> 01:37:06.930 Matt Landahl: That someone may reference something that came out earlier in the day and I haven't even seen it, you know, like about the mass study. So we need to look at that and get some guidance from from our Department of Health, folks, too, but 553 01:37:08.040 --> 01:37:09.150 Matt Landahl: No, I, I 554 01:37:12.570 --> 01:37:13.890 Matt Landahl: I mean, you know, 555 01:37:16.500 --> 01:37:23.490 Matt Landahl: Maybe, maybe a little bit later in August we feel like we need a little bit more time at the start of the year to really make it 556 01:37:24.480 --> 01:37:40.680 Matt Landahl: To really iron out some of the kinks and I come back to the board as we try to really solidify a schedule on August 24 you know to that we need a few more days or something to really if we feel like to make it work, but 557 01:37:45.210 --> 01:37:48.210 Matt Landahl: It's it's a it's kind of a crazy place to be in. And 558 01:37:49.740 --> 01:38:07.140 Matt Landahl: But it's a it's a place for us to exercise, you know, some new skills and really try not to take things personally and to keep listening and keep working on stuff. And so again, you know, back to my sort of thing, a long time ago. 559 01:38:08.940 --> 01:38:19.620 Matt Landahl: You can also just write me an email to you and I will, I will do my best to answer it and and we need to put this FAQ up so people can just sort of go to places with the answers. 560 01:38:20.970 --> 01:38:26.850 Matt Landahl: But, uh, but yeah, there's a lot we are working on right now. And this is going to evolve over time, for sure. 561 01:38:29.280 --> 01:38:36.120 Elissa: Matt, I didn't, I'm sorry to go back to something that I feel like we kind of covered already earlier but um 562 01:38:37.200 --> 01:38:52.080 Elissa: My question is as far as like if someone in the community test positive. Does it, does it have to be a student or teacher or someone who works in one of the buildings testing positive to trigger a 563 01:38:52.890 --> 01:39:08.490 Elissa: You know, sending people home. I mean what, what happens if a parent comes forward and says they tested positive is that parents child's class and have to go home. I know these are the unanswerable questions or you know we can enforce the every scenario but 564 01:39:10.020 --> 01:39:17.730 Elissa: Kristen mentioned before that a kid in sixth grade or kid in fourth grade might have a brother in middle school and his sister in high school. 565 01:39:19.200 --> 01:39:24.150 Elissa: It just triggered, you know that domino effect of possibilities. 566 01:39:26.610 --> 01:39:32.850 Matt Landahl: So my understanding of the Department of Health guidelines and and and they're coming out. 567 01:39:33.570 --> 01:39:38.520 Matt Landahl: Is unfortunately county by county, but I think they're starting to see what the, you know, they're starting to kind of 568 01:39:38.850 --> 01:39:57.180 Matt Landahl: Copy from each other, but they're starting to give us flow charts and like really easy to use things. My understanding of that is like what triggers an automatic quarantining or contact racing, I should say, which would lead to quarantining is a positive case of a student or staff member 569 01:39:58.500 --> 01:40:13.950 Matt Landahl: Not like a relative of somebody like that does not trigger an automatic contact tracing quarantining. That's my understanding. I mean, we meet with the Department of Health looks pretty much every week and we're always getting clarity on all this and 570 01:40:15.270 --> 01:40:28.080 Matt Landahl: You know we worry about them getting overwhelmed, for the first couple weeks of the year with like a million questions for us. And so that's why we're trying to kind of work, a lot of this out ahead of time. But that's my understanding. Okay, thank you. 571 01:40:31.980 --> 01:40:33.030 James Case-Leal: Question. That's kind of 572 01:40:34.320 --> 01:40:39.390 Flora Stadler: Related to that, I had seen. I don't know if this isn't the FAQ that's currently up 573 01:40:40.590 --> 01:40:52.260 Flora Stadler: Or or somewhere else, sort of talking about, you know, employee guidelines and so they're supposed so employees have to answer a questionnaire every morning correct before they 574 01:40:52.920 --> 01:40:54.420 Matt Landahl: come to school. Yeah. 575 01:40:54.480 --> 01:41:09.510 Flora Stadler: And then so if they if they answer. So is the idea that there's they're answering this questionnaire and then they're sending it to someone and someone is is looking to see if they've answered yes to any questions or how does that work exactly 576 01:41:11.370 --> 01:41:23.580 Matt Landahl: I mean with with employees. It's a little bit of an honor system. But we, it's sort of an interesting legal areas because due to HIPAA, we're not really privy to their anyone's medical information, um, 577 01:41:24.090 --> 01:41:32.400 Matt Landahl: And so it's like we would be tracking whether people are answering it and and then training people to, if you have any of these symptoms that you stay home. 578 01:41:33.420 --> 01:41:45.300 Ann Marie Quartironi: Now can I also mentioned that it's an automatic that if they do. Answer yes there was an email system that sense it's almost like a read email that will go to a building level administrator and to and to our nurse manager. 579 01:41:45.960 --> 01:41:50.640 Ann Marie Quartironi: Okay, alerting us. So there is an in, that's all done automatically. Okay. 580 01:41:50.910 --> 01:41:58.440 Matt Landahl: Andrew has been working with the school nurses on this one more closely than I have been so thanks for jumping in. No problem. 581 01:42:01.560 --> 01:42:02.880 James Case-Leal: Man, I wanted to ask 582 01:42:04.080 --> 01:42:14.670 James Case-Leal: You know, I've actually done a little bit of background work on this in preparation for the next Policy Committee, but it really should probably begin with a conversation with you, but you've been added, you were in a town on vacation. Good. 583 01:42:15.870 --> 01:42:27.750 James Case-Leal: But Bill Dr. Milan and I in preparation for the next Policy Committee, we're just kind of throwing out ideas with legal about mask requirements and if there is anything that can be done on the board level. 584 01:42:28.860 --> 01:42:41.850 James Case-Leal: We were drafting up potential language for review for the committee to look at having something in the dress code that would define clearly what masks are appropriate and sort of 585 01:42:42.480 --> 01:42:53.790 James Case-Leal: Where they fit on the the restorative process, you know, basically, to answer the question is, is what happens if a student doesn't wear mask or doesn't want to wear a mask. What does that process look like 586 01:42:55.110 --> 01:42:58.800 James Case-Leal: I know there's a some conversation. I've heard 587 01:42:59.970 --> 01:43:02.070 James Case-Leal: It's not entirely clear about 588 01:43:12.180 --> 01:43:15.780 Kristan Flynn: Power on this one out. So anything. James is in the same area is 589 01:43:16.080 --> 01:43:16.350 Mine. 590 01:43:17.670 --> 01:43:18.480 Kristan Flynn: We might have lost him. 591 01:43:19.020 --> 01:43:19.590 He's frozen. 592 01:43:21.060 --> 01:43:21.810 meredith heuer: Matt, do you want to 593 01:43:22.290 --> 01:43:23.850 meredith heuer: Hear the power blip. 594 01:43:24.840 --> 01:43:25.680 Craig Wolf: Yeah, me too. 595 01:43:27.420 --> 01:43:28.920 meredith heuer: Could you tell what he was asking. 596 01:43:30.930 --> 01:43:32.130 Matt Landahl: Yeah, I am. 597 01:43:35.100 --> 01:43:39.210 Matt Landahl: I you know I think we've had a lot. I've had a lot of conversations about this with my colleagues. 598 01:43:39.540 --> 01:43:49.920 Matt Landahl: The general consensus is we don't want to overdo like additions to the code of conduct, because of the changes, but I know there's a lot of concern about mass from the staff side. 599 01:43:50.520 --> 01:43:57.390 Matt Landahl: And so I think I do think adding some clarity around us wearing would be helpful. So I think that's something that we 600 01:43:59.310 --> 01:44:00.210 Matt Landahl: Um, 601 01:44:02.190 --> 01:44:04.260 Matt Landahl: Yeah, I mean I, you know, 602 01:44:07.110 --> 01:44:13.230 Matt Landahl: We're in this. We're in kind of an interesting place because like we have this hybrid in person, but also remote 603 01:44:13.800 --> 01:44:25.020 Matt Landahl: And so someone is really struggling wearing a mask that it really seems like they should just move to remote if their struggle is kind of a personal choice, you know, not, not like a 604 01:44:26.040 --> 01:44:29.730 Matt Landahl: A health need or a special need and so 605 01:44:30.870 --> 01:44:40.050 Matt Landahl: You know, so, so that's but that we need to iron that out. So we're not just kind of winging it at the beginning of the year and that is a, it's a big concern with teachers, for sure. 606 01:44:46.800 --> 01:44:48.540 meredith heuer: Does anybody else have any questions for Matt. 607 01:44:53.640 --> 01:45:03.900 meredith heuer: Definitely want to encourage everyone both public and board members to keep communicating this is this is a lot for everyone. And I think that 608 01:45:04.380 --> 01:45:23.490 meredith heuer: What I hope is clear is that this is really, you know, taking into consideration the seriousness of the situation and wanting to keep everyone safe and healthy. That's a complicated ask. And so, you know, the solution is going to be imperfect. But I think the best intentions are there. 609 01:45:27.900 --> 01:45:33.030 meredith heuer: I'm going to have emotion to move to executive session to 610 01:45:34.140 --> 01:45:36.630 meredith heuer: To review the employment history of a particular individual. 611 01:45:40.050 --> 01:45:47.250 Craig Wolf: I'll make the motion, but because of the power outage. It's going to take me five or 10 minutes to get everything reset here. 612 01:45:48.570 --> 01:45:57.600 Craig Wolf: So it's the power just went out and came back on and everything is resetting so I have to go find that email message for the invite. So give me a little while. 613 01:45:58.320 --> 01:45:59.730 Craig Wolf: Okay, for you. 614 01:46:00.150 --> 01:46:01.680 meredith heuer: So Christian made the motion. 615 01:46:01.680 --> 01:46:02.070 Second, 616 01:46:03.360 --> 01:46:05.130 Kristan Flynn: Craig me the motion or second 617 01:46:06.870 --> 01:46:08.130 James Case-Leal’s iPhone: What motion. Are we, I'm sorry. 618 01:46:10.140 --> 01:46:11.280 meredith heuer: Executive Session. 619 01:46:12.570 --> 01:46:12.870 meredith heuer: Any 620 01:46:13.920 --> 01:46:14.640 James Case-Leal’s iPhone: just guessing. 621 01:46:15.270 --> 01:46:18.180 James Case-Leal’s iPhone: Did Mac make an answer to the question that I did when I was asking. 622 01:46:18.780 --> 01:46:20.100 meredith heuer: He did respond 623 01:46:20.340 --> 01:46:23.790 Matt Landahl: We're where we need to work on that. I agree. 624 01:46:24.450 --> 01:46:25.200 James Case-Leal’s iPhone: Okay, great. We'll talk 625 01:46:26.250 --> 01:46:26.580 Thanks. 626 01:46:27.600 --> 01:46:29.700 meredith heuer: Any comments or questions about the motion. 627 01:46:32.280 --> 01:46:32.970 meredith heuer: I'll cave her 628 01:46:33.930 --> 01:46:35.370 James Case-Leal’s iPhone: Hi. Hi. 629 01:46:35.850 --> 01:46:36.420 First 630 01:46:38.400 --> 01:46:39.990 meredith heuer: Okay. We will be back in about 631 01:46:41.460 --> 01:46:42.570 meredith heuer: Half hour 40 minutes 632 02:25:42.720 --> 02:25:44.040 Flora Stadler: Meredith you're muted. 633 02:25:47.940 --> 02:25:49.050 Sorry. Thank you so much. 634 02:25:50.610 --> 02:26:13.890 meredith heuer: What's a review the agenda. There are a few changes to note item 11.05 non instructional personnel as a title change for be one item 11 to six instructional agenda additions item I 10 an item P and then item 1117 resolutions 081120 see policy and code 19 reopening plans has been removed. 635 02:26:15.630 --> 02:26:16.770 There any questions about that. 636 02:26:19.710 --> 02:26:22.890 Are there any student or school presentation. 637 02:26:27.900 --> 02:26:30.570 meredith heuer: Be none, are there any parent groups. 638 02:26:39.360 --> 02:26:43.800 meredith heuer: None. Matt, you talked a lot, but do you have a superintendents report. 639 02:26:46.680 --> 02:26:53.010 Matt Landahl: Know I talked for an hour and a half, but just a reminder that I am doing. I sent out the link email. 640 02:26:54.270 --> 02:27:01.650 Matt Landahl: To my list that I'm doing a conversation about reopening with the Highlands current tomorrow seven o'clock. 641 02:27:06.450 --> 02:27:07.800 meredith heuer: Okay, Ford 642 02:27:09.270 --> 02:27:12.210 meredith heuer: Ford comment and committee report. 643 02:27:13.230 --> 02:27:15.720 meredith heuer: And can we start with facilities, Kristen. 644 02:27:17.160 --> 02:27:31.560 Kristan Flynn: Actually don't have anything to report I've left facilities alone for a while because they have a lot on their plate but Matt. Would you like to set that next date or do we want to meet this Wednesday. No, that's tonight, tomorrow, and you have the Highland current thing. 645 02:27:33.090 --> 02:27:34.200 Kristan Flynn: So next one thing 646 02:27:35.880 --> 02:27:36.540 Kristan Flynn: you're muted. 647 02:27:38.970 --> 02:27:41.280 Matt Landahl: Sorry, let's set the date, I'm 648 02:27:42.120 --> 02:27:42.900 Kristan Flynn: I'm actually not here. 649 02:27:44.430 --> 02:27:45.720 Matt Landahl: You're not here. What, yes. 650 02:27:46.770 --> 02:27:49.710 Matt Landahl: Okay, um, let's do the week after. 651 02:27:52.470 --> 02:27:53.640 meredith heuer: I'm not here. The week after 652 02:27:55.560 --> 02:27:56.370 meredith heuer: I don't have to be there. 653 02:27:58.770 --> 02:28:00.750 Kristan Flynn: Maybe I'll never come back then I won't be 654 02:28:05.460 --> 02:28:05.970 Will do though. 655 02:28:10.530 --> 02:28:14.010 Craig Wolf: I'm sorry, what are we talking about the Facilities Committee. 656 02:28:15.480 --> 02:28:16.050 meredith heuer: Next meeting. 657 02:28:17.730 --> 02:28:18.360 awhite: What was the date. 658 02:28:19.080 --> 02:28:19.680 Kristan Flynn: I'm looking it up. 659 02:28:32.370 --> 02:28:33.630 Kristan Flynn: My calendars taking forever. 660 02:28:55.320 --> 02:28:58.110 Kristan Flynn: I'm so sorry. Now my calendar is just loading on days not 661 02:29:08.220 --> 02:29:14.700 Kristan Flynn: So that is the 24 on Wednesday. The 26 662 02:29:18.960 --> 02:29:19.680 Kristan Flynn: Does that work for you. 663 02:29:21.870 --> 02:29:22.500 Matt Landahl: Yes. Okay. 664 02:29:23.520 --> 02:29:23.730 Kristan Flynn: Okay. 665 02:29:25.980 --> 02:29:32.190 meredith heuer: Anthony, are you, your other facilities. Right. Can you make that date. Okay, so I won't be there but you guys can 666 02:29:32.790 --> 02:29:33.060 Okay. 667 02:29:38.730 --> 02:29:39.270 meredith heuer: I'm 668 02:29:40.560 --> 02:29:41.130 meredith heuer: Jane. 669 02:29:43.770 --> 02:29:44.520 James Case-Leal: Hi. Yeah. 670 02:29:46.380 --> 02:29:54.270 James Case-Leal: So for policy committee, I just this past week or so have my own little window into 671 02:29:56.130 --> 02:30:01.830 James Case-Leal: I don't use word chaos. Let's say the dynamic nature of reopening plan. 672 02:30:02.970 --> 02:30:06.000 James Case-Leal: With Dr alone and legal and I had prepared. 673 02:30:07.530 --> 02:30:14.070 James Case-Leal: All the policies that we're going to need to update for coven for our next policy committee meeting, which was scheduled for this Wednesday. 674 02:30:14.790 --> 02:30:29.040 James Case-Leal: We then received the resolution that was on the agenda for tonight from Missoula that essentially was blanket language to remove the urgency, so we don't need to change the policies. So we canceled that meeting on Wednesday night. 675 02:30:30.330 --> 02:30:39.270 James Case-Leal: Really with the thinking that with the urgency remove that really the district needs to be focusing its resources on the reopening plan that we could push those policies that needs to be 676 02:30:39.900 --> 02:30:52.170 James Case-Leal: Updated just a couple weeks down the road to get them some space, but then. Today I learned from our legal team has now revised its recommendations. 677 02:30:52.710 --> 02:30:57.840 James Case-Leal: And the resolute the blanket resolution is my understanding. As of now, 678 02:30:58.350 --> 02:31:13.140 James Case-Leal: Is no longer ideal for the district. So luckily, we've already done the legwork with legal to get the draft languages, but we've already canceled the meeting for this week. So we need to do is we need to schedule a meeting a policy committee meeting before the next board meeting. 679 02:31:14.250 --> 02:31:18.300 James Case-Leal: To review those policies as originally 680 02:31:19.710 --> 02:31:21.780 James Case-Leal: As originally plan so luckily we have it all. 681 02:31:23.460 --> 02:31:30.960 James Case-Leal: But we need to schedule a new meeting so apologies for the the back and forth was trying to make things easier. And it seems of backfired. 682 02:31:33.030 --> 02:31:46.320 James Case-Leal: I know that we had kind of had some back and forth about possible dates and I know there's not a perfect date next week, but can you all. I remember the day the 17th being a day that that some people could get said they could come. Am I making that up. 683 02:31:47.490 --> 02:31:48.750 James Case-Leal: Melissa, Meredith, and 684 02:31:49.170 --> 02:31:50.910 Elissa: Vacation starting Saturday. 685 02:31:51.720 --> 02:31:53.640 James Case-Leal: Okay. And when you come back. 686 02:31:54.360 --> 02:32:03.450 James Case-Leal: The 22nd. Okay. So it seems like there's not going to be a date. Next we have to do with next week because the, the next meeting is on the 20 or 687 02:32:04.200 --> 02:32:06.150 Elissa: Can it be an abbreviated meeting. 688 02:32:06.270 --> 02:32:08.160 Elissa: Does it have to be that full like 689 02:32:09.330 --> 02:32:10.560 Elissa: We have to cover this 690 02:32:11.940 --> 02:32:14.430 Elissa: One policy. Is that what I'm understanding 691 02:32:14.640 --> 02:32:29.670 James Case-Leal: No, we actually have about six. So basically anywhere that there's a conflict between the reopening planned and our current policies we have gone through every single one of those policies and it's about setting seven different policies, I can look at 692 02:32:32.130 --> 02:32:44.850 James Case-Leal: Anywhere where there's a major conflict we resolve that by temporarily updating the policy. And then when we go back to normal. In some cases will return the policy and some of them were just adding additional language that makes room for both 693 02:32:47.040 --> 02:32:57.540 James Case-Leal: The idea there was a resolution that was on the agenda for tonight that I believe has been removed from the size that was striking out that would have been a blanket. 694 02:32:58.560 --> 02:33:03.000 James Case-Leal: A blanket policy, basically, so that we don't have to review every single one. 695 02:33:03.330 --> 02:33:14.040 James Case-Leal: Right, that's no longer the case. So if I don't know that has to take long. You know, there were certainly a few other policies that would take more time those wouldn't be on this agenda. 696 02:33:15.660 --> 02:33:18.120 James Case-Leal: I think it could be. I could streamline it if you think that 697 02:33:19.500 --> 02:33:19.830 James Case-Leal: What do you think 698 02:33:20.640 --> 02:33:24.420 Elissa: It's important, and I think we need a quorum. Right. 699 02:33:27.090 --> 02:33:33.180 James Case-Leal: Well if Anthony between Anthony Meredith MYSELF AND YOU, ALYSSA. We need three 700 02:33:34.440 --> 02:33:34.920 Elissa: Right. 701 02:33:35.910 --> 02:33:38.520 Elissa: We can have. Do you have three without me. 702 02:33:40.740 --> 02:33:41.190 James Case-Leal: Anthony 703 02:33:42.390 --> 02:33:42.780 meredith heuer: I can do. 704 02:33:43.080 --> 02:33:43.620 Antony Tseng: Just fine. 705 02:33:44.550 --> 02:33:49.950 James Case-Leal: 17th. So we could wait, I think we'll set it for the 17th. Listen, if you're okay with that. 706 02:33:50.580 --> 02:33:55.350 Elissa: That's fine. I would rather not do a meeting, while I'm on vacation. 707 02:33:55.470 --> 02:33:56.910 James Case-Leal: So around with that too. 708 02:33:57.480 --> 02:34:10.350 Elissa: So if you guys can do it without me. I'm that's fine if you must, if you absolutely need me though. I mean, obviously I'm not going to Mars. I'll just be at the Jersey Shore. So, and I'll have a computer so I can log on. 709 02:34:10.800 --> 02:34:14.490 James Case-Leal: That sounds nice, and I will, I will do my best to not make that happens. 710 02:34:14.700 --> 02:34:21.030 James Case-Leal: Okay. Alright, so the 17th 7pm. Is that work Matt and and Bill team. 711 02:34:23.550 --> 02:34:26.670 James Case-Leal: Great, great. So we'll, we'll have that policy and then 712 02:34:28.020 --> 02:34:34.890 James Case-Leal: Bill, if you could send out those those drafts, just the just the ones related to code specific 713 02:34:36.450 --> 02:34:49.170 James Case-Leal: Okay, great. And that's all my comments, except just to say my continued support and admiration with the admin team, the district. You guys are just still knocking it out of the park and I don't understand that you're still saying so. So, keep it up. 714 02:34:50.340 --> 02:34:51.630 James Case-Leal: That's all I'm saying. Thank you. 715 02:34:54.480 --> 02:34:55.080 meredith heuer: Anthony 716 02:34:59.580 --> 02:35:15.060 awhite: So the curriculum committee has not met, since the last board meeting, I will ask Eric to share on the curriculum calendar with me for the year. And once I get the I will share it with the rest of the board on you heard Matt talk about instructional plans during the 717 02:35:16.290 --> 02:35:21.570 awhite: During the workshop. Um, I must say I am disappointed that we didn't meet in person tonight. 718 02:35:21.900 --> 02:35:35.970 awhite: Um, I thought that if we're talking about a hybrid in bringing 200 kids into school why we couldn't get a 13 people and auditorium social for mass and have people in auditorium. It's not that hard to set up. 719 02:35:37.020 --> 02:35:42.600 awhite: So I am disappointed about that piece. I think it goes to one, the symbolism of the district. 720 02:35:43.620 --> 02:35:49.380 awhite: You know, I know that there was concerned by board a board member about, you know, having someone at high risk, but yet. 721 02:35:49.650 --> 02:36:02.250 awhite: You know, I know that they've been participating in protests and stuff as well. So I'm just confused as to when and why aren't we meet in person, a curriculum or the committee meetings going to be in person. Are they going to be remote as well. 722 02:36:05.610 --> 02:36:25.290 meredith heuer: And we have not discussed what the committee meetings, whether or not they'll be in person or not, but we certainly can. And I think we're working on figuring out a plan to do the second meeting in August in person. So stay tuned for news there. 723 02:36:29.190 --> 02:36:32.220 meredith heuer: And Craig, do you have any comments to share 724 02:36:33.240 --> 02:36:47.340 Craig Wolf: Yes, I do. Can you hear me. Yep. Okay, good. So it will be good to set the meeting for the public relations advocacy legislative committees, since we just did that for facilities and operations. 725 02:36:48.510 --> 02:36:57.630 Craig Wolf: It usually works to tag team with that meeting, unless Griffin is thinking we're going to be going excessively long, I hope that because 726 02:36:58.920 --> 02:37:01.350 Craig Wolf: Some of us can participate in both meetings. 727 02:37:03.300 --> 02:37:04.530 Kristan Flynn: How about if we do it right. 728 02:37:04.530 --> 02:37:05.250 Craig Wolf: After that one. 729 02:37:05.430 --> 02:37:06.540 Craig Wolf: Yeah, I don't think we 730 02:37:06.540 --> 02:37:08.760 Kristan Flynn: Expect to go on. 731 02:37:10.440 --> 02:37:18.000 Kristan Flynn: I have to talk to Matt, but we can try that we can do our best to make sure that we are most quickly, even if we have a big agenda. 732 02:37:18.960 --> 02:37:20.610 Kristan Flynn: We can start early. 733 02:37:21.210 --> 02:37:21.870 Matt Landahl: You can do both. 734 02:37:22.230 --> 02:37:23.610 Kristan Flynn: Or start early. That's good. 735 02:37:24.360 --> 02:37:28.170 Craig Wolf: Okay, so let's make that for the same date, which is the 26 right 736 02:37:31.170 --> 02:37:35.280 Craig Wolf: That would be 868 15. Okay, good. 737 02:37:36.450 --> 02:37:47.970 Craig Wolf: So we have an opportunity to meet with a congressman. Unfortunately, I will not be available on the 13th, I gather this Florida that there might be. Is that right, 738 02:37:50.670 --> 02:37:52.740 Craig Wolf: I'm going to do it. Email right now. 739 02:37:56.880 --> 02:37:57.390 Is available. 740 02:37:59.190 --> 02:38:00.120 meredith heuer: already signed up for. 741 02:38:01.020 --> 02:38:06.240 meredith heuer: Anybody so I can see I can totally see if I can transfer it to you. I'd be 742 02:38:07.800 --> 02:38:08.220 meredith heuer: Danny green 743 02:38:08.250 --> 02:38:10.200 Craig Wolf: I'll leave it to the two of us to decide. 744 02:38:10.200 --> 02:38:14.670 Craig Wolf: Maybe you can both go so anyway I wish they could do it. He's 745 02:38:16.080 --> 02:38:19.860 Craig Wolf: He's pretty easy to talk to. And I think you'll have a good conversation. 746 02:38:21.210 --> 02:38:22.620 Craig Wolf: Speaking of politics. 747 02:38:25.230 --> 02:38:28.110 Craig Wolf: You know, most of the news is looking pretty bad. 748 02:38:29.400 --> 02:38:30.540 Craig Wolf: From Washington 749 02:38:31.830 --> 02:38:40.650 Craig Wolf: And I think that you probably all have seen the reports about how talks, pretty much collapsed and then our 750 02:38:42.240 --> 02:38:43.920 Craig Wolf: President decided to 751 02:38:45.300 --> 02:38:53.040 Craig Wolf: I think play some games with the Constitution and excuse some dubious executive orders, most of which are not 752 02:38:55.080 --> 02:39:05.640 Craig Wolf: Not going to be working out very well because of complications either lawsuits or because states have to pony up some money that they don't have 753 02:39:06.720 --> 02:39:19.440 Craig Wolf: So we'll have to see how that works out. But it means that on the federal level, you can hope that they decide to come to their senses and get back to the drawing boards. It doesn't look good. 754 02:39:20.490 --> 02:39:32.190 Craig Wolf: I heard Mitch McConnell, the Republican Leader of the Senate indicates that about half of his members didn't seem to want to play baseball. So that was bad news. 755 02:39:33.450 --> 02:39:46.590 Craig Wolf: And if we don't get aid from the federal government, then a very ugly ball lens and Andrew Cuomo court. Nice. I can't stop eating sports analogies Kenny, but anyway. 756 02:39:47.430 --> 02:39:56.820 Craig Wolf: He's been resistant to other means of funding school districts and we're still waiting to see what happens with the money question. 757 02:39:58.320 --> 02:40:13.200 Craig Wolf: And when we see what does happen or doesn't happen, we'll be able to respond to it in some fashion but right now I don't have any big recommendations to offer because we don't know exactly where that 758 02:40:14.280 --> 02:40:27.330 Craig Wolf: Deal is going to land as it doesn't look good. The last I heard from inside the district is we probably survive this year, but it looks like it could be really tough in 759 02:40:28.650 --> 02:40:32.940 Craig Wolf: Years after that, as the chickens come home to roost. 760 02:40:34.230 --> 02:40:45.690 Craig Wolf: So I'd like to hear some more if there's anything new updates from the superintendent or from our CFO to guide us any further. 761 02:40:46.440 --> 02:40:58.950 Craig Wolf: So after we're done with the board comments if they wish to bring ascending news or updates on that end will be happy to hear it, even if it's bad news. One other thing I have to say is that 762 02:41:00.000 --> 02:41:09.330 Craig Wolf: I had a big power outage, not the little blip TONIGHT THAT REALLY SCARED ME BECAUSE NOT AGAIN, PLEASE. Gotta get we lost power at our house which is 763 02:41:09.840 --> 02:41:26.820 Craig Wolf: In the neighborhood of the surgeon Avenue, where a massive tree belonging to the beacon City School District shell. The power lines and took out at least 200 and change for anywhere from Tuesday afternoon to Friday night. 764 02:41:27.900 --> 02:41:33.750 Craig Wolf: And it occurred to me that we have some work to do and looking at the trees that we own 765 02:41:34.380 --> 02:41:43.110 Craig Wolf: Many of them are just ready to collapse on a power line, either on Sergeant Avenue, or perhaps in some of our other properties. 766 02:41:43.890 --> 02:41:51.900 Craig Wolf: And these are beyond the reach of central Hudson's usable trimming program. The tree that broke this time was the big old sycamore 767 02:41:52.440 --> 02:42:05.220 Craig Wolf: Which I would have thought was probably safe, but it wasn't. And it was such a bad collapse that it actually landed on the lines was sufficient for us to transmit that force. 768 02:42:05.640 --> 02:42:23.790 Craig Wolf: To the nearest utility pole and crack that pole as well. Quite a bit of liability here and I think we need to take a look at that. So I'm hoping that we can put that on the agenda for next facilities meeting and see what kind of steps we might be able to take 769 02:42:24.930 --> 02:42:25.440 Craig Wolf: So, 770 02:42:27.180 --> 02:42:28.590 Kristan Flynn: Please email that that'd be great. 771 02:42:28.590 --> 02:42:29.160 Kristan Flynn: To hear 772 02:42:29.250 --> 02:42:31.200 Kristan Flynn: About that stuff that way. 773 02:42:32.940 --> 02:42:36.360 James Case-Leal: There might ask a question about that. I've heard 774 02:42:36.540 --> 02:42:41.130 James Case-Leal: Stories, but I've actually never tackled anyone from the historical society. 775 02:42:41.640 --> 02:42:46.260 James Case-Leal: That most of those larger trees were actually planted by by john Singer Sargent 776 02:42:46.920 --> 02:42:48.000 The brother. Oh, no. 777 02:42:49.650 --> 02:42:51.690 James Case-Leal: No, he's, he simply well 778 02:42:51.780 --> 02:42:55.050 Craig Wolf: It might be Henry, which is the one that 779 02:42:56.460 --> 02:42:59.280 Craig Wolf: Local interest that was brother john 780 02:42:59.340 --> 02:43:00.780 James Case-Leal: John Singer Sargent was his brother. 781 02:43:01.770 --> 02:43:04.020 Craig Wolf: Related yeah and 782 02:43:04.050 --> 02:43:08.160 James Case-Leal: My anyway. I heard that the the planting those trees might have some historical significance. 783 02:43:10.080 --> 02:43:12.120 Craig Wolf: I think that'd be willing to sacrifice it 784 02:43:16.560 --> 02:43:17.520 meredith heuer: Okay, thanks. Craig. 785 02:43:20.610 --> 02:43:22.950 meredith heuer: Craig. I don't know if you heard, but I will not be at the 786 02:43:23.370 --> 02:43:25.920 meredith heuer: PR meeting on the 26 I will still be out of town. 787 02:43:27.360 --> 02:43:28.470 meredith heuer: Flora, any comments. 788 02:43:28.650 --> 02:43:28.890 Okay. 789 02:43:30.720 --> 02:43:40.620 Flora Stadler: Yeah, so we meaning myself. Dr. Milan and Karen Pagano. We had a planning meeting this morning, just to talk about 790 02:43:41.760 --> 02:43:42.840 Antony Tseng: What we want 791 02:43:42.900 --> 02:43:54.930 Flora Stadler: The Wellness committee to to focus on this year. And I think as with so many plans for the district. I think it's the kind of thing that we're going to know more. 792 02:43:55.410 --> 02:44:08.700 Flora Stadler: You know, as we're in it where the needs lie. But I do want to say just on a, on a personal note as and as someone focusing on the wellness aspect I am really heartened to know that we, you know, we're 793 02:44:09.150 --> 02:44:17.610 Flora Stadler: Putting thought into serving students social emotional needs going into this and you know having professional development. 794 02:44:18.270 --> 02:44:29.130 Flora Stadler: Around that I think that that's really important, and I would like to offer, and I hope that the wellness committee can act as a bridge to sort of 795 02:44:29.880 --> 02:44:40.290 Flora Stadler: Help rally Community resources around that to, you know, sort of stay informed of what's happening at the building level level in terms of 796 02:44:40.830 --> 02:44:51.990 Flora Stadler: Helping students address those needs and to maybe come up with, you know, new and useful ways to to serve students in those in those realms moving forward. 797 02:44:53.040 --> 02:45:00.480 Flora Stadler: I, I got a little bit of information from from Karen about what's going on the meals program, but I know it's still a work in progress. 798 02:45:00.870 --> 02:45:12.060 Flora Stadler: And obviously, there's, you know, focus on making sure that students who need lunches get lunches and, I believe, and I will, I will confirm this language. 799 02:45:12.960 --> 02:45:33.570 Flora Stadler: For sure, next time we meet, but students who are eligible for free and reduced lunch meals. You know, there will be an opportunity for bulk distribution on Wednesdays at RMS and it VHS times TBD. But you know they're there. The planning for that is underway. 800 02:45:34.710 --> 02:45:49.140 Flora Stadler: So we are tentatively planning a meeting for late September early October, just waiting to see how things go. And we will schedule a meeting and publicize it then. So that's all from me. 801 02:45:53.010 --> 02:45:53.610 meredith heuer: Thanks. 802 02:45:54.900 --> 02:45:55.380 meredith heuer: Anthony 803 02:45:59.490 --> 02:46:02.070 Antony Tseng: Can I call the thanks to everyone. 804 02:46:03.870 --> 02:46:05.280 Antony Tseng: Was trying to make this 805 02:46:06.930 --> 02:46:07.590 Antony Tseng: Number work. 806 02:46:09.180 --> 02:46:10.680 Antony Tseng: On you know it's a moving target. 807 02:46:12.630 --> 02:46:16.020 Antony Tseng: The diversity committee had a meeting on the 22nd of July. 808 02:46:17.100 --> 02:46:24.630 Antony Tseng: And it was actually a very welcome to meeting. There were a lot of people that missed the diversity committee. 809 02:46:26.220 --> 02:46:27.450 Antony Tseng: Meetings and 810 02:46:28.590 --> 02:46:34.800 Antony Tseng: We're looking forward to continuing to meet again, they were quite a few updates that we're giving 811 02:46:36.030 --> 02:46:37.260 Antony Tseng: I will just touch on 812 02:46:38.310 --> 02:46:44.760 Antony Tseng: Some of them, but I'll just go in depth on just one of them. The concerns over lack of curriculum was one 813 02:46:45.900 --> 02:46:54.450 Antony Tseng: And correct me if I'm wrong, if I missed anything but he's been talking to Dr. Hunter from SUNY Buffalo on culture responsive pedagogy. 814 02:46:55.320 --> 02:47:06.510 Antony Tseng: And as well as conducting a limited audit that will include the you know whether how many women and African American authors that we are using in our curriculum. 815 02:47:07.800 --> 02:47:13.020 Antony Tseng: And then also different projects as well, creating a template to 816 02:47:15.030 --> 02:47:15.960 Elissa: On the phone. 817 02:47:19.860 --> 02:47:20.910 Antony Tseng: template for 818 02:47:22.650 --> 02:47:24.630 Antony Tseng: In terms of how the history is being taught 819 02:47:27.210 --> 02:47:28.290 Antony Tseng: From six 820 02:47:29.460 --> 02:47:36.390 Antony Tseng: And then it is there's a pilot. I guess right now for just the LA and social studies, but hopefully expand soon. 821 02:47:37.500 --> 02:47:42.090 Antony Tseng: Using tools like diversity toolkit. Facing History and other teacher talents platforms. 822 02:47:43.800 --> 02:47:52.320 Antony Tseng: Now, then other topics that we, that we would mentor. We talked about was the hiring process. Another one was kind of code of conduct. 823 02:47:53.490 --> 02:47:56.490 Antony Tseng: And student conversations using the circle process. 824 02:47:57.600 --> 02:48:04.680 Antony Tseng: It was mentioned that apparent circles will also happen and we also mentioned training of all staff. 825 02:48:05.820 --> 02:48:07.710 Antony Tseng: And the report card. 826 02:48:08.940 --> 02:48:25.230 Antony Tseng: So again, General generally glad we were meeting again there was optimism in the air gratitude of what was done so far knowledge that the work I will continue and we may be uncomfortable at times and looking forward to the next meeting. The next painting was not set 827 02:48:26.310 --> 02:48:30.930 Antony Tseng: Obviously there's competing interest out there terms of everyone's time 828 02:48:32.190 --> 02:48:43.440 Antony Tseng: So when the next meeting is announced. I look forward to that. I'm sure a bunch of people will also look for that. One thing I do want to ask though is that 829 02:48:45.390 --> 02:48:50.040 Antony Tseng: I do get asked a lot about the diversity committee and what they're doing. 830 02:48:51.840 --> 02:49:07.650 Antony Tseng: And they are folks that contact me directly because they know on and there is a committee and I kind of go through some stuff with them of what was done, but it would be helpful if and I know some of the other committees have have web pages. 831 02:49:09.360 --> 02:49:12.780 Antony Tseng: And I do type notes for the meetings. 832 02:49:14.010 --> 02:49:22.200 Antony Tseng: I haven't, you know, I could do. I could go from, from now on, I could do it religiously. If I can type notes have 833 02:49:24.600 --> 02:49:35.400 Antony Tseng: Administration, just check to make sure it's accurate and then post them on the website so that people can actually see what we're doing and not just rely on me to talk about it. 834 02:49:37.140 --> 02:49:40.530 Matt Landahl: Yeah, we, we can work with you on that. That's a good idea. 835 02:49:41.550 --> 02:49:43.710 Antony Tseng: Okay, that's all I report. Thank you. 836 02:49:45.900 --> 02:49:47.700 meredith heuer: Thanks. Anthony Alyssa. 837 02:49:50.220 --> 02:49:56.430 Elissa: I'm sorry. A moment ago. I didn't realize that I was not on mute. When I yelled it my child for 838 02:49:58.050 --> 02:49:59.310 Elissa: Me during the meeting. 839 02:50:02.100 --> 02:50:06.000 Elissa: I have a very brief update on the Glenna Mills property. 840 02:50:07.590 --> 02:50:09.660 Elissa: People, bear with me. I'm 841 02:50:12.330 --> 02:50:18.060 Elissa: The Glen Mills property for those who may not know is the former Reese Texaco beacon research facility. 842 02:50:19.110 --> 02:50:30.120 Elissa: In Fishkill the latest update is that they submitted the remedial investigation report to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation 843 02:50:31.170 --> 02:50:33.090 Elissa: And to the State Department of Health. 844 02:50:34.200 --> 02:50:50.730 Elissa: Once it is accepted, it will be available in the Blodgett Memorial Library and Fishkill if anyone would like to read it and there are no real estate updates for the property. At this time, which I guess means they haven't had any new interest. 845 02:50:51.390 --> 02:50:54.660 meredith heuer: I think it's just means that it's not nothing's public. Yeah. 846 02:50:57.900 --> 02:51:11.280 Elissa: I don't have anything to report on a committee, I just want to echo the sentiments of my fellow board members. Thank you Matt and to your staff for doing this work. There are no easy answers and 847 02:51:12.630 --> 02:51:18.270 Elissa: We appreciate what you're doing for us. So thank you, that's all I have. 848 02:51:20.070 --> 02:51:23.490 meredith heuer: Thanks, Melissa. Sorry for editorializing the Glen Mills report. 849 02:51:23.910 --> 02:51:30.120 Elissa: Know that I didn't, it didn't occur to me that it just means nothing has made puppet and made public. 850 02:51:30.390 --> 02:51:31.320 meredith heuer: I think that is going to go. 851 02:51:31.350 --> 02:51:35.310 Elissa: Maybe someone is interested in the fish health Texaco property. 852 02:51:37.380 --> 02:51:38.580 meredith heuer: They they're not telling us 853 02:51:40.650 --> 02:51:52.860 meredith heuer: So we have some unfinished business to deal with the first item is the lease renewal for the Duchess stadium. This is a one year extension of our existing lease. 854 02:51:53.970 --> 02:51:59.130 meredith heuer: With the idea that we will be negotiating the sale of the stadium property and 855 02:52:00.600 --> 02:52:02.040 meredith heuer: Are there any questions about it. 856 02:52:04.170 --> 02:52:12.540 meredith heuer: There's note and I asked Dan to grow for an update. He had no there's no nothing on the calendar for that negotiation to start 857 02:52:13.740 --> 02:52:14.610 meredith heuer: But he's working on it. 858 02:52:19.920 --> 02:52:30.240 meredith heuer: Okay, so if there are no questions, we do need to vote on it. So I'm going to ask for a motion to approve the Duchess stadium lease renewal extension. 859 02:52:30.810 --> 02:52:31.620 Antony Tseng: Anthony motion. 860 02:52:35.700 --> 02:52:36.360 meredith heuer: Kristen. 861 02:52:37.770 --> 02:52:39.360 meredith heuer: Any other comments or questions. 862 02:52:41.130 --> 02:52:41.760 meredith heuer: All in favor. 863 02:52:43.170 --> 02:52:43.530 Antony Tseng: Hi. 864 02:52:43.890 --> 02:52:45.300 Craig Wolf: Hi host 865 02:52:46.500 --> 02:52:47.430 meredith heuer: Past eight zero 866 02:52:48.450 --> 02:52:58.410 meredith heuer: The second item is to discuss the appointment of the board member and we agreed out of the four options at the last meeting to 867 02:53:00.240 --> 02:53:08.070 meredith heuer: Naturally, the seat empty or goes with a special election or have the bossy superintendent to appoint a board member for us, but to go through and appointment process ourselves. 868 02:53:08.880 --> 02:53:20.730 meredith heuer: So I emailed everyone a proposed calendar for this. And I don't know if anybody had a chance to look at it as well as the language. 869 02:53:21.480 --> 02:53:22.380 Craig Wolf: That we had 870 02:53:23.250 --> 02:53:26.190 meredith heuer: The questions that we sent out for the application. 871 02:53:27.300 --> 02:53:28.680 meredith heuer: The last time we went through this 872 02:53:30.510 --> 02:53:33.120 meredith heuer: Did anyone have a chance to take a peek at this 873 02:53:34.620 --> 02:53:35.130 Elissa: Yes. 874 02:53:36.450 --> 02:53:36.780 meredith heuer: So, 875 02:53:39.480 --> 02:53:42.600 meredith heuer: How do you the, let me just look at what it says to the public. 876 02:53:44.520 --> 02:53:45.150 meredith heuer: And 877 02:53:46.380 --> 02:53:48.990 meredith heuer: My proposal was that we 878 02:53:50.220 --> 02:53:58.380 meredith heuer: Use the questions that we unless anyone has an additional question they want to ask, but the application is is pretty straightforward. 879 02:53:59.760 --> 02:54:07.080 meredith heuer: It, you know, asks for your dress. It made it listed qualifications to ensure 880 02:54:07.740 --> 02:54:22.560 meredith heuer: Applicants qualify and then three questions were, please let us know the reasons for your application to be a member of the Board of Education. Number two, what do you feel you would bring to the Board of Education of the PTSD and number three. What is your vision for the BCS see 881 02:54:23.820 --> 02:54:27.300 meredith heuer: If we agree to continue being those questions. 882 02:54:28.830 --> 02:54:32.610 meredith heuer: Then I propose that we 883 02:54:34.950 --> 02:54:36.840 meredith heuer: Give until 884 02:54:39.360 --> 02:54:52.260 meredith heuer: September 4 for applications. And then at the September 14 board meeting each applicant would make a public statement and answer questions from the board and we could discuss them that night in Executive Session. 885 02:54:54.120 --> 02:54:58.470 meredith heuer: Hopefully we would be making a decision at the sep tember 29th meeting. 886 02:54:59.880 --> 02:55:14.730 Kristan Flynn: I don't want to change the questions, but I would like to just add that we suggest because a lot of works been done since those questions were created know I think to suggest that applicants review the strategic plan and 887 02:55:15.900 --> 02:55:16.890 Kristan Flynn: The board goals. 888 02:55:17.910 --> 02:55:18.780 And, you know, 889 02:55:20.190 --> 02:55:29.040 Kristan Flynn: Maybe frame their vision around that. Because not ending their outer frame and exactly around that. But I think it's just helpful to 890 02:55:31.050 --> 02:55:40.020 Kristan Flynn: sort of recognize a lot of work has been going into envisioning how we proceed and how they if you know if they want to join that are, what their vision for joining. 891 02:55:41.700 --> 02:55:46.440 meredith heuer: Do you want to change the language in the application or do, is that just something you want to 892 02:55:47.460 --> 02:55:50.550 Kristan Flynn: Add that we suggest reading, you know, 893 02:55:51.570 --> 02:55:53.790 meredith heuer: To direct them to the strategic plan. 894 02:55:54.060 --> 02:55:55.200 Kristan Flynn: Yeah, and the board goals. 895 02:55:56.070 --> 02:55:56.790 And your goals. 896 02:55:58.170 --> 02:55:59.910 James Case-Leal: And maybe it'd be helpful just to have 897 02:56:00.990 --> 02:56:10.950 James Case-Leal: Been kind of like Kristin says, but like, sort of like a list of resources, you know, maybe not so much of like we require you do this, but like, here's a list of links that you would be interested in. I think that's a great idea. 898 02:56:11.550 --> 02:56:15.090 meredith heuer: I think that, yeah, I think those two things are really great because that is 899 02:56:16.680 --> 02:56:21.600 meredith heuer: A large part of the work we've done over the past four years since I've been on the board. 900 02:56:22.980 --> 02:56:26.790 meredith heuer: And any other thoughts or suggestions. Yes, Anthony. 901 02:56:27.780 --> 02:56:29.490 Antony Tseng: I'd like to add a diversity question. 902 02:56:30.540 --> 02:56:35.160 meredith heuer: Okay. Do you, do you know how the wording would go now, or do you want to email it 903 02:56:36.570 --> 02:56:37.170 Antony Tseng: Um, 904 02:56:37.290 --> 02:56:50.370 meredith heuer: You're also you will be able to ask questions to the applicants when they speak to the board. So it's, it's up to you whether you want it to be included in the application or just ask it in person or 905 02:56:50.580 --> 02:56:59.430 Antony Tseng: I think the application would be good because I think it would help upfront to prepare the applicant to such questions. 906 02:57:00.090 --> 02:57:05.970 meredith heuer: Okay, do you want to send me a question to add or do you want to do want to wordsmith it right now. 907 02:57:07.650 --> 02:57:14.520 Antony Tseng: Um, I can think about better language on I haven't eaten anything from, like, I don't really 908 02:57:15.810 --> 02:57:17.010 Craig Wolf: Yeah, I'm 909 02:57:18.540 --> 02:57:20.670 Kristan Flynn: Importance of of that, but I feel 910 02:57:20.670 --> 02:57:23.100 Kristan Flynn: Like, that's one of our board goals. 911 02:57:23.640 --> 02:57:25.590 Kristan Flynn: And I think that 912 02:57:26.910 --> 02:57:38.820 Kristan Flynn: If we're going to point in the direction of that then we kind of have to mean that's the framework, our goals are the framework that we use to interview our superintendent and it will, you know, every question. 913 02:57:40.080 --> 02:57:41.100 What is important. 914 02:57:42.390 --> 02:57:49.860 meredith heuer: Well, we can. I mean, we can delay, we could you know we can rewrite the questions all together around our board goals. 915 02:57:51.630 --> 02:57:53.340 meredith heuer: Which is fine. We just delayed the schedule. 916 02:57:55.650 --> 02:57:58.020 meredith heuer: Because I think I want to give at least you know 917 02:57:58.980 --> 02:58:04.110 meredith heuer: Two meetings for the word to get out and for people to be able to send back in their applications. 918 02:58:06.000 --> 02:58:21.930 James Case-Leal: I personally, I feel like the questions aren't perfect. But to be honest, the application is only going to be a very small part is this going to give me from my perspective, it'll give us, you know, our first introduction to somebody who will really like we'll have time. Time to 919 02:58:21.930 --> 02:58:23.760 James Case-Leal: Talk to them in person. So 920 02:58:24.240 --> 02:58:30.930 James Case-Leal: I don't know, I guess. Feels like putting it off just to rewrite the questions might not be the best use of our time myself. 921 02:58:33.090 --> 02:58:40.410 Elissa: Well, we meet with will we talk with everyone who submits an application or are we picking the right 922 02:58:40.980 --> 02:58:43.740 meredith heuer: So everyone who submits an application will 923 02:58:43.800 --> 02:58:48.780 meredith heuer: Be required actually to make a public statement to or a statement to the board in public. 924 02:58:50.280 --> 02:58:54.450 meredith heuer: Do Anthony. Do you remember what was there a time limit on it or 925 02:58:55.530 --> 02:59:06.600 awhite: No, there's, there could be questions asked of the board of from board members to the applicant. Um, I know the last time we did it. We had I think six or seven people 926 02:59:07.140 --> 02:59:12.180 awhite: Um, but there were. I mean, the questions we try to tailor the follow up questions to be pretty similar. 927 02:59:12.720 --> 02:59:20.970 awhite: Arm as with any interview or something. You want the question to be similar. See how people answer it. But I mean, there would be some way sometimes where the candidate would 928 02:59:21.300 --> 02:59:29.250 awhite: Answer a certain way and you need clarification. So, board members felt free to ask the questions and then the board discuss it. 929 02:59:32.820 --> 02:59:44.160 meredith heuer: So I'm fine either way we've been. I mean, I think it is really good to give them some resources because I think if someone has not been paying attention to what's been going on with the board or even how a meeting goes 930 02:59:45.240 --> 02:59:48.000 meredith heuer: You know, be good to give them at least a starting place. 931 02:59:48.600 --> 02:59:55.650 Kristan Flynn: And he's um there's somebody is really, if you're recruiting anybody or getting people interested in. I think that's also an important thing. 932 02:59:56.220 --> 03:00:07.530 Kristan Flynn: To let them know that that it's important to watch meetings and really have, you know, it helps to have an understanding of how things flow and otherwise, you don't really know what you're right here, joining 933 03:00:08.370 --> 03:00:18.390 meredith heuer: Yeah, I mean I had watched I had attended meetings in person for two years before I got on the board. And it was still, you know, the running of the meeting itself. You know, there was a learning curve. So 934 03:00:22.170 --> 03:00:31.320 Craig Wolf: I think one of the Hello. I think one of the logical questions and maybe this is just a statement that's included in the literature that we put out there. 935 03:00:31.770 --> 03:00:44.700 Craig Wolf: Is, are you prepared to attend school board meetings join committee or two and goes through the required training to become a school board member after well after you get elected. 936 03:00:45.360 --> 03:00:52.380 Craig Wolf: Or appointed you have to go through the training and then there's the newest one, which is how are you with zoom 937 03:00:53.790 --> 03:00:54.240 Craig Wolf: So, 938 03:00:54.270 --> 03:00:57.720 meredith heuer: Maybe I mean it sounds like maybe your application needs a little bit of work do you think 939 03:00:57.750 --> 03:01:01.170 meredith heuer: Craig, you could take that on, with the PRL committee. 940 03:01:02.340 --> 03:01:03.270 meredith heuer: Since you guys will be meeting. 941 03:01:03.300 --> 03:01:04.770 Craig Wolf: Oh, that's not a bad idea. 942 03:01:06.360 --> 03:01:18.810 Craig Wolf: But there's a number of ideas here tonight. I think maybe we can make it a better process by adding a few questions. Once we ever. Okay. As far as they go. 943 03:01:19.290 --> 03:01:31.230 Craig Wolf: But I think a lot of people really don't understand what's involved in being on the school board and maybe we ought to give them a heads up as to what that actually looks like now. 944 03:01:33.810 --> 03:01:40.260 awhite: Various I would just ask if if a company is going to work on adjusting it and it should come to the full board prior to going out then. 945 03:01:40.380 --> 03:01:41.640 meredith heuer: Oh, absolutely. Oh, yeah. 946 03:01:42.000 --> 03:01:42.810 meredith heuer: Would be addressed. 947 03:01:42.840 --> 03:02:00.150 meredith heuer: That would then be approved by the full board that absolutely so so PR committee meeting on the 26 when when, aren't you, if you're willing to handle that. And then at our next meeting. So I'll amend the proposed calendar for the appointment. 948 03:02:01.230 --> 03:02:07.410 meredith heuer: According to that. But we'll plan on seeing your draft at the September. 949 03:02:08.790 --> 03:02:09.690 meredith heuer: 1 September meeting. 950 03:02:10.350 --> 03:02:13.560 James Case-Leal: What would that do to the schedule them. This is like a push it back a month. 951 03:02:14.970 --> 03:02:16.230 meredith heuer: It would push the Mac. 952 03:02:17.160 --> 03:02:18.960 Craig Wolf: Yes, it would push it back and what 953 03:02:19.140 --> 03:02:29.190 James Case-Leal: Does this say I worries. I mean, you brought up a great point last meeting. Meredith, that, you know, if we were to get hit with coven that there's actually a benefit to 954 03:02:29.220 --> 03:02:33.090 James Case-Leal: filling this lot sooner than later. I just, I'm just glad I mean 955 03:02:33.750 --> 03:02:37.410 James Case-Leal: We pointed pointed to board members very successfully. 956 03:02:37.710 --> 03:02:39.660 James Case-Leal: With the process as it is in front of us. 957 03:02:39.720 --> 03:02:41.550 James Case-Leal: I'm just curious if the best 958 03:02:41.730 --> 03:02:44.940 James Case-Leal: Of our energy. Now, in the middle of a pandemic. 959 03:02:45.330 --> 03:02:51.270 Kristan Flynn: I would, I mean, being the one of the people that was appointed, I will say that that process did leave a lot 960 03:02:55.200 --> 03:03:04.590 Kristan Flynn: In me i don't i don't know that it did, like, Honestly, I feel like I mean I'm not gonna say, because I was one of the people that pointed that it worked like I 961 03:03:05.010 --> 03:03:14.700 Kristan Flynn: I think that it says more that since I was one of the people who appointed that it that I still feel like I could see some vulnerabilities in it. 962 03:03:16.110 --> 03:03:20.940 Kristan Flynn: Is kind of a testament to the fact that it's important to get a process right 963 03:03:21.780 --> 03:03:21.960 Well, 964 03:03:23.760 --> 03:03:24.360 meredith heuer: I'm sorry. 965 03:03:25.680 --> 03:03:30.870 Antony Tseng: No, it's okay. I agree with Christian. Actually, I think the process wasn't perfect last time, and I think 966 03:03:31.980 --> 03:03:38.760 Antony Tseng: You know, I like Christians idea that the maybe perhaps questions should revolve around the goals on 967 03:03:39.540 --> 03:03:46.920 Antony Tseng: As I only mentioned one of them and maybe perhaps you should mention it, you know, we should have questions for all of them. But in any event, I don't, I agree that the process wasn't perfect 968 03:03:47.580 --> 03:03:54.150 Antony Tseng: I remember being the interviewer. One of the interviewers and no on already on the board. And it was like 969 03:03:55.440 --> 03:04:08.760 Antony Tseng: You know, it wasn't, it wasn't easy at trying to ask the same question of all the candidates, you know, some of the library on some topics and some of them didn't. And you know we did. We did the best we can, at the time, because we weren't we were 970 03:04:09.840 --> 03:04:11.400 meredith heuer: We knew. Yes. 971 03:04:12.180 --> 03:04:12.450 Yeah. 972 03:04:13.980 --> 03:04:19.260 meredith heuer: Do you know I actually really see the value in that too. I mean, that's why I sent this out. 973 03:04:20.880 --> 03:04:24.630 meredith heuer: I don't know what I did earlier. I can't even remember. I don't even know what day it is so 974 03:04:25.080 --> 03:04:34.050 meredith heuer: But, you know, so that we can give some thought to the questions. It's summer everyone's, you know, barely getting by. No one had time to really think about it, but in in this discussion. 975 03:04:34.470 --> 03:04:40.650 meredith heuer: I think that there would be a lot of value because when we did a point you know the the people we appointed 976 03:04:41.520 --> 03:04:57.150 meredith heuer: Part of their value. I can say in my mind was that they had been attending meetings regularly and so I knew that there wouldn't be that learning curve. I don't, I don't think we have anyone attending meetings regularly anymore. And so I think a point would be 977 03:04:59.190 --> 03:04:59.430 meredith heuer: What 978 03:04:59.670 --> 03:05:07.620 James Case-Leal: I wonder, is there a way because I hear that and that's great. My only concern is just delaying more than we need to, 979 03:05:09.360 --> 03:05:13.110 James Case-Leal: Good. We just take a minute right now and just agree on. 980 03:05:14.430 --> 03:05:22.260 James Case-Leal: Have like having questions that respond, maybe just asked all candidates to write a response to each of the board goals. 981 03:05:23.310 --> 03:05:23.580 James Case-Leal: You know, 982 03:05:24.810 --> 03:05:35.460 meredith heuer: You know i i think it's worth thinking this out. Well, actually, one of the things that I thought a lot about is that I would like to leave behind when I'm not a board member here anymore. 983 03:05:36.450 --> 03:05:52.350 meredith heuer: Some procedures that people can use like onboarding new board members. This is another thing that I think I think we should do it well I it's almost 10 o'clock we start the consent agenda. I've been up since four in the morning. I don't have any bandwidth to write anything right now. 984 03:05:53.910 --> 03:06:00.690 Kristan Flynn: I also think that I really do want to if there's people that other than others have reached out to you or that they're thinking about 985 03:06:02.010 --> 03:06:10.470 Kristan Flynn: Running and they're serious about it, then you know we are in the mid, I agree with you about the the coven thing is definitely a concern the flip side of that is 986 03:06:10.860 --> 03:06:20.910 Kristan Flynn: You know there have been multiple Zoom's like our number one thing that we're dealing with is opening during the pandemic and it's it's going to be a hard thing to sort of 987 03:06:21.540 --> 03:06:28.440 Kristan Flynn: Step into that mid stride and hit the ground running and and it's going to be really important to be caught up to speed. 988 03:06:29.640 --> 03:06:29.970 Kristan Flynn: And 989 03:06:30.150 --> 03:06:34.740 James Case-Leal: Hundred percent. No, I'm really, I'm thinking of the respect of people who might be interested in this position. 990 03:06:35.580 --> 03:06:50.970 James Case-Leal: Who haven't put their applications forward or following this closely. I think they're kind of waiting for us to give some guidance and to, like, you know, submit their information to us, you know. So I just want to know as soon as possible, I think, like, who's 991 03:06:51.450 --> 03:06:52.380 James Case-Leal: Who's in the field. 992 03:06:52.890 --> 03:06:54.450 James Case-Leal: And kind of what are they thinking about 993 03:06:55.920 --> 03:06:57.570 James Case-Leal: These are not like that. 994 03:06:57.690 --> 03:07:00.810 meredith heuer: That anyone can attend and the committee meetings are also 995 03:07:01.170 --> 03:07:02.010 meredith heuer: Public so 996 03:07:02.670 --> 03:07:07.650 meredith heuer: It's easy to jump in, as you know, as a member of the public right now too. 997 03:07:09.120 --> 03:07:19.170 meredith heuer: I think the cover threat is real. But I also think doing something in a rush is not a great not a great thing to do. And it doesn't it. This is not a like this is not an endless 998 03:07:22.200 --> 03:07:24.810 meredith heuer: postponement. This is just figuring out the process. 999 03:07:25.470 --> 03:07:31.620 Kristan Flynn: Was also, this is a this is a grind. So you have to be ready to know that you want to join and a big part of that. 1000 03:07:32.970 --> 03:07:36.210 Kristan Flynn: You know the invitation definitely exists. I think that 1001 03:07:37.350 --> 03:07:43.890 Kristan Flynn: But, you know, this is not going to be something that we because we could you know we can function. 1002 03:07:44.670 --> 03:07:52.590 Kristan Flynn: Right. Or you know with with reduced by one person. So it's like if if there's if there's an interest in a desire to do it. 1003 03:07:53.970 --> 03:08:00.810 James Case-Leal: I just I want to be totally honest, I would hate to give the public impression. There's been so much of a call for us to 1004 03:08:01.290 --> 03:08:10.500 James Case-Leal: bring people into the board that express diversity, particularly racial diversity and age diversity, I would hate to give the impression that we're setting, we're raising the bar. 1005 03:08:11.970 --> 03:08:23.610 James Case-Leal: Where there was a certain bar for appointments when Kristen and Craig joined the board. Now we're going to to raise that bar. I just want to make sure that we're not giving that public impression, because I think with that. 1006 03:08:24.090 --> 03:08:26.010 James Case-Leal: You know, a lot of attention around this. 1007 03:08:26.160 --> 03:08:27.810 Kristan Flynn: Was that the impression that you're getting 1008 03:08:28.620 --> 03:08:30.180 James Case-Leal: A lot of it well. 1009 03:08:30.900 --> 03:08:39.420 Kristan Flynn: That's not my intention and I and everybody else can speak to this if they feel strongly about that because I don't feel comfortable with it being characterized that way and all 1010 03:08:40.530 --> 03:08:41.400 Antony Tseng: Of a suggestion. 1011 03:08:42.660 --> 03:09:04.320 Antony Tseng: Um, I think the only reason why it's getting delayed a month is because we kind of gave it to Greg's Committee, which I believe is the ball, but it doesn't have to go to Craig committee, it could go to another committee or form its own committee to to do this before 2020 24th. So 1012 03:09:05.610 --> 03:09:16.470 Antony Tseng: If that is that is that if that is the neutral ground. I guess the middle ground here, then maybe we should do that. I mean, I know policies just James schedule on the 17th. 1013 03:09:17.130 --> 03:09:26.610 Antony Tseng: I mean, you know, I know. I think there's a full agenda there. So I don't know if I want to put it there. But if we want to get for volunteers to put together something 1014 03:09:26.910 --> 03:09:33.690 meredith heuer: What the rules are about forming an ad hoc committee. Are we allowed to just do that you know the answer to that. 1015 03:09:35.850 --> 03:09:38.820 meredith heuer: And does it does it need like with that I 1016 03:09:39.030 --> 03:09:51.210 Antony Tseng: I believe I believe you. I believe is the if the board makes a motion to form an ad hoc committee to do the questionnaire. I believe that's an it gets passed as emotion, and I think it's fine. I think that's how we formed the diversity. 1017 03:09:52.620 --> 03:09:53.610 Antony Tseng: When we first formed it 1018 03:09:55.980 --> 03:09:56.400 meredith heuer: Okay. 1019 03:09:59.730 --> 03:10:05.430 meredith heuer: My, my plate is very full next week. I have, I have the meetings that we have for the board and I have 1020 03:10:06.450 --> 03:10:07.740 meredith heuer: I have work that 1021 03:10:07.830 --> 03:10:17.280 James Case-Leal: We're not just selling just a workshop is going to be a workshop in the next like people email the suggestions that way we act the 1022 03:10:18.330 --> 03:10:25.230 meredith heuer: Public element of it like the PR committee. It's a public meeting. So to me, I think the transparency is also important. 1023 03:10:27.720 --> 03:10:32.700 James Case-Leal: Well, no, we, we just collect all the ideas and then workshop them in the next board meeting. 1024 03:10:35.220 --> 03:10:35.610 meredith heuer: This 1025 03:10:36.660 --> 03:10:45.360 awhite: Is the idea of doing stuff, an email, I do not think it's transparent. I think it's a bad practice of a board and they people get comfortable doing business that way and it loses to 1026 03:10:46.080 --> 03:10:59.820 awhite: The genuine discussion as to what a board does when you're doing it that way. I know I don't have a personal time to check emails every time, every which way. And make sure I respond back to it in that in that manner. I'd rather have discussion. 1027 03:11:00.540 --> 03:11:06.540 James Case-Leal: I guess I'm just curious. How did we imagine tonight to go because tonight we had Meredith emailed us previous 1028 03:11:08.010 --> 03:11:22.320 James Case-Leal: Questions and then tonight we were going to discuss and come up with a plan for this process and then agree on it. So I'm just curious why we're doing some, like, weren't we always going to work out this language in 1029 03:11:23.220 --> 03:11:24.360 awhite: Know, I think that it's 1030 03:11:25.140 --> 03:11:27.900 awhite: My interpretation was married a female asked if there was any 1031 03:11:29.580 --> 03:11:38.040 meredith heuer: Thank you very much. I, I said to him beforehand so that people would come prepared to the meeting with their suggestions. 1032 03:11:40.920 --> 03:11:55.860 Antony Tseng: I mean i think i think i think there's been a lot of delays preparing for this meeting. So I think that's also something that's going on in the conversation. But I mean workshop workshop, but that's a semantics. We're talking about it now anyway. 1033 03:11:57.510 --> 03:12:12.120 Antony Tseng: Whether we were going to agree tonight is I guess it's it's your better question here. Again, I propose that, you know, we used to do double header committees. Anyway, so I mean after the policy committee if if this ad hoc committee wants to meet on the 17th. 1034 03:12:13.710 --> 03:12:15.030 Antony Tseng: You know all volunteer for it. 1035 03:12:19.980 --> 03:12:27.000 Flora Stadler: I'll volunteer for it as well. I'm also happy to work on it it you know in the MP role, either way. 1036 03:12:30.060 --> 03:12:36.360 meredith heuer: So if we do it after the policy committee, we can have the you could have a draft for that. 1037 03:12:38.910 --> 03:12:40.200 meredith heuer: Was the 24th meeting. 1038 03:12:44.250 --> 03:12:44.910 meredith heuer: Well, I would need 1039 03:12:46.020 --> 03:12:46.500 To do. 1040 03:12:47.640 --> 03:12:49.110 James Case-Leal: I would do it. Also, I just didn't want to 1041 03:12:49.920 --> 03:12:53.280 James Case-Leal: I want to leave space for anyone else wants to do it. That's fine. But I'll be there and happy to do 1042 03:12:53.370 --> 03:12:53.700 Antony Tseng: That even 1043 03:12:54.690 --> 03:12:57.120 Elissa: If I weren't going on vacation next week. 1044 03:12:57.180 --> 03:12:57.510 Craig Wolf: I would 1045 03:12:57.750 --> 03:12:58.590 Elissa: I would be there. 1046 03:13:01.200 --> 03:13:01.500 meredith heuer: I did. 1047 03:13:02.010 --> 03:13:04.440 Antony Tseng: Make a motion that we form an ad hoc committee to 1048 03:13:05.700 --> 03:13:09.660 Antony Tseng: propose a questionnaire for board Canada seat to the board. 1049 03:13:10.740 --> 03:13:12.030 Antony Tseng: For the board meeting on the 24th. 1050 03:13:13.500 --> 03:13:14.940 Antony Tseng: To be that specific but yeah 1051 03:13:16.740 --> 03:13:18.210 meredith heuer: Is there a second to that motion. 1052 03:13:19.800 --> 03:13:20.700 James Case-Leal: Second. Second that. 1053 03:13:23.670 --> 03:13:25.290 meredith heuer: Are there any other comments or questions. 1054 03:13:27.930 --> 03:13:29.640 Kristan Flynn: I was comfortable doing it. 1055 03:13:31.170 --> 03:13:37.860 Kristan Flynn: And all this sort of public version of the process, but we publicize those meetings. Well, and I thought cranking spearheaded 1056 03:13:40.620 --> 03:13:42.180 Kristan Flynn: What you could probably 1057 03:13:42.240 --> 03:13:47.460 Craig Wolf: just announced this meeting as you would any other just call it the ad hoc 1058 03:13:48.930 --> 03:13:49.980 Craig Wolf: Appointment committee. 1059 03:13:52.080 --> 03:13:53.550 meredith heuer: And make it public, so that 1060 03:13:54.270 --> 03:13:57.300 Craig Wolf: Anybody could tune in and it will be on zoom as well. Right. 1061 03:13:59.490 --> 03:13:59.700 Craig Wolf: You 1062 03:14:00.240 --> 03:14:03.060 meredith heuer: Just seemed it seemed like a natural fit for the PR 1063 03:14:05.640 --> 03:14:15.060 Craig Wolf: But, but you have the timing aspect and that committee meeting is going to be after the 24th board meeting, so you're losing 1064 03:14:16.500 --> 03:14:18.270 Craig Wolf: You know, what about a month really 1065 03:14:19.050 --> 03:14:21.990 meredith heuer: I understand. So that's good for 1066 03:14:23.820 --> 03:14:24.240 meredith heuer: Me. 1067 03:14:26.040 --> 03:14:26.790 meredith heuer: Jane. 1068 03:14:27.990 --> 03:14:40.170 Kristan Flynn: Well, I would say just then sense to have the people on that committee were not part of the process last time that you should interview, the people who were part of it. So you could get better insight as to what they found. 1069 03:14:41.700 --> 03:14:43.080 Flora Stadler: I completely agree. 1070 03:14:44.490 --> 03:14:45.720 meredith heuer: Okay, are there any other 1071 03:14:47.730 --> 03:14:48.060 Antony Tseng: Craig. 1072 03:14:50.610 --> 03:14:53.100 Craig Wolf: Okay, any other questions. 1073 03:14:54.600 --> 03:14:55.890 meredith heuer: Okay. All in favor. 1074 03:14:57.720 --> 03:14:58.050 Craig Wolf: Aye. 1075 03:14:59.670 --> 03:15:00.180 Craig Wolf: Opposed. 1076 03:15:04.470 --> 03:15:07.080 meredith heuer: I'm in favor so taxes 721 1077 03:15:10.050 --> 03:15:10.500 meredith heuer: Okay. 1078 03:15:12.360 --> 03:15:15.810 meredith heuer: So we have the consent agenda. 1079 03:15:21.300 --> 03:15:22.500 meredith heuer: Sorry, I had the language of 1080 03:15:27.720 --> 03:15:36.390 meredith heuer: The use of the Consent Agenda permits the Board of Education to make more effective use of its time by adopting a single motion to cover those relatively routine matters which are included. 1081 03:15:36.810 --> 03:15:48.630 meredith heuer: Any member of the board. He wishes to discuss individually a particular piece of business on the consent agenda so indicate and that item will be considered and voted on separately just preserving the right of all board members to be heard on any issue. 1082 03:15:51.750 --> 03:15:55.140 meredith heuer: Is there any one that wants to pull anything from the consent agenda. 1083 03:15:57.990 --> 03:15:58.890 Craig Wolf: 1105 1084 03:16:00.510 --> 03:16:00.930 Craig Wolf: Five. 1085 03:16:02.820 --> 03:16:03.360 meredith heuer: Anyone else 1086 03:16:06.270 --> 03:16:09.330 meredith heuer: So, can I have emotion for 1101 through 11 1087 03:16:10.890 --> 03:16:12.540 meredith heuer: Last 1105 1088 03:16:21.210 --> 03:16:21.570 meredith heuer: Yes. 1089 03:16:23.490 --> 03:16:24.060 meredith heuer: Your questions. 1090 03:16:27.960 --> 03:16:28.530 meredith heuer: On favor 1091 03:16:30.600 --> 03:16:31.440 Craig Wolf: Hi. Hi. 1092 03:16:36.060 --> 03:16:36.570 meredith heuer: This is a 1093 03:16:38.670 --> 03:16:40.320 meredith heuer: Motion for 11.5 1094 03:16:48.210 --> 03:16:48.600 meredith heuer: Second, 1095 03:16:51.120 --> 03:16:52.230 Antony Tseng: Know, I think two of us did. 1096 03:16:53.670 --> 03:16:54.660 meredith heuer: I get credit for 1097 03:16:55.650 --> 03:16:56.160 Also good 1098 03:16:58.200 --> 03:16:59.070 meredith heuer: Comments or questions. 1099 03:17:01.020 --> 03:17:09.600 Craig Wolf: So we have a word from Ron Mackey that he will be leaving the district. I think observations, you'd be made that 1100 03:17:10.230 --> 03:17:31.350 Craig Wolf: It's been many years to that very good service. I've always admired anybody who has the ability to put together that incredible transportation routing system, and he will be missed. As I can see is going to stick around and give us some advice. In the meantime, so. Thanks, Ron. 1101 03:17:34.380 --> 03:17:38.520 Matt Landahl: Yeah, I just want to jump in and second that. Thank you, Ron, for all the 1102 03:17:40.710 --> 03:17:46.800 Matt Landahl: Caring leadership you've given the district. I will personally Miss working with you and 1103 03:17:48.780 --> 03:17:57.450 Matt Landahl: We do. Maybe we the we still have our numbers and we can have talks at weird times the day about whether in the future. 1104 03:17:59.730 --> 03:18:03.270 Matt Landahl: And I also just want to say ON CONSENT AGENDA tonight. 1105 03:18:03.330 --> 03:18:12.060 Matt Landahl: I want to offer congratulations to to Laura Cahill for for being granted tenure tonight and 1106 03:18:13.590 --> 03:18:26.400 Matt Landahl: We're really excited to do this tonight and excited for the community at South Avenue and looking forward to the year ahead, working with you. So congratulations on that. 1107 03:18:26.910 --> 03:18:27.840 Craig Wolf: Thank you missions. 1108 03:18:29.220 --> 03:18:30.930 meredith heuer: And thank you, Ron for your service. 1109 03:18:32.100 --> 03:18:33.450 meredith heuer: And to on paper. 1110 03:18:36.120 --> 03:18:37.440 Antony Tseng: Hi, I'm 1111 03:18:39.420 --> 03:18:40.380 meredith heuer: Testers at zero. 1112 03:18:42.450 --> 03:18:48.750 meredith heuer: Okay, we do not need an executive Executive Session. So we need a motion to adjourn the meeting. 1113 03:18:49.080 --> 03:18:51.390 James Case-Leal: Meredith. Can I ask a quick question before we 1114 03:18:53.160 --> 03:18:53.790 James Case-Leal: Close the meeting. 1115 03:18:54.600 --> 03:18:55.350 James Case-Leal: Did we 1116 03:18:56.100 --> 03:18:57.360 James Case-Leal: Follow up on 1117 03:18:58.770 --> 03:19:03.570 James Case-Leal: Our intentions for the plan for us having in person meetings on the board. 1118 03:19:04.920 --> 03:19:06.120 meredith heuer: And we 1119 03:19:06.510 --> 03:19:06.900 By 1120 03:19:08.670 --> 03:19:11.370 meredith heuer: Putting up an email but I 1121 03:19:12.030 --> 03:19:14.730 meredith heuer: Will say that, you know, mostly follows 1122 03:19:17.010 --> 03:19:19.050 meredith heuer: The district of students. 1123 03:19:20.040 --> 03:19:25.740 James Case-Leal: Do we end with a will that be made. So the next the plans for the next meeting to be in person, is that correct 1124 03:19:26.700 --> 03:19:28.320 meredith heuer: That's the working plan. 1125 03:19:29.730 --> 03:19:44.850 James Case-Leal: So do we have a mechanism that we can inform the public or right now would be a great time to inform the public, how to participate in that in that meeting. If they can't come in person, if there's a way for people to make public comment health risks. 1126 03:19:44.880 --> 03:19:51.030 Matt Landahl: We're, we're still working out that part of it, but we aim to have a way for people to participate. Either way, 1127 03:19:52.590 --> 03:20:04.290 James Case-Leal: Okay. Would it make sense, does it I sense that there's there's some people on the board who feel strongly that we should sort of charge into that as a I've made clear as I don't feel the same way. 1128 03:20:06.120 --> 03:20:08.370 James Case-Leal: I think the caution is maybe a way to go, should 1129 03:20:09.030 --> 03:20:10.320 meredith heuer: If their board members that are 1130 03:20:11.550 --> 03:20:15.120 meredith heuer: Good for their health and safety definitely allow that. 1131 03:20:18.120 --> 03:20:27.840 James Case-Leal: Okay. Um, I guess I just wonder, is this, is this going to be a board this. This is not a board decision. This is a decision that you're that you're making Meredith 1132 03:20:29.580 --> 03:20:30.360 meredith heuer: Um, 1133 03:20:31.800 --> 03:20:33.270 meredith heuer: It's a, I don't think that's 1134 03:20:33.360 --> 03:20:33.780 Something 1135 03:20:36.330 --> 03:20:37.740 meredith heuer: I know I can talk to people about 1136 03:20:40.920 --> 03:20:42.870 James Case-Leal: I'm sorry you broke up. He says, You don't think that one. 1137 03:20:43.500 --> 03:20:52.800 meredith heuer: I don't think that this is something that requires a board, though. No, I mean, it's something that I think if we said we can do slave safely. We offer it with the, you know, with a very clear message that 1138 03:20:53.160 --> 03:20:58.110 meredith heuer: Board members are concerned for their health or safety that they did not have to attend in person can attend remotely. 1139 03:20:58.770 --> 03:21:02.640 James Case-Leal: So if I were to attend remotely, for example. 1140 03:21:04.470 --> 03:21:10.620 James Case-Leal: What I have to give the so standard protocol would be that I give legal notice that where my location is 1141 03:21:12.900 --> 03:21:19.710 James Case-Leal: Obviously, that that is not something that I would be able to do, for example. So how would how would one do that. So just curious how this is going to work. 1142 03:21:20.250 --> 03:21:21.090 meredith heuer: Well, Anthony. 1143 03:21:23.100 --> 03:21:24.150 meredith heuer: Email said 1144 03:21:25.650 --> 03:21:27.300 meredith heuer: What do you mean you wouldn't need 1145 03:21:28.650 --> 03:21:31.170 James Case-Leal: For my understanding the legal requirement is that 1146 03:21:31.560 --> 03:21:42.000 James Case-Leal: We announced our location because it sensibly legally it's public, right. Um, but, in this situation, you know, if someone did not. If someone wanted to be remote 1147 03:21:43.620 --> 03:21:45.750 James Case-Leal: I wouldn't be announcing my space as public 1148 03:21:46.410 --> 03:21:47.100 Antony Tseng: I think 1149 03:21:47.730 --> 03:21:48.870 Antony Tseng: I could just maybe just 1150 03:21:51.090 --> 03:21:51.660 Antony Tseng: Simplify this 1151 03:21:52.050 --> 03:21:57.900 Antony Tseng: Is that if you when you have an Open Meeting Law. You give you give you a location because any person. 1152 03:21:58.350 --> 03:21:59.850 Antony Tseng: Should be allowed to 1153 03:22:00.450 --> 03:22:04.050 Antony Tseng: Go to that ultimate and attend to board meeting there as well. 1154 03:22:05.400 --> 03:22:21.840 Antony Tseng: But if you are attending the board meeting because of covert concerns, then it defeats the purpose of having your door open for everyone else to come into your house to attend the meeting. Well, so how would you resolve that. 1155 03:22:23.520 --> 03:22:25.980 meredith heuer: I'll get back to you about that. 1156 03:22:26.160 --> 03:22:26.640 meredith heuer: I go 1157 03:22:28.440 --> 03:22:35.040 James Case-Leal: I guess the after our last our last meeting this came up and I think a few of us had some questions. 1158 03:22:35.580 --> 03:22:47.730 James Case-Leal: And I was just expecting that we would have those questions answered before committing to a public meeting. And that's just my only my only apprehension about just sort of now we're we're scheduling the next meeting. 1159 03:22:49.260 --> 03:22:59.430 meredith heuer: I said, we are working on it though I'm not committing to it because that we haven't resolved the and I didn't know about that. I mean I yeah i'm not sure about that. 1160 03:23:00.240 --> 03:23:08.880 meredith heuer: So I'll find out about it but but I will say we are you're gathering information with the goal of working toward that. That is the idea. 1161 03:23:09.510 --> 03:23:17.850 James Case-Leal: Oh, absolutely. And I want to be clear, my, my apprehension is mostly about making sure that everyone in the public feels like they can come to our meetings. 1162 03:23:18.900 --> 03:23:20.970 James Case-Leal: If they have health risks if they're 1163 03:23:22.530 --> 03:23:34.110 James Case-Leal: I don't want somebody who's choosing to participate as a remote Student The 30% of our of our community to feel like they don't have access to these meetings. And so that's just something that 1164 03:23:34.650 --> 03:23:43.770 James Case-Leal: That I want to advocate for so make sure that that people can come, they can make comments and that they don't feel any barriers to access to our to our board meeting. 1165 03:23:45.450 --> 03:23:51.210 Antony Tseng: If I, if I could add on to that point, actually, I kind of feel like we shouldn't 1166 03:23:52.500 --> 03:24:00.270 Antony Tseng: We shouldn't also one who does not any student who does not participate in person feel like they are being 1167 03:24:01.020 --> 03:24:10.590 Antony Tseng: singled out of discriminated or anything bad like that. Right. So, and I feel like that's also appropriate for for adults as well. So I think 1168 03:24:11.130 --> 03:24:24.480 Antony Tseng: We can I think we're all. We all have our own reasons why we would either participate in person and participate in person. And I think it's I think it's very important that we emphasize that it's, you know, we're not judging you. If you can't 1169 03:24:26.520 --> 03:24:34.530 meredith heuer: I hope I'm not giving the impression that I'm judging anyone I I definitely want for people who don't feel comfortable to attend by remote 1170 03:24:36.690 --> 03:24:37.410 meredith heuer: Yeah. 1171 03:24:38.070 --> 03:24:38.250 James Case-Leal: Yeah. 1172 03:24:39.000 --> 03:24:52.470 Kristan Flynn: Do you feel strongly that as leaders, though we do need to be prepared that if we're signing on to a plan that requires the staff and, you know, teachers and administrators be 1173 03:24:53.700 --> 03:24:58.650 Kristan Flynn: In a building that to the extent we can 1174 03:24:59.850 --> 03:25:16.800 Kristan Flynn: That we try to show solidarity, this what they're facing because I know personally I'm not prepared to ask anybody to do something that I will be prepared to do myself and it unless I have very good reason. 1175 03:25:17.970 --> 03:25:31.740 Kristan Flynn: I'm not judging people's reasons at all. But I do feel like I think we've all seen the meme of the, you know, schools, opening, but the border only meet on zoom and I think that 1176 03:25:34.470 --> 03:25:35.580 Kristan Flynn: Can be harmful. 1177 03:25:36.930 --> 03:25:45.720 Kristan Flynn: To trusting the board, you know, if we're trying to, if we're saying we agree with this plan then the people who feel comfortable 1178 03:25:46.230 --> 03:26:06.390 Kristan Flynn: And feel like they can should show that leadership, I do also know that city public meetings and other municipalities have been starting because my husband's work requires that he attendance. So he's been going to they're handling them with caution. 1179 03:26:06.990 --> 03:26:11.550 James Case-Leal: Everything to be a beacon City Council is not in person. Yeah. 1180 03:26:12.270 --> 03:26:16.470 Kristan Flynn: I know wasn't comparing it to city of Beacon city council and 1181 03:26:17.910 --> 03:26:27.510 Kristan Flynn: I just comparing it like, I'm just saying that there's other public meetings that are happening. And I'm just saying that from a perspective, a leadership perspective. 1182 03:26:28.050 --> 03:26:41.790 Kristan Flynn: And a representation perspective that I don't have all I'm doing something that i i don't feel comfortable signing on to a plan that I wouldn't feel comfortable doing myself. 1183 03:26:42.930 --> 03:26:43.140 James Case-Leal: I 1184 03:26:43.230 --> 03:26:44.700 James Case-Leal: Mean I just have to say. 1185 03:26:45.420 --> 03:26:51.630 James Case-Leal: I also feel very strongly about being a leader. I don't take my leadership initiative from Fox News. 1186 03:26:52.350 --> 03:27:08.130 James Case-Leal: Means and my idea of leadership really is about having a thoughtful plan and communicating to the public that the reason why I have faith in our hybrid plan is because it's so well thought out. I think that if we were asking 1187 03:27:09.180 --> 03:27:14.970 James Case-Leal: Matt two weeks before schools open what the plan is. And he was like, actually, I don't know, I have to check with legal 1188 03:27:15.810 --> 03:27:30.210 James Case-Leal: It would seem like it seemed like a question as to why are we charging into it. So I have some questions that I think are reasonable that we don't have answers to. And it seems it doesn't seem to me to fit with my idea of strong leadership to tell people that 1189 03:27:31.620 --> 03:27:39.300 James Case-Leal: Yes, or the public or beatings will be safe if you are health risk you will be able to participate. No, I have no idea what that plan looks like. 1190 03:27:41.790 --> 03:27:53.280 meredith heuer: Meeting a board meeting and I definitely I think of it is different from the from, you know, 70% of our students returning to school, but I also feel that they 1191 03:27:53.340 --> 03:27:53.580 Were 1192 03:27:54.630 --> 03:28:09.150 meredith heuer: On the knowledge that we have gained in planning for that to plan this meeting. And so a lot of it. I think is just folding in the knowledge we already have. Because of the planning that the district has had to do around student reentering 1193 03:28:10.980 --> 03:28:26.490 meredith heuer: So it doesn't seem like quite as behemoth a task to me, but I'm sure that we can implement. Now I am unclear. It's from you if your concerns are personal or just sort of like procedural 1194 03:28:28.080 --> 03:28:37.200 James Case-Leal: They're kind of both. And this is kind of like, I'm sure we all have this experience, like we all bring our own personal experiences and we recognize that that represents a certain 1195 03:28:38.220 --> 03:28:43.020 James Case-Leal: Population i don't i i feel like we know that 30% 1196 03:28:45.210 --> 03:28:50.550 James Case-Leal: Now, roughly 30% of our students are our families that are not feeling comfortable to come in public. 1197 03:28:51.840 --> 03:29:05.160 James Case-Leal: So I am I'm kind of advocating, with that in mind, I think there were a lot of people that probably have the same kind of nervousness that I share. And what I'm looking for. And I want to be clear, is I'm not opposed to in person meetings, it's not actually my position. 1198 03:29:06.240 --> 03:29:20.340 James Case-Leal: But I do feel like we need to be very conscious about how the public is going to have access to it and how we can build that trust through communicating a clear plan as well thought out and not based on a mean frankly 1199 03:29:21.870 --> 03:29:22.140 Antony Tseng: So, 1200 03:29:22.200 --> 03:29:28.410 Kristan Flynn: I that's not what I'm basing it on and I feel like this is getting a little bit kind of I'm 1201 03:29:28.770 --> 03:29:38.160 meredith heuer: Definitely not a motion to adjourn the meeting. So I think, I think if there's personal discussions that need to happen, then go at it, guys. Yeah, I 1202 03:29:38.520 --> 03:29:44.970 Kristan Flynn: Do think that can just, I can say that the assumption that people aren't attending because that they are 1203 03:29:46.290 --> 03:29:56.040 Kristan Flynn: Afraid to of being of going public is is not always it's a it's a big assumption. I'm going fully remote and a big part of what's driving me as an equity issue. 1204 03:29:56.520 --> 03:30:09.000 Kristan Flynn: And so that is separate. But I also feel like I am not. I don't know. I cited that mean I actually don't know that it's Fox News. It's just something that I've seen, and as a board member I wasn't 1205 03:30:09.630 --> 03:30:15.120 Kristan Flynn: Suggesting that we do something for that reason. And now I regret that that's something I cited because it seems to have 1206 03:30:15.600 --> 03:30:26.850 Kristan Flynn: Become something we've watched on to it simply is, we have a lot of anxious staff returning to a building and I want to from from my one vote. 1207 03:30:27.840 --> 03:30:35.910 Kristan Flynn: And what I can do individually on the board is just show that I'm willing to walk into that building. So that's it, but I'm happy to. Motion to adjourn. 1208 03:30:37.050 --> 03:30:37.500 Antony Tseng: Meredith 1209 03:30:38.220 --> 03:30:50.520 Antony Tseng: While we were doing zoom without without divulging our addresses because of the executive Warren all executive orders. I mean, I don't know. But, but it has an expiration date. I believe at some sort of some point so 1210 03:30:51.210 --> 03:30:58.260 Antony Tseng: When it's going to be out of our hands. We have maybe, maybe you can tell me, don't tell us now, but maybe you could tell us what that data is 1211 03:30:58.890 --> 03:30:59.340 meredith heuer: Number four. 1212 03:30:59.940 --> 03:31:01.920 Antony Tseng: What is it them before. Alright, so then 1213 03:31:02.490 --> 03:31:03.630 meredith heuer: The current expiration date. 1214 03:31:04.440 --> 03:31:10.290 Antony Tseng: Yeah, so unless it's extended we are either going to meet on September 4 that we have to divulge our location. Okay. 1215 03:31:11.610 --> 03:31:13.920 meredith heuer: Okay, so that says that is not no longer 1216 03:31:15.120 --> 03:31:18.030 meredith heuer: Thanks, Anthony. Can I have a second during the meeting. 1217 03:31:19.530 --> 03:31:21.540 Elissa: I can. Thanks. Alyssa. 1218 03:31:21.870 --> 03:31:22.470 meredith heuer: On favor 1219 03:31:23.340 --> 03:31:23.850 Aye. 1220 03:31:24.960 --> 03:31:25.770 meredith heuer: Opposed. 1221 03:31:27.570 --> 03:31:28.560 Craig Wolf: Good night, everyone. 1222 03:31:29.070 --> 03:31:30.030 Have a great night.