know there may be a couple more folks coming. So I just want to say that Ann and Lay know this and David and a few others and Lisa might. I'm coming to you from sunny North Carolina in the foothills of the Smokies. I'm here with our three grandchildren and we also say hi to our daughter and and their dad. So it's really the grandchildren that the primary interest here I'll just be honest with you. Tonight I'm just going to go into a presentation mode and share with you the agenda and I sent you an updated one. There we go. More click and Kelsey can you see this agenda? Yes. Okay so I sent you the updated one because I after I got thinking about the the original one I said it makes sense to put all of the feedback right into the agenda so we don't miss anything. So tonight we're going to do our best to incorporate the administrative feedback which is here and we're going to incorporate school board feedback which is here and if I've missed anything Lane and Ann do do keep me honest in this. We had very little citizen feedback. I had one yesterday I finally had three and all three of them didn't participate in forums and they didn't participate in the survey. Their names were on the lists. I just sent the feedback to everyone on the list because I wasn't sure who attended which forum. These were people that you all reached out to so we haven't had any any feedback positively negatively or anything else from citizens. Towards the end of the meeting tonight I want you to think about who'd like to present the vision who'd like to present mission the beliefs and each of the four priorities so we'll have seven people hopefully that will step forward and be willing to present to the board on June 14th the final strategic plan. So once we get that done we'll have a we'll have a hootenanny here a little little celebration from a long January February March April and May a five month fairly arduous process and pulling together the strategic plan with feedback and input from lots of people but before I start I just want to I want to see if any of you have any any thoughts or issues before we jump into it tonight. Anything else that ought to be on the agenda anything that I might have missed as we wrap it up tonight and for some reason I can't see any of you so if you have if you have something go sing out and let me know okay just one information are are we gonna still have like the results from the from the surveys that's gonna still be live somewhere on in the in the shared drive or whatever absolutely okay yeah you own that you own that so Tina Scheindel will keep that live as long as you folks want it okay so everything will be there and that's good question and anything else okay well let's take a look at the vision mission and beliefs so I didn't I didn't hear any anything as far as changes to the vision statement Lane and did I miss anything was there any feedback that any of your folks had on the vision statement now they had a pretty pretty positive kind of response a lot of the comments were more kind of about wordsmithing and whatnot but they thought the spirit and the intent was pretty good okay and how about the school board household is being very loud right now so I'm trying to I'm trying to be conscious of that recall strong I think there was basically no comment to the to the vision statement and mission statement remember they were just wondering about just making sure it talked about education and again I think it is the concern about making sure knowledge and skills was sort of front and center okay so I'm going back to the agenda and this is the this is the statement so I'm just going to for now I'm gonna copy this over let us take a look at is there a way whoops that's kind of tiny is there a way that we can wordsmith this a bit to have a stronger linkage with the terms education and learning the board didn't think that it it was quite as obvious in the mission statement with with what it what it is that we're about so any any thoughts any wordsmithing here I'm assuming you can all see this and again I can't see you so and would you would would you facilitate a little bit and just keep me honest here as to the people have their hands up I think I mean that was a few people on actually I think it was basically one person on the on the board so I don't know if that means then you rework the whole thing I think we can all I would encourage us all to kind of look at that and think have we made a strong linkage to education and learning in that mission statement and if we if we put our heads together and feel like we've done that I think other other thoughts well I mean we could add it the OSST is a learning community I mean pretty simple fix and I think might cover the problem or the concern right David you're thinking right here yes okay what a what a design team members think about that I like that idea okay any other pro or con I like that change I was also thinking and this might just be too basic but in front of knowledge we could always add the work at word academic if that might you know make I know we were kind of trying to say that we learn more than just academic but I don't know if maybe for those board members of having that you know their academic knowledge if that again might just pull that piece but I like the learning community as well I think that's helpful I'm not I'm not a big fan of putting academic in there I feel like what is education and learning if not developing knowledge and skills and I feel like that that I think that just makes it to it makes it sound like we are just focused on on that side of it so yeah I'm not a big fan of that change I don't mind the the initial one other learning community one okay other other thoughts I would agree that we shouldn't narrow it to academic I don't I don't like that there anything I would put academic I mean if you really wanted to would be to put it in front of the learn an academic learning community what if we put education in front of knowledge better worse let me see if I can pull these pieces together and hopefully it may not change too much the OSSD is a learning or as a community that empowers students of all backgrounds by promoting academic and personal excellence and then the rest I don't know if that'll have to make the other one a second sentence or it'll screw up the whole flow but it gets the pieces in there I think that people may be looking for or it may be screwing things up you tell me by a lane by promoting academic and personal what excellence and then a to maybe to discover and pursue how do people think that flows just because it doesn't mean people can't disagree so if you hate it say so I'm I'm thinking that really just adding that learning was enough honestly I think it flowed really well I think we're just we're just making it muddy with a maybe a thumbs up with what Richard is saying or okay yeah I'm seeing several while there is that a thumb up or is that a I'm thinking all right so it sounds like maybe we want to put it back the other way or I don't know if you want to just copy the whole thing and put it back the other way and we can read it through we can read the two different ones and then decide on which one we like can do that just to support for this I happen to be on the board meeting when they had it and what the board a couple of the board members I think were saying was they had a hard time the way we had it feeling like it applied to a school and they were feeling like that the mission statement could apply to many different types of organizations so I think the school boards the couple of people that voiced it that was their reason for wanting to see that just so people kind of have a background for what they were what their concerns were I appreciate hearing that and keeping in mind that the whole purpose of an educational program is to prepare humans for the job field or career wherever they are that very last phrase about the purposeful future as successful adults and citizens makes me think we can't just say we're I mean we are more than a school we're preparing people to be team members and authentic thinkers and so many other things it's not just about academics okay I think we've got an option one with the only inclusion of learning community here an option two with learning community and promoting academic and personal excellence any changes to that before and facilitates a vote ready do we want to use the raise hand thing and that raise hand thing and the options there at the bottom or do you want to do thumbs I think I can see every is everybody one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven I have eleven people that I can see and we're missing two so there is 13 of so must be missing seeing a couple of other folks because lane makes 16 although I don't know if they see is on tonight or is on and that would make 17 15 people all right so that's that's 15 and counting went in twice yeah oh okay that's so we're really at 12 I can see everybody so we can do a thumbs up thumb for which one you want so for option one can I see thumbs okay and option two okay so we've got option one is at the majority okay good good deliberation so we now have a a revised mission statement thank you very much and let me just take the option out of this onto beliefs we had one one school board member that was very vehement that this was I don't know if he's thought this was the best belief statement but he thought it ought to be first and so I I've arbitrarily moved it from second to first and that's that all students are continually challenged academically and encouraged to reach the next level of proficiency and the only other one where there was feedback board thought that this one didn't flow in the same manner as the other ones so what's your what's your pleasure first of all are you okay just moving this one from second place to first place even though it was only one board member thumbs up any thoughts around environmental stewardship is a responsibility for all I don't think they thought it was a bad idea they just didn't think that it flowed in the same way as the other ones yeah it's like the cabinet mentioned the same thing if you look at all the other ones there's a nice you know there's a noun in there all students all children all students students educators and families there's no noun in there and I don't know if it's just that pragmatic a change in the wording or if the it didn't seem like the concern was about the statement itself it just didn't seem to fit in with the rest and I'm not sure if it's that simple a change that might fix it I think probably the largest crisis that our kids generation is going to have to face it doesn't hurt for it to stand out a little bit a little word smithing here tell me if this helps it or hurts it open for suggestions I like adding students and staff because it makes it feel more responsible to Richard's point it's an important part of their future and by calling out specifically students and staff I feel like highlights it more and puts more directly on them for some reason I feel like and the community is just too much but that's just my two sons other feedback any other ideas all right and you want to facilitate a vote those in favor of of this change tell me your thumbs okay it looks like we're we're we're a go with that okay great and and or lane any other any other issues around vision mission and beliefs that I might have missed in that last in that last statement it should be responsibility of not for under age David we're um no that the environmental stewardship plan should be the responsibility of not for okay got it yeah thank you how we came up with these was this sort of just drawn from the surveys and the focus groups or were these something that you've seen somewhere else and you've sort of adapted both I I heard it in different conversations with the surveys I extracted some from comments and in the the forums and the surveys and others these are generally a belief statements that got extracted from the North Carolina belief statements I think some came from the San Francisco University High School and I think there was a Colorado model in there that we borrowed some from those amalgamation from a variety of sources I was just curious yeah I'm just going back to the agenda to see if there was some other action steps major goals emphasis middle school proficiency yeah we took care of that one actually I'm just going to pull that right out of there because we've already done it and we've already done this one actually I'm going to leave those in because when I do the minutes I'm going to I'm going to recognize that issue all right well I think I think we're in good shape so we're going to call this the 517 vision mission and beliefs and that's locked in any any last thoughts here before I go to the goals okay here's the here's the tough one I changed this title back to 517 I initially had it as 518 so I could differentiate it I deleted the 517 and this is the new evolving draft we've got quite a bit of feedback here and I agree with a lot of the feedback there are a lot of goals here and research shows that four or five goals are kind of the max that you can be successful with so here's what I'm what I'm going to advocate here we're not going to delete any but I think we ought to do some prioritization and here's what I'm what I'm thinking there's not only are there a lot of goals but a lot of goals to do in three years the other strategic planning process that I'm facilitating they're developing a five-year plan and I think given the the number of the amount of feedback we heard from the forums what we heard from the surveys and 23 goals we're going to be a lot more successful if we parse out the start and completion time frame into a five-year plan and the other thing that I think given what I'm hearing from board and administrators we ought to prioritize and rank order goals so that if there's some that have a lower priority that in a sense we're giving permission for the high priority goals to get the primary focus and doesn't mean that the administrative team or the teachers or staff aren't going to do those but I I'm worried and administrators are also worried that if it's too many it's going to water down the effort to be able to accomplish them and feel like we're not just spinning wheel so I'd like to hear what you have to say about this and then we'll then we'll pursue what to do about it and the last thing I'll just say we do have four main priorities and the first one as you know is school culture and climate and that's what the board asked us to study for middle school and high school the second one is communication and relationship building that emerged from the forums the third is the foundational knowledge that's what you've been working on from the last strategic plan and the fourth one is personal development skills and that was partially identified in your last strategic plan but highly emphasized in the feedback that we heard so if we said that the if the four main priorities or theme areas were those then maybe that that's kind of a high level focus here what we do with the goals that are under each I'm going to I'm going to advocate that I'm not going to be able to finish it in front of your eyes tonight but I just like to put a number here as we look under each priority area what seems to be the most important and and I'm going to I'm going to rely on you to to manage our votes tonight if that's where we go but before we do what do you think about that I think the document looks really overwhelming right now and that it definitely would be helpful to take some goals out I mean I I don't have advice on which ones right now but okay thank you I think that was Kelsey it was Hayley my sister's name is okay all right other thoughts I agree I agree you know both on end of the document we're asking the school to back on this into evaluations that could be pretty exhausting or it's hard if you've made a little progress in each area does that mean you've succeeded or not succeeded so I think probably pairing them down and I think basing it to some degree if we can off of the things that came up the most and some of the meetings and stuff would be great okay all right other other other ideas feedback thoughts I'm wondering if when we prioritize there may have to be some compromise between the things that are super important at the same time what's what's actually achievable what's actually going to have the biggest impact so it doesn't feel to us and to the school board in the community like we're just reinventing the wheel and doing the same old same old so I just I feel like we've got to be we're going to pair these down we're going to be really intelligent about how we do it and what kind of impact these goals will have okay I'm liking what I'm hearing other thoughts one of the other things that Anne had brought up about the school board was maybe just looking at and this might be kind of even like what Richard's saying is the measurability of some of the goals like we talked about some of the goals were sort of really open-ended and so the ability so some of what we might need to look at is what are the things that can really reduce at least some data whether it's you know however that's brought in but I think that that gives measurable ability for the school board to be able to respond to okay good good thought do any of you have some ideas about how we might tonight go about doing this I'm just looking at one of them in front of me here just happens to be the one in front of me but there are some of these that we are we are actively pursuing at the moment and I'm not saying we're doing them perfectly because we're not but the one I'm looking at is clearly articulating all assessments in each content area and grade level and use data to inform teaching practices so that's not we are not uniformly perfect at that across the board but it's certainly something that all of us are striving to do all the time so maybe yeah maybe we should be looking at the goals where it's it's one of those ones where we're going well we haven't actually put much focus into that into this because that one I'm looking at right there we've definitely put a lot of focus into that okay let me do this let me make a second copy here because I don't want to lose any of the kind of minutia because Lane and the administrative cabinet may like to rely on the more in-depth work and the board in policy governance world may want to have only the ends focus so I'm gonna I'm gonna change what I said earlier and I'm going to I'm going to read I'm going to make a copy and I'm going to call this one well I'm going to Lane what what would you like this to be called so we can differentiate well I'm I'm in the wrong thing here um you could probably call it prioritized right prioritized matrix because like I said it's that all the goals are actually really really good there's just a lot of them and so you know if you can figure out hey these are the first five or six to work on and we hammer away at them until we've got them up to whatever benchmark we set as as being where we want them to be um we know that once we hit those benchmarks consistently for a little while and the work that's happening to maintain them becomes a part of culture then we kind of move on to um you know another one okay so I'm going to call it to prioritize goals and that's the one that we're going to work on now and let me make it a little bit larger here do you want to start from the top or would it be helpful for you all just to at your computers go through and and put a number uh for each goal don't worry about action steps right now just number your goals and then we'll come back together and and do a little chip trading here to see where the consensus is under each of these priorities does that make sense is a is a strategy to help us move forward did you just share this stock with us so that we can do that or because the one that was shared earlier today says it's in the owner's trash and I can't like it doesn't seem productive to work in that one okay here we go coming at you thank you let me know and when you can see this all right while there's got it I'm gonna I'm gonna rely on on those that do deal with Google more than I do because I'm still trying to get get to my Google so it should be in the shared drive right yeah shared with me yes and I put it in the chat just now to a link to it if that's quicker Kelsey can you see it yeah I can okay and just to do a thumbs up to make sure the majority of folks can see this now yeah you got it okay James you got it yeah okay so I'm the one who's got to figure out how to get it I can see it should I make a copy in order to type my priority numbers or am I supposed to make notes in a note do it do it right and do it is it maybe a side note or let me think what the best way we can't type in the document I don't think you should be a can we just can we just take notes are we going to discuss it yeah just take side notes I guess maybe I'm just gonna write mine on a piece of paper and then be able to share yeah that makes sense so the the plan let's just take one priority at a time under school culture and climate go through and rank order I guess there's only three four there are four goals one through four rank order school culture and climate only under the goal itself yep and let Ann know with the thumbs up when you when you've completed that sorry we're numbering on based off of which we think is most important yes number one is most important to you number four is least important to you don't worry about the action steps or benchmarks I'll maybe I'll work with Lane offline just to refine those and I think Richard's comment about if it's stuff we're already doing and won't have a substantial new impact consider that as well so when are you wanting us to do one one yeah area at a time yes just do the four four goals under school culture and climate so it'd be this this first column and folks like to let Ann know with a thumbs up either physically or in your in your technology that you finish that and then we'll have a conversation David and David are you ready yep okay we're good to go all right so I'm going to ask you to I guess share what's the easiest way how many of you had number one for this one raise your hand four how many of you had number one for this one closing the gap wait you're showing the a different one than I read maybe I read the wrong one oh I'm sorry I'm sure I'm showing you the wrong one okay I was like wow I really messed that one up I really messed that one up so we had four on number one yeah how many on number two how many number ones did were there on this one this is really hard because I feel like all three of these are super important I don't know okay well the other way we can do it is we can do an amalgamation of all of your votes for each one and the low score gives us our highest priority maybe that's the best way to do it so we had four number ones how many number twos did you have on the first one three four is that uh is that a hand Lisa no one two three four yes it is five five okay okay all right how many had no have uh threes okay and any fours on this one none none okay so we've got a total of 10 again low score wins on the next one we had four number ones number twos number threes and any fours here sorry I should have been number two there sorry you had a number two yeah sorry I forgot to raise my hand okay so we've got 12 here last chance wait the first one we only got 10 votes okay who are we missing on the first one here I didn't vote on that one because uh there's the first one that that's for me that's just a given it's just what you do that makes sense um the other thing is that um just adding up the number of votes the way that we're doing it um right since everybody's voting as a one two three or four you're always going to have this you should always have the same total technically so there is a way to weight them you know fours are worth one you know fives are worth two you know five times two one times three there's a way to do a way which I can do for you if you want me to in the morning after we got the numbers okay yep that'd be good so what you're saying yeah that makes sense so if I record them like this lane then you'll you and I can work this on tomorrow yeah I can throw out in a spreadsheet and probably figure it out in about about 10 15 minutes not a biggie okay yeah if you're gonna put me in on the first one I'll like I said um I'll put that as a four just because like I said it's what we do every day anyway that's our primary primary work that would be five so we're still missing somebody how many people had a number had it had it for number one let me see hands two three wait had what for number one the access to the learning environment and materials and resources right here well that's the given yeah okay so we've got one two three David you had your four five for me okay five that makes five five ones five ones five two okay one three and one four does that does that ring true to everybody you see well in there somewhere okay okay so we want the number two 12 every time we we yeah got it and we've got it here everybody most should have should have weighed in so we've got 12 but Lane's gonna do the weighted voting okay right now we've got three number ones about how many number twos number two is that you David up two number two sorry okay we'll get better at this as we're moving forward here how many number threes okay and there is nine eleven we were missing one so it must be i forgot to vote okay i just fixed all right so all right good that's what we like so we've got 12 thank you and then how about the evaluate ongoing building needs so on and so forth how many number ones number twos number threes number threes oh we got one number three okay got it and number four eleven number four okay this is actually starting to percolate got it so there's our 12 all right so you've got the the gist of how we're going to do this and again i'll all shift once lane gives me the prioritization as i'll go through and redo the the action steps benchmarks so on and so forth as we move forward what are your thoughts about changing this to either a four or five year strategic plan or do you still want it to be three any pros and cons what exactly is your plan once you get the weighted information are you planning to keep all of them or are you planning to get rid of the bottom two or three because i guess to me that would make a difference based on how many goals are left as to the recommendation well let me shift that back to the administrators lane lisa and david what are your thoughts on what makes sense for the implementation of the plan is it better to have fewer and go three years does it make sense to go four or five and include some of these but start the implementation in year two three or even four i'm fine either way i just as long as there's some sort of caveat on there that recognizes that you know as we're working we might find out that it's some of them aren't possible in three i mean there are some that are going to require the entire faculty working towards it and again we only have so many pd professional development days each year that we can do some of the more concentrated work and what not so those will take a little bit longer but it's it's hard i always have a hard time estimating times um so it's it's hard for me to say um like i said i'm fine either way i just i think there needs to just be a caveat that if we're working effectively on the prior priorities that people understand that you know we might communicate that we need more time and we can give a rationale for why uh lisa david any uh any additional thoughts here before we make a group decision yeah i agree with what what lane just said it's really hard to anticipate um exactly what the timeline will look like i think as long as we're working toward these goals that's what makes the most sense david any additional ideas well i mean not really i i think they're goals and i think that they're all important and and um i hate to have if it's a five-year plan it puts us out so far but before you stop and look at it i mean unless it's like i think it should be looked at in three years okay lisa are you a a three-year four-year or five-year person i i mean i think you regularly evaluate your progress toward your goals so i would hope we were looking at it sooner than whatever the end time was um i don't have a firm a firm sort of thought about it i mean i think we'll make we'll make the plan and do the best we can to meet the goals um but yeah so i don't i don't have okay yeah the the three versus five um um again it's kind of interesting i'm actually with the understanding that it might not be possible to get some done in three right especially if we're focusing on the the priority ones first but i think that three-year mark to go along with what david said may be important because the whole heck of a lot is we've just discovered can change in the world in three or four years and it might not be bad um at the three-year mark to just kind of reevaluate you know are these still you know what's been accomplished what hasn't been accomplished of what hasn't been accomplished which ones are still priorities given how the world has changed in the last three or four years good point that's that's a worthy conversation to have yeah and what what do you think we're what is the as you represent the board where's the board on this again because the board is looking for the broader accomplishment yeah um and the even the way we monitor it allows for uh a benchmark but then also a rationale or a reasonable reasonable interpretation of why we may not necessarily be where we wanted to be at that point um i think you know sometimes as lane pointed out things come up or you get into a plan and you start working towards something and you realize you know what this isn't working and and the board doesn't we don't want the administration to feel compelled to finish something if it's not working we want the educators to be able to be making their decisions based on what's happening in the world of education and what research is telling them and what the world how the world is changing and influencing what results need to be happening for kids so from the board perspective i don't want to tie them into any super tight uh you must do this because as as they're going along if they figure out that this isn't you know this isn't working or uh it's not having the results we intended we need to adjust things i i would i'd like to keep it at three and then they can kind of read adjust as as they go along okay well let us move forward then and re answer to i don't know if it was gus or whoever asked that question let's keep it as a three-year focus and the ideal plan is at the end of year one if something's accomplished then we we recognize that and we always keep a three-year plan in front of us so year one goes away maybe we pick up one of the lower priorities in the next three-year window and we keep ratcheting forward we we eliminate goals that are accomplished and prioritize the new ones but let us keep it for now as a three-year plan and so with that in mind let's move to the second priority uh second theme here which is communication and relationship building uh take a moment go through you've got one two you've only got two to prioritize here so this one will be a little bit faster i do wonder what this one went went in if we could kind of combine them and i mean you can't have good communication about curriculum and learning if you're not having good communication so i wonder oh good point we don't need to vote on this one and maybe maybe we can just prioritize the top one and then this the other one could come would come after anyways or would come with the first one anyways if that makes sense it does and you want to run a thumbs up on cal I think that was Kelsey okay that no that was Kayla again um Kayla or no hailey sorry hailey sorry sorry sorry uh so we're gonna vote on I'm sorry I was reading I was reading the two you caught me not paying attention or not listening clearly so um do you want me to re-explain I think that either one of you I think I heard hailey whoever was speaking uh say that we're prioritizing improved two-way communications between families and schools is number one and hailey did I get a right to communicate curriculum learning outcomes the families and communities is number two is that what you were advocating yeah I was just saying that if you're doing the first one then you're kind of doing the second one or it's going to come after your set set up good communication then you would then be communicating maybe more about academics but it's kind of that's what you're communicating about so um it's kind of okay right and now now this this is Kelsey this time um and I agree with that and also I feel like the communicate curriculum is kind of a an action step right that that's part of what you're talking to the families about so making that just this kind of sub bullet for action the next column over oh okay I agree with hailey on that and just adding that to the action step instead uh hailey would you uh in roberts rules the parliamentary procedure would you accept that that amendment so to say she gave a great idea all right so what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna take it out of here um I'll put it for now I'll just put it here and I'll take the two off and we've got a prioritized goal uh and why don't you take a vote on that and just make sure that that's the consensus of of our team okay I'm looking for thumbs and it looks like it's a majority got it yep beautiful all right now this one's going to be a little bit harder foundational knowledge is our third priority and theme and you've got one two you've got a lot three four five there are six seven well any mergers and acquisitions are there any uh that you would see us merging before we vote or do you want to just let the vote tell us what's going to happen here I feel like the bottom three are the same uh they're all about raising the standard of proficiency in the two s backs and the Vermont science um assessment all right say that again Richard the bottom three I feel are exactly the same they're just tackling three different topics they're improving our scores in the s backs and in the Vermont science assessment so to my mind that they're essentially the same goal and it's something that we do it's like Lane said earlier it's one of those ones that's a given we're always trying to do that so uh if I change some language here a number of students are achieving uh achieving proficiency in other words taking out well I don't know though hmm Lane I'm gonna defer this to you because these were very specific in your end's report to the board and also Ann uh how do you want to handle this there um I understand exactly you know what's being said what Richard's saying it's um the three I'm actually okay with that um because we've done a significant amount of work on it already there's a lot that'll be flowing into it next year um so I'm not as concerned about that one as being as massive as it looks just because the amount of work that's already been done um and I kind of get what Richard's saying about the three of them together but again combined together it is a tremendous amount of work in total so so it's English language arts man in science yeah my question with that goes all the way back to the very first category about closing the academic gap like I always kind of thought that was very like similar to to that too and why it was kind of spread so far apart from that goal okay you could achieve though that goal part of that goal and then not the other part I mean like you could achieve proficiency and the English language arts but not in math or the other science the other science one that's now deleted that I we don't take in first grade um you know what I mean so maybe leaving them separate well you couldn't be separate but you vote on them as one priority right because it's really about academic achievement in the foundational knowledge base um yeah Lane and I can tinker with uh what's here in the action steps but for tonight's purpose let's just consider this is one one now of what nine Richard does that take us to nine uh I believe that brings us to ten ten okay any any other mergers and acquisitions here before we vote what about this one is that encompassed by what we just did below no because we don't take the s back but in below grade three yeah check the progress okay all right I guess you've got ten to vote on so go to do it one through one through ten under foundational knowledge Evanna thumbs up when you're when you're done if you're gonna say any bad words keep your mic off because I know this is a lot of slogging on this one the last one won't be as bad had nine total I might have missed one okay me too and I forgot the board the board one on is the very first one that's the one I forgot yeah that one that ended up being my 10 yeah it shouldn't be well there's a there's a logic behind these ones in that there are some things that we have to do because the state and the nation require us legally to do and then there's a progression of them you can't do even though number five may be a higher priority you can't do number five until you've done one two three and four when I was looking through give an a thumbs up when you're done people my internet was being funky did everybody put their names in or am I no longer seeing faces in the videos are you still all on video and I'm my internet's tweaking out yes we are still on video I mean I have to see raised hands then is it as everybody done can you can you um oh I can see Lindsay now sorry my internet must be I can see Lane all right so is everybody ready I'm seeing sometimes everybody's coming back to me I'm on Wi-Fi I tried to switch to my cable and it wouldn't suck with Wi-Fi which is sometimes not so great is everyone ready everybody ready I'm David White are you are you there I'm ready okay ready okay all right let's go to how many number ones on number one can you just read a couple key words of each one that would be great because that's what I wrote definitely notes ensure school board ends policies aligned with community priorities zero ones maybe start with how many how many zero how many how many ones zero yeah okay how many how many twos how many threes zero four zero five zero six zero seven oh oh we've got it which was it five or six Richard we're on six up six he so we have one for number six up two for number six two over number six I feel like a option here seven uh oh I just heard my daughter in the other room or my internet's going out who would like to take over in case Ann goes down we have a volunteer I ain't you want to take over oh I'm here and Lisa Lisa's willing Lisa go ahead Lisa okay um how many number sevens any number eight we've got one eight any number nines I see two or three Lindy was that no okay so two number nines and how many number tens seven okay going to implement research based instructional strategies in all classrooms take it away Lisa okay how many number ones for research based strategies in all classrooms okay I see one two three four five six how many people rank this as your number two priority for this category we have one any number threes we have two number threes any number fours any no sorry that's zero number fours any number fives zero number fives any number sixes okay so we have two number sixes any number sevens we have one number seven any number eight okay that should any number nines was that zero zero eight zero eight yep okay and we should add up to 12 already what length that's accurate everybody's voted so we don't have to go further all right moving on to complete a detailed assessment framework how many people ranked this as your number one zero number two we have one number three zero number four we have two number five we have four number six we have two number seven zero number eight we have three yeah okay so we now have 12 thank you moving on to vertically and horizontally aligned curriculum how many people rank that as your number one if one um anyone rank that as your number two we have three anyone rank that as your number three we have five does anyone rank that as your number four number zero for number four does anyone rank it as number five we have two or number five does anyone rank it as number six were you one's five yours was five also wilder so we have three number fives and that gets us to 12 yep got it okay yep okay so we are moving on now to um i'm sorry effectively utilize technology to enhance student learning in all classrooms yep um how many people yep rank that as number one zero number two we have one number three we have zero number four i put number four there so one anybody have number five we also have one um number six we have four um number seven one two we have two for number seven any number eight we have one number nine we have two anyone for number ten on that one zero okay thank you all students meet literacy and math standards by grade three did anybody prioritize this as their number one okay we have one did anybody prioritize it as number two we have three anybody prioritize it as number three we have one number four we have three number five we have one number six zero number seven we have one number eight zero number nine we have two and number ten we have zero i didn't do my math as well um so the next person learning plans yep so did anybody rank personal learning plans as number one okay we have one number two number three so we have zero for number two and we have two for number three number four we have one for two for number four number five number six how many for five zero okay number six zero number seven i had so we have four for number seven number eight we have two number nine zero and number ten we have one um yeah the next one is about um exposure to middle and high school students to career fields career clusters through guidance the innovation center and pre-tech so who listed that as their number one zero number two we have one number three we have two number four we have zero number five we have one number six we have one number seven we have one number eight we have two number nine we have three four four okay and number ten zero number ten and then next we have decreasing the number of IEPs um and students as a percentage of the overall population um so how many people prioritize this as number one we have zero number two two number three zero number four zero number five one number six zero number seven two three three okay number eight we have two number nine we have two and number ten we have two okay increase the number of students achieving proficiency through ELA math and science standards um how many people prioritize this as number one um so we have three number two we have one number three zero number four we have four number five we have one number six we have one number seven we have zero number eight one number nine zero and number ten we have one and that's our whole list I think yeah I think it is okay so we've got about six minutes left if you'd go through I think there's six under personal development skills um so go through one one through six there and we'll add them quickly give Lisa a thumbs up when you're when you're ready it seems like most people are ready with these six anybody ready okay um so for aligning emotional um social emotional learning standards for students across grades everybody who prioritized this as number one please show where the raise hander thumbs up okay so that's two any number twos we have one oh sorry two two number twos number threes we have three fours one five one and six we have two okay moving on to increasing mental health supports um who ranked this number one five number two we have two number three we have two number four we have one number five zero number six we have one thank you um the next one is related to age appropriate wellness breaks for students um so please raise your hand if you prioritize this number one your number one priority in this category we have zero number two okay number three or we have one number two two number three we have one number three number four we have three number fours number five we have three number fives four number fives and any number sixes minus one number six sorry oh yours was okay so we have three number fives and four number sixes thank you wilder all right um the next one is increasing student ownership and personal learning how many people rank this as your top priority in this category hey we have two a number twos we have two three three number twos number threes we have one number three number four we have three number fours number fives we have three and number six we have zero all right students expand their development of critical thinking skills the top priorities for anyone is this anyone's number one we have one okay number two we have three number three five number four we have two number five we have one and number six zero okay sorry lisa i missed you on that one i was a number one okay so we have two number ones right um the last one in this category is related to basic financial literacy and life skills before graduation um did anyone give this a number one we have zero for number one number two we have one for number two number three zero number four one two two number fours number five we have four number fives and number six five number sixes beautiful okay i think we are good uh so what i'm going to do is just ask ask how you'd like to present lane and i likely david and the and lisa may do a little editing we'll try to keep it as coherent as it is now and make sure that the goals the action steps the benchmarks line up the years we parse those those out who would like to uh present the vision to the board this will be our last work of tonight uh when we do this uh a lot of you are going to have a role we're going to have a vision a mission beliefs and then we're going to have the four theme priorities so we're going to have seven roles who would like to present the vision and just a little bit about kind of how we got to this point can you first clarify the agenda says it's on the june 14th it also says it's on june 24th okay good point lane i think it's an and isn't it the 14th yeah you can't see it second monday it's the 14th good catch uh who'd like to present the vision any takers i'll do it just to get things going that's that david yeah okay who'd like to do the mission i can do the mission that's lisa okay yeah beliefs i can do beliefs help me to know who it is haley we'll do beliefs okay kala haley haley got it okay who'd like to do uh theme priority one that's the culture you can throw me in on anything that other people don't want to do priority two this is lindsay i can do that and priority three i can do that this is lisa okay and priority four that's personal development again there's not much to this you just present what the goals are and talk a bit about maybe how we got to those or maybe just the highlights any person uh willing to do personal development sure i can do that one and who is that kelsey all right well we have come to the magic time and the magic time is i think i i think i'm in the presentation mode um we have completed our work folks it's uh it was a long process uh i really liked tonight because we had more participation uh from everyone because you all had to vote on each of them so it was quite nice uh to have the engagement tonight but i want to sincerely thank you very much on behalf of the school board on behalf of the administration uh i very much enjoyed working with you all and i just have to share with you as i did you a do i'm going on a fishing charter i'm a 15 mile lake tomorrow that the half of it runs through north carolina and the other half through georgia so if you never see me again then an alligator got me or or water moccasin but if you do then it was successful fishing trip so thank you very very much and we'll be in touch and see you on june 14th i'd love to have you all there just so that the board can recognize your good work with that have a good rest of the evening take care bye now thank you have fun on your trip i will


Welcome to the NTN Nightly. I'm Nisha Charles. This edition stops stories. The land registry has been airmarked for a major upgrade. The effective date for the ban on styrofoam and selected plastic food service containers is delayed. All that does the latest in youth development, sports, and the NTN Nouvelle Arquéon. A spot of efforts directed at modernizing the public service, the land registry has been airmarked for a major upgrade. General Nouvelle has the details. The government is continuing efforts to modernize the land registry with the digitization of documents. According to minister in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Physical Planning, Natural Resources and Corporatives, Hon. Herrod Stanislas, the move will allow for greater efficiency, enhanced transparency, and accountability in the land administration process. The completion of the digitization work will enable St Lucia to adopt a digitalized, secure, and searchable land information database, which will add value to the operations of the land registry by improving ease of access to, protection of, and faster verification of documents, and reducing the time needed to register documents in the registry, thereby considerably decreasing the duration of the various land registration processes. Currently, we are continuing the scanning of the documents at the land registry. This is a process which started approximately 10 years ago, and we are near completion. We should be completing the scanning for digitization by August of this year. And when this happens, this is going to create a lot of efficiency at the land registry. It is a process whereby lawyers and clerks could pay a subscription fee, annual fee, where they could access the documents from the offices, also developers who also want land information and so on, can access it at the office, at the fingertips. So it's a wonderful project and I'm looking forward to the completion of this for the full digitization of the land registry. One of the features will include the interoperability and secure data exchange between Registry of Companies, Inland Revenue Department, National Insurance Corporation, Registry of the High Courts and other stakeholders. The minister added that the government has taken the necessary steps to address the issues that existed at the land registry department. Every quarter we have a mass cleaning of the office for mould and other issues. So it is back to normal, the air quality is very good. The vault has been cleaned and sanitized. So at the moment the land registry is functioning properly. St. Lucia will utilize part of the proceeds from the financing received from the World Bank towards the course of the OECS Regional Tourism Competitiveness Project to support the modernization of the land registry. For the Government Information Service, I am General Norvel. St. Lucia last week hosted the Caribbean's first round of expanded constituency workshops for the seventh funding cycle of the Global Environment Facility, Jeff. The Jeff has proven a valuable development partner for countries providing over $18.1 billion in grants and an additional $94.2 billion in co-financing for more than 4,500 projects in 170 countries. The Global Environment Facility convenes an expanded constituency workshop to keep national focal points, convention focal points, civil society organizations and other stakeholders up to date on Jeff's strategies, policies and procedures and to encourage co-ordination. Now in its seventh replenishment cycle, Jeff will allocate $4.1 billion towards conservation activity globally of which $52 million will be programmed for June 2019 and $206 million will be allocated to the Caribbean for the next four years. Coordinator for the country relations at the Jeff, William Ellers, says that every four years Jeff develops new strategies and therefore those responsible for preparing projects need to learn about these new strategies so that the Jeff funds can be used efficiently. St. Lucia is one of the countries that has stability in the government officials who work with the GF and so that gives them good experience, it gives them continuity and it allows them to understand the system better because the Jeff is a little bit complicated in its procedures and having a person like that or staff like that is always very good so St. Lucia has been effective at using the money that it has from the GF. The country relations coordinator highlighted the Jeff Small Grants program as one that continues to make a difference in the lives of many individuals across the region. And on the other hand I would highlight the Small Grants program which works directly with civil society which also has several very good projects here that not only produce global environmental benefits which is the objective of this organization that's why it's called the Global Environment Facility but since they work directly with small groups of civil society community organizations, etc. while they change the way they do things while they change the activities that they do to earn their living they earn a better living. And for example yesterday we had a group here who have developed a smoothie business out of a Jeff project. And so all of them are hiring more people so more people earn a living but they earn it in a sustainable way. Over 120 representatives from 16 countries across the region participated in the expanded constituency workshop. And this is the NTN Nightly. Ryan O'Brien is up next. To date with the latest news and information to learning new skills and acquiring academic qualifications all from the convenience of your home or wherever you roam get connected today. This message is brought to you as a public service announcement by Ectel, the NTRC and this station. Welcome back. We join Ryan O'Brien for the latest happenings in youth development and sports. Thanks Misha. Welcome to your update from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports on the NTN Nightly News. I'm Ryan O'Brien. The Karikom 10K returns to St. Lucia in 2019 and will be run on Sunday June 30th. The route will be the same as the one used 6 years ago from the Rodney Bay area near the ramp to end at the South Plain Field VG. The event is scheduled to get underway from 7am. It is being organized by several organizations including the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports, the National Lottery Authority, the Karikom Secretariat and the Local Athletics Association. Registration will begin here next week starting Monday at the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports. The 10K is open to all member countries who have been invited to send two official runners, one male and one female. St. Lucia will also be asked to enter their two official runners although other persons can register for the event. The Youth Empowerment Project is ready to move into its next phase with a baseline survey set to get underway in the various communities targeted for intervention. Joanne Husbands is project coordinator for the program. Well the next step in going into our other programs we will be conducting a baseline survey in the community so we could better know what the beneficiaries are interested in and so that we could better serve them. Yes we have our components which we'll be running but we want to get more in-depth information about the persons we are serving so that we could tailor our programming accordingly. So we'll be carrying out the baseline survey training with the surveyors and field officers June 18th so we're looking forward to that and soon after we'll be going into the communities to conduct the survey. Ms Husbands told NTN Nightly that a number of youth have been supporting the project and have indicated keen interest in getting involved. And that's your update from Youth Development and Sports for today. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Thanks Ryan. During the 2019-2020 budget debate the Minister for Sustainable Development Honourable Dr. Gail Rigibird announced that St. Lucia would be taking steps to reduce the country's dependence on selected single-use plastics as well as other food service containers made of polystyrene, PS, and expanded PS, EPS also known as styrofoam. Following the policy announcement the Department of Sustainable Development continued working with its key stakeholders. This was to ensure that adequate preparation was made to effect the ban on the importation and the subsequent ban on the use, sale, and manufacture of styrofoam and selected plastic food service containers. Discussions resulted in an agreement to introduce the ban on August 1, 2019 and August 1, 2020 respectively. This means that any styrofoam and selected plastic food service containers arriving in St. Lucia after July 31, 2019 will not be released by the Department of Customs and Excise over a 12-month period the use of these items will be phased out from August 1, 2019 until July 31, 2020. Telecommunications providers operating in the OVCS have been applauded for supporting the introduction of a number of possibility in the region. However, the companies have been called upon to do more to ensure that the OVCS is not left behind in this technological era. The Director General of the Organization of Eastern Capital and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States has welcomed the introduction of mobile number portability in the member territories of the Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority, ECTEL. Dr. Didekas Jewel says the move puts the OVCS in line with global standards. However, there is much more to be achieved. This may seem to be a simple thing, but it can be a huge productivity gain for professionals and business people large and small. Those mobile numbers can now be as provenant as your name and go with you anywhere you go. As much as we applaud this launch, we must equally express our deep disappointment that we are still not at the stage of launching fixed-line portability. And we call on both Digicent and Flow to end their procrastination and deliver to customers in St. Lucia and the OVCS the quality of service and the range of options that they require and deserve. Dr. Jewel's noted that the Treaty of Bastere caters for free movement of the people, goods, capital and services, a single economic space to conduct business presenting immense opportunity. Telecommunications is now an essential service that fuels global business and innovation. And if we are to make use of the opportunities that the digital economy provides, the sector must modernize itself and innovate. It cannot stubbornly hang on to old technologies, outworn privileges and obsolete business models. I reiterate the call that has been made consistently for the removal of roaming charges between the OVCS countries. We need to roam as you home. Mobile calls between member states of the OVCS should cost no more than mobile calls made within your home base. The OVCS director general called for the lowering of mobile data charges and the embracing of over-the-top services by the telecommunications providers. Dr. Jewel's indicated that the OVCS commission will be working closely with ECTEL in drafting new telecommunications regulations that will demand service quality. The OVCS says runs the risk of becoming irrelevant if it fails to modernize. From the Government Information Service, Lisa Joseph reporting. And stay with the NTN Nightly. Up next, Primers Hutchinson is here with the NTN Nouvelle Arquio. Welcome back. We join Primers Hutchinson for the NTN Nouvelle Arquio. This is power. This is power as well. This is power as well. This is the situation. This is the government. This is the condition. This is the precordial place. Capacity to limit everything and make it easier to connect and place the payers in their positions. This is sensible. So, the government is here to reinforce this diverse country to support economic activity. As a consequence, the government has implemented the development plan for the year 2000. This is 2000 days to address 99 km of land. There are ways to effectively address all these situations and to correct the problem of dams over the year 2000 days. This is the minister of sustainability to make dams. We have Stevenson King who has to address the dam in 11 pares which is more than 100 km to work to continually equip dams to cost $26,000 every year. This is the permanent Ivor Daniel for the year I spent. It was a very difficult exercise for the minister to address the dam in such a way that it was deserved because the money was so small that it was done and it was also a shame that he didn't have enough money to buy this dam. Last but not least I would like to thank the minister of sustainability and the minister of sustainability for making this dam available for $14,000 to provide good equipment to buy this dam. I have a lot of room for the minister of sustainability and the minister of sustainability to address the dam in such a way that it is not only to make this dam available but also it is an opportunity to prove this dam to the minister of sustainability to announce that in the third year there will be a lot of tourists who have built facilities in the past and because of this and because of the residents of the tourist area and also because of the facilities that are available to buy this dam $4,000 that the government and the public should have to provide good equipment to the minister of sustainability and the minister of sustainability and the minister of sustainability and the minister of sustainability and the minister of sustainability and the minister of sustainability and the minister of sustainability and the minister of sustainability and the minister of sustainability and the minister of sustainability and the minister of sustainability and the minister of sustainability and the minister of sustainability and the minister of sustainability and the minister of sustainability and the minister of sustainability and the minister of sustainability a million of them, and please a lot pay caribla, and authority for a fair telecommunication for city positive pay caribla such as Hectel, and some of the state national for way greater telecommunication caravai, and for this company, which has put you in the service mobile as it is, and for some to offer your service for Tut Mam Hectel. For this, I have a project to establish the more portable to very operation Dominic Laguina, Saint Kittnervist, service XLC please go Greg Tepuiser, a partner of the company telecommunication flow, and digital. You can talk about the advantages of the service caraporte, and how to exchange the life of these particular caripuisers, and also your choice, and which services are better available. Mr. Lhanel Ellis, who is the state national for way greater telecommunication, Declaree Commitment Pueki, Tut Puatik, kaituwe service, Sane Sov, Minister Nakini, who has responsibility for communication on the web guide, Joseph, explicated our time service, and for Sala, particularly Moun Kipeni, she's a P.E.O. company, and Kabite, they are a lot common, and for Sala, Kainibu is a lot of service.  On the map, Joseph declaré ki, tot sasa'a mem direksio, po libewe servistele communication, a wijoa. L'enoga de positions, Moun customers, ukajuen Moun, ki akiyom companya, ki yom vle kité companya, pas kia yom vle c'en limoi yom pas sakite, so nuka di sapa voe ma liberalize, mania n'u vle la, me apuesa, because usakite ek c'en mem limoa, se plile c'en libe mouni po yosafesa yom vle, mania yom vle, ek founio, ek pusa di, mwe dako ek company sanga iwetek yom, ebe ma dako mwen sakite ek mwen still nil limo mwen. Celo ektel, laka ini avelab, usi service ala po telefon, ki mwen kacen akai, prita ala nea, putut wijom, akari bila usi, ek puse mle dam sase kote noa troa but, nvella mwakari messio otta, fugaade, mwakabao yon invitasio, puse nepi mwako, sidi eko sevela vi, lengai poe sato olot, nvella kue olot, apuesa mwakari vi epoe sato, nisha. Messio pill primers, and here's a look at what's happening to us, weather-wise. Fair to partly cloudy skies, with a few light showers. A weak tropical wave is expected to produce cloudiness at some showers, mainly across the southern portion of the Lesser Antilles during the forecast period. Two other tropical waves located over the central and eastern tropical Atlantic are moving westward near 15 miles per hour, or 24 kilometers per hour. Tropical cyclone formation is not expected over the tropical Atlantic during the next 24 hours. The Tide forecastry's harbor was high at 5.24pm and will be low again at 9.46pm. The tide for V4B was high at 6.31pm and will be low again at 11.13pm. The sea is moderate with waves 4 to 6 feet or 1.2 to 1.8 meters. The sun will rise Wednesday at 5.34am. And that brings us to the end of the NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7pm with a repeat at 7am. You can also catch up with us anytime on the Selenusia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I'm Nisha Charles.


The organizers of CPAC are in hot water again for making another really big oopsie.  Or as Ben Goggins of NBC News puts it, Nazis mingle openly at CPAC, spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and finding allies, and as the subtitle points out it's not necessarily a new phenomenon as they've had a problem with Nazis in the past, but they ejected the Nazis last time from the event. This time, however, not so much. Now the first question that I've got to ask that's on all of our minds is, why on earth would Nazis be drawn to this event? I just can't figure out why they'd be attracted to an event like CPAC and feel as if they're welcome here. It's so perplexing to me. But as perplexed as we all are by the presence of Nazis at CPAC, you know, this isn't surprising. Nobody's surprised by this because it's happened before, obviously. But this time it is different because Nazis, at least some of them, had official CPAC badges and they faced zero resistance from organizers. So even though Nazis showing up to CPAC, it's not necessarily groundbreaking news. The fact that they were allowed to be there in and of itself is a little bit problematic. In fact, the reception to them was actually friendly according to Goggins. He reports, at the young Republican mixer Friday evening, a group of Nazis who openly identified as national socialists mingled with mainstream conservative personalities, including some from Turning Point USA, and discussed race science and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. One member of the group, Greg Conte, who attended the deadly 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, he said that the group was prepared to be ejected if CPAC organizers were tipped off, but that never happened. Another, Ryan Sanchez, who was previously part of the Nazi Rise Above movement, took photos and videos of himself at the conference with an official badge and touted associations with Fuentes. In a photo published on his ex-profile, Sanchez shook hands with Jared Taylor inside CPAC's secure conference area, writing, Jared Taylor is a hero of our people. Taylor founded American Renaissance, an organization that has published racist, pro-eugenics writings. The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Taylor as crudely white supremacist. Now Goggins reports that Sanchez also did a Nazi salute in the lobby, and there's a video of this, while his posse was openly using racial slurs. But they were just allowed to be there. And because they were allowed to be there, this was kind of seen as an implicit endorsement by the organizers of CPAC. Now in response to this report, CPAC is crying fake news. So let's hear from CPAC Chairman Matt Slap about these allegations. War on our kids. What are you talking? Oh, I think I know what happened. I think I accidentally mixed up the Nazi allegations that he was supposed to be responding to with the sexual assault allegations that he was refusing to address, where he allegedly groped a male staffer. My bad. Here's the actual response to Nazis posted by the official CPAC Twitter account by Matt Slap. So as you can see here, he is quote tweeting his personal account calling presidents of college campuses the real Nazis. But as for the self-identified Nazis at his event, he writes, NBC's claim that there was a Nazi presence at CPAC 2024 is false, misleading, and grossly manipulative, especially coming from a writer who has carried water for Hamas in much of his reporting on the Israel Gaza war. Now, I think he's probably speaking to Goggins aversion to genocide, which would make him a normal and reasonable human being. But nonetheless, Slap goes on to argue that CPAC can't possibly be anti-Semitic since their official position is that they support Israel. Okay, interesting defense here.  But my favorite part about this post, aside from the ratio, is that it got community noted into oblivion, stating, quote, there actually were multiple attendees who proudly identified themselves as Nazis. This is confirmed by a plethora of video and photographic evidence. Now that link takes you to a thread written by Ben Goggins, where he not only defends his reporting but provides people with photo and video evidence confirming that Nazis were indeed in attendance, quote, the Nazis introduced themselves to me at a mixer and said they were national socialists, started talking about school measurements, and pushing the conspiracy theory that all races were being controlled by Jewish people. They were posting about their presence at CPAC online, and he includes a picture of Sanchez tweeting about him being at CPAC and includes a video of him doing a Nazi salute while laughing as well. Now he continues, Sanchez also posted a video of himself inside the conference's secure area, shaking hands with Jared Taylor, founder of the Nazi publication and website American Renaissance. Now, there's more, but I think we can pretty much stop at one of the Nazis doing a Hitler salute in the lobby. I feel like that's sufficient evidence that, yes, at least one Nazi was in attendance, but there were multiple.  Because if they knew but didn't do anything about it, then that makes them complicit. Now, if we're being overly charitable, I'll concede that it's entirely possible that they didn't actually know that they were there. But it seems really unlikely that that's the case for the fact that they were made aware by the presence of Nazis because they were literally heckling prominent conservatives, including Matt Schlapp himself about why his neo-Nazi friend Nick Fuentes wasn't allowed in the event. I'm not making this up. I feel like I personally might have been tipped off by that, especially for the fact that it seemed like Matt Schlapp actually recognized the guy who was heckling him. But I mean, even if he didn't recognize him, if it were me, I think it seems a little bit weird that this person is heckling me on behalf of his neo-Nazi friend. Perhaps he's also a Nazi as well. I'd at least think he's sus at a minimum, right? But apparently, Matt Schlapp had no idea. Sure. So I mean, Ben brought the receipts and proved that Nazis were indeed in attendance at CPAC 2024. But there's a reason why they were there, even if CPAC's organizers didn't approve of them being there.   And if that doesn't trigger at least a minimal amount of introspection, then maybe it's because they don't actually disagree that much with the Nazis. Maybe they allowed them to be there because they didn't feel uncomfortable in the presence of Nazis.  Maybe that's the only difference. Perhaps I'm being too uncharitable. But if you know that Nazis are there and you don't act, what does that make you?


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show it's me JP and it is time for JP's product pick of the week here we are yet again with some cool exciting interesting mysterious product from the Adafruit store and the first thing I'll do is let you know you can head right over to the product page in order to get a 50% off discount on that so just point your camera at that or go to this URL head on over there it's gonna look an awful lot like this right here when you head there and what you're gonna see there in red is the temporary 50% off price so if you head to this URL right now check it out we're gonna talk all about it I'm gonna show you a little lady Ada video from the past I'm gonna grab one out of my own cabinet of mystery wonders over there and then I'm gonna do a couple of demos for you show you some code we'll have fun and I think it's a it's a good chance for you to go and grab a very cool product at a very cool price so without further ado let's have lady Ada of the past introduce us to this week's product pick of the week take it away lady Ada it's because it's so it's a bit so you can hide it please so this is a 2.13 inch ink display that's high resolution we actually got this as a feathering last week now we have a break out it's really nice it's high resolution it's I mean it's not gonna be as high as is like a Kindle display but for a low-cost break out board you get quite a few pixels looks really good it also updates a lot faster than there's not live video I believe it chart color so this is the live demo so you see you can update the whole display the like yeah it's really nice it's faster than my kindle it's faster than like the first kindle probably it can do partial updates we haven't set that up yet this is just it displaying an image from a bitmap and this is running off of a metro and you might think hey you know Metro does not have enough RAM to display 8k of bitmap data you're right it has an S RAM chip on the back that does all the frame buffer management for you so you don't have to use any RAM because of these displays you can't draw one pixel if you draw the entire display at once so if you want to do any graphical stuff you'll need to have a frame buffer and our breakouts come with a frame buffer and a nice ink display hey that does sound awful cool in fact I'm gonna run over to my cabinet of mysteries and wonders and things and go grab one for myself I'll be right back yes that's right this week's product pick of the week let me try that again yeah that's right this week's product pick of the week it is the 2.13 inch monochrome eink display break out with the ssd 1680 driver on it so this is a ink display has basically one color white or or the the black eink balls in there or however it works these days I forget and this has a little row breakout pins that you can solder some headers on to or wire directly and then plug it into a breadboard plug plug it into a perma proto board build a circuit around it I'll show you a couple of options and then drive it from pretty much any microcontroller it's got the horsepower as well as a SD card and some SRAM on there to handle the buffer so that you don't have to worry about that on your card which is excellent so let's get to it first of all you can see here this is a really gorgeous display it's nice and high resolution what I'll do is actually switch over to down shooter here there we go that'll that'll work and you can see here I've got my logo on there I just built that version of the logo this morning and that is a essentially it's a BMP file I think you can do this is a 16-bit BMP file even though it shouldn't be it should only be a one bit but I the code I was using wanted this format otherwise was inverting it so but what I'm gonna do is actually show you yes so someone asked can you remove the power from it when it when the MCU powers it on it won't clear the screen so let's see in this case if I power it down so I'm just gonna remove USB power from this little metro here you'll see yeah it's the ink display which just wants to display what's on it last time that we had something on there my code doesn't do anything clever it just says hey when I boot up I'm gonna I'm gonna refresh the display and and re-image it with whatever text or or BMP was on there so you're gonna see it's gonna do it's a little refresh there it kind of inverts the screen does black does white and then it displays it but you can see it's a really quick refresh I'm sure in code you could come up with ways to not refresh it when you boot it unless you need to put a different image on there than the one that was on there last there's there's definitely ways you could do that so what I want to do is actually show you on this one just I'll do a couple little refreshes and show you some code for this so let me switch to a code view of the world and then jump over to my text editor so I have this running in circuit Python you can also use Arduino for this and you can run it as circuit Python on the microcontroller in this case this metro you can also do it from a computer using Blinka so let's take a look at the code how we running this we have a few imports for time board for pin definitions display IO and then this driver the SSD 1680 we release the release the displays set it up on its being used on SPI as well as some clock and data pins reset and busy then we set up the display bus to talk to this display at this bar rate set up the display object itself you can see here we have set up for the width and height there are some optional things you can do in here if this were a try color display you can have a highlight color setup as well as the rotation so this is naturally a vertical display but we're using it tilted 270 you can see here in fact if I change this to a 90 degree will essentially flip it upside down so I've just hit save and you can see there it goes through its little refresh and it's actually pretty pretty darn quick the flip it back the next thing we do is set up the display IO objects so we have a display group and then we are gonna in this case import a file so I just made a little convenient set of variables for myself to import whichever one I want so file one is the Adafruit logo so what I'm gonna do is in this open loop we open up that file switch that to be the Adafruit logo and then we set this up as pick is display IO on disk bitmap and it's using that open file the tile grid is set up and then we add that to the group show the group and refresh which is what causes it to actually do the little refresh and then I'm just holding it there with this while true pass so if I save this right now you see it's gonna go through its little setup and it's gonna pop on there the Adafruit logo by the way you'll notice some little crumbs on there that's because I dropped the board and kind of it banged into something and I now have some stuck pixels Colin was just telling me there might be a way to fix that by flashing it with black and white for for a few minutes so I might try that later so we'll do one more so these are black and white logos that you saw you can also do dithered logos and we have some guides about how to do all of this so what I'm gonna do is change the file to open this picture of the David and you'll see here this was a gray scale or color image that I converted to into a dithered image so you can see even though this is only a black and white display essentially you can make it look like this gray scale by using half toning techniques or other dithering techniques is actually diagonal half tone which gives you a pretty pretty nice look almost like a woodcut type of look so now something else we can do what I'm gonna do is actually pull this screen from here and plug that one I don't need that now let's go to a full down shooter view and how about like that okay so what I have here is a cool setup I thought it was cool I set up an itsy bitsy m4 on this perma proto board and soldered all the connections that we need and then I also soldered on to there a header row a socket header row that's tilted at a 45 roughly 45 degree angle which means when I plug this into here we get a nice little semi vertical display and what I wanted to do is actually set this up as sort of a page a day calendar really what I often want to know is today's day of the week and the month and the day I usually remember the year so it's not as important to me I don't need a lot of fancy stuff all I really need to do is what the heck day is today and also the date can be important for me so let me let me plug this in and you'll see it's gonna actually I'm gonna do a little setup so check this out first of all I'm gonna run a little Python script and I'll plug this in first it needs to find find that on USB hopefully it finds it hey it did whoops so now I'm gonna reset the board and you'll see back to this down shoot you'll see it's now updated it with today's day and date and that's grabbing it from my computer so it's grabbing the computer system time which is what that Python script does and then I think right now I have it set up to wait an hour and so every hour both my Python script and the circuit Python script running on this little microcontroller will go and check together essentially the computer will check and see hey what's today's date day and date and then it's gonna send that over serial on the USB over to the itsy bitsy M4 circuit Python software there is waiting for input and when it grabs that input it then displays it up there so now I have a nice neat display that just tells me really the most important thing for me is is what's the day what's the date you could do this with a clock but of course the update the refresh we're not really meant to update these more than once every three minutes or you can to diminish the display you can cheat for sure and I've done that before I don't remember what command we have but there's a way that we can get around that that delay that's that's normally being enforced so you can update more quickly of course you'd want that if you were doing something like a book reader you probably update it quite frequently while you're reading and then not updated at all so it balances out in the end so let's have a look at the code for this let's first of all jump over to this Adam view of the world and I should say who am I talking to well you the viewer but also the people on discord and the people in our YouTube chat so I want to say hi all of them hi Aiden hey Scotty and over we've got a lot of people over in the discord if you're wondering where that chat is happening it's go to discord it's adafru.it slash discord and that'll get you an invite and then you can join in the live broadcast chat channel Dexter starboard asked does it react to magnetic field not that I've ever seen it's possible but I but that would be actually a good question for Colin and that could be a fun demo video can he build a electromagnet magnet big enough to change the the image on there Todd says slick wiring well thank you let's see any other questions Ian can sit weeks without power and still show your image but a refresh now and then can keep it from discoloring over time it's good good to know so let's take a look at this code here and what's going on I'm going to switch over to two things so first of all this is the Python script and big thank you to Todd bot who has upon his tips and tricks page some stuff about talking over serial and he helped me out with this code so this is to talk from your computer using serial to your circuit Python device so in Python on my computer import serial import time I find the serial port which I don't have anything clever doing this I just checked what it was and hard coded it in there and then we create the serial port object and we do a little reality check by doing print of sir dot name and then in the main loop here we grab the the date and time from the computer using this date string equals time string f time and then I'm sorting out just the stuff I want so I'm getting the day the and then I'm putting a sort of escape character here with this slash so I can split it later the month in capital both of those are in capital and then the day of the month and then we have a return and a carriage return and line and carriage return we print this out again for a reality check that's what's happening over in the Python you can see it there when it when it was running let's see that yeah you can see there it says sending date string Tuesday slash July 06 so then I write that to the serial port that heads over the serial port over to the circuit Python device that's waiting and then I spend an hour sleeping there close the serial port so if we look at what's happening on the device itself on this it's a bit see I'm importing time importing the board for pin definitions display I owe the SSD 1680 display driver bitmap font and display text so I can use a fancy font and then we release the displays we set up the font I have two of them that I'm using Helvetica bold in 44 and 36 point set up my colors that I'm using same setup as before slightly different pin names and same setup here and then let's get to the the different part here so my text I set up a couple of text objects here just with sort of some dummy text then when the program actually runs it creates this date string object that's equal to a string oh sorry someone just told me we can't see the the code view thank you for that I appreciate so I'll back up a bit you can just see here I'm importing a bunch of libraries I'm setting up my display I'm setting up my fonts setting this up over SPI create a couple of text objects and then the bulk of it here is in this while true loop we do this the date underscore string variable is the result of creating a string from the input so that input in parentheses will actually hang out there the code when this runs will just hang out there waiting for a serial input to come in it could be from the REPL in this case it's coming over from my from my computer running Python when it gets that input we then split it into two variables day and date and that's done with this split and we choose the character that we split on which is that slash that could be a pipe that could be other other characters that are not gonna appear in your time then I change the text in my two display I owe objects the text area and the text to area to be day and date and those already have their setups up above for where they appear on screen and what font they use we refresh the display and then we sleep for an hour so if I rerun this so what I'll do is I'll just hit save here and you should see my oh actually that won't do it let me let me open the file on the micro controller itself that's not it there we go so when I hit save here my terminal program is already running so this is waiting right now the hour or so my ink display and it's a bit see they're kind of stuck in this waiting mode it happens already say Tuesday but it's kind of stuck in this waiting mode waiting for some some serial input so what I'll do is end and relaunch that Python program so now it's gonna send the string which means my itsy bitsy should should receive that now and it should refresh so let's see are you gonna refresh or you're just gonna make a liar out of me maybe maybe it'll make it stuck here something else we can do actually see do we have time no you know I'll end it there but this one you have to take on faith it actually refreshes it with each day so yesterday it said Monday and let's see what else so let me let me jump back to the product page to remind you there's where you want to go to check this out this product ID 4197 and you can always type in the product ID in any of the search fields on the Adafruit site to get to a product so if we know this one's 4197 type that into search and there it will show up and you can see this is the one with the nice the nice big discount on it so let me check in with the chat let's see Mike Weaver says is gonna hook it up to RFID to see card info that's really cool I like that idea and let's check in on the discord yes thank you Todd asked where was my code screen I was not showing it sorry and I will also mention whoops didn't mean to do that I was trying to I was trying to close the I clicked on the Google thing trying to close the little extra thing at the bottom I just lost my train of thought what was I talking about who knows but there's there's the product if you click on the learn guide page link which is down below in here you'll see we have info for using this in both Arduino and in circuit Python in circuit Python as well as Python using Blinka on your computer this will tell you everything you need to know about going and grabbing the driver for this and some sample code this guide is actually both the tricolor and the monochrome it's almost the same code with just some slight differences and we have a lot of guides on eink so if you check out this quick start from Anne Barela that'll show you some things about throwing bitmaps on there we have a name badge sample code we have info about how to create your graphics such as dithering let's see Scotty asked any inks with board same size or smaller than the display itself the feather wing is pretty small if you look at let's see is that one linked in here eink feather wing let me go to the product page actually eink feather okay so this one is this feather friend is a little breakout where it's just the bear it's not on a board it just uses a little extension which is kind of cool the eink feather wing here has a pretty minimal board the PCB only pokes up for those mounting holes and these are usually you can usually separate these off of the screen with a little bit heat like a hot air gun on a low temperature might get it out or some glue gone maybe it's just got an adhesive backing on there but you might want to look at that feather friend as a as a way to do that with just the bear display it's not a flexible display that you can use with that so good question let's see anything else I think that's it yet Todd mentions we have a custom fonts learn guide which is great you can take pretty much any font turn it into a bdf font or there's another format what's it called PCF I forget but the bitmap the bdf format is great it's just represents one typeface in one size which is what a font is and whichever set of glyphs you want so you can have a minimal set or lots of them if you have memory to spare all right I think that's gonna do it for today so there it is there's our our beautiful eink display with my new little very minimal computer here but that's gonna be my that's gonna be my hey what day is today thing so I shouldn't be screwing that up so much anymore I leave that on so let's wrap this up shall we okay we shall that's my product pick of the week this is the monochrome 2.13 inch eink display breakout and I forgot to to give that something to hook to my my little board with so we'll pretend we're gonna we're gonna hang we're gonna set this on there like a little shelf there we go it's sort of there all right that I'll do it for today thank you all so much this for ate a fruit industries has been me John Park in JP's product pick of the week bye bye


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