We have a quorum, so I'm gonna go ahead and call the meeting to order at 534. It's the recording started. Does anybody have any adjustments to the agenda? I had one and that was to add changing our regular meeting time from 5.30 to 6 o'clock. That would be easier. Yeah, so if we can do, I guess, 7.3 or 10.2 actually, both, right? 7.3 discuss and 10.2 vote, possible action. Okay, is there any other adjustments to the agenda? No other adjustments. We're looking at approving the minutes of Thursday, September 7th, our last regular board meeting. So, second. All right. All in favor of approving the minutes, say aye. Aye. Aye. So moved. Beautiful, see if I don't need to print it out, it's there. Okay. Oh, thanks. Yeah, this is our agenda. Did you get an aye from Patrick? Patrick? He's muted. He's muted. He's muted. Hi. Hi. Sorry, I'm having some issues with my volume. Okay, well, we're just taking a vote to approve the minutes that have been moved by Robert and seconded by Bill, just to approve the minutes from last meeting, a regular meeting on September 7th. Yes. Okay, great. So moved then. Thank you for clarifying that. I thought I'd heard him, but I had not. Okay, so moving on to public comment. Do we have any public attending virtually? There's no public in person. Nope. Okay. Great. Well, then we'll move on to board comment. All right, Bill. Yeah, there's two great articles in this week's for Randolph-Herald about one article about what's happening at the Rochester Elementary School and initiatives and changes staff and bios and all that, and another one about what was happening in the Stockbridge Central School. So spreading the news, the good news, change in the team makeup, which is really nice. And so I just wanted to highlight that. That's what we need to do is do it right and then get the word out. That's exciting. Was it a letter that was sent in from our staff? No, it was two articles that were, I think, generated by the... Martha Slater reaches out to meet with all the new folks. Oh, great. Yeah, it's there at the end of the table. What do you want to take a look at? All right. Wonderful. That's exactly what we were talking about. We're on a brumb board comment at this point. Bill's just commenting on the wonderful articles in the paper of both of our school buildings. Just want to say I thought it was a reproductive retreat. Great. On Saturday. I was very happy with it. Excellent. It was fun. It was good. Is there any other board comment? Me made an adjustment for 7.3. Well, just in time we can move on to the superintendent's report. Is he just like through the door? With his haircut and everything. I did get a haircut. Yeah, nice. Yeah, sorry for running late tonight. Everyone's got packets. Yeah. All right. I want an extra one, too. So you have my report in hand. You know, I would say that we're, I want to emphasize we're finishing up academic testing. For the fall, teachers are going to be meeting with principals and then some central office folks to continue to analyze that data to make informed decisions both for universal instruction, but also for interventions, goal setting, things of that nature. I'm excited to share that data with you. You'll get that full data report at the full board for the SU later this month and then at your local district board in November. The AOE still hasn't provided us permission to release any individual student reports for the VT cap. So stay tuned with that. We were hoping to be able to release that data back in the middle of September and then all of a sudden the agency put out a memo saying that we needed to hold off. So I don't know if that's about calibration or what's going on in that sense around the New Vermont Comprehensive Assessment Program. And what department is that? The agency of Ed. Ed. And then finally, I just want to remind folks that we do have our full board retreat. Everyone's invited. It'll be in South Royalton in the library next Tuesday starting at 5.30. And I'll entertain any questions folks may have. And so I recall last, I'm sorry. Go ahead Bill. I have a way of just birding out. Sorry about that. As I recall the last time we did this SU retreat, we were dined. Is that a runnable meal with great chocolate chips and oatmeal raisin cookies for dessert. So is that still just letting people know? That's incentive right there, right Bill? If you're lacking any incentive to join. Is there any other questions for the superintendent in regards to this report? Okay, well then let's move on to the principal's report.  We are up and moving. I would say things to add to this. We have completed all of our September emergency response drills which includes a fire drill and an options based practice drill. So those things are done and I didn't put that in there but what reminded me was the policy for tonight. So we've done that. We've also had several joint opportunities where preschools got together and went apple picking together and then our fourth, fifth and sixth graders have been together at the temperature fair. Unfortunately snorkeling was postponed due to rain and we're still trying to work on a reschedule for that group. But yeah, I'll entertain any questions. Bill. Yeah, I've been attending school meeting, board meetings up here since I moved in 2001 and I read your principal's report. I'm not one, not two, not three, but four teams that have been developed in our side. The leadership team, a targeted support team, a universal support team, intensive support team. We're practicing what we're preaching, which is to do it, we've got to do it together and we've got to do it at all levels at every school and make everybody responsible for that and caring about that. So I just wanted to highlight that to the board. To me, that is something that we haven't seen here in prior administrations. I remember the highlighting field trips which make me feel good and they're important. I don't mean to make light of that, but if we're talking about moving our kids socially, emotionally or academically forward, boy, we've got to be able to know what's going on and share that information, analyze it at the cohort level as well as individuals. And here's an example of how we're doing it in our side and Jamie, I assume this is what we're doing throughout the SU. And it gives me great confidence that the games that we're making has been measured and I don't see all the measures and everything else are gonna be sustained and strengthened going forward. So I just wanted to mention that and going back, if it's all right with the chair, Jamie mentioned his report. Two things, one is a video about alternative pathways that you can access on the SU board and it's like three minutes or six minutes. Really, really great stuff and it really makes you think, wow, wow, wow, we're using the media and they were telling our story and it was very, very, very effective. And so I appreciate that. And the other one is that we've got a curriculum now that we have on the website. Every course, the main course is K through 12. That's never, as far as I know, ever happened before. So if you've got a third grader, you wanna know what these key things are that they're gonna be doing and we're gonna be pushing to achieve. You go to the third grade or the fourth grade or K and the 12 and so that's a lot of material there but for those of us that are in a learning mode all the time we need to be, it's a good source of information about what's happening in the classroom. So that was pretty impressive. Thank you. Yeah, that's great. I think that's something we have spoke about before, wondering what are the classes doing and so that's great that that resource is out there for everybody to look at. That's great. Yes, great report, it was three pages.  No, we're talking about pellets. What pellets for the boiler? For the boiler. Because the systems are balanced, which I guess means they work efficiently in both, I've learned a lot of terms. So we will be able to manually test the wood pellet boiler tomorrow afternoon. Wonderful. It's a little warm, but- That's okay, we want to do it before it's too cold. That's exactly, and then the controls will be in place for it to go automatically. You're in the next two weeks. Excellent, that's great. Is there any other questions for the principal on her report? Just, will we be able to go automatic on the propane right now, or we have to wait for the controls? Not automatic, but we can use the manual options on the front. Does that answer the question? Yes, it does. We do have heat. We do have heat, it's up and going. It can be. Excellent, well thank you for your report. Tara, business manager. So you all have my report. I'll answer any questions you have. Only update I have that isn't in the report is that the auditors will be in our office next week to complete the final stages of physical audit. Go ahead, Bill. I had a question for you, but I didn't write it down, so. This will give you a chance. I get great satisfaction of looking at Tara when she mentions the auditors are coming. And look at how relaxed she is, smiling.  So that gives me great confidence. We all have great confidence in your team and what you've been doing financially, and that's one thing we don't have to worry about. Are the numbers right? We have to figure out what's the best use of the resources that we're doing, so. Thank you for that. So is there any other questions for the auditors? You know how to get me, how to get you. When I first read through it, I had a question, but I didn't have the paper to write down, so. I know where you live. I know where you work. You probably live there, actually, at this point. So, okay, is there, if there's no further questions for Tara, then let's move on to policy committee update. Just update that the policy committee met and we've created a working document. And Patrick, you should have received an updated version of that today. Thank you, Ray, for helping me with the links and the spreadsheet. So we're gonna be prioritizing a review of policies based on like a tiered system. First being reviewing any policy that we feel like as an admin team needs attention. That's just not working for us. Then we'll review policy in regards to what are required and have been updated by the VSBA since our last adoption. And then the third tier will be those that we have in place that are recommended and may have been revised since. We're pretty much in good place around all the required and recommended in place. So this is really about reviewing what we have in place that makes sure it's working for us. So you're probably going to see some policies coming in front of you that we already have that are gonna have suggested revisions in them over the next year and a half or so. Great. I know we had talked about wanting to get into reading and more familiar with our policies. And I think this is probably a way that we will be doing that actually on an SU level, so. Great. Okay. Is there any questions for the policy committee? Okay. And let's move on to policy adoption. The first one we're gonna look at is A20 board civility and code of ethics policy. This was adopted by the full board. All three of these were adopted by the full board last Tuesday. Is there any discussion on this first policy? If not, I take a motion to adopt. Also move second adoption of the code of ethics. And I would like to say this is important. We, this board, I mean, because we've talked about it under your leadership at and Ethan at our retreat. I think it's just we're built in to be civil with one another. Our role is also to be civil with anybody who wants to talk about, they're interested in what we're doing and what they care about. And this puts it in writing so that, oh no, I wasn't talking about, I wasn't representing. I happen to think that now the amount on a school board, even though I'm not wearing my orange hat or black hat, I'm a representative of the board. So somebody gets me talking about educational policy. I've got to remember that I represent and how I'm supposed to conduct myself. And so this makes it very clear. And I think it's very helpful. When we stumble that way, it just hurts. It's like an unforced error. Billy Buckner fumbling that ground ball and I'm not even talking about that. But so anyway, I think this is great. Thank you. Great, there's a motion and a second on the floor. There's been discussion. Is there any further discussion? All in favor of adopting the board member's ability and code of ethics policy, a 20, say aye. Aye. Aye. All right, so moved. Okay, next we're going to look at F 32, fire and emergency preparedness drills policy. 34. Yeah, probably should not be working with numbers, so. We'll do it. I know. We've seen this before, our board had some suggestions and I really like the way the policy committee has taken ours and probably other board suggestions and I do actually really like the way this policy is read and the approach that it takes. So I look for a motion to accept fire and emergency preparedness drills and policy. So moved. Second. Robert moves it, bill seconds it. Is there any discussion? Hearing no discussion, all in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. So moved. All right, let's move on to F 35, access control and visitor management policy. Okay, access control, that's access to our school site. Is that, that's the access to the control? Right. Okay. Is there any discussion on this policy for a motion to adopt it then? So move. Second. Bill moves, Robert seconds. Is there any further discussion? Yes. Just, I mean this deals primarily with building access, but I guess we're, I see that with regard to grounds access, it's not that we're controlling it, but we, I'm not sure where we have policy that governs when people come on site and what they're allowed to do. We have a building use policy which does cover the access of our grounds. Okay. So that includes. Utilizing those. Okay. You revise it, the policy committee is looking at that. Well, it'll be part of what we'll look at, but we currently have one that is about accessing our grounds. Because as most schools, there is public, I mean, public use is our playground and such. Yes, right. And that's not a problem generally, but what happens when things go wrong? Right. And that is one that needs some looking at because we want to be community schools and there's actually pieces of that policy that I think have created some problems around access. So that is one that I think at the admin level, we're going to ask that they wouldn't really look at. Okay. And you said facility use has its own policy. So facility use being a basketball game would have its own set of policies that wouldn't really go under this policy. Correct. Okay. All right. Is there any further discussion? All right. All in favor of adopting F-35 access control and visitor management policy, say aye. Aye. Aye. All right. So moved. Okay. The policies have been, those three policies have been adopted. Nice growing policy committee. Yes. Very good. All right. Well, let's move on to draft one of the student support budget. So Lindy can jump in or Tara. I mean, so just like we, we have over the last several years, we start by looking at student support. These are the big catch areas in regards to personnel in regards to student support. So it's essentially your administration, your interventionist, your student support folks like guidance, nurse, folks that support our teachers via paraeducators, regular ed, it's not special ed, your substitutes. And then we also do have a school-based clinician that has been supporting the school via Claire Martin as a contracted service that your students have been accessing for therapeutic supports. That's something we're looking to move into the general budget if we can. We've been leveraging Essar to help support that service along as well as some other type of grant funding that we were able to pull in at the SU level. This is draft one. So what you're really seeing here is everything. Do know that there could be, as we were going through the budget process, that is an area that we might look to offset the additional 40,000 if we needed to. But that level of support and service, it's clear that it's important for us to continue. So the rest for, and I'm mostly Cynthia, this is your first go at this process. We break it down by student support. We talk about that. We look for the board to give us kind of their thoughts around it. You'll get all the faculty and staff next month, including this as part of draft two for student support. We take feedback then. December, you get the full budget with all expenses and budget lines in. We look for feedback there. We try to get you a pretty solid draft in January with the idea that sometimes we'll do a special meeting in January, or you guys can actually adopt in February because you're later in the game. It's typically in February when you guys approve your budget. Our school meeting, school budget meeting is in May, and most other towns do it on town meeting in March. So it's usually a rush. We have a little more leeway, and we can take a little bit more time in the early winter months, so. So we start with personnel the first couple months because that's the biggest chunk other than tuition, and in general, tuition we don't have really any control over, right, around what can select. But we start to dial that in for you in December. January, Tara tends to have the real announced tuition numbers that we are able to use, and so really we try to shoot for February adoption. So we have a little time, but we try to start here. And then, Lindy, I think it would be helpful. So Tara has these figures you're seeing an account for negotiated raises through your collective bargaining agreement. And then Tara can talk to you about what she's using for insurance numbers right now for projections. And then Lindy is projecting, looking for an additional 0.2 FT in reading intervention, and then also looking to add another pair. So Lindy, could you just talk a little bit about that? Yeah, so two things that I'll say is this is probably a little closer in terms of intervention to what we're actually providing. So currently that position, she also does library as well, but she's spending majority of her time on literacy intervention so it makes more sense that we're supporting that in the right way instead of trying to short change that and that we're using best practice that those kiddos are getting the support that they need. With frequency, yep, with frequency. And then in regular ad para, this kind of supports the K1 or just a cohort of larger students that just require that additional support, not necessarily academically or behavioral, but just because we're five and six and we're all together and there's about 20 of us and that helps support the classroom teacher with routines and expectations and really allows them to not miss a beat. So it was K1 and five, six? No, sorry, they're five and six year olds. Oh, okay, five and six year olds? No. Yes, okay. Angels. All of them. So that would be the biggest one and then I'll just speak to the school-based clinician that is someone who has a full caseload within both of our buildings. It's a shared staff member, but. So is it, it's currently being administered by Claire Martin? Right, she's in a, yeah, a contracted service. It's a contracted service through Claire Martin, but this, it was being funded with different money before, so we need to bring it back into local funding. Okay, okay. So we get a full-time employee for that $40,000 figure. Yeah, okay. For that contracted service. Okay, yeah. And this is, we've had this person, this position currently, this is not something new. No, she's new to the general fund. Right. Right, she's been here for three years. We added school-based clinicians across our districts two years ago. We've been lucky that the school-based clinician we have at Rochester Stock Bridge has been here the whole time. We've had trouble, well, by we, our partnership with Claire Martin has had real trouble filling these positions in some of our districts. I see. Like, in sharing the strafford, we were never able to fill it, and same at First Branch, we haven't been able to fill it. So we're very lucky. They handle, my impressions, they handle kids that really have, are struggling, social-emotional. And to the extent that we don't handle that, the kids continue to struggle, the parents, and then it can swing right back into the classroom and it can impact everybody. So am I got that right about this importance of this role? Yeah, I mean, what it does is it allows us to provide that therapeutic intervention in the school and for our families not to have to try to figure out how to connect with a, you know, a therapist, per se, like, having to go to Randolph for having to drive over to Middlebury, the theory would get that service right here in the building. So the likelihood of action, positive action, sooner or quicker action is reinforced if we have it right here, then parents trying to find and chase and do that makes sense to me. Yes, Robert. And it's also more timely is the most important. Yeah. Just trying to understand these figures. We have reductions between 24 and 25, but there are reductions in the proposed amount, but no change in FTE. Correct. So on the salary and benefits, we last year, based on the information that we had been given during our meetings with Visbit, which is our insurance provider, we had projected substantial increases in workers' compensation based on claim rates, medical expenses. So some of this, the rates didn't go as high as they projected, so I was able to bring them back down in this budget. And then also in your regular ed pair, as we had budgeted primarily for a family health insurance plan, and that wasn't utilized. So when I build your budgets, I'm building your budgets based on the staff you have in your buildings today. So I pulled down the master salary spreadsheet for all of our buildings, and that's what I use to build the budgets. As far as health insurance, dental insurance, I build in increases based on information that we were given. We don't get those rates usually until the end of October. So right now in the budgets, we're using a 13% increase on health insurance, and that's based on a 12.7% was the actual increase last year, so there may be an adjustment once I see them, and a 5% increase on the dental insurance. So that's also what's currently built in here. So again, once I get those rates, these numbers on your first draft will be adjusted to represent the actual rates that are being filed with the State of Vermont Department of Insurance. And just so the board knows, just a reminder, if we, let's say we don't know who's gonna work for us, we always go into it budgeting a family plan. Because right now, a family plan is $28,000. So if we didn't budget for a family plan and you had someone come in right there, that's a substantial amount of money that's not budgeted for. So we always use that as our placeholder. Great. Okay. So thoughts, I mean, you'll get all your faculty next month, and that will give you a much better sense of what we're looking at just based on those increases around our bottom lines. I mean, we have the rest of the pieces, but. I mean, considering we're looking at trying to add the school-based clinician currently right now, Diana Perra, I was really excited when Tara provided us this first draft, because I was not as optimistic as I was being at that point right now. So I'm feeling, we'll see what the rest of it looks like, but I'm feeling okay. No, it looks pretty good. Just on that question of the decreases in the, specifically the regular Ed Perra, we're trying, we're going to increase the FTE, but yet we are still down. And that really is just because that workman's comp. And that was the health insurance. There was budgeting for a family plan, but the person who actually hired for that role didn't take the family plan. So it gives you a little bit of leeway in the 25 budget. I think that person stays employed and doesn't change your health insurance. Wow, that's amazing how much it can swing them. Like that's a whole position. It is. That's a whole position. Wow. The salary for a support staff is almost the same. I mean, when you look at the whole package, we're, you know, you're pushing almost 60,000, but the health insurance is almost half of that. Okay. All right, well, thank you very much. Is there more questions on this first draft of the budget? I agree with what I'm seeing. I think that this is the right way to go. This is increases that we need for Perra and then definitely having the interventionist in school, the contractor position there. I think it's all very important in literacy intervention. That's what we're trying to do is get them right. Get it into the intervention as quick as we can and having the bodies there to be able to facilitate that. So does anybody else have any more comments or direction that we want to give our administration in regards to what we've been provided today? Great. I'm gonna leave you all to get to it. Thanks. Okay, thank you very much. I didn't bring my computer, so I'll jump on. Okay. So now we're gonna move on to seven two, follow up on the board retreat. I thought it was a great retreat. I do feel like we kind of left some stuff hanging at the end, but we did talk about having a follow up. Retreat in say January, so I didn't get out to everybody to bring their calendars to this meeting, but if we can definitely by next meeting, bring our calendars to, or maybe even throughout the month of October, I can send out an email of a save, so we can try to meet again to do another retreat to kind of finish up some of the board goals that we were talking about. I do have a list of kind of action items, some things, some specific stuff. So. Yeah, I was gonna, excuse me. Go ahead. I didn't mean to interrupt. I was looking at you, go ahead. The, we talked about our protocols, and I think we're pretty set on that we've got good protocols and I'll come back with a score sheet of how we self-evaluated ourselves, but it seems to me it'd be timely to have that on a, like the November agenda and just put those, vote the thing that we, those protocols and then we can change anything we want, but going forward. And we also have governance principles, which are the overriding things there. So that was one thing I thought we could do sooner. And if we're gonna have FY 24 goals, I think we need to do those sooner than later. And if the agenda in November can do it, I think my sense is a lot of the goals we had for this year, concluding in June, it would carry forward, but we also need to see if there's any new initiatives that we need to attend to for the, for this academic year. And so if you're like, I can draft something up on that, but I would, and get it out. I think we need to say, yeah, we're together on where we want to head. And again, we did a lot of this fresh work. We had a committee last time with Justine and Ethan and myself, and then we spent a lot of time. This time I think it can be more straightforward, but I think we need to make sure what are the things the next few months and we need to pay attention to and do we want to formalize that in a goal or not? So that would be one of my suggestions. And then the third thing is I've ordered books and if I had done it right, I would have had each one sent to the individual addresses, but then I realized I don't have your addresses. So they're all sent to me. Some will be used. So there'll be some, you know, highlighting and everything else. I've got one for the superintendent that's especially highlighted. So he can just skim through and read this in an hour, but if I can get these in hand and get them to you and I'll probably email you and just say, what's your address? And then I won't publicize your address, but if you'll let me know, I'll try to drop them off soon. And there's a good starting chapter is, you know, why school boards are so important.  No, but there's been a lot of work on that. And so it's a great way to kind of reinforce the importance of our role. And then that obviously talks about being effective in that role. So I'm going to recommend through the chair that if I get it to you all in time for the first chapter, we have that as a possible agenda item in November. The final thing was we were talking about a possible review of looking back since we've been together now five years that whether it would be timely now to look back and how we've done and the possibility of community and parent input on that. And so I don't know how we left that and how you left that, but that's something that's, and that'll take a time. I committed myself to kind of recommend kind of a framework for that, but you need to give us the guidance on when and how you want to do that.  I took a picture, sorry, it's really tight. No, no, that's okay. We, yes, in our meeting, in our retreat, we had talked about surveys, student survey, parent survey, community survey, and we did write down that Bill was going to put together a framework. Okay, so I've... Okay, so I've just... If you're still willing, we did write it down. It was taken. It'll be a draft. Right, yeah, yes. I think also we do need to schedule some time in the future as it's required by the merger agreement that we do a five-year review. Right, this is the beginning parts of... But then use that language. But do we have a target date that we want to do that by? I'll try to crack something up. Okay.  I'm happy for Bill to look at what we discussed and just try to kind of... I'll rough it up. I'll send it to you, you give me, and then we'll have something for the whole board. Yeah, and including I think that one of our goals has to do with... And we discussed this is that this reading together is a valuable tool, and I think that that's... I think that's a goal. I really do. I think that's a goal for us to continue to educate ourselves and to participate in this. Yeah, and Amy, I just want to say thank you for the leadiness in that retreat. It was a very productive retreat, and... Thank you. You know, it's like we're somewhat like herding cats, but I think sometimes we're a little better than that, but nothing wrong with cats. No. But it takes somebody to take the lead and organize and keep us moving, so thank you. Well, I definitely appreciate that because you always worried that... You want everybody to have a full say, but you also want to keep the train moving forward. You have a good way of doing it, kid. Okay, well, thank you. I definitely appreciate that. Does anybody have any other follow-ups from the retreat that they would like to bring up at this time? Okay. Great. All right, so, 7-3, we're going to discuss changing our regular meeting time from 5.30 to 6 o'clock per suggestion by one of the board members. I do love the 5.30 time, because it gets its out earlier, but 6 o'clock is just as fine, and if it's going to save a world of... Whatever. I get it, so I would see 6 o'clock as an appropriate time. If that will work with administration, with the other responsibilities they have on the same night. You can partner it up with the right board to be able to do it like that close. Good. All right, well, I'll entertain a motion to... Well, I thought that just goes under action item. Sure, we can wait till action item, so that's fine. All right, so then let's move on to celebration of the hour to be announced. So I am going to turn it over to Ms. Donna. She's here tonight to talk about, at the end of the year, after our June meeting, because we meet so early in June, the fifth and sixth graders in Rochester and Stockbridge participated in a United Book Club together on the most costly journey, which is stories of migrant farm workers throughout Vermont, and it's done at the Vermont Cartooning School. They work together, and so Donna's got a little presentation. And Ms. Donna, you tell me when, and I'll bring out the other things. Sure, you can turn up the slideshow, that'd be great. So as Lindy said, this was the Vermont Humanities Council, Vermont Reads Book of the Year. And when we were designing what this book club would look like last year, we are very fortunate to have Dana Decker as our equity coordinator in the SU, and she wanted to be a part of the book club as well. So we settled on this book, which has 19 different stories in them, and we felt that 15 were appropriate for fifth and sixth graders. And so we came together, and it all happened in June, because the rest of the year got super busy, but it ended up being a really beautiful thing because we were able to meet, the students were able to meet twice a week at Stockbridge and then at Rochester, and then we had a farm tour field trip so that connected back to the book and thinking about migrant workers and their journey to get here and the work that they do. So I don't think I have the capability to turn, great. So we met twice in Stockbridge, we met as a big group, and then adults had shared reading. Some feedback we got immediately from the students is they want to be able to do the reading, which will be the plan this year, but the story's told in the form of a graphic text. So there were different New England cartoonists who had drawn up the stories after meeting with different migrant workers. A big part of the experience we wanted students to get was the idea of how other people live and also what people are willing to do for work and for their family on behalf of their family as well. So we came together, we shared some of the stories together and had discussions and did a lot of brainstorming. And then each time we met, students also had a chance to work on a project. So the first day was after reading four stories, they came up with their own multimedia project based on their takeaways from that. And you can flip again to the next slide. So this is them working on, and this is in Stockbridge working on some different projects. And we wanted something to happen that first day and we were super impressed by what students had come up with. And then on the subsequent three days of meeting together to read, students chose which project they wanted to work on. So we had brainstorm possible projects and they included murals, a podcast, slideshow, and also students creating their own comics. So they had a choice of which they wanted to do but they needed to commit for the three days with their group to see that project through. This is them with their original first day projects. So some of the feedback that we had gotten from students is they had said things like, I never really thought about how other people lived before or I didn't really understand why people left their homes in the first place or even understand the danger that they had in coming to America. You can keep flipping, great. This is students working on their mural and they decided as a group that one group was gonna work on what it looked like in Mexico, another group was gonna create a mural based on the journey and the last mural was based on arriving in Vermont. We also made time each day. We came up with some cooperative games for them to play but then they had a time just to have recess and play together and also have lunch together and snack. These are some pictures from when we went on the farm tour. It was great to be able to go to Rochester and go to Liberty Hill Farm and then to be in Stockbridge and go to Birdsong Farm on Music Mountain. When we were at one of the farms, we students had a chance to meet some migrant workers as well and also the farmer and a big part of the student feedback was how lovely the relationship was between the workers and the farmer and a lot of respect and care that was given. So it was really great to have them notice that on their own. So this is just some of the things that we had, the themes that students identified, some of the discussions that we had which were pretty powerful. And that was in the book that in itself was a big message that came across that kind of to withstand some of the hardships we can experience in life, finding your passion and making time for those constructive things is really important. Having a strong work ethic will take you very far and how important communication was.  So we were very happy with the outcome of this project. I think students were really thrilled too. And I don't think anyone was opposed to getting together initially but I think they were really overjoyed with having this larger group of students to be able to think and work and read with and play. Those are some of the comics that students created. And the books, by the way, we had written a grant to the Vermont Humanities Council so we were able to get the books for free which was great. And that is all of them. Yeah, and I think Lindy has some of the murals still. So last year's book club in June was so successful. I think we have plans to do maybe two this year. Maybe two this year. I like it, I like it. So this was three full days? This was three partial days? Four, like from like nine to one. Wow, okay. Roughly. Nice. Maybe 12, 30. Yep. So there's the welcome to Vermont. I'm not sure if anybody's saying anything but it's muted. If someone is saying anything to me. Sorry. I've only heard talking about murals, Ms. Donna. So we had a welcome to Vermont. We had aggressive Mexico, right? Before they left. Right. How do you know it's a sad face? What an incredible, just the whole experience of what the kids got out of it. It's just really incredible and... They did a great job. Yeah, it just really warms my heart to hear that type of feedback and critical thinking that they came up with. Just a wonderful project. I'm glad to hear that this idea is gonna move forward. They're excited about it. And I think I'll share, Ms. Donna, that the podcast, if we can, we'll find a way to maybe email that to you guys to listen to. They interviewed, the group that did the podcast interviewed all their classmates. And naturally came up with that they were like the R-Sed Book Club, 5.6 Book Club and that they liked having different opinions together. And those are some of the themes that came out together. So I think it was pretty powerful for cohorts of kids who are used to being with each other since elementary school. And then we're doing that. Yes, and I think the podcast group had also wanted students and teachers alike because they interviewed teachers too, to kind of put yourself in that position and how might you react? How might you feel if you had to travel that far from home or that you can't communicate with a place where you might wanna work? So it was great that the podcast group came up with their own ideas of what they wanted to know more about and wanted their classmates' opinions and stuff. But it was pretty neat. We were quite delighted. We had an idea, of course, of how it would all go, but you don't really know until you put it in students' hands and where they might take it. So we were very pleased. Excellent. I'm very pleased. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Donna. Yes, thank you so much. That's the best part of our meeting right there, our celebrations of learning. I'm serious. Yes, please go ahead. Okay. Yeah, I... His mother is illustrator. Over 50 years ago, I was out in California in the war on poverty as a VISTA volunteer and part of I was working with migrant farm workers. And we've come a long way. We were talking about stoop labor, extreme heat, pesticides, lousy housing and food. No, the whole fight was to unionize the farm workers so that they have some benefits and that sort of thing. There's Margeston, Sacramento and that sort of thing. We've come a long way. Cesar Chavez, Vermont's doing it better. I think the country in 50 years has come a long, long, long, long way, but we can't forget how important it is to treat people properly and be aware that for the most part, they're not as privileged as we are, but we need their services. We need their labor. And so to be able to have that in our elementary school to tell that story in Vermont, I think it was very heartening and I commend it. Everybody who's involved in this project, nice job. Thank you. Thank you. Wonderful. Any further comments or questions or on the celebration of learning? Not this bad. Great. Thank you, Donna. Yes, thank you so much. Welcome. My pleasure. Truly, thank you. Okay, let's move on to 10 action items. 10-1, flood-proofing areas of concern specific to high school building to mitigate flood playing concerns through the use of capital reserve funds. It's a mouthful. Sorry, it's a mouthful. And I sent a proposed motion to you, but I'm gonna suggest maybe we change the amount that we actually use in capital reserves to find pending further digging here. So let me just, so Robert and I have been joining the re-envisioning group for the high school. And so we've been meeting on a fairly regular basis about once a month. And I think in general November 2, we could give the board a deeper update about all this work because I think there's some really exciting momentum happening in regards to leading up to the possible vote in the sale of the high school. And so we're currently in the process of finishing up our phase two brownfield study. We'll get those results, hopefully here in the next couple of months. That's a really important step to get that part finished. And so what the other piece is, if you remember, we've been trying to work on is making certain we mitigated the floodplain concern so that upon the sale of the high school building, that the town would then be able to tap into federal grant funding to help support that project. And one of the things that needs to happen in order for that to occur is the mitigation of the floodplain. And so the last step to this mitigation appears to really be us. If you were to look out at the high school right now, you'll see that by the auditorium, there's a set of double doors and a single door that shoots out to the field here that during Irene there was some flooding that occurred. And so they, through working with Dubois and King, one of the things that we can do to mitigate that is to install these like steel barriers on the doors. So what they do is, and this is all recognized as an appropriate mitigation in regards to mitigating the floodplain. And so what they do is you instill these panels that you can then, if we were to hear like this summer that there was flooding, there was a concern that was gonna happen, you literally go in and you slide in the steel barrier and it stops the water from being able to enter the building. And this would then hopefully be the last step for us. In regards to being able to mitigate that floodplain concern. So compared to what it could have been originally as we were talking through, we were worried about excavation and things. This is a really cost effective way to do it. And so I'm here tonight to say to the board, I think it makes sense for us to take this action because that will take care of this floodplain concern as we move forward with the town looking to, as soon as essentially once this level two Greenfield studies completed, I have every indication to believe, sorry, Brownfield. Yeah, what did I just say? Green. Sorry. Sorry. Study, completing that the town is going to be working with this Envision Group to move forward. The other thing I would say is that, that group that's been doing a lot of this work around re-envisioning is also looking at possibly becoming a nonprofit to help support the town with this next step. So there's a lot of seriousness about this and significant steps taken to address it. So the cost of each one of these barriers is 5,000. And then. We are also taking care of the door on the auditorium. Yes. Besides these other. Yes, three doors. Three doors, right. So the total cost in the parts, the barriers would be 15,000. And then we'll need to add somebody to install them. I had Tara do research on your capital improvement funds. Rochester itself does still have based, so when you sold the down the line day care, there was 70,904. We used $57,020.93 for the alarm system. That leaves 13,088.307 left in that reserve. I was thinking of considering that recommended that we would use the rest of that. That's not, remember we created this new Rochester Stockbridge reserve. This would finish out that reserve. And then the administration, me and Tara Lindy and I would look to use what you already have budgeting, your typical maintenance and improvement budget lines to find the rest for installation in that last couple of thousand. You said 15,000 for the barriers. The barriers themselves are gonna cost 15. Lio felt like we could get them installed for less than five, but five was the number I was using just because to be safe. So what you had sent me before was not to exceed 20,000? Is that's? Correct, but that would still, that was me thinking that we would cover all of it in capital reserves, because remember you have to give us explicit permission for the capital reserve. So I was gonna suggest that we, you would move to do this project and access the 13,088.307 in capital reserves to pay offset the cost. Then we'll find the rest of the money in the local budget, but that would, a big chunk of this would come out of that Rochester fund and it would cover 80% of the. Discussion? And do you have anyone else have any questions for me? Cause I'm gonna jump in with G-HUD. No, that's why we need capital reserve funds, for example. Thank you. Is there any more discussion? Okay, then I would like to make a motion to provide permission for the administration via the capital, the Rochester capital building reserve fund to install the floodgates in the areas of concern at the high school with the cost not to exceed, to draw funds from the Rochester capital improvement fund in the amount of $13,883.07. So move. Second. Motion's been made and seconded. Discussion? Yeah, just what do you think your arm in? It's great. I mean, there were other proposals that were more expensive and automatic and things like that, but this was the most cost effective. And you know, the one on that's basically what the area underneath the music room. I mean, that's really isn't used much. So I mean, though, we can just leave them and install it most of the time and just open it up if we have to store something there. It used to be used for the tractor. So the only one we can worry about is still there. Oh, it's still there. All right, so the tractor's still there. So. Yeah, well. And then the other would be the auditorium, putting that in and out. All right, is there any more discussion? The motion has been made and seconded. All in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. All right, so moved. Okay. Is there any, oh, yeah. 10-2. I would like to make a motion that we change our regular scheduled meeting time from 5.30 the first Monday of the month to six o'clock the first Monday of the month, alternating campuses as we have been. I can make that motion. Okay. Second. Moved and seconded by Robert and seconded by Bill. Is there any discussion? Right, all in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Well. Okay, so moved. Okay. Now we'll move on to new hires or reservations. I think we're good. Okay, are we still looking for? We're settled. Right, unless a point two world language person comes out of the woodwork, we are staffed. Okay, so we're always, we're still looking for language, but. Okay. All right, well then let's move on to 12 public comment. Do we have any public on? No. Okay. I just would like to mention that we had discussed doing some temperature monitoring in the high school. I have just installed for my own house what I think is a good candidate system and I'm trying it out while I go to California. So. Ooh, okay. But. How long? Pardon me. How long? Oh, in California? Yeah. Two weeks about. Have you got the permission of the cheer? We had a party yesterday. So you'll be back by the time of our next meeting. Yes. Oh yes. Absolutely. Just checking out. So are you in touch with, is it Lindy that you're talking to about these temperature monitors? Lyle, who? Yeah, I think it was recommended by Perkin and he had emailed, but I also in looking for something from where myself came up with this other and I'm trying it out. Okay. It's how easy it is. When I have it tested, I will get back and it's actually, you know, it is accessible from anywhere rather than from life through the Wi-Fi system. So. Only thing to keep in mind is if we use power, the generator doesn't power it up. Right. I don't know how that impacts all of that. That's good to be aware of. Yeah. I'm not that type of. Okay. Well, all the individual monitors are battery-powered. Okay. Rechargeable battery powered and then there's a hub which doesn't need power, but we might come up with a battery backup for it. Okay. So we'll put something together. But it means we can, and it'll alarm too. So I'm not sure, I have to get back to find out which areas we need to. Set it up, yeah. And then we'll go through and figure out how many hubs we need, depending on what the range, the hub talks to the Wi-Fi to the outside world, but it then talks by either ZigBee or a different protocol to all the sensors. Okay. Well, I think that's beneficial. We wanna secure this, save this building as best possible way, keep it safe and secure. So, okay. Thank you. Sounds good to me. Thank you very much. So, I actually didn't print out the second page after public comment. All right, so, our next meeting date is going to be Monday, November 6th at six o'clock at the Stockbridge campus. For future agenda items, I already have the protocol score sheet and quite possibly chapter one of Book Club. And I possibly, the goals will be able to board goals. Does anybody else have anything they want to bring up at this point for future agenda items? And you can always email me or call me throughout the month. We usually try to get at least a week before a week and a half before we try to finalize the agenda, so. Okay. Great. Well, if that's it, then I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. So move. All in favor? Yeah, yeah. Aye. Thank you, Pat, for joining us. Oh ho. It's a cutie.


What's up guys it's Josh and we're back again with another video. Like I said last time this is going to be another video where I let you guys in on some of the stuff that has been happening to me here at Yale over the last few weeks. If you're new to the channel I'm Josh and I'll be using this YouTube channel to chronicle my life at Yale as well as give you guys some tips to get into your own dream school. If that sounds interesting or appealing consider subscribing. Also if you missed last video I now have a PO box here at Yale so if you want to send me any letters, mail, Swedish Fish, send them to this address right here. I'll also leave it in the description down below. Okay like you guys probably saw in the title the topic of today's video is my first day of classes here at Yale. Although I did tell you guys what classes I was actually taking a couple videos ago I'll quickly go over what my actual schedule is throughout the week. So on Mondays and Wednesdays my first class is English which starts at 11 and then I have physics immediately afterwards. This is good because all my classes are kind of compacted in one little time area but that also means I have 10 minutes between English and physics. English is in the very back of old campus and physics is at the Sloan Physics Laboratory at the top of Science Hill which is about as far as two classes could possibly be at Yale and I only have 10 minutes to get between them. It is quite a track but I only have to do it twice a week which is good. On Tuesdays I have Air Force ROTC physical training at like six in the morning then I get back from that I have enough time to eat breakfast and shower and then I have to head straight off to my computer science section which starts at like 9.20 I think. After computer science I head straight to math and finish up math around 12.50 and I'm done for the day. On Thursdays I have ROTC all the way from six till about 10.30. I have enough time to grab a quick snack in the dining hall and then I have math again at 11 and I finish up around 12.50 again on Thursdays too. Luckily I plan my schedule so that I do not have any classes on Friday so I could take a three-day weekend if I wanted to. Honestly I'm kind of low-key proud of my schedule. I only have classes four days a week and two of the days I get to sleep until 11 if I want to. Like my blue-looking skills are on point. All right so the first day of classes was actually on a Wednesday which meant that I had English and physics. I got to sleep in late and still had enough time to go hit the TD gym down in the basement. After that I went and grabbed a bagel and a couple hard boiled eggs from the dining hall and started walking over to old campus for English. I really did enjoy my first English class. It's seminar style which means it's there's only like 15 kids in our class and the class consists of basically open conversation about whatever essay we're reading for the whole time. The professor is a grad student who has a lot of energy and passion for what we're doing and she really wants to make us the best routers we can possibly be. After English ended I hit that light jog all the way up Science Hill and managed to get to physics just in time but I was like dripping in sweat and breathing really hard but but it's all good it's all good. Unlike my English class physics is taught in a lecture style. It's not a huge lecture. It's not like intro econ which is like 450 kids it's it's sitting at about 150 people I would say. It works out because like even in the very back row you can still see her notes on the chalkboard. Right from the first day of physics though we got our first problem set assigned and it definitely was not easy. I mean I've taken two years of physics in high school but this problem set was like she took all the super hard problems at the end of each section and just put them all together in one homework assignment. It's all good though. I like a challenge. Physics ended around 230 and I was done for the day. It was definitely one of my shorter days but it was fun and I could definitely tell that I'd be learning a lot. After class finished I took a couple hours to start working on the physics and English assignments that I got assigned. I grabbed dinner with some friends and then we hung out down in the basement by the buttery and played ping pong for a couple hours. It was a pretty good day. Pretty good first day. All right that's it. That pretty much sums up my first day of classes here at Yale. Sorry I couldn't actually film anything the day of but I'm glad I still got to share with you guys how it went. If you guys have any questions about my classes or Yale in general just leave a comment down below. I'll try to answer it. If you enjoyed the video drop a like. Hit that big red subscribe button to support more content from me in the future. As always I'll be back again in a couple days with another video. See you soon.


What does the narcissist value more than anything? What's most important to the narcissist? What do they value the most? There is something the narcissist values more than money There is something more important to them What the narcissist values more than anything else is your attention? That is what they want from you Which means that you have what they want You have the power You have the ability to direct and influence their behavior at the course of events And that is why you need to stop giving it away for free Stop giving them all of your attention Narcissists are focused on their image for a reason Male narcissist might splash out on a new car While female narcissists will spend hours getting dressed up and doing their hair and makeup They will put so much time and energy into this and they are willing to trade all of their money for it Just to get attention because attention is more valuable to them than their money Which is why they are willing to give all of their money in return for the image that they would like to present Female narcissist will spend hours getting dressed Just to go to the store While a male narcissist might buy an expensive car Just to drive around town They're not doing it for themselves They're doing it to get your attention They want to be noticed They want to be seen as something desirable and attractive Even though they might not be interested in you Even though they may not have any desire to know or learn anything about you All they care about is what you think of them They want you to want them They want you to desire them because narcissists only care about themselves All that matters to them is how they see themselves How they feel about themselves And if they can get you to validate the illusion that they are trying to portray They think they must be something special Which is why your attention is so important to them Because your attention has the power to influence how they see themselves It has the power to influence how they feel about themselves And that is why they are willing to trade all of their time energy and money to get it They have developed a routine a pattern of actions that they regularly follow Which gets them the attention that they're looking for They are highly manipulative They are seeking to exercise unscrupulous control and influence over you So that they can get what they need So that they can get your attention But they want your attention for free They want it without having to do anything for you Because they're all about themselves They don't even see you as a real person You're just an object to them, which they used to feel good about themselves They lack empathy So they don't understand how you feel All they can do is recognize your emotions as it pertains to them What it means will suggest about themselves They are incapable of establishing a deep connection or a relationship with you And because you're willing to give your attention away for free They don't value it. They don't appreciate it When you stop giving your attention away to the narcissist for free That is when they will stop taking it for granted That is when they will begin to value it Because you're not doing what everyone else usually does You're not giving away your attention for free You're not giving them free admiration or validation Which is what everyone else gives to the narcissist But instead, you are doing something different You are doing something unusual You're not taking them so seriously as other people do And that is what you have to do to get any respect from the narcissist I'm not saying that they will respect you as a person But they will develop some level of respect for your feelings which are the rights Once you bring in some consequences Once you make them realize that without that Your attention will be taken away You cannot give your attention to someone who doesn't deserve it You cannot give your attention to someone who doesn't treat you right Because your attention has value So you should not hand it over to the narcissist without getting something in exchange You should get something back in return For giving them your attention When you are dealing with a narcissist You should give them your attention when they least expect it You should give them a compliment when they least expect it When you give them your attention when they expect it from you It's predictable So they will be able to estimate when it will happen in the future Or if it will be the consequence of something And that's how they are able to stay 10 steps ahead of you That's when they know when you're going to react Because they already know what's going to get your attention They already know what you're interested in or attracted to So when you are dealing with a narcissist You have to be unpredictable Don't just give your attention away whenever they want it Give it to them when they least expect it Stop constantly admiring these narcissists Stop feeding their egos They're human just like you are They use the toilet just like you do So there's really no need to put these narcissists on a pedestal There's no reason to give them uncritical respect or admiration There's no reason to treat them as an ideal rather than a real person When you do this They can sense it instantly And then they no longer value your attention It loses its importance, worth and usefulness And then they'll be more focused on seeking attention elsewhere From someone who isn't so willing to give it to them People need to stop worshipping these narcissists People need to stop putting them on a pedestal They use the toilet just like you do But people are quick to like all of their selfies on Instagram Which only feeds their narcissism even more And make them think they're better than everyone When they're not contributing any value to society They're not helping anyone Because they only care about themselves They just use people's attention to feel better about themselves And that is why you need to stop giving away your attention for free Because the power lies in your attention You should value it You should not give it away so easily You may want to give it to them But as soon as you do They will lose respect for you They will lose regard for your feelings, wishes and rights You will lose value and importance in their eyes Because you gave your attention away for free You gave it away without any equal exchange of value You gave it away without any equal exchange of value So then they see it as though you have no value And they will treat you like you have no value Because they see it as though if you don't value where you put your attention You don't value yourself And narcissists don't value themselves They act as though they have an exaggerated sense of their own abilities and importance They act like they think they're superior to you But that's just to compensate for how they really feel about themselves Inside they feel completely worthless and insignificant So when you put all of your attention on them They see it as though you have no value Because they can't see the value in themselves They don't believe they're worth anything They just see you as a fool for even noticing them So that's exactly how they're going to treat you They're going to trick and deceive you And use you for their own benefit or gain But when you withhold your attention That is when they begin to see you as being something valuable Because in their minds Only someone of high value wouldn't pay any attention to them And when you don't pay attention to them They make some pay attention to you They make some take more of an interest in you More of an interest in your feelings which is rights And while it may not be empathy It's the closest thing you're going to get To a narcissist having a genuine interest in you It will arouse their curiosity You become a puzzle that they are trying to solve They end up trying to put the pieces together Rather than trying to pull everything apart Thank you for watching I hope this video wears out with you Please like, comment, share and subscribe Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos Check out the new Narc Survival website At www.narcsurvival.co.uk Where you can read my blog posts, book coaching sessions and join the support forum If you would like to donate My PayPal link is in the video description Coaching inquiries You can email me at coaching at www.narcsurvival.co.uk Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


It's me John Park and it is time for this week's episode of JP's product pick of the week Thank you so much for stopping by We have a great show Planned for you here today really cool product pick if you're new to this show what happens Well, I show you a cool product that we have in this case a brand new one a fairly brand new one And I give you a humongous discount on it if you want to head over to the shop And get one you don't need a coupon code or anything like that You can simply head to that url right there point your camera at that qr code That'll take you right to the product page for this week's product pick and there it will be discounted 50% off of the usual and we have a bunch of them Stashed in stock and ready to go that we popped into the store right before the show So that's how this works now Before I go any further with this what I'd like to do is actually have Lady Ada We'll just jump back a little bit in time have Lady Ada introduce this to you. So please take it away Lady Ada Yay, it's the NXP Digi-Key Ada food collab that we started in late late 2019 finally here in the shop we've got a Metro shape board with the IMX RT 1011 we have an existing board that's very similar that's Wi-Fi. This one has micro SD So it's very affordable. So it's under 20 bucks and you get a 500 megahertz IMX NXP processor This is a Cortex M7. This is like an incredibly powerful chip and it's less expensive than many AVR 8-bit micro controller boards Like the silkscreen design. Yeah, the silkscreen is very beautiful. Thanks to Philby for it It's got a micro SD card slot so you can use it for data storage or retrieval USB type-c has native USB. You can power it from a DC jack Again, it's very powerful 500 megahertz processor with 120 kilobytes of RAM and for storage Both disk storage internal disk storage and firmware storage eight megabytes of Q-Spy flash So it's very speedy so great for data logging or if you want to Stream data off of the micro SD and process it very quickly Because we don't have anything fast in the Cortex M7 for micro controller a lot of accessories on it as well and not just you've got all of the Arduino compatible headers so you can use shields with it Static UT port as well Neopixel built-in that micro SD card on-off switch a JTAG SWD port So if you want to do step debugging you can connect this up to your J-Link And use it with MCU Expresso, which is an ex pieced ID You can do step debugging with their programming system I will mention though even though it is Arduino shaped It does not actually run the Arduino ID Instead we have circuit Python support, which I think is great because you can get up and running really fast and we support I2s and SD card reading and your digital in-out PWM Analog all the stuff you expect Or you can use nxp's IDE, which of course is going to be the most powerful and they've got IDE with tech support and all of the arm Cortex Simpsys core required to use all the peripherals on the M7 So you want to get started really quickly go with circuit Python You want like power and control over every register and every byte and all the caches Use nxp's tools But either way this is the partnership that we're doing because we wanted to show people that even though this is a 500 Networks processor we can make it as easy to use as an 8-bit microcontroller All right, and somewhat collectible war two. I think this might be the first circuit board with the new digi-key logo Yes, that is true. So here look that's that's it right there. Oh nice logos Soak screen That right there is the product pick of the week this week. It is the Metro M7 micro SD This uses the nxp IMX RT 10 11 chip on it, which is incredibly fast. It runs at 500 megahertz and There are all kinds of great features on this you've got eight megabytes of Q spy on there So a lot of storage space. We have a what is it a hundred and nine? Let me check my stats here a 128 128k of SRAM on there Things I like about this board. First of all, it is Arduino shaped which means all of those shields that you have that you can plug in motor driving shields and audio shields and Proto shields the plug right in there, which gives you a lot of space to work with to add your own circuits and connections to other things It's usb-c right huge improvement over the old usb-b Printer cable sized thing that you'd have in a original Arduino We also have on there one second. I got a pause a pause a feedback video. That's going to drive me bonkers Also on there. We have the stem aqt port. Where is it? It's right there So if you want to plug in little stem aqt accessories, that's going to do it for you In fact, let me go to back to this overhead view So you can see it right here. Okay, so stem aqt port usb-c port there is that micro sd card readers You can click in a little micro sd card read data off of there read assets off of there right to their data log onto there That'll work really nicely for that We also have these little switches here. You might be wondering what these mysterious switches This allows you to actually toggle between the pin ordering for tx rx to be 0 and 1 or 1 and 0 So one is the traditional and the other allows you to use sequential pins for digital just in case so neat nifty feature there reset button right here all of the same Arduino pin spacing that you'll need to use your shields and Take a look on the back. You actually get some of the stats right there, right? I couldn't remember Okay, so there it is nx p i mx rt 1011 the 500 megahertz 128k of ram and 8 megabytes of q-spy flash And of course the micro sd card slot it is partnership with Adafruit and nx p and digi key So they've got their labels their logos rather on the board there and One of the key things about this is it's just plain fast So if you're looking for a board that you can run circuit python on it for ease of use And you want it to be as fast as can be this is probably the board for you In fact, I want to show you a demo here. So I've got Here's another one right here a metro m7 sd card slot and I have plugged into it the tft Shield so you can see that's plugged in right there slots in to all the lovely slots and on in here I've got a nice little bouncing ball demo. This is kind of like a hyper fast version of the Amiga CG graphics ball demo. This was a demo a modified based on something Todd Kurt Todd bot had created And you can see this thing is just running plain fast So if you're looking to do some graphics things and you just need cycles You need the thing to to run it as quick as can be if you're doing synth. I oh in fact someone in the discord was just saying it was easy Gavin saying I'm really enjoying the Metro m7 the other version of it that has the the Wi-Fi on it using it with synth. I oh, so this is a great choice for using with synth IO it has a DC power jack on it if you're not used to these style boards One of the features here is you can plug in anywhere. I think from 6 to 12 volts DC with your typical barrel jack Connector trying to give her that glare there we go So if you want to plug in a Double a battery pack to it if you want to get away for a very short time with just a 9 volt battery It won't last long, but it'll work or more likely you're gonna plug it into a wall wart and give yourself plenty of power to work with Let's see other features That covers the main stuff so like lady has said no Arduino support on this ironically I know it's Arduino shaped, but there's not really Arduino support for this, but we have circuit Python for great ease of use and you can use NXP's IDE to code in C and C plus plus if you're looking for really high speed Development on there that's that's probably the way to go This chip by the way is the same chip you'll find in the teen C4 So if you're if you're thinking hmm, that's that's pretty familiar What's the deal with this NX NXP chip? Why have I heard of it before it is the one that is on the PGRC? teen C4 So if you Want to head over to the product page right there you will see it is Just during this show half off So throw them in your cart and buy them now because after the show will bring the price back up an incredible deal Right, so if you're asking why do we have the Metro M7 with Wi-Fi and then this Metro M7 with SD card Why would I want this this one is the really low-cost version? I don't know if you can enter into this kind of speed and M7 500 megahertz chip cheaper than the The price that we normally have on this 1995 and then right now during the show. It's a absolutely outrageous nine dollars 98 cents You can scroll down here and you will see some of the specifications on here the One thing I didn't mention this has an on off switch on it So if you are running from the DC jack or the V in you can turn it on and off just with a flip of a switch Which is really nice means you don't have to add more complexity to your project if you just need to turn the thing on and off if you keep scrolling down You will find the link to the primary guide. I've got it up right here This will tell you all of the main features It has a really lovely pinout page that will tell you how all the pins can be used if you click on this Chart here you can zoom way in on it and you can see any of these pins can be used for a lot of different uses You can PWM on them. You can use them some of these as analog as digital As I square C and on and on so check this out if you're curious about the features It's a lot of GPIO available right there on the chip or rather on the board And if you take a look here We have a section on getting set up with circuit Python and some essentials installing the bootloader as well as downloads page if you want to get the schematics for it the CAD files as well as technical reference and the datasheet for this chip from NXP if you have any questions about that Um Pete Karina hurry says hey, how about ornament and crime as an Arduino shield? Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, I believe that The teensy four will be able to run the very popular euro rack firmware called ornament and crime Soon if not already Paul from PGRC has been working to make that happen since the teensy three point twos disappeared from the face of the Planet so may have maybe maybe that'll run on this that could be pretty wild So There is A nice little product shot from this one take a closer look at that what we have on the board and Let's see. Do we have questions in the chat? Looking good Yeah, the discount wasn't there at first but a couple minutes into the show if you hit refresh it It should have shown up for you at the good price of nine dollars ninety-eight cents It's amazing if you think back to original Arduino days do a milanova diecimile the uno The things this board can do for the kind of price that it is a bit astonishing What else I think that covers it. Yeah, so let me let me go back to the overhead here and I'll just show you Attaching the shield here, so I'm gonna go ahead and unplug From USB let me try to keep my USB cable from sliding off of the desk there so I'll carefully pull this out and you can see we have the SPI port broken out on these little six pins here, so if your Shield takes advantage of SPI you can use those pins right there And if you look here, I've got A little SD card that I can store graphics files on there and pull them into into code into memory and Then pop the shield Right on like that. Look how quick this thing powers up And we're up and running. Oh, it doesn't restart. I'm not sure why my computer being funny I think if you take a look at the code that I've got running on here Over in circuit Python This is like I said my modified version of Todd bot's screensaver if you look on Todd's github for screensaver you've got a few Different bits of code there to use I just put it all into this one file instead of the generalized library that he had but you can see we've got a 320-240 display on here and it's running pretty high frame rates if you take a look at Just the ball here. I'm gonna resave the code watch how quickly this thing restarts and just the ball on there I know lady Ada had a demo doing some bouncing DVD logos And that I think she got six or eight of them all flying around at once So we could probably start adding a lot of sprites to this and it would it would continue to run Just because we have that kind of Processing power on this on this board right here So that is it right there. I Think unless there's any other questions This will This will do it for the show people making me laugh over in the discord Todd wants to know what's the biggest fort I can build with a palette of these At this discounted price your fort is going to be ten Metros in size because that's the limit, but if you want to buy them at the regular price You can go pretty much full-scale full-scale fort Alright McQuin man 16 does that work with the VS 1053 MP3 shield by G tech. I do not know That is a great question, but I don't know the answer to that one. Sorry Frame rate yeah, this might be 60 frames a second that this is running out. I didn't I didn't run the calculation I think it was let me see 0.01 Refresh was that was running at 20 to 24 frames a second on the fun house is what taught in calculating That's a different that was a different size display. I've got this frame delay at 0 0 2 You can see here actually me just since someone asked if we go back here and Let's see that was running it that was 20. What is it? Yeah, 20 24 frames a second at that and so I'm I can go Quite a bit faster here. Oh Oh Didn't like that change restart it. I can't tell I don't know It's high frame rate. You'd probably have to do more math or Get a high frame rate camera on there to figure that out. I'm not sure we can do fun stuff since I'm in the dangerous Unscripted what do we want to do here part of the demo? We can change the sprite scale So slow it down because moving a lot more pixels, but we can go much bigger now It looks like the Amiga demo you can see the thing rotating on there Let's see if it speeds up if I change this Oh, no, that's already that's already had a high frame rate Yeah, the more pixels you change on these displays that you're just gonna slow things down, but We can head back to Regular original scale so now we're not having to like frame double the thing and it's just bouncing around there fast All right, I think that's gonna do it then so Thanks everyone for stopping by That is my product pick of the week this week. It is the Metro M7 micro SD with NXP IMX RT 1011 chip for Adafruit Industries, I'm John Park and this has been JP's product pick of the week Make sure you go to the store and get some before they're all gone And before the price goes up in a few minutes if you want to get some get them now All right. Thanks everyone for stopping by. I will see you on Wednesday tomorrow evening and be hosting show and tell so hopefully you can come by There will not be a Thursday workshop show because that's Thanksgiving and I'll be eating turkey. Thanks everyone See you next time. Bye. Bye