We're going to talk a little bit about their work over the last half of a year. They've been dedicating their Friday evenings, building this road plot, and competing in a recent competition. So if it starts off. Okay, so over since, is that possible to pick up? To be able to get the blocks into stacks or rows. We had to, like, read that so it could accurately line them up to the little rack that had been placed. So the lifting mechanism is just a motor and a chain that's attached to a moor slide. And as the water in the chain, it traces the moor slide.  But we thought that was that the robot is, it has to be 18 by 18 out of max. So we had to cut it down a little bit. But aside from that, we didn't have any problems. Two servos with torquence and metal on them. So we used that. We also made a chassis with different kinds of wheels. Always smaller wheels than a chunk. That sounds about right. Like a drawing of what might have changed stuff. So drawings or sketches of the robot. At First Robotics, they build a lot around collaboration between teams. Do you guys actively kind of share information with other teams around and in the competition? What was the most impressive team plan? Did you see other robots that you felt like, I wish we'd done that? This wasn't about the robot. What was your biggest takeaway from this experience? I wanted to have a robotics team here. And the first part of the business is reorganization. I know folks are trying to get some dinner. But I'm going to try to keep that. So I'm going to jump right into 2.1 and come back to the call to order. As all of you heard me when I say I'm going to report as well. I'm going to try to get right to be like a chair. I believe the executive committee has a slate of officers to present. For all of 2.1 through 2.6, that includes some reorganization. I forget if this was going to present that, Stephen, do you remember? It was Kari. We didn't decide it. I'm happy to do it. It's in the packet. Or is it in the minute? It's in the minute. I can tell you. So the executive committee is recommending, and I guess I will move, that Matthew DeGruyte for chair, myself, the vice-chair, Dorothy Naylor from the clerk, in a very formal speech, would also move to establish a new committee for the SU, which would be the School Quality Committee, which has been a U32 committee. It's made up of members from other schools as well. We'd like to establish it as an SU committee. 2.4, the steps to date and time of regular meetings for Washington. So we'd also like to move to establish our regular meeting time as the fourth Wednesday afternoon. Second. I have a second. Stephen, are there any other nominations to any of those? All those in favor of the slate from 2.1 to 2.6, please signify by saying aye. Opposed? Abstentions? Thank you very much. Congratulations to all of you. To those positions. Okay, so we have 1.1 or something of guests. I'm not sure we have, but if there are any, there's maybe one. Hello? Would you like to introduce yourself? Okay, are there any agenda revisions? Board comments. We have someone here tonight who is deserving of recognition. So Stephen has served as the chair of the WCSU board for four years. Through what I think I can safely describe as a pretty tumultuous period, through pretty tumultuous four years. You know, the board is working with the leadership team of the college a lot in those four years. Some of the notable achievements include the efficiency study, adopting a mission, and the student learning outcomes of the implementation plan common across the entire S.U. And of course, helping us navigate through the Act 26 process. Those are just a few, some of the big ones. And Stephen has provided steady, fair, and professional leadership and facilitation throughout. He's really been kind of a problem. So we really appreciate it. And I think, Bill... Well, Matthew took most of my words that I thought of for today. But I would echo the steadfast leadership. The fairness is I think the one thing I would add is staying to process. Stephen really believes in staying to process and that that is open for everyone. And I think he demonstrated that in a way that he facilitated the meetings, whether it be Act 46, Supervisory Union, or Executive Committee. And I learned a lot from that on how to let the process leave its way even if there wasn't really a seen direction of what it had been for and what the process did. So I really thank you for that learning for myself. So we, Matthew and I, in service of the whole board would like to recognize your four years of service as the full board chair. You've got to get up. I know you don't like this stuff, but I can kid you about. But really wanted to give us our heart. We've been public on this important spot.  Yeah, I always like the last... The last piece, most remember me. And I tried to do some follow-up and I'm going to talk really in general, not specifically about my child. I'm going to talk really generally because I really need some answers and I feel like I haven't really gotten them. So in general, if a child or a family's needs are not being met, if a child's needs are not being met under free and appropriate education and that family needs to remove the child from the school because of that and kind of being told that the school board can no longer talk about that child because the child is no longer enrolled in the school. I'm having a little bit of trouble understanding that because what the law says is that the school must provide free and appropriate education if the child is enrolled in the school. But after the fact, who do I go to? If I can't go to my school board, issues arise. This is mostly directed to Adrian in response to the email and getting the answer back. And I'm here today to try and get a general answer if a child is removed by a family for whatever reason because of not the school not providing the aid to the child in the family's sense and feelings, doctor's feelings, everybody's but the school staff or administration. Why can't we come to the school board and talk about that? Whether in executive session or in general. I just don't understand that. Focus being closed on me and I think it needs to bring a discussion and I just need to know, I asked for the actual text of school board rules that states that we can no longer talk about these children if they're being removed but it's happening in this district. Not just my kids, my kids. I'm not going to talk about my kids but I can't do that right now. We're not going to do that in this session. But I need to know why I can't come back to the school board and talk about it. And it's not, oh, we can't get the faith because your kid's not in the school. My kid's not in school because my kid can be here and I can talk about that specifically but there needs to be a way that I can go to the school board and not be shut down. I just want to tell you just today this afternoon we received four letters of poor students from U32 to the Washington Central School Board asking us to reduce our dependency on biomass and on fossil fuels. I'm summarizing for you. If you'd like to see the letters I'm more than willing to pass them around. I think they do a nice job of explaining their position and asking us to look at solar resources and other non-carbon resources. Not just, they're saying no biomass as well. So I've got four of those. I know there are letters that we received for U32 in particular. So if you'd like to read those, they're well done. It's from some three global studies. And Jody had to come missing something. What other group? And democratic groups. Class. So I'll be more about the passes around their nice letters. I just quickly skimmed it, but I summarized them for you. In 3.1, the consent agenda, I was going to have a motion to approve the minutes of the review. Second. Any discussion? Yes. Do I like to make a couple changes? So on 4.1, there's a page 7. The first sentence, currently shared a review of this type of monitoring report. Does that make sense? It's drawn in a distinction that this is one type of monitoring report. They're not all of them weird assets. And then the second sentence, I'm sorry, did you get that? It's the first sentence of 4.1. It says, share a brief review of, and I'd like to add this type of monitoring report for policymakers. The second sentence says, he introduced a 5-page monitoring report. I think it was much longer than 5 pages, so I would just remove the number of pages. Any other discussion or changes to the minutes? All those in favor of approving the minutes of February 21st, 2018 as of late, you say aye. Aye. Both. 4.1, supervisory union goals. So I think everyone knows that over the last couple of months, we've been working on a draft list of possible work goals for the 2018 to 2019 academic year. The list is naive. I think I have more on that. The draft list is taken from various sources, the efficiency report, statutes on more responsibilities, and analysis of topics that were reported and forwarded to many men over the last year. Our objective tonight for this agenda item is to discuss the list with a limited time we have, add anything to it that might be missing, and try to see if we can prioritize three of them for consideration. With the board's consent, the executive committee would work over April and May in consultation with the district boards to finalize wording and specifics for the three goals so that the SUA district boards could be considered formally adopting the June carousel meeting. Ideally, the SUA district boards would adopt at least two or three goals in common to harmonize the work of our leadership and staff across the entire system next year. Obviously, district boards may have additional goals and they want to consider these by case, but we hope that these two will be considered on their own work and assistance to our shared decisions. So, before I open the floor for suggestions and discussion, I'm going to take the chair of prerogative for the first time doing that to say a few things about board goals and why I think they're important and why I think they're critical for our schools in particular right now. I'd like to attend here to kind of spurs in thinking about how we can crack the vision of what we want to achieve together as next year. I work for a non-prog organization, so we're very concerned with the mission and stories about the work that we're doing. We actually open every board meeting that we have with a story as a way of trying to connect the board to the work that we do. Probably not appropriate in every meeting that we have here as an SUA, but since this is my first time doing this, I thought I'd try it out and a few things I'd like to say will be said. I didn't write it because I'm nervous, so I just wanted to be able to have the text. So, seven minutes for a few minutes. I'm sure some of you are thinking that you shouldn't have put a microphone in my hand. So, at the Romy board meeting that I attended last week, a woman teacher asked me a very obvious question, which is, why do I want to be the chair of the WISC board? And I was a little bit caught up by that question, actually, because we know it's obvious. Because that was the fifth meeting that I attended of the five district boards and the first time I didn't ask that question. So, I answered it in the moment, passively, I think, but I've been thinking about it ever since. And since I didn't speak to this group just now when I was nominated and elected, I'll say some things about it. So, first, I wanted to touch on Act 46 briefly. I just want to acknowledge openly what you all already know, which is that my position on Act 46 was that all things being equal, I would prefer consolidation for the supervisory. And Bill has also made clear that that probably would have been his preference as well. So, there may be some questions from people's minds as we move forward from Act 46 about whether I wanted to be chair so that I could advance a consolidation agenda behind the scenes, where I'd backhand fashion, or might be wondering whether ideas or issues I raise as chair are intended to hint or suggest that consolidation is better or necessary than what we are doing. So, I just want to say, I support what also I think was our collective decision. I've advocated for it and defended it as actively and ably and passionately as possible, and will continue to do that to the best of my ability. And I think Bill has also made it clear that he's hurt people as well in respect to the position. So, I guess I'm trying to tell you is I don't have a secret agenda. In fact, after the Act 46 process concluded, it'd be fair to say that I was void of agenda of any kind. I was tired. I didn't feel bad about the outcome, but I did feel worn out by it. And I was about 90% set not even to run for the award again just to kind of slip quietly away from this fine group of people. So, I want to tell you about how and why that changed. So, last November at a budget meeting for Doty, I asked Bill and our principal in that young series of questions about school costs. I wanted to look beyond budgeting just for one single year because I had a feeling that the Doty award was going to have to have a conversation with the leaders in Worcester soon about what it might mean and cost to keep Doty open for various scenarios. So, I asked what it would cost for Doty to stay open on a machine stream. What it would cost for Doty to maintain its current level of operations. And what it would cost for Doty to become a high performing school. So, Bill and the leadership team discussed these questions and came back with a considered answer. And the answer was a little surprisingly that making Doty a high performing school is not a matter of money. I'm going to repeat that. Making Doty a high performing school is not a matter of spending more money. It's not about adding positions or services or anything. Proving our performance is but simply about doing things differently. School learning, which we're all here to support, I hope, is an inherently collaborative activity. Obviously, there's a collaboration between teachers and students. But there's also collaboration between students in any of the classroom. All of them are unique diverse sets of aptitudes, challenges, passions and knowledge to the classroom every day. Learning of the group as a whole is enriched in a hand by the extent to which they're able to leverage their collective strength in service to their shared goal of learning. How well does each student activate and inspire to learn, to share their learning? How well do they learn as a group? How many students can each class draw on how many classes in a single age cohort exist in any given school? There might be some alchemy to the process of how here's come together to come and cause. But we know it when we see it and it can be inspiring and awesome to hold. We saw it recently as the 32 students responding to recent events in Florida in the year. By the same token teaching is optimally a collaborative activity. To quote from Bill's letter in December, the most positive strategy we can implement is to have teachers work together on the same student goals and in tandem to learn how to best help their students achieve those goals. In other words, like students, teachers work best when they have the opportunity to work and confer with each other in real time. About how best to achieve student outcomes with light groups. To learn from one another be inspired by one career, leverage their collective strength with a common good. There are only some of the examples of things we can focus on cultivating who want to improve our schools. My concern for our boards and our schools is to put Act 46 thankfully in the rightful year is that having said that we prefer our current governance structure will settle into a sense that our schools are fine just the way they are. That as much as we try to avoid characterizing our AGS proposal as a defense of the status quo, that status quo will become our default operating principle nevertheless. I hope is that we can celebrate what we are while also taking up the challenge of real concrete ideas for how we can improve that we can aspire in Scott's words to change everything by staying the same. So over time thinking about these things and watching the U32 students channel their passions watching my own sons outclass me on many occasions that they're daring and embrace some issues of the day. Over time I realized maybe I should have written but I'm not yet too old or too tired to dare to be great at difficult things. Governance is also a collaborative exercise. We have an opportunity to model superlative collaborative governance together. To leverage the collective strength of our schools that are full words and of all the people in this room in service to a clear and shared vision. If we model collaborative governance in partnership with our instructional leaders and if we hold ourselves accountable to our shared vision we can credibly expect more collaboration of our teachers and our students and the evidence suggests that this will lead to better educational outcomes. We're similarly with other goals we could adopt. We will lead to better board operations or better skills assessments or better community engagement strategies and outcomes are all made above. The first step is daring to express our vision clearly can't be skipped. Goals provide clarity they state what we want to achieve what we will hold ourselves in the school system to what we will measure and how we will know whether or not we succeed. They are touchstones that shape our work on school time school quality and negotiations policy instruction assessment facilities communications and everything that we do. As the chair of this board my job is simply to facilitate and support this board today. That's my only job that's possible. Whatever that vision may be so I'm asking you not just for our students for our staff but for my own sake personally as well that we have a bold vision of what we can do together in the coming year. I'd love if we can commit to asking hard questions and taking hard decisions together and to aspire to improve what we do. If we take up the example of our students we can also set an example for them in return. I want to be excited and proud when I talk to communities about what we're doing in Washington Central. I want to be excited and proud when I talk to students and to teachers and to principals and to the world about what we're doing in Washington Central. Among all the boards that we could be I'm asking you to commit to being that board wherever you like to commit to being those boards together. So I don't have a secret agenda but I do have an agenda and that is it. So all that said and having taken all that time for our precious time let's see if we can take a small step in that direction. So we do have a time crunch. Act 46 didn't allow us to start our goals conversation last fall or earlier in the year so now we find ourselves with only two parasol machines left this academic year so that's something away. So with that in mind I'd like to see if we can keep discussion about the list of goals that we have to the point noting we do have another two months April and May where we can work together on the solving and to the chemical language before they come up to our vote. So we don't need to do everything really what we're trying to do is make sure that our list is comprehensive it's not missing anything using the patented dot technology to indicate which goal people are thinking are the most worthy of being collaborative. So Bill do you want to do you want to say anything about the list of okay if you want me to I think I have much to add I think it's a good question was people had a chance to reach to review the goals before the meeting. Okay so I will not read them now so over to the discussion anything anyone wants to comment on or are there any goals that are missing or the need to be reported to the S board. So I think the having said what you just said about the older boards working together at our meeting I didn't see it listed we talked about possibly having a retreat for the entire board together and since Kelly is here today so she can help explain a little bit about these saliences but to add that that's an easy to recall so the idea was that the full board we have we'll have our retreat together and we'll watch the movie salience which the entire staff of Washington Central has watched already so then we can be working together with the staff of the operation so if that's an easy one so we could add that to the list and I'll be right back. Sure maybe we can put that under board governance. Okay. Thanks so much for inspiring us to start us off. I was just going to say a lot of these older and some of them seem very that they would require us to really lift their eyes and big, big and engage in governance work and some of them I think would pull our eyes down and I think it could be argued that some of them would be better delegated to the administrators the capable administrators that we hired to do the work so I guess I'm making a pitch when looking at these to really think about what we can do together and the power that we can have as a board if we stay focused on governance work and trust our administrators to implement the vision that would be established. I would just add to that that the role seems overly broad or vague or undefined the intent really is to work with the leadership team to flesh these out a little bit and even then how long the implementation time so that we're adopting a goal we kind of know then what actions steps are participating or what questions sort of need to be asked that we can't answer this yet. I think it might be worthwhile particularly in live current events that school safety and I'm thinking more in terms of board guidance that's provided in the budget process not so much these doors should be bulletproof or this should be that but more providing for the schools and administration a framework or a vision or a round school safety. So what's our community value, what's our community expectations on the level of safety and how we expect that to be accomplished. I have two issues. One is I think that's on Steven's issue of school safety but it deals with the weather issues that will appear dramatic this year. I think we'll revisit and just talk about how we want to deal with weather issues so we are finding that in the buses off-road what we envision for equipment when school should be called whether it should be called more quickly than it is and because even though we're a unified district in terms of NSU it seems that there are significantly different weather patterns depending on what town you're in and so that is one area where one side just does not fit all. One is to hopefully get together and talk about resource allocation because as much as Matt points out that it may not be more money that will make any of our schools a high flier well achieving school money and resources help and we are going for a unity of interest amongst all of us we should also back it up by at least if there's a school that is struggling in our school as a supervisor we dedicate more resources to that school and to address that issue and so I hope that we can develop a mechanism where we can do that and everyone will fund it we have an ADM funding mechanism generally but with this very specific resource allocation to help a particular school that might be in a particular area Any other comments, thoughts or additions to the list? Along the communication side, one thing I would like to note is the appropriate place to apply I think given the fact that we do increase communication not with among other boards this is part of that but I think in any place where we can go out and reach out to other boards individuals just attend a meeting possibly look even to bridging the communities with a fence just a fence that just get people talking they don't have to be all bad business I think that is to our advantage communication is so important it's amazing that's the good thing about consolidation if you do it right where you actually bring communities together that's worked in other areas and they're still autonomous but it's really about relationships as board we may want to think about that how do we actually build those relationships that kind of serve that purpose that intent with the bad word consolidation would that really mean I think it's a great point I'll make a plug for our engaging community's category of goals their communication plans for every district so these things are obvious but when I'm thinking about communication the notes that I made when I looked at this was trying to figure out how we can each bring what we think and our administrative staff of our respective schools bring what they think are the best things that are working in their school so I guess I'm saying I'm wondering if they'd be more specific like trying to it's like we have five experiments six experiments going on let's bring the best of those things back to the hub and see if we can use those things in other schools and maybe that's already happening but I thought that communication might be helpful so staff communication collaboration sharing of ideas I guess I was specifically thinking when you said think big for instance one of the things that occurs to me when I think think big is what are we missing what totally new thing that we do and that mostly comes down to our teachers that's at the school level so let's say that there is some school and somebody has done something really that like this teacher is really excited by the result of this I think it would be really great if if we could encourage that specific person to come and tell us I think this is working really well so that the rest of our schools can consider how to implement those excellent strategies that don't actually require any additional capital this actually has to do with Pam and what she was saying earlier this is my first time back on the board after many years being off but it strikes me that we've got a micro level this is something we want to work on as boards we represent the people around us and I don't know if we have to be answerable we have to be accountable we certainly know that communication no matter how hard it is what it involves and I think that's something we would need to probably work on if we get feedback like this that tells me that there's something amiss with us in a way we are responding we are the connection to the community real connections I think we need to look down in that micro and a little bit to make sure we're doing this right so board communication with parents and communities if there are no other burning suggestions it's still a little prioritization so each of you should have received colorful stickers the idea here I think most of you know what it is that you use your stickers however you like you can put all three on one goal you really feel like that's the paramount one or you can spread the knowledge that you like the idea here is just to get a kind of quick bird's eye sense of what really lies as to so let's take five minutes and feel free to peruse the boards and place your stickers on board meeting thanks everybody thanks everybody yes I'm ready everybody's ready there are some fairly clear standouts so community engagement I'm not going to count these dots but I think I can ask you to say that there's a lot of them so a discussion about professional development for board members and community engagement in general so investigating policy governments we definitely want to do I was going to mention before and I forgot that actually there are other models of board governments as well all of the other different models so maybe we can investigate and then board monitoring so relating to the school quality committee and how we monitor the effectiveness of our school system so I would say those are the three easy standouts here I don't see any others that are close to I don't think I'm looking for consent here 4.2 superintendent evaluations so Kari Bradley has a timely presentation we have some slides they're coming okay so just everybody had received the summary of the division in your packet so hopefully you had a chance to look through that my whole year I just want to start out by saying it's very unusual in my experience to do this activity but Kudo's development being open to doing it this way basically demonstrating his accountability so let's see it's been a little over two years since we did the last evaluations so I'm just going to run this through the purpose that we had in mind when we conducted this process was first of all to fulfill our actual responsibility with the bill our contract with the bill actually said at least of course we're going to assess his performance and provide feedback and guidance where that's appropriate also I think that this process can help us develop a shared understanding of expectations we're going to incorporate seven different entities here and 32 members I think it's important to spend some time clarifying what is it that we actually expect as clear as we can we owe that to the bill and then hopefully this is a process strengthening our relationships and building trust and I guess that's up for all of us to decide so moving on we used a similar process to what we did we had the board member survey instrument and I'm really pleased to report that we received between 70-94% response rate so if you remember how we did this we sent out each standard each of the five standards separately that was done intentionally to provide more time to respond we'll have to review whether we think that's the best process we got feedback it was a little confusing but we did have a much higher response rate thank you very much for that we also sent the same survey instrument to the leadership team got between 50-64% response rate from those folks and then bill provided a self-evaluation a little bit about the instrument so we used again a variation of a survey based on the which stands for license consortia it's basically objective standards about what's for school leadership and how to use beyond just RSE and so there's five standards and I'm just going to run very quickly through this because it's way too much to tell standard one is about vision, culture and instructional leadership in terms of the overall ratings 32 of the 34 that includes board and leadership team created bill either highly effective or effective so very strong result and bill did itself developing slash effective for this standard standard two is operations resource and personnel management I believe this was the strongest area and common effective states that were recognized for budgeting contract negotiations and capital planning facilities these are themes that I pulled out of the comments and then a concern and a growth opportunity would be in the area of personnel management was mentioned several times standard three board governance and policy again the average here overall was in the effective area and the self effective and I just pulled out one quote one of the art part of summarizing this is looking at all different quotes and trying to be representative of what goes into the report but I like this one bill works hard to keep all of our boards informed he presents important outside research as well as information about our schools to guide us and our decisions he listens to our priorities and works to turn ideas into plans and actions so that was summarizing standard four communication and community relationships when we did this survey two years ago this was the area where Bill had the lowest scores and that was true again this year the boards scores and leadership were somewhere generally between developing and effective Bill gave himself a developing in this area we recognize that he's good at understanding the context in which we operate and he was recognized multiple times for his efforts to improve communication especially around the implementation plan the folks said that they were wanting improvements to create atmosphere of trust and respect and also in the area of group communication so this is an area where we saw that there's still room for improvement although I have to say there was recognition but there was good effort in progress in this area and standard five ethical leadership here of all the different ratings 95% of them from board and administrators was highly effective or effective so very positive he'll give himself development so quick summary so generally very highly positive that's what I take from this especially for standard one two three five overall effective or better from board and leadership team got highest marks for use of data planning and budgeting and efforts to close the achievement there are other many high scores throughout this so very positive about that again communication and community relationships was identified as the most significant opportunity for improvement but again the overall average ratings range from developing to effective and developing came from Bill himself so I don't know the rest of us so I would say that you know that's okay and so moving on next steps so we will work with Bill to define goals I think we sort of gave some general goals last time coming out of the out of the this process we weren't very specific I think we had an opportunity to be more specific including in some way of checking in between now and the next evaluation I guess we'll leave that probably to the second committee to work on the details of that we will ask you for your feedback on the evaluation process for some of us it was the first time that we've done this particular process none of us have done it more than twice definitely like to approve one of my first goals is to write down exactly how we do this so that the next group the conduct says that we're going to use this process or something similar has something to start from and then thirdly I would say when I continue to develop our monitoring system which we just identified as one of our priorities I think that there is value in this type of evaluation process but I think there's also value in receiving reports like we did last month and also in the fall in response to more specific policies to give us more specific information about what we expect we will be served by you know pursuing that style of evaluation okay so that's my overview and let's open it up for questions questions and comments the question is can you just clarify there's a range responses can you clarify what that means and then second notice that it's possible that only 50% of the leadership team participated in it and it seems like it would be a really valuable aspect of this process equally a lot more valuable than our input in some ways and so I'm wondering if there's a way that we can make that more if we can require that or in some way improve that success okay great so the first question was what did it mean by that range of response rates and last two years ago when we did this we said you had to fill out a whole of it and one fell swoop so there was only one number there wasn't a range this time if you remember we sent it out in stages and this was an idea that with more time the views are going to be fair to the board to actually look at the evidence and fill this out and so we thought it would be a good idea to send it out in stages and send with reminders and what ended up happening was that some people filled out some and not others we actually got some feedback that people could remember if they filled out and we didn't have the evaluation set up so that you couldn't fill it out twice so it's possible that there's some duplication in there so I think it safely concluded that system would be all that but there may be some other way how to improve the response rate from the leadership team I think that's a good question I think there are probably ways I will say that two years ago the response rate from us was 50% so there's clearly ways to get back to other questions or comments although it might have been confusing to have it done in parts being able to discuss it at the board level in parts made it doable it was such a huge discussion and I think we were able to get into more depth in each area because we only focused on two at a time so I think that was very positive I can't remember if I said that we're going to take your feedback on the process of a survey surveyed monkey will go out and go out and get an exit or something very brief very brief but just give while it's still someone fresh in your mind if you can give us your feedback even though the numbers are very handy I know for myself I mean I spent a tenth of a second on each number of iterations but from a time care on the narrative part I just want to make sure that Bill actually sees those comments those narrative comments and also that somehow the narratives if there's ever any question regarding the the narratives actually thank you for that feedback anything else I especially like to thank Kara in particular and also Caroline May for her special work and of course Bill for his so I think we have a local board meeting more in person so what I'm going to suggest is that we pass on 4.3 now we'll do the reports to the board and then we'll come back 4.3 since that is the thing when we break up so reports to the board I guess it would probably be my response but I'm very unprepared so is there anybody else on the executive committee who can share I think we can say that the minutes from the last meeting were sent out separately people should have those financial reports will give to you all a local meeting so in this carousel we didn't add a second set of those we'll see you then we didn't have a meeting since the last one we'll start so we had our forum on Monday evening and it went really well those committees we have a lot of new committee members too which is awesome and we had a great turnout I thought we have 22 people and the people that are involved in the committee great discussion people brought up a lot of points and a lot of information there was a lot of consensus about the value of looking at how our students learn the best what times of day and that there is real science here but then all of the trickle down what we need to know and we're going to have another one on the 11th so I will send out another flyer for that one so that we can get more the next one we're going to come together and discuss some of those what would the parts be how would this look where are the priorities for the times of day for community engagement it was very awesome at the our final call we are going to as a committee take what we've done at the first forum the second forum that's what we're going to do and then that would then in the board then decide whether to take action so people in the committee members they can say this is happening ideally there are the forums I would want to advise the board to be careful on that Alice I want to encourage people to come that's not what I want to be careful about but the timeline is that tight that June 6 there will be a decision being by the Washington Central Board I believe from the charge in the discussion we've had another meeting and please anyone correct me if I'm wrong I've got this recollection wrong that the committee the still start time was charged to bring back findings, recommendations or continued work I think at that point I I don't think we'll be at a point to say this is exactly where we're going for a year away because I don't know opinion is probably the best way to say it is that there's going to be a lot of things to figure out I think we're going to have some I hope I've been lost in direction and have a feeling of a sense of what a community is but I don't think to be able to say these are all the details and everything that's going to be there and I would I don't know if you have something to say Karen? There's one thing that sounds like we're going for a meeting although June we're not April 23rd the committee is going to get together and develop the survey they're going to get out to the community and send that out May 14th to 28th so we're going to have a two week window in May of just trying to get as much feedback from the community so individual community members with concerns with questions ideally that's going to be captured in the survey and then in order to do a presentation we're going to take the survey and the forums put that together so there's seven more for the community of a contribution well and all of this is on the website there's a specific page for the school start committee stuff all the studies that we've looked at all the dates of our timeline the minutes of the meetings so it's all there too Thanks Karen The SDA Everybody we should have that update and I'm not going to take too much time because we have the other meeting but that update came in this afternoon from the SDA if you have any questions let me know if I'm dirty I don't want to sound really reductive but I felt like I kind of wasted the retreat there for questions and feelings so if you look at this update also see that the senate has approved a bill to deal with child trauma and toxic stress and it's something that we're involved as statewide we're involved as Washington Central staff has done that so I didn't want to just let a guy make you guys continue to talk about this at your local board meetings but it's something that is important to recognize right now and the last thing we got everybody knows we've been talking about this as the SDA 4-2 and the secretary is effective first which is really short notice the governor has met with the deputies we won't know for sure who is but it's more than likely that it's just going to stay with them so there's no panic that it's going to stay with them the two deputies right now at the agency we don't know that for sure but the interim should be somebody that is really dead what's going on I'd ask you to look at a I know all of you take a careful read of your own school thing you're more than ever to look at another school there's many great celebrations in those reports whether it's sugaring at Romney or saw some things from Cal's about well-being and wellness so take a minute and look at that there's some great activities at the principals put together what's going on in the school system and there's a lot in there about reading okay on to the action agenda 6.1 is to approve the second reading of transportation policy for great advancement policy as possible and the class sense policy we start with page 29 we've seen these before well is there any need to and are we actually adopting these on the second reading are there any questions or comments great advancement retention promotion and acceleration of students and I guess I just want confirmation that the proficiency based learning is thought about in terms of acceleration promotion and retention I think that's a huge they're kind of at odds with each other and I don't want an answer I just want to know that people are thinking about it we don't have an answer it's a pretty big thing further discussion all those in favor of improving F9 transportation policy G9 great advancement policy G11 responsible computer networking internet use policy and G16 class size policy 6.2 is to approve the WCSU 2018-2019 school year calendar which is on page 35 the only thing I would say is that it's in alignment with the Central Vermont Career Center as required in statute for 175 days we don't have everything we need 178 those days in alignment we have two that are not any questions or comments in the executive committee maybe there was some talk about future changes to the calendar I'm wondering if there's anything you can preview for us about that I can't preview future changes but I can say this that the effort that we're making with school start time will be before more that we need to engage to change the calendar watching my colleagues down in Chittenden County a couple years ago really try to go with a calendar that's best for learning there were quarters in the year a week to two week gaps in between for both acceleration and remediation and intervention and for teacher collaborative work times there wasn't the community work to the level they thought they needed to do we have a lot of folks that are still running a year based on an aquarium encounter which is what this is I think it's critical to move the proficiency based learning forward that we re-calendar I know my colleagues I feel safely saying this in a public setting from my other four superintendent colleagues that we have to come to agreement I know they want to change it we don't know how to move that community to a place where that's okay to do and where it's better for kids it's better for the teachers I mean it's part of when Chris brought up this winter safety and I talked about this that's part of the issue right there so it's being able to say we can change and I think that's even more than school stuff so what you're saying the change that you're first seeing is one like you just described or something different I don't want to say that mine is the way to do it but I would say that to change the calendar from where we are to something different a day or two here and there is not a big deal but to move the patterns that are there will take a huge community engagement effort because we're talking about many different aspects that people traditionally set up their life I have no other way of saying it it's everything they do not just school there's a whole economy behind that who might be able to approve the WCSU in 2018-2019 school year calendar so is there a second all those in favor can you think of others that can help I pose and 6.3 to authorize the supervisory union and state grants to administer and act as the representative of all number of schools when our auditor was here last meeting in February talked about authorizing superintendent for two things one for grants what you've been doing and two as a signatory which we'll do in June is that this is one of those two pieces that's needed so we can administer the grants that's required after today's statue on page 3 I believe it is on the annotated agenda move that we administer the supervisory union to accept all federal and school grants to administer and to act as the representative of all member school districts of Washington center supervisory union thank you I would just offer a friendly amendment that the first word would be authorize 6 authorize all those in favor 5 pose let's go back to 4.3 to act 4.6 I would like to act 4.6 not to be under the agenda but it is persistent so following the hearing the meeting I guess that we had with AOE on marching I walked away from that meeting feeling like we had not really given good answers to the questions about our efficiency study and our special education study and after conferring with Bill and Scott before we decided that it would be appropriate for us to provide some additional information on those questions so working with Bill drafted this piece that is included in your packet it's basically just two pages of narrative about the reports that kind of was in them and I'll report on the recommendation and the status of each of this we try to keep it fairly dry and not make grandiose statements or conclusions but really just have an opportunity to provide them with the information as part of our affiliates so we'd like to ask that the district boards possibly need to consider endorsing sending this to the Secretary of Education we didn't feel like we had the authority to do that without your approval to be able to move them to her if the board is doing that tonight we can sign it tomorrow and it will actually be received by the current Secretary or whatever that's worth so are there any questions or comments or thoughts there's no action recorded by this body now or by the district board no questions or comments so I'm going to assume that everyone is okay to consider this and we'll get to talk a little bit about process where people can meet in a second I just want to go to 7.0 future agenda items I have a couple I'd like to put an item on our next agenda for re-adopting our norms the norms are on page 2 as I was preparing the report to Act 46 I noticed that one of the recommendations of the efficiency study was that we have rules every year so why not let's do that second agenda item I'd like to put on is a discussion item about policies and the extent to which they should be uniformed across the SU and if there's any reason for policies to be different across the SU or one of those cases so basically to discuss for is it okay to executive committee force for the retreat we can even schedule a retreat I think if we invite everyone we can use it as a warrant meeting I'm just trying to think of ways to that's the important we can't talk about it again as we're doing so that would be great if we could share our meeting that would be your idea of bringing the consultant that is working that part of the staff we'll talk, yeah I can share that we're forward going into that as far as social motion expand to social motion okay any point now and I'm going to let's do this together for the comments before the communication and anything else to add there so right before we adjourn I'll be able to do some details about what we're doing just quickly look through the agenda there's a couple boards that only have one item for AOB so if you want to stay in here completely convene to either accept to approve that before to go or not and get those to Krista a couple I think there's two or three boards that have another item and your rooms are posted on your agenda if you feel more comfortable in your room that's mine too it's just really trying to track those minutes to make sure we get those to hand in to Krista so once we adjourn at seven to go


Hey guys, it's MJ the students actually and in this video I want to look at exchange traded funds and the difference that they have with exchange traded derivatives I'm also going to look at over-the-counter derivatives But what I thought of instead of doing it like a lecture where I just show you the theory I thought let's actually go to the web page and let's actually see what these things are So remember in the last video we spoke about indices and benchmarks Well an exchange traded fund is a listed security. So it's on the Johannesburg stock exchange or on your stock market Which acts just like a portfolio and it's based completely on the index So what you have is let's say the Satrix 40. This is quite a popular one What this one is it's they say we're gonna invest your money According to the index on the top 40 shares So if we see here, this is all the little information over here You can see they've got 15% of the funding NASPAS 13% in South African breweries. That's like the beer company BHT in Billington British American tobacco, you know, they've they've allocated it according to market cap and We can actually see, you know, how they've been split up and all those type of things Surprisingly, they have been doing quite bad badly I mean after a year you would have lost 5% which is not good You can see in the long run, they do make nice money But yeah lately there has been some turmoil in the market But what this exchange trader fund is doing is instead of you going to the stock market and saying I actually don't know which share I want to buy Instead of you going and buying each of the top 40 shares in a direct proportion and trying to do, you know 40 of these various trades and doing the calculations You just give your money to the Satrix top 40 and they've created this thing known as an exchange traded fund Which acts like a share that controls other shares So it's a really great way for someone who's not say a savvy investor to just get total exposure on the market What is quite interesting though is Remember in the previous video we did look at equally weighted Indices and I see that there's this company called grid rod bank Which I've actually never heard of has actually made a top 40 equally weighted ETF which is quite yeah quite exciting Funnily enough it has done even worse So despite there being studies done that show that these funds perform better When we actually look at the real information We're seeing that they've been performing quite badly. I mean check that minus 11% that is huge but very interesting to see how the sector breakdown changes between the equally weighted one and This one over here. This is our Satrix top 40 So look how the financials make just a small little chunk there But now when we equally weighted there's quite a lot of financial companies so each of them will take an equal chunk look how much financials jumps up like that and This is interesting because which one actually looks more diversified This one the one that is weighted by market cap Appears to be more diversified Then the one that is equally weighted which again goes against You know conventional thinking and one of the reasons for creating these exchange traded funds And this is the lovely thing about finance is you can learn something, you know This is this is orange But then you go look at it in the real world and you see no, it's actually blue, you know It's a direct contradiction of the notes So that's what's always important when studying finance to look at the actual stuff going on because Yeah, this is supposed to be more diversified but looking at that little thing over there You're less diversified by sector. You will be more diversified by Individuals so here we see Naspers holding 15 percent where on this one here I mean each person only has 2% but you see now there's standard bank. There's net bank. There's all the financial guys Get incorporated there. Anyway, let's uh, let's close these things What else should we should we check out there's the satrix swicks swicks, I think that's how you pronounce it now this one is It's been so the top 40 is by market cap This one is the shareholder weighted so some shares have been allocated to strategic holdings Which means they're not available for the public to trance Transact on so what the swicks does it only uses The shares that the public can purchase so it's quite interesting to see how how it's a little bit different Um, funny enough, it still does just as badly in the short term and I mean that does look kind of Similar do we still have which one is this one? Yeah, this is equally weighted one So the swicks is quite a quite an interesting one They love asking exam questions about this because like I said most textbooks Talk about the all share or the top 40 the swicks is a South African one So when studying for the exams know that But let's maybe talk about the rest of the world. Let's see how America is doing because I know a majority of my viewers are from the US So let's go and check how how your guys ETF is doing Probably much better than us. So this is a South African product that just has exposure to the American shares So if you want to invest in Apple and Microsoft at Johnson and Johnson General Electric and you know all the big companies in the world then you might be interested in this type of fund How have they been performing? They've been performing better than us. Look, I mean only minus one percent. I mean we were after when you were minus five percent So the American stock market has been doing well, although, yeah, these last three months have not been good to us Let's see another country. What other country should we check out? Should we check out the world? Let's see how the world's doing. How so this is if you're like, I want you have Like as much diversification as possible. I want to get a lot of exposure I think they will have a big job. I was just going to say Apple. I mean this is the world and Look at the American. Yeah, this the American one So look at the top holdings of the American one Apple X on Microsoft Johnson and Then the world has Apple Microsoft Johnson Johnson's basically got the same Top guys, although they do have smaller percentages. So the top five make up 5.9 percent We hear you've got 10 percent So you're getting more diversification. I wish they would break up the sector not just say foreign I mean can't really draw much information from that Although look at the world. The world hasn't been doing that great either. Hey So so far it looks like America. So I'm jumping around a lot is the best, but let's let's maybe look at Let's look at another country. Should we check out? Let's check out the UK their whole little Brexit thing. Let's see if people overreacted and Let's see. So HSBC that is a bank. Oh look is a British American tobacco Which is also in the South African stock exchange Is one of their top companies? Royal Dutch BP Glaxo. Okay, let's check how they do. Oh That's terrible minus 13 percent So it's weird people put their money into these exchange-traded funds because they think you know This is how it's an easy way to make an investment and make lots of money But if you put your money in these things, especially this year, you will be crying So that's Britain not doing too well. Let's see. We'll see Japan and then we will see Europe So this is Japan Japan's top shares are Toyota Softbank also tobacco look look at tobacco Which is interesting because a lot of there's becoming a lot of these new funds called tobacco free investments because people believe it is Morally wrong to invest in a tobacco company Which is going to be very interesting because they can't buy these these shares. Oh look how well Japan's been doing Japan's been doing very nicely. Oh, that's that's very cool So yeah, all done to Japan. Let's let me just clear some of these at the top Okay, let's check out Europe. What do we think Europe's gonna do? I think they're probably gonna do badly But I haven't seen these yet. So let's see Okay, the top shares in Europe is total which I think is the petrol company These guys I'm not even trying to pronounce them, but they're beer. They also buying S.A. Buries That's a medicine company. That's a technology company. I Don't know that one. You know who that is. Please. Let me know in the comment section below Yeah, you're doing terribly Well, they're not as bad as us, but you know, we're doing horrendously bad So, I mean, this is quite a fun place to come you can check out how how everyone's doing. Let's check out property So property is an interesting one Do we think it's gone up or do we think it's gone down? Let's check So this is South African property. So I'm just just letting you know growth point is one of our big ones High proper remember looking at those. Let's see how they've done Mmm, not so bad. What's a bad? That's that's concerning. So yeah, we're still the greatest company in the greatest country in the world Despite us not doing too too well in the equity markets at the moment I Mean green does that mean like it's only What like green companies, let's see how they doing they probably doing even worse Let's see. I'm not I'm not actually doing that bad the green companies. So I think these are the socially responsible ones Yeah, I don't know that's a bit of a strange one. I don't know this This core share you know that anyway, let's look at One more which one should we look at So APSA is a big bank in South Africa. It's got like a partnership going worth Barclays So we can see they offer quite a few interesting ones Let's look at the the Gavi so this is an index on South African government bonds So let's say you wanted you're like equities are doing bad. How have the bond market been doing? So you can see here a hundred percent in South African bonds. Okay, do they do better or worse than equities and Look at that. Look at that. The bond market is doing better than the equity markets That's very interesting fascinating stuff that Yeah, that is wow, so maybe no, I'm not letting you financially vast So that that is an interesting thing to see I Don't know what maps means. Oh, so you can sometimes get growth Shares and value shares. Let's actually see which one's better. Okay. Who do you think is better growth or protect? Growth or protect. Let's check. Okay. So this is the growth portfolio. So the growth portfolio Has done. Oh Quite badly. Let's check it compared to the protect portfolio. This is the perfect body Yeah, protect portfolio. They've probably done better in these bad market climates. Let's check Minus 2% minus 1% Yeah, minus 3-5. Yeah, so the market has rewarded the the people who have taken like the less volatile Assets, which is quite a it's interesting. It tells you quite a bit about the market environment and What's going on and stuff like that? Let's see what else we can check out The mid cap that's quite a fun one. So these are the companies that aren't you know, aren't your large cap They aren't your big Businesses in South Africa. These are like more the middle guys. There's less liquidity in this market more volatility. So what do we think? I'm thinking they went down. I don't know. Let's see. Let's see Yeah, they went down but not as bad as the large cap. So that is quite interesting got quite a nice diversification of Sectors, although you're like very small in the telecom sector Okay, so sorry we supposed to be comparing exchange-traded funds To exchange-traded derivatives So, I mean one of the things that you can see about the exchange-traded funds is you don't have a lot of choices You know, you kind of have I mean it fits on a page Those are and a lot of these are like the same the top 40 Top 50 and then Satrix also got the top 40. They've also got the top 40 So a lot of them are actually up the same thing so You don't have a lot of options when it comes to your exchange-traded funds We see that they do sometimes have high concentration a low amount of constituents Which means they get quite a low spread the nice thing about them is that there is no need for Active management once you buy these things they just keep running like a normal portfolio You know dividends are received the derivatives that they have are rolled upon Like said behaves like a portfolio. It's very tradable. You can buy you can sell quite easily They are similar to exchange-traded derivatives Okay, but where these things are actually buying the physical shares an exchange-traded derivative is more synthetic It's giving you just the exposure to the price without actually purchasing it Which means it doesn't cause market movements, although you could actually maybe argue that it does but not to such a great extent as buying it Exchange-traded derivatives still have that good governance structure I mean, so you will have comfort and security as an investor because they are Exchange-traded so the JSE takes care of you. There's things like margining to reduce credit risk and trade guarantees So it is a safe way to put your money There is lots of liquidity lots of people buying these things especially with the popular contracts But they do lack flexibility. So they will also have there'll be limited exchange-traded derivatives Which means there actually is a third thing that you can do You can do an over-the-counter derivative. So I don't know if you guys have watched this movie the big shot He's talking about the world recession and all these other things this character over here. I forget his name He goes to the banks. Okay, so not to the exchange He goes to the banks and he creates an over-the-counter derivative Okay, this gives him great flexibility in the sense that he can get the exposure to the mortgage-backed securities and He can tailor the the contract to to suit his needs So he could have the custom index custom constituents a custom terms The problem though is buying this type of derivative does give him exposure to counter-party risk If he had bought it with say Lehman Brothers and Lehman Brothers goes bang Then tough like he actually doesn't get the money even though he makes the right call So there is that additional risk with going over-the-counter Because a bank can fail where the JSE can also fail, but they're more protected and they've got more You know stuff going on, but one of the biggest risks worth over-the-counter derivatives is if you make a mistake Okay, and you want to get out of that position. I don't know if you guys saw the movie You know his partners were telling him get out get out. You've you've made the wrong thing You know liquidate the position He actually couldn't because well he could but it would have been very very expensive to try and Switch that contract around by taking the opposite one out he would have drowned himself in fees and So it would be very very expensive to unwind an over-the-counter derivative before it's due Exchange rate of funds if you make a mistake you just take out a counter thing and you can quickly switch out Over-the-counter does not give you that liquidity. So it is quite an interesting Decision and you have to think about what are your needs before determining whether we should go to an exchange traded derivative Over-the-counter derivative or an exchange traded fund But anyway, I'll put the link to this this little website below and you guys feel free to come check it out and You know click on the low volatility one. Maybe should we do that? Let's look at one more Let's look at the low volatility one. This one should perform better than the other ones given the bad Situation. Oh, no, they didn't never mind So anyway, I'll let you guys come to this website and play around with it These are the South African exchange trader funds If you're in America, you will have a more sophisticated market You will have more options and things like that But what is cool about these things is that it does give South Africans a way to purchase into the world Although they are being offered by Deutsche Bank who are in trouble at the moment Currently facing like a 14 billion dollar fund or something huge like that Funnily enough relating to the events that what's happening in this movie So if you want to study break and you want to still study while you're relaxing go watch this movie It's a must-see for all you want to be actually up there But anyway, thanks guys so much for watching and I'll see you guys next time with another video. Cheers


Batman Begins has a series of posters that are all very similar. The colors are the same across the board. They all play off of silhouettes. And they all really go full in on the whole bat motif. I like the concept behind them. The execution's very well done. You know, the man transforming into the thing he fears, these bats. However, the color, the browns, not my favorite. I like that there's a theme to them. And again, it does match the color of the film, which kind of does have this gross brownish to it. I never really cared for Batman Begins from a visual standpoint, especially coming from Christopher Nolan, who I know is more than capable of making beautiful films.


I'm calling you out. For what? You incessantly go to that beauty store and you don't have a membership there? I do, every time they're like, do you have a Sally beauty card? And I'm like, no. She's like, it'll save you like $20. I'm like, you know what? I found out about myself that I like to take my money and chuck it into the toilet and flush it.  Yes. Just a couple of days ago, I was sitting on the couch with my friend, Shan, and we were trying to find something on YouTube to watch that was relaxing. So of course I was like, here, I'll turn on nail career education. Here I was thinking that Suzy of Nail Career Education did a lot of acrylics, but she's doing this thing called gel nails. Now, forgive me as a person that does not go to the nail salon very often, clearly. I thought gel was just like the gel polish.  So we were sitting there watching it and I'm like, damn, that looks so hard, so frustrating. Why would anyone do that?  So I'm like, you know what I wanna do? Is I wanna try it and then compare it to on a normal person scale, the level of difficulty it is compared to acrylic nails. So I know this is a similar video, but to me it's very different because I did not know that this existed. I think I'm gonna dip right into this rose. Look at that.  But that's the pink. Let's open the translucent, very curious. So something I struggled with so much with the acrylic nails was the liquid to powder ratio. So maybe I'm thinking a way to bypass that and to have beautiful acrylic nails is to use a gel because there is, this is everywhere. I'm gonna do a little primer. I don't know what it does, but Suzy says we need it. So I'm reusing these kiss nail forms. I'm doing good already. One mistake I made in my first video was that these were pointed down.  You know what I'm saying? What I like about gel nails already, just from my first impression is that it seems like you started to just dip your brush in here and go for it, which I'm all about. So I'm just gonna grab some of this nasty, disgusting, whatever this is and jam it on my finger. Now usually with the acrylic, like you can clean it up with the acetone, but I don't know how that works with this. Do you, Julian?  No. You just spread it on there and then you're gonna have a nail at the end. I don't know, it's not really looking like a nail yet. Gotta get a little more. That looks like a good amount, right? Okay, that seems like it's getting out of hand already. I wanna make it like hella long.  I don't think that's a good method. How is anyone supposed to work with this? It just goops onto your brush more every time you touch it. Unlike the acrylic where you can just like dab it on there and then get some acetone and like shape it, there's no hope for this. Like look at that.  Who thought of this? It's so uneven everywhere, but the length is amazing. Let's get it under there. See what happens. Ooh, ow, it's hot. Like is it gonna penetrate when it's that thick? That's what she said. Julia! Ow, yeah. Oh my God. See the side how it's all like drip down?   It looks like that on a finger nail. So it looks like we need like another layer or something. Like this isn't right. I mean, I'm very pleased with the length. I think the length is very reasonable, very natural, very Kylie Jenner by my lip kit. How are you putting more? You need longer nails? No, I'm making it thicker, dog. How many Cs? With three Cs. I gotta fill in these gaps. Trying to polish a turd, dog. Let me live. There is a big gap right here from where it couldn't quite get the gel in. Yeah, okay. It doesn't look amazing. It looks like an icicle on the finger.  That's what she said. Ooh, it's starting to hurt. I feel like that's a good look. Julian, wouldn't you agree? No, I wouldn't agree. Agree with me. I would not agree. Let's keep going. All right, let's make a square one. That's how I eat spaghetti. I like to turn the fork like that. I mean, it's very similar to eating spaghetti. Smells the same too. Because it cures in the UV gel, in theory, you can just jam something in here and then put it under the light, no? I need something to jam in my nail. Julian suggested that I try putting a Sour Patch Kit. This is gonna be too hard. Like, is this how artists do like 3D nail art? Isn't there gonna be Sour Patch Kit in this gel now? Let me put that under there and see if this works. Cause I feel like this is an incredible medium to jam things onto your nail with. Like instead of, ow. I can jam anything out of my nails with the clear one. All right, so this one is baked and ready to go. Oh, it has a tail. But look at the Sour Patch Kit. This is my new favorite nail thing ever. Acrylic gel is amazing. The Sour Patch Kit is completely intact and stuck to my nail. Are you kidding me? So this nail did not come out square. I don't know how to get rid of it. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, okay, that worked. I just broke it. The rest of it is amazing. Look at that. A Sour Patch Kit on my nail. Do you think that the Sour Patch Kit is going to live through the acetone? Oh my God, dinner. I feel like this is my favorite beauty tool that I have found in a while.  I love you, Christine, simply nail logical.  You're missing out. This is where the fun's at. It is so bad. It tastes like poison. So now I've unlocked a world of possibility. Let's ditch the pink for a minute. Let's like use the clear. So it's like totally encapsulated in there. Does this Sour Patch Kit say to the Sour Patch Dad? What?     Trying to see. No, I think that's good. Okay, the clear one like wheelie burns. I think it's cooking my Sour Patch Kit. I'm just gonna take some of the acrylic gel. I'm gonna encapsulate. Oh, it's like, oh. So it's gonna be preserved in time? Yeah, but it's like, it's like folded up. It like actually cooked. It's like the fossil of, oh, because it's plastic. Oh.   It's hot. Do you know what pain is? Yeah. It's a physiological response to tell you to stop doing something. Never. All right, are you ready for this reveal? I feel like that's encapsulated enough. Look at that.  It's completely encapsulated in the clear gel. This, remember how I said in my acrylic bit nail videos, like this is the most fun I've had with like nail stuff in a while? I lied. This is the most fun I've had with nail stuff in a while.  All right, let me, I need to get rid of this. Get it, looking real regular.  I don't get the icicle tip. In terms of saving you time, this is incredible. You can do this so fast. You're not worried about a piece of plastic. Like think of all the times that I wear like press on nails or something. Like I feel like I could do this kind of fast. You literally do press on nails in the car on the way to things. You could not do this that fast. Yes, I could. No, you couldn't. Yes, I could. And I would show up to wherever I'm going, looking absolutely beautiful. I'd be like, oh my God, let me see those nails.  And they're like, damn.  You weren't invited. Yes, I was, bitch, look at my nails. Jen, is this crashing events to show off her nails late? Miss, miss, who are you? I look at my nails, bitch, let's see it. I want to see how buildable it is. I want to see if I can make it like actually 3D. Like I want it to be a little mouthful.  What? You build it, you bought the builder. In order to perfect this part, you do have to have some level of technique, which I sincerely lack. All right, so like a nice little bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, go. Oh my God, bloop, go? What do you mean, squirt it out? I can see it like falling. Like it's not staying blooped up. Just keep doing bloops until it stays up. Look it, that's as blooped as I got it. It's just blooped over to the side. Hey, mate. All right, let's try to bloop it. Sorry, Christine, I'm coming for your polished mountain. Well, maybe the way that works is because there's gravity and people aren't meant to do it. Whatever. Let's look at Bloop Mountain. It's bloop mowing, y'all. It came out a little hairy. This is the weirdest looking thing ever. It looks like you have an alien claw coming out of your finger. I'm gonna file off Bloop Mountain's hairs. It took me hours. Does this just come all the way out? All around me, all around me. It looks like it's giving me the finger. It looks how you say homemade. This one feels good. This one feels like how a nail should feel. What? That one looks the most absolutely fucked. You're pleased? Yeah. Let's name those styles. So you can put them on the menu at your nail salon. Bloop Mountain. No, that one's alien versus predator. Bloop Mountain.    So for my thumb, I was like, Julian, what do you think I should do with my thumb? And he was like, put a fidget spinner. So we're gonna try. I mean, I don't think it's gonna end up well. I'm not gonna use the nail form. I'm just gonna put the acrylic gel on here because there's no need to have a long nail at the end of it. Like I wanna test the limits of acrylic gel. Will it hold a full fidget spinner? I don't know if this is possible. Do you believe? Stop spinning it. I wanna see if it's gonna work. Like I've seen nail art with fidget spinners, like little ones. People are like, Jen, do this, do this. But like, I'm not sure I've seen this attempted. If anybody's gonna do it, it's gonna be me. If this does not get me a one-way ticket into the beauty guru community, I quit.  Are you kidding me? Oh my God, it worked. Remind me, I did not embed candle hands with a balloon like let's try it again. We're just gonna keep going until it stays. I'm amazed that it worked even a little bit. Stop laughing. How did I do that before? Like, if I flip it over. Da da da, I've done the impossible, impossible.  I'm gonna get this off. Welcome to Diary of a 31 year old lady.  Get me into the beauty classic. Like, hello, education, who?  Like, what if I showed up late to an event I wasn't invited to and I said, look at my nails. That's quicker than actually dialing 911. Like, they would come faster than if you just called 911. Hello, 911, what's your emergency? Yeah, there's a lady with fidget spinner nails. She won't get out. I'm just gonna go ahead and say what we're all thinking. Acrylic gel is the best invention that's ever been invented. I wasn't thinking that. Yes, you were. I have candy in my nails, candy wrappers, a mini mountain.  From a real nail perspective though, like, if you're looking to do acrylic nails at home, I feel like you could do this and get okay at it. It's very difficult to work with, but like, if you really sort of like filed this down and put some nail polish on it, no, you'd come out looking regular. And the fact that you can just jam stuff on them and then bake them under a light is like an added bonus. 10 out of 10 fun. Acrylic gel is the most fun I've had with my nails. Ever, ever, ever, ever. Read this look out of. 13. Dang it. Julien, you're walking past someone on the street. They walk past you and they go. What do you do? What do you do? I probably don't know one of, wow, I asked her out. I think Susie from nail career education sincerely downplayed just how wonderful of a product this really is. Would you like some? No. Why not? No, because I know I'm doing that with your thumb.   Get out, like leave. Make sure you subscribe to my channel. I put on new videos every Wednesday slash Thursday. I hope that you enjoyed this.  How do I get this off? Ow, how do I get this off? How do I get this off? How do I, oh. Oh. Okay, bye. Okay, bye.


HoodedCoverCommander788 here, and this is another special unboxing video where I show you all the cool stuff that was sent to me. This is everything that was sent to me in the month of May 2018. There is one item here that I actually ordered for myself, but I thought you might like to see it, so I'm going to show that to you as well. The rest of it was sent to me by viewers like you. And as is our normal practice now, if you send me something, I'm going to show it to everyone. I'm going to share it with the whole class. So you guys have sent me some really cool stuff. This month is no exception. I've already opened these packages to see what's in them. I just couldn't help myself, so I am going to show you now what I've already seen. Some really cool stuff here. We will start with the thing that I ordered. It's something that I needed to complete. It's in this envelope here. It is a figure, and by the way, it was a figure sent in just this padded envelope. Guys, if you're going to send an action figure to someone like you're selling it on eBay or something like that, more packing material than just the padded envelope. Some figures, some vintage figures are a little bit fragile, and that would be very easy to break them in transit without more packing material than that. So if you're going to send it in an envelope like this, a padded envelope, give it an extra layer of bubble wrap or something. It's going to give it a little bit more safety and security while it's in the mail. But anyway, this one made it okay. This is a pretty sturdy figure. It's not one known to be fragile. And that figure is Big Boa. There we go. Big Boa from 1987. Let's zoom in there so you can get a good look at them. This is a figure that I've had not complete for a while, and essentially I have parts of the figure, and they're not in very good shape. So I wanted to go ahead and finish this one, get this one done with, because it's something that has been requested quite a bit. There are surprisingly a large number of fans of Big Boa, so I wanted to get this one done. So I went ahead and got one that is complete. It's got a little hose on a helmet. It even has the file card, so this thing is ready to review. It does have this little punching bag in there with the stand. He's got his two boxing gloves. Everything is there, so everyone who's been wanting to see Big Boa, well, now he can be seen pretty soon because I have him complete. The next item was sent to me by Philip Powers, and he sent it to me because it's something that he knew that I needed, and so it's kind of a big envelope for what it is. But that's perfect. Nicely packed, by the way. This is the way to do it. This is an item that has some extra backing, so it doesn't get bent up in shipment. And we have a letter from Philip that says, shoot me a PM when this arrives. It says, keep up the good work and love the show. I did send him a private message to let him know that I got this, and so now I'm going to show you what it is. It is a file card. It's an important file card, at least to me. Not a rare file card, but one that I needed, and that is the Crimson Guard. The Cobra Crimson Guard gray back file card. As you may know, if you watched my quick shot of Crimson Guard that I put up not too long ago, this is the only one that I was missing. That means Crimson Guard is now ready for review, and that's fantastic. Crimson Guard can be kind of a difficult figure to complete, especially if you're looking for all the file card variants and all that, but I finally got this thing complete. I know that is a fan favorite, and I love this figure too, so I'm going to enjoy looking at that figure. I am saving that review for a special occasion, so it's not going to be immediate, but I do have specific plans for this review. I'm very happy to look at Crimson Guard now that he's ready. And the last one is this one, this box that was sent by Michael Johnson. Another one that was very nicely packaged, very good packing in there. Plenty of packing material, nothing got broken, and that's important because this one came from farther away. This one came from the United Kingdom, and when I got this, I couldn't wait until I got it on camera. I just had to open and see what was in here, and I was surprised, and this is just too cool. So this is from Michael. I did pull out the packing material, so lots of packing material. I went ahead and did that so I could just pull the items out of the box and show you what's in here. Michael included a letter, and the letter actually describes what's in the box, so I'm not going to read this to you because I want it to be a surprise. I don't want to spoil the surprise. And right off the bat, we have three action figures. Three action force action figures. Let's zoom that in because you got to see these. These are too cool. What we have here, we have, if you're a fan of action force, you already recognize these, right? We have the SAS commander in all black, really cool figure, and these are all from that earlier period of action force where they had like Star Wars articulation, the five points of articulation. And I just find these figures especially charming and just being able to see them in person and hold them in my hand just feels special. This is something that is beyond GI Joe for me. It's something different. It's something special, and just being able to hold these and touch them and show them to you is just, it just means a lot to me. So SAS squad leader here. Sorry, I'm not wearing a light colored shirt so you can see it better. We have, there we go, Mouton, which is a figure that I think is maybe not the best love figure, kind of a funny looking guy in a diving helmet. And then we have a space force commander. So this is the first space force figure that I've received. And just, it's got that space force symbol. Just something kind of fun old school science fiction about the look of this figure. So these are pretty cool, but this is not all that was sent. There's also something very special still on the box. Okay, I've saved the biggest item for last here, and this is really exciting to me. The other thing in the box is the action force Heina. This G.I. Joe fans will immediately recognize as the his tank only in red with a lot more stickers, a lot more decals, details they're added. But the his tank in red is gorgeous. That is amazing. These action force items, I just don't know what to say. I mean, I received the action force helicopter earlier and now the his tank. And I just, I mean, I've seen pictures of these, but I never actually thought they would be in my possession. And for that, I have to thank the folks from the UK that have sent these to me. Thank you, Michael. That's just, this is special. I mean, maybe this is just a common thing in the UK and action force collectors don't think it's a big deal. But for me, this is a really big deal, especially considering how much I love the his tank and in red. You know, there are certain colors that I prefer to see Cobra vehicles in and red is one of them. It looks fantastic in red, of course, with the black tracks for some contrast. And this is a beautiful vehicle. I love this thing. And that's everything that was sent to me in the month of May in 2018. Thank you, Philip. Thank you, Michael. And thank you to everyone who has sent stuff to me and donated things to the channel. It is so greatly appreciated. And I've received a ton of stuff that I might have had some difficulty getting on my own, but you have managed to make, you know, producing these videos much easier because you've helped. And things like file cards, that may seem like a small thing, but it's an important thing because it's part of what we do on this channel. I always look at the file cards too. A lot of figures, they come without file cards. Not everybody collects file cards, but I do need them. And just having things like that sent to me just makes it so much easier to get things ready for review. So you guys have really moved this channel forward in ways that I hadn't been able to. You've moved the channel forward. You've made reviews possible. And all I can do is show my appreciation by trying to give you the best videos that I can give you every week. Producing the best I can do, putting forth my best effort. And that's what I will continue to do. And thank you to everyone who has helped. Action Force, you know, I had done a review of Action Force, but obviously I couldn't cover everything. And I left a lot of the vehicles untouched. I really didn't look very much of the vehicles. Well, I've got this Action Force stuff now, thanks to the generosity of people who have sent it in. I feel like I should do another Action Force review, do like a part two. And it's not something that I had planned. But at this point, I feel like I should, because you guys have sent me enough stuff that seems like that's something that you would like to see. So I'm not sure exactly how that's going to come about. But I'm going to give some thought to that on how I might do another Action Force review. Maybe I can see if I can get CyberTiger to come back and help with it. That would be great. I would love that. I really enjoyed working on the first one. And I'd love to do another one. If there's some way I can work that into the schedule, that would be fantastic. So thank you to everyone. You know that I collect American domestic releases of GI Joe. So these weren't things that I were chasing. But because they're not something that I would normally bring into my collection, these toys are like legendary. They're things that I had seen in photographs, but not really so much in person. I never thought I would actually have them and be able to touch and see them up close. So the fact that you've sent these to me is just incredible. It's kind of like, I don't know, I can't describe it. It's just, it's very special to me. Thank you very much. If anyone would like to send some donations to me, you're certainly welcome to do that. Just send me a private message either through email, through the website, or Facebook, or Twitter. However you want to do it, I can tell you how to do that. You never should feel like you have to do that. Nobody should feel obligated to send something to me. But if you do send something to me, I'm going to share it with everyone and show my appreciation to you because I do appreciate it very much. So that's all for now. Thanks for watching. I got another vintage GI Joe toy review coming up very soon. I hope you like it. But thanks everyone for tuning in every week. We've got some great stuff coming up and I will see you soon.