21st at 6.33, I think we have both people present. Want to add a couple items to the agenda, equity committee update. And then also we neglected to approve the HHB policy monitor report at 3D that got lost in the shuffle to get food. So we can add that, let's slot that in with the other policy monitor report. Other policy monitoring. First, I also just want to give a quick shout out to all the teachers and administrators who put on the MHS open house. I thought it was fantastic. And I also just know that the teachers did kind of a seven minute slots of classroom speed dating on what they were doing in their class. So I'm sure it was a long night for them, but it was super informative and great to get back to the classroom and see what the kids are doing and what they're learning. So, and I'm sure the other schools will also do something similar, but I just wanted to acknowledge all the great work and extra time put into that. Public comment, no one, anyone online? Do you want to do that? Yeah, I do. Is that like a keyboard or? I think it's a test. So it looks like no one online either. Consent agenda, do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? I'll move to approve the consent agenda. Do I have a second? I'll second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Great. So board discussion and possible action. So just finance committee update. So they got a briefing on the fourth quarter report, which I have to admit I did not look at because I accidentally erased. I accidentally erased the email. But any reports from the finance committee? We've received, we just held our meeting just before this meeting started of our finance subcommittee. Our business manager, Christina Kimball, walked us through the fourth quarter budget, FY22 fourth quarter report. And then there's a really nice little summary of some of the highlights for some of the bigger funds and our long-term debt. She'll see the lot of questions beforehand from Anakit and Mia. We went through those, but I think you wanted to maybe ask some of those at the meeting. So I think we're prepared to take any questions. Great. Yeah, Mia, you want to just answer your questions? Yeah, great. So the first question I have is there's about three million plus that we spend on special education. Is all of that reflected on the revenue side in all those different buckets that are outside of ed spending in general education on the revenue side? What do you think, Joe? Great, I thought so. I just was having a hard time lining those up. And then at the bottom of revenue where it says fund balance transfer, it looks like we did not, at the end of FY22 transfer of the 400,000 we thought we were going to need to. Does that mean that if you scroll down further in the assigned, I see you nodding, Joe. I'm gonna finish my question so that everybody can hear it, but that in the assigned, there's $800,000 assigned for FY22 and 23. Half of that essentially wasn't used in FY22. Right, so on the fund balance information, essentially, that would put that $400,000 back in there. Or no, that's included in the 800,000? Is that right? That's how I read it. Yeah, right, we'll add 400,000 to that. Right, so there's still $400,000 in the fund balance that we thought would be there. And it is still there. Okay, what's the outside placement settlement? That's a multi-year confidential settlement about an outside placement for a student that the district is paying back. It sounds like this might be the last payment. Got it. And then on the buildings and, settlement of, it's a confidential matter around special education. Okay. On the buildings and grounds line of expenditures, in the notes section, it lists the tractor ventilation, tent rentals, HEPA filters. So it looks like that to me says that we bought those things last year, but then it also looks like they might be listed under anticipated expenses for under the fund balance narrative. So I just wanted to see, did we, I might be reading it wrong as well. No, I think that's a good question. I think we determined that those have been purchased already. Okay. We can take them off the list. Okay. Great. And then that small schools grant, is that because Roxbury is a tiny school or are any of our other schools, also small schools? And it's just Roxbury, okay. It's a combination of population and distance from other schools. I think, I mean, broadly speaking. Got it. And then there's, I appreciated having that food service section in the narrative. I am curious about, and as I mentioned in my email, I think this is maybe a bigger conversation that the board should have, but why we call it an enterprise service rather than it just being a part of what it takes to run a school. I don't know if you have a one minute answer to that Chris, you know, or if that's just something that we should have for a bigger conversation. Whether or not you keep your employees in that fund or not is something that we could discuss because salary benefits are keep rising and that's why that program doesn't sustain itself. Sure. So that is a bigger conversation about how we're running that program. Right. But it does need to maintain it's own plan. You can't use those federal dollars for anything, but food service, all the reimbursements and revenues that we're getting need to stay separate. Right. And though any reimbursements and revenues could, if we keep staff salaries and benefits, how's their, those reimbursements can go toward those staff salaries. Yes. Yeah, okay. And so it's mostly an accounting designation, calling it an enterprise service because we take in money from what we used to anyway by having like families pay. Well, it's an accounting standard. Okay. You see the program separate from your general fund. Got it. Okay. I still don't fully understand that, but I think it's, that's good for now. That's good for now. Thank you. Okay. No, and we talked about that a little bit more because there's also, you know, there was the universal free meals program that it sounds like the state used state, ARPA, SR, whatever the acronym is funds for. So this year it was, there was no like free reduced lunch. It was, it was universal free meals. Everybody, yeah. And so theoretically that is something that was a success and the state will sort of put into place. But the funding for that is not coming from the state. So that's basically like a, and Libby could say this better than I, but like that's something very much we will need to spend some time on sort of the philosophical and budgeting of this because we will not be able to charge for these, but we are going to be required to provide them without that state help that schools got this year. So far the legislation hasn't gone through. So the legislature just voted for this school year. However, keep in mind that the legislature comes back in session after our budget has already passed. So. So just so I explain, are they, are they giving us an unfunded mandate to provide free lunch? That was what the conversation was last year. They came through with us our money from the state. But that's going away. But we don't have that anymore. We spent it. So, so yeah. So last year when we said, or when people were saying, why are we just doing this for a year? Figure out a long-term solution, legislature, their solution to it at that time would be an unfunded mandate that has never gone, that didn't go into law though. Okay.  I have a question. So right now everything in this is free in the, for the food or food nutrition? Yeah. Okay. So if it does pass in November, is that when they will take it up? No. It's actually, it comes in session in January. January. Yep. And they don't usually pass things on the first day. No. It's usually a mad rush the last two weeks a month. Okay. So we could be stuck basically paying for this for some time until the money becomes available, if it becomes available. Or it could just be something we need to figure out internally. That's our death balance. Yeah. It's a hard and it's a really hard piece because nobody wants to deny kids food, right? And at the same time with the, there are lots of monsoons coming at our particular district because of 127, the waiting study, which was also a good law, right? So there's lots of good intention and good laws. It's just the question of who pays for it. Is a fairly large and important question to answer. Those were all of my questions. So thank you. Other questions for the finance committee? Just an observation that our target of having two to half percent left over as a rainy day fund is about $650,000. And the likely cost of not being reimbursed for free food is more like a million maybe. Somewhere between, I try, I searched for it briefly, but it's somewhere between 600,000 and a million. For a year. Yes. That was just law and security. No. It's a lot though. I know, I just can't, Grant did the math, like did the back of the Menapkin math from two years ago. So it's risen since then. And I just can't pull the number out of my head right now and I searched for old emails and I can't find it. But Christine and I would have to do that calculation all over again anyway, because it would be different now because of food costs of risen bent sellers, benefits of risen, you know, like lots of things in prison since Grant did that back in the Menapkin math. My hunch is it's closer to 600,000 dollars. That's what my hunch is, is I think through it more. I remember talking about it with legislatures and saying something along the lines of that's the equivalent of about four to five teachers. You know, trying to put it into perspective for legislatures is what that means. So I can remember that kind of number, which is less than 600,000 dollars, however, may not be less for much longer. The food quality or like change, did it change from when parents were paying to when this became universal lunch or did it keep steady kind of like the same food? The same types of food. Oh yeah, it's most definitely the same types of food. In fact, our last year, I don't know what the numbers are this year yet, I haven't checked in on that, but last year we gave out a significantly more amount of lunch than we had this year or than we had in past years. Now last year everything was free and it was different accounting for who took what.  If a kid at the high school says goes in and gets an ice cream, I don't know, something extra, that's not part of the actual meal. Alucard, thank you. That needs to be paid for because that's not part of the universal part. And that's really only an option I think at the high school, maybe at the middle school. I don't think there's much Alucard at the elementary schools. Like chocolate, not so good. Yeah. So my unprofessional just reflection on what we're learning and what we're doing is we've had these great opportunities with these various COVID funds and lots of grant opportunities. And so we're in really good shape in a lot of ways. And we know there's, as Libby's been saying, like there's these sort of things coming on the pike. Like the food service is a big thing. The waiting study is a big thing. So as long as we're really sort of smart and strategic and careful and like proactive to sort of get through this then it certainly seems like in my unprofessional opinion that as a district we're in good shape because we do have this fund balance and we were able to pay for things out of the grant. But it doesn't just mean that that will always be there. So it's just, there's gonna be, I think there's gonna be a lot of changing components as the grants go away and other factors change. And we learn more information about these other factors. Just a lot of question marks right here. I moved to approve the fourth quarter financial report. I second. Any discussion? Alison Viver. Hi. Any opposed? Okay, great. And good to hear from Jessica again on restorative practices. Thank you for giving us two evenings of your time this week. Yes, so I have a number of friends probably as of this month, is everyone ready? Yeah, I shared the report from everybody. So it should be in your email and I will share my screen hopefully right now. I have a trouble sharing my screen earlier so I might have to have. Hey, Anna, my dear, can you share the screen for me? I have to figure out how to do that with my camera computer. Yes, can you email me that report real quick? Christina, are you on it? Oh, you just got off, thank you. Would it help if I joined soon? Yeah, is anybody else on them? No, but I can join. But I've tried to do this the other day with something two minutes and I'm working my computer after I asked my tech guys how to do that. Oh wait, Anna's got it. Oh, okay, great. Thanks, Anna. All right, go for it, Jess. All right, so I'm excited to check for restorative practices. Is there something that's really close to my heart and something that I'm not sure about? So thank you for making us part of sort of my role here. So I think when we often talk about restorative practice, people have a lot of different views and a lot of different lenses or restorative practices and what they mean. So I just wanted to start by giving like really brief context and what I think those hopeful freight may have for this presentation. So we know that in the United States, they're really rooted in indigenous practice and then later schools have adopted them as a way to build community and really think more specifically about alternatives for traditional discipline because we know in a lot of ways that's not giving us outcomes that we want. So when I think about restorative practices, I really think about relationships and belonging as being a really central sort of tier one universal first goal. A second one I think is empowerment and how empowerment leads to positive change. And when I'm talking about empowerment, we're really thinking primarily about students and also I hope to get to faculty as well and sort of have both students and faculty feel empowered to create changes in our school district. And then the third major tenant or guiding practices that I've seen is conflict resolution is restorative and comparative. So as I think I changed slides here so I'm on the umbrella side of this point. So when I was thinking of restorative practices and again how to frame this for folks, I really take more of an inclusive lens of restorative practices. There's certainly sort of a tiered version of restorative practices and what is there's really specific practices and circle mediations. But when I was thinking about my work and how to frame this and how it comes up in Montpelier or Roxbury, it's really embedded in a lot of different ways. So I see all of these things as under the bigger umbrella of restorative practices. Right when we talk about community building or wellness or sense of belonging without those things we can't do restorative practices. So I feel like it's really sort of a connected relationship. So some of our current goals again, sorry, I'm on slide through this point. When we think about current goals, again, I really separate it in three chunks. The first being this building a universal sense of belonging and community wellness and really understanding one another, building a sense of community so that we can understand how to compassionately respond to one another. A second one I see is a growing sense of self-agency and a sense of empowerment and voice for folks in our community and building the skills needed for students to be able to create positive changes in their schools and being really authentic partners in our school systems. And then third is really thinking about how we repair harm when it's done in our community onward. So I wanna think about faculty and restorative practices right now our focus has really intentionally been a wellness which has made it a really intentional focus for us this year in a way that I think is really crucial, particularly coming out of the last few years with COVID and isolation and not having the same opportunities to build our wellness when we know that people were stretched pretty thin. So there is a regular use of circles was a part of the in-service in many of our buildings, teacher to teacher, adult circles to help build connections that really connect with one another, expand knowledge of restorative practice and really gain some comfort in being a part of circles and running circles themselves. We have time built in with our schedules intentionally to set aside for teacher and adult wellness in our buildings. For example, we have Wednesday wellness at the high school and then on Mondays, there is half an hour built in during staff meetings for UES teachers to sort of do what they need to be well. Additionally, Libby has set forth some wonderful work norms for us in the district around email practices and making sure that we are specifically taking time to connect with our families and be humans outside of our jobs. And we did a lot of work intentionally setting wellness goals as individuals in our in-service time as well. And then we're continuing the work. This is one thing that is on my plate and I'm really excited about is really collectively framing community wellness for our district and what that looks like so we can build a vision around what community wellness is. And then I'm gonna talk about professional development opportunities later. So I'm gonna dive into the elementary schools here. What I did, I sort of took a page out of Libby's book that you saw on Monday and sort of crowdsourced some of their sort of practices. So I sent an email out to some of the folks that do this work in our district and also the administrators to get sort of firsthand knowledge from them around what has been happening in our schools and what some of the positive repercussions or consequences I guess those are the right words but the effects of resort practices. So again, without framing of belonging our UES and RBS are really being very intentional about setting the stage for belonging and making sure that they're helping students feel safe and a sense of community as part of the first few weeks to make sure kids have really strong sense of belonging and connections with the idea that that will proactively minimize some conflicts. And then empowerment really teaching kids how to use I statements and advocate for themselves and empowering them to ask for change. I'm really excited about this. We're partnering with Up for Learning to create and we've already started to think about the end of the year and really be intentional around how we support UES students and RBS students coming together get to know each other proactively so that when they go to the middle school they know what resort practices are. They've seen each other. They've started to get to know one another and we're hoping to get UES and UES students here and RBS students over to Montpelier before the end of the year. So they have some common experiences. So the leadership student groups that have been happening at the middle school and the high school are now also happening in our elementary schools for the first year around with Up for Learning. Yeah, I know, I can't wait to hear that. Yeah, yeah, thank you, I'm excited about that too. And then your sort of resolutions it's been really wonderful to see some of the work that our administrators and teachers have been doing with students around connecting and repairing harm and really using relationships with one another to be able to communicate when we feel impacted and how we move past that as a community. And then moving to some of our older students at the middle school and MHS. MSMS uses tier one circles regularly. Every student is doing at least one circle a week. And throughout the year, they start as pretty light. What's your favorite dessert? What's your favorite thing to do during the summer time? And then progressively build up to get a little bit more intentional, a little bit more vulnerable as students really solidify that sense of community. And then MHS has a pretty strong student and adult partnership. And in the words of a counselor, their overarching goal is aimed at community building and strengthening culture. And if we think about empowerment, some of the groups, this is a lot of the work that the groups at the middle school and the high school are doing with up for learning. So, you know, hopefully you've seen them present to your board. I was told that this happened. So it was not there for that, but hopefully that's happening. They're facilitating a lot of our PD this year, which I'm really excited about. They're really thinking about how to increase social connections, particularly for new students. They're training one another. They're using train the trainer models to help really embed circles as part of our culture. And then they're starting to make some pre-made circle scripts for one another. And one of the things that I was really excited about to see particularly at the middle school is they were intentionally using circles and really thinking about during in-service teachers were using circles to think about behavioral scenarios and how to respond and how to build community and how to respond to behavior in a really restorative and reparative way and thinking outside sort of the traditional responses that we often see. And then we're using students, students, adults to really think about how to use circles to communicate and repair harm. That's a clarifying question. Yeah, Jess, the facilitation of professional development is that students are facilitating that? Yeah, yeah, wow. Yeah, so they are at this point helping to create and facilitate, which is really exciting. So we're gonna next slide, actually. Thank you, that was a great transition. That was happening last year, too. Oh, okay, I can hear that. Yeah, so John Kitta is really gonna be working with us this year. He's gonna be working with me specifically on how to develop a district-wide implementation plan for restorative practices and he's supporting the up-for-learning groups in creating professional development for our four early-release days. So John Kitta and up-for-learning are working collaboratively to essentially create our early-release days for the high school and middle school and they'll be facilitating those. And that is really focused on how do we create a really strong community and communication feedback loop between students and adults so that we can really leverage student voice in order to move us forward and create positive changes. John Kitta is certainly an expert in the field. I'm really excited about working really closely with him. If you don't know him, he is a type of person that because I've been in their sort of practice work for a while. I saw his name and Livia told me that I was gonna be working with him and I was like, oh, gosh, he's famous. So I'm just certainly an expert in the field for whatever that information gives you. But up-for-learning is also, they have been a long history of really thinking about how to leverage student voice being really intentional about the students that we're inviting to share their voice. I really appreciate that about them. And then Joel Van Lent is also a legend for me at least as well as a child psychologist as a really strong trauma-informed lens. And I really appreciate that she's sort of bringing together in really explicit ways to the trauma-informed lens and her sort of practices and what that looks like in her district. So just some guiding questions if you click next. I have a lot of animation in here. So the work ahead is really framed around how to communication systems foster wellness for individuals and communities. That's sort of going to be our guiding question for the middle school and the high school moving forward for the PD days coming up that I'm leading and then for the elementary schools because they are just getting into really implementing their sort of practices. We're starting with the question of what strategies, what are some strategies to support the wellness of ourselves and our students. And if you click one more time, I just wanted to leave you with this nice quote that I actually got today from a middle school teacher just being really excited to see an increase in RP use and circle use. And she's feeling like teachers are really seeing the impact of them in our district. So I just wanted to leave you with that. Great, thanks, Jus. Great, thanks Jus. Thank you very much. I have a question. With all the experts that you're bringing in and what is the intention around racial justice around the trauma informed and really emerging and how are BIPOC students being involved and students from the LGBTQ community involved in the circles themselves and what is their racial justice conversation in those circles? Yeah, so I haven't quite had a chance to really dive into the circles with students. I've been to one meeting so far because that's been my availability. I know that they are up for learning as I said is really intentional about thinking about what are the students that they're inviting in. So it's not just one particular demographic. You know that certainly a worry that I've seen play out time and time again is when we ask for student voice. It's a really particular type of student. And so I appreciate how intentional they're being. I don't know if you wanna talk a little more historically about racial justice in a district term. I don't think I could articulatively right now talk about the connection between restorative practices and racial justice work. Yeah, I mean, I think that it's a big problem that we see in a lot of other schools that the restorative justice practices when it comes to racial justice, racial bullying is not really being implemented that right way. And that's a lot of the conversations like sometimes restorative justice when it comes to racial justice, there's a big, this happening. So that's something just that I would love for us to consider as an intention of this work that it needs to be included because we see a lot of damage and we see a lot of trauma that is happening from restorative circles when it comes to black students. And there's a lot of anecdotes that from this district but I'm just hearing that experience that. I think when we're doing this work we really have to be intentional around how we bring those voices into these circles and to the conversation into the trauma reform. And I'll certainly put that up for a friend when I work with Trump that I have a brother named. Thank you. Like data about things that are actually in absence because they've been resolved is really hard to measure but like I've always been sort of a friendly skeptic to restore the practices. Like I sort of need to, the more I learn the more it makes sense but it feels like it could be done incorrectly really easily. So how do you look at data after a while or look at, I don't know, student outcomes after a while and see that that's making a difference? Like what are some things that staff where you would see that would show that it's having a positive impact? Yeah, I mean, I think that's a really good question. I know right now for me it's been a lot of anecdotal evidence. For example, I had a teacher come up to me today, a different teacher than the one who had talked to me or sent me this just being really thankful for a sort of circle. And it was between two students and at the surface level the conflict was about something that happened this year. And then when they were brought together of course with a lot of adult guidance and a lot of adult coaching, it turned out that it was actually something that had happened last year and they were able to really process and digest that and think about next steps. With our current data that we talked a little bit about on Monday, right? I'm hoping that as we collect more and more of that data we'll be able to have like less anecdotal data and more let's think about what are the long-term impacts of our sort of practices on behavior that we're seeing day to day on hopefully preventing HIV stuff. But a lot of that stuff, we're new at taking that data at least from my perspective. And again, I don't have this historical context because I am now but I think there's a difference between believing that restorative practices is the answer to every disciplinary action which it's not and the idea that just started with around building wellness and community. So I'll argue till cows come home that over the pandemic, kids didn't learn much or didn't lose much learning. They lost community and so did we as adults, right? And that that's having the most significant impact on our kids right now is this figuring out how to be together in a community again and the adults, when I was like. So that's the piece that I buy into Hookline and Sink because it's teaching everyone how to have hard conversations, how to talk to each other, how to have easy conversations when they're talking about your favorite ice cream. How to be in a group and how to converse in that way. And that's like that Maslow's number one security, safety, belonging thing is knowing how to talk to each other. You're not gonna feel like you belong if you don't have a voice, right? So that's the piece that I really enjoy about restorative practices, the community, the wellness, the inviting people to belong, teaching people how to have hard conversations, facilitating hard conversations, teaching our adults how to facilitate hard conversations which is a skill. And we've seen slowly but surely we've seen some really what could be heady conversations be had successfully because of this premise and we still have some explosive behaviors that restorative practices is not gonna help. Right, so it's not the answer for everything. Thanks. I'm really happy you've joined us in this district. It feels like this kind of work is just bouncing off of what Libby just said. I mean, it really is essential. Like it's not added fluff. This is really necessary given where kids are at. I'm really grateful to hear that there's gonna be some intentional connective work between UES and RBS students. An email from Amandite asking us to kind of pull together community budget priorities that we heard from folks last year. Something that we heard from folks was, we'd really love for our RBS and UES kids to connect with each other and not be like, complete strangers with each other on the first day of school and fifth grade, which is a point in life where nobody feels like they belong, everybody feels awkward. So to give them some of those more meaningful experiences so that they can, so the families, I know Rhett has been really eager to try to get folks together on playgrounds and connecting that way. Like it's the district work and it's also the community work and hopefully when these things come together, we have some kids that really have relationships come in fifth grade. But I know from the Roxbury perspective, folks are really eager. So I'm really excited to hear that the school is taking that on. In that time that we were getting community input, we also heard from folks at the middle school level that there were some kids that were having a really hard landing at MSMS from Roxbury and that, which was kind of anticipated, right? I mean, I think the merger at some point was called like the odd couple, like a tale of two cities kind of coming together folks from really different roots and beginnings and kind of cultures. And so I heard that there was definitely some hard landings. And I know I think, and Jimmy were there, the original merger was sort of like, we know that we need to be intentional about this middle school kind of coming together. So I'm just excited and it gives me great hope for our kids out here in Roxbury that they can just feel, if you know, right, the tier one piece is the community, it's the belonging piece that they're gonna have a stronger foundation. We recently heard about a student's experience of some pretty intense microaggressions about Roxbury including, is there water in Roxbury? Where even is Roxbury? Can you show me a picture of your house? And then the kids surprised that like, they had a nice house, you know? So we know our kids are experiencing some of that. And honestly, when I heard that was really painful and really heartbreaking, that that was like the perception of our community, knowing that like, we come from a really great place. This is a really great town and I will happily give you like, the grand tour one night if you ever wanna come out. But I think that piece in terms of like, the merger and the success of the merger and Emma said the other night just about like, right, like we're still landing and hopefully in five years our communities have settled in and there's more ease and more connection. So I'm hoping, you know, and it sounds like some of the work that you're doing is really gonna help with that landing because we are still sort of mid-air. It feels like coming into the merger, so. And kind of following up on that. I mean, one thing that happened very intentionally particularly the first year was the then principal of MSMS really kind of went to big lengths to reach out to the, you know, the families and students that were coming into MSMS. I have a feeling that evaporated during COVID. Did you remember our first year was the year before COVID? Yeah.  So I'm just wondering if that work has been forgotten a little because I think that was helpful that first year. And I think there was probably a perception that things would take care of themselves, but I think with COVID they have it. And I also think each, you know, each graduating fourth grader coming into fifth grade at MSMS, it's as new to them as it was, you know, the first class that did it. So. Yeah, I'm really excited about some of the work that Beth, Katie and I have done. Really, we're trying to think about experiences so that a smaller group of UES students is here and can actually see Roxbury and can see the town and be a part of this community. So they have some sense of reference for students who are coming from Roxbury. So hopefully we can dispel some of those assumptions. And then we're doing some sort of activity or experience at UES. And then we're going to end at MSMS so that they can meet the principal and see the building and have some sort of like fun, you know, gatory and primes of experience and get experience for a little school. Great, thank you so much. Emma? Thank you for this presentation. It's really great. I mean, we've been hearing about, from the community that they want, you know, stronger restorative practices in the district for a long time. So it's, and from teachers and climate survey and stuff like that. So it's great to see like some concrete report on progress. I'm wondering about, so the other day you presented to us about the behavior monitoring system that you have in place now with the data collection. I'm just wondering if there's any point on that collection apparatus that asks about restorative practices if they were try, attempted, how it went? Nope for how we responded. So there is a note for how the teacher responded and there's a section or a column for how like basically it was handled if it gets to administrator or liberal as well. That'll be really helpful data as well. And that's something that we really intentionally wanted to see so that we could see sort of what responses were working over time. As we collect data and what responses maybe we need to reconsider and rethink. And, you know, just from the equity lens it really helps to see what are responses depending on the student demographic. That's great. And can I also, it's thought that looking at, thinking of Boo and harassment and the policy and procedure and the training we just got and thinking, I know, thinking of reserve justice and how microaggressions, you know, all these things intersect. Just thinking about like what the approach is right now. So there's a Boolean harassment case, Boolean case. The first, you know, the first case that still needs to be like, how are we going to restore justice around Boolean harassment? Yeah, I'm gonna do like the annoying educator response and say it depends on the situation. Honestly, like Libby said, restorative practices don't fit every situation. There are some cases in which the students are not ready to talk about or it wouldn't be safe to talk about or they don't want to talk about, right? And you can't do this work without consent from both parties. So it is really case-by-case dependent. And I'm sorry, that's an audience. Yeah, no, it's great. It's a great answer. We try and weave in as much as it can as appropriate. Okay, but we still do have the documentation, right? Like it goes into what data, the report, the Boolean harassment incident report and the data collection that you're doing around what is happening. Thank you. This question about restorative practices, if there is a really sort of a behavior, it's like, I think you used the word explosives. If there is sort of like an individual where a person really has a hard time and it really affects a lot of the people in the group and that person, the person that's having the hard time is removed from the group, can restorative practices be used for the people that are left in the group without the individual or not? Why do you write that up just today, a few times? Because I imagine it could be helpful, but I don't know if there are kind of, a lot of things kind of, you want everyone involved, but maybe if somebody can't be involved, does that mean it's no longer available as a resource to the rest of the group? No, we definitely talk with kids afterwards if there's a significant event with another child of processing that through a circle-like thing. I imagine it could help the individual return to the group if the group is able to have a better understanding of how to think about what happened. We're stronger in some places than others there, but yes. There's also a level of privacy, right, of that you can talk about it. It's a real sticky wicket, yeah, of just where you go because even if kids are really, really struggling, there's still our kids, right? And so we still have to figure out ways to support those kids and we don't, we can't just take them out. Like this is not an option, you know? And we also have classrooms of 16 other kids that also need to feel safe and so it's really hard. And I imagine in some circumstances, kids themselves can provide support that an adult can't. Yeah, and that's often, especially with our little ones, that's often the conversation. Our friends are having a really hard time right now. What can we do, you know? What can we do when that happens?  Or is there... Not in the district, no. Anything, we have pockets of really strong, like they're doing it as part of their culture. And I see them middle school specifically, like it is embedded in their culture and it's just what they're doing on a regular basis and it's just their response. It's like their first tier response, whenever things happen, whereas I think there are some teachers in the district who feel like I wanna do it, but I'm not sure how it fits into my greater practice. So I think we have a pretty wide spectrum of teachers at this point. So that's one of the things that I'm really curious to work with John Kitta about is really thinking about, when we're thinking about district-wide implementation, like how do we support teachers and being more comfortable and bringing us into a classroom practice. So are you saying that all teachers at the middle school aren't trained to lead circles? Well, we have new teachers. We have some new teachers. So all teachers from last year? They have had experience with professional learning. I don't know exactly what you mean when you say trained. What you could be thinking is different than what I could be thinking of, right? So we had professional learning for all our half days last year around restorative practices, virtually. You know, like probably not the strongest, but people have had access and information around this work. But I don't have like a measure as to like, are you trained or not? Is John Kitta doing the professional development? Is that who led the professional development? Some of it, yeah. John was involved with it. Lindsay Hillman at Up for Learning did a lot with the student leadership groups. And then when you talked a little bit about students being trained also in restorative practices and get to a point where they're comfortable leading a circle. And do you get a sense of where we're at with that and like have students already received that training some students or? Yeah, it's definitely some students. I think, again, it's a pocket of students. It's the students who have been working without front learning. And then it's sort of slowly, hopefully over time, getting to more and more students. And did that start last year? And so it's up? It started two years ago. Not with training through the whole, they weren't doing the training for staff. Last year they started doing the training. So it was kind of like a half a year really with MSMS and MHS getting them ready. A student leadership group in each of those areas and they molded together sometimes and they were about part sometimes. And then moving into last year where they were doing virtual training with the teachers and then this year it's in person. Right, Jess? Yeah. And how many students are part of that group? We had so many at the middle school apply last year. Way more than we thought. I know the group that I met with who is gonna be the leaders for the earlier release days. And that was sort of them pulling together people that they knew would be involved rather because they sort of need to get it ready to go because the first one is next Friday. It was probably 10 to 12 students who are involved in that. But again, those are the folks who have been involved. So that's before really rolling it out and getting people and drawing people in. So I don't think I answered your question, but yeah. And when you say, would that be the, so when you, on your slides, when you're talking about students giving presentations to the board, it would be that group of students that's going through the training? It's kind of like the up for learning group. Yes. Okay. And some of the kids in this group last year, two eighth graders and four high schoolers, I think they were 11th graders. They were part of a larger up for learning group or with state leaders, state student leaders at a BSA conference, where they were doing circles and modeling for over 150 superintendent, special education directors and curriculum directors, which was awesome. And they led groups too. Like our students were part of that as well. Great. I thought about it more and maybe it's not a question. Well, the other question that I did, I was thinking of right now, it sounds like an interview question. It's not, but can you think of a time that you ran into an RP skeptic and were able to change their mind or at least kind of, how do you approach a skeptic to this topic? How do you approach it? Yeah, I mean, I think this is going to maybe sound like soft, I guess. I think a lot of the anecdotal, just the stories of kids and how I think without restorative practice or at least the restorative practice lens that they wouldn't have been able to come to terms with one another or they wouldn't have been able to feel a sense of community, right? So I can think of my own time as a teacher. I invented circles as part of my own practice and I was able, I actually talked about this during my interview with Olivia. I don't know if she remembers, but I had a particular student who had a lot of personalized identities and just had a really hard time being a part of any community and on a regular, at least in the corner and be really quiet. And then he slowly up to the point where he would blurt out some inappropriate things from time to time, not offensive, but just like sharing his perspective and being frustrated with us. And of course, we worked through that, but what happened through having regular circles is that other students knew how to respond to him. So while he came across to this really aggressive in those moments, other students knew like, oh, this is just like him being frustrated right now and we don't have to be worried and we can extend. So they actually started to extend support to him. That was his sign. Eventually what got to the point where he'd be able to use school appropriate language, which was also wonderful, but it was a really hard thing to see that shift of how students understood because we were working in building community, understood how to respond to him compassionately and worried because support him in really tough moments. So that's my skeptic response answer. So hopefully that helps. I think it goes back to what Jill was saying too, but you can't put all your eggs in this basket. And you have to think about a multi-leveled response and what Jess was saying earlier around, some kids aren't ready. They don't want to talk to each other. They don't trust each other or adults and kids or adults and adults. Like it's just not a, we had a situation last year where we had an adult to adult conflict. And my suggestion was, I think we should probably do a restorative circle around this to get people talking. And one said, nope, not gonna do it. And that's their choice. That's okay. That moment that was, so we had to go a different route. So it's not something you force on people. However, it's something that I think teaching kids how to talk to each other and teaching adults how to talk to each other sometimes is probably one of the best things we can do for kids and teaching compassion and empathy. And what does that sound like? I think that's imperative. And if I know this district that it's, without naming it maybe on a survey, that's probably something we value quite a bit here. Kind of followed up on that. I mean, when would you make a determination that a restorative practice effort isn't working and if it's not working, what do you do? We've had that situation. You stop the circle. If it's not working, you stop it. With the conversation of we're gonna stop this because it's not productive and perhaps more helpful at this moment. So that's happened before. Yeah, and I think that's just part of being good facilitator. And there's a lot of prep work, especially when you're thinking about these tier three conflict remediation. There's a lot of prep work that goes into this, right? You can't just dive into these really heavy conversations. You have to have like the tier one circle of talking about your favorite dessert or your favorite vegetables. And it has to be sort of part of what you do. And then you can practice it in low key, like lower risk situations. And then before a conflict remediation circle, you really have to talk to both parties, understand their perspective, understand how they're talking or coming to the table, right? It's not just something. There's a lot of behind the scenes effort. So by the time you get to a really high stakes conversation, you can typically, if you're the facilitator and if you're doing a good job, you typically sort of are ready for that conversation and understand how humans are coming to that conversation. Yeah, shout out to Ale Coleman, who's our social worker at MSMS, who's a phenomenal facilitator of this work. And I impact conversations. I can't remember. You just used a really good term, Jess. And she met with all parties. She meets with parties beforehand. She goes over what the questions are. What are you thinking you might answer that? Okay, so let's think about that answer. That part of your answer was really helpful. This part could be perceived as hurtful. So she really walks people through prior to a high level conversation happening. And Ale's amazing at this work. Yeah, she's really good. I just wanted to add a little, another sort of piece of context from my perspective to anybody who might be a skeptic.  But the way I think about it is like, any school system needs some kind of way of managing conflict and behavior and whatever. And when I was in school, I don't know if this is the same for anyone else of my generation, but the system that my school had was demerits. It was like. Did you go to Hogwarts? No, I went to a Catholic grade school. And that was something that the teachers were trained in. It's not dissimilar in terms of how the school approached making sure that there was a school-wide system for managing these things. This, however, is so much better for the reasons of not just needing accountability and needing people to understand what the expectations are and live up to those expectations, but also as Libby was saying, it helps build tools around these things rather than getting the, like, okay, demerit. And then after four of those, there's a note that comes home to your parents or whatever. This is just so much better for all those reasons, so. Because we need something anyway, so we might as well do something that helps foster good skills. How do you deal with that? Skill, I would just add that it can be restored, practices of framework can be isolated from all the other things that we need. We need good curriculum that talks about the people. We need all the social-emotional support. We need all the things, so it's a framework that encompasses a lot. It's also the way that we think about how we are responding to punitive punishment versus that and how it's like the wellness piece and the circle is like one stage, but how we really are responding to punitive measures versus, you know, restored it and how we move. You know, like I like transformative justice and how we like shift those thinking about all those other concepts.  Yes, thank you, Jess. Thank you. So when you're talking about Ali and the higher-level conversations, that's sort of what I was wondering about with my question about training. So are there certain people on staff that are designated for once something rises to a certain level that not any teacher could say, okay, I'm gonna have a circle around this, you know, pretty intense behavior, but that it would go to like a handful of people? Yeah, and it's different. You know, we've had situations where where this circle needed to happen, except there was definitive gender. The, you know, students involved were really concerned that it was a male who was running the circle instead of a female, right? So having that relationship with kids is really good so they can say that, right? We had, we've had situations where race became the challenge for the kids quite rightly, and so we found an outside person who could come facilitate the circle for us where the students felt more comfortable. So that's more high school level, you know, because kids are a little bit more able to voice those concerns. They could do it in the middle school too, we just haven't had that experience in the middle school. We've had concerns with staff around, I don't want an administrator running, or I don't want to, sorry, I don't want a teacher running that because they're at the same level in the hierarchy that we are, and it feels like that would be a weird position for them to be in, right? So, just being able to have those conversations are super important before this work when they're really high impact conversations that goes back to the amount of thought that goes into it to make sure that it's, that we start at a trusting level. Does that make sense? It would be nice in this sort of early-ish stage of progress at the district. Like Jill mentioned earlier, sort of some data around it. So, I don't know if you could just be forward-thinking about reporting back out to us next year, you know, like how many circles happened? You know, how many, if you're calling them tier one, tier two, tier three, like how many of each of those circles happened? It might be too much data collection. Maybe there's- Maybe you can't like tier one, but- Yeah, but, and then like did that, did that resolve the issue or did, you have to resort to other methods? You know, it might be interesting to start tracking some of that data. Yeah, yeah, I can start thinking about that. I mean, if the culture is getting, I think to where we hope, I would imagine that the tier one circles would be not worth counting. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, this is what we do. That's what we do. Yeah. And I wonder if maybe the climate survey could speak to it or I don't know what metrics, it's so hard to get metrics. I was also thinking of Monday, talked about the behavioral report that doesn't rise to an investigation. Or there was like, there were like, these were, there were, you gave us two numbers and it was like 14 and then it was two that actually became an investigation, but that 14 was actually reduced from some other previous report. And I wonder about that number. And if that, the number that, I don't know where, like there's a question goes to the principal and the principal says, is this something I'm gonna consider or not? And then if it's something they're gonna consider, it might become an investigation, which is a much more, right? Isn't there, wasn't there three levels there and the numbers that you showed us were just the second and third levels? The number we showed you was, the larger number was the number of investigations. The smaller number was the number of substantiated investigations. But then there was behavior before the report. Oh, yeah. Which those would come up a lot. And that number would be really, that number would be an important metric, I think for us. Not that we need to see it in that context or whatever, but generally, the number of those going down or just having a sense of where they're at would be an indicator of culture that I think would be valuable. Or what their response to that one was, was it a restored adjustment? Yeah. Circle that fix the issue and, or not fix it, but yeah. So how that, and that's probably in your data, right? Like what you did? Yeah, yeah. So we do have data around how people responded and then for each, you know, HHB investigation, they're pretty clear. So that would be something that I could find. If it would be possible to see that as just somebody who would be filling out the form to see that form like we were trying to do last night. An empty one, you mean? Yeah, like a blank, like as the viewer, as the person filling it out, it'd be even if it was just a PDF, you know, visual of what the form is, it just would be helpful. Yeah, I know, we tried to do that. I was actually driving home on Monday and I was like, I think we tried to do that and didn't, so yeah. Totally fine. Other questions for Jess? Thank you so much, Jess, super helpful. Yeah, thanks for all your great work. It's very glad to have you. Yeah, really exciting. Have a happy birthday. It's a birthday? Wait. On Monday. Oh.  Oh, hi. Great. I'm excited. Oh, I'm remembering your three-minute interview right now. Yes, me too. Yes, yes. Yeah. Relax, you can feel like being in a career and not having to do anything. Oh, yeah. Like being stuck somewhere. Dreamy. Wonderful. Well, thank you everyone. Great, thank you. So, policy monitoring, we have two reports to approve. The two freedom of expression policy at 14. And then the KHHB policy, which I'm not sure of the number, but the HHB policy that we had to review on Monday that we did not get to. Do I have a motion? Well, let's do a one-and-a-togative motion to approve the student freedom of expression policy. I'll move to approve the monitoring report for policy F-14. Do I have a second to approve the monitoring report for F-14? I'll second. Any discussion? I have a question regarding the second interpretation. There's two interpretations. Oh, there's one in bold. Are you looking at what's written above interpretation? I'm looking at this second interpretation and the evidence. So, I'm trying to understand this policy. This policy is saying any student that is, that writes in the media in the yearbooks needs to abide by this, right? And so the second piece you're sharing about the outside of a sponsored student media, these conversations push our faculty and students to sometimes uncomfortable places. I'm not sure if I'm reading this correctly. And so, if you can explain to me what this piece is about. But under the interpretation, MRPS is the responsibility to engage students in thoughtful dialogue around potentially challenging topics in order to create well-rounded citizens. Such dialogue students are able to express and challenge opinions. Faculty may limit speech based on the categories, categorizations found above interpretation. And it gets at your question earlier, Amanda, that when a teacher is making instructional decisions that make students uncomfortable, for whatever reason, right? Maybe they're marching through a very white perspective of history. Maybe they used an example or a video that was triggering for a student. When our students are relatively good at bringing that up, and what I was trying to get at here is that our students are rightfully bringing that up. Most are doing it in very respectful ways. And it's an uncomfortable conversation for our faculty that we're still struggling with how to talk with the students in that. That's a learning edge for us right there is what I was trying to get at. That we know it's a learning edge, and we appreciate that learning edge. That's what I was trying to get at. OK, because what I'm unclear about is the policy itself. Like, why that interpretation belongs to the internal report. If this is freedom of expression in school-sponsored media. Yeah, I'm misguided. So if this second interpretation, if what you're sharing with us is about an instructional practice of a teacher, I'm not sure why it belongs in this monitoring report. She's saying that the definitions don't include sort of like classroom dialogue. Yeah, we keep going in the policy down. Sorry. I think I just went a little bit further. Because students' freedom of expression, while this is a media policy, because I think it has to be, I believe this is a required policy. Yeah, that is. Yeah, in my mind, student freedom of expression should go beyond student media. As at this point, we have very limited student media. It's not. We had a new smart paper that was trying to get off of going last year that fits and starts throughout my tenure as superintendent. I think it's important that we talk about the fact that student expression is really important to us at Montpellier-Roxbury. And sometimes it's a really uncomfortable place for us, too. But you're right. If I look at this policy, it's speaking directly to media. That's a very limited scope, I think. And so I would argue that this second, it makes me uncomfortable to have that there, because that is now part of the policy. And that is a conversation that we should have. It's not just media, right? Like it's school-sponsored events and things. But to have the conversation about if a teacher is teaching something and a student is disagreeing because his ear is centric and he's not teaching the right history, this is not banning that student from that conversation. You're talking about in the evidence as the second piece of evidence. Yeah, and I don't want this to be a precedent of a policy that doesn't exist. And I don't want it to be attached to a policy. Gotcha. I think if there's not a policy to monitor on, you report it and have me approve it. Well, I think what she's saying, I mean, what I understand you saying and that I agree with is that you shouldn't use something outside of the policy as evidence of complying with the policy. Yeah, but I think if you look at the way that it's written, I think the top part is the compliance of the policy. The second part, which I think we should just strike, is compliant, like, I mean, she's not interpreting the policy we have and she's not interpreting compliance with that policy. So I think everything from what Amada pointed down is irrelevant to F-14, which would just strike F-14. That's correct. We can strike that part. Yeah, and on that note, I actually would like to hear more about the evidence, because when I read school newspaper, I was like, ooh, do we have a school newspaper? I was so excited. I'm like, wait, I've been in the dark. So I would like to know more about flesh it out a little bit or have you flesh it out just slightly and talk to how are students getting involved in the newsletter? Is there a section in the Solon salute that is reserved for students? No. So when we talk about a responsibility to create the environment that allows students the ability to express, I agree with that interpretation. And I think that we do that, but I just don't know exactly how, and I'm not seeing it in the two sentences provided as well. So the school newspaper is a club, and it is required to have students sign up Join the club in order to make it published, and my understanding is students have not signed up to be a part of that club. That I know of this year. Last year there was a couple of students in the beginning of the year. The year before that, I've been interviewed around budget time. It's not a thriving club this year. Another example of that, a lot of the kids, and I saw you noted this in your Superintendence report, a ton of the kids are actually running the social media for sports and stuff. They're actually empowered to do that. It's pretty cool. Yeah, and so extracurriculars, when I saw extracurriculars, I was like, how are they? And I have seen, now that you mentioned that, I've seen some of those posts, but it would be nice to just provide more detail there. Of what? Something that doesn't exist? That students are in charge of the social media, posting about the sports teams. So I don't know exactly. Those are student-created, though. It's not like school-sponsored media. So there's like a Solens soccer team Instagram account that's not school-sponsored. They created it themselves. Soccer team created it themselves. That's not like something that's passed down from Matlink to the next soccer group. I see. So when I was called by Zinn RJA, the first year when Serika was the community advisor, they had a Facebook page that Racial Justice Alliance created. Yep, they still have an Instagram page. They had an Instagram page. And then the year that I was called, advising we couldn't find the password. Nobody knew the password of Facebook, so we couldn't post our things in there. But there were still RJA as an inferior high school. So even though they were student-created, I wonder how we turned that piece to make sure they could have written anything. And we had no password for it. None of the pass advisors had it either. So I think we had to create a new page for the new group. Yeah, because I have one now. To be able to do that. But it's still student-run. But in a way, that is the school creating an environment. There are other schools that I know of that have shut down. Anything that says MRPS or whatever, Montpelier, Solens, like you're not allowed to use that in an Instagram. So I've had in other schools that I know of, they've shut down Instagram accounts if they have that. So in a way, I think you're fostering a culture by allowing it to thrive on its own. I don't know how that you shared some of the posts. Have I shared some of the posts? On our Instagram? Oh, and it does, yeah. Right, so you're sort of amplifying student voice that way. So I just feel like it could be just added some more detail as it looks when I'm, you know, the policy needs to be. This is a required one from the, but it needs to be updated. Yeah, they're looking at it. That's on us. BSBA is looking at that one right now. No, it's on the BSBA if it's a mandatory one. But I would say that if it's a school-sponsored club, even though they're creating their own social media and running it, and tomorrow they decided to post horrible things in it, wouldn't that be our responsibility? Because it is a club that is sanctioned and by the school. The school creates its clubs. It's a really good question. It's this generation's newspaper. I know. Yeah. Well, even Instagram's a little faux pas, but. Right, right. That's a really good question, Amanda. I would imagine how we would address that is that we would go into restorative circles and restorative practices around that piece and could it do explore the harm that could potentially have been done. Well, it wouldn't be much different than a personal Facebook post attacking you, right? Like it would go into the HHB file, take a screenshot. Like it'd be treated that way, right? Like you're not going to shut down the whole page because it won't even show the door. If it were targeted at an individual, it could. But if we don't have the passport, we won't be able to share that. No, we don't have screenshots in that case. Well, no, I mean, I agree it's a very good point because I can recall when I was in high school, the student newspaper could have printed something that would have been something that required the same kind of conversation between the school and the journalist and the editor and, but the student newspaper was a club, just like the girl soccer team is a club. The girl soccer team didn't have their own newspaper when I was in high school, but they have their own Instagram page today. They did?  They did not. They did not. They did not. I'm older than you. It begs really interesting questions, the social media thing, and that was not around when I asked for kids, and now we're dealing with his parents, kind of. It begs a really good question. The way I read school sponsored media, it seems like the soccer or RJA website is school sponsored media. It's a prayer written, published, or broadcast as part of a school sponsored program or activity. Why a student journalist? And it's a way that students generally are made available as part of a school sponsored program. And the school is making room for that, and the school is amplifying that voice by putting it on our school sponsored page. So I think it's, I mean, there's some really beautiful examples of student voice. Oh, do you look at those? They have field hockey videos. Yeah, I loved it. And like, I think it was last year, did the soccer team decide, like, buy their own like black jerseys or something like that, and they all took a knee, or there was something like that, like a concerted effort of the team. They wore the same shirt. The voice, wore their Black Lives Matter shirts. Right, and I mean, so there's an example of, some schools might not have an environment where the team feels comfortable making that type of statement visibly and publicly in a game setting. And our school did, and I'm sort of proud of that, you know? And so I just want to see more details. I guess I didn't think about that. Well, I know I didn't think about that piece for this policy monitoring report. The racism, the racism, I also did a lot of advertising and that, yeah. And they had public speaker, you know, they give a lot of really beautiful speeches at that event that our students give those speeches, right? Or some of them do. So I do understand that a policy monitoring report would require that level of detail. And I thought we were just, our role was that we were accepting that she's reporting compliance, not that it needs to be. I mean, I don't see any evidence of non-compliance, but I mean, I definitely take your point, Emma, that I think this was written with a narrow definition of school-sponsored media in the policy. The policy itself, yeah. I think the monitoring report, I think if you read that, I think the policy is written broadly enough, even though it was written in language that I think is from kind of like the school paper era, like the language is broad enough to incorporate social media. I just think it's an opportunity to, I think that the evidence portion is an opportunity to communicate out to our community and constituents about what we're doing well as it relates to this policy. And these two sentences just don't do it justice, just of the very limited knowledge that I have about what student voice is sort of what the culture is at our schools. And there are other examples, like the other policy that we're monitoring, that we're looking at her monitoring report tonight, gives a very specific example. So there's been other times where you provide very specific examples, and then this is a little more broad. And so I don't know if that if... So I suggest we amend the motion to approve the monitoring report, the relevant portion at the top. I think there's compliance. I don't think we have to make, maybe do more work, but just duly note that for the next time this comes up to give a broader lens on what the evidence is and what the definition is. Does that make sense? Can we approve an amended monitoring report? Let's just pull the... I think we can. Can you do that? I'm just asking if we are able to do that. I don't see why not, because we're not, I mean, both we work compliance. I mean, I think we can approve the compliance. I would like to amend the... Yeah, that's what Jim was saying. He's saying the same thing you are. Okay, to remove the second piece. And then... That's what he's proposing. I'm just asking if we're allowed to do that. And you think that's fine. I think that's fine. I mean, because we're not, because we don't have an issue with knock compliance. Okay, so I made the motion. So I will accept that friendly amendment to approve the first half of the monitoring report for policy F-14. Yeah, I would have managed to say to approve compliance of the monitoring report with notes for the record that everything in the second part of the second interpretation and second compliance, second evidence are struck. Yeah. Okay. Do I have a second? Second. On the amendment. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Great. Thanks for bringing that up. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, that's good. HHB, do I have a motion to approve the HHB monitoring report? Receive that hazing harassment and bullying monitoring report. I have a second. I second. Any discussion? I'll just, I just appreciate Libby being willing to sort of go back and take a closer look at the policy and the various incidences that were reported and dig a little bit and then be willing to actually change your reporting on that. So I really appreciate you taking a second look. We know differently. We do differently. Thank you. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? The monitoring report has passed. And next we have executive session to approve goals. But wait, real quick update from the equity. Oh, sorry. Thank you.   A more fully fleshed out report from the climate survey. The one that we sent to you a couple of weeks ago was like the bones of it. And now this will have more meat on those bones. So we wanted to give you that heads up because we would like you all to make time in your calendars for early next week to read that and give us any further thoughts. We heard from a few of you on the skeleton. We'd like any further thoughts on the more extensive version of it. So please make that time. The committee will be meeting next Wednesday morning. So you will have from Friday, sometime on Friday, through like end of the day, Tuesday, to get back to us. Mark your calendars. I'm gonna mark my calendar, which is hard copy. I know, you're gonna need some pencil out. Right, that pencil. On there, but I wanna know what the sort of end product is. Is it that you're providing a report on that? That will be public. Yeah, I mean, it's part of our contractual obligation is to hold the survey and then do some kind of, here's what we learned. I have a meeting with them tomorrow, with you in leadership tomorrow. Can I tell them when they can expect that? They asked me at my last meeting. Oh, yes, that's a fair question. By the end of the month, I would think, right? And is all the data made public? Or just the, right now our plan is to just do this report of what we've learned. Okay, right? I think for the teachers, they might wanna see the clean. The spreadsheet? Yeah, like just the clean one. Yeah, I mean, we're gonna attach it. This can be, this is our first time at this stage in the process. So this is, there's no precedent. Would there be any identifiable information there? No, I wouldn't strip. Not in the spreadsheet. To be clear, 9% of what you do is public information. Yeah, right, exactly, right. Except like those, The qualitative answers? The identifying information, it's not. I mean, they can do pretty much anything. There's no results, there's nothing there. Anything that can then identify people. Correct, right. So, yeah, we could definitely attach a link. I think the easiest thing would be that full spreadsheet that Seiji cleaned up. It's got everything in it, except for qualitative data. It's very good. It's a panelist. A really slow extension. What were you saying? What were you saying? He'll work well with my query. I was gonna ask you a question about bullying. About? Or is that allowed? A proposal, maybe for the next agenda. Sure, you know there's a proposal for the next agenda. Okay, I have a proposal around bullying harassment and next steps for us as the board that I dreamed about. So, I think we can have that. Here's a board discussion. Yes, thank you. I'm dreaming, too. Oh man. It's true. It's true, it's true, it's true, it's true, it's true. Your dream radio, for you, the aggressor of the victim. I was there when they just started doing the amazing skateboarder after. Of course you did. He does kind of look like Johnny Hawk a little bit. You think you're still being recorded? Yeah. Okay. But we're soon going to have your executive session. Gross, gross, gross. We're going to have Nathan should know. He's got some skateboarding skills in there, so. So now I think we're, right? Yeah, okay, great, great. I move that we move into executive session for the purposes of personnel discussion. Okay, I was in the paper. Oh, I need a second. I second. I was in the paper. Bye. Great.


Hello people of the internet, my name is Johnny and it is finally time, cause yesterday, February 1st, 2023 was officially day one of filming for Blumhouse's upcoming live action, Five Nights at Freddy's Film. Apologies I'm so red, I did just get out of the shower, but of course I had to make a video because yesterday, because it was day one of filming, we got a whole bunch of details on how production's going, a whole bunch of posts from actors and also an official behind-the-scenes look from Jason Blum himself, and heck, even on day one we're getting some leaks about some brand new scenes we're going to see in the film, so if you're excited don't forget to hit the like button, subscribe if you're brand new, give it a little tickle and celebration for day one of the filming, and without further ado let's just hop right into it very quickly though, just make sure everyone's on the same page, I'm gonna go through some of the cast and crew involved with the film. I did just make a video a couple days going in depth more with these cast and crew members, so if you want more details that video's gonna be linked down below but very quickly let's wrap it fire through some of these guys, first up we have Jim Henson's creature workshop making the animatronic costumes themselves, Emma Tammy's the director, the writers are Scott Cawthon, Seth Cudback, and Emma Tammy, and of course Blumhouse and Jason Blum, who's the head of Blumhouse gonna be producing the film. As for cast members we have Matthew Lillard playing William Afton, Joss Hutcherson as Mike Schmidt, Elizabeth Lail as Vanessa, Barry Stuart Masterson as a female villain, Piper Rubio as Mike's younger sister Abby, and actually at the end of that video we talked about actress Kat Connor Sterling who was rumored to be playing yet another brand new character named Max, and as we're gonna see later on she is officially confirmed to be in the film so there's yet another brand new character. And actually since that recording we got three brand new cast members revealed, first up is Lucas Grant who's been cast as Garrett. A lot of people are speculating just off appearance alone could be the crying child, the younger brother of Mike, the other brother to Abby. Though that is not confirmed we of course have no clue who Garrett is supposed to be. Next up we have Jophiel Love cast as Ghost Kid number five interestingly enough, and then we also have Ghost Kid number three though we're not entirely sure who their actor is going to be. Of course the most likely explanation for these five ghost kids is that they're going to be the missing children possessing the characters. Once again that's just speculation but because they're called ghost kids and there's five of them the five missing children just seem like the most plausible explanation. And now we move on to some of the more recent news involving the actual filming of the FNAF film. Because on the very last day of January, Mary Stuart Masterson who again is going to be playing a unnamed female villain in the film posted to her Instagram saying I hate leaving home I miss my family too much but sometimes I get to work in magical places like New Orleans. I hear my room is haunted bring it on thank you at Blum House for the opportunity to play for a living. Hashtag FNAF here I come. And then yesterday the first day of filming we also had Cat Connor Sterling poster her Instagram story morning and what appears to be her trailer getting her makeup done for day one and then we also had Piper Rubio playing Abby post to once again her Instagram story with just an adorable cupcake of Freddie Fazbear also jamming out to the living tombstone FNAF one song as we can see in the top of the top of the screen which if you ask me this just has to be the best way to kick off filming Freddie Fazbear pancakes and the living tombstone come on and then later on in the day we got Jason Blum himself coming in clutch with some behind the scene set photos as you can see this photo is of a TV display screen showing off all the views they have for each camera and of course they just had to put the clapper right in front of this actor's face so we don't know necessarily who they're going to be a lot of people are speculating that is Matthew Lillard in the role of William Afton because it looks like he's wearing a purple shirt underneath his vest you can also see on the clappers themselves the logo for the production name for the film again I want to remind everyone this is the production code name for the film it says bad cupcake that is not going to be the official film title when it releases it's of course going to be called five nights at Freddy's but just for behind the scenes things with hiring actors and you know trying to say as mysterious as possible when casting roles and such a lot of films choose to go by a code name or a production name and in this case FNAF is a bad cupcake and that font for that logo is going to be very important later on so keep that in mind sticking with this set photo just a bit more from Jason based off of this picture it looks like we're in some sort of diner not necessarily known if it's going to be Freddy Fazbear's or maybe Fredbear's or it could just be a stereotypical regular diner that has no affiliation with Freddy's but it looks like at some point in the film we're going to have two or so actors sit down in a diner to have some discussions and also right in the middle of these TV displays is a Vanny piece of merchandise a lot of people are jumping to some pretty out there conclusions with this piece of merchandise just randomly behind the scenes claiming that oh because they have that behind the scenes Vanny's going to make an appearance which I guess maybe could happen because we do have Vanessa on the film but I just think that's way too close to later games and security breach to be in a first movie you know so I don't think Vanny's going to be in the film I think they just wanted to have a bit of decoration for behind the scenes for the people working on the film and speaking of people working on this film court-retweeting this tweet by Jason was Matthew Lillard himself saying let's f***ing go hashtag Afton and now for just a bit more behind the scenes we have Kat Connor Sterling who once again is going to be playing Max posting to her Instagram a video going over day one of filming you can see in the video she shows up in her trailer getting her hair and makeup done getting ready for rehearsal saying how rehearsal went very well how she got into costume but she's not allowed to show us the costume as well as what appears to be a director chair with the word cast in the same font that bad cupcake was in on the you know little clicker in Jason's tweet so just more confirmation that Max is going to be a brand new character played by Kat in the film and luckily it seems like at least according to Kat looks like everything went well on day one though they did film for 10 hours which whoo boy that's a long time especially because according to Kat it was only one scene but hopefully it turned out pretty good at the end of the TikTok she says just how exhausted she is on day one so hopefully she gets some pretty good rest and speaking of behind-the-scenes TikToks actually we just got a leak boys I'm not even messed around because this TikTok that gave us a behind-the-scenes look at a scene that we're probably not supposed to know about that's going to be in the film was deleted this was apparently recorded by a tech scout which is someone who goes out to scenes and locations that are going to be in films and kind of scope out the scene plan out how filming is going to go where exactly they need to put cameras and lights and you know technical stuff like that that's why it's called a tech scout and you can see the location they're scouting out is a house in the woods now where have we seen a house in a woods before well let me point your attention towards the FNAF 4 title screen you can see the house that they're scoping out for filming looks very similar to the house we see in FNAF 4 and also a lot of people are pointing out midnight motorist as well that's also a FNAF house that's located in a forest so this very well could be a location for the Afton's residence that's going to be very exciting to see them actually interact if that's going to be the family house something i forgot to mention was that they're also looking for cars from the 90s 80s and 70s for filming mainly the 90s but because they're also looking for 80s and 70s films i wouldn't be surprised if we get a couple flashbacks who knows maybe this house is part of one of those flashbacks and we see William Afton driving up with a classy 1970s car but oh my gosh how is this day one of filming day two of filming as i'm recording this video and when it's going to go up and we already have so much stuff personally for me it is not settled in just yet that the FNAF movies actually filming right now and that most likely sometime later this year i'm going to be sitting in a theater watching the FNAF movie but i'm sure it's going to set in at any point now and pretty soon i'm just going to be lying straight up in my bed like oh my gosh it's finally freaking happening like seven years later we're finally getting this film so i'd love to know what are your thoughts on the brand new FNAF movie actors and also cast and set photos how do you feel about the potential leak from a tech scout who actually showed off again probably a location we're not supposed to know about just yet all that and more i'd love to know what you have to say in the comments down below let's get some discussions going day one of filming very exciting but thank you so much for watching this video and i'll see you all on the flip side goodbye


My name is Jennifer Ellery. I've been attending a cornerstone Baptist Church for the past two years. And I'd like to share my testimony with you today that God might be glorified. And I can say thank you for His amazing grace to me. My church history includes 30 years of Catholicism, 12 years in the way ministry, which was a charismatic fellowship. Ten years of non-denominational mega churches, and the past five, almost six years, has been with biblical reformed churches and ministries. I was raised in a close loving family with hardworking parents who sacrificed much to provide for us and to bless us. And I left this home of great blessing and went to college. Though it was only two hours from home, it was the far country of Louis XV, the story of the carnival sign. It was there, loose and riotous living with what characterized my life. After graduating from college, I moved to the more distant country of Southern California, where the same lifestyle continued. I was exceedingly selfish and self-serving. I hurt and I abandoned those that I should have loved, those that I should have nurtured and those that I should have sacrificed for, because when I left Kentucky I had my three-year-old daughter in the care of her paternal grandmother. I destroyed many relationships. I justified my sin, I blamed others for everything. I only cared about myself. I obsessed about how I looked, because it gained in me what I thought was acceptance, approval and significance. I was deep into the Southern California lifestyle. I spent hours in the gym every day, and I gloried in my worldly success. I thank God for all the but-gods in my life. Amen. But God had graciously lit my heart to His Word. Even as a child in the Roman Catholic Church, I always was attentive and enjoyed the scripture readings. As an adult, I was about 29 years old. When I was drawn to the Way Ministry, this was in San Diego, and it was because of the scripture focus. After years in the Way Ministry, I began noticing discrepancy between what was taught and what was in the Word of God that I was reading. I asked questions that got insufficient answers. It was at that time that I prayed and I asked that God would show me what was true. As God began showing me truth, the Word convicted me of my sin, and I could no longer sin with ease. On a drive from Phoenix to San Diego, I was praying and I wanted to tell God that I loved Him, that I only got to the L of love, and I couldn't finish. When a flood of tears followed, because I knew I loved my sin and not God. I continued in the Word and the conviction grew, sin consequences and damaged relationships compounded that conviction, and I walked away from a sinful relationship. My desire for God's truth and knowledge of Him grew, and then everything went sideways. Extreme stress in my job, my health was impacted and I no longer wanted those things that I embraced. But God used those circumstances to get me out of Southern California, out of the job and out of the far country. I had not planned to move back to Kentucky, but God directed my steps. I'm thankful that He did. He actually kept me there in some pretty amazing ways. You don't have that kind of time, but in staying in Kentucky, He restored the relationship with my daughter and He restored the relationship with my mom, and God did that. But God, but God was pursuing me, and I thank Him. I'm sorry, I love you sister, but do you think you're kidding? But Jen, younger brother Jen did not come to her senses. She did not go to the forgiving, compassionate father. She ran past Him to the other side and became the older brother. I became exceedingly self-righteous, knowledge puffed me up, and how I looked morally became everything to me. I was the white-washed therapy, feeding again on being approved of and accepted by others. I listened to every radio ministry. I read all kinds of quote-unquote Christian books. I was the simple one, the open door of Proverbs 1.4, allowing everything into my mind. I was the gullible, weak-willed woman on 2nd Timothy 3, who had no discernment. I was always learning, but never coming to a knowledge of the truth. Then I began attending the Becket Churches, and a thick layer of emotional hype and experience was laid onto a mountain of works' righteousness, charismatic chaos and idolatry. It was on this that I added a full measure of pride and arrogance, and you have the perfect storm. My brother of 1618 says that with pride and a haughty spirit comes destruction in a great fall. And the fall was extremely humiliating and it was very public, and the white wash that was stripped away from the younger brother was stripped away and the younger brothers of souings and readings were exposed for all to see. It was exposed too for me to begin seeing my sin as it was in truth, a wicked rebellion against the Holy God. Opposition from that fall continued for years, but God, but God was graciously pursuing me. I thank him for these years, because during these years it was God who illuminated the scriptures, growing me and my knowledge of him in his gun. It was God who brought me biblical ministries, churches and faithful shepherds and preached the whole council of God's word and the first work of Jesus Christ. It was God who opened my eyes and gave me a heart of flesh. God taught me how to flesh and to grieve over my sin. He taught me to understand that all I deserved was an eternity and how long I could not save myself. It was God who gifted me with a faith to repent and believe the gospel. It was God and by his grace he granted the faith for me to trust in Jesus Christ and have a loan for my salvation. I thank God, my Father, for his amazing grace, for his rich mercy and great love to me. I thank my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, for fulfilling all righteousness for bearing my awful, awful load. I thank him for paying the debt to do my sins. I thank the Holy Spirit, my God, for guiding me into all truth for applying Christ's predictive work and making me alive in Christ Jesus. I thank him for clothing me in Christ's righteousness. As a new creation in Christ Jesus, ceasing from sin and self, I now desire that God be glorified. I want to live for him, serve his people, exalt the name of Christ, share the gospel of his grace and worship him forever. I thank God for leading me to cornerstone Baptist Church and this day I praise and I thank him for saving a wretched life for me. I now make a formal request to covenant with this church as a member and a fellow worker for this kingdom. Yeah, yeah, with a microphone. It's a joy to have Jennifer with us and I know many of you have been blessed to see Jennifer grow in the time that she's been here. Amen. Her testimony today is a great encouragement. It should be a blessing to all of us and just magnify the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. I'm grateful that Jennifer's here. It's a joy to baptize her based upon her faith in Jesus Christ. Trust him alone. We're based on Jennifer's commitment to serve Christ as a member of our church. We baptize Jennifer, the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Thank you so much.


Right here with me is His Excellency Manoa, a TV Season of the Kenyon Ambassador to the UK. We're going to be speaking to him and just hearing what we have from the King Charles right here in Kenya. How are you, sir? Very well. What is the significance of the visit of King Charles to Kenya? First, this is the king's first visit to Africa and the Commonwealth. The fact that he chose Kenya emphasizes the important part Kenya plays in geopolitics, emphasizes our close relations with the UK, and emphasizes strong bonds between Kenya and the UK. And the king is visiting to emphasize that friendship. And to give a voice to the work we are doing together with the UK. So around trade, for instance, the UK is one of Kenya's biggest trading partners. With a trade surplus in Kenya's favor, the UK is one of our biggest sources of foreign direct investment. The UK invests in our energy, in our food systems, in beverages, in manufacturing. And the UK, we work with them around scholarships and schools, university partnerships, health. We have a solid relationship and this is partly to emphasize that and to look at the issues of today and tomorrow. Issus around innovation, you know, the king will be seeing some of that technology, that is the future. And with a mean age of 19, Kenya is about young people. And so it's about looking together at what we can do to support young people. Now, I mean, among all the common world nations, Kenya is the first one that King Charles is visiting. Is there any benefit that we're actually going to get from this visit? And actually, why did he choose this country as the first one? I always wonder why people say, is there any benefit? First, there's always a benefit from a visitor. The tourism focus, for instance. You know, the number of eyeballs focused on Kenya, your marketing budget can't fix that. One visit will trains a billion eyeballs on your country. That's a benefit that we probably won't talk about. The significance of original stability, the focus on that, the focus on Kenya as a happening place. The focus on Kenya as a place where our young people are well educated, are ready to work in any sphere in every market. The fact of focusing the globe on these things. I think it's got to be the biggest benefit that Kenya's people can thrive anywhere, that they are available to work, that they are available to engage and that they are available to lead. Any cultural or diplomatic exchanges that are going to happen through this visit? The visit itself is an exchange at the highest level because the King is head of state of the United Kingdom. He's met our head of state already, so that's that. He's been to Huru Gardens. He's here with Wananchi. He's going to do other events around the city and then he's going to go to Nairobi National Park. So those exchanges are there and in all this it's interacting with people. Both are available here. So the sector is kind of taken care of during this visit. So probably someone who is watching as we wind up. Who is an ordinary Kenyan? Wananchi tuakawaii. Kuna maali ambao ata eza kupatana na King Charles, ana eza kufika? Wange kuwa apa? Wange kuwa Uhuru Gardens. Ali Salim Wananchi uko. Ana nda Nairobi Kitchen ata Salim Wananchi. Na ata kwa Mombasa in a day or two ata kutana na watu piya kule. Ata nda church, ata nda mosque. Na ata kwa kule for Jesus. Na beach piya? Na nda beach piya? Na ata kwa Wananchi. So kila ndu uko kawaii na eza fari. Alright, thank you so much ambassador for talking to S.P.Ambas to Meshkuru Sana. Alright guys, that was ambassador from Kenya to the U.K. Manoa S.P. So thank you so much for watching. My good name is Ms. Kitenshi.