Overarching Goals and SMART Goals (20 minutes) vote required

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▶ 1:03:25 Speaker 6: McAndrew seconded by Ms. Driscoll discussion seeing none all those in favor motion passes six ayes with one absent and that concludes EP&P thank you Mr. Selton that brings us to the

▶ 1:03:57 Speaker 1: announcements of the chair and we have a number of items to take up under the announcements of the chair this evening uh first up is uh with regard to our overarching goals and smart goals um as the committee knows and as the public may be interested to know we the hierarchy in terms of our guidance and our governance and the direction in which we steer this ship is that we have a mission and vision statement we have overarching goals which are before us this evening and then each year the school committee adopts a series of SMART goals and then below or within and

▶ 1:04:43 Speaker 4: to effectuate those SMART goals we adopt action steps so we'll be talking about

▶ 1:04:46 Speaker 1: we'll be revisiting our overarching goals this evening and voting if that's

▶ 1:04:52 Speaker 1: the pleasure of the committee to approve those and to continue with those and also reviewing and if it's the pleasure of the committee approving our smart goals I will say for the benefit of the public that the school committee discussed the proposed smart goals at some length at our Saturday September 14th retreat meeting one of our two retreat meetings we hold per year typically our September meeting is our goal setting meeting and that's in fact

▶ 1:05:31 Speaker 1: what we did on September 14th in the packet we have the overarching goals as a last approved by the committee in October of 2018 and also a separate

▶ 1:05:44 Speaker 1: document for the committee's review and approval this evening which is our SMART

▶ 1:05:48 Speaker 4: goals again as adopted or as developed at our retreat meeting on the 14th we

▶ 1:05:57 Speaker 1: we adopt we developed and adopt SMART goals every year on an annual basis with regard to the overarching goals I would just note for the committee and again for the public that unlike the SMART goals which are annually created the overarching goals are more static they're designed and by their nature

▶ 1:06:20 Speaker 1: intended to be more long-lasting if you will more in keeping with our mission

▶ 1:06:34 Speaker 4: and vision than the annually reviewed and approved SMART goals if that if that

▶ 1:06:40 Speaker 1: makes sense and I hope it does just preliminary preliminarily does anyone have any comments or questions in that regard if I accurately stated the nature

▶ 1:06:47 Speaker 4: of these documents as far as the committee is concerned very good so why

▶ 1:06:55 Speaker 1: don't we take up the overarching goals for purposes of discussion is there a motion to approve the overarching goals and again let me say this these are

▶ 1:07:13 Speaker 1: already approved so to take them up tonight would be to change them if that's the desire of the

▶ 1:07:16 Speaker 4: committee but just as a procedural matter we're taking them up just to look at them again see

▶ 1:07:25 Speaker 4: how they inform our SMART goals how they relate to our mission and vision and to affirm them once

▶ 1:07:34 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: again. So I'll stop talking at this point. Ms. Driscoll please. I would motion to

▶ 1:07:42 Speaker 1: re-approve our overarching goals. Is there a second for that? Seconded by Ms. Razzi-Thomas. Discussion with regard to the motion to approve the overarching goals? Seeing

▶ 1:07:57 Speaker 4: none all those in favor and that passes with six in favor and one absent thank

▶ 1:07:59 Speaker 1: you very much so let us proceed to the SMART goals again we have a series of SMART goals developed on September 14th at our retreat meeting they're in the packet as a document for purposes of discussion is there a motion to approve

▶ 1:08:18 Speaker 1: approve the SMART goals made by Ms. Triskell seconded by Ms. McAndrew

▶ 1:08:26 Speaker 1: discussion seeing none all those in favor and that passes with six in favor

▶ 1:08:32 Speaker 4: and one absent thank you all very much for that