Superintendent's Update (5 minutes)

Transcript (~2 min @ 25:36)

Speakers identified by voice; unnamed voices are numbered within this recording. Auto-caption text — verify against the video.

▶ 25:35 Speaker 2: schools thank you Ms. Driscoll one announcement which is about she excuse me our middle school and high school joining the New England Secondary School Consortium, League of Secondary Schools. Those of you who know that we have been working on competency-based education for well over two years at this point, we were excited to learn that Massachusetts has finally joined the consortium. We were the only state among the New England states that wasn't part of the consortium. When we were notified that they were going to join, We were invited to apply, we did so immediately. We are the first city in Massachusetts to become part of the consortium. We look forward to working with them and advancing our work in CBE through the opportunities they will provide. I had previously reported to you that we had joined Maple, which is another organization at the state level, which is the Massachusetts Personalized Learning Ed Tech Consortium. maple um will also be part of the new england consortium and as a member of maple we've already begun to realize opportunities for professional development visiting other schools and seeing what some of our colleagues are doing in competency-based education so we're hoping that both memberships will help advance our work in those areas any questions regarding

▶ 27:13 Speaker 4: the superintendent's just a comment and I thank you to the superintendent for keeping us out in front on this it's great work and it reflects well on us in our community and it's great to see us leading the Commonwealth and bringing the Commonwealth along so thank you for all the work

▶ 27:37 Speaker 2: that went into that superintendent um you have the same annual report as you know is required under the regulatory guidance for belonging to a educational collaborative collaborative that yearly we must present the report to you as well as their audit report and what you have in front of you is their annual report i would call your attention to pay packet page 11 which outlines