Overarching Goals (5 minutes) vote required

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▶ 1:03:35 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: a proposal for revised overarching goals I'm greatly appreciate appreciative to all of you for spending a full three hours on Saturday engaging in a lot of discussion around what we feel are the things that are most important to us and our students and we had some consensus around some wording and some ideas I I hope that I have reflected them adequately here and I would entertain some any discussion that you wish to have around this or a motion for approval as you wish so moved thank I mr. Salm seconded by miss McAllister grant is there any discussion miss McAllister grant I think these look great and very

▶ 1:04:30 Speaker 1: accurately reflect our discussion and I had one suggestion two suggestions sorry so the number four strategic leadership the last line so I'm just gonna read the whole thing because it's just one sentence the Melrose public schools were responsibly strategically and transparently allocate resources based on their ability to positively impact teaching and learning and I would change it to and to realize continuous improvement in student engagement that's my requested change and would you propose it as a friendly amendment yes is that acceptable mr. so very good okay and then you my other friendly amendment

▶ 1:05:10 Speaker 1: is just if we could add to I don't know if this is the header that would be on the final document but just to indicate that these are goals for the district

▶ 1:05:22 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: for the upcoming we had said five years in our discussion so just to put a time frame around it so that it isn't just a one-year plan it's not intended to be overarching goals are standalone you can change them anytime they want this merely it's like it's like describing what overarching goals are like when we list our vision and mission we wouldn't describe what a vision and mission is so with overarching goals we would just indicate we would just update our documents to indicate that I'm not sure that I would be clear to me that overarching means five years like I don't know that that like equals it doesn't necessarily it's supposed to be overarching not changed every year there's not a time there's not a but in our discussion we discussed that this was basically like a five-year plan but there's nothing in this document that says that so it's the it's the will of the committee whatever they wish they can change the overarching goals or not that is the because we do discuss them every year but they're not intended to dramatically change okay so it depends

▶ 1:06:32 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: on what the the committee wants to do but we don't have anything in here that says five years or one year okay does that answer your question sort of the

▶ 1:06:52 Christine Casatelli: motion on the floor is for approval miss Castelli under educator development the development was just one aspect of this but we're calling in the whole thing I don't know if anyone else has a question about that educator I believe

▶ 1:07:12 Speaker 1: it was educator development and support miss Dugan I guess what other aspects

▶ 1:07:16 Christine Casatelli: are they well it says recruit develop evaluate retain but we're calling it educator development so I think I would prefer the word support educator

▶ 1:07:26 Speaker 1: support in lieu of educator development is that your motion correct friendly

▶ 1:07:34 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: amendment that is a friendly amendment is that acceptable mr salm yes mccallister grant yes

▶ 1:07:49 Speaker 4: okay it becomes educator support very good any other discussion just uh uh thanks to the chair for organizing the retreat and for many managing somehow to synthesize everything we talked about that's appreciated and a task well done thanks thank you further discussion seeing none with

▶ 1:08:02 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: the amendments that we have uh discussed all in favor opposed that motion carries unanimously