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From YouTube: School Committee Meeting of 12-3-20
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A
All
righty
team:
let's
begin,
I
am
calling
this
meeting
to
order
at
704.
richie.
I
hope
you
are
getting
my
q
and,
let's
begin
I
will
ask
all
school
committee
members
and
all
team
members
that
are
on
this
call
to
join
me.
As
we
say,
the
pledge
of
allegiance
go
ahead
and
unmute
yourself
and
let's
begin
pledge.
A
A
B
A
A
A
A
A
C
A
A
Honey,
if
we
were
in
person,
we
would
all
take
a
group.
We
will
eventually
get
there,
but
thank
you
henry
for
your
service.
We
truly
appreciate
it.
Next,
we
have
our
wonderful
vice
chair,
rosemary
carlisle.
Thank
you
for
your
devoted
and
unvaluable
services,
and
thank
you
for
supporting
me
as
chair
this
year.
Truly
appreciated
everyone.
Please,
let's
give
rosemary
everyone
a
round
of
applause.
E
A
E
We're
going
to
shift
sharing
screens
and
dr
jennings
will
share.
As
you
know,
we
made
an
emphasis
to
put
equity
front
and
center
and,
as
a
result
of
that,
one
of
the
first
steps
was
hiring
dr
jennings
and
I'm
just
so
excited
to
have
dr
aaron
jennings
share
the
work
that
he's
been
doing
since
he
started
and
we're
just
real
excited
to
have
him
share
the
the
progress
in
just
two
months
and
where
we're
going
and
where
he's
going
so,
dr
jennings,
do
you
want
to
share
your
screen?
I
think.
A
F
Thank
you.
I
chairwoman
vice
chairwoman
committee
members.
Thank
you
so
very
much
for
giving
me
this
opportunity
to
present
to
you
all
dr.
I
just
have
one
correction.
It
hasn't
been
two
months.
It's
actually
less
than
40
days,
38
days
to
be
exact
since
I've
been
on
the
job.
So
this
is
exciting,
but
thank
you.
F
F
F
F
My
entry
plan,
when
I
interview
for
this
position,
I'm
christine
lee,
said
aaron
before
you
before
our
first
interview
make
sure
you
submit
an
entry
plan
and
I
really
appreciated
that
in
smile,
because
in
my
estimation
the
entry
plan
ensures
a
successful
entrance
so
granted.
I
had
multiple
iterations
of
my
plan,
but
nevertheless
I
leaned
into
it,
and
I
would
like
to
believe
following
this
entry
plan,
my
success
has
been
has
been
felt
and
seen.
F
F
This
is
how
I
see
myself
doing
this
work
here
in
chelsea
once
again
through
collaborative
action,
capacity
building
and
systems
change.
I'm
given.
I
am
deeply
committed
to
building
relational
trust
with
stakeholders
here
in
the
city,
I'm
gaining
a
deep
contextual
knowledge
of
chelsea
and
most
important
for
me,
supporting
and
uplifting
student
staff
and
the
district.
F
So
to
operationalize
my
entry
plan,
I
really
wanted
to
lean
into
a
listening
and
learning
tour,
which
is
simply
me,
humbling,
myself
and
or
getting
in
the
posture
of
learning
from
key
stakeholders
in
the
city.
I
really
wanted
to
know,
but
I
don't
know
I
was
taught
dkdk.
Oh
no,
don't
know
I'm
a
newcomer
here.
I
live
in
chelsea,
but
I'm
new,
and
so
you
are
all
the
experts,
and
so
it
behooves
me
to
you,
know
craft
great
craft,
great
questions
and
really
lean
into
your
expertise.
F
So
this
is
just
a
as
of
november,
the
30th
from
the
chelsea
public
school
side,
a
small
sample
of
the
people.
I
have
had
opportunity
to
have
interviews
with
for
the
city
as
well
as
community
based
organizations
that
it
is
an
exhaustive
list
and
so
for
them.
I
want
to
say
thank
you,
and
in
less
than
40
days,
I've
had
60
plus
interviews.
F
F
I
I
provided
one
in
the
fifth
question
which
the
question
that
that,
as
a
social
worker
inside
of
me,
it
was
the
question
I
was
probably
the
most
happy
to
offer
actually
left
people
as
a
surprise.
They
were
they
often
smiled
at
me
and
said:
hey
aaron.
I
I
didn't
suspect
for
you
to
ask
this
question
and
matter
of
fact.
Let
me
get
back
to
you
on
how
you
can
learn
from
me
and
continue
support
my
work,
but
it
was
a
question
that
they
really
appreciated.
F
The
number
one
response
was:
I
love
the
students,
I
love
our
students
and
our
families
and,
and
I
will
say,
I've
interviewed
a
half
a
dozen
of
our
students
and
you
know
we'll
interview
more
and
I
can
see
that
I
can
see
why
that's
the
number
one
question
over
and
over
and
over
and
over
again
people
really
acknowledge
the
the
sense
of
belonging.
They
feel
here.
F
F
As
it
relates
to
strength,
resiliency
and
tiny,
but
mighty
resonated
with
many
individuals,
our
students
resilient,
our
parents
are
resilient.
Our
community
is
resilient
and
the
fact
that
we're
1.8
square
miles
or
2.2
square
miles,
if
you
add
the
water,
we're
tiny
but
we're
still
mighty
and
one
person
said
we
get
stuff
from
stuff
done.
F
F
Slide,
what
is
working
in
terms
of
equity
and
diversity
in
chelsea,
two
quick
points,
the
conversations
have
started
and
the
students
particularly
acknowledge
the
small
things.
The
high
school
staff
teachers
do
for
them,
whether
they
don't
eat
pork
or
they
have
to
bring
in
separate
lunch.
The
students,
oh
wembley,
said
our
staff
really
help
accommodate
us.
F
F
This
was
also
centered
around
reshifting,
the
problem
or
what
we
see
as
a
as
the
problem,
no
longer
our
students,
but
the
context,
the
the
the
situational
factors
that
lie
in
hand
and
all
and
lastly,
but
certainly
not
least,
which
was
something
that
was
said
over
and
over
again.
The
recent
hires
of
people
of
color
at
the
school
and
district
level.
F
F
F
G
G
F
F
F
My
fifth
and
final
question:
how
can
I
continue
to
learn
from
you
and
support
your
work
oftentimes?
I
would
give
back
hey.
Let's
continue
having
these
conversations,
I
would
appreciate
future
connections
and
and
collaborations
even
invited
me
to
come
into
the
schools
come
into
their
classrooms
to
be
a
thought
partner
with
them,
and
I
will
say
I
think
my
proclivity
is
just
like
dr
almighty's
to
be
in
the
classroom,
so
I
mean
maybe
in
the
schools.
F
F
I
want
to
see
if
I
can
get
to
100
now
as
an
artificial
number,
but
just
give
me
a
really
a
nice
data
sample
set
sample
size
from
this
data.
I
would
do
an
analysis
and
highlight
make
mention
of
trends
and
with
those
trends
we
will
go
into
a
district-wide
equity
audit
is
with
this
equity
audit.
After
that,
when
the
equity
audit
is
complete,
we
will
have
a
detailed
plan
of
action.
Recommendation
is
with
these
recommendations
that
we
that
we
hope
to
that
we
plan
and
tend
to
go
to
craft.
F
The
plan
to
ensure
that
more
equity
is
is
felt
in
chelsea
public
schools
at
a
systemic
nature.
Until
then,
I
will
continue
to
co-craft
analyze
and
even
work
alongside
colleagues
to
reviewing
policies
curriculum
as
well
as
practices
in
our
district,
and
I
will
say
I'm
doing
it
doing
that
very
same
thing.
A
C
F
That's
a
good
question.
You
know
when
I
share
with
you
that
I'm
working
across
dr
harmony's
cabinet-
I'm
actually
I
have
I'm
working
with
dr
army.
I'm
sorry,
I'm
with
christie
lee
christine
lee
right
now
on
building
out
not
only
a
recruitment
but
a
retention
plan
on
how
we
can
recruit
and
retain
teachers
of
color
in
the
district.
I
will
say
I
probably
will
be
able
to
give
you
more
specifics
in
the
days
ahead.
I
don't
want
to
like
speak
ahead
of
myself.
Oh,
we
definitely
wouldn't
need
your
support.
F
We
definitely
would
need
your
help
and
your
aid.
I
know
that
when
I
had
an
interview
with
our
chairwoman,
she
was
saying:
hey
aaron.
This
is
this
is
also
a
passion
of
mine,
and
so
whatever
we
can
do
whatever
I
can
do
to
help
this
know.
You
got
me
on
board,
and
so
I
committed
myself
to
getting
back
with
her
once
I
have
the
substance
or
the
insight
to
make
the
ass,
but
right
now,
I'm
still
in
the
information
gathering
phase.
So
I
don't
want
to
say
hey
if
you
already
go.
C
D
Miss
garcia.
I
just
wanted
to
make
a
comment
and
thank
dr
beta
and
the
team
and
for
bringing
dr
jennings
on
and
yes,
unfortunately,
why
did
it
have
to
take
so
long
to
have
somebody
in
place
to
do
the
work,
but
it's
better
late
than
never
right.
So
we
are
moving
ahead
and
I
just
want
to
say
that
I'm
very
impressed
with
dr
jennings
that
he's
had
so
many
interviews
and
I
had
the
opportunity
to
have
the
one-on-one,
so
I'm
very
excited
about
having
him
on
board.
D
I'm
looking
forward
to
you
know
what
will
come
out
of
this.
I
know
great
things
will
come
out,
we're
not
perfect.
It's
a
working
process,
but
we're
here
to
support
you
and
whatever
it
is.
You
need
from
us
not
just
as
full
committee
members,
but
also
just
being
community
members,
because
it's
much
more
than
just
the
schools,
it's
the
whole
city,
so
yeah!
That's
all
I
wanted
to
say,
and
thank
you
thank
you
for
being
here
and
for
choosing
us,
like
ms
garcia
said.
Thank
you.
I
want.
F
To
follow
up
and
explain
that
before
I
took
this
job,
I
actually
had
two
other
jobs
offers
I
mean
not
giving,
but
two
other
job
offers.
For
me
I
mean
both
were
back
home
with
family,
but
there
were
two
factors
that
really
pushed
it
over
for
me
here,
one
working
alongside
dr
beta
and
two,
the
the
commitment
with
three
things:
the
commitment
from
the
school
committee
to
to
to
support
dr
abeda
and
the
di
role
and
three
the
work
of
councilman
robinson
and
his
colleagues
at
the
city
council.
F
I
said
to
myself
wow
there
they
are
enacting
a
dei
office
and
me
understanding
that
my
role,
I
sit,
you
know
school
departments
in
city
hall
and
know
I
have
the
opportunity
to
have
a
a
a
job-a-like
partner
across
you
know.
Up
to
you
know
around
the
corner
up
the
steps
from
me
and
collaboratively
work
together.
Our
students
live
in
the
city,
and
so
it
is
a
likely
it.
You
know
there
is
no
way
you
know
we
cannot
not
work
together.
F
We
have
to
on
behalf
of
our
students,
so
that
was
a
factor
that
I
was
like.
You
know
what
this
right
here
is
where
I
supposed
to
be
because
of
the
connections
and
collaborations,
I'm
often
happy
you
know.
During
my
e60
interviews,
I
had
to
tell
myself
aaron
slow
down
aaron
you're,
still
in
the
learning
phase,
still
in
the
learning
phase,
but
you
know
dr
I
I
just
was
excited
to
to
to
hear
and
see
the
potential
for
the
to
do.
The
work.
G
F
G
A
H
I
I
really
appreciate
you
sharing
that
list
and
thank
you
for
your
your
commitment
and
also
just
to
even
say,
like
hey,
you
know,
I'm
just
getting
started
here
and
for
taking
the
time
to
really
work
at
a
pace
that
feels
right.
As
you
said,
just
gathering
information
and
making
your
assessments
is
so
critically
important.
H
So
I
appreciate
that
and
yeah,
like
everybody
else
said,
you
know
we're
here
to
be
supportive
to
you
and
anything
that
might
be
helpful
as
long
time
residents
of
these
of
the
city,
I
always
say,
there's
just
a
ton
of
different
knowledge
and
historical
knowledge
from
different
perspectives
and
experiences,
and
so,
however,
we
could
be
a
resource
and
supportive
to
you
and
the
team.
Please
let
us
know
appreciate
it
yeah.
Thank
you.
A
Alrighty,
well,
I
will
end
that
with
sending
you
a
little
virtual
hug,
dr
jennings,
thank
you
for
joining
the
team
and
we
look
forward
to
working
with
you
and
I
can't
wait
to
see
all
of
the
wonderful
work
that
you
will
do
for
our
city
and
our
students.
Our
students,
I
know,
are
super
eager
to
meet
you
and
to
work
with
you
as
well.
They
are
ready,
they're
ready
for
this
alrighty
moving
right
along.
Thank
you,
dr
veda,
for
posting
the
agenda.
I
I
I
Attendance
is
being
fixed
and
we're
piloting
it
all,
and
I
promise
I'll
have
it
next
time
and
grades
are
closing,
have
closed
in
some
places
in
the
district
and
closed
tomorrow
at
the
high
school.
So
I
will
have
those
as
well
in
january,
so
indicator
8
is
about
our
dropout
rate
and
you
can
see.
I
don't
know
if
my
cursor
shows,
but
you
can
see
here
that
the
we
have
had
18
students
drop
out,
which
is
11
more
than
last
month.
I
I
I
A
G
I
So
a
lot
of
some
some
of
that
is
tracking
down
kids
that
have
been
absent
for
a
long
period
of
time.
You
know
tracking
down
and
trying
to
clean
up
attendance
and
making
sure
that
they
are
and
actually
attending
school.
So
there
it
some
of
it
is
students
with
drawing
right,
I
mean
obviously
they're
withdrawing,
but
it's
also
taking
them
off
our
roles.
I
A
A
I
Usually,
students
need
to
have
missed
three
consecutive
weeks
of
school,
so
15
days,
not
necessarily
weeks
but
15
consecutive
days,
at
which
point
we
do
all
we
can
with
our
attendance
officers
and
everything
to
try
to
you
know
to
try
to
contact
them,
including
home
visits.
You
know
everything,
and
that
is
when
we
would
disenroll.
A
Got
it
and
I
wonder,
are
there
any
guidelines
you
know
just
out
of
curiosity
has
that
changed
now
during
the
pandemic?
It's
still
this.
It's
the
same.
Okay
and
then
my
second
question
is
now.
I
know
that
the
memorandum
was
lifted
in
october.
If
I'm
not
mistaken,
and
we
had
a
lot
of
families,
unfortunately
go
homeless,
and
so
I'm
wondering
if
we
have
any
any
data
on
our
homeless
students
do
we
have
yeah,
did
any
of
our
kiddos
lose
their
homes
during
this
time.
I
A
E
E
E
I
E
Yeah
great,
thank
you
so
here
are
our
personnel
changes
from
for
this
month,
resignations
retirements
and
then
you
have
our
demographic
data,
new
hires
and
promotion
and
transfers,
and
then
we
have
our
enrollment
report
so
we're
at
a
steady,
6054
students.
So
I
would
like
to
commend
these
two
reports
for
to
the
record.
J
A
B
A
D
K
L
K
Few
things
that's
been
happening
this
past
few
couple
weeks,
the
first
one
and
the
most
boring.
Of
course
you
know
the
rounds
of
interviews
with
dr
jennings,
so
kind
of
shook
with
the
last
question
still
thinking
about
it
and
then
for
so
student
councils
created
spare
week
for
our
whole
school.
You
know
the
minister's
pandemic
are
what's
called
pep.
K
Rally
should
have
been
like
a
few
weeks
ago
and
with
the
idea
we
thought
about
having
a
spirit
week
and
spread
it
to
like
all
class
levels
and
also
just
kind
of
like
show
off
our
outfits
and
kind
of
like
encourage
students
to
turn
the
cameras
on
during
classes.
So
that
way
they
can
show
off.
You
know
what
they're
wearing
and
then
we
can
have
more
face-to-face
communications
with
teachers
and
students
and
as
well
as
have
seniors,
because
you
know
as
a
class
of
sources
senior
class.
K
We
want
them
to
send
us
pictures
so
that
we
can
show
them
off
on
social
media
and
kind
of
have
like
that
connection
in
the
community,
even
though
we're
virtual
also
the
new,
the
clubs
have
been
starting
up
this
year
like
a
few
weeks
ago,
and
you
know
with
the
you
know,
clubs
that
I'm
part
of
we
get
a
lot
more.
You
know
emails,
a
lot
more
requests
from
students,
and
you
know
just
more
like
more
involvement
of
students
in
those
programs
kind
of
like
in
a
way
to
distract
them.
K
D
Yes,
so
richard,
thank
you
so
much
for
updating
us
and
I'm
glad
to
hear
that
you
guys
are
trying
to
engage
more
students
by
having
clubs
and
the
spirit
week.
I
know
it's
hard,
but
I
appreciate
the
work
you
or
you
guys
are
putting
into
it.
But
can
you
because
we're
on
facebook
we're
on
cable
and
I've?
I've
had
the
opportunity
to
speak
to
some
of
the
seniors
and
they're
feeling
kind
kind
of
down
because
of
the
situation
which
is
normal,
but
you
as
their
peer.
What
can
you
say
some?
D
K
My
one,
you
know
like
voice,
would
say
just
kind
of
like
you
know,
even
though
it's
a
struggling
time,
you
know
we're
all
going
through
the
same
thing
and
it's
all
just
no,
it's
our
time
to
go
through,
but
you
know
having
each
other.
Even
if
it's
virtually
you
know
it's
all.
We
have
lots
of
connection
personal
person
in
school,
so
at
least
you
know
interacting
with
each
other
at
least
in
class.
Just
you
know
typing
something
it's
meaningful
because
you
don't
really
get
those
messages.
K
So
you
know
when
I
sit
in
their
period
and
I
get
those
messages
from
my
other
classmates.
You
know
just
you
know,
what's
wrong
with
this
one
we're
not
really
like
leaning
over
just
like
oh,
what's
going
on
so
even
though
it's
a
hard
time,
you
know,
and
we
encourage
you
to
please.
You
know
socialize
chat
with
people
because
kind
of
means
a
lot
and
if
you're
feeling
lost
please
reach
out
we're
always
available.
You
know,
even
if
it's
connect
connections,
you
know
questions
anything
that
we
can
answer.
K
D
Thank
you
richard.
It's
very
important
for
them
to
know
that
their
peers
are
there
for
them,
because
sometimes
you
know
as
a
mother.
I
know
if
I
told
my
kids
something
sometimes
they
don't
want
to
hear
it,
but
when
they
hear
from
their
peers
they're
most
likely
to
you
know
to
listen
to
it
and
try
to
do
it.
So
thank
you
so
much.
A
Richard
I'd
just
like
to
echo
what
miss
villas
shared
just
now
as
an
educator
myself,
it
brings
me
so
much
joy
to
hear
student.
You
know
trying
to
really
engage
their
their
classmates
and
trying
their
best
to
stay
positive
during
these
difficult
times.
So
I
applaud
you
very
much.
Thank
you
for
all
that.
You
do.
A
Thank
you,
veronica,
for
your
flagging
that,
for
me,
already
team
next
up
on
our
agenda
is
unfinished
business,
see
that
we
don't
have
any.
We
can
move
right
along
to
new
business
consideration
and
action
to
accept
a
gift
of
eight
gift
cards
from
the
zanta
club
of
chelsea.
At
a
total
value
of
two
hundred
dollars
found
an
enclosure
f
explanation.
A
A
B
H
A
I'm
sorry,
the
food
security
infrastructure
grant
program
was
created
to
ensure
that
individuals
and
families
throughout
the
commonwealth
have
equitable
access
to
food,
especially
local
food.
The
funding
will
be
used
to
purchase
new
equipment
and
point-of-sale
tablet
technology,
which
will
assist
in
food
distribution.
A
B
G
A
H
Thank
you
I
just
wanted
to
share
to
the
community.
I
know
that
the
school
committee
is
aware
of
these,
but
for
anyone
at
home,
parents,
students,
anybody
interested
this
year,
there's
been
a
charter
review
commission
that
was
set
up
to
review
and
make
changes
or
any
recommendations
to
our
charter.
Our
city
charter
and
our
city
charter
is
more
or
less
what
we
would
sort
of
call
like
our
city
constitution.
H
If
you
will
it's
a
very
important
document
and
the
only
way
those
changes
get
made
are
through
this
once
every
10
years
through
a
separate
process,
but
this
is
one
of
them.
The
next
meeting
that
they're
having
is
december
16th
and
for
folks
that
are
interested
in
obtaining
any
information
regarding
that
meeting
or
have
questions
about
it.
C
A
Ready,
well,
I
have
an
announcement
counselor
melinda
vega
and
I
are
sponsoring
this
year's
holiday
drive
at
the
the
collaborative
which
is
now
la
coro.
We
are
accepting
donations
every
day.
We
would
love
for
you
to
contribute
toys.
Our
hope
is
to
sprinkle
a
little
bit
of
joy
in
everyone's
home
during
such
a
difficult
year,
and
so,
if
you
are
interested
in
volunteering,
gift
wrapping
or
distributing
gifts,
please
email
me
call
me,
I'm
more
than
happy
to
work
with
you.
A
A
A
C
L
I
would
just
like
to
thank
the
team
from
the
school
department
who
worked
in
conjunction
to
provide
over
30
boxes
of
turkeys
and
whatnot
to
school
age
families,
and
I
just
want
to
thank
them.
Everybody
knows
who
they
are.
We
will
not
name
them
and
and
actually
like
to
offer.
Congratulations
to
you,
the
young
girl
who
I
used
to
see
keeping
score
over
at
north
cambridge
catholic
during
the
basketball
games
and
good
luck
on
you
know.
Endeavor.