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RECEIVED LEXINGTON 2022 27 Apii, 4A9 piin TOWN CLERK DJ, IIIIII I,SII C 10 0 . LEXINGTON Andrew Stephens, Ed.D. (781) 861-2320, ext. 69103 Principal astephens@lexingtonma.org Twitter: ,@,LexingtonHSMa Minutes for the LHS School Site Council Meeting on March 7, 2022 from 6:00-7:30 PM. Present: Andrew Stephens, Daren Griffiths, Jen Loney, Bryce Spalding, Walter Richardson, Alix Fox, Sam ®ffsey, Samuel Simon, Suzanne Lau, Lyn Ling Yang, Aurora Wang, IAC Zheng 1. Approval of the February, 2022 meeting minutes 2. School Innovation Plan Discussion: Andrew distilled the various discussions into tknis doc. Site Council broke into groups to discuss, then rejoined as one group for discussion. a. Note that this is definitely a *draft*; it will be discussed with various groups b. Andrew pointed out that these objectives and initiatives don't necessarily make decisions, they frame the work we need to do to make the decisions c. Some of the comments/discussion: i. more explanation needed about some of the thoughts, such as phasing out CP2, expanding co-teaching, changing the grading system to eliminate A+. L CP2 classes: don't run many any more, and the demographics are very telling. Has been talked about for years to get rid of it. Co-teaching expansion would add more support/structure to allow that to happen. Andrew points out that that's a longer-term plan, maybe 3-5 years. Hard to figure out how to put that explanation/nuance in a document like this. ii. There can be a disconnect between both opening up more higher level classes and saying some kids take too many high level classes, which adds to stress, etc. The idea of the former is to reduce the barriers to take those classes, but there need to be supports in place. iii. Note that kids will still be getting grades, and can still do the traditional route, *and* we can also want to be able to create different pathways. Jennifer Gaudet is also looking into it: this is a community discussion as well as a high school discussion. iv. Discussion on grading, what purpose does the A+ serve, what about differences between teachers? They aim to have similar grading standards within each course, as well as some level of agreement as it pertains to testing. Grading practices are long discussions. V. Andrew will try to have the summary ready to send out with the agenda for next month, so people can read it ahead of time. Will be read-only (no comments), to go along with open meeting law. 3. Updates & discussion: Lexington High School 1 251 Waltham Street I Lexington,MA 102421