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Andrew Stephens,Ed.D. (781)861-2320,ext. 69103
Principal astephens@lexingtonma.org
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June 2021
To: The Lexington High School Site Council
From: Andrew Stephens
Re: June 14, 2021 Meeting
LHS School Site Council Meeting will meet remotely on June 14, 2021 from 6:00-7:30 PM.
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AGENDA
I. Approval of the May, 2021 Draft meeting minutes 6:00
IL Site Council Membership update: 6:05
• Out-going members: Cathy Swan Angela Chang, Khoi Le (Class of 2021 student rep); Nancy
Heilman-Shepard
• New members: Alix Fox, Kuncheng Zheng, Aurora Wang (Class of 2024 student rep)
III. Nominations/vote for SC Co-chair for 2021-2022
• Push to Sept. meeting
IV. Announcements Updates, Feedback& Discussion: 6:15
• Next year's meetings: To Zoom or Not to Zoom?
o teachers =remote; in-person
• Senior Events & Graduation feedback
o BBQ: don't mix with obligations
o Starry Night= great mix of activities --better than prom?
o Prom vs. in-school venue:
■ poss new sequence? Grade 11 =traditional prom; Grade 12 = at LHS?
■ worth looking into with class council/class officers
• End-of-year reflections
o What would you keep from this year?
■ Graduation - separate talking heads?
■ Do away with idea of snow days? most likely asynchronous
o Community events: Back-to-school, Parent Conferences, Curriculum Night, Grade 9
Parent/Caregiver Night
■ strongly in favor of in person-hybrid for parent conferences
■ Back to school night- access increased
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• possibly keep with the remote aspect of it.
■ Access for big events =remote
• loss of in-person contact but much more able to get more people
■ Curriculum night- keep the informational videos &remote conferences
■ keep humane homework situation --
■ Final exam week- suspended for 2020/2021 - do we keep with that?
• leave to teacher discretion assessment or project.
• exams in some subjects used for adjustment.
• skill-- culminating activity//project - synthesis
• different views on value of final exam --
o culminating year with final assessment
o prepare for high stakes -- key skill
o does further high stakes culminating activity hurt students?
o college =more time to prepare than HS schedule
■ recognize different environment
• sugg. make final only able to improve grade - not reduce.
• Most college instructors --not education majors
o not preparing kids for higher education
o all over the place
• Can we find way to do what finals do without same high stakes stress?
• do we need the exam period scheduled?
• I won't take up air time:It's been 2 years since I gave a final but I kind of
remember feeling like I went through all the work of administering a final
and grading a final and in the end, it rarely made a diff in a student's
grade. The A kids got As on the final and the C kids got Cs.
■ June AP testing dates and more time for exam - maybe College board
■ Grades.... keep or jestison? Walter R. offering
• ex. corrections --
Next year:
o Schedule: LHS 2021-2022 Block Schedule
o All school reads:
■ Faculty& Students: Interior Chinatown (Charles Yu)
• Interior Chinatown at LHS: Website
• Interior Chinatown Video Announcement
o Interior Chinatown Video Announcement (Youtube w/translation)
• 6/3/21 LHS Letter to the Community-All School Read: Interior
Chinatown:
■ Faculty: Culturally Responsive Teaching & the gain (Zaretta Hammond -see
below)
• Placeholder for September, 2021: School Improvement Plan
o Focus Areas: also dependent on NEASC report &Pathways group recommendations &
timing
o To be finalized after Decennial report & Recommendations of Graduation Pathways
group
■ Vision of the graduate-- dovetails nicely with Graduation Requirements/Pathways
• What skills, dispositions, characteristics do we want all students to develop &
demonstrate?
• Roadmap-- how to improve outcomes for students?
• What do we all expect of every student? adult?
• Work to state and support these expectations
■ Pathways: Recommend structures for flexible pathways for students (Fall 202 1)
• Graduation requirements (Mass Core),
• Seal of Biliteracy,
• Dual/Concurrent Enrollment
■ 990 TOL compliance (for 2023-2024)
• new schedule &implications
■ DEI:
• All school/faculty reads
o Culturally responsive teaching -- build capacity
• Continue to develop structures for more broad discussions
o ex. Advisory with Circle format
• Create building-based equity team
• Develop Peer Mediation Program
• Revise discipline practices to address disproportionality
o Restorative Justice approaches
• Continue to examine leveling structures
Andrew Stephens—Principal