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Andrew Stephens, Ed.D. (781) 861-2320, ext. 69103
Principal astephens@lexingtonma.org
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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:
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a. MSBA process -will discuss more next month, but great news that the LHS SOP has
been accepted by MSBA. Hopefully we'll be able to start talking about how a new
building could also go along with the strategic planning.
b. COVID/Health and related Q &A—the vote on whether to remove the indoor mask
mandate by BOH is tomorrow; we don't know when/how it will roll out. Andrew will
remind people in the newsletter to be accepting of people wearing masks, not wearing
masks, respect other people's choices.
i. Questions: what about a student who's immunocompromised, is there a way to
give them a space where everyone is masked? We can't do that in classrooms, but
in the cafeterias, they're looking at bringing long tables back into commons 2,
keeping desks in commons 1, so if people want to keep more space they can stay
somewhere like that.
ii. No possibility of organizing classrooms by masking status. Once the mask
mandate is gone, it's gone; we just need to be kind and patient with each other.
1. Schedule Update - still on track for new schedule in early April. Tents out for lunchtime,
and there will probably still be gym space available.
Meeting adjourned at 7:30