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Andrew Stephens, Ed.D. (781) 861-2320, ext. 69103
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Minutes for the LHS School Site Council remote meeting on December 13, 2021 from 6:00-7:30 PM on
Zoom.
Present: Andrew Stephens, Karen Griffiths, Suzanne Lau, Walter Richardson, Sam Offsey, KC Zheng,
Jennifer Roney, Bryce Spalding, Kate Riley, Samuel Simon,Aurora Wang, Liz Curtin, Lyn Ling Yang,
Alix Fox
1. Approved the November, 2021 draft meeting minutes
2. School Innovation Plan Development/Discussion
a. Started discussion on the district strategic plan goal to cultivate student agency:
i. Where do students currently have agency?
ii. Where do they not or where should they have agency?
iii. What are the highest leverage approaches we could take to cultivate student
agency?
b. Note that we need to revisit the question of highest leverage approaches towards
redefining success in the next meeting.
c. Andrew hopes to be able to coalesce the answers from the first two questions into more
manageable points for January meeting
3. Updates & discussion:
a. Schedule & Lunches: the school is looking at pivoting off the long lunch block;
discussing a shorter period before I blocks to help with scheduling, more like old
homeroom. This will allow more time for the students to get to know each other, more
time for teachers to get training for advisory.
b. possibly looking at moving to 3 lunches sometime in the new year. This will even out the
lunch periods, enabling 60 minute periods instead of 80 minutes. Question: that means
more kids, what do you do about that?
i. looking at 92+%vaccination rate for students now, so maybe creating 4 spaces
inside (Commons 1&2, gym, Fieldhouse)for wintertime/inclement weather.
ii. question about waiting for older kids to be able to get boosters before making the
change? We'll see where it goes.
c. Exams: students asking about there have been 2 years without final exam week; what's
the school thinking? Some students hoping for more project based stuff vs cumulative
assessments.
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i. Teachers spoke today at faculty meeting about it, and are looking at a number of
choices/possibilities:
1. not on the table at all is set 4-day exam schedule as there was in the past;
some departments didn't want to (some did).
2. middle ground: a couple of departments might do a"stop and do exam for
those two departments". Maybe this will give good practice for college?
Would basically be two days.
3. Still deciding between those two options; once the decision is made, then
discussions about how.
4. Discussion about having classes after final exams, how students will be
motivated to go to class.
d. Advisory Update - covered above
e. Budget Update: going through the process right now.
i. Put in a request for 3.5ish FTE increase based on projected student increase,
based on current 8th grade numbers. Also asked for a third campus monitor.
Wants to be able to have a person at back pickup loop, would love to get a traffic
monitor at Waltham st. crosswalk, but that's at the discretion of the police
department. There were no capital asks.
ii. the enrollment projections initially estimated between 2400-2500 in 2024, now it
looks like it'll be more around where we are now, 2250-2300ish. If it sticks to
that, that will avoid potential problems with space in science classrooms.
4. meeting adjourned 7:35