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Approved contracts

- Athletic trainer contract (2025–2028): The board approved a three‑year renewal for the athletic trainer with 3% annual salary increases and changes to fringe‑benefit cost‑sharing described in the contract documents. The vote was recorded as unanimous in roll call: Miss DePalma — yes; Mr. Hennessy — yes; Miss Johnson — yes; Miss Putney — yes; Miss Santiago — yes; Mr. Stacy — yes; Miss Torello — yes.

- Athletic facilitator contract (three years): The board approved a three‑year renewal that folds a vehicle stipend into salary (the district will provide van access), keeps a 3% annual salary increase and moves dental coverage to the district’s Essential Choice Dental Plan. Roll call: DePalma — yes; Hennessy — yes; Johnson — yes; Putney — yes; Santiago — yes; Stacy — yes; Torello — yes.

- Family Resource Center program assistant contract (one year) and Family Resource Center Family Advocate contract (one year): Both the program assistant and family advocate one‑year renewals were approved. On both votes the roll call was DePalma — yes; Hennessy — yes; Johnson — yes; Putney — yes; Santiago — yes; Stacy — yes; Torello — no. The board minutes show Torello voting no on both items; motions carried.

- Substitute and caregiver rates for 2025–26: The board approved higher pay rates for building substitutes and caregivers tied to the state minimum‑wage changes. The district will raise caregiver and substitute custodian rates to $18 per hour and increase daily pay for non‑certified building substitutes by $5. Roll call: DePalma — yes; Hennessy — yes; Johnson — yes; Putney — no; Santiago — yes; Stacy — yes; Torello — no. Motion carries.

- Congratulatory message for alumni Hall of Fame program: The board approved a half‑page congratulatory message in the Hall of Fame and Distinguished Graduate Award souvenir program at a cost of $30. Roll call: DePalma — yes; Hennessy — yes; Johnson — yes; Putney — yes; Santiago — yes; Stacy — yes; Torello — no.

- Sodexo food service contract extension (one year): The board voted to approve a one‑year extension of the Sodexo contract; the extension follows state review and includes a $90,000 guarantee in the vendor contract, which the presenter said protects the district if food‑service operating losses continue. Roll call: DePalma — yes; Hennessy — yes; Johnson — yes; Putney — yes; Santiago — yes; Stacy — yes; Torello — yes.

No action: Truancy officer contract

The proposed renewal of a secondary attendance/truancy officer contract generated the meeting’s most extensive debate. Board members raised competing points: some argued the district needs a focused attendance specialist at the secondary level because chronic absenteeism remains high (the board was presented with midyear chronic‑absence figures showing the high school at roughly 19% and the middle school near 15% through May 1, and individual elementary schools ranging higher in some cases). Other board members objected to adding or renewing the position while the district has reduced instructional coaches and other roles, or argued that elementary principals and building staff are already managing attendance work.

Following extended discussion, the board took no action on the truancy officer contract and asked administration to return with a year‑end chronic absenteeism self‑report, input from elementary principals about how attendance work is handled at each school, and recommendations for how a district‑level role should be structured to support all schools. The transcript shows the motion had been made and seconded but the board agreed to take no action at this meeting.

What the contracts change (high level)

Presenters described common contract changes across multiple personnel items: most renewals carry a 3% salary increase; the district is standardizing sick‑leave accrual so that certain year‑round positions accrue sick days monthly; the dental plan for several contracts will move to the district’s Essential Choice Dental Plan; and certain stipends (for travel) are being folded into salaries because district transportation (van access) is now available.

Next steps

For the truancy officer item, administration will return at a future meeting with the requested data and elementary principal input. Other approved contracts will be processed per the contracts presented; the Sodexo extension will be submitted to the state for final approval before June 30 as required.

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The acceleration model keeps students working on grade‑level lessons while providing just‑in‑time instruction to close prerequisite gaps, math coach Randi Levine said. \"We believe that every student deserves equitable access to high‑quality math instruction regardless of their current level,\" Levine said.

District staff said Ferrara School piloted the approach beginning in 2022 and reported improved outcomes. Mary Anne Brennan, Ferrara's math coach, said 54% of Ferrara students who received the accelerated interventions met or exceeded their ESSA growth targets and improved performance placements. At Tuttle School, district data presented by coaches showed that 47% of the entire student population met year‑end percent‑growth goals, while 66% of students who received accelerated intervention reached that growth — a 19‑percentage‑point difference.

The coaches described how acceleration differs from remediation: rather than pulling students permanently out of grade‑level instruction to reteach earlier content, teachers preteach only the critical prerequisite skills needed to access the current lesson and keep students engaged with grade‑level tasks. \"Intervention should support access to grade‑level learning, not replace it,\" Allison Santoro, a math coach, said.

Brennan and other coaches said the approach includes curriculum mapping by clusters, teacher coaching cycles, student‑led centers, vocabulary supports for multilingual learners and performance tasks such as a third‑grade “Carnival Time” that integrates problem solving and discourse. Coaches described a template for backward planning that aligns standards horizontally across grades and links resources so the approach can be used with any core program.

District examples cited individual gains as well. Coaches said a student at Mamoguin had met 81% of the student's annual typical growth by midyear after accelerated interventions and that topic assessments and scale scores rose substantially in targeted domains — for example, coaches reported increases of 33 points in Numbers & Operations and 29 points in Operations & Algebraic Thinking on interim measures for a focused cohort.

Students quoted in presentation material expressed improved confidence. A recorded comment attributed to a Ferrara student, identified for the board as Maddox, said: \"Now I don't hate math anymore. I actually understand what we're doing in class.\"

Superintendent's staff and the assistant superintendent, who introduced the panel, said the district's next step is finishing the grade‑3 acceleration materials by June and continuing work on grade 4, expanding coaching and providing professional development and learning pathways for teachers.

Coaches said the model advances the district's equity goals by ensuring students — including students of color, multilingual learners and students with disabilities — have access to grade‑level assignments and effective instruction. They asked the board for continued support for coaching time and for time to complete materials for additional grades.

The board applauded the presentation and asked for follow‑up reports on implementation and student results as the model scales.

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