Brookline School Committee Meeting - October 14, 2026 (Audio Fixed)

Next up, we have the Excuse me. Next up, we have the consent agenda. Fairly long.

I know you had some questions about the Prism 2 grant. So, this is sim we had a similar grant for part of our fish tank um adoption that supported some professional learning and supported the purchase of some of the mate

If there are no further questions on the consent agenda, I ask for a motion to accept consent agenda. Suzanne makes the motion. We have a second.

Val, yes.

Yes, Bob. Yes. Unanimously approved.

How are you? Uh, my name is Yasmine Sharief and I'm a sixth grade teacher at Baker School and I'm here to share my concerns about how recent changes to the library program are affecting our middle school students and the

Uh, good evening. Uh my name is Eric Lauraniano and I live next to Potterham uh golf course and I want to speak a little bit aside from education about the proposed lighting bylaw coming up for a vote. The proposed light

Restricting library access robs Driscoll's middle schoolers of a space to exercise that newfound freedom and to access that part of learning that is not about instruction and fact retention, but curiosity and discovery.

If you want to understand what you lose when you adopt a fixed schedule for the library, the next time you see a Driscoll dragon, ask them about the turtles.

rubrics for teacher evaluation and so through the summer um and also in communication with um the leadership we asked if maybe we could look at the 2024 standards but um narrowing and focusing on the critical indicators

about related to use of facilities, maintenance and repairs, work order systems, emergency response, security and safety and transportation practices.

Okay. Um when I arrived when I arrived in Brooklyn, there had been a middle school study on the concern about the 8 to9 transition um that students in the 8 to9 transition were getting different minutes of instruction pe

Um our next goal is in math and um Lawrence, we've been working hard on math since for many many years. You know that math, our adoption is a little ahead of ELA, right? Fishtank is a newer adoption. Foundations has been

tremendous growth last year in our attendance data and this year it's stagnanted a little. And so as an admin clinical team, which includes our counselors, um our special education team facilitator, the building administ

K through eight. It's really a family dynamic often and that's a big part of our work. And again, our subgroups are the ones that we're most concerned with when we look at some of this attendance data. So, if we go a lit

taking a standardsbased approach and establishing that through really strong rubrics. And I mentioned that we've been really examining this over the last year because what we wanted to look at were our grades aligned wit

So also um you asked you were asking about middle school but I believe our progress reports were just updated for a K5 right. So there so yes so we always have a mind for alignment. Um, but I will also say that Vanessa i

for context, David or Julie, can you just quickly tell us like other boards and commissions that have heard this and what the So, four boards have already uh had public hearings and voted. Um the advisory committee met l