Brookline School Committee Meeting - October 14, 2026

Fairly long. Are there any comments before we vote to accept the consent agenda? Yes, Carolyn. Um I think I have a question and this is bringing forward something that came up in finance when we looked at that. Um so in

I know you had some questions about the Prism 2 grant. So, this is a 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 ma

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

Bob, yes. Unanimously approved the consent agenda. Thank you very much.

And so I need to entertain a vote to authorize Brooklyn High School the innovation fund to serve beer, wine, and hard seltzers during the annual gayama on November 5th. Um to be held in the STEM wing lobby from 7 o'clock

So move that. Jesse moves it. Suzanne seconds it yes Jesse yes Sarah yes Laura yes Val yes Bob yes unanimously approved congratulations Brooklyn High School have an amazing gayama on the 5th of November okay moving right

How are you? Uh, my name is Yasmine Sharif 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 thei

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 lig

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.

2012 rubrics for teacher evaluation and so through summer. Um, and also in in communication with um, BEu leadership, we asked if maybe we could look at the 2024 standards, but um, narrowing and focusing on the critical i

district report, we actually believe in the premise of MTSS and what it wants to do. It's not merely a mandate. It's something that we endorse as good for all students in the district. The fourth district improvement goa

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 per s

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 h

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

that impacts learning. We know that. And so, how do we help families understand that importance of getting to school regularly? Um they have to feel like they belong in order to want to come to school. Number one. Number

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 K K5 right. So there so yes so we always have a mind for alignment. Um, but I will also say that Vanessa

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 last night and there was a couple of abstensions. Um otherwise it was 20 wha

have sort of maybe worked maybe not worked with for preservation um for protecting the lighting outdoors very important to all of us how would that be regulated and you know I know I know I read through the entire presen