CABE Student Leadership Awards

Nathaniel Gomez - Bristol Central H.S. - Gr. 12

Damani Hough - Bristol Central H.S - Gr. 12

Ryley Plourde - Bristol Eastern H.S. - Gr. 12

Jeffrey Taillon - Bristol Eastern H.S. - Gr. 12

Peyton Hasler - Northeast M.S. - Gr. 8

Jonathan Casarola- Northeast M.S. - Gr. 8

Brooke Patnode - Greene-Hills - Gr. 8

Jordy Chacon - Greene-Hills - Gr. 8 

Ruth Smith - West Bristol K-8 - Gr. 8

Grace Mazzone - West Bristol K-8 - Gr. 8

Darrek Griffith - Chippens Hill M.S. - Gr. 8

Aniyah James - Chippens Hill M.S. - Gr. 8

The Board of Education should vote to approve any Regular or Special Meeting Minutes:

1. April 14, 2021 - Regular Meeting Minutes

Communications & Community Relations	Finance	Operations	Personnel	Policy	Student Achievement
Shelby Pons, Chair	Karen Vibert, Chair	Eric Carlson, Chair	Thomas O’Brien, Chair	Kristen Giantonio, Chair	Chris Wilson, Chair
Karen Vibert	Kristen Giantonio	Chris Wilson	John Sklenka	Shelby Pons	Kristen Giantonio
Tom O'Brien	Allison Wadowski	John Sklenka	Eric Carlson	Allison Wadowski	Shelby Pons
Alternates:
Eric Carlson	John Sklenka	Karen Vibert	Allison Wadowski	Tom O'Brien	Allison Wadowski

Student Representatives from Bristol Central and Bristol Eastern will share activities, surveys, suggestions, and topics of interest in their respective schools.

Bristol Central                                                          Bristol Eastern

Madison Laprise – Senior*                                          Madison Turner - Senior*

Sydney Rodriguez – Junior                                         Trisha Mohan – Junior                                           

Chair Jennifer Dube will update the Board and the public on topics related to the Board of Education.

Dr. Carbone will report/update the Board on:

1. District Priorities

2. Update Reimagining BPS 2023

Habecker, Lisa – WB – EL Teacher
Rogan, Debra – MTV – Literacy Coach
Yager, Mary – EDGE/NEMS – Speech-Language Pathologist

Hussey, Julie – SSS – Grade 3 Teacher
Martin, Kristen – EPH – Grade 1 Teacher
McCarthy, Connor – STAF – Grade 4 Teacher

Duffy, Clayton - WB - Math Teacher - Effective August 24, 2021

Bristol Adult Education Center is applying for a multi-year federal Program Enhancement Project Grant for FY22.  This grant will allow Bristol to collaborate with surrounding adult education programs to offer unique education and training opportunities designed to improve student outcomes and increase post-secondary programming.  We are applying for four Workforce Training Support Grants totalling approximately $140,000.  These grants will allow us to provide all students with Employability Skills and the coursework necessary to enter and complete a certified training program in allied healthcare or manufacturing.

BACKGROUND:  Members of the public are invited to comment to the Board on any topic related to school business. Items requiring consideration by the Board must be approved as an agenda item by a 2/3ds vote of the Board members present.  Such items may be referred for further study and not necessarily acted upon at this meeting.

Anyone wishing to address the Board should adhere to the following procedures:

Before a Remote Meeting

1. Send your comments to: susaneverett@bristolk12.org
2. Be sure to put PUBLIC COMMENT – BOE in the subject line.
3. Include your name and address.
4. Direct your comments to the Board Chair.
5. Your comments will be read at the meeting by the Board Chair.
6. All comments should be written in an appropriate manner, particularly if concerning a personnel matter.
7. Any comments not adhering to the guidelines will not be read at the meeting.

During a Remote Meeting

1. Everyone is requested to address the Chair for recognition.
2. Each speaker must state his/her name and address.
3. All speakers must observe rules of common etiquette.  Personalities are not to be injected. Anyone violating this rule will be denied the floor. Unless waived by the Chairperson or a majority of the Board,
4. Each speaker shall limit his/her remarks to three (3) minutes.
5. A speaker will not be recognized for a second time on the same topic.
6. Each speaker must concern himself/herself with the topic under discussion.  Anyone digressing from the topic will be ruled out of order.
7. Written statements and materials may be made available, in advance of comments, for distribution to Board members.
8. Speakers shall state their positions on the subject being discussed.
9. Board members will not respond directly to comments during the Board meeting. The Superintendent will direct the question to the appropriate staff member for follow-up.

Dr. Galloway will present the quarterly enrollment numbers for the district.

On April 21, 2021, Bristol Public Schools held a Creative Consortium in which we brought together educators from Bristol along with creative minds from within arts field at the New Britain Museum of American Art to unearth a framework of creative thinking and learning for the program of studies at Memorial Boulevard Intradistrict Arts Magnet School.  Representatives from the New Britain Museum of American Art, the New England Carousel Museum in Bristol, Western Connecticut State University, the University of Connecticut and members of our faculty discussed ideas around these three guiding questions:  “What is creativity and innovation?”, “What skills and dispositions will we need to build among our creative learners?”, and “What are the attributes of a creative teacher?”.   The collective thinking around these three questions will form the guiding principles and framework for our curriculum development.

Our Happy Place is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to helping children, families and educators successfully navigate childhood anxiety and other mental health challenges. Founded by a mother and her young son, Our Happy Place provides access to materials that build coping skills and promote positive outcomes for children and families. OHP is funding the training of two Triple P trainers and providing materials for home/school bags for student and family use. 

Kimberly Culkin, Director of Special Services will update the Board regarding Special Services programs and topics.

Current 6th grade textbooks were purchased in 1999, before the adoption of the updated CT Social Studies Frameworks. Due to this fact, and because of the revisions made to the 6th grade Social Studies curriculum, the curriculum committee recommends the adoption of Discovery Education Social Studies Techbook as the primary instructional resource for 6th grade. To support ongoing revisions to middle school social studies curriculum and provide our students with updated, aligned materials, the curriculum team examined a variety of textbooks before eventually recommending the adoption of the Discovery Education Techbook. This digital resource is closely aligned to our curriculum revisions and the 5E instructional model. The techbook approaches each topic through a variety of compelling and supporting questions and organizes resources in each topic based on their suggested use, placing them in the one of five digital tabs: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate. This structure provides our students with a familiar and unified approach to support their learning in social studies. As a digital resource, the Techbook also provides a variety of multimedia and instructional support for all learners, including multiple reading levels, authentic Spanish translation, text to speech capability, highlighting and note taking capabilities, and structured graphic organizers.

The CT Social Studies Framework states that “World Regional Studies is a two-year course for Grades 6 and 7. Students study at least eight world regions, and, through the lens of geography, they explore and learn about economies, history, and civics throughout the world.” This spring, teams of teachers worked to revise our 6th grade curriculum to more closely align to the CT frameworks and introduce students to a regional study of physical and human geography across the globe. Students begin the course with an introduction to the tools and topics of the discipline, which they then use to study increasingly distant regions of the world, including North America, Latin America, Europe, Russia and Central Asia, and finally, Northern Africa and Southwest Asia. In each unit, students start by orienting themselves to the physical and human geography of the region before exploring human/environment interactions, people and culture, governments and economies, and current issues. The study of each region culminates in a document based inquiry that delves deeper into one of these spiralling themes and builds towards an evidence based argument. These summative inquiries are built using the Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint, which is based on the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework and the inquiry standards in the CT Social Studies Framework. By revisiting these themes across a variety of regions and constructing a series of evidence based arguments, students will learn essential academic knowledge about the world around them, prepare to make meaningful contributions in a rapidly changing global society, and move closer to achieving Bristol’s vision of the Graduate. 

The grades 3-5 curriculum was last revised in 2011 with the adoption of the CCSS. This curriculum was aligned with the CCSS, however it was not written in a problem based instructional format. 

The new curriculum has been written to align the grades 3-5 content and practices with the grades 6-8 and Algebra problem based Illustrative Mathematics curriculum. This will create consistent programming starting at the elementary level through Algebra at the high school level. 

The documents submitted here are based on work by the Grade 3-5 Curriculum Committee which included Mathematics Coaches Sara Kulig, Tania Palmieri, Scott Ruel, Joanna Vastola, and Debra Vitale.  In addition, most all Grades 3-5 teachers are in their first year of implementation and have been able to provide feedback.

This policy will lay the framework to how the Board of Education will conduct the student selection lottery for Memorial Boulevard Intra-District Arts Magnet School Program (MBIAMS).

The Board will discuss any new business proper to come before the Board.

Any communications/information regarding building projects:

1. MBIAMS Update
2. South Side - HVAC Project

Commissioners will report to the Board on any groups/organizations in which they serve as Board of Education Liaisons and information pertinent to the Board.

This month commissioners at K-8 and middle schools will share their reports.

There being no other business to come before the Board, the meeting should be adjourned.