Calendar

DOCKET
SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEETING
THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 2023
6:00 PM – 9:55 PM

Attend in Person: Walsh School Committee Meeting Room, 5th Floor, Town Hall, 333 Washington Street, Brookline, MA

Watch Remotely: Brookline Interactive Group (BIG) will broadcast live out to the cable channels and online via live stream at www.brooklineinteractive.org/live

BIG’s cable channels will replay the meeting and the meeting recording will be posted at http://www.brooklineinteractive.org for viewing after the meeting.

STATUTORY NOTICE OF THIS MEETING HAS BEEN FILED WITH THE TOWN CLERK.

Meeting Documents are available on the PSB Website: https://www.brookline.k12.ma.us/Page/2087

NOTE: All times are approximate.

6:00 PM (5 minutes)
1. ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS (David Pearlman)
a. Consent Agenda
  i. Past Record: April 27, 2023 School Committee Meeting
6:05 PM (15 minutes)
2. STUDENT REPORT
a. Farewell and Thank you to Outgoing Student Representative Alice MacGarvie Thompson
6:20 PM (45 minutes)
3. SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT
a. Spotlight on Excellence
Brookline Education Foundation Caverly Award Winners: Liz Crane (Brookline High School) and Sara O’Shea (Heath School)
7:05 PM (15 minutes)
4. PUBLIC COMMENT
Members of the public may provide public comment either in person or remotely. If you would like to provide public comment, please email [email protected] by 12:00 PM on Thursday, June 8, 2023. After signing up, remote speakers will receive an email with additional information on how to provide comment during the meeting. Speakers will be called upon in the order in which they signed up. All speakers will be limited to 2 minutes per person. Members of the public may send written public comment to [email protected] Written comments will be shared with all School Committee members. Public comment is broadcast and recorded by Brookline Interactive Group.
7:20 PM (1 hour and 30 minutes)
5. PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS OF CURRENT ISSUES
  7:20 PM (45 minutes)
  a. Strategic Planning Update
  8:05 PM (45 minutes)
  b. Summary of Program Reviews 
8:50 PM (30 minutes)
6. SUBCOMMITTEE AND LIAISON REPORTS
a. Capital Improvements 
b. Curriculum (Suzanne Federspiel)
c. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice 
d. Finance
  i. Accounts Payable Warrants
e. Government Relations
f. Negotiations
g. Policy
h. Additional Liaisons and Updates
9:20 PM (5 minutes)
7. NEW BUSINESS
9:25 PM (30 minutes)
8. PROPOSED EXECUTIVE SESSION 
Motion to meet in Executive Session, pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws chapter 30A section 21(a) for the following purposes:
Purpose 3, to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining with the Brookline Educators Union Paraprofessional Unit, if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining and litigating position of the Committee and the chair so declares; and Purpose 2, to conduct a strategy session in preparation for negotiations with nonunion personnel; and Purpose 7, to review and approve executive session minutes from the following meeting: May 18, 2023.
9. ADJOURNMENT