June Board of Ed: Commissioner evaluation

 Hills: "in the interest of time, and because everyone already has the material"
which I guess is here
each member was asked about the year, strengths and accomplishments, focus going forward, key priorities going forward
Hills wrote a summary of the Committee's view
two key takeaways: a year of a range of really significant accomplishments including in teaching and learning
need a clear roadmap on goals that are addressing the outcomes that we want, with check ins over the year
Hills that suggests a timeline for creation of goals and periodic check in on them over the year
"universal respect and appreciation for the Commissioner"
"very strong feeling that Jeff is exactly the leader we need, not simply coming out of the pandemic...but from where we were ten years ago"
"it's a collaborative thing and we're all going to own it"
Stewart: feel entirely separated from strategic plan
"do need a renaissance in teaching and learning
tension over relevance of Board
Hills: we need to own key goals that we have approved; key overall goals, not micro goals
"should have virtual no involvement with anything having to do with internal management of the department"
maybe they want to reconsider their subcommittees, then
Lombos: a retreat: understand role, understand goals
Mohammed: helpful exercise you're laying out
interesting to get perspective on what the Commissioner has learned for the year and what he might change of what he might do
Riley: thanks to team, "noting short of incredible"
"have done ed reform for 25 years...know it worked...have been flatlined"
look at data dispassionately; it is time to change
flat regardless of COVID
"need to move away from ed reform and move towards an education renaissance and figure out what's next and what's best for our children"
Craven says it was the legislature that created ed reform
wild how this always leaves out the McDuffy suit
"we've had a lot of discussion of the mechanism, the test"
the test isn't the end, it's the measurement

Hills moves acceptance of the evaluation which passes