S sera congi reports, they faced another dangerous obstacle. Sera firefighters rushed to this east Central Street house in natick around 7 30 this morning, a smoky blaze first spotted and reported by a fire lieutenant on his way to work. We saw smoke coming out the roof down the block. Reporter while battling flames firefighters searched the home and found a woman unconsicious in a secondfloor bedroom. The challenge firefighters faced when trying to reach the victim, a hole in the floor of the bedroom. We were able to get around that hole, found the victim close to the second floor window. Reporter crews carried the woman out with a ladder. But she died shortly after at the hospital. 73yearold Carol Mccarthy lived alone. It s horrible whether it s somebody s relative. Reporter investigators are working on a cause, the fire s working. The state s fire marshall s office says this is the 12th fatal fire this year, and the Common Thread they re seeing, a lack of working smoke alarms. In na
Investigators are trying to pinpoint what triggered the flames. President obama announcing an historic trip to cuba. He will become the first sitting president to do so in 70 years. First, those major delays on the Commuter Rail and mbta. A ripple effect. Todd is live where it all started. Problems are still lingering at this hour . Todd that is correct. Amtrak is still working to figure out what the problem is and repair the issue. At this hour, virtually every train coming or going from south asian is delayed south station is delayed. Normally, it arrives at 7 42. What time is it now . Todd 8 34. Yes, right. And they want to increase the fares. Todd outrage after get another slow commute. Station today. Passengers on other trains had to switch to disembark at other stations and take the subway or bus to get to south station. It took about an hour for a 20 minut trip. Todd some commuters walked between back bay and south station. They said they were not coming this way and the orange
School day will end at 3. 55 and at 4 00 our afterschool programs will begin. Afterschool programs will be housed for students to continue their accelerated learning, their intervention learning, their academic clubs and their sports clubs. Mr. Hobson, before you move on this is an unusual schedule in any middle school in terms of the length of the periods and also the length of the school day. Is that correct . How did. I know the School Board Members have probably heard this, but what was the thought praus is he behind it how did we determine this was the appropriate length of time for learning, what did we learn from the current way our periods are set up . It looks like there is, i mean its not a 7th period but you have an extended school day in this process. I guess im curious about the process of getting to this point and also how the funding occurred for you to be able to have a small classroom ratio and advisory to student ratio. I will answer the first part then hand it over t
Description then a virtual tour of the school, we do a rubric screen, there is an interview with our colleagues at stanford then we perform a phone interview, we bring in our teachers for a model lesson, an inperson interview and finally we do a reference check. We know who will be good to be in line with our children to service our vision of our school. So we skipped a little bit forward in the presentation. What i would like to do, i dont know where we are on time, but i would like to go back to the Health Care Center and talk about that a little bit. inaudible is a key pillar for this school. We are extremely excited to rethink what our wellness support looks like at the middle school level. Were committed to make sure our willie brown students are safe healthy and ready to learn. We are building students who are Health Literate and strong consumers of health. This isnt just a Standalone Health center, this is going to be embedded within the curriculum as well, thinking about stem c
Protect and expand the rights of humanity in the 21st century. Three principles that guide us in this work are engage, explore, excel. Under engagement we want instruction to be captivating so our students and are focused during the learning process. To do that we are using Digital Tools and Digital Content to increase student engagement. We have a distributive leadership theory. Under that theory, i am not the sole owner of the power in the school, it is distributed amongst my administrative staff and my teacher leaders as well as my teachers and ultimately our students and families so decisions are made collectively for our school at multiple levels where stake holders are invested. We have built into the schedule collaboration for teacher teams, emphasizing strong relationships between teachers, between students and students, we will have smaller class sizes, wrap around support services and exciting extended learning opportunities meaning after School Programming and Summer School