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This education committee meeting. This meeting is being recorded. Today is October 4 2023. Committee members in attendance today are Jason Spock, Andrew Mitchell, John Nash, John Taylor. Lisa Pruitt. Suzanne Kimball,

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Wendy would favor Mackenzie stall

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and Jessica Kohler. We will now begin the discussion of our agenda items. So the norms are on there. We already reviewed them. If we are going to go over the minutes first Yeah, yes.

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That's right. There's the minutes from last time. Are there any corrections to the minutes? I just made it. Thank you I have a motion to approve the minutes.

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The minutes are approved as so I'm the family Haven update. McKenzie was able to reach out to them about those pre and post tests that we discussed last time. And they responded, saying that they're open to revising them. They're changing the chase steps up test to be yes or no questions instead of true or false. They are hoping for a little more information about this banking question. So and then what they said is in their presentation, they define unsafe touch and touch the least pain that lasts for a long time and or leaves a mark on the child's body. The purpose of this banking question is to help them identify the difference between an unsafe touch and a spanking. That is okay. They're opened recommendations and are wondering if we have any suggestions on a preferred way to rephrase, rephrase that question. So, and I stopped them Did you? Did you see that? You This is the last one they

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had. Okay, so I said that I respond to how or respond to you. So I sent them how to reword it, reword it, and they said, great, so they'll update they're pretty close test match the recommendation.

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It's really great that they took some input on that.

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And she's the girl we've been working with. She's new, we get a lot of turnover, and this and that, like those educational jobs and those type of programs. And I think she's been the best one. So she came up presented in my class and I was very impressed. So she was great. And then so I spoke with her also followed up because I saw her person last week. She was We love working with districts. We want to be in the classroom. So we'll do what we can to support you guys as you support our program. So great. It went well. Yeah. So we shouldn't see those changes. I haven't seen it yet, but she'll give that to me.

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And then you look over and again,

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again, I don't necessarily think we need to because we motion that it was okay, even if they didn't, and it was up to the schools to decide. It's good for them. And they email those tests that pre post test before they go and present. So when she came to my classroom, she sent me a two week notice and said, hey, I'll be there in two weeks. Here's the pre and post test. That was I was getting the same email that other schools were getting. So

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they don't have to cancel last minute if they don't ever have that free.

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Yeah, they shortened all the tests to like four or five questions now. So that's nice.

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All right. We're gonna look over babycenter.com

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Are there specifics on

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that? Yeah, so I think let's do the two videos from Baby Center that so we did most of that the C section, or last time and then these are two other specific videos from Baby Center that is suggested that they'd like to in the classroom, and then as well as the website, so maybe let's watch the two clips, and then we'll spend time on the website and see if there's any concerns of why students shouldn't be on this website. And if we want to motion that it's for students and teachers or teachers only as a resource.

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To me what grades again, we're approving for

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we would let's say this will be secondary. So eight

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always approve it for like just high school. Eyes to decide.

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Yeah, or just human development. A lot of the resources just like now that are coming in right now. Is Human development classes.

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We're just trying to do junior level in

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high school. Yeah. And they go more in depth than help to classes. As I've been looking at their curriculum and what they've been showing sending me course is definitely more in the.

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Last few hours coming out

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girl just a lot of women down to a lot

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to breaking out fighting against

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health.

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Our production telephone bills

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really is our bills or concerns with you all right, we have a motion to approve. Second All right. Oh, sorry. All in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed say no. The vote was unanimous. Five minutes.

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Sometimes your body needs a little jumpstart to kick into labor. Or we can take everything off in the bathroom. Opening in the back. Today Cheryl 39 minutes pregnant has arrived for her scheduled induction in Abington Memorial Hospital in Abington, Pennsylvania. There are many forms of induction that all have the same as Dr. Richard carrier Felicity Cheryl's obstetrician,

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we actually induced contractions. Contractions, hopefully we'll call it start facilitation. At the cervix dilates to labor progresses and is ultimately to be delivered eventually.

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Your doctor or midwife may choose to induce your labor for a number of reasons. You are a week or more past your due date and you shove no or slow signs of cervical dilation and labor. Your water breaks but your labor doesn't start or do you or your baby face medical issues that pose a health threat, which is the case for Cheryl. Cheryl has an antibody in her blood that could harm her baby. So the induction is a precautionary measure to help avoid any problems. There are a number of methods available to medically induce or ripen the cervix to get your labor moving. If your labor needs to be induced may be treated with one or more of the following in the hospital. A Foley catheter, your practitioner may insert a tube with a very small uninflated balloon at the tip into the opening of your cervix demonstrated here with this curled up hand. The balloon is then inflated which puts pressure on your cervix and amniotic sac. This stimulates the release of prostaglandins hormones that cause the cervix to open and soften. prostaglandins are also available as a medication in several forms, including a pill and a gel. Your caregiver will insert the medication into your vagina to help your cervix dilate striping or sweeping the membranes. If your cervix is already somewhat dilated and your body just needs a little help, your practitioner can insert her finger through the cervix and manually separate your amniotic sac from the lower part of your uterus. rupturing the membranes or commonly known as breaking your water. This method can be quite effective in accelerating labor, but it's only performed when the woman has a partially dilated or a phased cervix. Pitocin is the synthetic form of oxytocin, a natural hormone your body produces to bring on labor Pitocin is the most popular method of induction is given through an IV line. Cheryl is receiving Pitocin today, since she's only two centimeters dilated for water hasn't broken and her contractions haven't begun. But Johnson is commonly given if your cervix isn't right. Meaning it isn't softening. And thinning or in showing signs of slow ripening. Your labor slows down or your water has broken but you haven't gone into labor after several hours. Pitocin isn't always a quick solution. That mom is having some

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early contractions on her own, but the use of Pitocin will work rather quickly. Again referring to a favorable, very, very unfavorable service. low dose Pitocin three to 12 hours before we've seen

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the harm rates of both Cheryl and her baby as the frequency and length of her contractions will be continuously monitored. Two and a half hours after starting Pitocin Cheryl is only three centimeters dilated so per doctor design, it's time to break her water to speed things up. Induction is generally safe, but it does carry some risk depending on the methods used and your individual situation. It's a good idea to discuss the pros and cons with your doctor. inductions don't always succeed in bringing on labor when this happens a C section will be necessary. Now seven hours into her induction is taking Cheryl longer than she hoped to advance to active labor. She decided not to get an epidural and is instead getting medication in her IV line to take the

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slow exhale. Okay

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11 hours after first receiving Pitocin Cheryl is finally delivering her baby

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good excellent

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All right. Cheryl delivered a healthy seven pound nine ounce girl. Cheryl says the pain she experienced during labor with Pitocin was intense, but no different than her previous natural birth. She's glad the induction worked. The best part of it was the result. Finally meeting her daughter, Madeline Grace

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concerns with our video

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are you for that level of class probably.

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I don't know about how to. Yeah,

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it seems like now with all the like animated videos that really show that kind of basic information that it meets requirements and what they're learning in their core. That's what I teach. That's what I've moved to

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in the health class in the health health

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class and help to instead of like showing the like birth. That's just final for small or 15 year olds but but in child development, you can still have sophomore age it's not just like senior usually it tends to be older kids but that's not always the circumstances

Unknown Speaker  14:25
but it's not required either. And so that that's an elective class that people are are interested in. So therefore they're opting into it. So I think that's a different feeling as well, because they're opting in

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and and help to they're in ninth grade. A lot are in ninth grade as well. So, but

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can they still opt out or opt in? Is that in that

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you opt in? You're opting out, no matter what, but you have to have a signature to be

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in class. And they can say like, yes, except for so they can choose what topics they want their child to learn. And they can meet with the teacher also that's an option. So there's four options often everything opt in everything but neither the teacher before to review materials and also

Unknown Speaker  15:21
they all deal with everything but they know what's entailed. Like they know that there's videos gonna be there. They should know what you're talking about.

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They establish privates pregnancies field development.

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So they could opt out of Yeah, like pregnancies or rare contraception or options, the

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ones that's most common, they opt out, and then these STDs of the next pregnancies were taken child development. Yeah, that's when they opt into an image. Yeah, yeah.

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Class description. mentioned that. We will see. That might be

Unknown Speaker  16:01
I haven't read every teacher's disclosure document to know what's in there. Yeah, that would be right. Yeah. That was like, I know, I've held classes we share that, like what's going to be covered? Like every teacher does that. So that's just assuming, I don't know.

Unknown Speaker  16:22
That's a That's a good question though. McKenzie. Something just follow up to see on our Child Development teachers if they are, if they're just when they're advertising that they're, they're being forced right in in what kind of curriculum they're going to be showing so that you hate for a student to stand to get into a class and then go Oh, no, I'm not comfortable with that one or that or that and then they end up you know, getting out of not participating. In a bunch of but I don't think that happens very often. But it might be wise just in there, probably in their disclosure document just to make sure that they have it in there. Yeah, and you are saying

Unknown Speaker  16:58
we are teaching all these things. And your parents has to see that form and they have to sign Yeah, and you click you check on the golfer. So as long as your parent looks at the information, yep. You should know like, Oh, my child's getting messed up at the beginning of the year. So you say you're watching a pregnancy video where nudity is shown, right. Like I'm yakking

Unknown Speaker  17:21
at my 16 year old in this class, and I have 1 million kids in school and all the disclosure documents and I'm checking through I don't know if I've I signed up like okay, yes, I'm okay with a life worth. I don't know that as a terror. I'd be like, Oh, it's gonna be a video of the whole who have a like or like I think I would think oh, well be like an animated birds or we'll talk through the process of I don't know if that's like, I mean, I'm a woman that had a lot of babies but that's

Unknown Speaker  17:55
a very well that's why we do it because your children are the one saying yeah would be the one seen these

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I just don't think I was read through like the disclosure and be like, That is not what I would have in mind is being taught in my kids.

Unknown Speaker  18:08
A different different health and job No, no, because I'm incredibly okay with telling them to help me out for sure. I know.

Unknown Speaker  18:19
I would say the videos are okay. Just we should make sure that whoever's writing the disclosure documents a little bit more. Just descriptive.

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Right, like trying to build it in this little like group like we will be watching the video we'll

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leave that in to the parents you know if you want to see it here it is. You watch it and see if you're I mean can you do that? doesn't come with

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any idea if you are coded, you know, moving.

Unknown Speaker  18:51
Semester and way I mean, you approve things in first semester and then 18 weeks in you go oh, I know that I put that. Right. I don't think they include everything.

Unknown Speaker  19:01
That's yeah, that'd be that first week of school. You're right. Kids come home with and you're just like you're saying, oh my gosh,

Unknown Speaker  19:08
how many teachers I don't send line with the disclosure document. I do it a few weeks is separate.

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Right. And that's what I was just going to say I think that most times on these

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watches it's a couple of weeks before those moments home to go for instruction.

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And then a description. Yeah, watching the live version.

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Well maybe we do a couple we use a cover letter for like the author

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is it's hard to get those forms back in two weeks time, because it's an opt in. If not then you have you're making phone calls, you're doing loads of emails. Trying so I've done that two weeks before.

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Only we had a new email system.

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What do you think, at the beginning of the most successful because parents are signing papers, and you get more back we've had this discussion with health teachers and

Unknown Speaker  20:08
and I think it may be is getting the signature at the very beginning but then giving a another end. I mean, you can't make people read stuff that just never happens. But But you've signed it once you signed it at the beginning, but now I'm giving you a heads up in two weeks. We're going to we're going to get pretty detailed so just get into the class and they opted into the into the class to begin with. And it's like just giving you another heads up. This is what's happening if you have any concerns about the material that we're going to show. Some of it is live video. With live people with like body parts. Then, you know, reach out you know, so I think just giving teachers like just a little little clue in on that just saves you from from a parent going whoa, what wasn't expecting or

Unknown Speaker  21:02
follow up to Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, I like when I get notes home for my kids like, hey, we talked about sexual abuse too, you know? So then I can follow up as a parent Yeah, with my child. Well, I should let you know. So based on our approved list over the last couple of decades, like the like miracle wife into the womb, those are all on our approved, they're already there for all classes, and those are live births. I mean, I haven't forgot it. So 20 years ago,

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it sears in your head.

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I, as a teacher, I made that choice of I'm going to do more on the animated side. And we are human beings things but because I think the experience as a teenage brain versus more of adult brain when you're in college is different. And when you're watching a loved one's birth, or you're a doctor, you know, it's a different experience than just my teacher said so,

Unknown Speaker  22:06
but by and large, I think health teachers tell me if I'm wrong, but help teachers and you know, development teachers are very conscientious of these topics and are very proactive and making sure that their parents and students know that they they just are not like willy nilly. Okay, hey, just well I thought we'd do a live birth today. You guys are already pretty careful about

Unknown Speaker  22:34
it. We've already developed a classroom setting. But I mean, if you look at the child development standards, this unit like when they talked about all it is a lot. There's a lot they cover, I mean, so when you see this, like this is what they're teaching. Now this is part of the core and it goes very deep. It's very deep for what they're supposed to be teaching right right. They're learning for their upcoming professions and things that they're wanting to do. So one thing that I

Unknown Speaker  23:10
like about both of these videos, as opposed to the first one we watched last time, is that they didn't feel like they had an agenda. It's just like this straight up this is an epidural. This is an induction

Unknown Speaker  23:26
and these are your options of infection. Right? Yeah, right. You different methods.

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We could have done one of those came out the

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RFP if you're weak and spineless than maybe you should get an epidural. It

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wasn't it was just straight up. This is what happens

Unknown Speaker  23:48
if I'm rewriting I think the concerns the nudity, not the information or her being, you know, on the bed and stuff. Is that am I reading that

Unknown Speaker  23:56
right? Well, I'm not for me, not even that it's just making sure parents are aware and so it sounds like that they are and I and if I did sign a disclosure document and I knew this for the class my child was when I would still love like, you may 6 grader how to read a bond in middle school and I got a little heads up hey, this is what we're doing in class. And yeah, I'm probably most parents don't read it, but I do read it and I'm like, Oh, that's great. I talked about how a three time kills. Same thing like hey, Kailyn how's the

Unknown Speaker  24:26
live birth video? What

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did you think? For live video? Like, if you saw like, Hey, we're gonna watch this video. What would you have let your child be in the classroom?

Unknown Speaker  24:35
Yes, but I would love the heads up of that. I know that this has to happen. Yeah,

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you can go get a coke and say Hey, what did you think? Yeah.

Unknown Speaker  24:53
For my daughters to watch that

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okay, so how are we feeling? Or do you want it for childhood development or health to health one What are we

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what was it submitted as requested?

Unknown Speaker  25:13
The end came from a Human Development Teacher. What's human? So, yeah, a lot of this stuff right now. It's been from child development. And I can make note of that when I put on like approved list like human development

Unknown Speaker  25:40
just like I do want as a high school only

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is there a need to have that

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in health too.

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Is that like, would that be beneficial to the curriculum or are not meant to be that entail

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time? So then I think, I think like teachers, we don't have time to go and to spend a day on pregnancy.

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So we need to just approve it for child development.

Unknown Speaker  26:03
Yes, yeah. Yeah. And I think I would recommend that as well to make it so we're not extending we have so we're we're spending a lot like social emotional learning and not just human development.

Unknown Speaker  26:17
Well, and what's nice about the the approved list being very specific is it allows for health two's curriculum. To kind of stand on its own and that and that you're not using a video that hey, we're going to watch this in human development. And that's Oh, we already saw that video last year, that that becomes redundant. So it's kind of nice to separate them and just say this is just human development,

Unknown Speaker  26:38
and that's what we've been doing with them and help to so that they don't go from her class than my class. So even though it doesn't hurt to see that video, again, you know, sometimes they're good ones like or something

Unknown Speaker  26:53
I would move to approve for Java development. And

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all in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed say no. All right, the voting is unanimous. All right, this next one, our Baby Center, yep. Okay, we're gonna look through Baby Center. And decide, do we want to let students access this website, and we want it to be just for teachers. We want to

Unknown Speaker  27:35
see, the babycenter.com.

Unknown Speaker  27:42
And why a teacher might send students to this forum site is like, hey, for an assignment. You are to you know, chart out. The stages of labor are like pretty trimester stages of labor. Here's some resources for extra help, if you need and then that's kind of an example of why they can be sent to a website.

Unknown Speaker  28:08
And is this website again for child development? Or help?

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We can distinguish that

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on my own and a little bit for teaching, but I'm trying to use so, like I've used a relation that I

Unknown Speaker  29:53
don't think so.


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