Elizabeth Laird

Thank you very much. So, back in June, the board had created this ad hoc committee to engage the community and recommend a charge for a community advisory committee on technology. Thank you. So we held listening sessions and sent out a survey. We rec…

With our students returning to school next Tuesday, September 1, this has been a busy week for the district, and you'll be hearing more about those preparations from superintendent Walker during his report. For my part, I had the honor of representin…

Yeah. I I would say as much as I do think it's important to start exposing the community to New York Inspires, the challenge that I've been hearing or the challenge that I feel and experienced myself around rebuilding trust with time transparency and…

you're looking at me, and I feel like we need to all, like, really understand what you're thought that the because you had said that the vision map sorry. This is ignorance because I'm I'm new to the board. So I the vision map came before New York In…

I would respond to I don't mind the reframe of ensure timely, transparent, and meaningful communication. You can we need to rebuild trust. I don't mind the framing of putting that first. The reason why I'm gonna say the phrase rebuild trust matters a…

Yeah. I, Elizabeth, do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of The United States Of America and the constitution of the state of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the position of trustee of the Croton-Harmon U…

I think I was particularly interested in governance because this is something I do a lot of work. Okay. And I was interested in seeing how the processes that we operate work. So I'd really love to be on this one. But if you

Yeah. Recognizing that you probably don't have this data on hand, another thing it's very useful to see the longitudinal data, but I'd also be very interested to understand how this compares similarly sized and similarly budgeted districts in Westche…

So at the start of my campaign, I surveyed the community, and what I found was that many parents reported that their their students feel really loved by their teachers and cared for by their teachers, which I think is a really beautiful thing. I thin…

One of the things that I think we are contending with across the nation is the fact that we are in a post COVID world, and we saw a lot of changes to our educational climate during COVID. So one thing that I'd be really interested to understand from …

This is a topic I know a lot about because I oversee the client responsiveness team at my organization. That team is responsible for ensuring that the feedback and response mechanisms are operating functionally in sure sure that we're make that that …

So I think that one to one device use should be titrated to age. As I've already said, I think that not having them in k through two is a really good start. I was speaking to a friend today who is her son's a rising kindergartner in Red Hook, New Yor…

I was really excited about this law. My husband has seen that the behavior issues in his classroom have gone way down and that student engagement is way up when he started having this policy in his classroom and in his school, which was prior to the …

I don't know if anyone's seen this Westchester Magazine, but I literally read it today because the front cover is AI in education. It's actually really interesting. I think it's incredibly urgent that we create an AI policy for this district. I think…