K.-26 17-1827 Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between the District and Engaging Schools, Cambridge, MA, for the latter to build the Social Emotional Learning skills and coaching capacity of K-12 Instructional Teacher Leaders, resulting in participants being able to analyze data and co-create or review long-range professional learning plans with teachers to ensure voice, ownership, and commitment; facilitate professional learning experiences for their colleagues; create or utilize already existing assessment structures and systematic observational structures; establish a communication system to share the work of the community; strengthen skills in managing resistance and conflict, via the Offices of Social Emotional Learning and Educator Professional Learning, for the period of August 1, 2017 through June 29, 2018, in an amount not to exceed $25,000.00.