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folks will begin this meeting we'll start with the Pledge of Allegiance so if everyone don't stand please I pledge allegiance to flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all we'd like to excuse uh chuckwaldo who is out of town until the 22nd so he'll be here next month but he's not here today we'll begin with the Blue Ridge High School band all right [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Applause] thank you very much that was awesome do you have an encore probably not huh because we can do fight team if you want yeah I'd love that [Music] one thing I've learned over the years is that you go to a football game you don't sit by the band laughs thank you thank you excellent that gives me goosebumps thank you appreciate that so much okay the next item on the agenda would be uh Dr Wright we'll turn the time over to you for recognition uh we'll just go through this the student employee and teacher okay yes sir is Miss Lilly here today Declan Lilly I want to make sure I don't pass her up if she is here I've heard she'll Mr Grace will make that presentation at the school tomorrow I wanted to make sure she wasn't here though and let's go ahead to the junior high school Chef sucking okay let's at the junior high school you have a presentation to make for your student of the month actually I I have plenty of great things I can say but Mrs Robbins is actually here and she is her PE teacher and wanted to say a few great things about Mommy well first of all congratulations and this young lady deserves it uh she when she comes into my class her smile just lights up everywhere and it's contagious and she's the kind of young person here who is not afraid to jump in and try new things she is a pleasure to have a class and when she is asked to do just about anything almost she does it so there's times where I tease her a little bit but I love having Melanie in class she is such a pleasure and the things that we're learning in PE um sometimes physical education gets a bad rap but what we're learning is cooperation we're learning teamwork we're learning problem solving we're learning strategies and let me tell you this melody is at the top here she is in there she actually helped me do some of the writing on the board today which was the teams we were doing uh setting up teams against each other today but any of Melanie congratulations and thank you for being an amazing young woman and thank you for being a good example to all of your classmates and your peers and thank you for lighting up our days every single day I don't think I've seen a frown on her face since the a first day of school I haven't so thank you for being an amazing amazing young lady and thank you to the parents thank you recognition to you for raising such an amazing young lady she she's awesome I wish I had I don't know 500 more so but thank you Millie thank you so much [Applause] let's keep that photo yeah coach join us for that photo please outstanding congratulations Melanie for the High School Mr Webb would you like to make your presentation please so McKenna Schrader is senior and she's being recognized um this is what's actually the one that nominated McKenna so I want to present this to you and then I'm not going to read what Mrs wood said about McKenna she said she is a senior she satisfies many the qualifications but in particular she's really strong in the social relationship area she participates in class volunteers work problems out on the board speaks respectfully to others and has a big smile on her face while doing it it's a bit of what we just heard about we all knew that is McKenna she's also part of our crew that does the morning announcements and joke of the day we love the announcements in the morning and my camera is a huge part of making that happen so we want to recognize McKenna for her part of making Blue Ridge special thank you congratulations foreign that brings us next to our PR star awards and we have two this month and I will I'm glad to present these I would like to help of first Nate will you present and I'll uh I'll bring the plaque and we would like to recognize Mr David Kelly from the I.T [Applause] um Dave has been with us for several years now he started with the temp for us and we posted it from the temp agency he's been fantastic for us he's always available knows his stuff inside and out and then he is just the ultimate customer service Guru his patience his training those types of things he's even killed he never seems to get frustrated with anything if because of that he makes us a better team and a better desert and so very deserving of this recognition thank you come on up in in one week I'm happy to say in one week's time I had three positive comments from three different parents I said where's Bruce I need to we need to recognize him if normally if I get a somebody mentions somebody after hours a teacher or anybody a staff member it's normally not positive but three times one week and the comments range from uh kind I consider it knows my name takes time to get to know me thank you I'll turn it over to you Bruce comes to us several years back and I knew right away he was going to play nice with her Transportation team he's a very diligent and punctual in his job and he loves the kids and takes time to get to know them as individuals and he also takes time to get to know the parents as well and he always isn't he always encourages all of his kids and all of his parents we appreciate that in him he's a model employee and also does so many other things behind the scenes he loves to serve others all in all a fantastic person and we appreciate all you do [Applause] [Music] our next recognition is for Teacher of the month last month Andrew ganil won this award in this month and goes to Mandy public can you please come up [Applause] thank you I want to recognize Mandy for a few things I've had the pleasure of working with Mandy for the last five years and I just I I want to recognize first that her she continuously is seeking more and more education and just recently received her certificate in counseling as your master's degree but she just is she's always continuing to further her education but she's also very conscientious of all the student needs on campus and things that our school needs to help get more involvement and so Mandy not only has been our yearbook creator for the last four years at least I think but also is has helped us with our spelling bee she runs that piece is has also started she's going to be starting science fair with our kids and there was one other I there are so many things that she's oh yes and thank you and she's also actually helping us start a new chapter of the junior National Honor Society so that's what we're looking into right now and so she just see his needs at the campus and she takes steps to get those things done so I'm I'm just very happy to have Mandy with us she is a big she's an important part of the ridge [Applause] [Music] thank you we feel it's important to recognize everybody that contributes and helps Blue Ridge become and stay what we are we appreciate the many hours as an extra effort that are given to make this school what it is excellent thank you thank you again so much okay the next item on the agenda is our content consent agenda board after looking over the consent agenda are there any items that you would like to take out and vote on individually consent agenda consists of minutes from the last meeting vouchers and reports personnel that kind of stuff so nothing there Margaret if not we have a motion to accept a consent agenda as posted I have a motion I have a second from Diane all in favor okay that would be all okay the next item on the agenda is our business section item 3.1 a recognition and acceptance of donations many benefit benefiting Blue Ridge School District Dr Wright you want to go over those and explain what they are and how they were well used and needed and people I think what I see when I read this is people saw a need and they stepped up in the community and just took care of it yes so we're very fortunate to have involved community members to help us the floor arrangement was given for the Mr yellow jacket it was donated by the bloom house and floral designs a local flower shop it's about I guess a year and a half years old is a nice place office chairs donated by Denise Hall for the bus bar and break room much needed thank you Denise a thousand dollar auto ship auto shop raffle donation by Carquest and the bomb it bomb Auto Home Auto home and auto center I'm not really for me it must be another local business so thank you to you and then the piano for the fine arts program was donated to our schools and they require our [Music] uh school supplies I'm sorry school supplies donated from rosemary as well holdenberg Holbert yes great family so um any comments regarding those donations thank you we do send letters out right thank you we appreciate that I think it would be great someday to just list in the newspaper what people give to us on an editorial basis sometimes to recognize those folks in the community they help us so much so we need a motion to accept these donations I have a motion by Margaret a second by Dan all in favor all right thank you item 3.2 a recommendation to approve the disposal of dated textbooks I read that and I thought oh no we're burning books right you want to explain what we're doing this is part of the procedures required if they're dated materials that are no longer relevant that you need to dispose of that has to go through a process and then has to be also approved by the board and so we're seeking permission to dispose of a group of dated textbooks we can give those away can't we well these are ones that people don't even want they're not dated it's not a history book they are dated okay so any comments if not Diana did you have something to say I mean can we have a motion into it they need to be cleaned out we have a motion then to uh except item 3.2 and motion a second Meyer all in favor then that was also passed okay item 3.3 recommendation to approve uh extracurricular coach sponsors we have a lengthy list and we don't need to go through those names individually but Dr Wright do you want to explain why we why we do this all of these required board approval in order to participate in these activities and so we were seeking board's approval and these are handouts these are the Personnel this is not stipends correct right okay yeah these were just the coaches not the stipends we have two lists any questions about those lists or any in okay uh I think we have a motion to accept item uh 3.3 have a motion from in a second from Diane all in favor that would be unanimous also okay item uh 3.4 recommendation to approve the 2022 and 2023 new teacher recruitment stipends there again would you just explain what that is yeah so these are funds that are provided through a grant to help recruit teachers and so if a teacher was not with us last year and they're with us this year they qualify for that and so we have provided that list of new teachers that are going to get those that are qualified for those stipends have they already received those or are they coming they're coming okay any questions or comments about that we have a recommendation then to accept item 3.4 emotion I mean the motion in a second all in favor sorry they're very patient with me last night we had a meeting at the end uh we called a meeting to order instead of uh adjourned it after an hour so thank you for your patience with me board I appreciate that in every way all right um item 3.5 recommendation to approve out-of-state travel for the FBLA leadership and team development if they're here they'd like to present that to us the sponsor is Alicia is here miss Alicia yeah I think this young man might have something to do with it too [Music] Jeremy here today um we are well I'm excited about taking over at Bailey this school year as the CTE business teacher um and just to provide the opportunity for our students to travel and to get new experience and to partake in some leadership development with not only students from our school but students from all around the country so this is a national event that is being held as I believe you're provided with the handouts um it doesn't look like a pasty trip and opportunity for our kids but I'm confident in their ability to fundraise and to um yeah just be able to make this happen for themselves and so as you can see on the request There's an opportunity to also go to Disney which will be fun but for them after learning for two days in a row so um yeah just looking forward to hopefully being able to provide this opportunity for them and funding-wise I'll just say we've actively laid out a plan for all the members of fpla and they are currently actively seeking out fundraising through tax credit and business sponsors sponsorship from the community great just just for the record when when was this planned and when is it going to happen scheduled for November 17th through the 20th okay we've been planning for the last two to three weeks yeah I think I got an email from this young man saying how do I do this and I said talk to your principal and he did he got it all taken care of so thanks for dealing with me are there any questions anybody has great thank you very much thank you so the next item then for us to vote on would be item 3.5 approval for this out of state travel I have a motion a second from Diane all in favor all right [Music] okay item 3.6 Dr Adam turn this over to you so you can introduce these new employees we do not we do not have any of the new employees here tonight two of these are returning Sarah bromke was with us for five years she had a very brief retirement Miss teaching and her husband has gone on to work in the business world and she volunteered to take her role so we gladly accepted she's a wonderful English teacher so we we lost him and gained her we did yep I said Ed I love you but we upgraded we got Sarah yeah I'm glad you said that I didn't want to get caught saying that at real Ed knows he's an amazing teacher too and Sarah is phenomenal the next one Mr Pico still worked with us he returned retiree they have to go out of the system for a year he's been out with ESI for a year he's coming back Brittany Graves is at our front desk he's doing a wonderful job and Chris Breedlove is helping out Roger's team and is has a wealth of knowledge and a lot of different area this and that filled that position that we'd had before Amberly Crowther is joining our it team October 3rd and so these are the folks that we've added since our last meeting I'm going to seek board approval any questions or comments about these individuals I do believe the HVAC ire is supposed to be very helpful with the State Board and proving that we do maintenance on air conditioning so that they'll help us get put more funding is that right correct that's great good just real quick do we have any other openings currently for teaching English position full-time still efforting to find that we're full at the elementary and Junior High is but that's the one position every December for the last three years we've found either an English or a math teacher so keep her fingers and toes crossed maybe we'll find one for the second semester if not that'll be covered through ASU digital prep thank you if there's no further comments or questions we have a motion for item 3.6 a motion for Margaret a second from Jennifer all in favor thank you that also passed unanimously um item 3.7 Dr Wright we're going to turn some time over to you to give us an update on what's happening in the district yes sir the Fall Festival is this weekend our district will be represented in a number of different ways we have different groups and teams participating in that event begins in the morning of if it doesn't get rained out there's supposed to be a lot of rain so it might be a wet Fall Festival but we are planning on participating as a district girls are playing at home right now in soccer I don't know when that game is over Jennifer just over about right now and then this week is homecoming week at the at the high school so that's a busy week for Miss Megan and Mr Webb there they're very busy with all of the goings-on that are happening we have an event going about every night I believe the homecoming dance is Saturday from 8 to 11 here at the high school and we play gonado at home the football team does this Friday all are welcome and that's the report for this week if you don't have any questions no I have a question will homecoming royalty be able to participate in the parade yeah that's part of the flow so that's the winners for the royalty during the game halftime of the football game and then they're invited to participate in the parade that's that's cool that's that doesn't happen very often and I think it's great and we also it a class of 82 they're having their 40-year read in this weekend and so we're doing a big push and they actually invited other people from you know upper and lower grades and so it's a pretty big deal and they're we're invited into the homecoming game as well great thank you I appreciate that okay next item on the agenda is call to the public and if anybody would like to what's that I'm sorry Diane and I are feeling old well you know I I those were the same thoughts I had when they said the class of 82.
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that's great all right thank you for everybody for being here we're gonna go ahead and get started crane school district understands that our community of schools is located on the ancestral land of the Town people who descended from the hohokum and have inhabited these lands since time immemorial the hodam whose name translates literally to people are a vibrant culture and Community spanning countless Generations into the past continue to thrive in the present and carrying a powerful Legacy for Generations into the future with this acknowledgment the current School District formerly recognizes that the traditional care and keeping of these lands by indigenous people is an inspirational model of community stewardship that we are committed to honor with practices policy and human relations and with that um Miss Michaela can you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance to them just do we have Mr compost yet no no login right okay so for right now we have Miss errors myself Miss McCaleb and miss mcsheffrey we want to welcome everyone to tonight's meeting and remind the audience of the request to address the board cards that must be completed and submitted to the board to the secretary if they wish to speak to an agenda item board policy provides for two cards why cards are to be submitted in order to speak to an agenda item and blue cards to be submitted in order to speak during public comments due to the open meeting law board members are not allowed to address items that are not on the agenda and that's per policy b-e-d-e-h we also want to remind everybody that we do have a Spanish-speaking translator in the back if anybody needs translation services they are here available for you guys and that takes us so you move the governing board approve the agenda as presented all those in favor hi hi oh sorry all right no public comments Hilda okay all right and that takes us to our superintendent report well good evening everybody good evening Madam president members of the board uh first of all I would like to say congratulations to Lindsay McCaleb who earned her international certificate for technology and education and is now an official iste certified educator congratulations secondly I would like to complement uh Dina de Milani and Jay Mann for the government Finance Officers Association award uh for a certificate of achievement in excellence and financial reporting at the national level congratulations we recently had Parents night and they were well attended it was just nice to feel a little bit of normal a little bit of physical presence a little bit of connection and organic engagement I would also like to say we have upcoming our parent teacher conferences coming up soon in October so we're all getting ready for that and looking forward to partnering with our parents um our ASU partnership and Community engagement practice has been recognized uh by the Marylee Fulton education award so our district or department and so specifically they're highlighting the Creighton Academy is that on health hello uh Mr Campos is that you yep thank you and if you can just mute yourself until you speak that would be great thank you okay thank you so uh coming up soon at the guppy Mac meeting the greater Phoenix metropolitan education Consortium I'll be presenting our model of creative Staffing that we use uh at the Creighton Academy so that we could maximize the teachers that we have that are Master Teachers and people who are growing in to be teachers and then teachers support who are paraprofessionals and simultaneously to that Dr Lugo and Katie Cartier will be giving a very similar presentation at the Phoenix Art Museum to the next education Workforce models for other districts around the state to learn what we're doing so we're very proud of that creative approach to Staffing and I really appreciate it speaking of Staffing the Arizona School Personnel associations report came out and just a couple of stats for you across the state we have 2577 positions still open that's about 27 percent vacancy Statewide average in Creighton we have 4 four positions open and we're at about one percent so again a congratulations to the whole team for working diligently on that the state report said that 42 percent of the state positions for teachers are filled by those not meeting stand certificate uh requirements or having some sort of alternative and Creighton is at seven percent so 68 percent of our teachers total are um either unfilled positions or filled with alternative cert positions and it the the efforts to make this uh this crisis uh get mitigated is being worked on daily by all of you and so Dr Lugo thank you for your leadership in that area um our sign and stay stipends were received recently so everybody yay you got those good uh and then paper performance will be coming out in October so good and then we're hoping to bring to the board October 4th a recommendation for staff stipends to continue with our vacancy savings so we look forward to another opportunity to continue to uh keep our people and and recognize them with every dollar we have available um our Junior ambassadors are working hard to prepare for a program to get to go to Costa Rica and to get to go to Washington DC and they have re-engaged with our sister partner schools in China so thank you for all that hard work as we all begin to re-engage worldwide as well and our garden programs are getting ready to gear up as the weather cools so we will have two cycles of gardening and we can even do a presentation on that soon but we're very excited to peep out the people who have stepped up to work on a gardening curriculum and who are just waiting for mother nature to be a part of that program so thank you that's it thank you so much so we go to caberneting board reports Miss McCaleb we'll start off with you um too much because all because I'll cover things in the law conference agenda item um but just uh celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month uh this Friday Also is Native American day so I look forward to hearing how teachers and classes are celebrating all of those pieces thank you Miss Ayers welcome everyone tonight it's always good to see people I love when schools um I'm looking forward tonight to the presentation I'm looking forward to um starting up school visits again soon I hope for the feels like the first order is speeding by so I hope we can set those up quickly I did just talk to Dr Lewis today about visiting some staff meetings just to introduce myself and any other board members that want to join me um I wasn't able to attend the kickoff or the cea luncheon at the beginning of the year so I just really would like to come to your staff meeting and meet you all and just um that we board members are here to hear from you guys so um I I met I think it was a teacher of the year last year who had um never um really she came to our chat with the board and she really didn't understand what the board did so I think that's something really important to do so look I look forward to seeing you guys when I do that soon thank you Mr Campos do you have a board update for us no I just want to say hi to everybody and I think it's our first time that I'm on a on the phone on a meeting it's exciting well I just apologize I I was this morning or this afternoon with with the uh with a dentist and I feel like I'm talking like Daffy Duck so I'd rather use me on the phone but hi to everyone and and I hope that I can be of of help right here thank you Mr Campos um I don't really have much to say either obviously happy Hispanic Heritage Month I know that there's a video going out right now to the Creighton School District did um with me and just to share a little bit um I am Mexican-American and first generation so our practice in our family is that on the 15th of September we do what's called el grito which I'll know a lot of you are familiarized with it because Creighton School District is actually really good at amplifying that message to the students so I do appreciate that um the gardenings yes are going amazing and my daughter goes to the Korean Academy and we actually already started our gardening group we actually meet Wednesday mornings so that's awesome that um it's going on and also it's awesome that we have staff that are coming in earlier on the days um just to open up the school for us and have that accessible to us so we're really thankful for everybody that works with us at the crane Academy and also mostly important that nobody really mentioned we have a community council committee coming this Thursday so we would love to invite every single one of you to that that's going to be held at Monte Vista Elementary School I believe it's 5 45 it starts there will be child care for everybody um so I hope all of you guys can join us on that and um next we have the Arizona school boards Association law conference reports Miss McCaleb do you want to go ahead and get us started on that sure um definitely super excited I went to this conference um I enjoy conferences but this one was just especially informative and not just I hate to say but like not just kind of that big level informative but okay here are things we need to put into practice um I as well as all the board members I know have been following the legislative session this earlier this year very closely um and but as much as you read and as much as you go to you know here to learn more about it um they just did a really good job of breaking things down into okay here's what finally passed um and and here are the implications it has good or bad for school districts and staff um so I went to quite a few sessions um went to one on Capital litigation update free speech and advocacy site councils and committees religion schools Supreme Court cases curriculum review and book Manning um K4 the new K4 discipline requirements Title IX um some things that I wanted to pull out um a lot of sessions and a lot of talk about the changes to the parental rights statutes and one of the things kind of my ask for the executive team as well as the principals in the site Administration I know we're being very purposeful about this and my school district is really making sure that the teachers are educated on these changes because a lot of them are a clause a four word clause that has been changed and thrown in there um and well I absolutely advocate for parents we also know that we need to advocate for our teachers too and make sure that everyone's aware of the policies and changes and some of them are like I said very minute and some of it's very actionable I had some good conversations with Dr dupin while we were there about the curriculum and the new requirements for that and posting School library books and notice for parents on those and some of them are very easy black and white like here's what we need to do and here's how we can post on the website and make it available um not necessarily easy there's a process but you know it's pretty clear as to what to do to make sure that we're in compliance but there are other things like they've really expanded on what counts as public records and what can be requested all the way down to notes that are handwritten by a teacher in a meeting that are you know they think for themselves that that's public record still so just really making sure that we're educating all of our staff um and I know our staff are professional but we just need to make sure that everyone's aware of all the new policies um another one that can be problematic is um additional uh Clauses about surveying students and ensuring that every single student survey we have everybody has access to the questions at least seven days ahead of time and I know that can be cumbersome so just kind of just know staff that's watching out in in the cyber world and staff that are here there are things coming down the pipeline from the state and we absolutely never want to sit here and say let's put 57 more things on your plate but there are pieces that we have to be in compliance with and there are pieces that Dr Lewis and Dr dupin and and everybody is going to be working to ensure that we are um the other piece some other pieces that are legal and legislative updates um One Piece that's been added we've always had the pledge now there's moment of silence they also introduced a dedicated 911 education day um so those are both good things we also talked about the esa program expansion I'm going to hold my opinions on that um uh one thing that not a lot of people know about is they did make for kindergarten early entry they've made a Statewide assessment for this previously districts have had to come up with their own ways to assess if a kindergartner who didn't turn five before September 1st was ready to start kindergarten they actually have a Statewide assessment for it which I think just in the vein of like equity and ensuring that all of our districts are on the same page I think that can be a good thing um and it'll be a training and all of those pieces will roll out this year and then it'll be implemented for next school year I also got to participate paint in the delegate assembly which was my first time doing that with asba which was really powerful focusing on okay you know we we spent three days learning about all the legislation that was passed what are our priorities going to be to advocate for our teachers for students for families for legislative sessions next year um so it's a half a day ish long session where we go through previous meetings you heard us all discuss kind of what our priorities are is a board for the Creighton School District all of those ideas are funneled into districts representatives from districts throughout the entire state and we nitpick all of the language and really focus on what are the messages that we want the people of the Capitol to hear and what are the changes we need to see what are we going to prioritize um and it was just a really even though some of it can be contentious to discuss I felt like it was a really positive unifying experience because you had 50 100 something people in a room and I'd say 99 of everything we were all on the same page like this is what our students need this is what our teachers need we need to be more Equitable we need to provide more Early Childhood we need to make our schools safer and we need the legislation to back up those things um so it was just I had a really positive experience even though I don't agree with some of the laws that were passed thank you Miss Ayers glad that you spoke about and I don't have so I can speak about um so the first thing I wanted to comment on was um the guest speakers that um started both days were a lot better than last year and a lot more meaningful so judge Hatchet was there and we got to um listen to her stories about how she has advocated for students in her career um and then Robert Kim spoke the second day and um I found him interesting just because he wrote uh he talked about the 10 U.S Supreme Court cases that like we should all know and since I'm getting my masters right now I was like oh I know that case I know that case so at least I understood that um we also got to watch um half of them half of a movie and you could watch the rest of it later which um I couldn't oh it's on peacock oh good so good I can watch the rest of it so it's called the bad kids it was a Sundance award-winning documentary and it's about um high school students and what happens when regular school just isn't for them and they kind of make their own way and they allow you know they help them but they earn credits like um just on their own pathway um so that was I really like that one um I went to all six sessions as well I went to criminal law the first one which I think you were there right I was really um way over my head so uh they kind of spoke about stuff that probably lawyers might understand but not myself then I went to the stipends which was really interesting and they talked about um just how we give stipends legally to especially the non-exempt employees and making sure that they're um that you know that they don't work over their 40 hours or if they do then they understand that this is a separate thing so they talked um a lot about those I went to the k34 discipline and I think Lindsay went to that I think Lindsay was there at that one um so as most of you know we don't suspend kids um now up to age seven or fourth grade um so that was a little I mean that was interesting it's just kind of hard to comprehend um people making these laws and what they what they say about these teacher shortage was one that I was really interested in um and they talked a lot about how we bring people in from other countries and they talked about the J-1 Visa system and how we um how the whole process goes through when they come they um you know have hoes that they're a Visa holder but um we get them through like an another agency and so they're in charge they're like a third party um they can work here for three years but then apply for two more years so I know that in my district we have about 10 to 15 I think J1 Visa people and I know we do have some here I don't know how many um I went to Title Nine which mostly talked about um sexual harassment policies and the different kind of um roles that people can play and how you have to report things um also learned that we have a district Title IX coordinator because I was there with um Eric and then my favorite thing was we had an activity while we were there and I did it with Eric and by my HR person um and it was it was a really great activity and it was something I think I could do with my kids so I was excited about that to give you a scenario and you get to talk about it but then they start throwing like wrenches in your scenario and what would you do now um I think that was probably the most engaging one that I had and something that I learned that I could take back into the classroom um besides talking about Title IX and then of course the last one I went to was influencing the outcome of an election just our role as board members and what we can and can't do in the school systems um like making paper copies or giving you know um using like District resources than money or district emails so overall I thought it was a really great day two days I should say two days thank you Dr Lewis I just am blown away by the content and the retention from the first two reports it mirrors and ricochets everything I would hope to have shared and you did it beautifully I would add some of the most valuable time also spent was in the hallways where conversations occurred especially as it relates to our financial limitations on the aggregate expenditure limit and how it might generate some shared activity so the board will be looking at a resolution later and these are some of the benefits of informally being in person together so that ideas are generated not necessarily because of the content delivery but because of the engagement that you have informally in the hallway so that was also tremendously beneficial as I learned with and from and offered to other districts and other board members thank you um I'm not going to go much more deeper than what everybody was shared but um I also on the Arizona School Board Association and the Maricopa County director and I'm also the vice president of the Hispanic Native American Indian caucus so at a on an asba point of view it was one of the biggest law conferences that we've had registered and it's throughout the whole state of Arizona so we have rural school districts you know all over the State of Arizona so it was really impactful and great to see empowering to see so many other school board members getting a little bit more involved on what they can bring back to their school districts and advocate for their kids and their staff every district is a little bit different especially you know the Border towns just hearing the stories of other school board members too on how you know sometimes we say we're we're going this they have buses at four o'clock in the morning that they're busing kids from Mexico to the United States to go to school so this is why networking and and going to these places is really important too just because you get a different scope of what's going on in different districts and meet other people so um my favorite one was the criminal law one session just because I have a lot of legal background so that's why I like that one um and I ended up getting into some kind of discussion with one of the presenters on something but that's one of the things that Arizona School Board Association is an amazing Association to be a part of and that we have their relationship because they're very open to learning as well when they're you know the main presenters of giving us of certain types of information so that was great hmm all right so now I move the governing board approved kids send agenda items a through H and J I'm pulling I I don't know if anybody else is pulling anything else okay so um I am pulling I which is out of the country trouble to attend the school superintendent senior education officials and administrators delegation to Israel um in November of this year so the only reason why I'm pulling that is that oh yeah oh I'm sorry I forgot about that yeah so I moved okay all those in favor hi yeah she seconded it hi Mr Campos I forgot to think of that okay okay I okay so now sorry about that um so for I the only reason why I pulled this is that I do believe that um we're in a place right now where student achievement is very low and part of the superintendent's job is focusing on day-to-day operations and to me eight days being in Israel seems doesn't seem prudent at the time especially when it's District funds um 12.50 coming from the district I just don't feel like it's prudent at the moment with everything that's going on I also know that there's some hyper political stuff going on in Israel and it just doesn't seem prudent at the moment for me um I know that having a connection I think Dr Lewis said before that that's how for the junior ambassadors program that's how she was able to bring in um China and bring in Costa Rica which is a very good opportunity for kids but again that's an opportunity that's sent to the privileged kids like mine that I can afford to send them and pay you know thousands of dollars to send them on these trips so to me um having Community Partnerships that can get our kids to do those things instead of going to Israel and thinking about how we're going to send our kids out there when we have a lot of other things going on in the district would be more impactful and Powerful for me so for now that's why I'm pulling it at and I guess I'll talk to the vote unless there's more discussion on this senior ambassadors I think we really need to ramp up our current Partnerships um and see how we can get more kids involved in junior ambassadors period because we have a very small percentage of kids who are able to go to those so I think adding yet another one we haven't even discussed this as a word I don't think that's the direction that we we should be going so I think it's it's it's unnecessary right now and and just to clarify for me it's unnecessary that the district is paying for it I will never tell an employee what to do on their personal time with their own finances just coming at a district point of view that's my sentiment is there any other discussion um yeah I I I'm pretty pleased with the fact that uh we have had at least few of our students from our community with that opportunity of of going to those countries both China and Costa Rica and and even as I didn't have the opportunity to send my kids for different reasons one of them very strongly is the finances but I'm happy that somebody else can do it so uh and if indeed those uh opportunities have opened before our children in in our district because of the job that Dr Luis is doing wow I my point of view and my goal will be uh for for allowing it but uh that's just my my perspective is that the mere fact that I cannot do it and and he's nobody's fault but he's just not in my possibilities will never be a reason for me to take it away from anybody else so that that's just my my opinion thank you Mr Campos go ahead Miss theirs was superintendents that were invited to this correct yes um and so I take it it was an R to be invited to this deeply so there was not any are there any other Arizona superintendents that are going no so I think part of the job of a superintendent is to build relationships even with other places um and I think this was a great honor to be invited to this and I think 1 250 is a minimal amount um to build those relationships so that's my reason thank you Mrs um I mean I I agree with Miss mcshuffrey I do want to see us and I won't belaborate because it's not part of the agenda item but I do want to see us ramp up our efforts to fundraise or do other things so we can involve students more um in the Pro in the junior ambassador program in general that means said I don't want to take away the possibility like I I think we can do that and continue to expand I'm part of my passion is really helping kids be Global collaborators and really experience a world outside of their small neighborhood and I I just think this is a really powerful opportunity um and because Dr Lewis is covering all of the travel expenses and we're just paying for registration um I think the amount is fine like we're not looking at tens of thousands of dollars here okay and um so I moved the governing board approved consent agenda item I I taken all those in favor uh Mr Campos hi Miss Ayers hi nay Miss McCaleb aye MS mcshephrey motion passes thank you and I'll take all the comments so now I move the governing board approved consent agenda item a through h oh perfect so we're done got it uh that goes back to 6A Mackin School update executive team it's almost 100 day this evening she along with students share some progress and Reflections that have been gathered based on the work that occurred during those hundred days and what's been gleaned from the transition from last year I can hear nothing okay I'm on silence right now we're figuring out the computer okay foreign members I'm very excited to be here tonight to make an update about Mackin and we have some guests tonight we have some students we have leil many we have Madeline and we have Axel Lopez here they're going to help me with our presentation so us to begin with I would like to start with our vision and Mission here alive so we welcome you to American school where we communicate effectively have positive relationships and Achieve academic success and help our students building character also I would like to share the perspective from our students and before I do that I will have um Madeline over here sharing hold on because I want to present a video but I had to do a little movement over here and she will do a brief introduction of this video hello my name is Madeline and I am in sixth grade and my homeroom teacher is as much as I have been in back and for a year and a half I like to be a student at Market because I then move stuff and I can I am a member of student council and more other 20 treatments student council helps me build outstanding characters here's the video of students talking about being replaces in making and solving problems and kind peoples Thank you Madeline you did great go outdoor sitting and zipline helps me be a better person and it problems me down whenever I get whenever um I get mad bye-bye to me for me it's because well it helps me be safe and one and when it makes me come it makes me do my work very new I would feel like to be a new student and I'm acting the new iPad they help us better than the computer somehow because we we get all of my classmates they have a speaker they said that's the iPad to improve their technology and teachers and harassments for all night somehow they have this kind of the teachers your potential Club the club that I go to every day and it's really fun if you want to do work they help you do homework and after that we can do challenges and we go outside and at the end of it I just wait outside for our parents to come you ready I like making because we get Five Points Elementary and about communicating for an example means that we we had our differences and but yet we have some differences in blindness like Northern and took a big step sat down and talked about our interested like we both again for example and we basically got along we're not creating each other we're not fighting and I think that's really huge step out send out the words I was gonna say [Music] everybody always get to have some fun sometime around I like doing stuff guy gaming but I shouldn't be nice to me I think I like about magic is that like they help you to understand things okay and what I would like to do now um we're gonna have some Reflections brought up to us by um Leilani many um is ready for us here here our students Reflections Leilani [Music] my name is Leilani I am sixth grade and my homeroom teaches I've been at Macon for six years and student council and I was class Sagittarian third degree Magnum School supports learning by providing safe and fun environment encouraging students to talk about their feelings and making sure students try their best thank you great job thank you so much um Leilani and also I would like to share something else that we are starting in our school this is um week number two of our 21st century Grant and one of the clubs that we're having is a new club that is calling the mac and Morning Show which is our morning announcements and we have it azso Lopez talking about the morning announcements come over thank you for being here axel my name is also Lopez I'm in seventh grade and my homeroom teacher is Mr Cho I have been a Mackin for eight years and I like making because I have a lot of friends and awesome teachers this year I joined the morning announcements Club I think the club will help me with my confidence and communication skills so much that's all thank you and now um well I would like to talk about um we heard our students Reflections right now I would like to share my Reflections after almost a whole quarter we have only work in there very intense work and we have only two weeks and a half left and I would like to talk about the priorities that I have identified during this time and supported by my leadership team so I would say the priority number one is being establishing a culture of safety at the school priority number two the Staffing fully and effectively priority number three has been building tissue capacity and priority number four creating Community relationships so regarding a priority number one establishing a culture of safety our area so Focus has been managing student Behavior we had been training our teachers on the PBIS system We Gather a good group of teachers coming over during the summer we kind of restructure our PBI assistant we created a share Vision creating new agreements to support our middle school students we also started the implementation of the community circles we actually are going to have a training for um all staff tomorrow during staff meeting to for the implementation of the community circles with a with a follow-up this Saturday whereas teachers are going to see down look at all the information create materials create the dialogues and everything create those restorative conversations that have been provided by this child Justice Advocate that we have our school that he's also providing that language the restorative conversations just pulling some small group into the classroom and also having the students using that language to student to student teacher to student student to teacher a student to the group and that has been very positive in our school but we still have some challenges and some other challenges that we have is the influx of 60 plus students experiencing some chair trauma around homelessness and they have brought to our school some challenging behaviors every day also we have the lack of common language and expectations in middle school and we're working really hard on that so so we can create that common expectation in our Middle School um priority number two is Staffing fully and effectively our area of focus has been establishing a caring adult relationship with our students from the very beginning with our teachers giving the students a structure and those building that relationship and trust and Rapport in the classroom also uh recruiting and hiring stuff which I'm very excited to announce I received a notification today that um two of our teachers coming with work visas from Mexico were approved we're about like two more weeks and we'll have them over here and there's two more to follow so thank you back to Lugo for your great effort and support recruiting these teachers in Mexico so they're almost here and I'm very excited about it because this is part of um this is going to help us with our challenges which is the next part the part of the challenges are that we have to reorganize our staff to fill unfilled positions and also what we have recruiting and hiring qualified staff as you work you and sharing yourself is kind of it's been difficult for everyone this year our priority or my priority number three is building teacher capacity in our area of focus has been implementation of the new math program using the new Benchmark system as I yeah diagnostic tool using the istip and student portfolios and the technology integration we um one of the challenges that we had is the the new math program and we are learning the program as we are implementing it the same with the new Benchmark system we're learning the system as we are using it so um I want to show some of the pictures of our professional development and data dialogues we had a series of teach Like A Champion trainings for our teachers that we provided in new teacher orientation and throughout the this five seven weeks that we have been working at school also just this past Wednesday we did a deep data meeting and dialogues we had those dialogues with our teachers where they were using the data trackers to be able to situate our students regarding their needs and based on that we were able to uh plan and decide our tier one instruction in the classroom based on those data dialogues and also our smooth small targeted groups in the school in the classroom now moving into our priority number four creating Community relationships um our area of focus has been welcoming parents and volunteers to school we know the last year because of the pandemic that was not the case right and this is something new that we're doing opening up to sports events something that I wanted to share in this area is that it was sad for me to see during our first week our first game because the parents were standing by the fence outside of the school because that was the way it was happening last year and I had to go up to the fences I said the gates are open you can come in Joe join us yes you're part of this I love that yes yes so and we also were able to held our first round of academic parent-teacher teams that was this past Thursday it was an important event that we had and we are also offering our cafecitos for parents we had held two of them where we're teaching our parents how to use and how to go to parent view we're teaching our students our parents how to submit the lunch applications and we're preparing them and guiding them on how to become Volunteers in our school also well some of the challenges that we have been facing is finding appropriate time to meet with parents has been a little bit difficult to adjust because it used to be online after school we're trying to do it in the morning with students when parents start dropping out their students so school you know so the mass communication system um has now been working properly and it's been a little bit of a challenge for us in that area um and I would like to share some of our players um in the soccer and volleyball team that we're very excited because we won the first game the soccer game and uh very tight on the volleyball um game uh we had guest speakers to middle school and we also had our operations school bell program bringing supplies and clothes for our students and as I said we just this pastor that we held our first title one in aptt night and this is Mac and up to today thank you um first of all students thank you very much for being here good job to each of you um you should be very proud um I just have a question about this presentation is different than what I see is is that one public or is the one I have public is different yeah there's just more pictures on that one some photographs were added since the apgt night was the day that the agenda went live okay so there's been a couple tweets okay is that on the public board docs or is that just um Miss Ramos's um presentation most likely it's the presentation that we're viewing though tonight okay but it's not I don't I know I don't have access to it as a board member so I'm guessing the public doesn't either you can make sure that you get access to okay it would just be nice for people to follow who are trying to follow along that's all um this happens a lot so it's confusing because I'm like I I didn't see that line there so I know I know it's we're updating to the very last minute but it makes it really hard um to prepare questions when I don't you know when it's flying by um I like to look at it ahead of time anyways I'm sorry um I heard from several teachers last year that the PBIS at Mackin was broken and that were there was no there were no Norms or systems set up for it it sounds like that is a priority that you're working on um what types of things are you doing to remedy this you know it was it was that I we there were some mac and teachers and Gateway teachers chatting together and there was obviously a very big disconnect on what the two different PBIS implementations at the two different schools were okay well I know the PBIS program followed the same template and the same expectations and I believe every school adapter to their needs in in their schools so I know I'm not exactly sure how it was last year but I know that the intent this year was to be prepared before the school um years started and that's why we met during the summer a good group of 15 teachers got together and spent a whole day working on the PBIS system adjusting and creating the reward system and share consequences and recognitions for students creating new agreements technology use agreements uniform use expectations so we were and it was in general consensus that we created the new system or refine the systems that we had and we're working on having consistency across the all the Middle School teachers because we have also new t-shirts and everything should have different beliefs so we have been meeting almost every week going over the different even going to the granular point of creating this common language going to the definition of the behaviors what do you what do you mean when you're saying you're going to give three minutes to start the lesson or students a three-minute transition from one class to the other this is the three minutes where they do they need to be inside do they need where do they need to be so we have in very detailed with those expectations and middle school mostly because that's one of our major focus focuses for this school year okay good um and and as far as if you are you getting the support that or what kind of supports I guess are you getting from leadership as far as um the PBIS or what kind of supports do you need like from District leadership do you feel like you're getting what you need um or do you or is there more that you need to um well Morris always welcome yeah all right I'm not gonna see no I'm not gonna say no to that but I have been greatly supported by everyone in the district I'm actually very grateful for that Dr dupin has been there in my corner all the time ready to listen Give opinions and support with parents and students also my leadership team that is right behind me my assistant principal my instructional coaches my effective School coaches everyone has been very supportive what I have asked Dr dupin is to kind of um get like a little of introduction of something that was good we're going to be having in November is the the equities stewardship program that is scheduled to be there with sixth grade in November so we my request to Dr Luke dupen was to see if we can have like an introduction um before the end of this quarter so we can have these conversations and discussions and having this understand standing of the expectations and being respectful using this restorative conversations um trying to think on equity and and the gaps that we have in the community uniform our students beliefs and and understanding of behaviors and culture and the school so we are we have been receiving all that support okay and I know that it's in progress thank you so much for asking that um last year also I heard a lot about students going into isolation rooms is that still a practice I know there's like students being isolated if there are disruptive right but being in isolation rooms for like an extended period of time or days and it wasn't really a suspension and parents weren't necessarily notified is that a practice that's going on absolutely not no we don't have isolation rooms I'm sorry if that happened I never heard of anything like that in our policies to communicate with parents immediately or as soon as possible whenever any of the con of the behaviors have been observed and we are investigating we contact parents directly yeah and then you also just said um your mass communication system isn't working properly what is that the mass communication system is the robocall system in the text message system that they have been updating I think I believe because there is a new program the platform that we're using it hasn't been working properly also okay so we'll hope that remedy yeah and I know um Emmy wasseling has been working really hard on that and she's been very supportive because I always communicate with her but it before like prior years the school could do it directly and we can do as many Robo course as we can and now we just have to going to um to Emily so she can help us but she has done that too okay great and then um what are you doing to find um appropriate or convenient times to get with parents because I know cafes you can offer them but not everyone can make them at certain times are you offering them um at different times of the day or what types of things are you trying we're trying we try refers to and we try to do it in person in the morning and the first one wasn't the best the second one was better and we're just because we this is a new change last last year we didn't do it that way so we just want to bring the awareness to the parents and getting it out for them to email Facebook Flyers with the students and I have other ideas of things that we can do like offering prizes to the classes with parents attending uh the events and all all kind of different incentives and also try different schedule I know we're not opposed what we want to make it work great thank you for our parents in person or online whatever works best we're just trying different options right now thank you and thank you so much for going and getting the parents out from behind the gate I'm shocked that they were still behind the gate I was hoping that that we would have stopped that towards the end of last year so thank you very much for doing that thank you Miss mcsheffery do we have any other questions or comments yes I have uh some comments uh um number one uh thank you for for everyone that presented and always especially to the kids but uh to you right now on the produce I just want to tell you that I'm I'm very uh uh pleased with everything and I have three things number one uh you're a problem solver I like it there's always uh I can see that you you find a way to to uh to face situations and and just approach them and go at them and and uh for example that uh bringing T-shirts from Mexico that that's that just amazed me and from then I just keep listening to to a different problem being solved so I thank you for for using that secondly uh you care for the people in different ways you mentioned it but I'm one parent that uh that was used to screaming my lungs and my heart are my children when they were in the sports at school and you notice that the parents were on the other side of the fence so thank you for that thank you for caring and the last one is uh uh when I hear that in everything you've been accomplishing a victory you mentioned that you get the support from everyone and I think that's because you are a humble person and you know how to work uh on teamwork so just thank you again and and congratulations and it's all good news to me tonight thank you so much upstairs hi hi students you guys did a great job tonight thank you for coming it's always great to see students um share with us what's going on after school so thank you for I really appreciate the videos you could see that they were really authentic um because the kids have made me crack up a lot so that's fun because you know it wasn't a show um I know it's hard I'm sure to come into a new school that already has problems so I know it's going to take some time to get in there and change things the way that you want to change them [Music] um I hope next year I'm kind of in the same situation as you being a new principal I hope that I get that um in my district and I hope that um I can do some of the things that you are doing um it looks like you're making some really great changes um and I really appreciate seeing things that are going on well and I also do appreciate seeing places where you're struggling because sometimes we know things are going on at schools and sometimes we want to look at all the pretty pictures but we know that pretty pictures of usually what's happening in schools there's always something that we can improve upon or something we struggle with so I appreciate you bringing that to us thank you thank you so much thank you guys you guys did awesome you should be proud of yourselves and proud to the parents that have these wonderful human beings thank you I have one follow-up question I'm sorry um are you fully staffed now then or how how many teachers are you still missing we um almost fully stuff one position but we're about to have that person is working on his certificate he um is probably going to start next week but we have yeah okay yeah thank you um and I just want to Echo a lot of what everyone else said I know like what week seven in um so I'm sure you feel like I do or it's like we're barely into the school year but oh my gosh we packed so much in um and I just I really appreciate you know it was very clear you're uh as necessary said you know there are challenges um but it's very clear that you're setting those expectations I'm pleased to hear um very critical eye of looking at like not just we're doing PBIS but we're really embracing this and being very systematic about it and that came across very clearly um uh also you know going back to some of the basics the teach Like A Champion strategies um and and making sure that your staff had that before the school year started I think is huge too um I think we tend to put a lot of kind of like we pile a ton on teachers for the school year but it's not necessarily the what do they need day one um and it sounds like you were very intentional about providing those supports and continuing to provide them um so and I'm excited to hear again just to reiterate being active with those parents um so just thank you for all that you're doing and thank you students you guys did a wonderful job and we love hearing from you thank you so much something I would like just to share um and because of comment on Mr campus regarding those teachers coming from Mexico I am one of them too that came to Creighton 25 years ago under the work visa in came today awesome awesome wow the Wonder thank you thank you while we transition I'd like to just point out that the student artwork on display is also from back in school this week oh okay awesome in just a brief explanation about the ER that is posted back there um our art teacher had a project to come up to bring our mission um alive and she asked the project was to reflect on the moments were a student spell happy in the school using the silhouette technique that's awesome thank you thank you all right that brings us to review Title IX policy and regulations thank you madam president good evening thanks once again just take one moment to get transition and I'll welcome to the podium three of our experienced and Veteran and wise coach leaders and Mr Breezy who coordinates of our Athletics program good evening members of the board thank you for having us I'm coach Sims I'm coach Sims hold on just one sec you look like you're ready to Dive Right In the Jeopardy music foreign thank you for your patience all right this evening we're here to discuss Title IX and its implications here in the district relative to our policies and practices this evening we have Coach Vicki Sims who is at Kennedy at Loma Linda coach Asher Hall from Papago School coach Tim Kanor who is at Papago School as well and Josh Breezy assistant principal at Kennedy at Loma Linda as I mentioned before he does really work heavily with the assistant principles to coordinate all the work of our Athletics program so this is the Dream Team right here and of course they're supported by a host of other coaches assistants who work to make our Athletics program what it is uh just to point out Madam president members of the board some of the slides here were added today uh we happen to be at the ASA principles and the law conference and attended a session on Title IX so we pulled in a couple of the relevant slides for clarity that just speak directly from you know recent legislation and its impact on our work well this is one of those slides summary of the main federal statute under Title IX Title IX is extremely broad it was expanded especially in 2020 having to do a lot with sexual harassment and how sexual harassment is handled in schools both for adults and children but it also in most historically relates to women in athletics so just to summarize briefly uh no person in the United States shall on the basis of sex be excluded from participation in uh or have discrimination about academic or educational programming from any institution that receives federal assistance with regard to Athletics regulations do allow for separate teams based on sex where selection for such teams is based on competitive skills or the activities of contact sport so it is still legal under Title IX to have that separation um as well as some other practices in Arizona there is a new law that is about to take effect we did learn about this we followed it throughout the legislative session it was heavily a conference that you all spoke about this year schools will be required to assign students to teams based on their biological sense and what that will require is that teams will have to be designated as either for boys or for girls or they can be co-ed teams that are designated as being four boys will be for boys but girls can play on boys teams if they try out and are selected girls teams will only be for people who are biologically seen this is a this is a a new state statute I have a question so if we kept the co-ed we're not in violation of any and it doesn't go into that whole mess of a girl has to be biologically a girl correct that is correct and that was actually one of the reasons why started allowing people of any gender to participate on our sports teams this law kind of cements it but we would need one thank you for the question Madam president members of the board here in Creighton we have a number of policies that are informed by Title IX some directly some indirectly a couple of these jjia and jjib were in the packet of bursary policy updates uh that were reviewed earlier they have they've been directly revised to be in compliance with that change to the law relative to uh labeling of Athletics teams um just a summary our our board has made commitments historically to equity in sport some of those are that we are committed to a policy of non-discrimination in relation to race color gender religion sex age national origin we believe in fostering the safe educational environment in which every student has equal access to all school programs and activities and the third one the right of students to participate in extracurricular activities shall be dependent upon only they're maintaining the minimum academic and behavioral standards established by the board and their individual abilities so our current practices as of right now we really had to kind of rebuild Creighton Athletics after the pandemic because we had a couple years where we couldn't have the kind of splits programs and participation that we would like and my perspective is and the coaches will speak to this we're still in that rebuild um but our competitive Athletics are open to all our kids in six eight we do make occasional exceptions for fifth graders sometimes we have kids who just want to or there's enough and we try to make that possible teams have been open to both boys and girls with the exception of basketball we do have separate teams for both in that case in our current Sports include volleyball soccer basketball softball flag football and cheerleading cheerleading does exist at some of the campuses but not all just to be cleared up um there was a request to look at participation in Prior years based on gender we have not had a historical practice in the district of archiving participation data at the district level we did start using register my athlete it is now called activate the K last year we've had some inconsistent implementation or use of register my athlete it's an online platform where parents can go to sign their kids up for sports so last year in going to the data 103 athletes were registered through to register my app that was not all the kids who played that was the 103 who used the online system most of the athletes used the paper pencil sign up of those 103 60 of them happen to be girls 43 of them happened to be boys this year we are pushing for much more consistent use of the online portal for athlete registration it helps organize all the forms and ensures that we're able to pull data like this um all our students who registered online selected a sport that was traditionally aligned to their identified so they like all the people who signed up for boys basketball happened to be we call it boys basketball it is listed as boys basketball in the system I don't know do parents see it labeled that way when they go in to sign up but volleyball football Michael um so as I said but we don't archive the paper and pencil registrations at the district level and we're moving to more greater Fidelity of use of uh activate for the current season I have a question if we moved every other sport to co-ed why did basketball stay as boys and girls does anybody know that because it's a that's a good point so we're a member of idac which is a what's it stand for inter-district athletic Consortium um yeah some of our Sports have been changed because of idex so um idac is a intra intra-district um basically it's four school districts that we participate with um end of season tournaments so we extend our soccer and volleyball tournament the top two teams from our district get to go and compete at that idac tournament so we changed our schedules probably about seven years ago to join idac so that our Sports align with the other districts that are also in idac but I think that's why it's because um I actually don't really have an answer for why we have separate for basketball but it's always been that way since I've been in the district and approximately how many kids are on each of those teams like how many girls basketball players on a team how many boys basketball players on a team from our district or on from Ours from ours so what um we can go back to the other side there uh this is pretty typical of what we're seeing right now for um all the years that we have had Sports we started the co-ed which we haven't labeled it that um about seven or eight years ago and so you're seeing right there soccer this is pretty typical of what we see for a soccer season there's usually a handful of girls mostly boys right correct so um Biltmore has four girls on their team and 13 boys this year um and then our next slide there's going to be uh volleyball and typically we see a few more boys but this is pretty common we see anywhere from one to three boys on the uh on the volleyball teams and go ahead like my question is I mean I guess so it sounds like you have more participation in basketball too well for basketball it's you're going to be anywhere from about 12 to 18 players okay and so it's going to be 12 to 18 boys on the boys right yes okay so there seem to be enough kids for participation there generally are enough students or athletes but sometimes we do struggle to get kids to play so as Dr dupin was saying um for example right now at uh TCA they're just getting started so awesome TC uh to having a new team this year is awesome and they've been uh super excited but we didn't have enough players to have a full set so we allowed some fifth graders to play so that they could participate in the in sports this year but sometimes we do struggle to get place to play and I know like at Biltmore we had the same problem because it was a growing school so um we lost kids because we didn't have cheerleading and we didn't have football right but we're growing that program yeah we got there eventually yeah so while schools are growing it would be nice to maybe think about combining or like you said maybe fifth grade that's the answer but um a way to make it possible because these these these teams do need to grow with the school you know it's a it's a draw for parents and it's we're it's not fair to the kids who are there who can't participate in the sport just because of that and you know because of like numbers and not having yeah right yep um I just uh another point on this slide if we look at numbers for the spring season when we're playing football and um softball you're going to see about the same numbers as you do here for the um volleyball and soccer the soccer and volleyball are are so how does that work for football and softball um there's much more many more boys on the soccer team yeah and there's many more girls on the volleyball so you're typically going to see more boys on the football team with a few girls joining and then uh on softball you're gonna see more girls and a couple boys joining so in preparation for our discussion this evening coaches brought forward a number of the challenges and opportunities related to creating an equitable and fun and interesting sports program and got some bullets to refer to but they're just going to speak from the heart and bring forward starting with Coach Sims their ideas thank you members of the board for entrusting me with my insight and opinion on Title IX I understand the law was made not to discriminate against anyone based on their sex there are two sports in our district that are especially challenging girls volleyball and girls softball girls have always been able to try out for the football teams and the soccer teams and there have been no issues that makes sense because it is indisputable that many males are biologically faster and stronger than many females so if girls made the team they were usually exceptional athletes we all want to talk about equality but the fact is boys and girls are not equal physically that being said let's address the pros and cons of boys playing on the girls volleyball and well we're not saying girls anymore but volleyball and softball teams in our district the first negative thing is that fewer girls will get the training and experience that they would need to continue the sport in high school and Beyond if they so choose Scholastic athletic career had the team's been co-ed half the girls I played with would not have had the opportunity to have that experience I may not have been on those teams quite frankly Sports saved my life prior to being put in foster homes in in a time at home I was very wild um I was running around the neighborhood with no supervision and to be honest I was a little bully getting into junior high my PE teachers and coaches encouraged me to participate in after school sports has absolutely changed my life in an extremely positive way this is why this topic is very important to me my life has come full circle and I'm blessed to have that same opportunity to hopefully impact our students in that way my next concern is safety boys have a physical advantage over girls and with hits throws in softball or spikes and serves in volleyball a girl may not be able to handle the speed and strength and force behind a ball coming from a male in baseball the distance from home base to third base is 127 feet on a softball field it is 60 feet less than half the distance the softball pitcher is 43 feet away from the home base A-line drive or solid straight hit from a male could seriously injury female there is also the concern of boys sliding into a girl infielder my concern is that girls could potentially get seriously hurt in these sports with boys playing against them lastly Equity can be a problem teams with more boys can have an unfair advantage over teams with less boys or no boys this has been a growing problem and is why this topic is very important and we should look at both sides so that brings me to the positive sides of having boys on these teams with high school offering boys volleyball and boys baseball being a middle school school uh or sorry team will get them the training experience that they would need to continue the sport in high school we are a learning league and it is very important to me to get them that training as well secondly it gives boys more choices to play after school sports especially if they are not interested in football or soccer lastly having after school sports positively impacts Behavior gives guidance and molds young students in a positive way and I am living proof of that what can be the solutions to this problem an ideal solution would be to find funding to offer boys baseball and and boys volleyball when I was in junior high there was a baseball and softball team I know this is thinking outside of the box in a stretch but it would solve all differences the other solution is the one that has strong opinions from both sides of the topic several coaches that I've talked to believe biological boys regardless of how they identify should not be allowed on girls teams at all I strongly feel that way for high school and college but I am Pro Sports and really want our boys to get the training and development interest to continue on with Esports in high school and possibly College here are my ideas for the board to consider if you choose to keep boys playing in in volleyball and softball we really aren't calling it girls volleyball or boys softball but we need to actually advertise it as co-ed hmm and use co-ed rules co-ed volleyball cannot have more than three boys on the court at a time so it would be three boys and three girls in softball no boy can be a pitcher sapla is underhand pitching and baseball is overhand they are completely different skills a boy would not need that training for high school as mentioned before with a boy's physical advantage that would make it more difficult for a female to hit a pitch coming from a male it would also give a completely unfair advantage to the team with a male pitcher being co-ed in soft bothers should be no more than four boys playing at a time and only two in the infield and two in the Outfield I say this because if you have four boys on the infield you're talking first base second base third base and shortstop that would not give any girl the opportunity to be an infielder and would be more difficult for girls to get on base with the infielders all being boys coaches that I have talked to believe there should be no more than two boys playing at a time and they shouldn't be a pitcher or a catcher but if you are going to make a co-ed it should be four boys and four girls in closing this is truly a catch-22 for me I really really want to get the boys training experience playing these Sports to possibly continue on to high school and even College I want the same for girls but going to co-ed cuts the playing field in half for them I had a full ride scholarship at NAU playing softball and can honestly tell you I wouldn't be here tonight in front of you had it not been for that thank you all that um so I'm I'll bring just kind of a little perspective with with the current season that's happening and um it's hard for me because you know I've been such a proponent of uh the equity and females and we had a game recently where we were we were losing it was 22 to 12 and I uh looked at the bench and I subbed in a boy to serve and he ended up serving like 12 straight points and we ended up winning the game and the whole time I'm thinking oh my gosh like I just subbed in a boy to win the game and I did it um and then another game that we had this season we were playing excellencia they were losing and they ended up playing the last the remaining two games with four boys on the court the entire time and then you're looking over at the bench and you're seeing all these girls who are not able to play so it's happening um it it happens I'm guilty of it as well where uh In the Heat of the Moment when you're losing and you're looking at your bench uh we're you know I don't think we're being as Equitable as possible so um if we're in favor of co-ed because it sort of eliminates some of the messes we just have to be really cautious about regulating and putting in um putting in those those policies so that we keep it Equitable throughout so um those are just kind of my two cents low board members my name is Asher Hall and I've been coaching at Papago School about I believe 12 Years a coach include the angel compost is still been including his daughter who's been on my soccer team I've traditionally coached the boys team I've always had an open policy where whoever tries out is welcome to try out if you're good enough to make the team you're good enough to make the team uh one of my big issues with Title IX and with this is the equity issue if we just look at based on the um numbers of the traditional sports right now we have soccer has 11 players on the field football has nine and basketball has five that's a total of 25 I believe 25 25 starting positions four boys if you flip that around and look at the girls traditional girls Sports softball has nine volleyball has six and basketball has five so that leads to the 20.
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to order a regular meeting of the Board of Education September 20th 2022 at seven o'clock P.M uh Cindy could you please call the roll here president Mike Smith here and Mr Meadows could you please foreign are there any items to be added to or removed from the agenda tonight there are not all right I'm actually going to switch things up a little bit because we do have our new student ambassadors and our second one is on her way right Zara so we want a chance to greet both of you so I'm going to just push you after partnership comments so we'll start with public comments tonight I'd like to welcome everyone to the meeting of the Board of Education if anyone wishes to address the board tonight please see our recording secretary um to submit a form for addressing the board please put your full name and address on the on the form as we are required by state law to keep a detailed set of minutes of our meetings in general the board will not answer questions or engage during uh public comment it doesn't mean that we don't take your concerns or comments seriously the board values active Community participation in the district's Endeavors and encourages people to engage with the district using appropriate channels and the system designed with your input in mind board members are not involved in the day-to-day operations of the district and can't engage in District business individually if you have specific questions or you would like to further engage with the district you can submit your questions using the link on the website and we'll have the appropriate staff member communicate with you now our Communications manager Holly deachman will explain the procedures for public comment thank you welcome to the BPS one order of form submission they are numbered the first form received is the first person invited to speak when your name is called please come to the podium so that you can be heard your comments will be limited to three minutes the three minute timer is up on the screen and it will start once you are settled at the podium our first speaker is Peggy Scoopa hello my name is Peggy skupa and I'm a para in the district with 10 years of service I decided to come speak to you after watching the last board meeting and seeing articles in the newspaper and postings on Facebook did you know u46 held a job fair a couple weeks ago for paraprofessionals starting at 16 an hour and offering more pay for those who have experience in years of service as a paraprofessional a couple other districts have agreed to give their employees a one-time hourly wage adjustment based on years employed with the district the article says the district hopes by doing so it will help them stay competitive when hiring and retaining staff they have also approved pay increases and raising starting pay for new hires in all job categories I am making 16 an hour in my 10th year with the district and have talked to another para that is making 18 after 17 years of service many of the pairs in our district have years of service in the double digits the starting pay for a para is 14.60 67 cents an hour in Batavia our Union board is compiling these articles should you be interested I am a Batavia resident and my kids went to Batavia schools as many of the pairs have Paras are loyal to the district and dedicated we are educated admin says they don't know why people are leaving we know why people are leaving the secretary Rotolo told her boss and other employees in the building why the athletic secretary left and her boss and others in her building know why she left when employees are moving around the community we talk and we all know come talk to any of the support staff and they will tell you why I sent an email to the parents letting them know the board is talking and asking questions about the shortage of our positions at the last board meeting I encourage them to send an email to our Union board with their concerns and complaints and I found out that evening that the union board members personal emails blew up with so many emails from the parapros their main concerns are lack of pay and having to pick up more responsibilities when people resign or when we are short staffed in order to work in my position I am being asked to pay union dues of thirty dollars a paycheck in order to be represented that 720 that I don't have to spend moms are not staying home with their kids these days they need to work to make decent wages they are not looking for jobs in the school district because the pay is so low the flexibility is not what is appealing to people anymore people need more money in their paychecks times are changing and it's time to look at constant compensation of your employees their receptionist position that was recently posted for the district office has an hourly wage of twenty dollars an hour who wouldn't want to make twenty dollars an hour we make nothing near that starting out after many years of service why is this position being held to a higher standard that the pay is way more our Union board has asked Administration to open our contract up which which is not due until 2025.
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good okay I hereby call this meeting to order uh Miss R would you please do the roll call for us tonight sure um member Walters here member swales here member rup is here Dr Hall board member galberth here secretary Mr Brown and president alch here will you please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all and Miss rup would you please recite our mission statement sir our mission is to empower each student to positively impact the world for bright new future thank you um just for those watching on the live stream um our next item is to go on to close session we'll probably be 30 45 minutes at the most then we'll come back and have the the regular meeting so can I get a motion to go into close session for the purpose of the appointment employ employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees moved second oh and so Walter's moved in who second thetion okay okay going to redo that emotion uh can I get a motion to go on close session for the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees and where is it on my card here and litigation when action against affecting or on behalf of a particular public body has been filed or is pending moved second okay now we can do roll call okay Mrs Walters I Mr swales hi Mrs rup is and I Dr um Mrs g braith i and president alre I we are in close session at 6:03 so we should be back 6 6:30 645 at latest offly e e e okay we're ready we're ready to continue um next up is uh public comment we only have one that came in Via uh email okay uh this is from Tiffany Sturdivant uh it says good evening thank you for your time as a parent I appreciate so many things about our district I've been a proud parent and overall my daughters have had a great experience kudos for expanding programs this year recently we learned that the drama club at creep Mone Middle School had to reduce its programming there's currently no teacher for the E journalism club uh these have been great programs Awakening creativity and cultivating creative writing skills in our children writing is such an amazing Outlet we look forward to whatever can be arranged to contend these programs in any capacity a group of students at the middle school are interested to create a yearbook of their own uh they are interested to design and arrange to print for the students by the students let me read that again for the students by the students if possible maybe this can be a way to still have an e journalism segment as a parent I would be willing to help maybe we can work on the effort online and meet in person once per month or so the yearbooks can serve as a fundraiser possibly using uh School photos and candid shots by student photographers if approved we could begin in November and Print in the spring for school in school year end uh we would propose this effort to be of no cost to the school however we would seek discounts and donations to print from local vendors Etc uh the fee for publication thank you Tiffany sturen so maybe can pass it along to can I just clarify that was she saying that we don't have a yearbook committee and she's willing to organize one I kind of got a little lost that's the inference okay okay just wanted to make sure so we will definitely look into that right okay I just want to make sure that I was clear on what she was stating at the beginning thank you um I think that's it for public comment right yes Miss H line um next up board updates any updates from board members I I'll just say I did get a message from Mr Stant about that same thing but it came in late last night and I haven't had a chance to get back to her but um it was that they do not have a yearbook at the middle school and that they went to the principal and the principal says that they just don't have a yearbook at the middle school and that that's not something that they have so I haven't had a chance to talk to anybody but I got a message never had it before that's I I don't know but that's what the message seemed to in play and I I did as well get a message from her um and it it and it seems as if she said she went to the principal from what I read what she said me and the principal said that they basically said no to um the ability to have a your book and um I just I think I just told her to um approach it from a different just seek to see is it is she saying it's because of personnel or what but I mean if she's willing to volunteer maybe that could do something but I don't know um I don't know if this next thing that I have goes into board updates um what I call you about or should I wait maybe that's new business new business okay I wait for new business thank you okay any other board updates okay administrative updates Dr Cara do you have any I do not tonight you do not okay uh next up uh is the consent agenda before I get a motion on the consent agenda uh Dr koganes could you pre please read the items on the consent agenda here we go under superintendent report number one approv special meeting minutes of August 9th uh 2022 item two approve special meeting close session minutes of August 9th 2022 approve regular meeting minutes of August 16th 2022 item four approve regular meeting close session minutes of August 16 2022 number five approv fireworks contract number six approv dissolution of board policy 7 colon 193 item seven approve the superintendent's goals for the 2223 school year under business number one approve Board of Education financial report item two approve a payment to RL Soho for 9,783 and10 for the work of ELC and tal Elementary item three approved payment for RL Soho for 1,646 18298 at Creed Elementary item four approved payment again for RL Soho for uh 1, 124,000 22364 at Balmoral item five approved payment for RL Soho for million 51,3 201726 for CSK uh for personnel and culture approve the Personnel report which includes approve certified staff employment leave of absence reassignment resignation dismissal and educational support uh staff employment leave of abson Return of leave of abson reassignment and resignation and that is it okay uh next before I get a motion does any member have an item on the cons agenda they'd like to have pulled off to vote on separately okay hearing none can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda moved second and who chose to take the second you or well give it to toddy you know he likes his any any questions or comments on the consent agenda okay roll call Brown is an i Mrs galber hi Dr Hall hi Mr swales hi Mrs Walters vice president rub I president alreck I motion carries okay next up under action reports uh business um can I get a motion to approve the 2022-2023 tenative budget mov that I'm not a have to try any second who who was that you said it was me oh it was you okay I second any uh any questions on the budget Brian I know Ken's not here but he was going to follow up on a couple of I don't need it before the vote but can you remind him to follow up on he was going to look into some of the the variant between last year's actual and this year's budget so okay uh roll call please Dr Hall hi Brown is an i Mrs galbert hi Mr swales hi Mrs Walters hi vice president rot I president Albert I motion carries next up can I have a motion to accept and approve the base bid of $1,740 th000 for a total contract amount of 11 excuse me let me start that over accept and approved the base bid for 11,740 th000 for a total contract amount of 11, 740,000 from CCC Holdings Inc of Tinley Park Illinois for the addition and renovation of crey high school moved second I have a question yeah uh Dave if you don't mind so last week we talked about we wanted to make sure that they went through all of the process so they cleared and met all the requirements and everything's been vetted we did look through the uh criteria for CCC Holdings and uh they did meet all the criteria um so that was based on them uh meeting the uh criteria that we had that was established for this project we recommend that they be awarded the project okay were they the low bid they were the the apparent low bid MH Dave have we done business with them before you have not okay do we know if they do the minority we so in meeting the criteria was minority hiring and that part of the criteria part of the requirements of the project is that uh there's local minority okay um participation goals that the board has established so any contractor would have to meet that they also need to meet that they they're just a they're a company that has done a lot of work for Chicago public public schools and work at UIC and you know more projects kind of uh with the governmental agencies in Chicago and uh they're just looking they're looking to expand their footprint in the suburbs and this was a project close to their location in Tinley Park and thought it would' be a nice project for them uh looking at their their uh experience levels they've done a lot of uh projects you know of this type and size so we're we're hopeful that uh you know they met the criteria which is your best insurance that you'll have a successful project so um we'll we'll watch them thanks okay when when are we looking are we looking to start this project in the spring or summer uh spring break or it'll start immediately soon as possible soon as possible yeah to meet the deadline to meet the the goal of the completion is August of 2023 so they they have a lot of work to do yeah so work is going to be gone on occurring after school hours during the evening during the night it's separated they'll they'll have construction fening to kind of separate that area out but they'll be doing work during school hours okay and when we say renovation again bring me up the speed on this I know this is the addition but what are we talking about renovation uh Mr Brown it's it's just really the tie-ins to the existing building is you know there's some transitions between the addition and the existing building so there's there's it's minor it's just connecting the two just connecting just connecting so that's basically what we are classifying this as being an addition as opposed to a building because it's not set it's an addition not a separate building an addition all right and one last thing uh this building is being built on the footprint where we had roughed in some Plumbing for a future swimming pool I guess that's what you would call it so is that null and void at this point to your knowledge well that's obviously a decision for the board but the um the location of this this aition is in the location of where the uh the natatorium was planned back in 2004 mhm and that the uh facilities that they had brought out to accommodate the the future pool audition was really a a large water line and some uh conduits for additional power the additional uh Power conduits which are underground will be utilized as part of this addition the uh the above ceiling water line will just remain where it is that's okay that's not going to be affected there okay okay any other questions or comments okay roll call Brown is an i Dr Hall hi Mr swales hi Mrs galbert hi Mrs Walters I vice president r i president Albert I okay next up um old business any old business no uh new business Mr Dr Hall um many of you tease me because of everybody start smile you know what I'm talking about know this is going right and it's going that way so Creek Moni High School played Thornwood High School which is my alma Mo and I worked there and all of that who uhry no that's that's what I going saying see I can only say so much because it's important um anyhow cre Creek played Thornwood and long story short the scoreboard doesn't work um that's pretty embarrassing to me I get phone calls text because you know they're going to give me a hard time for this and and that I can take but I've been talking about facilities for our athletes for a long time and it's kind of embarrassing to see where we have a state competitive football team um track program who uses that facility and a a a field that even our soccer team could possibly use if we upgraded it correctly um I don't know what we can do but I do know that we need to do something um I have people saying oh I'm scared to go on the bleachers I'm scared to go up top I have coaches complaining about is this thing going to fall um there's been time s where they may not have even been able to play a a home playoff game because the field has been so bad and that's not a knock against anybody who prepares the field it's the situation that they're dealt um the creek Bulldogs are playing at marry and Catholic because back when they played tried to play here they would get calls the night before because of the field because it might rain they didn't want anybody on the field and I maybe it's a soap box but I really think that we should cons reconsider something maybe doing this thing in stages and phases um because until somebody gets hurt it's it's you know kind of funny games right and then when it happens and we're being sued now it's a different situation um it's one of the best program our our track and football program one of the best programs whether you are a proponent of sports and athletes or not it's talk me a lot in life um as simple as I know many people don't even know that Kansas City is not in Kansas just something that's I mean so you can say that it doesn't but it teaches you things I learn how to create averages by trying to figure out what was my batting average how do so or am I winning and I'm and I know I'm you I'm re I might be reaching in some eyes but it teaches you teamwork it it so that education and Athletics go hand in hand I've spoken to many olist who will say if they they would take a person with a 3.0 versus a person with a 4.0 if that 3.0 is highly active whether it's Athletics activities or things of that nature uh because they learn how to manage their time they learn how to work with others and so again on the so but I really really really think the board should reconsider or see what we can charge our Administration with doing even if we phase this in and I'm not trying to slight any sports program but um I do as I you all know I've said I think we should create at least an Athletic Facility so that we can bring softball here so they're not driving off because or baseball being off but make it a facility where all the sports are that was one of the reasons I voted to tear the Dome down but I I really really think our student athletes deserve better I mean uh something as small as a scoreboard where you can't you can only keep score you can't keep time um that's like low hanging fruit to me um it it's embarrassing and I I would say anybody who knows anything about football referees love to keep the time on the field because for some reason the game goes faster when they keep on it really does so that that's all I have to say um and I really would well I just want to say no we give you a hard time but I couldn't agree more and this has been an issue for quite some time um with the softball fields with the football fields and that's something that I've talked about before too is somebody getting injured you know and then what the bleachers that's been a concern for a long time as well so I I'm right there with you I completely agree with what you're saying so so I guess what we're saying is we want Administration to look at is there a chance there's some funding to get started on something correct cuz right now we're we don't have that in the funding so I guess if I'm getting it you're asking them to start looking to find some money correct yes I am I really we'll just spell that right out then yes find some money you know I attended the first game that um played the home game against lincol Way East and since we've torn down the Sixth Grade Center it's it's glaring that we need new facilities there so I I agree with you so it's a matter of time and money and and figuring out you know getting it starting to get a plan together so well if you would like you know I did have some conversation with Mr surma and just to adjust the uh the scoreboard you know I did uh talk with our athletic director I talked with Keith as well today uh we are getting someone out to repair it we're hoping to have it ready for Friday's game which is against Julia Catholic so we're hoping that that piece will be ready some cords and so forth um we would also be looking at uh perhaps ordering a new one um whenever that could come in in in um kind of to hold it until we can do something more um I had a convers with Mr Surman today about perhaps having us bring some information to Committee of the whole perhaps uh next month to start saying how much um would this cost if we put it in phases you know what does this look like um and then what kinds of monies are available so if you'd like I can put that on the committee of the whole for next month and let's not forget the middle school thank you thank we didn't forget very much and I guess I was get you know it's more of a package deal it's more of prioritizing if the board de that the sports complex or future sports venure is comes ahead of everything else so be it but I think we got some needs out there that we still need to address and how we prioritize that that's what I would like to see if the sports complex we feel is good up there number one fine and I do want to tell Dr Hall is that I know there's a Kansas City in Missouri and Kansas cityas yes I do know that most people see the Kansas City Royals they think that or the Kansas City Chiefs they think they don't realize there's right yes I I I I get it there and what that is a concern with me when you mentioned because you know perception is not always reality but we hear a lot of about he say she say stuff stuff is on social media and the public saying this and saying that and when you mentioned about people saying that the bleachers are unsafe and that that is definitely their prerogative to feel that way but I think we need to put it out I haven't heard that the bleachers in it of itself are unsafe that has not came to my attention so is there any unsafe issue out there with the bleachers or is it just a perception I think it's more on the visitor side that I've heard not so much our side I've heard more the visitor side so I haven't personally been on that side but I have heard comments about the bleachers before I've heard comments about the fields our kids having to go to other fields to play there's been concerned for quite some time on this and as far as the bleachers this is coming from coaches who are scared who say they're afraid to go in the sky boox let say shaky I would like box other coach I haven't spoken to our coaches Press Box I've heard other coaches who have said that um I've heard fans say that they didn't feel safe but that that doesn't mean it's not safe I can't say that we had a light Tower fall we had it replaced they're movable so when Mr Sumer put that together the light towers that we did put money into we can reuse so it's time out but at the same time out of retrospect I think what Mr Brown is saying is correct that classrooms at the middle school but we can't do anything without budgetary numbers yeah and then figure out what are where we're at financially I mean we've been setting up for a longterm financial plan with Mr Sera you know longterm so that boards after us aren't you know their hands aren't ti so I think just put it together so we can see it it's time for sure I mean and and I and I definitely agree with with the um the middle school I do want would like I would like to see that happen and this isn't anything against the middle school but I think that the athletic facilities have been pressing a lot I mean we tried to address the middle school and and that's not our fault that it didn't get completed the way it was supposed to um I'm not saying don't look at the middle school I'm not saying don't don't see if we can do both but I am saying that I I really really know that believe that we've been looking at as the facilities for our um track and football and our our our athletes um and and even with the Middle School um I I I do think that I know the importance and of making it as comfortable as possible and not being crammed in because I guess that was one of the reasons we built the new high school because of room and space and I mean beside the rumor of U being m in the school but um so I'm not downplaying that I just really really think that if we could somehow look at that that's I don't want um I mean those a those student athletes they year in and year out it's one of the top programs in the uh in the state of Illinois football and I would like to again just reiterate because it has been brought out in public session that potentially our bleachers could have issues be unsafe things of that nature and we have our architect here that was never that particular Vineyard or piece of equipment was never mentioned as a life safety issue but can we at least have some verbi to something say from our architect that this you know I have to answer this now yes hey this has been addressed not to be a safety issue or it has been addressed to be a safety issue and this is when what we're looking to do something I'll have that embedded within our proposal or talk thanks Mr Brown cuz as a member of the Safety Committee I was just going to bring that up that I think we need to do get somebody out there and check them I mean if they're really are unsafe and the Press boxes we really need to address that before we do have a yeah a major problem and I have not heard that so we don't go on the visitor side so you know but in all truth we're just it's an accident waiting to happen it sounds like and let's nip that in the bud yeah and I just heard I think you know right on the news today I think it was two places in Austin Texas a building collaps and here in in Chicago area today I think explosion or something like that and a building had to collap somewhere else so that's you know I we cannot have that better be safe than sorry absolutely so all right that'll be for okay any other new business okay what I do with my agenda um I think that's it can I get a motion to adjourn moved all in favor say I all opposed we are adjourned
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well good evening and welcome to this combination regularly scheduled board meeting as well as study session that we have on september 20th 2020 the time is now 5 30 pm and we will call this meeting to order and we will begin with our flags we'll then move to our roll call board member rodriguez pena president board member beau here board member adianas present and i board member greer m here uh board member cruz gonzalez will be joining us short with that we move to 2.0 and specifically 2.1 approval of the agenda is there a motion to approve nitrogen make a motion to approve moved by board member rodriguez pena seconded by board member arianes any discussion hearing none we will move to a vote i remember cruising his house is that a yes so the motion passes five uh five yes uh to zero moving on then to item 3.0 and specifically 3.1 items from the floor public comment on agenda or not agent items this is an opportunity for the public to address the board of education on agenda or non-agent items individual speakers may be allowed up to three minutes to address the board of education on any agenda or non-agenda item when the public wishes to address the board of education on an agenda item they may fill out a blue card stand at the podium or raise their hand while in zoom attendance the board will take blue card requests first followed in order by speakers at the podium and then those in zoom attendant do we have any blue cards this evening no and it doesn't look like anyone to speak at the podium lika do we have anyone online leave a comment we do not do not thank you then we will move to 4.0 study session uh in 4.1 presentation of azusa unified school district educational services programs and we will turn it over to miss norma come on good evening board president greer board of education superintendent ortega and cabinet tonight we are sharing azusa unified program design and plan for high school middle school elementary and early education our planning approach begins grounded as always in the vision and mission for what we want all students in azusa unified to experience educational programs that offer a strong foundational experience at preschool elementary middle and high school we we frame our plan with our district vision and mission that each student will be a problem solver critical thinker effective communicator and positive contributor to the community to equip every student with the knowledge and skills for college and career to positively impact society instruction in all of our courses and programs are grounded in our student success drivers which include collaborative practices academic rigor and academic discourse tonight we outline the current courses programs and classes that we intend to sustain those we will enhance by providing added benefit and opportunity and those we will continue to explore as we shift into implementing community schools on all of our school site when we consider california's vision and framework for community schools the framework outlines that a community school uses a whole child approach with an integrated focus on academic health and social services youth and community development and community engagement as a school improvement strategy community schools enable the district and school to work with educators students and families to address the unique needs assets and aspirations of our school community we will begin tonight with azusa high school and we have with us mr gabriel fernandez who is our principal at azusa high school good evening board of education so in terms of uh the programs we're looking at for next year and moving forward at azusa high school as we're bringing the two schools together we're looking at what current courses we offer in the advanced placement program we're looking at maintaining those moving forward our avid program we're looking at ways to build the excitement around the college bullying culture we're looking at returning to those trips we used to take a long time ago before covid um those college trips where they could go and see places they haven't seen before to build a program for avid our athletic program we're looking at three levels and all sports making sure that they're competitive with the larger schools in the valley um early college program i know mr chang will speak more about the early college program work that we're going to be doing our ethnic studies just getting to see the excitement of the kids in those classes we have three sections of ninth graders in our english ethnic studies lit course right now and you can tell there's a difference in energy in the room with the teacher and the students same with the race and gender in us history we're seeing something there that i'm glad we spent the time doing the work last year to build those courses because you notice a difference already with the type of learning that's happening in those rooms i'm looking forward to us really keeping that going and building up those opportunities for more students um our ib program mr chang will speak more about we currently have jlrotc at both schools and seeing the impact of that in student leadership and it's not just about the military it's also about developing those leadership skills that are vital to success in indie industry in the future we have some very good mentors and teachers in that program so looking at keeping that going our leadership we're going to have one asb class next year with one asp teacher there's going to be some decisions we have to make there um also combined with leadership is the work that our students are doing with link crew we have mentors from both azusa high school and gladstone high school working together this year to kind of shepherd uh juniors and seniors from both sides working together to create that welcoming environment and we're looking at building on that initial success we've had this year into out years next year particularly and then moving forward to make sure that everybody feels that welcoming spirit and continuing with a shorter hike then we have our our upward bound with that's the partnership with uh apu we have small well we have 60 students i think are looking to build up to 60 with the grant that we have with apu is the the opportunity that students have with the upward bound program it's kind of like avid just you need that extra support and math to make it i really think that upper bound is a great thing that we keep going for azusa and gladstone kids at azusa next year yes ma'am regarding upward bonds sorry yes so the difference between actually i just learned that myself when i went to the back to school night was the word bound is after school and avid is a class correct students that cannot participate or doesn't fit in their schedule you have it they go to the upper round after school so kind of to differentiate um upward bound is like you said after school and avid is is during the day but part of what the avid curriculum has is those two days a week where they're doing tutoring and particularly when you step into a high school avid class or a middle school habit class you're seeing a particular focus on math and then when you go to upward bound after school you generally see the students getting extra support math because one of those barriers to college admissions for our kids unfortunately is algebra and the basic algebra and art and making sure they get extra support in mathematics particularly is one of the things i see as a strength of the upward bound program so what about think together i think together does offer tutoring as well but that's a generalized tutoring they don't i mean they're all college educated and degree possessing employees in the think together program but they don't specifically focus on math like i've seen up about not that they can help a student in the math area and up and think together but it's just i've seen upward bound in action and i've seen uh avid in action when it comes to mathematics and that's something i think just looking at our our math needs it's something that do they also meet on saturdays upward bound did they do right i attended a parent meeting what two weeks ago where they were like they have parent support and then they do have weekend workshops for the kids and then they do summer programs like uh what they call them experientials where they're spending a couple weeks on a campus of a college just to give them that feel for what it feels like to be out of college and again without lining up with avid it says how do we get that college-going culture and that's just it's stuff that kids have to feel and i think that the upward bound program does it just like the avid program does it for that summer they stay in the dorms if i'm not mistaken correct they do thank you you're welcome and then uh one more site with me is just looking at our our cte programs in particular i know uh mr chang and myself and the cte teachers and the counselors are looking at our enrollments in these pathways we know that california changed the rules regarding what's a completer used to be three years and now it's two that that change took place a long time ago and where we've changed our approach to how students are scheduled but if you've been a counselor for a long time you know like you have a certain habit of mind and getting kids through classes and we they're adjustments still that are being made in terms of making sure that everybody's a completer we have solid pathways where we've invested quite a bit of money in in capital i would say like nice things are going into the high schools i hear that we're investing in our middle school program for next year in terms of getting kids excited for the pathways at the high school and the other main mission that we have here is looking at who's participating in the pathways i know when i came to work here they talked about equity and i believe that's true to the core of this mission in this district is that we're looking at does everybody have a chance in these pathways and we're looking at in particular our automotive to our female students are they participating in that pathway when we look at the metal academy you'll notice when you see the pictures and you go to the events you see a lot of female students in the middle of the academy it's like how do we increase our participation rate with our male students in that pathway so that's something as we're sustaining these programs is looking at who's participating also our special education students like how to what extent are special education students or any english learners being able to to participate successfully in these programs and go off to um nice paying jobs in the future uh just a quick question um so do we feel that that with the the uniform the consolidated high school that we we will be able to support eight pathways okay we had a conversation about how many pathways is the right number of pathways for the school that we're going to have on my early estimates we have healthy numbers in all these pathways right now so i would say yes unless we see dramatic downturns in student interest like these pathways up there have high numbers in their classes so i would say that that inter student interest is not going away anytime soon okay and then the other thing is um when i went to the clsba conference um there was a dual enrollment um presentation and it was cincinnati valley and they've actually just focused on their career pathways not like our early college so just put that to think about as well i also was going to ask regarding the medical pathway our freshman how many students do we have enrolled there at this time at azusa high school yeah i was looking at that number getting ready for the presentation we have 147 enrolled in the early i don't not all freshmen i take that back so there's a couple of 10th and 11th graders in there but i think at least 120 which was a little bit of all grades that's a little bit no 120 just ninth graders is that you asked me what yeah yeah freshmen yes freshmen so we we have that medical academy is going to be sustained for sure and then once jenny shows up and the rest of the squad shows up it's just going to build on itself but again that's not just jenny are we going to have uh space for them um yes you know they need a lab and yeah where all those little bodies we are we're doing the hard work facilities as we speak yes good evening here to talk about enhancing our current programs and in particular two items the ninth grade dual enrollment and the ib so as the board knows we currently have the early college program in which students have been earning as much as 34 transferable college unit the program starts at the summer or incoming juniors during the summer before they are actually on campus as juniors they start the early college program it's a two-year program once they graduate hopefully they will have as much as 34 transferable units we are moving towards enhancing this program by starting a dual enrollment opportunity for incoming ninth grade students starting fall of 2023 students will be able to earn what is known as their igetc credential and hopefully even work towards a aaa degree which is usually around 60 unit and when i say hopefully that is if they persevere through all four years they can earn an aaa degree so this is an exciting program exciting because our ninth graders get the opportunity to essentially take college level courses in their ninth grade year and going back to the question earlier about cte pathways embedded within the dual enrollment that is an ultimate goal to ensure that we have dual enrollment courses that are either articulated or in fact a dual enrollment course taught by a college professor that can give bill bread moving on then the iv certificate opportunity currently we have the ib program and students can take the needed ib courses in order to earn an ib diploma we want to enhance this opportunity by providing students the chance to take courses individual courses that are part of the ib program and then earn a certificate an ib certificate for completing the course it opens up enrollment to students who might want to be challenged with the ib curriculum and allow students to explore the ib curriculum without going full bore into getting a diploma the requirements are simply to complete the course take the exam if you pass then you can also get you see csu credit for the course if you pass the exam with the five or higher while a diploma student needs to take the full board of courses which is at least six courses as well as completing the tok class or theory knowledge class this cass which is a community service project um extended essay which is like a 4 000 word research paper that's the bloom diploma for certificate students they just take the course um the course of study that you complete same rigor same classroom but then take the exam at the end and if you complete it you get the ib certificate that's something that we want to enhance for our ib program in order to expand upon it i have a question yes of course so to take this course what a grade would you be able to start this course well currently the courses are only offered because it's part of the diploma program it's only offered for 11th and 12th grade and so and how long would this course state it's just like what a regular course would be for example a higher level course would be like a two-year study of a course so they would take that course for two years so for example a student who'll be going through a diploma track well let's say take biology higher level two-year study of biology a diploma track student will be taking that course in the same room and a certificate track student will be taking that course so once the certificate track student completes it they don't if they choose not to pursue any other courses they can they just have to make sure to take the exam and they take more than two courses sure they can take as many as they want and not being in the ib program will not be in the diplomacy they are still part of the ib pro i think similarly when we're talking about like access um uh and i know that this is not we didn't speculate this way but as we're thinking about right now at azusa high school sierra high school there are opportunities for students to take a dual enrollment course or courses um at glaston high school we have the early college program which is a built program just like we're talking about the diploma so as we're building uh a program at azusa high school around dual enrollment these are opportunities as well for students to pop in take a course take two courses and not have to be locked into a a a big program if they if they so wish to not to do foreign and what are we going to do to basically um let our middle schoolers write to to let them know that this is available what is the campaign that you guys will be rolling out to promote this right so um we will later on talk more about how we are exploring the nyp program um maybe as far down as to the middle school um but the course options and selections happen really at the 10th grade year so any of the ib courses when they choose to take the ib courses will be definitely done at the 10th grade year but in regards to promotion of our programs that's something we will continue to do with counselors with our teachers our principals our such gung-ho and positive in regards to their schools that will continue in regards to promoting all programs to both you say continue but at this time right now the low enrollment ib program does not reflect that so what i'm saying is is there a you know a major campaign as we're moving forward in this transition as we are combining both of the high schools to um excel more of the promotion of this program uh i cannot say specifically what the schools will do or what um the future will hold for the ib program because we have to explore the nyp um but i definitely want to publicly say that we want to build the ib program and every program that we have we want to build and so the challenges of ensuring that the students have the information in order to make a good decision about their future depending on the courses that they enroll in that's something that i know counselors are very aware of doing and will will definitely continue to aspire on all of our program we want to build up that's one one of the things that we want to do is just to make sure that all of the programs have a successful enrollment um so i have questions on each one of those i'm still with the dual enrollment going into the ninth grade are you talking about just like options for kids to take are you talking about um expanding the early college program so you're starting at earlier grades so and when i say that i'm thinking of like the west coast model right where they have a self-contained early college program and so what what where we think what are you what are you thinking right now yeah we're expanding and enhancing essentially the early college program we're not going towards the middle college which is a satellite site essentially um brought by housing on a citroen let's say a community college campus we're not going towards that model we're going toward enhancing the program of our existing early college students and the opportunity so at the 9th grade level and we're already planning with citrus i've met with citrus multiple times we're planning to see what would be a reasonable course of study for our ninth grade students coming in and then what would be the courses that they would take during 10th grade and then it would seamlessly flow into what we already have existing in an early program so i guess i think i think i'm asking a very similar question to gabriella and that is really around like um how are we i think that's really great um i for me i think about how are we going to be communicating that to 14 year old children who are maybe making decisions about where they're going and maybe not understanding if they don't take the court like this set that course study that that we've laid out that they're not mentally going to end up with potentially an aaa right so just thinking about like how do we design the program so that it's it's easier for those students to be successful so i think that that's just my opinion on that piece now with ib i i do have questions in terms of so if we're going to now allow certificate enrollees right um two questions one how are we going to going to continue to um recruit students to to to enroll in the full program right and not just think oh it's just easy i can just drop in and out take certificates right that's number one and then number two um do you have examples of other schools that that are doing what you're saying what your recommend what you're saying so i'd like to know what like what schools you've been looking at for them yes we we have other schools um it is actually an option within ib they call it the course option and even within uc and csu's they make reference to those students who are specifically just certificate trap i was a principal at a high school that offered that um and that was a local um high school in hosting high so is that the school you're looking at i think i was looking for names of schools they were looking at oh okay glenda wilson high school okay yeah um diamond bart high school has that um so that walnut um high school has that um i didn't look specifically at our surrounding areas um in regards to like where do you have it in mineral behave but i do know other schools haven't um we've had i personally have had conversations with principals in regards to those kind of options that are presented to students well i think you having personal experience with the principal at a school doing that i think that to me is probably probably more important than maybe pointing out the models for me and then my other question around like recruitment strategy to be able to build up that ib cohort program cohort right not just certificate enrollees but students enrolled in the full program most definitely yeah um i i understand that the need to ensure enrollment in programs um but with the choices that students have what is specifically outlined and laid before them they will get to make that decision but we have great programs we have the early college program available at the 10th grade uh currently right now for students to choose we have ap class we have ibs so the plethora of options for them um they can make good um educated guests with some decisions and their parents stand with them as to which program put their needs okay so gabriel have you thought about that i was at ib training over the summer getting ready for my position and i spoke to some coordinators up in northern california elk grove area and they talked about i described what we were building here in azusa and i said well that they said that sounds like granite hills reports or something like that i got the coordinator's email on my files where they have a very specific programmer about recruiting students to particular classes as a la carte courses so you you you're thoughtful in your approach to imagine this student who wants to go to a uc or an ivy league in azusa because we have those kids and they're going to be fed that diet of the academic confidence i think the one of the things that is kind of driving to or remember audiences question why do we see the low numbers our kids got a serious gut check confidence in the last two years and we the program when i talked to mr claire about it over the summer i said bob how do we get to the numbers i think we can get and he said you know they really did struggle and we were on a decent trajectory with our ib program about two years ago and then the pandemic happened and we've seen a kick to the gut with with numbers going down like you see now we can't hide that but um i think with being back in person and pumping up the kids with the culture i think that that that does do some of those things for persistence that our kids need help with and we know that the ib program what is it's not just getting into a four-year it's staying in a four-year i mean i think you know the numbers about what happens after the first year come out of an area where there's a high sociodynamic economic disadvantages like they typically drop out in that first year but not ib kids it really is just like an overall program beyond ib is how do we promote persistence in our high school kids board member bill thank you i think um i just want to add my thoughts around recruitment into programs and promoting all the elements that make us an attractive district as superintendent ortega has said um i myself as a first generation college student um a big source of my information however limited that was came from my parent and i want to just also champion how we're interacting with parents and families and caregivers so that they have that information in a way that um that they can that accessible and digestible them so that the conversations that happen with educators and you know teachers and counselors is also echoed at home and i think as we bring those conversations down into middle school and upper elementary it's going to take that investment of time so that when you get to high school you've been hearing about these high quality options for several years um yes i think that um we have great programs but i feel that if it at some time i'm not sure if it's too premature at this time or until they merge that you know the board members would go and visit the school sites or visit the programs and not only board members but also parents it's effective when you see it happening as an rop uh board member i went to diamond bar uh high school west covina and seen their ct courses and to see them in production was very impressive but also we sell it to the parents like um sabrina bo mentioned you know parents getting involved in knowing what their children are doing i think it's important that we also go and visit these programs and see the effectiveness in them and and i'm very surprised when you see a lot of the students they're very indulgent in in their projects or what they're doing thank you so moving into exploring our community schools interest holders will support in examining input and data to provide additional guidance in the exploration of programs that we will be considering and bringing in to our schools as well so with this framework and understanding of the input necessary from stakeholders we are beginning to explore the nyp program for 9th and 10th grade nyp students they need to take certain courses as outlined by ib and these courses include language acquisition language or literature individuals and societies was usually something pertaining to history science math arts physical and health education as well as a design course they also must complete a long-term project so these are kind of the requirements necessary for students in the 9th and 10th grade to be part of the nyp program that will hopefully feed into our diploma program when they begin their 11th and 12th grade so ideally the students that are as you mentioned recruited as well as encouraged to participate in along the ib path will get the background needed to become what is known as a profile ib student there is a specific profile for ib students that include many things such as being a personal service being a critical thinker etc that will prepare them better for the type of thinking that is involved in an ib class and that they can either pursue the ib diploma or choose to become a certificate track student so that is one option or one thing that we are exploring the other thing is to explore more certificate options for our students we offer i would say a more limited scope of ib courses because we want to make sure that the students who are in those courses can succe and do their best to try to succeed to get a diploma but if we offer the certificate track as we want to now we can explore offering more courses that are not necessarily what diploma track students might want to participate in but certificate can choose too for example we can explore classes such as information technology computer science psychology visual art currently not offered with our diploma students but if we expand with our the certificate track we can offer more options okay um i'm going to pass this on then to i'm a first director especially good evening everybody since i'm not aaron um i'll introduce myself i'm krista fairley i'm the new director of multilingual and categorical programs here in azusa and i'm just really grateful to be here um and i get to talk about gladstone middle school so as we look at what's going on at our middle schools now and how we'll sustain that effort we have a really exciting opportunity to merge our schools and serve our sixth and through eighth graders in a different way [Music] we'll continue to offer program choices and elective choices but as a bigger school we're able to offer more variety of those choices so an example might be we'll be able to offer advanced courses in band advanced courses in art um additionally we'll be sustaining the programs that i have listed is there that as well there our art our avid as gabriel talked about the middle school years building into our high school years our athletics our band choir drama our dual language immersion course will be offering that pathway for our sixth and seventh graders next year which is really exciting as they merge from elementary school and middle schools to one cohesive middle school and we're also looking at sustaining those expanded learning programs after school i will continue to have our mariachi program um provide support there as well and we'll continue also on the next slide with our leadership programs and asb our navients or naviance programs project lead the way as many of you know dalton currently hosts that program and those innovative program project-based learning that are focused on the stem will continue additionally spanish and as many of you have heard of our studio 26 um from slauson so we're excited those opportunities um that we have now it's you i'll have oh yeah i have a couple questions um so and you made this view man i built answers but in terms of like the offerings right how are we going to ensure that that students will be able to access the course that they want i just heard recently from a middle schooler who just went in seventh grade and wanted to be in stem but was put in band because it wasn't room for him right and so how are we how are we going to make sure that kids can have their first place i think that being a former middle school principal you can never guarantee the first choice but i think what a large middle school affords us is the opportunity to have more teachers and more variety of electives so when you build your master's schedule you build it first for your core content areas and then you add your electives in so that means more teachers with more elective offerings and hopefully a better chance of getting that top choice because i understand when you want stem and then you have to take band it might not be your ideal so we have a lot of opportunities and a lot of offerings here but of course i can't guarantee that your first choice i wish i could but i can't guarantee that it's a good question and our counselors i'm i don't want to misspeak but again from my experience counselors will work really hard with students to get those voices okay and then my other question is around naviance and so what's our sense in terms of how how deeply we're utilizing that project the reason i ask is because i just saw a presentation from california colleges so our our statewide data system cradle to clear data system is building out something very similar to naviance right um from middle school to high school and it's free because it's it's built by the state so i'm just curious in terms of how we feel naviance is really is how deeply embedded it is and how vested our our our staff in using naviance that's a really good question i won't be able to speak to that answer but but obviously i think it's something for us to look into and to report back frank do you have a sense of that thank you so uh all of our 7th through 12th grade students [Music] complete activities that are already determined myself and the counselors and working with naviance i determine the appropriate activities that everything from interest profilers to career awareness to college research all of that is mapped out from seventh to twelfth grade it was originally done even for sixth grade but when we get to middle school we already had the activity we signed a multi-year contract a few years ago with navia we are committed to whatever program we have before us but we also are exploring other programs that are helpful that may be not as prohibited so we are actually having california colleges present at one of our counselor meetings this upcoming year we already scheduled that i've worked with california colleges at my previous district so i understand their capability they've actually improved and expanded their resources and they are actually directly aligned with what the cde is asking for so we are exploring california college good evening i think it is my turn i am aaron cramer the director of special education so um i'm really fortunate to work with my colleagues on these projects and so i wanted to talk a little bit about as we're bringing our middle schools together into one um location how we're going to be leveraging and enhancing the programs that um we're focusing on and that are important to support our students and our communities and our school sites so one of the areas that is being focused on is our athletics program specifically that historically our middle schools have enjoyed competition across the street from one another with our local middle schools competing in various sports um with one another as we combine into one middle school we are actively pursuing joining the east san gabriel valley middle school league which would provide opportunities for our students to join as one middle school team to compete with local districts and local middle schools here in the general area so that's an exciting opportunity that we are pursuing a second area that we are focusing on is are those expanded learning opportunities and we do have a lot of foundational um experience with those after school opportunities for our students to offer places to go things to do programs for after school that are in conjunction with really important partners such as think together the city of azusa other partners that work with us to make sure that our students are connected and have community after school hours and so we're looking to make sure that we are not only sustaining our current partnerships but expanding those and enhancing them as as we say in the title a third area i think goes back to that elective component and one of the things that we're looking into is the concept of a sixth grade elective wheel and so many districts have that that concept in place and that's where students when they enter middle school will take instead of a semester-long course more or a trimester more of a six to eight week experience in various electives and that positions them to kind of have a sense of what they might enjoy signing up for for a longer period of time as they move through the grades so that gives them a chance to try out things like art drama stem music you know so maybe they're not having to choose right off the bat but they get a taste of things and then when they go into the older grades um they have more of a sense of what they might be might be interested in signing up for so that is something that will be looked into in terms of developing for our middle school we're also looking at expanding the link crew concept and so this is through the web program which stands for where everyone belongs and this is really with the intent of helping students connect beyond the classroom with peer models with mentors and to support their social emotional well-being outside of the classroom helping them connect to the school through activities through those um expanded learning opportunities through sports through activities and programs that might connect with their interests and that really is important because it helps build that school community concept and help our students feel not only connected to the school but the community and the family and families and it also results oftentimes an improvement in their academics and access to academics and so we do anticipate that registration for the web conference will open this month for us to continue to pursue that opportunity for our middle school so those are some of the areas that we are focusing on for enhancing our programs as they stand and then expanding them into the next stage um so i just have a quick um question about the expanded learning opportunities so as we look at those in the middle school year what are have you started thinking about where where there was those who would be where those would be come from sorry absolutely i think it you know definitely begins with our current partners of course in terms of what we have strong right now and how to build on to that and i think we're open to as we move into the community schools thinking about the community and what their input is in terms of those partnerships and what would be of benefit for our students and what our families and community members feel would also be a strong partnership i think that's the first step yeah i think that's great i think i mean i i would hope that we're going to look at at things at activities that attract kids right so for example you think about the poet amanda gorman that we all heard right she started in a program i know there's one called get lit in la but there's several of those programs that are high quality the kids love it they i mean those kind of opportunities i think those are the kinds of you know i i know i talked to gabriel already about like pomona used to have this program where one of our local djs at azusa would go over there and volunteer over there i'm looking over here um and like let you know kids my son kids would love to have an opportunity to be like to have a dj class right like so you know i know another azusa resident who does really amazing like dancing right like hip-hop dancing like let's think about let's think about like trying to pull these people in who would love to who are from here love love azusa and want to want to participate though absolutely my question was regarding the um sports the students in the middle of mega middle school they would have to keep their grades up just like in high school i think that's a great idea that is my understanding and someone can correct me if i'm wrong but um i'm looking at the former middle school principal sitting over here and i'm getting a nod absolutely that's a great i think that's great to do that we continue that because then when they go into the high school they will always be already be set right and they should check on their attendance too and be in school on time and all those things well and we don't get the whole child the whole child and we don't get tired of the concept of student athlete um i think that's really critical in terms of how we navigate the talents and interests of our students as students and then working with the whole child to connect them you know a lot of our students don't even realize the talents they have man esports may be singing maybe dancing like we mentioned but we need to give them that opportunity to have that chance board member audience as you you guys are are presenting you guys are saying you know um the community rollout model right and so that with this link crew web where everyone belongs do we have anything in there where we are connecting our students to mentors within our community businesses right um the different venues uh being able to connect them to their own community as part of web and link crew i would have to defer to my colleagues here i do know in my small special education program we do have a grant that in terms of work and transition we do connect with our local community members for work opportunities and that's a small grant that we have through workability and but i would have to defer in terms of those other mentor program opportunities and maybe that's coming i'm not sure but um if you don't have that maybe research it or i don't know get back to us on that i think i hand this over to mr chang again i feel horrible they got me right but i didn't get them right thank you um so a couple of months back i had the opportunity to present to you how we are enhancing our cte pathways with the college and career ready lab and that is going into the middle school and i am excited for this opportunity for our students and happy to report that we are on schedule to have the right lab ready for late winter early spring the lab will engage students in authentic hands-on problem-based learning experiences as they discover interests in their app now yes we are building a program that is going to align with our cte pathways at the high school such as engineering design nursing computer science and computer graphics however we are also embedding units that for students to explore but also for their long-term benefit for example we are embedding a personal finance unit in which students will develop a budget track their transactions calculate credit understand taxes um that's pretty important there's also a home maintenance systems unit students can learn how to unclog a drain basic electrical wiring installing a light picture when they own a home in their future these basic maintenance things are something that they should learn how to do so very excited to bring this um college and career don't forget to change the tire hopefully they'll go into the automotive tech pathway and be able to definitely learn so excited to enhance our cte pathways with this option so i'm going to any questions regarding that okay i'm going to turn this back to framework so not only are we enhancing things that we already have and expanding those opportunities we're also exploring some new areas and we've mentioned this is in some of the previous slides but the first one is the middle years program and that is something that um through our shared leadership and our engagement with community school we are going to start exploring the middle years program this would align to the ib program and go to really setting the stage or the experience for this program as an instructional framework so it's a little bit different than iv in that it's not coursework it's more of a framework that is implemented school-wide for all students um so it's within all of their classes this framework provides foundational learning opportunities that could that will and could position students than to participate in the ib program when they transition into the high school when they begin their high school experience so that is something that we are looking into at this point in terms of that middle years program not only for the 9th and 10th grade experience but also potentially for our middle school secondly the on track program is we are exploring expansion of on track for eighth grade that would align with our existing work with education with ed partners and in our work on on track college the focus would be to increase success for our eighth grade students in the areas of english language arts and mathematics so that they are more ready to transition to their high school experience and do well in their a3g courses in order to be eligible for some of the colleges they may be interested in currently our improvement team working with on track is testing and refining early intervention strategies so that we can think about how similar work can be done at the middle school remember cruz gonzalez um uh two questions one um or three questions one so when you when you i see now a couple times we put community schools and put things underneath it does that mean that we're thinking that we're gonna invest those community schools dollars in like things middle year program is that why it's under or why so why is it connected to community school so to support the framework of the community schools and that engagement of how we bring together all of the interest holders to provide their input as to what we bring to our programs and utilizing that interest group to support the exploration of these programs but not necessarily we're going to like fund no no no no no okay um and then for middle years program um thank you for for being clear about like it's a framework so if would is there space for the dual immersion the middle school dual immersion program in that framework if we bring in middle school middle year program like across the school like how did how would that dual immersion program that we've committed to those families fit so that would be part of the exploration process as we look at the middle years program and how it would come together with our dual immersion program okay and then on track so when you say on track that's connected to the ed partners project looking at dnf rate that's correct okay and i hear you're talking about the innovation team so at what point do you expect to right to expand it like across like the eighth grade or whatever grade you're looking at ninth grade um or is it like how long do you intend it to be like sort of a like opt-in volunteer approach for for our staff so we have our we have our convening um this thursday on friday and that's part of our work as we come together on those two days to think about those timelines and begin planning for those okay yeah so it'd be great to hear back at the board level like when you have you know even if it's rough with the timeline we will provide a draft to the board after our team meeting to be able to give you that input all right i will hand this over to our director of ed services adriana garcia medina and right before that board member vote question i think yeah um i think you just answered the question but because i was thinking my own question you were talking my focus got lost um my question was around what would be some possible timelines and more like due to two to three years or three to five years in terms of what we're in terms of implementation um i think what we're considering is two to three years we want to give our existing programs sometimes to settle as we reorganize and begin to take root as we begin to explore further options so those would be looking at two to three years down the road as we move forward in the coming together of our schools thank you good evening so as we are looking at the elementary level we're continuing the pattern of looking at what programs were sustaining what programs we're exploring and what programs we're enhancing here you see our programs that we're sustaining a guaranteed and viable curriculum in all core subjects uh we'll continue to work that we've been doing to ensure that our preschool through 5th grade elementary mathematics curriculum and instruction is coherent focused across grade levels that it's rigorous and it develops students conceptual understanding fluency and application we'll continue sustaining our extended learning opportunities at the elementary school level we'll continue to sustain our gait program and our meet the masters we'll offer planning time and both music and pe at the elementary level as well as sparks pe our focus for sparks pe is to develop healthy lifestyles motor skills movement and knowledge and social and personal skills about rce so can you walk me through is is that would that be a class would that be just the um a lot of time for the week um what does that look like typically uh for pe it's a required minutes right that uh teachers uh have to develop deliver these lessons so um they would plan their lessons uh there are sparks lessons already created uh they have the sparks equipment at each of the school sites that the teachers have access to so typically these are lessons that are provided by the classroom teachers um and that is different than the planning pe that they're receiving at the upper grade level from the specific pe teachers that we have uh at the district board member cruz gonzalez i just took a question about meet the masters right so how does that um where do we see that going in relationship to the fact that we're now hiring art teachers right so that's number one um and the reason i say that is well that's it the reason i ask is because um the masters is a very packaged curriculum very eurocentric artists that we're looking at and so um you know is there a transition plan to think about or this is we're going to continue investing and meet the master well we are sustaining the program because it's a program that we have access to and we want to continue as we transition into the new programs and developing art through other avenues we want to make sure that our students still have access to our instruction so meet the masters does provide they are canned lessons on certain artists but it does provide that opportunity for our students to experience the arts as we move into the exploring and the enhancing we will be taking a look at how meet the masters is utilized how the art teachers that we do have planned on hiring will be using either that curriculum or other curriculum that's that in the exploring and enhancing phase and then today as a matter of fact as we saw our teachers working on seal and their launch day as they were planning their second and third grade lessons um they were integrating arts uh into their uh planning so you know we want to continue to provide that as a resource um as they're providing arts instruction i guess i see it when i think i i mean i equivalent i make equivalent to worksheets it feels like worksheets for art right for me so like you know am i you know thinking about trying to move away from that approach to me i think gives a richer experience to students absolutely hey and we are going to continue sustaining some of our specialty programs at some of our schools our dual language immersion program at hodgen valley dale our project lead the way program at dalton school we are in phase two um as uh miss garcia garcia medina just shared we have begun training our second and third grade teachers teacher cohort in seal um from hodge murray and valley dale as we look at reorg look forward to reorganization and the new boundaries that [Music] will be shifted from powell school to lee we are looking at moving the teal technology enhanced arts learning program to lease quote is it i have a good question um so it but is there going to be a getting back to earlier about having a guaranteed and viable curriculum right so is there going to be sort of a base curriculum across the schools like is it going to be something similar to still is it going to be something else what where is the base going to be so looking at you know as we talk about exploring if it is the interest of the board we would absolutely explore expanding seal to all of our school sites we um and i know that um uh dr fairley and miss garcia medina had the opportunity today to work with um the steel trainers and everybody that has had an opportunity to come into those classrooms to see the teachers come together and you know roll up their sleeves and do that real work of you know identifying essential learnings and these integrated units we see the power in that and we are absolutely interested in expanding that across all of our school sites yeah so i just i heard talk to a parent who's so excited because her first grader i guess the teacher brought in like um squid like actual squids and the kids were actually able to touch it and like do something with it so they were super excited and that's the magic right that is what engages the kids in learning and it's it's very powerful all right and this next slide you'll see uh programs that at the elementary level we hope that we will enhance we hope to continue to enhance our art program our band and choir coding and robotics of course our expanded learning opportunities and stem we're enhancing the art program by adding art teachers these positions are already flown at join and we're looking to fill these positions with quality teachers for full implementation in fall of 2023 uh for teacher professional learning in the area of stem we want to support their professional our our staff's professional growth and learning by implementing these types of activities throughout the school year we're going to be offering modules that will be flexible they could be in person or through a virtual platform with the support of our science tosa and pilot teachers who began the training last school year we also this year offered both before school and after school extended learning opportunities at the elementary grades and we'll continue to enhance this these opportunities by offering intercession opportunities during for example winter break and spring break again as we continue the model of things that we are exploring further down the road we are again looking at potentially primary years programs and also how we might include after-school enrichment opportunities as we think about our art teachers that we will have and maybe having them start a little bit later to have some during class time for art instruction which would allow for after-school art enrichment and clubs for students that would be able to rotate to all of our school sites and then extending that out to some after school stem clubs that would we would be able to utilize our innovation labs for these after-school enrichment stem opportunities and really again thinking about how do we continue growing and developing these rich resources that we are going to be bringing to all of our elementary sites to really you know again going back to that that framework of community schools provide the learning and that whole child integrated peace and again looking out to the community what kinds of resources what kinds of mentors do we have um out there i know um you know i think of miss herrera's daughter who does so much work you know and inviting her to come into our schools but again really thinking about these partnerships and how do we utilize this amazing grant of community schools to begin continue to exploring all of the great things that we could bring to to our elementary schools this is so great like i'm envisioning what you're saying and it it's great but the one question that i have is uh staff right with this be in partnership with think together or would this be in partnership of hiring um more staff or utilizing our current staff it could be a combination of all of those things thank you i have a question about the primary the primary years program so i mean in terms of timeline are we thinking that we would identify this school year where at what what point are we going to identify which schools would implement like for example the primary years program um we haven't gotten that far down in our planning but thinking about you know as we bring together interest holders for community schools and we start to bring these bodies together i think those are the conversations that we want to engage those teams in having and and where you know we begin to to look at that and what which schools might fit be a good fit for that kind of program i'd like to introduce our director of early childhood programs miss jenny lee good evening i have the opportunity to share with with you the what we're doing in early childhood education what we're doing to sustain to enhance and what we are exploring currently we offer a variety of early childhood education programs to our community this is for children ages three to five this includes the 13 california state preschool program or csbp morning and afternoon classes currently heard serving 213 children at most of our school sites i would like to add that this is our highest number of enrollment for this time of year since our program implementation in 2016.
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I think I'm still driving a car or that's that old you know you know so anyway time keeps moving on call of the public we would invite anybody to come and address the board if they'd like to we'd like to limit your remarks to about three minutes if you would take a slip I think they're in the back or you can get one for Mary Ford uh stating who you are so we can put this in the public record and we would invite your input we can't actually act on that information we can ask staff to look into it or put it on the put it on agenda at a future date I think everybody talked out last night so last meetings last week the whole anyway so if there's nothing further uh Dr I had nothing to just announcements of the board dates oh yeah um sorry yeah the board dates uh we've had to change the date for October and November and December due to financial reasons and reports that need to be turned in and the dates those reports have to be turned in so the October meeting will be Tuesday October 11th at this location at five o'clock the November meeting will be November 15th at this location at five o'clock the December meeting will be December 13th at this location at five o'clock so hopefully we can keep that out on the board I mean the electronic board digital board so that people know so they can attend anyway if there's nothing further and we have a motion to adjourn I have a motion to adjourn from Jennifer in a second from Margaret all in favor of adjournment
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so if we do go to a co-ed thing you're cut even even if you're just staying at that the opportunities for girls right now is already inequitable and when you go to co-ed you're cutting that number even further down at starting position if we as a district want to go to co-ed it needs to be a full co-ed we need to say for all Six Forks we're going to have co-ed rules we're going to basketball can be separate if it wants to but for the other four we need to have soccer we need to have six boys on the field but no more than six boys on the field five girls on the field football is the same thing we're having equal amount of boys equal amount of girls for volleyball Eagle amount of girls equal amount of boys not just calling it co-ed and oh we let boys be on the team oh we let girls be on the team but truly be co-ed and again talking about passive princes I I grew up in Alaska and I was on the volleyball team in middle school and it was a true co-ed team we had three boys and three girls on the field on the on the court at all times and that's when we played against other teams that's what it was it wasn't oh we're gonna put in our four best boys and against two girls no it was always three boys three girls so if we are going to go to a truly co-ed model we need to regulate it needs to be for All Sports because because again when we start picking and choosing which ones are co-ed that does start taking away opportunities for females and in this district with our population of kids females aren't always necessarily encouraged to do sports to do athletics and I feel that taking that away from them really discourages them thank you okay thank you coaches so we have some possible outcomes to look at so we could establish both girls and boys teams for All Sports um and that would be kind of bringing us back to where we were before um One Challenge with this funding would be a challenge but being able to offer those for All Sports um Title IX doesn't require that we do that um that would be like the dream if we could um have enough coaches and athletes and players to do that um another possibility we could renorm around the traditional gender classifications for sports so that would look like um keeping for example soccer and football are traditionally the boys sports but then girls would also be allowed to try out for those Sports and then we would go to volleyball softball would be only girls and boys would not be able to play for the for those sports teams or another possible outcome would be formalizing the co-ed sports that you've heard about tonight with specific rules to make sure that we're maximizing competition and time on field thank you so much I'm going to start off with the question how long have we had co-ed Sports in the school district um unofficially I believe it's about seven or eight years it may even go beyond I remember being a principal in the district when we kind of some some case where a boy wanted to play I think volleyball and was denied because it was a girl's sport and so there was a discussion about it I mean this goes back probably a decade or more and so at that time then there were some allowances made but it wasn't widespread it's just grown a lot in the last seven years okay um my sentiment behind this is that we should have I I would hate for us to go away from coed Sports um I think because of what the legislator has done to us and how our hands are tied we are going to end up discriminated against somebody a child who identifies or sees themselves as something else and because of what the legislator has done to us there's nothing that we can do so my personal sentiment is that we do not do boy and girl sports but I do believe that if we are going to have co-ed Sports they all need to be across the board and they do need to have some kind of you know specific rules or something to give everybody a fair a fair shot and you know whoever the stronger may win in sports I played soccer for 13 years you know I'm trying to think and I've done co-ed and I've done it and when we did co-ed especially in the profession you know the most competitive leagues when I did co-ed we we did have very defined rules because we knew that sometimes you know we had stronger men on the team so my personal sentiment is that we don't move away from the co-eds but we do need to formalize them just because um our hands are tight and our policy and ACB and JB specifically states that we would never do anything to a child that you know just because our biological is something and they're saying something else so I think that would be the most appropriate thing to do to align what the board has already decided um in the past um first of all thank you for sharing your stories and especially Miss Sims I appreciate it sounds like very emotional and I appreciate it so much you being honest with us about how important it's been for you so you know I couldn't I I couldn't follow all the recommendations you were giving as you were going um but I think you guys are the experts here in Creighton specifically um and I think there's you know it's hard I would hate for us to give up a boys and girls basketball teams and then not be able for them to participate in the tournaments that's the only issue I have um I think for middle school as long as there are opportunities for kids to play sports um I feel like we could still have a boys and girls team for basketball um even for volleyball you know because that's such a it's that's if it's There's an opportunity for a girls volleyball team to play in a tournament that could be really great for our kids so I feel like maybe you guys can come back with some really specific recommendations again um and if so we haven't been following the co-ed rules yeah okay so that we definitely need to be doing that for our for the teams that are co-ed you know um but I I'd hate to lose the boys and girls basketball teams and and not give them the opportunity to play in a tournament because as they go into high school there's going to be boys and girls teams you know it's Michaela I think one yes just to Echo appreciation for sharing your stories um and and sharing both sides because as um Miss Korea doll shared like and you said it's a catch-22.
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their response is that we are in the red we can't wait till 2025 we need a fair wage now foreign [Applause] next is a group Amber drusa Scott Naylor Danielle sliger you'll be given five minutes okay thank you I'm Amber jersa I'm a high school teacher at Batavia High School and a mom of three I went back and forth about whether I would speak tonight for the past 16 months students staff and parents have been working to get our leadership to see the importance of short-term Equity goals part of me kept asking what's the point of sharing again they're just going to say we're working on it and then punt it over to our Equity Committee in fact five months ago I stood here and talked about the trauma we are causing our students because we are just checking boxes when it comes to equity five months later we have an equity consultant and an equity committee that meets for just two hours a month that's all that's changed for me personally it's gotten worse even though I do not think our administrators are bored we'll make any short-term changes after my speech I still feel the need to speak my truth for the second year in a row our motto has been you belong here but I don't I don't belong because the actions of our Administration and the board prove otherwise I want to discuss the ways our current system is unable to handle Dei issues from the perspective of someone who has used the system exactly like I have been told on August 8 2022 a special public board meeting took place I found out through social media that my name was mentioned multiple times and publicly defamed by one of our board members this person even used swear words while discussing me unfortunately I can't repeat what was said as I would be cut off from speaking but a board member was able to insult my character in a public forum I still have not been contacted by anyone in the district regarding this incident not one administrator has reached out to me regarding the fact that I was publicly slandered in a community where I work where I live and where my children go to school yet I am supposed to believe I belong here there's been no apology and at this point six weeks after the incident I would find it disingenuous I previously asked to meet with this board member but I was denied a meeting instead of taking the time to meet with me this board member took to public shaming me I find this Behavior offensive unprofessional and hurtful I'm also hurt by those that did nothing in response to this Behavior indifference equals acceptance yet another reason I feel like I don't belong is because I have rules as an employee that are separate and not equal to the other employees in this District in particular I was forced to attend a meeting I was told I couldn't have it via email where I was given specific directives including when and how I can email my Administration these rules even conflict with our expectations that Administration has giving us regarding email communication Administration is supposed to help me support students yet I am given different directives than every other employee in this District my last point is how we lack the proper protocol when dealing with Dei issues two weeks ago someone wrote the word on the bathroom walls the initial response by an administrator was the exact opposite of how to address a hate crime eventually I did have a chance to speak with an administrator and share this but how can the board would be confident in the staff making every student feel safe if they are unsure how to handle these situations with adults as a person trained in Dei I know I know that the first rule with this situation is to be prompt students and staff and parents were not notified until 30 hours after the incident though it may not be the intention this shows the message that addressing hate crimes is not a priority I was offered resources from our human resources department but my appointment isn't until tomorrow 13 days after the traumatic event again this may not be the intention but to meet but not to not meet until 13 days after a person has been exposed to trauma makes it seem like it isn't a priority last week we had an Institute an incident where there a student was a student in blackface there was no communication sent out to students staff or parents why wouldn't we tell them why do we alert about some hate crimes but not others I encourage those of you who are truly serious and committed about ensuring all students belong to email the principals of the schools than our administrators then are bored consider the following what's our protocol for hate speech ask them why don't we send out emails for all hate crimes what are we doing to educate all students about why these things are offensive so we can prepare them for the real world what training do our administrators have and keep asking keep asking and keep asking we need to be committed to these actions and committed to asking why it's time to hold those accountable that are choosing to allow our kids to be traumatized day after day after day it's time for accountability strong communication and protocols so that we can be a destination District that is actually committed to doing whatever we need to ensure every student is safe the lip service needs to end now [Applause] thank you our next speaker is Molly Jackson Schultz thank you next we have Kelly Blakely and Jerry Ruth good evening hi uh I'm I said I'm I'm Jerry this is Kelly uh we are the co-chairs of the campaign for uh well yes for BPS 101 uh the campaign to uh for the referendum coming up in November uh so we just want to introduce ourselves uh let you guys know that we are uh starting our work our subcommunities are starting to get involved with communicating with uh different organizations around the city and uh look for our uh our mailers and our posts online if you have any questions about the campaign feel free to talk with us after the meeting and just wanted to introduce ourselves so thank you that ends public company thank you I'm going to zip back up because our second Ambassador is here hi welcome Mrs meitzer is going to do your swearing-in tonight um do are you going up there okay okay Mr Coburg and I had the opportunity to to group this year and we did take an opportunity to um kind of reinvest in the process and look at how we wanted to go about our student ambassadors going forward so um we revamped the process and I'm really excited to introduce our two new student ambassadors this year usually we have one but we've really had to stand out candidates and so we went back to Kathy and Dr pigeon and said how can we make this work and so I just want to introduce our two ambassadors do correct and Zara yes you at least want to come up I will swear you went so I'm just going to read this off and I will pause periodically for you to read it back to me so each student ambassador before taking his or her seat on the board she'll take the following oath about this I treat hi Laura do solemnly swear or affirm solemnly swear or a farm that will Faithfully discharge the duties of the student ambassador of the Board of Education that I will Faithfully discharge the duties of student ambassador of the Florida education of Batavia Community Unit School District 101 of the Batavia Community Unit School District 101 in accordance with the policies of the Board of Education in accordance to the policy of the Board of Education I further swear or affirm that I further swear or burn that I shall encourage and respect the free expression I shall encourage and respect to free expression of opinion by myself I'll have opinion by myself and the board members and the board members and others who seek a hearing and others who seek a hearing before the board before the board great welcome we're glad to have you and we're really excited to hear everything you have to say about what's going on not only in the high school but we hope to hear about your experiences within the district as a whole and so I welcome you to your first Board of Education meeting thank you welcome [Music] do you have a report tonight if you go to the podium then you'll be on the camera for it right over there hello my name is Dary iangaro but you can call me Dio um I am 15 years old and I'm a sophomore uh for fun I like to just do I like to write poems I like to read I like to go out with friends and I like to go out to fit with picnics do picnics with friends and um I'm really looking forward to attending these meetings I think it's really interesting thanks to you welcome [Applause] hello everyone my name is Zara mod I'm also a sophomore at VHS I'm actually part of the track team I'm part of amnesty which is human rights I'm also part of equity and Justice committee as well and um I love volunteering too so I'm part of Key Club so a lot of interesting clubs and I'm so excited to be student ambassador a new exciting year so I can't wait welcome back all right back to our comment section of the agenda welcome ladies we're super excited to have you um I'd like to invite Todd Swanson president of the Bea podium good evening everyone um tonight I would first like to begin with the moment of silence to remember our friend and fellow staff member Mike Park so if we can have that moment of silence please all right thank you there was never a doubt that Mike did what he did as a PE teacher at AGS out of his love for kids and the kids loved him right back his passing has left a hole in the staff at AGS a hole in the AGS community and a hole in many hearts at new Mike for his caring and the sports Driven Man that he was I would also like to commend the district for its Swift call to action to provide support for the children and staff of AGS in their time of sadness and grief to say Mike will be missed as an understatement but the amazing staff at AGS and those from around the district that have lent their support as well are learning how to heal together and to move forward just as Mike would all wanted us all to do my message tonight to the board is one that is quite simple when we met during the summer as the board and Senior Management and Bea leadership it was made quite clear that communication collaboration and morale were major areas that not only needed to be looked at but ones that needed to be addressed together in the hopes of riding the ship as it was put during our meeting we have heard through District messaging that this has been a great start to the school year I think that that message needs some further clarification it has been a great start to the school year in the sense that kids are back to school in person masking and other code protocols seem to be behind us and in fact we're looking at covid in the rear view mirror as we move forward out of the coveted years we're doing things like we did before covid there is an air of normalcy to the start of our school year this year and in that aspect I would not disagree that this truly has been a great start to the school year but with that being said I don't want that messaging to cover up the fact that our big takeaways from the summer communication collaboration and morale are still unfixed and in some instances moving in the opposite direction of where we need them to go instead of taking time during tonight's meeting to take a deeper dive into exactly what that means I stand before you tonight as our school board pleading for us once again to come together as a full board Senior Management and Bea to continue our conversations from the summer and begin to do something about them this is my start of my 30th year in this district and I can honestly stand here and tell you I have never experienced the feeling that I feel in our district today we are just a few weeks into the school year when climate and morale should be at its highest and for many I know they are feeling drained and depleted the great news is that our staff will never let that show in our classrooms we still will every day come in and be everything for every one of our kids and on the outside things may be unappearing okay what I'm afraid of is the toll that this will take on our Educators in the long run we need your help we need your support and we need to create a plan together with you that includes immediate and actionable steps that show a combined commitment to improving communication and collaboration which in turn will begin to have a positive impact on District climate and morale we cannot meet with the entire board in one spot and have an open dialogue unless it is during an open board meeting according to board policy the board president or any three board members can call a special meeting by giving notice in writing stating the time place and purpose of that meeting to the remaining board members and giving public notice at least 48 hours in advance of such meeting I know that your service on the board is unpaid and that many of you have other jobs during the day but we have reached a critical point where these conversations must continue the Bea will work around your availability but you must call for that special meeting to take place we look forward to hearing for you when this can happen as always I thank you for your service on the board and your partnership with the Bea to help right this ship and before I walk away too um this is kind of it's not even what I put in here um every day I find new ways of how bravery is defined and how bravery is acted out and to be brave you have to say something and that's uncomfortable and it puts you into a spot you may not want to be in but I know as I truly truly try to live this every day in my life saying nothing is acceptance and Amber I just want to say thank you for being brave for all that you're doing and we are behind you right Committee Member reports I'll start down with Aaron sure here so I have uh quite a bit um the Big Mac and for those of you who don't know what um is it is the meeting of the minds of different pto's in town um to just idea share talk about different things going on at the different schools and we typically meet on Saturday mornings four times a year and we had our second meeting I believe and it was wonderful a what first oh first we had a little open house before that yeah yeah okay so um the superintendent search um is underway and we are having some forums with different Teachers Community um groups to gain feedback from the staff and Community regarding what a successful what traits a successful candidate would have um we are in the very beginning stages of this I'm sure that you will hear much more from me about this as we go through the process but I did want to let you know that we had started that um uh board member hillberg and I have been busy working on the student ambassadors um again welcome we're happy that you're here and so excited and once again every single student that interviewed for that position hid it out of the park I am always amazed by our students and this year was no exception so congratulations but to everyone who applied wow that's all I can say is amazing amazing students [Music] um let's see here oh um and last but certainly not least we had a Dei committee meeting just to kind of go down top level we discussed our committee norms and our purpose our Equity needs within the district some of the things that came up were staff after school activity accessibility course offerings resources AP diversity and training for staff um we discuss our charges to develop the district's plan to action um the community the committee Grew From one day workshop to a working committee and we're looking to grow our committee um due to some changes in the participants we talked about barriers to excess commitment to the work and how we need a group of passionate individuals for the committee and we are going to work to identify team gaps and fill those gaps which will take time we also had a great partner in that meeting Dr leeks who kind of steered the ship throughout the meeting it was very productive and we brainstormed with her different perspectives and unmet needs and overall I thought it was a great meeting and I look forward to participating on that committee further so sorry for my long-winded update this month but I had a lot to say and I hope I have a lot more to say on that topic so that's all from me okay none of my committees have not yet Capital project committee unfortunately had to be postponed for until next month I can say is the lights work fantastically at the football field so good job to all the effort of people that took to get that so that we could have it for a football game and for the marching band and for every other team and Sport and group that's out there able to utilize that so thank you thanks thanks Jack has not met yet so um yeah plaque is not met and beefy met last month and we'll meet again Thursday so it's always kind of like kind but we do have um a fundraiser coming up Tuesday the 27th at bar Revolution from six to eight Bingo night that money goes right to the teachers with grants so if you'd like to come out play Bingo have some fun that'll be Tuesday uh six to eight and also we had our my next other committee is Hall of Honor so we had our event last Thursday well we had the homecoming parade where the honorees got to ride on the trolley most of them actually walked because there's this little technical thing you can't throw candy from the trolley so they got to walk and hand out candy to all the kids and stuff that was a wonderful event you couldn't have asked for a nicer weekend and then our event on Thursday at bfac was just wonderful beautiful I think all the honorees had a great time it's a really great event if you get the chance to come next year um nominations are open if you'd like to nominate somebody we're obviously nominees um and then they were at the football game on Friday night which back to Craig's comment phenomenal um like I said I I was teasing Rudy I got to go visit his house the um you know Booth up there if you get a chance come out take a look at the stadium really nice job but the lighting and the new stands um if you ever went and sat in the old stadium there it wasn't didn't seem very safe and it's really nice now so but anyways that's Hall of honor and beefy um so that's it so far thanks Chris I had my first resource responsibility advisory council meeting or rack meeting um for which we discussed uh we updated the committee on the referendum uh we discussed the completion of the stadium project and the upcoming projects at AGS and jbn for next summer we discussed the great news about our insurance which should be coming up later in our meeting we also previewed the final budget which I believe is getting presented later in the meeting and we began discussion on budget assumptions that we will make for next year and the big highlight of that was apparently home prices are doing really well and selling like 17 over asking was what I haven't think revealed which is really surprising it might be more than that yeah that is our synopsis stress based on current or like that is what current over the last I think like 90 days or something spiced it around next time on the agenda is our consent agenda which is an opportunity for us to approve a number of atoms all of which are detailed in the board book so Mr Pierce will take us through the consent agenda for sure uh 5.1 and 5.2 is the approval of the August 23rd 2022 5.3 is the Personnel report 5.4 is our payrolls and bills 5.5 our donations we're thankful to uh George ajazi and the HC Storm PTO for their donations 5.6 is the overnight trip from the BHS music department approval the 5.7 is the approval of our VMware contract renewal 5.8 approval of our FY 22 administrator and teacher salary and benefits report 5.9 is the adoption of our teach TRS of Illinois supplement savings plan 5.10 is the approval of our insurance benefit plans 5.11 is the curriculum contracts and 5.12 is the approval of our consent agenda are there any items on the agenda tonight to be removed or for further clarification if I may further clarify 510 the insurance benefit plan as Chris mentioned earlier this is really a big deal we'll be making some adjustments to our insurance carrier or moving from Blue Cross Blue Shield to healthgram and the Cigna Network what that affords us to do is it offers better service it's more of a healthcare concierge rather than kind of leaving each member of the plan to their own devices when it comes to consuming care but which really important to notice or note is that we're not increasing the plan premiums this year for both the employees and the board which to my knowledge has never happened and in light of what's happening right now in the insurance Market I do know that fully insured plans right now with Blue Cross Blue Shield are looking at 20 increases for the upcoming year so our plan is doing really well in the work that we have been doing over these last five or so maybe three to four years uh is really paying off and kudos to the insurance committee for making that happen because it wouldn't work without them and frankly we're going to talk more here in a moment about our budget there's no way our budget would be balanced if it wasn't for right sizing our plans I mean literally that's not an exaggeration in any way shape or form and so um we're really excited about it and in addition to not increasing the cost premiums of the plan we're able to actually in add more to HSA contributions from the board too so that's really exciting as well so there's a lot to celebrate there in insurance plans Chris is there anything that you would like to add from a rack perspective maybe Kathy from a former member of the insurance committee as your perspective no but I know all of these changes were things that before I went off the committee at the end of the last year you were talking about and um and the work this committee has done has been amazing because they've really done a great job of balancing the very best Healthcare benefits for our employees with um trying to make it as cost effective as possible and Tony's not kidding soon I probably were the only ones on the board how many years ago Chris probably when you first came on that we were on a path to literally bankruptcy with our health care costs so Tony coming telling us bad news at every meeting yeah right at that shift too I just want to point out the timeline it takes a long time for us to set something up before we actually cease a benefit and you know it's great that we're finally seeing this but it took about years for us to get here so I'm glad that we got here but the things that we were deciding today we might not actually see for months or years so it's a slow process that's a slow process we've got to take time right so any other clarification then I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented second move by lock second by Meadows all in favor aye any opposed all right next item on our agenda are our reports I'm going to hand those over to Dr Hitchens because those are both our standard reports right if you guys have any questions or comments about either of those they appear on your agenda every month no questions all right standard uh we do have two items on our agenda tonight for Action the first one is the adoption of the fiscal year 2023 budget I'm going to hand it over to Tony I'm assuming he's going to highlight any changes from last month yeah and rather briefly uh since the last time you saw the budget in August when we held our public here our overall Surplus has moved from uh just over one million dollars to 1.5 I would note that that 1.5 million dollar Surplus is a little deceiving is the vast majority of those that Surplus one million dollars is in non-operating funds is really from funding capital projects and not spending all that money in the current fiscal year uh and the reason being is because we're never quite sure when the bills for capital projects will hit because oftentimes we're doing these capital projects in the summertime we don't know when sometimes when the bill is going to show up in June or if it shows up in July that changes where we'll end up the fiscal year so that means that we have a 500 000 Surplus in operating funds and that is a few hundred thousand dollars more than when we saw it in August um and so that gives us a little bit more comfort and frankly that comes from primarily salaries and benefits in terms of sharpening our pencil on those costs overall our revenue is going up 8.2 percent this year to 1.
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by fall 2023-24 cspp will be offered at all of our elementary school sites we also offer two dual immersion preschool classes and two dual immersion transitional kindergarten classes at two of our school sites ptk and tk classes are offered at all of our sites in ausd the six special education classes that are housed at longfellow we serve children with exceptional educational needs at our site the ece teaching staff which includes preschool and etk teachers and tk teachers and instructional aides are highly qualified they are highly trained they have been trained in research-based teaching strategies that center around our student success drivers we are aligning the work in ece with what we're doing with the with our district enhancing how are we enhancing our program we are happy to announce that the california department of education has selected to award ausd funding for the implementation of full-day full-year csp the implementation will be up to three of our school sites full day full year is something that ausd has been working toward for several years so this is exciting and it's an exciting milestone for our district we will continue to provide exceptional professional development opportunities including still training your ece staff to ensure the early childhood education staff continue to be highly qualified to meet the diverse needs of our youngest students as we expand our ece program what are we exploring we continue to strive to expand and to seek opportunity to implement new programs we will this will allow ausd to serve all families in our communities the california state preschool program whether it's part day or full day have income or needs eligibility requirements some of our families do not need these needs or these eligibilities therefore we are exploring the possibility of implementing a fee-based program to serve these families we look forward to continuous growth and improvement in our ece program danny i have i just have one question um i'm glad to see that i know i know we as a board got an email from somebody asking when you know when is this going to offer fee based preschool so um but i have a question about that so are we are you thinking about having a separate feed-based program or are you thinking about how do you braid programs so we can integrate i know there's some now models and there's flexibility out there now that you can do that and so what where we're right now where's the thinking we're exploring different options and working directly with the uh financial um analysts at the cde level to see how that would look like in terms of fundings uh we are also um looking at um regardless of which program whether it's based or whether it's a preschool or special education we we always want to make sure that our children uh in whichever program they are enrolled in they are receiving the same the same learning opportunity so these teachers will be trained as um in the same way that rcsp teachers are trained so it's the quality of the program regardless of which which model it is will be um at high quality i just i think you know as we think about like the economic segregation of our of our society right like the more that we can do to integrate and if we know we're putting cspp over here and paid over here we're we're separating them right so thinking about how can that be a priority for us and how can we try to make sure that we're we have that economic integration across you know of the families in our in our community i think is valuable i also want to encourage just to think about right now the the dual immersion preschool programs are all funded out of lcf el cap right and so thinking about like if there are opportunities because i've heard examples of other districts where they do use csvp to fund those programs so if there's opportunities for us to think about that i mean that frees up more dollars locally so you can do more right so i think those are things for us to think about as well yes that is correct i read about um doing immersion um funded through csvp as a different language model but the only thing that i would add to that would be maybe not making all of the dual version so that way others have an opportunity to that second language um as well um but when you say it be you know a fee based um are we looking at a model like options because the the income bracket right we're looking at our uh at our communities the ccp is has a different bracket than options so have you explored those options as well right that um it's a fee based income right how you're going to charge and so forth and just looking at that model as well how it's different so all of our community can have it to be in our program thank the board of education for the opportunity to share our planning um and how we move forward with programs and now we turn it over to you for any input feedback thoughts that you may have about what you heard this evening a question that um that i have is our our after-school tutoring right we have all these great things coming and i'm super excited like oh my gosh we're going to be a model district i can't wait like for you guys to come together on thursday and friday and bring us back whatever you know you guys are are cooking up over there and and right to get our community excited about this our community you know our other communities to get excited about coming to our district um but the after school tutoring right um being able to support those families that do need those resources um what does that look like i did not see that in the program so we have um some contracts coming to our board in october for after-school tutoring models that is part of our planning with some of our sr3 funds was to provide after-school tutoring to help to mitigate some of the learning challenges that many of our students experience so there will be um one particular contract that is um tutors that push in during the school day we also have apu tutors who do that during the school day and then another will be after school tutoring programming and then again we also have some tutoring program um tutoring programs that are offered through think together program for students who are part of that as well great thank you for sharing that with yes i have a question regarding um it was a very great presentation thank you very much everyone from the middle to the elementary into the middle school high school and um what i'd like to see in the future is the enrollment of these programs my concern is are these programs being productive i mean are we using our money wisely are we thinking at any time in the future to add any different programs to be competitive to our other districts you know we have students leaving and they have reasons why they're leaving you know is there any way that we can that's something different and how long have we had i well as long as i've been bored a lot of these programs have been in the festive you know how long have we had these or any of these programs that we have i'm really interested you know that and i think at one time and i'm not sure if we ever received it like what schools you know have which program who have so many districts we have so many schools i meant you know would schools have these programs i would be interested to know that okay so um we saw some of the the specialty programs for our elementaries um and then we have um programs that we outlined at the high school but we can put something a little more cohesive together so that we have maybe a brochure so that the community can see here are our schools these are all of the things that we offer at our schools as a way to promote um beyond you know that would be great that that'd be great you know um i've seen other brochures in other districts that have very beautiful brochures bright brochures again as an rlp uh board member i have visited other schools and seen others uh programs at different schools i am very impressed with that and i'm like hey how come we can have it at our school but then again we had one minute and we showed the medical pathways the other board members from other districts were saying why can't we have that at our school when we showed also the media you know uh center the art with mr um pig you know they won why can't you go to their school so you know it's you know we're never gonna be happy but i'm glad that we're doing good yes and and we we are looking at enrollment numbers but as we shared previously we do want to give all of our programs an opportunity to take root as we bring our programs together and then as as we move move forward look look at you know what what are the things that we will continue to sustain maybe we need to change course further down the road and look at other programs that maybe students are interested in um so those are definitely things that that we are thinking about and we also think about 21st century what programs can we have to you know move our children forward to ecology career career ready absolutely and i'll add just a couple of comments i know that in conversations that i have had as i interface with school board members from other districts and educators from from other districts oftentimes i hear them describing their desire to launch into certain programs and it and i i can't help but recognize that oftentimes when it happens it's programs that we already have in existence and so there there's there's quite a collection of of this menu of options and menu of programs like diverse programs that i think is incredible i'm i'm very excited to see us um some of some of the items especially that we have listed under the enhancing section because i think we have a lot of programs but how can we how you know on the uh kind of the continuum of you know uh continuous improvement if you will as we look at that how do we bolster some of those programs uh how do we build the those frameworks and ensure that there's proper you know training and understanding collaboration and promotion there's a number of things that we can do but i hear and understand that we have students we have families that look to other districts or for other programs but i gotta say i mean there are there's so much happening within the azusa unified school district and so um yes let's always you know keep our eyes open to what what additional programs are available but i'm excited just to see us enhance and bolster up what we currently have um because i think it's already an incredible menu of opportunity i asked most likely but i just think i think i have just more uh a more like generalized comment and that's really around the the timelines and the funding um i think we have a rare opportunity right now because we have so many one-time dollars to think about right and whether it's the professional development or these the ib programs that are generally very expensive one time fence is very they're very they're very expensive to bring in right that like i think i won't be here adrian will be here but i think i mean i i hope that we think about how do we accelerate decisions and and implement initial implementation to be able to utilize those dollars that that i think latasha might say may not be here in a couple years right and we won't we don't have this opportunity that we have right now and so it is our opportunity to reimagine our schools um and the other thing to adrian's point right i mean i feel like the groundwork has been set for all of these rights so it's what you're presenting most of it is not new so it's really more about how are we deepening our work right how are we are we i hate people hate the word fidelity or implementation right but how are we ensuring that we have really high quality programs that that meet the needs of our students and make them i think those are my global observations you know being with the district for a long long time as an employee over 20 years and being a student here for i've been here 40 years right seeing programs come and go um programs come and fail right programs not being assessed correctly like kind of two board membership liens point um and you know teachers staff not being trained correctly they're still in that fog okay what are we really gonna do and and so forth and so as as we're transforming and innovating this district right we're going through so much right this is the time right this is exciting and i just would like to see a follow through right as you're presenting this it right it's not set in stone this is just a projection you're going to go to the drawing table and right you're going to work at the kinks and there's going to be key absolutely right but being able to address those kinks and being real like you know this program we could do this this that and it can excel this way but yet this program we've tried it for you know two to three years i heard right and it's not working in our community right to be able to face that reality you know and being transparent about it in our community with the board and just with teachers right getting that teacher input that parent input that child you know the child has a voice as well right is it working out for that student right at the middle school high school elementary you talk to the parents right just engaging again that community on what's working and what's not working and bringing it back to the drawing table but not just not just not letting the committee know what happened to that program kind of like you know i mean saying okay this program i'm just saying it's not that it's gonna go away dual immersion is just not you know which it is working but i'm just giving an example right my kids are a prime example of that my daughter will be getting this deal this oh that's another question the seal on by literacy in her diploma this year and she's super excited right um with that being said um at the high school are we going to continue to pursue that by literacy deal absolutely that's not going anywhere we are committed to that um you know and we're very proud of our students who earned that and our goal is always to continue to grow that um but to your point and and i think the idea behind the framework that we presented for the conceptual framework of this idea of sustaining and enhancing and exploring is exactly what you described and how do we engage with partners but we also want to give as we move into this reorganization that's going to take place um we'd want to give an opportunity to all of our programs have an opportunity um to take some route at their new site with new staff with students all together and then as we continue to move down the road being able to with our community schools interest groups really begin to dig deep into the data and the interest and and hearing the voices that's that that's the intent well i'm excited thank you oh so there's there's three other things that i wanted to bring up and that um what that that i think maybe for us to think about some more um one um thinking about like the social emotional learning aspect i don't i don't see that i saw that in there i'm thinking about like restorative justice how that's embedded um i will tell you as a parent now think pbis right i think people i think there's a there's a feeling of um feeling success with that but it feels very much like a reward system right the kids are all focused on getting the little ticket right it's not about relationships and mutual respect right which i think is i think more sustainable i think in terms of um individual learning as a person how to act interact with other human rights so that's number one thinking about that piece number two i don't see anything about here at ethnic studies i really appreciate arthur you're talking about how we're i mean maybe viewed as a leader in terms of the high school piece but really thinking about there there are met several districts across the state who have already committed to k-12 ethnic studies um and it doesn't mean that you have a course right it means more about how are we embedding the cultural relevance piece how are we integrating just knowledge about the historical background of our country like starting at a young age and so i think that i don't see in there um and then the third one i didn't write it down any other questions board member cruz gonzalez did it come back to you yeah no okay well thank you to the whole team incredible work incredible presentation thank you good job right well as we had stated earlier this is a study session but it's also combined with a uh one one item for i remember we're not we've not shifted yet just really quickly no so i feel like when the pandemic hit there was a lot of excitement about project-based learning and doing that kind of work and i don't see that in there right i think i think it's maybe implied in some of these approaches but you know like there was a lot of movement in a couple years so where you know how is that continue to be part of just sort of the that core based curriculum right so with that we will shift to 5.0 which is general functions and specifically 5.1 discussion of appointment of a board member from trustee area one due to a failure to elect and so with that i'll turn it over first to superintendent ortega thank you board president um so tonight um our intent is to discuss uh and seek direction uh regarding the process [Music] for appointing a candidate a board member to area trustee area number one because there's nobody running in that particular area which then provides the board an opportunity to appoint someone um so kind of partial this up into three sections uh today uh number one just kind of want to talk about the proposed draft timeline then also have an opportunity to look at two different documents one is the the announcement and then number two is the application again to seek input and feedback and uh direction uh in those in those uh particular documents so kind of those three uh those three uh areas so i'd like to start off with the proposed timeline again this is a draft and so seeking some input here but the proposed timeline begins next monday september 26th which is when we will begin to advertise and market the board of education's intent to make this appointment and to provide information on how to apply so let me dig in a little bit deeper into that and so uh the idea here is that on monday september 26th on our website on our social media platforms and in the san gabriel valley tribune uh we would announce uh that there is this opening and that we are looking for candidates uh and again it would guide them to uh to the actual application that ad would run for three days in the san gabriel valley tribune that week in our weekly communications to our community we would also include um this announcement um that that we're looking for uh people who are interested uh or who might be interested in this in this opportunity everything would say that october 11th which is a little bit more than two weeks october 11th at 5 pm would be the deadline for people to submit their application two days after that per our board bylaw a committee consisting of less than a quorum of the board of education uh which right now the thinking would be the uh board of president and the board vice president shall convene to ensure that the applications received are eligible for board of education membership this is not a convening to discuss strengths weaknesses likes dislikes this is a literal convening to say are these are these folks that applied are they eligible and by eligibility uh that is outlined in education code 35107 and what you will see in the application is we went ahead and put those things on the application uh to make uh that uh easy once it is determined that said candidates are qualified um then we would communicate with those folks to let them know that on tuesday october 18th they would be invited to a regular board meeting where the board of education would have an opportunity to interview the candidates in open session um just like any other interview to make sure that it's equitable and fair all the candidates would receive the same exact questions then that night by a majority vote the board of education would select and appoint a new board member for the upcoming the upcoming sessions so that is the proposed timeline right now and i want to open it up to questions feedback um you know consensus yes this works this doesn't work um so we can uh open it up for that board member rodriguez so would the questions be asked of the candidate in public uh that is correct uh the interviews would happen in public during open session how would the questions for the interviews be developed um the idea here is if this if the if this proposed um process uh is agreed upon uh then we were we were thinking that uh on october 11th we'd have another agenda item uh with maybe some suggested um questions and we can determine uh those questions uh or we can do if the board desires the board president and myself or a subcommittee can develop so three different approaches on how we can come up with that so when you talked about the president and the vice president what is their purpose what would they be doing creating these questions or what exactly is their duties all they are doing is doing a little literal interpretation of the requirements and all they're saying is they're looking at the application and and saying does this person qualify to be a board member if the answer is yes they put them on this pile if the answer is no they put them in this pile but that's it they're not discussing are we looking for does it matter we we have no idea if it has one application if that's 20 applications uh we don't know i don't know at least but how many will be to be presented to us um as many as people apply oh okay so there's no like limit correct this this subcommittee would not be again ranking or dismissing it's just literally are you qualified uh yes or no and if they if they are yes they can move forward if they are not then they uh they are notified of their disqualification so what would be the non-qualified if they don't fall in this category of this application that i'm looking at if absolutely uh per the education code um some of the things that a board member a a person who is interested in becoming a board member uh they must be a resident of trustee area number one all right so if they're reside somewhere else that would disqualify them they have to be a citizen of the state they have to be 18 years of age or older they have to be a registered voter and there's one more they have to certify that they are not disqualified by the constitution or laws of the state from holding a civil office and they cannot live excuse me they cannot work in the usd they cannot be employed this is unified school district so a little nuance there just to be utterly uh clear they can be an employee when they submit an application they cannot continue to be an employee if they if they are actually voted in by the board of education uh two questions um so adrian what's your preference on how the questions get developed do you have a preference well i i think it probably makes sense for the quest for the questions to not necessarily be developed in an open i i i think it would make sense if those questions were developed with the subcommittee i i don't know that i necessarily feel that i need to be the person that that's on that subcommittee or but but i think it would make sense that there would be a subcommittee that uh developed this question i mean i think it makes it just but how many questions are do we do we need that's and i and i'd say the subcommittee could also assess those with with the superintendent as well i i mean i think i'm comfortable with if you're already going to be vetting that the two president vice president developed those questions to but i think that it would be appropriate if each ward member would give a question to the president and also would be good i think that we all we were all included in the question superintendent are there um is there any precedent either within ausd or neighboring district for the appointment process and would we have any access to their sample questions to use as a baseline maybe i'm asking this because maybe if we circulated if we were able to find that circulated that and then we had the opportunity to suggest a question just to get our thinking started yes i already have uh that in my possession i i think with that um each district is different in our district is different also than what you say bonita so i think our questions may not be the same as other districts right now i hear if i hear you directly board member beau you're saying if we look at that that set of questions as a as a template as a starting point and if that was circulated to the board as a starting point and then board members can consider and weigh in on excluding these questions or adding additional questions so just using it as a as a template as opposed to but the csva have anything like that um i can definitely explore that i don't know off the top of my my head but what i am hearing is that maybe through the weekly board packet hey here are some possible questions if you have an interest in a question or questions please submit those to board president or myself then when we come together to um decide on the eligibility of candidates right then and there we can say okay well we got two recommendations from here one recommendation from here that's three questions maybe we should choose two more and then that way everybody has a question or you know 10 or whatever that may be and if i could ask if you could just send it send it to the both of us as opposed to one or just to ensure there's eyes on catching catching any so if there are any questions send them to both super antenna or take it and myself and then i just have a couple things um just just more just in terms of the actual application so that question number one please share any prior experience you have serving on a governing board comma specifically a school is confusing to me i don't know what that is it we're trying to ask have you ever served on a governing board of a school district is that what that question is because below there's below there's a question about school committees just selectivity yes i think the intent of that question is to say have you ever been a school board member before i would just suggest maybe we say please share any prior experience you have serving on a governing board of a school district or other elected office elected elective one right yeah i would i would maybe maybe that as if they were a school board member if it pleases the board um i can actually put it up live and we can make whatever changes um may i request that now this first or do you want to jump there and then come back to the process um i can't wait well i don't know that i would say i i hear i don't want a word smith yes i just i'm just pointing out that's a very confusing question and and i and i i would i would agree that that as you're bringing it up that question could be phrased differently so i think that that's a sufficient input unless unless someone feels really great about the question that shouldn't change um i think that's sufficient to just yeah wordsmith it later yeah you could do whatever you want so and then my other question the other thing is um i when we hype when we hyperlink something in a document we're assuming they're going to click on it and be on a computer so if it's a printed document you need to have we should have the actual url available like so i'm looking at the letter and the application and it's hyperlinks the link for the trustee area one so we need to actually put a hyperlink in there um as um in that um i mean you can use you can there's there are 508 compliant services you can do to make sure that you're accessible but i i think that needs to be fixed that's the only that's did you have your hand up bordering yes when we have this signature and i'm looking at the bottom where it says sign below i certify that i that i'm not disqualified by the constitution or laws of the state from holding a civil office so we we get a signature but what actually are we doing to make sure that they are not felons that you know what are what are the constrictions right like are we gonna you know is it somebody who has a previous rest you know record i i mean what are those those constituents what are those boundaries right what are we gonna do in our part like to let them know exactly like hey you know even if you've had like two arrests you could still be a school board member right because this right here doesn't tell me anything if i if i'm i've you know i've had two felonies or whatnot and well now i'm a good you know a good uh samaritan's samaritan right like i i think we need to be straightforward with that because it could be kind of confusing as well right and whatever and then the next thing is what are we doing when they when we do share these uh you know these uh boundaries of what a constitutional law actually in states right what are we doing our part to make sure that we you know we don't do fingerprints so what are we doing our part to research who these people are i'm looking at to that though uh none of us have been fingerprinted we're here right right that's what i'm saying we we haven't been so how do we know right but i know that l.a county runs i was going to because you're repairing oh wait we did i had to do it twice after years apparently on the school board so so i know that l.a county does some research as well as we submit our papers and so forth we go through this uh so kind of like find out what l.a county does um and then see what we could do yeah and and and again uh just like anybody else you would get processed we do do fingerprinting that goes to doj oh i said you say after your before like right this is after we get so is the same process okay so what is that look yeah that does that actually you at this point we we have no idea who or are the individuals who would submit an application are and so to your point board member audience especially as we look at the timeline and the process that we have and as well as certain deadlines that we have to ensure that someone there is an individual that has appointed to this area in in time yeah what i guess we would be in essence i mean provisionally appointing someone and so it's contingent upon and and what what do we do in the event of there being a misunderstanding or miscalculation and someone unknowingly let's say uh is somehow dis disqualified what what contingency do would we have in place to still meet those deadlines it's probably wise for us to consider that on on this side of thing for sure yes um so i knew that um i'm not quite sure how to ask this uh for example when someone is appointed to a seat correct um and i'm speaking about like city council right um they're appointed and then two years later they have to run a campaign so what does that look like for for this process good question and i failed to to make that clear because this vacancy falls under a failure to elect this is one of the rare instances uh where an appointment is going to be as if elected so this appointment will actually be a four-year appointment as if the person had been elected there are other [Music] there are other situations that where vacancies occur for unfortunate situations resignations those kinds of things and then those have different uh timelines and but this one is that this person would be elected i'm sorry this person would be appointed as if they were elected so this is a four-year appointment you know with that being said and this is i think the first time in history that this has happened here in asusa correct anybody anybody know from from what i i i've been in you know this just for a long and we've never had something like this and so um as we work out the kinks and um we collaboratively collaboratively approach this i think it would be a really good idea to kind of add this to our board um packet um you know because we've we've never had something like this so um i would suggest that as we work this out and um that we added to our board pack kind of like what you just said if there's uh you know an instance where something happens where a board member is no longer a board member for whatever reason that we have now something in place um that we can move forward with already already available [Music] mass clarifying question um just want to make sure i capture your request can you say that a different way or so i can try to understand or maybe i can start by saying we do have a board by law uh that outlines uh the process uh for filling uh vacancies but i just want to make sure that maybe this is something different so i can make sure that i get you what what you're requesting right we have to but we haven't actually gone through something like this this is our first experience ever his in history and this is the board members ever so as as we move forward with this collaboratively that we're able to go ahead and um capture that so moving forward i think i understand so when people ahead of us or past us that there would be something absolutely thank you yeah and i'm gonna turn it over to board member roderick's painting in one second but just want to note that it's it's uh that it's 7 14 and we're actually looking to uh adhere to adjourning no later than we have on our um scheduled agenda which is for 7 30.
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um I am absolutely feminist as well and I'm like yes we need more opportunities for girls we don't want our girls to get hurt um but I am also about inclusivity and I the new legislation just I don't really have professional words about it um but I I don't want uh I see both sides but I really really really don't want us if we go to boys and girls teams only you're going to have students that don't feel like they belong and that's just how it is and and we can do everything we can with what we say and how we present it in the culture we build to ensure them that they do belong but the reality is they're going to be forced into their biological gender surrounded by kids of that biological gender when they don't identify with that um and that goes directly against our policies that we've adopted and a lot of our sentiments um not just here on the board but I know you know our staff and who we are um and I I guess in the ideal world it would be like let's have enough coaches and players that we could have a boys basketball girls basketball and a co-ed basketball and then this wouldn't be an issue um and I know that that is probably very unrealistic um I guess following up on that just because I don't know um if we are have formalized co-ed Sports across the board does that prevent us from any type of tournaments or competitions outside of our district are there opportunities for those because they don't want to lose that either you know and we have our foot in both camps yeah we for idac we participate in the uh the fall and the winter sports so that's going to be the soccer volleyball and basketball um all the other districts that we participate with are in alignment with what we're doing for the co-ed teams um and then uh the two districts that um in the spring Sports which would be Alhambra and Isaac um they they have a fast pitch baseball um and uh I think they do tackle football so uh Phoenix L and and Creighton don't participate with the idac tournaments for those sports but everyone else is in alignment so Phoenix L their sports program is basically the same as ours as far as how we're running the the co-ed teams um and then Alhambra and Isaac are mixed depending on the sport so we would still be in tournaments um as we stand find co-ed for all of our Sports we would still be able to have that experience I'm going to assume so the idac tournament um that Consortium there we haven't discussed this yet with the new legislation so I don't know how that's going to affect idac but I have a feeling we're going to keep things away that they're going right now so we shouldn't if we keep things away we're we're moving we should still be able to participate with by that something to say yeah yeah as as much as I am in favor of uh protecting everybody's rights and and against anybody being discriminated uh I I also have my my children enjoy sports and I never seen in the years that I've seen them participate Chris Rebecca three Ephraim three uh David and nice like a couple of them they always seem to understand how things are going I think we're in the level of laws and trying to win over certain things we're bringing some type of chaos into that what what it is what it is and and that gets enjoy for example soccer my uh I was listening to to uh to my friend Sophia my name can she play with the boys and she sometimes she got hit and and she would just stand up back up and say let's keep on playing and and of course when when some sometimes she got hit by a geek from from a ball from a boy and that's a big difference and and she wanted to continue playing and and I supported her now when when they go to high school is different when they go to high school they are uh aiming and focusing on on on let's say even better players that have a not only playing because they like the sport but they have a special abilities and they're pointing towards the future in the sports so uh uh I personally uh believe that that we should abide and respect and and but more than anything more than anything if if by trying to be supportive to one side or the other we want to be obstacleizing the the kids from from from enjoying the sports which is something uh great is so much of a greatness for them to to be able to to to to uh not only go and learn about mathematics but also enjoy the the sociality of sports I I think we can fall into a mistake trying to fix something we want to make something worse so just uh uh I'm I'm here for anything that comes up as a boat or whatever or continues discussing but uh my point of view is that sometimes trying to defend something we are doing the wrong decision and and I I really love the the the how or the causes and our schools are are leading the sports right now and if anything needs to be changed because it has to be changed well so be it but but if what we're doing is is correct so far it has worked and we haven't had any issues at all I I think we we can uh continue as we are but that's just my opinion thank you Mr Campos Mrs so I don't have a lot more to add um to the ladies but I want to thank you for just making me think um different way like to ponder different things I'm I'm very thoughtful about things and um so you offered a different point of view um and I guess my question was do the other districts are they like looking at kind of making the same rules or would this just be rules uh thank you for the question um one of the uh I asked that question today at the law conference and as far as we know there's not any uh legislation that dictates what those co-ed rules look like um so I would think we would want to come up with some and then also check in with idac with those school districts to make sure that we're all in alignment would probably be a an outcome that we could look at I think I mean I think that would be good I wish it in my district but um that would be amazing if we all just had like the same and then it would be understood I've been coaching the boys team for the last 12 years and we've gone to the idac tournament for basketball and all of a sudden you know we've been playing one way all season until we get to the tournament it's like oh you can't do that and it's like why have we not been playing by the same move the whole time so if whatever we go to i i whatever we decide whatever ideac of the group decides we should everybody should be playing by the same set of rules it's going to be oh this is Creighton rules and then when we get to idac we're doing something different it should all be the same so maybe this is something that we talked with the other District in determining what we want to do with sports and and gender and you know just work together to be one big group instead of we're gonna do this because then you're right it does take away that opportunity if we make this decision that we're going the two co-ed where we go you have to have for soccer you have to have five and six on the field and we've been playing that way all season and then we get to the postseason tournament and the co-ed teams mean they have 11 started on you'll then have one or two girls on the bench that never get in like that's not fair to our kid that's why I think like we I think we need to make this it would be just guidance is over here it's just you either stay with what we've been doing and you know oh we're working with poet but we're we'll be co-ed we just have girls on the team and and or we go to we're going to do co-ed and we're going to have happen players on the field our boys half the players on the field about girls and it's not necessarily just made up of who makes a team but who's actually playing yeah I don't like the way we've been doing it because obviously that's not getting us the equity that we desire this legislation has thrown a loop into this so I think getting guidance from idac would be a really great Next Step yeah because everyone's in the same boat now unfortunately yeah and I think yeah like you said if we can continue what we're doing we're not actually doing co-ed and so we're not solving some of the issues that coach Sims brought up um and Mr Kenora brought up you know about our females not having those opportunities now so um I definitely agree with you I think you know we have 14 theater districts and a Phoenix Union we collaborate on just about everything else um this seems like of the utmost importance and I don't know um Dr Lewis if you can help facilitate that with other superintendents to connect all the coaches I think that's a huge party because I I agree like we want to do what's right but there are rights on all aspects of this but we also want to make sure that we're not removing opportunities kind of going to Mr campos's point we don't want to do something with unintended consequences that are not good so um I would like to see more collaboration and be interested to hear what the other districts where they're moving I'll just say this has been such a helpful conversation thank you Miss Mick Shepherd for putting it on the agenda and thank you coaches for the layers of perspective thank you so very much I will work with the Phoenix um collaborative and see what we can do to align to the idac and the whatever uh sway of the various comments we received tonight to to listen and move forward as you direct I think you really are the team to help guide and direct this based on the comments you heard tonight great job and I like that like to that point um like bringing it up with other superintendents but making sure they said like you send them and they send their people you know but it's not just super instead superintendents making those decisions I think these guys stories need to be the voices need to be there 100 yeah thank you guys so much and I think overall our sentiments it's that coed needs to stay it just needs to be a little bit more specified and redefined so thank you for that thank you guys thank you all all right that brings us to our next item Papago School possible renaming updated policy reference FF good evening Madam president members of the board and executive team thank you for inviting me tonight to um examine and explore the name of our school I'm here to provide you with an update on our school name examination and exploration process and some things that have surfaced in that examination are the words that are on the screen these are the theme words I would say have that ever really come to the surface but honoring um the town of the people and who were formerly known as Papago for us to spend time learning respecting having some curiosity about where the name came from what it really meant what it what it means now and how it's perceived and then also potential harm that may have been done one other piece I'd like to add is just the map so like just give you a little frame of reference of where the Tana Autumn nation is in Arizona it also it's in the southern part just west of Tucson but also extends into current Mexico as well so here is the update what we were able to accomplish as a school last year was to share this information with the equity team and start the conversation we brought the information to our certified staff pretty early on without a whole lot of information it was just to get it started and they brought up really good questions that pushed the next level when I went to the Native American family night and when we held the parent connection meetings uh they the information we shared there was because of the deep questioning and the um the way that the staff is really really thinking about it really brought depth to the conversation and then in addition that was also the presentation that was shared with sixth eighth graders through our social studies teachers and had the students give some input as well but that's what we were able to accomplish between I'd say like November December of last year when this all started to on the end of last school year and then this school year the second part of that box from the examination portion I brought a follow-up to the staff because I hadn't been able to go back with them after I did the little deeper dive so I went back with that to them this year and some of the data changed based on the new information and also I have some work to do with the equity team to follow up with them as well to decide on the remaining pieces of the examination that we'd like to continue including including our uh classified staff in the conversation uh the retired former papico staff I don't know if you know this but there is this group of retired type of good teachers who gets together every first day of school and like has the gazelle celebration will retired and they still have a deep Network when they and they're still connected and we wanted to consider a community Forum just to bring up the neighborhood associations into into the conversation and bring more student voices in the lower grades just because they're not they people think that they're not old enough they weren't old enough for the way we were approaching it last year but I couldn't expand the presentation the conversation include younger students and really involve more parents last year we held uh the two parent connections meeting but they were um at the time on WebEx so the participation was pretty low and so I'd really like to bring it back on to the agenda I've already sent uh some newsletters with information and put out a new survey for this year to see if there's any additional voices before we have those parent meetings so I just wanted to get it out another way before those so that's my plan our plan I'd have to go for this year but we also know that that won't take all year to get through those steps last year being the year that it was it was really challenging even to get to those steps that we got to we'd like to complete that examination phase and be able to move on to the exploration phase this year and so um we know that that's going to really require some identity development about who we are and what we want to stand for and what we want to be called if we don't want to be called Papago anymore and so um the next slide here is just kind of the thinking around exploration about the identity the range of perspectives and opinions about the topic um staying learner Center learner centered and really intentional about this exploration that we have some good guidance and criteria to follow and that we really are considering indigenous representation in this exploration because that's where where we've come from so I'd really like to um come here as to our Equity leaders as we're leading this together about your guidance for the direction of of the naming of our school if you have some and we'd like to see um what your thoughts are and just get your input as well so that's my good night thank you so much for that presentation I do have a question I know that somewhere in the middle of the presentation you said that there was a little bit of shift in feedback that you were getting what was that shift or what does that look like so when we did the survey with the staff and the question was are you in favor of exploring a name change at the time last year um with the limited amount of information but what we were able to share increased by 10 from 84 or sorry nine percent 84 to 93 of hapaco certified staff and last year I don't I didn't get a lot of people um responding to the survey I had 26 staff members and the reason was the way we frame the questions didn't get them another option and just said yes or no and they really didn't like that they felt cornered and so this year I opened it up and I brought the survey back same questions just gave them a place to explain a little more and so they gave more results and they answered the question differently and I had 43 Stefan which is almost every certified staff member responding so that was a difference in adding additional information um part of what I shared the second time around what I'd like to share is after the main yellow presentation there are some white pages on your PowerPoint where I just put all the resources and the slides I had been sharing that where I learned some new things and added that in the presentation so one in particular is the kjzz uh news story with Professor Ophelia zepeda from University of Arizona her story is about six minutes long it doesn't take a long time to listen to but that really forced a little bit of a shift in just understanding it at a deeper level so bringing that resource really did help awesome um the other question that I have um is I love the fact that you're going to go back and try to do more parent engagement that's important too um I think one thing and renaming the school that I think would be awesome to see is see what the kids feel what the school means to them and get their input of what you know they they think of their school and maybe a nice name will come up of what the kids are saying you know um so I think that even collaborating the kids and I know that we have oh I don't even think oh yeah student body representation but if we could probably maybe maximize that one in some way that would be great just to hear what they say how they feel with their schools especially the older kids like what the school means to them and maybe something will pop up out of there and I have plans I mean I didn't actually didn't put it on there to work with our student council around this issue there are other Equity issues we wanted to bring forth with the student council as well but this is one that we wanted to have them be leaders of yeah awesome I think you guys are doing everything in the right direction you're taking the time that you need you're getting the voices that you need so I think it's moving forward in the right direction and I appreciate all the work that you're doing behind it I had a follow-up question for you for last year that I thought of the next day that I don't think ever made it to you but you said that um someone had said by changing the name of Papago we would be erasing them or they would feel like they were being erased was that a staff member it was at the Native American family night I have the quote right here um argued that when we did the exploring the change the comment was changing the name is erasing us so that was that a native person okay yeah so the context was around in this community if you take away the name Papago well the name of an indigenous group still be alive and well here in this community so that's what that one voice was sharing and I think that's really valuable comment um I would love and this is really challenging I would love to somehow honor um the Tohono Autumn or Native American people in the new name somehow um I don't have um an idea of how to do that I mean Tona Autumn means desert people right so um uh I would love to to Sophia's point well or people you know I mean I love I think asking the kids that but also trying to keep keep it in context um and you've got indigenous representation down here maybe um you know that could help just bring in the brainstorming I would love to see if there's a way we can still honor that because the point is not to um just americanize the name you know we can call it Creighton Academy number two but that doesn't really I think I don't want to necessarily erase what the sentiment was when it was originally called Papago whenever that was decades and decades ago um so I would just love to see a name somebody you know that keep that in mind as names are going I actually have a guy I was going to email who is um tone Autumn and is he's not very familiar with his own story but he's doing a lot of research on it and so um he's the husband of a friend of mine so I haven't done it yet but I thought he might have some ideas um and I'll have that conversation with him if I have any if he's got any ideas but I think in involving indigenous representation is probably the key to getting some of those ideas or answers yeah I think I want to just emphasize and Echo Miss Mitchell for you saying you know I think it kind of goes back to the conversation we just had their unintended consequences right you know and and as you've shared there are multiple perspectives um I also want to just um share appreciation that I think you know the process you're going through and the time you're taking and you're being very intentional and very purposeful and I really appreciate that um I love the acknowledging the retired former staff because you know and the community because you know that those are going to be the people that have the strongest emotional reaction good or bad right um and it's important to hear their voices I think along those lines you know really making sure that we have that indigenous representation um and you know finding that balance and we we don't want to erase any representation we don't want to unacknowledge you know if that makes sense um and and it doesn't mean that it has to be to home Odom you know we have a lot of Native American families you know is there I'm like Miss Jeffrey I don't have a perfect answer but I think asking those families in those communities how can we continue to honor um if the name changes the direction you know I know we're still in the process of deciding as a community if that's the way we want to go but if we do it would be good to to continue that incorporation and be very purposeful when if we choose a new name for saying that because I hadn't come back on there to go back to the Native American family I think that would be another step I can I think it's huge you know and it could be something and and bringing in the kids you know I we have very high Native American population of kids and especially I know you know students that I've had in the past and and students I serve in both next door you know similar demographics a lot of their families still you know live on the Navajo reservation up north of the Hopi reservation or they live south and and there is a feeling of you know when I go home I belong and I and I see my culture and and I feel that and that recognition and then when I'm in the city I'm kind of lost you know and we want to make sure that we're we're not losing that and we are honoring and recognizing so um I think that kind of going back to miss creodol's Point like the kids do they're gonna come up with ideas that no adult is going to think of so thank you Mr compost do you have anything yeah I know people not only much 50s even more and and they are so proud of uh mentioning that they have been that they went to Papago and now uh for for us as uh didn't know that it could mean to someone from from the uh tribe some somewhat offensive we felt proud to be identified with the school that has a name that relates to them uh so so uh for for that I I I I appreciate what what uh uh Mrs Arrow mentioned about someone saying hey for trying to not offend don't ignore us and and and and I'm pretty sure that everyone that has been to Papago I mean I didn't go to the school but uh my kids did it I'm so proud of of having that name on a T-shirt and if I go anywhere I I remember going to the to this uh uh uh it's it's a it's a chicken place on South Phoenix for for a Black Culture people that they they serve these uh chicken with some uh taste from from Alabama all those places and I was wearing this uh Panthers black uh uh sweater and they wanted to buy it from me and and because of the panther because it was black and then there was another person in a table and said I'll buy you because of Papago because I went to that school and and so uh I don't know uh again let's just be careful uh uh maybe we can we can have someone from that drive hey if it was up to you what would you give us some ideas or some names that will still incorporate and honor you guys and and then bring those ideas and then if we need to make that decision to change but but don't forget about them if we're trying to defend them and maybe they don't want to be defended maybe they want to be uh acknowledged I don't know Mr Campos was he done yeah sorry yeah and thank you Miss Ayers um I don't think I'm sure we have four Native American families that attend all of our schools maybe it would be prudent to have a meeting at least so maybe they don't belong I mean maybe they don't go to that school if their children don't go to that school but maybe you could get a bigger wider audience that actually is the Native American family united the district hosts with the Native American program but only two came no no no only I was the first in-person event they'd ever had since the pandemic there were more than two I want to see there were like 11 family oh okay maybe sorry nine families but they I would love to be able to go back to um because to that or to that group and follow up as well maybe even making phone calls and just having a conversation with them I'm sure there's not a huge amount of them but because we're getting some more opinions but thank you for your work absolutely thank you for the idea all right thank you so much it looks like you're doing great and we hope to hear on how this will unfold thank you um now we go to 10A which is governing board asba policy advisories number 716-736 first reading typically presented to us by asva and immediately following any statutory changes mostly their tweaks and additions from State changes nothing jumped off the page at me but if the board would like us to look into any of these from the first week before we bring them back to you for a second read we would certainly be willing to do it I didn't the only one that I do have a question about is policy advisory 716 which talks about um referring Children's Services to Behavioral Health Services through access is that something that we do is that something that we have implemented because it says here that not every school district has to have it or has to comply with it students through Southwest Behavioral Health Services and also through care Solace right and organizations work to connect people to access or Medicaid related services as well as their own insurance if they have it and then we also provide funding through the Creighton Title One program to families who need that assistance as well okay other than that I didn't have any other ones does anybody have any discussion on any of the other items no and they've all um I think what asba released is very much in line with everything that we thought at the conference and everything we've been following this entire year um so you know just to reiterate kind of what I said earlier is just this is a lot of policy changes and I just really want to emphasize that every staff member needs to have training on these thank you anything else from anybody Mr Campos anything no I'm fine okay thank you um if we have no other information on that Dr Lewis can we pres we'll proceed to the next one out who can okay all right next we have the discussion and consideration of a governing board resolution supporting the 2023 aggregate expenditure limit override um I just want to say that whoever wrote this did an amazing job writing it it's very well written and it's important that as school district and as elected officials we're actually um sending out these resolutions and sending them at all to our largest leaders just because um we're calling on for something a special session to happen November 8th I'm gonna do my civic duty spill is very important that we all get registered to vote and go out to vote because those people who are on your legislator and senators are the ones that are screwing with us on this public school fund stuff so it's highly important to go out there that's why we still go out there and knock doors and collecting signatures for the override so I don't have any input more than it's beautifully written and let's get this sent off as long as nobody else has any other input oh I moved the governing board approval resolution supporting a fiscal year 2023 aggregate aggregate expenditure limit override please all those in favor Mr Campos hi Miss Ayers hi I am from myself Miss McCaleb hi I'm Miss McCaffrey all right that brings us to okay motion passes you wouldn't be surprised how it's a contentious issue in other boards um 11a future agenda items does anybody have a future agenda item Mr Campos do you have any no okay it looks like every yeah go ahead I'm sorry I don't have a future agenda item but I had a comment on one of the future agenda items sure um can we I will not be here on the 18th but I would really like to be present for the boundary and attendance update if we could do that on the fourth if not I get it but that's tight for us staff wise we could move it to November all right did you just ask it to be on the fourth well it's fourth or 18th I won't be present sometimes it's on the fourth okay if you look oh at the end okay are we okay yeah yeah it says it's on our fourth yeah I think I may have done that because I heard you were going and we are okay yeah I believe we are we um we've had a couple of hiccups with some staff members being out so um I will double check but I believe wrong track for the field okay and if we're not I don't think any of us opposed pushing it to November okay just in case you guys can't great get it I don't think we yeah it can be done in November that's fine I hate to ask those kind of things but I think that's such a huge huge yes piece that I I want to make sure that everyone nope okay and all right that brings us to our last item and I move the governing board adjourn all those in favor aye I thank you guys have a great night
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133 million and expenses going up 11.8 percent to 132 million so while the ballot budget is balanced our revenues are not quite keeping Pace with our expenditures and that gives us cause for concern so things look good this year but we have to be concerned on the out years uh one other thing two other things I would add the numbers have increased in terms of the percentages from the last time you saw this primarily because we've increased the state's on behalf payments and so on behalf payments are basically what the state of Illinois pays for employees and the teachers retirement system and so this is their portion of the pension bill and we never really quite know what that number is going to be although we base it on the prior Year's audit and so we have those numbers some of those numbers and we've we've obviously included that increase relative so it's money in Money out but it's increased the percentages quite dramatically since the last time you saw this and the last thing that I would add here is that we have about a million dollars in what are called cbprt funds our corporate property personal property replacement tax year received a million dollars more than we otherwise anticipated and that is because the Illinois State economy is performing better than what anybody would have otherwise expected the Illinois Department of Revenue is telling us we can anticipate that continuing forward in the current fiscal year so we have another million dollars of Revenue there that we wouldn't have otherwise expected but if the state of Illinois economy takes a turn that money will take a turn too and will quickly likely be in the red if it is less than what we otherwise expected so I just wanted to point that out that that money is probably not here to stay one and apart from that I'd be happy to answer any questions that you might have about the budget Nathan I would entertain a motion to for the board to adopt the fiscal year 2023 budget as presented so moved by move by lock second by might sir we were very quiet there all in favor aye any opposed all right next item on our agenda is our Posse I'll hand that over to Dr Hitchens to make a a slight change to our high school Ambassador policy because the policy specifically stated two ambassadors and as you can see for a variety of reasons we would like to increase that number not only did they have candidates that they couldn't say no to but they also are we've also changed your job description and so in Prior years you would come to the board and present what's happening mostly at the high school but we've kind of changed your job description to say we need voice of the students which could include things like focus groups and surveys of your students we could also engage you in there's advisory groups at all the different levels in the district elementary middle school and you can collect their feedback and report it to the board it doesn't just have to be the high school feedback and so you're also on the principles advisory committee so because of some of those changes it is we thought a team of three would be better to tackle those new changes and see how it goes and so for those reasons we are recommending those changes to the policy which would allow us to have more than two ambassadors and can I just add something to of course um and another piece of that too is being a part of this process for three years now and um the students that are gen generally interested in this position are usually very very busy and so we started to notice that due to busy schedules maybe one or both could not attend and so that was additionally I just wanted to add part of our thought process this is a really important position to the board and we wanted to make sure that the position got the attention that it deserved in we thought that by having three members it would be better suited for all of the reasons that Dr Hitchens said but in addition to the fact that we we really want you you guys here for the meeting so hopefully we can have better representation that way any other questions about the policy right then I would entertain a motion that we adopted the changes to policy 2 180 as presented all in favor any opposed wasn't a 2-190 just just uh it says 2 180.
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so if there are any other questions that anyone has um if you can begin spinning your wheels and be prepared to ask those or ask ask those out in quick succession that would be appreciated board member rodriguez spain mines is really quick on the application process that's going to be done online will the applicant have enough opportunity to come to the district and pick up a hard copy just uh yes so we're giving uh the online and then we're also saying that it could be paper attention uh to the front office i'm done and to piggyback off of board member rogue espana and board member cruz gonzalez um i think it would be important for the paper application to have printouts of the district map because even if with a url that person may not have internet access and tagging onto that you know the map it's really hard to read because there's no streets on there it just feels like you know arrow between arrow gladstone you know azusa but there's no streets in between so that's kind of complicated when you read area all of our um areas actually but there's no streets or divided only the big thank you so to address that uh the um right now it's a hyperlink which we will make sure that we are very uh transparent about that is actually to the la county uh their map that they have on the districts and so in this case ours would go directly to trustee area one and that one has zooming capabilities and zoom out capabilities uh as well and so that one does have street uh stream names and so maybe we can print that one out instead of the one that we that we have and just to be clear as i click the link here it takes me to a pre-sync map where there's additional kind of things that i need to click through there's not a way to directly link we tried we tried to do that and we could not get it to go directly to the map so you do have to choose area one and that takes you to that map i think then in the printed application listing out the steps of when you click on the url click on the hyperlink to the county site giving those instructions about select this select ta1 so that it's a step-by-step instruction and we were actually thinking of taking a step further and just actually printing out a copy of the map but i mean if someone is accessing it on if someone is just accessing online and they're looking at the the digital copy um giving them that instruction list but when you go to the county site from the drop down box yeah okay that's that was gonna happen also so if it hyperlinked to that which had instructed you know linked to a link that happened that has the instructions because i could see this being a barrier an unnecessary barrier if someone clicks and isn't quite sure what to do next any other questions from anyone and i i guess maybe carlos said while we have you here is there any as you heard us kind of sharing and talking about various things anything just as legal counsel you would you would add or or or advise um for us to consider and if i could invite you to the podium x thing i would offer is that you're bored by law 9223 is pretty helpful i think i would suggest that all the board members take a look at that bylaw in particular the portion of the bylaw that talks about failure to elect and that should be ready conjunct two in terms of just getting the overall process the other piece is based on the statute when you have a failure to elect meaning there's no candidate from a particular area the statue does require that that appointment that vote happened before the election i think the the projected schedule is important to kind of have give the board enough time if there's any issue with the appointment then you have a little bit of running room in case you have to kind of recalibrate and come back at it um and i appreciated the question about the vetting of candidates i think that is something that we're gonna have to take a look at um my thought is that could probably be fixed it like any other board member that's elected something comes up later there's an eligibility issue that can be changed but um we will look at potentially vetting candidates in advance um but i'm gonna talk appreciative are we gonna require the candidates to come attend the meeting in person that's a good question that we i know i know right now the only thing that we have to allow for a public input and that that we actually have to allow uh not only either in person or zoom but also in writing for this particular instance uh but i'm assuming that would be uh a uh discretion of the board to say in order to to be considered you must come in person to be interviewed if that's what the wishes of the board is yeah ultimately i think you're right i think it would be the discretion on the board my suggestion kind of thinking out loud would be don't don't raise that as a barrier because ultimately there may be a reason why somebody couldn't be there for that particular meeting but they do intend to fulfill their duties and obligations as a board member ultimately this is like hitting a moving target and so um board members have their own requirements to be here in person but that is divorce i i personally would like to see them in person just so the way that we have to go file in norwalk and we have to do things in person i personally would prefer for them to come for the internet you mean she don't even want to um interviewing to interview of course yeah because they may say i can go on zoom but yeah we'd rather have them here in person i agree i certainly would agree that it would it would um be my preference and and go a long way as as we consider voting to be able to kind of engage someone in person versus zoom i think to your point carlos um yeah because we don't know or do we run into an issue if we if we create a barrier based on our our preferences that someone has a legitimate kind of reason for i think i think we can uh still weigh that and vote that and if you personally can't get over the [Music] the idea that somebody was was over zoomed and you can allow that to be reflected in your vote uh later but but i but i i wonder does it make a whole lot of sense to prescribe the barrier on the front end as opposed to communicate i think it's you know being communicated here that there's a there's a what would be a preference to have someone uh be in person as opposed to virtually it's just a different feel you know with zoom interviewing somebody on zoom actually interviewing them in person and it's more personable uh approaching i would like to take i agree so just to be clear so i'm because i i know that i'm saying that i don't think we should make a requirement i think that we can make it our own personal our is but i heard it there's more people saying that we communicated as an actual requirement yes i'm okay with what you suggested adrian i think it should be um communicated clearly on the application that the interview would happen in person and i say that because we're in this time where remote participation is um allowable for a lot of things so i think people could think well maybe i could participate by zoom or call in i think making it transparent and clear at the beginning is important so we'll work uh can we work with carlos on the on whatever language that that may need to be within that to honor the wishes of the board sure any other questions comments on this particular item all right and we are looking good thank you thank you with that we will move to 6.0 and specifically 6.1 which is adjournment is there a motion to adjourn second moved by board member adianas and seconded by board member rodriguez pena any discussion hearing none we will move to a you're logged in move to a vote and the motion passes five to zero and we are adjourned at 7 24 p.m thank you everybody have a good evening
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I would just do 190. two there's two of them but the um the procedure is 2180 the policies to 190 um right are you looking yeah thank you awesome thanks Chris no problem all right that is all the action on our agenda tonight uh I'm gonna hand it over to Lisa I have several tonight first I'll start by saying um we want to keep the discussion going about building our future together and as of um you guys putting this question on the ballot the district's role is informational and so um we've been really trying to get out there as much information as possible Holly has a very um specific communication plan but we do know a lot of the ways that people learn and make their decisions is by talking to each other and so we've been trying to get into as many groups as possible just to provide information we're not allowed to tell you our opinion which way to vote we're just here to give you information and to ask you to go and vote on November 8th on this referendum question and the question itself looks pretty complicated so we have to take some time explaining what that looks like so if you have a community group that you would like to invite us to for informational purposes we're happy to do that as we heard there is is a group that is taking on the convincing you which way they believe that they would like you to vote but we are here to provide information so please take advantage of that um it took a long time for the board to make this decision three plus years and at the very end we had quite a bit of community engagement and through that survey and the other engagement they helped us to determine the path forward and what we heard from the community is that they do believe that schools are important investment not only investment of our future as far as our students and our products but also people's investment in their homes as we heard from you talking about the um people's home values they do see as that connection to the schools and so trying to protect those Investments and the community also has made it very clear they want you they want you to they want us to live within our means and there is a short window here where we since we are paying off some debt we can issue debt without increasing the bond in interest tax levy and um so that is the information we've been talking to every faculty we've done seven of the eights we've done thick music Buffs and we're scheduled to go talk to at the city council because we're just trying to get our information out there so people aren't surprised when they see a question on the ballot and they hopefully know what it means and conform their opinion based on whatever facts are available to them and we're happy to provide any facts um last month we during our comments we kind of talked about it's a team effort so I'm going to try to Center some of my comments about you guys are on this team where you're sending kids to the Moon you have your your pins there and um it it's a team effort this this uh year so far we've had so many opportunities for students we're engaging them during the school day we're doing a lot of our Baseline testing right now screening so that we can track their progress but I don't know sometimes they're more interested in the co-curriculars and there have been so many opportunities and it's the number of team members it takes to put those events together is enormous I know you could all speak to it from your volunteering because you're all very active volunteers or you you were when your kids went here or you're still active volunteers but um thank you to all the admin coaches and parent volunteers and the sponsors and directors and everybody who's putting all these opportunities together for together for kids opportunities for the community like the Hall of Honor um when it's just a very exciting time um upcoming board events we do have the Harvest celebration tonight and speaking of great volunteers for our district and throughout the community Marianne Callahan is being honored tomorrow night due to her volunteering throughout the community and actually within the district she sits on beefy um upcoming board events we do have an October 4th and 25th board meeting so up October 4th is a special meeting we're having the Illinois Association of school boards attend so you can do yourself evaluation that is a closed session but the every meeting that we have starts an open session we'll also put the superintendent evaluation on that agenda if we have time to talk about that during closed session as well so that is October 4th special meeting October 25th is our oh and for that meeting by the way you will be getting some homework from the iasb um person who'll be providing the workshop you'll look at she wants you to look at your board agreements again she has other iasb protocols that she wants you to look over to see if there's something new that you want to add to your agreements um and then there's an article in this month's journal from the Illinois School Board called civil discourse so we'll review those and so you'll have homework but I've given you two weeks notice at least so I'll make sure I get that out to you very soon October 25th I know you just passed the budget but in October you're required to authorize us through a formal vote to start work on next year so um it's it'll be 12 months of talking about next year's budget then and um we'll also talk about school report cards you need to put those up on display you'll have the rest of the overnight field trips and we will be talking about the district response to racial incidents in the district um then I'm not sure if the um Aaron is working with your search firm I'm not sure if the superintendent profile report will be ready but if it is that will be presented next month maybe that would be the following month though then December 3rd you have a special meeting to look at some candidates for the next superintendent and I did survey you guys about a different date in December and it didn't work we couldn't find one that worked so it's going to be December 20th the night of a board meeting but we're going to try to keep the agenda light just the consent agenda we're going to try to keep things light on that night so that you can because you'll have to do finalist interviews and make a decision on the night of a board meeting so that'll be December 20 or 20th if the timeline works out before the meeting we can order if you would we'll have to do the regular meetings all start at seven so you could if you guys were all available we can do one or two interviews before the meeting and you can discuss after or you can do one before one after so you're not here or maybe you should just need to be here something like that night my note was no meeting and interview on saying what I know but we couldn't find a date yourself eventually so we have some time too so we can we'll talk about that there's a desire RJ to do that and as long as everyone can be accommodated yeah it is important that you're all at that you get to hire one person so earlier that's our one you have one job one job so um yep that was everything for me thank you all right Chris um I do not have anything prepared to this evening um I wanted to keep it mostly positive I am very excited about this time of year and watching all the sports and all the activities and being the first time parent of a senior viewing everything through those eyes is so different in the district and it's great seeing all of the kids who have grown up and I've watched grow up and you know they're now in Varsity and doing amazing things and going up you know it's just overwhelming um so that has me looking forward to fall and I'm very excited about all the activities and all everything that's going on and all the new faces um you know but I'm also concerned and you know I hear about what's going on in the community and I do not like seeing people in our community in pain and I think we can do better so hopefully we will keep the conversation going and do better thanks Chris see you welcome to our new student ambassadors I look forward to hearing your viewpoints and what's going on in the district and I really hope to hear some not just things from the high school but things from the middle school and the elementary school too and so welcome and thank you for everyone who spoke tonight and that's about it thanks Craig um to Echo Chris's comments as a person whose last kid is a currently a senior that is a really different set of perspectives take a look at things um it's exciting to watch him kind of Blossom and do what he does which is what you're probably seeing with your son as well and others um a couple of notes marching band had their first competition a couple of weeks ago they placed third in their group I think fourth or fifth overall but they scored the highest they'd ever scored at that competition and that's really unique to note because the band is significant numbers of first kit first time participants in the band this year right so that's very impressive for them and I appreciate all the hard work all the directors and as as equally as important I all the parents that we have 20 volunteers just to move props and get them moving around at every competition this year it's the most we've ever had and everybody comes with a smile on their face and does the best that they can and that's all anybody can ask and other than that I just appreciate everybody coming with their comments tonight um and we will do our best to listen and make some changes RJ I apologize if I ramble I didn't write anything down for tonight um I also appreciate everyone's comments and I've I've always been someone who thinks that transparency is really important and we've talked about it before the different styles of the communication from the board and I'll continue to push towards us being as transparent as we can be and utilizing multiple Avenues because everyone hears things different ways and everyone sees things in different places so that's definitely something that's on my mind and I know it's on most of our minds as well that being said I don't know if there's a systematic a systemic is that the right way systemic issue with with uh the morality of teachers at this point in the state or what but something definitely needs to be worked on so we'll definitely continue to work on it um I work at a technology company that is kind of tech ed it's kind of education involved and I have a position that has been posted for about three weeks and out of 90 applicants 40 of them are teachers from the state of Illinois and I'm just I don't understand why I you know and it's it's almost like they're just seeing that the ones I don't think well I can transfer over here and it's discouraging to me because this is like always on my mind every time I see another another teacher applied you know like they're just not happy um at least those folks aren't so um it's something I'm very aware of and constantly thinking of and we'll keep working towards it trying to improve it that's all thanks RJ Aaron uh to be a broken record thanks to everyone who came and spoke I really appreciate the the candor it's tough to hear but we need to we need to know and I appreciate the time because I know it is difficult to break away at night to come talk to us so I appreciate that I also want to thank everyone who is involved in homecoming I know it is a lot of work but the kids love it and we appreciate all of the hours and the I'm sure their ears were ringing for days after that because I know my house was kind of shaking a little bit but the kids loved it and I appreciate it very very much and all of the week it's not just that night it's the whole week um and I also want to say thank you to my fellow board members because um it was really a delight to come and say I think we need to adjust our sales on the student ambassador thing and it it was so easy and I just really appreciate the support because that's not always the case and this might seem like such a small thing but it's just an example it's just an example of how we saw something that needed to change and the the why behind the change and what we hope the change would bring and thank you for supporting that I really appreciate it and I appreciate you two ladies so um that's all I have for tonight thanks Erin I can never top what you guys say but I would like to take a moment to um to piggyback on what Todd said earlier about Mike Park Mike Park started in the district the year before my family moved here and as an AGS family all of my children had him and when I was at his wake with my youngest daughter who actually was here from out of from out of state college we were talking to a number of students there and one of the most um impactful things that I heard that night or that afternoon was the number of students that the group of kids that we knew there who who were studying a field thanks to Mike Park so we had occupational therapy we had a girl there who's studying to be a PE teacher they were talking about their friends who were active did Sports were um he made it a place that it was okay to didn't have to be an athlete you just had to try you just had to get up and move and so it was really really a meaningful moment and I just wanted to share that that that someone had such an impact on so many of our students it was also heartbreaking to see our the young ones that were that had had him as a teacher there crying but just he created such a great impact so I wanted to close by remembering that and and remembering the impact that our teachers have on our students um that is all of the items on our agenda tonight so I would entertain a motion to adjourn so moved moved by myself second by Meadows on favor aye all right all right we are adjourned thank you for saying that Kathy that's
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i called to order the i guess this is a special meeting of the building board of appeals for september 22nd 2022 called order roll call paul darling here robert hart here kevin cox here david arnstall absent hugh fleck absent staff we have glenn dempsey here michael redmond here john reiser here myself deborah williams roll call is complete and we do have a quorum thank you first time the agenda is the approval of the agenda the motion for that move to approve second was in favor aye approval of the minutes from the september 15 2022 uh meeting last week can you get a there's a summary of those meetings in here we had some technical difficulties and had to uh adjourn the meeting so can we have a motion to approve that uh motion to approve those in favor aye aye those pass appeals and action and show cost hearing for bba a 22-02 for 616 east washington street ann arbor michigan and the first thing item here we'll have is a staff report of that okay i'll go ahead with the staff report um glenn dempsey speaking as you can see under the introduction the screening room building operated by the michigan theater is located on a separate adjacent lot from the theater and connected to it the lot is also the construction site of a new 19-story high-rise building under construction which is designed to wrap around the screening room the petitioner is requesting modifications to means of egress to allow the continued use and occupancy of the screening room building during the construction of the high rise during this approximately one and a half year period petitioners provo proposing that alternative exit arrangements be approved incorporating the use of the building and lots in the immediate area of the screening room the request involves several variables including a phased approach to egress egress paths through active construction sites egress passed through two buildings under construction on those sites and occupant load adjustments and with that this seems like a very complicated proposal and project i believe it's quite simple it's not as complicated as it looks the code is not the code is being met the code does apply and the applicant isn't proposing any equal or better allowance to exit the building i might also say an approval of this request and with the employees and the public are in harm's way i believe that with the information provided the building board of appeals should deny this keep in mind the board has no authority to waive the code requirements with that um the staff would recommend denial of this proposed allowance for exiting during the construction process okay thank you glenn and we have an athletic in here can come up and give us an update on your parents request yes hi laura eater with esg architects out of minneapolis um we are the architecture firm for the um 616 and 630 building that's surrounding the michigan theater we have scott bowers here who's the architect for the michigan theater and we also have russ collins here with us who's the um what is your role lebron pro that of the executive director of the michigan theater um are you going to share in the presentation awesome okay i thought the best way to go through this would be to talk through the staff analysis um so that we're just touching on those points since we were all here we talked about this for over two hours and here we kind of know what we're doing here so the first topic you can go to the next slide is the fire suppression system we talked last time about how the fire suppression may not be operable or operational during the construction we have figured out how to connect it to the 630 building during construction so 6 30 will be have a tco when this goes into effect when this process goes into effect of the change of egress and so we will keep the fire suppression system active the entire time that the michigan theater screening room is occupied so through the extent of the 616 construction it'll temporarily be tied into 6 30 until 616's fire suppression system is activated so we can't tie into the michigan theater suppression system that's not that doesn't have the capacity but it does have it on 6 30.
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foreign question [Music] is one nation under God [Music] that's all in favor yes all in favor no presentations visitors business this is a permitted to comment on agenda items only at this time no correspondence yeah committee reports about Mr Vitality yes of course we have no report tonight again I was unable to make the meeting last night but I thought you know I I promise I'll catch up with anything anything else um thank you Ted uh we did have a meeting this month that lasted for about an hour as well as the administration we discussed a number of items including uh summer fall curriculum updates uh the revised Mentor mentee orientation program professional development for faculty on new programs uh but it revised Interventional referral services and responses to intervention tiered system the reach intervention preparing for Cusack parent health curriculum information night for both parents and the board and separate meetings as well as K3 report card religions and uh Mr Jones brought off an additional item which we'll discuss forthcoming regarding Ruby Bridges welcome to school today [Music] um so the Ruby Bridges once the school that was brought up uh in the past by Miss Jones and we discussed it again it's something that we decided we will be doing this year as a school that will be conducted pretty similarly to the other walk to school days where there are designated teachers and staff members to help escort students to school um this is a collaboration with uh Ruby Bridges Foundation um to commemorate her brave walk to school and the mission of the organization is to end racism and bullying so those are two where they uh causes that we would like to draw attention to your Academy as well um and in collaboration with the walk there are lessons and posters provided by the organization that we and the teachers can kind of uh break into the to the whole debt it kind of will be like a week of it um and that would be the week following teachers convention so the actual walk day will be on the Friday but we are encouraging staff and teachers to have lessons of different things like that throughout thank you that is it yeah I do have a full report if anybody wants to see it in detail s can somebody speak to collecting resources report but the two big things on the agenda are um Gary Bishop will be retiring at the end of December and um diet quit was on the agenda to be hired as our vegan I'm going to hold our policy to see your shortness if not gave up a follow me to monitor to give it because sure so the community relations this past month and we have spoken with the Future Organization and they just have some updates uh that they'd like to be more aware of including their new website they recently had the big sale of reality we've been successful foreign classes which are undergoing or I guess sign up just recently simply closed and then their fall and winter spirit wear sale is going on through the 25th of September and then for upcoming events there is basic social that will be on Friday the 30th of September they can anyone who's interested can purchase website and the website is very user-friendly um and their first PTO meeting will be held on Wednesday October 12th at Also I spoke with the cpack or I guess it's not cpag it's okay [Music] um parent the parent advisory group for the school um and as mentioned I think in the previous board meeting their flyer was included calendar which was very helpful for getting out the word about their group and their first meeting of the year will be on the 25th of October the group is going to be focusing on ways to work with Administration to address social and emotional needs of the students and also ways that differences can be celebrated during autism month Alexandria month Etc they'll be working on that and upcoming meetings and then also just again the review Bridges walk to school day which is School November 4th 14th being the actual day right it's the actual day that's the day and then we practice our today is the day we return from um teachers convention so yeah in the state of New Jersey it's not as convenient just we want to make sure that all the families will remember to participate so yeah that's why we decided got it okay and that's it for community relations very good all right um nobody Minds um this brings back old memories those of you don't know what president when I got hired and so I said I feel like I've come to a certain serving as president tonight and um so thanks for skipping me um I just want to say the opening of school has been wonderful uh make it the only glitch that some parents experience was they were hoping that they would have found out sooner about home group of scientists but this summer we were down two secretaries um hiring of 11 staff my goal was to get it out that Thursday or Friday because that's what we've always done in the past we get it out the week before Labor Day it actually went on on Tuesday after Labor Day but there were no children in school so everybody you know got noticed it was two days two school days later than what I expected but you know most people that have talked to me they understand um the difficulties that we've had this summer when you're short to stay but the kids are happy in school teachers have been amazing at the start of the school year we're having a hard time believable today it's September 21st I feel like you know you remember being at the beach just yesterday and we're already in the thick of it we have over 80 kids staying after school for sports and clubs every single day we've had our first back to school night last week of fourth grade through eighth grade uh parents enjoyed their evening visiting with all the teachers tomorrow night is back to school night for grades Pre-K for three um we had a flat raising ceremony it's been the tradition here since I got here that The Kindergartners go outside they raise the flag with the assistance of eighth graders eighth graders reminded me that it was so special and they did it at 8th graders so it's nice that it's come full circle that they knew the importance of eighth graders being out there raising the flat and allowing The Kindergartners to raise the flag so that was a beautiful ceremony thank you for bringing up you know the Ruby walk to school October 14th is I think I think National welcome to school day is sometime that we we always do it on a Friday because we give parents enough notice that in November we're going to do another walk to school on the 18th and then we'll do another walk to school in April when we do that during environmentally on the agenda you'll see that the board is Contracting um answer set said honestly we're going to provide two one-hour virtual uh presentations I just spoke at the meeting when I said it was going to be in person uh they're doing this throughout the state they're all virtual we're doing the first one for the board so that the board can um ask questions and uh and then the one uh on the 25th it's the same night as uh vpac at 6 30 equal followed by a seven o'clock virtual and if anyone at CPAC wants to stay here we'll have a screen ready for them to stay there you know if need be but those are the 18th and the 25th tonight it's on the agenda for the board to the more Health curriculum I really need to thank Jen love Matt Fallon and Brian Chase on for the hours that they spent working on this curriculum at historical it reflects our community and um I think when the board uh I know most of you have reviewed it I sent you the link and so many comments so I appreciate that you refuted and and then lastly uh congratulations I'm going to ask the board to approve Diane as our no longer acting VA and uh wishing Gary Bishop who's been here for over 20 years um another commendable employee thoughtful dedicated he's going to retire and enjoy his time his grandfather and being with his family and so with great regrets we see that he's leading us because he did his job yes as we move on to action items that nobody that is there's so many miles a bit differently uh there there are all the county courses on the program District Operations instead of going to everybody to move their their you know um related subjects I'm just going to move the whole thing at one time so episode d e f and g it's gonna move them more than one time so if if you want to take a minute just to go through it anybody asking a question I mean so we have a discussion if somebody needs to hold an item out from Louise we can start to do that but uh does this program create a section even if there's nothing to move it doesn't automatically plug in yeah so I think I can just hide it for this meeting if there's nothing presented can we say there was something yes so I can and it just delete it just like the other agenda format so you still need an emotion in a second for the whole week and then if anybody wants a separate temperature all right foreign Gary's retirement letter notes that I always take pride in everything heart and soul and doing my job and I've always wanted the best for the school and children and that has always been clear with that the great job people think I think a special immigrated vehicles coming up through right yeah it's a wonderful situation congratulations um anybody else Mr Baker yes Dr d'ambrosia yes Mrs McDevitt yes this is me yes Mr vital yes and um because sure so there were really there weren't any new policies that came up there were really two two things that we discussed one of which Mrs Carlson had already touched on which was the notification of students as to which class they're in we had some dialogue over whether or not we should codify update by which parents should be notified but I think after discussing it the I think most of the members felt that that was not a good idea that you could give a hard fast day um but then I think Medallion wanted you just wanted to get your input into that as well yeah um sure I'm not sure what else to what else there is to say about that I appreciate you should follow up on an up the next meeting to see if maybe we want to just say something about who try to get out as soon as possible but things happening that's what I said today eventually goes out we talked about um the movement of our policies to the boards.platform um and we discussed about what would make what would facilitate making that easiest for this as quickly to to do that since so the the documents have to be in Microsoft Word format that was word I think right um there's a few different ways that it can do it we're trying to find the easiest way that will make it the least amount of um and we discussed about whether or not we should hold off on putting policies all together in one Fell Swoop or doing a piecemeal and I think we agreed that um we're going to do it all together at the end right up the um and I'll just have a past time anybody wants to come in to see all the policies we make that available we um Joe last time we met had we had discussed this issue about the um the receivables from prior cafeteria that that was never paid by um bypass students and we had initially had our meeting prior month we had all just about we should just write it off Joe wanted us to investigate that to see if there was a policy governing that's that we should send them to collections and we reviewed this and there is not a policy there's not a policy to that end so I think we are going what we just did right we just wrote it off um but we're now confident that with the new policies all this new um vendor that we're going to make sure that doesn't get to that point again um there were a few things that we had to just clean up from the farming as well related to just um mandatory policies from the state about HIV related items that need to be you need to make compliant and yeah this hipster platform to make sure that we are the the forms need to be published online in the numerical it's been numerical order so that you can modify ing or work on them as an action um that's a lot of money and they don't feel that it's cost effective in addition by cars to invest that kind of money and so we'll have everything online but to invest in that and the state has their own foreign [Music] in your Mental Health hi I'm uh Richard Miller Gabriel uh just uh clarification there's a lot of stuff that just got approved so if I understand it the curriculum was approved tonight but it'll be explained on October 25th is that correct okay so when when will the curriculum be available like what we see it that night or is it available now to review so will it be posted because it'd be helpful to see it before the 25th to know what's in there so I'm prepared with questions all right so will it be on the site tomorrow I don't know how this rolls out but nothing goes into effect until after October 25th is that correct after the first finances great thank you yes it's this new curriculum is it based in every cluster is it just the health where they have a knocked out instructions so the program's only in the health plus not in any of the other classes exactly yeah grade two five six seven and eight so any other grade is the same curriculum that one of those good music not that it's even like a new program it's just some updates to the curriculum all that will be further explained during the meeting but um I think the idea that is like a specific program that would be put into classes is not exactly but it would be thank you hi can we help you know a question following up that um so if a parent opts out what does that look like okay yes um by that child with altered activities to do and then it's our responsibility to find a place for them to do that activity the virtual meeting on the 25th look like is it an interactive meeting with Administration as well is this an informational where the record reflects on presenters she just provided information on the law and the new updates or what does that look like yes she she's going to do similar what you saw on PSA sponsored and that any questions that we have for her we can send them to her and we'll get answers back to you in a time limit the parents might be able to interact with with me and chat via the chat just like making a question if there's a chat portion I have further questions about uh number nine [Music] on October 10th is that a TV day for your staff yes children do not have school on that day and it's a full day of PD training for teachers it's wonderful is that around here that would have restraining at the beneficial diet we have to work that out because the stat that's not on there is doing other work other curriculum work and then number 10 the Brielle remote learning plan because that was like we've made some revisions to the remote learning plan as far as the chair if a child is outset with covid it's the procedures that are that we've been using prior to code that you know they will get enough time to make up their work so there's no unless you have a situation of a plan unless we have a situation where a classroom has to stay home that will have remote learning for that class but if it's one child or two it's they'll make up the work ers unless I'm sending all the facilities class home yes thank you you're welcome thank you David report do you have anything to put together you want to add to YouTube um all right first of all I apologize for my charting this um I I don't believe so they've covered everything okay technically okay I have one thing I wanted to bring up that a parent brought up to me about the traffic flow about Kindergartens are parents supposed to be making a left there let's turn out of that can we put some signage up or something I don't know if you could put cones or not because people are making lefts into it I actually experienced it myself this morning and then it blocks because it's not like over here where it's a circle it blocks off the whole thing or something we can do that at RN and I'll let Tiffany know okay thank you anybody else any more discussion um I'd like to make a motion to hey one million 764 226 .50 yes yes the bank hours I'm sorry I'll statement in a good chance this looks like a format advantage of another agenda item called the board secretary yeah where it's not to be voted okay all right
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good evening I'm going to call this meeting to order Dr Dr uh Foley good evening I don't know what I'm doing right now president Kaylor members of the board please let the record show that all members are present thank you very much we're going to have a moment of silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance of the United States of America and to the republic for to stands one nation under God Our God indivisible with liberty and justice for all right moving on to 2.1 I move that we approved the agenda second any questions or concerns all those in favor aye aye motion carries five zero next up superintendents report Dr Foley president Kaylor members of the board tonight we're going to start with a recognition and a celebration I'm going to ask Mr David botzenheiser to help us honor an Arizona athletic director of the year for Middle School president Kayla members of the board we're very proud today to recognize Brandon Keeling the athletic director at sasman middle school last week he was named the 2022 Arizona Middle School athletic director of the Year by the Arizona interscholastic athletic administrators Association the AI Triple A BK come stand up here and so just a little bit uh about Brandon he's been a wonderful administrator at sasman for the last eight years and um there's a certification called a certified athletic administrator and it involves taking a lot of classes and taking a test when you go to our conferences BK has worked on that and last year was able to achieve his CAA which is quite a recognition he's heavily involved in the East Valley Conference which is what our middle schools play in he's been the Vice President in the past he puts on the cross-country uh meet and he's a go-to for new administrators around that need to know what to do with middle school and he's been just a great example for the young administrators who are joining those ranks but we're recognized women as an ad and that's the award but he goes above and beyond in everything he does and it's not just about Athletics whether it's running plc's supporting discipline and supporting Mr Potts and so um what other than his Ty he's a wonderful wonderful individual and just a good representative of Higley in the in the community so thank you BK and congratulations on your work [Applause] I don't know foreign oh my God [Applause] okay our next celebration we can you can stay once you come on down our next celebration Darlene can you come here thank you [Applause] so tonight is a celebration because this is Darlene's very last board meeting before she retires and earlier this last week we had an opportunity to fill this boardroom with people who love her to celebrate her and surprised her which we surprised her then and we didn't tell her because we knew she wouldn't come and we didn't tell her tonight either so she'd show up for her last meeting but we want to let you know how much we love and appreciate you and all you've done and wouldn't couldn't let you slide out of here without honoring you we have a few cupcake treats here that we figure anyone who would want a cupcake can have a cupcake and I know I think if our Duarte of our governing board members want to say a few things about Darlene foreign well I'm gonna cry I don't know how I could have done the last six years without you you are an amazing woman you're an amazing executive secretary sweetest mom Grandma wife and they are so blessed to have you to themselves now and I'm going to be set [Applause] next video is she I don't know I think I saw some tears the other day when we were in this room Darlene you have been excellent and we just really appreciate all you've done for Higley and I can't imagine a Higley without you it's going to be very different next week thank you it's only been a year and a half for me so not as long as these ladies but you from the very beginning helped me so much I was out of town you tried to figure you figured out my email for me um you've been so helpful I'm so sorry that after a year and a half I finally figured out my account calendar on my phone but I appreciate [Laughter] you thank you so much and thank you for all you've done for Higley and we're gonna miss you very much foreign how long have you been around here 13 years so I don't know if anybody knows but she has been in so many positions and she has excelled in every position and to get to be to be in this spot takes a lot of integrity and it takes a lot of trust for a person to do this job and to do it very well so I thank you for everything and um I think like I said my card that you really are part of the foundation of this District your your heart and soul are in here and it will you will dearly dearly be missed we love you foreign I have poured my heart and soul into this District and I've seen it become an amazing place and so I'm proud to say I worked here I'm proud to leave it in the shape it's in with the administration that's here I think it will just keep getting better and better so thank you foreign [Music] questions itself anyone who'd like anyone who wants thank you thank you so much thank you congratulations okay Curtis if you want to put up our upcoming events there we go and as I round out the conclusion of the superintendent's report we have some upcoming events uh we are as we finish this week we will be headed into a fall break I will tell you that are your your District team had all levels of the organization have been working very very hard and I know all of them are looking forward to a fall break I know that there are some who are working over a break but we are looking forward to this time um when we go into October we have a couple boards we have a board meeting and we also have a superintendent visit coming up Cortina that is being painted as we speak so we're hoping it'll be completed and ready by the time we show up but there will be lots to see there as well lots of other events happening this is just a glimpse of upcoming meetings that we have but thank you governing board for your support we know there have been a lot of evening activities student events yesterday we had a beautiful miraculous part business partner a community partner breakfast in this room filled the room tremendous support Lots going on this time of year and of course we always appreciate your support thank you thank you Dr Foley going on to board comments and I'll just Echo that our business partner breakfast yesterday was amazing um Full House it was so nice to have everybody back and it was uh Mr chartwell's back there Sam thank you so much for an amazing breakfast fresh pancakes it was awesome so thank you so much and I appreciate all those that attended and great presentations from Mr Tyler and Dr Foley and just getting our community more involved back in Higley so we're we were grateful for that for that morning thank you any other comments president kaler um I was able to attend the swim meet from williamsfield and Higley and it was my first ever swim meet in the four years I've been three and a half on the board and I went to the swim meet for williamsfield and Higley it was fabulous and it was hot though I will say that I've been able to go to a football game from both Higley and Williams Field and they're just doing great a baseball game from williamsfield the groundbreaking at Higley High that was within this month we also had East Valley Consortium this month because it's been a long time since we've had a board meeting so maybe I should start out that and then a unified game for both Higley and williamsfield last night and then an awesome breakfast with Chartwells yesterday and I heard it was Sam's birthday but that might have been a rumor that it was okay so happy birthday Sam and thank you for serving me on my on your birthday so thank you it was fabulous you guys did a great job Mrs Schultz just really quickly I want to say congratulations to Dylan Lee with Williams Field High School who was the Arizona Cardinals player of the week two weeks ago correct I'm sure people saw that but um he ran for 518 yards correct I think it was and so pretty amazing and congratulations to him president Kayla yes Mrs Reese um obviously we've had a lot going on but several of us got the opportunity to attend the asba law conference and there is a lot of different legislation coming and so that was a really good opportunity for school board members from across the state to be able to hear from lawyers to understand some of the um new laws that are going to be taking place how that what that means to us what what do we need to do and then as board members who create policy to understand what these new um statutes and and laws are so that we can ensure that we are our policies are current and up to date and that we're working on them and the asba provides their policies to ensure that they are compliant with the laws even as they change so from a board member perspective it was very informational it was um it was good to hear from the lawyers and it's funny because most of them in those conferences it's not lawyer talk you know they're so we can understand it's not the legal jargon and and things like that so um I just want to say I appreciated the opportunity to go and to have time and learn about all these changes that are that are coming through so um it was it was a really good conference yes thank you um and I also know that we had our own employee also present with our udal Shumway Dennis albaugh so that's quite the honor to be able to even just go and speak but let alone then all of you that were able to attend it's kind of a fire hose of information during the ASB asba law conference but you can come home and totally re um you know sift through it all and make sure that all of our policies are going to be up to date and attending to those so I appreciate those that took the time to go okay moving on I moved that we approved consent agenda 6.1 through 6.16 second sorry questions concerns I know that under our gifts and donations I always like to give the shout out for the Higley High girls booster volleyball helped pay for the airfare for their upcoming trip to Utah and then the San Santan P PTO raised 27 000 for money for their playground structures which is always a huge yeah good for them really nice so thank you for all those that go into all those that pour into our ptos like that and support them it's huge and when they give such a nice item that can be used for so long right yeah quality okay all those in favor aye aye motion carries five zero moving on we have we didn't have anybody to speak correct Chris I'm sorry Mrs Zimmerman I didn't ask you but we didn't have anybody to speak today classroom site fund we are going to move on to our 7.1 and our information items we have three tonight president Kaylor members of the board Tyler and Mum have some information that they'd like to present to you tonight regarding classroom site fund yes good evening president kaler vice president Anderson member of the board tonight uh me and Miss Martins are here to present uh information item regarding our classroom site fund um this conversation stems in part from our work with our meet and confer team and and it's a little bit of our response to some of the competition in the um or what our neighbor districts are doing in terms of compensation increases outside of the traditional budget cycle so first a little background what is classroom site phone just for a refresher this is this classroom type fund stems from prop 301 which is passed in uh Arizona in 2000.
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foreign I'd like to call the regular meeting of the Brookfield board of education for September 21st to 2022 the order please join me for Horizon images foreign happy birthday the First on our agenda is public comment and I'll just uh say this again because I've been saying it ever maybe we have two sessions for public comment on the agenda and because we need to get from the business of the business of the day we reserve the first session which is right now for people who are commenting on items that are on the agenda and because we need to get the public input for our items that are on the agenda anything that is not on the agenda goes in the second uh session which is after the business items on tonight's week so I've looked at the sign ups and neither of there are two people signed up um I want to just ask Mrs Matthews are you are you commenting on the policy or in general no have we gotten a copy of it is there a copy of it well if you haven't gotten copy of my comments yeah so we're going to put you at the end at the second public comment I mean you're a bit the second public comment session as well um so we're going to move on to our student representative report Caitlin once you're down there hiding it on the other side however hello everyone students at Brookfield High School are in the midst of an extremely exciting week we have successfully completed three out of the five days for our spirit week which is ending Friday with our Tech Valley homecoming fair and homecoming football game Monday was color Wars where each grade had their own color theme Tuesday was decade day today was USA themed Thursday will be costume day and Friday will be Bobcat spirit the varsity cheerleading and dance teams are collaborating for the first time ever to make a combined show-stopping halftime performance for the game student council is in the middle of planning a wonderful homecoming dance at our very own high school which is scheduled for Saturday October 1st as a senior I understand that this is a big adjustment from the previous homecoming dance plan and the decision has not been made lightly but I know we will make the most of it student government has created several several different committees within their group such as advertising activities Finance volunteer and Club Council we also held our club fair today for students who lead clubs to promote them with signs flyers and treats kids were given time to tour the table tables to discover and sign up for clubs and address to them each Club has been planning fundraisers and there will be many to come so please look out for advertisements this previous week the high school administration has completed the beginning of the year assembies for each grade that went over rules and regulations as for the other Brookfield public schools with Skinner Middle School soccer and field hockey teams will begin games this week cross country starts next be sure to cheer them all thank you thank you very much I appreciate it as usual I for second time I have a very informative report so any questions for Caitlin um all right so next up on our agenda is written correspondence Nick Schmidt Linda Jake with Rachel aligna and Matt Melillo wrote regarding gender identity policies and Jim detrimon wrote regarding the Brookfield prep centers after school program vaccine policy okay next is approval of board minutes the regular meeting October 7th 2022 okay it's been moved and seconded by Mrs Fernandez and any questions or updates to the minutes from any newborns is hearing none all in favor turn over the microphone to Dr Burrell thank you Mr Belton good evening everyone so I have a few updates uh specific Ally starting out with Communications for this meeting I want to let you know that Dr Mann um has her monthly newsletter was published last week that will continue on for the remainder of the school year if you will begin with a assistant superintendent monthly newsletter in addition to that Dr Mann has her website under construction and he's doing a lot of work with Eric behind the scenes to get the uh the webpage ready to go with all the work with Rubicon Atlas and our curriculum work especially in addition to that Mrs D Nicola Hickman our uh supervisor of director excuse me of special services her newsletter went out this afternoon that's also a monthly newsletter so really focusing on the strength and communication here in the district that it's important to remind the board that we have budgeted this fiscal year budget some funds to update and take start looking at and updating the district website and so in working with Eric he's going to once we get through the technology package and get it into Canada year that's the next project on his agenda is to start looking at that on February and get us ready as we then launch decide on a vendor move forward and then do a lot of work over the summer to be ready for the following year so there's a lot of planning and work that has to go into that so I wanted to make sure I manage expectations there and everybody's you know understood where the priorities lie at this point with the district website the next piece uh strategic planning just a reminder I think Lisa and I scheduled a email reminder to go out on Monday Thursday next week from 3 30 to 5 30 we were strategic plan large community meeting 3 30 to 5 30 at the Town Hall at the board of ed offices update on security two of the uh we have four of the five monitors in the hiring process two have start dates in the next couple of weeks and two others we're finishing up some background checks and then we still have the applications open to hire the fifth security monitor so we're really moving forward and hoping to have all five filled by mid-october like we talked about what we'll definitely have four in place it looks like by mid-october in terms of the assl for the high school the police chief shared with me that the job description is with HR right now and still being worked up and and interviewed the process going fairly soon and actually have a high school administration involved in that as well so we're really excited about where that's going um next I wanted to share we're going to be sharing a calendar tonight Dr rudel Dr pepsowski is leading Us in that when Rosa leads us in the summary of Candlewood Lake in the update and it's going to be called countdown to Candlewood and it says it's a high level calendar but I think for those people who haven't seen all the dates it actually will look like a lot of detail I think when we're used to seeing 23-page documents with 10 font of what's on the details of this this doesn't seem as detailed but it's pretty cool we'll take a look at it and it's just going to go it's not going to go back too far but some green checks you'll see next to it to see what's what's done and then what's in process so really excited to share that tonight and then the last thing just to share we did have specifically at the middle school there was a spike in Kobe cases and really went through the staff even more so than students and we had a lot of Staff out at the end of last week and through this week so we're still managing some of that the other schools are faring quite well but it hit the Middle School part this this time around so I just want to let everybody know we're paying close attention to that and the nurses still need to report coveted cases that are reported to them to the state to dvh that is something that's still a requirement that we have to and that's all I have are there any questions all right thank you very much next up we'll do subcommitting reports we'll start with uh Finance okay so we last met on the 12th and one of the things we discussed was the budget development calendar um the big things to sort of take away our administrators will be given their budget materials in the next couple of weeks and for us we will develop and improve our budget assumptions our October 19th meeting so if you have any ideas or things you'd like to definitely see in the budget that's when you would need to bring them forward we spend the bulk of our meeting talking about a really important emerging issue or so um as of right now we are projecting um over a half a million dollars as a general budget deficit this is mainly due to expenses being over budget in heating oil by about 176 000 that was based on a new estimate that was just received this month uh diesel fuel by about a hundred thousand special education tuition by about 267 000 and special education Transportation by about 116 000.
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guess uh i'll call this finance subcommittee meeting of the board of education to order at 7 02 pm um mrs jaczynski uh please call the roll sure mr crippo here miss rosenberg here miss ham here you have a quorum great um please rise for the national anthem the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay uh first up is uh public comment uh dr sullin or mr masiana are there any uh uh comment before we begin no sir okay um then i guess we will go into the first agenda item which is federal grants okay at this point if it's okay mr grippo i do have a presentation and i could jump into that sure go ahead and i will share my screen can everybody see that yes yes yes okay okay so this is the finance committee meeting um what i have put in front of everyone and is that big enough because i can if i put this in slideshow mode it might be a little bit better for you to see everyone yeah that's a little better okay um but i can't see you at this point so if jeff if there's questions just let me know this is the um essa grant funding update you know through yesterday's close of business and so i did share this same spreadsheet with the board at a finance meeting in june and over on the left side you see the various grants that we have available sr1 coronavirus relief versus two professor and arp idea and the sum total of those grants is 2 million 496 655 as of 9 20 22 so if you're looking at the fourth column esser1 coronavirus relief those those were fully expended as of june of 2021 esther ii which is the grant that we were relying on primarily last year you'll see that we've expended 419 547 so we still have 20 000 12 remaining in that grant it's good through september of 2023 uh we will expend the rest of that over the next few months so that will conclude the funding available under sr2 um the largest grant that we receive though is our besser which is the next one down that grant was 898 thousand 778.
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back to order for open session at 6 04 pm we will start with the flag salute in recognition of free speech and the following board agenda item we welcome all and would like to note that saying the pledge of allegiance is not a requirement to participate in the business of this public board if you do not say the pledge for religious political social or personal reasons you are most welcome here as an equal participant participant in the business of this board so for those who would like to do the pledge please rise i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all a lot of free speeches out there okay there was no action taken in closed session so moving on to uh the adoption of the agenda um i would like to start by pulling a couple of items from the consent agenda i would like to pull um item 2 24 25 and 26.
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this is the oh this is the beginning of the Chico Unified School board meeting for today September the 21st we will first go into closed session and come back out at six o'clock to open our live session so I'll see you then thank you and I am calling the open part of the board meeting uh into order we have been in closed session and there's nothing to report from closed session other than one board member is getting a lot older so with that then we will go to the flag salute I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all and you guys at Emma Wilson that was great okay so we're going to move to student reports well we are in for a treat tonight I think this is the largest student group that we've had come to a board meeting so thank you all for being here I'm going to introduce our newest Elementary principal Courtney Conley and she's going to share what we will see tonight hi everybody I am so honored to be able to be back here with this team is just a great place to be so I am happy to introduce tonight uh we have some first graders here they're here to do a chant for you their cheer that they do to create community in the school um and just start the day off on a great note and then we have some leadership students who will talk to you about the great things that are happening at our school everybody ready [Music] [Applause] foreign [Applause] [Laughter] thank you they're greater than me oh no anybody want to say their name yes we like that come here bud I would love to hear your names guys come here my name is Ben oh okay Ben and who's next career okay my name is Hudson all right all right anybody else my name is okay anybody else I might have to give you a name peanut butter or chocolate or [Applause] foreign and we are student leadership from Emerson Elementary School there have been lots of changes but it's been a great start of a great year hi my name is Gina Massey today I will be explaining PBIS rotations in walk and talk PBIS rotations are a way to remind students at the beginning of the year to follow the rules this has obviously worked because our school has been honored with a gold pbas trophy walk and talk is a new thing this year it is something we do every morning everyone heads out to the blacktop and we walk and talk to our friends while we get our energy out and start our day on a good note thanks for your time all right [Applause] hello my name is Zoe Chesterman and I'll be talking about PTSA and the awesome Carnival they put on PTSA is a group of parents that help our school with defense fundraisers in helping our school be the best it could possibly be just last week they put on a super fun card Bowl where families came together played games got prizes bought auction baskets and had some great food the carnival is just the first of many events PTSA plans for our school thank you my name is Woodrow Park and my favorite event is treat and great it's so it is so safe and a lot of people come to participate every year this book fair is and cookies with Santa is another fun event for other families and we have the best Santa helpers around these are a few things that show the fun in art school all right [Applause] hi I'm Amelia and Chris and I'm in fifth grade we participate in many community events as well like the Parade of Lights and read Across America the Parade of Lights is a great way to show our school pride to the community and we have even won awards for our floats in the parade read Across America is a fun event where we invite families and community members to join us in an afternoon of reading hi my name is Emma side hi my name is Emma steinstroker and I wanted to tell you all about the importance of kindness at our school we always celebrate kindness week and we have raised money to to put in school design buddy benches around the school we are all we have kindness reminders out all around the school [Applause] hello my name is Adam atherol and I'm going to tell you about our big fundraiser the ram run this is a great school event where students can earn prizes set goals and raise money for our school we have a big run day with music water and lots of people so when May comes we really get to run around and pour water on ourselves [Applause] hi my name is JJ magnata and I am here to talk about new things we have planned for this year we are bringing back family movie nights and holding family math nights and hoping to raise money for a track or equipment to keep kids healthy and moving next one my name is Maya green and I'm here to tell you about student leadership we have many students involved in lots of fun activities planned we participate in assemblies planned spirit days and help in many ways all year long all year long day on the green is my favorite and it is our way of putting on a fun end of the year event for all all the students at the school thank you very much for inviting us and listening to all of the great things happening at Emma Wilson Elementary [Applause] okay I want to know how many kids I painted their face at the carnival none of you oh do we have any questions for these outstanding students I just had a comment um the walk and talk is something that everybody should be doing because I think that you're on to something on the getting outside and just getting your words out and getting your energy going and it puts us in a good mood for the day when we get to just be outside and chat with our with our people huh thank you yeah thanks for sharing all right I know I know you also have uh their big buddies to the little ones at school oh yes okay how many people are a big buddy um so we haven't done that in a super long time because of covid um but we're hoping to start that back up this year and we would be big buddies all right yes fourth and fifth would be big buddies and the rest of the grades would be the little buddies okay I I've requested how many of you have been in student leadership for more than one year um I have been in student leadership last year and now this year all of us that came here have already done leadership before great fantastic for staying with it good job guys I love the confidence of this group and huge thank you to all the parents for coming out and bringing them here and the show of support it just shows so much about your school Community thank you you're welcome [Applause] huge shout out for all of the families and and students who came and the first grade team and Lori Barnes and her leadership team they're doing amazing things at the school so thank you so much thank you Lori and we do have a speaker on this topic Dr Kaiser um Molly Pearson that one oh hi I'm Molly Peterson I am a grandmother to Sebastian who is in TK at Emma Wilson I didn't know they were presenting when I wanted to come and say what a great school it is I'm a retired school teacher 47 years I've seen and done it all and I have to say the camaraderie at the school the way the teachers work at knowing not only the names of all of their students but of every student who walks by their door all of the staff is friendly and professional and knowledgeable and I just can't say enough I'm so glad my grandson gets to spend his first time at public school there thank you [Applause] excellent thank you so superintendent we have uh superintendent's report you ready yep all right well we have some information to share with you this evening and I would like to First Call Out Mr John Carver to kick this off [Applause] it's really not fair that I have to follow that question I know you can't compete that is so awesome those kids are awesome tonight I would just like to talk to you about another awesome group that I am in charge of is that's my bus drivers it is a job that most people wouldn't want because it's a split shift you start early you end late and there's a lot of time in between in order to be a bus driver you have to apply with DMV for a class B driver's permit then you have to pass the DMV driver's permit test then you have to buy past the passenger endorsement test then you have to pass the DMV air brake test then you have to pass the DMV School Bus endorsement test then you have to pass the DMV physical all of that just to get your permit and then you go to CHP and you have to become tested by CHP you attend a 20-hour class provided by the California state by a California State Certified driver trainer who I duped into coming here tonight Mr Mark Alstead you have to pass the CHP rules and regulation test you have to pass the CHP first aid test or complete Red Cross online test and a CPR course then you have to submit to the Department of Justice a fingerprint background check then you receive a minimum of 20 hours behind the wheel training by Mr alstad then you have to pass the driving test that's administered by CHP themselves and then every year you have to do a 10-hour training to keep up on all of your stuff now in order for Mr Mark here to become a trainer to become a bus driver instructor and the training course is conducted by the California Department of Education it's a three-week course that lasts a minimum of eight hours a day that does not include your four hours a night of homework right at least four hours um no sleep and that's five days a week for the three weeks that you're there and include several night sessions it covers 44 subject areas with emphasis on the fundamentals of classroom and behind the wheel teaching techniques which mark is really good at now the fee for the course for us to send him there was forty five hundred dollars um and there's usually an enrollment how many do you have in your class this time oh my goodness probably about 40 people I would say whoa it's quite a ordeal for a little old man that hadn't been at school for years so the purpose of this course was designed for qualified individuals like Mark himself who have the desire the ability and the attitude to become a competent trainer the he was provided with information on development of effective driving training programs California laws regulations and rules governing passenger transportation responsibilities and liabilities of carriers instructors and drivers classroom and behind the wheel teaching techniques and lesson plans guidelines and procedures for conducting an assessment of a driver training program a network of contacts with State Transportation officials and local bus driver trainers methods of improving self-confidence in public speaking and vehicle operation skills so with all that said just to let you know when Mark started the training program and is so confident in what he's doing this is the first year that on the first day of school we had two drivers without a route we have drivers when I don't know if you've seen the news there's other districts and everywhere throughout the U.S are hurting for drivers so I wanted to make sure that I thanked Mark publicly oh yeah thank you I appreciate it water bottle for you oh my goodness there's a certificate for you I can take your mic if you want oh I want to sing [Laughter] all right congratulations thank you [Applause] and I'd just like to ask everybody here that is in support of Mark I came for that reason please stand and be recognized I know there were several of you that showed up from CSEA back in the back I love the support you give each other it's great I would like to transition now into an update from alternative education and Mr Andrew mole [Applause] good evening I do want to express my sincere gratitude to Mr Carver and his team for all that they do throughout the district we call on them often and it is amazing the response and their communication we truly appreciate it and of course I always appreciate being here in front of you to thank you again for this opportunity to highlight some very special people in the chico community and fortunately for the alted family this gentleman has joined us almost five years ago I'm here to honor a man who has dedicated the majority of his life to advocating for those who need it the most the at promised youth in different communities this dedication has served countless numbers of young men and women in various capacities and now we are extremely lucky to have him in Chico Unified excuse me with an absolute Heart of Gold he teaches with love and compassion for all students he has been instrumental in finding creative ways to support students on the Fairview campus offering to do whatever it takes to get students back on track and moving forward I will never forget when he said Mr mall I am all in like the majority of our wonderful staff his classroom serves as a safe place at all times a safe place where students are encouraged to be honest ask questions take chances think outside the box and be kind to one another during every break throughout the day you will see students in his classroom engage in academic conversations playing chess playing instruments and as of last year has become the hub for the student Equity Alliance program his small community Fosters a sense of belonging and respect for others that spreads throughout the rest of Campus he teaches social science and creative writing officially but more importantly he inspires his students he inspires all of us I cannot say enough about this passionate educator also serving on the all Ted Equity Alliance he takes his passion to another level and with every new idea comes an opportunity for our students to become greater versions of themselves I'm confident to say the same holds true for those of us who work with him collectively we strive to support our students in being and or becoming competent and engaged citizens this gentleman leads by example in this endeavor and we get to experience every day experience it every day excuse me also excited to share stories excuse me always excited to share stories about breakthroughs of students whether academically socially or behaviorally it fuels his Fire Within and the trickle effect is remarkable how great it must be to be a student in Mr bojack's classes he works hard to make a difference in his students lives but in my humble opinion he has a fantastic gift and we are so very grateful for this gift Michael Beau jacket is an incredible human being and so please join me in congratulating him on receiving the superintendent's award and thank him for his many years of service to the Youth of our country thank you we love you Mr Bojack thank you so much [Applause] and that concludes my report all right thank you and um thank all of you who came to support yeah just a comment um all our teachers are amazing but I always have a soft plot for our Fairview teachers I think that they're all really special good job all day yeah thank you so much for all you do [Applause] all right so we're moving to announcements and I get to go first so the League of Women Voters of Butte County is hosting um candidate forums and they're covering the city councils they're and they're covering school boards and so next week the Chico city council and the Chico Unified School Board forums are on Tuesday September the 27th at 7 pm you can go in person at the chico Masonic Center but you can also watch on zoom and on the YouTube link so those links are going to be posted on our website so that everybody can if they can't make it uh that day or that time they will be able to see the recorded version so Chico city council and the Chico Unified School Board Forum Tuesday September 27th at 7 pm Chico Masonic Center all right does anybody else have an announcement nope okay so with that uh we will move to items from the floor do we have somebody speaking on items from the floor we do we have two speakers okay the first is Molly Peterson okay you may be seeing a lot of me because I like to talk but um what I want us to mention now is just to put something in your ear for you to think about and truly consider I have been volunteering three hours a day three days a week in my grandson's TK class I can tell you I have never been so tired in my whole life after going home from 24 4 year olds in the same room oh my goodness I think that's way too many kids in the class and I would really like to see you consider at least for TK and kindergarten a cap of 20 students per class thank you all right thank you okay and our next speaker is rain Willis good evening I'm here to represent special ed teachers and aides I started subbing for Chico Unified last spring there weren't as many teacher sub jobs as I'd been told there were but there were plenty of what are called instructional paraprofessionals IP jobs they are paid much less however the work is extremely hard the children exhibit extremes of human behavior and they are precious love children and the aides and the teachers work so hard we have to keep them safe we have to have eyes on them and if we are down a person or two people it just is incredibly challenging but they will do it I have my attachment a PDF to the item from the floor and that's where I have written about this I encourage you to read it I feel it is import informative and it is compelling and we can't educate children if we can't keep them safe and they do we do educate children I run around with the little tiger going to tiger because I have to chase the child to get her to look and it's just it's wonderful wonderful work so fulfilling and so rewarding but it is so difficult and I see part of my job as letting these teachers and aides know how heroic they are they're the nobility they they're going to do that work no matter what they're paid and so as I put in my remarks you're not going to attract better people if you will pay them an equitable amount of money you've already got the best what you will do is be able to get enough people so that we can keep the kids safe and we can teach them because they learned and they love to be to school and they should be at school and also I just have to shout out to especially Little Creek Chico Creek but also Parkview When the Children talk about kindness out on the playground the Gen ed kids are so kind so compassionate so accepting it is just a wonderful thing to see and I'm having a really beautiful experience with this but I also have to say I've never oh okay all right I um I've never really paid attention to school boards particularly that's not the case now I would like to know who is going to make a priority of this issue because as I believe in the ER he said people in these jobs should be making at least as much as somebody who's making pizza at Woodstock's mix and you know this is important because I'm missing watching the SF Giants hope to God beat Colorado so thank you so much for listening to me please read the attachment thank you so much [Applause] foreign all right so anyone else items from the floor is that it all right thank you so with that we'll move that the consent calendar and does anyone wish to pull an item from the consent calendar actually I do I need to pull uh the human resources approval of classified Human Resources actions from the consent calendar pardon 4.2 yes anyone else to pull an item from the consent account okay seeing no one else may I have a motion sure I will move acceptance of the consent calendar less item 2.4.2 I'll second that motion all right okay so this will be a roll call vote all those in favor of the consent calendar with the removal of 4.2 signify by saying aye Robinson I Lando I Kaiser Ryan Dolby I tennis eye okay so that's uh unanimous and then item 4.2 so um I have to recuse myself from voting on this because uh uh a family member is listed in this so um that was the reason I pulled it I move approval of 4.2 okay seconded okay so that's Eileen and Tom okay and this can be then uh evoke by affirmation yes okay so all those in favor hi hi I just wanted to make a comment that there's it's an extensive list and I'm really happy with all of the new hires that we have so thank you for all the work that you've done to fill those positions fill my microphones were way too loud um anyway with that I thank you okay so we have four eyes and one recuse okay so we move now to the discussion action calendar and the first is the resolution 1588-22 Williams textbook sufficiency that'll be me um every year we come to the board with the resolution and certification form resolution was stating that we are providing sufficient textbooks and instructional materials that are provided to each student including English language Learners and Mathematics Science History social science science and English language arts and including English language development component of an adoptive program that are all aligned to the academic content standards and consistent with the cycles and the content of curriculum and Frameworks this is bread code that we need to come to the board to approve the resolution and the textbook certification that we are providing sufficient textbooks to all of our students and that including digital online curriculum all right is there any questions from the board okay can I have a motion I move approval secondary okay uh Dr Kaiser we do need to open a public hearing on that oh public hearing sorry anyone in the audience have a comment or question okay seeing none I'll close public comment and so we have a motion by Mr tennis and a second by Tom Lando and because the last one couldn't be unanimous we will have to have a roll call vote so I'll start with Mr tennis tennis I dalby I Kaiser aye Lando I Robinson I all right okay so with that one we now move to the discussion action of educational technology scope and sequence yeah I'm going to bring up our director of Technology John Vincent um and also the rest of uh my team to go over this technology plan and sequence that we're bringing forward to tonight good evening Madam president board thank you for having us here tonight to present this I am I have to say first off that this is something I've desire to present to the board for some time and so I'm I'm excited to be able to bring this to you tonight um as you know things are changing in this world technology is really becoming so common in so many things nowadays we have some come out and look at our house to put a new roof on and he actually used a drone to measure the roof it's just it's it's showing up everywhere and so providing yes foreign yeah that's better okay thank you so because technology is becoming so prevalent in our society it's really important that we we teach skills to our students and so what this Common Core scope and sequence it represents is the technology skills that Common Core and S back as well as iste have put together as being skills that our kids should know by the time they exit score so what this represents is is really kind of a road map of what those skills would look like based on different grade levels so for instance in first grade how to turn on a computer how to move a mouse how to click on an icon and it just Builds on it from there until they're until kids graduate any questions it's very impressive this is a very impressive lineup and I might be showing ignorance here but is this brand new we're just rolling this out for the very first time right now in our district yes so this is something that was put together by I think Fresno first and then it went to Long Beach and Long Beach actually put it in this form it's something we're adopting uh districts across the state have been adopting and actually I've been seeing this in districts Across the Nation as well you somebody explained to me the link between this document here in common core how what's the connection between so the link to the common core standards is via is indicated on the chart um by abbreviations such as RL 0.4 and what those abbreviations stand for are targets which are composed of numerous standards and the targets are what is measured on the smarter balanced exams the smarter balanced assessment so the English and language arts State tests the kids taken this in the spring cover and measure those targets thank you and there too we'll have um other descriptions such as oh digital citizenship and those would be St standards instead of s back or common core that would be an IST standard so the iste has three there's six standards total three of those are included on this the creative creativity and Innovation digital citizenship and Technology operations and Concepts when talking about these standards this is more of a road map to make sure that we can understand for our teachers to be able to continue to look at to see that there are having their students doing these things in these grade levels there's a lot on here like like you guys were talking about and this is yes for us to roll out but it's not these standards have been being taught ever since we rolled out um our Chromebooks and our iPads to our students but we wanted to be able to again have some sort of road map for people to follow so we want these scenes to be conscious of what we want our students to know and what they should know to get to the next grade level is there some measure of accountability or how are how is it being tracked that and this is not to put more work on teachers but how do we verify that this is being hit at these grade levels and and what's the evidence to support that oh let me address the microphone here one of the most exciting components of this is the accountability is actually in the product so for example if you look at some of these standards they build upon each other so a student will need to be able to perform these skills to create the product for the teacher in the classroom so rather than just being a stand-alone competency metric that's just kind of floating out there they're actually going to be demonstrating their expressing their learning for all of these standards by the products they produce for their for their teachers I think that for folks who aren't or haven't been ingrained in in the world of education for the last 10 years it's really important to remind folks that your point about it not being Standalone is this is not common core and ngss is not No Child Left Behind it's not checking a box and making sure like we did that lesson so we're done with that and we're moving on to the next thing it's really a spiraling effect that everything kind of Builds on top of everything else and it's all really Incorporated within the the context of each lesson and spiraling is a great word because that's exactly what's happening happening with these with these skill development thank you I also think that the stress on digital citizenship is really critical we certainly know that many individuals have been abused by people who were exploiting the digital world and we need to safeguard our students so I think that's a really critical skill set yes I agree and we'll be talking more about that in October when we're having our school safety Workshop part of that will be cyber security or student safety in the cyber world I just wanted to say what a nice looking document it is I wrote one of these about eight years ago and I wish I had this to look at instead because it's way nicer than the one I produced so thank you and nicely done I had to give um Kelly McLean credit for putting this together so this part came from from Fresno but she did the cover page and did edits inside here and it turned out beautifully okay I'm a big fan of spreadsheets and and things like that so I I really like it I was wondering where um this is my facetious Voice by the way I was wondering where the skill of not putting the entire email message in the subject space is does that fall in here that's an advanced skill that's right yeah or a reply all how to change your default to replies yeah away from Word file all right any struggles of Middle School any other questions or things that you would like to add John you have anything else no I do not okay all right thank you thank you yeah we're going to need you guys to approve this plan yes I was waiting for somebody to make a motion I'll move I'll move that oh yes okay public comment I always forget that part anyone audience wanna comment okay I will warn you that my seven-year-old thinks he wants to be a gamer when he grows up so definitely at every level okay I'll close public comment but nobody and now we may move to emotion I move approval of this all right Mr tennis has moved approval I'll second and seconded by Caitlyn dolphy all right yes I am living proof of the necessity of this standard and those of you that have to help me on occasion understand that comment I think we've all turned to our kids sometime and said can you help with this yeah Okay so uh we do have a motion and start Mr tennis tennis I Dolby eye Kaiser I landoi Robinson I all right five oh thank you thank you guys okay so we moved to human resources resolution 1589-22 .
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