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And so these are our students. They meet a critical need in the community and we should be there supporting them. Thank you very much for the opportunity to testify. Thank you. Next to testify, Ivan Ma, interim executive director state public char. Good afternoon, Chair Kani, vice chair Kim, and members of the committee. The uh Ivon La on behalf of the charter school commission. We stand on our written uh uh comments on this bill and we're happy to work with this committee and all the stakeholders in addressing any issues that this bill is trying to address. Thank you, Ivon. And we also have someone on Zoom, Janelle Rivera, not present on Zoom. Chair, thank you. And a number of written testimonies. Members, are there questions? A question from Von. Ivonne, please. Um, I read testimonies from people that are opposed and am I correct that some of them are a teacher at the charter public schools?
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I believe so. So, um, so are you folks agree with what these so testimonies are saying? I guess, you know, in terms of this bill, we're not clear on what the bill is trying to address. It's talking about excluding um programs that uh I think the language is provide comparable benefits for all public school students regardless of whether the student is a department education school student or a public charter school student. So I'm not without understanding what specific programs are talking about, it's really difficult for the commission to understand what what we're trying to exclude from that per pupil calculation. Currently our our charter schools are getting funding from EDN 100, 200, 300, 400 getting a um a proportion of that based on charter school enrollment. So, I'm not clear what this bill is aimed at in terms of what duplicative funding is being included in the per pupil.
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So, I it's very difficult for us to identify what the bill is trying to um the issue they're trying to get at. So, um I I'm assuming that the drafter of the bill is saying that charter schools are getting funding that they shouldn't be and that's why they want to exclude it, but I really don't know. I think that's what the drafter is saying is that they're double dipping because they're getting uh funding for things that all schools including charter schools already get funding for. So I the commission you're not you're not sure what those programs are. Is that what you're saying? Yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Uh for Superintendent Hayashi, did you guys have any testimony? Are you able to identify any of the programs that may be considered double dipping? Brian Pallet on behalf of Superintendent Keith Ashen. Um over the interim, this was something that we had looked at at the request of the Ways and Means Committee and there are a few possible programs that were identified through those conversations.
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Some examples are things like white teacher standards board is budgeted in the Dwe's department and that supports all teachers. Um, so there may be a handful of programs like that that provide support for all public school students and employees scattered throughout the department's budget, but it's it's a daunting task to pick those out. I just add Yeah. So for the Hawaii State Teacher Standards Board, what is is it a fee per teacher or something that's already provided or what? That's that's the program that for a while there was funded by fees for teachers but since in recent years the legislature I believe has provided general funds now directly to teacher standards board so that fees are no longer collected for teachers in good standing question members thank All right, moving on. Next bill, Senate Bill 1343. relating to education clarifies that because minors do not have legal capacity independent I'm sorry do not have legal capacity independent of their parents a minor students parent illegal guardian must produce the required student records when transferring schools clarifies that emancipated minors may also produce the required student records when transferring schools clarifies that the transfer process is the same whether a transfer is within the same complex area or to another complex area.
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Sorry, pages are all stuck together. Superintendent, please. [Music] Good afternoon. Heidi Armstrong from the Department of Education and the department stands on its written testimony in support of this measure, but I do have one um requested amendment and I'd like to give you a revised testimony um if possible. It includes um a section regarding um McKini Vento students. Some of our homeless students and some of our homeless students are facing difficult situations and they are protected by the McKini Vento Act which would allow them to um transfer their records independent of a parent or legal guardian since they are homeless. Would you like me to give you the revised testimony now? Yes, please. Thank you. Is there anyone else here wishing to testify on Senate Bill 1343? Members, questions. Thank you. Moving on to Senate Bill 1344. relating to educational health services. Allows administration of allows administration education to public students by health assistance with the approval of a health care professional within the Department of Education, Department of Health or Healthc Care Service for a written agreement with the Department of Education replaces the term school health aids with school health assistance to reflect recent changes to the title superintendent, please.
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Good afternoon again, Heidi Armstrong from the Department of Education and the department stands on its written testimony in support of this measure. Thank you. Testifying for Department of Health, Dr. Kenneth Pink. Aloha. I'm Joan Takamorei, public health nursing branch chief. On behalf of Dr.
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Kenny Fink for the Department of Health, we stand on our written testimony and support and we're available for any questions that you may have. We support bill. In support. Yes. Thank you, Dr. Clementina Seria Ulletine School of Nursing. Hi, my name is Laura Reichar. I'm a representative for Dr. Seria Clement or Dr. Seria Olip. Um, and the School of Nursing stands in strong support of this measure. Thank you very much. Thank you. Laura Reichart. Hi. Uh, my name is Laura Reichard and I'm the director of the Center for Nursing and I stand in strong support of this. Thank you. Thank you. Eric Abbe support for Hawaii Primary Care Association. Naomi Emanuel in support testifying for Epsil epilepsy foundation of Hawaii. Susan Pakola Davis in opposition. Stephanie Marshall in support. Courtney goes in support. Are any of these on Zoom? No one present on Zoom. Chair, thank you.
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Julia Lindberg also in support. Thank you. Members questions. [Music] None. Convening the committee on education. The recommendation of the committee is to pass out Senate Bill 107 with amendments that are technical and nonsubstantive. Chair [Music] 107. I [Music] thank you. And for Senate Bill 783, recommendation of the chair is to defer indefinitely. Senate Bill relating to the state library system. Recommendation of the chair recess. Is it convening the committee on education? Senate bill 1232. The recommendation of the chair is to pass as is. Chair Bside. Okay. Chairside. Any member president voting with resolutions? Anyone opposition?
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Hearing none. Thank you. For Senate Bill 806, recommendation of the chair is to defer indefinitely. Senate bill 603, recommendation of the chair is to defer indefinitely. Senate bill 283 recommendation of the chair is to defer indefinitely. Senate bill 1343 recommendation of the chair is to pass with amendments and the amendments is that this section shall not apply to McKini Vento eligible students including unaccompanied youth who are not under the physical custody of a parent or legal guardian. with those amendments and technical and nonsubstantive amendments. Chair Baiations voting opposition and the last bill on the agenda, Senate Bill 1344. Recommendation of the chair is to pass with amendments. Chair voting no reservations. And this concludes the hearing on education.
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foreign and welcome to the Joint senate committee on labor and technology and of Education today is Monday February 13th 3 o'clock P.M we are in conference room 229 I'm Sharon Mori Walking Chair of the committee with me our committee Senator uh Keith agaron with me and the education committee chair senator kidani thank you and members Senator Kurt favela okay before proceeding with the Joint Committee hearing I'd like to make a few housekeeping announcements the hearing is being streamed live on YouTube you can find links to viewing options for all Senate meetings on live and On Demand video page at the legislature's website and the unlike the event that we encounter major technical difficulties and must end it abruptly the committee will reconvene on Wednesday February 15th at 3 o'clock P.M in this conference room 229 and Via video conference that they're a temporary technical glitches during your turn to testify via Zoom we may move to the next person due to time constraints we appreciate your understanding know that the committee has all your written testimony I'll be reading a list of in uh well okay we will have closed captioning and if it doesn't accurately spell your name please uh we apologize if you're interested in viewing the written testimony please go to the legislature's website the time slot for this hearing is 90 minutes so we'd like to accommodate everyone but we ask that do you limit your testimony to one minute yeah so moving on to the first bill relating to us SB 718 relating to public employees it clarifies teachers and other Personnel in the state public charter schools our members of the state collective bargaining unit as their Department of Education counterparts and the person we have uh director Brenda Hashimoto of hrd thank you and support again you have comments on its concerns um hsta and support uh please good afternoon thank you chairman uh Senator kirani um my name is Andrea Eshelman I'm the deputy executive director at hstm here on behalf of osattui Jr who is our town is unable to testify today is asking your support for this amendment to HRS 89 in recent years contrary to statute the employer has questioned the status of public charter schools and their representation alternately the the AG's office as well as the herd office of collective bargaining have claimed that either Charter teachers don't fall under bargaining unit 5 and or the state has no authority to bargain for Charter School teachers these claims are despite the statutory Provisions in the HRS 8910.55 my testimony outlines the concerns and what those sections of the legislature that excuse me the statute address all of these uh claims or despite the fact that under 10.55 the state of Hawaii Bargains with us at the table for all bu5 employees and budget and finance provides salary calculations and other costs and appropriation bills thank you thank you okay anyone uh else to testify as well oh please come up hello kayaka chair Vice chairs and the Committees my name is Angela testifying on behalf of cares and um we are going to provide comments a charter school is a school um who receives Government funding but operates independently of the um public school system and um Charter School teachers have valuable information to share so um it is it should be of consideration for the legislature um to consider including Charter School teachers thank you for the opportunity to testify thank you anyone on Zoom to testify on this measure no one on the gym chair so I have a written testimony from hga with comments uh concerns that we're not include other bargain unit employees of a public charter school testimony from Joy bulosan oh [Music] conversion charter school and support Brian Starkey individual in support and we've got um let me see I think one John Fitzpatrick hope McKean Penny duvacho Tiffany Edwards Ryan link Donna Dom Shauna Arthur erinol all individuals in support is there anyone else um could I ask uh the hrd director ashimoto [Music] so you've you've heard uh from hsta that they don't believe they're being treated as uh having bargaining unit at five um uh representation of the public charter schools and that both the AG and hrd have not addressed them as bargaining at five members can you respond to that I don't know that that's the case um according to my staff the Labor Relations staff we do recognize that Charter School teachers are members of unit 5 and they have been involved in negotiations on on the hsta negotiating committee so I'm not sure if perhaps that was in years past but I think there's an acknowledgment now especially in light of section 89 10.55 that Charter School teachers are members of hsta are you five um and and so you don't see a need for adding this into the law uh as as um charter schools in bargaining at five in statute I I do not because it's covered under chapter 89 10.55 and we don't make that distinction for any of the other bargain units um the charter schools have members in unit 3 and Unit 13 unit 2 unit 4 and we don't specify that they're included in any of those bargain units so we just feel like it's it's unnecessary that it it's already addressed in statute appropriately in in 89 10.55 you think you stick that stay there for a minute Andrea would you come up and um identify um what the problem seems to be or has it been in the past so I think if you look at our testimony the very last paragraph that I um added um from last week so the AG last week testified in the house that public charter schools do not the problem was that public charter schools do not have a vote in the creation of the master contracts and they weren't quote sitting at the bargaining table so part of the issue is that we're now being told in recent weeks well yes you're part of our Union at five of course yes we've given Appropriations but now the issue is that well we can't represent those Employers in the master contract 10.55 specifically established that for bargaining the master contract those six votes across the table the governor the superintendent the Board of Ed is who we bargain with D Hurt is there representing the governor anytime we bring up issues that could affect Charter Schools or that are pertinent to Charter Schools we're told no we don't represent those employers by D herd and the AG were expressly told they will not agree to stuff how to do with Charter Schools [Music] the agent's office is not present and then I'll just note last week the AG did mention that there was a recent arbitration that reinforced that they are our unit um and so that was what he spoke to last week um this is Journey from Recess to Senate Bill 1251 so thank you Senate Bill 1251 relating to substitute teachers beginning July 1 2023 it requires substitute teachers who work 90 days or more to be compensated equivalent to the daily rate for an entry-level teacher salary commensurates with their placement in class one two four three to testify superintendent form of Education please Aloha chair Milwaukee chair kidani Vice chair Lee and vice chair Kim and members of the Committees uh Sean bacon assistant superintendent for the office of talent management testifying on behalf of the Department of Education uh the department stands on its written testimony and opposition of this measure just to clarify this is not an Administration bill so I just want to thank you for the opportunity to testify and be here for any comments thank you is there anyone else I don't have any other decisions someone else here wishing to testify in this field members questions I want to share with us what the opposition is that the public knows I have the testimony here but they certainly don't know so sure not a problem so just to go back um there was a a lawsuit with the Department years ago about substitute teacher pay and actually in part of 302a 624 it does talk uh section B of it that the wage adjustments shall be comparable to the across the board uh wage adjustments for each teachers that are negotiated so when this became effect in the law of 2008 the department has been looking at class one two and three for the teacher levels and every time the hsta bargaining unit five members have gotten across the board increase the substitute teachers have got the comparable amount since that time okay and if the substitute teacher is um filling in for a teacher that's been absent for more than 90 days you focus iron and fat compensating them at so the substitute teacher that has been working longer than the 90 days they are still receiving the same class one class two or class three sub depending on their qualifications um if if a teacher is going to be out for quite some time that there is the ability for the school to actually hire them on a vicene basis until that teacher does return if it's going to be longer than that 90 days so there are options available if the substitute teacher is interested in that other option too that also comes with the French benefit also how often is that done how often as a substitute teacher teach for longer than 90 days and then opt for that um well it really depends on each teacher's situation if they're going to be out on some type of lead for approximately the whole year if they're a sabbatical leave of maternity you know if it dependence teacher situation um to determine whether or not that they may be eligible for that right but the question is how often how many times instead of you so you've told us you're data German so what's the date on I don't have that data in front of me and how often that that does occur I would be something that we I get to go back to our staff and see if we can get that for you Senator thank you thank you members for the questions senator for Villa yeah just just to continue on um most of the substitute teachers are retired so they don't want to do a long-term um contract over 1980 right yes that is pretty much the trend right there are yes some of our substitute teachers are retirees and if they were to go back and do a contract they would have to then um forfeit their retirement benefits well that's what Senator Kim wanted so you could give him at least that the majority of you guys substitute with teachers are retired and are looking into taking a new teacher that's there or taking somebody to go for more than 90 days and you guys won't be able to fill it with a substitute because most of them are retired um teachers so yeah and but the way that the current statute is also written too I mean the entry step is step five right now for the entry step for the teachers in class two or three so what we've done is since 2008 we've looked at the entry step class five and then every time there's been a three or five or whatever the percentage across the board increases we've done that for our substitute cheats usual so thank you so you feel that this measure is not necessary as close to folks are humongous uh correct thank you questions okay okay we can go right into decision making then um I um the first measure SB 718 we're going to defer until um Wednesday February 15th at 3 pm in this room 229 we will check in with the AG before then and we will make our decision at that time for Senate bill and for Senate Bill 1251 recommendation of the chairs to be fair to uh questions to a particular date and time oh I'm sorry I'm sorry indefinitely questions that's it okay an adjourned okay thank you foreign education today is Monday February 13th at 3 20 P.M this meeting including the audio and video of remote participants is being strong streamed live on YouTube you will find links to viewing options for alternate meetings on the live and on-demand video page of the legislature's website this Zoom meeting and YouTube live stream will include the three o'clock agenda for the committee on education in the unlikely event that we must abruptly end this hearing due to Major technical difficulties the committee will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business on Wednesday February 15 2023 at three o'clock P.M in room 229 any public notice will be posted on the legislature's website I'd like to take this time to remind our testifiers that due to time restrictions on our hearings we will be limiting testimony to one minute per testifier per bill for people participating remotely please remain muted and video disabled until survey before it is your turn to testify when I call your name unmute yourself and your time will begin after your minute is completed staff will meet you so that we can move this hearing along in an orderly and efficient manner that took five minutes of our time okay members let's start with uh Senate Bill 832 relating to education authorizes accountants to transfer land to the school facilities Authority exempt the school facilities Authority from taxes authorizes State and County agencies to render services to the school facilities Authority upon requests establishes a deadline for the transfer of properties to the Department of Education from the City and County of Honolulu required by act 272 session laws of Hawaii 2019.
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to the consumer we will mention one quick thing on the consent agenda if you'll notice there are two new higher contracts for elementary teachers Darla is working on placing them whether it'll be in first or second grade they want those two the staff in the interview process if they want those two and they're still I think there's some jockeying going on between where they're going to end up being so that's why there's not a specific position but one will be first one will be second grade foreign much appreciated very much in route are you on your computer too so you can vote remote yes sir awesome I was like butter and tears foreign [Music] we just got through the consent agenda moved on to Communications we got some more Communications here and then we'll move on to okay moving on the administrative reports start with Elementary any questions or comments for elementary short and sweet report January getting back up to break kind of the days are flying by you know okay Middle School Matt's not here he's still up at Middle School basketball they got about four eleven eight three games but we got lots of information shared there if he comes back in later we can go back to him and ask him a few questions for how to do this [Music] morning thank you very much thank you we move on to VHS report any questions or comments for VHS report going on nope looks good okay anything to add anything that's doing good move on to special Edge education report so I is uh Lindsay there yes yes thank you for announcing where um Bridges is going to be located for next year and I know some people have asked me some questions so I appreciate that we've publicized that social media and other avenues as well and how's that reputation going it is in full I haven't been there um I haven't been there in person lately but I've been in touch with the landlord and the kitchen is in full swing and so they're hoping to have it done by June 1 so we can move straight from one building to the next even if we don't set up or not but we can have these moves traded and a quick again a reminder we are not purchasing that building we are renting that building so I think there was some confusion that some people thought we might be purchasing that building we are not we are just renting and thankful for that opportunity to be in that building foreign but it was also a year that we had some staff changes so it all balanced out pretty well so okay we'll move on team technology report and Craig is here too if we have questions are the access points in the bus barn garage or these wireless access points like to the bus will pull them in and the ads connectivity form but landline download directly to the access points under our Network to be accessible cool I'm sure being a metal building that's kind of limited you got to be in there to get anything exactly okay we'll move on to your new superintendent's report just a few items here as we start to get into in state assessments uh again just some information there again we're not all about State assessments but we take we take them and we want to do well with them so whatever we're doing we want to do well whether it's just the regular grade State assessments means where the testing the map testing whatever the case might be so anyway I shared with you some information from our accreditation review Council The Arc short short report or short for accreditation review Council again this is our accreditation piece that we that we have gone through the process again tremendous tremendous report as you can see they are recommending us for full accreditation again you see that report that information there and this has been just not the administrators it's our staff it's everybody together working hard to make sure that again our district is doing real really well with the you know taking care of meeting kids needs in all areas so again that information there the state or from the art committee is there and again we should all be proud of that on everybody in usd244 should you know feel good and impact themselves in the back and and take some credit so it's really a terrific accomplishment uh there's a list of upcoming school events over February March April May and we look at that and we think May is a ways off but guys will be here for the mayboard meeting before we know it and it'll be the end of the year so a number of different things that are happening coming up here in the next uh the next gosh four months it's hard to believe but uh yeah a couple of other notes real quick I'm going to send you some email an email or two with some legislative updates and information there's a lot of things flying around a lot of different bills and I've kind of shared with you I've been in touch with Eric Smith and Michael or representative or state senator sharing our thoughts you know or at least the thoughts that how it would impact Burlington uh you know if there's a vote a certain way I always try not to tell them how to vote because I know they got to think different things and they got to consider everything because I wanted to tell them how it would impact Burlington because Who We Are so I am in touch with them I'll send you a couple of emails here that have just popped up here recently and then one I guess two other things one I've kind of gone on another update they were laying Turf on the Outfield in the softball field and it looks like it's it's done so they're progressing at a rapid rate now hopefully to get that field done here in the next I'm going to say 10 days approximately to baseball and so on so forth so that was exciting so if you have a chance you can drive by it you can see a lot of Green Green Turf so that's that's a really good thing I just received some information again this is a notice to Property Owners of a zoning hearing and it's close by when anytime you have an area where it's close by to where you you have you know you know property this would be a 1290 links Lane which would be I think the lular Bell Nursery Greenhouse there they are looking to do what's called basically a ad tourism venue where they were working to expand their business piece there I again we get this notice if we have any concerns about that whatsoever again we can voice our opinion at the hearing that type of thing I don't really think I drove out there a couple of different times today just to look and see I don't think it's going to be an issue for us again it's going to be that uh area that would just be a little bit north and a little bit West and be on the west side of links Lane there where they have their their business area so I don't really think it's going to be a problem for us for the school district the only thing maybe they if they were to have big events they might you know overflow parking could be the area where we have baseball softball but that would be I'd say I would hope that they would consult us if they were going to use that over the workflow parking area I don't think it's going to be a major issue they do have a hearing on Wednesday it looks like on the 15th at 7 05 PM so if you have any I've noticed just two days notice but if you have any questions or concerns you can bring it to my attention privately I can go speak on behalf or if you want to join anybody wants to join me at the at that hearing if maybe otherwise if not I'm not going to go to the meeting unless there's a concern so that is it for a couple three additional items any questions no all good information I've done some uh work on their property up there across from us and it's yeah it looks good so it's very well done uh moving on very nice yes I would agree no other questions or comments we'll move on to more reports and I actually was coming from middle school again in between games I walked over and went to the church so yeah it was I was curious I didn't want to be a deal after that I walked over there took some pictures and there looks like they're doing a lot of drainage work outside of what I would consider the scope of the turf project like north and east of the baseball field there's they're riding that drainage so it goes away from more expensive right here exactly they had done a tremendous amount of the gravity flow if you will the the weight and they've they've shown me and because I'm interested I'm interested to see how it's all going to come together and they will uh they said that they're just great to share information so uh yeah it is it's exciting move on to the art report I might not be as quick as all that ones so my name is Kyle so it was with Jared Gilmore Phillips are the ones that completed your physical audit for the year ended June 3rd of 2022.
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foreign just a reminder to sign in either as a guest or a speaker and attendance foreign [Music] any of those okay and then approval of the minutes from the January 19th a comments questions changes except the emotional character English analysis second word Josh all those in the favorites their eye any of those and then treasurer's report from the Chad all those little favor we need a boost motion passes and the approval of the invoices the questions or any that you would call out or anything right yeah especially close through apples this month a little higher and she said flow through which basically um voices oops first oh my gosh seven miles paper questions or discussions okay all those in favor say hi all right I'm gonna be closed so she passes seven zero and Reconciliation and cash balance foreign at the end of January matched the cash in the bank which also matched the treasurer's report and as you can see the balances went up because we've got the tax distribution in January so if you look on the treasury report that was 1.4 million so that's increased our cash balance so I invested in a couple of certificates to get the higher rate the rates have really gone up a lot because some were used to be a point 4.7 now they're four points that went 4.8 so hopefully our interest account line item is capital it will be higher because of the increase yeah that's good news I think Cassidy's the only one that signed it all right I made it in time I was wondering got out late uh I'm Cassidy Smith with Alliance Insurance we write your Property and Casualty Insurance for the district and with being with Employers Mutual what they do is they put all the schools into a program and at the end of the year if that program is profitable then we get to come out and give you guys a check this is the second year in a row that we've been able to do that um you know that's a great thing about being with them is you know if something were to happen and the program was uh unprofitable you guys weren't going to be getting bill but this is just nice this is extra money that you guys can put whatever you want uh it's about double what it was last year so um we always like to see them go up um this year you check is for 12 829.67 um and that just comes to you know you guys can't help the weather nobody can help the weather um but you know the other losses I mean you guys other than and Bill's doing better correct idiot and hit a deer yet so um you know other than that I mean you guys have been great on your loss control um you know and that's yeah we love having you guys as customers you guys have been really good you know administrations always used to work with but we do appreciate your business um any any questions it's not very often something it comes in and brings you guys a check yeah usually it's like hey Anita I need one but no I didn't do the percentage on this but you know I think it was somewhere probably around about uh nine to ten percent of what your premiums were last year back I think last year premiums are somewhere around about a hundred Thirty or forty thousand so pretty close to 10 which is you know pretty good when you're talking Kansas and EMC went 15 years without giving uh profitability bonuses back to the uh to the school so they we've luckily uh weather's done with this done but uh you know we're excited that we can give this to you if you want to I can't get it or yeah okay now I mean you guys go have parties put it in whatever find you want so but thank you very much and if you guys never need anything you know how to get older so have a great evening okay in our pizza report it's the last Wednesday we had our outside visitation team review which this is our fifth year which is the German accreditation and from the state level they will do their reports uh they'll send it to the accreditation Review Committee for a recommendation to the State Board of Education for accreditation that'll probably take it will happen this meeting possibly here at March or 8th floor of the soup it will make the state board approval I gave you the presentation that we presented for information uh on the agenda as you can see the we reviewed our past information uh we reviewed our five-year professional development plan for compliance we also reviewed all of our functional structures such as tiered system of support mtss our family community business Partnerships our diversity and equity our Communications and basic skills our Civic and social engagement our physical and mental health our Arts and Cultural appreciation and post-secondary and career with the things that we reviewed from the first years [Music] we also reviewed our goals we had goal one which was less than 15 percent of our students would be at some or high risk on Savers at my Savers which is uh social emotional learning assessment our second goal was less than 15 in summer high risk of fast Bridge or eight reading which is our rigor or reading goal that we have for the district if you go through there it gives you each Elementary in each 7 through 12.
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able please stand for the call I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America against one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you for his tonight seduction of agenda would someone like to make a motion to adopt tonight's agenda thank you a second I'll second all in favor thank you call the public um I do not see any note cards was there anyone that wanted to speak on anything that's not on the agenda the same book and we will just move right along to item 6A which is the yavapa County Education Foundation Grant update thank you all right thank you madam chair and members of the Chino Valley School District governing board I'm Mike Ella good I've been here before I'm sort of an old friend I think of Chino Valley School District and it's my pleasure to be here again um the last time we were here I talked about Josh Steinberg and uh his uh woodworking trap that we're able to sponsor a little bit more and and I mentioned an article it was a featured in Prescott Living magazine I have the printed copy here I'm going to leave that with you madam chair with me here this evening is our treasure at the app by County Education Foundation Tim Carter and you all know and also Kelly Burns Kelly he lived here in China and uh I also brought my wife along to kind of keep track of things but tonight we have uh two awardees from a very interesting biology Department and we're here to here hear what they're going to do with all this all the money we sent all right all right well I am Rita Johnson and this is Julie bias we teach science at Gina Valley high school and we are both recipients of a grant from the Yavapai County Education Foundation so we're going to give just a short presentation of what we have used the funds for and I will do we go first so out of the funds I was able to purchase a police a dissecting scope for student use in the classroom and this will be used for both my biology and natomy students we got some other little items website but with a dissecting scope what you're able to do take the scope and put three-dimensional objects underneath it so the way that this is set up is different than a compound any of your three-dimensional objects you can slide right here so think of plant seeds tea you know bones Twigs anything that you want to slide underneath that you can't cut into a super thin layer that's what the dissecting Scopes would be used for so I was able to purchase one of those and then I also was able to purchase two kits that are to be used in a classroom one of them is for classification purposes so the students they'll have cards and there's several groups worth of cards I just brought one sample here but they go through and looking at the organisms and the samples they're able to classify using dichotomous keys so think of um keys where it's either this or that and then you work your way down and it tells you which selection to go to and you go to the next item and so for students trying to classify and figure out based on you know examples of what they have to look at than coming up with their actual answers categorizing classifying all science skills that we'll be using and then another kit that I did not bring tonight because it has chemicals inside of it is for anatomy and what they're doing is detecting the presence of amino acids so any of the amino acids that would be on a super cardboard and then you would spray the chemical on top of it and it'll show your fingerprints by adding heat it'll turn to a purple color and so we're looking at the presence of amino acids but also using it with a real world practicality such as law enforcement you know forensics so give them a slightly different attitude for it all right all right one of the items that I was able to purchase is a four by eight as in feet uh periodic table of the elements um the one that's currently in our classroom is probably possibly even before John's time it says elements 110 113 have not yet been discovered and they were discovered in 20 or 2003 I believe so this is at least 20 years old um so over the years people have written in the ones that are have been discovered since then so we're getting updated this plus it has electron configurations which is nice because then the kids have one less reference sheet that they can look at because everything is right up there on the board in front of them so that's going to be really nice to get that put up um the other thing we've got is um I've got a couple of they're called demo a days one for earth science and one for chemistry and these are really short maybe five to ten minute demonstrations of whatever our topic of the day is and it gets the kids involved in what we're going to do um it's a lot of Hands-On thing and then a few of them we can adapt into longer labs in fact one of them for the earth science we're using tomorrow as a lab they're going to measure how land and water heat up at different rates um so these are really really good for quick demonstrations or even just to lengthen out the the lab demonstration and do like a whole Lab for the class um and then one other thing I was able to get and this one these are called Pogo activities and they are self-guided they have objectives they've got um different topics so one of them one of the things I'm going to use these for is in our Benchmark testing we get back a report that says here's what the kids need to work on and one of them seems to be repeatedly data interpretation graphs and tables so I can go through here and say okay in one of the things that tends to trip them up is the earth science kids may be asked a question that has to do with physics and they're like I have no idea what this is about but if I can get them focused on this is a graph and here's how we can go through what it's telling us and there's all kinds of different examples and here we can um so that's I really appreciate it this is going to really enhance what the kids can do in our class and thank you very much congratulations have any questions for them no I think it's just tremendous it's hard to believe that that periodic table was missing more than three but those were the ones that said they had not yet been discovered there was I think five more that they hadn't named yet even when that was printed so so this would be nice yeah with the written in ones with little note cards taped on over them and things let's see what I'm waiting for today where you can actually push on the element it will show you the electrons and uh you know the atoms yeah photons spinning around yes yeah that's the Next Generation there you go you got to donate a little bit right now yeah right now we're happy with one on the wall next year's donations come in and we'll see there you go that's cool thanks I like to have Hands-On learning some children don't get learning from a textbook right exactly right they have to do with your hands and even if we then go on into part of the lesson as long as they've already seen it that makes that connection for them exactly exactly once again thanks to the Yavapai County Education Foundation to fund your Grant requests congratulations okay thank you all right item 6B is our Chino Valley High School CTE update it's very important good evening members of the board Madam presidents um I have one extra piece here that I'm going to pass around to you all it's nothing very official of any sorts but has information on there that could be good for you just to kind of know our process and what we do um good evening um for those who don't know I'm Brian paredo assistant principal and CTE director at Chino Valley high school and I get the privilege I'm in the honor of serving as the Career and Technical education director just as a brief reminder just because sometimes we come across the information sometimes we don't the CTE programs are really specifically designed to help introduce our kids to Career Fields I mean in these classes whether they are automotive whether it's a bioscience class a culinary class sports medicine or whichever it might be there's a couple elements to them that are very important and they are they mandate that the kids spend a lot of time in their laboratory so they try to save 51 of the classroom time should be spent in the laboratory setting so whether that's the welding shop Culinary Kitchen and Mr Brian's bioscience lab it must be Hands-On in that in that area somehow someway for fifty percent one percent of the time um the other piece that the kids are getting with that technical skill is the academic knowledge so you're getting a lot of background knowledge of the careers as the career field itself and together is to help us build the kids uh resumes that they are ready to enter into entry-level jobs in the career field that are technically motivated and have a high degree of technical skill associated with it so that's kind of a broad stroke overview of what CTE is I just want to talk briefly about the pathway we take we get our kids into the CTE programming begins in ninth grade we do have us this year and moving into this coming year as well that the career exploration class for 9th graders is going to be a mandatory class for them to take they still have another option to choose an elective that they wish but we find it very important for them to get in here um you know one of the first things they're working on is exploring the various occupation fields and that's something from Health architecture and engineering Transportation it could be Hospitality but they have an opportunity to explore these career fields and then they zero in and they start looking at specific jobs and career Fields within those occupations to kind of figure out where they might want to do in life they also look at a plan for jobs um they go through job searches that's nice I apologize it was my daughter just for just saying um so they're looking at jobs right they're looking at qualifications to get into some of these jobs and during this time frame of looking at jobs within corporations they start developing their first resume so it's a template but they start building their first resume they get their first first taste of what resume what the elements are within it um another thing to look at a lot of is colleges universities and technical colleges look at the degrees within them certificated programs how to pay for college entrance requirements so they start to get a good sense of the differences between maybe a technical college and just a regular college so they explore those items quite a bit I look at the military to some degree as well that's they'll talk we'll look at the different branches of the military and the responsibilities and how they feel for our um for our country and they'll talk about the jobs within those as well probably is a little bit less of a focus there but we usually get some um speakers to come in and have a chance to talk to the kids look at high school graduation requirements because these kids need to make sure they're graduating from high school otherwise um kind of taking away the potential of the careers that they could be getting in the future if they're not graduating from high school and then they meet with their counselors and at that point they're starting to choose the pathways you're going to go in high school right if they can jump into Honors Academy are they going to take a lot of CTE classes are they going to take general education classes for just regular High School graduation um and oftentimes It's a combination of all you got kids taking CTE classes along with honors or maybe it's just honor maybe it's just um honors classes alone CT in general led um so we get kids coming in with a lot of different opportunities with um where they want to go but it's important to at least start kind of choosing we'll go down the career path or they're going to go down this High academic side of things um we have a good amount of kids who will they're either going to choose CTE solely are they going to choose the high academic Honors Academy stuff and we do have some kids who choose in the middle but um I would say it's a good blend of it all but in my opinion without looking at numbers I think um you got a high division of kids who are either doing just CTE or just Honors Academy either way it's good so then they launch into our CTE programs and this is where the fun starts to happen with the classes um each of the programs are either two or three year programs um as we said before students can still enroll into the honors required Academy programs um and through the rest of the programming this is where the resume starts to shine to start to get this opportunity to I'm in high school I don't have any formal jobs but through these CTE programs they can really have a resume that looks outstanding moving into college or looking to get into their first shops out of high school um a lot of the teachers are the advisors I should say are creating service opportunities for them or volunteer work for them um they have leadership opportunities within the ctsos whether they are uh president vice president secretary treasurer or members at large as agriculture usually does kids so they get leadership they get some volunteer experience now the kids who are you know staying with their technical skills and working on their academic knowledge chances are they're going to pass those certification exams that they're taking so that's exciting to add that on top of it all some of these classes are in college credits some are not um you know and everything we have I think three of our six programs are offering college credit college credits within them um that's on our campus and then everything with Yavapai College and Mountain Institute obviously those are all you have up by college credit classes there um as we said before they're getting technical Hands-On skills developed and they're in the labs working often and their teachers are doing a great job providing the real world learning experiences um and the last part that's a little bit more fun but still puts them in a kind of an intense performance situation is there competitive events if you get to attend at the state competitions or region competitions um so we often would tell the kids right there with you know you need to put that event or you need to put that competition on your resume just because it shows that you're working under pressure you're having to achieve the high level um and that's going to be no different than when you get to work you have to perform your absolute best um so you put all those elements into kid's resume coming out of high school and it's not so boring it's not so drab I'm a kid has something they can lean on um so it's really exciting um and this is where I'm going to talk about kids who've kind of gone through our program I've got I don't know probably 20 to 30 kids on there but not going through all of them but I just want to highlight some that are some recent graduates further graduates who graduated a ways out but these are all kids who have gone through our programs in one way or the other so um keep going I'm going to jump to another slide we'll be jumping all over um one more for me please thank you I'm gonna talk about some kids from last year okay the kid on top Chloe Polo check uh she completed the CNA program earned her certification but as her 11th grade year and 12th grade year she was uh taking a lot of classes with Yavapai College through their Ajax it's their general education classes um and those are classes that we at the high school are able to pay for and so and I've seen her at um I don't know if it was soccer or basketball she was excited she didn't take classes over the summer she just worked but she only took classes into her first semester of her first college year and she had her AAA degree completed so that's an exciting piece right there um same time she was able to apply and get admitted into the RN program for the spring of 23.
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with Liberty thank you trust here no here here ciao here Carson here moons oh here Tire here any correspondence uh none that's reasonable no we had no questions um so this is a point in time when we listen to comments from the public if there's people that have comments would you like it go ahead hi um my name is vedan I'm currently a senior at Stevenson High School and my family and I have been proud residents of Buffalo Grove over the last four years last month was National School Board recognition month so we would like to recognize you for your five service and continuous volunteering work to make a great effort to make this school a great place today here I'm here to talk about an event that is very special to me it is an annual Teachers Appreciation called Guru Vandana this event is organized and hosted by Hindu swim sevak Sangha HSS over the last 15 years across the nation the guru vanilla program provides a plus a platform for students to honor their teachers from imparting knowledge and wisdom to them during this event we as students invite our teachers for and pay their prepare our respects to them and uniquely celebrating this student relation teacher relationship us students receive blessings from our our teachers and honor them in a true Indian tradition for me this has instilled the importance of the role of teachers in our life and appreciate their sacrifice and service to shape our future during this event each student will honor their respective teachers followed by cultural performance fun activities and food in Lake County we have honored more than 100 teachers and principals in the last three years across six school districts and more than 15 elementary middle schools and high schools more than 115 Hindus families have attended the celebration last year across the USA go to oneana events were held in 24 States 71 cities and 113 districts over with over 5304 participants on behalf of HSS it is my pleasure to invite you and your families to Grace us at the Teachers Appreciation Day celebration as our guest of honors we will be hosting this event sometime in May from 3 to 5 PM and this year we are expecting 100 plus teachers and it would be great to it would be great if Stevenson High School could provide us with their facility to host this event thank you very much thank you I really appreciate that and do you want to hand in your do you think do you get a copy yeah what you wrote sure yeah just so we can get a formal request to put the facility around yeah okay thank you thank you very much um any other comments this evening just to be clear when you email us do you think that you might know the date yes we have uh the date uh for Saturday May 6th tentative okay so we will share that internally and then we'll talk about facility usage thank you so much we appreciate it okay um I think now we're ready for the best part of the meeting hi everyone I hope all of you guys are doing well I'm really having a great time because it is 50 degrees and that 50 degrees for me even though I'm from Florida is summer because I don't know I can just handle cold really well at 50 degrees is like my June so I'm excited as you can tell I am driving for it I just take the laser off then we'll be all set ready to go to the pool uh but yeah I'm just gonna briefly discuss academics Athletics and arts because I really want to dive into the community aspect of this presentation given how many things have been going on at Stevenson uh so specifically with academics uh the there's been Community College week that's hosted by the CLC so allowing students and students who are interested in Community College just to learn a little more about that and what that looks like with nclc specifically and then certain competitions as well so FBLA they took home over 100 medals at the Northern Area leadership conference and students were named on the executive board for the northern area as well so that was definitely a big achievement Science Olympia team defeated several International Champions um and they placed first at the Ohio Invitational which is awesome because all these kids have been really high ranked and they're able to defeat them so that's pretty cool and then for the third time in the row the chess team took home the state championship so that's definitely a big achievement to recognize as well they come next month yeah it just happened this weekend it just happened okay and also another thing that just happened was the girls dance or the dance team took home the National Championship uh which is awesome a lot of different athletic accomplishments there um along with placing their states or Third Estate and then first at National so I know a lot of them are really excited especially the seniors who are leaving to end it off with a big win um the archery team hosted a fundraiser for St Jude so every Bullseye they got they got a specific amount from a sponsor um so that was a great way to raise money for that cause uh Stevenson cheers so they play seventh at Nationals and or state in Bloomington uh so another ah a thing they're recognized okay and then with Arts so some students participate in the All-State Musical Shrek at U of I and there was 4 000 audience members uh so definitely a big shift from you know Beauty and the Beast here um a lot of different members or people supported them and went to that show so that was just awesome and then the underclassmen specifically performed three Productions of Romeo and Juliet and I know that went really well as well okay so this is a project that's new to Stevenson that NHS generated we thought it would be a unique way to incorporate Wellness um to what we can cause uh so for those of you that don't know the Gonza Center is a startup non-profit that supports technology literacy in rural Kenya so to the left are students who are using iPads for the first time and the money that we raise or will be donated to this Center as well and then graduation we have iPad collections uh device collections for the center to refurbish and then send off for these students because none of them have really any access to technology it's such an important factor in our lives so we're trying to train them to get used to technology teach them the basics so that they'll be able to be successful and I'm actually one of the first student volunteers to work with this organization so five of us from NHS have been tutoring these kids bright and early at 7 00 a.m uh when we have the most energy um but yeah it's been really rewarding to see a lot of them have asked questions seem really interested about it because I mean it's like a kid opening a toy for the first time like it's brand new to them even though it's been a big part of our lives for so long um so it's just rewarding to see how our tutoring has impacted them and then in relation to that we're hosting an event called kilometers for Kenya um in March so we've just been planning out what that would look like so it's gonna be the field house we're gonna have a lot of different activities teach nutrition bring in some food and then have people run around the track and it's kind of like a relay race um and the most uh the goal is to run the most amount of laps we emphasize the walking because running scares people sometimes um but yeah we're really looking forward to see how that's gonna play out um and I will update you guys with further information because I believe next time I see you it may happen when's the next meeting oh okay perfect so it would have happened by then um so I'm excited to see how this goes we have a lot of teams sign up already and yeah I know I'm sure just real quick in the meantime if anybody is interested sorry to interrupt I'm working with the uh director of um this Center and uh he is looking for recycled iPads or computers so um if you have anything that um you would like to recycle and not have to worry about finding a place if you want to bring it here to the district office um I meet with them every month and those iPads there are actually recycled iPads from Stevenson so it's a really great cause and this is the first time that these particular students have really ever interacted with any technology so it's pretty powerful and kudos to you for being a part of the program because you're tutoring these students on how to actually utilize and access technology technology and getting on the Internet for the very first time so and it's been great because the first um night that fundraising opened this team already raised 700 so I'm just excited to see how this event is going to progress in terms of you know fun and funds raised okay and then Sagar recently held a masquerade ball over the past weekend and we had 80 people attend from Vernon Hills Wheeling Main South and then obviously Stevenson and over a hundred a thousand dollars was donated to the Kenneth lgbtq Youth Center in Schaumburg um so that was just a great way to represent the lgbtq community along with raised money for a good cause and I know it was really fun they had a raffle a costume contest wall Valentine's and a balloon drop so I know those that group of students had a great time okay and then ask Factor so these are just some pictures from s factor um an event hosted annually by Kiva um and the host as you can tell they had a great time with it I know a lot of them were practicing looking forward to it um along with the singers as well being able to Showcase their talent to the school and to teacher judges and then Chinese New Year so there was a Taiwanese club and a national Chinese Honor Society collab and they hosted this wonderful wonderful event um I believe yeah 400 people of all ages attended this event and there was like food games uh you can see ping pong so I know a lot of those people had fun celebrating that event and yeah okay so the Asian Night Market that actually happened this past weekend as well um and I know it was a huge success I think more people attended that and they did a street fast around like 2 000 attendees from the community which is a large number um but I know a lot of people had fun watching the performances food uh singing as well the club members that actually attended had a lot of fun doing those specific activities so it was a huge success oh and the prostitutes made from that event was donated to UNICEF and just to highlight some student experiences so I asked these students uh what are some fun things that they've experienced um this semester and this is what some students replied with so the intramural basketball season was really fun this year despite my team not playing well we all had a great time playing with each other so way to bring a positive fit into the negative but yeah I know intramural is a great way for students to have fun doing a sport that's not competitive but sort of this is okay I enjoy going to hockey games with my friends and sharing Stevenson on my favorite game this semesters was when Steven played viter and went over time it was a close game and even though we lost it was still fun to watch I have actually like this is my uh goal for this year to go to a hockey game I've been a lacrosse game and I remember when I was little I saw this guy just like smacked the other guy at the stick the arm just went ooh and that was the end for me um but I know hockey is just as aggressive but you know people are cheering screaming so I need to be a part of that soon um yeah okay and then back to the Asian night market so the Asian Night Market was very cool and had lots of very tasty food and amazing cultural experiences it was a great to see the diversity the students and student body um so yeah a lot of numbers from the community came to this event and it was just a really great way to unify the community and the students in student body as well and then I am so proud of my teammates for the dedication of hard work they put into each of their routines winning the national championship this past weekend felt really rewarding and I can't wait to see what the team does next year so yeah I mean whenever you win a National Championship it's obviously really rewarding especially when you put so much hard work like the students said into something that you love um so I bet all of them people on the dance team are celebrating ah ready to come back to school tomorrow I think I've talked at like a million miles per hour if you need our pillow afraid I would go over any questions for real um as always love your presentation you love the way you give us a sense of what's going on in the school from uh events to the student experiences I really appreciate it thank you thank you so much thank you foreign um if Alex represented the best part of the meeting as you said this must be the second best part second best um but we do have uh our monthly curriculum team presentation and um tonight we have members of our communication Arts team here with us uh our academic literacy team um so I'll let Doug uh Louisiana director of communication Arts introduce his team tell us a little bit about the course uh and what they be presenting absolutely absolutely uh delighted to have you all meet our academic literacy uh two team uh so targeted sophomores we have a one that is targeted on freshmen that's our number one team um and uh so we have uh Christina anchor Christie Colores our uh vulnerable of venerable uh team leader and then uh Dan argentar and uh they work with some of our most important students in the school uh kids who are oftentimes reluctant readers and who need supports in order to move effectively across the curriculum using literacy in ways that are going to make them successful in their futures and so this group is a Powerhouse group that does some Fantastic action research and um I will stop talking because they have a lot better story to tell me so um right here we go uh hi everybody so we're we'll Begin by first I do want to thank because I might forget later on Lori and Doug for their guidance and support throughout the entire school year um and then also my amazing team which we are all a team together and they are even though I'm team leader they are the leaders and they really bring their expertise uh and it is a pleasure I mean I'm not saying this because they're in front but they are a pleasure really to work with um or three times state championships just say um I also do want to encourage um this to be like an open conversation open dialogue please jump in if you have any questions uh keep them coming all right we'll be able to answer those for you um so to begin I do want to give us some background um who we are and who our students are so you'll notice that we have two um classes it is a targeted group we have academic literacy two that's a total of 20 students this school year and that is a tier two reading program and then we have academic literacy two plus and that's more of a tier three program where we notice students who are still not growing um and it's a little more intensive um the intervention and so our targeted group this evening we're about 31 students that were looking closely and if you take a close look at the graph below you will notice that our most recent data which is this past school year the average growth for students who took English and Al had a higher average growth on their instructional reading level than students who just took English and it is quite evident that this intervention is helping our students throughout their literacy and strengthening their literacy skills as well as um it's clear that our course is closing the gap you will also notice that I'm not sure if I'm in the right place it's fine you could see okay um [Music] classroom background a little bit more I bolded this part so that you could see the percentage of historically underserved minorities increase as they enter our academic literacy program and from 36 to 57 while the percentage of Asian and white population does decrease as a team it's been interesting for us to really pause and discuss and reflect on these numbers and really also discuss how to better serve our students and this is where we jump in to do our job right right all right and um given us and thank you again Troy for their awesome work this framework to sort of understand how can we help build student agency moving away from those numbers what can we do on the SEL side to really help students not only get that sense of identity and belonging but also get to that point where they can start valuing the subject and looking across all of their courses and recognizing themselves as a student of literacy and learning so to do this for us what we have done is we've looked at two different data points one data point we're proud of and we've increased and really focused on the last few years is that idea of classroom belonging we've raised this number believe it or not um and we're really proud of this um 71 where we're at now there's been excellent sort of Department initiatives where we've had a great toolbox where teachers can choose from and really help students feel like they are a part of a class something we noticed this fall when we were pulling out this data is we need to work on the sense of valuing the subject while students are starting to feel like they belong in our classes they're still not feeling as well as they really value reading and literacy they're often the students prone to coming and saying I don't like reading with their arms up I don't like any book I've read I don't actually read so we're really working on that as a class we notice that in our data so hopefully when you see us again in the spring we'll have a different data set um our department like so many departments around the school are doing excellent things with making students feel as though they are part of the class you know whether it's for at the door making eye contact with students right when they walk in asking them about an interest or a hobby this morning asking them magic Monday you know what did you like about the Super Bowl what were your thoughts about Rihanna's halftime show um that very interesting announcement or even just asking them what could you do in the beautiful weather this weekend so we've had a great excellent in our department just compiling all these different tools and resources and certainly in our team like many others have been using them uh you're going to see some wonderful sort of artifacts from the students and how they're interacting with some statistics Dan's gonna walk us through sort of the academic side but going off that SEL component um we have students kind of compile digital portfolios of their literacy throughout the week in all their classes in our class but again before they start looking at that academic side we want students to really thinking about that wheel that template think about okay how does this impact my identity how does my identity my interests how are they represented in my valuing of this subject as a student of literacy so you can see some of their covers rooting for Michigan State or liking Sushi or playing the violin let me try to step in because I don't want the video to start playing so I'm gonna just recover it from here okay so uh this is the fun part because you get to see actual student product uh and really what we're doing with this digital portfolio earlier in the year so you've heard about our students they're not very School a lot of them there's a different profile every year obviously but these are 30 kids out of a thousand that we're identifying is not growing and we want to really Kickstart uh they come in at different places we want to meet them where they are and so we're going to show you two different students um one coming in uh struggling not valuing necessarily uh the classroom another coming in and knowing a little bit higher hey this is important I've got it but still not really sure what literacy means and what it means to be a student that really comes in here and keeps up and and works hard across the curriculum so we have our two students early on in the year we ask them hey with successful literacy look like to you and hopefully this works for you [Music] maybe it's reading and writing is important because when you're when you're reading something you should be able to understand and when you're writing something you should be able to like when you write something whether it's coming from what book or whatever you're reading you should be able to understand what you're going to be writing about and it helps you get somewhere in life foreign not a lot there right like we're really not sure what it means we're a sophomore what is Luther's reading understanding I mean things they've probably heard year after year but really when they're here in five different classes and being asked to do all of the amazing things that our teachers ask them to do that's not a lot in terms of recognizing skills a good sled this little literacy student one way to be uh [Music] you need to participate or ask a lot of questions [Music] it's like it was just like [Music] let's start like just practice [Music] it should be another reader is just to really fifties yeah I'm reading 15 minutes a day um so it was important for us to see what our kids are looking at in terms of successful literacy because if we really want and then we notice this number is 60 right they really don't they don't get it right they don't understand what we're doing why we're doing it and if they're not buying in we can't help them they they need to trust us we need to help them Buy in and see why they're here and why they're doing what they're doing now the struggling student this is actual from their portfolio so we developed this idea that hey we're going to create running slides a digital portfolio every three weeks and this was the beginning we were just finding since this one's a six week every three weeks we're going to ask the kids and tell us across your day where are you using literacy what's going on and we go over skills they have a slide in their in their portfolio different skills and their toolbox and this was student Ed six weeks in got nothing I've got nothing and so through conferencing through talking about things we started anyway so uh through conferencing and what have you we're trying to improve upon their recognition and their use of skills across the curriculum uh this student through that process well went backwards um actually grew right oh I can start identifying where I'm using skills now identifying is one part of the process but when I ask them to okay you see a lot of English here this is English this is English this is English this is English you have other classes we have one notes from biology um where else are we seeing it uh we still struggle to find variety but this one particular student was really proud because she um this is you can't see the colors as much but this is actually a green box they track their weekly reading we try and up the pages because we know that reading more is going to help them they're encountering more words they're fluency and everything she met her page goal for the first time and this was you know two months two and a half months into the school year she was so proud she put this on there but you could see there's a lot of reading of the book here we want to push variety but she was growing she was recognizing she was doing stuff where she wasn't before student B and she continued oh I'm going the wrong way this didn't mean that's a it shouldn't be the same but starts off at a different place he has an idea he has some idea where he's seeing his literacy he's taking notes he's reading books he's um and this is I think uh from English class and then academic literacy but still not a lot of variety throughout the curriculum but knows what he's looking for and now he starts to really flourish through conferencing where are we seeing stuff now we're getting these little blurbs about what they're doing he's not just identifying but he's really pointing out and we've got notes from social studies we've got English we've got um academic lit uh and different classes and different skills that they're starting to look at he grew even further continued more and more places now we're looking at Star scores and monitoring and thinking about his thinking and how he's improving again I'm improving I know my star is going up here's different notes from my classes and different things and this is great this is first semester but now we decided hey we need to push them even more so our next step is actually starting to not only identify so taking these students that are starting to fly and seeing the application how is this helping why are you doing it so not just identify identifying the skill but now taking it the next level how this is helping me why I'm doing it what is going on when I'm annotating why am I taking notes for this uh why am I reading more and actually getting them to metacognitively think about how they're using the skills not just where so this has been a continual action research with our kids and we see no matter if they started playing or if they start at a different level they're growing and they're starting to recognize how and now we can see second semester why they're doing some of this okay notice that as a team we for the first year we created these digital portfolios on Google Slides making it accessible for students conferencing with them having weekly uploads because we want to stay consistent with our students and having them reflect as well as giving our job to give that timely feedback to them so they continue to grow and then we did revisit our expectations and we are working and we're continuing to look closely at this we reviewed these digital portfolios and we're doing it a second semester so you'll notice that at the end of the semester when we did look at our data 27 out of our 31 students met or exceeded our expectations aligned with our rubric while four are still working on developing that that's huge that's great that I don't know math too well here you know I'm an English teacher but 27 divided by 31 I think it's up in the 80s I think right I think it's like 80 or something like that you're close yeah right so thinking back to that 60 for value of subject and only in one semester they're starting to pick up on like why am I doing why am I doing it in not only in my English class or my academic literacy class but how am I seeing this also in my social studies class why is this important why should I value this so we're going to continue because we're looking ahead and we're going to continue to focus on student efficacy in order to increase the value of the subject as well as classroom belonging and keep those numbers going up and our next steps we are administering the student voice survey in the next two weeks so we should have that data to look at we have a digital portfolio for second semester and then we'll be able to uh take a close look at the samples that we have in front of us and refine our feedback look at our instruction and assessment methods and move forward from there so it is a team effort and we do want to open it up to questions that you might have come up here we know that when they're valuing the subject and they're buying in and belonging they're going to grow yeah that's like the obstacle once we can get in and we have that relationship and we're building it we can turn around the kids that come in and say I hate reading well okay let's do something with that though because we know we need it and we value the skill and it's a huge turnaround and some of these kids it could actually change the trajectory of the rest of their work here at Stevenson wow yes so you've been doing this a number of years do you uh track how your former students who aren't in the special class how they're continually doing a school academically we see the growth but and we know that we don't completely fix them I think in two years of academic lit we haven't Totally Tracked those 30 kids throughout uh we we definitely look at freshman year growth sophomore year growth and the work that they do within the academic literacy class but that is something we should probably be doing more often see nowadays I think I know how they were a seniors in other words Juniors I think when we I don't know how it is I see them in the hall yeah and sometimes when I see them in the hall and I remember who they were and I see that they're engaged in the school community and they're still here like there are kids that I thought weren't going to be still here and they're still here and I'm fist pumping that I'm going right on you still on track you're gonna be I mean I know anecdotally that we're successful because I see them all they're smiling but we're right we can track their greens for sure and I could step in uh right before the pandemic you know Marla uh worked with us closely because we wanted that social aspect we didn't want to lose the relationship and connection that we had so we did only have one um lunch kind of meeting where they were it was like an open invitation do you guys remember this this was back in February of 2020 and we opened the invitation to our former students and I would say like from the previous year maybe one was missing and that was because they weren't you know able to make it because of another commitment we did it during an activity period right or did we do it during lunch period connectivity period they all came just to hang out and see us we could see them and you know continue to maintain that relationship that we have outside of the classroom and I think that was a huge huge um and I think after the pen now that we're getting back into this many things there's still a desire to see how we can keep these kids not in the program but a part of the program it's just hard to find the time can they come before school transportation is an issue during activity period Well they have other clubs and we want them to be involved so it's hard but we've also tried to do some lunches with sat work and other things just to entice them to come back and a little carrot we've given them a book before in the past that come have lunch with us here's an independent reading book for you um we're still trying to create ways that we can do that but also after sophomore year we want them to take elections so we can't keep taking up this elective time with academic lid it's a little yin and yang but we should track grades my my hunch is that these kids are graduating and they're and they're moving on hey and you know when you start and you don't know what literacy that's a question yeah um you know and I could see the profile of those kids it's great so I have a thought and a question um first of all Troy tells me a lot that as a former socialist teacher I shouldn't do math in public um but on the action um the action steps um the digital portfoliosity yeah I do but you mentioned that yeah we're the pictures that you showed of the student work and their evidence is that that's the digital portfolio yeah and so all that evidence is submitted by the student and is it tagged by the student as or identified they do all of it um this is the student identifying their own wow yeah to fixing ones yeah yeah this morning but they think the important thing that you said which resonated and I was I just wanted to make sure is that you know this is that whole idea of metacognition that students are actually learning about their reflecting on their own learning through this process and hitting those targets are really critical that's amazing we pause on Fridays yeah and we spend 10 to 15 minutes and I allow them to go and search and put in their portfolio and work on that wow and then at the end of the three weeks they know I'm gonna take it I'm going to assess them give them some feedback what we don't see it here is I also conference with them and I'll put those notes directly on the slides yeah when we're talking about that stuff it ends up being in that whole uh slide it ends up being one slideshow I'm glad you asked that because I thought they wrote those things and you were really funny too like yeah like the I didn't crack the All About The Barbarians yes they learned all about The Barbarians no notes from world history yeah yeah this is them and I know our team knows this but for our board you may have forgotten your Edge site class but that whole idea of metacognition really is the jet fuel for learning without the ability to reflect on your own learning it becomes difficult and so the fact that our kids in academic literacy are able to do this under your guidance it's really great and then I'm applying that to uh you know self-awareness yeah this class I mean again when kids are assigned to academic literacy they're not always jumping for joy right but when they can see this that it is playing out that there's tool they are using across the curriculum that's where the value in the subject comes in and that's where we're hoping to get more leverage as you go through the year it's why they come back voluntarily to hang out yeah yeah I don't know are they identified it's not clear to me are they identified before they come in as freshmen or during their freshman year at what point so that's part of the uh kind of the universal screener uh that we use as kids come in we use the start test and also in their initial uh testing Ed they do a map test or a STAR test or something at their Center Schools and that's one of the First Data pieces that we use to create the um the options they uh literacy is not an opt-in or opt Cloud class they're they're placed in there until they show that they have reached the level that we've said this is probably what it takes to be successful at Stevenson um but then they are you know the key body of evidence the key freshman year is that team has developed criteria because the the idea between RTI intervention um is that tier two you should be able to exit out when you demonstrate so the semester if they've met that criteria we lose kids right so when you see those numbers of growth we're talking about kids that we've left all the kids that have been successful freshman year and we're still closing that Gap with the kids that may not have grown freshman year that grew up sophomore year we're left with 30 kids that really struggle so they haven't exited they can still exit a semester it's sophomore year we have that criteria so they know and they have that carrot if they work hard and it is rare but we still have our College Prep sophomore and freshman teachers administer the star like two three times a semester or a year a year yes beginning middle a year and we could scoop anyone into the program too but it's rare that happens yeah if the kid needs it thank you do you do you think um focusing on the castle competencies is actually more effective we knowing the value feeling a sense of belonging the value of what you're doing all the other competencies it's like it seems even more powerful for these students and other students I'm really moved by what you're doing I think this is absolutely fascinating I I think you're right and I jump in and I just think having been doing this for 20 years right it's everything it's key you get kids and there's a reason why they come in and they're struggling and if you can find that and you can unlock it because they trust you and they feel they belong and they know why the word is important they and again again I've had kids go from academic lit to PhD at Department you can unlock the secrets like it's not obviously or else we'd be rich somewhere it is really touching to see whether it's the kid that starts with a blank slide or the kid that starts here where they can go and again we're just one piece we've got teachers all over this building that are coming to us or we're coming to them or they're working their tushies off to support these kids who might be reading at an instructional level of third fourth fifth grade to read books like Fahrenheit 451.
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I'm Gianna D cancilis and I'm the January student of the month [Music] I'm pretty involved here at West Chicago I was on the volleyball team all four years and last year as a junior I was the captain for the JV team I am a part of the foreign language Honor Society student ambassador I am part of National Honor Society where recently I was a committee chair for the breakfast with Santa this year I joined PEP Club and was given the opportunity to be a pep leader to help out with the assemblies and plan the events I also recently just joined Trek I really enjoyed being able to attend most of the sporting events whether it be basketball football or soccer games and getting the chance to experience for myself how exciting it is to be a part of a community that is so supportive of one another I also was grateful that I was a part of the squad at the state soccer game and I will cherish that moment forever [Music] I would advise future Wildcat students to just have fun and make the most of your high school experience getting involved is the easiest way to meet new people and people who share similar interests don't be scared to try new things and find something you're really passionate about I plan to attend the University of Arizona to major in nursing [Music]
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foreign thank you [Music] thank you [Music] good evening I'd like to call the school committee meeting for Monday February 23rd 2023 to water if you would all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance please one nation under God and indivisible with liberty and justice for all ah if you have any cell phones pagers bipas electronic devices if you would kindly put them on silent or vibrate or shut them off I would appreciate it just like to let you know that this meeting is being live streamed on the YouTube channel DHS TV media it's also being taped and broadcast later on over the next few weeks on both Channel DC TV channel nine and channel 18 at a number of different times so we thank them for that roll call please miss Gunther John noons yep Mary wait Kathleen Amaral here Shannon Jenkins here Chris Oliver here thank you uh Mrs Wade is uh unable to be here tonight okay uh that being said we've allocated uh 10 minutes on the agenda for uh public comment on things that are on the agenda so Dr Banks sorry for the opportunity to speak ongoing contract negotiations Dr Banks yes sir I just need you to say no disrespect say who you are so we have it for the minutes I shall thank you for those of you who do not know me my name is Peter bangs I am completing my 21st year as a teacher at Dartmouth High School and I have served for the past 12 as the leader of the science and engineering department while each Leader's experience is unique mine serves as an example of what it is that our lead teachers do my stated objective when I agreed to become the leader of the science and engineering department was to work collaboratively with a very talented and dedicated Professionals in my department to incorporate authentic science practices and tools to make science instruction at Dartmouth High School truly modern and reflective of the needs of the 21st Century towards this end this is what we have accomplished we have expanded our offerings to include aquaculture environmental science and sustainability robotics biotechnology organic chemistry crime scene analysis and forensics advanced placement environmental science and advanced placement physics we have sought and obtained grant funding from a variety of sources including a state workplace training Grant written by the superintendent's office our students now employ a wide range of sophisticated sensors 3D printers laser cutters DNA electrophoresis apparati and thermal cyclers to amplify minute samples of DNA we have a fully equipped engineering suite and a state-of-the-art biotechnology laboratory that is the Envy of any High School in the state and many undergraduate teaching labs our students are designing permitting and building a nature walk an outdoor classroom to be used by all departments they are establishing and maintaining aquatic ecosystems in a number of classrooms counselors offices and other public areas for all to enjoy they are introducing recombinant DNA into organisms and observing the expression of those genes they are extracting and analyzing their own DNA and conducting DNA fingerprinting experiments to identify individuals they are exploring antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in bacteria they are culturing their own microbiomes in conducting independent research on bacterial growth resistance to radiation damage and symbiotic relationships between bacteria and insects in the wild in short our students are doing authentic research-based science not just talking and reading about it every member of my department will agree that I have worked tirelessly with them to achieve these outcomes and transform our department for these efforts I have been paid 86.89 per week with not a pennies increase to my stipend for 10 years for perspective my son last year a high school student at the time earned more working a single five-hour shift at Chipotle's than I did for a full week as the Lead Teacher of the science and engineering department at Dartmouth High School we both had a good laugh at that but it's not really not very amusing it's emblematic of how this school committee has historically relied on and taken advantage of the Good Will and the willingness of Dartmouth Public School Educators to do what is right for their students no matter what it is regrettable that the school committee and the superintendent's office choose to shortchange those who directly impact the classroom while bolstering the superintendent's office instead this year despite loud claims of poverty from the school committee Dartmouth public schools has added an additional director of curriculum to The District administration while this will no doubt make things easier for the superintendent's office those of us who actually work in the classrooms do not see the need to expend well over a hundred and thirty thousand dollars on an additional administrator at Bush Street when our very hard-working teachers aides the ones who directly impact our students every day aren't even paid a living wage it is regrettable also that the school committee and the superintendent's office think so little of the contributions made by the lead teachers of each department then when we ask for an adjustment after 10 years of no pay increase we are initially offered a raise of seven dollars and fifty cents a week or almost enough for me to fill the fuel tank of my vehicles four times over the course of a school year obviously if you expect to have any lead teachers at the end of the school year your initial offer will be increased but the message has been sent you either have no real idea or simply no interest in what lead teachers actually do perhaps you don't understand that during that Dreadful hybrid year when we return from covid lead teachers were told that they would be grading all of the work done by students whose families had decided to keep them home and instead learn remotely for me this meant over 50 students including the children of school committee members resulting in over three hours every week grading the work of students that I did not know in classes that I did not teach all of this work was completed by me at home on evenings and weekends over three hours every week for 40 weeks is well over 100 hours of my time and my family's time for that as was true for every Lead Teacher I was compensated not one dime perhaps you also don't understand that this year we have been told that on top of our current responsibilities lead teachers will also shoulder the role of instructional coaches at the middle school and elementary schools these are full-time positions worked by coaches who are not directly responsible for students at the high school this is being put on the backs of lead teachers whose primary responsibility is the 60 to 80 students that we teach in our classes we are also responsible for developing and expanding our respective Department's curricula which further begs the question of why we need an additional director of curriculum since we already do that we plan organize and oversee departmental common planning time we analyze the results of MCAS and other standardized tests and use the data to inform changes to instructional practice we order receive and distribute materials and supplies for our departments we serve as sounding boards and offer shoulders to our departmental colleagues as they struggle with a very challenging environment of post-covered classrooms we serve as Proctors for standardized tests and we serve as substitute teachers when they're not enough to go around now we are also expected to serve as instructional coaches typically full-time positions and defined by at least one of our directors of curriculum as involving lesson observation and feedback co-teaching modeling of instructional practices collaborative lesson design lesson study learning walks collaborative problem solving and student work analysis this is patently absurd the only possible way for lead teachers to be in the least bit effective as instructional coaches is for us to devote less time less thought and less energy to the students that we teach every day this is the last thing that you should want from the leaders of each department yet this is the entirely unreasonable expectation that has put on us I have resigned as the Lead Teacher for Science and Engineering for two reasons neither of them being because I want to I'm resigning first because my family asked me to for too long I have donated my time on weekends and evenings and they have not been fairly compensated for my inattention and missed memories the monetary equivalent of one shift at a fast food restaurant per week does not greatly change the circumstances of a middle-class family of five and makes hardly a dent in the college cost that we are now facing enough is enough and my family has had enough second I'm being told to do a job that forces me to make an untenable choice I can choose to devote the considerable amount of time and thought required to Be an Effective instructional coach but that will undeniably make me a less effective classroom teacher and that's a non-starter for me my other choice is to continue being the best teacher that I can be and therefore by definition be an ineffective instructional coach because of the lack of time I choose none of the above it seems to me that you should too this model has been poorly thought out and will obviously not result in a functional instructional program at the high school so what is the point other than to be able to claim that we have a coaching program in place finally I respectfully ask that as you engage in negotiations with your Educators you consider the long-term aspirations and needs of this District I strongly suggest that you focus your support far less on what is happening in the superintendent's office and far more on the dedicated people who are actually doing the excellent work taking place every day in Dartmouth Public Schools thank you for your time [Applause] you got it so good evening my name is Taryn defries I've been an employee of the Dartmouth public schools for nearly 10 years I began as a one-to-one teacher's assistant I was a general education teacher and now I work as a special education teacher I'm also an alumni of the Dartmouth schools but tonight I'd like to speak to you as a mom I welcomed my first daughter in July of 2021 and recently found out that I will be having another daughter in June while my family and I are Beyond excited for a new addition to our family we cannot help but think about my impending maternity leave and the stresses that it brings currently the District offers eight weeks of leave this comes unpaid unless the employee has sick time accrued if we do we are allowed to use the days we have but once they are used up our leave becomes unpaid anytime Beyond eight weeks is unpaid and we cannot use our accrue time unless we ourselves require the further care of a doctor if we require this care and we happen to have daylight days left we may continue to use them otherwise we will not be paid regardless of medical need I'd like to compare this to the paternity leave that my husband receives through the state of Massachusetts a program that is not offered to Dartmouth employees he receives 12 weeks off at 80 percent of his pay without having to use a single day of earned time off he's able to use those 12 weeks in any way he sees fit within the first year of our child's life so it's not just the state that believes in a 12-week leave the American Academy of Pediatrics has also stated that 12 weeks should be the standard paternal leave due to the increased health benefits for both parents and children and the need for bonding however it seems that the Dartmouth Public Schools do not hold this belief when asked about extending our leave from 8 to 12 weeks still unpaid still using our time if we have it we were told no teachers belong in the classroom so my family takes a back seat to this job as other teachers have stated more times than I care to admit and I don't think the first three months of my child's life is a time they should have to come second since working in the district I've been told that I matter if I matter shouldn't I be given the chance to use my earn time to hear heal mentally and physically shouldn't I be afforded the same opportunity to bond with my child as my husband the request for a 12-week leave comes out very little to no cost to this District so on behalf of every parent soon to be parent working in the Dartmouth Public Schools I ask that you please take this request into consideration [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you also okay uh next item on the agenda we have uh the regular session minutes of January 23rd okay I'll move approval second moved by Dr Jenkins second by Miss Amaral on the motion any discussion chair hearing none all in favor aye opposed motion carries unanimously uh executive session minutes of the same day January 23rd uh a move approval Mr chair with the stipulation that they be held into the matters under consideration are finalized second moved by Dr Jenkins second by Miss Amaral on the motion any discussion chair hearing none all in favor aye aye opposed motion carries unanimously uh the school committee meeting of February 2nd 2023 which just for everybody's edification was held via Zoom just so everybody is aware a motion to approve those minutes second by Mr Oliver's second by Miss Amaral an emotion any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye opposed I'm gonna abstain Mr chair as I was in that present yeah um passes three two zero I'm sorry three zero one my fault okay student rep report down below so just to quickly update you on how DHS is doing we recently had a presentation from rafaya Shadow I thought it was excellent uh it talked about uh how New Medford contributed to the Underground Railroad it was very nice I thought it was very well formatted for a public speaker usually when you imagine someone coming into the school you think of you know everyone's in a big Auditorium and they're on the stage it's hard to pay attention but in this case it was right here in the library and it was a small set of students that came in periodically I thought it was a very good setup winter sports are going very well hockey is going to compete in Providence and winter check I believe uh at least a few are going to States I think the whole team's going to States although a bit of a Shameless self-plug the robotics team had a very good weekend out of the 21 teams in the uh qualifier tournament our teams were number one and number two so one team would be it guaranteed advancement to States the other one probably but we're not sure yet so to talk about something a slightly more serious uh the with the print principal Shea's recent email about the cell phone policy I feel like it's a good time to bring up the student body's opinion on it and as you might have guessed it's mostly negative we live in an age where a lot of people depend on their cell phones and so being away from it for even an hour is a lot for some people now to put a personal touch on it I I personally don't I haven't been affected very much by it I I'm it's not it's not a huge distraction for me in classes but I can see the argument that in general it doesn't solve the problem that it aims to solve which is that cell phones cause distraction in classes and so by putting them in hotels in the room people will pay more attention when in fact I think we've seen out of every year I've been in DHS and I'm a senior now the most creative and exploitive ways to use Chromebooks and just other elements of students backpacks to slack off in class and so I think the overarching point is that kids who don't want to learn will likely continue to not learn even with their cell phones in hotels and so it ends up being more hurtful to the students who are actually hurt by this policy and not incredibly helpful to the students who were expected to be helped by this policy and so to end up end on a good note students are looking forward to February vacation so that's all I have to say that's the best part [Applause] thank you so I just want to say thank you I super appreciate you sharing your opinions with us these are good things for us to hear positive negative and everything in between well thank you thank you thank you thank you very much all right thank you okay uh moving on consent agenders yeah we should have folks here we're gonna do the Spanish the Portugal trip I believe Melissa lomba Jason Borges and Nathan Cavallo should be here to talk about that trip yes he is Benjamin where's Benjamin there it is I don't have a Mac Band how do I do this I'm an HP guy I don't do this stuff thank you thank you okay he's my student I can't survive without him uh so hello good evening I am Nathan Cavallo a Portuguese teacher here at the high school uh with uh Jason Borges another Porsche teacher at the high school and Melissa lomba Spanish teacher here at the high school uh and we're here just to talk to you guys about a trip we'd like to do April break next year so 2024 to take our students to Spain and Portugal I know Melissa has done it in the past I have gone on trips when I was in high school uh Jay have not so this would be his first and he's extremely excited for it so as World language teachers you know there's only so much we can provide for them in the classroom about the languages that we're trying to teach them and the cultures so what better way than to bring them there so they can see it firsthand so that's our hope so uh before you uh that's somewhere in here we just have a quick uh overview obviously there's a lot of tentative stuff um but this is basically what would be I would be a 10-day trip during April break Nexus they may miss a day of school which I'm sure they won't mind um but uh so we bring them to Spain first a few days in Spain and then we would end up wrap up in Portugal and then come back home so that is basically the plan so I'm sure you want to know the numbers um so we have been working with eftours which I know uh dharmouth High has worked with in the past I have dealt with them when I was in high school that's where that's we went through I don't know if that's who you used when you went so EF tour is very reputable uh company they've been doing this for years they have all the essentials that are needed so currently uh it would be uh 3 679 dollars for students but that is including everything that is flights there and back that is the hotel every single day that is breakfast and dinner every day that is transportation every day that is a 24-hour tour guide uh that is our ticket entries everything that's already all included in that the only thing that is not included in that is uh lunch so with all that in there it's it's relatively uh uh not as awful as it sounds um so um I was speaking with the representative from EF Tours today actually uh and she said you know as soon as uh we can get the ball rolling um all students need to do should have a parent meeting eating obviously first before we make anything official uh parents can ask their questions there get right from the source and then it would be a 95 fee for students just to sign up and then there's all different payment plans that the company has uh that could help them get that down we also came up with some tentative fundraising ideas obviously we want every student to be able to go um no matter their financial situation so that is definitely a goal of ours so we came up with a few whether it's calendar Raffles chocolates dinner sales at local restaurants um outdoor movie night which I know Melissa who's a junior class advisor did and it was a great success and any other ideas that we can come up with to make sure that it can definitely be done for all our students so that is our goal so I'll take any questions if you have any yeah I think my kid was signed up for one and then covet hit so um I hope you know fingers crossed you all get to go and have a great time yeah I would agree uh is this the first um overseas field trip since uh before cope prior to copen so I'm I'm thrilled that we're able to yeah I know there was one plan just before covet hit and him that guy yeah so no I'm very since I've been this is my second year here at Dartmouth so since I've been hired I always wanted to do this uh so uh and then I convinced him I will say that I think my child was on the one that was canceled and it was I think EF Tours and I will say they are very reputable and they were very good and they worked with the parents to make everyone whole so it's a great company that you've chosen and they have this new thing which I wish they had when I was in high school uh it's like GoFundMe but it's not GoFundMe is a whole different thing but it's through EF Tours itself where a kid can say you know help me get to Portugal and Spain and any family member or anyone can send the money and that automatically goes to their balance um and it's not like GoFundMe where they take a portion of it every ounce of it goes to there that's good which is a good thing yeah great opportunity thank you when you have the uh the meals at the restaurants of that please make sure that we know about them okay anytime I don't have to cook you know we'll bring a doggy back just for you 1-800 reservations we call early for preferred seating so uh that would be but seriously you know to support the kids absolutely yeah absolutely uh Mr chair I'll move approval I'll second that by Dr Jenkins second by Mr Oliver on the motion any discussion hearing that all in favor aye opposed very good thank you so much have a good trip thank you yeah okay is Ian yep there he is the Flint we've got you're up there we've got the uh indoor color guide going to Philadelphia and then uh the uh world championships for the color God wins and percussion so this year we have similar trips to what we've done the past we'll be sending we're looking to send the color guard uh the percussion and the wins all the world championships in Dayton Ohio um this year the trip we were able to reduce the trip cost a little bit we're down to 900 as the toll trip costs for all three units um the color guard goes one week they'll actually be flying out to Dayton this year because the way the schedule worked out and the quantity of students it was pretty it was actually more affordable to fly them believe it or not because the busing costs so we'll be flying the color guard out one week and then during break week the percussion and the wins group will be going out staggered for their Championship weekend so it's three rounds of competition at World Championships so we hope to do quite well we have done well in the past so hopefully that turns out great the color guard this year uh we're not going to send the Windsor and percussion down in New Jersey for the regional that has to do with just saving a little bit of money um we had an alternative option in Connecticut so that's where we're going to be sending them just for a day trip to get kind of out of the local region um but the color guard their score counts towards their rankings going into World Championships so it's important we get them to a regional late in the season so that's why they'll be uh we're looking to send them down to Philadelphia for the regional any questions for Mr Flint now after looking over all the uh packets of paperwork I have no concerns and I wish you folks the best of luck do it all in one Fell Swoop can I get a motion to approve the world championship for the indoor color guide the East power Regional for uh the color God uh the WGI indoor percussion and dance team and also finals for the indoor wins so moves second by Mr Oliver second by Dr Jenkins on the motion any discussion hearing none all in favor opposed motion carries unanimously thank you thank you thank you okay all right okay okay so we have Dr Dale here for our Spotlight on kids for the Cushman School foreign [Laughter] thank you so much for having me here tonight um I have a sideshow for you with two embedded videos of children and they are speaking to you spontaneously off the cuff with no practice so I want to give a big shout out to Liz vocie who gave me a hand with this and also to Alicia Frick our new Outreach social worker so we are the Cushman crayons and um this is a picture quickly of our new Sandbox which has a roof over top and benches and the kids have just been having so much fun in the sandbox and with our do Feinstein toys that went along with it I will say we had a little incident last week where the sandbox is currently closed a little friend got sick so we're gonna figure that one out yeah so I wanted to put this quote in you know make the most of the best and the least of the worst we are in challenging times right now and I have some challenges of my own at the school with some challenges here at the district but the teachers together with with myself we're trying to focus on positivity and looking at all the things that are good and we have a lot of great things going on so I want to spend some time sharing with you how kids play and how kids have fun tonight so before we get there some challenges I want to say that at Cushman School some of the number one challenges are the Rolling enrollment so at age three if you have multiple disabilities have gone through the eligibility process you can come into a classroom and for our teachers and our teaching assistants that is very challenging because you have your classroom set up you have your routines learned already and next thing you know you have a new friend coming in just turning three and the whole apple cart can get you know tossed over that is a challenge and it happens to us every week we have new friends so um just wanted to bring that up the needs of our students that are coming in are also very very challenging now we are seeing children with complex complex profiles and we accept them on day one and learn more about them as each day goes on the needs of our teachers within the building they are they have two hands and the the teaching assistants have two hands and we have two spots left left in our preschool so that means of the preschool sections at Cushman we have most of our classes at 15.
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the treasury Board of Education Ben can you call the role Please Mr Martelli present Ms Rosenberg here and Mr White here Mr Martelli have a quorum of your planning committee all right Ben you uh do the pledge I am going to do that all right I pledge allegiance the United States of America and to the Republicans all right Mr massion you want to take it away I I certainly will get us started here um good evening everyone and and welcome to the planning committee meeting tonight's agenda is to review the capital budget um I did want to mention Mr Martelli that the uh there is an audience uh item on the agenda but I have no correspondence and there's no audience at this point so the I'd like to start with just a quick overview of where we are with the capital budget request now these requests are um have been put together you know working with Mr clivette and Mr bombero as well as our administrators and as I'm bringing up the screen um you should hopefully see the two pie charts so on the left side of the pie chart what we're looking at there is the total Capital requests over five years and we're going to go through the details in a moment but I just wanted to highlight up at the top of the screen on the left that the HVAC improvements make up the bulk of of the request at 17.77 million again this is over five years we'll be going through some of the detail but 34 percent of the 52.825 million that we're going to discuss this evening for the five-year investments in our schools our HVAC window replacements are 9.3 million about 18 things like site Works Paving Roofing sidewalk and masonry 7.375 million about 14 district calf improvements 6.3 million the bulk of that is Cheshire High School's cafeteria and kitchen the um interior and exterior building improvements about 6.125 million fire alarm control systems for you know three of the remaining schools that need replacement 1.85 million and then the rest are you know relatively smaller amounts but to do items like flooring and District labs and some Code Compliance work so you know the point of the matter is that the request being made or for things that we need essentially to continue to to maintain our buildings and keep them in good repair the right side of this um pie chart and then if you look at the right side columns that shows what we're requesting in these categories for 23 24.
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foreign testifiers because we have one to the Terry Jones I'm gonna work from the school facilities recess we're containing the committee on education three o'clock agenda and these um or measures that were heard previously and deferred for the decision making today first one is Senate Bill 832 which authorizes the counties to transfer land to this whole facilities Authority uh members the recommendation of the chair will be to pass this bill out with amendments adopting the testimony from the school facilities Authority allowing SFA to engage in commercial Enterprise activities for the purpose of Revenue generation also allowing SFA to contract to manage Leasing and management of housing projects for context this was the Attorney General's testimony from Senate Bill and also we have Technical and non-substantive amendments members questions no questions if not recommendation for Senate Bill 832 is to pass with those amendments chairman Senate Bill 832 with amendments um Senator Richards recognization foreign members next one is also for decision making from a previous hearing Senate Bill 1022 relating to the Early Learning board immense the composition and qualifications of the Early Learning board to consist of individuals from each County instead of from particular entities or types of providers establishes General qualifications for members of The Early Learning board appointed by the governor foreign [Music] foreign recommendation of the chair is to pass this measure as is and uh just for clarification members we had asked the Early Learning board to provide us um with any information and they did have a meeting remember they asked they did have a meeting but couldn't make a decision so we'll pass as is cheerful side I'm Senate Bill 1022 unamended any member president holding these reservations [Music] thank you members last item on the agenda is Senate Bill 1023 relating to Early Learning appropriate monies for the preschool open doors program and executive office on early learning to expand access to preschool and to implement program changes required by previous acts expansive types of entities from which a preschool open door service provider May obtain accreditation authorizes the preschool open doors special fund to accept federal funds and appropriate monies members questions recommendation of the chair is to pass unamended any members voting in our position any members voting with reservations senior during the recommendations thank you recess thank you this is to convene the committee on education hearing of Monday February 14th 13th at 3 10 pm first on the agenda members is Senate Bill 692 relating to the Department of Education appropriate funds to the apartment to support wide-ranging activities for Student Success to testify superintendent fayashi please Aloha turkey Donnie Vice chair Kim and members of the committee Keith ayashi superintendent foreign on behalf of the Department of Education the department stands on it part of this measure the department is requesting that Appropriations in this bill be blanked out if this measure is moved to the next committee as the department is still working with the governor's office and the department of budget and finance as to the appropriate funding amounts thank you for the opportunity to testify thank you members questions thank you superintendent we also have written testimony from a Marion California I and a Susan Cola Davis in support anyone else here wishing to testify violence measure please come forward Aloha kayaka it's your Vice chair in the education committee Angela testifying in strong support on behalf of cares education is the gateway to opportunity Reverend Dr Martin Luther um Dr Martin Luther King Jr wrote on the purpose of Education the function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically intelligence plus character that is the true goal of education education enables Hawaii's enables Hawaii's students to develop skills essential for Life learn social norms develop judgment and reasoning and discern right from wrong therefore the purpose of this act is to appropriate funds to the doe to support various initiatives for students and the initiatives will provide the students with academic social emotional behavioral and physical needs and it will help to support the doe thank you for the opportunity to testify thank you so Angela are you my support and support that's all the testifiers we have and have those questions yes I have a general question thank you I mean this is a statement as far as appropriate funds Department agencies to support wide-ranging Initiative for Student Success [Music] ful none of these have been um appropriated I mean none of these business programs uh thank you for the question Senator these are high leverage initiatives that we're looking to move forward with the Department uh Workforce Readiness is definitely a a large part of the Department's uh initiative to ensure that our students are prepared upon graduation ready for Workforce or ready for higher education into the workforce also K-12 alignment to ensure that Elementary Middle High School are in alignment as we prepare our students for Workforce readiness middle level education is also another initiative of nationally I believe middle schoolers have they've been challenges in the middle level uh in Hawaii we also want to ensure that our middle level educators are providing continuing to provide the kinds of regress instruction and really understanding the needs of middle level education students so these are some of the initiatives that we believe are high leverage uh including secondary mathematics is another area vulnerable populations and so forth so none of these programs have been okay um well if you look at for example vulnerable populations department has um identified areas such as El or English language Learners uh a native Hawaiian populations especially students as areas that we have focused on we do need additional supports especially as we move forward out of pandemic uh these these particular populations have demonstrated a need in supporting their in each of the respective areas okay I'm just concerned that we seem to embark on all of these different programs and current programs um you know I'm not sure how these things are occurring or just that we get these programs and then we get Consultants to do some of these programs and then it costs more and more funding so I'm just leery based on what happened with the assessments about consultants and all these conditional programs I mean it sounds good and it looks good but and in in actuality it and then current programs I mean I don't know I'm just wondering how do we divide without any of these programs now or if we're doing these programs now how are these all these kids who've been neglected all this time oh thank you for the question uh the department has for example as a share about vulnerable populations we have been addressing the best that we can for vulnerable populations and their needs uh the additional uh funding would allow us to continue that and expand the kinds of services that we need for students uh middle level education for example definitely is an area of need of the department though perhaps in past years may not have had a substantial focus on middle level education but we're definitely looking at the data we've identified that as a need for our students right especially in the middle level grades those are very challenging years for them for for our students they are not only not only academically but social emotionally uh it's a very trying time for them and we want to ensure that we have the supports in place necessarily to ensure that they're able to succeed okay because we're talking about a lot of money here right we're talking about 288 million dollars right I didn't add them up Senator I think yeah I think also though it's not part of the amendment we're going to make Mr Blanca okay but based on what they're trying to measure in you know 43 million school-based budgeting 26 million especially 14 million instructional support um 53 million school-based budgeting I'm not sure what that is I mean just the fact that we're talking about K-12 alignment to continue to deliver a cohesive kindergarten to grade 12 educational program I don't know if you haven't done it or to continue to do it Department of revision and we find alignment for K-12 curriculum instruction and assessment alignment curriculum will further facilitate the coordinated teaching and learning throughout students educational Journey and we're not doing that now or we need all this money to do that and then when we talk about assessment you know again that word assessment bothers me because I'm going to be doing more for this for this Hopkins assessments that we never intended to do what you folks are doing but thank you for the question Center at these are Johns Hopkins assessment was primarily for the uh kindergarten assessment yes it's troublesome and it's so Broad and you can see a lot of money and it leads me to think that we haven't been we've not been align them I'm delivering a cohesive kindergarten to grade 12 educational program the department has been working on alignment I said to Kim you definitely have well I think what we need to do though is as we look at um alighting the levels uh that's something that I think we can do more with elementary middle and high school um that those transition points are really critical for our students as they transition from elementary to Middle too high and then out to post-secondary career for these numbers and these programs so thank you thank you um superintendent for the kindergarten assessment is that something new to the department that we're going to be doing yes well we are going to training I believe right now for teachers so is that an assessment that has been used in other states Johns Hopkins assessment I believe it has children's and we are also trying to put that into the Hawaiian language so that parents can choose to do it in Hawaiian for their children in the Hawaiian yes I believe um we are looking to work together with our kayakuni schools uh to create an assessment that is unique to the needs of archiveling schools and working together with office of Hawaiian education as well as with a Hawaiian company Educators to ensure that our Hawaii us kindergarten Readiness assessment for kaipuni schools and students are both culturally relevant and addresses the needs of ofakai police students so the Hawaiian version is not necessarily the John Hopkins version no it is not Disney yes so can you tell us how many states did the John Hopkins um assessment or one similar ended up not doing it because it was just too difficult and they had a hard time and they ended up not being successful in it do you know how many well I'm sorry so thank you I don't have that information with you but I definitely can give that to you you've heard that no I haven't you uh no I've heard that we've uh that Johns Hopkins assessment has been used in other states I haven't heard of difficulty though but I can definitely check into that can you because I understand that they've had problems states have been abandoned it and went and did their own more simple type of assessment which is what we're looking for should be doing instead of this and that the states that was mentioned earlier um I think was like four states like the Midwestern states that really no no connection to what we're doing here in Hawaii so I'm very troubled by this and we're going to spend a million dollars and I understand that it's also a subscription that we've got to pay continuously over a period of years which never been told to me before I'll I'll get the information to you soon okay but since troubling that you don't have that information and we're we're going to invest a million dollars where that money can go to help help us that you're telling time that have been left behind or is is um vulnerable students I mean a million dollars can go a long way to help vulnerable students that we're using it to do an assessment and training these teachers and that business with track record that it's not it's not worked in many states but before we make that kind of investment I really thinking the deal here we raise this concern over the summer and you folks continue to fly on you know so um so I would travel in voting in favor of some of these monies you're asking I'm taking to clean up your filters that happens I'm sorry I'm not able to get to the uh but right now I'm not able to answer the kindergarten industry assessment question but I definitely will look into it and get that information to you thank you thank you um okay thank you thank you is there anyone else here wishing to testify on this measure okay moving on [Music] Senate Bill 260 relating to Career and Technical education requires the Department of Education to employ individuals as Vocational Technical or career pathway teachers authorizes the doe to instruct doe teachers to instruct vocation technical or career pathway classes about possessing an applicable practicable bachelor's degree to testify superintendent please Aloha charity Vice chair Cam and members of the committee Sean bacon assistant superintendent from the office of talent management testifying on behalf of the Department of Education the department stands on its written testimony and offers comments on this measure thank you for the opportunity to testify thank you Felicia villados interim executive director white teacher status board good afternoon Vice chairman and committee members my name is Felicia Villalobos I'm the executive director for the white teacher Standards Board and on behalf of the board we stand on our written testimony with comments and here to answer any questions you may have thank you thank you we also have written testimony and support from three individuals members questions enough questions thank you moving on foreign moving on Centerville 971 relating to student transportation appropriate funds to the doe to provide public participants with students with bus passes requires the doe to collect certain data on city bus pass uses for public high school and charter school students requires an annual report to the legislature to testify superintendent please good afternoon Cherokee Donnie first year Kim Laurel Randy Tanaka Department of Education the department stands on its written testimony in support of this measure thank you very much for the opportunity to testify here for questions hello assessment s Yvonne Lau interim executive director Hawaii state public charter school Commission Aloha chair cadani Vice chairman Kim and members of the committee on PJ Ford and our director in Ford Yvonne lau and we stand in the support of this honor written testimony and look forward to working with the doe and thank you for including the public charter schools thank you PG members let's see let's all the testimony we have we have written testimony from about eight people in support members of questions yes Senator I trust this is no but you are in support uh yes we are supportive so what kind of costs do you estimate currently we're running about three and a half to four million uh we're eclipsing 10 000 passes and this is a Statewide effort uh most of it is on Honolulu because the distribution of Boston uh throughout Honolulu is much more robust than the neighbor Islands but we do have Provence on each other yes Together part of it was to gather data on what kind of ridership and this is partly to address our driver shortage in some of the areas we wanted to shift the high schoolers to this program evaluate what kind of shift we got so we can move those drivers to the to the lower grades so does it still I mean you could hear it because I thought we're only giving passes bus passes this this year we started yes yes so do you this bill do we need this build here are you doing it uh what we need is the funding okay so you started doing it last year because of the less routes we had money and that's the money we use to fund this program okay and you give one to every student whether they tell you they're going to take the bus or not they have to apply for it they have to apply for it and so you're saying how many how many students we're just over 10 000 is what my team said what we would like to try next year is adding 8th graders to the program so right now it's just 90 to 12.
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like always there's those letters in front of your packet we'll skip past those to the very end of the presentation we'll start on pages one through three page one through three those are the independent audit report on this as well as a couple of other reports in the back of this booklet are the only thing in here that actually belong to us oddhurst everything else in here is the district's information and we just take it put it into prescribed format so that first paragraph is what we all did which is a company fund summary statement a rate report basis receipts expenditures and unencumbered cash balances of USD 244 for the year into June 30 2022. that next paragraph talks about an adverse opinion on U.S Gap financials since we elect to follow kmag which is a modified Cash basis of accounting we have to issue an adverse opinion on Gap financials because there'd be material differences for things such as debt prepaids receivable signs of those nature with kmac you just have captioning accounts payable that third paragraph there is the most important that's actually in the modified opinion um I do like to point out that they did actually issue some new regulations where they changed this report around a little bit and these they if you notice they did move these opinion paragraphs up to the front just for the sake of saving people the trouble of having read three pages so we issued an unmodified opinion on the financial statement which is the best opinion that the district memories receive and we believe that the numbers presented here and are a material accurate representation of what happened during the year those next two paragraphs kind of touch a little more on that basis for adverse unmodified opinion I'm down there at the bottom we talk about Management's responsibilities making sure our numbers are correct as well as making sure that our checks and balances kind of our controls or operate effectively throughout the year that next section there on page two talks about our responsibilities operators we audit according to internally accepted Oddity standards that k-mag that Kansas Municipal auditing accounting guide and then also government auditing standards because we received such a large amount of federal funds we're required to have a single audit which just adds a little an extra layer of auditing per se those final couple paragraphs are on page two and Page Three talk about supplementary information we have some various required supplemental schedules at the back of this audit postal review and as well as talking about how the prior your information is in here as well just to kind of give you an idea of kind of what happened one year to the next and finally that last paragraph there at the bottom of page three talks about other reporting required by government auditing standards and like I mentioned we've got that single audit so you can actually choose to issue two separate audits of financial statement and that single audit we choose to stick it together just for the sake of having it all in one place and that's what that paragraph is mentioning so now we're going to go to Pages four and five which is statement one uh kind of the meat and potatoes of the audit financially per se I'm just kind of gives you a quick synopsis of kind of what happened within each month over there on the far left we list out all the various funds held by the district and then we have our beginning unencumbered cash balances or our cash carryover for Budget purposes that next column is going to be receipt set money we brought in next column expenditures money we sent out the door to get to our Indian unincumber cash balances now with all cancer municipalities that elect to follow Commack there's about an eight ten page checklist you're required to adhere to some various statutes and regulations one of those is that each fund ends in a positive cash balance as you glance through there you will happen to notice there is one negative that's allowable for the state because it's a grant fund you know we spend that money ahead of time we're expecting reimbursement so they understand that that's how most grants operate and so they do recognize that that is allowed so as you can see we didn't have any issues to disclose there that next column is going to be that accounts payable this is kind of what's that caveat of kmag you know those are those bills we get in July and August for services from June or prior that we pay and just to kind of get those expenditures in the right period for Budget purposes finally we get that ending cash balances far right column and as you can see on page five that ties to our actual cash per Bank we've got a little breakdown there the various types of accounts that we hold one of the things I always like to point out is that agency funds amount that we subtract out those are the funds that the district holds in their accounts but they don't belong to the district things such as our Student Activity accounts and things and we'll see a schedule all that at the factory side now we're going to get into the footnotes of the audience kind of the words behind the numbers footnote number one is our summary of significant accounting policies won't spend a lot of time because this really doesn't change much year in and year out and talk Scott kmag talks about Kansas budget law things of those nature one of the things I do like to point out there on page eight underneath that numbered list I've got that paragraph we're going to disclose any kind of budget amendments that we had we didn't have any to disclosed the only thing to talk about in there is the usual the general fund and supplemental general fund get adjusted for enrollment each year page number nine we get to play note number two which is our stewardship compliance and accountability footnote and this is kind of that kmag checklist but no if we have any issues there I'm not the long lengthy part is talking about that negative encumber cash balance sites that's an issue but then also cites the statutes to make it allowable that last Sims talks about any budget violations which we did have too in the rec commission and Rec commission employee benefit and that was just a product of us paying out all the taxes we collected which was more than we budgeted so we have to recognize it as a budget issue but in theory you know we're paying in their money we're just required to disclose that footer number three is our deposits and Investments those first four paragraphs pretty General regulations that were required to adhere to as a Kansas municipality sites such as our money has to be in Banks within the county we operate our surrounding counties we can't go putting our money in the stock market as well as requiring that our funds are secured at the end of the year they're at the very bottom of that footnote we actually have information pertaining to the district our carrying amount of deposits was a little over 8.1 million and then the bank balance was a little over 9.6 million that big difference is just due to all our outstanding items at the end of the year that hadn't cleared the bank we held that money at three different banks so 1.5 million was covered by FDIC insurance coverage to win that remaining 8.1 Plus cover back alleged security so we met that requirement to be secure finger number four is another special caveat with school districts you know we get that money in July that's part of the prior period uh we're just required to disclose what that amount is a little over 267 thousand dollars on page 10 we get to footnote number five this is called right to use contracts or some new regulations as well that came out regarding leases they changed them from Capital to finance leases and then they kind of did away with the operating lease wording on so now I just refer to these as right to use contracts that's kind of any kind of agreements we've entered into for equipment space Etc that we're never going to own that property at the end of that agreement we just kind of are renting it per se we just disclosed what that amount was a little over sixty nine hundred dollars but no number six is our defined benefit Pension Plan footnote um those first two paragraphs pretty cookie cutter don't change much year in year out that third one the only major changes is just we change what the rates were those always fluctuate year in and year out and then those remaining two paragraphs there on the bottom of page 10 kind of some legislature type stuff as far as what they're doing as far as underpayments and overpayments with papers at the top of page 11 we actually get into information pertaining to the district that first paragraph discloses the total amount that we've remitted on behalf of our employees for Capers of a little over 1.3 million and then that second paragraph is always that scariest footnote in here that net pension liability that amount we would owe of Capers were equipped being funded by the state obviously we don't ever foresee that happening but as you can see it's a pretty large number and so this is underfunded plan we are required to disclose that and there's a little over 10.1 million like why not compared to last year that number did drop drastically but I did just see the new report come out and enforce generally it looks like everything that they gain they lost in the prior year so it looks good this year it's not going to look good next year it went way back up again footnote number seven is our other long-term obligations for operation that first paragraph talks about an addition of one percent for Capers for death and disability insurance that we pay and then we get into the vacation and sick leave policy and these we just kind of disclose what the policy is and then we calculate out what that liability of hours it carries over from one year to the next year for vacation it was a little over forty six thousand and sick leave it was a little over 415 000.
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uh their results from the winner of 21 the fall of 22 on on my savers uh we did not meet I mean we were closed in some areas and sometimes they go up and down also assessment we do the spring and changes to some degree and it depends on what's going on I will tell you that on my Savers teachers do the assessment you know say that my Savers is the student correct look at that correct Savers at my Savers you know the Sabers is the one the teachers yes my Savers is what the students do on themselves so that's how we determine that for social personal also the next one after each building's results you can see what they're doing to try to achieve each of those goals and kind of explain where we've been the last five years or to the buildings as we go through there uh with the reading goal tell that did pretty good also we put State assessment averages for each building is to go through their career and then again at the next page you can see things that each building is trying to do to achieve their goals we did change the fast Bridge which state sponsored assessment which is good but I will say it changed in the middle here five years it doesn't give you consistent data for five years so we've only had this for two uh but I think we're doing really good I think also continue to improve our mcss our tier support system for students and also work on on reading levels with all students you continue on there we talked about ips's individual plans or studies for our secondary students so that that they can review and prepare us when they finish High School and as you look through there it gives our five-year District graduation average and then it also talks about District effective average which is every student on the second year for graduation if they're successful it's determine if they are still enrolled in college whether they have a degree or credential by that second year after graduation so the state goal is to have 70 to 75 of our students at that level not necessarily a role in graduation because we're looking for about 40 percent of our students that grad college level the rest of them are looking for good credentials or some other type of certificate so it'll help them be successful After High School you can look at graduation rate 20 and 21 for both high schools uh we know that it's not a real high number of graduation rate one student in tax percentage pretty significantly so we know that attendance rate we put that down and you know chronic absenteeism we know is a big factor is through the morning which is good this is ten percent of the days they're considered to be chronic absenteeism so that gives you the attendance for all the buildings uh it also gives us the ACT scores over the past five years State average for both high schools we also looked at kindergarten Readiness which is very important especially with our biggest impact for kindergarten Readiness this length of five days a week with our three-year-old program from two which I think will tell for our students if complete we also qualify for the at-risk funding by doing that so that helps also we talked about what how to determine a successful graduate in the five areas we talked about is their academic success their economic preparation their technical skills the employability skills and City engagement those are the five areas that we focused on as far as defining what a successful graduate would look like then we talked about how they're probably going to sustain this process and what are our next steps on sustainability uh we'll continue to work with Kisa we have a district leadership team and a building leadership team which will particularly look to guide us through that we need to we really want to get more parents involved advisory and our site councils so we can get more communication with that area we have to be committed to providing professional development for our staff so that they can be successful as they teach their kids we think collaboration time is critical where teachers can have opportunities to sit down and look at the data have time to do that because you have to look at the data to see what you're doing is successful now you need to revamp on how you're doing things also we put down Board of Education support that's how we can sustain this process our next steps we will probably do a reading goal but we're looking at possibly a map goal and we'll do our needs assessment and develop those goals at the start of next year and start a new process I don't know at this time and they can't really I don't know if it's going to be a three-year process or a five-year again they're kind of redoing our accreditation process at this time uh we'll continue to look at our action plans we'll refine our mtss process uh and we'll find more ways to involve students parents in the community and again use our foundational structures to help us determine our progress there any questions in that presentation that you have get out I was just going to ask if there's anything that stood out to you other leadership team that really needs address well you know there's some assessments are a little bit up and down okay State assessments are probably the most consistent thing that we did every year during the five years I do think going to Bass Bridge helping monitor our reading will help us I think you know the graduation right there that one year heard us but again I really think it's just because of clothing small graduation classes made that kind of shoot up at 67 percentage they're one out of six yeah yeah and that's what I'm saying it kind of overlaided that percentage which is really tough actually any of this information that there's less than 10 they don't put it into a subgroup because it's too easy identified so if you think about that a lot of articles too small to analyze because the number uh I don't know is there any areas that you guys other than that I think that's really feel like we're focusing on reading but I think on the map also it's part of the first thing I kind of want to have etss yeah I think they should have our multi-tier support system for reading and math it helps so all the students are put into tears to pay down how they assess and then interventions are based accordingly to each one of those tiers more time is given for the students that need that seem to be further behind we need to get that more time and opportunities graduation rate is tied to attendance detention attendance rate how's that it varies most of it's over 90.
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