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so moved so moved okay so we are now um we have so moved in a second all those in favor of moving this uh ail April 16th 2025 at that meeting I I okay so we have now postpone this till April 16th is that all you need from us Susan did we do that right okay thank you um so I mean we have the information in our packet already but I guess there's questions about the parking lot and how they want it to be configured so okay great so that will be moved to April 16th wonderful okay all for that okay going back to town manager report fiscal year 26 budget update Michael please yeah I I you know I don't have too much information or too much new information um I will say though that the governor's budget did come out and uh did not do us any favors so fact actually looks like in total when you look at the State uh State a looks like we might actually lose a little bit or if we do have a gain increase in that they've said it's very but by the time it gets through the legislature we'll probably typically you know you know typically what happens is the house will add a little bit more to it the Senate will add a little bit more to it and generally they go with the Senate numbers but you know they do they do usually key off of the governor's figures um so if your start low I know um so yeah that was a little bit um unfortunate so we'll we'll see how that you know that process at the state level evolves um Britney and I are just trying to you know kind of get together she's really kind of been swamped with a couple other things but um just trying to just look at the budget in general and you know you know we got the department head submissions and everything we're looking at that and I think having the tri board meeting is uh set is really good it's it's going to be you know tough I think for us to kind of move forward until then until we have a sense you know how do you want to address the deficit that we have you know do we want to look at Cuts do we want to look at you been able to reset reschedule the um Department Department heads meeting because ideally if it could happen do do we think it'll ideally it would happen before the March 1st yeah I'm hoping for February 14th right but I'm just I didn't want to put that out there okay so um just if if when when you know like I If the sooner the better just take some arranging for me to if it's during the day I have to give enough notice I to provide coverage for the other thing I do that's not here you mean the things that pay for you to be able to do this there you go let's put it right out there Makita come on it's legit so um we could do it Joe I don't yeah so I actually that that option if there is an option for that that might be something that I'm depending yeah it might be a little easier swing depending I don't yeah you know it might be a little clunky um but yeah yeah Al could be a little funky yeah oh yeah but um yeah we'll have to talk talk about yeah okay but yeah I mean I think you until we have that tri board meeting get a sense where everybody wants to go um in terms of how to handle the deficit we're kind of you know a little bit at a at a stand still right which is okay the next week is school vacation week yeah yeah the calendar calendar thing is to do it the day before the March 1st meeting but if there's input or stuff like that it could be tight to it could be tight but like even next week is tight oh yeah so um yeah as soon as we know um that would very helpful yeah and I'm just m I'm just trying to think of an alternative like if you know you can't make it or you can't hop on Zoom or something like that um you know another thing that you had mentioned is kind of um tangental to the budget itself but you talked about the 300 million in chapter 90 yes that the governor filed so uh this is actually a pretty significant win been a little critical of our governor um but I will have to say that for two decades now um there has been advocacy to try to bump that that chapter 90 money from 200 million to 300 million always gotten resistance so to the fact that you know she actually filed that bill I think is great now just needs to get through the legisl because we've had a couple of other Governors I want to say Baker at least once or twice filed a 300 million for chapter 90 early on maybe and it I mean I I remember sitting at an MMA conference and and hearing that before so and I do remember like they would sometimes issue supplemental like rra rap funding WP trying to remember what that stood for but it was kind of supplemental Road fund what I've been finding interesting at the state level is you're hearing two things right they're saying that the fair share amendment has received more funding but regular taxes has been short yeah um and so what I what I always get concerned about when that happens is fair share amendment is supposed to be for transportation and education and because the other side is short are they going to well take you know say Okay since we have all this money over here rather than adding to our funding what it's supposed to be doing are they going to take stuff on the general side and say okay we're going to move stuff over here and then just pull it from the fair from the I don't think it's instead of stopping the tolls after the pike is paid for they divert it towards the big dig yeah they would not do that yeah you know and and allowing the auditor to do what the people of the state wanted her to do oh and and they all got their raises this year by the way so yeah um and uh so yes that uh that that's a huge win so hopefully that will be supported y I just you know what that means for us we'll see so we get about 400 50,000 in chapter 90 a now so just take 50% of that and add it on the top we could that'd be great 00 and uh just for reference uh to fully reconstruct a mile road at least a few years ago it was like a million a mile so full reconstruction so you can tell it ain't it ain't going that far which is why sometimes people in the community go why have we not seen any work done on any roads and it's because sometimes we wait a couple years to accumulate funds under the chapter 90 funds to actually then do some of the major reconstruction so we have some accumulated funds rather than trying to do it all in one year yeah well it's a it's a timely subject because spring is is coming spring is pothole season as in New England as we all know yeah it is coming so um so yeah that's good news uh and we cover the YMCA update before I get to the federal grants update I'll leave that uh for last but um I did send you all a note about the municipal empowerment act yes um and so you know if you could if you have a moment you know take a look at that and just I think you send me your three most important points Michael I have a question about that so um my impression and it could be incorrect from the email was that previously our legislators had supported it and the legislature was uh in general was was pretty lukewarm towards it yeah and they didn't move it forward okay was there something in particular or not that I'm aware of okay Claudia um it was just not a priority for them okay um yeah so I wouldn't want to speculate but it yeah I did I did talk to Jack um yesterday just about this and just kind of you know take his temperature on it and uh you know at this point in time he didn't necessarily see too many issues with it but he hadn't studied it too much but the the one of the things we do have to remind them about is the current what the language is so right now we can do virtual meetings right and that expires I believe it's March 15th 31st I it's either the 15th or the 31st of March so they need to either they need to pass another for you know kick it down the can you know kick it down the down the road or they need to do the municipal empowerment because that makes it permanent that we can do virtual meetings without making it a mandate so that each Community can handle it themselves and I saw that Madam chair and that is the number one thing that concerned me the most about I mean if they don't of act I would hope that before whenever whether it's the 15th or the 31st they at least extend it um and in enough time that people who have meetings like there are people who have town meeting in March that they need to know can they do it virtually can they not do it virtually um but on that note we passed a remote policy where would I I need a copy of that I have to send it to somebody we we can get it to you okay if you could shoot that to me um so no I don't think that either of you so we voted a remote policy that allows us whether it gets passed at the state level or not to do to allow remote participation by people who are on boards and committees and then also continue doing Zoom for participation by residents so you know Joe's going on vacation and he wants to participate he could do it via Zoom um we don't necessarily care because we have that but from a perspective of some of these other meetings that we participate in the ability to have virtual makes sense the but if I remember correctly there's one there's one thing in that policy you have to have Quorum here to have like you can't you can't be 100% you can't be 100% remote but you have so you have to have Quorum remote so you know if two of us are traveling as long as three of us are meeting here I think that was the only major um and I think it used to be that the chair couldn't be remote but I think we did something that allows the chair to be remote I believe [Music] so right yeah that's true yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so okay so but yeah if you can get that uh if you can take a look and and get that info to me what your what your thoughts are yep I think I said next Friday if that's possible okay and then what I can do I think I indicated you know symbol everything you know like a position paper if you will that we could put forward to the legislature um okay w have to do this next one federal grants update um well um you know I I think uh I think it's fair to say everything is fluid um right now I think that's probably the most optimistic way of staying it um so just as background all of you know um president Trump Trum signed an executive order that froze all federal grants and Loans which didn't necessarily clarify anything um I think you know Office of Management and budget issued a very like cryptic is probably the best uh best way to describe it uh memo obviously put everybody a bit in a panic um because just at a local level example we are depending upon a number of different funding sources not just for one time opportunities that we taken advantage of like the uccc property that we just purchased which was going to be partially funded with a $65,000 Grant which was a federal government pass through but then we also have funds and Grant funds that um flow through to help with operating expenses and salaries and things like that and so we did not know if those were in Jeopardy as well um so obviously there was quite a bit of consternation as that went forward um I think uh you know fortunately the courts intervened and at this point in time that looks to they have intervened and put essentially a halt or restraining order on that order um so right now it looks like that money should be flowing uh my understanding though is that all of it hasn't necessarily started flowing yet it's extremely scary because we have uh somebody it sounds like at the till literally um you know deciding where the payments go or who gets paid and when who is essentially not an employee although I think he's been designated as a special employee and really has no government experience whatsoever although he is a very very wealthy man his name is Elon Musk um and so the fact that he actually has access to Treasury and um has the ability to impact payments and my understanding is that um the intent is to bring in a lot of Silicone Valley Silicon Valley not Silicone Valley um although although um and you know basically uh AI is going to be the efficiency savior of the federal government hey hey Michael before we uh we we go down that path I just want to roll back to what you what you started with because I think that uh our residents want I think they probably want to get an idea of the scope of if if this injunction for some reason you know doesn't stay or if some other mechanism is used so that these funds uh there may be a delay in these funds etc etc um just for clarity purposes what you said that there are a number of Staff positions that would be impacted What specifically do do we know specifically what those impacts like we can even just say departmentally and how that might impact resident services to the town I think that would that would be helpful to we we're collecting all of that Makita because you know I do know like human services u i I am sure the school department has a number of positions do you remember if position the dmh grant is pass through like from federal funds um okay so like our you know our um our uh social yeah jail diversion uh person MH yeah so I mean it sounds like you're on the on the case and trying to uh to compile that information right now I think you know no matter what happens I think it would be a good idea to make sure that we have a clear idea of what what could be impacted and it may be like maybe partial impact depending on what happens in the courts depending on what happens there may be partial impact no impact etc etc but I I feel like we as a community need to be ready to communicate uh specifically if something comes down what what that means right and what if anything we can do about it in the short mid and long term yeah so So the plan is you know we can you know we'll assemble that list of everything and then that way as things move forward like you said if it's partial we'll just you know we can highlight those right these are the ones that are going to move forward that we know of right now but it's just it's um it's uh it's it's it's kind of it's kind of tough uh just just in general well it's a bit of a moving Target right it's a moving Target you know what was the the original executive orders and then the injunctions and what injunctions I did receive an interesting email today that actually had some of the executive orders in it if people haven't received that I'd be happy to pass them along and I can forward that email to to you I started looking at it I didn't get the time to look at it in detail I think so we can understand right what are some of the things they're talking about but also understanding that there are states and different municipalities and different places that are pushing back on this are we getting anything from the state like are they providing any guidance as to like what that's an excellent question Brandy have we heard anything think everybody I mean I know that programmatic your so I think some of our programmatic grants we've reached up to our grant managers so sometimes um Michael's point was sometimes we we're getting the Grant from a state agency but it's really a federal pass through and so right we're calling our state Grant um pro project manager looking for guidance and they're also sort of trying to figure out what all this means and they're looking from guidance from the federal government and so it's a little bit of a trickle down and that we're not getting a ton not because they don't want to provide it but I don't think because they know so it feels like everybody's like in the same vote of trying to figure out like what exactly yeah does this mean but I know that the staff that I have working on grants they've been out outly reaching out that first day sort of lots of things were kind of locked up systems kind of weren't working and so um you know they they were just trying to figure that out because I would hope I would hope as Things become a little bit less chaotic maybe um that we would get some sort of higher level guidance from the state down to municipality to say okay this is this is how it's going to affect this level and that level and because I mean even when we were talking to mapc and they were talking about the the grant use do the project for for that it's you know we're not probably affected by that but there is a lot of there's a lot of things that are in the mix like you know if there's other grants that we've applied for but we haven't gotten funding for I me we talk about the land grant MH but the fund coming to the school to the well the school that's the biggest one I mean we were anticipating millions of dollars yeah so specifically right we we're getting $600,000 to put towards a purchase that we are already under agreement with correct I mean we have a contract that we have to come up with that $600,000 there was no contingency that said there no contingency that said oh by the way if the president decides to say sorry right and then and additionally $3.2 million in tax credits from the government from the Energy savings um y things that were put into place in for both the mes and the public safety building $3.2 million $600,000 just those are two right so almost $4 million right there just a start just a start just a start so and then there's also just to follow up on your point in terms of people to think about people coming to work now wondering if they're how long they're going to be paid for and whether I've seen a person be laid off mid year because the grant was pulled or whatever and just it's amazing that we're not and we're not talking about one person we're talking about many people in this town and probably there hundreds of thousands across this country who are in this position it's wide ranging systemic impacts that will directly affect the quality of life for our residents so that's why I think first off thank you for um you know getting this information together the more that we understand it the better that we can go back to our constituents when we're being contacted and I am being contacted about this um can explain the situation and you know we can do what we need to plan for whatever we need to plan for yeah it's um I was just going to say you know to that point like could we make sure it is a standing item on our agenda for the next I think that's a very approprate idea Trump Administration update well just well no federal funding Federal fund just and impacts on on Ashland I mean have like a Administration up I mean we're talking about like a hazard mitigation thing we're talking about grants I don't even know if FEMA is going to be around that was actually on my list to ask him like what happens if disappears but honestly you know Martin from the mapc is like you know he has zero he can't answer that question because nobody knows but but I think I think if we have it as a standing item on our agenda and we're addressing it like even if even if because we know it's going to be fluid and we know it's going to change and you know it's um we have to let con contextually and this is not a political thing this is an operational thing we owe it to our constituents and our fellow citizens to let them know what we know and and let them know how we're you know trying to you know put any sort of mitigation planning in place or at least make sure that we are a source of as well as we know accurate and upto-date information about local impacts uh on these issues because there's going to be there's also going to be a lot of mistake I'm going to say I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt there's going to be a lot of like mistaken information transmitted there's going to be a lot of you know speculation I would like our residents to be able to depend on us to provide accurate information as we know it I I would I would just say right I mean even between when we heard this and even today we keep hearing changes so what I would say to Residents is what I would say to Residents is we will keep discussing this we'll work with with staff and and to get the best information as we're sitting there knowing that within a day or within a week or within a couple of months some of this could change and I think we just need to be very aware of not only this stuff that's happening but other stuff that's happening and work locally to ensure that we do not lose our connection with our residents and with what democracy looks like in our country we'll say you know we talked a little bit about you know State officials I will say our our federal delegation has been very engaged um yes I have I did H I was on a call with Mary's office um you know you know letting them know what we did know at the time in terms of what what was impacted and of course they've um you know they've committed to working you know they say all the politician things that they say and um you know so we'll see if it actually does anything but um you know at the and so you know it's very clear kind of like the operations going forward uh we do have a president who feels this is the way to operate issue an executive order see what sticks that's exactly it see what sticks um and so we're dependent upon the courts in many cases to corre identify you know where he is potentially overstepping and basically taking steps to do that where I get worried you know what's that old saying possession is nine10 of the law so you know if a court does decide to issue an injunction they don't have operational control right so you can still have somebody who is not pressing the submit button on the payment and what does that mean and yep you know you do have and I don't mean this from any kind of political standpoint but you do have a president who is probably the most well-versed in criminal law than any other president we've had before and you know knows those boundaries to push you know I I think just kind of rolling back to what you had said the one thing that's going to make this uh a very kind of destabilizing situation is that in a very real and practical sense the courts can issue injunctions etc etc but at this point we don't know if that button will actually be pushed or not and I think it's important again this is a Communications issue because people will be like well the court said this so where's the money and we have to be clear with them and say yes we know that but the button has not been pushed right the funds have no federal employees there right because if we're hearing all kinds of things about federal employees either losing their jobs or early retirements or I mean we've we've seen it here in the state when they did early retirement for people working in certain departments at the state level where then design review few things instead of taking six months to to nine months took a year and a half when they did it for mass for do yeah yeah back in 1314 when we were working on getting Route 126 approved by the tip we had our 25% design we were working with people at the state level and because that was it was around that time when they said okay we're doing early retirements and they laid off you know they had a number of people retire and all of a sudden they were telling us well now we don't have enough staff to keep this on track and we lost a year or there about and pushed our whole project back so I I have a fear that we have to be conscious that this could happen at the federal level at well as well the other thing too is it isn't just a matter of the courts issue this and then it's a matter of the confusion that it creates oh definitely that nobody really knows does that mean I should push the button or no that's not me that's exactly the confusion is crazy that's why the communication is important so like you know I think what we can do is just try to you know keep in touch with our state and federal officials um make sure that uh we understand we understand what the situation is so that we can provide that you know or Echo that information and make sure that you know our our neighbors here in Ashland um have the information that we have and so that they understand what's going on because at the end of the day you know folks are going to be like well I depend on the food pantry or like what's going on with the daycare with the with the kindergarten situation or like what's going on with the roads or what's going on with my water or what's going on with this we need to make sure that people understand what's happening how it's happening and what we're doing if anything and what we're doing about it and what we can and what exactly and we have to just be very clear about that so people understand um but I I hope that folks understand that no matter what happens that we'll be working very hard uh for the residents of ashin uh regardless what whatever comes up like that's what we're here for that's what we're going to do and we're going to do our darnest to uh make sure that we continue to serve this town and its residents to the exactly so so and I know like I know you know so far like I know you've been contacted uh by people I have received over 30 like w correspondents Co phone calls from residents you know about before or after your your letter went out this weekend um so some of it was before which kind of prompted yeah what I put out there but then you know they're just they're trying to figure it out and you know right now everybody it's so still kind of new so everybody's being kind of gracious and you know patient yeah I think but um you know at some point that tensions are going to fray and oh yeah that's why that's why I'm suggesting and and you know I think we've talked about communication here in the past there's there is a very strong uh possibility of a lot of in misinformation and disinformation around these issues and we have to get ahead of that because anything what than that is going to be a disservice to the folks of the town so I think at some point maybe in a future meeting like we need to pick up that conversation talk about how we're going to work to mitigate that especially given light of current events um because it's critical that our our Town's folk know what's up yeah it's that's a good point and I just want to you know we've been working on like a Communications yeah plan so Jordan and Beth and I and so um I think we're meeting to review it next week and then we'll talk about it a select board meeting probably won't be ready for February 19th but probably one of the ones in March so it'll be a good time for it's kind of all coming together it's converging can I can I recommend that once before you bring it to the select board if you have a you know draft right maybe send it out so we can take a look at it and give you feedback and then you Beth and Jordan can sort of review our feedback and see oh that that would actually be ideal if we that way you're not bring to us yeah right if you if you get you know if within the if by the end of the week you think you'll have a draft send it out to us let us take a look at it you know and then we can all reply separately to you and then you can look at that information and see if there's changes or tweaks or whatever that you want to you know can either maybe talk to the whoever sends you the information and then you can present it to us and then that way I think it might be a little bit better process it would be great to have like a first round of that kind of done before before you come to us in a meeting because it's tough sometimes so yeah it might not we may not have enough time to so that's a fantastic if you email it out to us we can do it on our own time and and review it yeah okay and you can talk to you know me about it we can have questions or comments or discussions does that make sense to people it makes sense and I will just say this before you've even distributed the plan um I'll say that you know I think we have to you know we'll have to think about like not just when um you know the mechanisms to to disseminate information but also um you know how not just select board but like how Town employees can handle information requests you know and make sure that you know how how do we keep everybody aligned with the same information in realist time so that we don't have conflicting information going out into the community just something to think about while you're putting together those plans and just to that point like just just hearing Makita say that like it kind of it for Me Maybe we need to approach this like we did covid and have like a task force I would Age with you that really um handled sort of like was the central of all the the information and I I don't know I feel like this might be that scope that we need specifically about the federal funding and how it's impacting it's not just our general marketing yeah I mean Communications plan right I'm just throwing that out there because um I think that's a very good point because because that might be the scale that we're talking about with this that we need to kind of think of it as I want I want to say a crisis because it pro it might I mean it might it could be but I mean I think we just want to make sure that we have that mechanism in place should we have to kick it into gear so only because again it's not not me it's somewhat our agend I mean it is on our agenda but more of a grant update so what I'd like to recommend is we're going to put this on our agenda again for this next meeting in February as you have thoughts and ideas certainly think about that um let's look at this Communications plan that we get from Michael Beth and and Jordan Jordan thank you um and give your feedback back to Michael think about a task force idea what would that look like maybe we can discuss that at our next board meeting to see how we want to handle that we can add that as an agenda item I think it's a great idea by doing that because now you have a central centrally located point of contact where all that information is funneled into that into that Center and then people can grab that information instead of Peace meiling Here There and Everywhere localized it's right where where it needs to be which is what we did with Co we had one point of contact person and all the that information was provided to that a person and it was disseminated out to everybody in that one way so yeah great idea because because also you know you think about it this will have impact on the schools oh this will like so wi ranging systemic impacts every every every Department in this community and not just Ashland but everywhere everywhere couldn't agree with you morej Jo and Brandy I think that was an incredible suggestion I think that's where a good place to start okay great okay anything else Micha Endor Jen okay it is time for board reports Makita hello um so um I would unfortunately like to share that I have been pretty sick over the past couple of weeks so I haven't been out and about but thank goodness I'm on the mend um the one thing I will share is that I we did have a uh committee uh subcommittee meeting uh to talk about the process uh the committee uh selection process process and and and um Recruitment and and and process and such so we've got another meeting that will be posted soon um right now what we're again we're just doing some Discovery as it were trying to make sure that we fully understand the business process or the process uh end to endend before we can make any kind of recommendations uh about Improvement and we're obviously talking about all the stakeholders in the process right now um so that work continues and we'll uh be able to provide provide an additional update because we'll have another meeting coming up soon so um yeah I'd also like to wish everyone here in Ashland and farfield a very happy Black History Month it's February um so uh it's a great opportunity to study study up about uh some of the cont contributions of African-Americans uh that have uh helped make this country great um African-American history is American history so there you go so great that's all I've got nice Claudia yes thank you um know just a couple of things I've had the occasion to go up and uh not personally skate on the Warren Conference Center rink but um my grandchildren and some friends and you know it's really nice it's um it's well lit they have lights all around it they have a fire pit um you know where you can get warm the um you know the restaurant Henry's Place happens to be right there so you could actually go inside and and have have a little drink or refreshment while the your children were skating so it it's really a nice spot it looks great and um appreciate it and you know we're the process for building the the new structures is coming along and I know Jen's been very involved with that um and then I did attend the uh school committee budget meeting two weeks ago I guess um and you know it was what we've really been hearing in terms of there are some challenges um a lot of you know costs of weely Skyrocket in it in terms of um you know inflation has hit everything and and um things like the out of District cost for students has been really skyrocketed um so and then there was a lot of discussion this was a this meeting in particular was focused on uh the preschool um special education and um mindes and the thing with the preschool was a big discussion really about whether or not that school should be servicing try to meet the uh need in the community um currently the building is too small to really do that it does meet the need of um allowing the school department to service students um with special needs that are very that that re require intervention at at three years old and then that allows us to U you know educate them in our in our state I mean in our state in our town um but then we have in terms of typical students we have many many many on a waiting list um every year so um you know there's a little little conversation about what the future might look like uh and I have to say that it brought back some sour memories for me in terms of um a preschool that was attached to the high school when uh we first lost that that votes first vote and um that we would have had a preschool very nice preschool U with a program for high school students to be involved with and in any case it's so 23 years time ago right so 23 years so in any case so the school department is working very hard to manage the challenges that they face like um the town fa faces in general and and our friends and neighbors face thank you thank you Claudia and thank you for for going to that meeting Joe thank you madam chair uh I signed up for a u an online Forum uh and discussion with respect to uh quiet Zone uh development and what cities what other cities and towns are dealing with when it comes to that um to that specific uh projects and one of the big issues and concerns and the discussion will be with the liability aspect of it which is what we discovered over the p over the years and trying to get our acquired Zone completed um so I'm I'm looking forward to do that it's going to be next it's next uh Tuesday I believe it's 1 to 2 it's online who's doing it oh you had to ask me I had it written down and I left the paper is it Mass do or no it's not Mass doot no okay it wasn't Mass the if you find it was it the well it could it could it could have if you find it if you could forward me I don't know if I can sit in on but I'd be interested in listening okay I'll anything else Joe uh yeah couple of quick things with respect to the uh Road uh road traffic study committee uh we've been um working very diligently on trying to assess the issues that are concerns with the 1060 Main Street um we have drafted a letter that went to the uh zba uh earlier today and I would be more than happy to forward that in that letter to you all I don't believe we have yet but I will forward it to you all with respect to that all the concerns um that you folks met with uh Jeff uh were discussed in this letter and hopefully uh he'll understand that uh some of the concerns that we had with their traffic study report um again statistics can be used to be you know be for or work against you so um we we were questioning some of the the information that was provided to us in in that report and uh we're doing our own at the same time so hopefully we can get uh a better handle on what what's going on and again the concern is with the the residual neighborhoods that will be affected by the traffic flow and those folks not wanting to come down here so cutting from Winter Street all the way back you know C of Road in winter you know cutting to strobis land all these side roads hildale strobus Lane coming so that they can get beyond that to get to their uh destination on Badger Road to get to Route n and the mass bike so we' been been dealing with that and um I'll be coming to the board and to um Lisa within the next next three week maybe two weeks uh when I get back back uh regarding putting a signage up on Myrtle Street with respect to uh weight limitations on on trucks because there is one right now on Badger Road so we would like to we would like to keep it you know similar and the same on both on both both aspects so we'll be coming back to you folks okay that's all I have thank you just to follow up on that so Tuesday February 11th the zba is having their next meeting regarding 10 to 60 Main Street and their discussion will be on traffic okay Brandy um so the major thing I have to report is that we uh the comprehensive plan group met um two weeks ago two weeks ago I think at this point 22 January we discussed some so you know we had gone out with a survey on specific strategies related to the goals um and we had these technical working groups right before the holidays so I'm told one second uh Mackie did we get bumped from cable we're no longer I just want to make sure we're still going out live via cable okay because we're seeing a channel guide and okay I mean we're almost done but still if we're still going it would be good for the public to be able to watch us if that's what they wanted to be doing on cable okay keep going okay so we met as a comprehensive plan group to talk about the strategies there was some strategies that um didn't rate very high in the survey where people weren't super supportive or the technical working group so we met as a group to kind of go through some of those strategies um our big meeting is going to be on March 20th we're no we're not going to meet in February um partly because of school vacation week partly because um our consultant is really going to be doing a lot of the real heavy lifting between now and March to give us a whole basically to to pull everything together so we're weighing in on all these strategies um that I think is sort of like the last big task before we start writing this thing and start drafting this comprehensive plan um and then of of course the goal is is really to um to finish it and sorry we'll get there Brandy we'll get there sorry I'm a little I'm like I'm you know it's been it's been a long haul the edit function in my brain didn't quite make it there um the uh so the goal is to to get this to to to fall Town meetings so um we are we are working on it so so there there will be more public input once we have some of these strategies pulled together and and the drafts and things like that so we have that um and the only other thing I wanted to to um remind people or let people know that um I think it was mentioned of Claudia mentioned it or Joe mentioned it but um in the town clerk's office nomination papers are available for folks thinking about running for um office this may anybody that is interested did to um to run for office needs to get nomination papers get get 50 signatures and turn them in to be on the ballot for May so um I always and all the offices that are up for election are on the town website y so you can look at that okay so and um just as the winter season is is um finishing up over at the high school I just want to wish the the the clockers uh those that are going off to States uh best of luck because uh winter the winter season is short and it is ending so um believe it's not even it's just February and the winter season's over and stay safe in the snow guys we're having we're going to get some weather this week tomorrow just take it slow that's it it's called it's go rail go rail okay yeah oh perect thank you okay couple different things so we received an email from Arthur the gentleman who came and talked to us about nips I did reply to him I've forwarded to you guys what some discussion that we can have I've started some discussion with Susan so I think we can either decide either next meeting or the meeting after to see is there things we can do based on his input uh let's see senior breakfast was missed in January over at the community center they are having one tomorrow it might be too late if you haven't already signed up um but otherwise I believe they are back now uh the first Thursday of the month we've already mentioned zba uh school vacation week is February 9 the week of February eight8 no six Monday is the 17th to that week so pres President's Day yep um our next board me meeting will be Wednesday February 19th so we'll see you then a couple of other events that I've been notified about ashon education casino night is happening somewhere in March um it's always a fun event I saw that they're now it's so it's at held at the Warren Conference Center in their Lodge I was there I think preco I don't know I was couple years ago it was a lot of fun they've expanded it to two floors it's it if you if you're not busy that it's a great fundraiser for AEI it's always been a fun event um also coming up I believe later in March is Library uh mini golf in the library also if you like mini mini golf they set the course up through the stacks and oops throwing things um f i was there last year that is a delightful it's a fun event it's a fun event so um uh and the not again not for tonight but just for discussion we should start talking about uh new select Board office hours um uh I was also thinking about that this week I saw that the library had their book sale on Saturday and I'm like oh we've done that so let's start thinking about that maybe next meeting we can sort of set a couple dates and um I have some ideas on that as well based on one of the sessions I attended at MMA uh I believe that's all I have so if there is nothing else motion to adjourn we have a move in a second thank you all if I can get a all in favor of adjourning I thank you all that ends this meeting again our next meeting is is Wednesday February 19th stay safe we are expecting some weather uh we don't need to go past 10 o'clock so thank you all who have sat in and remember if you have questions or comments don't hesitate to reach out to any of us and if not before then we will see you on Wednesday February 19th for the next select board meeting thank you and good night
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[Music] a [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] 1 m [Music] [Applause] [Music] remind you to turn on your microphones they're on okay good it's my job check with Ethan jeez give me a break here I call to order the special meeting for Bullhead City School Board on Thursday February 6th to 2025 at 9 a.m. roll call President Melinda saski Charlene is here byi here and we're missing Fred would you guys please stand and say the Pledge with me do it righted to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all nope Comm stays you guys were close very close um I'm don't see any citizens present so I'm going to skip that part adoption of the agenda do I have a motion to adopt today's agenda please I'll make a motion to adopt the agenda as presented I second it all those in favor I Melinda sabraski hi Charlene Diaz hi Barb Zari okay first order of new business 2.1 is to conven and to Executive session for consideration of student discipline pursuant of ARS 38 4 31.03 A2 discussion or consideration of Records exempt from public from by law from public inspection including the receipt and discussion of information or testimony that is specifically required to be maintained as confidential by the state or federal law and AR ARS 15840 a 18841 b and d and 885 843a FH regarding the suspension or expulsion of pupils do I have a motion to convene into executive session I make a motion we convene into executive session I'll second that motion all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Barb Zari we are now in executive session [Music] [Applause] [Music] closing executive sessions on here yes um I need a motion to reconvene in public session I'll make a motion to reconvene the public session I second it all those in favor I'm Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I barbariki item 4.1 or I 4.2 immigration resolution Madam president and board members um as you're all aware uh there are concerns about uh pending action um uh relative to uh immigration and folks who might be uh in our area um illegally and um after consultation with other school districts the alphabet groups and our attorney um I'm recommending to you this resolution um and U probably would be a good idea to read it but I want to I want to share a couple of things with you before uh that you do so first of all we're not taking a political stand here this we're not taking a stand one way or the other on immigration and those kinds of things we're here for our students neither are we declaring or trying to declare the district to be a sanctuary um uh and there is some confusion out there in the public about the between safe spaces and Sanctuary so we're not doing that uh what we're doing here and what I'm proposing to you to do is to say that our district will be a safe place for students during the school day on buses at bus stops and at school activities meaning that uh we're not going to violate the law we will cooperate uh as we need to legally with um the local police dep Department ice any other law enforcement agency um but it sets in place protocol or procedures for us to do it in such a way that it disrupts our schools as little as possible so uh any requests that come from law enforcement agencies relative to this issue uh or any issue that has to do with u protection of our students um will will be forwarded to my office and that way the uh site offices and Personnel don't have to uh you know try to figure out is this a legal request what you know what can we can we not do uh and whatever so um we're just we're setting up a procedure that uh expedites the process um so that we are legal but we are at the same time protecting the educational environment for our students okay so um so I um went online and uh found another District that had written a a resolution four or five years ago and started with that document um uh tailored it then to our specific District uh and it has been vetted by uh by the attorneys so um what is stated here is legal um and um uh helps us uh up you know deal with safety for our kids have you did you talk to the local police department actually I didn't even initiate that conversation Corporal Crawford uh who supervises our sro's uh came by my office and um specifically to talk about um uh the fact that the police department has in place its own procedures for for uh uh for work with ice because this is not a new thing in our community you know we've had immigrants in our community for many many many many years um and to assure me that they would uh use the same procedures that they've used in the past um uh that they that they've never uh had any any procedures in place uh to approach students in our schools um or or seek information about our students so uh he assured me and of course I will want to follow up with Chief trebs um based on what you determine the wording the actual finished wording for this resolution to be but at this point it it appears to me that um we're all on the same page protecting our kids well I like the um the piece about um if something goes where their parents are picked up and the kids go home yeah you know um so I I like I was looking for that that so I I was glad that was in there yeah and that's been that's always a concern absolutely you know I mean kids could go home and there' be nobody there yeah um uh and and we have plenty of community agencies that you know that would be willing to step up and help us in those circumstances so uh for me that's a piece of us um protecting our kids um because truly our kids our are our responsibility from door too so um uh you know the only when they're picked up by their parents in a vehicle and parent pickup that's the door but if they're riding a bus or they're walking home door is the house or the residence where they live so uh we take that seriously and um uh we want to protect you know we don't want kids to go home to an empty house and and that kind of thing so yeah I think we all take that seriously absolutely but thank you for that and and I was happy to see that in the I lifted very very very heavily from uh the one document that I found because it was very U very complete but it had things it was from another state it had things that were very specific to that state and so I made sure that those pieces you know I tailored to match Arizona law and uh and our district and the lawyers vetted it absolutely you made the changes they said yes and they were minor simply because I think simply because the others The District in the other state had done such a good job you know to make sure that theirs was structured legally that uh it made it very easy so he had he had a couple of minor changes that we made well and I did like the the the um the second to the last one talking about after school providers and vendors you know because we do have sometimes um clubs or whatever absolutely stay after school and so that covers that piece as well yes okay so do you want to read this I can if you want I'll be happy to do that I think we need to read it into that way it's into the record yeah oh I'm trying to I'm trying to move it there my I'm trying to move your mouse with my mouse I guess that doesn't work okay governing board of Bullhead City School District number 15 resolution designating Bullhead City School District number 15 as an inclusive safe and welcoming District ensuring a protected environment for all students regardless of immigration status religion or country of origin to learn and Thrive whereas it is the legal right of every child regardless of immigration status to access a free public K12 education and the Bullhead City School District welcomes and supports all students whereas the bcsd has the responsibility to ensure that all students who reside within its boundaries regardless of immigration status can safely access a free public K12 education whereas Federal immigration law enforcement activities on or around District property and transportation routes whether by surveillance interview demand for information arrest detention or any other means harmfully disrupt the learning environment to which all students are legally entitled and significantly interfere with the ability of all students to access a free public K12 education whereas through its policies and practices the district has made a commitment to the Quality education to a quality education for all students which includes a safe and stable learning environment means of transportation to and from school sites and preservation of classroom hours for educational instruction and the requirement of School attendance under Arizona statute whereas parents and students have expressed to the district fear confusion and stress about the continued physical and emotional safety of all students in our district schools on District buses at bus stops and or at education related activities and whereas educational Personnel are often the primary sources of support resources and information to assist and support students and student learning which includes their emotional health now therefore let it be now therefore be it resolved that the governing board declares the district's schools buses bus stops and education related activities to be a protected place for students meaning that the district is a safe place for students to learn and to thrive and for staff to teach and support learning be it further resolved that immigration enforcement activities will not be conducted on school campuses unless ex exigent circumstances exist as defined by the US Department of Homeland Security be it further resolved that because it continues to be the policy of the district not to allow any individual or organization to enter a School site if the educational setting would be disrupted by that visit any request by the US immigrations Enforcement office ice or other state or local law enforcement agencies to visit a School site should be presented to the superintendent's office for review as to whether access to the site is permitted by law a Judicial warrant or any other legal considerations that apply this review should be made expeditiously but before any immigration law enforcement agent or officer appears at a school site be it further resolved should ice other immigration law enforcement agents state or local law enforcement agencies request any student information the request should be referred to the superintendent's office to ensure compliance with the federal family education rights and Privacy Act furpa student constitutional privacy privacy standards for a Judicial warrant and any other limitation on disclosure this review should be conducted expeditiously but before any production of information is made be it further resolved that if given access to any student ice state or local law enforcement agencies acting on behalf of ice or agents or officers for any federal state or local agency attempting to enforce Federal immigration laws are to follow po District policy jih attached to and Incorporated in this resolution to ensure the district meets its duty to provide all students regardless of immigration status access to a free public K12 education be it further resolved that any communication to federal agencies or officials or state or local law enforcement agencies initiated by school Personnel concerning confidential information about a student or a student's family member is prohibited unless permission has been granted by the student's parent or Guardian be it further resolved that the district shall within 30 days of the date of this resolution coordinate with community-based organizations to prepare in the event a minor child attending school in the district is deprived of adult care supervision or guardianship outside of school due to a federal law enforcement action such as detention by ice or a cooperating law enforcement agency be it further resolved the district shall post this resolution at every School site and distribute it to District staff students and parents using usual means of communications and that the resolution will be translated into all languages spoken by students at home be it further resolved the superintendent shall report back on compliance with this resolution to the board at its next meeting be it further resolved the board directs the superintendent to review District policies and practices regarding bullying and report back to the board at its next meeting and communicate to staffs students and parents the importance of maintaining a bullying free environment for all students be it further resolved the board affirms that certificated District employees have the academic freedom to discuss this re resolution during class time provided it is age appropriate and students are to be made aware that the district counselors are available to discuss the subjects contained in this resolution and be it further resolved after school providers and other vendors and service providers who contract with the district shall be notified of this resolution within 30 days and required to abide by it and be it further resolved that copies of this resolution shall be transmitted to the Arizona State School Board the Arizona Department of Education the Arizona school boards Association M the moabi County Supervisors and other County state and federal elected officials when deemed appropriate given at Bullhead City School District governing board meeting this sixth day of February 2025 glad you didn't ask me to read that one yeah that's why I ask her to do that um do I have a motion to adopt or do I have any more more discussion is there any other for further do I have a motion then to adopt please I make a motion we adopt the uh resolution uh immigration resolution I'll second that motion all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Barb Zari I'm glad you spent some time doing that thank you you're welcome it was on my mind 4.3 right away to dedic a for the den project uh Madam president and board members um one of the things that is required for um um final uh cert certific certification of occupancy of our den project property is uh that we uh deed essentially deed to the city a 30-foot easement uh between our property and the street um and uh we've had this document for a while uh we did find an error and so uh that will be corrected but we wanted to go ahead and have you approve the document so that we can proceed with the city and then what when the when the um revised document with the correction in it comes then all we really have to do assign it and and submit it and you know trade it for the one that you're approving today the air is in uh the first paragraph of uh of the attachment where it says Bullhead City Mojave County Nevada Nevada and I suspect that happened because the surveyor is from Las Vegas and probably used a template um you know and just plugged in some of the things but wasn't thinking about the state so it's just a it's a clerical err that will get corrected uh but this is a a piece that we need to uh wrap up U the work on the on the uh Den property do I have a motion I make a motion to direct the superintendent to proceed with the city of Bullhead City's right of-way dedication for the den project with corrections to exhibit a where Arizona should replace Nevada in the last line of the first paragraph I second it all those in favor I Melinda sabraski I Charlene Diaz I bariki motion passed um next meeting is next week no week afternoon week afternoon February 20th at 5:30 meet for the workshop and 6:00 for regular meeting does anybody have any problems with that I don't think so uh Judy has been contacted and asked to be here for that okay thank you I need a motion to adjourn I make a motion to adjourn the regular meeting I'll second that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda sabraski I Charlene Diaz I Barb ziki meeting is a church yeah I have attended for
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all right wild cats it's Friday just a couple days away from Super Bowl Sunday the biggest day of the year for the NFL most watch TV show in the year we're not going to promote gambling but we're going to ask our students for some predictions to see what's going to happen on Sunday have any takers this morning Friday Funday well she turned away she turned away Friday fun day takers Super Bowl predictions who am I here with Tucker Tucker what you're in school are you Tucker freshman freshman football fan yeah you going to watch Super Bowl on Sunday y if you can make a prediction who do you think's going to win Eagles going the Eagles who's the star player of the Eagles Squan Barkley sequan Barkley if you had to guess over under one and a half touchdowns for saquan Barkley over you're going to say he's going to score more than one and a half touch outs so he's going to score at least two yeah all right if you're right next week stop by the bookstore I'll hook you up with a prize okay yep Friday funay Friday funay Super Bowl predictions can I get your super predictions on record here Friday fun day all right wild cats I'm here with Peter Peter what you're in school area I'm a freshman freshman how's freshman year going going well so far all all right first Super Bowl of your high school career are you excited for the Super Bowl on Sunday yeah yeah who you rooting for the Eagles Chiefs won too many times so Chiefs have won too many times you don't want to see history it'd be history no team has ever won three in a row you don't want to see that no I want to see something new you want to see somebody new I want to see history I want to see the Chiefs win gambling's a big part of the Super Bowl we're not going to promote G you're too young to gamble right but if you had to predict Patrick Mahomes very good quarterback for the Chiefs you think he will throw more than two and a half touchdowns over under two and a half touchdowns I think over if you're right stop by the bookstore next next week we'll hook you up with a priz all right well cats I'm here with Ella Ella what year in school are you I'm a senior congratulations we're heading down the home stretch a senior year are you going to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday maybe maybe yeah if you got nothing else going on who's playing do you know uh Chiefs and Eagles Chiefs and Eagles every game starts with the national anthem right yes okay the fastest national anthem ever 62 seconds Neil Diamond ever heard of Neil Diamond no no ask your parents maybe your grandparents actually sweet car the longest national anthem 2 minutes and 36 seconds the last time it was in New Orleans by Alicia Keys you know Alicia Keys yes okay this year John batist is singing the National Anthem do you think he will sing over 2 minutes or under 2 minutes for the national anth I think he's going to go under he's going to go under 2 minutes yes under 2 minutes if you're right stop by the bookstore next week we'll hook you up with a prize thank you all right wild cats I'm here with Isaiah Sylvester Isaiah Sylvester you're a football player excited for the Super Bowl yeah who are you r for Eagles Eagles a lot of Eagles fans this morning why not the cheap can't stand the Chiefs Chiefs need to get up all right we're not going to promote gambling here on Friday funay but a lot of people do like to gamble on in the Super Bowl you know that yeah you had to guess how much money you think people gamble last year on the Super Bowl last year all the people added up over 5 million over 5 million yeah yeah yeah definitely over 5 million 185 million was gambled on the Super Bowl last year who are the two quarterbacks that they're facing off oh Jaylen Herz and Patrick Mahomes Jaylen Herz Patrick Mahomes two outstanding athletes two of the best in the league will one of them catch a pass during the game on Sunday Patrick Mahomes going to have something up his sleeve to upset the game if you're right Isaiah stop by the bookstore next week we'll hook you up with the prce Friday Funday Friday Funday have you ever seen the Super Bowl yes what do they do to the winning coach at the end of the Super Bowl they they dump Gatorade on them they dump Gatorade on them right there's lots of different colors of Gatorade if you had to predict what color a Gatorade will get dumped on the winning coach what do you think it'll be red red orange blue wait what teams are playing Chiefs and the Eagles red red because you think the Chiefs will win I don't know anybody want to answer a Super Bowl question for Friday fun day no you don't know anything you doesn't know anything all right Wildcats I'm here with Angel Lopez are you excited about the Super Bowl yeah I'm pretty excited I'm ready to watch Kendrick Lamar Kendrick Lamar halftime performer if you had to predict do you think he will diss Drake during the halftime show 100% if you had to guess one special guest performer there's always a couple surprise performers who do you think will be a special guest that comes out on the stage with him maybe if he brings out Drake what if he brings out what if he brings out Drake yeah yeah that would be crazy and they like bury the hatchet bring people together that's what sports does if Drake comes out on that stage on Sunday you stop in next week we'll give you a prize from the bookstore for that proded do you think Taylor spit will be there yes yes would you guess that she's going to be wearing red probably if you had to guess let's say the Chiefs win will Travis Kelce propose to Taylor Swift on the field he better at this point he better they've been together two years now come on I feel like that's not a great place to do it this Sunday is the Super Bowl it's in New Orleans you so you don't say say New Orleans I mean my mom probably does but I don't the last time it was there 2013 there was a power outage the game was delayed 34 minutes do you think there'll be a power outage again maybe Taylor Swift I think she's going to drop one of her albums she going to drop an album son yeah she either reputation or like debut Luke's going on on limb he's saying there's an album dropping Sunday if you guys are right stop in next week and we'll hook you up with the prize for that prediction Nick I forgot to ask you earlier and I need your expertise you're an Allstate choir performer correct I am congratulations the big game Sunday starts off with the national anthem right emotional song Right course they always Pan the crowd Pan the players do you think that the national anthem on Sunday will move a coach and or a player to tear I mean got to be at least one of them right there are a lot of coaches and players out there so you think they'll find at least one tears will be St I sure hope so have you ever moved some to tears with your songs I don't think so there's a player or a coach crying on Sunday we'll hook you up with a prize next week thank you all right wild cats thanks for those predictions we'll see what comes true on Sunday tune in those you the made a prediction stop in next week good luck to everybody go Chiefs [Music]
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e e e so much for being here come on in we have plenty of room in the front if anyone wants to sit in the front get a front row seat e e e good evening everyone when I start this good evening we're going to go ahead and get started we want to get you guys out of here on time we want to get you home hopefully before the rain comes in get everyone back home dry is a goal uh my name is Robert salivar I'm the executive director of uh ed services here at our district um we're going to introduce a few people in a second here but we want to go through some housekeeping items as people are still finding their seats um rest rooms if you if you go directly straight back the first Hall to your right okay and then as you're walking down that Hall it's the first Hall to your left okay that's where our restrooms are at all right um we also want to thank our translators in the back for for being here tonight um if you need any device to to help with the translation please uh please head to the back or if you're having any issues with your device please head straight to the back okay we also want to thank our transportation department for helping with uh uh transportation for our students and and families um Round of Applause for them as well thank you for doing [Applause] that and then all of our support staff that's a part of the logistical planning from organizing you know the registration the emails that go out the taco the food the Taco folks to to here to audio visual to live stream with Mr Bautista over here it's just it's it's a lot of people that work behind um the scenes to to ensure that this this um comes to fruition and that hopefully it's a successful night so round of applause to everyone involved in that all right so we're going to do a a quick who's in the room so we definitely want to acknowledge some of our distinguished guests um before we get started here um so if I could have everyone's attention and if you haven't taken a seat yet please feel free there are quite a few seats up here in the front for us to take a seat right if you can hear me clap once you can hear me clap twice and if you didn't clap you're not hearing me all right so let's let's acknowledge some of our distinguished guests we have some uh board members that are in the room our own board members we have a trustee and president Mr Brian O'Neal right on Q on Q I saw truste Mr Ron hosi where did you go there you are and truste Miss Jessica Guerrero I know you're in the room there you are all right thank you thank you for being here we appreciate you we also have some some board members from some of our surrounding districts so we want to make sure we a them for for being here as well we have um we have trustee and board president for aesd Juan Mr Juan Alvarez all right uh trustee um also for ASD Mr Ryan Reis I just lost all right and I do we have anyone else from aesd I'm losing it's going in and out got it okay all right and we have and we have truste from uh fjuhsd fton joint Lauren Lauren claser you here there you are I knew I saw you all right okay and then we have a lot of our partners that are here as well just Community Partners if you are um one of our Community Partners um whether it's OKO city of Anaheim North Orange County Roop um Tiger Woods any of our partners please stand up please stand up and be acknowledged I know we have some I saw some of you guys where are you OKO thank you all right all right we have um if we have staff from our sites both classified and certificated please raise your stand up or if you're standing up raise your hand just wave high but if you're sitting down stand up all [Applause] right so those are both classif classified and certificated if we have District Personnel classifying certificate if you're sitting down please stand up if you're in the back just wave your wave your hands all right awesome thank you for being here I'm not that good at giving instructions because I see some people waving that are supposed to be standing up and others that are supposed to be waving that are I don't know I'm going to try to do a better job okay um we also want to acknowledge our um some of our our um Union presidents we have Heather hutner from uh CA president where'd you go Heather there you are all right Jeff morgenson president for ASA all right thank you any other presidents from our unions yes Britney and Lacy for uh our I'm sorry yes Lacy and Britney where are you guys for there you go thank you representing our counselors okay who else who are we missing Alta Jennifer's aai for Alta Jennifer please stand up representing our administrators all right yes thank you thank you okay we have our students if you're a student please stand up stand up students [Applause] awesome as we were uh walking around we heard we were talking to some of the students and they were telling us where what schools are coming from they're all over the district Oxford Cyprus Sycamore brookers Savannah Anaheim all over the place so thank you guys for being here Western we appreciate it okay and then what about our parents and Guardians and family members please stand up awesome awesome awesome okay so you know it's not easy to take um time out of your day to be here on especially on a night where it's cold and got rain in the forecast so we definitely appreciate you all being here um W with that said we want to move us along so what I'm going to do right now is I'm going to I'd like to introduce our assistant soup of Educational Services Dr freed to do a formal welcome thank you Robert well good evening bu Noz it is great to be with you tonight I'm so grateful for you all of you for being here tonight I know the weather wasn't necess cooperating today but uh I am grateful as as our team for you being here you know as a district who prides itself on being uh a Community School District right the great work that we've been able to do collectively um I can't think of a better experience or better process that exemplifies what it means to be a community school bringing all of our Community Partners together for our lcap to really go deeper into the the needs and the assets of our district and then to collectively work together through collaborative leadership one of the pillars in our community school approach right to help prioritize for our board recommendations in terms of how to better support our students and our families and our community so I am so honored to have all of you here and by the way I I know we have Robert went over all the different groups but I do want to give a specific shout out because I don't if you guys know this week is national school counselor appreciation week so I do think we need to take a moment to acknowledge our counselors on their special week so thank you counselors I know you're in here you are all incredible folks all of your roles but I know this week is is dedicated to the great work that they do so I want to make sure to honor them um but as you're engaging this work over the next what six sessions or five sessions that we have I want to invite and encourage you to really um listen to each other throughout this process all of you are coming with Incredible ideas and thoughts on how to best support our students our families and our schools and that the idea to work together and really listen to one another is be important as we come up with the ideas and the priorities that we bring to our board uh so again on behalf of our superintendent who unfortunately could not be here and of course on behalf of our amazing board who supports all of you in the work that you do thank thank you for being here and being a part of this elcap process I hope you have a great evening and I look forward to the great work that we accomplished together thank you Dr freed all right okay so tonight's what's the purpose of tonight so tonight our purpose is to begin telling our story right a lot of you have been a part of the story for many years whether you've worked in the district um you've been uh a student in our district and you you uh this is your second third fourth fifth sixth year depending where what what grade you're in um staff we've been working for quite a while those some of you have grown up in our district went to our schools and now our parents of our district or or staff members are both so and some of you it's going to be the first time you hear a story so I think one of one of the um the advantages that we get in a in a a day like today is to really begin to provide context to the lcap tell our story and and set the stage for what's to come it's also an opportunity to understand our our local control and accountability plan which we we will refer to as the lcap for short okay um so hopefully by the end of the night we've done uh a decent job of both of these all right we um we have a social contract that we've been using from uh year to year these are Universal Norms um typically we get uh input from our our steering committee um on the social contract this is a social contract that you will ground yourselves in not only for tonight but also for our upcoming um focus group meetings those uh begin little later this month um and when you're in a smaller group setting having conversations around the data dialogue and reflection around what you're seeing and what you believe might be some priorities and recommendations um we want to ground ourselves in in these Universal Norms so take about 30 seconds just to maybe uh scan through them and maybe pick one to ground yourself in for tonight's meeting this last one here is a new one for this uh for this year this was added um actually I'm sorry from last year's um uh searing committee we added to last year's social contract so these are they're they're not set in stone they could change with time as we continue to hear uh feedback and input from from the folks that are involved in the planning phases okay our story so at times you're gonna hear things and see things that we we're going to learn to or come to appreciate at times whether it's tonight or in the upcoming meetings there might be moments we're going back to our contract there's maybe going to be some uncomfortable data that we look at maybe some dialogue where maybe there's some some uh differences that we are that we are discussing with people across the table from us you know but at the end of the day it's our story just like a family the every family has a story every human being has a story there's ups and downs there's trials and tribulations there's adversities there's perseverance it's the same for us as a family a much larger family it's an opportunity for us to continue to work together and collaborate even during those moments of where we feel a little bit uncomfortable or maybe there's some disagreements but to come together to continue to do what's best for our students and our families who are at the center of everything so let's begin that story tonight I'm going in the wrong direction okay so a little bit about our demographics all right a lot of you know our demographics but just for those of you that don't here's the makeup of our district um for 23 24 we were at 7 uh 26,000 students across the district okay right um a comprehensive high schools a junior highs we have Oxford Academy CVA um alternative Ed uh two programs for alternative ad and then our our special our special day school which is Hope okay and there's the breakdown of enrollment for each of those schools okay here is um some programming as well for our our uh student groups our what we call our low income okay socio economic disadvantage um 81% of our population across the district would fall into that category um and then we have our English Learners students with dis disabilities homeless and Foster youth okay that makes up um most of our students here's a demographics breakdown we're close to 70% Hispanic okay and then the rest of the breakdowns we're about close to 8% white uh 133% Asian um we got obviously about uh 4% Filipino about 2% black multiethnic is about three and a half and then uh 0.1 for American Indian okay it's important to know this because again you know we want to know who's in our schools who are we serving um the makeup of our district as as we're we're we're going to start diving into the data a little bit today we're just going to give you a small window of of some data but really in the coming uh meetings you're really going to do a deep dive into some of our data that's that's um um obviously about our students and how to best serve our students our vision and our mission um so just to give a little bit of context most of our schools have gone through a revisioning day um couple of our schools are going through it this year and as our schools have gone through those revisioning days which when we do that we invite the entire Community for that specific site to be a part of it which includes parents Guardians students um and then obviously our our staff from that site for the larger schools about three 400 people to come together for our smaller schools it's you know closer maybe to a 100 and they go through a revisioning day where they're reflecting on you know what they want for their students not only in the present but in for 5 10 years down the road what do they want their schools to look like their classrooms to sound like what do they want to see and hear when they're walking onto the campuses into the offices into the classrooms right and then we start to collect that data as they're having conversations and dialogue we start to collect that data you know what's being shared and that from that data we have emerging things and that's what that's how we came with our vision and Mission these emerging themes about wanting a better world for our students right right for that so that they reach their unlimited potential we wanted to ensure that any student that graduates from our district is going to graduate and is going to be socially aware they're going to be civic-minded students so think about all the work that we're doing to ensure that our students have that type of exposure right to civic education projects around civic education they're life ready right life ready which is under that umbrella is everything that you want to put in there right College ready School ready life ready think about the skill skills right the skills that you will need to be able to to fulfill that vision and Mission okay again the emerging themes from schools across the district when they did the revisioning was the focus on the 5c's which are our soft skills right to ensure that Education Works for our students and not the other way around to ensure that we are in an asset-based instructional approach right so focusing on not just needs but also the strengths right um moving that needle towards equity and Justice so when we think about about some of our student groups right how do we continue to move that needle towards equity and Justice how do we close that Gap all right and believe we believe that our vision mission and core valleys are delivered primarily through instruction you're going to hear a lot about the importance of in the classroom because that's where it starts right in the classroom starts at home with the family but when they come to us it's in the classroom right systems not silos right we believe in making sure that we're supporting across the district and it's there systems to do that all right um and then that public schools should enhance and strengthen strengthen democracy this is now more than ever important right the importance of voice student voice and student agency okay so what I want what we would like for you to do with that in mind is now think about the Community Schools approach and if you're not familiar with our community schools approach we're hoping that you see alignment between our core values our mission and vision and the Community Schools approach right at the heart of the Community Schools approach our students right and then we see a little bit of the language around Community Schools which there's a ton of language but some things to focus on is that we're a community where students and families are connected and work together this represents that hopefully your school experience for our students that were talking to you're you're you're seeing a lot of that in your classrooms and back at your schools right working together with your peers your staff right to ensure that opportunities address the needs of the whole child right so that all students can Thrive and real and realize their unlimited potential there's that word again unlimited unlimited you whole child what is whole child again if it's not familiar to to you here's a quick little summary but hopefully you see alignment to Our Community School's approach to our vision to our values to our core values our vision and our mission I'm just going to point out some key words right well-rounded individuals okay equip with an educa with a solid education and important life skills what are those skills equipped with important life skills how do we Define those skills are those our five C's is it student voice is it the technical skills okay to help them Reach their their full potential we understand that through the whole child approach students are come into our schools and have access to a safe welcoming and engaging learning environment that's our job at each site in each classroom in each office to be able to do this right okay take a second to look at this picture how many of you guys are thinking oh that reminds me of my educational experience well maybe hopeful maybe not this one that's from way back maybe more maybe this one with a little bit of color okay A little bit of color okay right like this is this bring backs this brings back memories for a lot of us we would go from one class to another and every single class was set up this way right there is a heavy emphasis on the technical skills okay heavy emphasis on the technical skills right there was typically not much room for student talk right for student um engagement collaboration engaging in Project based learning it was very different back in the days right so does this represent what we're trying to do as a district would this type of environment help us accomplish our vision mission core values our community schools approach our whole child approach are we going to get this sometimes yes sometimes there's room for this right we need we need a 10 15 minute lecture we need some context right but what we would like to move towards is what our framework is helping us do so when you think about the our vision our mission and our core values the question is how are we going to do that so then we a few years ago as a district right made a decision that the only way we're going to do that is if we change the traditional way of doing school if we we can't continue to do this most of the time right so we have to change our framework where it's heavy on the technical skills to one that's more balanced there's a focus on 21st century skills a focus on youth voice and purpose and you also have the Technic Technic technical skills which are also important but there's a nice balance of the three right so this is what we call our framework our cpsf framework our career preparedness systems framework so we ground ourselves in our framework to help when we when we're in the classroom engaging our students so that they have exposure so that when they graduate and leave us they are life ready they are college ready they're equipped with those skills that are mentioned in our vision and Mission and Community Schools approach right and our core values so hopefully y students hopefully we're seeing more of this okay that's part of our story as we evolve right think about things that have evolved over the course of time technology how much that has evolved cars right internet AI now schools need to evolve with times as well right so when we think of our out cap and what that support our lcap is to support our vision our goals our values our community schools approach so that we're creating experiences for our students that are aligned to our drivers and aligned to what we believe in right you see 21st what we call Innovation furniture that allows for more of of what we of what um student uh collaboration group projects that was in the classroom we have opportunities outside of the classroom okay I believe this one here is um remind me Dr sidu servathon this was our one of our serons okay we talk about Civic civic-minded students right it's happening in the classroom through projects but also outside of the classroom through opportunities like servathon aim career preparedness right we talk about opportunities in the classroom right to to engage in projects that are preparing them for careers that are connecting them to careers where they feel a sense of purpose but also outside the classroom with internships and things like that all supported by our alcap okay so hopefully as we continue to evolve we see evidence of that in our outc cap it's it's it's grounded in our outc cap so that we're able to do these things all right so what I'd like to do at this moment is I'd like to introduce a good friend of the district now he his his wife is also in in the audience and he said he could stay here as long as he wants cuz his wife is here okay he's a a father of four four young ladies who uh were um who are alumni of our district all went to Sycamore Junior High and Anaheim High School by the way can can I can I get the students who went to who are uh in any one of our elementary schools to stand up we have some Elementary School students students so if you are at an elementary school can you please stand up I know I ran into a few of you where are you guys all right there's two there I know we got some more Elementary School there's more I saw a few of you out there okay thank you for being here guys father of four all graduated from Anaheim all now one graduated from UCLA and three currently in college professor at Cal State Long Beach president of Los Amigos of Orange County his wife is an administrator in our district principal at Western High School right Lorena Moreno and a good friend of the districts and he'll tell you that he loves the Dodgers but he's starting to love the angels too and that's Mr do not Mr dror I'll say Moreno Round of [Music] Applause when noes good evening when noes good evening so um I'm going to need your help uh it's been a tough day um for a lot of us so I teach at Cal State Long Beach and um had a student that came today um that U her mom was detained by ice so um she came and um University is doing all we can to provide the supports that we need and so the what I want to share with you today is some data um but also some narrative to that data of why what we're doing here today is so important and what we expect our kids our students our young people to do while they watch their parents um on a daily struggle sometimes it's immigration sometimes it's economics sometimes it's housing sometimes it's just parents struggling with their own relationships um so this conversation with the student today and and Robert your intro um reminds me about um what we're supposed to be doing together as human beings right to support one another to uplift each other yeah no no we get mad at times with each other sometimes we even come to the board meeting and tell our school board members that they're horrible uh sometimes we tell our teachers are horrible sometimes we tell our parents are horrible and then we always tell our kids pay attention um but at the end we know that what we're trying to do U often imperfectly is to help each other become our best selves uh so so I thank you for being here tonight and um hopefully this will be uh helpful to you oops I'm going back how are you by the way how are you great you're supposed to be picking me up um okay what am I doing here de way okay U so our purpose building together um so purpose I I show this some of you often see me talk and I always show my parents those are my parents back in 1974 the only formal picture my family ever took uh at Sears at Sears um and and so all all of the the stuff you see there is my mom made it she was a seamstress in a faika with 300 women um we were undocumented um and um went through an entire process as a family that we see so many families going through today so I I was show this to one ground myself but to not be so nervous because when your mom's watching you you kind of stop being nervous after a while because it's Comfort it's home um so um that's my sister Jessica the oldest and my brother Tito is this Tito and then Juan and then myself and also some you know the hair cuts are also unique my mom was also a barber um as you could tell um and um so we we uh my parents um um were able to migrate here and then had some level of success because of the kindness of strangers uh when we went through deportation process my mom's FAA was raided um and she was caught by immigration um and uh for whatever reason she begged and begged the immigration officer to just let her go home and then that she would then go to uh report herself to immigration 30 days later so they did she begged I have children I have children with my children um as children we um being undocumented uh living in a one-bedroom apartment and then we rented a home we always had to keep our curtains closed we had to stay very quiet uh we could not share with people who we were what we were doing and my parents uh were told by their compes uh Eng Eng Eng English English English so uh my English is good I don't know if you think it's good but my English is good because I was afraid of immigration it's kind of funny I guess not and great teachers thank you Ryan relis I'm here everybody U because if you don't laugh you cry because we go through these processes as children and parents and I can't imagine the pain of my parents and the fear of what happens if they get taken so when my mom was detained by immigration the officers brought her home in handcuffs gave her her order uh and we were fortunate to find this community center that offered Pro bonal legal assistance uh to Immigrant families and so we found that they petitioned for us to stay uh the doctors who my mom was actually ill which is why we were here they allowed her to make her payments later because if she didn't get the treatment she needed it could have cost her her life and and so the kindness of people and systemss is what ended up playing out for us so I I was um born in wasab caloa Mexico um y'all know where caloa is I know Brian O'Neal knows where caloa is do the rest of you second state down from Arizona um so EO in wasab assembl made in Mexico assembled in the US in Oxnard California um so migrated there when I was four years old um and in 1986 through the pen of Ronald Reagan immigration reform and Control Act uh we were legalized and and I share this with you because of the context we're in today uh where he said in his signing statement the legalization Provisions in this act will go far to improve the lives of a class of individuals who now must hide in the shadows without access to many of the benefits of a free and open Society very soon many of these men and women will be able to step into the sunlight and ultimately if they choose they may become Americans that was our president then Republican saying that um and we fast forward to today we don't quite see that so through that we were able to pursue our education so I want to ask you um to um with each other for a moment um what is the purpose of college a lot of us talk about the importance of college um and so I asked my students this uh why are you here why are you in college uh what made you come so with your neighbors have you met your neighbors with your neighbors um take a quick moment what is the purpose of college take a moment what is the purpose of college what is the purpose of college profession all right um all right so how many of you have ever been in a university classroom raise your hand if you've been in a university classroom um let me ask it the other way how many of you have never been in a university classroom ah rock and roll let's play Let's play uh all right so who would like to share with us uh what is the purpose of college raise your hand and say loud okay I thought that was seventh grade okay so uh to get educated and know what you what you need to be successful in life someone else on this side learning what you think of what okay okay so college is for um academic and social I'm not going to ask you what you mean by social um uh but academic and social uh and to learn about other ways and develop yourself okay uh one more yes prepare yourself for the real world okay so question is the purpose of Education to prepare you for the world as it is or the world as it should be that's a huge debate for those of us who are helping prepare teachers administrators who do research on theories about education is should schools prepare you for the way it is or the way it should be both right or for both and what might that look like so keep that in mind as we keep thinking as we keep thinking about the lcap right as we're thinking about what is needed in our schools is what's needed in our schools to deal or work with or engage with our students our faculty our staff our parents our community to to help them deal with the world as it is or to create the world as it should be and very often the way we think about the way the world that it should be is we think about our own children's world to help them with their world not often thinking that their world is shaped by students and families and neighborhoods around them so the work of alab which is why it's incredible that y'all here and you're willing to give your time is to not just look after your own child but to look after all of our children not only to look after your teacher but all of our teachers not only after your staff but all of our staff does that make sense not only for your school board member but for all of our school board members school board members we yell we just yell at them a lot um so um so the the benefits of college it's it's a big debate that's happening about why should people go to college and I'm I got to tell you we're really worried about this conversation um people are beginning to ask why is college worth it it cost so much money they always look all those they always look poor they always look stressed uh she can't sleep at night she's up till two in the morning with essays and exams and then and then the cost so folks are beginning to say to other folks you know college really may not be worth it and the folks that were hearing it the most are billionaires are millionaires are people who themselves are pushing their kids to go to college and to the really expensive colleges but they're telling the rest of us college is not as important right and I'm not suggesting that to if you don't go to college you haven't succeeded I'm just suggesting that we really struggle to get our students from different communities to even think about college so it's a huge lift that we're trying to make to have people say it's not worth it it is absolutely worth it and here's just some quick points of what research has shown what uh policy people are saying business people are saying is these are the benefits of a college education it's economic it's professional it allows you social Haley you said social network you meet other people you meet other people that then themselves they become people in business they become principles they become school board members they become engineers so you start to surround yourself with a circle of people who are also engaging and improving their lives in the lives of others so it's a networks it's personal benefits that you get you get to grow as a person it's familiar your whole family gets uplifted by you pursuing your education it's familiar and it's Collective we all benefit when someone gets an education not just economically but we all benefit because folks who have been exposed to work and learn with other people that maybe are not like them they end up seeing the world in a more empathetic way that make sense so those are all the benefits that that we see um and I'll just focus on the economic because a lot of the ways that we try to emphasize and encourage our our kids to go to college is money bottom line Miko you're going to buy me my vacation house and right you're going to help me move to Laguna Beach when you graduate as an engineer and it's absolutely true and that's why when folks say well is college worth it it may not pay off right away but when you look at this this is just weekly earnings so the blue side is if you have your if you if you stop at col um in high school um you make about on average adults in the United States who get a high school degree uh who stop at high school make about $900 a week some people make a lot more some people make a lot less so that's the average right for folks who get some college but don't finish college they make about $992 a week folks who go to fullon college College Cypress College get their associate degree and stop there make about 1,58 a week about 4,000 a month baloria degree and this is of adults 25 in over United States who have a college degree they make, 1500 a week which is what 6,000 math Majors 6,000 a month a huge economic difference to do that now do some folks make more who don't go to college yes but on average when you take all of it together College pays it pays you may not get the job you want right away you may end up working in and out when you graduate college but once the economy picks back up you have been prepared to go into that upper economic Strat and a lot of people don't often understand that part the other part is the green is the unemployment you're much less likely to be unemployed you'll have a job where folks who stop at high school or don't finish High School struggle often twice as much to find a job does that make sense so there's a huge economic benefit to the work of college um now for the work today with alcap um uh Mr salvar is going to ask youall uh and beg you I think um be hard on the district think hard to the data we're doing good things but we're also maybe struggling in some areas push us on that but let's recognize the good things that are happening um and as James Baldwin said not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it's faced you have to take it on otherwise it won't change and and if we expect everything to change just because we started saying something we can't give up because to say nothing is not an option and right now during these political times we're in a lot of folks are saying maybe we shouldn't say anything our own city of Anaheim is kind of saying well maybe we shouldn't say anything we're saying well then nothing's going to change our school district has said we're going to say something our Elementary District said we're going to say something all our schools are saying we're going to say something our families need us to need us to say something is it cool that our schools are saying something you're killing me is it good that the schools are saying all of our immigrant children are valued we love you is it good right and some folks are saying no we shouldn't say that too loud because we don't want to get attention we don't want to get attention and it's unfortunate uh so I want to I want to ask you a question to talk about for a bit um and this is something I asked uh teacher candidates in in in my classes and I talk a lot about with them um about um education so um often many of us may be asked to talk to our kindergarteners how many of you have kindergarten children kindergarteners y'all remember kindergarten no it's a blur right uh how many of you cried when you dropped off your kindergarten come on how many of the students did you cry when you were in kindergarten so so imagine being in an assembly because often times in our communities folks who we get invited to speak and we're asked to speak in an assembly and so you're asked Jose can you just get our our kindergarteners excited about college motivate them Inspire them so you go up and you say see se you could do it and you give a story and and I also spoke Spanish and I learned English and they called me Mo too and blah blah blah and then I ended up doing this and I was Raiders and then they get excited and then I went to Dodger Stadium they get more excited and then I went to angels are like ohito and then you close it off because you know what kids you got to focus kindergarten it starts right here right here right now it starts right here if you work hard mikitos if you work hard you can all make it to college and become successful professionals and then you start the clap C thank you as B [Music] everybody's excited see even the moms are going crazy you hear that and then I ask you this would I be lying to these students am I lying to these kids now I'm Catholic so if you tell me I'm lying I'll ask for forgiveness on Sunday so don't worry about my ego take a minute with each other am I lying to these students if you work hard you can all make it to college to become successful professionals am I lying do blue here that's a good question to ask my stud when we until he hurts his back true or um the plumber might go back to school to learn business to become then own and then hire more professionals H more professionals so my students hate this question they hate it they just hate it so we get they they start they say that like why are you trying to be atist about professional all right all right um uh so um raise your hand if I'm lying to these kids it's okay it's okay raise your hand if I'm not lying to these kids okay a lot of you did not raise your hands it's a yes or no am I lying or am I not lying and be careful mom and dad your kids are here watching you they now they're like you can't be messing around with to lie or not somebody said you're lying to yourself who me tell us who said that Heather not ly if you it's not lying if you believe it wow it's not lying if you believe it what's the yeah what's the definition of a professional you tell me yeah are they called professionals or skilled workers SK professionals my I'm with you I'm with you so she's saying it's it's what what do you define as professionals because I consider electricians plumbers um other folks professionals and I said well isn't that skills is that skill trade uh but here's the thing I don't know if I'm not well maybe I'll show you but this idea of if you're not not lying if you really believe it you're not lying if you really believe it so let me push on that a little bit with all of you do you really believe if every kid just works hard and studies hard they can become professionals and professionals the way that and you know uh I'll say the most what people mostly understand when you say professionals they're not thinking skill traits they're thinking accountants Engineers professors principles General Society not you and it's not a value judgment this is not a value judgment General Society may say that unless you're not in that category then you're like wait I'm a professional too right and and they're absolutely right so this isn't to demean a profession it's what we think about often as parents when you tell me go to college work hard for what for what right and so when we tell kids that it's for what what what's the purpose right so am I lying am I not lying well what's hard about that is as I'll share with you and I got a few minutes some data that makes it really tough to believe that this is true it makes it really really tough that's why I asked you to look at James baldwick we got to face it because the only way we change it is by facing it right we have to confront whether the response of I'm lying to these kids depends on where they live does it depend on whether their own parents went to went to college does it depend on their economic level does it depend on their cultural linguistic background does it depend on their immigration status does it depend on whether they have a learning challenge or neurodiverse does it depend so am I lying well no it depends it depends if I'm talking to kindergarteners in lagon Beach Newport Beach you ain't lying if you're talking to kids at Price Elementary or my daughters went you might be lying it depends and it hurts because reality can hurt a truth can hurt and I'm not in any way suggesting that we not tell kids to try hard but it's in our hands to make it not a lie and by our hands I mean not just as parents but in an outat process it's in our hands to do everything we can so that it's not alive so that we really believe to be true becomes true follow me so I'm GNA try to go a little quick through this and so when you ask and we look at data we got to always ask or when someone data is also what the district called Street data when someone says how something is we got to ask them how do you know how do you know how do we know that that's true and how or what informs it and then how do we decide based on that data and that involves a lot of discussion analysis together and sharing of each other's experiences so here's why it's a struggle to say to some kids this is adults in the state of California over the age of 25 2022 data most recent data African-Americans is a oh I didn't label it this is African-American adults in California 26% of African-American men have a baloria degree 31% of African-American women this is Asian-American men and women the majority of Asian-American men and women adults over 25 have a bachelor's degree this is Latinos 14% of Latino men and 177% of Latino women have a bachelor's degree it is the group that is our overall majority as you saw by the data that Robert presented and it's the group in California as adults that has the least formal education it's a crisis 56% of all public school students in California are Latino kids if we don't fix this as a society as a state we're all going under all of us will this is a uh a Native American uh students this is Pacific Islander students this is multi-racial students who have uh parents from two different racial backgrounds or cultural backgrounds and these are white students so our majority population has the least college education and that matters in education the more education and a family be it here or from abroad in another country the more likelier you are to succeed so if you got your college degree in Guatemala your children are more likely to get a college degree in the United States if they migrate here does that make sense even if they're Spanish dominant if you are um Asian-American if you're from China or from Korea and you had your education back there your children are more likely to because education is a is a capital it matters so when our children get their education their children are much likelier to do it so it interrupts it makes the lie a truth so to speak and it's true across immigration and I'm not going to stay too long of this of time but folks often ask and I'll tell you kids say this sometimes I don't know if you all hear it college students say this when I ask them why do Asian American students seem to do better on this outcome than Latinos and is the Latino students in college ah Dr we all know why why they're smarter they're smarter like really they're smarter why are they smarter they just are they just are it does two things when we do that it does two things right we now have stereotyped Asian-American students as these genius students a lot of pressure on that there is a lot of pressure and the Latino students stereotype themselves is not being smart enough when there's factors that really help us understand it when you look at this and I'm sorry if you can't if it's hard to see some of this so Latino students some people say well the reason they're so low is because they're immigrant well 22% of us born Latinos have a college degree 22% of us born Latinos have a college degree if you are not us born and your Latino 6% have a college degree asian-americans Pacific Islanders us us born 61% have a college degree foreign born non us born Asians 58% it's not necessarily because they're Asian it's because they have a higher education somewhere else same thing holds true for Latinos Latinos who come and migrate with a college degree their kids are likely to get a college degree that's why College really matters it interrupts the family process does that make sense is this interesting anybody mad yet at me good okay um and then gender matters uh when I asked this oh this one's really cool when I ask the students thiss how come girls are doing better than boys oh everybody knows why that is I know I probably got five minutes but I'm GNA take the minute take a minute take 30 seconds why are girls doing better than boys this is college attainment for every racial group the girls are doing better for every racial group ah I want to hear what you're going to say take 30 seconds why are girls graduating college at a higher rate than the boys all right who dares to answer this question why are girls doing better than boys hold on everybody hold on everybody I'm G get you that I see you I see you yes oh interesting very interesting all right anybody else guys get easily distracted you see you know when Robert salvar is starting to get into say me something Angels what what what like that okay somebody else see tell us oo rock and roll so for you no no Sabo kids what she said is because women girls got the right and the access to education later in our history so they're that much more determined to make it happen anybody want to beat that tell us oh because girls we like to think sometimes we overthink and we plan and we organize Juan Alvarez help us out brother why so men believe strongly that they know the directions without a map they believe they they're they're going to do it they're going to figure it out and women are like yeah nah you got a plan yeah all right all right now do you see how easy that conversation was when we're talking about boys and girls what what if I said to you under the same Theory or thesis girls got access to education at a later date they know the struggle they know how what it means to be S the need to succeed giving people fought for that so the W Latino's not doing so well why are African-American kids not doing as well there's a history there they fought for rights what's happening we're thinking about I'm not going to give you anes just worth thinking about you can go to my class and talk to our students about it so when it comes to race it becomes uncomfortable to talk about it it really it really is race forces us to talk about the way we're talking about gender with gender we could become a little more comfortable talking about structure but also culture well we you know that at the end of the day with students in my classes say on know why girls are smarter Asians are smarter girls are smarter right because everything boils down to the way we're the way we're nurtured in socialized education if you're doing better you must be smarter so what happens to our kids when they don't do as well they don't think they're smart and they internalize it and they internalize it and when you ask them why did you make it to College they say because I worked hard are you smart no I just worked hard I just worked hard you ask upper midle middle class white children these are surveys they ask them why why did you make it because I'm smart ask Donald Trump's kids why they made it because we're smart no no they tell you because they're smart and they put their smarts to work right they could be right could be wrong but the wealthier you are the more you actually think you're smarter and that's why you made it so this is why I ask you about gender in California out of every 100 nth graders and I'll stop here out of every 100 nth graders in California about this is the pipeline out of those boys and girls girls being the orange 90 girls will graduate high school 84 boys going to college 67 of the girls go to college 52 of the boys the Gap starts to happen then 45 girls go to a four-year College because they might start at Fullerton or Cypress a community college 45 actually attend a university 31 boys and then 36 girls graduate college and 24 boys graduate college so some folks say wow that that's a serious issue with gender but the other thing is it's not that girls are doing great either in California 36 out of 100 and what we know is that there's very clear policy questions funding questions to help students make that choice too many students don't even have the choice because they didn't do the a through G so they cannot go and other people tell them well you can't go you might as well go to work or you go to Community College and it's tough in the community college it's tough 20% of students who go to a community college end up transfering to a four-year school 20 out of a 100 who go to Community College end up transferring to a four-year school so it's tough at the community college The Pledge that's why it's so important the collaborative is so important to help deal with those structures um skip this uh so just wanted to share a little bit ahsd there they're going to share a little bit but I think this is really important um because so many people have worked really hard including people coming on a Thursday night to eat some tacos and kind of see some data so um graduation rates uh since the pledge I should say since the collaborative The Pledge really started 2017 which was a really Allin all hands- on Deck so to think across our institutions in Orange County graduation rates have increased in ahsd by 7% 86% graduation rate 2017 now it's 93% is that good I don't know I think it's good it's pretty good compared to Orange C County it's 90% so we were below Orange County back in 2017 now we're above Orange County Anaheim Union High School District has a higher graduation rate than the average rate in Orange County Orange County is considered one of the top education counties in the country so ahsd Salo doing pretty good and in California we were below the state you see the green there and now it's 90% so here A through G we were at 44% now we're at 54% so now more than half of our students have the ability to apply to calate Fullerton UC Irvine UC Berkeley calate Long Beach go Longo right you could apply if you don't have the a2g you can't even apply you cannot apply your your application gets immediately dismissed because you didn't do the a2g so a 10% rate is huge it's huge and and look where we are now compared to the county we're closing the Gap with the county closing the Gap with the state which is which is really good and then by school so uh I want to show this my school because um it's important the school sites are working really really hard and this goes back to the question I asked am I ly it depends on where you live Anaheim as a city is struggling to support its young people and our schools then have to make up for it our schools have to provide mental health support have to provide Community Resources food pantries sometimes help people find housing because our city doesn't invest in that and you can say I'm lying but I sat there for six years it goes somewhere else hundreds of millions of dollars to the angels and Disneyland and whatnot but they don't have enough for our kids Cypress is invest differently in its Community laama invests differently in its community so it's not that the kids in Cypress are smarter it's that there's more resources there from the parents as well as the city and the community as a whole so you can look at your high school here I want to highlight because this was our home school and I'll close with this message with y'all is that when when Lorena and I we met in graduate school um she's principal of the Year principal of the year [Applause] we we moved to Anaheim and uh we we were shocked that there was not a dual language program for for kids so we worked with a lot of families to work on that but then something interesting happened amongst our families at Price Elementary they started asking is there a way we can get our kids to go from the dual immersion program at price to Oxford can we create a pipeline to Oxford so families thought that was really important and so they asked us you'll join us in that right we said no our girls are going to go to Sycamore what people die there remember that Lo they die there they get killed didn't you hear what are you talking about they get killed there Sycamore yeah well then that's where we're going to go that's where we're going to go so for us it becomes really important that we don't take ourselves out of the very neighborhoods and communities and schools that are our home schools and let's work together to build those schools up same thing with Anaheim High School are your girls going to go to anah You're Gonna send them to Oxford now right uh no they're gonna go to Anaheim what they're going to die there look at the a through G rates for Anaheim High School back in 2017 29 % the teachers the staff the leadership the parents they all said because mui said if you don't do it I'm taking out the C shusi said that take on the and everybody just dove in and said we're gonna make our school and support our leadership and our teachers to rise and look where the a through G rates are now at Anaheim High School seven years later 69% and some people got nervous an's getting too much attention what what about Cypress well Cypress did pretty well too they went from 64% a3g to 81% everybody increased now there's some schools that are still struggling but is it because the school is not good or because we're not investing enough as a community not just the school district itself because it's limited but as a community are we pushing so that Magnolia Western and other schools get the resources in the neighborhoods that their families need because if they're not getting it that implicat all of us all of us so please as you think about the alap think through this process about at your school ask yourselves why why are our kids doing well here how do we help other schools with this work it's really important and get other folks to do that yes Oxford is a very unique cultural space because there is the only School in Anaheim you can agree with it or not where the kids are selected so it's a very selected group of students and they earned it so I'm not saying anyway tox for what the heck they were selected right and you got to perform at a certain level by the way that has a huge lot a lot of implications when you do that a lot of mental health implications when our kids are constantly pushed right so that's that's one major major reason but look at the schools next door to it Cypress and others they're doing better than the Anaheim schools on this but again that's not because the staff the teachers or the resources of the district it's how our neighborhoods and our parents choose to invest in it and work with people there and the outc cap is where it all starts thank you all for your yes oh um I'm GNA do a workshop on that uh offline with the district not around um I'm just kidding no it is different it is different uh in some ways in some ways um and there's a there's a there's a different way that school has was developed right than other schools um so but folks could talk about that in a much more powerful way but what we do know is what can we learn from Oxford that we can think about with other schools around curriculum around expectations around resources around the neighborhood right um thank you so much for your time and your attention I hope this was helpful please engage in the hard conversations with each other uh and we'll see you out on the streets thank you thank you thank you awesome okay hey we love the data this is what we're going to do for the next few for the next couple of months just to clarify something the curriculum at Oxford is not different its course access and the way it's set up is a little bit different okay okay so what's next this is still you right no oh oh no hold hold on hold on he had a few I think I saw like 85 slides on here so let me get through your other 50 that you sent us and uh and we'll get there this might take a few minutes but we'll get there can we can we uh oh can you stop on that I'm sorry sorry back just really quick Cruz where is she God bless her soul this is information about the mental health impact of immigration policies as we're seeing them today Based on data collected over the last six years of immigrant children depression anxiety mental health suppressing the body is all what happen is happening to our kids right now it's happening right now and to our parents thank you so I I want a beautiful family by the way that's a great picture we got we're GNA keep going I know you sent us like 85 slides okay I know it's great great parents that's awesome oh wait is this where you're at right no oh keep going Dang hold on this okay where where do you want to start okay which is where go back okay all right so now we're gonna we have a few minutes we're going to get through a few slides here um I want to introduce Dr sidu okay to you um and I want you to keep something in mind as Dr sidu is going through alap or lcff over overview I want you to keep that slide in mind that he showed at the end with all of our schools from 17 to current and the Improvement at each of our schools both grad and a through G rates okay because that's our goal to continue to move that needle but then we're going to show a slide a little bit later before we close that's going to connect back to that slide okay dror s do got it so lesson learned next time I go first and then I let them go after so I'm going to try to do this as quickly as possible but I need to talk about lcff and lcap right so why are we all here it is extremely important though to keep all of what Mr salivar and Dr Moreno said in mind as we talk about lcff and lcap right so we have to start with lcff that's our local control funding formula it is a California law okay so this is how our districts are funded there are three types of funding that come through lcff okay you have oh hold on thank you okay your base supplemental and concentration funding okay so I'm going to keep it as simple as possible and as quickly as possible and hopefully we're good we do have materials and resources in your booklet that you received as well okay and then as we move into the next couple of focus group meetings two three and four we need to go over any of this in more detail or you have questions we will definitely be able able to make time for that so the lcff base funding is based on your student enrollment and attendance it's not just that students are enrolled but they have to be attending our schools okay in addition to that right we have our local property taxes and then our state grant funding okay so with all of that in mind the base funding for lcff is for all of our students that includes all of our student groups okay okay so keep that in mind as we go through we start talking about the lcap and the lcap process we then have supplemental and concentration funding added on to our base funding that we get per student our supplemental and concentration funding is for students that are identified as lowincome Foster Youth and English Learners okay so that is why when we start looking at the LC cap when we are in our Focus grp groups and you start reading through the lcap you can see I saw some of you flipping through the booklet already you can see that the lcap goals and the work that we do through this process specifically calls out our these student groups okay and we're going to talk about the actions the services how are we supporting these students but keep in mind that the base funding is for all of our students okay then we get to our lcap so what is the lcap right that is at the plan we have to show if we're receiving this funding how are we going to spend it how are we improving student outcomes like Dr Moreno showed you our graduation rate our a through G rate what is the plan and how are we going to get there what improvements have we made over those years well guess what that's in the elcap okay so it's a three-year plan that is updated yearly I get the privilege of writing the elcap this year all right and the next three years hopefully uh ENC it encourages the store uh it encourages us to tell our story highlight our accomplishments right the whole focus is our students every single student in auhsd so it is important to be critical it is important to ask challenging difficult questions and that's okay that is part of the cap process okay the emphasis here is supposed to be on communicating this with you and getting your feedback and your input as we go through this process together okay you all here have to influence right and need to influence the elcap process and we're all going to be at different levels of our understanding and that is okay that's where we ask questions that's where we collaborate and work together whether you're a student whether whether you're a parent whether you're a staff member and that is what truly we need to do through the elk cap process to make it real okay and then we have goals and progress indicators we're going to quickly go through the lcap goals and then talk about the actions services and expenditures and you are going to see all of that in our lcap okay you are all very very important okay whether we completely understand everything about the budget or completely understand all of the programs the services regardless of that we have the power to make a difference and to influence the the elcap and I firmly believe that okay so that's that's a belief but it's about building consensus so we all know ultimately right the board or board we talked about the board earlier right they will approve the lcap they app approve the lcap yearly but it is up to us to give our recommendations to the board okay and that is part of this process the actions that are included do not take the place they don't replace the negotiation process that we go through with our Representatives that are here tonight for example okay but these are recommendations that we can make based on what we think is important and what our students need okay so we're going to quickly go through the lcap goals the old ones the new ones then we're going to talk about the eight State priorities in like two minutes and then I'm going GNA have you pick the focus group you want to be in so hang on okay we're g go super fast Dr freed I need you to go help me go super fast okay keep me on time here okay here we go old ones from three years ago from from three years ago to last year okay those were the old ones we collected some input from everyone last year here are new ones okay through a whole TI coach all students all students base funding is for all students okay with specific attention right now it comes here comes our our our our Supple our supplement on concentration our SMC funding with specific attention to our district students who are low income Foster Youth and E will be college career and life ready okay going back to our vision mission core values Community Schools approach how do we do this how do we do this going back to a through G and grad rates how do we do how do we do this okay this is all going to be shared with you so you'll be able to see you'll be able to see um the uh the three goals when when it's shared with you and I believe it's also in your booklet okay going back to uh Dr Moreno the importance of college okay 72% of jobs will require more than a high school diploma in okay we need to do this so that our students are ready for this okay okay we're going to go a little bit fast he's already shared this 17 86% of our kids are graduating 43% we're achieving a through G we already went through this but I want you to see a gap all students right 1920 52% a through G 92% graduated that's a 39% Gap are we okay with that are we okay with that are we okay with that 23 24 93% graduated 54% a through G rate a 38.9% gap how we right like we we need to do better right okay here we go now let's go down to Foster to our to our shooting groups remember it was a 38.9% gap for our English Learners it's a 60% Gap okay 25% of them who graduate are re are are completing their e3g requirements 75% cannot apply to CAL States and uc's and they can go to community colleges but what's the transfer rate from community colleges to uc's and Kell States 20% 80% don't transfer now you you could do well in a community college you get some type of Industry certification you can do well but again how many of them are going and finishing are actually transferring we got to think about all those things right students with disabilities it's a 63% Gap are we okay with this I hope not okay all right we've already seen a lot of this this is actually csuf data that they give us we're also improving from 21 to 23 we have more and more kids being admitted okay a lot of good work there our transfer rates are are pretty good too from Cypress and feron to the Cal and the uc's we're out we're outperforming other schools in other districts so we're doing well our college readiness data here's our District we're considered 70 76% of our students that go to Cal State and uc's are considered ready right based on their criteria how many of you guys are familiar with placenta yinda we're outperforming placenta yolinda how many guys how many of you guys are familiar with leguna Beach we're outperforming Laguna Beach so yes we're doing well but we still have gaps we still have a lot of work to do and that's where you guys come in okay we don't have time for this I'm sorry um we're going to keep going right and we're that's where we're going to go this is 2 minutes and a half thank you I got this okay so in a moment you're going to scan a QR code and then you're going to select your focus group that you want to be in the focus groups are based on the eight State priorities which again is a requirement in the lcap we have to align our goals with our Aid State priorities okay these are factors that affect and impact our student outcomes both in and out of the classroom so focus group number one if this pulls at your heartstrings okay I haven't shown you the QR code yet but I will in a second this pulls out your heartstrings we're talking about basic services for students this includes the facilities so you're going to look at data right on our facilities you're going to look at data on access to fully credential teachers teacher Miss assignment you're going to look at ACC access to standard align material okay priority number two implementation of State Standards how well are we doing that do all students and the students that we call out in the elcap have access to the state standards and then priority number seven is course access do all of our students and all of the students that fall into the categories have access to all of the courses like I was just talking to a parent back there that are a through G right so you're going to look at that data in your focus group so if you want to select focus group number one this is what we're focusing on we got three more to go focus group number two is about achievement this is about College and Career Readiness graduation rates okay A through G you'll look at the Casp standardized test scores for English and math how many students are taking AP courses what is the passage rate for that how are English learner plural lingual students doing how many have been reclassified and then other pupil outcomes okay what types of courses are they taking in which subject areas so you're going to look at all that data okay please don't leave I love you all okay we're almost done don't leave me yet okay parental involvement this one has its own category it is specific for looking at data on our parental involvement and engagement our participation rates which parents are participating which parents are showing up how can we make improvements in our communication and our parent engagement that's focus group number three and the last one is focus group number four priority five and six this one has to do with engagement and school climate so do our students feel connected are they showing up you're going to look at attendance rates you're going to look at suspension rates okay you're going to analyze that data and then give us your outcomes and priorities based on this data right here what do you think we need to improve on what are we doing well and what are your recommendations okay I know that was super fast I apologize these are again the focus groups okay 1 two 3 4 scan that QR code you're going to give us some of your information if you need any assistance we have helpers our lovely amazing helpers thank you in the back that can assist tried this out a million times so it better work okay and then we'll get you out of here okay so if for whatever reason you don't get to um you don't get to provide that input in terms of your your your uh ranking your your focus groups we will one we're going to share this slide deck yes so it's going to have the it's going to have the QR code code and then we'll put it back up at the end okay did you give me the uh clicker no okay all right we're going to give you about 10 more seconds to scan are we good 10 nine 8 seven six five four and member is going to come back up at the end three two one okay I'm gonna move on and then I'll come back up at the end okay OKO oo's in the house okay if uh if you're a part of ok can you stand up please OKO Representatives can you stand up can we give a huge a hand for our OKO folks I'm G to tell you why okay they've been our partner and have been helping us out with our parent workshops okay here's their mission and their Vision right and here are the upcoming meetings they had a uh they helped with a um parent workshop for anyone that is new to the elcap process which we already had this is going to be sent to you guys it's for facilitated by OKO it's here at the district it's for our parents to have a space to come together after each elcap session if there's questions to be asked or things that they want to continue to have dialogue around the data makes sense of things so thank you to OKO okay all right last thing you ready can I get everyone's attention and we're going to let you guys go almost finished ambassadors student ambassadors can you please stand up our student [Applause] ambassadors I love I love the fact that we clap for them and we haven't even said why but yes keep clapping okay let me tell you why we have one rep at each of our high schools one student ambassador they go through a grueling process they have to apply they have to interview they're selected they represent their school they do a lot of things they help us with events but one of the things that did for the alap is they recruited a lot of our students so huge hand to our our student ambassadors thank you very much these will continue to come out to you next steps will continue to come out look for messaging from your from your campuses from faces and administrators okay and check your email for your survey please complete your survey if you haven't done so already last piece okay remember we went back to that let's go back to that slide that Dr Moreno showed us from each of our sites and the Improvement they have made from 17 to last year do I have you guys who's talking who's talking thank you okay every site has improved every single site has improved huge huge hand for all of our sites and all the work that they're doing our Junior Highs are working just as hard to prepare students for high school so that when they come to high school they're ready and you see the Improvement but then you see the a through d right by subgroup there's a lot of work to be done but what we want to do is continue to create spaces that are reflective of our vision mission core values Community Schools approach and whole titled approach we're asking you guys to help us with that okay with that said we thank you again for taking the time we look forward to seeing you over the next next two months right at our outc cap our next three uh groups uh sessions will be by groups you'll get that information from your group facilitators and then we'll come together one last time for our our fifth and final session as a whole group and we'll um we'll send that information out as well you can stay for our our our launch video this is really just really a culmination of what's going on at all of our all of our schools again have a great night everyone and thank you for coming
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ERS should limit their remarks to new information only public comments shall be limited to a maximum of 20 minutes per item and our first speaker is Karen sabers exess to more comprehensive and affordable health benefits as you know teachers are the backbone of the educational system every day they work tirelessly to provide the best possible education to our students often going Beyond above and beyond to meet the needs of the of the diverse Learners they stay late for parent teacher conferences dedicate weekends to Preparing lesson plans and invest countless hours outside of their contracted hours to ensure that every child has the opportunity to succeed they are not just Educators they are mentors counselors and Advocate advocates for the students they serve however despite this unwavering commitment many teachers like JC said about the classified unit to come in our district are struggling with compensation that is not aligned with cost of living in our community as the price of housing goods and services continue to rise teachers are forced to take second jobs While others are forced to make sacrifices in their personal lives all in order to provide for their families it's not just about the salary health benefits are a crucial aspect to every employer employees well-being who is constantly working in high stress environments teachers also like JC said for the classified give so much of themselves to others and we need to ensure they have the support they need to stay healthy both physically and mentally currently the health benefits available to our teachers are not as affordable as they should be as a result many teachers are forced to choose between paying for their health care or managing their financial obligations this should never be a choice that any teacher has to make it's time we provide our teachers with the health benefits they deserve comprehensive affordable and accessible health care options that allow them to focus on their students rather than worrying about whether they can afford to see the doctor and pay their prescriptions the well-being of our teachers directly impacts the well-being of our students when teachers are stressed about their pay in health care it can affect the ability to provide the best education possible we need to ensure that teachers feel supported valued and compensated fairly for their critical work they do I want to read read a letter that was re recently written to me I asked the person if she would come and speak here tonight but she didn't want to get up in front of everyone hopefully she'll be here later and be in the audience dear Karen teaching is my superpower it is my calling to support guide and Inspire students to reach their goals sorry and nothing is more rewarding however I am facing a significant and overwhelming challenge one that threatens my financial stability and well-being for the past three years I have shouldered extraordinary medical cost including 13 to 177,000 annually in health care premiums in 2022 we were told that these high costs were temporary and that a more affordable option was in the near future future fast forward three years and over $100,000 in medical expenses later I am struggling to even afford the most basic necessities I never expected that my premiums would continue to rise year after year making it increasingly difficult to pay for prescriptions food housing and transportation in addition to these Financial burdens I have been unable to contribute to the district's retirement matching program something I had once planned for my future instead each month my net income is negative pushing me deeper into debt living with a chronic illness means every penny counts and the uncertainty of ongoing medical cost makes Financial stability impossible it is imperative that we find a solution to reduce the cost of he Health Care no educator should have have to choose between Medical Care and basing Li basic living expenses our commitment to our students is unwavering but we need a system that supports our well-being in return I love teaching and look forward to many years of teaching our amazing students I remain hopeful for a future filled with joy stability and dignity one where teachers are not burdened by overwhelming Health cost I urge you to make this issue our priority in negotiations so that we can continue doing what we love without financial distress thank you for your time your advocacy and your commitment to the well-being of Educators in dignity Community authenticity and service it's time to act teachers are our most valuable resource and we need to make sure they they feel valued in both compensation and their Access to Health Care a fair and competitive salary will not only help retain the teachers we have but also attract talented Educators to our district offering more AFF more affordable and comprehensive health benefits will ensure that our teachers can maintain their health and continue to serve our students without a b added burden of financial stress as we move forward in negotiations I ask the board to prioritize the well-being of our Educators we need to ensure that our teachers can focus on their students knowing that their financial and health concerns are being addressed it's an investment in the future of our students in our community I'm confident that with your support we can come up with an agreement that recognizes the hard work and dedication of our teachers let's work together to ensure that Apple Valley Remains the place where exceptional Educators can Thrive where they are valued for their incredible work they do and where they have the resources they need to continue the essential work in their classrooms I would also like to make it clear that we are not asking for the Cadillac health insurance plan we were told worst case scenario would be presented to you we made it clear that this plan being presented would be one that members would pay extra for thank you for your time and consideration and solidarity Karen thank you all right JC Scott CCA president good evening good evening I got turned on okay good evening everyone my name is JC Scott and I'm the newly elected president of the California School Employees Association Apple Valley I apologize I couldn't make the last board meeting due to a scheduling conflict but I was able to watch the live stream later on as my fellow colleague Leslie said last board meeting from Auda our bargaining unit is also shifting to kpers for Health and Welfare benefits for years there was no cost last year we saw a small increase not huge but an increase nonetheless as she mentioned we do have neighboring districts that have employees which are paying nothing at all now we're being told our members on the family plan may be potentially going way higher for a cost that is Affordable to what could very well become a financial hardship for what they always had before ladies and G um ladies and gentle sir of the board were only asking the district to keep the cost we down by offering a zeroc cost comparable plan and other affordable plans for the health and safety of our classified employees as is extremely as it is extremely difficult to absorb such cost while dealing with inflation the district's solution is to dump 2,000 plus people into the second cheapest medical option plan where the high desert only has three medical groups available who may or may not be accepting new patients at this time and this is unacceptable as it lowers the standards of living for us this will not only potentially bottleneck appointments for months but possibly force people to have to go down the hill making them call out of work to attend appointments for their treatment and interrupting District Operations ultimately the students are the ones that suffer further members and their dependents who need to keep their current doctors due to their relationship with either mental health clinicians pain management Specialists or are currently receiving Cancer Treatments or in the middle of a pregnancy or other serious medical issues won't be able to afford their monthly premium if there is a refusal to raise their current cap and ultimately they will need to start a relationship with a new Doctor Who knows nothing about their past medical he history what if this was you or one of your loved ones over the past month I've had an opportunity to talk to people who have worked in our district for 10 years or more they said Apple Val unified used to be a great place to work they love getting up every morning to come here and unfortunately the anxiety that this is causing is making them no longer feel that way lastly I ask humbly that you provide direction to your Administration to do what's best for our community and that you invest not only in us and your that excuse me not only invest in us and your employees but also in your students we all love serving I stand with our teachers union because like Lesley said don't we also work hard like our neighboring district teachers and classified employees don't we care just as much about our students what is the district's priorities when it comes to budget and what will the budget say about the way you value us too shouldn't the approach be to examine the efficiency of the district like management to staff ratio before making it unaffordable for the employees to work here here can't we find another area where savings can be made without diminishing the morale and of the staff and the quality of service to the students I hope you feel the same way and support us thank [Applause] you okay uh we need to go into a closed session to discuss the following superintendent evaluation pupil Personnel expulsion cases exp number 192 2425 exp number 20 2425 and step number five 2425 an annual review case AR number 10 2425 conference on litigation government code section 54956.9 A current litigation 11 cases cvds 21183 Civ SB 21113 03 222 0303 221 8676 231 4073 2322 171 2412 687 23 3 24444 and Civ vs 24289 government code section 5495 4.5 C and 54956.9 D2 and E1 anticipated litigation one case 20 Public Employee dismiss dis discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leave title certificated and classified employees Public Employee appointment resignation retirement reduction title certificated and classified employees conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator Jeremiah Harrison employee organization Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator Christen dpri employee organization California School Employees Association conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator TR Nelson employee organization unrepresented conference with real property negotiator government code 54956.9 a negotiating parties uh Matthew schulenberg Apple Valley Unified School District security matters government code section 54957 consultation with Apple Valley Unified School District chief of police can I get a motion to go in to close session second all right so moved by Maria and seconded by Anita all in favor I I I oppose all right e e e okay all right I'm going to call this meeting to order roll call um Rick Ry is absent Amanda Buchanan here Maria oara yeah Renee longshaw here Anita Tucker here um let's see Eden would you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right so first up we have have our student representatives from Desert nolles Elementary Joshua Delgado ni Kelly and Zachariah Garrett [Applause] yeah who yeah good evening board members cabinet and members of the public I'm Joshua Delgato from sixth grade and I'm niiko Kelly and I'm Zachariah Garrett from fourth grade we're we are all students at Desert NOS Elementary School at DES knows we SAR which means we're safe on task accountable and respectful these guidelines for Success help us spread our wings to be the best Eagles we can both be inside and outside of the classroom we are here to tell you about some of the great things we've been doing at Desert nose this year let me start by saying how exciting it has been to start our before and after school programs we've been having so much fun doing Esports dktv stem Club Arts reading club and so much more we built roller coasters created Arts conducted interviews for broadcasts and learned how to work on our communication skills my favorite thing so far has been student council student council has given myself and others a chance to be involved in our school these enrichment classes are a great addition to our school day and they're so much fun we recently made cool keychains for our board members in our art class we hope you enjoy them this is our first year in student council and we are so excited to be representing our school student council and booster club have been working hard to keep us excited about coming school school in October we were busy with spirit days red whb and week and ended with our fall festival trunk Retreat it was so much fun and there was so many exciting things to do in December we had another spirit week and our kindergarten classes had a Christmas concert last week we participated in kindness week we had a spirit day for each day and every grade level contributed to our schoolwide kindness tree we decorated in means to them our school ended January with a fun family math night which was a big hit they were card and board games puzzle scavenger hunt estimation jar photo booth and delicious snacks we we look forward to many more fun school events this year each each month students are recognized for their School attendance with a fun activity we have enjoyed a movie popcorn Party Pop school party craft activity and made keychains but my personal favorite was the glow dance party our school strives to make attendance important and students look forward to these amazing celebrations in our classes we are working hard using thinking maps from TK up to sixth grade we are learning to organize our thoughts look at information make connections between Concepts develop critical thinking skills and let lead us to deeper comprehensions thinking maps has been a great visual tool and benefits all students learning students at DK have been working hard to build our stamina and use strategies to solve real world problems we are improving our reading skills as we learn about the world around us the investigate the science of the world we live in most importantly we are working on being part of our school Community showing respect and consideration for others thank you for your time and all you do school have a great [Applause] night for everyone have one Rick all right thank you high desert Premiere Academy Gian [Applause] Perez good evening okay good evening president Raleigh esteemed board members superintendent Nelson executive cabinet and Apple Valley Unified staff and educational Partners I'm glad to be back with you this month Miss Buchanan and Miss Q also Mr hog grief shared with me their experience with the footsteps to Freedom tour they attended last year they shared how it was a great experience and how it was easier to understand how difficult it was to become free as a part of Black History Month Mr hog grief history class is learning about the second world war and the over and the often overlooked actions of African-Americans achieve the double V for victory against I'm so sorry that did not make sense at all but anyways students made a gallery walk of primary sources for people like James G Thompson and others this week our school counselor this week is school side counselor appreciation week I just wanted to give you all I just wanted to give all of our school counselors a shout out we have three counselors at our school and they support us with our grades and with life at home miss Neo always comes and welcomes us into the welcome into the Wellness Center at lunch this has been an extra nice because it's been very cold outside next week the counselors are taking a group of seniors to the pathways to success fair at the San Bernardino County Fairgrounds this will be an opportunity for us to see the different types of jobs that we could get into after graduation we will also be touring vbc and San hen College later this month a quick update on our clubs at hdpa Esports is starting competition season next week they are only competing for fortnite this season but as of now the students are excited Golf Club has officially started and meets every Tuesday starting in two weeks they will eventually move to the Apple Valley Golf Course and get game experience I hope you guys have an amazing rest of your month stay safe and warm out there and then that was yes thank you have a lovely [Applause] Nat all right Granite Hills High School Hannah for [Applause] [Music] every week or every month you got a new job yeah good evening executive cabinet board members and attendees my name is Hannah for and I'm the ASB GC president at gr Hills High School since I missed last month's meeting because I was unfortunately sick I want to give a warm welcome to our newest board members Miss Tucker and Miss Longshore I look forward to getting to know you both throughout the rest of this year I have a lot of wonderful updates for you all tonight ASB held a spirit week last month and we had lunchtime activities for kindness week for that week Monday we W Monday we did wear sunglasses to school to block out the haters Tuesday work out your problems and wear pajamas to school Wednesday don't hide your kindness we camo Thursday powered by canace wear superhero gear and Friday D up on kindness with twin day each day we had activities and music for our students at lunch as well we also announced our 2025 prom theme and venue this year's theme is Hideaway 25 and it'll be taking place at the mid in building and Redlands we're very excited as for National Council appreciation week this week ASB is posting counselor spotlights on Instagram making thank you cards and posters as well as getting them a little treat tomorrow just to show our appreciation ASP has a lot of other events coming up in the next few months and we are very excited Last Night 40 of the Granite Hills theater students were inducted into the national thespian Society the students that were inducted have spent between 20 and 1,170 volunt voluntary hours with the Granite Hills theater program the amount of dedication heart work and time these students have put in is incredible extremely on their own free will last week four Granite Hill students participated in the county superintendent student advisory Council students had a great time and enjoyed having their voices heard collaborating with other students in the high desert and making a difference they will head back next week for the second session and are excited to continue the work our CTE programs have been very busy prepping for skills USA both students and advisers have been PR prepping every Saturday for the last month and are hopeful to do well at regionals and move on to state next Wednesday our mock triail team is heading to the San randino County mock trial Association awards ceremony down the hill we wish our team luck and I hope we bring home a few Awards which I think we will next Friday we're hosting a blood drive on campus in partnership with Liv stream and we invite all of our staff and admin to come and donate our AVID program is hosted visiting teachers and administrators from sbcss last week to visit several classrooms and see Avid in action it was honor to highlight the program and help other Educators bring Avid to their schools avid's also hosting their Avid Forum next week for all incoming eighth grade Avid students the recruitment event is glowup themed and will be a lot of fun eighth graders will get to interact with high school students build community and see a glimpse of what Avid truly is February is full of events and fundraisers from our clubs we have Valentine's grams singing grams and crochet teddy bears and a lot more BSU is currently planning some schoolwide activities to help our campus celebrate Black History Month and our African-American parent inv committee is excited for the second annual self-care fair at the end of the month we hope to see everyone there as for sports our season are coming to a close and we are excited and proud of all of our teams boys basketball finished third in league and they made playoffs girls basketball finished fourth and improved tremendously over this season boys and girl soccer are once again League champions for our girl soccer program this makes seven years in a row a top the DSL boys wrestling is sending 10 athletes individual CIF matches and girls wrestling ascending Seven Girls water water polo finished one game I'm shy of making playoffs with a very young team and most of the students playing for the first time we're very proud of all of them as always we thank you for your support of garet Hills without you these opportunities would not be possible run and gray lead the [Applause] way Apple Valley High School Eden p [Applause] that's fine it's fine that's good it's good thank you good evening members of the board and attendees I'm enan poo APPA valy High School's line president and today I'll share with you what our students and staff have been accomplishing lately and our plans for this month our athletes have been working so hard and exceeding so well girls and boys basketball just had their senior nights and girls boys in wrestling are done their season in and are waiting for CIF swim are having tryouts this week and we have a lot of new kids trying out boys and boys soccer won against buroughs and will be heading to CIF and as you know girls soccer won in division 3 CIF last year and but this year they have been Unstoppable and an AR going to play in division one we are so proud of these athletes and how far theyve come and all the ones they brought us and camps Camp's crew film crew has also been at these events to capture all these photos of our incredible talented athletes for CTE Pathways and electives EMT students competed for the skills USA region 6 competition and math students participated in the early childhood education competition for skillsusa region 6 construction one students participated in skills USA competition for intro into Woodworking and our camp crew went to Disneyland and graphs are working hard Graphics are working hard heart to for skills I know recently they made a lot of designs for tote bags and that would fit into their personality and Aesthetics and I know that um I want to also mention rcde teacher Spotlight of the month which is Mrs Arondo because she has taught so many students about maass EMR EMT and her students have shown so much growth in their careers and in their education and so we thank her and all the CTE teachers who are so dedicated to their jobs teaching and guiding these students to their next level in their careers and this past November we had our six year full was visit this visiting committee spent three days looking through all the exps of Apple Valley high school and met with staff students and families and this committee was committee was taxed to determine if our school was self-study plan for um for improvement matches what they experienced in their visit and we are so happy to report our level Pride shine through and Apple Valley High School received the highest rating of our six year accreditation with only having to submit a mid cycle report in three years this accreditation report proves How Deeply committed the staff students and families of Apple Valley High School are making our school the best in the high desert and our ASB seniors or Juniors had a successful winter for formal and it was so much fun the theme was black a night in black and white and our ASB seniors are having Buffet signups for seniors and Junior boys and we'll also be having um Mr sundevil auditions and Mr sundevil will be on March 6 and so we're planing for the event and we can't wait the theme will be wild west and our seniors did recently have a senior meeting where we announced our prom and our prom theme is Young and beautiful which is an old money great gasby Vibe and the the prom like venue is uh Majestic downtown in Los Angeles and so we're so excited and I know everyone loves the theme so we're very proud of that um now this month is all about love and so our ASB sophomores will be selling Valentine Valentine grams for our students and our club letters of Love have been growing with other clubs like Sun Devils for Christ and and meeting and making cards for uh kids in hospitals to make them feel special and um appreciated every day and so there are so many exciting events happening at Apple Valley high school and I want to thank you all for your continued support and we couldn't give our students any of these incredible opportunities without you so thank you for your time [Applause] all right board member comments Anita Tucker well I'd like to begin by expressing my gratitude to our students at Desert NES Phoenix Academy High Desert Premiere Granite Hills High School and Apple Valley high schools for their insightful reports tonight and one of the highlights of our school board meeting is hearing directly from you and learning what's happening at your schools your active participation is not only inspiring but also an essential part of being informed and engaged students it is a significant step in fulfilling your Civic duties and I hope you keep doing this we want to hear from you February is the shortest month but it's also filled with meaningful events and celebrations which some of you touched on already this week we recognize national school counselors week counseling week it's a time to honor the invaluable contributions of our counselors to our students family and community and I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to all our counselors for the unwavering support and guidance they provide to our students every day they truly truly are a Lifeline for so many February is also Black History Month and it's an exciting opportunity for our students to learn about and reflect on the significant contributions struggles and triumphs of African-Americans throughout history and visiting schools today I was able to see some of the amazing things that our students are doing it was really wonderful to see additionally we observe the birthdays of two of our nation's most notable leaders Abraham Lincoln and George Washington as well as President's Day and we're all looking forward to the school holidays I'm sure that accompany these celebrations uh in the third week of February we celebrate random acts of kindness week we have Library Lovers Month and of course Valentine's Day so despite being a brief month it's filled with meaningful observances and celebrations and I had the privilege this month of attending uh actually last month attending classified employee reception on January 27th and it was really a wonderful event I was so um it just was really powerful seeing all of our amazing classified employees being honored I was really thrilled to see such a large turnout uh in support of our amazing classified staff and uh the celebration really was just beautiful with desserts and decorations and it was really great to be able to thank each and every one of you for your hard work and dedication to our student staff and community on Wednesday January 29th I attended that Capital advisor budget Workshop to hear about the governor's budget projections and a big thank you to Mr schulenberg and Miss kungle for organizing the session and providing valuable ight and guidance on the budget I was also very excited to attend the um African-American parent advisory on Thursday January 30th this was really a fantastic event uh featuring Mr rodri figs from the student opportunity and assistance program or soap at Cal State San Bernardino and he shared some valuable information about college resources and opportunities for our students and Miss Tores of course did an amazing job hosting this event and there are going to be more and I encourage uh I encourage you all to go and support that uh today I had this was probably the most uh exciting thing so far being a board member is visiting School sites and I was able to visit High Desert Premier Academy desert nolles Marana Academy and Phoenix Academy and I want to say a big thank you to Miss Nelson for spending the morning with Miss longare and myself as we toured these schools and witness firsthand the incredible work being done by our students teachers and staff and I really look forward to visiting more of our schools and doing it on a more regular basis and finally I want to express my deep appreciation for the unwavering support of our dedicated teachers classified staff school police Chief and officers and management team you all play a vital role in supporting our students families and communities despite the many challenges that we face you continue to work together to make our schools a safe and nurturing environment for learning thank you all for your continued hard work and your commitment [Applause] Renee longshaw he good evening um thank you to our students who spoke it's probably one of the best things about being here is being able to listen to you as our future voices in our community and you know you never know how far how much farther you'll go so keep up the great work um I too was able to uh attend the first annual employee of the year nomination reception um it was a wonderful opportunity to participate in the celebration of our employees that have poured their life's work into our school communities um thank you for your daily contributions and everything you do to make our district flourish um these past two weeks I had the privilege of attending the budget perspectives Workshop in San Bernardino and I also attended the Golden Bell award so I'd like to give a shout out to um Victor Valley Union High School distri District's Heritage program it was beautiful to be able to see their initiation and growth in that um I also had the opportunity to attend AB usd's African-American parent advisory committee and heard the voices of articulate hdpa students through their projects honoring Black History Month um I too had the privilege of visiting sites I saw the wonderful uh pickup drop drop off area at syura rocks um Rancho Verde yes I will be back for your Farmers Market next Thursday and yakala Elementary and they have an amazing Family Center um it was beautiful I also visited the beautiful and welcoming campuses of high desert Premiere Phoenix Mariana and desert nolles Academy I love seeing all of the art and music opportunities across those campuses thank you to the administrators and staff for welcoming us showing us around and demonstrating the high quality instruction offered to our students each day thank you Maria akara thank you so much um I have to start by thanking the students who spoke today uh your voice is uh Is Like Oxygen in my blood I just like to hear your voices that you you're the reason I get up most mornings to make sure that I continue to serve you um I'm giving gratitude and passing gratitude to the adults who helped you write these presentations to show you what what it means to be a Civic and to be in Civic engagement to know what is happening in the world around you and to speak on behalf of yourselves um most of us are already too old to fight but you can fight uh and I'm so glad um that you represent what Apple valy stands for I joined fellow um trustees uh Longshore talker and banan to celebrate the credible classified Personnel um and as the the others have spoken the the multi-purpose room was full uh it almost ended up as a standing room only um but my heart was full because many of those people I knew them um when I was within the district and to notice that your peers selected you um we didn't select you your peers people who know your work selected you I would like to see that for the teachers I would also like to see that for the management um if we can just have that on a regular basis um to see how people view you the people work with how do they view you and They Se select you and we celebrate you here um it is one thing to celebrate you once a year but it's another thing to celebrate you on for an ongoing basis um we don't have to celebrate All principles in one presentation but we can take turns celebrating them um so that people will know that there are people in the background that are still working um and yes they're working um but it will be good to uh thank them for the work that they do on February 3rd we joined the other um sber Dino County School Board boards to acknowledge um districts and schools that um that won the Golden Bell um it was such an honor to be in that room and to see how much joy was floating around and to see the superintendent and to see the the board members um and it's almost like going to a a cheerleading camp and we were all cheering each other um for the work that they do and that is what this education is about it's not about I did it's not about you did it's like is what we did because it is we that will make a difference in the lives of the children uh this is Black History Month and as you can see um I'm here to repr pres um I am so proud uh to say that I am black uh and I'm so proud to say that Apple valet chose me to represent you sitting up here um I don't want us to miss the contributions of black blacks and blacks um in your schools blacks in your community uh they have done amazing things um to help support us in what whatever we are doing I hope we never forget the experience those people bring to the table and I hope we never talk down to them um because of what they look like um that you always um showed gratitude respect to the people that are in front of you um today is U this is February I have two children that have celebrated birthdays and I don't want to forget it my granddaughter um Addison um had a birthday I was tickled pink because this is one granddaughter who did not see me any different um when she introduced me to her teachers and to her friends she just said that's my grandma when I walk in the room and they kind of look at me like uh I don't think so um but she adopted me and I am her grandmother as far as I know um and then my daughter also had a birthday today uh and I'm exceedingly happy all of these children that we serve as they all have birthdays let us not forget their birthdays let us celebrate them every time I thank you all for taking the time to come up here and listen to us and I'm sorry I'm my voice is going away but I want you to know how much I appreciate your [Applause] children all right good evening um desert n students you guys were phenomenal and you guys don't get to try and do this every month like the bigger one the bigger kids uh but you guys were just you were great um I know Gian left but I had to laugh when she was talking about fortnite being like the only esport because I feel like I live in a fortnite esport because both my girls will game at the same time so no matter where I am in the house I'm hearing them talking to people and it's yeah so it's definitely a fortnite Esports at the Buchanon house um and Hannah where are you I think you're back there I'm excited to know that like water po had such a successful season um cuz I know they were really trying to get that off the ground um and a couple had talked to me at back to school night and I sent an email to my my cousin who was the 2008 water polo coach for the silver medalling team I went to he was one of the coaches the goalie coach um so I sent it to him because they were still looking for a coach I'm like hey if you know anybody in this area like send them that way uh but I'm glad to know it turned out so successful so water polo is a crazy sport I could never do because that is a lot of Treading Water okay I turn this off um so I did want to start by recognizing our classified employees of the year I know it's been mentioned a few times but it really was a phenomenal evening um and just hearing the stories and the words that were said from Transportation nutrition services um the instructional AIDS custodial staff and in every role in between you guys really are the backbone of of the district um and your dedication and hard work do not go unnoticed we're truly grateful for everything you do for our student staff and community and I do want to Echo what M oar was saying that would be great to see it for our other um groups of employees as well uh so as a couple of the students mentioned and up here this week we we celebrate National School counseling week and our school counselors play such a vital role in supporting students academically socially and emotionally their impact goes far beyond the walls of their offices and we appreciate the guidance care and encouragement they provide every single day so thank you for being a source of strength and support for our students and I was kind of excited when we were in closed session my watch vibrated and I looked and the like care package of goodies that I had ordered from my school counselor was delivered so I was like yes can get it in on that last day um I also wanted to take a moment to acknowledge the amazing happenings in our district whether it's the achievement of our students um which there's going to be so many awards ceremonies coming up in the next couple months the dedication of our teachers or the collaboration of our entire School Community there's so much to be proud of I encourage everyone to continue sharing and celebrating these successes our students Thrive when they see their hard work recognized and valued um as do all humans so thank you to all of our staff families and community members for your continued support and I look forward to another great month ahead superintendent com thank you um Joshua Nico I get to hang out with Nico sometimes at student advisory and um he's looking at me Zachariah likes to say hey TR here to read last year last year right anyway um I love going to Desert NES I love getting to see the students but you guys did a phenomenal job um talking about your school we were there today we got to see um thinking maps happening and um all the great things going on in several of the classrooms we didn't get to every single one um I had two board members that I was trying to get to four schools in a timeline and that means we got to keep going keep moving um but we definitely would have liked to have stayed longer and we and I know they'll be back I will definitely be back um Gian I know is gone but um we did get to go to High Desert Premiere we did get to see the gallery wall um at the school having to do with Black History Month it was amazing got to see a lot of different things going on on campus and talk to kids I did have a student adviser there as well pull me aside and she said I've got an idea I said we're on a timeline can I come back and she says yes I've already told Mr Smith so have to go back can find out what that um plan is and I keep saying the student advisers because um student voice is the most important thing we can hear and um work toward and so we have them all over the district and they're working hard to to talk about the things that matter to them and to change things on their campuses and I appreciate that um Hannah I apologize for missing the um thesbian induction last night for international I'll kind of explain why in a few minutes um but um congratulations to all the students who were inducted what a what an honor for the great Academy and for all the students that are participating um Eden we missed both you and and Hannah last month um actually we also missed Gian all three of you were out so it was like um new at the podium and it was all good and they represented wonderfully for you so you should be proud um when you talked about Mr sundevil that kind of made me stop for a minute because that means we are well in to second semester and getting closer to graduation but um the work that you do I know that we delayed one one time and we didn't get to see the whole thing but um I'm hopeful that you get that handled this year and get to enjoy it and then we do have a um Apple Valley High School um League champ in the audience it's a female and so I'm just gonna call her out and just have Emily Garrett stand because she's here and I could see her League champ League champ in the 105 5 pound girls wrestling and the girls team took league as well so pretty cool you guys um Emily it was not your mom I had to release your mom to go watch it so I knew about it way back when it happened so when I saw your brother I'm like oh and Emily's sitting right there I can go after this so congratulations you made us all proud um kindness week um is being celebrated at different times s different places different ways but last week um during a superintendent meeting I happen to open my email don't tell the other superintendent said I looked at my email while while I was in a meeting um and there was an email from an eighth grader at Mariana Academy that just stopped me and he just wanted to tell me thank you and wrote this lovely email and so when we were at Mariana today I asked Miss Lasco if we could find Jonathan and I could meet him face to face because I had responded to his email that I hope to meet him in person because he had made my day and um sometimes just a few words change people's lives um in celebration of Black History Month last year I challenged people to did you know go find something that you didn't know about somebody in history that had changed something and so um Madame CJ Walker in 1910 was born a cotton Plantation on a cotton Plantation in Louisiana and became the first millionaire female millionaire um by producing hair care products and so I think that's cool the History Channel um I I did tell a teacher today he's back there um that the History Channel has some amazing things going on right now and he said he didn't have that channel I said you can get it on the internet you can watch it so all the students out there pull it up go to the different categories and look at somebody and find out about their history and learn about them um it's powerful and then the classified employee of the year um has been mentioned but I'd like to call out the names here Sher Nelson in transportation no relation but she's wonderful um Ray wolf par professional uh Alex Serrano food and nutrition services Valerie Burell security Dana Beller technical Lester Tomkins custodial and maintenance Amber Amber Abney health services and Jessica David clerical and administrative um what a wonderful evening we filled the um multi-purpose room and again Kristen dpri in the back along with Jeremiah Harrison and the rest of the HR staff made this happen along with everybody that nominated over a hundred nominations of classified staff within the district so pretty amazing we are planning to do a celebration for certificated we have tried the teacher of the year process that goes along with the county um we've had teachers attempt that it's like a dissertation um one did it one year and had to try again the next year because of just the length of the application and so we're going to try something a little different internally and then if they want to move forward to the county um process and state process we certainly will um support them to do that we will have an FFA presentation next board meeting March not the special board meeting um they're ready to come in they were ready tonight but but Mr Raley wasn't going to be here and since he asked for it I thought we probably should do it when he's available and then um finally as Hannah mentioned mock trial I'm currently living it so while I got to go and um go to a few schools today I reported for jury duty on Monday and have been there ever since and I am on a case so I will be continuing which is why I didn't go last night because I I don't know that I can put another thing in on my plate well I'm tired it's it's a it's a it's a mental it's a different kind of mental so but having been to mock trial I feel very comfortable but I wish I was sitting in the audience watching all of our students do mock trial thanks have a great [Applause] evening all right at this point um we can go ahead and dismiss the students yeah okay so you guys can all take off I know it's 8 o'clock get home finish any homework you might have have a good night bye thank you guys I did I have a picture she sent me a picture that day uhuh yeah see you later bye Eden bye Zoe bye Nick these are darling so excited oh yeah I don't think so I all right California School Employees Association CSEA JC Scott is he here yes you're here okay good evening again um as I stated before I've been talking to members and getting acclimated to my new position as the cfca president the goals are my term is to develop a collaborative relationship with the district without compromising the rights of my members I'd like to thank superintendent Nelson um assistant superintendent Conrad and Human Resources Director Mr pre for being so welcome to me at the beginning of the school year and I look forward towards working together with them to help resolve the issues and get things done so we can focus mainly on what is important to all of us which is our students and the community thank you again and I hope you all have a wonderful [Applause] evening Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association Auda Karen Sabers I'm back and I apologize because when I started the last speech I just started into the speech and didn't say good evening so I apologize good evening superintendent Nelson board members cabinet and audience I hope this evening finds you well it's an honor to be here tonight again and I'd like to take a moment to share some important updates from my recent experience at the California Teachers Association State Council a few weekends ago I had the privilege of attending this event where I was updated on several key initiatives and legislative actions that CTA is currently supporting one of the major focuses for CTA is a renewal of prop proposition 55 which is set to expire in 2030 while there is still time before it expires this proposition play plays a crucial role in providing significant funding to school districts across California the renewal of proposition 55 would ensure that our schools continue to receive the financial support necessary to maintain and improve education for our students additionally CTA is diligently working on to support outof State teachers by advocating for automatic preliminary credentials when they moved to California this will help address the teacher shortage by streamlining the process for qualified Educators and to that come into and enter in our Workforce another important piece of legislation currently on the table is assembly Bill 65 this bill addresses pregnancy leave proposing 14 weeks of paid leave for teachers if passed this bill would allow Educators to take the time they needed during pregnancy without sacrificing their income it would also close the significant gap on retirement gap between men and women which currently stands over $100,000 lastly we were informed about assembly Bill 86 which aims to implement health education for students in grades K through 8 if adopted this bill would go into effect in 2028 last Tuesday I had the privilege of meeting with cabinet alongside Tim and Lesley it was wonderful opportunity to continue building the relationships between Auda CSEA and cabinet unfortunately Miss Nelson was not there superintendent Nelson the meeting was incredibly productive and it was especially exciting to welcome JC for the first time as the new CSEA president Auda is Auda is eager to Contin continuing to strengthen the collaboration with cssea as we believe working together will better serve the needs of our teachers classified employees and students on another note I'm happy to report that Auda has successfully delivered our new avua shirts to most of our members so you can expect to see more red in the future as we see in our audience thank you for your support because this symbolizes our unity and support for educators many of our teachers are also looking forward to the upcoming good teacher conference in March we've had numerous teachers Reach Out expressing their excitement to attend additionally it's worth noting that a few of our own members will be presenting at the conference this year which is fantastic news for our district and a Testament of the incredible expertise and Leadership within our teaching staff finally we are looking ahead to tomorrow's negotiations we are optimistic about continuing the interpace bargaining process and we look forward to working collaboratively to come up with to come up to agreement on the Articles we will be addressing and we appreciate Jeremiah's willingness to facilitate those sessions thank you for your time tonight and I hope everybody has a great three-day weekend in solidarity [Applause] Karen okay um no action was taken in closed session so we'll move on to the adoption of the agenda the board May approve the agenda as is or add Andor poll from the consent agenda for discussion Andor action can I get a motion to approve the agenda don't we pull it later right now we're just approving the agenda is there a second um all right all in favor I I I and opposed okay uh our first discussion information item is going to be in independent Charter information Mr sler thank you I'll just do this one from here I don't have a presentation so much as just um a review of some of the elements of our current Charter agreement with um the academy for academic excellence and some direction for how we would like to proceed with kind of gathering information from them and what information and what frequency so the um background to this item details a couple of things um kind of our responsibilities as the Charter authorizer One um as listed there we do have to designate a staff member and uh bless you what what we do in that case because it's part of our Charter to supply a member of their board we accomplish that requirement by doing that and so I actually at the moment do sit as the District representative to AAE um following then uh we do have to conduct School site visits which we do um I happen you know I I often am the one to do that because I'm there already for board meetings um we do have to maintain make sure they complete things like the elcap and then the midterm review and the SARS and so um we do conduct that over oversight and then the following one very similarly they do submit their budget to Cindy who does review their budget uh Cindy kle and then finally at the time of renewal we do uh have to provide to the California Department of Education one of three answers whether they've been renewed whether they've not been renewed or whether they are for some reason going to cease operation and so at the time of renewal we do that and we actually file that with the CDE their term feels long because it was kind of automatically renewed and the current um term is set to end in 2028 and so um we are a little bit out from the renewal petition timeline but that does not keep us from um inviting or or requesting that they provide to us information on any number of metrics that the board selects so that's a little background and I'll kind of um maybe listen to some discussion and give and receive Direction on how to establish that um report well I do have a question regarding that um when you look on the district um website it did state that their um renewal was their their the their renewal was due in June of 2025 that's what the district website said so if it was extended to 2028 did the board approved that the board did not that extension came as a result of an automatic extension due to some covid delays and so I went straight to the CDE Charter timeline page and took that from the CDE so we had no we had no option to change the timeline it was changed by virtue of the executive action at this CDE level based on some temporary um rules that were in place because of covid so before they were approved the last time there were conditions that were in place where are they on meeting those conditions regarding um enrollment and special education what is their position what have they done so far uh since the last time because I was sitting on this board when that last time occurred um so so I just I'm curious about what where they are are they are their doors open for students who have special needs or and what um how are they enrolling students in their in their program do you have to wait till you find out your pregnant to sign up to go to that school as they've always done so I'm kind of curious so maybe reports on things like their enrollment process their demographic makeup and their uh process for students with special needs yes okay is there anything else anybody wants to add or ask um yes I have a question being new to the board um when was the last time the board um renewed that Charter I just looked at this I'm sorry don't I think it was 20 the 1920 school year right before closure well 2020 my first year is it would have been they were up for a five year and it would have been five Yeah March of 24 or 20 March 24th of 20 March 24th right as we were closing yeah yeah and so again it was at the April of 2020 board meeting April 9th is we have the Cs yep thank you thank you for looking that up Kylie and and again that's normal would have been a fiveyear they would have been up for Renewal now but the extension was without we had no say in that extension as as an authorizer nor did authorizers throughout the state now there are schools that are just coming up now in fact the Lewis Center's other school is currently going through the charter petition process for the Norton science and Language Academy and that's a county Charter they are not chartered with us that's right they are chartered through sanino County Superintendent of Schools but I think those three items if that's the direction of the board we could develop and then I maybe just can work with uh the superintendent to determine when that report would be best made yeah okay good any other topics for that okay okay thank you take the screen all right local control accountability plan the lcap midyear review presid presentation also Mr sler NOP not that okay this one will be easier from here you do have these slides up FR you and there's a second document that second document is midterm review in a template provided by um of State like company called document tracking system and so I won't be going through all of that but what it contains is essentially all of the required components which are the metrics that were approved by our community and the board last June for each um well there's metrics within each B and then there's actions with so the metrics have been updated when available so for example C scores are updated you've seen much much of this data in the format provided at the state of the district however there's a great more deal more detail in this particular format um because the um individual student groups and schools um scores have to be included so there's lots and lots of deta 30 p and so that's been posted to the district website for the public related pages but I'm going to go over a brief summary and especially focus on the level of implementation of these goals and also the expenditures this as of about the middle of the year and so just remember the background of this presentation even though we've already had our state of the district is that the Senate requires that a midterm review be made before February 28 and so that um must be a nonconsent item to the board such as a discussion commission we're taking no action tonight we're not anything it's simply a report our cycle however is that we're kind of always either evaluating our programs bringing in priorities for new programs um implementing them and then again reevaluating them so that con remember that the board carefully took action along with Community last spring to align our out cap and our board goals and so those first three are board goals and outc cap goals that are those are some you're very familiar with those three sets of ideas go four and five thatas are not the goal four our goal four for the board is financial responsibility or fisal responsibility by Statute goal four and five have to be multip school and so we lumped our two alternative schools together because they did very light things and so high Academy and app Valley Virtual Academy are mul efforts four and then they're not hearing me on the stream but what's that yeah yeah I can't believe someone was on the stream to notice that and so the goals and action are in a structure that's a numbered structure goal one action one would be 011 uh goal three action three would be 0304 and so the way this is reported is uh a quick table action number a quick summary taken straight out of the language in the uh document a progress note which is by Statute simply whether it's been fully partially implemented it where it's in the planning stages or it's not implemented the budgeted expenditures is how much we thought we were going to spend and the actuals um as of mid year are how much we've spent so far and of course we want to see that number be about half so you'll see the budgeted expenditures be a certain amount and if we're kind of halfway through the year we should see that um expended amount be roughly half in most cases we're back okay and so we'll start with Goal one these goals are all fully implemented and by that essentially what we're saying is we've been able to hire the staff put them in place [Music] um yeah good to go and or purchase the materials that were required and so in the cases of these first goal one these first six um you see that as you kind of go down the line there's essentially in all places either it's been about half expended or places where a lot of the expenses were upfront like School climate supports then that is um already expended a little bit more than half but we are on track not to overspend any of those so that's kind of just the update on the actions they are implemented for example uh a good example for this is mental health supports in our first lcap in 2013 we had a similar goal we were unable to fully Implement that goal that year we were were unable to fully fill all positions and so we had to report had we had we done a mid report that year we would have reported partial goal two has a little bit more actions and so you'll see there I'll just highlight a couple of things we're on track we are a little over spent in Avid that's a very small goal but that's a very important thing and so we will have to move some things around again um that's a small dollar amount for our roughly $43 million lcap but we have um done a good job of making and getting some students to some field trips and other activities this year nothing else there that's out of the range here's where we have some interest o27 is our elop and really all after school and Extended Learning programs and that includes summer school our budgeted expenditures there include all elop funds which far exceed what we have not spent half of those on this year's students a good uh portion of these funds will be spent in summer and so those we will have more uh costs that come and also remember some of our elop funds um can be used for other things like making sure we have uh classroom space for elop programs and so we have we are reporting not just supplemental and concentration Grant funds there but all elop funds and so those funds that we that is all funds in the lcap which we did have um lcff funds that were not categorical that for years have been there for after school programs for grades 7 through 12 now but also it does include the tk6 funds the rest of the funds are essentially on track to be halfway expended or to be fully expended at the end of the year goal three family centers um again uh roughly on track and fully implemented programs and then we reached the goals that are very School focused um hdpa and Apple Valley virtual have both added a counselor to their program they have increased interventions by adding either a teaching position in one case or added um other um after school supports or tutoring and then expanded learning um they both have done quite a bit of that obviously and they're kind of uh what they've purchased is is on they're done spending for this year but they've been able to do some things for students the rest of which will follow the go goal 0402 and then Phoenix Academy actually has two small two programs one very large school program and a small um preschool program that is a specialed preschool housed at that site and they qualified also and so they lumped those goals into three main categories they did add a uh clinical therapist to their school site Tanya babbit and so they're able to implement that program as well as um some other online supports for students and the student intensive interventions are the student Champions and that's also happening at High Desert Premiere and these are um staff members who have agreed to essentially be highly trained mentors to put in place some special supports for students at risk and then uh finally the academic intervention and training fully implemented and it's not not worth noting however that if they do not expend these Equity multiplier funds they do carry over a quick note these schools did qualify for these same funds except for the preschool program for next year with the addition of another school who will added yakala the metrics are provided I could not think of a way to put these into a slide deck that didn't wasn't dizzyingly full of numbers but I did want to make sure you had those they are mostly been the reviewed at state of the district but this has more detail um we will be reviewing these in great detail with each school team on February 24th parents and staff and so they'll take a look at this data in Rich detail and so that's what we are we'll end with uh we'll have our final student advisory meetings we'll have the district advisory on February and March and then a the plan that gets approved in March by the community uh comes to you in June first for a hearing for the public and then our second June meeting for board approval lots of information to come as that we go but remember this is the year two now of a three-year lcap and so we've built this plan we're reporting on it in the middle of year one and then now we're setting up to make sure we're updating it for year two and that's all I [Applause] have can I ask a quick question yes um I know on some of them that went over you said that the spending was done yeah for the Avid one will there be more because I know there's a lot there will be other funds that will probably be District Title One or other categorical so they've spent all of their supplemental and concentration allotment but there will be other uh supports that we have set aside for them okay so they're not like halfway no and they're not uh G to anything they have planned and again mostly these are School site costs mostly they're single school plans at the site have covered things like The Big Field Trips that are coming but these are some other things we do like making sure we have uh cash for college nights right so um they we have enough funding to cover those remaining items good okay that's what I was worried about is there gonna be enough to is there be enough yes thank you okay all right presentation on the governor's proposal for the 2025 26 state budget and K12 education thank you give me a second to uh try and grab the screen up here okay I think I might need some it assistance Greg please click screen now it comes up scared you are awesome oh conference a there it is all right there it is disclaimer um Miss Buchanan and miss opara my apologies you suffered through some of these same slides at the budget committee meeting this is a much abbreviated presentation this evening um so these are produced by school Services um I had the opportunity to attend along with um I believe Karen was there lesle mcnanley and I do believe CA had a couple reps at that school Services uh presentation this is for next year this is the governor's proposal uh for the 2526 fiscal year um you did get at your you'll see uh this I paper clipped all my presentations together this evening um it's one on top I also included for your information uh School Services had this graphic on their website it's just a little graphic that talks about navigating the state budget process in California uh produced by the California Budget and policy center it's an older document I think it's about 2015 but it's still accurate uh the state has not adjusted their budget process so that's an informational piece uh for you to peruse at your leisure in the governor's proposal um you know some some good things um C is pretty resilient there's some good things going on in terms of the economy in terms of State revenues um some of you might remember the governor tried to pull a maneuver um that's what they called it into this year by manipulating prop 98 um that maneuver did not necessarily occur thanks to uh some some great efforts by some of our uh Partners across the state of California um however he is attempting something else for this year um he's attempting to under appropriate prop 98 in the current year by about $1.6 billion do so that's been called into question um I I don't think a lot of people are happy with that um but um again this is merely a proposal many steps left in the budget process um California is continuing to grow and and that's a good thing uh you'll see there in the middle of that slide the governor is actually projecting about a17 billion Surplus um over over the three-year budget cycle and the three-year budget cycle when we're looking at next year um believe it or not it it goes back and then it hits the budget year and then it hits I'm sorry it goes back to last year then it's this year and then it's the budget year because the state TRS up last year's revenues as part of this budget proposal U revises their revenue estimates for this year as part of this budget proposal and then creates their revenue estimates for next year again prop 98 is the bright spot um as long as that maneuver doesn't happen the under appropriation in the current year um one thing that the governor had done in previous years is um he used some one-time money to kind of prop up the lcff and and that that's gone um he's using ongoing uh revenues at the state level to um maintain prop 98 funding for our for our schools uh significant one-time discretionary resources um that is in reference to a discretionary block grant that Governor Newsome has proposed to the tune of about $ 1.8 billion um a little more information came out uh regarding that with the Budget Trailer Bill language they're proposing discretionary funding to school districts at a little over $300 per Ada um when that bulletin was released Cindy walked into my office put a little Post-It note on my office and said equals about $4 million now that is merely a proposal that is not part of the bud budget at this point and you'll see later on school Services recommends to not include that in your second interim and or your budget adoption process until it is in fact approved at the state level this is just uh it's it's a busy slide and I apologize but what this talks about is last year current year and next year the different Revenue forecasts you have um the enacted budget there is in the dark blue on the left that's that's the enacted budget in the current year so it looked back it looked at this year and it looked at next um the the Lao fiscal Outlook again that's the legislative analysts office that's an Advisory Group to the legislature they don't work for the governor they work for they work for the legislator there's a nonpartisan group the department of Finance is the governor's Finance Branch up in Sacramento and then of course in the green is what the governor has proposed and these are the revenues that the governor has used in his budget proposal um you'll see the sales and use tax is fairly consistent across the three uh the enacted budget the Lao and the governor's corporation tax has some variance uh the personal income tax that is the largest piece of tax revenue at the state and you'll see the governor's estimates for Revenue going back year and in the current year and also to next year there's some significant differences and they are quite a bit higher than the Lao um or what was enacted for the current year so that's something to to watch um I hope the governor's projections come true this is a quick look at prop 98 in the education budget Compares it to State revenues the top Gray Bar estate revenues had a big peak in 2122 you remember we were very worried coming out of the the pandemic that the economy would crash it would continue to falter but the state experienced some of the largest economic growth coming out of that um you can see that spike in revenues 2223 kind of um I'd say corrected but almost overcorrected at the state level U but the economy's been chugging away and you'll look at next year in uh U sorry you look at this year 2425 the 11 19.2 billion there that's the fully funded prop 98 level um not the governor's proposal to under appropriate prop 98 in the 2425 year and you'll see next year um growing State revenues um and um about a level prop 98 funding into next year this is a slide that just talks about that under appropriation it just kind of details it enacted um in the current year we the governor the the state and the governor enacted a budget that had prop 98 um at about 115.2 billion revenues are better uh prop 98 would be 19.2 billion but again he's Pro he's proposing the 117.5 in his budget proposal risks some things that that took away some risk actually was eliminating the one-time funding holding up the lcff um fully funding the cola um that he's made a commitment to fully fund that statutory Cola which is currently estimated at 2.43% for next year uh replenishing the prop 98 reserve for times of uncertainty because they did utilize the prop 98 Reserve in the current in last year and this year um and like that bottom line says the greatest risks are really local we don't have a lot of control over our Revenue our revenue is of course generated by students by our kids coming to school um and and that is is our major Revenue driver um we have control on the expenditure side of our budget where we choose to prioritize our expenses based on our Board District goals and the needs of our kids this is just a look back on the lcff um if you recall we were a revenue limit State way back when um Governor Brown got the lcff in in the 13 14 year and the orange bar bars those represent the amount of new money from the state that flowed into the lcff each year you'll see 2021 of course that was is we kind of forget about that one um but recently um the last last two years significant Investments uh with the exception of this year the 1% Cola not a significant investment of new money in the lcff U but next year about an additional 4.2 billion um toward lcff funding to uh fund a projected 2.43% Cola and cola on some different programs again I apologize this is a busy chart but this is the lcff funding factors these are the things that every District in the state of California works with you get a base Grant um for your students then of course you'll see the 2.43% cola represented there then then that adds to the base Grant you get a grade span adjustment in the in the TK through three and the 9 through 12 to support class siiz reduction and CTE programs and that that settles you in on your adjusted base grants kind of like taxes you have your income you have your gross income you have your adjusted gross income it just changes with each step the one thing I do want to point out on this slide is the TK add-on per Ada um down there 6,44 if you read the footnote down at the bottom I apologize it's small print that's inclusive of an additional $3,200 per TK Ada um that's a proposal it is not statutory um the governor has pledged to fund the reduction in class size ratios from 12 to1 to 10:1 right now we have 24 students a maximum of 24 students in our TK classes with two staff a teacher and a parent educator um when we are required next year at full TK implementation because it's now a full grade level uh to be 10 to one um in rtk classrooms so this is the governor's proposal to fund that increase in required Staffing to lower that ratio yes so if he is saying um that the addition there will be an additional three uh 3,252 per student to reduce the class size from 12 to1 to 10 to1 it will allow you to have additional Staffing but will it allow you to have additional classrooms um that money is not designed to pay for class rooms um it's really designed to pay for the staffing um and we are we are planning on that additional Staffing as we move to next year will you have enough rooms to house all the Staffing for the full day because the the TK will be a full day right yes okay so I'm just wondering will you have enough classrooms let's say all of a sudden our numbers grow exponentially will you have enough rooms to house the 10 to one and a teacher or you're going to split a room and have two teachers with the accordion door to separate them but they're in one room divided up I'm just I'm just trying to figure it out we're currently running 18 transitional kindergartens in our district across our 10 elementary schools uh we have about 391 or 392 um transitional 391 okay um transitional kindergarten students so we arrived at we arrived at our number for next year and I'm going to talk a math formula here we currently have 800 kindergarteners in our district this year so we're assuming we have 800 eligible PK students out there in our boundaries that's an assumption even the demographers will tell you that's your best guess because it's really hard to track TK kids and Kinders this current year is only five sixs of a year 10 out of 12 months so if you take that 800 multiply by 56s and then multiply by the factor that the state was using in their assumptions of how many transitional kindergarten students would attend at 60% % 800 * 56 * 60% is 400 well we have 391 so we're pretty spoton with that in the current year next year we move to a full grade level if we make the assumption that we have 800 student cohort out there in the community for our TK kids at 60% that's 480 that's an assumption I arrived at that number Mr Harrison arrived at that number using different means to get there so we're pretty confident that that's our and I hate to say it that's our best guess at this point of how many TK students will show up at the 20 to 20-2 or 10 to one Staffing that's going to require 24 classrooms we're currently running 18 I'm currently building 12 that would make 30 classrooms available to TK if no other grade level expands or contracts in our elementary schools um so I'm going to stand up here and say yes I I believe we will have enough classrooms for the TK students that show up next year unfortunately we may not have enough room at their home school based on their attendance area because we were not able to expand every campus in the number of classrooms that's why we chose Sandia on the south end of town desert nolles on the west side of town and yakala kind of in the middle to the east to the north part of town so I'm I'm stretching I know it's a stretch but that's our plan for TK for next year so I believe for next year we'll be in good shape this is just a quick calculation this is an average funding in Ada as you know um the lcff has different grade span amounts supplemental in concentration that's unique to us um the grade span adjustments in Kinder in U TK through three and 9 through 12 that's so that's an average number of lcff funding per student that's our projection for next year based on the lcff calculator that we use and we're projecting 12,490 Ada that's our actual projected 2025 26 Ada our funded Ada in this year is actually last year's P2 because this year's P2 is going to be lower so we're funded on the prior year guarantee next year we're projecting more Ada than this year so we're utilizing next year's Ada number in this calculation so about $188 million in lcff Revenue remember that's base Grant that's TK add-on that's CTE add-on that's that's supplemental funding that's concentration grant funding that's a transportation add-on and the additional TK add-on that's the governor is proposing to enhance we're not assuming that higher number yet in this calculation so if that higher number comes to fruition that total lcff number will go up because of the additional money for TK this slide is a tough one it really shows the the augmentations that the state has thrown at the lcff compared to what the real increase was so back in 2223 they threw they threw about 13.26% new money at the lcff but it only raised the allocations by about 12.3 and that's because of declining enrollment expiration of certain covid Ada policies so for this year they threw a 1% at the lcff the 1% Cola but districts that are in declining enrollment which is unfortunately true through most districts throughout the state of California a one% increase in the cola does not necessarily reflect to a 1% increase in funding uh next year 2.43% don't know what it's going to be for us using that number on the previous slide that 188 million that 2.43% Cola for us turns into about a 2.
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2.1 2.2% increase in actual dollars this talks a little about the one time money has flowed in and I'm going to go quick because this presentation's getting long um lot of one-time federal and state money huge investment the state in 2223 um all of that's expired so if we didn't if we didn't use it we sent it back and we did not send any back uh School Services really wanted to caution districts on using onetime or short-term fund to pay for people so they pulled some data back uh this is the 2223 about 6% of the salary and benefit expenses across the state of California and this is this is across the entire state so that's 4.4 billion um were paid with those onetime monies so you'll see down there in the lower leand corner School Services operational advice is to really be wary of paying people with onetime or limited dollars you have to have a plan moving forward um and that could possibly mean position reductions attrition those types of things to to capture or you identify an ongoing funding source to take over those positions um this one really quick there's some things that I've talked about uh the TK add-on the discretionary block grant um a couple other items I didn't detail um they're not huge but they're pieces school servic is recommending that none of that be included in your second interim financials or your budget adoption process until they're actually adopted at the state the only thing School Services is recommending which is consistent with our past practice would be the uh 2.43% Cola for next year and we are including that in our multi-year projection again a busy slide this talks about colas in the out years looks at last year 1.07 next year 2.43 3.52 3.63 and 3.49 which I guarantee you will all be different by the time we get to those years but these are the planning factors that districts will use in multi-year projections slide to just talk about what's next a lot of negotiations up there the next big milestone of course is the May revision that's when more things will be um negotiated argued agreed upon the governor's May revision comes out and we will build our proposed budget based on the May Revision in terms of revenues thank you any questions I have a question about the um California Lottery how much of it are we actually getting Lottery Revenue I don't know that number off the top of my head Miss oakar but I will find that out and I will provide it to Kylie to provide to the board thank you certainly no questions thank [Applause] you okay so now you have the review and receive comment on facility master plan yes uh last meeting I handed out a draft facilities master plan to give you the opportunity to peruse take a look um I did ask Zoe um she reworked the cover put some more pictures of all of our schools on there so it's not just one giant one looks a little bit letter reworked the page with our board members to reflect our current seated board members she added some photos throughout the document but didn't make any material adjustments so I'd be happy to entertain any questions or any comments the board may have my plan is to incorporate um any suggestions and then bring it back to for your consideration at the March meeting for adoption I don't know did you guys if you guys have your book I'm on page 47 but I was looking through the facility needs assessment and are two schools that are ranked the lowest or meeting the most um appear to be Phoenix Academy lower campus is the number one or number 18 depending on how you uh and desert NES so I just would make the comment that I think we definitely need to address the facility needs based on that assessment as well great thank you no other questions or comments great thank you I will work with Zoe to uh make sure and complete any other edits and you will see it again in March for your consideration for adoption thank you Kylie do we have any public comments uh we do we have one as provided on our public comment card speakers are requested to limit comments to a maximum of 3 minutes if more than one person wishes to speak on the same topic subsequent speakers should limit their remarks to new information only public comments shall be limited to a maximum of 20 minutes per item and we have David [Applause] Hernandez all right uh good evening everybody um just for the sake of authenticity I'm here to talk about salary and benefits uh it's the negotiation season and I'm here also on behalf of service to other teachers who I know that uh you know what I'm going to say is going to resonate with them as well so here I am speaking on on their behalf uh so my name is David Hernandez and I been a bth teacher at Apple Valley high school for about five and a half years uh 13 years in total I'm here to notify just the community and and anybody here and on YouTube about the differences of pay between Apple Valley Unified School District Hisperia Unified School District and Victor Valley Union High School District um I did uh provide Kylie a handout which all of you will get it's a pretty nice looking spreadsheet um colorcoded it's it's really nice um but yeah it shows the salaries for this current 2425 uh school year for the three districts that I mentioned uh specifically it focuses on the teachers on the last column and that means teachers with the highest education level uh which gives you higher compensation basically it's a master's degree so uh looking at that the first year starts off with Apple Valley teachers getting 2600 about $2600 less than a teacher from Hisperia and $6,400 less a year than teachers in Victor Valley however this difference widens as we approach year 10 with a teacher at Apple uh Valley Unified School District making $118,000 a little bit more than that a year less than a teacher in at Victor Valley um and in Hisperia those teachers make 20,000 about $220,700 uh more than than we do here at this District so for those teachers within this one to 10 year uh experience bracket this difference is critical when you consider where to plant roots and retire because that's the basically 10 years is how much years you can carry over to a district as experience um in fact I witnessed several teachers leaving this District to work at these neighboring districts as well as even now currently teachers are looking to apply to these districts in that in that year bracket uh I believe teachers you know in this one to 10 year bracket look at this difference in pay and really don't feel appreciated many of these newer teachers are also starting families with nearby districts paying their insurance in full our district can also move in that direction as a gesture of Goodwill for families as well uh the reason why I'm focusing on the newer teachers pays because uh just being a reflective coach uh being a mentor teacher um I work with these teachers a lot and they open my eyes to a lot of the work that they do uh going through school best pract learning best practices refining their curriculum and Etc it's a lot of work um and I'm thankful I can help them but when you lose teachers newer teachers to districts that pay more they don't make that choice lightly uh they love our school district they love our schools they love our students they love the staff and Community uh it's just they can't ignore the DraStic difference uh of pay and have to make that difficult choice to leave for the best interest of them and their families in this economy uh well that's it thank you for your time and the work that you do every day I appreciate your consideration in the matter thank [Applause] you board comments Anita Tucker thank you for your comments Renee Longshore yes thank you I know it takes courage to stand Maria akara I have no comments okay um yeah just thank you for coming all right we will hold a public hearing to receive comments on the California school's healthy air plumbing and efficiency or Cal shape plumbing services contract I now open the public hearing regarding the California school's healthy air plumbing and efficiency Cal shape plumbing services contract time opened 8:55 p.m.
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Miss Buchanan if you don't mind I'll I'll make some comments during the public hearing the the Cal shap program was just was established by legislation um really coming out of the the pandemic to assist schools in um Energy Efficiency matters in terms of water efficiency and also a ventilation program to increase um filtering better ventilation for classrooms uh this particular public hearing is related to an item later on on the agenda uh to consider entering into an agreement with M core Mesa energy for some Plumbing uh fixture upgrades and water efficiency upgrades so we were just required to hold a public hearing to collect public comment on that proposed agreement thank you are there any questions or comments from members of the board regarding the California school's healthy air plumbing and efficiency Cal shape plumbing services contract I have no question are there any public comments regarding the California school's healthy air pluming and efficiency Cal shap pluming Services contract I have received none okay hearing no further public comment I now close the public hearing for the board regarding the California school's healthy air plumbing and efficiency Cal shape plumbing services is contract and 857 all right discussion action items it is recommended that the Board of Trustees discuss and take action on the following items so one approve the revised cover and signature page of the Apple Valley Unified School District governance handbook to include newly elected Board of trustee members Anita Tucker and Renee Longshore can I get a motion okay move by Maria and a second second Anita any discussion um yes I would like to start some discussion on this okay um there is a um section of the handbook that talks about um making um any sort of response to public comment um I know as a board were asked if we are um go or if we are interested in making public comment um I would like our governance handbook to be able to allow um appropriate response to any public comment all right is there any discussion on that are you wanting to amend the motion for that yes just for clarification is there language within this that you're proposing we change um just so I can make note of of which language you're wanting to change yes thank you um it is found on page 10 under the topic of managing difficult topics um it states as the last two sentences the board will not respond to questions or statements made by members of the audience only the chair will respond to public comment during the meeting and only if warranted and I believe it shows dignity to people who stand um to express their opinions or point of view um as a board to be able to respond in an appropriate Manner and not just stay silent legally do we have there is a a bit of a barrier if it's not agendized correct or for making an amendment for no for responding to public comments well this is a best practice um California school boards Association says this is a best practice it's in here because of that um I don't have legal reference to it I am more than willing to seek legal on it um I would not recommend changing it without doing those things and clarifying um what could be responded to I have requested um because of a a conversation I did request from retired superintendent um if they could get me some lists of things people could say just beyond thank you um that could be appropriate that person has been out of the country for the last three weeks so I haven't gotten that um but I will continue to move down that pathway um my recommendation would be since this is on a discussion um action for no changes from the last board meeting when it was for a discussion um about changes for any amendments um that we bring it back after seeking that guidance and um some potential options for being there president um I think um based on what I'm hearing um it sounds like when somebody speaks um on the at the podium and has a comment about whatever the the issue may be that U the board is seeking to um simply acknowledge that they were hurt we are not um making a comment regarding their point we are not responding to the issues that they have said but just to give them the Dignity of saying we heard you and we are going to take you whatever you've said on advisement and then when we can when we can deliberate privately as a board then we'll deliberate but we will not respond to what the person has said we can at least acknowledge that we heard it did you is that correct or do you wna yes that's what you were okay yes so we'll need a motion to table this for a future day or we have to vote on this no first and then or well you've made a motion um you've seconded it to approve it with the new signatures and um are we able to approve the signature page you are you're able to and then bring the other back for the Amendments yes yeah so what we would do is as of as of right now um the item is proposed um based off of last meeting's recommendations to bring it forward to approve only the revised cover and signature page um no body of the actual document was changed Beyond those so we can approve those changes and then um take the section um on page 10 I think it was managing difficult topics um or diff difficult situations um the last two sentences and then we can U bring that back okay I'm going to call for the vote all in favor of approving the Revis cover and signature [Applause] page I I I any opposed all right number two approve the certificated and classified Personnel actions as listed can I get a motion so second okay I need second any discussion all in favor I I any opposed number three approve the recommendations for request Ed leaves as noted so moved I'll second any discussion all in favor I I I I any opposed number four we're going to approve the recommendation of the administrative hearing chairperson effective immediately on expulsion case exp number 19 2024 25 can I get a motion so moved is there any discussion vote all in favor I I any opposed all right for number 20 we have a readout in exposion case uh number 20 2425 to amend the hearing panel recommendations to read as follows that they stent be expelled to sbcss Vala County program for the remainer of the 20242 spring semester and a suspended enforcement of expulsion to appal high school for the 2025 26 four semester the student is to complete the terms and conditions of their Rehabilitation plan prior to the end of the 2025 26 fall semester can I get a motion so moved I'll second any discussion vote all in favor I I any opposed okay ex no no okay expulsion step number five 20242 um and that's to approve the recommendation of the administrative hearing chairperson effective immediately can I get a motion so moveed okay any discussion all right we'll vote all in favor I I any opposed and the annual review AR number 20242 so moved yes yeah okay and a sec so who the motion was Anita second was all second second okay any discussion vote all in favor I I any opposed okay adopt so number five adopt resolution 24213 making findings in regards to the savings realized by the installation of high efficiency Plumbing fixtures at Apple Valley Unified Schools and approved the services agreement with mcore Mesa energy for the California school's healthy air plumbing and efficiency Cal shape Plumbing program so moved second okay any discussion that was what Mr schillberg was discussing correct all right all in favor I any opposed number six approve the implementation of the public agency Retirement Services supplemental retirement plan can I get a motion move second second and discussion Mr you'd like to approve it without discussion always here um let me grab the screen here really quickly again I do have some information to share with the board um regarding the pars post analysis of the enrollment um if the board recalls back in November you should have a copy of this in that paper clipped pack um and it was attached to the agenda item for your review prior to this evening um if you recall the board of approved offering a contingent supplemental retirement program offering to all of our employee groups back in November um pars mailed enrollment packets all to all eligible employees in all of our employee groups um held a couple of informational meetings um one of which I attended um and saw a lot of smiles as they were turning in their enrollment packets I maybe like no no one's there's one um and then the uh enrollment deadline was January 23rd um and then it I'll just go through the slides here um here's the demographics of those that enrolled we had 76 individuals enroll 42 certificated non-management that's our Auda uh Team certificated management we did have two classified non-management that's our CSA team me CA team members and then of course classified managers you'll see the average retiree age retiree service we got a lot of service average of 26 years in the teaching side in terms of service to the district and the average retiree salary uh pars plugs this into their magical computer based on some certain assumptions um they they project some savings before we get to that you could see on our certificated non-management side we actually had 121 eligible um team members in that group so 42 that is significantly higher than the enrollment that pars expected they they expected we'd get maybe 24 we got 42 this happened four years ago pars expected we would get um the same number we got a lot we had over a hundred four years ago sign up for a supplemental retirement program across the entire District but you see the demograph Graphics there what this table illustrates is the projected savings over multiple years based on the number of these positions that we backfill and that's the key backfilling or not backfilling positions um many districts do supplemental retirement programs in times of declining enrollment um it can save uh reductions in force commonly known as layoffs um you you get teachers that have um served a long time veterans that are very highly paid and you either don't backfill them or you hire a brand new teacher at the entry level there's a large differential in salary and even with paying that salary and the cost of the supplemental retirement program there's still a savings so you can look at that chart in in year one if we backfill every single one of the position positions with an average new hire um pars projects we would still save about a million dollar year one you go down to the bottom of that First Column if we backfill half of those positions with an average new higher pars projects we could save close to $3 million that's just year one if we don't backfill any well that's not an assumption pars ran for us but the savings would be larger than that $3 million if we don't backfill any of those positions and utilize exist existing staff to fill the assignments that were vacated by these individuals on the management side we had to not a big group to begin with only nine eligibles and pars actually thought we might get one we got two um not a whole lot of savings here if we well no savings if we backfill both of those positions um couple hundred, if don't backfill those two positions in the first year again these are projections classified non-management so here's our CA group we had 115 eligibles we had 29 enroles um shocked we didn't capture a couple of the close to 70 but they they got to love what they're doing um on the classified side not as significant a savings on the classifi ifed side mainly due to not as large a differential between step one and step five on the classified salary schedule but if we backfill only half of those positions the projected Savings in year one is $800,000 and you can see the rest of the table there depending on how many positions are back filled classified management had 10 eligibles had three sign up all three of which are in my nutrition services department that hurt um some some great folks that have been running a wonderful program for our kids um but they decided it was it was it was time a little bit of savings if we only back fill two unfortunately these positions really most likely will need to all be backfilled so there's really no savings on this but these positions are not in our general fund they're in fund 13 our nutrition services fund but one of the caveats I want to make sure everybody understands the supplemental retirement benefit payments that we make to fund the annuities we cannot use fund 13 monies for those payments that is not an allowable use so the general fund will make the payments for these retirees into their new ities I wanted to make sure that was clear and that's it and as you see the item the recommendation is to approve the par supplemental retirement program for all employee groups um as presented all right does anybody have any questions or comments all right we'll go ahead and vote all in favor I I any opposed all right number lesli I'm surprised you're not texting everybody right now and they um I did not build the [Laughter] agenda okay number seven formally acknowledge receipt and review of the 2024 audit report as prepared by Nigro and Nigro PC can it oh I'm sorry should we motion yes so we can discuss okay can I get a motion so Mo second okay now discussion thank you I apologize um this is a report on last year's audit uh I'm proud to say it was a great audit was clean um what's called an unmodified opinion um which is reflects wonderful on the fiscal Services Department uh particularly the director of fiscal services this is her baby uh she does not want audit findings um and she achieved that uh for the 2324 fiscal year um this is an outside audit they express an independent opinion on our financial statements and compliance with programs mainly our federal and state programs because as you know Federal programs come with a lot of strings as do state categorical programs you do not have a printed copy of the audit but it was attached to the item so you had the opportunity to view in that stapled group of papers the presentation for the audit there are some pages in the back for instance on the bottom of this page I call out a fund balance comparison table A3 on page 7 I did include that as part of your packet along with the outstanding long-term debt schedule A5 on page 9 is included as part of that stapled packet you have with you this evening um but an unmodified opinion is a clean opinion um Management's discussion and Analysis is Pages four through 10 it's really those tables it's trying to put a discussion of the audit into layman's terms in into normal terms and hence tables that are easy to read that really summarize the district's financial position uh the government-wide financial statements if you're an accountant um you'll love it um if you're not you might not um I did include page 15 the audited fund activity that shows all of our operating funds our general fund fund 01 preschool adult education fund um nutrition services fund facilities funds the audited activity is there on page 15 and then the notes the notes on page 17 through 51 are very detailed explanations of the processes the auditor takes in examining those different um programs for compliance explains some of the numbers how they arrive at those numbers explains the some of the gby rules the governmental Accounting Standards Board that we're held to um so it's it's a great read I'm just going to stop there supplementary information Pages 52- 68 um you'll see they're listed there the one thing I did include page 62 that's a schedule of instructional time if you recall we only attended school for 179 days in the 2324 school year uh we had a day off because of hurricane Hillary we did have a j13 a waiver the board approved that um that was submitted to the county schools office they approved it submitted it to CDE on our behalf and it was approved so we did not have to make up that school day we were credited with that and that schedule of instructional time that's included shows that 179 days of school and one day j13 a credit findings and questions cost this is Cindy's favorite slide none none none it's a good thing we did have a finding last year not because of anything we did it's because the CDE was really slow in approving a j3 a waiver for a single day closure at one of our schools when a water line broke the board approved that we submitted it I believe the approval from CDE came about eight months after the fact eight or nine months after the fact after the audit deadline so the Auditors required to write a finding because Sycamore Rocks didn't go to school enough um it was a loss of apportionment of a little over $450,000 but that did not occur because that j13 waiver was approved so this finding was resolved we just has to appear in the audit as a previous finding that was addressed that's it any questions yes I do have a question um in the findings it did uh make a suggestion about um um student funding ASB yes did you have opportunity to um have some some something to rectify that in terms of receip in terms of um um having um no balance there was one of them that said it didn't have Bal any no money left yes that was a yes A club account was overdrawn that's correct yes did you have a remedy that you had to have in place to show them that you you you heard them and there's a remedy in place uh we we um the the letter in the last two pages of the audit really addresses student body funds um we don't have to show a remedy as we do for a finding in our financial statements uh but we still do like to um re-educate uh the individuals at the schools running the ASB programs provide them some training if necessary this this was a it this I believe is something that's very easy easy to solve with an overdrawn Club account the club may have a fundraiser planned later in the year that's something to take into consideration that may be coming up um or the general ASB account always has the ability to loan club's funds and they can do that loan and then the club can earn that back and then reimburse the general ASB so there are mechanisms in place and we do not have to provide to the auditor a correction a plan for correction for those particular problems thank you thank you any other questions thank you all right call for the vote all in favor I I any opposed all right consent agenda it is recommended that the Board of Trustees consider approving a number of agenda items it as a consent list consent items are routine in nature and can be enacted in one motion without further discussion this procedure conserves meeting time for a full discussion of significant issues consent items to be approved in one motion one through 11 I would like to pull two items okay uh item number five and item number six I would like to pull item number two are there any others all right can I get a motion to approve consent item number one three 4 and 7 through 11 so moved any discussion all in favor I I opposed okay let's go ahead and start with we'll go numerical order is that all right item number two item number two um that is the item on probation department I am aware of the fact that we have always had probation in the past however my question is on um provision officer activities B2 and B5 B2 uh stated that the um probation officer will receive referrals from teachers and administrators using the targeted student guidelines defined Below in section D on students who have demonstrated violent and negative behavior and for whom traditional disciplinary measures have not been effective the reason I pull that is uh teachers have enough to do they don't need to give you give a referral to probation um probation is um is on on campus to handle students who have already gone through the court system so to have a teacher get the responsibility of assigning a student to probation um is a little bit disconcerting for me that is B2 and if I may I also said it says on B5 it says probation will take a lead role in ensuring open communication between probation and school systems at the initial interview we refer students the pration officer will obtain a signed release of information from students and students place on informal or formal probation the probation officer will review grades attendance juvenile citations including traffic commun community service assignments and completion of terms and condition of pro the probation officer will assist by notifying school officials or the appropriate juvenile court when the terms and conditions are not met we are in the business of serving minors who is this student who is going to be giving a release of information to probation what is wrong with what are we talking about here I'm a little bit confused you're going to have a student give a release to probation to have access to their record when that child has a a parent and that teach that child has a school a school Personnel but you're giving that responsibility to the student to give that permission so I'm a little bit I'm very uncomfortable with those two pieces of of information that is there and um I don't know how the rest of you feel um um there's quite a few a few uh conditions um for this probation service and I'm I'm very uncomfortable and I wanted to go on record that I'm uncomforable so typically students that are placed on probation through the court system um already have a release that is in place this is resp responding to that release that is put in place when they are put on probation where their parents are part of the system um we are more than willing to have probation come and do a presentation to this we' have had probation officers for as you mentioned for many years within our system um they do far more than probation discussions with students they actually have access to information that our Police Department cannot access they can access it but they can't appropriately access it probation can um the other thing that they do is they often go out and do home visits on delinquent students that are not on probation they go out during the school hours which keeps our police officers on campus and other staff and they check in on them and they build coreign relationships um we've had one probation officer that has floated between two sites even though we've had two officers he has um been assigned on both our high school sites over the last six years that I've been superintendent and um every time we get him we are extremely fortunate because he's out in the community meeting with families and making sure they have their um needs met and so while it says teachers and administrators can do referrals our Administration is who does the referrals um we don't ask teachers to do referrals if there's a concern with a student teachers tell administrators administrators work with um probation department we often have students that are assigned to us that have probation that we cannot um gain direct information about the conditions of their probation such as um who they can and cannot be in contact with and without the link to our um current probation officers it's very difficult to get a hold of somebody in the field and ask them to um get us the information and so they act as Liaisons even when it isn't their case or um a situation that they're handling they you help us with placement of students at times I did hear you but it says it says here very clearly that the referral will come from teachers and administrators if the referral is coming from administrators it needs to be stated very clearly that it's coming from administrators but once you place teachers in that situation and a teacher writes a referral I'm not sure there is protection for that teacher that has just done a referral to send a kid to be part of prob probation so I want that uh burden taken off a teacher's plate they have enough to do already the second thing that it says here it says at the initial interview with the referred student the probation officer will obtain a signed release of information from students he didn't say from parents he said from the student and that is very I don't know about everybody else but I'm reading it as a parent who has a child in the system and I'm saying you can't get permission from my child it's still a child I want you to get permission if the court has given you permission please get the Court's permission if the uh principal who's in charge of the school has given you permission I need to be informed of it but I do not appreciate the fact that somebody is saying that a student will give permission it's how about a third grader a second grader that's still a student in our system do they are they supposed to give permission to a probation officer simply because he has a uniform we have it District police on campus I'm just I I'm I'm trying to wrap my head around all of this the the guideline I'm reading the guideline I specifically requested that this guideline be brought in because I really want people to hear it it just is not adding up I have a question and I don't know if you know the answer is this when for B2 her concern with the referrals from teachers and administrators is this an actual Like official referral form or could this just be a teacher who maybe knows the students having a difficult time and might have that relationship with the probation officer and say maybe you could call this one in that's the typical they pass them on the campus and they say we're struggling with this kiddo can you meet with them I I see a teacher in the audience shaking her head ass that that is what is going on I I was going to say that was my yeah my relationship with our probation officer years ago at the Comprehensive High School um that there was no form for us anyway right it was just kind of yeah if we knew someone was having difficulty and there was a group that the probation officer was leading it's correct okay so I have a comment for that too so is there any way we could State um maybe next to teacher informal and next to administrator formal so it's defined this is not our contract this is the County's contract that they um provide to us I'm more than willing to reach out to them and see if they will amend this um typic contracts are contracts and they don't typically amend when they're providing a service like this but I'm more than willing to ask do we know on B5 whether or not they are obtaining release of information from miners like without do we know that I don't believe they are that's not been the practice um I'm looking at Adam and and Brian and the audience um this is typically because they are already on probation when they arrive on the campus right anytime a probation officer is going to interact with a student that is not one that's on their case carrier they're going to work with the administration who has already made contact with the family and indicated that this is a resource for them I think M's um hesitance is with the the part that says with referred students so if a teacher refers them and it's minor we want to be able to protect their rights to sign a legal document is that correct yeah I just just don't want a child signing off and saying just because you have a uniform and the child is now scared and he says go ahead you know and you've taken the right away from a parent you've taken the right away from you know we are we are in local parenes our job is to protect the child on behalf of the parent and if we are sitting here and and probation sends this which is a normal thing that they will send anywhere they want but this is now a school district and we Service uh uh TK to 12th grade and a kid who is in TK who is throwing a desk in the classroom and a probation officer comes in and has it I'm just going to the absolute extreme yeah so you go to that absolute extreme it's still a student and it's you know and and provation officer is going to say well I got the I got the permission from the student um to go I get I got to release the that is unacceptable whatever we put on paper is what we are going to go by so I thought this goes back to probation to put something on paper that I we can live I can live with because I have a duty to protect the children in Apple Valley School District and right now I don't feel like I'm protecting them based on this kind of verbiage that is on this country so I'm uncomfortable there is no change to the verbiage from the previous contracts that have been approved just so that this is not an addition this is not new um but I'm more than willing to contct them and if the rest of the board if that's the direction of the quum I I would I would appreciate that yes so we will need to amend it to table it is that and so that we can request you can just not approve it you don't have to take a vote at all on it it's it's agendized with no vote it goes place um and we'll make a plan to bring it back um if we can get the amended if we don't get the amended um will we is it well I guess I'll ask that question later thank you all right item five um I would like to uh see if we could table item five until the February 13 meeting when we have a full um board because I'm an employee of Cate s Bernardino um I would have to abstain from this and I think it would be better to bring it back when we have a Full Slate of people so that we would have a quorum to approve this or vote on it so I move that we table it until the February 13th special board meeting we do still have a quorum correct with you obain yes you do have a quum I'm I'm also an employeer of the um of the school of the University however I would um for us to go forward even to um have this conversation I will also request that we get um uh our attorney to be present in close session to explain to us why a sitting board member who does not have any students in app School District could not vote so this would not be a close session discussion this could be a um open session discussion and I can ask um one of the legal counsel from Miss oara just requested Atkinson Anderson I do have a um previous um uh opinion from megie chid dust's office in 2023 when I had two different conflicts of interest that I requested um for um different reasons and we do have an opinion in 2023 so if the rest of the board would like me to move forward with um having an attorney at the next board meeting I don't know that I can likely get them at the um February 13th meeting so um it would be March f um I'm I'm okay with that okay number six okay um I would like I don't know the correct way to do this so correct me if I'm wrong but I'm really excited to see Beauty and the Beast at Phoenix Academy but I don't feel it's our place to approve the script I think that we hire incredible English drama teachers at our schools I feel that we have exceptional administrators and I think that we need to trust our employees and our staff to have good judgment to choose correct plays while I understand that we approve textbooks we don't improve we don't approve other instructional materials like supplemental we don't approve music pieces and I think that we should trust our teachers and our administrators and approve it the way we would approve regular supplemental materials I do know that this was the first year that we've had any scripts um requested of us to approve and I I would agree with Miss Tucker um it does seem to be out of our purview like I'll remind the board that the reason we started doing this was because we had a board um concern about a play that was done last year um and a request that those scripts be approved through a process and that's why we began doing this was that during a public session yes it was not recall that okay are we able to change it absolutely this is a different board so we can okay so we're not me how high can would you all be okay with us approving Phoenix for this time so that they can move forward because I'm sure they're on a timeline with renting scripts absolutely and then we can move forward with the other directed okay so so I so move that we approve item number six a second okay any discussion anymore no I'll call for the vote um all in favor I I I okay any opposed okay just for um Clarity I just want to make sure that um out of the three items that were pulled number two number five and number six um item number two and number five um were not voted on at all and item number six was approved correct thank you okay I think we're at the end here future items do any members of the board have any future items no okay and there being no further business to come before the Board of Trustees it is recommended that the meeting be adjourned uh I will make that motion second all in favor I any opposed thank you guys [Music] I
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good afternoon welcome to the committee on education and and Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs this Joint Committee hearing is to schedule Senate Bill 422 relating to education this bill authorizes the Department of Education to award a high school diploma to qualified persons who did not receive a high school diploma as a result of compulsory or voluntary induction into the Armed Services of the United States or whose high school education was interrupted due to wartime practices during World War II the Korean war or the Vietnam War first to testify superintendent Kashi chair kidani Vice chair Kim chair elepante Kashi superintendent testifying on behalf of the Department of Education the department stands on its written testimony in support of this measure um as chair shared at 101 session La of ha 2007 previously authorized the department to issue the Kono diploma to World War II Korean War and Vietnam War veterans as well as individuals whose schooling was interrupted due to the military service or internment which set sunset in 2020 the department stands on it written testimony support of this measure thank you for the opportunity to testify thank you is there anyone else here wishing to testify on this measure we do have several members of the community on Zoom all in support 1 two three four five six of them in support the recess reconvening the committee on education for a 3:00 agenda on Senate Bill 422 um for this measure the committee on education is recommending that we pass um did we have amendments pass as is members questions no thank you okay recommendation is to pass SB 422 as is uh the chair votes I Vice chair votes I Senator Hashimoto is excused K hi Senator the court is excused uh with the members present oh there she is uh four members present AFF thank you Senator thank you madam chair uh same recommendation for the Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs for SB 422 to pass unamended chair votes I Vice chair W for the oh I don't have sheets [Music] members we're about to vote on Senate Bill 422 chair's recommendations to pass this measure on amended chair lante I I vote Yes Senator pag hi Senator rhs excuse Senator Dort I chair your recommendation is adopted thank you thank you [Music] adjourn convening this Joint Committee hearing on the committee on education committee on health and Human Services today is Friday February 7th this is a 30:5 p.m.
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get he L Lincoln linoln hello everyone thank you so much for being here today my name is Cynthia bti I'm one of the music directors here at Continental School District thank you so much for being here tonight this is our third grade Musical and your students have worked extremely hard at learning their parts learning their dance movements I'm super proud of of them uh just a few thank yous and shout outs I want to start by thanking the Continental Foundation they provided any like masks that you see the Continental Foundation has provided a lot of our musical props I also want to thank the third grade team they have been amazing at making sure your students already at rehearsals and working with them to get their speaking Parts The Specialist Team has also been amazing to work with as well um just combining on certain days so that we're ready and prepared for you today let's give those um those staff members a round of applause so without further Ado I will pass it off to our students who are going to introduce our musical [Music] fature welcome to third grade musical wi things we are so excited to share our show with you today with will will you see lots of fun and amazing animals come to life please remember to be C listen carefully and show respect for everyone performing so we all can enjoy the show [Applause] together there are times the zoo is boring when the Wild Things Are snoring no creatures no creep no peepers no peep no howling and no Roaring do creatures creep do peepers Peep and dance until dawn I wonder what goes on at night when we're away hunting for pain oh hi I love to see it all enjoy the night time freefor all I creep and dance and I'll Peep and prce and have Wild Things ball [Music] to the left to the right your arms like a a monkey theck up in the [Music] can butterflies are dancing all around step to the left to the right your arm like a monkey [Music] to the right clap your arms a [Music] [Applause] monkey hope is the thing with feathers that pushes through the soul and sing the tune without the words never stops at all as sweet as the girl is heard stor must be the storm that could have bash the little boy that keeps so many war I've heard it in the chillest land and on the strangest sea yet yet never in extremity they asked to come with me [Applause] [Music] of a [Music] pin he could like an eagle but pin could [Music] dance [Music] res or a but lack of H give him a [Music] chance he up hiso [Music] dance [Music] the of the penguin love and romance [Music] heag [Music] [Applause] dance some say I'm untouchable because I want spines but that's the other porcupine that they don't seem to mind everyone knows I'm tender through and through but they they know that I'm a SL and have [Music] you dance [Music] dancing fcy [Music] careful [Music] with line [Music] [Applause] he CLS the cig with kirken hands close to Sun in lonely lands ring ring with the Azor world he stands the wrinkled sea beneath him crawls he watches from his Mountain walls and like a thunderbolt he falls [Applause] we're Raptors rap we're Raptors [Music] in the RT [Music] in the SK [Music] r rapt [Music] in in the SK [Music] in the [Music] [Applause] chimp seem lazy and sometimes crazy girls are hairy and kind of Scar those Sil RS seem to bounce like Boomer I like at the zoo because they like to play monkeys you do [Applause] [Music] Escape there's only one thing you can do [Music] s the s and once that Tak of you you simply Escape there's only one you can do [Music] [Applause] Tiger Tiger Burning Bright in the forest of the night what's immortal hand or eye could frame that fearful symetry the lion the Li he CH in the he has a big head in a really small waist but his shoulders are star and his Jaws are G to good little child not play [Applause] [Music] theing theight the animal [Music] areep you better watch sh the are on [Music] theack [Music] [Applause] [Music] leard you better watch out the mo cats are on the ground the ding [Music] [Applause] [Music] and the [Music] are you better out the are on the ground you better watch out cuz the coats are on the [Music] [Applause] thank you for joining us for the third grade music called wild things we hope you had as much as fun watching the show as we did performing it for you let's give everyone a big round of applause for all their hard [Applause] work thank you so much parents for being here tonight let's give your students one more round of applause [Applause] so your students are going to exit this stage here to the right they'll be meeting their teachers first and after that you can go ahead and pick them up with their different teacher groups they'll spread out a little bit so we're not all going to the same place um I do want to say thank you to all the parents here tonight and all the effort that you put in to make this H happen impossible um these kids have been amazing to work with and I'm so um so proud to be their teacher thank you again and have a 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and start our noral pack meeting can I please have the AOL Scouts present the colors everyone else please rise those of you uniform you know what to do everybody else hand up the hearts let's begin today aol's The [Music] [Applause] [Music] Pledge on my honor Scout [Music] is nice job you guys it still Tak me 6 years to complet memorize that I'm so glad that these guys know what they're doing all right ladies and gentlemen obviously help yourselves the food and snacks on the side we're going to get this race going off momentarily we're going to begin with our Li today to get there I want to first thank all the scouts that reached out to all the different companies all the different family everyone out there to help fund what pack 114 does before we get started I want to recognize some of our sponsors from the white family English service center from the car Jersey kns from the Cella family C real estate from Small Talk Salon from Nicole family the kns of Columbus at one stop from governs the northeast regional transportation coordinator and Ricky's home improvment L Tre W spe the r the king sorry z anasto o m cartion Henry family marketing West Music Academy real estate from the gold big from the hen par Mark and State Farm from the rers the specialist in wom health for the leok Kon medp for the maras black hot dogs F Orthodontics B Street and CH Club from the whites P development and Ty V and from the Elder White do I just want to take a moment to recognize all the sponsors that help contribute we have their names put up onto the front we're also going to put them onto our Facebook page we want to thank everybody for reaching out to help one or pine with Derby [Music] know [Music] J [Music] are [Music] all right ladies and gentlemen boys and girls let's get our races started we're going to begin with the lion Den we have Max Armory as car number one John bck as car number two Vincent Cela car number three Lincoln Marian is car number four and Allan Richard and car number five Eman white is car number six if you're looking at the cars currently all the way to our left side is Lane a and we have Lane B Lane C and Lane D to begin our race in round one heat one lane a is car number one lane B is car number three lane C is car number five and Lane D's car number two I need the best countdown ever from pack 114 starting at number five are you ready five 4 2 [Applause] 1 started things off Max Armory with the first place finish [Music] round one he two lane a is car number two lane B's car four lane C's Car six Lane D's car three we have a fast lane in Lane B we're now moving into round number one heat three lane a Vincent Cella Lane B Alan Richard Lane C Max Armory and Lane D Lincoln Mariam Lincoln flly across the finish line next up heat four lane a is car number four lane B is car number six Lane C is car number two and Lane D's car number five [Applause] all right currently after our fourth race Lincoln is in first place followed by Vincent Cella and in third place Max Armory Heat number five of round one we've gotten Lane a Alan Richard Lane B Max Armory Lane C Vincent Cella and Lane D Eman White [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right the winner of that race was Vincent Cella holding on to a solid PO with a score of three is Lincoln Marin second place Vincent cila third place John bck last Heat of round one Heat number six [Applause] [Music] Lin holding on to a solid first place now we're ready for round two Heat number one in Lane a is going to be car number one Max Armory Lane B is going to be car number four Lincoln Marin Lane C is going to be car number four excuse me uh car number three Vincent Cella and Lane D car number two John Birman [Applause] [Music] all right going into heat number two lane a is car number two John berick Lane B is car number five Allan Richard Lane C is car number four Lincoln Maron and Lane D is car number three Vincent Cella current standings in first place Lincoln man with the low score five follow right behind with the score of eight is Vincent Cella and third place with a score of 12 is John bergy you've got five races to [Applause] go g number three in Lane we have number three lane B we have c number six Lane C we have c number five and Lane D car number four Lincoln still holding on to a first place with a low score of six now followed by Vincent Cella in second place with a score of 10 and a white third place with 13 flying across the finish line now headed shift for our lions in first place Lincoln's holding a solid lead now at the score of seven next place is Vincent Cela second place with the score of 12 and John Beric at score of 15 and third place going into our last three Heats it did [Music] itwy I think the fastest finish right there was Mr Ki clearing our Finish Line all right two Heats left for our lions Lincoln is holding a solid first place with a score of eight followed by Vincent and third place John but we have two races to go in Lane a we have car number five Alan Richard Lane b car number two John bck Lane c car number one Max Arley and Lane D car number six aan White [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right where are my lions where are my lion Scouts Make Some Noise all right Lions our last race for 2025 in Lane a aan white in Lane b car number three Vincent Cella in Lane c car number two John berick and in Lane D car number one Max arbory Lions count us down from five [Applause] all right with the last race now completed congratulations to Lincoln Marin our first place winner of the lion Den second place is Vinnie Cella and third is John [Applause] Ming all right linoln is our first entry into the finals he'll be racing against all the other winners of the den for our final race for pack 114 congratulations Lions Scouts don't forget to get your votes in for the best looking car [Music] than for [Music] get [Music] we don't have a car 17 I don't know that is [Music] sorry I didn't look at all the cars [Music] my [Music] WI [Applause] my [Music] hope [Music] got [Applause] [Music] B [Music] I [Music] see [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I for [Music] oh ladiesent card for the Tiger Den car number seven is Peter Barrett car number eight is Jackson haran car number n9o car number 10 Alex car 11 Cole Healey car 12 Alistar Cole car 14 Conor McGovern Conor I'm Excuse ran Mory car 15 car 16 William Ral we are going to begin round one heat one of the Tiger Den in Lane a car number seven Peter Barrett against Lane b car number nine Clint Constantino car number 11 Cole hey Lane C and in Lane D car number 16 will rol where are my tigers are you ready to countdown [Applause] William with a fast lead across the finish line going to heat number two of round one lane a we have car eight against Lane b car 10 Lane c car 12 and Lane D car seven [Music] So Co next year you let him know [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] got that right one [Applause] all right go number five we currently have a tie first place between Willam rolls and Conor govern third place Peter Barrett Lane a is c number 11 Lane b car 14 Lane c car 16 and Lane D car number [Applause] 10 rolling across the finish line after that last race we've now got a separation a tie for second place between Peter and William Conor holding on to his solid first place wow scream across that Finish Line car number seven Peter Barrett [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right King number seven of round one for the Tigers Conor still holding on to a solid first place William in second Peter in third [Applause] all right two Heats to go of round one it looks like our Racers are starting up at the Finish Line Lane a car 15 Lane b car s lane c car 9 and Lane D car 14 [Applause] [Music] all right ladies and gentlemen well first place is now shifted to William with the low score four second place is Peter followed in third by Connor last Heat of round one Heat number nine screaming across the finish line is William [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right ladies and gentlemen the first heat of round two for the Tigers in Lane a we've got car number seven Peter Barrett Lane b car 10 Alexander catella Lane c car number 16 will R in Lane D car number nine fnn Constantino [Applause] now we have a tie for first Conor and William tied at both six total points Heat number two of round [Applause] two screaming across the finish line again car number seven Peter Barrett [Music] all right keep number three of round two for the Tigers still tight for first is Connor and William but right behind in third place the score of eight is Peter [Applause] [Music] [Applause] number four round two L we have got car number 10 Alexander car 14 in Lane b car number nine Flynn in Lane C and car 12 Alistair in Lane [Applause] [Music] [Applause] D now we've got a separate ation first place is William with a score of six followed right behind by CER with a score of seven and Peter with a score of eight right behind only one point separates each place he number five screaming across the finish line is Conor [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right now to the final stretch of round two for the Tigers Heat number six we have car 12 in Lane a car 16 car 11 and car [Applause] 15 just making it through still holding on to that first place to score seven is William fouled right behind tied for second with eight Connor and Peter but three races to go can separate our [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Champions wow photo finish [Music] William still holding on to that first place position with a score of eight now separated by two points is Peter in second Conor in third with 11 two races to go get here here still in first place is Willi with eight top all right my tigers where are we [Applause] here we go Tigers last race round two Heat number nine currently in first place we've got will with a score of eight Peter with a score of 11 and Conor with the score 13 all could be separated our last race in Lane a William Lane B Lynn Lane C Ryan and Lane d caral number eight tigers are you ready to countdown five William with the Sol Race Across The Finish [Music] [Applause] [Music] Line congratulations William our winner of the Tiger [Applause] Den in first place with a score of nine William R in second place with a score of 11 Peter Barrett and in third place Conor McGovern with a score of 13 [Applause] [Music] all right ladies and gentlemen we're going to now switch to our wolf dead [Music] don't forget to vote for your favorite cars for today at the end we'll have a calculation for the best in show the best looking car but to begin here goes our wolves our wolves can assist of car number 18 James Armory car number 19 Zach Anastasio car number 20 Micah Carlin car 21 raly Cella car 22 Rory cooken car 23 Conor Henry Car 25 gry Silva and car 27 Ryder web round one heat one we're going to start with car 18 James Armory against car 20 Micah Carlin car 22 Rory cookson and car 27 Ryder web where are my wolves I want to hear those wolves as loud as possible you ready to countdown 5 4 3 2 1 ladies and gentlemen did you see that laser light cross the finish line nice job [Applause] [Music] Micah all right Bulls Heat number two we've got car 19 in Lane a car 21 in Lane B Car 25 in Lane C and car 19 18 excuse me I'm sorry car 19 in Lane a car 21 in Lane B car 23 in Lane C and car 18 in Lane [Applause] D nice job Conor [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right round one heat [Applause] three Micah with the laser lights cross the finish line excellent job wolves as we go into see heat number four of round one lane a car 21 Lane b car 23 Lane c car 27 Lane D car number [Applause] 20 oh no finish but Micah pulls through [Applause] all right ladies and gentlemen round one heat five in Lane a car 22 Rory cookson Lane B Car 25 Gran Silva Lane c car 18 James Armory and Lane D car 21 Ralph Cella [Applause] nice job Rory scream across the Finish spine as we go into heat number six in Lane a we've got car 23 Conor Henry Lane Lane b car 27 Ryder web Lane c car 19 Zach Anastasio and Lane D car 22 Rory cookson let's see that photo finished conter pulling ahead [Applause] [Music] [Applause] just remember with pack 114 there's no Fast Lanes just fast cars currently in first place we've got Conor Henry with a low score four followed right behind by Mel Carlin with a score of six and tied for third riea hurry cookson and Grady Silva all at the score of seven heat seven round [Music] [Applause] one that race separated our winners Connor is still in first place with a score of seven but there's now three three-way tie for second place right behind with one point between wary Ralph and Micah let's see if this race the last one of round one separates our [Applause] winners Ralph screaming across the finish line [Music] as we go to round two heat one Conor is holding on to that first place follow right behind with Rory and Micah just one point up behind round two heat one is car 18 car 21 car 27 and car 19 [Music] [Applause] Ralph pulling up a great [Music] [Applause] win again we want to take a moment to reach out and thank all of our sponsors of pack one this year you guys did an awesome job helping us keep going with all of our camping events and outdoor activities so that we can we have one of our largest packs in history keep enjoying the outdoors and learning everything about Cub Scouts going into round two Heat 2 car number 19 Zack followed by car 22 in Lane B Rory Lane C's Car 18 James and in Lane D car number 20 Micah Michel holding that first position in that race [Music] still holding on to our first place position is Conor fed in second place by m to score of eight only two points away and now type for firm is Ralph and Rory beat three of round two for our wolves [Applause] wow phone on finish but micel pulls it [Applause] off Conor still holding on to that first place m r retied for second will be one point behind now going into heat four round two for the wolves in Lane a Ralph Cella Lane B Brady Silva Lane C Micah and Lane D Rory [Music] [Applause] all right ladies and gentlemen going to to heat number five round two for the Wolves still holding that solid first position as Conor Henry let's see if things change as he goes head to-head against Rory in Lane one Ryder in lane two Ralph in Lane three and Conor in that's 23 number Car Lane deep position let's see if we can hold off those place [Applause] still only separated by one point Conor will be lead below score of nine right behind is m with a score of 10 Heat number six of round [Applause] two all right ladies and gentlemen only two Heats to go Conor and Micah are now tied for first place follow right behind the score 15 is Gory cookson Heat number seven for our wolves screaming ahead is Conor Henry [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right wolves we have a new leader Micah has now pulled ahead into first place with the low score of 10 follow right behind with Connor with a score of 11 in third place Rory cookson with a score of 15 the last team for round two for our wolves in Lane a we have Ryder against Lane B Micah Lane C Brady and Lane D James Armory wolves count us down 5 4 3 2 1 [Applause] we have a tie for first place ladies and gentlemen we're going to do a runoff for first place currently with 11 low score points is Micah tied with Conor [Applause] Henry we'll have to readjust our race settings [Music] here what we're going to do is race both cars all right I need quiet I need quiet guys just to be fair to everybody we are going to race both cars in these two lanes the first race will then switch for the second race giving each Runner a chance to run in these Lanes if there's a tie once again we'll then go to our Southern death round but to begin are you ready I need the whole pack to count down for me 5 4 3 2 1 [Applause] all right Micah has the first win now we're going to switch lanes Micah goes into Lane C and Conor goes into Lane [Music] KN all right for first place of the Wolf Den count us down one more time pack 114 by 4 3 2 [Applause] 1 congratulations Micah Carlin first place for the wolf followed by Conor Henry in second place and third place goes sori cookson nice job wolf m [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all night rers here we go be car number 29 car Anthony B car 31 Nicholas car 32 Ben borer car 33 Matthew casesi car 34 Victor catella car 37 Charles Harding car 38 ran Cole car 39 Jackson fski and car 40 Ethan pelet here this is our biggest group of the day so we're going to have 11 Heats in round one and 11 Heats in round two where are my Bears all right for the first team we're going to have Conor Adin Al in Lane a lane B is going to be Anthony basil so Lane c car 32 Benjamin borchard in Lane D car 40 Ethan Paller Count Me Down Bears 5 4 3 2 [Applause] 1 congratulations Conor and an Alie with the fast all right Heat number two lane A's car 29 Lane B is car 31 Lane c car 23 and L D's car 28 Conor with another finish all right we're round one Heat number three you've got Lane a car three lane b car 32 Lane c car 34 and Lane D car 39 after this race we see where our skaing [Applause] are Benjamin screamed across the Finish Line to take first place [Applause] [Music] [Applause] number four of the bear [Music] Den Nicholas pulling off the wind [Applause] number five Lane A's car 32 Benjamin Lane B's car 34 Victor Lane C's Car 38 Ryan and Lane D's car 31 Nicholas yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] 2 all right Heat number six for the Bears [Music] all right now that we've had all of our runners go through at least once in first place is Jackson kski followed right behind by Conrad and Alie with the score of Two and a score of three is Ethan peler we're going into heat number seven of round one all the racers have at least gotten onto the track once and now we'll see if Jackson could hold the [Applause] lead car 40 E things scre across the finish line Jackson still holding on to that number one spot followed in second place by Conor Adalie and third Ethan peler reset reset reset reset reset reset reset [Applause] [Music] more than half through our day so make sure you vote for your favorite car we'll be closing down the voting at the completion of the week blow race all right to redo Heat number eight in Lane a we have Carr 37 Charles against Lane b car 39 Jackson car 28 Conor and car 34 Victor all right going in feat number nine of round one for the bear Den Lane a is R against Ethan in Lane b car 29 Co Barrett is in Lane C and car 37 Charles is in Lane [Applause] D Charles pull off the wi going to heat number 10 our leader is jckson kski with a low score of two followed in second place the score four Conor adad Alie and a score of three five points in third place is [Applause] Nicholas scream across that Finish Line car for nine Jackson [Applause] kski Jackson still holding on to her lead [Music] [Applause] Jackson pulled ahead once again all right that completes round one one going into round two Jackson's in the lead with four points followed right behind with the tie in second Benjamin Conor with a score of six Lane a heat W round two is car number 28 Conor Lane B is car 31 Nicholas Lane C is car 34 Victor and Lane D is car 40 [Applause] Ethan neck to neck finish but Conor and edges out Nicholas for first place in that [Applause] [Music] [Applause] race all right he two of round two our winner so far in first place is Jackson to score four follow two points behind the second with Benjamin and third place Conor [Applause] look at the speed of those cars at the cross the finish line Conor giving up a great race taking the first position a large separation cures now between first and second place separated by by Four [Applause] Points all right we're going into G number four of round two for the bear [Applause] Den scream across that Finish Line Car 39 Jackson fski [Applause] [Music] number five round two [Applause] [Music] all right we now have a separation between first and third place Jackson with a score of five in first F second with a score of eight by Conor in the third place with a score nine Benjamin Heat number six of round two we've got Carr 33 car 38 car 28 and car [Applause] 32 Conor with the win [Music] con Al holding on to that second place position now with a score of nine Jackson in first with a score of five Heat number seven of round two for the Bears [Applause] Jackson for Speedy [Applause] win Heat number eight for the Bears Jackson holding a tight spot in first place to the score of six pter with a score of nine and Benjamin with a score of 11 [Applause] Charles winning that [Applause] race Heat number nine for the Bears going into our final stretch [Applause] [Music] screamed across that Finish [Applause] [Music] Line number 10 in Lane a Jackson kski Lane B Cole Lane C Benjamin and Lane D [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Ryan all right ladies and gentlemen going into our final round for the Bears Jackson Kowalski is currently holding on to a first place position the score seven second place Conor adal with a score of 10 Benjamin is in third place with a score of 13 our last race for the Bears where are my Bears yeah let's hear your Bears five wait wait wait wait where where's where's our beard dead I'm are you ready 5 4 3 2 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] congratulations Jackson Kowalski first place with a score of Eight Second Place Conor Aden Alie with a score of 10 and third place Benjamin Gart with a score of 13 nice job bears [Music] [Applause] you [Applause] all right set up for a wee blows [Applause] race only two DS to go four wee blows car 41 is Nathaniel brown car 42 is Theodore Brown car 44 is Fus Constantino car 46 is Grayson Edwards car 47 briyan Henry car 49 Conor Marin car 50 Liam Rymer car 51 Xavier Sanchez and Car Fix two Alexander young for round one heat one in Lane a will be car 41 Nathaniel Brown against car 44 Felix car 47 ran and car 52 Alexander where are my wee blows St blows 5 or [Applause] two all right we're going to redo that race [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right we'll do a redo Lane a is car 41 Lane B is car 44 Lane C's Car 47 Lane D's car [Music] [Applause] 52 all right we've got a clean finish for that race going into heat two round one in Lane a we've got theore against Lane B Grayson Lane C Connor and Lane D Nathaniel [Applause] pH a finish for these beat blows [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] that's [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right now that our reers have all got a chance to get on to the track we have a three-way tie for third place between Alex Connor and Felix second place is held by Grayson first place is still open until we have our last racer to actually get onto the track [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right holding on to a solid first position now that we've got all our Racers out there Alex Young in first place for the score of two we've got a three-way tie for second place between Liam Grayson and Felix and a score of three heat five of round one for our weblow photo finish at the Finish [Applause] Line Grayson Edwards pull off that lead shifting points we now Felix in first place and a three-way tie for second between Grayson Xavier and Alex heat six for the we [Applause] [Music] blows going to the heat seven Felix is holding on to that first position with the tie for second between Grayson and Alexander these cars neck and neck going into the finish line but it looks like car 52 Alexander pulled off that WI [Music] Heat number eight for round one lane a we've got car 51 Xavier Lane b car 41 Nathaniel Lane c car 44 Felix Lane D car 50 Leo [Applause] [Music] all right for weow going to the last te of round one Alexander in Lane a VOR in Lane B Grayson in Lane C and Lane D Xavier tied for first place is Felix and Grayson with a low score four [Applause] nice job we low that concludes round one still in first place is Felix now separated out in second place with the score five for gracon and in third place with the score of seven is Alex starting round two heat one lane a is going to be Nathaniel against car number 46 Grayson Lane car 52 Alex and Lane D car 44 [Applause] Felix photo [Music] finish car 44 Felix nice job just edging out the competition maintaining that first place second R's holding on to that position with a score of eight and now tied for third is Conor and Alex with a score of nine going into p number two of round two cars 42 47 41 and [Applause] 46 Grayson pulling ahead oh wait wait wait stop how does that happen hit exact same time let's y we're going to rerun that last [Music] te all right we running two round two in Lane a car 42 Lane b car 47 Lane c car 41 in Lane D car [Applause] 46 now we out a clean finish three round two Felix holding on to the first place position with the score five Titan second three-way time for second between Grayson Connor and Alex with the score of nine we have Felix against Conor in Lane C thedor and in Lane D 47 Bri Henry [Applause] [Music] going into heat number four now Felix is holding on to our first place position now with the two a tie of nine between Grayson and Alex [Applause] lean finish he number five around two for the wee blows [Music] [Applause] s place by Grayson beat number six for the we blow D four to go still leading in first place is Felix with a score of eight Ron is in third place with a score of 11 and in Second Place Alex Young with a score of nine all right going to heat number seven Lane a is Liam against lane baniel lane C Connor and Lane D Alexander first place is still Felix with a score of Eight Second is Alex Young with a score of 10 and third is Grayson Edwards with a score of 11 scream across that finish line is Alex Young all right last two Heats solidly in first place is Felix with a score of eight Lane a we have car 51 Lane b car 42 Lane c car 50 and in Lane D car 41 [Applause] neck and neck across that Finish [Music] Line all right weblow was great racing today we're going to our final heat for the weblow den Heat number nine of round two Felix in first place with eight follow right behind Points 11 points in second is Grayson 12 points is in third place Alex Young our last race is going to be car number 52 in Lane a Alex against car number 44 Felix in Lane B Lane C's Car 51 zavier and at Lane D car 42 Theodore Brown weeow where are you for our last race let's P it down 5 4 3 2 1 [Applause] and it's Alex Young in first [Applause] place all right we clows congratulations nice racing today in first place is is Felix Constantino with a score of [Applause] 10 in second place is Grayson Edwards with a score of [Applause] 11 and in third place Alex Young with a score of 13 [Music] all right ladies and gentlemen our last den before we have our championships let's here for aold light pack [Applause] Den ladies and gentlemen boys and girls this is the last Pinewood dery for Arrow of Light we have car number 53 riding at an Alie against car number 54 Trevor Alex car 55 Clayton Franco car 56 Damon Garcia P car 57 Zack leok car 58 James marandola car 59 GRE schneer car 60 Brennan White against car 61 Coral white in round one he1 we have car number 53 Ryan against car 55 Clayton car 57 Zack and car 61 cor where's my Arrow of Light Group are you ready 5 4 3 2 [Applause] 1 screaming across the Finish Line Car 53 right at an all [Applause] [Music] all right Heat number two round one for the Arrow of Light we have car 54 against car 56 car 58 and car 53 car 53 right in he screamed across that finish [Applause] line going to heat three of round one for AOL then [Music] [Applause] all right in Lane one we have car 55 lane two car 57 Lane c car 59 Lane D car [Applause] are [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right heat four cars 56 58 60 and 55 [Applause] [Music] ladies and gentlemen after four Heats we've got a tie for first place between Ryan and Kora and then a three-way tie for third place between Damien Rees and Brennan [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] moving into first place is right at it Alie follow right behind the score of three between Brena and K Heat number six for the AR of light [Applause] all right heat seven in Lane a we have Reese against Lane B cor Lane C Trevor and Lane d [Applause] James going into heat number eight first place is Ryan out an Al follow right behind by cor and tied for third Damien and Brennan [Music] line across that finish line is R off r at it off in car number 53 going to our last teat of round one Heat number nine [Music] [Applause] first place cor our standings currently in first place Ryan Adan Alie second to cor away F third place is Damien going into round two heat [Applause] one lane a is car 53 Lane B is car 56 Lane C is car 61 and Lane D is car [Applause] 55 photo finish for that AOL group Solly holding on to first place is Ryan adenol with the score five second place is cor white with seven and third place is Zach with 10 HE2 of round two for the AOL Lane a we have Trevor against Lane B Zack Lane C Ryan and Lane De Damen [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] three of round two from the air Wells [Applause] [Music] all right Heat number four in Lane a we have Damian against Reese in Lane B Clayton in Lane C and in Lane d jeez Bley in first place the score six is Ryan second place is cor with the score of seven in third place is uh BR in with the score of 11 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] still Sly first place is Ryan second is Coro third is Brennan he number five of round two for the a [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we're ready to go back and forth for second and third place now going to heat number six of round two for the aol's [Applause] [Music] now switching right at an Aly in first place with a score of seven second is cor with a score of eight and third is now Damen at 15 in first place Heat number seven for the [Applause] aols screaming across that Finish [Music] Line white nice run [Music] [Applause] Ryan Hold Steady in first place the score of eight second to score the score of nine third is deing with a score of 15 two races to go for our aol's [Applause] [Music] going into our last race for the AOL Den round two Heat number nine first place we currently have a tie between Ryan and cor with a score of nine third place is Damien with a score of 15 he number nine Lane a 61 cor White against 55 Lane B Clayton Franco Lane C's Car 60 Bren and white and Lane D car 54 Trevor Alex what yeah [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I turn back [Applause] so [Music] ladies and gentlemen our AOL Den first place righte of off the score of nine F right behind with cor with a score of 10 and in third place Damien with a score of 15 nice run in AOL then all right give us a moment we'll build our fin race for our championship [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right please make sure your final votes are in for the best looking car we are closing down the voting for the best looking all we have left today is our pack championship and our sibling race [Music] think [Music] know [Music] here [Music] [Applause] [Music] right [Music] I [Applause] the [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you're so luy you're so luy [Music] [Applause] [Music] I [Applause] [Music] [Applause] ladies and gentlemen boys and girls will pack 114 here's what you've all been waiting for the pack champ ship our winners from the lion tiger wolf bear weblo and AOL Deads the first place is going to go head-to-head against each other our winners are Lincoln William Micah Jackson Felix and Ryan Lincoln is car number four representing the Lions Williams car number 16 representing the Tigers Micah's car 20 from the wolves Jackson car 39 from the Bears Felix car 44 from the weblow and Ryan Ed Alie car 53 from the AOL B heat one round one will be Lincoln against Micah Felix and car number 16 William I want to hear this entire pack are you ready 5 4 [Applause] M screamed across the Finish [Applause] Line all right round one Heat number two we have William against Jackson Ryan and car number Micah again again thank you to all of our sponsors that help donate to all the things for pack4 thanks for all the parents for chipping in the help out and for all of our committee members with the setup to breakdown here we go for Heat number two laser finish all right we had a tie for Clear place we're going to rerun that event we're going to rerun in Lane a is car number 16 Lane B is car 39 Lane C is car 53 and in Lane D is car 20 [Applause] all right we the clean finish [Music] going into heat number three we have Micah against Felix Lincoln and [Applause] Jackson Felix taking a first place fix [Applause] all right Heat number four for the pack Championship Lane a we have car 39 Lane b car 53 Lane c car 16 and Lane D car 44 [Applause] [Music] Jackson pulling out a win currently the low score four Micah is in first place fall right behind tied for second is Felix Ryan both will score [Music] five Lane a we've got car 44 Lane b car 4 Lane c car 20 and Lane D car [Applause] [Music] [Applause] 53 AO [Applause] finish Michael pull in the head to get the [Music] win all right ladies and gentlemen Micah is in first place with the score five called right behind the score seven with Jackson and Felix with the score in third going into the final heat of round one [Applause] neck and neck to the Finish Line congratulations Ryan on that [Applause] win that concludes round one with Michael holding a solid position the low score five in first place follow behind the score of eight is Felix and then in third place Jackson with the score of nine going into round two heat one Lane a we've got Lincoln against Jackson in Lane B Micah and Lane C and William [Applause] [Music] Lane Mike is in first with Felix in second with a score of eight ly in with a score of 11 with Jackson right behind with the score of 12 round two [Music] [Applause] V2 M getting edged out by Jackson only four Heats to go for our pack Championship first place is Michael with a score of eight follow right behind with Ryan with a score of 10 and only one point separating thir plays with Felix and third to score 11 he GRE we have Micah against Ryan in Lane B Felix in Lane C Jackson Lane [Applause] D Jackson pulling off the win [Applause] beat number four only three to go to the turn our pack [Music] Championship Jackson with the win [Music] [Applause] [Music] second to last run of the day for our pack Championship Micah in first with a score of 10 B behind with Jackson with a score of 14 and Ryan at an alri and third with a score of 16 oh fly across a fish line in a photo finish Felix [Applause] [Music] [Applause] pack 114 the final race for today's pack Championship I want to hear everybody counting down five 3 2 1 [Applause] congratulations Micah Carlin our pack Champion second place for the pack is Felix I'm sorry second place no no sorry second place is Jackson with 14 Felix is third with 18 [Applause] be [Music] [Applause] we [Applause] [Music] [Applause] right now the second most important race of the day we've determined our pack Championship but now we need to determine which is the fastest sibling that can compete today our sibling race is going to begin momentarily we have Luke Mara with car 70 Penny Harding car 71 Charlotte Alex to car 72 Michael Ral in car 73 Owen Henry car 74 Lucas Kowski car 75 and Benjamin Bo pack with car 76 [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] wait wait wait wait wait wait before we get there hold on hold on Scouts hey Scouts guys you're not listening obviously the sibling race is Extreme extremely important almost almost as important as our best in show the parents the brothers and sisters the families and the scouts all voted for the best in show you might have even heard this car being chanted earlier today we'd like to congratulate car number 56 Damen Garcia with the best and show all right siblings let's give the big kids a run for their money for our sibling race starting round one heat one we've got Luke against Charlotte Owen and Penny are you all ready let's count them down 5 4 3 2 1 [Music] [Applause] [Music] as always Charlotte stepping up to the plate showing us how it's [Music] done yep all right P2 car number 71 car number 73 75 and [Applause] 72 whoa laser [Music] finish Heat number three of round one for The Sibling race car 72 against 74 76 [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] 73 nice job siblings I think your cars are faster than the actual Racers from the scouts L we've got Michael against Lucas Lane C we've got Luke and in Lane D we've got [Applause] Owen okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] right [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay we're going to round one keep number five we've got Owen against Benjamin Penny and Lucas [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat number six of round one for our sibling race currently in first place is Michael followed in second with a score of four is Benjamin and in third place is Lucas [Applause] [Music] all right our last te of round one Michael holding on to a solid lead with a score of three now with a tie for second place between Lucas and Benjamin with a score of six round one heat seven [Applause] [Music] all right that concludes round one Michael still in the lead followed by Lucas with a score of six in second place and Benjamin in third with the score of eight we're going to begin heat one of round two lane A's car 70 Lane B is car 75 Lane c car 73 and Lane D car 76 let's go siblings showing the scouts how it should be done round two heat two Michael still holding a solid first place to score five but we have a second place position of Lucas with eight and a H for third between Charlotte and [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Benjamin just a couple rounds to go for the day Heat number three we're going to have Charlotte against Luke Lucas and [Applause] [Music] Penny bear goal for the smoothest finish ever number [Music] four Michael against Penny Benjamin and Lane D [Applause] Charlotte Michael fall ahead [Music] last three Heats of the day Michael still in a solid first position with score of six Lucas is the second with nine and Benjamin the score 14 is in third place [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] only two Heats to go to turn our sibling champion and Michaels got a solid stay at first place the score seven Follow by Lucas behind with a score of nine and third place Benjamin with the score of [Applause] [Music] all right ladies and gentlemen Boys and Girls Scouts of all ages our last race of the day I need to hear everybody as loud as possible we have in Lane a Benjamin against LAN Lane B Owen Lane C Charlotte and Lane D Lucas are you ready 5 4 3 2 1 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] are you ready siblings with a score of eight our winner is Michael second place is Lucas Kowski with a score of 12 and rounding out our sibling race is Benjamin bloack with the score of 16 in third place all right now ladies and gentlemen our second and third place best of show Damian was our winner with his Garfield car second place was Micah Carlin our wolf with the lightup car and third place was Liam Rhymer congratulations [Applause]
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agenda and we are in room 229 in the unlikely event that we must abruptly end this hearing due to Major technical difficulties the Committees will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business on Monday February 10th 2025 at 3:00 p.m.
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in this conference room 229 and a 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 1 minute per testifier per bill for people participating remotely please remain muted and video disabled until shortly 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 mute you so that we can move this hearing along in an orderly and efficient matter this joint agenda with health and human Services has two measures first item is Senate bill 530 relating to brille literacy establishes brille literacy as a policy of the state requires literacy assessments for eligible low vision and blind students to include Braille instructions and the use of Braille authorizes the Department of Education to adopt administrative rules establishes the Braille literacy Resource Center appropriates funds and to testify superintendent good afternoon Sher kidani Vice chair Kim and chair San buen of Ventura I'm Heidi Armstrong Department of Education and the department stands on its written testimony in support thank you thank you next to testify Department of Human Services Yani director apologies hohi oh good afternoon chairs oh chair oh go right in this is Senate Bill 5:30 and we are waiting for the testimony of director Ryan yman department of human servic good afternoon Gavin a testifying on behalf of director Ryman uh we appreciate the of this measure we stand on our written testimony as expands the educational and employment opportunities for students who are blind and low vision happy to answer any questions thank you and you the department is in support next to testify Marie c c h in person chair is right to your right sorry okay we've been together six months so we're still working I've had a dog for 12 years at perfectly understand down afternoon chair Vice chair and committee members thank you for hearing me today my name is Marie C hope and I am in support of SD 530 um I stand on my written testimony but I just wanted to add a couple things even though we have a minute um I am a product of not having good measures in place I um I'm so I was diagnosed with retinitis Pigmentosa at an early age around 7 um because they found that my brother had the same disorder um prognosis Is Blindness and by 24 I lost my vision now the problem is I they knew I was going blind and I was having Vision difficulties but Braille wasn't afforded to me and because brail wasn't afforded to me that left me at the age of 24 really IL equipped so I struggled throughout life throughout College I became a professor but during those times the the difficulties in the barriers that I had to face because I didn't have an alternative way of reading I was stuck with listening to audio books but audio books they don't cut it right they leave gaps in your education it's very difficult to pull a room in together to figure out what's going on I can't look down at a speech I can't you know get cues from what's in front of me and it caused so many headaches I used markers through college writing off my paper um it's just it's a tough road and I don't want any kid to go through that um when we use braille and we use an alternative technique for the represent representation of our language I mean when you try to spell something right now if I gave you a word a simple word like cat you see it in your mind as a blind person we don't have that visual representation so spelling looks sloppy um you struggle with trying to spell the simplest words the tacal representation of our language provides our ability to form the structure of our language which then leads to literacy and that literacy leads to empowerment and Independence and that's what we want we want our kids to be independent we want them to feel empowered and not like I did always kind of falling behind not being able to keep up with my sighted counterparts not being able to keep up with my blind counterparts because my blind counterparts were reading proficient Braille my cited counterparts were reading proficient um written language and I was stuck in the middle trying to figure out what was and what wasn't and and how I was going to get ahead so I I I know I did that really fast and I because we have a minute and I don't I don't want to uh bore people but let me tell you this bill isn't for me the system already failed me but for our kids now if we can get a good assessment right if we can get Braille instruction at the right time early underneath the fingertips of our kids and we can get a bra Resource Center where they can actually get the materials that they need they will become more proficient and they won't struggle like I did or end up like my brother who when he went blind was a bank manager lost his job and he's been on Social Security disability for the duration that's just not a good outcome so I really I thank you for listening to me um and I ask that we push this push this thing forward because is we need to help our kids again it's not going to help me but it is going to help the kids today and it's going to help the kids of our future thank you very much for testimon Marie why don't you stay there and let me see if any of our members have questions for you sure sure members any questions I'd like to know um how long did it take you to train your dog oh so I just got him in May and so I didn't train him obviously he was um selectively bred uh they I got him at Dogs Inc in Bradon Florida and so it's a two-year process of a host home raising him and then he's trained throughout those years when it's ready and then he goes through a rigorous six-month program and then I go for a month I meet him and then we train for another month and now we have mango who usually finds my chair so yeah mango great name so Marie do you have um a list of May instructional materials that you would recommend to the department you mean for Braille resources so the best person that could take that would be James Gastel of the nfb I know for me um like I was a psychology Professor so like when it comes to Braille literacy I learned Braille later on um so I wouldn't be able to like tell you what I I don't have a curriculum or any material that I would know I would but James gashel could definitely feel that thank you no National Federation of the blind yes any questions members thank you very much for thank you thank you for hearing me may go stand my [Music] dog okay if there are no and we have oh two four six eight others that provided um testimony in support we have is Attorney General on Zoom oh you're here come forward please good afternoon cheers kidani and sanura members um and herichi from the Department of the Attorney General we um just have some suggested comments um and suggested revisions I just say in our testimony um when we read the bill what we wanted to note was that mandating yearly Assessments in certain areas can be subject to challenge on grounds that is contrary to federal law um really the the need for new assessments and evaluations that's determined by an IEP team on an annual basis and is based on each student's individualized Pro um progress so um just putting forth in statute that certain assessments will be done every year may not be appropriate for certain students and so for that reason we've put some suggested revisions in our testimony to address um subsections B and E of the bill and I'm available for questions thank you let me ask the members if they have questions thank you and we have another testifier James gashel on zoom on Zoom James uh yes James gashel here um National Federation of the blind mainly I want toh stand on our re written testimony and say a bunch of thank yous first of all to you uh Madame chair and to U chair San boaventura for being in support of this bill um and appreciate the sponsorship of this bill uh to the department for its support of this bill and if I started naming names I don't know if it's advisable but specifically to miss jamaa green and Haruka Hopper from the Department who work in the special needs section J's the administrator of that section for working with us in the development of the um Provisions uh that you've now introduced as uh SP um 530 we're fully in support of this bill and that also includes um supporting the Amendments offered by Miss Lopez uh for the attorney general and Mahalo for um having this hearing thank you James we did also have uh written testimony and support from the Hawaii disability rights Center thank you anyone else here wishing to testify on this measure right moving on to Senate Bill 532 [Music] relating to the Department of Education allow Schools staff and agents trained by a licensed clinici to volunteer to administer medication to students at Department of Education Public Schools under searching conditions C clarifies who may prescribe medication to be administered to students in schools to testify superintendent please good good afternoon chair kidani Vice chair Kim chair s sanov Ventura and members of the Committees I'm Heidi Armstrong Department of Education and we stand on our written testimony in support thank you thank you Heidi Department of Health I don't have a name here good afternoon chairs Vice chair members of the committee Dr Diana Felton from the Department of Health uh we stand on our written testimony support thank you and Department of Health also I don't have a name someone here no one here from Department of Health supposedly the testimony was in support anyone else here wishing to testify on this measure Attorney General's office good afternoon chairs Vice chair members and herichi from the Department of the Attorney General um the bill uses the term license clinician um but we wanted to know that that's not a defined term in chapter 302a however the term Healthcare professional is defined under 302 A- 853 subsection B so we have suggested um an amendment in our in the testimony to address that or make that clarification thank you questions thank you also we have Leo kadia conton Hawaii Academy of physician assistance and support on Zoom yes good afternoon chair kadan can you hear me okay yes uh good afternoon um chair kadani s Ventura Vice chairs of committee members I'm representing the Hawaii Academy of physician assistants or Pas we stand in our written testimony to support this bill but request the inclusion of Pas such that PAs will be recognized as providers pursuant to chapter 453 who can prescribe medications that can be administered in schools in a state with critical Healthcare Workforce shortages it's vital that legislation that's intended to ensure access to medications for students who rely on timely administration of certain medications does not result in creating barriers for patients by limiting their preference for access to all licensed health providers who may prescribe medication they need Mahala for the opportunity to provide this testimony thank you very much members questions thank you that's all the names I have is there anyone else here wishing to testify on this measure anyone on Zoom thank you ch have a question question question of whom question I have a question for Department of Education thank you Department of Education thank you for being with us Heidi um what are the requirements for a health school health assistant now a school health aid aid I'm going to call up Ben kolinsky who works in our school um health section who can give you all of those details thank you Ben members of the committee Ben kinsky I'm pediatric nurse practitioner with YK and consultant to the Department of Education our uh school health assistants um as a starting uh job requirement uh is a high school diploma first aid and CPR uh certification and those have to be maintained with annual recertification and then there's orientation and training um on the job there are there are two years of experience um both uh professional one-year experience and one year of specialized experience that are part of the job description uh qualifications specialized experience in the medical field or specialized experience in education it's it's broadly defined and um it it allows uh the uh application of activities are uh working with children so not exclusively Health uh related but that would qualify as well okay uh and this could be for either one of you maybe you hadidi do you believe that something like this would kind of overwhelm the responsibilities of the current teachers that we have no because it would be people who volunteer to get trained to administer a certain prescribed medication it's very helpful um often times when there are field trips if a child needs a certain medication at a certain time of day um there needs to be somebody there to administer that medication and if the health aid accompanies the child on the trip that leaves the school health office um vacant so um it would be on a voluntary basis um they would whoever volunteers would be properly trained and would willingly um step into that role great and then the parent would be informed absolutely thank you no questions thank you chair thank you so Heidi what does what is the de protocol now um um to administer medication if I'll give for the field trip well right now the Sha the school health aid is authorized to administer certain prescribed medication with proper documentation paperwork and approvals um there are issues um on I'll give the example again of off-campus events where a child needs the medication um administered at a certain time so the school may send um the school health aid um we may borrow a a Hawaii cakey nurse from another school to attend on that field trip because we um want to ensure that the T child can attend the field trip just like any other child so it is scrambling for personnel who can accompany the child but that that is our goal and that is our um our expectation so in other words if you have no one there the child cannot attend no the child must attend so we we must find somebody to attend so you've always been able to find some um I I don't have data on that I can speak as a principal I'm former principal we always ensured that there're was somebody to attend because the child has the right to go on that field trip and but what is the protocol now this bill requires that um they they be trained by a licensed um clinician right and we have our Hawaii kakei nurses um who could who could train um some other Ro groups who could train might be just generally in practice nurses train school health assistance in clinical activities and especially for medication administration whether that's a Department of Health nurses uh H Ki nurses other contractors that has been the our our standard and um based on the current statute those are the requirements we follow so there's are not a specified requirement for training that's just best practice for us already thank you you chair no questions no questions question thank you and we have qu okay you want to go on this now then yeah going to take the V on this recess Services we are in decision making um on Senate bill 530 relating to brille literacy which establishes is Braille literacy as a policy of the state requires literacy assessments for eligible low vision and blind students to include Braille instruction and the use of brille authorizes the Department of Education to adopt administrative rules establishes the Braille lit resource center and appropriates funds um we are passing with amendments and defecting the date to July 2050 and including the testimony of the Attorney General members questions Yeah question so what what is the for this we have any idea what it might be um I know you're going to blank it out yeah we're going to blank it out I I don't know if we had an a figure or not and um yeah and we will add that amount in the committee report is that just for one year will have to thank you okay um for the committee on education recommendation is Senate bill 530 pass with amendments uh the chair votes I Vice chair votes I Senator Hashimoto I Senator K Senator the court I five eyes recommendations adopted thank you for HHS same recommendation to pass with amendments um chair votes I um Senator k for Senator artino please take the vote uh chair vots I Vice chair aino is excused senator Asimo hi K goes I Senator flla excuse recommendation adopted five for Senate Bill 532 relating to the Department of Education which allows School staff and agents trained by a liced Clin who volunteer to administer medication to students at Department of Education Public Schools under searching conditions CL clarifies who may prescribe medication to be administered to students in schools um members questions I'll pass with amendments I'm sorry okay so the amendments were to replace the term licensed clinician on page two line 13 bill with health care professional and defecting the date to July 1 20150 recommendation is to bend Senate Bill 532 with amendments chair votes I chair votes I Vice chair votes no eyes adopted okay for Health and Human Services same recommendation um acting VI chair for the vote uh members passing with amendments with three members present any reservations or opposition seeing none recommendation adopted thank you the Jour this Joint Committee hearing call to order the committee on education hearing this is Friday February 7th 2025 this is a 308 PM agenda and we are in room 229 starting with Senate Bill 421 relating to literacy requires the Department of Education to administer a general dyslexia screening to all students in kindergarten through grade three Rees the doe to continue to administer the general English language arts Universal screening for students in kindergarten through grade n requires the Department of Education to collaborate with teacher training programs to ensure prospective candidates are trained on literacy instruction including evidence-based intervention to support all students my okay thank you to testify de superintendent Heidi good afternoon Cher kidani Vice chair Kim members of the committee Heidi Armstrong Department of Education we stand on our written testimony and support of this measure we do recommend replacing the text of s421 with the text of sb11 10001 in its entire as sb1001 more accurately reflects the Department's ongoing collaboration with the literacy workg groups and aligns closely with the legislative intent thank you next to testify PJ foyer Hawaii state public charge School permission good afternoon chair Vice chair committee members at no executive director of the Hawaii public charter school commission and we support the intent of SP 421 and stand as on aring comments thank you thank you Ed next to testify Erica nakanishi Stannis advocacy director Hawaii kids can hello chair kidani Vice chair Kim members of the committee we stand in support of our written testimony um in support of this measure thank you thank you next to testify D this why State Council on developmental disabilities Aloha chair committee members my name is Chase L I'm with the Hawaii state Council on development of disabilities uh for D boldis we're going to stand on our written testimony and support but I just wanted to offer I was born and raised here I also have have severe dyslexia and I went to public school here as well and this wasn't diagnosed for me until I was 25 um I went through all of my schooling not knowing thinking I was just incredibly lazy uh and then only to find out that I had it later uh and our Public Schools didn't catch it didn't know so we just wanted to add that thank you so much congratulations with graduating sure Lu um we have number of supporters of this bill but none are here to testify is that correct or are they on Zoom doesn't Okay are there any other persons wishing to testify on this meion welcome former Governor are you here just to democracy in action in as much as it's disappearing in Washington I'm sorry I let you speak did you get L just supposed to be at the University thank you members questions of Dey cost to run this program a year and it's going to run to is it so this is just for this year 7 so we're estimating 700 $50,000 um per year yes thank you at some point mam chair I would not at this juncture but at some juncture be good to get a global view of what are all the things we're asking for the doe to do in bills and what that cost might be overall because when you look at it P me at me is very meritoriously ours and we certainly want to do all of this but at the end of the day we should get a googal picture as to what are all the programs and assessments and so forth that we're asking the doe to compile to do and what that cost might be just to follow up on what I sh is saying is that I think in all the years that I've been here not a year goes by that we don't include something else for the de to do at at a cost and um I just appreciate the work that you guys do do for our students we are graduates of public school oh Goss and my grandchildren my children all to public school so very much appreciate the hard work of the doe and the teachers thank you for hearing with us um Heidi I had a question so what is a screener screening for is this the specifically looking for dyslexia or other also no it it's looking for um signs of skilled deficits that a student might have those skill deficits might give information to um promote further screening by a licensed um professional such as a clinical psychologist but a screener it it the dyslexia sensitive screener is a screening tool it's not a diagnostic tool so it's to identif ify risks and really Define what those risks are in order to be diagnosed with dislexia a detailed assessment diagnostic assessment by a trained professional must be conducted so this screener would give the um give information on the children whether they um on um their capacity for phonics reading comprehension fluency spelling letter recognition but it does not diagnose anything so this is a uh some kind of software that they take or is it an actual person that's standing there and giving some kind of test there there are a variety of Assessments um and right now we there is a working group to determine which assessments would be approved um some schools already use a a reading assessment called Dibbles um it is considered a dyslexia sensitive screener and that is administered um in person we are looking into um online screeners or um um digital screeners but we we um haven't made a determination on the um effectiveness of them and that's what the work group is doing so every single student in eight from kindergarten to third grade would go through some kind of a test or assessment or screening tool yes yes would be screened for um so how does that work individually they go to a separate room separate time it is um it is um laborious but it gives very in-depth information so um uh in person the Dibbles which is an example of a screener does take um an adult an adult to student ratio yes and schools do it differently they might do it in a different classroom it might be in a section of the classroom um somebody else does have to cover the classroom if it is the teacher admin so there are Logistics involved um but again it does give right and that the $750,000 is for the that whole process correct is that what you're saying so all those schools will have a a consistent similar process not one school do it one way one school do another way at at this time we're we're looking at giving a recommendation of screeners that schools can select from so they might already be using something that's on the list and we wouldn't want them to change um from that others might be using um a an online um Universal screener that might um with additional add-ons qualify as a dyslexic dyslexia sensitive screener so we wouldn't want to take that option away yeah I asked this because when we did the kindergarten assessments we thought it was going to be the teacher to just assess whether or not the child uh had gone to preschool or not and what we ended up having is the department spending a lot of money a million dollars on bringing in some some assessment from the mainland and applying it to the kindergarteners which had some push back from the teachers and at this point you know that that t is is not worth anything is given to you at that point so I just want to make sure what we're getting what you folks are doing and that you don't overspend by duplicating or you know if you found a really good program we're going to go with it but to have so many different kinds of program might be not cost effective so I just hope you folks look at that as you administer now you folks also administer um an add right um to all the kids or some kids how do how does that work to screen a child for ADHD that that also would be done by a licensed professional do that now correct and what is the cost to do that and what grades do you do that um it it would go through a referral process so it would be all grades it goes through a referral process and then the team um would decide that um an assessment is necessary and so a licensed professional would come and do that assessment and give a diagnosis okay and at that assessment they also can pinpoint um dyslexia yes yes because my son went through that yes for uh add and during that process they found that he was slightly thisle and so we found that out so I'm just want wanting to make sure that all of these assessments are sort of somehow put together I mean not that every single child has that but that we're not doing duplication so if a child goes through ADH um assessment that we can also look for dyslexia at the same time that they're doing it and not have to administer a whole different set of Assessments or tests or whatever it is you're putting that understood thank you um I think Senator um Kim hit on what I was going to ask so basically my question was are all students being screened as the bill is written now yes in grades K to three k to three and um the cost for this because is this going to take something besides a nurse or clinician to well if if we screen all students in K to 3 it would cost 700 about we're estimating $750,000 but all students it's not if the teacher recommends it this is all students yes thank you members further questions thank you Heidi thank you okay we went through the list was there anyone else here wishing to testify this measure not we are on Senate Bill 1389 relating to therapy services expands the Scopes of practice for occupational therapists physical therapists and speech pathologists to allow those professionals working for a contracted working for or contracted by the Department of Education to diagnose medical conditions that can be treated with respective services to testify Dey good afternoon again Heidi Armstrong Department of Education the department stands on its written testimony in support of this measure thank you thank you Christopher Fernandez executive officer Board of Speech Pathology and audiology and Cher keani Vice chair K and members of the committee I'm sorry but Christopher Fernandez is in a board meeting right now so the board of Speech Pathology and Audiology stands on its written testimon your name please oh I'm sorry I'm Candace I'm an executive officer with the DC Candace e thank you relle AR rocki executive officer Board of physical therapy good afternoon chair Vice chair members of the committee R rocki executive officer of the board of physical therapy the board stands on his written testimony offering comments thank you thank you Melle Candace did you have your own testimony yes thank you Shani Shar Kim and members of the committee I'm Candace EO I'm an executive officer for the Occupational Therapy Program and the department stands on its written testimony thank you Randy Pereira executive director o government employees Association hello chair Vice chair members of the committee uh neie sebasti here with AA we'll s out a rent testimony in opposition to this measure M thank you Ryan Yani director Department of Human Services on Zoom hoha chair members of the committee Jud more Peterson on behalf of uh director yamane we stand in on with the Department of Human Services uh we stand on our written testimony and support thank you thank you Judy Douglas white chair American Physical Therapy Association of good afternoon chair Vice chair and members I'm Douglas white I am testifying on behalf of the uh American Physical Therapy Association of Hawaii we submitted written testimony in opposition to this bill uh we believe it will not achieve its intent and would uh constrain not expand the scope of practice for physical therapist in Hawaii we are ready to work with the the Department of Education to achieve their goal of getting reimbursement although this would not be uh we would not be in support of this measure thank you Douglas Sydney heer on Zoom not on Zoom chair Margarita Bradford on Zoom no other presentent on Zoom chair Christy Salvador on [Music] zoom and Johnson on Zoom Christina Fuentes president Hawaii speech language hearing Association on Zoom no other uh no other um participants on Zoom chair thank you for that information because that was a long of names okay members questions question of the sole purposes of supporting this so you can get a reimbursement supporting this bill um would allow us to um attempt to claim reimbursement for occupational therapy physical therapy and speech services but is that the only reason why the for the purposes of this Bill yes a change would need right now we cannot claim for those Services um the purpose of this bill is to create the conditions where we can claim um so right now you do physical therapy you give physical therap to students yes under what what situations um the I AP team has determined that the child has a need um that requires physical therapy or occupational therapy or speech and language Services okay I guess I just you know I understand there's a lot of need out there but at some point whether the schools mission is education and I can see speech therapy speech being part of it physical therapy I mean it you know pretty much you everything going to go to the school so I guess I'm asking what what point is the school is going to really say what is our mission and what should we be doing and where do we need to focus our um attention and our resources on because it seems like everything is thrown into doe and you become the cat out nursing physical therapist all kinds of medical things that should be should not be part of do but you FKS keeps supporting everything so everything gets given to you guys I mean what point are we going to reach that a agreed and I do think the term medical diagnosis in this bill um is what has um I've read through the testimonies the concern of the OT ptn speech um community and if this bill should move forward I um we would want to look at what is the terminology that can be used that um May expand their scope of practice but does not um ask them or require them to diagnose something that is out of their scope of practice and I think that's what the worry is so language would need to be changed we would then need to see if that Lang AG for the purpose of this bill to get Medicaid reimbursement if that language would suffice but there but again is that the world of schools to be you know administering physical therapy and then diagnosing physical the therapy and so forth I mean that the role of the school those Services we do need to provide um for children who do need them under chapter 60 special educ is that our our our laws state we created that it it's Federal it is federal yes okay well it might change right if everything comes back to the States um at some point I guess I'm just you know trying to trying to get a hold of this because we keep putting everything under doe and at some point even the teachers you know my sister was a teacher and she says you know I got to I got to give medication I got to change diapers I've got to do this I have she goes this is not what I signed up for this is not what I went to school for U and I understand there are special needs um children I'm not you know speaking against that so parents if you're out there and you're thinking that you know Way Off the Mark it's like at some point then you know why don't we get rid of Department of Health get rid of all stuff and just put it under do and you know you administer you diagnose you you set you know maybe from I don't know maybe from one years old we start sending them to doe and you guys started ministering early and medication and you know vaccines and everything I mean that might save us a lot we can do that yes can I clarify one thing chapter 60 is our our our law but it's based on idea which is the federal law I think I misspoke just a second ago because we've we've given more and more to you folks and you've taken it and accepted it a part of it I think at some point we have to look at um you know what is the mission can't be all things that we need to give it to the right entities to deal with those situations okay thank you other questions so Heidi I guess my question very similar to Senator Kim would be how many do we have um an estimate of how many children that teachers have to administer medication or do something that Medical in nature for our students and how many more so will be if this law is passed well for for this law because we're talking about occupational therapy physical therapy and speech language we do have 1,172 students um who receive Occupational Therapy Services we have 230 students who receive Physical Therapy Services and we have 4,435 students who receive speech language Services how massage you guys M for teachers no I mean you're laughing because at some point me you know because I'm sure that some of these with physical therapy and I know I've going to physical therapy I certainly need a job also massage therapy but it wasn't covered I'm not sure if HS is great to testify this me yeah so I'm not sure um if they have opposed other bills relating to having to do the teachers having to do medical uh services to students and I can understand their point of view but I also understand that students need to be in school and taught so it's a very difficult um situation you know for the parents for the students and then for the teachers who are supposed to be in the classs teaching and you having this extra um duty to do so it's a it's a difficult question for us to to man but thank you for your [Music] testimony did I go through all the yes okay moving on I will note that we just on this past measure that we looked at we had more people in opposition um and we did support moving on Senate Bill 1548 REI relating to the Department of Education exempts doe purchases of local edible produce and packages food products less than a certain amount from the electronic procurement system requirement requires at least three written local edible produce and package food products between certain amounts requires at least two written quotes for Department of Education purchases of local edible produce and packaged food products between certain amounts for for for certain schools in rural communities to testify doe please good afternoon Cher kidani Vice chair K members of the committee dinu Deputy superintendent with the Department of Education the department stands on it written testimony in support of this measure thank you for the opportunity to testify thank you kavika kahako Network program coordinator for Hawaii Public Health Institute and support on Zoom Bonnie Kakui administrator for State procurement office in person thank you for joining us Bonnie good afternoon chair as Vice chair members of the committee Monica Ki administrator State procurement office we will stand on our written testimony providing recommendations thank you thank you Bonnie no Shaw on Zoom is there anybody on Zoom no particip been on Zoom chair thank you okay other questions members question so right now when you and I assume this is for the school es and M that's correct so do you do the schools purchase directly from a large entity well generally we have like the the dod list and then we have a separate supplemental list and they they get to select from the vendors on those lists and they order from them so you don't order from a large vendor and then that vendor goes and gets it from the smaller that's ideally how we like to handle it right because we were concerned about like food safety food handling security kind of things so so like now if you were to go to like I don't know folks purchase to White House um what's your what's your biggest I think we have hat we have uh what na on Maui we have like one on every island right now okay so you purchase to them and then they go and they purchase to the local from their Farmers right right um but if they can get it cheaper from elsewhere they do right oh yeah we let the vent that the distributor figure out who to purchase from right so how does this change that well this is kind of a a tool to try and get the small farmers to do deal directly with with us right um we we're just looking at different ways to procure because we're trying to hit that 30 by 30 so people have come up with different suggestions and kind of this is like one of another tool in our toolbx that we can use okay so if you're already going through a a vendor which is the and the vendor can go directly to the farmers and get it then how does this come into play you're going to then go and and work at the same vendors or different vendors or I mean to me it sounds like yeah you got a lot of tools but I don't know at what point you know which tools to and where two tools are being used at the same time I agree all right right now we're just trying to struggle with how do we get the local produce um be able to select local produce because it's going to be a higher price than the mail and stuff and the Enders usually go with the the lowest price right so we're trying to figure out how to set up a procurement that is only local that we can get the low price from the local vendors instead of having the mail and stuff come in so have you talked with yeah we've had discussions with with her we trying to work out the procurement from our side working with her on because wouldn't it be better to let the the big vendor know hey we want this we want you to procure locally and it's going to cost more but I mean it's the same thing if you folks procure locally going to cost us whatever they're going to Hope but you going to cost the same thing right but it's more coordination more work yeah so we have a we have a local preference in the the the ifbs right now but this just a preference we cannot require them to just provide us with the local and I'm not sure if we can just say the procurement is only for the local produce right I I don't I don't I don't know if that's legal or not so we I'm still struggling trying to figure out to do it well that's what we're trying to figure out right now how we can set up the process so we can I'm just saying that I think if you're going to use a vendor you should use a vendor and there should be some requirement if you're not going to use that big vendor that you use them for whatever you take away his discretion to go to the mainland and you you do it you know what I'm saying so there's two completely instead of part of one one and a half and then another half here because it's going to be at the end of the day we going to be back in front of us and we're going to say what's going on I'm trying to figure it out I'm still trying to figure it out but then you have this build in front of us I know it's well yeah we we're just looking like it's another tool that we can use we're trying to get to some giv you guys tools because you guys don't use the tools correctly a lot of times we're going to try okay you might want to explain the 30 by 30 I know for the audience 30 by 30 we need to have 30% of our Lo 30% of our food products have to be locally purchased locally by 2030 and right now we're like 5 and a half right so we got a ways to go that's why we're trying to figure out a different way of procuring thank you questions C okay um thanks Dean so so I guess the question really is is when are you allowing each of the schools to then have this procurement or is there some level of coordination somewhere we we're trying to coordinate at at the state level because the schools don't have the staff to do procurement contract management everything so so I think there they in Li your problem is if you're going to use go from the state level and try and procure all these small vendors that's just really complicated because the problem is is there's a lot of small farmers out there right but they don't want to deal with five schools they likely don't have capacity so I'm I'm just trying to understand where you're trying to get out because I I think that the you know Senator Kim actually brings up a good point you actually need these third party vendors to do the leg work for you because part of it is you're not going to get the supply all the time like you know as local farmers are going to have sometimes but then you're going to have to then back fill with Mainland product but yes you want to do locals first but I'm just trying to understand why you would want to be exempt because at some point you're going to have to procure somehow cuz if you're going to go direct are you also then saying you're going to lower the standards for these Farmers cuz some of these farmers aren't probably meeting what the doe requirement is and that's why nobody wants to work with a doe because your requirements are too high but if they go through a third party vendor like the watab they're processing for you and then it goes to your your your level that you want it right so so I'm just trying to understand what what what link are you trying to fix because I think in my mind you have the tools you're not using your third party adequately right well yeah that that's the delivery system I would prefer we have a distributor in every island and they go and solicit produce from the different Farmers on that island M's fine so I don't know what what the problem is on aahu yes that's a system we're trying to set up so that we can have preference for local products instead of but then so so then the question becomes is how did how did you procure that on Maui or is it just because you know the watsab are doing such a good job how can you replicate that maybe that's the the question you have to answer we're trying to set up the same thing on every island so we have one distributor hands it and then there's a preference for local we trying to get so then why aren't you asking for that then maybe you got to come in to change change that preference to make sure it's it's greater than a preference requirement that's the proc that's the procurement part we're trying to work out yeah this is yeah but that bill is something else right bill so you're not well but but you're yeah I mean I we just look at as another tool to help us get to that 30 by so I guess the thing is we want you to come with what you actually need to be successful I know this is someone else's bill but you got to tell us okay this is not what we need we need something else I'm still trying to figure that out right now okay so maybe it's too premature than this bill it could be okay okay thank you chair I want so I tell people if you the experts are not going to tell us how to solve this issue we're going to dream it up you're going to get bills like this and if you're going to come in and say well there's one more tool no you're the expert supposingly so you need to tell us if you don't know yet then it's premature you should tell us and not just oh yeah somebody took this bill in yeah we could use one more tool yeah and that's the problem we have all these bills out there that and laws that sometimes don't make any sense yeah if you can't figure it out yet I don't know how this bill is going to figure it out for you I agree you changing your testimony now so really I to everybody out there think about the testimony think about what your mission is when you F's coming in and writing testimony in support of legislators bills because we we dream this up you know we have nothing better to do then to dream of bills on how you can do your job more efficiently so but you guys are the ones that have to deliver it and you're the one that then at some point be accountable for it even though it wasn't your idea to begin with it's going to be if you support it it's going to be yours and you're going to have to defend it and you're going to have to be accountable for it understood thank you thank you other questions I'm not sure so do you guys work with our um State procurement office on some of the issues that we're you're probably faced with we have procurement within our department and we're working closely with the state procurement office trying to figure this out okay Bonnie can you come back you in in your testimony you said to add local to the food products is there a definition for local food product there is a packaged is it grown is it it's there is a definition I don't see it in this one but uh there there is a definition and it's grown grown in Hawaii grown in Hawaii yeah grown and produced um and I don't remember all the details out but there is a it has to be yes a Hawaii product 51% 50 51% and I think there's another bill that says is calling it 100% so we're going to have to take a look at that okay thank you further questions thank you moving on relating to Charter School Senate Bill 494 requires the department of budget and Finance in collaboration with the auditor to conduct a financial audit of each Charter School operating in the state requires a report to the legislature appropriates funds to testify PJ for good afternoon chair Vice chair etno executive director Public Charter School commission uh we did submit written testimony uh with comments and stand by those and we'll be available for questions can you explain what your comments are are you in support or the the support well it was more comments around um we already do on annual Financial audits um we have independent Auditors um per statute and they we have currently have four who do annual audits for each of the charter schools they use um uh auditing government auditing standards and generally accepted accounting principles and so we definitely will work with what whatever the committee uh recommends um other state agencies and our public charter schools but just wanted to clarify that um annual audits do already exist are already done and correct who gets the audit the board um we do we do have the audits that come into the commission and then we submit those as part of our annual report thank you Ed how long have you guys been doing those uh the audits since the um the new statute 302d those have been part of the uh 2011 is when that task force was put in place and so um and that's really I wanted to emphasize that's that is a really significant piece that our schools go through this annual audit since 2011 since okay so based on some of the things that have been uncovered about uncovered about about some Charter Schools how did this thing not catch that how did these these audits not catch that well we do a risk assessment based on those standard practices and so we do assign a risk value and those really are targeted for federal funds and I know that through but again it's a very exhaustive audit um some schools um if there's a lag in the question is how did those schools that Financial issues that came in the newspaper if you're doing these Audits and you're supposed to be couching those things how did they how did they not get caught yeah that's because you're telling us you you have it already and you don't need this but apparently there's been issues right there there have been I will also say there's been a lot work that's been done on the financial performance framework and it's a learning process Whenever there is an issue then it gets addressed um but those are generally um do get flagged and again they're assigned a risk value and that's what will um require they may a followup or to learn more information about what's happening at the school level thank you members further questions I had [Applause] questions um yeah I don't have anyone else testifying there's comments there's one in opposition but no one here in person or is there someone I missed anyone on zoom on Zoom chair thank you no further questions members um TJ I mean sorry director no so how how often did you say that the charters are doing the audits yeah I'd have to check I know during the task force in 2011 is when the commission was formed I actually I wanted to double check exactly when those dates are or if there were amendments and things to address the financial framework I will definitely get that back to you yeah so I I would like to know how many audits they've done and what we've found and if there's things that you can relay back to us that we can look at and um yes often how often you're required I will definitely get back the exact date but the annual um audit as part of the annual report for charter schools has been um in statute so I'll just make sure I get that exact date for you and are the audits made public yes thank you okay I think we're on our last item Senate Bill 819 relating to education requires a Hawaii teacher standard Bo to establish an intermediate I'm sorry to to establish an international teacher license for certain Visa holders establishes criteria for obtaining an international teacher license to testify Department of Education please good afternoon Cher kidani Vice chair Marcato members of the committee Sean bacon assistant superintendent from the Department of Education we stand on our written testimony and strong support of this measure and we really thank you for the opportunity and be available to answer any questions thank you thank you sh Geraldine Suzuki individual being here individual in support chrisy miam y teachers Standards Board aloh Cher kidani uh Vice chair marato Kim and Senator Hashimoto my name is Christy mumi and I am a teacher at Milani middle school or I have had the privilege of working there for 21 of my 23 years in education I also have a license in special education middle level math and language arts and I serve currently as the chair of the Hawaii teacher Standards Board today I'm speaking opposition to SB 819 relating to education on behalf of the Hawaii teacher standard board the mission and vision is to ensure that every public school student in Hawaii is taught by a highly qualified teacher we achieve this by maintaining rigorous professional teaching license standards ensuring equal access and opportunity for all applicants to meet those standards J1 teachers who meet the necessary qualifications for lure have been granted Hawaii teacher Standards Board licensed in their respective Fields And as a regulatory body for Teacher lure the teacher Standards Board is empowered by the uh Hawaii revised statutes uh to determine licensing and certification standards um the teacher Standards Board became a separate entity by Statute designed to eliminate any potential conflicts of interest between employment and lure the teacher Standards Board doesn't charge licensing and application fees beyond the cost of exams and in contrast these states mentioned in the Preamble charge application and Licensing fees um I'd like to point out that prais also offers at home examinations and theyve done so since 2019 allowing Educators to take the exam from anywhere in the world um while we respect the knowledge and experience of our J1 teachers the teacher Standards Board belief is that International teachers should meet the same standards as those teachers who obtain a teaching degree these exams ensure that teachers have the necessary content knowledge grade level and grade span expertise and field specific qualifications they're a critical part of ensuring our teachers are prepared to meet the needs of ho students the teacher Standards Board strongly believes this bill is unnecessary and we are fully capable of handling the licensing renewing and adding fields to license without compromising our standards this bill threatens to weaken the high standards that ensure Hawaii's teachers are truly qualified to teach I respectfully urge the committee to oppose SB 819 and allow the teacher Standards Board to continue our Vital work of upholding High licensing standards and to provide every child in Hawaii with qualified excellent Educators thank you for your time and consideration thank you is there anyone else here wishing to testify oh yeah I had them on Zoom okay in person thank you good afternoon Cher kidani Vice chair Kim Senator and herichi from the Department of the Attorney General um to summarize Our Testimony there's a couple of references to the word uh or use of the word Educators that is not a defined term in the statute so um we suggest replacing Educators with the word teacher um the more um meteor part of our testimony is that we noted that in paragraph 7 of um it's on page six of the bill this new paragraph 7 combines two concepts one is establishing the license and the other is setting forth conditions for the issuance of the license and combining the two in one paragraph might be confusing also the bill doesn't discuss any conditions that might be necessary for renewing the license so in our testimony we have suggested um a revision to paragraph 7 that we think will address and and make things a bit clearer thank you I'm available available for questions thank you okay anyone else here wishing to testify Amy uh my name is am bayani representing the Hawaii um friends of civil rights we strongly support this measure and I have written testimony thank you and is there anyone in the room wishing to testify in this measure before I go to zoom okay on Zoom we have attorney uh pinky Grace Francisco teacher not present on Zoom chair Michelle Tad sixth grade teacher also not present on Zoom Rosa walking Filipino Association of UN Unity women also not present chair is there anyone on Zoom uh no no participants on Zoom chair thank you okay is there anyone else wishing to testify if not EMB questions yeah I have a question who do I ask a question um question that's your question yes what's the what's the issue or what's the problem that we're having right now that takes this spill because it seems like the teacher standard board from what they said is is doing this so what's the problem so thank you uh senator marim for the question I think um some of the things that are happening right now we are not opposed to what the standards board is saying about maintaining quality we want to make sure we have a quality educator in our classroom um currently right now I believe the Standards Board does have reciprocity agreements with all other 49 states at this point right now if you do have a license in one of the other 49 states and meet certain criteria they're able to then transfer their license from the from the um continent over to Hawaii these International teachers don't have a similar reciprocity type of agreement so I think what we're trying to look for here is some type of fairness or Equity so when they're coming from an international country they're able to show that they've had a bachelor's degree or equivalent that's been independently evaluated from an independent organization that shows that it's equivalent to that of the United States you know we're looking to make sure that they um have a license coming from their other country um and looking for similarities between the two so that we can um have our um J1 program individuals be able to be licensed in the state of Hawaii for the time that they are here if they do have a license in Hawaii they're able to stay up to 5 years at this point right now without the license and only with a permit they're only eligible to stay up to 3 years into our classrooms would do all of this review and this determination at the end of the day so I think currently right now um I do have one of our main recruiters here James urbanc um if I can ask James to come up I think part of what what is happening right now is um we do have our J1 um Outside Agency when we are going to the Philippines currently right now to do some of this recruiting our Outside Agency is doing some of this screening for us right now who does evaluation at an end of the day who approves it so umce yourself yeah hi James urbanc uh human resource officer with the Department uh so the evaluation of our International Educators is done by what's called Naes it's an independent group that evaluates every International teacher's transcript and they and it's both used by the teacher Standards Board and the doe and they issue a report and that report goes course by course what every International teacher takes and they issue whether or not that teacher has the equivalent of a United States teacher trained educator so they issue us that report every one of our International Educators has a international um transcript that shows that they are equal to a US educator so who makes the decision inter so we actually the Department of State issues the actual visa on behalf of these teachers they're monitored by the Department of State and we coordinate with the Department of State and our Visa provider to bring these teachers over here to Hawaii so you're the one that says they can practice and become I'm the one that does the initial screening and then our principles are the ones Statewide who hire the Educators directly so they make the employment decisions and whether or not to hire the teachers and keep them in our schools But ultimately it's up to the Standards Board to either issue the license or permit in order for them to be eligible to work in any Hawaii public school right so they they are the ones even though you approve them they're the ones that have to give the license that is correct they don't feel that they need their criteria they don't give them the lense is that correct that's correct and Senator Kim if I may I what would this F do if that's what the process is the this bill would allow the International Educator to be treated exactly the same way that our United States trained educators are treated so I brought this as a visual example because this is a little complicated it shouldn't be but essentially you see these two apples they are chachis that we give out on recruitment trips these are essentially they identical the teachers from the Philippines have an international transcript that shows that they have the equivalent of a US degree in teaching they also take a standardized Countrywide exam which is based on basic skills content knowledge and pedagogy which is teaching skills and they pass that exam they also have multiple years of experience when they apply for a teaching license in Hawaii they are denied and they are told they need to take additional exams in order to prove their highly qualified status which we know based off our International transcript evaluation that both the teacher Standards Board and the doe accept that they meet those requirements this teacher is someone like myself from New Jersey who moved here 20 years years ago or someone from Minnesota that moves here tomorrow [Music] yeah so the question I have is you're accepting evaluations from this entity that reviews teachers for the US and the same one that it for international could I ask our executive director to come up since they're The Specialist ele good afternoon chair Vice chair members of committee Felicia bobos executive director of the Hawaii teacher Standards Board thank you so if you're using the same evaluators and so if they're from the US they get they get accepted but if it's International and there's more subjectiveness that go into it is that yeah so for our us counterparts they have accreditation and they are vetted in the US for international like James said they use the nasus evaluation so it's an evaluation company where they submit the transcripts now that's for equivalency on bachelor's degrees um but our preparation is a little bit different from the US to International we found that in different parts of the world um so one of the concerns the board has is we monitor testing and one of the issues with the testing is our International counterparts are having difficulty passing a basic skills in reading and writing um so they come in with degrees but it's still they're having they're struggling with the basic and the basic common core test not common core the basic core test for practice is at a high school level for Reading Writing and math and unfortunately they're not able to pass that that test at the proficiency level of our other us uh teacher candidates great I can understand that I've interviewed people with degrees and graduated from from law school and they couldn't even write a letter thank you letter when asked so um there are different I guess different levels and how they're being evaluated uh is language a problem that you see um as far as accent and being able to understand because I know at the University of Hawaii I get a lot of complaints from parents and from students saying that they can't not understand the professors some professors that may be from a different country because the accent is is too too great and so they drop out and they go to the community colleges because they having difficulty so is that also an issue the only thing we monitor is the testing the evaluation uh we're not in the school as the employer is but we can probably have Dr Jennifer pwad speak to the because that that question was brought up on the house side as well if that's okay with you folks good afternoon chair uh Vice chair and committee MERS my name is Dr Jennifer padwa I'm a licensing specialist at the white teacher Standards Board also I was a classroom teacher and um like which can be an issue not just for Filipino teachers but anybody like had mentioned um that come from an international or grew up internationally but that's not consider part of your so uh like director had said we um we used the pracy core exams um as basic skills that's a norm reference test um I also want to sort of point out something else I went to school I did my undergraduate work in Oregon and and children not children but college students who go away for Teacher preparation program they may or may not end up with a license in that state and so just to use me as an example when I went to Oregon my college preparation said do you want an Oregon license um and my plan was to stay in Oregon um and so I got one but many local kids who don't feel like they are going to stay in the states they choose not to get a license and then they come back home and they now they have to go through the state requirements of licensure which also includes um the content exam the basic core requirements ments as well as what we call Professional learning and principles of learning and teaching and so those who do not accept a license or agree to a license from an outof State program they will still use um they still need to take those exams just like any other International teacher so teachers from the Philippines we are seeing teachers from New Zealand and so what this does is it it quarters everybody regardless of you if you went to the international or did not get a license from an out ofate preparation program they are taking the same exams based on the content or their major how Rous these exam excuse me how Rous exam so like uh director said the basic core exam is high school level and the principles of learning and teaching that is dependent on the pedagogy so if you're an elementary you would take the kindergarten through sixth grade principles of learning um teaching if you're secondary you would take the 6 through 12 so just one one example so it it depends so the basic core is just what we call Basic Skills so those are three exams uh Math Science and language arts principles of learning and teaching addresses the pedagogy can you or do you have enough knowledge and different strategies based on the grade level and then the third exam is what we call content knowledge so like cherem ma she's in special education so she would take a special education exam okay so it's two to three exams and within that exams might have twoam yeah there there are subsections within the exam so if they fail any part of it then they don't they deny they don't get denied they're they're they can take the exams as much as they want to and there's no charge um in Hawaii there is a charge for the practices exams um but but my understanding and you can clarify with the Department of Education is that when they pass their exams they get reimbursed but that's something and from what I understand there are some principles who are offering to pay um for the practice exam for some of there can they uh if they don't get a license from you can they do like a Subs substitute teaching or can they come in as resource teachers on a temporary basis yeah so I I can answer that of chair so anyone with a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution can get an emergency hire permit often times of people like our local kids who come back home because they didn't get a license on the continent they will start with an emergency hire permit as they work their way through their exams I would like to point out this past summer there are current Filipino teachers who have graduated from the Philippines and for some reason they're not being hired as full-time teachers I had one teacher who who has been at the same school since 2009 she has a degree um from the Philippines she has a license in math secondary as well as Tagalog and she has been a ea a part-time teacher and I'm not sure why the department is not um hiring her I we've also had other EAS and part-time teachers as you're suggesting who didn't know they could get an emergency hire permit and they also have graduated did um from University of the some University in the Philippines so there are existing Filipino teachers I'm an advocate for having Filipino teachers now these teachers you're talking about are they licensed or they have to be hired before they new LIC so the one example I gave she has a license she's had a provisional license for over 10 years um she has not been hired as a full-time teacher she's been hired as an EA I believe this year she a part-time teacher and she's been working as substitute teacher so there there are teachers or at least you know we do have walk-ins and they like the one teacher came to me and said oh my principal she had a brand new principal and he said how come you're not having your license and she didn't even know she had been working as an EA all these years okay thank you very much for that I learn a whole lot today thank you thank you further questions so I guess I'm a little confused on why you guys cuz when I'm reading the bill all it says is it's for a it's very specific that it's a visiting program for a short period of time and yet your standard is incredibly high for these visiting teachers so I guess the the thing that we have to then contemplate is would would we rather have a substitute or would that may not have all these credentials or would you rather have an international person that you know that at least has a pretty decent degree that they've sought it out I'm sure the doe doesn't just hire everyone on the spot so I'm not sure why there's no give on your on your side especially because it says it's it's a very short period and then you do realize we need a thousand new teachers a year and we only produce 500 every single year so HST you know Standards Board is not trying to help the situation well I just wanted to um state that you know um right now there's um going across the nation we're worried a little bit about these I don't want to call them popup univers ities or popup programs that um are giving licenses very easily so you know if we start opening the door to that and we don't have some type of like criteria in place like the practice then we start you know it could have unintentional consequences where we just become almost like a licensing Mill so that's I think that's one of the but it does say that it requires verification of three years of employment at public or private school in Pre through 12th grade setting so I would assume that the doe would have at least had to screen them at some point before they get that verification so so you don't agree that that's enough because you don't trust the doe that they're going to be able to hire good people and then you then then because you don't want to certify them well I think the standard of just having the basic you know um Reading Writing math at a 12th grade level you know I get it but it's a standardized test do you guys do any interviews of of people to to to check to to see their interpersonal skills cuz I would think that's more than important than taking a computer test don't you think it it is but we're not but you do that as a licensing agency we have so your answer is no correct okay so so so so my question to you then what is your solution to help us with the teacher shortage that we're facing in our state at least the Department of Education is coming to us with the solution they're bringing in j1's but are you guys doing anything on your part to help with the teacher shortage in our state we we are um we okay so what so what is it then I don't see I don't see a bill that that's trying to help you to do that we are we have the teacher apprenticeship the registered teacher apprenti but but as I said we need a thousand teachers a year do you have a thousand through that program well hopefully if we get funding from the state that would help out so so your answer is no right is it a thousand teachers a year I could I could propose no no no I'm asking a question is it a th teachers a year it is not a th000 so what I'm trying to say is we need options in the toolbox and you guys are being kind of in my mind kind of just saying no we don't want to we don't want to help out we don't want to cooperate so so these are the options that I'm going to suggest to you so the first option is I maybe ask the Department of Education how many educational assistants and part-time teachers who already have a bachelor's degree have a teacher license or completed a sayp from internationally the experiences that we've been having there are Filipino teachers who are there so that's one suggestion the second suggestion is when they're bringing in their J1 they are being hired they're they're being hired as an Emergen High hire teacher per permit and they can work full-time so they're not a substitute teacher or an 89 day hire as you're suggesting and my my third comment is we are not the only state that are struggling with with teachers it's a it's across the nation and there there's really two prong for this the Naes evaluates accredit of an institution lure varies from state to state for example in the bill that was written they had suggested that Nevada has International license Nevada also requires exams but Nevada also requires family and Community practices so teachers in though the J1 teachers that are going to other states there are other lensia requirements in Alaska they also have to take the exams Alaska also has Alaska Multicultural course that they have to take at the University as well as a Alaska indigenous C course and so we we have to look at things differently from two perspectives one you're looking at an accreditation from an institution perspective we have licensing data that goes across every 50 states that have different criteria so we're not I I get it but as I said we're trying to find a solution I think the doe actually has done a pretty good job in this this case and yet you're just giving excuses in my my mind right and so so I think that's the hard part that's the hard part for me to swallow is you're going to come in and a pose yet I got I got a really good email from one of my principals in my district she emailed me to say you better support this kind of Bill if you want to see teachers in your classroom yes right and so so if if you gave me a better answer on saying okay we're testing for interpersonal skills we're testing on all these other things that will make a good teacher in a classroom maybe I can buy this high standard but I I think you're just if it's a computer test it really bothers me and I think you're you're saying a whole lot of interesting things but I think the bottom line is we have to make sure that yes there's a standard but we cannot we cannot at it cannot be at the expense of then having empty classrooms with no teachers or unqualified teachers yeah and I certainly understand that and you know in three years we're going to come back to the same situation now there's going to be empty classrooms again well but at least at least then that you better go do your part with your apprentices then right is that's because that you said that's your program this is their Band-Aid what's your Solution that's what I would ask you [Music] right can I to cide us with how how many teachers are there that are not full-time teachers or are as was pointed out that you use and how many um j1s do you folks do hire on a temporary basis or So currently right now yeah so currently right now we have just a little over 200 of our j1s uh that are are currently in our classrooms they are right now have were originally hired with as basically an emergency hire some have went through the process and have been able to get the full license which allows them to stay here for up to 5 years we have recently went to the Philippines James and part of his crew um to start recruiting for next year's group we have about 16 of them that we have screened and went through that original list that James um started with in the philp it's nearly a thousand teachers that we started we've narrowed it down to 100 so we really were looking for Quality with those teachers before we're ready to bring them to the United States and invest in them um but you know that that those are some of the those are some of the things that we're working on there are some that are educational assistants out there that may be able to go through this apprenticeship program if this does get off the ground and rolling but but not all educational assistants want to become teachers either some want to stay as an educational assistant in the classroom well how many of them do want to and is not being given that opportunity and been there for a couple years so we have done a pilot program in the last few years in the y9 nula area where it is an educational assistant to um teacher pilot Pro program it's it's a few that's not a lot that went through the program and you know it takes a lot of um assistance with them we were working with other independent agencies such as in peace to help to provide them the supports and working through the program I mean I think that's kind of what the apprenticeship program would be is if that does Get Growing is it it's uh the model really for that is the EA to teacher pipeline for that apprenticeship program and so if they come in and they meet the requirements they don't have to go to an apprenticeship program well the apprenticeship program you know they would start out they'd be in educational assistant one educational assistant 2 and they' work their way up to a teacher if they if they get a license if they pass over whatever the the inter interviews but all the reviews like they do for Mainland teachers and they get a license do they still have to go to the um through this um for the educational assistant ones or the go through the um the course the um sorry you just said it practice the the practice one the yes oh so for the educational assistant they would still have to have the regular coursework through the universities they would also have to go through a state approved teacher education um student teaching program when you bring in the J1 correct and if they pass if they go they apply and you guys review their thing and they and they granted a license do they still have to go to this um course that you're talking about no so right now the j1's if they were what's happening is they need to come through they need to take the three practice courses Reading Writing and math and then the additional practice course I believe in their content knowledge to be able to be transferred over from an emergency hire permit over to the full license Senator Kim if I'm is there any other place that your folks are um recruiting from what other areas are you recruiting So currently right now our vendor is mainly working with the Philippines I do believe James can speak to this we do have a few others from uh Kenya I believe that are also teaching in some of classrooms what other areas are you are you um recruiting from and how do you determine where you recruit great question so if I may the part of it is principal driven so we have a lot of classes that are doing dual language immersion like haon Elementary is looking for Japanese instructors so we're working on that um we also are open to any countries that have us equivalencies so as you know there's so many Filipinos that are in the healthcare industry and that's because the Philippines has modeled after the US educational system so that's why there is a lot of teachers coming from the Philippines and that's why those educational equivalencies exist which allows us to bring teachers in from the Philippines and Kenya and other places that have similar educational models or instructions in English where they go through those similarities okay so can you provide the committee with the list of all the areas that have the similarities and how how success been recruiting those thank you are the questions members thank you please thank you very much chair Vice chair members of the committee Keith aashi superintendent um just want to Echo uh and and kind of build upon what senat tashimoto had shared about principles and principles thoughts on go1 teachers um you know I've been fortunate to the last several years to go and visit schools across the state um every J1 classroom that I've gone into we find passionate teachers are passionate about supporting students uh all of our all of our all of our principles I don't know if any one principal that has J1 teachers that don't want more of them and I think there is testimony that has been supported to the committee um echoing that so you know I do want to thank James and and Sean and um office of human resources and talent management I I believe this is a really really good program um and and I gauge that also by the impact and the feedback that I get from principles in the classrooms in schools and and they're asking for more which is a really good thing and J1 teachers can only teach up to two to five years if if they are licensed I believe they can teach five for five years that's correct if they're unlicensed for three and if I'm not mistaken if I heard correctly earlier when we talked that um if they are not licensed they may not stay for even for three years yeah we will have a hundred of our J1 teachers leave at the end of this school year because their visa is only for three and what happens um after the five years they go back they return for two years as part of their cultural exchange where they go back to the Philippines and share what they've done with the students there so that way there's no brain drain and and it's the license is no longer about here they come back if they if they come back the the current provisional license may not be valid if they don't renew it but it could be if they do um but the the the way that the bill is set up is that they do return they would receive the international visitor te license thank you thank you okay members we have over extended our time so I'm going to think a recess and can gather our thoughts calling the committee on education back to order we are in decision making and for Senate Bill 421 relating to literacy recommendation of the chair is to pass with Amendment which requires structur structured literacy instruction as required under this section shall involve detailed step-by-step instruction necessary for developing strong reading and writing skills in addition to explicit and systematic instruction a structured literacy approach shall provide multiple opportunities for students to practice a skill or strategy and require teachers to provide immediate immediate specific spe ific feedback to students and continuously monitor progress number two clarifying the definition of structured literacy instruction to mean in an evidence-based approach that emphasizes explicit and systematic instruction in the following components of literacy one phonological awareness two phonics decoding and spelling three fluency four vocabulary five comprehension and six written expression number three include an appropriation for dle dyslexia sensitive Universal screening four technical non-substantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency five defecting the date to July 1 2050 for the vote can I ask a question for doe so is this is when you said $750,000 that's to include all of the amendments that's required or is this over and above what that's what the assess with with everything that's been mentioned okay I don't want you to come back and said well you guys put all this now it's going to cost us more okay doesn't mean they won't but um and and now chair I would like to request that we do include in the committee report a statement regarding that um the DOE coordinate their different types of Assessments and testing that is currently going on with attention deficit and so forth is currently being assessed to the students so okay the recommendation is to pass Senate Bill 421 with amendments the chair is voting I I Vice chair votes I seny [Laughter] sorry it's been a long day for US senator K hi Senator Court hi recomendations not hi okay Senate Bill 1389 relating to therapy services expands the Scopes scopes of practice for occupational therapists physical therapists and speech pathologists to allow those professionals working for or contracted by the Department of Education to diagnose medical conditions that can be treated with their respective Services recommendation of the chair is to pass with these amendments and Technical non-substantive amendments for the purpose of clarity and consistency and defecting the date to July 1 2050 chair Vol ey okay uh Senate Bill 1389 recommendation is to pass with amendments the chair votes I Vice chair is voting no uh senator shimoto no Senator kuha hi Senator Dort no measure fails measure fails two eyes three nose Senate Bill 1548 relating to Department of Education procurement exempts thee purchases of local edible produce and packaged food products less than a certain amount from the electronic procurement system requirement requires at least three written quotes from do for do purchases of local edible produce and packaged food products between certain amounts requires at least two written quotes or for doe purchases of local edible produce and packaged food products between certain amounts for certain schools and Rural communities sunsets 6:30 2028 recommendation is to pass Senate Bill with oh oh I'm sorry yeah we did we decided to defer so Senate Bill 1548 recommendation is to defer NOS Senate Bill 494 relating to Charter Schools requires the department of budget and Finance in collaboration with the auditor to conduct a financial audit of each Charter School operating in the state requires a report to the leg legislature appropriates funds recommendation is to passed with amendments but defect the date to july1 205 chair votes I Senate Bill 494 to uh pass with amendments chair votes I any member present voting no any members with reservations hearing none five members all in the formative conditions adopted thank you Senate Bill 819 relating to educ education requires the Hawaii teacher standard board to establish an international teacher license for certain Visa holders establishes criteria for obtaining an international teacher license recommendation is to pass this amendment but include the testimony of the Attorney General and we are defecting the date to July 1 2015 chair Senate Bill 819 recommendation is to pass with amendments any member voting no any member reservations hearing none five members voting I recommendations adopted thank you that concludes our hearing
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you know I will be very happy to see you again on our fourth however that hopefully today our goal is that we can leave with an informal assessment method and an understanding of what it's going to take to educate our children in the region um I know that Shannon has been in contact with almost everyone individually from the towns discussing different options and I know the last meeting we talked about prepping and having those discussions around what are the percentages and so I'm truly truly grateful to shenon for doing all of that hard work um and making sure that we have those preliminary foundational discussions to walk into this meeting today everyone should have a visually appealing um handout of our presentation and so we're going to bring it up on the screen but I know that as we do that to keep time rolling and moving forward we'll go ahead and let Shannon begin um as we get more and more into the numbers you'll notice that I kind of will talk about programming Shannon will talk about Finance because they go hand in hand and so I ask that you keep a very open mind um I know that I'm also asking you to keep a very open pocket but um I do need you to understand the impact that it would be to educating our children and keeping our educational system in the region moving forward um we've started a work at the portrait of a graduate and we'll be reaching out to the different towns um and one of the key things that we wanted to make sure was a part of that was that all four towns are represented and so it's key for us to be sure that as we talk about the graduates as we talk about our Educational Systems we think about more than just a dollar but the impact to the students who are the future who are going to sit in these seats and keep the towns moving and going so with that I hand it over to Shannon and we'll walk you through your hand h so while they have that up uh you you already have a copy of this slide um so on the the second slide we have some mens around some important things that were originally unknown um so one of the biggest things was our transportation RF um we had our bid opening and have a spitter which will be presented at the committee meeting next week um and that came in uh about 14 % increase however um Kate and I we work together and renegotiated those costs um to be less for the first year um and there's still increases for the out years um but with that it was an overall increase of 10% for this year um landed that that so it right on par with what we projected um so there's no increase but there's also no decrease um to what those projections were our health insurance has been a big topic of discussion and great Andria roller coaster at the beginning of the week uh we originally projected 133% and then the health insurance um at around 19.9% uh there was an IAC meeting that happened uh that the following or that the night of the BCG meeting that we attended that released that information and they were working on planed redesign and percentage changes um and it came down to 15.72% for our projections I just felt a little uh unsteady keeping at that so I used the overall 16% uh in these projections as opposed to just the 15.72 um you'll notice when we get to our Revenue page our Chapter 70 increase it went from $30 per student from what came out in January for the Governor's budget to $75 per student and our interest Revenue projection has increased um we've had favorable rates over the last two years and working with the treasurer uh we feel really comfortable with uh the the number that I put into the projections and is still very conservative from what we have received and I wanted to be cautious given um the change in government I'm just not sure how things will plan out so it's still a conservative number um so some remaining unknowns is our APA negotiations um and what that will SLE up and also the biggest thing is how how the four Towns come together for the assessment method uh we were invited for the Middle School roof to uh The Accelerated repair program with msba and we had submitted the district submitted all required um information thus far and we're waiting for an equ consultant to be assigned to us uh so that we can start the design budget for what that would be and get that um some of our refined uh budget project so we had 850,000 uh of school choice when appli to the expense line uh and that has stayed the same since our previous meeting in our last meeting I had opep at approximately 115,000 however I found uh back in 2017 School voted a specific spending schedule to fund opad that I wasn't aware of um so going back to that schedule I compared what our payments have been um versus what was in that Ved schedule and there was a a difference of 50 or 60,000 so what I did was I took the difference that we haven't funded divided by two and half of that we're going to fund this year and the other half will Fund in 27 to get us up to par with what that was um I'm planning in this budget to uh have the school committee vote to use our special education stabilization fund to offset um potential residential student placement that we have that we um just learned about um sorry I didn't realize was uh okay so the this may or may not uh be uh something that does happen we we won't know but we will have the funding um if it's voted that we can use that for the purpose from the stabilization fund uh for that placement uh which would take it out of the operating budget uh we in my previous uh uh in my previous uh four Town's projections I did not include rural school aid uh to reduce our budget rural school aid was a grant that started in 2019 and we received it in 2020 and we did not budget it into our operating budget at that time and then in 2021 I believe was the first year that we did include it and we have included did it ever since I did not include the 26 budget because of the change in government I was very wary about using a grant to support our operating budget we received around it was two remember it off the top minut so I'm going to 200,000 to help support this budget um which is I suspect it'll come in either around or less than that uh but it'll R school is allowed to be used for our overall operating budget but most importantly the priority of R schoola is the reason why we're all here and and to help promote the regionalization of school district so just thought that was a note to say um and we've made an assumption in our budget for the colas with our Union contracts and we have continued to meet um with uh different departments across the district around our budget um so on the next page we have our we got it our operating budget for fy6 so this has our total uh expenses of 37,7 61,2 128 um so things have changed slightly since the last presentation just due to different changes and how are some of our unknown projections came in as known um so it's slightly different but um not in these dramatic changes on the next slide we have our statutory assessment to uh fully fund our schools so there's something I just want to note here when we met with Jessie uh and I said our modified statutory method they thought I was talking about something different that we were going to change our regional agreement and I was like no the modified statutory method in our regional agreement and they said that is your statutory method so I think there's some confusion about the language that we use and then when I talked to Jessie they didn't understand what I was saying so I I don't know if we need to come up with a collective term of what we refer to the statutory method as but when I say statutory method I'm going to refer to what's in our regional agreement if we want to say collectively we want to call it modified stat method then we should all make sure we use the same term just we on the same page so that is what's in our regional agement will always be our default unless yes on the next slide you'll notice some of the changes that I spoke about uh to our budget so at the top of here we have our operating budget of 37 mil 761,00 down below uh we have the Chapter 70 increase so I I know it says a 1.89 increase from 25 but I just wanted to make sure I pointed out that the amount in FY 25 for chapter 7 was what was budget Ed not what we actually received um and what we received was more than what we budgeted so the new projection of the $75 per comes is on top of what we actually perceive so I just want to make sure we understood that um the transportation I do increased slightly not because I think that we're going to get a higher percentage of Transportation reimbursement just because our dollars are more so the reimbursement will be more our Medicaid uh reimbursement is still steud and um try to slight inre so the interest Revenue that I was talking about before uh we had uh kept it at 32,000 but I did change it to 100,000 which is a 70,000 per increase and that's a conservative increase to what our new rates are and what we have actually been receiving so I feel really comfortable um putting at that number uh then coming down to the bottom again is the statutory method that's in our original bring of what it would uh cost the to fully fund our schools and has the uh 25 budget as 6% so the the difficult thing uh that I that we've had is trying to figure out an assessment method that would get us back to the statutory method and how do we do it and I sent out some hybrid model examples that we could use that was similar it built off of the bar models and it was a little complic and a lot of the feedback I received was I didn't receive any feedback that said oh I like that let's I I received like so uh this and that you know is possible can we do something similar to this and and so I think my goal here was that the minimum request that the school Community wants to make is it not the school I didn't want to be but at least that I want to say is the minimum request is at least an overall budget increase of 4% and how how do we get to that um by still aligning closer to our sory method um so what I did was I wanted to put in numbers that I wanted to make this as realistic as possible so we know that am has um as of the BCG said three and a half percent and I did hear from sheets Barry that they would be comfortable with the 5.61% and that number came from uh when you took the total uh amount of the the uh 4% increase divided by or multiplied by the percentage based on the statutory method that's how that 5.6 and one of those complicated H um so so that I put on here and then the wild card that I don't know what is possible really is for col and Le is it possible that you could do six and a half% and and and I was hoping we could have some informal knowing if that is something that's a because at that this point it would shoots fa would be right on par with the percentage of an overall 4% increase with relating back toing method Amhurst has said they can do a three and a half% so that's two for two and if we could get the other two pounds if this is possible if we would be at our overall budget increase of 4% so I do feel like this is our most realistic option um at the end of the packet I thought there might be other questions uh and different scenar people might want to see but I'm not going to present on those um they were just if you wanted to see what would it be perc so that the next so the the last slide puts us as a $1.26 million deficit and what does that mean for the region um we've been working I believe since late September since early September right because our first meeting was in September with the region around projected cost what would it look like and when we look at initially in September we were at like the minimum of 2.1 million or 2.2 million that would have cost us over almost 30 positions and we would have possibly had to consolidate into one building to be able to run the entire region at such a deficit and a c since then we've been doing some work and now we are here to where we are at a 1.26 it still would result in potential Personnel reductions um what we are looking at is in terms of unit a which is Teachers counselors or just professionals we would look at a reduction out about 5.36 um and of course you know that's the wonderful FTE speak but it will result in about five positions um and then some partial more than five because we have some individuals who are not full time and we've accounted for in our numbers so um I would say maybe approximately seven if we count the parttime or more um when we look at our power professionals or power Educators it will be a reduction of five Pate Educators to the region um in terms of our clerical positions it will be a reduction of two clerical positions to the region and then the central office um my office that's the entire central office business office facilities teaching and learning SSO um everyone that sits under me it would be a reduction of five positions and that would get us close enough to the 1.26 in terms of personel reductions um and then we would have non-personnel reductions which would be we would then have a much smaller graduation venue um so we would budget that lower we would reduce summer curriculum stiping um in terms of some of the curriculum work that's done we also look at other sens within contract to reduce that work determine ways of how we could get um again programming running we would have no sabatical could be approved um the paid sabatical will no longer be approved um because we would not be able to to budget that into our budget it's actually a line item we actually project for paid sabatical that will be removed in terms of a non personel reduction um remove some contingencies for the contracts and then we would use our R school aid I am very hesitant in using any onetime Grant to balance our budget um because then it projects a number that we can operate at when we're actually using one time phones to operate the the so for me I just wanted to show you what it would cost us or what we would have to look at in terms of impact to the region we will not only be looking at Personnel but also non-personnel uctions um we've charged I've charged the principles they have been working the principles and assistant principles have been working very hard with HR as well as the budget team to talk about um and I believe we brought in teaching and learning to talk about programming what would it look like what what is the impact how do we run this or programs and every stakeholder has their favorite program that they want to move forward with so everyone wants to know what's going to happen to World Language what's going to happen to Art what's going to happen to music what's going to happen to dance those are all the questions that I would like you to answer for me because I can't facilitate these programs without the funding for work and so we are here to project and to have that discussion with you today and our hope is that and after we're kind of winging through it we want to give you guys as much cus time as possible so we can walk around and have a deep discussion with you but we really want you to get into your tones and a discussion about what is it going to take to push forward and move the region forward and this is the best we could have come up with with the least impact over our program uh so the next two slides is the f26 capital which has not changed from our our last presentation so I'm not going to go through them one by one but I Haven discussed has questions um and I still have the uh support for FAL 26 is [Music] 4718 um so but nothing has changed like I said so with that I just wanted to turn it over if there were questions we could pass on the mic and then I just want to clarify you're if I look back to the uh corporate % increase you're asking for the 4% increase as I look down to which column I'm looking in it's far right um 6.5% yes um and I just just want to say the reason why is higher than the other two because their percentage for meting the S turn method they're much further away from that so if they could start to build that and bring us back that's why I um I have a couple of questions with capital it's just a a request of you have a sheet that has FY 27 to 34 projects but we don't have a list of pro anymore if we could know Deb out we could get the project list that that debt Pro from to 30 the 27 to 34 on that we can get the project list that great um for for later send it later we don't have talk out today but see what that is um on this page when I did calculations of ammer and a half% and what everyone else's assessment would be based on the assessment percentages um shry was a 6.74% increase um was at a 21.34% increase year-over-year and leopard was at a 12.59% increase so I'm curious why shry is not up closer to that six and a half because of where am is ammer is now be subsidized and Sh faes we're talking potentially about different numbers but um what I really want to know is since they're so far off of the percentage that ammer of they're so far off what is the timeline to get everyone to the statutory method because this does not move shots very leverate or the H shots close but it doesn't move lever and pum much closer to a full statutory assessment split as the statutory methods would be set so what's what's your timeline for is it 10 years for us that LE small percentages to get there is it two years is it five years where's your projection for when we wouldn't be putting random I don't even know what the guard rails here are well random so I don't really think these are are random I think they were well thought out and methodical um but what I what I would say is I I can certainly get you and provide data for how how long it'll be until we reach that the biggest problem is is I I don't think L and and Callum could afford to do an increase that would be much larger in this right now that would get us back quicker so that that's our really big hold up it's if if they wanted to do 10% 20% I'd say sure um but so there's that but I would say yes I could get some uh data together for what how long it'll take get these in to get us back to that and I want to expand on this is the fact that when we left her the last time it was a conversation around how are we going to get there and we said how do we get closer this year um but note that in every one of in the scenario that Shannon presented with the overall budget increase of 4% but she stated and I want to repeat is the feedback that was given from each of the towns as to what is Affordable for them now so every time we move into what is Affordable like amamos has stated 3.5 is Affordable you're not willing or not willing to budge you haven't had that conversation as yet so but you're not closer to the 7.69% like like you're supposed to be I mean or willing to say I'm going to do 5% what we're asking is for everyone to start to tell us if this is this the step that we're going to start on this year to start moving us forward then we can project out so that's why we're trying to say where are we going to be this year to start to adequately Say by this year five six seven years we can be closest to or at our statutory meod ideally I would love it if you just walks out of p and just say hey we're going to just all be where we need to be but the towns are not there and that's why we did that leg work Dr shanon did that work of having the conversations meeting with everyone asking what's affordable asking how can we move forward because we understand that we're not the only entity but we do need for there to be a push forward so that we can start to get there and project out so in our mind this is year one of getting us closer to that and then we can plan um I don't know the order of I just wanted to say it seems like in previous iterations of these conversations the paway to sepil uh so two things um one um suggest maybe finding a slightly modified term for statory method because the towns have been referring to that as the State method for years and I think going forward so maybe something like historic or the the state statutory method which is kind of laid out and the regional agreement modified stat you know whatever I don't I don't know what the term but I can see that leading to I'm already confused leading to a lot of confusion um uh particularly if there's someone who's not at the meeting going forward and the second is um so this is so this is just an entirely new suggestion this doesn't have to do with our historical guard rails this is just the whole other brand I have a question about the accelerated repair program is that a grant program alone and be a cost to the region to uh so the MCA there's two parts of it they they do fund part of it but we also um had an approval I think I want to say it was back in 2019 for Capital funds for that so we already have that buil into um the debt schedule so there is a cost to the region it was already voted on um and does that commit that we stay with Middle School build and for long yes and [Music] years okay so okay so a few more questions and then we can CL [Music] right um I wanted people to to know that um at select board meeting last Tuesday night um joint with in joint with the finance committee we approved a 6% um uh assessment and so already and so and we are prepared we are prepared to go forward with that we would entertain possibly going further than that if we saw likewise increase in commitment with the other towns or from the other towns but I would like to see cooperation from the other town I believe what Tom's talking about is is theage in this is what we asked and [Music] about this consolidation my two years ago the Middle School roof was estimated at $1 A5 millionar to cost within a document we got about Capital programming um and in September and you mentioned it today that the Consolidated projection would be a budget of 36,100 and change um which is lower than the consolid the the applying guard rails budget you've got listed here um it saved over $2 million to the region annually um and so if we pursue the Middle School roof project and have to keep the Middle School open for 10 years that in some sense is a cost of 25 million in operating costs to the region over that 10 years because we couldn't consolidate in that 10 years and so I guess I'm curious what the thinking is around pursuing a middle school roof for somewhere between one and a half and three million given the estimates we had it two years ago at a cost of 25 million in operating budget numbers so in September when we um came in one of the first things we talked about was that it was very very early in the process we also talked about our some unknowns which we' started to to add into the current budget our insurance we projected out which we all know right now we're projecting at 16% that's a cost um our transportation wasn't in it's in now that's a cost we also know that the region has not done very well I'm going to say in being a little more competitive with some of the other Charter programming and schools that are offered out there and so with a second building there provides an opportunity for us to create programs and adequately run a different type of schooling that can return students to the region that will help us with our overarching school choice and other funds that we can lose on students for Charters when they Choice out because they don't feel like we have the adequate programming so that's a programming for me in terms of what we can do in the region to to shift and change with a building that we would have to use um [Music] and well I was just going to say that if if we move forward with middle it doesn't mean that for 10 years there still can't be consolidation from 7 to 12 which I see touched on if there if we're still using it programmatically I believe that still Falls within the guidelines so it doesn't uh it's not not a [Music] possibility all right okay uh so it is 9:40 um let us I feel like we have some good things to talk about here so let us we at like 10 10 and we will go there thank [Music] you e e e got it then you understand what kind of activities are going on in to try Sol [Music] you of also what' you learn em the even why are you still here oh I don't know I was just gonna sit for a few more minutes since I have your exens um Brian gave me just a contract provision that he want it's a so it's one of the ones you sign there and I [Music] sign thank you all for your um [Music] any okay thank you all okay so are there followup feedback questions that we want to have before we adjourn for our Saturday morning report report yes perfect absolutely um hi everyone I'm AJ cash chair of the finance committee just report out from our discussion so um a few points I think we'd like to make one one is that shsb um while a challenge we we could support an increase of 5.6% to our what you have in here right now under this model um the amount of cuts that that budget requires $1.26 million I think for US represents kind of the maximum um amount of cuts that I think we we would could Ser tolerate so we wouldn't want to see us arrive at any budget that has an even greater amount of that um all that said we do have real concerns about the methodology used um to arrive at this project not not that they're we have a problem with with the your process it's just that we are feeling that we need for communities to to reaffirm its commitment to the the statutory methodology and this is going to be another year where we are potentially gonna impose a set of guard rails that get us further and further away from that approach and so for that reason I feel it's really important to restate why sheets Barry supports this methodology it's it's the we feel that the state created it and we agree as the fairest most Equitable methodology for allocating assessments for remember towns and a regional district it has a number of advantages one it it is the methodology that really does achieve a fair balance of per pupil factors and ability to factors right it built into the methodology is a balance of those components over last time we checked over 70% of regional districts throughout the state utilized that that um that methodology Le sa's version of statut and so and and I feel like you know we as um a community of four towns worked for years I me so many working groups so much collaboration to get to um the point where we all at least for a couple of years there saw the um the value uh and the advantages of that approach and and for a couple years now we for reasons that we understand we have been deviating from that and so somehow I think we would be a lot more comfortable with this budget if there was some statement some commitment that all four communities could make here locally in front of each other to to get to truly applying that methodology as it's written in our regional through um you know in the next couple fisal years and I don't we're willing to work with our partners the other towns to help us get there but but we have to see us actually move in that direction because each year that we move we apply these guard rails in this way we get further and [Music] further thank you so much for that [Music] Tom Hinson chairman of Leever select board and um uh the first question we have is um uh is there actually a plan for the future of the middle school and um is there a planning committee a planning board is there are there people who are doing this thinking about this on a daily weekly monthly basis um so that you can forecast when the middle school will finally be um evacuated and used for some other purpose so that we're not paying the overhead that we're currently paying here so that we can reduce cost so it won't cost pounds as much in order to educate kids that's one question that we have um I happen to we we Echo we Echo the concern about the assessment method um you addressed and um it would be very helpful if if we actually saw the assessment method the calculation that was used for each town that that arriv so you arrived at the particular numbers that you arrived at this year um I think it would be helpful and be clarifying certainly for leverate and possibly across all four towns um I think the reason that um lever leverage has paid what have been asked to pay based on the agreements that have been made at these four Town AG Town agreements and um uh I think what confused things a little bit was the attempt at using the guard rails at the time when the guard rails were implemented it made sense I was here when they were implemented and they did make sense that you know this year you're going we're asking a little bit too much from this town um a little bit D from that town so we won't have we won't let that happen this year um that's that steered steered the whole budget off course so I don't think there's any any fault there but I think that's a that's a particular problem uh lever also is prepared to work together with our member towns in the region um in order to arrive at a budget which is fair and Equitable and we educate our children and I've already mentioned that we've already voted 6% and we probably prepared to so I want to answer your I wanted to answer the first question um we will pull together a committee I think it needs to be not just from the central office but also include our Educators at the region and start to talk about the future of the region so we can present a plan to the regional school committee and then bring it forward to the fors great so we [Music] wel John tricky chair of the finance committee uh first about this building one of the things that concerns our organization is that um if you take money from the state to do the roof it's a 10-year commitment to keeping it going as an educational facility of some sort uh one of the things we would like to consider is what is the overall cost if we do it ourselves with what we've already appropriate um and maybe that's the cheapest way to get out of the situation is to put the building in good shape with our own funds and then determines ourselves what to do with it uh they expedient make it easier to move the other building we don't need two cafeteria two uh libraries three gymnasiums all that so just a future think about how that would look as far as the operating budget for this year pum can do the 6.5% this year uh that is fine um it is they get but we will make that work but separately P has agreed to amongst ourselves when we finish the budget process and we look at our overall situation we may appropriate additional funds separate from the assessment method to move us closer to the statutory method which is be added to the budget for this year and be in our base for next year thank you thank you so [Music] much thank you first of all to all of you that have worked so hard on this budget and spend so much time talking to each other including over here thank you um this is no easy task I think we need to start by agreeing we don't have total agreement [Music] what is the statutory formula what is the other formula that we AG to and what are we really looking at there's still confusion okay because if ammer looks at the statutory state that was presented back in December we would be at 2.3% okay let's start from there so am as we all know has a new formal government and every year even before our new formal government our body uh in this case the council adopts guidelines we adopted those financial guidelines in December and our town manager and fiscal staff have followed those guidelines because in those guidelines we said if we could we would take what we saw last year as a gift to bring us to 6% and we would begin with that as the base for this year we're doing the second thing is we said we would squeeze every place we could where we were seen as being a little too conservative on our Revenue side and we would squeeze it and we've done that okay and then if we could we would raise the percentage which back in December was a 3% and we've gotten to 3.5% that's even with this insurance hit which we were all estimating at 15% and now thanks to a group of people from all of our groups have gotten together and they've taken it down from 19.9% to 15.7 or 8% thank you for working on that no small problem and it means it means changing what we give our people okay so we are 3.5% that is where is if we go any different from that it's robbing Peter that old but I think that like you all of us saying we need to understand what formula was really using because at 2.3% us going to 3.5% in fact we're still subsidizing the other towns and that doesn't feel okay to our taxpayers so we need to figure out what our bases we talking now I know there are other people from M who would like to say other things but that's the summary from our meeting is everyone in ERS does know that we're at 3.5% as in terms of what we are able to give to the school's to [Music] Elementary and we did not take any votes could be taking votes we have not post any agenda V Nei us nor the so before sorry I I just wanted to add a little bit to what our president said um I think what she was getting at is there's disagreement not on 10 Hammer supp three and a half% but on whether how was presented today is fair to ammer taxpayers based on basically the same thing that CH fa just said um we look at that three and a half that 5.61 and the 26 and a halfs and say it's not getting us closer to the statutory me it is getting us farther because ammer is above what the statutory would be um and the other towns are not far enough above to get us closer to a statutory in the next as shz said a couple of years um I think a school Committee Member told me for one of the towns it might be six or seven years before everyone get statutory at that point um that's a little too long um and so while the number presented for ammer is within ammer guidelines that does not mean ammer would vote the assessment method presented um because it is seen by some counselors as too much subsid of the other towns' contribution thereby bringing the budget lower than it could be for the [Music] region I'm just want to speak to a completely separate issue on the middle school and high school consolidation um I would like to understand more and whether that is a good idea or not the sixth graders move up to the Middle School find think about how that works for programming and cost subsidizing some of the other prrams be pay more into it and whether we had heard two or three years ago that the physical capacity wasn't really there so I would like to just know more about that because on the list what everyone's look at if you look at the capital plan there's a rough estimate Behind These numbers of what the Middle School root would cost and all of us are hearing that that those repairs are desperately needed so I would just like before everyone says there's there's something to be gained out there I'd like to understand more about it that I know that was just a totally separate discussion thank you so I I so first of all I'd like to start off by saying thank you to two Dynamic individuals who have um on a day from September have taken on this task of running numbers um scenarios meeting with each and every one of you and we would not have made it to this day without k h and [Music] [Applause] Sh get with a Dynamic Financial team makes it much much easier for a superintendent any class and any day so I have two very gifted mathematicians who work very hard throughout the night um even midnight when I would like to sleep but they they it's it's truly been awesome and so first I to say thank you to them I want to say thank you to each of you for meeting the task of today having your discussions and helping us leave in a much more grounded informal place um we commit to working with the numbers that we have and presenting it to the regional school committee and then we'll move forward from there I believe our budget date is the February 26 is 27th for Region 20 26 yes so 26 and so um it will be posted seven days prior um and so we will we commit to working with that I will pull together a committee to look at the region to talk about the consolidation its efficiency its effectiv um and what that would also mean for our sixth graders that are coming forward into the region or more so that are coming into the Regional building and what that would look like so that we can have a clear presentation and plan for the future of the region and what we can do but really wholeheartedly I think with everything that's been happening to is a very joyful day for me to leave here with some clear numbers and an understanding of how to plan efficiently for the students that enter from your four times so thank you y thank you one who been at four meetings for many years i' actually feeling better coming out today because we really um did a lot of good work on the operating budget to make sure that that works there a couple things that I wanted to just point out for future discussions because I think that there are some um Minds in future some that have been discussed but I want to add a couple one is that we know all of us that U we are bound by proposition two and a half and that has an impact on future year growth and uh we need to be thinking about how there four different towns coming together to support Regional Schools that two a half% limit is going to affect us into future years and what we can do about it I think we need to find a forum to talk about that the other thing is on the capital budget page we didn't talk at all about capital budget but if you look at this particular page you see what the debt would with your community would be required to pay um when you get into some of those out years of you know fy3 and 302 those are extraordinary numbers and U I think that we need is for Community to have a better discussion about Capital today uh today but it is a topic that I think that this for Community talk about at some point because the capital needs to real but the effect on our communities and our ability to provide that additional de payment is going to be fair substantial [Music] right well so thank you all very much for coming out this morning and we are all adour
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[Applause] [Music] okay here we are just there for tip off between agam school and East High School here at East e e e be [Music] all right and after some brief technical difficulties looks like we are back here uh with East low and agam just getting started no score in the action yet six minutes remaining in the first quarter Ken Marino will bring the ball up for EO outside to Sabina mne looks to operate up at the just inside the midcourt circle [Music] IAM slides in what looks to be a two3 defense Grace Blaze goes crosscourt to Ken Marino takes it up against pressure rebounded by agam they look to outlet L PRI comes down and goes long Over the Top rebounded by canaban and isto retains control my partner Jeff mcky on his way back having done some good work to relocate some strategically placed balloons audience can have shot from the camera so we get paid for the big bucks here at that's right so tight match between these two the last time they met a little earlier in the year in Agawam so we're hoping for a good game here this afternoon yeah I believe we we' lost by what three or four points I I should have looked that up ahead of time but it was a it was tight mne runs the point coming over the center cord Circle waits for motion and action goes from Marino to gosin back to Kenna side to sa mcky they're going to swing it all the way from Blaze to Stevens who looks to spot up side of the backboard rebounded by a comes out clal Val comes up that a big difference last time Steve to we didn't play I don't think we hit any threes against them we didn't start no so we can start start draining some of those threes and get out of that boring two3 Zone y agam's had a good season so far this year they've done very well and not not blowing out a lot of teams but managing to win managing to win a good number of close games they continue to rotate the ball no one home there ball will be off of agam and will be Som ball Maya noes and Kendall Reed check in for Saina mckn OS still no score here just over four minutes remaining in the first quarter agam applies some extended full CT pressure nolles looks to beat the pressure goes to Reed at the middle Reed goes to Blaze Blaze takes it Baseline runs into canavan there and misses the shot but eow pressures and retains possession is Will inbound fromont of the agan bench high scoring game after four minutes down three shots there we [Applause] go so that'll be three shots for my James Harden with a pullback getting the foul going to the line for three on this one we could certainly use some of the kind of scoring numbers the beard would pour in certainly use that nevertheless my's on the line for three makes the first one good [Applause] [Music] work no's Ready's for her second makes the second as well agam substitution coming off uh PRI and coming on number 12 calibri nlls looks to go three for three and she something we don't get to say often this year Steve is three for uh three shots in a row for us might have been free throws but we haven't gone three for three all year good job by Maya so agan looks to work along the fer they operate against east's man-to-man defense the corner o blocked by or blocked by Blaze and Marino comes out of it Stevens will bring it up goes to blaze there blae looks back out to Mar swing it [Music] to beak beak looks to find Reed in the high post she does Reed distributes to the corner back out to beak be looks to see what she has Marina with about 10 on the shot clock gets it to BL BLS goes to Stevens again it's a tough shot in the corner deep in the corner as clevel makes it to Mid Court looks like we have an Agawam timeout with 3 minutes and 13 seconds remaining in the first quarter it's East Long Meadow 3 agam zero there [Applause] okay here we come back out of the timeout uh agan will inbound in front of the East Long Meadow [Music] bench clev will run the point hands off there to goes outside around the perimeter they're trying to get canaban inside good job by May last who I don't I don't know if that other girl that was here she drained a bunch of important threes against us I I don't know if she's out there is it unless it was it Sol solado 13 it could have been I wonder if she's somebody hit a couple of important threes to really maybe her hair is different tonight I don't know it's hard to say I guess we'll find out thanks that might be that might be your answer could have been it I jinxed us right e m breaks the moderate agan pressure goes to NOS on the outside she finds Marino going running Baseline Marino gives it to gosin goes to Stevens back out to no by no there we go oh just short [Music] looks like that was a two for solitario must have had a foot on the line so three to two each long by no Advantage they run a motion offense to the outside try to find someone inside we can't get a handle on it so it'll be a turnover East Long Meadow ball this does not look like the same awam team that we played last time no I I I've had an opportunity to see them a few times this season it just and I know their record is quite good but the go we going to the line I know canavan followed out last last game against us think she was one of their only I think he justs he just gave that one to 15 15 I don't well we'll check that later but I thought I thought the same I thought that was a canaban foul I don't even have a 15 on on my list well we'll have to get the truck to check that at half time gosin looks for the second and she makes it 5-2 e long met just under two minutes remaining in the first quarter F brings it up Crossing route back screen nothing doing nicely defended by the Spartans outside they try to seal can good job yep good job with push the cour Marino goes to mne goes over crosscourt to Maya noes back to mcky up top Sabina will reset the offense Maya noes looks from oops extended Beyond The Arc here nice take by NOS drible there go and it's the runner nice nice drive by May 7 to2 East will pick up with man-to-man pressure there ball fake moves around the perimeter lots of screening action so doing a good job of that switching and fighting through the conversation's been good rebound Jill Stevens pushing it up the court K turns it over picked in the middle cleva looks to come up good perimeter defense here maybe a quick First Step switch there good double by no come over [Applause] oh beak comes in from M mne and Kendall Kendall Reed comes in for goth yep agam will inbound on the Baseline Caitlyn beak on ball defending canaban gets it they rotate around the outside around the perimeter look to get ceville a three-pointer back nobody boxing out on that canaban that's too easy for her yeah you got you can't have the biggest girl out on the court with not even a body at all no got to make her work for those points that's a reaching Reed gets absolutely hammered that's a yikes that's a hand across the whole body yikes that's an easy one to see too as he's taking her let take the ball goes back outside nope no good basket scored but will not count as the buzzer had expired at the end of the first quarter the hometown Spartans lead awam seven to four don't Miss [Music] all right and we are back second quarter action East Low enjoying a three-point lead Isa works the ball around the perimeter point guard sa mney looks to change the point of attack goes to Marino to Stevens the far Corner swings it here to Blaze Blaze looks Baseline for Stevens tries to find Goselin on the cut good job she turns into pressure wow he had one over the shoulder another one was tying her up and we get away we get the travel call on it yikes I don't know what to expect when we hit the shot clock didn't call it so the ball is moved around the perimeter on the agam offense they go crosscourt to laprice she tries to take her Defender inside is unable to better boxing out that time by the Spartans they've got the first two to the rebound Marino pushes the tempo finds mck the outside ball fakes there looks to top of the key to gosam Marino back to mcky sees what she has there Kenna will take it from there move it to Jill Stevens Jill takes the dribble Drive she's cut off there goes the bounce pass to gosin who look for three off the front rim controlled by agan looks to go quickly Jill's able to shut her off there Mareno repls on ball pressure solitario has to move the ball across ball goes to a priest St Weevil tries they try to find canavan who tries to Bull her way in block by stev nicely defended you want to think Steve I think we're either not driving or our passing on the perimeter is just not fast enough to try to open yeah mean a lot of our girls aren't making moves they're not cutting through see Emma gots the ball somebody else has to be able to move there we go now cross take that shot yep that's a foul yikes I think we're gonna get too many fouls here today no no no not at all two minutes into the quarter we've had no fouls called on either team here in the second quarter Beacon for Blaze Marino looks to find someone she finds beak the outside nice ball fake gets herself an open there go good shot uses the glass Banks it in 94 East medal nicely done freshman carrying East medal today they have seven of our nine points good job by there on that yep and Stevens will bring it up she gives it to Savina mcki there who looks to find Marino one more there we go a be quicker y y goes back to Jill crosscourt K Marino loses it but retains possession oh jump ball is called before Coach Gary gets granted the timeout and Isam will extend some full court pressure awam having some trouble with the pressure break it to laprice Caitlin beak with a good recovery on the way back Marino bounce passes in the high post to gosin who finds beak underneath turning spin move just over the top the price will come back for that one she'll run the point brings it outside to solitario O finds a nice cross pass yep to La as well so that's a nice crosscourt pass but she was also there go nice by dawon there the actions Fast and Furious here 11 to six Spartan lead with 4 minutes and 40 seconds remaining in the first half try to get it inside to canaban and cannot Goslin comes away with it Jill Stevens pushes the pressure or pushes the pace rather mne resets the top we go to Marino kekney again looks for something on the interior nice ball Jill Stevens from the cor that's quicker see when they have the quicker ball move and you get the open shot and if Jill can start running base line in the back should be wide open get that right in yeah they're they're creeping up on our on the upside just like that yep Reen nolles checks in for Goslin and mne but it's the same thing now we're playing in two three Zone and There Our Girls creep up a little bit and then you get that back door that back door if if you're looking for it it's there yep haam will apply a 221 221 press ISL looks to have relatively little difficulty in Breaking at that time Reed finds Stevens in the post gets hit Joel takes it to the basket plays through the contact will get two shots yeah now we can ofan out I would just start attacking that inside y Stevens misses the first she'll look for the second and Jill's good on the second Islam extends their lead to an eight-point advantage 14-6 just under four minutes remaining in the first half with that we're six for seven at the line today that's good good numbers it's very good y Weevil tries to bring it up goes off of a screen there lots of screening action it's a lot of pass and then screen away for for the hear the girls talking a little bit more about those nice hands quick foul on nolles there like to see the girls call out those screens a little bit a little bit more a couple times you see our girls are really that's at least eating those hards that's at least two on NOS she may have take a break for the rest of the half Tech checks you said with the you don't want anybody to pick up a thir yeah you want that third foul going into the especially when she's got what five of our points right rebound is fought for and good heads up by smart by Caitlyn be let it go last touched by agan Spartans will inbound on the far sideline against again what looks to be a 221 Zone press from there it is now you go snap it across Grace B goes back to mcky mcky goes to Marino to Reed regains the handle that'll be off Fagan Carina Marino will inbound with 20 seconds left on the shot clock goes up top to mcky I like when Reed's up on top on the fall get her the ball and she usually she usually has very good Court Vision there Marino picks it up under 10 on the shot clock get saved by m have a shot time oh VI violation because it did not draw Iron that'll actually give Isam however a chance to set their press because the ball the violation will be whistled and the inbound will come in so they can set up their pressure which is weird they got the rebound they got the Reb so they had Advantage just let it should have just let it run Caitlyn be gets called for coming in over the top there Jill Stevens checking in for Grace Blaze and you can tell that's a substitution that East Low wants to make the second they saw Canan coming back in yeah you want they want to make sure that Jill is out there um to do to do what she can to keep her off the blocks [Music] agam Counterattack off the backboard off the rim out yep 14-6 easts up with just under three minutes to go in the quarter and half easto looks to break that pressure it'll come near side to Marino nice bounce pass to Reed Reed goes into the low post gives it to beak be takes a baseline with a floater nice Flo by you said this is a The Freshman show here today yeah re gets that ball nice draws the double team kicks it out the beak y well done nicely pressured there canavan gets frozen doesn't know what she wants to do at the top of the key back outside oh Cana almost with the intercep goes there Jill defense defends her nicely and it's off and a nice rebound by beak who pulls it back turn around there well got to make sure unlucky unlucky Emma gosin Jackson for Kendall Reed 16 to six now je Jeff with under two minutes we've seen this before with the Spartans we really need to focus and lock down in these last two minutes yeah we have seen sometimes at the end of quarters or at the end of halves where we play a really really good quarter good job defensive intensity all the way can of right at her yeah that should have been foul of course it that's a blocking foul you have to call that I we've seen that all year I don't know when you're driving call one or the other it's either a block or a charger it's enough contact to see it from here ball goes outside to Stevens she looks at the three and hits it perfect I would love for the Spartans to lock this down defensively for the last 90 seconds and really really try to drive home some extend this 19-6 Advantage ball goes out outside High rebound wire they miss whist Marino looks to take advantage now I'd wait I again you don't have to be in a hurry if you get something good that's fine you don't have to ball goes back outside to Jill off the rim off the backboard East meow applies token pressure there goes outside they find canavan at the high post but she's locked she's blocked again before she can take it inside well done very well done yep just lock it up for the last lock it up for the last 54 and a half seconds here looks like 15 got Jaba walkied in the thr on that they try to run her off of a screen can't do it can't find anything inside nice defense terrific over the top defense wow easy easy 40 seconds remaining good news is D we won't have to be in position for that last shot no well right now we would like to shoot it with about with about 10 seconds remaining in the half you saw ball with 19 on a shot clock yep so theoretically you could take it down you could take it down under 10 seconds on the game clock no rush no rush you don't want to give agam a chance to get any more points before halftime yeah this isn't our Forte no we have not done a super job with this well 16 point I would have liked to seen them use another five or six seconds on that but awam gets let's see what awam does I think we're going to hold him we're going to lock him down I back in at two three oh they won't take the last shot nope nothing doing there five [Music] go mney with the with the buzzer beater oh they got it off but we actually execute last minut plays there Spartans with suffocating defense against we had the last shot the last shot Spartans will go into the half 19 to six e e e [Music] we're back the second half action Spartans leading 19-6 Spartans will inbound the ball uh sa mck has got it up top so Jeff what do you what do you want to see more of in the second half uh more of the same y if we can hold them points again that's that's a formula for Success yeah correct very rarely have we ever held held other teams to mine it in single digits in a quarter never mind a half uh Isa meow loses the ball on the alternating possession tie up there uh agan will take it to the other end and see if they can get anything out of their motion offense which did not produce a whole lot in the first half look to go Baseline she shut off there they haven't taken any like three-point shots either no there was that girl solitario hit that the one was like just inside [Music] but nothing doing there front iron rebounded by Ken Marino who will take it all the way back out looks to go Coast to Coast comes to the outside of the arc gives it to mne coach Gary asks for the play to be set and it is back outside to Marino Goslin trapped in the corner got to let help her out there coach Gary tries to get the time out sometimes we run I I know that's the play but sometimes they just run it right into the corner right if you run it so deep in the corner it's one of those things you have to read the play it's not there rotate it back the other direction Marino looks to go all the way across Court to M there goes outside to Jill that's a good one that's good rotation front rim but that's what you're talking about Jeff go you know take what the defense is allowing you to take as well oh good shot up and the priz for that one so 19 to8 mney will bring it down slowly the Spartans in no hurry goes High post to gosin back outside to Blaze Blaze looks to Stevens goes inside to gosin rotates back she is crushed inside I like to see that a little more give the ball to Emma think she's quicker yeah she's quicker than canavan canan's good but I think as soon as she bites on that first it's all Emma does Emma fakes to her right spins and goes up to her right hand side got the line Emma hits the first that foul was again given to solitario canavan is living a Charmed Life today not getting too many foul calls and eight for nine from the line for the Spartans gosin rattles in the second 21 to8 Spartans lead they'll extend just outside the three-point circle they'll look for that handoff motion off push that up the court and Blaze goes to [Music] Marino it's all right hard time getting the handle is meta will pick up at midcourt watch 20 watch clel goes there oh oh can just a little too much body in that I've seen a lot worse today but yes not a not a ton of not a ton of fouls called today so odd to call one at Mid Court nice hands by mcky beautifully anticipated and redit layup steel layup terrific terrific B 23 to8 clell looks to set it again throws it along outside to lpri goes back to clev solitario tries to set there they try to find man they are all over can anytime she gets it she's double team ball goes back to clell can't find her way out nice Baseline pass to to L grenade throws it in yeah that was an interesting uh interesting form on that one different sky hook right I'm going to call it a Celtic Skyhook that's not a Lakers Skyhook it's a Celtic Skyhook spoken as any Laker fan would speak uh we've got the 533 Mark in the third quarter uh awam has just broken into double dits the Spartans are ahead to 23-10 those our biggest lead of the season I believe I think that's right minus the chicke game yes so it's still obviously a considerable deficit if you're the agam coach and you want to pick up on any kind of positives you scored six points in the entire first half in three minutes of the third quarter you've scored four so maybe they're finding something they feel like works for them on offense we'll see yeah I think it's like a chucker shot well that we got Chuck do chucker shot an unconventional Skyhook yes that's right so teams break the Huddle I'm not saying anything my son had an ugly sky hook so that's why we know we know it well both teams come back out east L extends or sorry awam extends their pressure here East L looks to break the pressure press ball goes into Marino and she's immediately fouled by clev yeah I think if they start trying to uh do a full court process I think we're too quick for them on that that's gonna could end up leading to a lot of right quick breakaways I mean they got canavan all the way back yep ball goes into Stevens crosscourt to mne mne goes Stevens who finds Goselin to mne over to blaze that's a good B ration now that's the only thing he didn't get there was the finish that oh well done oh done I like when they always turn into our players yep it's always helpful so on the alternating possession agam will retain it eona will drop back into a midcourt or a halfcourt defense and a will try to run their there's that back door wide open right yep e lto goes to The Far Side to Marino she brings the ball back to Goslin goes there to mney who looks to nice bounce pass to break it Stevens takes a baseline gets it out to blae nice pass she's hit as she goes to the basket no call [Music] prize tries they try to get into Canan they cannot Joe Steven gets a hand on it de checks in for Blaze Mayes checking in for Emma gosen and again they box out nice rebound for isto Coach Gary asks for the pace to be slowed for a more methodical halfcourt set goes outside to noes got the small ball lineup out there now goes to noes May noes for three oh just short look good going up o quick whistle there trying to get the double Team trap on that sideline unable to lock it in we go from like no calls for follows to four already this it is strange it's hard to hard to figure least L extends the defense at least with Marino on ceville all the way through that ball is all the way nice take and takes the contact got to be a fall on got to be something swing it swing it one more K's got it into the post for Stevens who takes it in inside doesn't matter took it in that's what you want play like that I'm fine that I'm fine with both of them are going okay but on a breakway body to body that's got to be something on a breakway y Jill gets it she's driving there banging bodies down low okay Steven's up top good look back rim beak fights for it gets oh balls loose good job still lose get on the floor for it and it's loose and wild and will be East Low ball three and a half minutes remaining in the third quarter East Low enjoys a 13o advantage 23-10 over the visiting aguan brownies mne has hand checked at least three times there and dribbles through it nicely done to beak beak goes to the Sabina fou and well done nicely followed that's how the big body gets down there and grabs that rebound you get those bigs that bang underneath like spenish is able to get it very good mni at the line shooting two rolls around and out on the first Sabina will look for the second you were seven for eight we're now seven for nine on the free throws o nicely rebounded by Jill there by Jill good Marino looks to reset reverses the ball here to nolles nolles back to Marino back to mne again continue around the perimeter mes looks to find a seam finds beak beak to Marino [Applause] M and have the shot yes well done that's right got it all well done well done by what a pass by that's an effort that's an effort play a 24 a shot clock expiring you get it up hit the rim get the rebound and put it back that's a winning play like no look over the shoulder pass by Maya that was a great pass you know that looked like that looked like the newest Laker pass luuka are you at all excited about that a little bit a little bit that's why I threw that in there exp AA looks to get to The Cup oh that nice take well done that's twice the PR's driven Baseline like that with a spot up jump shot so with just over two minutes remaining in the third quarter 2 minutes and 8 seconds we look at an East Low lead of 25 to2 over AG there [Music] okay returning to action 208 left in the third quarter isto 25 agam 12 somto will inbound and awam has called off the full court pressure for now yeah I think we can turn around score a couple more points yeah [Music] of it good steal by look like a double dribble there yep that's what it was hoopfest today in East Low here a number of Youth games against agam all day long and I've had a chance to watch my younger daughter and some some other games I feel like I've seen more double dribbles today than I've seen in the last three years of my life a lot of double dribble calls here today Grace Blaze checks in for Maya NES mne in no hurry as she comes over the midcourt line Stevens has the ball at the top of the key turns fires and dra man we are a different team when Jill hits frees now you have Jill takes whatam call that out out the middle yeah that frees everything up nice take strong take can but here we are with a minute 24 left in the third quarter that might be her first really good take strong to the yeah first time she's gone up strong today right it's a huge Testament to the easto [Music] defense he swam youth getting into the uh I don't think anybody can get mad of them right all the kids here today and kavan makes the both 28 14 oh Blaze takes it basine look the gosin inside finishes 14 one all over the body good job by Emma nice nice pass by Blaze too can I had that one yeah you're right though that back door is there if they want it that that they just they have not converted many of those that's all dosin brings it up she finds Blaze blae looks outside foul called on number three number three I thought was it three I thought maybe it was five maybe she's the one going out maybe it was I in any event with just under a minute remaining in the third mne will break the midcourt line gets picked fall stol there by the pr Grace Blaze and Emos back turns the favor oh and then very smartly not not in a hurry doesn't give the ball up Blaze to the basket block well done well done it's a good strong take it's one of those calls where goes strong gets the call if she doesn't you get Jill wide open exactly nice take by Blaze Blaze hits the [Applause] first th it up 3114 37 seconds to go gra blaz makes them both Blaze solid at the line today Reed goes in oop sorry Reed goes in to replace Goslin 36 seconds left Steve how many possessions you think there is going to be this is three possessions three possessions agam one one for us one more for agam okay there's good board by Reed timeout by coach Gary quick on it now I hope I'm wrong because I would like to see this be the last possession of the quarter and I would like aam not to get it back I would like to think that I said there was going to be three and that there's only two that there was that a possession like I said in earlier on I think I think coach got a good idea it's said trick play says last shot and no we get two and we get two or three more shots before no one expects us to go time expires yeah nobody's expecting well we'll see what they draw up here and he's yelling last shot our girls they just take it yeah see it's a trick play kind of like how I am with my wife I don't listen and I pay for it later they pay for it later oh you get all kinds of commentary when you tune in here at alcat now in all seriousness it's it is going to be interesting to see how we do not only in these last 24 seconds but in the fourth quarters we have not been in too many positions where we have had to think about what are the smart things to do with an 18-point lead that has not been the situation we found no I bet you coaches worked on that all year in case we're ever up 18 points could be up 20 points after this so let's see all right hopefully it's not to swing the other way no here's SE medal with hopefully what is the final possession of the third quarter awam extends full court looks like maybe a diamond press at this point mne goes to Blaze Blaze holds it there mne resets 17 seconds left she'll be in no hurry well done it's the [Music] clock maybe a push NOP nine seconds left I would like the record to reflect that I called for three possessions and this is the third possession no threes no threes no threes oh that's a tough bailout call with a second and a half left in the quarter you call that an Kenna I'd like to see a replay on that one I don't know if you call it hand I mean East not in the bonus but I shooting foul so nice take by Lei but I mean she's backside of yeah that's just not only that Steve you're now wrong on a three point three possession it's something will happen four possession if we get the ball something will happen here something will happen here got it yep fourth possession so once again I was incorrect Spartans look to see if they can salt this one away going into the fourth ahead 32 to 14 [Music] to here we are here we are back to the action the final eight minutes here in East Long Meadow Spartans looking to cap off hoopfest day here for the girl side of things the boys will play afterwards at 7 o' in this all day long matchup between a number of the youth teams as well between East lb and agam girls looking to give agam their third loss of the Season yes get some payback for a tough loss in agam a few weeks ago so agam extends what looks to be yeah they're gonna have to do a little bit more manto man they're have try to steal the ball y Marino will set from the top is meow's up 18 it's a carry but it's a hand check which is what cost Clea looks the inbound she'll give it to lepri lepri back to ceville who looked like she had a shuffle step there didn't get called solitario rattles it in okay Spartans just need to continue to play good defense do what they've been doing there they go that's a foul no race no good job by pull back there we go get those shots money that's it there we go nice shot by Ken a terrific answer after agam scores at one end and then they come back with a very disciplined possession that's what I like with blaze I think earlier on in the year she would have tried to have taken that this one here she pulls out two quick passes and Kenna Marino drains the three Yep ceva looks the inbound to lepri here and she does cleva looks to take it in Grace Blaze with the partial block that's an of course it is it is a timeout there's no whistle that's over the B I mean she came that is it's one thing if you just jump up I mean she came yikes flying in so physically good hard work by Caravan but should have been an over the back call especially when right in front of you but well with seven minutes and 9 seconds remaining I don't think we get any I think they watch the games and they listen to us you know what we're not going to give them any calls those because the two Muppets up there that's what we got called that's what right was that it that might have been it I think I'm sure there are a number of names that Matt Roman called us The Muppets The Muppets that's right the two old guys from the Muppets that's right yes he called us those guys up sitting up there Waldorf and staver yeah that's what we try to we try to we try to bring a little bit of uh insight and a little bit of levity should get we should get the Muppet theme music when we start talking that might we might be able to arrange that for the remix we'll see next year next year when we get our new Booth we're calling games from Spartan Tower yeah all right name it whatever you want nobody knows that's right I Nam this place Angus Arena okay and then no one no one knew no they have no idea East L looks to reset agan will extend full court pressure once again and as you said you can expect that for most of the rest of the way since they're going to need to try to force some turnovers here but it's a weird it's a soft press they have the one girl that's far far back so yep and the ball goes to gosan there pulls it back goes outside to Blaze Blaze takes the Baseline and by Canan y exactly Grace Blaze gets a arm across the Thro as she drives into the [Music] on Flow fouls on the floor and since that's only one foul a piece for these teams there's no no shots to be had Marina will inbound under the basket and goes outside to blaze has a hard time getting a handle oh Caitlyn beak checks in for Grace plays Gary changing up the defense to see what he has play Man whenever Caitlyn be gets in there she always draws the mo the other defender on the other team that's just y so aggressive off ball and she's always she does a good job staying in there she just seems to get somebody that's like a little bit all over heavier than her and just throws the body all over the place yeah ball goes to mne she goes down to Blaze Blaze holds on there goes to Steven St nice look by foul nice look by Jill nice take by Emma I'd like the clock to just keep running yes dur free throws during timeouts I'd be happy with anything yes yes coach Gary's already doing a little offense defensive players with Grace Blaze and be they find they lock in the double there get out she does get out of it mcky back by herself now it's a tough spot well no basket even though agam did a nice job breaking the press That's too high on the ball there Kendall re checking in Grace Blaze checking in Kendall Reed checking in for him with Goslin good chance to give gosl in maybe a minute a minute or two try to catch a little bit of a breather until then go in for the you know the home stretch in the last four or five minutes Stevens and mcky go there goes to Reed Reed goes outside to Blaze Blaze holds it there to mne well done I'm a little bit surprised that awam is not showing a little bit more sense of urgency here yeah trying to extend a real aggressive press I mean 20 points to make up in six minutes is a considerable being throwing offense down playing back here they not doubling up on that on that ball that seems just that seems odd to me but oh well I mean I'll take it I'm just as happy [Music] nice look turn Drive take it in there we go nice take not no she just got the other one with the cloth line that could be four on her she just picked up too quick I think she had two in the first looks yeah looks like she's coming out she's an aggressive player I bet you she gets her money's worth every game of her FS [Applause] well they're going to they're going to roll with her whatever it is so be for Blaze I think you have to well you're right it's 20 points with five minutes I mean five and a half minutes left you're right banked in the second to extend the lead to 20 points 36-6 East Low enjoys an advantage with 5 minutes and 45 seconds remaining in regulation [Applause] tries to find the inbounds PATH there to Canan who tries to get it up throws it over everything re by see I think you have to I I am very surprised I think you have to extend yikes good think [Music] so Kendall Reed with a tough off the ball away from the ball foul there didn't look like didn't look like a very egregious screen to me moving screen oh well so agam will work the perimeter once again still nothing inside still nothing inside ball goes back out to the PRI and she's their only real offensive threat I feel today yep very passing and that's press is broken easily there who's that one on no 11 that's on yeah that one goes on one of the Caprice uh one of thei players there Reed makes the first gosson checking in for beak and Reed banks in the second again three for four at the line today the lead remains a 20-point Advantage 3818 with under 5 minutes to go so now is the time you want to just make sure you're being very methodical on offense use the time on the shot clock that's a travel travel yeah oh that's unbelievable I don't I don't know if we're playing in Croatia where that's a that's that's two Euro steps you could have gone from Europe to Asia I'm not sure that's a multic continent hey nevertheless for Caravan thanks TR take yes know and that's you know she's their best option is go to the basket so misses the free throw sa goes High to get that one gos midc Court outside to Jill Stevens Jill way down we don't need it we don't yep that's what coach is saying we don't need it we don't need it we're good we can just freeze it hold it yeah those are the ones I don't like taking it to the hoop to pull up three if you start looking at taking 20 or 25 seconds on each possession now you can really shorten this game a lot of time for them to uh you can shorten this game canavan over everything easy easy easy now easy yep very good Marina will bring it up yep nicely SP who's check right in front of the referee mney reverses it that's what I would do just no I would have reversed it even one more time CL you 16 seconds left on the shot clock you don't want to shoot till you get that shock clock down to around 10 right let the number of possessions remain in the game don't even give them a sniff of a chance to get back into it we all fairness we haven't been in this situation this year correct why she didn't just go right back up with it I'm not sure nice walk gets it inside unable to convert easy easy easy easy there you go easy when you want to spread out the floor right play a little bit of the the old four corner style there you know what I would I would take a shot clock violation I mean I you don't even you don't need the basket use the full 35 seconds a now you're really thinking about it [Music] [Applause] like we used the got about 25 seconds we Ed that time ball goes to the corner you also don't want to be LAX a dle on it either no no no right easy easy good nice screen there by nolles no Cross Court there we go there we go perfect that's well done we this is one of the things we don't do we don't Quick Pass and move to that open spot that there you make them chase us a lot more right exactly right yep nicely held on to by mcky there that's fine under 10 seconds under 10 is totally fine [Applause] yep no you don't want to stop the clock for any reason do not foul yep very well done and nothing doing there and again I would two agan players run into each other easy and we see it going to the final two minutes [Music] [Applause] mne whatever cutter was going to be there was not there at the time four substitutions for the Spartans 18 points under two minutes coach Gary giving his starting crew a well-deserved chance for acknowledgement on their way out final two minutes travel there we go Butler checking in for mne done he met up 18 with a minute 41 left ball goes to test Den alt denal runs the point looks to see what she has minute 36 so 96 seconds to the end 18o East L advantage [Music] the floater no good awam tries to go inside to the post they kick it back out nothing doing Blaze rebounded there oops off the [Music] AL nice move Y and we'll have a call for a push out of bounds on K voo checking in for Blaze and got at checking in for y defense is set defense is set [Music] [Applause] ni save yep agam continues to work the perimeter nothing doing there ball is taken by Reed 47 seconds let's not be in any hurry very well done Eve with help there ball goes to godet then it goes to Reed Reed to denal denal goes mem tries to get her money's worth but thinks thinks better of it [Applause] [Music] oh got a fou inside well Jeff I feel confident with 24.3 seconds left and an 18-point lead saying the Spartans will have answered in very convincing fashion from the last time they played this this agam team it's a nice turnaround but that's what we did to West Springfield we beat up on West Springfield and then they came back to beat us right this will snap agam's five game winning streak up could catapult East Long Meadow into the top 20 in the western we'll just have to see how everything shakes out great defensive effort holding the opposition to 20 points that's a that's a terrific terrific job and stays for agam stays agam [Music] ball communic down low can afford final 8 seconds awam looks to go long can't do it mem tries to get her money worth stats trying to get those stats going I love it your final from East lto East lto 38 agam 20 congratulations Spartans good job Jeff always a pleasure have a good night everyone
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all right ladies and gentlemen welcome to the 2025 cherer Public Schools Pinewood Derby race we have a number of cars that racing today for the number one spot in ches public schools we'd also like to mention this is the first year Marlene Solano is not racing so this is going to be anybody's game but let's first introduce our Racers car number three from the bus depot is slow as molasses car number four CS art car number five the Highland it chipmunk car number six is the Maserati 4 car number 94 from Norton The Nighthawks car number number eight the Benji buzz from DOD car number nine CPS CTE from Dot and CHS car number 10 is Norton nature Queens car 11 is the CPS PE and health Wellness Wheels car 12 representing Highland Mr Jeffrey at the Highland chargers car 13 from central office food and nutrition Brian and Suns also from central office food nutrition number 14 Erica be jetti car number 16 Sher abelon from Chapman van go and lastly also from Chapman car number 17 Angelina Brown our first heat is going to be cars three five n and eight are you ready to begin all right Scouts give me a countdown three 2 1 it looks like car number [Music] five ship is in the lead followed by car number two CPS CTE in third place car number eight the Benji bus barely making it through the Finish Line slow as map es don't forget Racers there is an award for last place all right in our second heat Lane a is card number four CHS AR Lane B is card number six the Maserati Lane C is card number 10 the nature queens and in Lane d card number nine CPS CTE so Lane D is car number nine yep all right heat one so round one heat two Let's Race in first place it looks like car number six the Maserati all right going into heat number three card number five is Lane A Chipmunk Lane B is car number 94 from Norton Lane c car 11 and Lane D car number 10 all right here we go with heat number [Music] three and with an astounding lead number five the Chipmunk comes through [Music] again I know all right Heat number four out of round one in Lane a CHS AR Lane b car number eight the Benji bus lane c car number 12 the Highland Chargers with Mr Jeffrey and in Lane D car number 11 the wellness Wheels the Maserati screaming across the Finish [Music] Line we have some speeds today at the CPS race don't forget to put your votes in on the Google form for the best looking car Eric abet just sent it out to all of CPS please make sure by Monday you're voting for your favorite car and we'll present the award for the best looking currently we're entering to heat number five in Lane a card number 94 from Norton Lane b car number nine CPS CTE Lane c car number 13 and in Lane D car number 12 the Highland charger CPS CTE giving a run for the money against Mr Jeffrey all right Racers and viewers at home we're heading into heat number six Lane a is the Benji bus from D Lane b car number 10 the nature things Lane c car number 14 food and nutrition and Lane D carard number 13 Ryan and Suns also CPS nutrition do [Music] all right ladies and Gent we're going to rerun that race the bounce back at the Finish Line Chang it up our laser so we're going to run again in Lane a car number eight in Lane b car number 10 Lane c car number 14 and then Lane D car number 13 can bounce back that far [Music] ield one all right now we've got a solid finish to that race with card number 11 excuse me card number 10 all right now we're going to heat number seven and we're back up and running in Lane a card number nine Lane B card number 11 Lane c car number 16 and then Lane d card number 14 carard number nine scooting through the finish [Music] live all right Heat number eight in Lane a car number 10 the nature Queens Lane b car number 12 the Highland Chargers Lane c car 17 Angelina Brown and Lane D car 16 Van go oh Bal finish at the end our winners car 16 Van go all right we're going into heat number nine now Lane a is car number 11 the well Fields Lane b car 13 Brandon Suns Lane c car number three slow as molasses will they make it to the finish line Lane D car number 17 Angelina Brown whoa flly across the Finish Line slow as molasses not even making it the full way I think we have a solid Contender for last place I hope I'm last place and again ladies and gentlemen this is our first year without Marlene solano's ugly equipped car of Doom I see a fair challenge out there for all our performers so far just to reveal our standings in first place we have tied the chipmunk and the Mazerati rounding up in third is Van go with a lot of racing still to go we're going into heat number 10 now Lane a is car 12 Lane B is car 14 Lane C is car four and Lane D is car three we're going to redo that race [Music] Lane a is car 12 Lane B is car 14 Lane C is car 4 and Lane D is car three we're almost through round one of the CPS 20 20 20 2025 find a derby oh it's 2o early in the morning without coffee green start and Mr Jeff's Highland charger screams across the finish line still tied for the lead the chipmunk and the Maserati going into heat number 11 Lane A's car 13 Lane B's car car 16 Lane C is car five and Lane D is car four the chip on flying through some excellent engineering this year from the CPS staff all right it looks like we finally broken up our lead a little bit first place is the Maserati follow in second by the chipmunk and Ty in third van go and Angelita Brown Heat number 12 car 14 car 17 car six and car five ooh the CH giv a great race against the Maserati I'd like to mentioned that the Chipmunk came in at 4.88 Oz the Maserati came in exactly at five we also had exact fives from CPS CTE the wellness Wheels Mr Jeff Highland charger and Angelina Brown at least five cars exactly at 5.0 race number 13 kick it off underway and the Maserati just edging out van go slow as Mo lasses not even making it to the finish line all right here's our last team ladies and gentlemen for round one of the CPS Pinewood Derby Lane a car number 17 Nita Brown Lane b car number four CHS AR Lane c car number eight the Benji bus and Lane D from Norton Miss jod Rhoden with the Norton Nighthawks wait so close I'm going to read that finish line I should we have officially hit the record for the most fre D ever in the CPS finder Derby race we are finished clear L let's it and brown screaming across for first place in Lane a all right looking at our leaderboard holding a solid first place with a low score of four points is the chipm follow right behind by the Maserati with a score of five third place is currently tied between CPS CTE and Van go our last place position holding with a solid high score is slow as molasses our bus depot keeping it safe up there driving slow all right we enter into our round two first te Lane a car number three lane b car number six Lane c car number 11 and Lane D car 13 we slows blast this actually make it to the Finish Line this year the Maserati beating out cpsp in health SLS molasses not even making it to the Finish Line well played bus defo well played again I want to take a moment to thank all of our representatives from across our district putting forth the time and energy to build some amazing cars this year don't forget to put in your vote for the best looking all right heat two round two we have car number four 94 12 and 14 Scott Jeff screaming across the Finish Line chipmunk holding on to a solid lead as bin Nana drops only two points behind let's see what happens going into heat number three of round two we'll have the Chipmunk against car number eight the Benji bus car number 13 Brian Suns and car 16 Van go yeah only separated by one point the chipmunk and the Maserati 4 still holding on to solid third place tie between van go in CPS CTE leading into heat number four of round two Maser streaking [Applause] ahead but is it enough o now separated by two points nature Queens have now taken over third place with a score of eight follow right behind tied three ways between CPS CTE the Highland charger Mr Jeffrey and Van go Heat number five Lane a car number 94 Lane b car number 10 Lane c car number 16 and Lane D car number three let's that all right we're going to redo that race our laser are very sensitive at the Finish Line the paint jobs of these cars were so wonderful it looks like the ceiling [Music] all right going into round two Heat number five we're going to redo card number 94 card number 10 card number 16 and card number three now we got a threee finish solid across the board slow as molass is holding on to last place still a tight race with the number of Heats to go it get there all right Heat number six on round two we've got car number eight car number 11 car 17 and car 4 chipmunk holding on to a solid first place oo CPS P Health with a solid first place against Angelina Brown again a three-way tie for third place CPS CTE what amazing department and such a great leader nature Queens TI for third place and the Highland Chargers but dking it out for first and second the Maserati and the Chipmunk with the chipmunk currently in first place we're going to start Heat number seven of round two and the Chipmunk pulls ahead once again still only one point away the Chipmunk Lisa wall from Highland is holding on to that first place position nobody I mean nobody could touch slows molasses or bus depot right now with a high score of 28 currently ranked in last place Heat number eight for round two the Maserati taking the we now have still a two-point separation between first and second place all right into our final stretch now he number nine buunk screaming across the finish line and with a little help at our finish the Norton NW all right Heat number 10 Lane a car number 12 Lane b car 16 Lane c car number six and Lane D car number eight Maserati [Music] oh now it's a two-point separation between first and second place masera is still in contention all right oh Norton pass the line still not fast enough to compete with the Maserati only three Heats to go the Chipmunk has one more race let's see if she can hold on to the lead separation of two points right now going into heat number 12 car number 14 the food and nutrition from aircut Vietti car number three CHS art car number eight the Benji bus and car number 10 the nature FS so the nature Queens taking the first place we'll change up our finish orders here in the books second place is car number eight third place is car number 14 and molasses rounds out that fourth place two Heats to go CHS or CPS H luy in help taking a commanding lead in first place follow behind by CHS and DOD CTE all right ladies and gentlemen the last race before the 2025 CPS pine wood derby we have some solid races come across the Finish SL for the last race all right just making sure our tally is correct with a very very tight lead in Lane B number five for Chipmunk Lane a card number 17 Angelina Brown Lane C card number 10 the nature Queen is currently in third place and car number 12 the Highland charger and the Chipmunk screams across all right we have one car that's not hitting laser as well we're going to rease that [Music] whoa photo finish let's see if she'll hold her lead and in a final turn of events we'll have to double check our numbers finishing two 2 4 3 one the Maserati edged out the Chipmunk in the final race of the day all right ladies and gentlemen we're going to double check our numbers we'll be back momentarily to give you our final results e e e all right CPS pinewood derby 2025 thank you for all Racers thank you for who joined in from all the schools offices and so forth we'd like to First congratulate our slowest Team of the Year with the highest points I believe ever fored losing every single race with a score of 32 ranking in last place the CPS bus depot getting our kids safely to school with our last slow winner and our actual fastest C this year coming down to the very last race of the day Vin massana from central office with the Maserati four please make sure you guys vote for our Best in Show thank you for all participants thank you for pack 114 for your help have a great weekend enjoy the snow
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Jo the flag of the United States of America to the repic for it stands Nation godis welcome back and happy New Year um Terry could you please call the RO sure Steve Frost here thank you no here benos here Chia here gon here Mo's here tyer here we're all here tonight even though one is loose one's on the little machine and uh do we have any correspondence I don't believe so okay all right bye welcome back thank you Happy New Year everyone happy New Year all right so we are back and in full swing of things is absolutely frigid out there and I remember my kids walking today like you could see the smoke you see the air and everything like it was cold but people we are all back we are all happier than ever ready to hit off the second semester of things back at it and so tonight will be a little bit of a shorter report on my end um given the big holiday break but there's been a lot that happened within the community um sort of looking forward towards the next generation of Stevenson students um and Athletics was very busy as well over the a break so we'll kind of break that down so to start on the bottom right uh we had two of our incoming freshman nights for all of our incoming freshmen who will become a part of our Stevenson family in August next year we had two nights last week and then we have our final sort of introduction night um this week on Tuesday and then incoming freshman will start course selection as early as next week and so it's a very very busy time for family engagement for our incoming freshman families um all of them sort of packed in there in the PAC learning what the Stevens and Community has to offer I know many of the fmps uh presented for this event as well so that was leadership on their part sort of explain what they've been able to do with their advisory program and just see what the next generation of Stevenson students has to offer and then on the bottom left on the top and on the top right myself and 10 other of our fire leaders are fostering Intercultural respect and empowerment Club leaders on the day that we got back on the 7th last Tuesday we traveled out to apic middle school and we spoke to to all uh was what ended up being about a thousand of their middle school students it was all sixth seventh and eighth grade students and we gave our speakup training to them so if you remember a couple of months ago right before we went on Thanksgiving break we gave that presentation to our freshman uh recently we've been pushing it out towards our area Middle Schools as a way just to start this process a little bit earlier uh we find that middle school students have never received a training like this before and so it just feels really good looking back sort of when I was a middle school I would have loved to have a presentation like this and so to give back to our future Stevenson students it's just a really fun and empowering experience for me and for our fire leaders and they were a great group right for a thousand of them on their first day back for our first day back it was a great presentation we had a little Q&A in there as well and so they were able to ask questions about what Stevenson was like and it was just full of joy and excitement and it was a great way to open the new year so as I mentioned Athletics uh was many teams had very busy sort of winter break schedules um on the bottom left the girl basketball varsity team played eight games over their holiday break and finished with an record of four and four that'll be the subject of the Statesman article that I hand you in a minute on the top right our boys basketball team had a busy holiday break with over six games and they finished six at the Wheeling Invitational on the bottom right our co-ed cheerleading squad um placed second with a score of 92.7 at the badier North High School Invitational on Friday December 20th then in the middle our bo boys swimming and Diving team traveled to Deer high school over the break for the Lake County Invitational and they finished in first place which was the first time that that has happened in coach Lily doll's tenure here at Stevenson so big congrats to that is in that first place no at that Invitational at the Lake County invite specifically and so what I really wanted to show case with Athletics overall especially for our winter athletes right um is that for many of these students they're very deeply passionate about Athletics right they they perform at a high level they love that team atmosphere and for a lot of them they give up a lot of what their time is over break to do athletics and so they're really grateful to have opportunities like this where they're able to have immense team bonding and just have fun doing what they're passionate about right like I mentioned a couple months ago that with Fine Arts similar to that we don't have an Athletics requirement here but the students who do that are really really passionate about it and that's why they give up some of their break and some of their time spent with uh friends and family over the holiday season to compete so kudos to them for that for the Statesman Spotlight this month uh I had two sort of stories that I wanted to share so that one the first one that'll be coming out to you guys is a profile on an athlete a student athlete trainer and so that student actually is a student trainer in our student Training Division and so he helps work with physical therapy with athletes and adults alike and it's really cool for him in that he is also an athlete himself he's a fall athlete right so when we talk about what our athletes are able to do throughout the course of the Year having an opportunity such as training allows them to stay connected with the Stevens in community sort of with the athletic World um in this sort of new Manner and it finds out you know careers within physical welfare and Athletics as a whole and then the second story features The Varsity girl B girls basketball team captain it's got the coaches profile on there she had her thousandth Career Point a couple of weeks ago so big congrats to her and sort of everything that the girls basketball team has been up to in the recent weeks we school next and so up and coming this month uh there's a lot going on as I said we've got the last incoming freshman night tomorrow and then we'll have our two course selection nights into next week and so incoming freshman will go right away into picking their courses for next year um and meeting with all the divisions and counselors to sort of schedule all of that sort of in line with all of our incoming freshman nights we have more Consortium Orchestra and Choir concerts there was a jazz band Festival that's going on tonight as we speak and so the month of January is really spent with a lot of consortiums um with you know incoming students and and middle school students coming here seeing what our Orchestra our choir our concerts and our music offerings are like as well as sort of taking part in that course selection World spare is new this year um it's going to be held over the 25th and the 26th of January it's usually held in October it's kind of swap places with the night market and so divco will put that on over the two days it'll have all the boots from all of our 27 plus Affinity clubs um and different cultures will be represented and students will have performances at that event as well then on the 29th we'll have our Lunar New Year celebration so that will be a time for us as we sort of close out January with the Kaa Club Sor singing competition competition that goes on with that and they'll be able to raise raise proceeds for that lastly uh we will have a huge freshman sophomore play the sixth the seventh and the eighth of February and so our actors and especially our younger freshman and sophomores who are involved in that play are busy at work memorizing their lines and getting ready to put on a three night performance so that's all I've got it's been a kind of a shorter one tonight but Happy New Year I'm really really excited to be back and sort of kick off my last semester here at Stevenson giving you all these presentations so thank [Applause] you do we have any visitor statements hello everybody my name is Elise halman I have three alumni from the great Stevenson High School that are all currently employed in schools one is a school psychologist one is a speech language pathologist and one is a fourth grade teacher so thank you they're all paying it forward okay um Stevenson continues to evolve and improve its approach to emotional well-being and mental health subjects that were once hushed up like substance abuse and suicide are now addressed in health class and Catalyst Club this is a mark change from when my kids were students here almost 10 years ago and I'm thrilled to see it one area that remain in the shadows is school safety specifically as it relates to Firearms approximately two years ago Stevenson shared safe storage information with parents and while it's a terrific step there needs to be more One Touch point is not enough I'm here to request that Stevenson High School reach out to parents about firearm safety just as they reach out regularly about other safety issues whether the school sends out an annual letter or keeps information posted on a safety tab on the school's website resources should be made available these small actions can have a major impact on safety and in and is in line with measures protecting emotional and mental health of students and staff suicide by firearm is successful over 90% of the time 78% of School shooters obtain the Firearms at their homes or at the homes of close friends or family in November of 2024 students brought guns into mundeline High School Fremont Middle School Hinsdale South and Central High School in Champagne those are just the incidents that have been public publicly reported in newspapers so we can only imagine how many other incidents there have been the statistics and incidents support the necessity of firearm owners safely securing their firearms several letters were recently sent to administrators and school board members asking that Stevenson share safe storage information with parents feeder districts are already doing this as our other local high schools I respectfully request that the board and administration take action to keep students and sta staff safe from unintended consequences of unsecured Firearms I'm one of many who would be happy to elaborate and collaborate on this effort I thank you all and I look forward to some followup action thank you thank you thank you and what village do you live in ver thank you as you know we don't typically respond now but that's all good reach out to me if you want to set something up I think you know to for further conversation I love okay thank you I'm gonna go take your left overs now don't forget the cookies the cookies all right all right so that brings us to our curriculum team presentation tonight so we're very excited to welcome uh members of our multilingual learning division so Justin I'll let you introduce your team and uh talk to us a little bit about the work you're doing incl thank you uh Happy New Year everyone it's great to see everyone uh I'm excited to uh present two wonderful teachers and our Advanced conversation and culture team um this is Sam figuroa and this is Christina Mueller hi very fantastic teachers this course uh to give you an idea we have uh Spanish 34 and Spanish four in our two sequences this is a course that could be taken after that it can also be taken after AP Spanish language and culture one thing that Christina and Sam have been doing for the past couple of years as they've been building this up has been working on two different approaches portfolio and Intercultural community of competence which Raj you mentioned that a little bit earlier that's something that in our multilingual division communicative competence is hugely important but Intercultural communitive competence the idea of bridging two cultures bringing yourself and your own lived experiences as you're working to to learn more about the experiences of other cultures that's been a huge part of our focus and these two have done a great job to that end so without further Ado I'm going to pass it on to them okay so as Justin has mentioned this course is unique um recently we've had three different Pathways coming into this course we've had individuals coming from three4 accelerated which Christina and I have both taught for the last few years which you might remember us from last year speaking about in um interpersonal portfolios and the success we've had there um this year as well as last year we've had a chance to get students from Spanish 4 and this year from uh ap5 so three different streams of students which had a lot of unique challenges um and as a result of reshaping our curriculum this summer Christine and I have decided to delve into portfolio in a different vein not just interpersonal but presentational as a we've had some tremendous success we want to share with you guys looking at the data here something that really really surprised us tremendously was how much we jumped up in two sectors in particular so a 12% increase in both classroom learning strategies and classroom belonging are things that we feel were were were as a result of changes we made within our portfolio model um because it gives the students a chance to express who they are not just to us but to their peers but then also that student agency where they have a chance to really take ownership of their education in looking at some of this data over here I want to highlight the second one over here where it says in these class in this class how often do you use strategies to learn more effectively one thing that we understand with portfolios is that students have not just one opportunity they have many opportunities to work on their uh on their skills and as a result of those multiple attempts in AB ility to reflect on their progress they feel more confident with what they're doing with classroom belonging and something that we've seen with the cultural aspect of this students in in a different way from Spanish 34x or the interpersonal portfolio model have a chance to really explore a little bit more how they connect with the culture and it's something that their peers as a result of our feedback process are understanding more how one another interacts with uh the cultures that we're studying so in the past it used to just be you look at the window and you see you look at the mirror and you see your own culture you then look through the window and you see the target culture but now we're giving students a chance to look through the window to see what their peers are actually doing in a more specific intentional way and it all really comes down to student agency so if you don't remember I just want to refresh you guys refresh to you guys what it looks like with uh interpersonal portfolio the idea is that in the past students have had one particular particular assessment they would do during a unit and that was it and often times it was a highrisk sort of scenario for them in Lee of that we spread it out in four different occasions where students then have a chance to have a chance to hear the recordings reflect make adjustments moving forward taking the feedback that we're giving them that their peers are giving them and so that their their next opportunities are such that they feel more confident because they understand what they need to actually do with that we decided since we've had this success in 34x we've had some of those students coming in that we wanted to explore what it looks like for it to happen with a cultural comparison in a different mode of communication so understanding that students have three skills that they're really working on the interpersonal presentational and interpretive we decided that another one needed to be added in to really kind of dive deep into students being able to not just explore um the uh not just to explore culture amongst sorry not just to explore how it is they interacting with that culture but how their peers are interacting with that culture as well and Christine here's going to go over some activities that we've done thank you so much Sam and the okay great thank you all right so thank you so much Sam for getting us started with that I would like to start off with the cultural comparison portfolio is within our presentational skill standard and we got this model from actually Spanish 2 I was part of the team last year in Spanish 2 and we've experienced so much success with it that I really wanted to incorporate it into our Advanced conversation and culture course so it follows a very similar outline and follows the same basic principles as the interpersonal speaking portfolio students have four opportunities within a six-week unit to demonstrate a presentational writing piece of evidence but because the title of our course is Advance conversation and culture we wanted to take it a step further we wanted them to be able to demonstrate not only their presentational writing but make connections with what we're learning in the Target culture and compare this uh Target culture to their own culture in community so with that we provide students with a prompt that allows them to analyze the target culture and express how their own culture and Community connects with it and within that prompt students must be able to identify the cultural products practices and perspectives of not just the Spanish speaking culture but of their own as well and with that we found s some some success and from some student conversations that students are actually able to learn more about themselves their backgrounds and their families which has been a really powerful piece to this transition to the cultural comparison portfolio in the grand scheme of things and what it looks like in a unit we first start off with learning about the target culture so for example we may be learning about cultural aspects within the Mexican culture and the Guatemalan culture throughout a six we unit we provide them learning activities they have opportunities to discuss and to do writing activities at towards the end of the unit students have the opportunity to engage in two rounds of pure feedback with two writing samples that they have created in their cultural comparison portfolio once they have engaged in that pure feedback they choose one that they believe exemplifies their best pie piece of presentational writing they revise it and they submit it as a piece of evidence to be scored uh in the IRC and we provide feedback on that piece of evidence and what this kind of looks like in the classroom these are screenshots from the slide that that we use for every single unit so students know that the cultural comparison portfolio if you took a look at the top left I know it's in Spanish but I'll translate uh some of the parts uh we really want to make sure that students view this cultural comparison portfolio here's a little hard copy this is a Learning Resource this is their Bank of everything that we've learned these are the pure feedback sheets everything that we've learned in their in the unit everything that we've studied and how they can connect with it so it keeps all the culture that we learn all in one St um one packet it's also a tool it's a tool for them to be able to track their growth not only just within a unit but throughout the whole year this stays with them the entire year um and kind of speaking long term our hope is that something like this can be adapted at the lower level so that way once our students finish out our program uh here at Stevenson they have so many connections documented of all the culture that they've learned but also how they connect with it as well and then also we tell our students that this is our evidence um you can use this to analyze your girl to reflect um and because we implement it so much in our daily instruction uh and frequently they really look we use these a lot in our class uh on the bottom left hand side you can kind of see the frequency with when these opportunities occur Sam and I try to be very intentional that we try to space these out so that students have time to not only uh progress in their language proficiency but also have some time to learn about the T culture and the cultural aspects that we want them to be able to identify and then on the right hand side that's a screenshot of the expectations whenever we provide them with a prompt we want to make sure and be consistent with that they must identify the products practices and perspectives and they must also be meeting using our intermediate mid proficiency rubric so these are just some of the tools that we use when we give them an opportunity so I'm I'm kind of going to zoom in here and kind of give you an example of what this may look like throughout the unit in the eyes of a student so the sample that you see here is from our third unit which focus on the Caribbean more specifically we gave a lesson on Theos in the Dominican Republic and we showed them a news clip of a dino cultural center that was being opened in the Dominican Republic which was a really big deal because the government did not exactly um identify them as an actual group that deserved a cultural center so we gave them this news clip that was fairly recent from uh within the last year but then also we gave them a news clip or we provided them a virtual tour of AO exhibit Gallery in the Met Museum in New York because we wanted to provide them of look look what we're doing in our own country to honor the daos the indigenous people of the Caribbean so they took a virtual tour these were the learning that we provided our students and then the following day students had to address this prompt we've learned about that Dano cultural center and the Dano ex exhibition in the Met Museum in New York what is a space where you feel represented in your own Community or in our own School Community reference the theme of preserving cultural identity representation and consider the cultural products and practices so this is a prompt that we provided for our students and then here is a response that a student generated and this student decided that this was their best one so this is their writing after it's been given feedback on by a peer and after he has revised it so I'm going to kind of outline some of the ideas that really spoke to us in this sample that dinos have lived for many years but now the governments say that this group does not exist the Met Museum feels different and therefore this Museum honors the dino culture with an exhibition this creates feelings of Pride what I thought was super interesting is that he was able to connect sports analytics Club here at Stevenson it's been a special space for me I've learned about sports my favorite interest I participated With Friends the Met Museum and my club have very different topics but both value the import of Pride Sports analytics club and the Theo Cultural Center super super different right but what I think is so re very neat here is that he was able to tie both of these contacts with the same value and perspective therefore forming a bridge with the target culture another sample I want to outline is throughout the unit or the third unit as well we're still focus on the Caribbean but now we're focusing on Puerto Rico and we did African influences due to the slave trade in Puerto Rico so we provided them a video of How It's Made what's the history of of it they we also did a reading activity of peles which is another food that has African influence in Roots so students did activities they did speaking activities with this as well the next day they had to make a cultural comparison with it and the prompt was we've learned about the history of two Puerto Rican dishes and Belles how do these dishes reflect the history of Puerto Rico and then how do these dishes how do the dishes you eat reflect the history of your family what we really like about this next sample is me is sometimes we not only learn about our students we also learn about just history itself that we haven't known before so this student says Mofongo is a Puerto Rican dish brought by slaves and adapted with local ingredients similarly in Greece there's a dish called baklava that was spread to Turkey by Greek slaves there now baklava is a popular dish in turkey and Greece like is popular all over the Caribbean due to the slave trade in my house we baka for important occasions like Easter and Christmas so this student was able to find very similar Trends in their history with Puerto Rico which we thought was super super neat and if we didn't provide the student that opportunity they may have never even made that connection before but now they had to analyze it they were able to do so so we thought that was very neat so this is kind of how the cultural comparison uh portfolio works I'm going to bring it back back over to Sam and where he's going to dive a little bit deeper into what our students actually think about this process very cool oh it's awesome and think about the idea that those wonderful things you guys read here their peers read that as well so it's not like we're the only ones who's looking at this they have a chance to engage with their peers they pass them their packet and they say hey I want you to prove read number three for me and their peers look at that they read it and then they talk about it and then the next day it's like hey pick a different one that you wrote find somebody else and have them read that so that whole idea about looking through Windows not just at the Target culture but their peers is something that we're to explore really really richly through this mode of communication that we haven't been able to do with interpersonal because students have time to intentionally sit down and write they have more time to thoughtfully put down what they actually think and then you know work with their peers on it so that's been absolutely wonderful in that aspect and one thing we really wanted to do was figure out we know that we see value in this like what do the students think especially since these are brand new changes in our curriculum um so we gave them surveys right so that's what we do what doesn't get measured doesn't get changed or doesn't get you know iterated on and that's something that we wanted to understand and so I'll give you guys a moment to take a look at uh to see what students said about the writing specifically and so now considering that this was unit two and Christina and myself were still in the iterative process and refining things we can only assume that things are getting more polished now and as a result of students having this feedback from their peers but also the interpersonal relationships they're building via reading more about their cultural backgrounds and how they connect with these shared experiences that they're having a class through this culture we can only imagine it's getting even stronger so considering about what they learned about themselves here's what students had to say so we talk about students being reflective often times we don't really talk about how much time it takes for that to happen and so with these cultural lessons that we're giving students and how we're intentionally braiding in it braiding them into a assessment I think is forcing kids to actually think a little bit more uh deeply about how it is they actually connect with things I think in the past when it wasn't tied to it was something we just went over uh very much it was a passive part of their learning now I think it's very much an active and integrated part so now thinking about their classmates so how this has impacted their relationship with their classmates so after having given this survey to the students uh only recently did I really kind of realize these three buckets of questions we asked them our pillars here at shs right we talk about the commitment to self commitment to others and commitment to learning and this is something that naturally just lives within this particular work that we're doing here um and I'm really happy about it and I believe Christine is as well and so in thinking about what our next steps might be um this is something where we I feel very fortunate to have Christina working with me on acc and this is the first time that she and I have had this course together and these adaptations we've made we hope much in the same way as in our 34x three years ago that she and I really pushed and pioneered the interpersonal portfolio that we can help refine these ideas and help move them towards our other curricular teams um I strongly believe that students if if they're able to connect more deeply with the culture uh they'll understand the importance of the language and so when we think about how things are interconnected here in together how you can't really separate from EDI they're all in one language and culture are one um so the sooner we can refine this and make it in such a way that our students as they're vertically articulating through our courses have culture as the Bedrock of what they're talking about of what they're writing about they're not only going to have more success in learning the language they'll also have more success working with their peers uh in creating the type of school environment that we want them to have which is empathetic really so thank you guys very nice have you okay so the portfolio you're using it within the the language arts classes you had an opportunity to share that out into other disciplines or other maybe that's more of a justing question but you know social studies considering this it seems like a great idea and I love the way you're doing it and are all the world languages doing it yeah so um World languages interpersonal well let me start this over Justin Justin has done a great job in allowing things to ferment naturally amongst different teams so if there was a volent told things things probably would have been squashed pretty early by lots of different people but as a result of letting teams themselves decide how they might want to navigate this we've naturally had teams um exper with different types of portfolios in different modes of communication so we're not all 100% on the same page um but as a result people are confident with what they're doing so they're producing a better product for kids and we're getting to the point now where we're starting to narrow things down so we're more uniformed for the student experience as they go through so although it was it my design it was probably the right design as a core team last year we also provided our division with kind we actually made pillars of portfolio I really loved the architecture um reference and basically as a coure team we decided you know some just guidelines principles to guide portfolio and we made a chart of which teams are doing portfolio which teams are in the beginnings of Incorporated portfolio and so I'm not on coure team anymore but as I'm sure as time goes on we'll kind of get an updated list on who's progressed and what we can learn from each other as well I appreciate that you're talking about agency and you're you're giving you know from the student having had students here I can you can almost see how that works with them it's sort of the way that they think so I appreciate that is this a Capstone course for students in Spanish no yes and no yeah in Spanish there's potentially three different capstones uh and they can be taken with the exception of AP Spanish Literature in any order once you get to a certain level so if you finish Spanish 4 you can take AP Spanish language for this course as your Capstone uh you can actually take this after AP Spanish language AP Spanish Literature is the one course that we ask students to finish AP Spanish language first so for many students this is their Capstone one of the if they didn't want take cor exactly right you can just kind of finish up and we didn't talk about it tonight but one of the areas of focus of the class as well is uh helping students earn the seal by literacy so they'll take the Apple exam as part of to and and a good number of students will earn that se by and how many classes of of this are we teaching there are two section currently two sections of the moment one each yes your long yeah yes yeah work it's it's very cool very cool and interestingly enough um we we included an article um in the superintendent information report which I think Wendy will speak to later that it just kind of fits with this whole idea of building agency so it just it's very timely I they weren't to plant they weren't here uh to reinforce the article or anything was a plant many years ago thank you Sam was well done well thank you guys really great thank you so much we appreciate you so much awesome that was good thank you apprciate thank you thank you for staying for that stay for the rest we get to start our Monday a.
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e e e the head to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liy and justice for all please call the absolutely Frost here no here Ben ysph here s here gon here wons here Ty here oh we're all here tonight you have any correspondence I have none okay none n all right all right so load here all right the December meeting um we're into the thick of it if you will from the students perspective we are full-fledged ahead with finals but it's been really really cool it's been really fun um the faculty had a big Bingo event today and so the sense of community is just at the fullest extent we're really ready for the holiday season so real quick uh for Community we just finished our giveon event and so I have the statistics that I wanted to read out we served nearly 350 uh families in need we spread joy to 1300 children we donated over 70 bikes to children The Advisory The Freshman advisories collected over, 1500 boxes of mac and cheese we delivered over 200 boxes of different types of food and we provided 65 plus boxes of diapers and wipes and so a really great turnout for giveon tons of uh tremendous amounts of greatness from all our students from Raising all that money and getting all these gifts a great way to give back to the Stevenson community and those um who are less fortunate in these times in need who's that guy that guy is me so I wanted to put that in there we presented our annual speakup training to all of our freshmen um the day before we went on Thanksgiving break and so I put that in there because fire is really proud of giving this presentation annually it really allows our freshmen to come together learn about different norms and how to engage with one another in a civil Manner and and Tackle issues when they when they arise um and really work on resolution amongst peers without having to deal with it in a more adverse um way and so it was just great to bring all the faculty and all the the students that that teach freshman together and just set those Norms straight out right before Thanksgiving so we really enjoyed that a little bit lighter on Career uh this past month on the top left our model United Nations team traveled to Brown University so they left the state and traveled at a national competition um with many several individual Award winners being able to do what a mock United Nations is like in the national uh circuit so that was extremely extremely exciting for them on the top right are creative writing students who attend creative writing and the class uh attended in the annual creative writing festival at the W Whitewater campus and so you know they look forward to that annually to put that on they're really passionate about creative writing and they get to be with other like-minded students from all around the country on the bottom left the Chicagoland winter history be and Bowl was hosted at the Carl Sandberg high school three of our varsity teams all made it to the semi-final so impeccable job for them wow on the bottom right uh for an academic field trip the investment management uh classes travel to the windy city we're able to visit the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Federal Reserve and so as I told you a couple months ago more experiential learning getting out of the classroom getting into the Community Learning and being able to connect what they're learning in the classroom to what happens in real life so impeccable for them so you may remember that last month we focused a lot on career and community building and so this month um sort of with the holidays coming around I really wanted to shed a huge amount of light on Fine Arts and all of the Fine Arts activities that have been going on um there's pretty much been a a concert or some Fine Arts related event almost every single day for the past like two three weeks ever since we got back from break and so tremendous amount of credit to these students who are able to balance their course loads we have finals coming up and memorize all their lines and their scripts and everything that they do to put on these musicals on the top left our failed presidential candidates improv troop uh was able to have their first uh demonstration and so that's complete improv they make it up along the spot so credit to them on the top right we have the winter dance concert and so different types of dance for all the different dance classes here at Stevenson came together to put on their performance and show off what they've been working on all semester long on the bottom right the prom musical was hosted for three nights over the course of November this was actually a really nice Community uh aspect to them as this was the Consortium students came to Stevenson during one of the late arrivals day and were able to see the prom be put on and so the prom deals with many heavy-hitting topics that are plaguing our society and so the number one that I was hearing from both the theater director as well as the Consortium was that middle school students were able able to understand what was going on and the topics behind this and so it's really nice that that our students were able to express themselves in that manner across a wide variety of audiences on the bottom right are uh 39 student musicians participated in the Illinois music Education Association senior Festival on Saturday continuing off of that there's just been so much Fine Arts on the bottom left we had a guitar concert a couple of weeks ago there was another orchestra concert on the bottom right our um music production class is actually put on a showcase and so music production is a course here at Stevenson and so everybody was able to take what they've been practicing and developing in that class and put it on for the greater Stevenson Community to see and then on the top right our art classes held their annual winter Art Fest so that's where every single art student who's enrolled in an art class here at Stevenson is able to Showcase one piece of artwork that they've created over the semester and so this entire slide I wanted to Showcase every one of these involve Stevenson's classes being able to perform for the Stevenson community so when you look at that right the students who take these courses they're deeply passionate about Fine Arts right fine arts we don't have a requirement per se for them but these are students that aren't just taking guitar or aren't just taking you know acting just to take acting they're taking it because they're passionate about it and so we're incredibly grateful to have such amazing spaces and great programs thank you for that that our students are able to Express their passions in a way like none other and every performance that that is put on you hear it from community members all the time that it feels like a professional Chicago Symphony right like it it it's so professional you wouldn't expect that in a high school setting and yet we crank these Productions out almost daily through the month of December so we thank you for that Athletics was a little bit light this past month um we did the transition between fall Sports to winter sports and so a lot of teams have done their tryouts they're just getting going um um the one thing that I wanted to highlight was that the boys basketball team through student council and through senior class board hosted a senior tip off event for all of us seniors and so that was continuing off of the senior kickoff event which was run when the football team had their their first game and that was just a really nice way for all of us as seniors to come together I know we've talked in the past about how we're celebrating a lot of our lasts this was a nice way for us as seniors just to come together be together watch a basketball game um and and just look back on the many basketball games that we've been able to enjoy over the past three and a half four years so for this month for the Statesmen um like I said the prom was a really big Musical that very um eventful throughout the month of November and took up a lot of the planning and whatnot so the Statesman actually did a news article surrounding a little bit about the behind the scenes of what it takes to put on like a three night straight production and balancing that with the workload and so that story has a lot of different perspectives from the students who are in leadership positions and the students who are just acting maybe freshman or sophomores as well as their sponsor and so that should give you a little bit more insight as to the behind the scenes of what it takes to prep such a professional performance so coming up it's a little bit light looking forward obviously we've got the brg winner break and then we've got another orchestra concert tomorrow I think that'll be the last one before the end of the semester I was talking to some of their students they're like we want to get through this because we've got finals in two days and so they've just a lot of them have had a lot of sleepless nights Balan memorizing their lines and being able to prep the finals so credit to them and then the next three events all have to do with looking forward and looking towards the next class of Stevenson students and the incoming freshman we have our family nights we have a Consortium jazz band Festival where all the middle school students who are involved in jazz band we get to come and see what the Stevenson band is like and the same for orchestra students at the middle school and so next month's presentation we'll really focus on what Stevenson does looking forward and how we begin that transition process I'll B eight or nine months before the start of the school year just to make this next group of Stevens and students have a place to call so with that I want to wish you all a Happy winter break and a happy holiday season we're really thankful for everything that you all do for the Stevenson community so thank you thank you thank you do we have any visit our statements okay um well thank you and uh we begin tonight with um some Ambassador Awards which are Super exciting um and tonight we have the opportunity to recognize that students who've done um some amazing work academically so Mr go would you like to take it away yeah hi everybody great to see you all um we are always thrilled to get to celebrate with our ambassador award winners Grace is going to come forward and help us out here passing out these Awards um the ambassador award is the highest award you can win at Stevenson High School and and the board is recognizing excellence in either scholarship Athletics activities and so this is an in incredible award and something you should be really proud of today we are celebrating three students who all earned a perfect score on the ACT so uh that's a perfect 36 uh there are four sections on the ACT it's an incredibly uh rare occurrence and for us to have three and one time period is pretty spectacular congratulations to those of you that are here I'm going to call you up one at a time if you come up and get your reward um we'll have you shake hands with grace we'll take some pictures and then um I'm GNA call Helen up first in a minute when Helen just stay over here on the side and then uh and then we'll bring Isabella up and then we're going to do some group pictures and then I bet the board has a couple of questions so you're you're on the hook for some questions so hopefully there might be some geometry or something what they're do so uh first up today we are really proud to celebrate with Helen Deng please come forward she's my goddaughter they might know each other one two conratulations so much and second today we have Isabella Wong [Applause] s and I we have a third student who I don't see but uh is Kevin young here yeah and so Kevin young also received uh this incredible honor so now if we can have the three of you get together we'll take one group shle ahead get in there we'll get everybody yeah parents first always all right if you thought the Act was hard wait till you get a load of this you guys can just turn around uh and meet the board I bet they have a question or three to ask you about your experience so was this your first take um for me it was I took it in September yeah AC but I've taken the wow that's impressive so you going to take it again just the one in April right they have to take that one take it yeah they do have to take it in April oh my God it's breakable careful sorry sorry sorry so a serious question how did you feel about it when you walked in and and took it when you left did you feel that it you were comfortable with it was it curious what it I've never experienced what you did did you know how well you did well uh I Was preparing for the ACT I took a lot of like practice exams um so I was like h for a good score and I kind of knew that I would probably do like pretty well but I wasn't expecting to do like as Perfection um I think I was definitely nervous like walking out not seeing the score you never really know like how it it's going to end up like how it curves or maybe like if you missed a question um so I kind of walked out feeling a bit nervous but I was really happy when I saw those well we're very proud of you congratulations thank [Applause] you um so we will pause um and give you the opportunity to you're welcome to stay for the meeting but that this may have been the best part so yeah it definitely was yeah so thank you congratulations you're very welcome thank you bye congratulations and like I was worried about whether I got one wrong or not I did I get one right like there a very like different experiences walking out of the test so I hope that you're not offended this is the second best part of the meeting always I know I saw I be like wait a minute this is so the second best part of the meeting is always our curriculum team presentation so uh the past couple years we've been focused on our work around seal so um Abby I'm gonna let you introduce the members of your team who are here and are going to share with us um uh their work clicker but we have little all right um thank you for having us my name is Abby Austin I am the manager of physical welfare and presenting today is the awesome dynamic duo of the applied health Team Ross paty and Jill Litman um typically this well this class is an elective in our division and typically it is taken by students who are interested in the medical field or some sort of career in health cool hi everybody I'm jelman uh this is my 24th year at Stevenson uh 10th year teaching applied Health um it's a really really awesome class I co-sponsor HOSA um which we see you a lot since we have a couple k we will we only have 363 members this year so um and I'm also a student counil it's bigger than my high school three and a times bigger um I'm Ros for chaski this is my third year here at Stevenson um I teach Choice be Health um and applied health and um I actually have an applied Health student sitting next to me right um and I'm our boy sophomore basketball coach uh as well as a hosta sponsor so um I'll just give you a little background of kind of what our class looks like um as Abby kind of alluded to the um our class focuses on getting our students ready for um careers in healthcare um so we try to give them some skills uh that they can use obviously in healthcare uh but give them a picture of what that kind of looks like so to do that um these are the skills that we teach our kids and assess our kids on the very first one is professional rescue so this is really uh focusing on uh like CPR so we have an unresponsive victim what are we going to do in this situation so um the students get a um C proo certification through the American Red Cross and we do that through this skill so they get uh a few different scenarios so they work as a single responder how do we work when there's two people involved how do we work when there's three people and four people who are all involved in the rescue um as well as what do we do when it's an adult what do we do when it's a child what do we do it's when it's an infant um and so uh it's a very very Hands-On right from the get-go when they're in our class we also have the injury management skill and uh you can see uh listed below these are all the certifications that our students get through the American Red Cross um after taking our class um so they get a first aid certification they learn uh what to do it with anaphylaxis and how to administer an EpiPen uh they get a bloodborne pathogens training um yeah how to assist someone who's having an asthma emergency um and first aid for severe trauma so they're learning learning how to uh control bleeding and how to control life-threatening bleeding um our other two skills would be the um anatomy and term skill so if they're going to be in healthcare they need to start learning some anatomy and they need to know um some terminology that goes along with that so they learn um like anatomical positioning terms they learn biomechanical movement terms they learn uh skeletal Anatomy to help them um get a grasp of what's going on um with all of these different injuries um and our last skill is the communication skill so this is focusing on how do we communicate with each other when we're all in a panic and uh there's an emergency that's going on um and how do we talk to the freaked out family members who are around and how do we explain to the patient what's going on with them without scaring them um and so that communication skill is really kind of a big one uh that we are focusing on now U so this gives you a quick rundown of what our class uh demographics look like so just um first semester Jill is the only one who teaches applied health so she has three sections second semester I Teach as well and there's nine sections in the spring um so we looked at the spring uh data from last year um so you can see it's pretty uh female uh a heavy class but we still have a pretty wide uh variety of cultures in our classroom um so if we look at our SVS data uh you know we're pretty proud of the uh the uh the climate that we've uh built in our classes and the connections that we have with our students um and one of the areas that we really wanted to focus on was this valuing of subjects so this next stat is kind of crazy uh how useful do you think this class will be in the future 99% of our kids said it's absolutely going to be useful so they're thinking I'm going to be in healthcare I should probably know how to do CPR I should know how to treat injuries um but another part of this you know it's not all perfect is only 61% said that they're going to use these ideas from class in their daily life and so we were kind of thinking about um you know why that is and you know a lot of them say well I'm not doing CPR in my dayto I'm not uh stopping life-threatening bleeding on my day-to-day U but we were kind of thinking like you know there's other things in class that they could be picking up on that they could be using um in their day-to-day um and that's where the communication skill came in so try to make some adjustments to this um so that it's not just focused on emergency situations and and talking to patients it's also how can these skills be used to talk to your parents or talk to a coach or talk to a teacher um so we thought it fit in pretty nicely um with the areas here that that we have at school especially the commitment to others um and under looking at relationship skills and social awareness that we could bring in some ideas with this communication skill um and so one of these would be um to think about how do we communicate with diverse populations and how do we show empathy for others and then as healthc care providers um this is going to be important too and we'll share a couple of examples of of ways that we have done that um this year and going forward so then when Ross and I were meeting at the beginning of the school year trying figure out how we're going to use this we really wanted to expand that communication skill because it's not just that emergency but like how do we change what we're saying and how do we change that tone and um so we wanted to start addressing that skill right at the get-go at the beginning of the semester um providing more examples in healthcare and in our own lives giving some more connections with that and then our big goal is we really wanted to include some more lessons and communication with diverse populations and helping kids see some of those disparities in healthcare so since they're the future our Healthcare maybe they can bridge that gap for us um so right from the very beginning day two um we started opening up those what does it mean to communicate clearly it's setting that expectation of talking and listening and um right from whether it's just talking to a classmate in class but then also as we're moving on talking to a patient how do you talk to another health care provider and started it from the very beginning instead of waiting a little bit later on when we were focusing on Healthcare um we've we've always done like a fun Friday challenge we always put kids in the Marshmallow Challenge or they've got to take a tarp and work together and try to figure out how to flip it over together um and we really were focused we always focused at the end of our fun Friday challenge it wasn't just a fun thing but okay let's debrief it how can we use this in healthcare and how can we use this in class and we were as we were looking through ones we wanted to make sure we were including ones that were specifically challenging them with their communication and leading to really good deep briefs about how they were using their communic ation skills with their classmates and some of them were big challenges and some of them were small and something as little as putting you know they had a cartoon character on their back and they had to figure out who they were with asking yes no questions and it was fun way to put them with new partners but then again it always came back to that debrief what was it like when people only gave you yes no answers and you know thinking about how do we communicate better and bringing it back to real life like does that sound like hey how's your day today fine what' you do no nothing like how do you think your parents feel when you're having one-word conversations and then we're bringing that all back to them okay you get a little bit more of the clear picture when you talk and give sentences and helping them kind of bridge that Gap not just in class but with their parents um and so when we started initially with our skills we started with life-threatening bleeding and doing all sorts of different rescues um really embedded in um Emergency Management is Clos Loop communication that idea that you need to repeat back that message and we start with this at the very beginning but then giving them real life situations like okay have you ever had that situation where your parent keeps repeating them over and over and over and over and over again they're like if you were to just close the loop and say Mom I heard you I'll take the trash out when I'm done they'll stop repeating themselves they're like okay I could see that um so giving them the connections between what we're doing in class and because we practice and we assess their ability to close the loop during a rescue but then making some connections and how they can use that at home so our students do a really nice job as Ross explained they do multi partner uh partner rescues and they do a lot of peer feedback with each other which takes a lot of good clear communication does that sound look like your class yeah um and then we also like communication's not just what we say but we also have to address the emotion and situations and we give them examples of you know gry anatomies there's always an example from graay Anatomy so here's some really bad communication with Greg Anatomy looking at the emotion and how we hit the situation then okay how would you do differently how would we address not just what you say but how you say it and how we address the the patient and give them opportunities with that and what we're really proud about is we've been talking about different ways to bring in some of that um Equity race and diversity work um as there's a lot of disparities in health care and with um patients feeling misunderstood and not getting the best treatment because they're misunderstood because of their cultural differences um so we brought in some video clips of people talking about their experiences um if I could speak to a healthcare worker this is what I would recommend and giving them uh statistics on disparities in health care from different groups and then we had a conversation about how do we make our patients feel more comfortable with their care and looking at that importance of cultural competence empathy and active listening and really emphasizing that idea of cultural competence lead to improve patient satisfaction and purposely giving time and space for kids to think about after we're practicing a skill and teaching we're learning a new topic how would you teach this to your patient giving them that moment okay how would I um how would I focus or adjust my communication to make all of my patients feel comfortable we were teaching them they were learning about um how to teach somebody how to use an epip pen okay well what if your person didn't speak the same language as you how would you adjust that um and trying to be purposeful with giving different reflection opportunities for students to really think about different ways or communication could be used um so just a couple weeks ago gave our students a follow-up survey of like okay so how are you using this now purposely in our class how do you feel it's helping you improve your communication and your life um 77% saying most definitely the 6% when their little follow-up questions some of them was a no because they felt that they were already really strong in the skill so um that was some of that in there but a lot of them were really starting to see those connections and you know some of them I'm able to communicate while teaching younger children um help me clear and direct help me connect with my peers and classes help me with my relationships okay how to keep patience calm and my all-time favorite help me remember that my mom is nagging me I just need to close the lip and just on Friday we had our like um end of semester mass casualty day they walk in the aerobics room and there's we say there's a stage collapse we're all at a concert and there's places of people everywhere and our officers come in and help us out with this and they had a great opportunity to really communicate better training than most of our police officers again were they really truly were able to coordinate and communicate and they were triaging who should go next and getting their victims on spine boards and working on their rescues together working as a whole class in this mass chaos coordinating this spine board and working in multi-person Rescue all right uh yeah so going forward just keep kind of thinking about some of the things that we wanted to keep doing with this um would be just more lessons you know that different ways that we could bring in that diverse population um uh type type of questioning so like the example with what what if it's a different language well you know we could keep building on that for sure um and then adding the the moments there for like you know the explicit moments for reflecting on how else besides Healthcare our classroom where else in your life could these opportunities um impr be good for you all right where could you see these H um feeling a void for you in your day-to-day life and so hopefully um you know if we can keep working on that you know we look at that question again hopefully it'll move up from 66% uh where kids are like oh yeah I am using this in in my day-to-day um you know and kind of getting your mindset shifted away from just the uh the CPR and the the lifethreatening bleeding and those types of things questions answer actually just quick comment so your pres to remind me to take a CRP class and my workplace they offer it every year so I missed a chance but not going to take next year so I'm curious what the response is to that mesh casual casualty day is it are they excited are they is it scary like how do they it's a big mix because a lot of kids they know about it they they're like oh I totally know it's coming and until they walk into that room you don't really know how you're going to respond and we debrief it afterwards like you don't know how you're going to respond and however you respond is totally okay and like I'm getting that emotion out um how did you respond to it I took it I took this class A couple of semesters ago and I still remember it now like almost a year later I'm like yeah it's and it's all of a sudden in that one big room too doing it yeah and there's noises and yeah it's really it's realistic it's nice yeah so there are like like yeah yeah there's there's definitely leaders who are like I'm in there I'm hands on you know and there's people are kind of like you know off to the side but that's you know that's real life and I think you we have our officers who come in too and they they give like some real life examples of of what they've seen and you know it's pretty impactful for our kids yeah I think it's great yeah I I don't have a question but I just want I this is really good it's very impressive it's a really fun class to teach yeah for sure fun now make sure keep us updated for the 61% like the feedback right I want to know why it's only 61% should be 100% right useful well thank you very much thank you no no no no okay so uh next item is approval of an update to actually we have two items our or policy updates the first we're actually scheme for we're making a recommendation for Action tonight the second is the first reading but over the course of the last few weeks and in our finance committee last week we've discussed updating our fund balance policy um to better serve the district and provide the community with more accurate reflection of our Financial Health it also aligns more closely with school code recommendations and clarifies kind of our actual current Current financial position so that's correct tonight we're going to make a recommendation that the Board of Education approve a revised and updated school policy 4 colon2 as presented second any we did talk about this last Tuesday at the the meeting um any other questions for Sean on this one did you I know I was out of town did you get a chance to just confirm with this yep gu so our accountants and our finance people that's correct thank you any other questions okay Terry could you please pull the board pardon me could you please pull oh of course no I Ben ysf hi s hi Corson hi w i TI I frost carries seven to nothing okay and then as a first reading tonight tonight uh we're presenting um board policy updates from Crest issue 117 so uh we'll give you a chance to uh look over those many of them were kind of wordsmithing Pia um there are a few on there that we do want the board to take a look at but there are a few on there that we would like the board to take a look at um there's new board member training that starts July 1 um and so we do just want to make make sure that you uh see that that will come out through iasv um we'll have that package all ready for for all the board members so it'll start July 1 in to next year we'll have to do it for next year correct so for any new board members it will um already be part of the onboarding packet um then there's another board policy 8 colon 10 um and that's the connection with community that again we just want the board to review as well and we indicated that on the side Y and then the other policy is around um The College and Career Pathways um and Wendy has this is actually something Wendy ironically enough has been working on over the course of the last few years so you want to give the word just quick yep um and I have a just a quick PowerPoint we actually had a board dialogue last year that talked a little bit about the new career Pathways um kind of state um things and we have two courses that we have submitted to the state currently um ready for review spoke to um the person in charge of it last week we have one on hospitality and tourism and then we have another one on Emergency Medical Service and those are the two courses are we have to have a third one but not to like 2030 I think something like that so it's a ways off so we're not too worried about that one um and this is just a special thanks to the College of Lake County because we're doing this in conjunction with um our our articulation and our work with the College of Lake County technology campus um for those students so our hope is our students that are going to go there are going to get some benefits from these career pathway endorsements awesome um okay any questions more to come on that okay uh we have our usual um kind of buffet of personnel items that are included in the Human Resources report we will not need an executive action too bad following uh the meeting um and that brings us to Sean our business section correct um if you recall at um our December uh finance committee as well as previously uh at previous committee meetings as well um we are looking to um rearrange some of our long-term debt and long-term Investments um so tonight we are uh asking the board um to approve a resolution that will basically um lower um or excuse me lower our amount of long-term Investments uh keep our debt the same um and the way in essence we're refinancing some of our debt um but the way in which it's worded H we have to follow specific guidelines um so that's why the resolution looks this way it's not a a refinance it's an issuance and then a defeasance um and the defeasance will come after after the issuance so tonight we are recommending that the Board of Education approve the resolution declaring the intention to issue not to an exceed $15 million in working cash fund bonds for the purpose of increasing the working cash fund of the district and directing the notice of such intention to be published in the manner provided by by law can I get a motion to approve Mo second so again we've talked about this at now a couple of finance committee meetings does anybody have we're not approving it tonight we're setting our int for next month but does anybody have any questions on this in the meantime for sure okay Cherry could you please pull Ben yoseph hi so hi of course hi moons I Ty hi Frost I no hi there is approved thank you the other part um that goes along with this is uh the setting of a public hearing so our next board meeting is January 13th of 2025 um so we are asking the board um uh to set a public hearing for January 13 2025 for public discussion can I get a motion please so V second questions okay Terry could you please vot yes sa hi gorson hi moons I tyer hi crost no hi benos hi okay carries thank you next item I have tonight is the annual tax levy we had a first reading uh back in November uh tonight we're asking the board to certify that with an approval um this is probably one of the most important parts of my job um to ensure that uh the county knows how much revenue we need to cover the costs for the 25 26 school year I know that seems a little odd since we haven't set the budget for the 25 26 school year that's just how this process happens um so tonight uh you know we as we talked about before we do want to set our tax levy at $126,800 th000 even um however because of the property tax extension limitation law we expect that to decrease um to about $125,500 th000 roughly um which would be uh a little bit more than 3% uh increase from this year to next year so tonight um we are recommending that the Board of Education approve the 2024 for tax levy in the amount of $126,800 th000 can I get a motion please so move who was that Steve FR thank you Steve sure second good no you were again we covered this on Tuesday but any additional questions no and I I did just want to mention that we I know we talked about it there is there wasn't a need for truth and Taxation hearing because our um request was less than 5% okay could you please pull gon hi Moon I tyer hi Frost hi no hi BV hi s hi carries go for thank you I'll be delivering the tax levy tomorrow to the uh County to make sure and I'll get the receipt with two hands two hands most definitely multiple copies there's go over the there's going to be copies on my desk in case I get you know something happens on the way to the county so that we can get that taken care of bring them bun cakes I usually I usually bring chocolates um chocolates or popcorn it depends on the day um no because they they do a tremendous job and they actually do provide us with the um estimates that that we need to really zoom in and zero in on how much we um need for that next year it helps us tremendously um the last item I have then for tonight is also an approval um we brought this to the board in November as well as you know we have several multi-function devices around the school including in our print shop where we have quite a large um set of high capacity almost not almost production level machines to help us manage the need for um copying things Believe It or Not There is still a significant need for copying things um with our vendor from Canon um we were able to work out uh the replacement of two machines um with no increase um to our uh monthly cost in fact um we even got a lower click charge if you will than what um has been presented tonight it's actually uh two cents instead of four cents um so we're continuing to do that um this is something that we are going to um try to accomplish in the near future um without disrupting any of the um needs of our faculty um as it relates to copying services so tonight we are recommending that the Board of Education approved the replacement of the multi-function devices as presented please get a motion so is that me Ronnie Ronnie second s so these are in the building these are already in the building they're quite large machines like 20 ft long I mean they're full production machines um they produce um over a million copies um well over a million copies um they feed this uh that's a million copies per month I believe is that right or is that a year no the other ones are the year uh annually it's the other copies I think that they probably do a million yeah about a million this year between the black and white in color um what is it's fascinating and what's interesting is that these we can allow these we can feed these machines and allow them to run all night um and we have our print center crew they just add new paper to it in the middle of the night and as long as it has the paper it keeps running so high production high value great great value the district because we can continue to keep those costs with newer Technologies and we're not running small machines in every Department we're running smaller machines in the department but we're continuing to drive and ask that we put more emphasis on the copy center because we have the ability to do that right now we're pretty much at our maximum capacity because this machine's newer a little faster it can actually increase our produ ction and take off some of the need on those arterial machines that are throughout our building p and I have been working and continue to work on methods to decrease overall from the district the amount of copying that goes on but that doesn't affect these machines that are getting replaced today or that we're asking for replacement today want to Mark meline these big uh things with the the number of machines in the office yeah and the amount of copying we were doing yeah and and there's a sign ific cost savings to running it through the print center as opposed to running it on a multi-function device in an office and definitely compared to a traditional PR but we still have Li its backups if we need okay great Terry could you please pull we need we need to pull the board yeah ready yep oh good wounds hi okay tyer hi Frost hi no hi benf hi to hi gorson hi carries okay you see a couple fo requests and that takes us to consent and then could I please get a motion to approve the consent agenda move second okay Terry you please she I'm not hearing po certainly ter hi Frost hi no I benos hi to hi gorson hi moons I cares okay um so finally this evening a couple items in the information report we have uh thanks to Pia and Jamie a couple items that you may not have seen in the daily digest the students math Stevenson math team adds up the fun at the 2024 math Carnival uh so 100 students engaged in that work uh the Latin club uh won a competition and students helping soldiers uh did a drive and you can see all those things there so um again we try to highlight just each month a couple things if you're not a regular daily digest um uh reader there's just amazing things that our kids are doing every day in their Jamie that your team highlights so here are a few of those uh you can see an update from the ELC and then also um due to um some of the conversations we were having in the fall around our gpis um Wendy has put together kind of a midyear checkin for our administrative team so you want to do just a brief description of that for the board yeah you'll see something um those of you guys have been around for a while we always had a midyear report um our gpis it's going to be um maybe a shortened version of that where all of um the division directors are going to report out the progress that they've made in their plan for work for second semester kind of a little formative assessment of sorts of where they are on the gpis so you should see that full report on during the February board meeting and then um we also wanted to share with you that this will be the last meeting with Pia p uh has accepted position as um an admin assistant at d133 where my kids went to school um but it's going to be uh working in their csbo office which uh pia has been working on her csbo for the last couple years and is going to be doing work more aligned to her passion so um thank you Pia for all of your amazing work uh you have certainly raised the bar and have big shoes to fill so appreciate I really appreciated everything that Stevenson has done and then the board as well I've really enjoyed getting to know all of you so thank you we'll miss you we're going to miss you congratulations thank you yeah congratulations super exciting thank you and then uh we'll someday we'll see you as a csbo downtown in our nov Yeah in our November meetings so um all right I think that's it Oney yes could I please get a motion to adourn so moved second all in favor and you know every year Ann loves to make coffee for the Bo so um pass that down this is from an and I think Amy [Music] you throwing to yeah it's like at the Cub games the guys throw the nuts
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e e e United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty justice for all it's very to Terry could you please call the I can but do you have my call sheet oh sorry I know I missing something sorry oh no perfectly all right I mean not I don't knowbody Frost no bsph here Chia here gorson here moons here Ty here all here tonight great do we have any correspondents no Rajan you're up welcome you you happy November um I'm really excited for this the month of gratitude giving back uh School environment is just full of gratitude at this point so it's been a really fun couple of weeks into November and we'll cover we're going to change up the slides a little bit this week so here we go so career and academic clubs have been very busy uh going into the past couple of weeks end of October into November our debate team our Congressional debate team had two very big competitions our Congress side actually won at Wheeling a couple of weeks ago um and then our public forum team also competed and so debate's been going strong we've been sending a lot of our freshmen out there so they're getting their their debate experience uh their argumentation skills and they're loving it every step of the way on the bottom left our public forum uh our modal United Nations team rather had their first actual competition I told you guys last month that they actually ran the tournament here at Stevenson and so this was their first time getting out there and actually getting to compete so they really enjoyed that in the bottom middle uh we actually kicked off The Looking forward talking about your future sort of transition and this was the academic Expo which was held by the various co-curricular the curricular divisions and the academic divisions and so that was really nice for underclassmen and juniors to be able to talk to teachers who actually teach these courses and get to learn a little bit more about courses that they may be taking next year on the bottom right are spark Symposium which is composed of Juniors and seniors presented their annual Showcase Event which involved 23 research scientists which were the seniors who pitched their proposals that they had been working on with various college and university professors um and others in higher Academia to their fellow Juniors and their peers so wrapping up months long projects that they had been doing continuing off of that on the top right our math team hosted their annual Carnival with hundreds of elementary school students uh packed in there to the wood Commons and so that was really cool for you know our our math students who really enjoy the math team to give back to the community with that gratitude element um and educate these Elementary School students who will hopefully join the MTH team when they make it to Stevenson on the top left and on the bottom right we have had several field trips for our annual or monthly field trip day uh on the top left the marketing team went to Wrigley Field to learn about sort of the marketing behind how a professional MLB team markets their product and their games on the bottom right our business apps and Technology classes went to dve and Busters to learn about all the technology that it takes to run such a big gaming uh website and with this I kind of wanted to open the floor up for some discussion here um we have been seeing a lot of different field trips and activities for experiential learning and so I wanted to ask the board are there any memorable field trips that you had in high school and in college and how that is sort of influenced your your desire to want to fund continuous field trip opportunities here at Stevenson because we really appreciate these experiences great question um well start uh I don't think I think when I was in high school a million years ago it was it was more about just go places I think what you guys are getting is much more experiential and pointed in terms of where you're going and why it was things like we all go to the museum assignment and Industry get to walk around it was a lot of fun it was always great get on the bus and go to City but I do appreciate the opportunities here to be a little more intentional about where you go and why I I never had that opportunity they didn't have any of those things when I went to uh High School in the Middle Ages but our senior year the senior class trip now St Paul Minnesota uh we went to Washington DC New York City back to St Paul coming through Chicago changing trains and going home on a train now let me say that my grandson from Deerfield went to Washington DC for five days and they flew like um but I say that was about the only memorable thing that ever happened j i I'll jump I'm also one of those older people um and I remember getting off my horse sorry I grew up in in Texas um and the only field trip that we took was a a field trip to see listen to the San Anton San Antonio Symphony and so we didn't do any of the other kinds of experiences that you've had so I but I from and obviously all of us kind of Monitor and see the things that you're do and it's just it's phenomenal to see it's great anybody else sure we did the Great America field trip in physics that was I mean that's been going on for years that's you know that's honestly the only one I can remember well I just want to say like on behalf of the the student body here we really appreciate you continuing to support these and funding them um you know a lot of students take business related courses for example because they have an interest in going into the business field down the road and so being able to see that live and experience it dayto day and see the inner workings it's really that what am I learning in the classroom out in the community and students just love it so thank you for that thank you very much so continuing off of the community building aspect of things uh there have been a lot of different Heritage and cultural based months if you will and so on the top right we had the annual it was earlier this year the asa's Asian-American student association's night market and so this year it was actually held outside on the pool ptio and so that really helped simulate what a real Asian Night Market is like in many different countries and so that was a really nice change to see them put it on instead of February you know when it's cold and everybody's inside to being able to do it in the fall everybody came outside it was a beautiful day that Saturday um and it was just an amazing way to bring the entire Community together so many young students helped out with the booths uh families friends everybody was just chipping in and made for an extremely extremely nice night on the bottom right our Filipino American Student Association to part with our national dance Honor Society to learn a traditional Filipino dance on the bottom middle our polish uh Club hosted a Polish uh themed sort of event for Polish heritage month on the top middle our Turkish Club took part in a Turkish Art Festival where they were able to learn about different types of Turkish art on the top left our lassar Latin American Student Association hosted a guacamole creation or making night in the Food Lab um and so that concluded their annual Hispanic Heritage Month and so they really enjoyed that tons of students backed into the Food Lab to do that and then on the bottom left I wanted to give a shout out to the National aners Society they hosted their blood drive huge turnout for the blood drive donated a lot of blood raised a lot of money and so that was sort of the preemptive for gibon that's going on right now with more Community aspect of things on the top right some of our younger leaders actually took part in a day of leadership training and so our class boards and many members of the student council actually got to learn about what leadership training was like and now they've been able to apply that back to their respective clubs on the bottom left our snowflake uh Team or Club rather went to the local middle schools to educate younger students about anti-drug and alcohol use and so they really enjoyed being able ble to give back to the community and educate you know future Stevenson Patriots about the dangers of drug and alcohol use and so that Community aspect was in full force there and then on the bottom right we hosted our annual trunker treat event by Kea um and they they kicked it out of the park I mean seriously they had over 50 boots that was a record number of boots we've ever had for this event and over 300 community members um in that lot so a lot of young students going around seeing all the decorated boots and getting candy it was a beautiful beautiful evening uh prior to Halloween so for our Statesman Spotlight this month um with Hispanic Heritage Month which had ended in the middle of October we actually did a very uh detailed story on lasso and the events that they conducted throughout Hispanic Heritage Month throughout all of September and October um and so I wanted to Showcase that perspective it has their sponsors perspective as well um in the paper this month and then up and coming uh it'll be a busy couple of weeks after Thanksgiving a lot of Fine Arts events you'll notice that I skip Fine Arts in this week this month's presentation um next month we will focus solely on Fine Arts uh they have pretty much a showcase or a concert or some sort of exhibition pretty much almost every single day throughout the month of December and so there are a lot of musical different concerts and ensembles music production there'll be a dance concert and then all of our art classes will showcase their artwork at the winter artfest on the 10th and the 11th so with that I want to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving we really appreciate everything that you do for the Stevenson community so we're very grateful for that thank you thank [Applause] you okay do we have any visitor statements tonight all right well we are super excited to um have our annual report from our student services team so thank you for being here and I'll let you introduce your amazing team so fire away sir do we have like a minute to just get set up of course sure two two minutes if you need it yes yes yeah there isn't a t in there for Jerry how do I get one for you um I was hoping there was going to be more setting up yes I can advance okay all right um thank you all truly for uh letting us be here with you tonight we appreciate it I feel like it's not November and Thanksgiving if student services isn't here talking with our fabulous Board of Education um but we like we'd like to just change things up a little bit so for years and years and years and years Terry as you can speak to and Patty Martin too right um we have come in November to share with you the results of the student sa satisfaction ction survey that our students take each year um and don't worry Patty Martin did prepare a report for you so you still have those results to review but tonight we wanted to uh change things up a little bit we know that you have the opportunity to hear from teams in all of our divisions about some of the work they're doing in the area of social emotional learning and we wanted to jump in on that theme so tonight um we're excited to share with you some of the work we've done particularly over the last couple of years to really try to be more proactive in terms of the way we identify and support students who are struggling we know of course we are here for students who reach out to us but many students when they're having a hard time are not necessarily going to reach out to their SST and so part of what we've tried doing is really being intentional about building better connections with those students so you will hear um from our team tonight and I'll introduce them in a minute some of the um what we're kind of call mental health checkpoints that we built into the student services High School four-year um experience that our students have uh Patty Martin will talk to you all a little bit about some of those checkpoints from the counselor area of things Angela O'Brien will talk a little bit about what that looks like in the world of school psychology and then Christina cores will talk about um that work from the social work perspective but first we will kick things off with saraha Francis who will talk a little bit about our ssts and how things are set up in student services to allow for that work to happen thank you again for your time Excell good evening everyone thanks again for having us here um as Sarah just mentioned is going to little give a little bit of a groundwork for uh what a student support team actually is prior to our fabulous folks diving deeper into the nitty-gritty of what they're doing uh to help support students so just a quick reminder every student at Stevenson has a student support team that consists of a social worker counselor psychologist and a Dean um it's a lot of wonderful people supporting students so you might be asking yourself what are the specific roles of these members now again the team members work together and they're really supporting each other and and helping students in any way that they can but they really are approaching every student with specific background information expertise um in their various areas so for example counselors like Patty Martin are really helping us support students from the academic lens really supporting them with scheduling classes those types of things postsecondary planning that fun stuff um our social workers and our school psychologists really help support students with you know any crises that come up social emotional needs and supports um and then our 504 coordinators also are our school psychologist so they're helping to support our students that maybe need additional support through a 504 plan and then our Deans are really helping to support students from a behavioral land so attendance Behavior those types of things um the most important thing to note is that at the end of the day the sst's main goal is to support the academic social emotional and post-secondary needs of every single student from the moment they enroll at Stevenson through the time they graduate and honestly even Beyond we all the time have students reach out from after the time they are here for any specific needs that they might have checking in those types of things so it's really impressive to me the amazing work that our student support teams are doing because they really are building strong relation ships with our students so I will turn it over to Patty to go into how we do this so a couple of things um and I you've probably heard about many of the things that we do as SST members but we really want to with every student build a relationship find out how they're doing and what they might need and then Provide support for those needs and a lot of times you will see things like grades attendance discipline and all those things still happen but today we're really going to talk about those social emotional sort of checkpoints and how we get information from students build relationships and then Provide support so we um have uh based many of the things that we've been doing for the last I don't know five or six years um around the developmental relationships model from the search Institute in uh St Paul Minnesota it is a research-based approach to relationships and it really increases efficacy and agency with our students so as students grow as fresh we would be talking about providing support for students expressing care and as they get older we're looking at sharing power expanding possibilities and and challenging their growth so what does this look like for Pat Riot as um he is going through his time at Stevenson High School um we just have our checkpoints so some of these we're going to be talking a little bit more about and giving you some data but you can see as that um as Pat is going down the road in his little car um we have many um checkpoints that we have for students with our getting to know you surveys our poll surveys they're going through the signs of suicide we're looking at Panorama surveys um we're doing even our senior Core Curriculum so as you can tell we do a lot of checking in for students as freshmen but even as they go through even as seniors first semester seniors we're getting information from them and when we're talking about those first semester seniors every year um uh counselors will talk to seniors pretty much the first couple of weeks of school and ask them how are they feeling about their postsecondary planning so where where are you in terms of um what's going on and we ask them how are you feeling so feeling confident and these are the students that took this survey um for this uh senior class that 440 of them are feeling confident which is awesome more more than half are or excuse me almost half are looking like you know what I I know what I'm doing in August but as you can see they're looking for finding colleges they're um wanting help completing the Common App but we also ask them in that whole um in that whole survey like are you working through some mental health challenges do you need help from your counselor your social worker your school psychologist and those students although it's a it's a small number and that's and that's good we want that to be a small number but each one of those students Was Then followed up with um by their social worker or psychologist to make a plan about what they might need um help with all the rest of them were also followed up with different different people um in the building oh and count yeah this is new thank you Sarah Bowen counselors will all be um meeting with our seniors before December 1st to just find out what those post secondary plans are um so we make sure that everybody knows or has an idea about what they might want to do come May um you have seen uh many times I believe the the Panorama survey from our curriculum teams and this is a panorama survey that the perception data fromal with our fall um our fall survey with our freshmen and you can see that we we do a number of we have a number of data points but the two that we really talk about in SST areal strengths students that are showing up as having strengths in all of the competencies and then emotion regulation is the one that we've really um honed in on in terms of ssts so our y the yellow and the red are the students that we are following up on and again they're meeting with their counselors meeting with their social workers providing support and then if there is more support that's needed after that then we reach out to stakeholders we start individual counseling we do group counseling those types of things um so that is how we use our perception data okay so I'm going to talk a little bit about a couple more of our checkpoints um so one of the surveys that we give to our freshmen pretty early on um during the 4th week of advisory is the aptly named pulse survey this grew out of um this is our fifth year doing this so This grew out of a need to kind of keep a pulse on our students during covid and we decided to keep it going um so what we do is just ask a few um pretty brief questions we ask freshmen to let us know how they've been feeling the first few weeks of school kind of get an idea socially and emotionally how their transition has been we ask if they want to meet up with somebody from their SST and if so we send them a passs and check in with them we definitely ask about lunchtime um coming to our large campus we want to make sure that kids have somebody to eat with um and sit with at lunchtime and then we also ask if anybody is interested in participating in group counseling at that time and we list out the different group supports that we offer through student services so this year 1,037 students completed the survey and then of that number 8% were followed up by either a counselor a social worker or a school psychologist and even before our students become ours we actually have a couple checkpoints in the spring of 8th grade for a couple um intentional groups of students so we have two articulation processes that we work really closely with um with our our Center School colleagues the first is our RTI articulation so a response to intervention in which we meet with our social workers counselors and school psychologists um colleagues in each of our Center Schools and even some of our private schools too when applicable to find out which of our students are receiving a little bit more support in eth grade which students might be want to kind of know a little bit about so we can plan for them more intentionally and make sure that we have interventions ready to go for them when they become ours and the fall our second um checkpoint in regards to articulation is around Section 504 so our school psychologists and counselors we will team with our um friends at the center schools and we will actually push into our um 8th grade spring transition 504 meetings with those parents and those students so we can kind of get an idea what are the students requiring an eth grade what might they need at high school and then we're able to kind of give a little bit more um individualized recommendations about what types of interventions they might need when they come to us so quickly talking a little bit about our SS of suicide data um this is data that's collected from freshman and junior year these are combined totals for both of those classes over time our Priority One students are the students that indicate the greatest amount of need based on their responses to the questions um and they are checked in with immediately that day we um do our best to call them down by the end of that period have security obtain them and bring them to us our priority to students um share that there's some concern but not as much as the high priority ones and they're usually seen within the next few days and our priority three students Express again less than the previous two categories in terms of our concern about depression and they are seen again within a week at most as you can see the data is showing a trend downwards which I'm sure everyone would like to see in relation to suicide and while this is one survey and data that we see moving downwards we've also consulted with Alyssa's mission who runs our signs of suicide program in in the local area that surrounds our community and our numbers look great in comparison to the schools that are around us as well as if we look at our student health and wellness survey data we can see that our our suicidality and ression numbers generally look better than the schools that surround us as well so this is an important checkpoint that's that's done um in our spring time with both of those grade levels and then finally just here are some things that our students are saying about the SST process and the members of their SST I'm not going to read through it I'll let you guys look through it but I think the overall feeling is one that's positive I think our students feel a great deal of support from every member of their SST team while some of them may access a counselor more frequently a social worker a psychologist more frequently uh they're all feeling that we're here for them that we support them and they're aware of who we are and where they can find us thank you very much any questions this team yeah here the um on the sides of suicide why do you think Stevenson is doing it's hard to even say doing better than S but what's different about the approach here that it seems to be working maybe a little bit better than what the surrounding schools are are doing that's a you're right it's it's or is it a community thing I mean what's the what's your thought what's your what are you thinking about that I think and and it's such a good point Gary because all this is to any student struggling right around um mental health is too many students so we're very much dialed into making sure that those students are supported you know I and I I'm sure this wonderful work is happening in the schools in the area too I don't mean to suggest that it's not but I think um some of the shift that we that we've really made is not just responding to the issue at hand as it arises on that day but really being intentional about what is our followup what is our continued relationship with that student our continued relationship with that family um and trying to really make sure that we're those students once they're on our radar they just really stay on our radar for the rest of um their experience that's a shift we've made that I'm that I'm hopeful is is one of the reasons that we're seeing these positive um changes and look I think we'd all love to take credit for all for these great numbers but I think another piece of it which is such good news is that we are slowly starting to see um you know as we get further away from covid students um that are that are working through some of the social issues some of the anxiety and depression and things like that that we did see for many years for students that that's a little bit more behind us now every year that that passes thanks yeah of course and and this is an amazing group of folks right who really provide just an unbelievable level of support to our kids I mean from Council and the social workers and the Deans and the psych I mean it's you know um we in addition we just have a huge you know number of folks who care about kids and and I hope the kids know that we care about them right like it's a reciprocal relationship so so thank you to all you do as well at the surve I had a comment look at the survey numbers plug in I'm doing it I'm doing it good Joby go my comment was just a huge thank you and I hope that you share my personal gratitude with your entire team that I mean some these numbers are unbelievable 100% my counselor cares about me 100% of students said yes that's huge and that is a testament to all of you and so please seriously the the whole team is doing really really well and and I really greatly appreciate that can you guys talk a little bit about how the how the Deans Comm unicate with the rest of the SST team look at the survey how the Deans communicate yeah I would just imagine that that's a way that that must be a way to you know it strikes me when we when we look at these surveys that there are probably a lot of students who are maybe in the in the good categories that might might need to answer differently in order to be identified as somebody who needs help I would would I would imagine that maybe that their first point of contact with the team might be the Deans I don't know well and we do so thank you so much for our lovely office areas because we are all together all day every day um meeting with our Deans and the the rest of the team is sort of there together um I do think that students if they're struggling with with their attendance if they're struggling with their behavior our Deans are talking to us about that and the students actually will I mean you know hanging out out with teenagers all day they come in and tell us that they did something wrong like you're like uh excuse me I'm I'm here to turn myself in that was I did this thing yes you're going to have to make a statement yeah you're going to have a consequence and I told my mom I think already so now then they thank you for consequenc them no I mean but it's sort of it's sort of strange how then it's like okay would you like to talk to your social worker she's right there or you would you like to talk to your counsel or a lot of times we're working together um to for in those in those um times as well and then we have our SST meetings we really problem solving for students who are really having a hard time with any of those things and or a or a multitude of of things and and um providing support and then continuing to progress monitor to make sure that they're that they're doing well just a reminder to our board can you describe how often those SST teams meet yes so we meet weekly for with an agenda and talking about specific students and then we're talking all the time and the you bring data to that grades attendance referral you know like it's a very specific meeting about all the kids on their case load and the dean's part of that team as well and to speak the dean's credit I think that phrase positive not punitive really stands out for the dean team here at Stevenson um I remember as a social worker I always would joke that my Dean on my team Kathy mcau was a second social worker the kids really we viewed her as a support fee social emotional in addition to the Behavior Support so our Deans really live by that and they work so closely with these wonderful humans and the rest of our SS members so it truly is a cohesive team that works together to fully support the student quick question so sorry no please okay just out of my curiosity so I know SS team made up like a celor social worker Dean and psychologist right so who be the who's the person being the cond the most I really look at that that's a great question and of course it depends a little bit um on the student but the counselor really is sort of like quarterback I mean a sports analogy is that the thing a quarterback of the team but the council really is the quarterback they are the person that has that Rel relationship and connection with all 260 their students and again a huge reason we're able to do the work we do and have the relationships we have is because you have blessed us with case loads that allow for that kind of work and then I think the counselor really is the person then that is sort of referring the student and connecting them with other parts of the team as needed or if needed so the councelor would you guys agree is really sort of your see quarterb of the team okay paty you mentioned that this year you're implementing something new with these check-ins with the seniors by December 1st what was the impulse behind that and what's the I I mean I haven't been through this as a parent yet so what's the interplay between our counselors and our College counseling team and how does that work sure I'll start Patty and then jump in when I things yeah I would say with confidence that even prior to this year we were meeting with you know 95% of SE um but I think Ronnie the shift that we made is we recognize like there may have been a handful of students on every counselor's case load where if they weren't reaching out to us perhaps they weren't having as um as as kind of um thorough of a conversation as they could have about their post-secondary plannings we just said like for all success for every student right we're going to meet with every single student uh to make sure that that's happening there is also Al another shift that we made last year which has really helped in terms of how the school counselor connects with the postsecondary counselor and that's that both of our uh College counselors used to be in the College and Career Center that's where they were housed and there were some benefits to that but what we found is that it created a little bit of a disconnect between these ssts and the work that they were doing and some of the conversations that then College counselers were having more individually with students and families so the C the the postsecondary counselors are sort of considered it's like SST and friends like they're part of that group of folks to ensure that like hey maybe they're not working with the student directly when they're a freshman or a sophomore but they're part of the conversations they know some of the background they understand if there's been a hospitalization for a mental health issue they understand if the student may be overbalanced in terms of like the classes that they're taking they have that perspective so that when they enter the conversation which is generally junior year they're up to speed with all of those things and we're just noticing already even this is just year two into the shift that there's just much more teaming and collaboration um not just from like what are we going to do in high school to support this student but in thinking through what plans are happening for that student After High School what I leave I was goingon to say we had been meeting with all of our seniors by probably March definitely before spring break but we moved that that date up just to to be able to you know understand what people are doing and also to give them an idea like maybe you need to be doing this during winter break or you know these are you might want to do something that has a deadline of of January 1 and now we're getting to them before that deadline um so that's very helpful as well so for those of us who were here in the early 90s when the question was one school or two schools uh you know the promise to the community was keep us at one school but make a big school feel small and I think um this team has taken the lead with that and they done that repeatedly over and over and over again so thank you guys it's really amazing we appreciate you thank you all we appreciate your time have good night supp thank you thank you thank you who was in the pat R uh outfit for all the pictures did you guys one of you guys have you dressed Patty up was other duties is assign have a good night thank you thank you all right uh moving right along uh last month we shared with you as a first reading the approval of our intergovernmental agreements uh for the sharing of student data for educational study and purposes with all of our theater districts um pretty standard pretty boilerplate intergovernmental agreements which we have had previously but thanks to Pia we've cleaned them up um we've made them all consistent um and we've gotten all of our feeder districts um kind of the cats have been hurted if you will correct so tonight we're bringing those forward to you for your approval I please get a motion to approve the inter agreement second any questions you please sure no hi Ben ysph hi s hi gon hi moons I Ty hi Frost hi car nothing okay and tonight we're also bringing forward to you after first shooting last month the approval of our three-year calendars for 20126 through 2029 um there were a couple questions about some dates that may have appeared to be random but um the real challeng is for us um trying to balance the number of days per semester but mostly um trying to finish before winter break so that we can get our transcripts out um and then also finishing Before Memorial Day so we kind of find ourselves locked into those two dates and then everything else flows from there um but uh you had a chance to review that last month uh tonight we're bringing forward to your for your approval this evening okay could I please get a motion to approve the calendar so moved second pardon me Steve Steve second any questions can you please Ben ysf hi s hi Corson hi moons I Ty hi Rost I no I carries seven to nothing okay and then again last month as a first reading but but tonight for your approval um we worked through all of the um board policy updates from press issue 116 and I will let Pia just note um any of the more significant items in there so the majority of the items in here are in response to the title 9 updates the previous press policy was updating a lot of the titles this is going through and actually updating the policy so we are in compliance with Title 9 and then we'll have another um round of press updates coming in the next couple months correct so uh this was just the first and it was specific to it was it this is very specific to title n so we're just following the recommendation didn't say anything but we're just following Robin schar's advice correct to the letter correct and it is in the footnotes the footnotes are not published um but we do want to update the foot notes in there right could I please get a motion to approve the updates press so moved second any other questions for okay Terry could you please Paul so hi gorson hi w i Ty hi Frost no hi benos hi approved Pro s to nothing okay and then um also tonight as a first reading but we will discuss more in depth uh at the December 10th finance committee meeting uh we have a first reading for approval of an update to scoreboard policy um for colon 20 which is related to fund balance um and we are going to make some recommendations um to that language given what we know now about our own fund balances but more importantly the changes that we've made recently to um our accounting procedures so that will be discussed more at length on December 10th and then brought back to the board at the December board meeting correct so we'll hold off on any conversation on that now but we'll come back to it um at length at least two more times um and then uh our Personnel report is there for your review and then approval during consent um we had a close session prior to the meeting so we do not need one after the meeting and then and then Sean that takes us to public hearing for driver ed excuse me correct um the uh Illinois school code um allows those districts that provide behind the wheel experience to charge um a fee associated with that that fee is locked at $250 um unless the waiver is applied or applied for and granted Uh current currently the uh waiver that we had uh issued back in 2010 expires at the end of June um so we are um seeking to have that uh waiver set before the legislature again um this spring so we do need to have um a public hearing to get public comment on it before we uh go before we ask the board for approval on that fee waiver okay could I please get a motion to open the public hearing so second all right who was the first me Ronnie Ronnie any comments from the public could I get a motion to close the public hearing so move wait wait wait sorry to vote on this not yet well that's oh sorry we do yeah you're right you're right um all in favor to open the public hearing I oppose okay we are open any comments now could I please give a motion to close the public hearing tell move second all in favor okay so now can I please get a motion to approve the driver's education fee waiver so moved second okay does anyone have any questions on this just the way we've been doing it correct yeah the behind the wheel program is you know uh there's an expense to it for sure and so this fee um which by the way is significantly lower than almost any driving school around um provides allows us to recoup some of those costs we do get some state grants to help offset the costs as well um so this kind of helps balance that out a little bit more how much do our student pay uh right now it's $375 any other question I think the cheapest program out there is like 650 yeah yeah it is considerable yeah Terry could you please pull the board sure Tire hi Frost hi no hi Joseph hi s hi persons hi w i nothing and because one is good but two is better so we need correct so the uh several years ago I think about uh 10 years ago we updated the simulators that were in the driver ed program and the state of Illinois also to decide to change their school code to allow us to offset some some of the hours needed behind the wheel by hours spent in a simulator what's nice about simulators is for some of those brand new drivers that are are very hesitant have never maybe even been in a car or you know driven uh before maybe even a a golf cart or something like that this provides them that opportunity to you know gain some comfort behind the wheel um there are over I think 200 different types of sit situations that the driers at teachers can apply to each of the drivers so um similarly to the waiver uh the C the fee waiver uh this also has to go to a public Vote or we have to have a public session excuse me to uh gain um public comment before we send off the entire application to the state legislator for approval so we will have to open uh open and close the public hearing before the board takes action can I please get a motion to open the public hearing so moved second all in favor okay anyone have any comments I just really want to try it some me too disappointed that you're making us vote didn't get to try it we could we could certainly arrange for that we can certainly and we won't get our licenses revoked we will not get your licenses revoked I promise all right so could I please get a motion to close the with kids could I please close second second all in favor hearing is closed so could I now please get a motion to approve the waiver as presented so moved second any other questions other than our severe disappointment and Sean [Laughter] [Music] I'll set it up all right Terry you bsph hi s hi gon hi Moon's I TI hi Frost I no I it carries so we should hear from the state legislature by the way sometime in the spring on the approval of these uh the next item is approval for the 2025 26 um student fees um for the most part we have kept these fees fairly consistent um however during Co and during the time when um it was difficult we lowered them significantly um we are now trying to get back to that same level we were at in 2019 and 2020 in fact on one of those years we actually even canceled the fees for that particular year um we also are updating as we mentioned the driver ed fee um yearbook has gotten a little a little bit more expensive to print over time um parking and athletic tickets um and then finally little patriots what I'll tell you is that the athletic tickets the parking and the Yearbook um are all in line with our um at our feeder schools but our Market Basket um specifically the yearbook is significantly cheaper um than most of the other schools and the little Patriots Day program is um still significantly several hundred dollars less per month for those uh parents that are lucky enough to have a child go through the program so tonight we are recommending that the Board of Education approve the 2025 26 student fees as presented can I get a motion to approve so move second um so is the plan to sort of incrementally raise these a little bit to get us back to where so this should be the last increment to get us back to that level and where can then continue to assess the need to either increase or remain steady but that's something that the team and I look at every year um get some feedback from Trish John GCE um Dave Eddie and others to help kind of assess um the costs of a lot of the programs that we run on a daily basis any other questions for I just a real quick question about drivers said since we were just talking about it and I'm looking at these fees and it's a state requirement correct correct do we provide support to students on a need basis with these fees yeah so the classroom component is um a graduation requirement um they either have to take it at Stevenson or show proof that they have passed it elsewhere as far as assistance I'm going to turn to lendy here yeah so the classroom portion is required for graduation the behind the wheel is not um so so if a student needed financial assistance for the classroom they won't have to pay any fees at all that is wave for the driver's head for the behind the wheel that's not waved but has some families then they would work like a payment plan in place correct and that fee that we talked about is only for the behind the wheel portion the there is no fee associated with the classroom component other than just the normal student fees yeah so like Sean you're trying to get back to 20178 yeah levels with like the instructional material fee correct so like where do so I guess the school is subsidizing that Delta yeah is it a significant Delta I mean is it I mean you know when you look at 48 almost 5,000 students you know that can start to add up to you know teacher costs um per year and so it does now obviously these fees aren aren't meant to pay for teachers they're meant to pay for the supplies and the materials and the pro some of the other intermural programs I would also keep in mind that um wrapped up in this fee is the iPad um that we provide to every student that they can take home with them for graduation and of course all the infrastructure that goes along with a network network demand so next year do you anticipate if we're a little bit below ultimately what we're going to get back to next year we probably potentially you know I think again it's going to be a little bit of an evaluation um not only amongst um not only within Stevenson but sometimes we do take a look at the economy and if things tank between now and then we might bring a recommendation to the board to pause any increases or even decrease it temporarily any other questions so I notice the yearbook um the fee will be increased 20% right yeah from 50 to 60 um is it because we changing the printing um or inflation something yeah the printing company is increasing their fees to to print that most yearbooks are probably in the 90 to $100 range um they also sell advertisements in them to offset the costs which we have made a decision not to at this point okay how about it's already thick enough yeah how about demand are we getting more volumes yeah we continue to see um a significant I would say probably 90% of the population's buying okay great okay Terry could you please P sure so I gson hi wound I tyer yes Frost I no hi BOS hi car seven to nothing and then um Sean we have two first readings um and then um three first readings oh three first readings um all of which well the first two we'll look at more in depth at the next finance committee meeting correct and then also we'll have a chance to talk about them at the December uh board meeting that's also correct okay and then um a first reading also for the replacement of multifunction devices yeah so in the meantime if the board has any questions about those three things they can contact you but just know that we're going to go over all of these in depth at our next Finance meeting yeah okay so you'll get a big amount of information uh during that time and then we also had our enrollment projections come in that we feel are as accurate at this point as they're going to get um so um if you had a chance to look at those these are the more um aggressive y for lack of a better word we have a moderate version and a conservative version we always present the moderate the moderate version this is basically this would be worst case scenario on the other hand um we are tracking a little bit above the 2024 numbers that's correct so these don't seem totally out of line and you may remember five years ago when we started proposing the PWC um we knew that this was a possibility so just wanted to make you aware of this it may or may not come to fruition we do have four classrooms in the PWC that right now are functioning as multi-purpose spaces which we need correct um but if push comes to shove we feel like we can handle this part of this increase this summer we are going to be doing some minor um construction around the building most of it we be able to do inhouse through sedexo but we're going to retrofit uh a couple of rooms that right now we're using as storage or we have other purposes and we're going to turn those into classrooms um so we feel like over the course of the next couple years we're going to be able to accommodate this growth we are not going to ask you to add on another addition or anything like that but we do want to be transparent that the the questions and wonderments that we had about six seven eight years ago of would we ever hit 5,000 it looks like we might yeah and I would point out also that while we see that little bit of growth that happens um basically as Eric was mentioning when we kind of walk through the building we have identified a couple of areas with minor improvements would last us not only next year but the year after um so it gives us plenty of time before we have to start looking at the PWC multi-purpose rooms um and then I would also point out that in year 10 of the projections it has us going back down to levels that are kind of we're at now so right now we'll continue to watch this blip and see if it is in fact the blip and uh any changes that we're looking at would you know be temporary at this point and then we can address any more permanent things in several in the years to come so is this going back to kind of our butts and seats in the feeder schools and you know we're back in that that's why these numbers we feel are more accurate than maybe the old the old firm that we use because these actually do count not only new development potentially but also the number of kids who are literally in seeds in the feeder districts so but when did you get this is you just got this right relatively recently coule we get this prized and uh beginning of October maybe couple yeah or maybe it's later than that middle of it was after the October do you get a sense in telling them why because we've been tracking pretty much where our cap was going to be at about 4900 I think so this is a couple hundred above that yeah pretty consistent did they give you any sense of what what's going on it's um have you seen more permits have you seen so I think the we are starting to see students come from the developments that are um either in progress or continuing to progress uh for example the oak tree plaza where the old Menards used to be um that's Stevenson's property so we're getting students from those homes the old uh the Didier what used to be diddier Farms um link Crossing and yeah link Crossing thank you that's the one um what I will say also is that uh the village of Lincolnshire um and one of the things that we like about this demographer is that they connect with all the villages that feed into Stevenson about potential developments or use of land and I will say that the village of Buffalo Grove and Lincolnshire are really good about reaching out to us to see how many students are pulling from some of the new developments for example the redun Town Center um how many students do we actually pull from those particular areas um I think Lincolnshire tracks a little bit better than Buffalo Grove or they're starting but they're starting to address that as well so you know we're going to have to stay on top of some of those developments um you know the village of Lincolnshire approved a new comprehensive plan um involves some of the Corporate Parkway and potential mixed use of that I attended a um village of Lincolnshire uh Round Table I guess if you will to discuss you know what types of homes are needed there's a big housing survey in progress right now correct correct and and you know what we the leaders that were around including the Lake County Partners president um lot of jobs that are going to be available and not enough housing units to meet all of those jobs so it was really it was very interesting um to see how their approach to not only getting workers but then what's the effect on the school districts as well so we appreci I appreciated at least uh an invitation to the the conversation and was able to provide insights as to how you know we would deal with increases and how District 103 was also there as well should should does this does this have any imp on our what requests we should be making on developer fees or that's never enough to get yeah the developer fees are are very minimal um the I it's funny we should answer that uh I did talk with our attorneys about what are the maximum numbers um the elementary schools get more than we do but they're also having those students for a longer period of time so um I'm continuing to work with our um legal firm Robin Schwarz on uh developing a survey what other areas are collecting um so that we can ensure that we're getting the maximum possible or at least enough to not prohibit a developer from moving in but also provide some of the um help offset some of the costs when those students do arrive um can I get a motion to approve the kids sent agenda please second um sorry Terry could you please pull the board gon hi moai TI yes Frost hi no hi BPH hi s hi cares okay okay um so just a couple items uh for tonight but the first is I'll turn it over to uh Wendy I don't know if you want to project I can okay so while you're queuing that up um so one of the things that's really interesting is um there's been a lot of um a lot of Articles recently particularly in our world around the disconnect between um grades and standardized test scores so why does there seem to be this disconnect between the grades that kids are getting in school and then how they're performing on standardized tests um in so Wendy dive dove in a little bit and yeah we're really curious to see where we fell along this and so this is an interesting read um the you can get the printed article also if you wanted to um I have a this link will take you to the article but also to the folder with it also has the audio if you want to hear the AI podcast that goes along with this um but it talks about how is making this case it's a um opinion uh piece about how the grades don't line up with standardized sat act APS for example um and so what you're going to see on the slide that when you have a couple moments to read is on this slide it I walk you through um what each Slide the data that shows that we are aligned with both the um sat hopefully the ACT we'll know more after we take it this spring and our AP exams some of the slides you've seen in um other presentations like the student achievement report for and at The Retreat um but basically you were saying it was talking about sat and I know we've talked um for the past few years about how our SAT um scores have kind of remained the same you know us being true Stevens in form we're not didn't love that but then when we dive into the numbers a little bit deeper the national and the state a SAT scores decreased by 33 points where ours only decreased by 10 on average what I thought was kind kind of interesting um also you've seen this now for the AP this is for the SAT as we moved to our evidence-based grading the more alignment of our course grades with how students perform on the SAT um you'll notice on the AP scores the the circles are a little bit more obvious um I believe with time the SAT or the ACT scores will reflect the same way um with our a pce here's what we saw this during um at The Retreat and in the student achievement report our hope is that on the left is before we went to evidence-based 20 obviously 2024 is now in the alignment that you could see the goal is for the the circles to go down um from Ab c d to the 54321 and you could see five being the highest score in the year five sorry five being the highest um you saw this before with even with the increased number of students over 6,000 exams written last spring in our APS our average um AP score has remained a four which is to me just unbelievable um and then you'll have some time when you look at this um but I want to explain it to you there's three slides here of the percentage of students who earned a five and then a four a three as compared to an A B C now obviously that's not quite true but um it aligns pretty well that you see a 2010 where we had zero courses this was traditional grading in 2010 and you could see the increase all the way through up until 2024 where we had all courses that are now um evidence-based reporting and you can see how the alignment of um a to fives B's to threes and C's to twos and how they aligned so it was pretty interesting and big thanks out to the DAT data analytics team who helped put that together but if you have any questions let me know so what I just think is so great about this is that you know then slides six and eight are are really the ones that kind of demonstrate that now our our our our grades are far more aligned to you know know how kids are performing on those normed you know National tests and so it feels pretty good that there's now kind of a connection that we can make between the hard work that our teachers are doing to kind of rethink what grading practices should look like and how that's aligned I think to the high expectations that are out there for kids on those nationally Norm tests so pretty it's pretty amazing because the sorry just one more quick thing what's amazing about it is the country is moving significant in the other direction the disconnect is massive and that's what you're hearing a lot in the news lately so and all all of our students now K2 so all the students now are in some kind of evidence-based reporting standard-based grading from K12 so it's great so if you have any other questions about that please let us know um thank you Wendy uh we also included some student profiles in there which are always fun just little quick snippet from Jamie and P if you don't get a chance to read the daily digest every day have fun with those uh we also included just a quick item about the cost of our foas over the course of this past year uh so we're up to approximately $5,000 which not terrible no and I think with the evolution of um technology we've been able to respond fairly quick quickly and we haven't had to include the attorneys in a lot of the foyer reviews that we've had to in the past definitely so you may or may not remember we share this with you we try to do it yearly but um there were times when it was a lot higher um and then uh also included uh an article about uh cyber attacks that have been increasing over the years so um we are going to be um essentially we've been asked if not strongly encouraged if not required um by to the ladder click to um kind of test our systems which would involve kind of testing some fishing emails and um really trying to uh both test and educate our adults on um the dangers of fishing uh responding to fishing emails the last thing we want to do is um kind of be held hostage by some of those what do they call them ransomware things I think uh what was it Rockford that ended up having to pay over10 million so we want to avoid all of that and over the course of the next couple months we're going to try to both as required we're going to test but we're also going to educate folks on um yeah on how to respond appropriately so just some more information there uh and then the last item are some of the out of school suspensions that we've had required to share those with you by law just quickly on the the uh fishing simulations um if you haven't seen it Verizon publishes a a report a security breach report every year and it gives a lot of statistics about the meth the methods and mechanisms that the bad guys use to gain access to systems and it's social engineering is by far like the 95 96% of the attacks uh successful attacks are due to social engineering email being the still being the primary uh mechanism for that along with some other things around text messaging uh so it's a well worth the investment to put into um security awareness training and there's some really good companies yeah um that we can talk about that I the good news is that click believed so much in it that they're just we using the interest from um the fun balance to pay for all of this oh that's AES we worked out an agreement with secure Halo to provide um every school district with this free testing as well as eight hours of consultation but you hit it on the head social engineering is definitely the one week spot that we have Doug his team have done an amazing job of creating a secure network in fact when we were testing it Jamie Doug and I were testing it we sent one through and it didn't even get through it got caught by our blockers and our filters so we're actually going to have to turn that off when we actually do that and then turn it back on but um just turn off for the one our email right I'm not particularly thrilled about this I don't like that there is a it'll all be educational Bas all be educational but you know it's it's there's you know is there a g to it meaning that noine nothing of course not but you know you open one of these and then it takes you to hey don't get caught fishing like it feels it feels like it got you and so we're Jamie and Sean and Doug are working on communic have the confidence that you're the employees will get past that I get faster than you think oh I get it and we have to do it and if we don't do it there's a little bit in the beginning but they realize really quickly it becomes a little bit of a contest that yeah they do want to be the one to catch the message yeah so it'll it's going to be um it'll be interesting and we don't love it but we also understand the importance and I don't want to be embrace it my tech for yes yes question yes sir um and I I apologize I saw this the great correlation I was call you and ask you and I didn't so just real quick anything else about the fishing stuff all everybody's good okay go um I know that we pride ourselves on being a lighthouse are other schools that are that that that least say they're doing evidence based grading I know you've indicated they're not always doing it corre are you seeing data that shows that they're having the same successes that we are yes and you see it you see it significantly in middle schools that um align to map scores for example or IR ready assessments or Star assessments it's just at the high school we use ACT SAT AP but in schools that do it well if they do it well and it's not an illusion of Standards base grading you will see that that alignment because it's a more accurate reflection of students understanding and skills so yes and that research is at this point that ship is sailed the research is out there it's not a question of if it's the right thing it's when are you going to implement it because but it's it's really neat to see it reflected in our scores totally and it I mean it's there's really no um there's no question it's the right thing to do it's always a challenge of implementation and changing practices I mean the grading system you know that we had was in place nationally since 1897 you know like not many other things that we do are 130 years old you know like we don't have 130 old textbooks but we had 130 old grading system you know so it just it's hard for schools to change but when they do there'll be a much better alignment between student performance on those nationally normed assessments and the grades are getting in class that's great yeah okay that's all we have okay did I get a motion to adjourn come move second thank all in favor okay tro we didn't hear a lot from you tonight but thanks for 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e e e FL of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible withy and justice for here tonight no here ysf here here here out today and Don here um we have any correspondents no no correspond okay um and so Raj welcome thank you okay so meeting to um it's been a It's been a busy uh sort of September into the beginning half of October here um a lot of Celebration moments for both our Athletics and for Community Based clubs as well and so we'll be tackling that as we go through here um the first big Community event we hosted was homecoming um student council put on an amazing homecoming as always uh what I wanted to focus on this year was just our involvement in the spirit days all five days of the week leading up to homecoming um I think I saw in my four years here the highest turnout that I seen from all the grade levels for all the different spirit days and so kudos to stuco for picking those spirit days and those topics and just all the kids being able to come together grade by grade and and celebrate that and lead up to an amazing homecoming dance with the theme um and there were just too many pictures to choose from but I tried to make a little collage of that so that kind of started off where we ended from our last meeting with our first big CommunityWide event um and then at the end of September we hosted or there was the first uh field trip Day so a lot of our academic classes went on field trips that were respective to their curriculum and so on the top left the introduction to business class went to Top Golf um and so that was a memorable moment for me I remember doing that when I was a freshman and so to see that tradition still being on um huge turnout as you can see tons of freshmen take that class and so they were able to go to Top Golf they played golf they got to learn about the business model um so they were kind of integrating what they've learned in the classroom to this Real World Experience on the top right the AP Spanish students traveled to pilson um where they were to they were able to learn about that sort of community and the Hispanic heritage that's present within that Community um they had authentic tacos at a local restaurant they were able to look at paintings on walls um walk through the streets and so that was a really big collaborative event for them our math team started off with their first competition of the year so I know they were eager to get started they've had a huge turnout for triy outs and for their teams as well they always field a lot of teams um and this year is no different on the bottom left at the end of September our computer science courses hosted uh Engineers from the computer uh code HS classroom activity and so these were real world engineers and computer programmers who came in and were able to talk to students who are interested in that field um again so real real world experience for them and really with these experiences um team bonding classroom bonding being able to spend an entire day with your peers in one specific class um has really allowed for that Community Building especially amongst all of our grade levels uh just to get to spend that entire day out in the real world um connecting what they're learning in the classroom to what they see out in the world and so that has been really fun for them continuing off of that uh I'll start on the top right our debate team has had an impeccable start we got that was from an old image we got third place um at the end of September and then we got first place last uh this weekend actually on Saturday at wheeling and so we've had a huge try out for that we had over 200 freshman try out for the debate team this year and so every year we just get more and more kids trying out for that and being able to Mentor those kids because I've been a part of it now for three going on four years has been really sweet to see and it's just been great to see that much engagement coming out of our middle schools on the bottom left our model United Nations team hosted their tournament here and so for the few members who are on top of that executive board and the seniors who lead that um they really got to see the behind the scenes of what it's like to lead and to run a tournament here at Stevenson um and I know they're just really grateful to have such a nice space where all of these schools from all across the state of Illinois want to come here and participate and host their tournament here um I just know that every time kids walk in from other schools they see those glass classrooms they see the East Building um and they're just in a and that makes for a really fun tournament for them and I know they enjoyed hosting that and then on the bottom right to close it out the AP environmental science classes um traveled to the Illinois State Beach Park where they were able to uh pull Buckthorn pull real weeds out and engage in their civic duties right there and so that is Community Based work right there they were able to work in restorative um Justice if you will and they were able to pull out some invasive species if you will which was very fun for them and it connected to the learning uh to the learning that we were doing in that particular unit lots of community building events so on the top left we had Night Market that was a change this year it was actually in October that was just this past Saturday um there's a Statesman article which we'll get to in a second about that but that was a really cool experience just to see it kind of emulate what a real Night Market is like in some Asian countries and so hosting it out on the pool patio as opposed to inside in the month of February was a nice change for them and I I know that assar Asian-American Student Association really enjoyed putting that on and planning that and being able to bring all of those Asian countries together the national Chinese Honor Society has hosted uh a ton of events that have worked on community building so on the bottom left they hosted a babysitting night which I heard um used to be a thing prior to co that student council used to put on and so I know this was really nice for faculty members to be able to bring their younger students here and it was really nice for the members of the Honor Society to Mentor them um they they played games with them they kind of exposed them to what Stevenson was like they went to the cooking lab they made dumplings in the Food Lab um and so that was just a really fun mentoring experience for our high school students to get to partake in on the bottom right it was Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15th to October 15th so our lasso our Latin American Student Association and organization um started the month off with chalk and this was really beautiful to see to to show up that day and just see all this beautiful chalk out on our um our Pavements was just they put a lot of effort into that um and I know that they were able to take that entire month to themselves it was really their month to uh to put on what they wanted to put on and they were able to do that and they ended this month with a collaboration with our horiculture club where they were able to plant molds and take molds with them and so it was just a fun month for them to Showcase their culture alog together fine art has had a very busy month um so our Stevenson uh symphonic bands our wind Symphony and our Wind Ensemble had their first fall concert if you will and so bringing all together freshman sophomores Juniors and seniors um being able to put on their first concert was a fun experience for them and on the bottom right our Patriot Theater Company at the beginning of October put on the anonymous School play and so this is one that a lot of seniors partake in and it's busy for them we're in the heart of college app season and so to them to be able to balance all of that with memorizing their lines and putting on that play every year um is just really commendable so for this month's Statesman Spotlight I think I mentioned last month that statement Statesman now has two separate classes a sixth hour and a 7eventh hour um and so that has really allowed the Statesmen to prioritize the website portion we had a website for a long time um but since we used to just have one class it's been hard to manage the production of the newspaper and the website Al together um so now having that one dedicated class to do the website we had I believe like over 40,000 clicks on that website last month and so that was a very very um fun moment celebratory moment for us all then of course I have my article of choice this one came from a web story it is about the anonymous play that I mentioned take pass it around um and then I have copies of the physical Statesman from the October month I'll leave them here for you to grab on your way out and so the QR code I'll have it sent out afterwards but uh the website has a ton of of stories as well um and it's really allowed us to reach even more audiences and get more coverage out there in a quicker Manner and so we're very happy about that this month in athletics um all of our athletic teams have just been doing really well impeccably I mean our football team is killing it with Warren and with Zion and hopefully we can continue that against Lake Zurich this week um and get us that home field advantage for the playoffs uh but I really wanted to focus this month on the idea of senior celebrations and Senior nights in general um on the top right we have a our girls volleyball on the bottom right we have our girls field hockey and then on the bottom left we have our girls tennis and if you've seen every one of these images these were from their their senior nights um every team has done this in their own specific way and so you see tennis they've got their their signs sort of commemorating that that's a tangible object our seniors can take with them you know our our field hockey are kind of embracing in one big hug um but then you know our volleyball team is they're standing in a sign of reverence you know they're looking at that that volleyball court they put so many hours on that court that court has given so much to them and so to pay homage and pay respect to that um was a really fun experience for them and and what I wanted to highlight here was just you know we talk about how we celebrate our seniors and sometimes I think we think we only celebrate our seniors at the end of the year but for many of our athletes we are celebrating them all year long and for many you know the end of the Fall Sports season transitioning into the winter sports season it's a heartfelt and emotional moment for them as they kind of look back and reflect on their four years on the team um but this even extends p Athletics right like many of our theater students have you know this is their last fall play you know maybe they still have plays coming on but it was their last fall one and so just being cognizant of that and recognizing that there are many lasts for our seniors all throughout the year celebrating that paying respect to that giving them the spaces to do that has been really nice for them and we thank you for that up and coming um it's going to be a busy November we have our academic Expo which is where all the curricular teams will kind of host in the uh in The Patriot Lobby they'll host uh like a a networking event where they're able to tell the students about the different course off offerings and that will sort of start the course selection process for our freshman sophomores and juniors Key Club will be hosting their trunk or treat event at the end of October next Friday um and that's always a fun event to see like little kids from the community come in it's safe for them right they're not having to go out into the neighborhoods um it's safe it's in a contained environment and I know our students love being able to have those trucks out there those trunks out there um and just give out candy to to 200 kids it's fun um it'll also be the start of our giveon season so I know the National Honor Society is working tiredly to put that all together boxes will be going out to the respective classrooms and to those families that will be servicing at the end of this week and then giveon will hit the ground running next week and so that'll be a whole month where our students are out there selling products raising money um and at the end of the day we'll be able to give that back to the Greater Community so it's really fun for them um and then lastly the fall musical the prom will be put on over three days from the 15th through the 17th so that's all I have this month thank you all thank you thank you very [Applause] much it's a tough act to follow do we have any visitor [Music] statements okay all right um yes you do have to follow uh so uh tonight uh we have our monthly um uh Team presentation uh and as you know we're focusing on social emotional learning and uh the skills uh that students need to have and we're blessed tonight to have members of our driver team representing so I'll introduce Jackie and then if you'd like you can introduce your team I think put that photo up you had your homecoming pictures so since we just talked about homecoming and how well it was uh the spirit days I agree with you the spirit days were super um Apparent at the school including our driers at team who participated in our disguise day so they decided that they would add that photo there to show you that it was well with it um our drivers at team consists of um three full-time and one part-time dri at teacher I'll let them introduce themselves but I'm really excited about the work that they do um as Stevenson and this group in particular I feel like connects with our community on a different level even than some of our others so all right I guess I'm following up Ron over here which is going to be difficult and challenging good job and uh he actually contributed to our presentation as well so you guys will get to see that here in a little while uh I'm Ryan Smith I've been teaching here for this is my 16th year same right 16 I think so something like that uh 16 years Drive R the whole time uh Courtney resen my 18th year here Matt hod this is my 16th year and I also coach wrestling Chad dolin this is my 25th year here and I also teach health education so I'm part-time drivered part-time health education so uh just real quick touch on our mission our driver mission the mission of our program here at Stevenson is to equip students with the knowledge skills and attitudes necessary for safe and responsible driving uh promoting Road Safety developing driving skills encouraging responsible behavior preparing for licensing while promoting lifelong learning are the pillars to successfully achieving this mission yeah so uh at the beginning of every semester um we like to get to know our students a little bit better by having them fill out a questionnaire getting to know your questioner the last question that we ask is what's your why what's your motivation behind taking driver red um and the easy answer for a lot of us might be well taking Drive red what I'm going to get my license I'm going to be able to drive right but think about when you all took Drive red and when you achieved your license what was that motivation behind our students kind of thought about it a little deeper and I'm going to put up three um quotes that I took from their responses and the theme of these first three all have to do with being independent not having people to to depend on them to get them around um and I think in a sense of freedom and that's kind of cool because at the end of the day when we get into the dog days of of the semester um we can always redirect students go look at your motivation go look at your why right and um they can come back to that and and reengage then the next couple are very much more powerful to me these instead of the first three had to do with an intrinsic motivation right so those students kind of said okay this is going to be help me achieve things I want to achieve in adulthood the next three that came up all have to show a little bit of empathy right so they're aware of what's going on at home um life's not easy for everybody they realize that that license can not only be something useful for them but also what it can do for their families I can help take my brother to school um help my parents run errands uh what motivates me is my family right these reoccurring themes are super uh super important for us um and we can really use that in our great so then we also took an opportunity to um we sent a survey out from our for our parents from last spring in this current semester and we just kind of asked them you know what was your motivation why why did you want to take Drive red here at school and so interestingly what came up number one was affordability so that was a piece that that really was important to our community the second one was convenience now convenience being that they can take driver R here at school finish all their drives here at school in one semester and if anybody's taking Drive red outside of school we know that um sometimes you're waiting months before you can even get your your driving done so that convenience factor was super super critical to our parents and then lastly what we we kind of found we that this was uh uh it meant a lot to us that that our our parents actually said we we value um D driver education being top Stevenson teachers and that was really really uh something that struck us so so uh how does Drive red fit into the Stevenson Community a little history on our uh dri red right uh so back in 2010 uh you can see enrollment in the school was 4200 and as the years uh went by it is certainly growing um as we are all well aware um also with that growth we have seen a major change in kind of our our demographic so um when we look at our class this semester uh 154 students um you can see the breakdown of you know all the different breakdowns but we really focus on this MML or MLL students um that we have in our class uh 21% currently of the 154 students are somewhere on that ml MLL sorry I can't talk right now ml learning um some at the very beginning we we typically try to take students that are uh progressing right right what's the second one intermediate intermediate intermediate or above um but it does present a lot of challenges because it is a lot different than it was 15 years ago when I started here so if you go to the next slide um you can see that the change in our MLL students from 2014 even to 2020 to now has jumped nearly 20% Which um presents challenges not only in the classroom but also in the car um and and making these students feel included in our classrooms and being able to make them feel comfortable in a car has definitely been part of our process and yeah some of those challenges just have included like having to get out Google translator in the middle of the lesson um also pairing students that speak the same language as partners so that they can translate for each other um and communication's huge obviously in the car and it does create some challenges for us um something sorry um but we wanted to make it that we're a commitment to others um and we really wanted to celebrate and honor um respect the diverse people and perspectives so we wanted to get to know our students feel uh better especially because it does kind of bridge a gap in the car sometimes um so we would to make the our students feel comfortable in the classroom um and then hopefully that obviously translates to the car so we've always done an introduction activity where um you get a little about me slide a student um show some pictures of what they're interested in um presents to the class um we did that but we decided this semester or this year to take or last year actually to take it a step further um and we had them include not only pictures about themselves um but also either where they were from um where they wanted to go or um where they um like most felt connected to um so this student Matthew um is a junior and he really um him and his family always travel to Florida so took to driver ed um had them find a warning sign from Illinois and compare it to a warning sign they would see in Florida another student U Maria who is um from Ecuador did the same thing but again you can see the warning sign of a turtle instead of a deer okay um so again kind of peering that but we again wanted to take it a step further so if you walk into our classroom um you actually will walk in and you see a big map of the world which kind of seems unique and weird I mean it's very colorful um but while they're presenting we actually had them then um tag where they were from on the map so every day when they come into our class you can see all the diverse places either that they've been to want to go to or are from um and so it kind of like again kind of makes that connection um and hopefully as they walk into the classroom they feel a little bit more welcom and included um thanks yeah so uh going back just want to draw your attention to the green bubble up in the right now we identified this as a unique uh statistical point because about 65% of our uh driver red students are actually upper classman now in the state most people or most students like to get their driver's license as soon as possible and that does usually typically follow sophomore year um but why we think that's unique specifically to us and and our work in the in the school gpis is the fact that what's happens junior year right it's one of the most stressful years for our students we hear it commonly with AP testing um with uh College apps things like that that that Stress and Anxiety that comes in we wanted to focus on areas where hey in our one semester with students in their entire high school walk where can we improve and work on developing Stress and Anxiety skills all right so uh last year we looked at our goals and we kind of talked amongst our team on where we could make a kind of significant uh I guess progress for our students and working toward their goals and one of the things that we thought about in driving that we encounter quite often uh and you probably do too when you get behind the wheel and you're driving environment changes and you find yourself on the road late at night it's raining out you've got you know crazy traffic around you you can feel that anxiety of building yourself uh we know that we have a lot of students that also get that just from taking standardized tests or taking any type of test really uh and the performance anxiety in driving is the same type of uh performance anxiety that you get when you're behind the wheel uh so what we did is first of all we surveyed our students uh and this was prior to their first drive with us in Drive red and we asked them uh if they are experiencing any type of uh fear or anxiety of going out on their first drive and you can see 90% of students reported feeling some level of anxiety or fear uh before going out with us on our on their first drive uh so we started off by teaching them a little bit about how their autonomic nervous system works and the relationship between uh the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system and we related that to driving a car of course and we talk about the figh or flight and you're probably all familiar with the figh or flight um and that is the sympathetic nervous system taking over so when a a child is is going uh you know behind the wheel of a vehicle or if that child is sitting down for you know a very high stakes assessment um it's kind of like them pushing on the G on the gas pedal and it's starting to raise their anxiety the parasympathetic nervous system is what happens after fight or flight and that's the rest or digest uh and the parasympathetic nervous system is that calming uh part and it's we kind of talk about it as putting on the brakes um what a lot of students don't understand though is we talk a lot about coping skills in teaching students coping skills uh A coping skill is good uh but the problem with using coping only when you're feeling stressed is that uh the the stress kind of comes down temporarily but when you stop using the coping skill it's back and you're back behind the driver's seat you're back uh taking those high stake assessments so what we try to talk about is stress prevention um what ways that we can prevent stress from occurring uh and the only way to do that is to take some of these coping skills and we talk about a lot of different coping skills um but get into regular practice of those skills so a lot of what we talk about is you know you walk into school every day and your stress level is already at a 30 um can we change that and we can we create a a ritual or routine so that you you know are practicing these types of cooking coping mechanisms on a regular basis so that when you walk into school during the day you walk in at a 10 or a 15 uh instead of walking in at a 30 um so we specifically teach uh deep breathing exercises which is a form of the parasympathetic nervous system a lot of people don't realize that you can activate your parasympathetic nervous system by doing some things the other thing that we explicitly talk about is surrounding themselves with a healthy support system whether that's uh their classmates that they're going to be driving with whether it's uh making sure that they're you know talking to their friends talking to their family members and so forth um but just really looking at that support system that they surround themselves with um then what we do is prior to their final road test we actually survey them again uh and one of the questions that we asked is um looking at the coping strategies that we taught them um 100% of students agreed 79% strongly agreed with the strategies that we taught them during class and then when we asked uh about how many would incorporate those 70% of students reported that they would incorporate one of the coping techniques that they learned in class um and that is just to get them to kind of uh learn to manage their stress a little bit more whether it's a driving test or whether it's a high stakes sat or ACT test but getting them to kind of think about different steps that they can take in things that they can make you know routine in their life so in all we definitely focus on the pillars um in driver ed um commitment to self I'm really explicitly teaching um self-awareness and self-management all um relating then to making good decisions especially responsible decisions when on the road um and then we feel that we definitely um like to um allow make sure that our students have that commitment to others um and focus on the community um yeah so go ahead and click it again yeah so we have focused the last couple years at least three or four years about our classroom belonging which we've always found to be somewhat of a challenge just let me explain our setup first so we each teach two classes and then drive four periods so we're driving with another teachers's group and many days that teacher may be out in the car driving as well so we're not in class with our students every day and if we're driving with students we may only see I only see courtne each student maybe three or four times throughout the semester driving with them so we've kind of taken it upon ourselves to make them all feel like we're all their teachers um the best we can just so they feel included that classroom belonging carries outside of class outside of Courtney's class or haj's class and into the car with us as well so they feel just as comfortable hopefully with the teachers in the car as they do with their teacher in class um and that's been one of our biggest challenges but we really do take pride in seeing the results come in on our and we're typically don't want to brag on ourselves we're a little higher than the rest of our department it's okay to brag just saying yeah just let it go just let it go so yes we are leading the school in our numbers over here on the right side so yeah just you know and that's something that we are really proud of and I tell our students when I give this I'm not going to tell Glory over there but you know when I give this I I say take it very ser serious because we do use this feedback and we do try to implement things like we've been doing with Stress Management and things like that and driving is a high stress environment trust me you should have wanted me first period today and you could have seen the stress in the car right so it is it is good to see that our kids feel comfortable and confident and we're still working on yeah I actually drive from Kentucky each day back and forth so experience as Troy say yeah Kentucky back and forth all right so we'll wrap up you let you guys have your time and we're going to wrap up with a little student presentation right here ders my sore year the second semester of my sopore year here at Stevenson my most memorable experience in driver's headed was highway driving that was really cool um being able to do that you know in the save and and controlled environment with an adult right made me feel a lot more comfortable um and I liked that I was exposed to that you know for the first time in that environment not now that I'm a licensed driver that was my first time I think I would have been a little bit more nerve um another really cool experience that I really enjoyed was just being able to take the licensing test at Stevenson so being able to take the licensing test with somebody that we knew and felt comfortable driving with as well as in an area that we had been driving in for a long time and you were familiar with um made for a really nice and comfortable licensing experience instead of having to go out to the DMV so I really appreciated that opportunity I think the instructors did an impeccable job at reducing anxxiety um and and nervousness that a lot of my peers face I think the classroom for portion of the drivers that experience um taught a lot of good coping and and coping strategies that we can now use out in the real world um and being able to learn from our peers as well and seeing being in the car with one of our peers while they were driving I think helped reduce anxiety that a lot of students had in terms of you know driving with their fellow peers and so that was really good to be exposed to hello my name is Evan and I really enjoy taking drivers at Stevenson as my time as a junior um I really enjoyed it because I feel like the environment driver de was really positive and all the instructions were really helpful and gave me really good constructive criticism while I was there and also in the classroom I was it was a really positive environment as I was able to make new friends and connect with other people because we were all uh driving together and having a great time I would suggest taking driver thaton as you get to have a class where you can meet new people and make connections with others through driving you also have really kind caring instructors that will answer any questions thoughtfully and give you great feedback while you're driving um I have a sister and I have told my parents that she will be taking driv and and he didn't even know that he was going to be presenting today before I asked him so he did that over the weekend too so that's we had to edit it down quite a bit but I mean it was it was really good no no no no okay um it just goes the next one is um if you have any questions so um thank you for taking the time to listen to us if you have any questions thank you I designed it in Kelly's class during um Odyssey last year yeah I made a t-shirt out of it too I do sport it around every once in a while yeah thank you first of all hats off to you right I think that has to be said I don't know how you do it truly don't you're better people than I am lot coping strategies say you master sympathetic parasympathetic nervous so I have I have some question I do want to compliment you everything I've ever heard about the driving program here is always thank you it's fantastic that's not chats here we got and Troy talks to me about it every day um could you go back to the Chart though where you had the uh student responses right so oh we talking about the the the survey the survey the surve surve surve at the end these ones the one where we led the school right oh sorry so I I have two questions one um what is it over I'm just curious over time is it consistent has it been changing do you oh yeah it's it's gotten better like we're the best in the school schol now started I heard that once we started middle now it has went up over the last it's challenging because we're a semester class so it's only given once in the semester um so I know last year we met with Lori um and we tried to give it twice um so I think this is the culmination of that one just because it's you know you're taking it in a semester class the first month or two and then we don't ever get any more feedback from them so this is based on I believe just yeah just the first couple weeks first month of school um and the numbers have been consistent plus I mean I know I think we've been up to 92% in some things then gone down you know to 87 but we've constantly been very consistent with this yeah I mean I would say that we intentially knowing that frontload our course our semester with really working on strategies for classroom belong I think Lai can provide some of that data too some the overall data from years previous too kind of show you the growth yeah and and the second question I had is the comment that you made about how you share the driving experience and the classroom experience does it put you guys I know that our teachers always work together as teams and are really looking each other in terms of what works in each other's classrooms and stuff does that help oh you seem like you're in a really unique situation to be able to work we are Yeah in our office it's just like the four of us in there so like we're constantly talking about students and you know saying what worked what didn't work new things that were doing in the classroom um something that maybe happened in the car so that it doesn't happen later on or something that worked really well in the car that we you know can all learn from um so yeah we are definitely unique and we do this and that's what is challenging when we look at this at this information too we're a team because it is it's not just based on my class it's also based on everybody else that's in there too so what you know they're just as impactful that I am in my class too um and we do need to make sure that everybody feels comfortable in the car so in the like the driving cards like on there we ask the students the very like when they we have a driving card that we communicate with each other on um but we ask the students when they're filling it out just their basic information like what's what are some of their hobbies and then as we're in the car with them we start jotting down notes so that we can go back to them because throughout the semester I I drive with 120 students but I might only drive with each of them three or four times so it's hard to remember everything but at the same time I want them to feel connected and feel them a part of the conversation or in the car so um you know kind of keeping tabs on what we've been discussing so that way we can piggyback on that or you know find out oh you're a cub stand or oh you went away this weekend what did you do so again yeah that is really important working together some of the things we have to talk about like traffic you know if one of us is out and we see something uh we have to come back we'll share with others you know about you know avoid this area or trains have been going crazy this past week you know you're in Lake County and we do Hill parking so you have to kind of sometimes like hey I went a new way and I actually found a hill in Lake County that's always something like if you it's like a score yeah so just sharing those types of uh you know stories and and that better you know helps us communicating on where we're going to go uh you don't want us all to show up to the same Hill at the same time so just that kind of communication is extremely important thank you so if you have kids of a certain age all anybody ever talks about is how nobody wants to learn how to drive anymore and I mean can you guys talk about that a little bit like I assume you know if students are enrolling they're you know they're motivated but probably not as motivated as I was when I enrolled I was really yeah I I think that specifically here like I I taught at previous SCH 15 years ago maybe the times and maybe the school maybe but it is a lower it seems like a lower priority for students these days like getting a driver's license until they're actually in the program then they get extremely motivated like it's it's a very strange well we sometimes have even seniors come in there 18 years old they kind of are waiting a what are you waiting on you know like don't you want a license he's like that just wasn't very you know I had other things I had to do you know so a lot of times it could be at least what I'm noticing more recent is like a lot of our students families um we have more students now like that I need to get a license because my parents need me to drive and get a job or um help with my siblings or those types of things uh whereas like when I was in school you know that's all we cared about is getting our license like sooner we get in the better is there is is there feeling or coming to it later or or I mean is that because there's more anxiety about about driving so I'm the only one that has kids that are driving my both my kids are in college and I can tell you I yes I agree um my youngest did was not in a hurry to get his license he was fine with his sister driving him everywhere um but part of that is the kids have a fear of failing today um so they don't think they're going to be good at something they would rather sometimes just not try it um so that they nobody finds out that they might not be good at something so um one of the things that we talk about in stress heavily is you know you're don't expect to come in and get in a car and be an amazing driver um this is something that's just like math just like science just like English it takes a lot of practice it takes a lot of work um but we also make sure that they don't have like unrealistic expectations and that's that's one of the things that you know scoring our our students in in letting them see and we our feedback is one of the things that I probably noticed um going from the health classroom to driver ed is it's so awesome that you get to see the growth I mean if if I could we could show you the students that we start out with and where they're at um to when they are done just with six to you know eight drives with us the growth is amazing and a lot of that's just due to the feedback that we give them well and and their confidence too like they're just different people like when they get it and they feel confident they're you know that it's going to transcend just our class it's going to help them in the future too because I mean it is the most stressful classroom that they'll ever be in in terms of like when they get in the car like we don't have you know they think they're just getting in the car like we go out and sometimes the kids like I'm driving yeah like this what this what this is right so you know they they just don't they don't know like I like I felt like when I was out age I knew uh they come into I think it's the not knowing of what the class actually is for a lot of these students and again many of them are coming from out of the country and just recently getting here so it's a completely new experience we have some kid we had one kid from India a couple years ago that had a license from India and he got in the car and it was like he's never driven before so you could get surprised many times by like some of these students backgrounds we had one student coming in that has a license from Mexico so it's it's Unique every student has like a unique background and it's always interesting to see how they kind of develop see this class 2 is it's sometimes it's a wakeup call for the student because they are not used to seeing ones and twos you know they're not seeing themselves the about on the scale but I just kind of try to reiterate that every time they drive something should improve and as long as it's about that last Drive I don't care where you start from it's about where you end and where you finish and if you're that confident driver um so that's I think a good thing to make them like work harder too is they don't like seeing that you know they want to do better um so again it does help with a little bit that intrinsic motivation it just so happens that we have a first reading of an approval for the waer tonight so we saw that we wanted to stay but weable Tim picked that just for us you can watch the um but I'm curious about how the use I mean I I have no idea what that looks like like the simulator so how you're talking about you know how you're interacting with the students behind you know to get them behind the wheel in the classro like how are you thinking through that piece of the pedagogy using the simulator with kids I can touch a little bit on the simulators like the the what's going on the waiver thing tonight right simulators MH we we kind of pushed for that a couple years ago with the pandemic and we we it's kind of a safety cushion for us because we're the only foreign I think we have one other one that can do the driving and if something were to happen and one of us were to go down or whatever these kids still expect to be done at the end of the semester so somehow getting the simulator waiver really helped with that just as a backup like it you know because anybody could put on the simulator with a kid and that four hours get up to four hours four hours counts as one hour of driving they can do that up to three I think right Sean three yes up to three hours of simulation if we needed it all our students do six hours of driving we I mean that's our goal but if something were to happen we have a backup plan and other than that Eric toell would come in and drive for us if we use it as like to introduce the car too beforehand definitely to get them Hands on the Wheel um we've a large number of autistic students this semester too and in general um and just trying to get them a little bit more confident behind the wheel um again to make that those quick decisions um you find that as soon as as soon as a student can maintain Lane position and speed and make a turn then everything else clicks it's that the physical part that takes a while to get going but then you then you can start looking at the traffic light and the intersection and The Pedestrian and the squirrel running in front of you um but until then they're so nervous about that turn so we try to teach them like the hand overand on the simulator and we have been using it more and more because we are finding out a lot of students like this might they maybe a parent doesn't have uh they don't have an extra car to practice or they they're the going to be the firsttime drivers in the family too um that they really need to get their license um and so just kind of getting that connection so that they are a little bit more confident and comfortable in the car is Courtney knows this is my bias too but we've talked about this because where my child goes they have the simulator I think some of the hesitation for some of the children the anxiety that we're talking about we didn't even recognize that it was just the fear of getting in the car and the simulator allows that experience for them to then build the confidence of oh now I can understand and actually get in the automobile and so there was a whole population of students we didn't even necessarily understand where the was coming students have never sat in the driver's seat before like never sat in their parents driver's seat never messed with the the seat you know adjust it never played I remember like sneaking in the garage and just trying to turn the wheel and stuff you know um but that's new and so I even tell the students I'm like go in your car just sit in there not with it turned on and you know make sure the Crouch door is open you know um but just like you know signal learn to Signal put your hands in the wheel um where are the headlights where how do you turn on your windshield wipers just because every car is a little different you know and when they drive with us they drive different cars as well so again just making that connection so the more they know the more confident they are well if my windshield wipers aren't here then they're here you know if you know the brak's not going to move okay the gas is always going to be the same those kinds of things um and just kind of making that connection that correlation I think another big piece of it is like cell phones are such a big part of being in a car for kids these days so like they're not paying as much attention as we were like I just feel like I was picking up like left and right signals are battle for us like I'll have a kid looking at the signal like turning it up and down and we're going off the road so you know you got to like you actually got to teach them left signal versus right signal and and it's a struggle for them if they're nervous and you're like no that's not the correct signal then they're going to focus on that so we've had to learn ways and the simulators are set up perfectly to match up with our cars as well so the signaling ad lessons for stick shift too cuz you can do that and embarrassingly enough I didn't know why there was three pedals why are there three pedals on the simulator didn't make sense how many kids use two feet when they get in the car the first time is uh if you guys ever walk out in the morning when they first get in you hear the car is revving up that is you know to stay away and don't park in the visit B this morning yeah good question so I'm curious about what's the passing rate for the road test is a good number bad number because I have all that it's not a great number is that great number yeah that's the rumor goes down you know in the community they take it six months I mean so our students that got their permit in the summer for the fall take the road test in December so they're not even eligible for a license until March because there's that nine-month permitting phase so a lot of them aren't practicing at home as much as they should during the semester uhuh so honestly I think last semer stards was a 45% pass rate which is one of the worst in the past years like the driving test here at school rough 50 so it's usually 50 I'd say though if as a parent you don't feel confident giving your son or daughter their keys and driving away then they're not going to pass the road test they shouldn't pass it you know what I mean and so I think that's that correlation I'm so I tell my my students I'm like unless mom or dad every time you guys get in the car they're handing you the keys and you're driving them you're not ready yet because again eventually you're going to be the only I go they are so scared that the first time to drive and they're so scared for the road test I go no the scariest moment is when you're in the car by yourself and you can't ask somebody do I have to stop here or can I go you know it's when you're it's all you so I think that's like the disconnect and I think too A lot of it again the failure thing they're not used to not passing something and it's no I this is your life this is other people's lives if you don't pass you're just not ready right now so keep practicing that's all it doesn't hurt them at all too that's just a it's something we try to teach them every year like this test doesn't mean anything it's like taking the AC in eth grade right like it gives you an opportunity if you do great great but if not it's okay and and it's still like we still get students that and the the amount of Joy they have when they get to come back into our office and show us their license I mean it's it's great I just see that in them awesome well thank you so much appreciate everything you do app thank you guys we're waiting for one more Goble to come through the program so two two two you get one in a month I was just about to say two got one so far starting got video this week right Wednesday be there Wednesday thank you thank you for your time much thank you thank you thank you all right so now going keeps going down we we have our yearly um student achievement report presentation and so great trium of and Ted and R so so you guys have a hard copy in front of you of um these slides we're just the highlights right just getting the highlights just getting the highlights um and so this is based off of the 2324 school year and um what we're talking about is the three goals the three our three goals the 2324 school year the first one being our um college readiness the second being college level experience and a third being on seal so with our first one the SAT just some highlights from the SAT and we're more than happy to talk if you guys want to go dive in deeper on this at any future time just let us know um so just something about the SAT um this is just the we just wanted to show you the timeline um for all of our testing this isn't including any of our world language Benchmark testing or anything like that it's just our big assessments for the year um and just some future notes like in Mar or the juniors in March um of last year took the Illinois Science assessment they do not have to take it this year so those Ted's really excited about that one and obviously our AP exams um at the end of the school year so believe it or not of the eight years that we had the SAT this past year was the first year that we had a class take the sa take the SAT Suite all the way through from freshman to junior year and it will be the last year that our students will be taking the PSAT Suite from freshman to junior year um so the data that you're going to see is from are this year's seniors what they took last year as Juniors um so some things to note this is from our school day sat so trying to match Apples to Apples um with the state and the national um you could see through the top all the way back to um 2019 all the way up to the 24 then the 25 school year so this is our current sitting seniors um you can see the uh our juniors in Illinois versus National and the trend continues that we are outperforming students in the state and in the nation but as many of us had discussions at The Retreat is that we're not as happy with kind of the stagnant um nature of the numbers of our scores from from year to year um in fact it has gone down just a little bit for each one um with looking at some data last week Although our scores for the SATs for our Juniors on test day went down about 10 10 points both the state and the national average went down about 30 to 33 points and so all those R RS went down as at a slower rate than what the students in Illinois and in the nation have gone um some things to see when we're measuring growth because knowing that our goal is more than anything growth we can see so what you're looking at is are the growth between freshman and sophomore year and then the growth between junior year fall with the PSAT to the junior year um um school day assessment and things to really um celebrate and and look at is the decrease in the percentages of students that didn't meet in um our um English reading and writing and our math and if you look at the percentage of students that did not meet growth for both it's only down to 1.5% so although our numbers at a whole are kind of stagnant our student growth is is pretty good um just some other data just this is something that we're always curious about what's been really interesting if you look up at the top this is the number of uh times a student students have taken the SAT and from 2000 to 2005 see the increase in the number of our students that taking sat once um then it follows up by the students have taken um it more than one time and so we're pretty proud that our students a because our Juniors many of our sitting in a with like 700 of their closest friends or 800 of their closest friends in the um Fieldhouse and they're finding the testing experience either they're good to go with whatever the score was to get them to whatever college or university that they want to go to um or it was a score that either met exceeded their expectations um just one more thing about the SAT to look at this is uh we're always curious because in with the SAT they have the super score which is the highest so if they've taken the SAT more than once it's the takes the highest um of English writing and reading and writing with the highest math to get the highest super score but what I find fascinating is honestly it's not terribly crazy higher than what students were getting by taking it once or twice of not the Super scores that makes sense so that was the fast version of the sit College college read us uh so goal two has to do with uh do our kids take a college level experience by the time they graduate what our AP scores our grade distributions uh just starting off here you can see the distribution of our college level experiences we have a lot of dual credit courses in applied Arts uh most of our AP courses are you know down social studies um but uh this is just kind of breakdown of where our colle level experience has come from uh this is our number that we look at every year uh it's still hovering around 90% of our graduating class takes a college level experience sometime in their four years uh but that number's been kind of hover around 90% for about a decade now uh so we're looking at ways to to decrease that number uh this year we're looking at that directly um just some highlights of AP uh we reached a new high for number of exams 6203 uh we reached another new high for test takers so 29 uh 2194 and 66% of our Juniors and seniors take the AP exam uh took it last year um really exciting news almost 94% of uh students learn earned at least one three on one of their exams that was really impressive uh our highest ever uh 92% of the exams that were written uh scored uh a three or above I believe that's one of our highest if not up there um and then you can see the trend over time so uh you know this is just kind of reiterating but you can look back in 2003 we're at 2295 exams with 1,200 kids now we're at 6,200 exams with almost 2200 kids so we keep on growing the program there's a little dip during covid obviously but uh we're at our highest uh for both students and exams again um what's really interesting here uh is the average so uh if you look at the bottom we're it's saying 4.1 3.9 uh last year we had one of our highest uh average scores if you just look at all of them across our average score is 4.0 we're back up uh to one of our highest I think the highest was back in 1998 but we're 4.0 we're pretty proud of that average uh mean score by division uh number of exams by division you can see in math science and social studies is that's where the uh predominantly the exams come from uh but we do pretty well across the board in all of Divisions on all of our exams Tony just a side note I would assume that if they averages a four the mode is probably a five I would I would guess I would guess it almost I I don't lock that in we have to look at that but I know in the past our mode has been five I know I present probably have to be it almost have to be you got one and twos in there have to be yeah sorry I just that was running through my head yeah um do math in your head I know but I try not to do it in public so I'm almost embarrassed that I even said something yeah uh so this is just again a number of students who take exams you can see most of them are in math science and social studies again that's not surprising since most of our tests come from those divisions um how many sep test in my offer do you know that uh I don't know the number yeah we have some we have a couple little extra guys hanging out there of things like Japanese they take the or some they just take the course uh this is the average score broken down by and the amount of exams uh students taking exams by fresh my grading class class so freshman sophomore junior senior again our average is around that 4.0 most of our court our exams come from our Junior and senior class so something just to keep in mind as we're looking at this next year at this time our Freshman Class number of 27 will grow um and that's because of um AP pre-calculus right uh we another number we look at pretty closely is the amount of exams that student students take per year uh we're hovering around 50 50% of our students our test takers take between one two exams each year uh we're slightly higher in the three to four exams this year and then 5 to six 15% 7 plus 2% but again this chart I think is important because when you ask people they think everybody's taking 5 AP exams and it's really only I mean I wish it was a little lower than 15 honestly I think that's probably too high but you know it's only 15% of the kids is this throughout their four years no no this is just in a in a given year in a given year yeah so some of them are taking as many exams as they're taking classes give some semester classes right and so it makes you get to like Eon you get to go that's in there and again you have some kidss who are taking the test without taking the course uh a few more slides dual articulated credit 642 students took a dual credit course this year uh and or last year and then 130 students uh took an articulated course and those are run out of College of Lake County Harper College Lola and North Central College so we have a d good amount of kids taking both of those options as well Tony what are some of the examples of the articulated courses I just don't know the articulated courses are all The Tech campus technology campus okay gotcha so it's with the with the um they have an agreement with CLC if students go from Tech campus to College of Lake County uh to close up uh the uh Readiness college readiness section is grade distribution um essentially our kids get a lot of A's and B's and they continue to get a lot of A's and Bs so uh there's a lot on this graph but our kids do pretty well and we're seeing as I you know we presented the summer that our class grades are now more aligned with our state tests than ever so uh these A and B's actually do represent kids skills more than they have in the past so we have more information to come next month about that all right let's take a look at goal number three our uh information here I know where glor should have been here in the team so you know send her some kudos to us right right uh because I think you'll see the hard work of all those collaborative teams that you see monthly present about their work and how it kind of transfers into some of this uh great data we should be celebrating so again uh when we talk about the Panorama information and the data that we're looking at that comes from our student voice survey uh that school climate questionnaire that student services gives our Athletics um student athlete survey as well uh if we look last year uh the focus interestingly like was one of the most recent times that the entire staff engaged in profession Prof development about seal um so that work last year was through rise was really around the idea of classroom belonging as well as that valuing of subject um and I think when you when you look at that you could see the 75% the 76% continuing to increase and and I don't think that those uh the focus of those two specific areas is ever going to go away I think that's what you're hearing monthly uh from our from our collaborative teams and the work that they're engaging in um I think also if you kind of pop up it's really hard to read uh you saw here 19,000 responces uh of students that participated in that survey uh I think you've heard before our goal is to really make sure that every voice is heard that every voice has an opportunity you heard Ryan kind of share the emphasis of taking this survey seriously when they're uh sitting down and and going through this so this was a big increase from the year before and uh Lori just shared today that there's been a about a 3% increase uh from from this year that our window just closed so we gave it all last week uh that fall uh survey so a 3% increase uh more students sharing their voice about their experiences here at Stevenson uh something that we're really proud of is that classroom belonging uh again continues to grow if you go all the way back there to 2017 where we're at 59% of students reporting like that they belong like they feel like they belong in our classrooms uh now we're back up to that 76% so that's something for sure for us to celebrate and honestly something that's really about that is this is 19,000 back in the fall of 2017 if we had half te half of the teachers having their students do it we would have been lucky so not only is it increasing we have all teachers are now giving this out to their students where that wasn't something that was emphasized back in 2017 yeah absolutely um and again when you see 76% your natural inclination is like to go back to childhood and you're like 76% that's a c um right if you're go old school point system sorry didn't hear that but uh when we compare ourselves to very similar schools across the country similar demographic similar type of student uh we're in that 99 percentile here uh for that Benchmark of classroom belonging which again really something to celebrate uh and we see very similar responses here with uh valuing of subject so when the kids are sitting in that class is that sub matter to them is it relatable do they see it show up in their life and it's important um go ahead Wendy see the other thing funny thing is if you look that it always comes down in the fall and up in the spring so think about those year-long courses where they don't might not value it in the fall but by the time they get towards the end of the school year they're showing more value to it so that's why you see like a little stair Steppy yeah and to that point I think our teachers are doing an amazing job in the class where they start a little bit lower and then it ends High by the time they leave that class to make it belong so absolutely so again something for us to celebrate also in the 99th per there um a newer survey here uh we have not been giving the survey for a very long time when we talk here about how diverse integrated Fair school is for students from different races we have an 88% favorable response um again something for us to celebrate uh and we look here when we also look at this 91% favorable response for how how the students feel that adults are treating them right so continuing to grow up uh or continuing to rise in that uh Benchmark as well this is yeah goad thing about that we we used to ask a similar but different question years ago on student satisfaction surveys and if you recall that number it was worded differently but in general I would say it's the same theme of a question uh and that number was more like 50% yeah um so there's been a big you know leap in in you know how students feel about how the adults are treating students and so you know I again maybe apples and oranges but the kids are feeling better about their experience now absolutely yeah and again Trisha's work uh with our athletic programs and the professional development she's offering coaches and the work with the student athletes shows up in things like this like if you look at that increase in that coach athlete student relationship uh again you're hearing week or monthly from the collaborative teams but there's a lot more happening in the school right than than those between Athletics and activities and um again something for sure to recognize through that work so looking at what we're doing forward um other than some language about from the SAT to the ACT um we're you know we're going to be steady and steadfast in working through those District goals of uh expected growth on those college readiness uh experiences for our students uh Tony alluded to the fact of chipping away at that 10% how do we get that number down so more our students have that college level experience whether it's through AP dual credit or an articulated class and really trying to figure out like why what's happening with those kids what what can we do early on to prevent that from happening and then our continued effort uh and focus on the seal growth of our students thank you guys awesome do you have questions I think I do uh I have a really quick one um your slid number I think I marked something I need a a little bit of clarification of the student body for taking the survey so so for grade nine grade 11 are they the same student body which I mean on slce number eight see the you have grade n number grade 10 are they the same group of students from freshman year all the way through the that's why the number is smaller because we've had students that entered and left Stevenson so that was the consistent 887 so we can have a a a better spot on growth number okay yes that's what I thought okay think just real is there any like uh that coach athlete relationship number went up 31 is there any like I don't know explanation what's that do you know the Insight on that how it got to that high like that's statistically crazy right yeah yeah yeah again I know Trish has really done a lot of work um leveraging things like Zoom PD with coaches after school before school uh a lot of mentorship with head coaches and younger coaches she said she started her Trish's meeting I think monthly with head coaches with um on campus head coaches um so she's done a lot of PD in ways that she wasn't able to before um so I she would have a much better much better explanation for it but it's been intentional I I don't think it's an aberration yeah she's gone through a lot of like feedback processes with coaches and observations of practices and yeah or did she change the questionnaire about those survey questions that questionnaire she helped build with Panorama when we first started working Pan the same we actually have the best data set from the athletes of all the data that's cuz we've been doing it for the longest and everybody has been doing it so the student voice survey took a few years to get everybody involve so the most consistent and longest term data set that we have is the is her survey that we actually helped them create and now they used for people all over the country because they didn't have one before that's good was the 31 growth over time like since the beginning or that was a year that was a one year growth one year I quit coaching last year that could be that's what I heard thank you guys we appreciate you how do I okay um that was a lot so three great presentations um couple first readings here um thanks to Pia for organizing all of our feeder districts and getting um all of the Cats hted so to speak speak and all the districts now have uh first readings that hopefully will be going out this month um and then for approval next month of the intergovernmental agreement I think we mentioned this briefly last month that it would be coming um we have intergovernmental agreements with all the feeder districts that will allow us to um share data um back and forth for those of you who've been around a while you know we have had these in the past but um I think as we're reviewing them we found that there was some inconsistencies between the agreements and we wanted to clean them up um and P worked with the attorneys to nail that down so P thank you thank you thank you first reading tonight don't you need to vote on it but please take a look at it and then we'll ask you for your approval in November um also a first reading of the next series of three-year calendars um and I know that um for for some of our new board members this may seem like wait a minute that's kind of far out there um 2627 but keep in mind we actually do this P far out in advance primarily so that our feeder districts can then PL their calendars they don't always align to our calendar but at least it gives them a reference point to look at so it's not a problem for us to do it um but it also benefits um them when they're doing their planning so um that's a first reading for tonight question on that yeah of course um there's a couple of spring breaks that have an extra day yeah yeah so that has happened many times in the past it happens once or twice every seven years or so it kind of depends on how the calendar Falls and it just is that depending upon when we're starting school the date of that the date of when we go for winter break in the date of the election Friday before uh Memorial Day graduation and it's election year like those three or four factors determine whether we have an extra day or not and if we do have an extra day in second semester in the past people have kind of liked it on spring break it's great so yeah it's great so don't change thing so um so not arguing yeah so it really is it's really just we have an extra day we feel like it' be better on spring break than in Wednesday in March you know so that's that's the rest up and I noticed we pick up a new holiday which is Veteran Day we we don't have this day right now do we Veterans Day 11 November 11 oh on the opposite years on the opposite years that there's not an election so in the years that there's because we only have so many days that we can work with just because again graduation we have we kind of pinned down graduation Before Memorial Day start the 2ish week of school there's only so many days in there and when we're forced because we were forced it's state law you have to take off election day I see like this year we're taking off election day so we're not taking Veterans Day I see but next year we will take Veterans Day because there's not an election day got it so yeah okay it's um a Rubik's Q yes okay so we'll ask you for your approval of that next month feel free to let me know if you have any questions in the meantime um and then uh again thank you to Pia for putting together all the information on board policy updates there's first readings there we've kind of gone through those um feel free to have a look at those we'll answer any questions that you have in November you'll see a series of uh items in the person report under Human Resources um we do not need an executive session following this meeting we had one beforehand and Sean you have one item for tonight um and that includes um approval of resolution um regarding uh certain Capital expenditures to be reimbursed from proceeds of an obligation to be issued by the district correct so tell us about that yep so this comes at the recommendation um of both our councel from Chapman Cutler as well as ly our um Financial Consultant um as it relates to bonds the uh District back in 22 passed a resolution uh that allows the district to reimburse themselves um from Bond proceeds for any Capital um expenditures that may have occurred um as you know when we issue bonds we only can use them on capital projects so this is uh something that we do um every three years as it means if we sell Bonds in the future this will allow us to reimburse ourselves for any Capital expenditures that we may have occur before we actually sell those bonds so tonight we are asking that the Board of Education approve the resolution expressing official intent regarding certain Capital expenditures okay could I please have a motion so move second so we talked about this at the finance meeting before does anybody have any questions additional questions for sure okay uh no I Ben yoseph I Sean hi gon hi Terry's out here Ty hi and frost I passes okay okay Sean and then you have three first readings y uh the first uh one is for is the annual one that we do every year regarding student fees we are currently in the process of determining what those fees need to be if there are any changes that need to occur so we will have more information for the board um uh both at the M memo and our next board meeting um it did not plan it this way either um but we do have we do have uh two first readings as it relates to driver's education and both are both our uh um waivers uh if you will are right now the um state of Illinois uh puts a maximum cap on what we can charge for drivers at um we can ask for a waiver we did ask for a waer waiver in 2020 that waiver has now expired or will expire at the end of this year so we are looking to um uh reapply for that waiver that will allow us um to ensure that the drivers that program can continue um at the pace that they presented uh today so that would be great um and then the second one is um the simulator waiver believe it or not you actually have to have a waiver um from the state of Illinois to use those simulator hours towards um their requirement for getting their driver's license um so the district um did make an investment uh about six years ago in those simulators um we think that as you heard today they're they're a great tool um to help with the drivve instruction and so we would be asking the state of Illinois for a waiver um on our simulators to allow to use that to allow us to use that for behind the wheel hours as well those will both come back in November so so this is it's not an increase it's just maintaining the current amounts that we're for that correct yes and we currently don't charge $600 it's $350 right now which is over the state limit U but we set that amount based on um looking at our costs and trying to determine what is Equitable and fair but we've kept it at $350 for the last five years and that'll be in the fees that you give us that'll be also in the fees that that we provide 100% correct can um board members go in and use these simulator I I actually I don't know I don't know if they still do this but one of my favorite days is when Illinois State Police come out um and they have a set of impaired goggles and they use um a golf cart in the gym to simulate how difficult it is do they not do that oh gosh well you could always ride be a backseat driver with them they don't mind that at all thank you one of my first observations of a nonsocial studies teacher so I observed social teachers one of my first observations of a non-social teacher was a driver's ed teacher behind the wheel oh my God and it was one of the kids it was like they only do six hours with the kids and it was like his third hour and he do you know the intersection of 176 and 294 right by lamb the the onramp going south that's a fast on ramp is a fast on ramp and I they still do that yeah they still do that oh my oh my I I before that had a full head of hair some of you may remember I you just don't do drive two or drive five all the other ones are wow a little PS you have to get car with the you do y yeah I mean I was literally out of my mind got emotion sick let's let's go on so Foy requests Sean you have those there yep and accepting the audit as part of the consent and that brings us to the consent okay could I have a motion to approve the consent agenda so mov was that was Grace second okay Ben YSU yes T hi gon hi moons not here tyer yes Frost yes no I P six all right and then um rounding the turn there's a couple items in the superintendent's information report some student profiles so thank you to Jamie and Pia for putting those together it's also to see the great things that our kids do and um this is just a little teaser for what's in the um daily digest sometimes so please please please make sure you continue to read that um we also included um our those who accept nominees for 2425 school year and so um I think uh we had a nice breakfast and I think W you had the opportunity to recognize um those folks so thank you for doing that um Troy and I hosted our monthly parent breakfast um uh this morning and we had a lot of really great conversations um but one of the conversations that we had Dan was actually there for and Dan thanks for being here I work in on your administrative degree and was actually there at the breakfast as well and um one of the really great conversations was about the first generation um uh us admissions night that Dan um and Sarah do and there was a lot of really good questions and um it just turned out that you were there but it was getting all kinds of compliments so thank you for all your work on that Dan and if you click on that link um in the title you can get more information about it but um we're getting quite a few parents and I don't even know what the percentage is but we have a very high percentage of parents who did not go to college in the US so nights like this are super helpful to them so thank you for doing that Dan um our joint annual conference uh coming up so I know that P has been sending out information about that so please continue to communicate um we also um handed out a copy of the PD report um and you know we don't print a lot of things um try to save paper but the PD report the student achievement report these are two um really I think important um things for you to take a look at because this shows you kind of the investment that we're making in the professional development of our teachers um and then the impact that ultimately that has on our students so you'll see here a literally Department by Department teacher by teer um professional development report and it's just so impressive to see um all of the work that our teachers are doing each year to improve their craft so that's for you um we have also included um our sender school report that includes all the data from our sender schools um so if you have any questions about that feel free to let me know and then uh we have a lot of information this month but we had pictures uh and a PowerPoint from our coador training that Wendy and Ted facilitated last month so that is inro and Troy um he he said Hi and then he then that was about it so um and uh so that was really good uh so there's information about that and then uh other than that there's information about the E from the ELC some information regarding um the uh current state of the um what Sean the annual health and life safety the annual inspection from the regional office thought the results were in there though to ensure that the building is safe enough to code did I delete the results I I don't know but we we got yeah we passed we have usual errors that we need to fix but you know sometimes people bring in an extension cord or put something within 18 inches of the ceiling so simple to remove okay Rectify all right and then um can I ask you one question on the school is that this is not you guys have com for a while just haven't seen it I we have not it's new to you I thought you might be interested I found it very interesting all yeah okay and then um finally um I included a copy of the course book for next year so Kudos and thank you to Jamie and her team for putting that all together and the reason I wanted to include that was just to remind you of the sequencing of events right so in April and May we looked at letters of intent in septe in August and September we did curriculum proposals and then now um you have the coursebook and next week our students are beginning their um let's talk about your future to tomorrow like I said they're talking about let's talk about your future uh it is almost the end of October wow um and so that's kind of the lineup right so things happen pretty quickly around here but kudos to Jamie and her team for putting that together that's it that's all I got Jamie you're good y all right do I have a motion to adjourn so move nobody wants to go all in favor we are
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[Music] n [Music] n [Music] n [Music] n [Music] n [Music] a [Music] n [Music] good afternoon I hope you you've had a great morning learning and collaborating with your peers a lot has happened since the last staff Training Day in September first I want to give you an update on schools of success I will then talk about some of the legislative and political developments that have happened over the past few weeks plus I have a cold so I'll try to get through this as well so let's start with the good news schools of success is rolling on class of 2028 has made it through the first semester and students have submitted their choices for the school of success they will enter next year by Spring each High School will have a reveal celebration where freshmen will learn their placement now these students are more than halfway through the Freshman seminar where they experience 3de case challenges and learn how to make the most of their high school years this foundation will set them up for a long-term success in high school and Beyond at least that's our hope over the past five months numerous staff members have par have participated in professional learning with Ford NGL to establish a prek through 12th grade schools of success system at the elementary middle schools you should see the keys of success from the portrait of the Explorer and portrait of a connector in every classroom not just on the wall but in instruction now the guaranteed experiences at every grade level are designed to begin students on a path from the time they enter the classroom to understanding how and what they are learning in school connects to life outside of the school walls mastering the six core competencies collaboration creativity Innovation critical thinking cultural agility engaging communication self-direction those six core competencies begins day one and continues through graduation it is these skills that will truly set our students apart from others as they enroll in higher education and list in the military or inner Workforce as an employee or entrepreneur so I know a lot of this still seems nebulous especially at the lower grade levels but we will continue to work on it and find ways to embed these competencies and the keys to success and everyday instruction we're all going to get there together so speaking of together first of all I think this was Whoever thought about having this day professional learning the day after Super Bowl thank you thank you thank you this is uh I think it makes a huge difference uh again we didn't have to worry about too much of Transportation this morning some of the roads were slick so uh also having drivers availability so great idea maybe we should do this next year anyway so speaking of together we'll have some exciting news to share in a few weeks about work we are doing with local higher education institutions can't go on to detail just yet but the partnership will provide free dual credit to more students and guarantee that those credits are accepted by the college or university right now too many of the college credits our students earn are not accepted when they enroll in college while the experience of a dual credit class is valuable no doubt about it it is far more valuable if it saves time and money in college so we are also continuing to develop our Partnerships with the business Community next month I meet again with the CEO Champions a group of top level business owners and Executives in the area who have committed to working with us having these organizations as partners means our students will have access to work place experiences with top companies in our community before they graduate from high school this is a tremendous benefit to our students and to the n and to the economy of our region so again dual credits that hopefully stay within our community as well as work-based experiences within our community with hopefully keeping our students connected and staying in Northern Indiana so let's talk about some national issues it's been a whirlwind since January 20th and we are doing our best to stay on top of issues obviously the concerns about immigration and deportation as it relates to our students and their families continues to be a source of anxiety we have procedures and place and I've worked with office staff and school administrators to ensure that we are following our legal obligations at all times this means keeping our students safe and providing a welcoming environment for all but it also means complying with court orders none of this is a change from past practice we do not anticipate our schools being the site of immigration enforcement but we do know there are many fears in our community and we'll continue to reassure our families as best we can that we care about them and their children that goes for transgender students and staff and their families and we expect in the coming months that there will be other specifically named classes of individuals who may have reason to be fearful that their rights may be at risk Fort Wayne Community Schools welcomes all and we firmly believe our diversity in all of its forms is our greatest strength we might all we might not always have answers right away for how new executive orders affect our schools but we see you and we are glad you are here the other source of concern is the future of the US US Department of Education and federal funding right now we are being cautious in all of our spending we are in communication with our contacts in Washington DC daily and will continue to monitor the situation from a state in regards to state issues of even greater concern is the action proposed osed by the governor and state legislators to cut funding to schools and municipalities in an effort to reduce property taxes under the governor's proposal our operations funds would be cut by nearly 15 million in the first year and increased to a $20 million loss by the third year what that actually amounts to is almost a $55 million r reduction in operations funding in the next three years as you can imagine this would be devastating to say the least but on top of this cut the increase to the education fund would be minimal or non-existent and you may hear about a 2% increase to schools but that's an increase in total funding which also includes non- pubs as well expanding vouchers to All Families regardless of income so Universal Voucher Program which by the way last year in vouchers alone Fort Wayne commun schools gave to its families who reside in our district but attend non-public schools $41 million so more money for private schools means less for public schools there's only there's a bucket of funding and how you distribute that those funds from that bucket we are working with our lobbyists and several other organizations to fight for the resources our students need but it's an uphill battle and what I mean by that is we have to show show how this is impacting our kids how it impacts elll students how it impacts special needs students how it impacts our students who are trying to move them so they are reading at grade level and that doesn't just mean third graders it means prek through 12th graders so we need to start to think how this is impacting our kids and quite frankly how it may impact you as a classroom teacher as instructional assistant or whatever function you have where you're connecting with students how is that going to impact you so if you have some thoughts and ideas on that send me send me an email I want to hear your input in regards to how these types of fund fund reductions are going to impact you I've made this known at greater fort wayi I've made it known in a lot of the groups I'm part I participate that this is a Monumental impact and I've never heard of quite this kind of reduction in all my years in education so make sure you reach out to elected officials and let them know how you feel about the decisions they are making do it as a parent and do it as a community member always be respectful of course when you call her right but be honest about the needs of your students and the importance of supporting what we do on a b daily B basis what we do on a daily basis because of these funding concerns both that federal and state we are taking a deep look at our budgets make sure you're Mindful and spending requests is this a need or is it a want is it something that has to be purchased now or could it wait if you see an area where you can be more efficient while still being effective let us know again send suggestions through let's talk and we are open to any and all ideas so send me your ideas input through let's talk I know this has been heavy I know that we are following all these issues and or please know that we are following all these issues and fighting for you and our students people in our community and in our state are taking notice of the work being done in Fort Wayne Community Schools so please be proud of what you do and know how greatly I appreciate each of you and I know our board does as well and again so glad we could have this opportunity to have some have some of this dialogue send me your thoughts and ideas through let's talk it's very very important I'll be going down to Indianapolis next or this coming Wednesday morning with legislators for legislative meeting so I'd love to have your ideas in the next 24 hours well folks thank you again for all that you're doing and have a great afternoon [Music]
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