Board of Trustees. John, are we okay? Okay. The Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees meeting of April 10th, 2025 is called to order at 3:30 p.m. The following members are present. Katherine H. Smith, Ron Hosshi, Amry Reno Tjo, Jessica Guerrero, and Brian O'Neal. Staff requested the following amendment to the agenda. Exhibit Y replace page two. Got it. Do I have a motion to adopt the amended agenda? So moved. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Uh public comments. Anybody in the audience wishing to speak? Seeing none, the board will excuse me. We'll now uh move to close session to discuss item 4.1 through 4.6 on the agenda. It is now 3:31. Yeah, you guys. Wait, I'm going to meet you.
[Music] Today we are reconvening an open session. The action that the board took. I will read our statement here. The board considered the parents appeal of the district's determination that student number 957789 does not meet the residency requirements of the district. In close session, the board members who were present decided to deny the parents appeal. Also, the board considered the parents appeal of the district's determination that students numbered 957182 and 957377 do not meet the residency requirements of the district. In close session, the board members who are present decided to deny the parents appeal. No other action was taken on close session items. All right.
Good evening everyone and thank you for being here. Welcome all of you. The Beressa Union School District Board of Trustees meeting will now reconvene to open session. Um, Trustee, could you please lead us in the flag salute? Yes. Uh, please stand. Face the flag. Ready? Begin.
Comments are limited to three minutes. Please state your name and address prior to making comments. Please note that members of the board may not discuss items that are not specifically identified on the agenda. Therefore, action is taken to directing the administration to work into the matter, responding to criticism, or scheduling the matter for future consideration. So, the first public comment we have is from Vener. My name is Remmit Ker. I have been coached by Coach David in basketball for the last year and he has made a difference in skills in life. He's taught me a lot of stuff and has been a really good coach. I think anyone that has been coached by him is is really lucky. If you have problems, talk to him and he can help you. Thank you for your time today. Um to the school board, Dr. Salt, Principal Aaron Khan, and the community, I stand before you today because once again, an incident has occurred among our student athletes that must be addressed.
Does anybody have any questions on that? Okay. If not, I'll take a motion. I motion to approve the March 5th, 2025 meeting minutes as presented. I'll need a second. I second. Okay. All in favor? I I I wasn't there. So, so they just put abstain. Motion carries four to zero then. So, you were late. Oh, no. I'm sorry. I was at that one. Okay. Forgot that's where I was at. Um, approval 4.2. Do you want to change that? Yes, that's fine. We can do that. All right. 4.2. Approval of minutes of the special board meeting on March 26, 2025.
It was quite um an adventure and opportunity again to just hear from not only our legislators but also uh the many educators and support staff that were there. So, thank you again for um taking the time out of your busy day um to go down to the capital and explore and find out about all of the work that we need to do to continue to uh be public school proud. So, thank you, Member Owens. Thank you, President Downey. Uh let's see here. So, a lot of my report revolves around my youngest daughter. Um so, she's part of Winter Guard at Desert Sunrise. So, uh, March 29th, Saturday, um, MHS and Desert Sunrise, both winter guards were at state at Millennium High, uh, both, um, showed up, did what they needed to do. Uh, MHS, uh, went back for finals. Uh, I did not stay to watch that.
[Applause] Good afternoon everyone. My name is Chesca Marie Hamura from Desert Sunrise High School and I am Paulo Malapas from Desert Wind Middle School. Today we are excited to take you on a journey to a beautiful archipelago in Southeast Asia, the Pearl of the Orient Seas, the Philippines. With its 7,641 islands, the Philippines is a country rich in history, culture, and natural beauty offering a diverse blend of traditions and experience. So to start this sharing we would like to talk about um the pre-colonial Philippines which were docu we have citizens in the Philippines as early as 900s to 1565 and then from 1565 we um our Spanish friends came to our country until 1898 that is exactly 333 years and in 1898 to 1946 we have the what we call of the American period where our friends from the United States are in our country for almost half a century.
Dominico's classes. Um last week we had three uh kindergarten performances um at night and we packed the house all three nights. It was very exciting. So we are going to sing some songs for you tonight that we sang last week. Um before we do that, I do want to introduce to you Mrs. Matchel. She is our music teacher. Um and I would like to say she has done an excellent job this year. Um Mrs. Matchel is actually a long-term sub for us. we were unable to fill the position in the start of the year and she stepped in and has done an amazing job. She put the performance together. She did all the work. Um and she we're just very happy to have her. So without further ado, let's turn it over to our friends. Oh, it's I found I found standing. Are you okay?
Um, is it the state that is studying that test window for the I testing and or is it the district? It's at the state. Are you meaning um the cut score adjustment? No, I meant the window for the students to test. Oh, do we set that? Gotcha. No, that is set by the state. Okay. because it's like we they they said it during, you know, spring forward and that's crazy. But I just wanted to make sure it wasn't us. Okay. Anyone else have any items, Dad?
I answer to anything. So, welcome this evening to Kerry Junior High. Um tonight, I am joined by a few of our Kerry Junior High students that I'll introduce in a couple of minutes. Um we're here to talk to you about Windtime. Windtime is one of our programs is our program where we deliver our multi-tiered systems of support to all of our students. So for 40 minutes every day, all of our students participate in wind time um with a v a variety of activities. Some students are looking to close academic gaps. Some students are looking um to make gains with behavioral or emotional supports. Some students are working on grade level materials and others are working on gifted level material. Tonight we have some of our general education students who have been through win and have been our trailblazers um this school year as we this is our first year with um win time.
So, I published on Thursday. Okay. Well, then you can do that on Thursday. You can publish it whenever, but you just have to have it published before you start. So, steps four and five can be interchanged. But you'll already have four done. Yeah. Yeah. So if you're publishing the meeting agenda early, it just makes things easier. Yeah. So then five under video, you're going to say broadcast. You want me to do that now? And then when you're done, go back a whenever. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't matter what the answers are. Nothing is ever tied to you because it's just practice. is really just are you familiar with the buttons and go from there. So rather you're you're hit submit. I don't have. Okay. Okay. Is that what you were asking? It's not too bad, right? And so that's why you set the the name of the stream to be the day.
If you all would join me, please in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. And the best part of any board meeting we have is our student recognition. We have a few to hand out tonight. This is a this is a great group here. We appreciate everybody taking their time to come out. So, at this point in time, but we'll have the board step out front. I'd like to have Mr. Morrison, our athletic director, step forward, please. Dr. Brown and the school board. Thank you for having us this evening. Want to recognize some of our winner athletes who uh received some academic all-state recognition and some all state recognition. So, at this time, I'd like to welcome Coach Adam Dennis up to recognize our girls basketball.
Anybody have any questions, comments? Thanks a lot. Good stuff. Okay, Abashek, did you have anything you wanted to add? Uh, no. She pretty much hit everything right on the head. Awesome. Well, we have something very exciting for you now. The AHS chorus, and we're going to get out of the way. Hi everybody. As you know, uh, this past weekend, our bands and chorus, um, participated with about 10,000 other students from around the state. There was 165 bands and 96 choruses the middle and high school level um in the Massachusetts Instrumental and Coral Conductors Association adjudication festival. Um we are very uh proud of our music department. The Ashlin High School Concert Band White earned a silver medal. The Ashlin High School Concert Band Blue earned a silver medal. The Ashlin Middle School wind ensemble earned a gold medal. And tonight we have with us the Ashlin High School Concert Choir who earned a silver medal.
I can bring that to uh Jenny says that she cannot hear us. Oh, that's I just unmuted. Can people hear us now? Yes. Excellent. Oh, Susan's here. Solved. Oh, yes. Good evening. My name is Ian Degan and I live at 16 Lovers Lane. I am a sixth grade student at Greenfield Middle School. I have known Mrs. Patnau since I was 5 years old. She has been very kind, caring, and welcoming, and is always concerned about my well-being. In her current role as superintendent, she is forced on what I am. She is forced on what I need to learn and what my school needs to support that learning. She knows that she knows what is best for all Greenfield students. Please support her vision and work for Greenfield Public Schools. Thank you. [Applause] Good evening. My name is Sha Degan and I also live at 16 Lovers Lane.
Um, and that leads me into uh from the fund last year. We raised quite a bit of money from that last year. I'm happy to say that we purchased two permanent duckets for the school that those are going to be delivering soon those very very soon. Um, our April PTO meeting is being held tomorrow evening at 6:30. Uh, this one will be on Zoom. I realized my email I forgot to post the link. So, I have tomorrow for this meeting. Uh and that us here and we're going to have some open positions available for next year. Um mainly the president um here treasurer the room care coordinator, teacher appreciation coordinator, hospitality coordinator, student coordinator all going to be positions. Those positions will be posted on our website after spring vacation. Anybody interested in filling one of those out, there will be an opportunity to enter their name on to our website as well.
Carissa's leadership transcends the classroom walls. During her years at BCS, she has been a member of the BCS tennis team. Moreover, her PE teacher recognized her good sportsmanship, even earning her the award in sixth grade. In her spare time, Cararissa has volunteered her time and culinary skills cooking food for the homeless through her church. Moreover, in her travels to Cambodia, her family helps out those impacted. Oh, I'm not going to be able to say that right. Can you say it for me? Yes. Thank you. By handling out prepared food. Chris is very deserving of this award and her teachers are very proud of her. There will be an award for you, but they just have not come in yet. So as soon as the certificate comes in, we'll get it to you. Okay. Thank you. All right. The next recipient is Ethan D. Rogers. Similarly, Ethan displays strong leadership skills inside and outside of the classroom.
The board welcomes public participation and ask that speakers please limit their comments to three minutes. Speakers may offer objective comments of school operations and programs that concern them. The board will not permit any expression of personal complaints or defamatory comments about board of education personnel and students nor against any person connected with the Danbury public school system. Thank you. Lauren, the first person that signed in was Adam. if you would come forward. Speak into the mic, please. You ready? Yes. Hello everybody. My name is Kong and I'm a freshman at from Denver High School. I stand here to address a concern, one that is shared by many students and has caused frustration, confusion, and even barriers to academic success. That concern is the new west campus. We are aware that the introduction of the new patent program was aimed at providing students a new and available learning process.
Thank you. And thank you everyone for being here. And the way that I'm talking into this mic when you come up, you'll do the same so that people can hear you as well for when you talk about the initiatives. Um go ahead. So for the agenda, we're going to look at the curriculum alignment project overview, our core implementation. That's our reading program. Some of our I Ready results, and then some of the strategic support that we're doing in terms of improvement. Um this is some work that we're doing with the future design school, the same organization that's helped with the uh build the pathways for the academy and the work that's inherent to that. And this is Dr. Casemiro uh northstar objective to be a destination district known for our innovative programs student opportunities and for cultivating a excuse me cultivating cultural competence. So uh ground us in the work and and the reason I put this in here I I've had this before both in the budget but also in in general it's important to talk about like the inequity and staffing between comparable districts and we are doing that that makes the work uh exponentially harder but exponentially more rewarding in many ways.
All all rise for the pledge of allegiance colors. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise to honor our nation in the presetting of our national color. The color bar represents the California Cadet Corps of the 412th Battalion of Wasuma Elementary School. The California Cadet Corps program offers leadership training and character development to students and their mission statement is to provide students with a quality educational and leadership program that prepares them for college and the workforce. Cadet Sergeant Michelle is today's color sergeant. Also in the color guard are cadets Cooper Newbie, Hunter Sanderson, Lucas Deine, and Tyler Carters.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Trusty Goen. Trustee Shrinasan, could you please read the district mission statement? Surely uh Berin School District provides all students the skills to become lifelong learners and successful 21st century global citizens. Thank you. Um, trustee Jimenez, could you please read the norms of the board of trustees? Very Union School District. Uh, board of trustees agreed to focus on the best interests of students at all times. Be respectful. Listen openly. Address problems and process, not persons. Keep each other informed. Maintain confidentiality. Work toward the future. Learn from the past. Equal participation from all members. Stay on task. Thank you. Item D, disclosure of action taken in close session. Um, Dr. Fuentes, please. Thank you.