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So we explain about the process, what to expect and have a good overview of the program before they start their first session. And of course we're always looking for more mentors. I'm going to take it off and I'll be um sharing some information afterwards too. So, flyers call you. Um so, I know all of us know the importance of a trusted adult and young person's life. And just here's a few stats from mentoring.org that really reinforces why mentors matter. And we know that mentors when a student has a mentor in their life, they're more likely to be involved in school. They're more likely to take on a leadership role. And the other cool sets too that we see later on in life is that students that have a mentor when they're young more likely to then give back when they're an adult and mentor a younger person.
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You know, we had students in this year in our last I must say IRA testing and you're not going to believe when I say this. They had 500% 600% growth. This is unheard of. We've never heard of growth like this before. And we attribute this to the coaching, the pushing in that a lot of the co math coaches and language arts coaches that are doing except there. So, I I don't need the microphone in case you can't tell. I know Mary knows I don't need the microphone. Um, so this is one of the things that the data does say about coaching and I didn't want it to go overlooked. It talks about the types of professional development and as you can really clearly see how coaching really when you get to that classroom application and that is what people have just spoken about and I do have to tell you um myself uh Dr.
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Okay. Well, this is why we're discussing it. Did you say 70%. That's what I got. So, if you add up the like if you Let me scroll down. So, if you go down to the Where am I? Oh, I have I'm Maybe I wasn't I'm on math. Are I We opened up math. So that's why I'm a little like I'm looking at math. You know what is weird? The growth like that those top two bars at the very top of the report. Do you guys see that? Yes. The color bar. Okay. So, I was looking at the at if you look at the at the bottom where it says grade two and then if you see the colors like there's the green green yellow red red, right? If you add up the yellow to the red cuz yellow is a greater more below, right? Um you were looking I was looking at like the district as a whole.
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the amount of time and money you spend on the district trying to come up with evidence we don't deserve a decent be put toward giving us what we're asking for next year will be look look very different for all of us the atmosphere culture and climate will be different why not help us navigate this a little easier and treat it's like we actually matter to the district thank you thank you our next speaker is I believe is Christie It's Christy Gurnie. Did I say that correctly? Okay, good. Thank you. Hi, I'm Christy Gurnie. I'm a third grade teacher at Brookry Elementary. Um, I'm here today to speak about class size and prep time. Um, in my class I have 26 students plus I mainstream another child for about an hour a day. So 27 students. The fourth grade class above me has 28 students. And while I don't want to take away anything from the fourth and fifth grade teachers, um, she has two 50-minute preps a week, two full days each year to do parent teacher conferences.
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I'm super grateful for our school who lets us travel away to all the away football games and be at all these games and supports us. Um I'm grateful for all the coaches that helped us this year. Mandy Pickle, Carol Anton, and Elanar Guthrie. Elanar started this program 10 years ago and brought it back to the school. And without her, we wouldn't be standing here. And she's a great coach in other sports as well, and we get it from him. He's the one who taught us to be great coaches. But I'm super grateful for our community and all of our parents and everybody that helps us out every year. And I'm super grateful that these girls put up on me for nine months. I know it's a lot, too. So, thank you. Mr. President, members of the board, honorable members of the community, parents, staff. Um, I brag about it, but I believe we have the best staff in Arizona, and you can see why.
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I will cartwheel. Yeah. Cartwheel and I will give you an overview and then if there are specific questions um I know Yetta's here and she can probably fill in or Jen. Um but I'll go over just initially and then we'll see if there's questions. It's just a memorandum of standing with Cartwwell Health Services. That is a group that is aligned through the Arizona Department of Education. Um and it's a voluntary uh situation where we would go ahead and work with our kids and their families to refer out um options that are available uh to the families where where there may be a mental health issue or mental health support is is needed. Uh we currently do that uh and have it with access backed initiative. Um we just are looking at another option because this is uh being uh provided through AD. So, it's just really more than anything else if we know families or kids are struggling.
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Um when we look closely at our projects, we are breaking ground on the K8 and the STO development this uh this upcoming in the month of May. But we're also it's time for us to start our project for the Maropa High School um workforce development project. um if that project breaks ground a year from now, we we need to have some of those funds available for a year of planning. We'll we'll need to start here really soon. So, accelerating that and uh we made a call to to Stifel to make sure that that was possible and looking at the tax rates and the growth. Um it's possible for us to do the full 43 million, which was the the amount we need for those two projects and have them ready to go for the duration. Thank you. What happens if we wait? I mean, do we do we need to sell now or is it something that we could wait a year on and see, you know, maybe markets settle down a little bit?
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Uh the representative that we had worked with had been a long-term employee of RJB. That was our contact. That was the person who represented that particular company. Uh that was the person that we worked with to get the quotes to to if we there was any service concerns. Uh this would be the individual that uh would be uh the person responsible for servicing Kerry School District 26. Uh we were notified roughly 2 months into the emergency time period that the quote that uh this uh individual gave us was wrong. and that uh the company had no knowledge of this until almost two months in. Uh at which point in time we received a phone call from one of their vice presidents saying well why didn't you notice we haven't been invoiced? Uh we haven't invoiced you yet and yet we said yes but it is not the customer's responsibility to reach out to the company to make sure that they're billing us.
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Right? And to me, like if I'm just somebody that's on our website, I'm not that's why a lot of times I say, "Let's keep some of the language on some of the policy names because they make sense for the policy." And a lot of times they change the names and then it's like it has nothing to do with what I would be looking for if I was looking for school district transparency and accountability. I wouldn't know to dig into the strategic plan and look for the school district's accountability and transparency by having to dig into another policy that doesn't have any of those names in the in the title of what I'm looking at. Here's here's my suggestion because generally speaking, I'm not opposed either, but we haven't gone through our entire policy yet. So, my suggestion would be for things that are unique to us and not part of press is that we table those for the final discussion.
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We've got junior high science, social studies, math. We wanted to make sure everybody had a goal and objective with their instruction. And so across the district, we implemented our instructional framework specifically focusing on the carry 26 lesson delivery model, which mirrors the gradual release model. We wanted to really make sure we were shifting our instruction to be more student centered in active learning environments versus passive learning environments. And so we've been working with our teachers across all the content areas to balance out that explicit teacher instruction, but then also releasing for students to be able to work in small groups and independently on their own. And then the last thing, as you saw, um K5 wind time is the one that shifted to 30 minutes math, 30 minutes ELA. Previously, it was 45 minutes for both math and ELA. And um at the junior high we kept it that way where it's still one block of time um where they have their win time as you saw today.
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We feel she deserves our full support and she take uh as she tackles this key issue for our community. Royer stands ready to help. We realize the critical need. We believe that investment needs to be made by the community. We have encouraged our employees to complete ch child care survey developed by the schools by posting the postersizing the survey in our facilities as well as posting the survey on our employee platform. Royer has already enjoyed the positive outcomes of the excellent child care provided by MCS for their employees. One of our key employee um is married to MCS teacher. They have utilized the child care located at the junior highs this year for their infant son. His dad describes this experience as, and I quote, "Totally awesome. Our son is always happy to arrive and happily reaches for Miss Mrs. Tracy every morning. The facility is beautiful, always spotless.
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Just on this side, Jim. Sorry. Uh, chapter 70. Yeah, that's part of that's part of the correct. So, just be clear on Sorry, let me be clear. Yeah, the chapter 70 funding, which is the state aid that comes in, uh, is part of that 44, but it's the school choice, it's the federal grants, uh, and the the state grants. Those numbers there, uh, are not part of that overall number. We've already taken them out, if you will. Now, this is a crazy screen that you can't read probably sitting in the audience who are here. Um, but the one thing in my 11 years is I've tried to be as detailed and as um, you know, for lack of that that term everyone hates to loves to hate is transparent. Um, but I think it's important I think it's important that folks know where we are and how we're getting to that bottom line number.
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He is a co-founder of the students of color club and he is um a recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Award. So Nate Woodard, would you please come and take the public comment stand? Hello. Hi. This is loud. How's everybody doing? Good. How are you? I'm good, thank you. Um, I'm very pleased to be here. Um, I'm very happy that I was received the award. Um, I remember when I first came to the district, I was a fourth grader. Um, coming from being homeless for two years. Um, Miss Goodman was my principal and um, I was loved by so many people and I continue to be loved by so many people. Um, with Miss Patnode and Mr. Sullivan and Miss Pollock and Mr. Martin, everybody that's here tonight, uh, I love them all because they support education and it's very important. Um, these two pe these two young folks are very important, too.
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It's the first step. Sean, you have a valid point. It's the first step. Anybody else? Cheryl, you're on. Director of special services. I do not have a report because Mr. M did an amazing job. Thank you. It helps. All right. All right, you're on, Tom. All right. Uh, so we've been busy and it just gets busier. Um, I'll try and go through a bunch of it. Also, just wanting to keep you aware of a lot of the stuff that we got coming up. I know that people have, um, you know, that the board has really been interested in attending different events, so I'll try and just kind of keep you up to speed on all we got going. Uh so um fourth grade this month had uh one of their field trips to the Eli Whitney Museum on that 19th. Uh they had a great time.
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I just wanted to make make the public aware of that. That's it. Uh, are there any other committee meetings to report on? Like our usuals. I'll now turn things over to Director Goldsteiner for the tonight's superintendent of schools report. So, if you want to go first. Good evening. So March was a very busy month and a successful month particularly for Read Across America. Our staff did an outstanding job with having guest readers in the building for a couple of weeks. Um the enthusiasm and participation from both the staff and students was tremendous. It really was. We had book bingo. We had um teachers reading to students. Like every day there was something and Mrs. Keller did a phenomenal job of uh guiding that work with the morning announcements and getting the kids excited. On March 20th and 21st, we hosted a su successful round of parent teacher and student le conferences.
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And of course there's other great results that happen while they're in school from having less behavioral issues, higher grades and better relationship with other adults. And I always tell our mentors that this might be the only positive relationship they really have with an adult that could be the gateway for them to have positive relationships with other adults in their life. that's their teacher, their counselors, um, and then peers as well. And then here's just a little information about who our mentors are and where our mentors come from. On the left hand side is a list of all of our um, current business partners and what really makes um, company a business partner is they're promoting our mentorship program to their employees. Um, they're supporting us financially as well. We do of course rely on grants to help support our day-to-day operations. And the ones that are start are the ones that we um just started working with this year.
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Cardona and McKenzie Maratti we have incredible incredible staff a very very small staff which Mr. uh which will show you um very small staff that are making incredible gains. Um one of the slides in your presentation is a slide um from Dr. Hisop at King Street who wasn't able to be here tonight. Um but the work that um Anna White has done there both at King Street Primary and Kingre Intermediate has shown incredible incredible growth. So these were I know that's in your packet but these were just two um excerpts from uh letters actually that Dr. Hislop sent to um cabinet um speaking about the support and one of the things that she asks every week I think to um Dr. Casemiro is please don't take my support away. So I just wanted to just highlight those two things because although our teams are small they are mighty and they are providing things for our students that our students need and our teachers need as you've heard from a teacher in the classroom and from a principal who's dealing with this every single day.
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Oh, I was looking at like just just curious out of each class like you know. So just added up the totals because I was like wow there's only like you know I mean if we have 20% well 25% were efficient or proficient anyway it's a low number of kids that are already on grade level at at diagnostic three you know which was just what I was looking at. Right. I think it's important to like look at the growth though, right? Like that's pretty significant growth if you just look at the top district wide, right? And you look at those numbers. Yeah, we're not trying to test you guys. So, you know, especially like for green, right? It says 67 students and that went from nine students, right? So, from nine students to 67 students. Which one are you looking at? The top. at the very top for all students for the entire entire district.
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I am grateful for the 30 minutes that we have now have for our prep, but I have time to make a class set of copies. I am regularly at school the last one to leave except for the night custodian. I am often walking out after 7:00 p.m. and that's my choice, but it's not okay. I need time during the day. I need to be able to take care of these kids the way they need, you know, give them what they need. And I'm just not able to with 30 minutes once a week. So, I am asking for you to please consider lowering class size for the primary grades as well as increasing our prep time to at this point 45 minutes a week. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Gurnie. I think that that concludes our public speakers. We shall continue with the meeting now.
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Um, state champions in game time, state champions in stunt team, state champions in shower and office. That's pretty impressive. Uh this is the Aaho Unified School District. This is Aaho's state champions, three time. They've set the standard level of excellence for the rest of our sports teams to follow. Mr. Yan, we're going to have to make sure we have some uh other state titles as well. But thank you so much. Thank you to all of you and you're our motivation. So once again, thank you. Congratulations. And he did. Break it out. Did they do that? Break it out. Made this up 10 years ago and it stops. Say real loud. Five, six, seven, eight. What do we do? What are we riders? We have We have I think we have one thing. One more thing. Um, Mr. President do the next is the awards. Next item is the awards and recognition.
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