Um so in addition to their mentoring as I mentioned we try and um really meet the needs um of what's going on in our schools and through a grant from Union Savings Bank we were able to host two college tours bring a group of students from Gary High and Apekch to um last year we went to Central Valley Community College and this year we just went to Southern and University of New Haven last month and actually tomorrow we're bringing a group of students to no valley community college in Werry and best time. So we again try and show our students that are in our program, we give preference to our students that have mentors, but we open it to others too of what opportunities are available to them. And um another program that we um helped launch this year um after talking with um Michael Celig and the administration at Dway High School um we have so many great connections with the great business community.
So, how do we accelerate that? And that's the information that we glean from from I read and if you look at that typical growth and those are your highest performers at that time. Great Plain, Little Ridge, King Street Primary, Shelter Rock. Uh you had Park, South Street, and Statley all tied up for fifth. So you're seeing a lot of schools uh surface that maybe were not there uh last year, which is exciting. Uh grade four, Statley again, uh King Street Intermediate, Haztown Park with Ellsworth and Morris tied for fifth. South Street in grade five, Shel Rock, AIS, Ellsworth and King Street Intermediate. again lots to do with the coaching, the support uh across all levels. The stretch growth, I won't read it to everyone. It's up on the screen. Um but many of the same schools in addition to some others. So what we're seeing, what we know from our instructional rounds and our improvement process is that if we review the data and we disagregate by subgroup and we really look intently at the students and try to meet the needs of the students in front of us and then we go in and identify what do we see as a learner center problem.
The P2 attendance is due um coming up in about a week and that's what our main funding is based on. So at P1, our um our overall average daily attendance was 749. So, if you figure we have 803 students, but we're only funded at 749. This uh lower percentage of attendance really does affect uh the funding. So, it'll be interesting to see what the number comes in at with P2 if attendance has been better. Sometimes the number can go up. Um and then um it's easy to do a quick math on that with it's about 11,000 a student. So if we have 83 students but we're funded versus 749, that's a pretty big significant decrease in funding having that lower ABA. So we're but I know everybody's working hard doing everything they can to get the students in seats. Uh it's just been more of a challenge over the last several years postco.
Moving forward, if there are any new vacancies, HR will be posting all new vacancies on Fridays and we'll give all the teachers a week to submit an interest form. The first posting took place on April the 4th and the due date for that is April the 11th. Uh so after this Friday, again, any new vacancies will be posted and whoever is interested um may apply to those positions. That's it for me. Comments from the board? None. Thank you, Mr. Cabrera. We shall continue to B 10B, the quarterly report on Williams complaints. Dr. Fuentes, please. Yes. At this time, I'll ask Dr. McCur to please report if we've had any occurrences. So, no complaints were filed with any school in the district during the quarter reported January 1st through March 31st, 2025. Thank you, Dr. McCreary. We shall continue to see measure U construction bond program update.
I need to go micromanage. Whatever. [Music] Sorry. Sorry. [Music] Okay. So, next item on the agenda, consume agenda. Second. Is there any discussion on consent agenda? If not, then call for Okay. All those in favor please say I. I.
U Mr. bench, you can uh I to the guys in the booth, you'll go ahead and move it forward for us, right? Yes, that's what because it's uh I don't know what is it working. Oh, can you do it? Yep. Thanks. And it's forward and backward, which is really helpful. Sometimes it's up and down. Uh good afternoon, madam president, members of the board. My name is Paul Ben. I'm the senior vice president of research and strategy at Highground Public Affairs in Phoenix, Arizona. Highground does a wide variety of statewide, local, and uh regional research when it comes to a wide variety of topics including education, public safety, transportation, health care, and other items. We've already conducted over a dozen surveys uh this year alone. We've so we've basically been in the field in variety of communities pretty much every uh week since the year started.
The last thing we have is a journ. And uh I don't think you want to sit around for 45 minutes, an hour just to hear us ajourn. So, thank you very much. Not chasing you out. You can stay if you want, but uh that's all we have. German.
Any discussion? We take a vote, please. Ann Sanuchi, yes. Stacy Salt, yes. Julie Jetty, yes. Katherine Potter, yes. Mindy Hartman, yes. Jason Jansik, yes. Darling, yes. Policy 2251 E1 exhibit will be moved to next month's cow. Uh, next up we have 8.6. The approval of policy 2250 E2 exhibit immediately available. District public records and web posted reports and records. May I have a motion to table this item until next month's cow meeting? I would like to make a motion that item 8.6 be tabled until next month's cow meeting. Thank you. We have a second. Second. Second, Jason.
I guess it doesn't for me it doesn't really matter where they go, but I do believe that the previous strategic plan was spelled out in the policy. If it goes under this policy, that would be fine for me, too, because we have to see those ends. Here, here's my problem. Goals aren't policy. Goals are goals. And I don't know that we can like, yes, they should be achieved. Yes, we should be working for them, but they're not the black letter law of how we operate, right? Our policies are governing how we operate and goals are not always achievable. They're not always and they may change before the 5 to seven years. So, I have a problem with in I don't think the goals should go in policy anywhere. I think they're referred to all over our website. They are findable. We can talk about a strategic plan, but I don't think the goals go in policy.
And so that the growth uh in letter sounds is impressive. Are we finding that one of the two pilot programs is or is that am I giving that is the milliondoll question that you're asking which of the two? Um it's interesting because throughout the school year we've heard things about one and then we've thought like, oh that's going to be the one, but then we've heard things about the other one. We're like, well, no, now that might be the one. Um it's a win-win scenario because one will be used for tier one instruction. the other one will be used for then tier two to bridge gaps. Great idea. So really it's a it's a win-win scenario. I think what we need to be considering as well is how does it fit with our reading comprehension curriculum as well because our kindergarteners we want to make sure that we don't the pendulum doesn't swing all the way to one side where we're so focused use your analogy where we're so focused on the um early literacy phonics that then we forget to address the reading comprehension.
So tonight we're going to share with you about our journey so far at Anderson in 2425. And being that I was a new leader um and that we had a total of 22 new staff members at Anderson with new initiatives on the horizon, we felt that we had to create um an area of focus to ensure our success and to sure ensure that we could move forward. So our big areas of focus became strengthening our school culture, refining our systems and aligning our arrows to the district. We knew these areas were very important in for in order for us to move forward. These areas of focus helped shape our school goals and that centered around the idea of safety and well-being, academic achievement and growth and recruitment and retention. So jumping right into celebrations, I am proud to say that a 100% of our staff have participated in one or more of our whole school activities.
It's It's ESP. Uhhuh. I just caught it myself. Yeah. Yeah, we do. And And it's it I know it's it's factored into the overall number. So, there's a band position, just so we're clear. uh at the Mendes School. Um because with the scheduling change at uh the middle school, uh there's going to be a full-time another full-time band music person at at um the middle school. We backfilled another full-time position giving more opportunities for Mendes kids. Uh so that is in there. Um I just I've looked at this 15 times. It Yeah, it Yeah, I swear it's in there. Um there's another slide that shows it's in there, but I I apologize. As long as it's accounted for. Yeah, it's accounted for. That's the question. It is. So 337 figure is accurate. Yeah. So increase in facilities expenses obviously running the buildings, heat, trash removal, uh overtime hours, things of that nature.
Every decision she made was made with the best interest of kids at heart always. She was a fierce supporter of women in sports and how being part of a team built character and strength and camaraderie for our students. She was also a very dedicated supporter of school libraries and what a powerful impact a school librarian has on the culture and success of a school in life and now after her passing. Her legacy and commitment to Greenfield High School community remains steadfast and true. In your packet this evening, you will see Donna's last will and testament included donations to the GHS library and nine different GHS girls sports teams to continue to uphold the value and importance of all of these areas that impact students in such positive ways. Thank you. [Applause] I'd like to hear a motion to accept the donations totaling $46,000 from the Donna Woodcock Trust to the Greenfield High School library and sports teams as presented.
Um and Mrs. Rogers is going to be creating um a scavenger hunt for kids to do as we go through. Um and then Mr. Fortune is working on our spring concert to coincide with it. So, kind of you'll have some time to to walk through, then a concert in the middle, and then some time to end the evening. Our unified celebration is on the 21st of May. Second grade has a field trip to uh Russell Homestead uh around the 21st, 22nd. Um and then we've got the spring fling for the PTO on the 23rd. Uh our sixth graders are going to the middle school for field day on the 27th. Uh the 27th, 28th, and 29th. Second grade has old schoolhouse day, which is amazing. Um, the fifth grade is going to the high school for uh steam day on the 28th. Uh, we have our night of gratitude on the 29th.
Um, anyone have any questions or comments about this? Do we need to state the amount of the bid? Does that I can't remember if we normally do that. Don't know. Okay. Would you like to amend your motion to include the lines figure of $33,745? Was that you okay with that? Yes. 33,700. Same motion, but with the figure we discussed earlier. Okay. Thank you. Um, anyone else have questions or comments? All those in favor, please say I. I.
So we started doing these flex presentations and helping connect um various business leaders and people from different industries in the community to come offer short 20 25minute presentations during the student flex period to the relevant pathways. So in addition to taking their central course now they're learning about what the career is all about from someone in the field. Um and they've been really well received so far and it's um hopefully something that can grow over time. Here just a few of the recent presentations that we held with engineer from PMCSTs Alena who's a chef who shared her different um culinary pathways with students and then um representative Santos who talked about his um different um pathways as well. And um just a note about our funding. I know there was a question last year that came up and you know what are we spending our money on?
Is that uh corroborated by what we see in the classroom? Are we going to make some general generalized feedback? Are we going to be real specific? Do we return again after identifying a problem of practice in the classroom and find the same problem? Well, that's not good. So, we we would do another type of round. But getting really focused about what we're trying to see in the classroom in terms of practice has really helped. The action planning component of this data is one one set of numbers, right? But when we have data and we look historically and we see how students have done in the past, triangulate that data, now we're on to something. and and that's kind of where we're at right now is we're responding to the data in front of us, but this data is helping us plan to meet the individual needs of students.
So but it's across the nation. It's not just unique to our area. Right. Right. I'm sure we had a I think it was a CSDA article recently that some state that was like making a note that some states are trying to um charge parents who have chronically absent child. I was like, "Oh my goodness." Yeah. Yeah. Like how much it is per day ADA invoice. I heard that about that invoice the parents like actually talking about getting them arrested for like not sending their kids to school. I don't know. Well, I'm going to be part of a round table on Friday um where I've told you in past years they've tried to push legislation forward to get schools funded on enrollment, not on attendance. And so um the LAO office, which is a legisl legislative analyst office, is doing a round table with CBOS from all around the state.
Um, Dr. Fentes, please. Yes. And with this, we invite uh Tony Kisto to review uh the progress that's been made for the past two months, I believe. Right. Correct. Cool. Thanks, Kim. So, again, we'll go through if I can remember. There we go. We'll go through the Oh, well, measure U. We already talked about school consolidation in the previous update. This is the wrong Okay. Um first thing is at Piedmont site electrical we actually completed that I think about a week ago. So that actually completes the gym project. So PG& finally came out and let us um add the portables. So we were able to remove the old switch gear that held the old building L. Any so that's complete. Um things that are out that we actually bid in the last two months. Um last month you actually approved the um award of the exterior painting at Vincy Park and on this board we have a re recommendation to approve the PA projects for Majestic Way, Somerdale and Vincy Park.
Any opposed. Motion carries four to zero. Okay. So motion carries 4 to zero. Personnel certified contract adjustment for 242 contract for Antonio. Mr. President Antonio Rodriguez is now certified and eligible for a contract adjustment to 2425 school year. Adjustment to Antonio Rodriguez's contract to 2425 school year is recommended. Okay, I will make the motion. Second.