Um, but that's it. So then there is So I mean, the word assault is on our forums. Yes. That's a legal term for a criminal like a potential criminal act. Yeah. And I don't know that. And so it's like did assault occur? Well, is it assault if no one presses charges? Like what? Like is that is it just a physical confrontation? You know what I mean? Like Yeah. Yeah. Just just to sort of point it out because we can't really change it. I'm pretty sure they don't, you know, I'm pretty sure they don't address assault in the definitions either, by the way, because you're right, that is a a legal term because it says there is active physical violence there as well. And and honestly, from the from the assault piece, and correct me if I'm wrong, Mark, you probably remember better than me. Assault is a verbal attack where battery is more isn't that the physical assault in Connecticut's going to be uh would attempt to cause injury or causes such injury.
Oh, on the math intervention and reading intervention on page three and four, there was uh some curriculums in there and um I had done some research on the Sabas um training or curriculum. And when I went on the website there, they um had a supplemental that was called the listen listen wise blog and it just had a lot of um what I would call let's see it says [Music] um as an extension of our core values of expanding equity and empathy. A culturally responsive learning must be woven into everything we do at Savas. In building on the national movement for social justice, the SAS CRL initiative seeks to cultivate a more inclusive culture at Savas and it's increases diversity with in its work service vendors and editorial content. and it just seemed like it had um worked more towards indoctrination than education. Um they had some topics that included anti-racism, common core skills, culturally um about equity again, critical race theory.
To ensure a continuous assessment of student achievement, all conditions affecting the education of our children in compliance with state law. I shall serve as education's key advocate on behalf of students and our community schools to advance the vision for community high school district 99. I shall serve as education's key advocate on behalf of students and our community schools to advance the vision for Community High School District 99. And I shall strive to work together with the district superintendent to lead the school district toward fulfilling the vision the board has created, fostering excellence for every student in the areas of academic skills, knowledge, citizenship, and personal development. I shall strive to work together with the district superintendent to lead this school district toward fulfilling the vision the board has created, fostering excellence for every student in the areas of academic skills, knowledge, citizenship, and personal development.
And I will tell you, there were other districts that were openly trying to get him. And this is the kind of integrity this young man has. He said, "I made a commitment. This is where I'm going." And I one of the warnings I had for my own district was this. Because of the work that's been done in this district and now the state of Illinois when it comes to dual language programs, I warn all districts out there with their own dual language program. You're going to get educators who know exactly how that program should be run. So you better bring your agame, right? Or they're going to take their talent somewhere else. Hopefully not South Beach, but somewhere else, right? And so that was I honor that educator and um I honor the educators that I taught who are now educators as well on this appreciation week and um there is no way uh I would be able to do this or I'd be here without educators.
Um, so that's something that we'll be doing as well. Again, ensuring all students and staff participate in regular safety drills. It's so important. Um, we've done a really great job of that at Quinn this year and ensuring that we're doing that um, consistently. Um, so that will continue and will ensure that we have a safety drill schedule for next year. and again collecting that quantitative and qualitative feedback that's so important um through the thought exchange platform that we're um using here in Dartmouth which I think will really be beneficial for us and for our our uh educators. So those are some of the areas for safe and supportive schools. Now I'm going to hand it over to Mrs. Y for family and community engagement. So, in regards to family and community engagement, we're always looking for ways to strengthen the interactions. Um, the way that we talk to families, the way that they are in our building, the way that they can give us feedback.
You've hurt my feelings before though Mark ugly assaults. So that's a physical assault. Yeah, that would be what's a battery in Connecticut? No. So Connecticut law combine the two. So, it was redundant. I don't I don't know. Like, you know, we're not I I think um these get wicked tricky. They do. Sometimes they get very very sophisticated. um where you start dancing around these terms and you and you read the situation and sometimes um you know I'll get a call on this and we'll weigh all the circumstances in this situation the ages of the kids the the stakes in the situation the whole nine yards and say you know what let's consult with the attorney on this one which is why the support services line looks the way it does when see forms like this that you know, you know, I can consult with the attorney now for $300 an hour or I can pay them for 20 hours later when we get sued for something.
And I know I think I've heard that we remove that those type of um controversial things in the curriculum, but I just wish we could find some other um I mean there's a lot of other uh curriculums I think that we could try probably use instead of the SAS. So that's those are my comments. Thank you madam madam present. Um, member Ziola, um, this was a long discussion when we adopted these pieces. We do have a process, uh, curriculum adoption process. Number one, that's a very lengthy process. So, to switch to a curriculum, you are talking, um, probably a good two to threeyear process to get that into the district. So, it's not as easy as saying um, we are going to adopt a new curriculum or not use a curriculum. Um but when we do adopt this, we have methods um to make sure the curriculum we're using aligns to our beliefs and what we deliver.
Congratulations. [Applause] All right. Uh Julie, would you mind calling the role, please? Be happy. Cara Castton here. Katie Courtourtney here. Ken Dawson here. Chris Espinosa here. April Finn here. Don Rener here. Michael Riskey here. Rehan Hashim here. And Jason Trio here. Thank you very much. All right. Having a quorum.
I remember that every day. It is very easy job to be compassionate to my students uh and I honor them as well. So, uh, I'm going to say the gig was hard, but the gig was easy because you knew you knew it was worth it for everybody around you. So, thank you. I'd like to add a few comments. Um, I'm pulling up a text message that I got during uh the meeting tonight for teacher appreciation day or week. Um, my daughter works at BBBOP and tomorrow is half off a bowl. She says, "Tell your friends." Hear that, Monica. It's done. Um, I wanted to share a few words for my outgoing fellow board members. Um, some brief words to our two student board members. What a bright future you both have ahead of you. You have enriched our discussions and thoughts during your tenure with us.
Um, so obvious one of our action steps is going to be to increase family communication. I think we've done a pretty good job of communicating with families. Some things that we're going to add are monthly newsletters, some targeted bullets of dates, always making sure that people have a heads up. We could be um so we'll do that through the monthly newsletter. Continue to support everybody to use the parent square platform. Um the majority of teach our teachers do do it and they find it very effective, but just to make sure that we're supporting those who want to get going with that. Um, we also are going to restructure our school council. We really want to make sure that everybody at that table led by Dr. Thomas has a really clear picture of what happens at Quinn every day. this as she mentioned the safety drills, our procedures, our protocols, um that they can bring back to the community when they have conversations with different people or suggestions how we could change if that's something that you know um we want to work on.
So those are the sort of decisions that we weigh in and try and um air on the side of of being prudent and certainly trying to stop anything before it escalates and gets worse. It is somewhat bothersome that we have assault, we have physical violence, but we don't have the definitions. Yeah. But if it's you know what this is the policy committee guy for CABE, so I'm going to step out for a second. I'm asking about assault, too. Well, it says though, was this a verified assault? Wouldn't that have to be verified by the police? I, you know, I think that the principal could probably look at a video and say, you know, student A punched student B and that's assault. But I don't think that that can be considered a verified. It depends on because what the state is going to define is verifiable.
Um we have an auditing process that it goes through. Uh the governing board did approve portions of SAV that we use um and didn't approve others. So um we are very well aware of that and we'll continue to do that. And as we move through the curriculum process, um I think you will find and I and I say this and I believe our members that were here before, you are hardressed to find a curriculum um that's going to be perfect to fit our needs. So we have to pick and choose. Again, a curriculum is a um a curriculum is a supplement to teach our state standards. Just because we choose a a SAVE or something doesn't mean that's the curriculum. So, we use materials to supplement uh the state standards and teach the state standards what the state of Arizona says we must teach kids.
Let's stand for 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. All right, first item of business. Uh we need to elect uh permanent officers for the new board is con constituted. Um we're going to take nominations for president. Then we'll take nominations for vice president. We'll take nominations for secretary and before each uh moving on to each office, we will vote on each office individually. So can I get a nomination for office of president, please? I nominate Don Rener. That does not need to be seconded, right? No. Do we have any other nominations?
Best of luck on the next steps of your journey and remember you always have a home here in SD308. Jen, Jared, Eugene, and Latana, your leadership and service has served this community well. Thank you all for welcoming me with open arms when I came onto the board two years ago. I'm proud of the work this board has done and I have appreciated everyone's contributions during the time we've worked together. Jen, I will miss your passionate advocacy for the safety and success of the most vulnerable vulnerable in our community and your commitment to uplifting the voices of our young people. Thank you, Jared. Service to your community is not just what you do, it's who you are. A true public servant in every aspect of the word. I'll miss your history lessons. You could call anytime if you're being honest. Yeah, if we're being honest. Yeah, the job pays me the same.
When before COVID, we had a robust volunteer um amount of people who wanted to volunteer at Quinn. Then when COVID happened, we kind of moved away from that. And I think that it's important to us to bring that back to life and make sure that if there are parents who want to come in and help the teachers in any capacity or help the school, whether it's organizing helping organize the library, um anything what that would look like. Um we really want to push and get that message open. So with that we would do we do do trainings and um you know we have conversations so that everybody knows you know the inner workings of what happens when you volunteer at Quinn. Um and also we just want to continue to expand our partnerships with different stakeholders and organizations in the community. Get them into Quinn know that they can access the school as a hub for um anybody who needs it.
It's a legal definition. So and we don't and this the policy doesn't have those definitions, right? So that verified mean like in my mind that means that means that they've pressed charges with the we have verified teen dating violence defined but we don't have assault or physical violence. I think those need to Well, physical violence should be Well, then I guess we have to write to our legislature. Yeah. Seriously, this is their law. Yeah, we had a perfectly good one, didn't we, though? Yeah, it was very good. I do say so myself. The regulation that's this this one page the regulation. Yes. Which is part of the same thing. Yes. A regulation to consider. This is guidance from the Connecticut. Oh to consider. We're considering this. Uh, I'll take this time. Yeah. I'm glad he's having a good time. Fun conversation. Okay, sorry for that pause, but um so you know couple of points that Jody made was one, you know, he believes that the interpretation is accurate, but the language here uh around the administration of surveys is verbatim from the statute.
There's not one single um curriculum that's going to accomplish that. So, we need to pick and choose in many different places and supplementals to make that happen. So, we are well aware of the requirements that the governing board has of this district. we pay attention to that and we don't bring those forward um or teach them to our kids. So, I was looking at this list as well when she was talking. Um so, I'm not against um voting to continue this because I mean I understand we're not changing curriculum overnight. Um, but I think there should be somewhat of a discussion because I could tell you like the Moby Max education when my kids were on the online education, uh, there was, and I'm not saying we're doing it here, but I'm just saying I've seen it in the past and they may have changed it because it's been a couple years.
Hearing none. Uh should that be a roll call vote, Julie? We can do that. Yes. Okay. Um Julie, then you can call the role on uh on the office of president. Um those in favor of voting for Don Runner for president. Cara Casten. I Courtney I Dawson I Espinosa I. April Finnen I. Michael Riskey I. And Don Rener I. Motion carries. Um then next can I get a nomination from the floor for vice president? I nominate Cara Casten. Thank you president. Okay. Uh are any any other nominations for vice president?
Exactly. Uh your history lessons, your wealth of experience and conversations on all sorts of topics. Eugene, uh, I've admired your steady thought process, uh, as a member of the board, always seeking to understand, always willing to support, and always seeing the possibilities of what could be. Uh, you have a heart for young people that is unmatched. Latana, Madame President, thank you for your leadership. You have been committed to ensuring we were always moving in the right direction and things were moving smoothly. You took up the presidency during a difficult time in schools as we were navigating the pandemic, but you leaned in for the betterment of your community and have continue to do so during your time as board president. That type of sacrifice and commitment is a testament to who you are and how you care for your community. Early in my tenure, you navigated working with four new board members and successfully leading a hiring process of our new superintendent along with all the other duties that came with being president.
students, families, teachers, um, and just make sure that we they know that our doors are always open and I will pass it on. Okay. And our focus area four, budget and capital improvements. As again, a new principal, this wasn't something that I had a lot of expertise in when it came to the budget. Thank you, Mr. Kylie for answering all my phone calls when I would call you and ask you questions this year. Um, I really appreciate that. Um, and also a huge thank you to Carol Hart, my amazing secretary, who has also been just amazing with helping me with all things budget. Um, some of our action steps to continue the work of the playground committee. This is something that we started this year in the fall. Um, and I had a great committee. we would meet monthly and talk all about how we wanted to um make some outdoor spaces at Quinn um more accessible to students and we are on the right path.