The house is packed. The community is invited to attend the CIS art show reception which I think already happened. Um the CIS unified sports teams competed at their end of year event this past weekend. Thank you to all the parent volunteers who helped make last Friday's Ellis event Ellis Island simulation a huge success in fourth grade. CIS practice safe routes to schools for their participation in walk, bike, and roll to school day in May. Uh the sixth grade celebration will be held in the CIS gym on Tuesday, June 10th. Uh sixth grade sixth grade students had a beautiful day of leadership training with Empower Leadership at the Adventure Park in stores last week. Um spring concerts have come to a close. Each grade's band and chorus as well as their chamber singers, concert choir, and polarist jazz ensemble performed over three concerts this week. Fourth graders visited the Hillstone Museum and had a couple beautiful days to sketch in the gardens.
So I just need to move just need to shift one of those columns. Not only are you great at this, apparently you're good at Excel. So you should give yourself a pat on the back. Yes, I will. Well, thank you. And so there was a question last time about what was the third most common home language. I was like, I know I have the data. I just don't have it memorized. And so when I went back and looked at it, it is Somali with 19 students, which is a significant difference between our second most common language, which is nearly um 2500 students who speak Spanish. And then the the other student the other languages are grouped by the number of students. This is super helpful. I appreciate this. Yeah, me too. I It's nice to see because it I think in the past we've had conversations where it just is hard to say.
Any questions on any of that? All in favor? I I uh discuss future agenda items. Appoint burial agents. Raj if that that we'll bring that on next time. Thanks. And the next thing on the agenda is the reorganization of the board. Is that tonight or is that for our next meeting? That's for actually tonight. Tonight. Okay. Um well guess we can discuss that. Well, um, is there can we table it? Absolutely. For one one meeting. Yeah. Yeah. And then we can just have a discussion. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Sure. Because Barbara's not here either. So, so we we'll put it in the next meeting. Sounds good. Perfect. Uh, so our next meeting date is June 17th. Are we going to need that date or are we going to wait till July? We we can we can work on that, right? And then then I'll be in contact with the board.
Members of the Spanish National Honor Society, myself included, went to CIS to present lessons on some basic Spanish for the fifth and sixth graders yesterday. And the sixth graders had a fantastic trip to the Rock today. Fantastic. Thank you very much. I will say um that I did go to the concerts at CIS and Mr. B and Mr. Mark and Mrs. Dominico uh do a fabulous job and the enthusiasm that they have with the kids is just it's just wonderful. But what an improvement is I went to the ball once and then really night and day night and day. So thank you for that report Juliana. Um so I will be reporting on cherry book. So most recently grade three attended this the CT science center and with the gracious support of the PTO. Um all the chair third graders got to explore and um like explore the universe and they were able to do a planetarium there which they really enjoyed.
So it's nice to see this. Yes. And it it's it's one of the things I had to I have to ask every time because for some reason it's hard for me to remember. Um but we have the two other sets of language. We have other non-Indian and other Indian languages. So um other non-Indian languages we have 29 students and then um we have where's the other one other Indian then second to last bullet point which is three students each and those are federal labels gotcha that we use those are not labels and so Larara Janicki who is our synergy wiz she repeatedly has to remind me that other Indian what That means it c it can be a Native American language or it can be a language from India. Okay. What in the Okay. Correct. When we have our commentary about that, that is what that means.
Okay. In case we we have to skip that, you know. Okay. Yeah. If we if we usually have another items, it's not worth Yeah, I agree. But I'll I'll be in communication with the board. Okay. Thank you. Um, does anybody have any new business? No. Or a motion to adjurnn then? Make a motion to adjurnn. Second. Favor. I I thank you. Thank you.
In addition, uh last Friday the 30th was the children's fair and this is the 60th children's fair so far. And um in addition that was also in combination with NHS here at the high school. We had a lot of volunteers go down there and help uh run the games. And I also know that the fire EMS was there. Um the volunteer so volunteer fire and EMS was there. The camp police was there. Um so there was a bunch of just community joining together for that fair. Um on Monday, June 2nd, the Cherry Brook music teachers, Miss Card and Miss Dominico, held their um annual chair folk dance celebration. And throughout this week, uh, kindergarten ners and third grade classrooms will continue to hold their end of the year celebrations. Um, also on Monday, June 2nd, Chair Book revealed their plural. Um, and this was created by Joanne and Bruce Hunter.
And um we do have so there and and those are going to be languages that are really that are that are not very common, right? Because we do have some Native American languages that are called out separately on their own like you see Navajo. Um, San Carlos Apache is here and then I know like Yaki is another one we've had in the past and so then other non-Indian would be any other language in the world. So very uncommon. So even though that number 29 is larger than the Somali which is multiple different languages that we don't have identified. Okay. I think I had also may I did I I feel like this maybe I had been the one that asked this question but I can't remember because I think I was curious if we had and I think my my thinking behind it was um not that it helps with this thing but also translating to our guard rails with uh family supports um in terms of um like a Somali like community liaison or somebody who would be able to like serve in some sort of role in that way.
Um, and they were from the CG art spot and they spent over four days um, also working with students to make this work. Um, so yeah, on Friday morning, the cheer group will welcome the high school seniors as they do their uh parade through the hallways. Um, I know we're really looking forward to that, too. Um, and then they will also have beach day coming up and the third grade. That's so pretty. Do you go there or they come here to to you? We go there. You go there. Excellent report. I think we should give a round of applause. Thank you very much.
Just like an idea for the future. Yeah. I think the challenge is like you see that there's the 19 students there that speak Somali. It's not just that they're spread out. It's also that we have a much larger number of students from Somalia. It's just that in Somalia, not everyone speaks. They don't all speak Yeah. Somalia. So the challenge is we would actually need representatives that speak either multiple languages or a broad or we would need a broad range of multiple um individuals which doesn't mean that there's not a pathway to that. One of the things that I don't know if we've made any headway on, but we've been talking about is there is um some sort of I don't know that it's technically a consulate, but there is some sort of Somali organization here um either within the district or adjacent to the district um that I know we've had intention to do outreach to to see if they could support.
Okay, any questions for the student reps? We will have since there's not a high school report, Mr. Po's report Friday will have a lot of the high school accomplishments. There's been a lot of athletic teams that are really performing well. So, Mr. Pipple will have that in his report this Friday. Great. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay. Um, now we go back to the continuous improvement plan. The board of education had a uh was hosted by Mr. Amory last week, Friday, right? I'm sorry. For the record, there's no she no business man for the record. Yeah, for the record. Uh, Mr. Amry hosted us did a did a fabulous job. Um, we heard some great things. We're going to summarize that for us. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Daniels, and um thank you to board of education, Mr. Daniels, Dr. Gman, M. Bishop for joining us last Friday.
Yeah. Yeah. Um I know I don't think well he's no Mktar is no longer on the Baltz board but had been involved in that organization in the past and I think yeah there's definitely resources there and the numbers are changing. I actually had to look at a report today and there are now 25 students with Somalia as the home language. Um, and one so this really is home language which is identified through the home language survey which has three questions on it and if a family answers anything other than English on that form it's listed as a home language. that doesn't always mean that that's the preferred language of the family. And so I can't remember if I talked about this the last time or not, but we're currently working our educational secretaries are working on completing an additional field in Synergy, which is the correspondence language.
It was a wonderful morning. Um we highlighted uh the growth and took a tour of the school and got to see you know teachers and students um in action. So I'm going to summarize um our action steps for this year um which I highlighted on on on Friday. In student growth and achievement we're really focused this year on building based team structured and curriculum data and high quality instruction. We've continuously monitored student achievement and we've continued to refine our multi-ter systems of support for partnerships and community engagement. We've held various events throughout the year to um welcome parents, community members um and and everybody in the community to to Cherrybrook. Um we've maintained um inform formal and informal communications with with families. Um we've collaborated tremendously with our Cherry Brook PTO. We can't thank them enough for all of the support and um that they've shown this year.
And so we have now on our enrollment forms um for the incoming school year, it will ask home language and also correspondence language. And so that will give us a better count of how many families need translation. Cool. So we're almost there. Sorry, I have a question regarding like the targeted versus integrated instruction. Yes. Um because I I know we've gone over it a few times I think with Jay and with even Dr. Dupin, but I was like ah it's so much to wrap your head around. It is. Um so for like the integrated instruction that would be like say in their like home room classroom with their peers, right? And then the teacher what you said scaffolds that lesson. Um, oh sorry now I just lost my question. Um so sorry let me go to so of so so that that essentially means that almost any teacher or or are are they so so when the students are placed in the classroom is like any special attention like put on like oh you know like here we have these multilingual learners and so I don't know if this this might go down to like the principles.
And we've found ways to deepen our productive partnerships with um other community organizations such as the game art. Um in regards to financial sustainability and efficient operations, we continuously collaborate with staff and central office to ensure that our budget for next year reflects the needs of of Cherry Brook students and staff. for learning, environment, and belonging. We we continuously refine our um culture and climate initiative, and we're always finding ways of creating opportunities to recognize and celebrate students and and teacher success. For embracing diversity, we we've utilized the committee structure to support each and every student at Cherrybrook. We've implemented high qual quality instructional practices to support learning for all. And we're continuously recognizing and bringing awareness to staff and students about being kind, being safe, and being responsible. And for workforce development, we've fostered a comprehensive um professional development this past spring. um specifically with the launch of Benchmark advance our um ELA curriculum and we continuously provide all adults that have touch points on Swiss students um with um comprehensive um comprehensive um meetings and and providing them with repertoire to support all students.
So are they then put like okay this teacher is a really great integrated instructor. What if there I'm just wondering if there's a teacher who's like maybe a new teacher or maybe is absolutely a fair question. Multilingual learners like how like how do we ensure that our multilingual learners are placed in a classroom with a teacher who is capable or maybe experienced with the the integrated teaching or even with like the targeted teaching if it's in one of those. Um, absolutely. Anyways, yes. So, we do there's a couple of different things to highlight. I throw my papers everywhere. Uh, so compliancewise, there is an SEI endorsement in the state of Arizona. And so, any teacher who is teaching multilingual learners or what the state would call an English learner in our state needs to have their SEI endorsement. So they've had 40 I think it's 45 hours of training specifically on how to scaffold instruction and teach language explicitly.
That's kind of a highlight of trade work this year. So let me ask you what were what were your personal highlights this year? if you need one or two or three your personal highlights for this academic year. I think the growth that all of our students have done academically knowing that every student has come in um in Cherry Brook at the first day of school is leaving with leaving us that much stronger and and and with lot more growth just across the board academically, socially, emotionally. That's a big highlight. Um, another highlight is when I'm outside greeting children on every day. Um, they're always coming up and saying good morning and um, coming into school with a smile. So, that's that's a really big highlight. They're feeling welcomed at Cherry Brook. So, I'm going to tell you this Saturday I was out to dinner and and a parent came up to me and she says, "I just want to tell you they had just moved here.
So when we can those teachers are prioritized for having English learners in their classroom and the other piece is if you know due to the staffing shortage right that's not always an option and so what is then the next step is that we have to have a plan in place for that teacher to become SEI endorsed and so that's something that the site administration works with HR on um and just so that's the compliance answer and then the like qualitative answer is we do our absolute best and one thing that I can say because I've worked with all of our principles and assistant principles on this is that they are always looking out for our multilingual learners and make specific choices about which teacher get is teaching targeted and integrated instruction and when I shared before that sometimes integrated instruction might be in math or in less.
Unfortunately, they're going to move again." She says, "I just have to tell you, my daughter entered cheer school um a grade and a half behind in reading level. The whole team just swarmed her and at this particular point, she's at grade level again." Tears in her eyes saying, "What a great job Cherry Book did. I'm going to miss it. I wish we didn't have to leave." So there's been It's been a team effort. What a team you had. Thank you, Mr. Daniels.
Yeah. Um and so let's look at the the pullout model for example. So when we look at the students who are in the pull out model that two hours is specifically is is related to English language arts instruction. So a teacher who teaches English language arts is delivering either the targeted or the integrated instruction. And then when you look at the two and that would actually be the same when you look at the 50/50 model, DLI model. When you're looking at the 2hour model, that 120 minutes, that 2 hours of their English language arts block is all targeted instruction. And then there's an additional class that needs to be integrated. And that's the example where you will see students getting their integrated instruction from math or science or history. And I will tell you that that conver that com that that question you just asked is taken into consideration and that's one of the reasons why some campuses might have the math teacher doing the integrated and some might have the science or the history because they are looking to see which is the best teacher to be able to do this for these kids.