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so of course that meant the trust had to drop that from our coverage that was not a happy situation the leadership of the trust went to their board of directors a week ago with a plan to use their own the trust's own little pool of money that they have um i can't think right now it's called but it's the pool of money that they have to back up all of the lawsuits and liability and to come up with a plan to help school districts head off any issues that might be caused by lawsuits relative to covered banking that's it kind of in a nutshell so this is the document that if we wanted to add this to our contract with the trust i think of it as a writer you know when we talk about our vehicle insurance and whatever we talk about a writer this is kind of a writer so it has pretty significant coverage for a district hour size would cost us twenty thousand dollars for the year and there would be deductibles and so if you're looking at 0.2.2 in the document the deductibles are based on whether or not our families would sign waivers or acknowledgements of claims so if our parents if we choose to add this writer to our policy we would ask our families to review the document for either a waiver or an acknowledgement the difference being that with a waiver parents are essentially saying we are assuming the risk for our children to come back to school and essentially saying we would not sue the district if our child has coped 19 we all know that parents cannot entirely sign away the rights of their children so just because folks signed waivers does not mean that they might not sue us but it's a little better protection on the other hand they might sign an acknowledgement that says i recognize that sending my child to school has increased risks at this time so the deductibles are based on whether or not families sign an acknowledgement or sign a waiver or don't sign any of them so you can see with the deductibles if a family does not sign either of those documents that there would then be a deductible that the district would have to pay for each claim if they've signed the one of those thought if they've signed the waiver there is no deductible so someone could choose to sue if the trust takes it over handles the whole situation if someone is signed acknowledgement and chooses to sue then we have a 20 000 deductible per incident if they've signed the waiver as i said there's no deductible at all so this is the document that once you discuss whether you want to be part of or want to have this rider on our contract that you would sign indicating that we would become part of that program part of the reason the trust developed this is that there was concern in many districts that districts you know could in fact be sued it is possible that either the federal or the or the state governments will pass bills that make schools not liable if that happens then whatever we might have paid in the 20 000 we would probably get back because we're part of the trust and they're not trying to make money on this they're trying to help us by doing something that the reinsurers will not do and i'll try to answer any questions you might have the 100 insurance person but they provided us with a question and answer also on that and on the we're returning our funds they didn't say that it would be the enemy's portion right so if it passes immediately we get it all back it's pre-rated if we don't or when it comes through so it wouldn't be a full refund it would be adjusted um the question and answer had a lot of yes information in there on different things um and i also sat in uh on a webinar with them where lots of other folks asked questions and you know answered and got this answered as well but i thought that question and answer document did a pretty good job of explaining all of this um and and um i will tell you that i was a little concerned at first about what our contribution might be toward this rider given the size of our district 20 000 is really not a very big amount of money um you know for 2 students or so and especially when we could have to work out twenty thousand dollars for the first incident you know or if we didn't have this we have we have the entire cost legal costs i i personally am in favor of taking the insurance policy and i would like us to do the uh waiver and assumption of risk form um you know they did address situations like those that refuse to sign as long as it's in general practice we're not going to not enroll a student because they didn't find the form but i think we need to to do the waiver and assumption risk form along with this policy any other questions before we make a motion then i would like to move that we approve item 2.6 forward city covered endorsement uh with the 2.21 uh being the claims and assumption risk forms that we use i [Music] item 2.7 return to school dr stewart um i included in the packet a mmo with a number of reasons that um i really was making and making the recommendation that we continued virtual school through october 1st through the end of first quarter at this point really all i'd like to do is show some information from that document primarily for the folks in the audience but also for you the first one being the county metrics these are being updated every thursday late every thursday so these are the metrics from last thursday however they are also the metrics from two weeks prior so we finally got kind of an understanding of what 14-day change is with a day lag the seven day difference is because it takes some time to get all of the information in from the various reporting agencies so this is these are the data for mohammed county number one and number two are strictly from mohave county number three metrics are for mojave la palmas and yuma counties because of the way that is reported to the federal federal health agencies we have i'm sorry this is the all county one um maybe can we could look at the one that's attached along them i forgot to click on the county when i did that this afternoon thank you i'm sorry okay so in this one and i'm sorry it's not very big for y'all it's on the right you can see that for metric number one the number of cases in the county have dropped for two consecutive weeks which meets the first metric for metric number two we were talking about the percent of positive results from tests the metric is that for schools to open that needs to be below seven percent for two weeks you can see that as of last thursday or mohave county it was at 14.7 so it had begun to drop but it's not close to the seven percent and for the third metric which is um coded like illnesses in hospitals we passed the mohawk county along with laplace and yuma met that metric of two weeks of decline if you would go to the um this one from the document that we got from arizona department of health services these are the metrics this is the continuum and so you can see that on the left side it says scenario three virtual with online supports if one or more of the benchmarks is in the red and that's where we are right now a hybrid schooling situation could happen if you have two uh if all three are in yellow and green and if all are in green the recommendation is that's when you put kids back in school um people just scroll up just a little bit okay so the benchmarks are in this table that you can see right here with number of cases percent positivity encoded like illnesses and then the other uh view that i have here is was this the last page from the the powerpoint that explained all of this talks about um thanks for watching it presents the same thing the cases the percent positivity and the copied like illnesses one of the things that you'll notice for percent positivity uh is that moderate says five to ten 10 the recommendation from the health department state health department and the county is that if when we go back to in person school then we would only need to move back to a different step if we were somewhere in the 5 to 10 range but for initial opening the recommendation is to be below 7 for 2 weeks so the little graphic at the bottom kind of becomes the decision tree so are new cases in minimal or moderate transmission category for two weeks is there a two-week decline in the number of new cases in mohawk county that's a yes is the percent of positive coded 19 cases less than seven percent for two weeks that's a no and so the recommendation is maintain virtual virtual learning and then the other set of data that i would like to show you are data that are directly related to bull head city not the entire county i have been keeping track of the number of cases involved since june 1st and in the same manner that the state was doing weekly averages for benchmark one i've been doing them for i did this for on the data for just for golden city for that same uh those same data the blue line represents the actual averages for those weeks up through last friday excel takes those data and will do some projections you can see the projections are kind of wild on this one so the orange line in the middle is the projection based on um the mathematical handling of the data up through august 8.
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um and my question is the high school starts at 8 2. so we didn't move that one to we didn't move that one back because we felt like it still encompassed the time that they were in there it was truly if we started at nine they're missing out on an hour and we didn't want that if they come in earlier at 7 25 we'll still be able to support the high school and they'll be ready to go at 8 o'clock next slide please and so when we talk about the guidelines and what's happening on our campuses please understand that like with the first one they'll have a designated classroom so we'll have limited spaces that there are going to be on campus this is not going to be coming to campus we're going to be spread out about where it's going to happen we will be using multi-purpose rooms cafeterias gymnasiums to allow us to put more kids spread out in a location than just within a classroom a lot of this is going to depend on the registrations and the numbers that we have the more kids that we have the more space that we're going to need so that we can maintain that physical distancing and spread them out on campuses so we will be assigning those classrooms based upon the registration can i ask a quick question about technology in that situation okay if a kiddo brings their own laptop from home into our space how are we getting them on the internet does anyone know so we're encouraging i'm like oh i don't know that i did not even think about it until this very moment so i apologize you're fine so elementary set and it's actually in the next slide it has worked with us to get enough laptops and headphones for every kid that comes so the kids that um come for secondary we're encouraging them to bring their district administered or whatever rent it out what do i call it loan down district i haven't dealt with that question if they if we can work with it to get them on because there is a way we do know it is going to be available to support us so is it there isn't there like a vpn number that they can sign on to and then sort of like it the wi-fi is open so they can okay i wasn't sure that the wi-fi was open on all of our cases that was really my question okay is our wi-fi yes it is curtis is telling me it is definitely for sure open on all the campuses thank you i have a question for this um so we don't know exactly what the ratio is going to be quite yet because we're going to still confirm but what is our goal for our ratio for i know the answer for elementary i'm gonna stay out of history okay okay so elementaries are shooting for one to ten and if needed one to fifteen so we're working really hard because the feedback we got from the kids club was some of those kids those little kids need more support technology wise so in the perfect world it's one to ten i we were we're also getting some substitutes that will be i know miss martens might want to talk about that later that we're trying to over staff for monday rather than understaff if that makes sense and then i guess my question would be it would be one to ten and those one are going to be with only those ten that's what our goal is to code [Music] all day long all day long kind of how we did it in kids club yes that person is going to stay with those kids siblings together kind of thing as well if possible um the siblings thing there's been feedback both ways on that yes i have twins sometimes they're great together sometimes they're not so i get it but sometimes just getting kids online at the same time versus like things overlapping on top of each other and secondary at the secondary level we haven't really designated a ratio because we're looking at using some of our larger facilities to spread the kids out on tables and so honestly it could look like there's 30 kids within the gym or the cafeteria with two adults supervising or walking around through that area right now our secondary numbers are tracking a lot lower than our elementary numbers are president kale are members of the board one of the things that was important in that survey was for us to begin to get an idea of the number who might have taken advantage of that and so that initial survey we had people who said yes they were interested in doing that we've reached out to those individuals and because registration which we're going to talk about here in a minute is very very important and that will help us obviously we are planning on staffing for the higher number the higher number but to give an example uh for instance at higley high school there may have been 72 people who indicated that they were wanting to take advantage of those services and at this point we have eight registrations so again registration we're going to stress how important that will be obviously will be anticipated ready for the number but registration is going to be huge but the number i think once we've provided clarity on what the support services are and how they're going to be structured i think individuals decided either they were not interested in taking that or they still need to register and that registration will be huge so that we can staff appropriately but again we are in we are preparing for the the highest number so that our supervision and staffing is appropriate and truly this is a we are thankful for our employee groups across all who are ready to be there to help and be part of staffing because again all it's going to take we're going to make sure we're safe and secure for everyone so can parents pick up at any time how does that work that's a great segue to the next bullet up there yes okay so yes we know because of the numbers that yes we parents have the ability to bring their kids in and take them out when they when they need to be able to and especially since uh we're here to provide support so if they come and they're able to do their support and get everything done we also know that supervision with kids as they're sitting there and if they don't have extra things to do and things like that can also create a challenge so we're asking encouraging parents that please come in and get the support that they need and then they do have the ability then to come and pick up their children will libraries be open or media centered like to give like that was like a valid question right that yeah especially more not so much high school because i know they're under construction but um more the middle schools and elementary if they got done with their homework and their parents still needs them to sit it might be important that we can definitely we can pull you know allow them to check out some books some of the media assist centers are being used for children so we'll navigate that i think we just don't know how many kids we're getting and after a couple of days we'll we'll be more more informed i would say but yes yeah can mrs richards can you kind of describe for instance like a first graders i remember correctly is done at like 8 55 or 9 25 they all run together but so what would it look like from the time they're done with their live lesson with their teacher what happens from there i mean if these kids are there until three o'clock can you kind of describe what that somewhat looks like so that's the challenge vice president reece and that's why we've been calling families intentionally to describe you know this is what this looks like so they'll have their live lesson with their teachers and then they'll have recorded or live specials opportunity they will have scheduled breaks like stretching movement breaks go outside have a mask break they can bring a snack they'll also have the opportunity before it starts for breakfast and lunch those things the that's that's the concern is this is not this is not school with a teacher so they will have those assignments in all core areas that they can work on with the support of the adults we have in there so i'm thinking more along the lines of some of our essential workers who will need their kids to be there during that time right and so i'm just trying to get an idea of what that's going to look like is there any other specific activities to keep them busy are we going to keep them in front of this screen the whole time like if they're kind of like we are here i mean i've completed my work they've come now whatever and it's ten o'clock in the morning and i've done my my assignments i'm here until three so what does so that's things we're working through this um is a challenge for us because like i said our teachers are teaching and so as we navigate it bringing books is one thing from home that they could read think our concern is making sure parents really understand what this was designed to be and what it's not and so i don't want children to suffer absolutely not so as we walk through this we'll be able better to navigate it kids club is open it's awesome in preschool so some families are choosing to continue that route they'll have preschool kids but all the way up through 12 years old and they're structured a little differently so i know that's not a perfect answer right now but we've really struggled with is this you know fun with recess and a whole bunch of activities or is this just on-site free support for learning so you're right what about those kids that sit there till three i think we've answered most on this slide the only thing is that we are asking that when they come they are engaging in their schoolwork and that will be that will be an expectation if you're there next slide is there somewhere in the slide presentation as far as that coming up is that when they come on campus are we going to get to that we will definitely talk about that it's not bulleted as a bullet but once again going going through school school guidelines just about masks will be required and for uh students and staff when they are on campus with the idea that yes there will be built-in masks breaks and when we have the ability to to social distance and are beyond six feet then we have that ability then to have the flexibility with the masks the elementary students like mrs richards said it's worked and we have laptops and headphones available for them so they don't need to transfer tran transport back and forth however with the secondary schools we are asking them to bring their own devices and come we will have a limited number available should the need arise but we're asking for those secondary uh folks to come and bring the headphones and devices breakfast and luff's lunch will be offered similarly and this is where the registration process is important for us so we can kind of plan about how many kids we know we're needing at every site especially with uh lunch with food services and it's going to be consistent with what it would be during a regular school year meaning free and reduced lunch rates apply you can also bring your own lunch and snacks if necessary and you would like to and we encourage people to bring water bottles in their own water bottles as well so that they have that with them on campus a board member watovic i'm going to jump in here before we talk about student behavior expectations and clarify at the elementary sites the individuals that have been assigned to these groups of kids will meet them out front to take them to their location so that's what happens at the beginning of the day we're asking that they get there prior to eight o'clock since the instruction starts at eight if somebody's late then we'll have somebody in the office be able to escort them um and dismissal will be very similar unless a parent chooses to pick their kid up at noon or earlier if they get done hopefully that answers does that answer what you're asking mrs richardson i was just curious when a student comes onto the campus what is the protocol okay i mean okay i just went and got a haircut today for the first time since for the pandemic people they took my temperature okay i had to sign a statement that i wasn't around anybody that had had you know fed eggs or cold or anything like that and i had to sign a waiver just to get a haircut today so where are we at with this i mean somebody's going to be checking because when the parent brings the child up there they're just going to drop them off and if johnny has a temperature or been around somebody how are we going to know this how are we going to safely protect our staff and parents just dropping off perhaps a sick child and leave them i'm really concerned for the safety of our staff here absolutely okay so board member mr wotovich one of the things i think you've seen these family health screening expectations the questions that does your child have any one of the following these are being printed and if you saw them at kids club they're outside every site it's also part of the registration process that parents understand don't send your kid i want to say to school sorry don't send your kid to targeted support services if they have chills congestion diarrhea etc in the classroom or the multi-purpose rooms there's hand sanitation sanitizer that the students can use and if miss patti gleason was here she would say they all should go to the sink and wash their hands before they start i'm not sure every space has a sink but i am sure every space has hand sanitizer for sure so on top of that the training that our principals are going to work through with these employees prior to monday and you could probably go help them would you like to so you're aware of the box of items so i think this is a unique time because we're not we're not doing recess we're it's it's just kind of an odd setting that they will be trained on how to keep these kids safe and the employees safe i'm just curious um is like the staff i mean if if a child is sick there um or if a child is sick coming in why aren't we having any um nursing staff designated person why aren't we checking if i'm getting checked to get my hair cut why aren't we getting checked for these students coming in with with uh i mean just to save you know so everybody else is safe you know so every campus has a health aide that will be there my campuses um have indicated they're going to help greet and get people in the building yeah i know mr tovic that um even in the colleges the children have to um the students have to take their own temperature in their room or their dorm and so it you know it's professors trying to take everybody's temperature on the way in kind of thing so they're asking that the student and i guess that would be our you know our hope with our families that you know if your child wakes up and has little pink cheeks or something that we would check that little temperature and make sure that that kiddo's okay president kaler members of the board that's one of the pro that's one of those self-responsibilities and that we're going to be teaching as a procedure that everyone has to be vigilant on being aware of their how they're feeling and if they're not that they aren't not feeling well that if it changes at any point that their responsibility is to communicate that so that we can get them help and support and and you know truly our students when they understand the why and their role in that i do believe they will take this seriously but it's part of our our community uh processes as a as from students to adults of awareness of how i'm feeling and the communication of that and my responsibility for that is a big piece a very big piece can i ask one final question because mr rutovich was talking about that what about students who show up without a parent okay so when they register the parents are indicating like how they get home and if somebody's a walker i know that we're going to have blockers we're going to have bike riders if somebody shows up that's not registered we're going to have to hang on to them and get a hold of their families because i can't let somebody in that i haven't verified they're supposed to be there it's safe for them to be there etc so we are that's why we're one reason for this presentation is to inform families you need to register before monday because we want to be prepared the worst thing i can do is tell a kid you've got to sit here until i figure out what's going on so with this registration are we sending it out again just to those that said they were interested so they're right and we're going to do that again tomorrow so it was sent to them that were following up with phone calls okay very good thank you and i'm going to applaud my principles for the time they've spent doing that so what about a parent who's watching this presentation right now and is saying hey wait i think i might need this so they should contact their school okay and say i missed that could you send it to me or help me register thank you you're welcome members of the board that we also have we have this powerpoint we're required by executive order to put this information we have actually created a parent version that mirrors this exactly on our website as well with that information as well as we're required to list our mitigation plan as well so that's also on our website so that we are in compliance with those field components okay student behavior we want families and students to know that we have high expectations to follow the code of conduct whether we're on campus or virtual we're the same higley great kids every place we are we want to ensure the safety of themselves and other students we want to follow all prescribed health and safety expectations those questions that will be out front on the poster on the a-frame will also be posted in the locations where the kids are working and they can be reminded of those part of that self take care of yourself we also want them to behave in a way that doesn't disrupt the learning of the other students in this environment we want them to go straight to and from their assigned areas and i think mr lotzenhauser probably has systematic plans for secondary where they enter where they exit and it's just like any time we're with husd we're going to be respectful we're not going to disrespect staff or students leave campus without permission this is a support service and we want to take care of these kids but we also expect them to behave next slide please okay these are some of the parent expectations they're going to verify the contact information and everything within synergy is correct we're going to work with them to make sure their immunizations are up to date health aides have been looking at all the kids that were interested to make sure everything's in sync we're going to give them a week to get those updated also give them information about free free resources and free sites here's the daily health screening prior to arrival on campus the parents and the students have to understand our code of conduct if a child has specific health needs we need to know so if a kid has asthma or anything we need to be informed and we're not going to release a kid to just anybody that shows up they have to have their id i can just say thank you to whoever got our husd code of conduct up online and it was just some clicks instead of three colors of paper for every child in the house and the bus everything was just online and it was just wonderful so i don't know who did that but it was awesome this year thank you good um in just a little more detail dr foley spoke about this but if parents can register by 12 pm on thursday we can adequately staff to support their children we are saying they will not be allowed to attend however we're about children so if somebody shows up and they haven't registered we have paper copies for them to fill out and we will do our best to get them in it might be the next day we just have to you know align staffing to student needs and we're also informing families that kids club has what we call wrap-around care before and after at every site in addition at saseman preschool parents have the option if they want to stay with the amazing kids club staff they can do that as well so i think that's it i just want to thank the staff that has agreed to do this yes um i know this isn't an easy choice and i know it's a lot of our aides and a lot of our bus drivers you mentioned and i'm sure that they're not normally used to being in a classroom setting the bus drivers so i just want to thank them because i know it's a hard choice to do this and it's a big deal so thank you it is okay the next part of our presentation today is an update on athletics on august 5th the ai aia approved a fall calendar with staggered beginning of fall sports and we'll go through the stagger beginning in the timelines and so i think that had been a question that had been coming up quite a bit and we were waiting for guidance from the aia and on the fifth they decided yes there would be fall sports in arizona i think there are continuing discussions related to this especially when you hear about the fact there's not going to be asu football until the spring maybe for some of us u of a fans that was okay but um you know things are getting pushed back into the uh into the spring in a lot of colleges however at this time we have not received any further guidance from the aia in terms of doing anything to change what the plan was done on the august 5th yeah that that's interesting i think mr glover you told me that the from the pac-10 or whatever schools already have said that they're not yeah they're not going to do this and and we're we're behind here aren't we i mean if everybody else is doing this at college level i think they would be a little farther ahead here it's been very very interesting because there's a very diverse different paths that some of the conferences are taking and some of them are not especially with the collegian level and then honestly within the state of arizona there are some different places that are not going to i think tucson just pushed theirs back from football they wouldn't start until october and so there's a lot of different things that are in place and so i'm going to go through this presentation today but what i'd really like to do is we're preparing a much deeper dive into this for our next board meeting that i'd like to actually spend some time have our athletic directors here we can start talking about some different plans some ideas within two weeks who knows what's going to change and so we might have to have a much significant update from where we're at but under the rules of where we're at right now here's kind of what we're going to do um these shortened seasons have been reduced the playoffs have been reduced from 16 teams to eight teams so that eliminated basically a week from the season as well the updated schedules they started working on them today in terms of football the 6a conference met today and that's where our football teams are in i was told we are very much pushing to make sure that we keep our williams field versus higley football game and then the 5a teams are starting conference meeting is tomorrow and that's where we're going to start working on the other sports schedules students who choose online learning will be able to compete at the school that they've always competed at that will not be a limitation for them to be able to participate in extracurricular activities the transfer rules are still in place we know that those transfers happen there will still be hardships and appeals different things to happen following typical aia guidelines this impacted winter sports as of right now by pushing their start date back normally either the week of november 1st they're going to be moved back a week for winter sports so there could also be more overlap between winter sports and the fall sports if we're going to continue in the model that's currently going and so where we are at we're continuing to stay in our stage three of our progression until a permissible practice has started and on the next slide we're going to talk about this permissible practice i don't have the data up on the screen but you all have a handout that showed the number of kids who attended the coaches and the number of students then who left because of a sickness or illness and you'll notice last week we had a very good week on august 3rd we're continuing to follow the protocols from the summer and so included with that is in the temperature taking of when the kids come onto campus and the coaches asking the screening we're going to continue that practice for athletics and activities after school until permissible practice starts so if you take a look these are the activities that we're participating in within the fall season you'll notice golf starts monday i guess if there is a sport that can physical distance much more than other ones it is golf and so if you take a look at it starts with the first competition being then on august 24th their season does end a little sooner than the rest of them you'll see october 26 through 29th spirit line uh august 17th is beginning of tryouts for them there are actually some rules i didn't include on this in terms of when trump tumbling and lyfts can't start until september so they need some time to practice before that is allowed uh there they have the longest season and so you'll notice their final in the state competition is not until march 6th but we also know the spirit line supports other other sports uh throughout the throughout the season cross country delays a week starting on august 24th the first competition on september 9th and then the state championship is the november 12th and 13th those have been pushed back for what's happening swimming and diving starts august 24th the first competition is pushed back to september 14th i was in a meeting yesterday with the east valley athletic directors swim and diving there could be some significant changes because of the number of kids normally involved with those teams and the fact that they all go to the same pool we are working not just we all of the east valley is working on how can we divide so these meets might look significantly different it might honestly be the boys teams at one meet where the site where the girls are a different one to reduce the number of people that's happening and there could be a multiple sites going on at the same time i'll have more guidance from that that was just noted within our meeting yesterday and then we're looking for further direction with swim and dive specifically when we jump into volleyball you'll notice they continue to be delayed this is the staggered start that aia talked about that's the august 31st start for permissive practice and then we go into competition on september 21st so that's about three weeks at least behind where it normally would be and then with a state championships november 12-21 and then for football football has been pushed back the furthest and i think there's a lot of indicators a lot other districts in different areas within the state have canceled football i know up north there's been a lot of fall sports that have already been canceled i know that there's a lot of discussions amongst football within certain schools and districts around here and so they've pushed it back to september 7th and the three weeks before practice starts and i say the week of september 30th because the freshman game would be on that wednesday the 30th where the first varsity game would be october 2nd we are looking at a reduced season of eight games for that and then the state championships would be in december uh december 11th and 12th very much a puzzle piece with scheduling that's going on right now with the athletic directors trying to determine which schools are participating which schools are not participating because like i said i think tucson has just moved theirs back as of yesterday so they not may not be participating within the aia football they might be doing their own thing starting in october down in tucson so that's kind of the staggered one the questions that that we're preparing to provide you more guidance and and we would love to know input on basically is what does it look like to host an event starting in september and and what what is that there right now there isn't guidelines that says for spectators or processes or locker rooms or transportation procedures within the east valley we're going to be working with our neighboring districts to kind of come up with similar processes because if our teams travel to another school we want to know what's happening there we are looking at transportation and i know that's been an issue about making sure that our form and parent release so if a parent wants to transport their kids to a competition they will have that option so that they're not riding on the bus with them these are all things that i'd like to bring back to you on the 26th so we can have a deeper dive into what starting of this athletics looks like all of this has been about high school and then we need to know that we already know our middle school athletics the evc has been delayed until second quarter we have a meeting on friday we're going to start looking at plans so when i come back to you on the 26th i want to provide for you a plan for the middle school athletics as well there's a lot of moving pieces out there right now and it seems like every time we seem we have a direction going with this it kind of changes and so as we get further updates on that we'll include it within our superintendent's report so that you can get some updates on it before we meet again on the 26th is there any questions i was just going to say this this whole guidelines for spectators hasn't even been talked about correct as of right now i don't have any guidance by the aia it's yeah and you know dr fowler could help me with this answer but when we look at it really the schools and the sites have been left to that traditionally the aia has been responsible for playoffs right where the sites have been responsible for that so i think those are some of the decisions that we as a district need to be able to provide you guys options to be able to look and say what would it look like we get to vote again on on on guidelines i'm i is that what you're going to bring back to us no i think what i want to do is offer these are the different options that we're going on and have us all included i i shouldn't kid it's a very serious subject it's just kind of ironic what's come our way and what hasn't come our way mrs wilson i too wanted to question the guidelines of the spectators because we've all been i think to higley high and saw the bleachers and how full they are and i don't know that that can happen this year like that again you know we do i do want to think about that i i know you're new but those bleachers get very tight so i just i that's a concern i think for all of us thank you for thinking ahead to know that you're going to probably need a presentation on that thank you you know and one thing that we are happy about is starting last year working with the national federation of high schools they're called pixel lock cameras so we do have camera systems that are available should we need to stream and do things and that will be part of what we're looking at we have those on the football fields and we have them in the gyms as well so lots of things to do an update once again on the 26th where we're going to provide a lot more information good evening president kayla members of the board my fellow colleagues as well as the husd community so i'm going to be presenting a brief update from the human resources perspective some of this is going to be similar information that i communicated back on saturday on the 8th so first i want to start off with the executive order um just as you said miss wilson i want to thank all of our employees um and this is in correlation to what ms richard said everybody it's all hands on deck so from our classified all around the district to our administrators here at the district office as well as our site administrators in regards to needing to be available to support the services that we're anticipating for this coming monday so um i know that there are some employees that are concerned and i had communicated this on saturday you know that executive order talked about the fact that our k-12 teachers are offering remote learning and so that is what their primary focus is so if you've got those certified teachers in those environments who we have left um you know in not in any terms of this is what we have left but we do need to look at our classified and our priorities and what they're doing and do we need to pull them and or do we need to pull them to be on site because although in class instruction hasn't begun these support services have begun and we are obligated to provide a supervisor for these students who come and and take need of these services so it is a hard it's a hard reality in regards to us as a district and our community and our employees and we talked a little bit about this concern sometimes that classified can be rated as the second-class citizens into our certified and i think the governor should shine some light on that here you know we try to do our best as a community to work together and say that we're we're one higgly in all of our employees matter and we do that in many ways we've done that in the past results-based funding we've done that in the past with increases and so this is a difficult swallow particularly for me as i sit here because i know a lot of employees are saying you're making me choose my job over my safety and our health and ideally would it be great that we could hire a lot more individuals who are maybe less concerned and ready to come back to work that would be great but then financially that goes back and puts us in another bubble that we've talked about and i'll talk a little bit more about as we look at rescue substitutes and making sure that we have additional individuals available so when we do return back in person but also having additional individuals available for when something might happen to an instructor who's doing remote learning right now so with our vendor in terms of esi we are looking at their program called rescue subs we started these conversations over a month ago if not sooner time gets the best of me and we talked about the fact that we need substitutes at all of our sites there was a concern about could they fill the number that we need we are looking at a total of 26 but our first priority is 17 looking at one at each elementary two at the secondaries having them work full time and having them start on monday the 17th we'll make sure that we'll provide them training services for ms teams as well as canvas if they're not familiar with those products but we'll also take advantage of the fact that we'll need them to help support these services so if there's availability for that coming monday um they'll be there to kind of help us navigate through that too so it'll be an interesting time as we roll this out and see how that first week turns out as miss richard said and how we've maybe done our best with the information that we have and prepared the best way we can knowing that there's definitely going to be hiccups that we're going to learn from in the process in regards to the arizona department of health services and the safely returning to in-person instruction we are currently in the process of drafting information we sent apartment we spent a significant amount of time yesterday working with our district nurse on all of the communication that has come through thus far the communication that came out of the benchmark webinar that we had with adhs last week as well as some new information that she's learned this week and even today as she's been having these weekly webinars with adhs so we're in the process of drafting those items and as dr foley mentioned earlier we identified certain things in relation to our practices on primary contact secondary contact and what that looks like so as we get more of that information we'll distribute that out prior to next week so then site administrators have those protocols in place and we'll go into a more detailed board meeting presentation for all of you at the 8 25 meeting some of the things that she has done already in preparation for our students that will be coming back is establishing new protocols for our health offices and making sure that we're ensuring the best we can the safety of our students that are going to be utilizing their services as well as any employees in those roles in this position whether it's ppe whether it's protocols in terms of how many people can be in the office at once if somebody does identify and end up being sick the phone call to the office getting them prepped and ready and identifying where they're going to be secluded within the office because it is a small space so she's been working with them very closely and getting that put into place um and as i said earlier more information will be given at the 8 25 board meeting as we acknowledge and a stipulation that i'll always put out there is that it's always changing and so we will certainly put on the bottom of the information that we give out that it's always subject to change based on the arizona department of health services and the reality is is as i've said before with a positive flow chart it's it's going to be difficult and this really is a practice run for us because although we have a number of students returning to a multitude of sites we're not going to be fully at our capacity as it would if we were in person so these protocols these processes in place and what's happening is going to help us in the bigger picture as we prepare for hopefully an october return any additional things in terms of what we know today i do know some of our certified teachers have reached out in relation to ffcra men seeking additional guidance in regards to our protocols for if there is a positive case when we're back in the classroom and that what what that looks like for them in terms of their time especially if they have to go in and out of the classroom on multiple occasions i've yet to actually speak with my colleagues as i just got the information earlier today from udall shumway in terms of guidance and what that looks like and there's options that we have certainly any employees who are exposed initially has ffcra available to them for those first 80 hours at a full paid leave if we have individuals to where they're not sick directly but they've been exposed and as of right now that exposure window is 10 days that could be potential for self-isolation if they're not sick and they can continue to work remotely during that self-isolation they wouldn't necessarily need to use any additional general leave time so those are some scenarios that we are going to work out and share at that next board meeting also so you could see scenarios that have come in questions that have come in things that have actually happened and how we handled it so that way people can really see firsthand what might apply to them when the situation does occur and that's all i have for you today thank you mrs martens i know that there's a special group of teachers that had some concerns by moving into support services from kids club were they given that choice to stay with the kid were they able to stay if they wanted to with the kids club kids over to the preschool how did we are we navigating that little special group of teachers i'll defer to ms richards for part of it and then i'll finish off as i learned a number of additional information today in regards to requests from employees and leaves and so forth so president kaler once again with limited information we don't know how many families are going to take advantage of that all day kids club option versus before and after this targeted support services so we do have a couple of paraprofessionals that are staying with the kids club employees at saseman but then we also have our program leaders that have offered to help during targeted support services which is above and beyond because they'll help from 12 until 2 45 so to answer your question if i knew how many kids needed the full day kids club it would help so they register by 8 pm on thursday we're getting this other registration by noon tomorrow and we've told all our administrators we gave you list of people that we may have to give and take and you know miss gleason's been great about the whole thing and those teachers and those paraprofessionals i feel like i need to take them cupcakes or something because they're the ones that have been out i'll buy it because i've heard from their little sweethearts and i get that you know we would love to open just our preschools and let them but we can't and it's just it's been so hard on my heart to be very honest and so i just want to give a shout out right now to that group of people that are really going the extra mile for us and i and i'm grateful i'm grateful for everybody that's coming on monday because i know yeah nothing is ideal so they've been in the trenches loving on those kids and you know they've been great about we'll go where you need us and i wish a circumstances weren't like this but i was just thinking about the relationships that they've already made with some kiddos too which they've already had these connections and i would hate to kind of yank those away from them as well if there's an opportunity for them to still connect with those students so we'll keep looking at it it's fluid thank you you know as i said earlier president kayla are members of the board it is a challenge um you know we have a similar to an unfunded mandate here where we have to provide support services for the last time i heard numbers of up to 1 000 students who plan on returning to our 13 sites next week so that's difficult and again we're not at a financial position to hire 100 new individuals to help us support these services and continue to maintain payment for our current individuals and or payment in regards to some other components and leave many of you know with the ffcra there are six different options employees can choose and i've said to you many times before this is the first federal act that employers have received where this has kept you in a paid status all other federal act leaves have always been unpaid with the employer allowing the ability for the employee to stay in a paid status so we have those financial challenges in terms of an update for our district we did get about 30 new requests for ffcra especially with the requirement that we need everybody hands on deck next week we're going to work with those individuals because they do have the right to apply and if they need an accommodation or if they fall within those areas we completely respect and will honor that and work with them the best we can for those individuals where they don't fall under ffcra or don't have an accommodation that's needing that's where as you said miss kaylar and miss richards has mentioned and others have mentioned tonight our hearts are torn we understand their concern and where their pressure lies in terms of their own personal opinions but as ms reese you've mentioned before we're also an employer so at some point people have to make decisions and i know they're not easy decisions but we have to decipher what can we do and as i said financially these rescue subs we're looking at to help support the district that we know will need for the next year is approximately a 500 cost that we have not anticipated we've already spent almost 200 thousand dollars in various ppe that we did not anticipate we expect and anticipate there's other equipment needs that we're going to have um we're paying for these required leaves under ffcra for individuals because that's what the leave act says however we have to backfill their positions because we need the staff to be able to man all the different requirements that we have so as an employer we are in very challenging times and you know i'm appreciative of our federal government as well as our state government and understanding the uniqueness of school districts and schools and the ability to have an executive order that allows us to keep individuals in paid statuses that is unique like no other however you know again this executive order also puts on us other components um that in in my opinion and maybe i'm i shouldn't go there but i'm gonna go there um you know the governor really skimmed through in his actual press conference and left it for us to identify and work through after um you know so people didn't necessarily know or hear the details of that executive order and understood what that really meant um so again challenges that we're doing our best and as you said mr rotovic did well we're making the best decisions we have with the information that we have in the moment and sometimes that information changes so the decision that was best a week ago isn't the decision that's best two weeks from now thank you mrs martin any other comments questions thank you president caleb members of the board the next portion would just be a review of what we had on saturday there's really no new information that we have since then since the arizona department of health services are gonna is going to update their dashboard every thursday so the information we have is also uh 12 days in the rears and so when they update it tomorrow it'll look at um 12 days in the rears though that we're looking at the information but the good news is is go to the next slide please is that um at this time we have met one of the benchmarks and that is the the the first benchmarks a decline in cases or less than 100 cases per hundred thousand individuals for two consecutive weeks and so uh it's not the less of a hundred cases per hundred thousand but declining cases for two consecutive weeks you can see the top graph there the bar graph shows a decline for two consecutive weeks the other two benchmarks that we have not met is two consecutive weeks with a percent positivity of seven percent right now uh two weeks in the rears we were 13.2 we we imagine that's going to go down a little bit tomorrow but we still don't believe it's going to be in the green tomorrow the next one and the third benchmark is two consecutive weeks with hospital visits for covet-like covet-like illness in the region of ten percent below so last week we met up for one week which was eight point eight percent and hopefully uh tomorrow they'll give us the good news that'll still continue being below ten percent so uh with that information we did uh have a webinar today with the maricopa county department of public health and they're putting out more regional and more localized information so hopefully the dashboard for the maricopa county department of public health will be set up quickly um i was very excited when i saw it on the webinar today i actually ran to dr foley's office and and said take take a look at things so it was an example of what they're going to put together it's not put together yet but it will break it down by zip code and even school districts if you're a high school district they can break it down by that an elementary district and then for the higley unified school district they should be able to break it down by those metrics and so we're really excited about that information coming and we will continue to update the board and the public every time we have a meeting just to let you know where we're at and what we're looking at and so we can take a look at this and it looks like i believe tomorrow we'll get the metrics saying that we've met two and so we're just looking at that second um the second two consecutive weeks with a percent of positivity below seven percent so we can get all of our kids and teachers back to where we want everyone to be we know that we want to be here dr thomason thank you i did see that for maricopa and i think it's by friday is there hope but we'll see if they can make it by friday for those numbers and i just want to reiterate again that it is the hope and goal of this entire board to get our kids back in school as soon as we possibly can safely and with our staff in mind as well i know that there's been a lot of communication emails whatnot and one of the one of the things i want to focus on is that yes our teachers it was a 91 that they want to return to school but it was with the caveat when it's safe and they are looking at these benchmarks and they are following this data very very carefully so um i i appreciate that we can get our zip codes though and i'm sure that that's going to be more defined data for all of us to chew on and again our board is willing we if we see something we will put an emergency meeting on the books we only need 24 hours to do that and we will do everything in our power to get these kids back in school safe and sound and that is the goal of this entire board and i just want to reiterate that to our entire community and again i'm thankful for the teachers doing phenomenal work i'm thankful for the families the mamas the dads the grandparents the aunts and uncles all hands on deck like mrs martin says to help school these kids our support services starting monday and trying to help those i always call them the little least of these that just need a little extra support and i'm grateful grateful president kaler i'm too glad to hear that they're going to zip codes that was kind of my plea was i don't think we have the same positivity rate based on the research i didn't and the numbers i was gathering that we don't have the same positivity rates in our area as they do on the west side as they do on maybe in a downtown area that our positivity rates are are lower so i'm excited to hear that they heard us um what they had initially said was that school boards and school districts had asked to be the ones to be able to make the decision and that they were going to provide us this data but it wanted to be at a local level but you weren't going to provide us local information so um i'm very excited to see what they come out with and like president taylor said all our board members have committed to these numbers we get clear on our numbers that we've committed to having an emergency board meeting because we did recognize that these come out on thursdays and our board meetings are wednesdays and we don't have board meetings every week when these will come out every week so it's kind of all hands on deck here too that as soon as that we can meet the metrics that have been set um we will be willing to come together to make decisions on that so i'm excited because that like i said um i i use their same metrics their same information their same numbers um in our local area and it had a very different picture for us so that was one of the deciding factors for me is i don't think we're in the same place as some of the other areas within maricopa county so i will be watching for that and looking for that and thank you for being on webinars i i don't know that everyone realizes that there are a ton of these between arizona health department between maricopa county health department and sometimes they're conflicting information even and so it's really difficult to kind of sort through so while our kiddos are having to learn through screens right now you're spending a lot of time on screens in webinars so thank you and i look forward to seeing that information okay well thank you so much appreciate the update future agenda items as you can see our calendar is very full through the end of the year is there anything somebody would like to mrs wilson for our next update can we have a mental health update on how our kids are doing i don't even know how you guys would provide that but i'm hearing it through public comment i'm hearing it in my email it's a struggle maybe we could see what we're doing as a district because i'm not quite sure my kids are a little older so i'm not right there on the screen with them just what we're doing to help our the mental health of our children if i could see that that would be great and then just can i give some direction right now from the public comment is that okay to do right now um can we review the parent who said that their child's only in school for an hour and just make sure that that if that they're only getting an hour in high school just to make sure that that kiddo is on the screen when they need to and how to figure that out that would be great thank you yes hi um i'd just like to tag along on what mrs wilson said um earlier in reference to the to the mental health um i would like us to see not right now but sometime in the future that we set up some type of program act of kindness okay as i said earlier we all need to show respect and kindness towards each other as this cruelty will not nothing but destroy this community and for for you that are watching on television right now when um we were beginning our meeting and as as we were reading some things in the meeting there was an adult male and a young male individual yelling through the door okay um i don't know about you but um adults are in here conducting a professional meeting and as far as i'm concerned that behavior is not acceptable and that's not okay with me that that type of behavior is acceptable within some individuals so i think it's i know teachers we have more on our plate but if some other people aren't doing something like that i think we need for our community to move forward for mental health and those type of things some type of kindness program so if we can do something with us and with the chamber together i think as we move forward this coming semester that we take a look at bringing this community back together because it's been not a good experience for all of us and i think we we need to come back together here somehow and if we can figure something out be it whatever i think we're going to have to look around online and see what's out there see what's out there let's kindness because there's just too much going on right now the the other thing as we go through this i'm really concerned for for the health and and just the mental health of of our administration and our front line staff right now um i'll just try to be politically correct that i find in our community and our society nowadays they're quite intense and demanding and i really have a concern for the people that are answering our phones at our schools the principals that are dealing with some intense conversations all all day long that there's other things they need to address where i'm going at with this conversation is that perhaps maybe with the care act money as we come back or do whatever we're doing here that perhaps we set something up as some type of triage that could be a general phone number when you're calling to higgle you go to i'm just as an idea i'm just throwing something out to you as they come in call into higley that there are trained people that can answer a variety of questions that are trained for type different type of environments and answering questions that may be intense i'm trying to figure out say the correct words here but um just let's let's put some thought to that because you know these principals and these front-line people are answering the phones right now i just feel so sorry for them because there's some really demanding phone calls they're getting and and i don't want to wear these people out and physically and emotionally these principles can only take so much in these phone calls okay and so if we can maybe think of something to lighten that load on phone calls for them with a triage or something let's let's let's take a look at it because i'm just kind of concerned about them on that their safety okay thank you mr wittovich pleasure thank you mrs reese miss martin do we have anything through our insurance company for an employee assistance program vice president reece absolutely um the whole time that i've been here at the district and certainly prior to my tenure we have the employee assistance program um and so it's free to all of our employees and they can get up to five different sessions depending on their need they get three phone calls sometimes if an individual needs some counseling whether it's mental health whether that's something else they can get up to five free items or sessions and then get forwarded to a local provider that's covered underneath the medical benefits that we have and we've actually been touting it i'll be transparent and say we touted it more in the spring and recently we haven't touted it as much so i'll make sure working with our benefits department that we're doing that our marketing department starting today is doing a social media pitch just like we did last year with wellness wednesdays so that started today too and we'll continue to make sure that we're you know keeping that at the forefront because we do mr ortovich and miss reese things get busy and things get crazy and sometimes we neglect the things that we need to care for most and thank you for that because i i thought we did have that program through our insurance and i please if we can share that out to all of our staff our teachers we're not in an ideal situation and while even between the five of us we have opposing views and we can respectfully agree to disagree in views but one thing that just the entire covid situation has done is has made everything emotionally charged you know we're very protective of our kids our parents are crying every day when they're seeing their kids crying every day i mean this it has just i can't say what i would like to say it has made a mess of a lot of people's lives and we just don't we just don't have sometimes we just don't have control of our own life and we feel everything has been taken out of control so even for our teachers i i'm concerned for the i know we have several that come into our building and teach from their classroom um but we have several at home and just the same as the kids that we talk about is at risk um that we kind of feel we need to have our eyes on because we are kind of their caretakers in that aspect i i am concerned about some at-risk employees um that are working remotely who have who are afraid who have not gone out and interacted with people that i think we need to remind everybody that we do have the employee assistance program and it might be a good opportunity to take advantage of and like mr rotovic said our social media our emails they're not easy to read on either side bottom line is we're still human beings um while we've been elected and proudly serve our district we have our teachers who who do work really hard and bottom line is we're still human beings and we're also going through this covid stuff in our own way and so if we can really get that out there maybe look at a different wellness wednesday for our staff versus what goes out to our community to they they're set with a different set of circumstances i know you i'm not trying to put any more on your plate because i know too you guys are just overwhelmed and sometimes we just need a break from it so um but just some thoughts that if we have the opportunity that we can do i think that would be important you know just to go along with that whole conversation and reference you know our counselors at our high schools are do a wonderful job they have a lot on their plate but as we come back to school there's going to be even more on their plate with all the things that like mrs reese said and maybe we might look at maybe some additional triage that can help out our counselors to you know so they're not going to be swamped with phone calls and things like that so just a suggestion yes we need to care for the mental health of all in our district right now and i know a lot of the kiddos are struggling with that and so i do believe we have some sel going on in our in our daily curricu not daily but weekly curriculums and so um they'll be good to share with our community what we're doing i would love to hear that as well um any other things all right next is i move that the governing board convene an executive session for discussion or consultation for legal advice with the governing board's attorney pursuant to ars zero three 38-43103 three and a four second all those in favor aye aye motion carries five zero and we should return in a little bit thank you and we'll take a break yes please mr watovic i move that we can re reconvene in general session second all those in favor i i i motion carries five zero i move that we adjourn second all those in favor aye aye aye motion carries five zero good 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so at the six i'll start with the 612 level so the 612 level um students will be assigned to their teachers as they normally would so a teacher would receive a roster of students they will soon find out who will be on quote-unquote distance learning and who will be in which cohort uh monday tuesday or thursday friday they will be live streaming lessons and and projecting lessons um and utilizing lessons that are accessible to both the in-class students as well as the at-home students at the same time at the same time but i'm going to clarify something that i think will help will be clarified during the professional development when teachers come back one we will be utilizing something called blended learning um blended learning takes into account uh it's a mixture of in person and at home learning you can produce asynchronous material for students to use at any time you can also produce videos and teach alongside live with um students at the same time who are at home and in class so when in this model when you say produce videos so are not the producers okay so if we were to record what's happening right now in this in this session that is actually a video if i hit the record button and i'm having a cop you know i'm having i'm teaching a lesson and and you are my students um that is happening real time it is shared at home um i can cast my screen similar to the way that kara wanser just casted her screen and talked through a lesson students who are in the classroom and at home um both experience that lesson very similarly in the same in the same time and space so so the actual physical location then becomes irrelevant um and there's actually opportunities there are ways to have collaborative activities uh for students at home and in the classroom to work on together your google doc that they're filling out a graphic organizer um students at home can even collaborate with students who are in school as well so we did um purchase um and we have been doing a lot of learning ourselves about blended learning we have a series of modules that we'll be using with the teachers that are particularly useful for not just blended learning strategies but blended learning with some social distancing considerations as well which is kind of the curveball in in blended learning for everyone so how do you manage some of these um more complex uh scenarios so uh we did just go through that trainings part of it with our curriculum staff um they were highly engaged by it we started to develop some materials around it we're also going to have some of our uh super user teachers who are going to take a lead and develop some videos to help model how best to do this and give some great strategies and examples and so teachers will have access to that during the um the training period that we have so we're thankful for having a few extra days before school to get started um i i don't make light of the complexity of doing this and certainly we're going to be working to support teachers moving forward at the k5 level a little bit different um it's a little bit harder to navigate some of these spaces particularly when you have kindergarteners first grader second graders uh that you're dealing with so um oh of course my timing is okay someone is at the door um so uh we that is where we will be having separate distance learning teachers and so we will have to determine the need for the staffing for for the number of students who selected distance learning however um students may not be associated with a particular school who select distance learning from the start so if we have you know if i have 35 students 35 second graders who need or 40 second graders who need a distance learning um the teacher will be selected students will be pulled across those schools um and they'll have their own their own classroom teacher okay may not be associated with particular school there may be some groups of students that are clustered together more so from one school than another but in general um we're staffing a virtual school k5 um and you know until we see the breakdown and the final numbers come in that makes a lot of sense kara yeah yeah that's the best way to we think that to approach the k5 and it'll be tricky because um you know what what's what what gets you know when you pull a few kids off of each teacher's roster um and we have some folks who will be servicing students um you know there's not that it's not a huge change when you start to you know have classes that near maybe one class as 50 or 60 percent of the students have selected distance learning there may need to be some rebalancing across grade levels um that's to be expected yeah so there's going to it's a great um it'll be a bit of a puzzle to a little bit of a balancing interior balance across the district carrick just comment about the expectation that the kids at home on deal will be getting exactly the same programming so currently um so we will be able to provide the core program k5 for students at home and we're hoping to be able to provide at least a special area experience um but they're you know there's not uh neces there's no way you can replicate everything with all of the staffing and the programming and the services during the school day the typical school day in full distance learning given the staffing challenges that we will have to try to make this happen so um it's not like we have an entire separate staff to to handle distance learning so we so you know we it's not like we're going to have 30 or 40 teachers that we're going to hire to do this we have to make this work and service as many students as we can in this model um using existing staff so we will do our best to provide as many services as possible and the typical programming curricular experiences um but in terms of until the um if the district were to convert to full distance learning for everybody then staff is then become becomes more accessible but in the initial distance learning phase it'll be difficult to provide everything in the same way that we would in a normal setting certainly going to try is there a limit to the size of the distance learning classes so right now you know we are we are talking around uh uh for 20 to 20 or so students 15 20 30 we have to we have to look at the configurations it's a little bit different um you know in distance learning but we also have to take into consideration that one at the way that we balance the virtual side we have to be prepared for if a student changes their mind and goes back into the classrooms that we're also rebalancing there as well so if a student shifts from distance learning in the beginning they may have a completely different teacher if they choose to come back we would send them back to their home schools um to the best of our ability but it's going to be very tricky and there are some things that we just don't know yet um until we start to put the pieces of the puzzle together and we start to see where things fit really well and where we're going to experience some challenges and have to problem solve thank you thank you i just wanted to just claire i i'm sorry man we'll ask a question yes amy i just wanted to clarify that um when dr sal when you said that um in grades 9 12 31 chosen learning 10 percent higher than other districts around them i'm sorry so you said that our district with the 9 to 12 is 10 higher with who of 10 higher than most districts around us as far as the distance learning and you said so that will be a challenge for staffing and this is exactly what cara was just explaining and then yeah what when i said when we were having our talks with the prince everybody's collecting data as we go so things can change but it sounded like most of the districts around us were running about 18 19 and when we were collecting it um that was that initial we were you know about there a little bit higher when this came back we're up at 30 30 30 what happens at the secondary if you're teaching chemistry and there's six kids that let's say we need a chemistry teacher i can't go get a biology teacher and have them teach chemistry because of certification even within the sciences because the the the courses are specific to certification k-5 or even to k-6 you can you can be generally certificated and to take a classroom i'm not saying you know if you haven't taught kindergarten or first grade for a long time it's kind of tough but you are certified to do it secondary we have to match certification for teaching and that is a challenge um just that we can get minor assignments and do things you know we may have to drop of course if we if we can't but that is a bigger challenge to us that's what i meant and the teachers that are i'm sorry i was just going to add with when you were asking about the area districts you know we also still have about almost 3 000 outstanding um outstanding surveys so we or more be more approximately 2 700.
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the lower line is a lower confidence so mathematically it says that's where the line could be that's where it could go and the upper line is the other end but it could also go that high this is a fairly common way of dealing with these kinds of data but i wanted you to at least know what it looked like for baltic city so we did have two weeks three weeks actually of declining cases average cases for those weeks so when do you have much more specific data than just as indicated on page one of my memo i wanted you to know what we are doing right now we do have synchronous online construction from certified teachers available to all students in our district on calendared school days we are providing breakfasts and lunches but the distribution method right now is not a good one because it's the only one allowed right now by the usda 1300 school districts have signed a letter to the usda requesting that they move back to some flexible kinds of meal distribution as we were doing in closure in the spring and over the summer that would allow us to take meals out to outdoor neighborhoods as opposed to having parents come and pick them up so that's not a good situation it's in the middle of the day there are all kinds of things about it that are not good that's all we can do right now is all we're allowed to do and i'm not willing to risk our program by breaking your rules but i also wanted you to know that we do the safe space we'll talk to you about that a little bit we do breakfast and lunches we do provide transportation for students to save spaces if they want it we are following our own mitigation plans from our oldest city return to school plan and i also mentioned to you earlier that we are starting on monday the targeted students receiving strategic on-site support services in addition to online so it instruction interesting to me and one of the letters in call to the public was asking for this and in fact it would start on monday and then uh in accordance with uh executive order 2020 we will have targeted preschool students also receiving in-person instruction at coyote canyon in small groups so those are the plans that we have in place if we continue virtual school if we were to do hybrid or near normal school then these things would be taken care of anyway much other data much of which you've heard in the letters in the public public and a lot of discussions unanimous recommendation from our leadership team that we pay attention to the health benchmarks and that we continue virtual school so that we don't have to do in and out in and out that the data indicates might happen following labor day resulted in my recommendation that we continue virtual through first quarter did anyone want to make any comments um i have a question about the targeted students how will you identify such students and or who would recommend them things like that um targeted targeted students based on the directions and the information that we got from the ade are primarily our students who are supposed to have extra support in learning so most of those students are special ed students who are supposed to have extra support el learners and english learners and and our homeless students our mckinney-vento students are supposed to be able to attend a safe space all day so those students uh we are helping uh and certainly giving them the opportunity to be a voice in which or if we needed to extend or have an additional safe space we would do that but it's primarily our special needs students who need to have additional time with with some in-person support in some cases it wouldn't be the teacher teaching literally but it would be the support services for those kids we have those plans in place they're ready to go we just have not contacted parents about it yet because we knew that all of that could change tonight but it's all ready to go the teachers are ready to do it the sites are ready to do it we have all the things in place did that answer your question randy or did i answer it no word free reduced also part of that happiness children they are um good question gordon but because all of our students qualify for free and reduced um uh in that sense yes however the directions are very very clear and that it's targeted students who receive strategic support so and very clearly says not everybody should qualify um that it's not a backdoor they don't say it this way but i know what you get that do we have any more comments i'm kind of looking at the fact that if we're willing to put 100 kids into the boys and girls club smaller groups in the classroom seem safer to me at 20 to 25 students than in one place or respond okay so they're not really a hundred in one space they are in separate spaces at boys and girls club and socially distance in those places yes it's 100 students in that one site but they're separated bringing our students back to campuses means that we're bringing 300 400 500 students back to our sites with 50 60 70 adults and at least the students who are at boys and girls club or little scooters um in the case of the few students we have there they are in the same cohort all day every day if we bring 400 students back to a site even with the cohorting that we would do either one classroom or four classrooms at the junior high we cannot keep those cohorts separate they're going to need to move around campus they're going to need to come to campus and leave campus so we're we are extending the exposure of those kids and i'll use an equivalent number um the junior high is planning on four teacher four classroom cohorts so that's roughly 100 students but they would end up with a number of cohorts so it's fine as long as you can keep those hundred kids just around each other but you can't when you have 400 500 600 on campus they are obviously going to interact even just in moving you know just in moving even with all the scheduling of who goes where it went there still will be contact and then you add to that transportation kids on buses and now you've extended that cohort i guess another concern too is when you have you know out of look at our enrollment you know you can make arrangements for say less than a third of that what happens when all these other parents are upset that their child isn't eligible to come in and get the extra help or be in a small group or go to the boys and girls club because there's no seats available i tend to agree we're willing to place 100 students at boys and girls club how do we determine who those 100 students are who determines what that need is we did the stipulation that the parents needed to be working and have no other alternative for their children or they were our bikini mental students or because we have started that arrangement with our employees in mind who had no place else for their children to go while they were teaching those were the conditions at that point so the parents had to give us some evidence that they were working and had no place else for their children to go there probably are more and if there are then we would figure out how to deal with that i quite a bit that i want to share um so that's why i wanted to give everybody else an opportunity so don't feel like i'm dominating the conversation um i want to first start off with an understanding that what we got from the from the governor is a recommendation it is not a requirement um a lot of the emails that we received uh they started reading down late afternoon trying to get through them all a lot of the emails that we received stated all over the place we saw a lot of different things but many of them referred to following the requirements um it is not a requirement some of them do make sense um you know we want to definitely keep an eye on where that infection rate is but we live in a community where you only get tested if you're sick that rate is going to be high i had an opportunity to speak with the health department and she also told me understand this is a recommendation this is not a requirement but she said that the idea of when we're only testing those are sick that we're going to be months before work before that's even possible before we'll see those numbers months to have coveted like symptoms if you look at the list of cdc covid like symptoms it's basically everything so i'm actually surprised to see that number that we were under that i didn't expect that at all i expected that to be much much higher so before we i don't want us to make our decision based on thinking that that is a requirement it is not that is a recommendation uh we do hear a lot of information about going by the guidelines of the information we're given um i was doing quite a bit of research on this and i found on the cdc's website cbc came out at the end of july with a statement of the importance of reopening schools and this is a fantastic article because it breaks everything down coveted 19 and the effect on children educational instruction social emotional skill development they talk about safety in the safety of the children nutrition in the schools physical activity and then sum it all up i just wanted to go over a few of these highlights so the rest of the board is aware [Music] they begin by stating the best let me go to the top so i don't misquote this for you i want to make sure i read it correctly the best available evidence indicates if children become infected they are far less likely to suffer severe symptoms we are talking about the well-being of our kids and then that is extremely important i don't ever want to minimize that fact it is extremely important um they also they go on to state that under the age of 18 we often hear this number of children 10 they say under the age of accounts for under 7 of those affected and less than 0.1 of the deaths in the country this year's death rate uh is equal to is less than i'm sorry less than the last five years of flu related deaths in our country so it's less than last five years uh the number these low numbers indicate that children are not primary primary let me find it i don't want to say this wrong okay i'm just going to read the paragraph it says scientific studies suggests that coping 19 transmission among children in schools may be low international studies have assessed how readily covenant 19 spreads in schools also reveal low rates of transmission when community transmission is low based on our current data the rate of infection among younger school children from students to teachers has been low especially if proper precautions are followed there have also been a few reports of children being the primary source of the transmission among families family members this is consistent with data from both virus and antibody testing suggesting the children are not the primary drivers of copen 19 spreads in our schools and our communities then they talk about education and instruction this is a big one for me uh in-person instruction is particularly important for students with behavioral needs no one can argue that an online education is as good as an in-person education it can't be argued you are you are providing a much better education being in the classroom with your students and you will ever be able to give them online uh the interaction with students how things work you you can definitely provide a better education being with your student that can't be argued the summer slide they talk about the summer slide third grade shows 20 percent loss in reading skills over a three month period 27 loss in math seventh grade 39 loss in reading and a 50 loss in math this is over a three month period we are now out what seven one on eight what is that number going to look like brown university and harvard did a study after covert broke out they report on 000 students online went to online learning after coding the progress from march to april of these students decreased nearly in half more pronouns in low income communities that's what we are looking at remote learning makes absorbing information more difficult for those that already start with learning situations social and emotional this is as we've heard from one of our calls of the public increased mental health issues cancer and substance abuse is on the rise ptsd among children is four times higher since being in quarantine 21 of kids 9 to 17 have mental health conditions only 16 of those receive any sort of treatment 70 to 80 percent receive that treatment at a school setting safety this one is alarming 62 decrease in child abuse calls why is that because the schools are not reporting the abusers aren't going to call them themselves nutrition what are our numbers currently for our free and reduced how many meals did we serve since school is open i'm sorry i don't have those numbers not anywhere near what we were serving when we were sending the buses around but as i said we're not allowed to do that right now we have appealed that but but even when sending the buses around our numbers were extremely low they weren't extremely low they were um in comparison to students in school in comparison they're a big drop off because they're not here um i can remember when we first started the three reduced program um and then got it adopted because our concern was we had so many kids that weren't getting fed and we had a petition to get the free breakfast and free lunch they estimate that 11 million children uh have unsecured access to food the only good meals are getting here at school but they're not here and our numbers if we have them are scary if you remember from our summer meetings we're getting what around 200 participants 300 participants we have 2500 kids so that's a huge difference and those numbers are much lower now that they have to come pick it up physical activity over 75 percent of children do not meet the 60 minutes per day of activity uh increased in sedentary activity this is really affects us increase the sedentary activity of only two hours increases of obesity by an estimated 2.4 percent by december of this year if schools stay closed our kids are spending seven hours in front of computers so this is only two they go on to conclude that in the array of problems we're going to face by having these kids stay home majorly outweighs the risk of bringing kids back to school we cannot prevent the spread of this disease we can only try to mitigate it i've done a lot of looking at what's going on uh maybe we need to to go to a hybrid model split this put the split school day of what's going on when they're taught uh we need to come up with a plan but whatever plan we decide to come up with i i want to make clear i don't want this to happen in a week okay i'm not saying that we definitely need to plan for what we're doing but we need to get back in school another thing that i didn't have on here that is a big part of this the high school postponed their decision they're having a meeting on the 17th and it looks like they're probably going to be going back to school in the 24th um what is going to happen to our kids that are getting help from home from an older sibling if that sibling's in school and our kids are not um [Music] we definitely need to be on the same page i think the 24th could definitely be a target goal to put something in place but i want to get our kids back in school i understand the dangers that we face i totally get it i'm a teacher i'm in the i'm in those trenches as well i get it but the emotional well-being of our kids and everything else taking into consideration when truly our numbers in this community are low they are low it doesn't add up to me it doesn't make sense to keep the kids home they need to be in school we need to provide the very best education we can to our kids in the safest environment possible that's the key word that keeps getting forgotten possible we can make this possible is it going to be easy no but it is absolutely possible we need to get our kids back in back in school and overwhelmingly that the response from parents is they want their kids in school it is an enormous and enormous amount um i i've seen i know i know that mrs borland sent out a question here on that one it was it was pretty pretty significant parents want their kids back in school do they all no that's what's nice about a hybrid model is we can have those that don't they don't have to but the parents should have choice right now they don't other comments i have a question i know we have discussed it back at our last meeting is it and you know parents can have the choice to have their students come in person or remain virtual if we go back is that absolutely a valid option and teachers have the choice of if they would prefer the virtual method or would it be something that would have to be re-looked at it would take some time for us to set up we set up for a virtual opening just like if we were opening normal school assigning students to classrooms to teachers just like we would normally do we did send out a question a surveyed appearance last week and as ava pointed out perhaps to share some of the other information that we could have or should have although i made an assumption that folks were actually looking at the plan that we you know have online to kind of understand what that would look like but we've gotten only about a fourth response from parents and the first question was at this time or whenever we reopen what would your plans be for your children returning to honors on-site school so keeping in mind that the response is only from about one-fourth of our parents uh roughly one-third of them would want to continue virtual school for the time being you could reject that over the whole group i don't know how valid that is but you could do that we've not had the benefit of seeing the results of or the information from genie's survey that you're talking about so we have no idea i didn't make a survey it was just a question i asked okay it wasn't a survey it was just i just wanted opinions what would you prefer it wasn't a survey it wasn't sent out to anyone officially it was just me as a parent wanted to see how other parents felt and me being in the education field wanted to see how where teachers were feeling and me as working in healthcare you know i can see the realities of it but i mean i i can see every side our kids our kids do need to be back in school our teachers do need to feel safe and we're never all going to be on the same page no matter what we can do so if we have the option to if you feel more comfortable going virtual have that option for something if you want your child back in school and teachers want their kids back in their classrooms have that option for someone you know and that would be an option even even if we were to open and open them i just kind of thought from what corey said when he says overwhelmingly parents once there were over 90 responses of that yeah good well over 90 responses mentioned people messaging me i was just going to challenge corey's source of data saying that overwhelming repairs want them back in school so and maybe you have that i don't know i would say to you that i would add to the to this that an article recently um from um william hasseltine who is a scientist and uh head of one of uh one of the uh he's a professor or he was a professor he's retired now but harvard medical school and he's been keeping on top of some of the studies you cited some from europe and we've all seen those um cdc was even sharing some of those i have some trouble with accepting data from outside the country and his study or not his study but his report and it came at the journal of america the journal of american medical association their journal a study that was done in the chicago area and they're finding uh that the concentration of sars code v2 in the nasopharynx or upper region of the throat that connects the nasal passages of children and adults was that study according to the results children ages 5 and younger who develop mild to moderate program 19 symptoms have 10 to 100 times as much sars co-b2 virus in their nasal parents as older children and adults he calls them the um that he says that they spread children spread coping more efficiently than adults do and that's part of the concern we have here many times children don't exhibit symptoms of codeine 19 or they exhibit typical symptoms of sneezing coughing part of my language snotty noses and those kinds of things which mother might not be coping but those are the concerns that folks have my the other thing that i want to share with you is keeping in mind either in hybrid or returning to near normal school many of the things that you're talking about the concerns about activity physical activity and those things would not be normal for a while uh kids will not especially in hybrid situation would not be able to socialize in the way that they're used to doing they're not going to be able to go out and hug each other and high five and punch each other and do those kinds of things so can we do it of course we can do it do we want kids back in school there's not a single person i know who works in our district who does not want kids back in school as soon as it is safe as soon as it is safe the agreement to be just uh approved with the trust says very very clearly that um that we must follow guidelines so i like that you added decoded uh not quoted that the cdc guidelines on those policies but the idea is we must follow some kind of guidelines and we built those into our plan so i just wanted to add those little different information we want our kids back in school corey i'm very glad to hear you say that you would not expect it to happen between me on monday because i can tell you even with the hybrid plan or with either plan it would be very rocky because we're looking at changing classroom things we're looking at a number of things it can all be done but i think we'd all be working 24 hours a day to get it done between mom and monday so i'm appreciative of the idea that if you're looking at something other than continuing virtual that you would give us a window opportunity to make it make it run i have the utmost confidence in our district that when we do go back we will be as safe as possible i appreciate all the work and efforts um as a whole that have been done to make sure that that happens and i was wondering is there a plan in place for when we do go back how to designate which teachers will be online teachers and which teachers will be in person teachers first of all we would need to consider any existing health conditions from our teachers so if you notice if you had any chance at all to read the emails that are excuse me emails that i sent to you this afternoon and i know you didn't have much time to read them but in some of those you will see that we have some employees who have chronic or serious health conditions so those would be the first folks who would have opportunities to to do virtual instruction beyond that it's rearranging which kids are in which classes changing some of the dynamics that have already been established uh in some cases it would people it would need to be somebody volunteering if there's not a person on a particular site let's say we're at one side there aren't people with health conditions then we would ask people their preferences but it would require changing around the roofs we have and but they can't be done we can but then we also would need some very very definite information for parents we would need to know who chooses to keep their kids online in virtual school and who chooses to send their students back so that we can make those adjustments and make that work i personally am not in favor of phase two where you know a couple days and then it's just i don't see that working as well as your choice of online or in person and that's the way i'm feeling um so i always just if our numbers go down this way i'm feeling if our numbers hit the seven percent then that's the way i want to go and as soon as that is possible and i take the recommendation of october 1st and be ready to roll with going back if those three metrics are met that's what i'm dealing right now i don't see us ever meeting that seven percent in our area and i from experience i had a i mean you heard me on the meetings a cloth that did not go away for five weeks and my doctor would not test me i did not have enough symptoms they are doing the tests now on tuesdays and thursdays though and they're not just for people who are sick so i meant to say that earlier with what court said are they offering that a free test or do you know what that's costing so people that want to get tested i think it's free it's free yeah they're free on tuesdays and thursdays and the turnaround is pretty speedy because we've had a couple of employees in the past week who needed to be tested and didn't go to the tooth years thursday thing but you know got the test that they needed so some of those circumstances from a month ago that make this all really strange um have been rectified and we do know for a meeting with from the meeting last friday with the health department folks that that backlog of 65 thousand cases has all been caught up they have the equipment and so that's one of the reasons the turnaround has become much quicker it's because they have all the equipment that they need i've been following the governor when he's he's on and he's in favor of reopening he's in favor of we're moving in the right direction um there's a reason they didn't extend the mandate throughout the whole state i don't know i guess i would like to see us making a decision to start something tuesday after labor day would be my book and have plenty of time to get something in place the school's a bigger priority than movie theaters restaurants gyms bars beaches and i don't want to downplay by any amount any range that we want to put anyone in an unsafe situation but you know we have we have a disease a virus that is definitely a problem but with proper precautions with proper ppe uh we can we can get through what we're doing um as you know as cbc states you know you want to be your distance social distancing is important um and they also say you know 15 minutes in that group so you know passing somebody in walmart isn't the issue it's your 15 minutes in that in that in that range but the ppe we are addressing we're putting masks in place we did talk about you know getting plenty of sanitizer cleaner we actually hired more people to to keep our schools clean uh we definitely when we tried but that option is there it's not like we're trying to avoid doing something or put something in place that is going to put people in harm that's not what we're doing we have to to see where we're at and what's going on and what is best for our kids and what is best for our community and there's more to this than the fear of govind as i gave you the numbers and this everybody keeps saying go by cdc that that article is from cdc's website that i gave you that information they're even saying get kids back in school in my job every friday i take a call i do cover training with with physicians and they're doing the studies on it and it's showing that it is it is okay i mean we need to follow precautions and it it's called it 19 for a reason it's the 19th strain of programs it's not like it's something new we need to stay safe i have and as a parent i would not make a decision to harm my daughters they were born at 28 weeks i've been through rsv i've been through pneumonia i've been through keeping them out of public you know we keep them safe we build up their immunities we've washed their hands we choose not to do certain things during certain seasons i mean i have a child with asthma so i i wouldn't risk my own kids by making a decision it's not not that i'm not thinking about the broader picture but maybe in the healthcare field i definitely can see things a little bit differently and it'll never be 100 safe ever for anybody we have viruses so you like the idea of labor day i mean it gives us a couple weeks we can't i mean we can't expect any decisions to be made tonight and start tomorrow i agree with that yeah and we do have school i mean if we need to move some people around and get the online services if we save one-third of you know the 100 or however many you tested that could be you know a number of first-grade through sixth grade teachers that could be doing that at highly canada if need be because they're concerned about those health situations and they can be isolated from so we do have options um but i you know i definitely want to i agree with you and if that's the date the tuesday after labor day is what we're gonna aim for um that's i feel like if it's enough time or if we see something drastic happening in our community we can reconvene and make a fast decision not opposed to a labor day meeting i'm not going anywhere there is the um to think about about how every weekend holiday we have here this there is a spike so it might be better to wait at least two weeks after later because of all the visitors we have in community gets together and the fighter spreads more that way and that is exactly why i said the end of the quarter because the two weeks uh the 20th the 24th of september is two weeks after labor day and then we would just have four more days in the quarter so that was the basis that i did that was because i really was concerned about what might happen with liberty in this fight so just so you know that was that was the connection it was like so if we say two weeks after labor day we're not just before more days and finish the whole quarter but then october 1st is a thursday and you wouldn't want to go back on thursday no no no we wouldn't want to go back on that day but that's the end of the quarter so the fifth would actually be the first day back so it would be three weeks after the after elizabeth but i mean that was the basis on which i was thinking about watching you're looking at those other things doug what's your opinion on this i don't want to leave you out of the discussion [Music] well i i feel we need to wait a while folks to see what comes out of all this and when we're in better shape of being is proposed guidelines uh that's my feeling i i'm not a real fan of you know the type of education we're doing never have been but at the same time the lives and health of some of these students to me that's that's number one that's four or five and mr president you gave a lot of information and a lot of it's good a lot of it i've heard 15 times before uh they keep running it you know what do you what do you really believe but uh i i don't know but i told you where i'm coming from i think we have just back off for a couple more weeks see what happens all right i definitely don't want to put a plan in place that we can't carry out that's why i did preference that but we have a long time we definitely want to give time to put this in place and that's that's a lot of wheels to figure out and the higher grade levels it gets a little more complicated when you have kids moving around um you know i i i i'm not against the dates i just want to make sure that we are pushing to get and get a date then we'll get back we're getting there the sooner the better for me but i definitely don't want to say that's why i preference that i don't want to say monday we're going back to school because that's to me that's just not feasible is the 24th feasible to get this together uh it could be done it would be difficult it would be definitely have some errors but it could be done would um jeannie set the tuesday after labor day it could be done um are we in agreement that we definitely need to get back on campus no there's no misunderstanding there i do see burundi's concern if people are gathering and then waiting waiting out the time span after labor day i definitely see that i know after fourth of july you know people gathered and i would hate to open just to close down two weeks yeah yeah all right um but we are on an agreement there we just need to figure out when um also what what are we going to do we want to put in a hybrid model do we want to put everybody back in the classroom do we want to split them what what are we gonna what are we gonna do what what's the i'm against the hybrid model personally i just think it's way too many moving pieces and who knows what day you'll go to school your kid's gonna miss the bus or head there on the wrong day or be in the wrong group or i don't know if we're back i don't i mean if we're back we're already exposing everybody just take the precautions and go back um i think we do need to have the option to go online and or remain online or go back in person i think that's everybody has that right to make that decision for themselves i don't think that's a decision we should be able to make for anybody whether it be a teacher or a student or a parent how do you guys feel about the idea of using kennedy canyon for online for those that are health compromised that could have a classroom that could it could always be an option um and if i could answer uh or not not answer necessarily that say to you um and to the public too um you know back in june when we when we worked so hard to set up the plan uh phase two seemed like a good idea at the time the one we started looking at more recently looking at the thousands of pieces that it takes to put that together the leadership team spent a lot of time talking about that and we decided that one of the reasons we wanted to make the recommendation for the end of first quarter is so that we don't do phase two then we go straight from virtual to everybody who wants to be back on campus and right now it seems reasonable that our numbers would be good enough by october 1st to do that um we all kind of looked at this like okay let's pick let's think about a date that's well beyond what might be a crazy time so that we've got that window or you know up and down kind of thing so that really because we we're not we're also at the point where we don't think phase two is a good case we don't think that's a good plan um we'd like to do when we bring kids back when we give them the opportunity to come back then it's all that everybody has the opportunity to come back and not just you know every other day okay but we will still have the issue of uh we'll still have parents that don't bring their kids and if we have a third we still have staff that our immune compromise might have health situations these are things that we do need to address absolutely and we would build that in but the other thing is we might have a lot more parents who are uncomfortable sending their kids back at the end of first quarter then they would be now or in two weeks or you know whatever and so i mean all of those factors are what played into that discussion about what is the best plan at this point and once again you know we thought we had a good plan with june whatever we planned tonight might not be a good plan in three weeks from now but we were trying to project out what what's our best chance of having as many kids back safely staff safe parents happy with that i am and that kind of thing so that those factors awfully what if we looked at september 14th i mean it's an extra three weeks of instruction from the october first date it's enough time after labor day that if anyone was showing symptoms they could remain home i don't know i think we need a full two weeks after the holiday for sure i would be good that's three weeks and then so you're saying bringing to start um to after the in-person starting on the 20th reception just unclear well if we have if it's labor day on the 7th and then it takes about two weeks for this fight to hit if we come back on the 14th that wouldn't be enough time and we could potentially have like sick kids coming into the classroom so i would recommend the 28th of camera [Music] the spike usually is half for two weeks so so that's what i'm asking so if you have that extra week because i really don't want to open just to close i'd rather if we're potentially going to have a spike like the last two holiday weekends then let's get that over with and then that made the class don't have any comments um we can't guarantee anything we can't guarantee anything wow so i mean like i've said the 28 i i would like to see sooner but the 20th is what we decide what it is i'd like to see sooner but i'd like to stay safe yes yeah so um i could agree on the 28th um um yeah so that that could definitely be a possibility but we do it there's a like i said there's a lot of stuff we got to figure out um so is that enough time to get that figure out um absolutely so absolutely enough time all right um so doug how do you feel about the 28th i feel good about it but i think we ought to say you know as long as everything's rolling along the way it should be and we're meeting the guidelines uh it's hard to just set a date and uh who knows what's gonna happen between now and then but with that in there i would be willing to say the 28th but if something comes up and some new guidelines come up to show that we're in trouble the board would have the power to change that so would you would you be okay because i know that genie had expressed this earlier also maybe meeting after the labor day weekend and seeing how we're doing on those numbers and see if we have to address that because we do see a high spike of course we we want to address oh yeah if things don't look the way they look right now i would not be in agreement with the 28th i think they need to be how they are now or better yeah yeah and if i could please because i'm liking their date of the 20 and i think that the leadership team would be okay with that as well i see his money the issue for us is as you know since march 16th the governor has kind of done these two-week hops and so we never could make good decisions because we were making a new hop and so uh what i wouldn't want and what the leadership team would not want is come back after labor day and you all go oh nope let's open sooner than the 28th oh no i don't think any of us are asking that okay good no we're just saying if we see it if we see a huge spike on labor day weekend and say whoa we need to read through everybody okay things are not exactly how they are now or better so we don't if we we see a increase of the numbers from where we're at now those percentages so is that are you making a motion somebody needs to make it there's a motion please i i can make it you can correct me if i'm wrong if you're okay so i would like to make a motion that we plan for opening date of september 28th uh contingent on our numbers maintaining or declining not increasing is that correct yes all right on board okay so all in favor cory merges i doug hi brandon judy borland thank you and on behalf of the leadership team and the task force because at this point the task force is 60 or 70 people thank you that gives us some very definite direction and it gives everybody some stability right now which is what we do and i do think we all want to see that that idea and plan in place for the parents that don't want to feel comfortable yes so absolutely make sure that we have that address any other direction on that we need to give or anything we may have missed good luck all right okay moving on item 3.1 future topics virtual school hours hearing lots of complaints so i think we might need to take a look at what the elementary kids are doing and their lunch time and attention spans and we have to we we will and we had held off a little bit on that you know waiting to see what happened this evening um uh we have to be very careful because of the i know the guidelines uh relative to ours and what we can count for present and absence and that kind of thing um you know you know my heart is always first with my kids in this position i also have to balance that a little bit with the checkbook and we want to make sure we don't lose any more of our budget than absolutely necessary so one of those guidelines has to do with the number of hours that students are in school and it's funded very differently than it is for high schools um so but we'll take a very good look at especially for our tenders we just didn't want to make any changes until whatever change we were going to make was going to be you know a permanent chain not permanent but a long-term change so we will definitely take a look at that along those lines um three hours is it the six or seven hours that were set that they have to be receiving instruction individually or as a group we have to make we have to make the school day look as close to our school day looked last year as possible the issue is we don't want kids in front of the screen for six hours but you know we don't we don't want any of them into the front of the screen the issue is building in those little brain breaks or those exercise breaks and we also want to let our parents know especially for tenders because we know they're five if they get tired i'm gonna take the map that's what we would do in the classroom do we advertise that do we go around telling everybody to do that no but if we have a child who's tired and goes to sleep on the midnight chair we don't go wake them up so you know we cannot now at least let parents know here's some flexibility that you have and we haven't been able to tell them that up to this point so we will build those kinds of things in but for the year the whole issue for elementary is that for each set of grades there are a number of hours per year that you must have given instruction and not knowing how long the virtual piece would go we wanted to make sure that we were structuring very closely to a regular school living so that when we come back in person we didn't either have to extend school days take away spring break do you know do any of those things to catch up those hours so we're trying to balance all of that any other questions all right so we are addressing the screen times i know that is a big concern um and i can give you a better report when we get our friends 3.2 upcoming board events nothing coming on that 3.3 date and time location for future meetings august 20th at 5 30 is slated how is that for schedule we don't have one it is next week that's your regular meetings yeah i thought i said that i'm sorry um [Music] you guys said that you didn't want one last week or less well last name you said you didn't want a workshop for that okay all right just want to make sure we're good so everybody's good for is 20th uh 5 30 so we'll keep that as our date uh now to our favorite part item of 4.1 a motion to adjourn mr president i'm sorry before you adjourn i would like to introduce to you sheila sorry [Music] uh yes our newest principal um kim godwin is in the process of moving tonight and tomorrow so uh she was here and she left i was going to introduce her i [Music] uh you
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when when we consider those if we were to assume all of those are hybrid and that they will send their kids that could swing the number so parents may be assuming like if i don't send something i i'm my child will automatically be in person so that that can swing the numbers so if you do see like within the next week that number is starting to change that is why um for those families having it responded okay thanks i have just another question too um so what is the feeling of the the teachers i mean have you already established which teachers are interested in distance learning and you know are these teachers that like are looking forward to doing that or maybe teachers that are deciding they don't want to be in the classroom but they'll stay home and teach from home like who you know how's that going that's pretty complicated i mean i think we're working through that with personnel there are folks that now we have people already requested i'm going to throw a number i think it's 50 which is you know much lower than i thought we were going to be but that doesn't mean that and they're asking for various reasons um if if we uh get through a list where uh folks are medically challenged complicated and then they they have rights to assignment of course we'll accommodate those then we have the rest to deal with if we get beyond that and amy and sal are left teaching but we need you to teach something else then there is a process where we do assignments and we would follow those procedures about the you know having folks assigned to teach a class they may or may not want to do it but there's a way there's a district procedure to do that so first you'd have people actually you've asked right to do it for various reasons and then beyond that if we need more beyond that then there's a procedure and kim couldn't be here tonight to talk about it but for us to go through to make those selections and those um those assignments that's what we would have to do okay thank you yeah not easy not easy that's for sure no no no that would be difficult for everyone i will go ahead kelly kim did inform me uh that's currently there's 48 certified staff and approximately 25 non-certified staff that she's working through those accommodation requests for yeah okay thank you and and for and and kelly with your your your assignments you want you want to speak to that that's much different um so we are working through um right now my team is working very hard to figure out the number of students that are um selecting distance learning um and similar to the way that kara explained for the k-5 staff we will try as best as we can across the special education department to assign staff to be distance learning teachers only it special ed the certification for most special ed teachers are k-12 state of connecticut we do have a few that only have k-3 preschool is a separate certification um and so that is something that will present a little bit of a challenge with that that certification area um and we also need to take into consideration some of the special populations so although the the state department of ed certification for most of the staff is from kindergarten through 12th grade there certainly are staff that have more experience working with certain types and populations of disabilities than others and we want to make sure that we utilize the expertise of those individuals to provide services to those children so um you know we are going to try to make the distance learning um as much as we can within certain populations we may need to do a blend um and so we're working through the details of that and it's highly dependent on the numbers but it will mean some shuffling of staff across the special education department as well loans up to update them on grandville quick sure um so i won't say this as happily but granville is our new preschool that part makes me very happy the part that i'm saddened by is it may not be open in time um so the builder is working as hard as he can to get things moving um the delay of the calendar certainly will be helpful um you know i think it's intended for other reasons but it certainly gives us a little bit more time as preschool starts one week after the start of the regular school year so their start date will now be september 15th um and so bob who is the builder of the of the site is helping to work with us as diligently as he can seven days a week to try to get us in there as quickly as possible i'm hopeful that we'll be able to be in by the 15th to start um but if for some reason we're not we will come up with other accommodations and that could include a distance learning plan for a brief period of time um we will be in there by early october at the very latest but he is trying to do everything he can to get us in there more like mid-september so i will continue to update you as we have more info thanks kelly okay um i know there's more questions but one thing we forgot and ann mead i think is on ian uh richard and i think caden they have some questions about parent and notification can you talk a little bit about what you put together yes yes hi good evening everyone um so we have my department has put together a family school agreement that talks about the things that the district is doing ahead of time and what we expect families to do such as practicing wearing their mask having their children wear their masks during the day spending time talking to their children about washing their hands well during the day um and then the second part of the agreement is what we want parents to do um doing so for our side it's you know the it's the follow-up um in our buildings it's helping children to limit their movement in the building and follow the patterns in which we and you're frozen can you hear me okay all right well i know gladys can you hear me yes yes uh anne's hands frozen so but i but they see spent a lot of time working through this communication appearance which will be very helpful um to to to us about communicating the many of the things that we're doing so i don't know if the board had other questions of of anything else yes rachel um speaking of parents um has there been any um thought into how we can support them as you know um kind of a partnership in homeschooling or distance learning i mean well i think um probably the greatest gift we can give parents is good communication on what we're doing and certainly the start of school um in a normal year is a little bit chaotic right we pretend there's a lot of information that needs to be shared a lot of things that need to go back and forth between school and so in a normal year it's it's quite busy so um you know one of the things that we're going to be maintaining throughout this uh this school year whether we're in phase one phase two or phase three is the continued use of google classroom but with some expectations for a little bit more organization in the way that teachers organize those and the methodology for uh communicating through google classroom um so it's a little it was a little bit hectic last year as everyone was connecting at different all at once and using different structures and if you had children at multiple grade levels you saw probably saw that more so um and so we are going to have some more organizational parameters in place expectation for kind of a weekly communication and an overview and i think that that will help but having some consistent teacher expectations for the structure in the organization of communication will help to streamline i think across the district and so that will be a consistent expectation so we're not going to wait until we shift into a different phase to start that up again we're just going to get folks organized from the beginning and have a consistent pattern i think that that will be very helpful and certainly all the tools that we create to support and get shared through there and we intend on still posting on the website um any teacher training and help and videos to get started uh with the school year given all the the complexities that we have ahead of us were there some parent videos as well i thought and some of this um yes right now we're really concentrating on making videos for the teachers and making sure we're getting them up and running and then um but we do have a lot of the same tools that we've started with in the spring we will still be continuing with um in terms of uh you know things like ixl a3 learning and so we did by the time uh you know we got through the spring we did have a lot of tutorials in multiple languages at that point how to log into powerschool and so all of those things will be reorganized and re-shared with with parents and communicated on a regular basis um i think in the spring we had really good success with dr sal's weekly letters that was um very helpful and so as new information comes out we will probably continue dr sound i'm i hope i'm not speaking for you but i i would i'm making a huge assumption that we're going to do that again but that was very helpful as we were updating in real time any any communication changes we would likely use that for large things and then instructional things could go out through the teacher so not a great time for ann to get kicked off um but my my understanding is and has been working in the background trying to put together some type of google academy to try to help families navigate uh naga bay navigate the google the google platform um and so i'm sure when aim gets back on she can talk to us and help us out a little bit more and kind of explain a little bit more detail but if nothing else i know anne was was trying to work with some of her staff and they they of course they would collaborate with cara's team but i know that was a goal of hers going into this fall she is trying to grow back on and while she's trying i will say to the board we've been trying to work with local groups to create some daycare and i wanted her to update you a little bit on that that has been somewhat challenging but um and has been reaching out with a few groups in terms of trying to get some affordable daycare i mean that that's that's the key and uh ann are you on no she's not on yet so anyway if she gets back on we'll bring her up um but uh thanks kevin okay while we're waiting um for ian to get back home um does any board members have any questions cara thank you for the information uh you guys are working hard and uh we appreciate what you're doing we really appreciate it thank you um so so uh cara said we're gonna know our intent to the board by next wednesday um we're hoping that we sent a robo call out gene was very helpful uh the parents the families that hadn't turned in a forum principals are calling we're trying to get some assistance to the principals um they could speak spanish and portuguese as well the to the outreach but we're hoping if we could get a you know the same thing you know a number by friday night then starting on monday we can do some of the things cara talked about and then we'll just mail out to those folks that uh we that have filled it out and those that are um uh that we know have made the choices and i'm hoping to do that by wednesday uh to to them so that they have that information for planning purposes uh you know for child care and what have you um and then if there's some um need as kara pointed out for um folks to to change uh we've left that with a procedure with the building principles so they would be able to to to start that process as well during that time amy that's we're hoping to get people uh requesting um the dl work and maybe then find out how many staff we're going to need and they'll be working simultaneously as we collect this data and aside from that uh cara and kathy have been collecting all of the medical data that we have been eyeing and i've said to the board the one constant has changed so you know things can change quickly as you can see but um you know i feel as though we're moving in multiple steps multiple direction and although i heard the parent tonight why not get the kids back sooner i could just tell you this is so complex and to create the structure to permit folks to sign up and have folks make these changes and assign the staff this extra time is is really needed otherwise it could have been pretty chaotic when we opened so thank you for that very helpful yes what is the answer when parents say to you uh or some parents have said to me why is that you just don't keep food close without opening it so what is the punishment for a district if you decide that you're not going to open well i think as i point out if the board may close uh if the the um community spread as such where it's threatening that is a that is a given uh right now the executive orders permits the board as you know with your support we fought very hard to do hybrid and by the way it permitted a lot of districts to connecticut to get that so um you know we let dan barry led the way on that so right now we're following the law um and if if we get a call from cara or from uh kathy that there's a community spread um we'll do the right thing and move to the deal and i think a while ago i said to everyone the best thing we can plan for and thank god karen and kelly have been working so diligently on this and kara wanda with the numbers distance learning is the one thing we can depend on so to train people in that area is going to be tremendously useful to us so if that happens then we'll go to dial and at that time that's that's what we'll do but right now we're following the law and we've managed to um to do it with a hybrid which is safer for our kids and challenging the parents we understand that but safer for the kids to come back slowly now the question was asked to the board how do you transition back to full-time i think that has to be some of our thinking um but as i as i remind the state ours was not for a medical reason for hybrid ours was purely on on on part of our major challenge has been spaced and providing the social distancing with other mitigating strategies to uh to handle the the number of kids so um you know i think our transitions could depend on medically what's happening in that world before the board can make i think a decision unless something changes radically that's what i would say thank you doctor sir dr satellite i thought the board didn't have the decision-making authority to open and close schools and solely with the superintendent and what you're saying now is is that there has to be a board approval to go either way or make changes well no no i i i first of all i couldn't go to school to dl the one that would tell us would be um our uh health department and no i wouldn't need board approval but in essence if we go to the next step which is opening full time we there would have to be a conversation obviously but that's how it would work the decision we would be basically told look you know for community spread and i would make the decision to close down yes thank you rich for the clarification on a different subject while waiting uh to kevin kevin i know that you and ann have worked hard through your portrait of the graduate to make inroads into many many of the ethnic communities are we doing the same in order to get out this information as we talked about tonight on protocol issues um it's very difficult you know unless you're in as i understood in the past it was more of an invitation or getting to know these particular groups or their their let's call it churches or organizations are we doing that with passing on this information and also the city-wide pto i haven't heard that mentioned during our meetings and they have a vast mailing list so any information that we have to get out could be sent to the president of the city-wide pto and have them disseminated to their members in is an effort to get our information out to the general public but to the point that what are we doing in the hispanic community or minority communities to make sure that they get all the information any appropriate language that's important to them without saying just go to the website so so mr genelli in our parent forums uh we had we had a couple of parent forums with the community as we were getting feedback on on the on the reopening plan number one um and then we also had a breakout we also had an additional parent forum in in a couple of different languages also to kind of get feedback and and provide a platform for for our community um given what i heard earlier from miss cooper which was a great you know great recommendation um as part of coming back to school you know perhaps use a similar approach and approach i think that i'm hearing from you now um to engage those individual communities to try to make sure we get to every corner of the community um as much as possible anyway to kind of reassure them that we have we feel like we have a plan at least to the greatest extent possible that's going to be safe for our kids and then also provide a platform for folks and to answer answer any questions that they may have so we in it for this for this part of the work we have not broken it out in the same in the same way we did with the other work when getting out with the portion of the graduate work and the and the equity work um but it certainly would be appropriate to try to reach you know different different segments of our population and community so i'll make sure i work with anne on that when we get back out without community another thought process kevin is possibly to reach out to manuela a former board member who has the the power of the newspaper to be able to have her write articles and give certain opinions that that the administration has so that her readership could be more intuitive to what we're doing as well as another source of reaching you know a body of people it's ian hi if i can address that so the tribunal we've been able to run um or under my column for the last um three months i have been updating um what we're doing in the district um so i will update it again now for the um september issue there was a great article about the reopening schools and emanuela has also used some of the information that's come out of the connecticut mirror as well in her monthly publication the tribuna tribunal if i can just go back for a second when i got cut off there we were talking about the family school agreement that will have kathy's work in it as well as the document that she showed you tonight in multiple languages that will be um emailed or mailed most likely emailed out to all families with the expectation that they sign that and that they send it back and so that will be our notification that they have read it and they've understood the responsibilities that we need them to do to try to keep all of our children safe and healthy as they um are sent to school so we're really upping the ante um on the family parent partnership piece as well as um our our expectations of the district's expectations of them during uh distance learning and monitoring what the children are doing um there um there are signs that will just get a little date revision from september 1st to just to september 8th that will go out into the community on monday they're sitting in my office already and we'll just get the date changed on them and so that's reminding parents to uh you know wear the mask start school be attentive um to the things that they need to do um i wanted to quickly just uh to address the uh before and after school um project that we're working on so there's two things going on one is we are working with the data department to see what days our children are going and once that information goes out to parents who have already registered we will be able to slot those children into before and after school care at their own school using the same cohort model to the best that we can i'm probably using a cafeteria separating children um by their groups that they're in their in their class during the day to to be able to provide before and after school for those students on the off days and that is a big hitching point for parents um you know that have to work who's going to have my children for the three days who's going to support distance learning while i work i'm working with an outside agency and with two potential locations in danbury to be able to run full-day programs what i am going to need help on is helping to staff those and so i will work with our hr department on staffing our elp and i'm going to work with the community on what that looks like to staff those full-day programs again social distancing um making sure that we have enough internet access so that students can do their work oh boy did we lose you again i think so oh no i see your name still there and oh i guess we lost them okay well anyway we we are trying to find that daycare working with some outside groups um and i'm glad to hear that we'll have that information that we're going to share with parent parents that's all we have gladys okay doctor sally i have a question about that the daycare component we were just talking about and maybe the better question to say for anne and i can ask at another time if we need to but how many people were talking about serving in one of those programs because it seems if we're serving a lot of students in two locations three days a week we may be defeating the purpose of not having them in school three days a week yeah no that's a good question and a balance in school then we put them in yeah kind of goes it flies in the face of logic it undoes what we're doing undoes what we're trying to accomplish by not having them in school fighting right that is that's a hard one i mean you know it's it's it's you know almost like an oxymoron is what i say is that the the the essence of what uh beth bai who's been in charge of these daycare centers um have been has done it throughout the whole spring successfully and they have a model that they promote to us and it was based on what ann just said um you know the number of students would be relegated very small um so it would it would not be your whole sale okay kind of a thing but that is a problem and you know otherwise i'd say you know why don't you open school and bring the kids well we can't that's why they're closed kathleen you're right so i think it would be limited and um it would it would be run through this outside organization to help out i think it's a helping hand for some parents because this is a challenge with work we know that yeah it would be limited if we can do it at all the other right uh if um you know if n if in if there's no other question to end or without the cell we have one last item on the agenda before we move forward german um i'm not the same you want to uh briefly let's talk about this yeah actually actually a parent had sent that did you she talked about well let me just briefly just say this um uh al it has something for us to um to look at i know that was regarding senator murphy has a bill and it's part of the national effort here about defunding and somehow the sra's sorrows got thrown into it um and i have a letter i think i would manage to send to you as the co-chair of cause the large build super the large district superintendents um are opposed to it and um you know i think murphy's idea of in getting counselors and stuff is great but these sros have been outreach and they've been so proactive and prevented so many issues they're they're they've been part of the school fabric they're not there to arrest kids they're there to to assist us and to head off uh um trouble and so many times our kids feel so confident talking with them um they help families and kids from getting into problems so a group of superintendents did meet with um mr senator murphy's staff uh expressed our concern about this none of the right pathways to go uh but i unfortunately i think it's still part of the uh his efforts in in the federal government the legislators to defund them i wrote i wrote this morning to get an update and i haven't received it but al was asking for a resolution and that's why it's on the agenda uh tonight um right gladys but what would it entail for the board to have a resolution uh you know to come up with the resolution um to more to get additional information we could further discuss this at our first meeting in september uh you know to get the information from cave as how to put forth a resolution as a board um and you are planning to have another uh meeting with mr murphy or his staff so you know we're not here to do a resolution tonight am i correct we're down i go down to discuss it um you know i'll leave it up to the board the the um we i've sent this this letter is going out from all the superintendents um our police chief in town is very much will sign off on a letter i'll send it personally and if you know if i can get more information to bring to you from uh cape to the next board meeting i i will do that and then from then possibly get a resolution and if you can get cave to support it then they could distribute it throughout connecticut uh for boards to decide if they want to support the resolution that would be one way of doing it and i could try to collect that information for you okay are there any questions about the sam yeah is there an urgency to this where something is just can't hear you cannot hear you mr sir is there an urgency to pursue this particular subject matter relative to where murphy is in his proposal and and what they're trying to do on a federal level when we've got so much at hand i mean this is nothing as far as i understand that's eminent in the next month or so so do we have to spend much time on it currently um well that's up to you i i um you know i i i did ask friend ravinovitz if they could give me information i can just get what they have and and then get it to the board the board has the opportunity every time as i did write a letter yourselves as as as a citizen board member how important these sros go i think that goes a long way as well and i can try to collect that information for you so i will say to you guys they are so important to us and the city has been very helpful in keeping him in there so um you know beginning i think we all i think all of us understand that dr said you know and i i i think it comes down to you know people lost power you know didn't know that this you know uh what's going on and uh we just wanted to bring to the forefront to see what was our position was what could we do as a board and uh making sure that um the legal aspects are taken care before we go out and start presenting stuff i think mr russo is trying to get your attention i don't think we can hear him okay he's been waiting he's been waving at the camera i noticed i don't know if we can hear him we can't hear you okay can he put him on the chat i think he's yeah uh al you can put it on the chat or he's going to maybe try to call in i think mr murphy ought to spend his time going after ever sauce and ui and stay out of education i can't even hear what mr general is saying he said yoda spend his time with eversource instead of the sros as a practical matter the chances of this building called the united states senate anytime in the foreseeable future is probably roughly equivalent to zero so miss cooper i have mr russo on the phone can he is it okay if he asked a question through my phone yes go ahead mr russo we're ready can't hear it can you hear him kevin absolutely go ahead mr rooster i'm ready just want you to know that i very strongly disagree with senator murphy's bill to defund the sro program because the sro that they mentor they're out there with it with it with the students they their counseling they teach their social workers and sometimes actually surrogate parents and and most of all they put themselves in harm's way for your children i i find the bill offensive and what i'm asking is for some point of resolution dr sale has the right approach bring it to cave disseminated if we are streaming live i would like every resident every student every parent every teacher to contact senator murphy and if you are like-minded you disagree with this legislation because after all he represents us one of my fears is if we do not act and this thing slips by and turns into some sort of law that is too late to do anything about it and our children will lose thank you for allowing me to comment and uh i'll try to plug back into my video and thank you thank you uh mr boston thank you everyone i think everyone's the same way he feels so men madam chairman i could take my letter send it to bob reader and um tell them uh you know the approach to see if they'll promote that i can i can do that um yes that's not a problem i can handle that yes okay okay okay so uh we can uh we can move forward you're gonna move forward with um your contact and then we have some additional information to bring this back to the group um at our first meeting in september okay okay um before we uh adjourn the meeting uh i would just like to ask some board members that have uh you know we talked about making sure that we keep the uh community and families and want everyone in in forms instead of next wednesday having a meeting could we go down to the 26th and schedule our next meeting to uh you know just maybe a week before school open and you know if any additional information come
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hello chris cooper superintendent of clearwater schools i want to give you a brief update it's been a while since we've done that first of all this video link's accompanying an email if you've read the email i won't have a lot of different information in the video just wanted to provide the communication in more than one way we do have some good news and that is that the coven 19 cases in our county and in particularly in our zip code have trended down lately so that fits and aligns with our plan to start school september first on site every day so finally uh in 2020 something is going as we had hoped and that that is good news because it does look like we should not have any reason to not start school on site on september 1st i want to remind you real quickly if you haven't enrolled your student if you would please do that as soon as possible so we know exactly who's coming we can get our detailed plans taken care of that would be great also along with that if you've typically used our bus service and this year you're going to choose to not use that we'd like to know that information too because we're in the process of designing routes trying to keep as few as students as possible on the buses but knowing that we're going to have several people on the buses as well so if you're not please let me know let your school office know that'd be great masks continue to be a topic of conversation not only in clearwater but across the state country world we are our plan does include masks for all people entering the building that's part of the governor's order and cedric county health order so we would ask that students bring at least two mass per day because it's very likely that something could happen to one we will have disposable mouse masks available but are asking that parents provide two masks per student per day if that's possible the other thing with masks particularly with littler kids we'd ask that you start practicing wearing them for extended periods of time so start with a small period of time and then progressively wear it more until it becomes more of a habit or second nature something that the student is not messing with or thinking about all the time just growing more used to that i never thought i'd be uh asking parents to do that but we we're in and never thought of time so would be great if you could help your students be more comfortable when we do start school by having them practice wearing masks our activities start monday august 17th so a lot of practices and different activities will be gearing up that day same health precautions are in place for those activities as for school so if you have any questions about that monday is a little late but um we are uh in the offices at the school so give us a call and find out what you need to find out we did have some temperature scanners come in today we've purchased some scanners for each building that actually read the temperature on the wrist it's very quick we were over trying those out today in the tech department so because we do need to do screenings as students enter the building we're excited we have something we think will help with the logistics about that one of the things that saddens us is that we are going to have to limit parental visits to school to just essential visits that's not the type of culture or atmosphere we desire but it is the situation we're in right now so as you think about starting school and maybe some of our normal routines where we might have came in the building even walked our student down to the to the classroom for the for the littles um that's going to all be different unfortunately this year until things change so if you are considering visiting school we'd ask that you'd call the office if at all possible some other good news our staff's been working hard we've had lots of trainings going on this week all kinds of staff in the buildings preparing for an amazing school year whatever may come so just know that we're very ready to get started in school we have a lot to do yet to prepare for that but our excitement is growing and we look forward to seeing everybody september 1st as i said just a brief update that's really all i have for today again don't hesitate to reach out to me if you have questions or to your school offices our offices are staffed at this time with that take care and i look forward to meeting everyone and having conversations with you in the future bye
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time set for the strategic planning meeting um the agenda has been posted on board docs uh thank you all for joining um first we have the our roll call and i'll i'll take care of that dean howard and i don't see dean on the call i do understand that he may be joining us later uh lynn davison president mark sims here president uh mike gordon i'm here mike manley i'm here all right mike uh sue k coneyful and shelly herbald i i know that shelly is not going to be able to attend today so thank you for coming the next item is the review of background information that's provided and emphasizing virtual norms i think we'll run this similar to the way that we run a board meeting in terms of you know turn on your um your camera if you want to talk i can recognize you and then you can you can talk i'll be on mute and when you're done then you can revert back to me and i'll take the next person in line and also speak slowly if you can and take some pauses if you are going to ask a question so the interpreters have time to do their job and the the people using the interpreters have time to to process that information so uh next going into item three uh nancy nancy alexander is our facilitator for this exercise and we'll be for the next few work study sessions um she has a few points to go over um kind of about you know what this process is i know we wanted to start this a little bit earlier in the spring but got delayed due to covet but she's going to go over what what kind of our timeline is um what the various milestones are going to be along the way um and then we can proceed from there so nancy you have the floor thank you very much president nigro and welcome everyone we do have with us three asdb staff members superintendent reichman assistant superintendent christian rex and executive finance director shaina cooper and so they will be here as resources for us today there are really five stages in the planning process and what we're hoping to accomplish today will be planning the plan and starting to look at what's most important the burning issues for each board member so that then we can see what we need to do to get you additional data and information we have scheduled october 1st as our second work session if it goes as planned then we will begin to set strategic priorities and then we will need most likely two more sessions to develop the strategic actions and how we're going to communicate and market the strategic plan the goal is to have this completed by the end of 2020 so that it can be adopted starting january 2021.
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you are all set all right seeing the presence of a quorum i'll call to order this meeting of the pelham school committee at three o'clock we'll start with a roll call attendance sarah best kenny president ron menino present margaret here on mute i mean i believe you margaret but just so we know your mic works the bottom of the screen oh wait try now wait mike you're talking but you're muted oh i am legitimately on mute but yeah um miss stancer wasn't on mute i have a little bit of a master control screen okay um she's not currently on mute hmm [Music] i have no troubleshooting ideas um well brenda you can barlow present hall present um let's just get margaret in so that she can participate margaret thumbs up right but in case she wants to say something during a meeting i'd like to so what i'd recommend to margaret is she um it seems like she can hear us uh i'd recommend that she uh removes her headphones uh logs off and logs back in and see if that works okay yeah so i'm sorry not remove unplug the headphones from the computer um and and uh log off so um leave the broadcast um on the bottom i think you yep um she was just on a call on a different um tool with me and i find that when you you know these systems are monogamous so when you're on zoom and you go to google me or vice versa they don't like it all right okay for a second to get back on um she was just out of the call in a different um school not seeing her enter okay can we just give her two minutes i mean this will be really quick i would i don't want to preclude her involvement there she is the sound on my computer is not good that's why i've been using the headset i can hear you perfectly right now okay um all right uh oh margaret we need your kind of official attendance stanford stance or present okay great um first item on the agenda was the minutes we don't have those yet which is fine we can approve those at our next um telemoly meeting next up is public comment i did receive one public comment um an update from the pto president but when i told her that this was just a really small quick meeting i offered to wait and present it at the next meeting when there was potentially more eyes on it so i'm gonna i can email it to everybody but i'm gonna hold off on publicly presenting that until we have more people um so then next up just two quick business items the first one is reorganization so the genesis of this is that um as you were all aware when the chair of the regional committee was asking for volunteers to participate in the negotiations with the union there was just one person who was willing and able um after the fact sarah best indicated that she would be willing to and um after checking in with district council it was decided that she couldn't in her role as pelham only she couldn't kind of exist in that um but that she could if she was on the region um she could so we're gonna reorganize just we don't have to do the whole reorganization just the regional reps um ron has indicated that he would be willing to temporarily cede his seat to sarah bess during negotiations margaret would stay on she's the vice chair and so if margaret came off it would cause a whole reorganization on their committee um so that was just the background obviously this is up to other members of the committee this is not a done deal we're just proposing that it is it is favorable to have more than one school committee member participate in the negotiations it's a time commitment and can be some work so to have two people who can share that can be really great um to the extent that sarah bess is willing to do that i support that so i mean before anyone makes a motion i just wanted to explain where this came about and give folks a chance if anyone has questions either procedural or concerns about anything to just voice those now um to me that seems like a reasonable way to proceed i cannot be on the apa apea negotiations because of the conflict so i could not volunteer for that yeah this is no judgment on people who were not able to i totally understand yeah i understand that um so i think you know if if it's a temporary thing and ron is willing to do that that seems like a reasonable way to proceed okay all right uh so i guess well i'll make a motion to nominate sarah bess to be our regional rep along with margaret is that high second amendment should well should it include wording of though about it being uh uh for the purposes of negotiating and that braun will return when the negotiations are over i mean should it include all of that um i think that yeah i mean i'm okay with that and like anytime we reorganize the whole committee is involved in the whole committee votes so i'm fine saying that we will then vote to reorganize again [Music] do we have to i mean not right now today but don't in the future shortly soonish we have to reorganize anyway i think maybe i think we can wait to do that until we're doing a little bit less now [Laughter] i wasn't suggesting that we do it now i was just kidding like to volunteer for it i'm done i'm full yeah um but yes i agree once we have our next normal whatever that means only meeting we can do the full reorganization of the whole committee so it would be region reps all the you know chair vice chair all the other roles so yes that is that is true so we can just do that whenever our regular meeting is after the negotiations cover that okay good question any further discussion okay um all right roll call vote uh sarah best yes approve any i i don't know we accept all of those ron i know why oh sorry did someone have a question oh okay um warrant review i've got um three warrants here um actually that i'm gonna do up here okay all right um i authorized by my signature to payables in the amount of twenty three thousand nine hundred dollars and twenty seven cents for a warrant dated june 28 2020.
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if I have to be recognized okay [Music] um we're almost ready here everything is good Mr Gill ready to go uh excuse me unmuted [Music] huh any other technical stuff before we get going to see you because I can't see anybody here can you see that the thing on the screen that little sign well in the middle of my of my my screen I can I can see um is this interpretation features is now active selected language and that's right I can't see anybody go to the top right hand side of the corner of where you're or your screen is where where your little boxes and click on the top furthest to the right uh where the little three buttons are where the little three dots are you'll get it there you see it no it doesn't show me that um it has a um well once this thing comes off the screen you'll see us all because we it's just little small pictures of us right now you're not missing too much yeah no it doesn't tell me if I if I'm on or not yeah I think we're good who once once the thing comes off the screen then you'll it should go back to normal okay Rusty Marquez we can see you yes I can't see you guys okay well we'll go ahead and get started so I'll call this meeting to order at 5 33 p.m for the regular board meeting of August 2020 um Maribel can you please take roll today is a regular board meeting of August 13 2020 at 5 30 p.m members of the board in attendance president here vice president Karina de aloeira president clerk Andres Quintero is it member Linda Chavez president remember Dolores Marquez frosto present members of an Administration superintendent Dr Bauer present okay thank you Maribel uh we'll go ahead and do the Pledge of Allegiance so if you are able to given the zoom situation and everything we're all in please stand and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance can I something real quick this question is being recorded yeah I was going to get to that but thank you for saying that yes this meeting is being recorded um and we do have a quorum tonight so um please join me in reciting 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 okay thank you let me get that down okay um so a couple things tonight before we get going thank you everyone for joining us tonight um first of all Mr Gill I don't know if you wanted to start with making an announcement about the the thing that's on the screen right now and the way that people can participate for public comment this was something that we started at our uh special meeting a few days ago and so this is a new way for people to participate that hopefully makes things a little bit easier um and also not only to participate but also to hear the meeting in Europe in English or Spanish so Mr Gill is there anything you'd like to add to that yes this English the meeting is in English and Spanish so for visual for the video it is the same room Zoom session but for audio they will hear into their into English or Spanish based on the globe icon on the right where it says interpretation click pick English or Spanish if you pick Spanish make sure you mute the original audio otherwise you will hear both languages so mute the original audio pick the Spanish and later on for public comments if this want to comment in Spanish let them be in the same room we have The Interpreter he will come to our English room and interpret for us yeah okay so this may take a little getting used to tonight it's something new and as we're learning that there's new things that come up and we all have to learn together trustee Quintero I apologize for putting you on the spot here but I know you're working on your computer there but um do you did you hear enough of that to translate into Spanish um yeah okay um [Music] um okay thank you gracias that's my contribution there so um okay so another thing that I wanted to a couple things before we actually get going to the first thing is last month trustee Quintero had um brought to us um an individual that we wanted to adjourn in their honor last month but I think just because of the length of the meeting and the time we may have missed that so out of respect for that individual I wanted to um adjourn in their name this evening in addition to that andres's permission I wanted to add Danny but his name who was a Community member who served our LMR community at the Alum Rock Youth Center for many years um so if we can include that also okay and in addition to that unfortunately we have um another person a a long time area member a 20-year teacher for our district Mr Ken primmer um passed I believe unexpectedly unfortunately this news came to me a little bit late so I don't know all the details but maybe um an area representative may share something later this evening but we just wanted to express our condolences to all of the families certainly our our Alum Rock Family the Joseph George family where Mr primmer taught I believe I'm saying it right it may be primer but I think it's primer um and you know I just want to once we finish the meeting recognize all three of these individuals and adjourning their name if I if it slips my mind please somebody remind me um out of respect for them and again our condolences to to all of these families and the dedication that they given to to our district and to the east side of San Jose and to San Jose so um so our condolences to them okay so the next thing that I wanted to propose to my colleagues um just to start out is that um you know in the past meeting the last meeting um and maybe even before that there's there's been some comments made um by our community and by some of our colleagues even about um our silencing the community's voice and and by way of capping a certain the time limits um so that we can get through the business of the meeting ideally um and that's that's something that we take very seriously that we want to hear the feedback of the community we need to hear that and so we do take that seriously so in that vein in that Spirit over the past month I I reviewed the time of um that we allowed for Community for public comment in the last and this is just in the last meeting and so for community [Music] um public comment and this is give or take about five minutes but for public comment there was a total of 207 minutes that public was allowed to speak three and a half hours and for board and or staff to provide questions or comments on any item was 185 minutes so um and there was approximately 20 percent um of the public comment was from a couple of individuals which was about 40 minutes and I think that you know all of those individuals including the the ones that that I just spoke of they all have important things to say and things that we need to hear as board members but in the same you know in the same voice we act we need to get work done and so it's a difficult challenge to balance public comment and the work of the the district every night but um given that the data at least for the past meeting shows that we are substantially providing opportunity for public comment I would like to propose to my colleagues tonight and again in an effort to move the meeting along so we can end at a respectable hour and make some good decisions late into the night or not too late into the night if if we still have a fresh mind so I'm proposing that we remain with our 20-minute limit per item as is written into our bylaws um but I'm proposing that we have a one-minute individual time limit per person again in an effort to allow for public comment which I think we've demonstrated that we do that in a very substantial way but also to allow us to to move the meeting forward so at this time I I'm open to any comment or feedback back from my colleagues to see if we can get this as a blanket kind of policy for tonight trustee and then I see trustee Marquez after that I mean I'm in total agreement you know going to sleep at 3 30 in the morning is not for my community um so I think that would help that while giving everybody an opportunity to speak um I think 20 people you know um is sufficient if it's Spanish speakers 10 um yeah uh to move these this meeting forward and to make sure that when we're making our decisions you know we have um our full brain cells and we are uh awake to be able to do that so thank you thank you trustee Marquez oh sorry you're muted um are we unmuting her Mr Gill or is she does she need to you might need to mute yourself trustee Marquez click the little bottom left there's a button that's like a little microphone on the bottom left of your screen we can't we can't hear you hold on we can't hear you trustee monkeys yeah you need to unmute yourself trustee Marquez on the bottom left of your screen somebody call her it's not on our end Mr Gill we have do we have her unmuted because I I'm trying to unmute her but it's her who commuter herself so she still has to unmute herself if somebody can call her and explain how to do it because I know when I had mutin myself and he had muted me I had to still unmute myself so we'll try to trusty Marcus we'll try to hear um a few more comments by by our colleagues oh you're calling in now okay perfect um so Mr Gill I guess he'll get that call soon and patch it in and maybe while they're doing that does anybody else have any feedback on my proposal for the one minutes for tonight one minute thank you do you wanna like close it yeah log off okay so I don't hear anything else so I'm gonna assume that oh trusty Chavez what I'm proposing is just the same throughout the night just to make it even whatever I think that if we don't on one item if we don't have that many speakers that we should allow them two or three minutes well the to for me the problem with that is that sometimes we start with not too many speakers and if we say two or three minutes then speakers trickle in and now we're we have seven eight ten people talking at three minutes each or two minutes each and that delays things so my proposal is for a blanket for the whole night that's what I'm proposing trustee so I I'm um I I'm not in agreement with what you are asking for us tonight um I I believe that you know they need to have more than one minute you know and I don't have an issue with being here and going to bed at three in the morning two in the morning or whatever it takes because this is signed up for you know we signed up to take care of business and this is the only night we have to take care of business and um I am I would not like just you know to keep taking or just continue taking minutes away from the speakers um also can you tell us in the beginning or somebody tell us how many people logged in or on you know on online right now with us um because 64 53.
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a lot of you have spent many hours many nights late uh over time weekends i saw teachers on facebook creating their their little virtual classrooms uh and uh i know how much work that is i know i'm learning uh i'm learning to how to how to uh get inside the classrooms and and teach too and so i know it's very difficult it's no it's new but i just want to remind everyone there's always that silver lining there's always that hope when you have visionary leaders when you have strong leaders that say let's go let's just do the work we can do it and we plow through it so thank you i honor all of you and i am so grateful to serve and i know on behalf of the board we are so proud of of all the work that you're doing and we're so proud of our kids so on that note let's take a moment all right thank you item 5.3 the clerk of the board of trustees will report out actions taken during closed session trustee smith thank you madam president and i would like to add one word beyond thanks gratitude 4.1 no reportable action taken regarding public employee performance evaluation superintendent 4.2 no reportable action taken regarding property negotiations 4.3 no reportable action taken regarding existing litigation 4.4 no reportable action taken regarding negotiations 4.5 no reportable action taken regarding personnel 4.6 no reportable action taken regarding existing litigation 4.7 the board of trustees unanimously voted to dismiss employee hr dash 2020-21-04 and lastly 4.8 the board of trustees unanimously voted to make the following appointment effective april 1 2020 jackie counts director innovative programs and cambridge virtual academy okay is jackie here not here okay she's hard away hard at work leading cambridge virtual academy right now we'll have to get here to uh congratulate her and let her uh speak on be on be on her behalf but we are so happy to have made that uh made that a choice we're so proud of her all right uh introduction of guests we're going to skip that we're going to move on to our reports of the associations and i'm not sure who's here so i'm just going to call on association and please always introduce yourself so i'm going to call on asta this is grant shuster i'm the president of the anaheim secondary teachers association and i do have a brief report today uh i'd like to start off good afternoon trustees cabinet and community my report today is all about dedication to our community as we started school this week our community of teachers and staff encountered obstacle after obstacle and found ways around to push through i would like to give a shout out to all the teachers and staff at every site who found a way to connect with their students and community under already trying circumstances from the pandemic that were exacerbated by technical issues special regards go out to eric greenwood and his team for tireless work and hours that they took to enable teachers counselors administration and staff to welcome their students to a new school year i cannot imagine the pressure and stress he was under and they came through big time this support of community did not start this week but has been prevalent all summer well over a hundred teachers have worked continuously with district partners on the opening of schools task force e-learning racial and social justice issues special education contract bargaining and creating mousse to support our teachers as they create innovative ways to help our students grow and bring back some stability to our students lives and to our neighborhood communities asta members continue to help with food distribution at a variety of events and milk deliveries in some of the hardest hit areas of our community teachers have helped students find their voice during this time and encourage them to use it for the change they believe in as well i have never been prouder to be a teacher in this district than now as we see each other stand up and support our students and families however we can during this crisis as we move forward we must continue to do so as a community recognizing the needs of our students parents and all district employees we must be mindful that as much as we see teachers and others in public education as superheroes they are only human and as much magic as they create in their classrooms they cannot create more time in the day we are very close to finishing up our last mousse and i implore the district and board to settle these with the mindset that any further hours required to train during the school day or more paperwork to be filled out during the school day will take away equal amounts of time that we want to spend with our students supporting them and their success i would also like to refer to the letters last month from students calling for ethnic studies in our district this is also something we must address as a community along with each of us looking at ourselves as individuals and deciding what we can do to support our students of color as they learn about our history and their own histories we must look at what our responsibilities are as teachers counselors administrators and board members to address the institutional racism that exists in structures in the structures of our district and our associations to close i want to thank the district for all of the collaborative opportunities over the summer our work together has created the best system possible under the circumstances the training teachers received has translated into a district distance learning system second to none with innovation and creativity that will benefit all of our students and would not have been possible without all of our work together this concludes my report thank you mr schuster fantastic thank you is ask me here uh how about apga buck is here all right i just want a second and third and fourth everything grant had to say and it's i think it's really important to understand that counselors were working remotely and they were able to schedule students from home working at home to get those students into classes so a big shout out to counselors for getting that done because teachers wouldn't be able to teach if those students weren't in their classes in the right classes i have a couple other important announcements one would be that also during the pandemic our district has a 91 and a half percent graduation rate and i think the efforts of teachers but more importantly well not more importantly but it's time to recognize those counselors that did a fantastic job all those senior counselors and also the teachers to get that graduation rate stephanie henry and all the work that's been done remotely from home to make sure that we can get those students correctly tagged and graduated and make the calpads world a happy place um i do have one final uh important message and that is we have a new president-elect and that is uh sylvia nopa and i think she is here at the meeting so sylvia if you want to jump in hi i'm sylvia nopa i look just like buck i guess i got my signals crossed with sylvia so um let me text her and uh see because she has the invite to the meeting but if we could go to someone to another group yeah no okay thanks we'll let her on great job uh buck thank you so much uh how about uh uh axa hilda are you on uh csea okay i think what we can do is i'll check back with you uh after our uh our ptsa it looks like sylvia has joined us oh there we go all right we stalled enough so sylvia this is buck i just introduced you so if you'd like to say a few words about uh who you are and what what your role is hello everyone thank you for your time today my name is sylvia o nopa i have been in the um district since 2006 as a counselor i started off at ball junior high school i worked with dr fred there for a couple of years before moving on to cypress high school and then catella high school and the sycamore junior high school and now this year i am at magnolia high school so i am very excited to be taking on this co-president role with my counselors welcome sylvia thank you so much that was that was kind of mean i need to put you on the spot like that you did a great job and uh we're so we're so happy and proud of the work that the counselors do so thank you and thank them for us too at your meetings we appreciate we appreciate you thank you very much that means a lot thank you okay uh just one more call out for uh afscme or csea or um axa how about pta did you call them i will just giving one more shout out okay uh moving on to our uh parent teacher association president are you on all right moving on to our public comments good afternoon everybody we do have a few public comments this afternoon uh the first is coming from martha aguirre she is a resident of the district and she has some comments about counseling at the board meeting on june 18 2020 the meeting depicted a chart the budget plans for the district which showed how counseling staff was to be reduced along with other positions though i acknowledge that funding for public education has been dwindling over the years that budget plans must be made to invest the available revenue into the district school as effectively as possible i'm very concerned about the harmful ramifications this particular budget plan will have on students and families according to the american school counselor association in 2015 the recommended student to school counselor ratio should be 250 to 1.
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so you have in your packet a virtual notebook the plan last march when we were going to meet was to have this for you and so the notebooks are sitting at pdsd and if we ever meet again in person we will distribute those for you so that you have everything located in one place the items that you have in your board docs include the letter that we started sent out to after president nigro and superintendent reichman and i met that talked about the basic definitions of strategic planning individual expectations most important issues and then developing that timeline and as we look at the board docs you have a calendar that we would like to under number four complete with potential dates you have the act operating principles that have been established now for three years they stand for accountability collaboration and transparency and that's how we want to operate within the agency you have the profile that has a whole host of information from the 1920s school year it will be updated this fall of course your vision and mission i also included the draft scope of work that was presented last november when you were talking about the possibility of finding a consultant to come in and assist you with the strategic planning what was determined was that it would be done with annette and president nigro and all of the board members and that we would have an internal facilitator myself that would help you along the way i'm not a participant i won't be offering any suggestions but i will be the one that will assist you in coming up with a very viable live strategic plan you have the work study powerpoint that eddie did that had a lot of data in it about live births of deaf and hard of hearing students you have a demographic powerpoint that was presented to school boards a year ago of what was happening with this general student population throughout arizona you have um now the revised uh calendar so it's the revised one that we're going to be finishing up with today you have your strategic priorities that we have been working with with the steering committee you have strategic planning definitions outlining the difference between long-range planning which takes your existing conditions and extends that into the next five years versus strategic planning where you really look at where you want to be in five to seven years and then work backwards and then a hybrid model promoted by advanced ed that really gets everyone into strategic thinking and so it takes that vision envisioning piece of strategic planning and models in a way we can become better strategic thinkers and then you've got the planning norms that president negro went over so that's really the what we have in your board documents so the first phase that we're going to work on today is planning the plan and the information gathering and strategies analysis and we'll start with number four in identifying the expectations from the board for the strategic planning process so this is the plan for the plan and i'm going to have you do this alphabetically this first activity and it's going to be alphabetically with your first names so coincidentally superintendent reichman annette you are first so what do you see as your expectations for the strategic planning process hello um well for being here this afternoon really my expectation for this planning process is to develop a very clear vision of what asdb will look like in the next five years that if five years from now we can take a look back and see where we are today and then did we get to the vision that we had so i want a vision um that we all can agree on as to where we want to be five years from today so that's my expectation annette i'm going to ask if you have any expectations in the process so we believe we'll have five meetings but um do you have will this be with the board and this team as you envision setting these priorities in the next five sessions expectations of the process itself meaning i put on the agenda any stakeholder involvement anything that is beyond the nine board members and the three um executive team members that you have with you today one thing that we can do um depending on board member interest is once we develop some possible planning we review it with different stakeholders maybe have town hall reading we have to be done virtually to ask the communities the parents the students the teachers and staff some of their ideas about what our strategic plan can look like thank you so the next person alphabetically is david nigro hi um you know in terms of the you know the expectations i want in terms of the process itself um i want to make sure that you know the board members bring you know all of their ideas here in the early parts of the process and then we can sort out through you know or identify any data that we may need to make a better decision and kind of sort through what the plan may be um that's that's kind of you know process type expectation um you know in terms of the result i i you know we i want to get beyond just saying we will improve the quality of our services certainly um but we can improve them in a in a measurable or in a quantifiable way so that we know that we've you know the work that we've done uh it has been able to better serve the students and the constituents that we serve thank you so data driven both in using data to determine your strategic priorities and data driven so that every priority is measurable with matrixes of criteria for success is what i heard you say yeah i i i yeah um you know i went to an asthma conference uh earlier in the year when when you could still travel um it was back in february and uh you know one of the one of the idea and the most of the meeting was about strategic planning and you know one of the ideas um that other districts use is they have a color-coded strategic plan so they may have five different areas um you know five different areas where they're really trying to get somewhere and all of their all their board meetings every item on the agenda is linked back to one of those colors um so we know that each one of these efforts is supporting you know one of those um you know one of those agenda or one of those items and and i i like that idea not because it looks nice and it's color-coded um but the idea that we're always being reminded um at all of our board meetings that you know we're undertaking these efforts for uh you know for a reason that we're there there's a place where we're going and these actions are going to support that even if that actually may not immediately um you know bear fruit in that meeting or within the time period for the next meeting but over the the time horizon of the strategic plan we're moving towards that goal thank you the next person alphabetically is dean howard dean are you with us i will come back to him then alphabetically as christian rex kristen your expectations i think moving forward expectations selected by the board gives me a clear vision of where to go to get down in the weeds so it would be awesome to have our items i hope we include stakeholder input i have been fielding a lot of questions from our stakeholders in our school districts we have a lot of changes that we are implementing during um during this time and with our schools and our co-ops and i have been fielding a lot of phone calls from our stakeholders which are districts wanting to know when did this decision happen why didn't we have any input so when we have our marching orders and you give them to me to get down in the weeds i need to want to focus on our stakeholder input as much as possible i think that's probably what i'm hoping to to bring out of this project thank you kristen linda bo you are next your expectations as a board member first of all before i begin um i'm looking at jess's background it's pretty light and it's really washing out her face and her hand so i'm not able to see her so i'm struggling right now to be able to understand her interpreting and she's asking if there is another darker background if so can you use it and interpreter can just go ahead and switch out her background and i'll take over for a few minutes um well as far as the vision goes really i'm out of the loop with all of this um i did try to access the board docs i was having problems accessing them for some reason my account i wasn't able to get into it so i'm trying to read through all the information and keep up with you all as we're here as a statewide agency how can we establish one line of communication so who leads that and how can we come together and pull together not only the agency but look at the the cooperatives um and how can we raise the bar for student excellence and achievement that's really what i want to see not the status quo you know and people working in separate and isolation i'd like to see us all working together um to as leaders you know to all achieve one goal of student excellency i want students to be successful after they graduate from school that's the goal thank you linda do you need more nancy not yet but in the next activity we will thank you the next person is lynn davidson uh i'd like a clear plan that we're moving forward and looking at the whole agency including the co-ops the early childhood with you know the goal obviously that our post school outcomes look look really good but we have to look at it across the whole agency not just the brick and mortar not not just the co-ops but have a plan to promote better achievement with better post school outcomes thank you nice and concise and a very holistic approach so the next person alphabetically is dr sims mark hi um my idea what i think is is is you need to define your goal and then go towards it so we should be the premier educational institution in the united states providing excellent education for every child that needs our services within the boundaries of the state of arizona and be a model for others to emulate thank you nice and thorough there as a model the next person is michael gordon um my expectations trying to find out bring up my video there we go sorry about that um my expectations are a little long marks is try to identify the issues or i guess uh what areas are particularly strong in our calling i've always felt that we want to try to search efficiencies when it comes to uh cost effectiveness of two center-based services now remote services and obviously school-based services how we can make that to be most effective best practices equal distribution of resources uh how we can identify what those those needs are and try to have honest conversations towards how we can um design maybe a plan for the future that will really help and at least in my case on this board has helped increase the awareness of blindness and how uh how we can help the greatest number of people with our with the amount of revenue were allocated thank you michael um that effectiveness and deficiencies is a little different focus appreciate that the next person is mike manley mike hi this is mike manley um i don't want to reiterate um some pieces that were already discussed i agree um if you look at the mission and vision as it stated all children in arizona which encompasses our sub-pops that this state institution is here to support our mission says all of those kids so it seems that asdb needs to be the um the true expert in the state for all of these liaisons in this state um to come as a resource as an as a partner um and making sure that those all the decisions are putting those kids first so is a is to be doing everything it can for all the kids in the state for all all of the varying needs be they co-op brick and mortar residential not in one of those groups but needing expertise in these areas are we doing everything we can to help those kids and families moving forward thank you mike i heard expert as well as earlier was two words describing the agency sheena cooper is next sorry hello my expectations though would be after we've set our agency priorities is that we're able to continue to work toward common goals between agency leadership the board our operational as well as our educational staff members but also hoping to ensure that we align our resources with our strategic plan by tying the budget to the plan and that we're able to create a direct linkage between how our resources are allocated and how those efforts support our strategies over time i envisioned that we would be able to identify those areas that contribute less directly to our strategic goals and that we're able to become clearer on where we can work on gradually aligning our resources every with everything that we fund thank you and we know we have limited resources so to maximize those efficiencies and last but not least sue k so my expectation i think sort of pulls or piggybacks on several folks i do agree with mike that if we are true to our vision and mission we need to make sure that we are demonstrating that expertise in our strategic plan to get us from where we are at to where we want to be but i also agree with um some of what david said as far as making sure that everything we do um is tied back to those goals that we identify um i sit on another board and one of the things that we do with that information is also use it as part of the evaluation of the executive director of that board um so i think it we need to carry it all the way through there needs to be um a thread that ties all of those pieces together with the outcome being improved student outcomes thank you sue k and that did pull it all together for us because we know for lease the superintendents um have performance criteria that was passed in legislation so it brings it all the way around to the accountability piece so with that being said and what i heard in timeline is really over the course of the next five years and so we are looking at 2026 if we follow the timeline 2027 five or six years so in order to start that process annette sent out an email it was president negro's suggestion that what would be a headline you would like to see and whether it be the arizona republic or the wall street journal or something else that would be about asdb five years from now so in 2026 2027 what might be that headline you may not have had time to think about this so you have the right to pass on this activity i'm gonna go alphabetically again but i'm going with your last name so the headline for five years from now what would you like to see i'm going to start with linda and remember if you're not ready you can pass i'm a pass thanks the next person is shayna shayna what would you like to see that headline for me again i guess it would be along those lines of asdb has identified um resources that effectively ensure that we're meeting our priorities and educating our students which is our mix should be our main focus for allocating the resources being effective at um thank you and lynn davidson do you have any ideas for our headlines it would be a really long headline um but that we would just pick up our yeah our deaths and blind students are achieving beyond what they've done in the past and are going on to bigger and better things um i haven't had much time to think about it but that's my little thought thank you um i wrote similar to that that asdb demonstrates greater achievement gains than general student population was one idea that i had that is in line with the same like yours and so the next person alphabetically is michael gordon michael so much fanfare there and i didn't even have myself unmuted uh new north country asdb residential hub prospers will you say that again for us please new asdb north country residential hub prospers thank you very much and our next person alphabetically is dean howard dean have you joined us then sue k you're up next arizona state senator jane doe credits asdb with her excellence in education to get her where she's at today wow great headline thank you mike manley arizona leads the nation in post-secondary outcomes for the deaf and blind ambitious david your headline well i i think first uh you know similar to mike we would say that um you know the i would say the the asdb schools uh high school seniors earn x amount of dollars where x is a large number um you know in potential scholar college scholarships um but you know i i think that my other my real headline that i really want to see it doesn't even have asdb in it it's it has um one of the students uh that we serve in some capacity doing something that's great that you wouldn't have expected so um and that's that's really uh that's really my goal is to really enable the students to achieve things that that they didn't think they could achieve thank you annette your headline and that you have your microphone on okay we'll come back to annette kristen your headline five years out i would love um arizona state schools for the deaf and blind to host a summit to support best practices with regard to instruction as well as curriculum development or other schools that serve students that are deaf blind hard of hearing or deafblind thank you very much and mark alphabetically you're the last one um just a quick comment when you walk into i don't know people are familiar with the school but when you walk into bronx science which is a magnet school in new york it says on the wall six nobel laureates have graduated from this school and those are the types of things we should be seeing on the walls of these schools but the headline should be asdb's peer institutions recognize it as the preeminent educational institution in the united states thank you yes that's powerful so annette can you hear me and did you have a headline yes sorry about that i'm having difficulty um yes my headline was similar to mike mannelly in that 100 percent of our graduates both in the schools and in the co-ops one year after graduation they have a full-time job making a good wage and or they're in post-secondary education again towards getting a meaningful career thank you very much and so we can see that the agency's vision and mission is for all students that we serve and we can see that we have agreement for that expertise premier excellence efficiency those common themes so i'm going to skip and start talking about what are burning issues for you and then once we've identified some of those will determine then what additional information you need as well as obstacles that there might be so i heard some underlying individual ideas for the most important issues for the agency but i'd like you to take a couple of minutes and really think we we can't if we do a few things very very well we will get momentum to be able to do even more if we try to do so many things that we can't do them well then the planning process loses some of its credibility so this is going to be where david is going to go on the screen and you're going to raise your hand when you're ready to share i will not be able to see you raising your hand so he'll help me facilitate this part but by raising your hand please start and talk about what's most important for you to address as the agency that burning issue that you really want to have possibly as a strategic priority to focus in on in the next five years all right thank you nancy um i am seeing dr sims um your camera is on so dr sims has the the floor yeah you know since i've joined the agency and one of the reasons i joined the board is is uh the geographical disparity i i think we really have to work on delivering services across the state um in a more even fashion so people have access to it across the state and that to me is one of our highest priorities okay thank you dr sims is there anyone else that would like to make comments at this point um i see linda uh linda you're now recognized um for me what i feel is a priority is children having full access from birth up to language primarily birth to five having that full access to language and asl absolutely has to be a part of that and a part of that child's life from the beginning so that's an important issue that we need to focus on and it really should be from the beginning and that's it for now thank you i see linda raising her hand again no no okay uh sue king i agree with what dr sims says in regards to the disparity based on location and geographics but i i also um [Music] really would like us to sort of think outside of the box about how education can be delivered and i think we've had some insight into that because of covid but i i don't want us to have um just an expanded box i want us to be um creative in our approach on how to best serve those kids not only wherever they are geographically but wherever they are in their education journey to get them to the point where we do have those outcomes when they graduate okay thank you and there are others i saw mike families oh there's mike i see mike mike you're not recognized emily um i think a priority um needs to be collaboration and partnership with the leas for which our agency is attempting to provide the best services to put these kids in the best situation long term so strengthening the collaboration between and partnerships true partnerships um between the lease and asdb to better clarify what and how we're providing extremely important resources to these kids uh linda i see linda okay so i've heard from about two or three already and i do feel that those are important priorities um i have a question um as mark and mike manali were speaking talking about the geographic location of students and for me how are we monitoring those students who who leads that um because you have one monitor that says that could say the student is doing fine another monitor who may thinks that's different so who's managing that process and collecting that data so collecting that data and having it in our strategic plan there's a lot of variables that happen across the state um and you know we do want to make sure that we're providing equal access we're having equity and i know that dr sims really likes to look at that equity and i agree and i i heard that a lot in our previous board meeting uh making sure that we have equity across the state but who's responsible to monitor that and is that the leas responsibility who's making sure that they're following idea there's a lot of smaller issues that we have to work through within the larger issue before we can get to that priority so is that eventually the big picture you know is is that but there's a lot of cleanup that has to be done to make sure that there is equity across the state so what what steps will be taken so i do agree with the comments that were stated before me however um i'm very interested in early childhood and language development okay so i want to make sure that even we're having equity within each of the regions do they have access to language development who's monitoring that okay thank you thank you linda other others i see the dean has joined uh as well um uh dean we're sharing uh what we think priorities may be for uh the agency and uh to go over the uh kind of the etiquette uh just as in the board meetings uh when you'd like to speak you can turn on your video and then i could the moderator either me or or nancy will recognize you and then you can speak i see dr sims has his video on so dr sims you have the floor thanks um as a comment you know one of the things i think we struggle as a board is is because we all have some semblance of subject matter expertise that we sometimes mix implementation with strategy and so sometimes we talk about how we're going to implement the strategy but it's really the strategy itself we need to formulate and then let the executives execute on that strategy because i think sometimes we mix those two concepts and so i'm not saying it's bad but we need to focus on giving them a goal and then letting the executives of the agency obtain that goal if that makes sense okay thank you are there others that like to speak about priorities um i don't see any right now um nancy would you like to move on to the next next step point we certainly can um when we think about these priorities um and in light of dr sims comments about strategies um that once you set your strategic priorities the um kristen described it as being in the weeds but it's really that's on the direction that you give to the executive teams and with their support of all of their staffs then they're the ones that will execute out the devil and the details with these strategies and then come back and share progress with the board and so as we look at that what would you say are some of the obstacles that you believe prevent the success of some of these strategic priorities we know you have limited resources so we heard shayna talk about keeping those priorities so that the priorities are tied into the resource allocations but what would be some of the other obstacles that you think that we run into uh thank you nancy uh mark um i i see your dr sims i see you that you've opened your video um uh i would say one of our major obstacles is the mindset that our resources are limited as compared to perhaps not correctly allocated and i think that's a pervasive mindset that we don't have enough resources as compared to where we allocate our resources i'm not sure we don't have enough resources i just think it might be how we allocate them okay thank you would you like to expand on that mark when you look at the resources they're significant right and so the issue is not necessarily a lack of resources that perhaps maybe the resources have not been expended on the rural students and those types of things so um you know obviously if we had unlimited resources then that wouldn't be a problem but there is a language where we automatically kind of say there isn't enough money that's kind of a built-in language when we have these board meetings we talk about there not being enough money i'm not sure that's really the case i think the answer is yes it's painful and sometimes difficult to reallocate the money but i'm not sure the conclusion necessarily is we don't have enough money um because i i mean i think there's a substantial amount of money in this organization relative to our outcomes and mark maybe you can expand on on the allocation me i i understand that you know as you know the funding comes from different sources can you talk about how you think it may not be deployed efficiently or effectively uh today well i think frankly the money's been allocated historically and so what i mean by that is is there have been maybe without uh rationales that are consistent with what maybe we all see as our strategy the money has gone into certain buckets in certain ways and a lot of that has just happened through momentum not necessarily without rationale and so there is to some extent maybe some resistance to change those allocations because they've historically always been that way but it doesn't mean that they've always been that way and that's the right way for them to be um so uh you know there is i mean i don't know what uh what other granularity you're looking for david but uh that that would be i mean if you look at it there's never been a rationale for why our money spent the way that it's just frankly always been that way and so the institutional memory that justified that would never pass on throughout the institutions because basically anybody who had all of that institutional memory basically turned over around the time mike gordon and i joined the board and so we've just kind of kept on doing what we did before and i think that that was based on certain priorities that were brought to the table to the uh organization but not a perhaps equitable and distributive priority and i guess i'm still confused by that um you know and i i'm very confused by that um you know we know my statement or that rationale uh by the by the statement about how it's it's you know the the the agency is funded um through a variety of sources as you know and uh depending on the student that we're serving um we have different responsibilities with respect to that student and we have different funds that are available uh to service that to service that student i'll give you a perfect example um the trust fund that we have for the organization was actually funded by a visually impaired individual historically but if you look most of those funds have gone towards hearing impaired individuals disproportionately so that's a microcosm of example so in the the trust fund though is there um and i know we get a very small amount of our funding from that uh is there a is there a limitation on that trust fund no there's not but that doesn't justify the contra distinction of overly funding hearing impaired or visually impaired i mean it's been disproportionate incredible it's always gone to the brick and mortar schools on the h.i not always substantially gone to the brick and mortar schools on the hi side historically in terms of that maybe um if you can you know expand on that i know that we you know uh with students that we don't provide that are not the brick-and-mortar schools the students are served via the co-ops we don't do all of the other things we don't teach academics we don't do transportation we don't provide nutrition we don't do all those other things so the the amount that you know that we that we spend is at the at the behast or the direction of the local school districts and many of those relationships are are fee-for-service as as you know that's true but we do get a certain amount that's general funds money correct uh that's right we get about i think it's 20 or 21 million from the general fund now that we have because we can't raise people spend that across anywhere in the agency correct uh that's right many of those i mean there may be some limitations but in in general okay so look at the distribution of that money and i would posit to you it is not equitable across the agency across the state okay and that's really i think what i wanted to know is that you know we we have different relationships with students we have certain responsibilities with respect to some groups of students and not to others uh namely you know do we have to provide the academic education and transportation and nutrition to uh students from the co-ops and the answer is no we don't um you know versus the university of the others um but look at this discretionary travel discretionary travel has gone disproportionately to the the students at the brick and mortar schools than it has to the co-op so there's no reason that they shouldn't be able to do discretionary travel as well that would benefit their in cultural integration educational integration and all those things i'm not sure that that should be limited by a brick and mortar school um you know in terms of that though you're still talking about going to see uh traveling to have some sort of enrichment is that right yeah whatever that would be okay um i mean i think that that that's a microcosm that's a a particular vignette or example of some of those issues so if you're going to have equal opportunity then you would want equal opportunity across the agency and i guess so i think what you're saying is that the the general funds money what you're saying is that the general funds money needs to be sent differently than it than it is today even though is that what you're saying i'm not saying that what i'm saying is is we have historically spent it for a certain way that doesn't necessarily and i'm not sure there is a historical justification that is consistent with the values and the mission of the organization i think it is just a perpetuation of something that was established at a certain point in time in the organization before frankly our current mission and vision was adopted i can tell you that it does predate that and so the reason we seemingly continue to do it is because that's how we have done it i'm not telling you i mean it is possible although i think personally unlikely that we could go through this whole exercise and say we are exactly spending the money exactly how it should have been and weren't we amazing that we did that before we did the strategic plan that's possible but i think unlike it i don't have the answer i'm just challenging the allocation okay uh mike i think your video was was open mike manley yes this is mike manley sorry about um the buttons on zoom um maybe to clarify um just thankfully uh for the agency um with the nets hiring of miss cooper we might be in a position where we can answer some of those historical questions about how and why those proportions are where they're at um which is a good thing i don't know if previously uh we were in a position to really take a look at data and answer those questions um but maybe we maybe we could take a fresh set up eyes and and take a look at how those proportions are actually panned out and consider um is that is that part of where we're heading in the right direction um without uh you know blaming the ghosts of the past but uh having some clarity on the where we are financially i know that over the last two years um i have a much much greater understanding of kind of the ins and outs of the fiscal aspect of the agency that really wasn't clear until the last until um superintendent reichman uh brought some transparency at peace so maybe those are some questions we can answer uh with data now that we didn't have access to in the past i'm not saying that uh the proportions are um i just don't think we've had access to look at that until recently i don't know if that is helpful at all but um having more information about uh where and how the money's coming in is a wonderful thing that um we could leverage now are there others that would like to speak about that about the obstacles that we face um i see uh miss cooper i just wanted to add um just a few comments um as it as we talk about our resources i do agree with quite a bit of what um mr stems was talking about and that's exactly why when the question was asked what would be my expectation was to talk about how the allocation of our resources are aligned with our strategic priorities a lot of what we have done in the past has been based on historical which i have tried to change in the last two years that i have been here i have implemented processes where there is more involvement with the agency um from the various directors executives principals the leadership team in terms of that process is on them to develop what they're semes submitting and requesting as part of their budget submission package so that has gotten a little bit more better should i say over the years in terms of how our resources are allocated and where we need to better identify those operational um ineffectiveness as well as trying to make sure that we're efficiently using those resources because yes we do have 55 56 million dollars is that enough i'm not sure again i think the key point is that we're identifying what those priorities are and i can better align what our budget should be but i can definitely say that i am in very much an agreement with most of what he he referenced when it talked about the historical and trying to justify how our budget was developed in the past um which i've been trying to uncover the last two years and also as it relates to the trust fund monies we are only limited to four percent of our investment portfolio which has been roughly about a hundred and forty three thousand dollars a year now there is a process i believe um assistant superintendent rex can talk about that a little bit more but there is a vetting process there is a board um there is involvement from the various departments in terms of what they're looking for to increase those operational needs specifically for the students now how that's allocated again there is a vetting process but um i definitely hope that is that is one of my expectations to to better align similar to what mark sim said our resources uh mike gordon i think this is pretty consistent with when we're talking about expectation when it comes to operational effectiveness efficiencies um this is a conversation i feel like we've had several times in the past be it at strategic discussions or at board meetings when it it just comes to allocations and uh it is a talk about historical perspectives and ghosts of the past it's you know it's a institutional model that has was established in tucson over 100 years ago and and in some ways we are still living within that construct of a residential facility with a very small census and a uh a finite albeit i feel large budget but with a big allocation to support that that uh historical institutional model and uh that seemingly i'm interested to see that that is is emerging as an initial priority out of uh some of the board members because i do think that's an important aspect about how we're spending our money obviously programmatic excellence is something that any institution should have as a ultimate ambition and goal and that that is is clear and i'd love to to see us achieve that uh as soon as possible um fiscal prudency and uh and um effectiveness though is something that doesn't just come through instruction it comes through some tough decisions and particularly nowadays because we don't know where that budget will fall out in the next year or two obviously not what we've been receiving just as a consistent uh year by year increase that's it dave all right thanks bye are there others does not not look like it um okay so uh nancy if we can move on okay so now it comes to the hard part this is the heavy lifting so everyone's kind of talked as some of their expectations they've talked about some of the limitations there's um i see bubbling up really four kind of focus areas that i have heard you talk about one is resource allocation and having um a an obstacle maybe is that institutional history and or maybe not even having until shayna came a really clear understanding of those allocations and then prioritizing as you look at those i heard from one board member about zero to five in the early literacy i heard from another board member about promoting partnerships and then embedded through everyone's comments for these post-secondary outcomes or really focusing on student achievement so that those doors are open wherever they want to go once they've graduated from the schools um what you all have to decide next is what you want to have for additional data so that you can help fine-tune these priorities or think about them and and really get some consensus and then once you tell us what the data is and additional information that you need we can bring that to the october 1st meeting i don't know president nigro if you get a different read on that that you wanted to share with the group no no i don't i don't think i don't think i did um you know in terms of now if we're we're talking about what kind of specific types of data that we that we're going to request from the agency does anyone have any any particular i see mike is raising his hand very quickly i apologize this is mike was that my permission to go yeah sorry thank you um i think a satisfaction survey from the lease we serve um with some specific questions would be a good place to start um it's where we get our children that uh we're endeavoring to take care of um i think hearing from them if uh how we can better serve these kids would be a good place to start okay uh dr sims yeah one of the things that's come up repetitively in the board meetings is the concept of well there are 49 other laboratories across the united states doing this so it would be understanding what other states are doing how they i mean we're not the only ones that have geographical diversity you know a diverse student population i mean clearly this is something that i would think almost every state except for maybe what delaware and rhode island has to struggle with so you know what are other states doing is there the data of every other state and what their programs look like because although we want to be innovative we don't have to reinvent the wheel because i suspect we could borrow ideas from multiple states and really come out with some very good solutions okay thank you are there any others i mean to uh yet to me um you know i think if we talk about resource allocation um you know we the majority of the agency's budget uh depends on on enrollment um again there are those that attend the brick and mortar schools those we serve in the co-ops uh we get fee-for-service in many in many cases although not all so those are those depend on the number of students that we serve we do get that kind of block from the general fund of about 20 million dollars some of that we use in early childhood education and some other obligations that we have some of that we use in the brick and mortar schools because we do provide all the other services you know the the direct academic instruction uh transportation nursing extracurricular activities nutrition etc um so we probably won't need to remind you know board members what you know where that goes and and and uh where that money is spent if we're going to talk about reallocating in some way that we should talk about that um and we should also talk about you know some of the the data the the amount of services we provide both to uh the the students in the brick and mortar schools and the students and the co-ops because you know we they have different needs right i mean that they have very different needs um and that's why it's called an iep because each child is as an individual need and that plan is individualized so um you know there are some students that that have less of a need than others that's that's kind of the nature of the of the agency so we should have a better idea of that um mark i say your camera is is lit up yeah um you know i think we have to decide philosophically if this is an approach to deliver what we are obligated or need to deliver or what we aspirationally want to deliver as an ideal because you know if this is let's see what we statutorily have to deliver based on statute and iep well this just can be relatively formulaic um and so i i understand that that's recurrent language and philosophical framework to use but i'm not sure that that's really an aspirational or necessarily consistent with what i would consider the ultimate strategy to make this a premier institution and deliver premier education i mean even if somebody's iep doesn't say they need it it doesn't mean you don't deliver it because it gets the child to where we ideally want them to be okay dr sims are you saying that we should supply that we should provide academic instruction or nutrition or transportation to students in in the co-ops who who that that is currently being served by their lease i you know i mean it depends if it's statutorily um uh prohibited or not um and it also depends on whether or not that's in the child's best interest i think you you'd be hard-pressed to go wrong if the institutional value i mean you know i i'd have to know the specifics but i'm not sure that that's something that would be precluded necessarily if that if that helped that child okay that's very that's very interesting um you know the the the way that we the way that the co-ops serve is they're really one of several competitors to provide uh services that to support um you know the child's uh uh needs so it's not necessarily academics right now um or nutrition or transportation or other any of the other ancillary services um because they're they're already served in their local school district like any other school student in that local school district so um you know to me it seems that we want to improve our services so that we can be involved in more of the local school districts in the cooperative setting as opposed to some other providers right there are many leas that hire their own tbis and they hire their own o m instructors and their own uh teachers of the deaf etc uh there are others that use other agencies they're not not this one uh to provide those services i think to me we want to improve so that we can be more competitive with those other providers um but i'm not i mean certainly in strategic planning we're open to anything but i'm i'm i just don't see how it fits that we would you know send in you know social studies teachers let's say um to supplement hey man i'm not sure what the motivation is to to use that particular example i mean you know the point of the matter is is if it's if it's to provide what's statutorily minimally required or iep minimally required i think that's a different philosophical approach as compared to providing to get the best possible outcome so if it doesn't say somebody needs perhaps a particular device to be able to interact educationally but that's what's going to get them there and the best i would hope that maybe their teacher would appeal to the agency and we would provide it despite the fact that we're not statutorily required and i think that's a little bit different than a social studies teacher well you had mentioned you know providing academics or providing other other services and that's that's the you know i think that's the that's the disconnect that we're having i'm not saying that we can't go beyond what what the statute provides um or what an iep provides um but what i'm saying is it tends to be the philosophical approach that we've had right but but in that relationship though if we're talking about a student in the co-op the the you know that student is a student in that lea that lea serves most of the the child's educational needs not all they they they bring in us for uh for certain specialty services um but they provide everything else and they they keep the you know a large part of the of the voucher money to service that and we get a part to provide those services now can we provide you know what what do we provide i mean certainly at a minimum what the iep uh has and that should be what the child needs but if there's something above and beyond that i'm interested to see hear your thoughts about what what that could be how we could identify it and and what be beneficial to to provide it i leave that to the experts which are the teachers i think it's a philosophical approach not a specific statutory uh being specific statutorily or regulatory above uh if that makes sense it's the same reason why some teachers bring school supplies into the classroom right because they know that the classroom does better if they do that rather than saying well we just don't have any money for it we're not going to do it okay are there any other uh i see uh linda linda is now recognized so i was watching the conversation between mark and david um and i seem to get a little more clarification talking about you know providing additional services above and beyond the iep and of course you know we have to legally follow the iep so those additional services above and beyond it has me thinking uh you know can we find those exemplary teachers get them to the school how do we get those exemplary teachers to work you know whether it be on our brick and mortar schools or in the cooperatives do we need to pay them a higher salary in order to recruit them do we know how to get those exemplary teachers here in order to to provide that additional service for the students and as we all know teachers don't get paid the best here in the state of arizona but a lot of teachers look at ascb and they think oh arizona i'm not going to go there you know due to the pay so is there more incentive that we can provide to attract those higher qualified teachers so something that we should think about and i think that's something that's important to me is that we're we're attracting those highly qualified exemplary teachers so that's my thoughts thank you thank you linda are there any other cause i see uh lynne yes i just want to um go back to what mike had to say mike manley had to say about partnerships with the school districts i think it's going to be critically important for us to really work on that especially with our new with the changes and the new agreement with the school districts i think it's that's something we're really going to have to take a look at there's going to be a lot of implications i believe sure are there are any other comments on that on this section okay um nancy you can bring us to the next door of business the next order of business is really to look at a timeline in future meetings sometimes in this process things bubble to the top such as a huge priority is to look at in school districts closing of schools because of declining enrollment you know i mean there are things that are a little more specific than what you all have come up with so i think as far as next steps if we can agree on the october meeting and three more meetings then david and annette and myself can take this information and shape it into some ideas with additional data that we could provide for the october first meeting does that sound like a viable next step for everyone and so we had tentatively planned you see the revised calendar that were in your board docs we had this work session on september 10th you have your regular board meeting you are all invited to the steering committee if you remember on that's on september 23rd that particular session that group that meets um are really the 50 key leaders in the agency and so we could think of ways that we might want to share and gather some ideas from them that you had a work session at one time planned for september 24th but leticia put that in the calendar i did not have that so we could have a september 24th we could have an october 1st then a november date and then a december date and that's in the chart that she gave us we can just pick some thursdays from uh four to six if you would like and then or i can have leticia go out and do it the way she asks what times you have available yeah nancy this is david the the doodle uh poll is probably the best way to schedule that and then at the next board meeting we can approve those dates um i know we have the next one calendared so we're we're set with that um but if the teacher can do some uh a doodle poll for everyone that'll be able to settle those dates and then we can confirm at the next board meeting and david i will follow up with leticia and get that organized with her all right great so once we have those dates it's it's not well focused right now this process gets it's messy because it's um really thinking differently it's not the extension of the past you know it's not to say that we want um to do this this and this for what our existing way of doing business but instead we want to really change how i heard thinking out of the box differences some of those types of things so you're just going to need to have continued discussions as everybody processes what we talked about today to try to get into a narrower focus for those strategic priorities there's not a hurry to do that if it takes more than a couple of meetings that's okay because really when you get down to then operationalizing these priorities that you've set as a board that's the work of the leadership and individual staff members to present to you how they hope to accomplish what you set out as strategic priorities okay so a doodle poll will be coming out we'll have you approve that at the september 10th meeting um we'll reconfirm the september 24th meeting of uh that was already in the makings the october first one we'll confirm those and make sure we have good representation and then we'll have two more dates and then you and at night david will meet at the beginning of next week we'll schedule a time and so as all of you are thinking about things you can certainly um send an email to me and i can be the um the receiving end of those different ideas if you would like me to i'm on on the asdb email and i will just gather that and then put it into a form that could be shared with everybody if you've because we've talked about a lot of things tonight and people need time to process what they've heard okay so david do you need anything else from the group right now if what i'd like to do is just have closing comments and go around alphabetically again if there are any closing comments and you of course can just pass so i would start with the net do you have any closing comments in that yes just wanted to let you know that i listened to you i heard you there were a lot of really thoughtful serious discussion here i really appreciate your time your consideration your thinking outside of the box here i look forward to coming back in september and taking it to the next step and really establishing or re-establishing the priorities for the agency so thank you for your time this afternoon and that's it for me thank you annette david did you have any closing comments uh no thank you everyone for your time and your thoughts um and uh you know look forward to the to the next meeting dean howard closing comments none for me but thank you kristen rex closing comments linda bow closing comments i'd like to say thank you for the opportunity to gather tonight and as a board member i really like to know each of your thoughts are what your philosophies are and learn those and understand we need to work together as a team rather as a group of individuals so i am definitely seeing um and understanding each of you better during our board meetings we have so many duties and priorities to talk about so this session really gave me an opportunity and a valuable understanding into each of you and it was been a really great time just to see all these different viewpoints and nice that we could bring them to the table so thank you thank you linda lynn davidson closing comments no i'm good thank you dr sims closing comments um i've said enough thank you michael gordon closing comments no i'm good too thank you mike manley closing comments this is mike thanks thanks just really quickly i think it's critical that we do look five years into the future um but we're we're a governing board in quorum right now correct i could um make a request um you know we are certainly an unprecedented times right now um if it's possible could we get an update at our next board meeting about how um we've mitigated uh the state home order um as an agency and how we're helping our kids out um just to get an update i know we took a look at um the opening video at the last board meeting um i'm just wondering if we could uh get an update on how how that is going as an agency and and how we've um what we've done and how we've assisted folks in the in in the interim until uh those metrics get back into a place where we can move forward great and and that and kristen will follow up on that mike thank you any closing comments shayna no i'm okay thank you and lastly sue k any closing comments i just appreciated the dialogue today and just wanted to say thanks for that and um thank you nancy for facilitating i think it made for a good discussion thank you very much sue k it's the beginning of many we'll take all of this information and help narrow a little bit of the focus but there'll be discussions when there's philosophical beliefs that need to be really sorted out you may need to relook at your vision and mission there's a few options that you might want to consider so we will get that plan so people feel it's like it's a good use of their time at the next planning session i want to thank all of you for your participation and look forward to continue working with you have a good evening thank you and president negro do you need a motion to juror uh you know i don't think we need one but for the good of the order i suppose we should have one this is uk i i move that we adjourn this is lynn i second uh all in favor you beat me sue k yeah i'm seeing uh all thumbs up uh from lynn and from dr sims and linda and sue k and mike manley uh and all opposed i don't see any opposed thank you very much everyone thank you thank you good night everyone you
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this was all general fund expenses and i signed this on august 4th um i authorized by my signature to payables and the amount of 52 654 000.75 for a warrant dated july 22nd 2020 um and that was all payroll and i signed that july 23rd and the last one i authorized by my signature to payables in the amount of 53 fifty three thousand five hundred thirty four dollars and seventy seven cents for the warrant dated um august 5th 2020 and that was all payroll and i signed that on um august 4th i will take a motion to adjourn no ceremony here let's wrap this up i move to during the meeting of the pelham school committee second great any further discussion no okay roll call vote kenny menina margaret stance or eye brenda marlo i unhaul i we are adjourned thank you thanks
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down at the bottom see where it says participants nope nope nope uh uh trustee so uh so and and I'm in agreement with that which is you know why last time I I was in agreement with you know limiting um but what I'm then proposing you know depending on how we move forward I think it's important that I'm awake you know fully for the I mean they're all important decisions um but I'm wondering if the items that need to be passed today uh you know if we can move those items forward you know and they're all important right uh but things like the budget um you know different um contracts that need to be um moved today I don't know if we can move those items forward I mean I guess everything's important right but um yeah I looked at that and the majority of stuff and so maybe the you know uh board policies later I don't know everything's important and and I know that the you know there's some that are um for the final reading that need to be passed that we can move those up and maybe they're out more um because you know I think I mean just to bring it back you know we haven't been meeting this late and we're all signed up you know we're all committed and we're all you know here the same uh otherwise we want to be here and we know that you know it was part of the what the state came back to us right in the Audits and that our meetings should not be going that late and so as much as we're all here and we're not going to go anywhere um we've also been you know slept on the hand by you know audits in the state to say that we should not like that should not be allowed um and so those are just some of my thoughts you know again I I agree which is part of the reason why I fought for you know having making sure the public had sufficient time at the last meeting but today you know having been through the last meeting um I just want to make sure that everybody has an opportunity to speak you know because it's important to hear everybody um and that we have a balance and I know unnecessarily you have a hard job there right um ensuring that um but you know I too want to make sure that everybody is heard um so yeah okay trustee Chavez so um this board has not been being by the state I think that we have more of a handle on when we go over time or not so as long as we extend it to the proper time uh trustee uh Quintero asked for 3 A.M we did 3 A.M so if you want um my opinion which you may not but it's still if it was me with my children in these schools I would want my opinion heard and because the schools have been closing there's so much uh information that they need to know they also need to speak because when parents are frustrated and they're not getting heard they take their kids to other districts now if we want to limit uh now in it here and a minute there and if it's going to cost us Adas I Stay why are we doing this so before that happens because there is a lot of frustrated parents who have gotten on the board meeting saying this it's not coming from me it's coming from parents that have been speaking we should allow them the time and if we need to extend to the next day uh make another meeting uh but put it out there you know two days with two days no rest for a special meeting then we should do so but we need to let these parents know because this is not a regular year this is a lot of parents concern about what has happened with the covet and it is not business as usual so if you could please have these parents speak their mind so they can listen to them because it's very important at this time thank you we'll just take another comment or two and then we got to get going uh because I had not finished my comment when you just left me hanging and called on Karina but um I I'm just gonna just say that I I don't support what you are requesting from us I will not you know I will not support that and I I want to hear what our parents have to say because what she just said is true this is not a regular year this is this is an unusual year that we are starting out we finished in in a a horrible year and now we're gonna start you know in a new year that we are just fumbling through we don't know no one knows everyone's doing this for the first time and I don't want to take any any time away from the community I support the community coming out to speak so thank you yeah I think my I would agree with with those two statements that this is not a regular year this is a challenging year certainly to make these types of decisions my point would be is that um because of that very same fact that we as a board need sufficient time to deliberate and to make the decisions the ultimate decisions that will guide the direction of the district and and you know given again the time from the last meeting it was our time that was kind of um you know cut a little bit short because we want we do want to hear that those voices of the community okay trusty Quintero I don't know if you're in here but I don't want to Short Change you if you're having problems but after that we'll just call for a vote and move forward I am uh you know you are tasked with managing the meeting and so if you see necessary to adjust uh the times and uh so be it we need to hear from everyone but we need to do so uh at a reasonable time um there may be folks who are here trying to get their point across and it's going to be extremely late their item might not even get here until two in the morning and at that point in time it's not reasonable to expect them to still be uh at the meeting and so yeah go ahead and you have to manage meaning that's the role of the president so obviously you know if there's not that many people in and it's not necessary to go and arbitrarily simply go ahead and put it down to one minute but um if there is significant interest then everybody should have an equal time to be heard okay so um I guess we gotta vote on this and then we'll move forward so I'm gonna slightly modify my proposal and say that my proposal is for a public comment to be one minute per item one minute per individual 20 minutes per item with the opportunity to adjust um as is appropriate for items that may not have uh that is evident or clear that there aren't a lot of speakers on those and then give those um two minutes as we had so that's my proposal that I guess we'll vote on at this point so we can move forward so I'll just call you as I see you on my screen and we'll vote on it and move forward uh trustee yes trustee Chavez trustee Chavez what did you say because it sounded like you were underwater when you were talking that's why I raised my hand earlier um we're voting on The Proposal that I had put on the floor which is one minute per individual 20 minute limit with for per item with the opportunity to adjust that to two minutes on items that it's clearly evident that there are not a lot of speakers after her before I vote well we're I mean very briefly because we need to move forward so trustee Chavez we're we're calling for the vote right now on that okay proposal so yes okay trustee Marquez so wait a minute when I vote can we flip it two minutes unless there's a lot of speakers and then one minute for if there's not if excuse me two minutes if there's not a lot of speakers can I amend that uh we're in the middle of a vote already so I don't know the problem is is that I mean you could just vote no on it okay I think that's what it is is you are coming out clear so that's how come I had raised my hand earlier and I didn't hear what it was or else I would have said something then so again if well right now that that's the motion that's on the floor if it doesn't pass you could certainly propose your motion Travis and I think you're understanding it correctly I think exactly what you're asking for is what he's um suggesting no I said to take it around two minutes it's it's that's incorrect it's two minutes for speaker unless there's a lot of them then you give them one minute but I think we should give them the opportunity especially since this is a covid year I'm in agreement up in the air I'm in agreement agreement with two minutes and then if there's a lot of speakers give them one minute oh I'm gonna agreement is this since we're in the middle of this vote do I need to go through with this Vote or is this an official voted item or well if you've got three of us that are Mr Ruiz yes so so I was trying to jump in earlier but I was also having issues with thank you but there wasn't so uh board president you made a motion but there actually wasn't a second Automotion it had to be a second thing before the before and to make these modifications is it is I thought it was just a consensus of the board or is it an actual motion that's needed so here so a consensus would be fine but I would say that given the comments so far there's not a clear consensus on where to go so I think your idea of making a motion was appropriate under these circumstances okay I would just restate the motion wait for a second and then call for a book a question for two minutes uh and for two minutes for the speakers to speak and one minute if we have a lot of speakers do I have a second okay so actually what I'm going to do is I'm just going to retract I'm going to retract my motion we're going to go with what we always have had two minutes 20 minutes as it's in the bylaws and we could just move forward so we don't need to vote on it okay thank you everyone for your consideration and we can move forward to the item item number uh 1.02 modifications to the agenda trustee Chavez to be clear can you reiterate are we giving the speakers two minutes because you're chopping in and out so I want to make sure if the people out there are hearing that you're all blurred like I was can we please restate what we're gonna do so that they can hear it thank you is everyone having problems hearing me or um loud and clear man that at the time that he kind of heard it weird because of conspiracy for her and me we can you come in and out in and out and then you can smile then and get low okay um okay so uh what I it's two minutes um it's the same as always two minutes and 20 minute limit per item as it's written into the bylaws that's it thank you all right um and if there's any other problems when you when I'm speaking just let me know so I don't want anyone to think there's a conspiracy I don't have that much uh I'm not smart enough to do that kind of stuff okay okay okay all right okay so item 1.02 um modifications to the agenda okay I don't hear any so we can move forward to item 2.01 seal of by literacy achievement awards student recognition very exciting board members and we have Miss Martinez from another one and Brittany reichels uh and I'm gonna turn it over to them thank you so much this is the third time I think we bring this to the board so I'm excited about hearing this thank you Miss Martinez foreign would you like to go ahead and start yes okay so thank you board president Mr beharano board members and superintendent Dr Bauer um we're gonna present our amazing students who received the um Pathway to the Seal of biliteracy in their last year eighth grade year um at Adelante one so due to some readjustments from covid we had to change our testing criteria this year and we decided to only focus on 8th graders last year as you may know this fifth graders are also eligible to take this exam but we will be testing the fifth graders in the fall um as determined by last year's course so we have four rigorous criterias that the students have to pass in order to get this very amazing achievement um they first have to be eligible through their tests um that they take um in i-Ready um as well as lpac the criteria two they have to write an essay in Spanish um and then the criteria three they have to do a assessment and to show their Spanish Proficiency in speaking and listening and then the fourth is they make an oral presentation in Spanish so Miss Martinez is going to go ahead and name our students that passed this so I am extremely proud and excited to announce the students who earned this uh first we have Arlene yanto we have yours Adolfo Villalobos yeah Betsy Sanchez Leilani Castellano Flores Contreras Eric Medina Ramos Francesca Margarita Escobar Melanie Lisette Gonzalez and Elizabeth Hernandez Pantoja so we are very proud of these students and they actually have all just started high school so they are going to be extremely successful in high school and Beyond so congratulations and I look forward to having even more students achieve this amazing award thank you thank you thank you Miss reichels and Miss Martinez and congratulations to all you students excellent job are there any questions or comments from the board just want to say congratulations and uh keep up the good work and I know there's an opportunity to keep doing it in high school so we hope you keep going and you get that uh High School literacy also um and continue to serve our community thank you so much and we miss you already right but we hope you're doing good in high school thank you any other questions or comments from the board trustee Marquez I just want to congratulate them all of them every single one that you named for us are a great job that they did a wonderful job and for all the support that they're getting from our staff thank you you trustee Quintero I don't know if that's just a thumbs up or if that's your way to show that is it man thank you okay yes I just want to congratulate students on the going the extra mile and uh getting the recognition of the rightfully deserve all right thank you trustee Chavez good job students and the teachers as well and all of their support thanks okay thank you thank you everybody um and with that we can move forward to item 2.02 summer extended year program 2020 summary summary and highlights this is an information only item um so uh Dearborn members trustee bejerano we have Sandra Garcia and Gloria hi Perkins uh who led our summer program we're very proud of the accomplishments and I'm gonna turn it over to them thank you they need to be on muted also after peace good evening uh board president oh I'm sorry after can you please allow Miss Perkins to share her screen thank you foreign Dr superintendent Dr Bauer board members and Community my name is Sandra Garcia I'm the director of state and federal programs and um I work with a great group of people to put together our programs for this summer Barbara Campbell Jason storage Dr biisteros Tony Colona Brittany we've all worked together to make sure that our kids had um the support they needed this summer so I want to thank them for their help we are going to present a very brief slide deck for you this evening on our programs and what we were able to offer next slide so for um our goals this year were to provide quality summer programs supporting students academically and social emotionally um we did have a paradigm shift this summer as we planned for virtual programs that would meet this goal and while keeping our students engaged in their virtual classrooms so these are the areas that we had to make sure um that we touched on for for the summer that we were able to offer Blended instructional delivery that we still had the academic rigor that students needed to make progress uh that we allowed for support for English Learners and then the social emotional supports along with the 21st century UMES that needed to be included so before our programs began we had to find a way to ensure that our kids had the materials needed to be successful this summer uh they they needed technology and they needed in a lot of cases just basic school supplies and art materials and things so that they uh had everything they needed at home to be successful in our programs and these are some pictures of our families picking up their materials [Music] next slide we were able to offer um a total of 12 programs this summer um and we served over 1500 students between these 12 programs a lot of these programs are programs that we've had throughout the years um but we were able to offer them with the support of our partners next slide um so what we're going to do now is share some highlights of our summer programs and I want to first thank our partners for um having the flexibility for listening to us and working with us um changing the summer dates uh when we had to do that and just really um putting together some great programs for our kids this summer I'm going to turn it over to Gloria Hayes Perkins and she is going to provide some um information on and highlights on the programs that we had this summer go ahead Gloria thank you Sandra I want to start with code right draw which came to us through tutor works and gave students the chance to follow the hero's journey as they coded games wrote I Am poems and Memoirs wrote their own stories and told their stories using animation cartoons and Comics in addition some of our students had experience creating whole new worlds through animation and coding here are some examples of students work from the program Elevate Junior and Elevate math students collaborated to solve problems and focus on mathematical practices and they use tools like near pod and padlets to collaborate with their classmates here's one parent's response and I just wanted to share this with you before this experience neither one of our boys had participated in any school programs but both of the teachers Miss varies and Miss Harr kept the students engaged through the lessons and the kids were able to practice their speaking and listening skills bridge to kinder was a very successful program this year and we know that based on the surveys that we shared with our parents and letters that they sent to us on their own accord I want to share with you that this year we had our very first international student who attended bridge to kinder classes from Mazatlan Mexico foreign this summer raising a reader partnered with the Masons of California and Major League Baseball teams like the San Francisco Giants the Padres and the angels as well as the Dodgers to bring free literacy kits to at-risk students in ages 46.
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using the school accountability report cards for all the district schools auhsd has an average student-to-council ratio of 585 to 1 for junior highs which is approximately 2.3 times the recommended ratio and an average ratio of 400 541 to 1 for high schools which is 0.2 times higher than recommended although oxford gilbert polaris and hope were excluded from the average due to their unique structure and student population it is evident that the schools are not equitably supported as schools with larger student populations or who have populations with complex needs do not seem to have extra support school counselors are already overburdened with higher caseloads than is reasonable to be able to support students especially students with more complex needs as such producing staff does not seem to have students best interests at heart how does the district intend to support both students counselors teachers and staff has reduced funding when the research shows that cutting certain positions due to budget cuts will do more harm than good how are the district and board fulfilling its mission statement with understaffed counseling offices throughout the schools what can be done long term permanently to support our counselors and students the next comment comes from on ha a resident of anaheim regarding the black lives matter task force good evening board of trustees i would like to thank you for your supportive words at the previous board meeting regarding ethnic studies and appreciate the district's efforts in structuring the black lives matter task force i'm aware that the district is overwhelmed with the start of the school year and distance learning but i hope our concerns will be prioritized as the school year progresses i'd like to raise concerns that are related to the black lives matter task force to be taking taken into consideration in future discussions during a meeting with oxford's principal many students and alumni voiced their experiences with racism and other reports of discrimination where their complaints to the district were essentially dismissed were barely investigated cases involving racial profiling public humiliation and bullying by teachers and students received little prioritization which has been harmful to students learning environments in many ways according to section f of the california education code section 201 it is quote quote it is the intent of the legislature that each public school undertake educational activities to counter discriminatory incidents on school grounds and within constitutional bounds to minimize and eliminate a hostile environment on school grounds that impairs the access of pupils to equal education opportunity we ask that the board look into ways to assure that complaints and reports are handled adequately under proper leadership as well as explore how inabilities to act in cases of racism and discrimination in the past have affected student mental health safety and performance furthermore students have expressed high interest and commitment in actively being a part of the black lives matter task force in achieving an ethnic studies program that caters to the needs and identities of all students at auhsb we look forward to hearing from the board on these matters the next comment comes from casey lang regarding the black lives matter task force as a teacher in the district i applaud your courage to do what others wouldn't when we acknowledge and empower those who have been marginalized then we become allies to social justice and civil rights today it is not enough to silently say i'm not a racist and so it's not my issue today we must actively be anti-racist and this is an anti-racist step i thank you and i know several students i work with thank you as well the next comment is from lizette vargos gracian a resident of anaheim regarding the black lives matter task force i am extremely proud that auhsd is leading the way on equity the courage necessary to take this step cannot go without notice as a parent and teacher of minority children i know this will send a message of solidarity and compassion auhsd continues to lead in civic engagement critical thinking and life skills the lessons that our students will learn from the black lives matter task force will foster inclusivity anti-racist attitudes and instill civic responsibility the right thing is not always popular but positive change is always worth the struggle thank you the next comment comes from omrin power also a district resident regarding the black lives matter task force in the oxford academy student meeting with the new principal amber houston several students shared their experiences of the following racial profiling discrimination teachers being controlling and creating a hostile environment for students these cases were handled inappropriately and in an untimely manner showing that creating a safe environment for students was not the first priority this inadequate handling of these cases create a hostile environment for students who want to report but are afraid for safety of their grades relationships with teachers and scrutiny from other students etc this is not just an oxford academy problem but an auhsd problem i am glad that now these students experiences were heard but how will the school district change to make sure that students are the number one priority it's also great that there is a black lives matter task force but are there any updates as to how that is going the public has not been provided any information on the activities and goals of the black lives matter task force the next comment comes from jamie co uh k-o-u-g-h uh regarding the black lives matter task force i am an art teacher for north orange county regional occupational program with auhsd i received notice that the district was starting a black lives matter task force later invited to participate it was a quick yes the invitation came at the perfect time our family was torn this summer with responsibility to the military my husband is a colonel in the us army and to the black lives matter movement our two college-aged children have been active in black lives matter marches these past few months have proven that those these two sides stand on opposite sides of the street on the same day my daughter called me with rubber bullets flying at her feet my husband called and said he was back up to sacramento to send you to l.a the day prior my husband and i marched in orange the tear between people and the judgment of what things look like has been once again brought into our attention i am so proud to stand alongside a group of people that support change we have the opportunity as artists teachers leaders parents and children to educate and open eyes beyond what they see and invite them to see through knowing not blind judgment we can exist in one house with different ways of getting to an end as long as our foundation is strong and built from trust respect and learning thank you aohsd for being brave and leading the way and it looks like there may be one more and then there's one more public comment that just came through from emily it was a resident of the district in the last few years i have faced harassment and discrimination from other students within the aohsd district a few instances for example myself and other women were subjected to vile explicit stories that were spread amongst a group of boys personally for me i had a story that was written and posted on social media to my horror was not taken down after several requests not only that i am sure western high school is aware of a student who has sexually harassed girls from his school and other schools he texted me one day saying that he had my personal messages and images calling me a naughty girl and saying that he would take a peek into my life once in a while it wasn't until i confronted him did he stop my question is what is the district doing to teach students like this to throw around racial slurs and derogative comments i am a student at oxford academy and yet i still see those same students in my classes who have not taken responsibility for their actions saying it was only a joke or calling those who have reported them snowflakes where is the district now that concludes public comment thank you so um we're not uh supposed to remark on public comments as a general rule but i really want to thank um i really appreciate when someone takes the time especially now when you have to actually sit down and write something out they're very thoughtful and heartfelt comments and i just want you to know that the board is listening to you and i especially want to thank our students for taking the time to reach out to us we appreciate it and as you have uh spoken out that that we have connected you with uh adults who are listening to you as well so thank you and without further ado uh as one of our um our comments was uh not hearing about the black lives matter task force it is on our agenda today and uh it's our first presentation and so uh dr shawna egans i believe is going to present yeah um before i uh thank you uh madam chair this is uh mr matsuda michael matsuda the superintendent i do want to um take a a moment to uh put this in context for the district um i want to first of all um i mean as the public comments expressed is that these are very difficult conversations um to have and um there's a lot of feelings uh on all sides of these issues but we do know on may 25th the whole country witnessed an horror the killing of george floyd in front of all of us and that did trigger a lot of these emotions and even in our own district shortly thereafter there were large-scale protests throughout the district involving thousands of our young people and many of our staff as well involved in peaceful protests um across the district of course orange county and across the nation i am very proud that our young people protested 99.9 of them peacefully and i'm also very proud that as diverse as this district is a lot of young people were reaching out and with empathy to our african-american students staff and families in their message that they supported the black lives matter movement shortly thereafter uh the district started to receive emails and letters very heartfelt from our very own employees about years and years of neglect and microaggressions and sometimes outright discrimination from other staff members other even administrators teachers and i felt compelled to reach out and and really listen to our employees and that was a very emotional meeting tearful and very difficult for me as someone who represents the district to hear but as you know one of the things i'm really proud of in this district is that i think we really do practice that physique compassion and love and kindness and i know i speak for a board when it's this is not just going to be a one time event i think our board is very serious about addressing these issues with our staff with our students and their families and it's not going to be these are not going to be easy conversations going ahead moving ahead but as long as we address it with kindness and compassion and caring i think we can get through this together and in our own ways contribute to a better america together and it all begins in our very own community so with that i'm very proud to introduce our co-chairs teacher carlo davis at catella high school and our administrator dr shawna egans the director of our safe schools so um really proud to be working with you too and i uh you have the floor now thank you so much good evening everyone thank you for your kind words my name is carlo davis i am a mathematics teacher at catella high school i am also the boys basketball coach there i also share the honor of being the co-chair of the black lives matter task force with dr shawna eagles on behalf of our other six cabinet members and our 125 uh diverse task members i would like to personally thank each and every one of you for giving us this opportunity president ann marie trejo we thank you clerk catherine smith we thank you assistant clerk anna piercy we thank you member al jabar we thank you member brian o'neill we thank you in addition we would also like to thank superintendent mike matsuda and his executive cabinet shannon hi good afternoon everyone i have to tell you i i am deeply honored and before we start um the one thing that comes to mind that's important is that when you know your why you know your way and and that resonates with us what is the why when we hear the opposition when we hear that the district should just stand mute and why are we um making this uh and supporting this uh the why the why was clearly expressed in the black lives matter resolution it it helped define our purpose define why we're doing this and who we are and mr masuda the way you provide it by doing what other districts wouldn't do which is create a task force so that you can hear conversations that aren't easy to hear especially in our district where we pride ourselves on our diversity on the five c's on equity and we spend a lot of time uh in professional development and closing those gaps and bringing the awareness to everyone our staff our students in our community to allow a task force and give a voice to continue to go down that path you've given us the way so with that we as a unit as a task force had come together and the number one thing is what's the purpose and what's the vision statement we're very grateful that we have a visioning process that we tried to replicate on a smaller scale that allowed for input that allowed for expression and that was based on the words of our board and the resolution so i would like to read to you um our black lives matter task force vision statement it reads the black lives matter task force is united and committed to the ideals assertions and values declared in the auhsd black lives matter resolution approved on june 18 2020 our task force will provide policy recommendations for increasing equity and access for african-american students and staff in auhsd our mission is to advocate for culturally responsive instruction for students improve engagement with families and promote social and racial justice for all stakeholders in auhsde and please let me say that one more time our mission is to advocate for culturally responsive instruction for students improve engagement with families and promote social and racial justice for all stakeholders in the anaheim union high school district and i hope that now that the board has given us the why and mr masuda has given us the way that the vision statement that we have come has resonated with the purpose that alliance and that will support everything that we value in this district moving forward thank you shana just reiterate when china says all stakeholders our task force realized that our district has been very intentional to include all stakeholders this has shown throughout the five seas the five c's ensure that all stakeholders all of our stakeholders have the same opportunity with that said those five c's are displayed from the east side of our district to the west side of our district we have um john bautista and jeff newmanville who helped engineer catella talks on the east side on the west side we have jack gupta who has an excellent stem program at kennedy high school so from the east to the west and all points in between those five c's are prevalent our task force has a theme that's quickly grown we realize in order to implement all of these five cds they go hand in hand with courage it takes courage to implement those five seats that courage is what we commend all of you on for having the courage to do what other districts around us didn't have the courage to do speaking about courage we created a short video that hopefully will be shared with you soon to show the world how we feel about you for displaying that courage that is needed the goal of our task force is to make sure that a group that has been somewhat overlooked gets to have that safe space to display their courage we've created those space those safe spaces recently for our lgbtq community we created those safe spaces for our our special ed students our special students who have that one-on-one aid and they have to walk into that classroom with their head high knowing that everybody can see right away that they're different it's now time for our district to create that safe space for our african-american kids and our staff and our community our task force believes the way to start creating that safe space is to implement the bsus just like we did the other groups from the east side of the district to the west side of our district and all the places in between like our vision statement says we strive to embetter every stakeholder those bsus will not be exclusive they will be inclusive they will be a place to promote awareness empower our students empower our staff and give them the courage in the stage to display that courage shannon thank you we we know that tonight there are some bsu clubs on the agenda so we're excited to see that we have a number of schools that already have current active so we we definitely just appreciate that um and i one thing just to point out carlo has done an amazing job connecting our current bsus with our pledge partners like uc irvine um cal state fullerton right their bsus our surrounding district um school bsus so we are really excited for that work uh to move forward um the task force itself uh carl has mentioned you know over a 125 educators both classified and certificated we have come together we've done a needs assessment to really decide okay what what are the needs what are the needs that we feel um we want to focus on i will tell you one of the top two were culturally relevant curriculum including ethnic studies and implicit bias we are extremely proud to be partnering with asta as they themselves are extremely passionate about this topic as well looking at professional development for our staff um looking at orange county human relations and what they can bring they're already on our campuses they're already a partner and looking at similar groups that we can partner with to help build that awareness we have an extremely diverse task force and i can tell you from our meeting that the energy is high and we have it is important to know that we have a community of employees that are ready they are ready to respond they are ready to uh bring that voice uh so uh we're really proud to be able to say that and i tell you the foundation is key we talk about ethnic studies we talk about that curriculum that is so important to build for our staff and students the foundation for us and everything we've done we want to make sure that everyone has an awareness that the civic engagement and that foundation has led to the comfort level and the excitement uh about moving forward that is um is key to know that we are taking the right steps we're not just jumping over but we're laying a strong foundation um to close in our update um we definitely want to be able to give regular updates as things are moving um and i want to share uh a quote from a very uh prominent female uh leader who has been in the news lately and she says our unity is our strength and diversity is our power and that is what we have in anaheim union high school district and i want you as our board to know that your courage has not gone unnoticed and that you have a community that is getting behind you and uh oftentimes the naysayers have the loudest voice but i will tell you being in that task force and seeing all those faces and hearing all that passion um you have a community in this district that is behind you 100 and we are going to make things happen and move things forward for the betterment of our staff our students and our parents so with that we just want to thank you for this opportunity and we look forward for more future updates wow thank you so much you too uh board did you have any questions or comments we'll just start from the left to the right as if we're on the dais so brian are you there mr o'neil it looks like you may be on mute oh there he goes so i was on the phone okay while you're working that out i'll let uh i'll i'll call on al so just take your time okay al yeah i i i was going to comment on the fact that we had um many bsus on our agenda to be approved today i was wondering if that was a coincidence or if this just occurred right after we went into uh our uh uh putting our uh task force together carlo can speak to them we currently have [Music] 10 bsus in place including the ones that are going to be approved today we also have advisors in place on every campus it's it's been a bit difficult getting things in order due to the covet situation but we we are working tirelessly to get those bsus in place we've also started creating a space for our potential bsu's advisors to to share information articles activities upcoming events so we are we are moving in the right direction when we anticipate within the next few months we will have all our bsus in place on every campus and i i would like to add to that as well that um they're very bothers carlo and dr freda are very humble they have worked very uh closely together to um help guide the process and and streamline it uh so that the bsus could be district-wide so i want to make sure that they both uh hear me say i know that they have worked tirelessly and and have really made the process streamlined for our sites uh so yes that has been as a result of this movement thank you and uh carlo yeah you referred to the video uh it came right before board meeting i had an opportunity to see it and i shared it on social media fantastic video i'm very proud of our team at uhsc staff for actually doing it and also very proud of the fact that you know mike right after as a superintendent got on meeting with our employees i know i've had some conversations with some of our staff offline some of our students offline uh of concerns and i know that as a district uh we're very transparent and i know that we will resolve any issues that come up but at the same time i wanted to thank all of you for doing what you're doing so thank you very much thank you thank you mr jabbar are you okay mr o'neill you ready oh okay we'll have to figure that out since we got to get you to vote anna go ahead okay technical difficulties thank you shauna and carlo for all the work you've done it's amazing what you have been able to accomplish in two months time it's super you know like all these you know bsus i mean like al was saying you know i saw them coming forward and i'm going wow great but now you've got already 10 in place that's phenomenal and i am amazed at the number of people that have joined the task force 125 wow that's super so you guys are doing a great job keep it up and i know it's a lot of work but thank you very much both of you thank you thank you miss piercy miss smith well gratitude to all of you and i would like to say that um how this is going to be affected and how we will be able to create the change that we want to see i would remind everyone regardless of age that no one has ever lived in someone else's shoes and we years ago posted the golden rule in all of our classrooms and they are now being replaced with new ones and i hope they'll stay up as a constant reminder to each and every one of us you treat others the way you would want to be treated and i wish the task force the best i would love to just observe if that would be possible to attend and listen and hear but most of all beyond listening we have to hear so once again shauna and mr davis thank you thank you brian go ahead and if i can get another opportunity yay all right there you go can you hear me now yes we can okay i don't back in technical just like maybe spectrum um i just want to thank shauna and carl for uh you being the leaders of the group 125 strong that is fantastic i'm so proud to be in a district that is is uh doing things that need to be done doing the right things for the future and i'm really looking forward to hearing uh as you progress what you're proposing for the district and how we can we can be leaders in not only locally but maybe nationally in in showing uh others what should be done and how to do it so thank you wow no churro words should be spoken i think that's fantastic way to look at it uh nationally we are we are leaders uh out there and um as you said where uh other districts have been have been struggling with this subject um i think that um we we uh we really just decided this is the way to go and um you know but we we we we're taking credit for the work that you're doing that's what board members do but we're so proud of you we we understand um it's not been very easy to have these conversations um it's taken a while um for it to become a little light-hearted uh as you spoke about you know at the last meeting i imagine the couple first couple meetings that were were a little bit difficult um but i love the enthusiasm i love that you have 125 strong that just speaks volumes of the commitment people are are making and taking on top of you know everything else that we're dealing with um that's truly amazing uh thank you to for stepping up and leading the group on top of everything else that you're dealing with um and uh i i have high hopes for all of the uh the comments that to come uh be they easy or hard uh we we will hear you as uh trustee smith said it's it's it's about us um listening and uh hearing what you say and us trying to disseminate it in in any way possible i love the two subjects that you're talking about um implicit bias we all have it uh you know there's just no way to get around it and it's time that we look at it it's not comfortable but it's time that we look at it and study it and do better because we can and i like the fact that you're talking about culturally uh culturally how it how did you phrase that china culturally culturally responsive curriculum very good culturally culturally responsive curriculum uh to embed it uh within all of our subject areas i think that that's another thing that we can possibly do um and i and you hear the letters that we're getting from our students they really are um they're they're wanting that so thank you for bringing that up too it just so aligns with all the things that we're doing thank you also for um uh talking about how everything that we're doing aligns with what we needed to do and what we're needing to do now uh when you're talking about civic engagement it's it's like we had the foundation laid out um and perfect timing for this to happen uh the bones as you can say the foundation of of the five c's and the um and and the civic engagement now uh teachers have the tools to use these um and use these as as tools to further have these um hard discussions and as i said before um it's okay to talk about this it's okay to say the word black it's okay to say brown it's okay to talk about things that we haven't been talking about before so thank you too i look forward to um the more many more presentations and what comes of all of the work that you do and we're so grateful to you thank you all right moving on 9.2 our aim summer internship virtual internship program and i believe uh dr freed thank you madam president and members of the board and as you know we have many programs in our district that we are terribly excited about uh and aim our anaheim innovative mentoring experience program is one of those amazing programs and despite the fact that we had a pandemic and we have this shift everything to uh virtual experience i'm really proud of the great work our aim team did to really transition to this virtual world and tonight we have an assistant principal sean heifer who's one of our aim leads uh who's going to also be speaking with several students tonight to showcase the great work they did this summer and i think uh mj cook who will also be on the call will be kind of giving a wrap up at the end so mr pfeiffer i'm going to turn it over to you looking forward to hearing your presentation outstanding thank you dr fred uh madam president board members uh cabinet and guests aim students welcome so happy to be here i'm nervous i'm getting ready to present my screen it's kind of like bringing the wedding cake to the venue there's so many things that could go wrong but let's try it um entire screen here we go share you should see all your face pretty quickly listen i i'm gonna uh i'm gonna introduce uh our student presenters and give them the voice to this my job i was the aim i was asking task with the uh um uh the the salvage almost of this thanks to the vision of the cabinet and and our superintendent bringing the same experience to our students the anaheim innovative mentoring experience this hands-on gritty part i was part of the summer part this used to it was larger but of course with the pandemic we had to adapt and it changed the uh online or it changed the on hands-on experience into an online virtual experience and we discovered a lot our approach was you aim interns have a unique observational point you get to see where the work world the real world comes and merges with the education world and i ask them let's look at learning best definitional learning i shared with them was learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior based on experience and let's ask the so what now what what do we do and i'm going to tell you in this unique observational point our students rose to the occasion they became partners with our gear up teachers at the europe virtual university that occurred over the summer they weren't just teacher assistants they were co-teachers facilitators they'll explain that right we i'm reminded of stephen johnson who wrote a book a while ago everything bad for you is good how pop culture makes us smarter he talks about leaning into our learning and when you see these students present tonight i i challenge you to not be moved i'm telling you these students uh show and illustrate as a collective voice of our anaheim union high school students that we are nimble we are creative we are courageous as mr davis talks about and we're the right people at the right time so with no further ado i'm going to turn this over to vikram chatterjee by the way vikram i saw you practice in your speech because you're a little thumbnail but you're muted but i saw you practice brother so we're ready to go um bikram chatterjee is going to introduce our program and move us into our slideshow go ahead vikram thank you board president miss feijo board members cabinet and distinguished guests my name is richard pattergy a senior at oxford academy i'm extremely grateful to say that i was one of the aim gear up interns that participated in the virtual internship this past year with the opposite of the coven 19 pandemic we saw the immediate effects on education as a whole in order to prioritize our public health but thanks to the auhsd leadership team students were able to receive a unique experience that not only emphasized public health procedures mentorship and communication and career networking all together we did it despite the difficult circumstances and adversity by working simultaneously with our aim partners as well as gear up classes students who are innovative in their approach to implementing the five c's in every project in the curriculum we hope through this presentation and reflection you gain a deeper insight into the different applications of our critical thinking communication collaboration creativity and most importantly our compassion now the first aim partnership that i want to talk about is okapika the orange county asian and pacific islander community alliance okapica aims to support underserved populations in orange county through fundraising education and advocacy about socioeconomic well-being as well as health systems that pertain to these populations in the three-week internship that aim provided us not only did we get to work in this experience with okapika the network that was provided with us allowed us to continue interning with ocapica much longer even after the aim experience ended specifically i was able to continue working with their mental health and curriculum projects for their allied health academy and even received a paid position in phone banking for the chinese american voter community hi everyone my name is emily nguyen and i am a senior from cypress high school i worked alongside vikram as well as two other aim interns with ocapico and as aim interns we worked alongside college students and facilitated mental health workshops that touched upon various subjects such as work and life balance taking effective breaks and confronting burnout on top of this we also determine and delegated curriculum for the allied health academy's 2020 to 2021 academic year other than that on top of the tests and duties that we were that we completed we also were provided resources for life beyond adolescence such resources included meetings in which we learned about finances budgeting dorming and living situations in college and also had the opportunity to meet with the uc berkeley admissions administrator who helped us and gave us advice on how to complete our application and personal insight questions ultimately we are rewarded with a holistic and insightful experience through this entirety of our internship i as well as many other high school aim interns furthered our partnership with ocapico for the remainder of the summer and some including myself or even provided the opportunity to be an intern for ocapicas allied health academy's 2020 to 2021 academic year and next up i would like to introduce madeline kim from oxford academy hello my name is madeline kim and i am a senior at oxford academy i had the pleasure of being partnered with senator chang where interns were assigned to write daily research papers and news clips on the current news within the city state and country as an aim intern for senator chang we were given the opportunity to gain a deep a deeper insight of what it was like to be in the council office as well as taking civic action and learning more about our community we were able to implement the five c's where we specifically focus on communicating and having discussions about current news that was currently taking place within society next up we have tran lee where he will present his experience of working with the office of supervisor chappie all right go ahead and try again tran all right hello everybody my name is kenny lee and i'm from oxford academy i worked with higher ground youth and family services it's a non-profit located in anaheim dedicated to mentoring at youth risk in anaheim now the two soft skill 5cs that i developed were collaboration and communication so i was personally tasked since this was of course online with scheduling all of the google meetings this built my communication skills because of the fact that i had to constantly check in with the other interns and check in with my aim mentor now us interns were tasked with creating a reopening plan from scratch for this business because higher ground is a after school program so just like oxford academy or the district we had to create a reopening plan emphasizing a budget for additional materials that they might need safety protocols and communication protocols which required constant collaboration between us to ensure that we were all on the same page now this was the first internship i have ever experienced so working with mrs densmart the ceo gave me valuable insight and especially showed me how the skills from high school can and will translate into a workplace environment next we have caitlyn newton from magnolia high school hello everyone my name is caitlin and i interned with another student karma sweden from catala high school to work with oak court over the summer a non-profit organization that stands for orange county communities organized for responsible development here we focus on bringing workers families and the community together to advocate organize for jobs healthy neighborhoods and an inclusive democracy prior to this experience i wasn't aware of how many issues there were within my community and how to take initiative in educating myself or solving these problems however with my mentor my nun i was able to have important discussions about systematic oppression gentrification and redlining promoting anti-eviction notices for families during the pandemic and learning how to promote a coven 19 mandatory face mass policy in orange county through this i signed petitions emailed called and campaigned on social media to reach out to a younger audience to spread awareness this partnership enabled me to become a leader as i was in charge of conducting my own research and discussions with reinforcement from my mentor for extra support thanks to aim for giving me these wonderful connections i now have the confidence to start my own new project to reach out to the lgbtq community and the youth during this pandemic i would now like to introduce johnny from cypress high school good afternoon my name is johnny nguyen and over the summer i was fortunate enough to work with joshua mahar samantha uikab and alexa clemente under our aim mentor gina daiquiri with the organization named thrively thrively is an organization that allows students to find what they're good at so they can unlock their latent skills and potential in other words they take assessments to demonstrate to students on how they can approach a certain career path based off of their own strengths rather than skills that they may develop somewhere else as an intern i was assigned to create a lesson plan on a subject that i was interested in even though i am stem oriented i decided to make a lesson in regards to analyzing because i felt that the website already had plenty of useful stump programs for students to learn through this experience i learned that learning as a whole isn't as one-dimensional and linear as it may seem if i take a break and not focus on my career path i can still develop skills such as teaching and analyzing other people this allowed me to better understand how a workplace environment worked and really boosted my confidence next we have jocelyn from kennedy high school hello everyone my name is jocelyn torres barbossa and i am a senior at kennedy high school i was partnered up with elimination institute and i worked alongside joanna walters with our aim mentor brian thanh elimination institute is a non-profit organization that focuses on building mindfulness tactics with students of all ages they create mindfulness curriculums for teachers to embed into their classrooms to help students whenever they may need it as an aim intern i was able to incorporate the five c's into my daily tasks creativity was the most important c i had to focus on creating questions for a survey to see where students were at of this time of uncertainty and what problems have arisen since social distancing back in march an example of this would be asking us how have students been coping with the quarantine um and some what are some other thoughts on their current events of protests and the activism that is occurring in the community around them critical thinking was essential we had to make sure students felt secure filling out this survey so we had to make sure it was an anonymized survey once the survey was done we asked ourselves what can we do with this information what was the next step for this organization communication is what helped me continue build this project over the summer i continued the internship to help develop an app specifically for this reason compassion and collaboration are the most ones that helped me throughout my journey with both of these skills we were able to develop an app that would be a friendly gadget for the district to use as a way to continue what they will teach in their classrooms and for other students to use as help throughout the day my overall experience with aim program has been one of the most unique and different experiences i've had with summer i was able to see more of behind the scenes program of a company that works towards the mental health of students of all ages developed a lot more experience and integrated different skills i was able to multitask strengthen my leadership skills and further obtain skills that i have not been able to before i truly am thankful to have worked with a number of other students from other schools including oxford magnolia cyprus catella and others as well now i will introduce brianna castaneda from laura high school hello my name is brianna castaneda i'm an upcoming senior at lawra high school as well as an a mentor of the ymca program in orange county my team for this program was also coordinated with karma who is an upcoming senior at catella high school as well as miss aeon who is the ceo of the ymca ymca is a worldwide organization that focuses on students mental health academics and sports my assigned task for this program is by using the 5cs such as communication by setting up new conferences with karma and miss aeon on new assignments and projects throughout the week critical thinking by brainstorming new ideas with lesson templates that provide students to learn by using arts and crafts creativity the importance for not only students to learn but to also keep them engaged and entertained throughout december in conclusion this had been an excellent experience for both my self-identity and realization it was a unique way for me to take a step back and to look at things from a bigger picture that we are more liked and different i appreciate that mr piper also taught us the importance of learning that despite your age background nationality language learning can be applied to anyone and that we are learning every single day based on the choices and the experiences we make in life lastly i was able to realize the importance of attitude and effort you give are the results that you will achieve thank you and now i'm going to introduce the next slide that provides information about what we have learned throughout the pandemic that's given by madeleine kim who attends at oxford academy hello aim was also given the opportunity to work with virtual gear up university where my specific instructors were miss mann and mr gaudette at europe university students created a psa about cova 19 on when it was the right time to go back to school and if so what preventive measures would be taken students researched every day on the statistics of the coronavirus as well as other pandemics that occurred in the past for each of the projects assigned we went into breakout rooms and they were able to implement the 5cs even through an online environment where they had to communicate and collaborate with their peers in order to examine issues from multiple viewpoints as well as using their creativity on what they wanted to present for each of their projects hi my name is ivan ayala and i am from magnolia high school not only was i able to have a wonderful aim experience with my main aim mentor mr bautista me and vikram were able to experience the gear up university with mr wilmeth and mrs gonzalez of the from kazala high school we were able to mentor our peers and help them through the classroom able and we were able to guide them to the five c's while creating multiple projects and allowed them to look at covet 19 through national through the community and how it affects them personally it was a great way to it was a great way to gain new friendships and gain new experiences and we were also able to distract ourselves and then tamik that was happening overall that was a great experience next i'd like to reintroduce johnny newman from cypress for my gear up experience i worked with uh mr solarzano and mrs juenyas along with the three other interns i worked with at thrivingly their class was youth entrepreneurs and as a mentor i was there to facilitate breakout rooms and lead discussions your main project was to create a shark tank pitch for a business idea that would prosper during a pandemic granted i can provide the students with ideas to speed up the process but i learned that as a mentor and as a teacher i should take a step back and allow for others to generate their own thoughts in order for them to learn they must be willing to learn and for self-discovery we must allow others to think up their own ideas and their own opinions that's how self-growth starts and next we have kenny lee from oxford academy with his gear up experience hello my europe class was called what could be a journey of self-discovery with mr gonzalez mr johnson and mrs johnson from anaheim high school along with other great and wonderful aim interns now we had many different covert 19 themed projects and small group activities aimed at building the collaboration skills of the students in an online world however my favorite part were the meditation sessions at the end of each of our classes by mr gonzalez this culminated into a final documentary for the students overviewing how they felt and what they saw during the course of the pandemic now facilitating fellow students and working with fellow teachers immensely developed my leadership skills however most importantly to me it showed me how difficult teaching really is man is your mic working all right let's move on to emily hi everyone my name is emily and my gear up partner uh dope mr forever go back okay thank you uh my garrett partners were mrs lang miss brief and mr manning and the central idea that our class revolved around was how krobin 19 and current events such as black lives matter have changed our perspective on the social climate students focused on analyzing different pieces of literature and creating their own reflective writing pieces to connect the literature content that they were learning with their perceptions of the social climate as a mentor i personally took on the role of chat liaison in which i monitored the chat box each meeting to answer any questions that the students had and provided links in which the students would use to mark their attendance and participate in class activities all in all both students and teachers engaged in the five c's in each of the activities that we facilitated and in conclusion uh after reviewing the student video reflections and sharing our own experiences we have collectively culminated a few words that we think accurately capture the experiences of both students and teachers such words include interesting dedication teamwork critical thinking community collaboration educational networking compassion and rewarding and with that being said i would like to thank you all for your attention and introduce miss mj cook the aim the a program director thank you very much uh let's see here i'm really excited to join you guys tonight and i really want to thank mr pfeiffer and all of our gear up summer interns uh thank you for your dedication and commitment to the gear up kobit 19 project and to your aim internship provider on behalf of the aim program team and all of auhsd we are very proud of you and the impact you've made in your own lives but also within your community madam president the board cabinet and all of our guests here tonight the aim gear up summer project is the first of many exciting virtual opportunities for our auhsd students it's an honor for me to be able to share with you that with a virtual start to our school year the aim program and its multi-tiered structure will continue to provide our students with opportunities to engage in work based learning experiences but via virtual landscape these experiences will align with the practices and protocols of ames business partners and provide our students with opportunities to experience telework develop newly emerging skills for remote workforce success and ultimately experience firsthand shifts that are occurring in the workforce we believe that it's aim's ability to be nimble and adjust quickly to changes happening in real time in our communities and in the workforce that has led to some very exciting opportunities for our auhsd students in this new school year we're really excited to share that launching this fall is the aim distance learning project where we'll have over 500 auhsd student interns serving as aim distance learning tutors for our students we are also excited to launch a partnership with the latino health access organization we're going to be having 12 of our student interns working on a covid19 project focus on awareness and education in the community to help stop the spread of covid19 this is an addition to the dedication and commitment of our current aim business partners who are dedicated to providing our students um with the experiences that they had previously experienced in a traditional uh in-person uh experience but through that virtual landscape they're completely dedicated to ensuring there's no disruption to their partnership and their commitment to ensuring that our students experience success for college career within their communities and ultimately in their lives we're really proud of the work that our students do we're really proud of the commitment of our business partners and of the support of our community and ultimately we want to thank you for your continual support and making this program possible amazing amazing amazing thank you all thank you all and um miss tren uh i'm gonna personally ask that you come back and you give your presentation to us okay when you can at the next meeting okay we really want to hear uh your presentation okay we will make that happen for you okay board do you have any questions or comments i know you do mr o'neill no question it's just a wonderful presentation uh hearing all that we are doing in the aim project and with uh sean and mj as being leaders there mentors of all the students uh i did i guess i have one question i didn't catch how many students were involved this summer in the project so originally we had planned to expand to over 150 if it was in person uh so mr o'neill this was as soon as the pandemic happened that this is where you guys moved on it um you know it could have disappeared but immediately uh we looked at your aim uh leaders they looked at gear up as a housing agent i guess to call it and immediately and gear up said yes and so our students our student interns that we'd already selected and vetted i think over 150 uh had to be then whittled down who's still interested out of the 150 we had 30 uh students that were interested and continuing even if it was virtual even not knowing what it was we ended up connecting them to gear up university teachers and the gear of virtual university over the summer where they did amazing work with those teachers in their projects and expanded their leadership however in the meantime it was uh uh we had reached out mj myself uh skye rendell we had reached out to the partners and found out that they were interested still that they didn't know what the landscape looked like but they were interested in bringing young people in our aims students our anaheim union high school students and say let's work together i need them i use them as uh interns virtual interns i use them as research schools i'll use them to help guide me through this process and that gets that vantage point that i was talking about in my opening they got to see the union between the real world the work world and the educational world because they saw both sides scrambling to do their missions and our students rose to the occasion in china i'm so proud that's great thank you sean mr jabbar yeah you know what can i say you guys all excelled and i'm glad that you got an opportunity i know that you'll probably have a unique story to say when you uh go out there and interview for jobs because you could always say that i interned during a pandemic right so uh the experience that you got with that is awesome and tran lee i am so sad that you couldn't present that because you actually worked for my boss in our office for doug chafee and i i wish i could have heard you say what you said but i heard what you guys did from my end my staff member actually appraised of how valuable of a team players you guys were during that time so thank you very much and good luck to all of you guys and thank you to the staff for stepping up and thinking out of the box to make sure that we bring this partnership and keep the program going thank you mr jabbar miss piercy well first of all kudos to the advisors that for getting this going and get you know finding those 30 kids and the 30 of you that decided to go with it anyway fantastic you guys did great i am amazed at what we are able to do when we put our minds to it and and you have shown us i think it's phenomenal i think the aim program is outstanding and i think you are lucky to have you know been selected and and even luckier that you decided to go with it even if it was virtual uh we're all learning a lot and you did great and your presentations were really great and i feel for you tran too because you kept trying but technology sometimes knocks us out of the game you know you can never tell so anyway you guys did a great job i am sure that you learned tons and you helped and perhaps you'll have an opportunity to continue on in the fall so very good thank you miss piercy miss smith well i can't say how much i appreciated everything that you all participated in and we talked about the five c's and i was just thinking about the five p's prideful pleasing powerful positive plentiful and you have touched all of those and best wishes to you thank you keep on going thank you miss smith wow mj and sean another fantastic year and in the middle of a pandemic i i'm just i'm over the moon that we were able to uh connect with a partner i think of gear up now i don't think of them as a separate entity i always feel like gear up is auhsd's right arm left arm uh they're just always with us and i'm so grateful that they stepped up to make sure that this happened but the two the work that you two did to connect those partners i know mj's like the queen of connecting and getting all those partners but it sounds like they love our kids so much that they didn't have to their arms didn't have to be twisted to to to do this and so that just speaks volumes of um all the work that you've been doing with the program um thank you and thank the teachers thank the partners um for uh for for doing this where there is a will there is a way and as i spoke earlier uh at the beginning you know uh sometimes adversity just um shows us what we can do you know things get in our way and and we just we just uh we build we walk over it we we climb uh if we we can't walk we crawl it's just amazing students i am overjoyed with your presentations you have gained knowledge uh far beyond i think a college um culture at this point in time things that no one has ever had to do before as my colleague expressed not just a story to say but you overcame obstacles that you didn't even know you were going to have so this is your college resume story it really is and um you know it's it's not i think i think as this year goes on this is just going to be something that you just do because you sound all so resilient uh and uh full of purpose and you just make all of us uh proud i know you made sean and mj and all of your mentors proud uh and you showed courage beyond uh anything that anyone has ever put in front of you and you're all you're only seniors now so it's just amazing amazing and the world is in such good shape because you decided to take that step and and do this program and and look what you've done so thank you so much thank you for this presentation you all and uh we look forward to hearing from you guys in the future all right and especially you miss lee we will hear from you uh we'll have al's um uh maybe uh maybe your mentee or uh can can get a mentor can get with you and do a quick presentation at our next board meeting thank you all so much fantastic all right moving on is it okay if we excuse our student interns uh they have a full day of synchronous learning absolutely thank you bye bravo [Applause] thank you thank you to the board and the president thank you okay 9.3 we've got more school dismissal and distance learning dr jaron free yes thank you very very much and i'm going to share my screen with you so bear with me a second while i set this up for all of you i'm doing that um this will be a presentation that i will be doing in partnership with i want to make sure you see it first then i can can you guys see my screen here we go okay can you see it yet yes i'm not going to see you anymore so i just want to make sure okay yeah enlarge it so we can yep there we go there we go yeah you yeah all right perfect so this presentation tonight is our tradition has become our traditional uh presentation every every board meeting i will be doing this in partnership tonight with dr root and carlos hernandez uh we will begin this presentation uh we talked a little bit about the learning loss of mitigation funds some one-time monies that we have received to support learning loss or learning gaps with our students that resulted from the spring so dr root will talk a little bit about the money and the resources that we received i will then talk about the authentic process we're going through to solicit input that we have done but then also the process we're going to be doing to continue to solicit input from all of our stakeholders and then finally in some examples of how we're already spending that money to support learning loss and then finally our colleague mr carlos hernandez will give an update in terms of how we are working closely with our community and our community partners to fight and beat covid so that's what our presentation will look like tonight uh like before because it's on youtube and because it's been recorded i respectfully ask if you could hold your questions until the very end and then we'll be happy to answer any questions that you do have so having said that i'm going to go ahead and turn it over to dr roo good evening board of trustee superintendents cabinet as well as our community on youtube to start when the pandemic hit we were in a time where we were receiving um budget cuts that were unprecedented in fact when we talked about the budget back in june we were given a zero percent cola which was a shock to education and knowing the work we had to do based on that there was a lot of community out or stating that schools needed more funding to be able to not only come back to school but as we do come back to school to be able to create the supports needed to one move forward but to also look backwards and remediate the learning loss that may have occurred for many of our students during this challenging time that we have all been going through so fortunately we started out and originally there were two pots of money that we received the first was sv117 money from the state of california and then the second one was um our esther money which was an elementary and secondary emergency relief funds and that came to us in march just recently as as recent as about the third week in july we also received um great information that we received a rather large sum of money which is being referred to as our learning loss mitigation fund within that learning loss mitigation fund there are three sub categories the first is our governor's emergency relief fund the second is our coronavirus relief fund and the third is estate funding which is our general fund or prop 98.
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raising a reader helped develop a five-week bilingual parent guide and included all the tools necessary for that program into one wonderful Super Summer book bag each major league baseball team had custom bags with their logos and team colors 285 donated kits went to our bridge to kinder kindergarten and first graders as well as our special education summer school attendees thanks to first five of Santa Clara County our students had calming kits which supported their social emotional well-being with the built-in support materials whoops I thought it'd be kind of neat to see the students in action so here's a short video foreign okay so the Korean song goes this my thumb is bent at the thumb bent my pointer point to the tip oh man use it sight I took my last two fingers and take them for a ride so there's an example of a class in progress and students doing their work working with the letter b and practicing their social skills the platform seesaw which is a student-driven digital portfolio and parent communication platform Rich Decatur students were able to show their work here's one other parent's comments after completing this program not only did I feel like my student learned a lot but I also learned how to use a virtual platform and understood that my student could indeed learn in this way here's some samples from our springboard virtual classrooms and reading is fundamental one of the keys to successful online learning was getting students at students families involved from the start and here are some photos of parents at work with their students now we're going to focus on our teacher directed program and for the summer we focus on the Arts music speaking listening reading and writing specifically the ELA Focus was a thematic unit on steam or a book study the ell Focus was speaking listening and student engagement and both groups integrated art classes our extended school year provided support for students with IEPs it gave academic instruction physical Ed occupational therapy and some speech services which were provided online but following the County's safety guidelines for summer school we also included in-person speech in ABA to a select group of students and parents and Guardians participated on a volunteer basis thank you another quick video so this is my robot her name is sweepoff I made details on her face and her clips and she is very happy as you can see and this is her dress and her arms and legs shoes for her thematic Arts integration steam speaking and listening skills all of these were at play through student created video and products like the one you just saw thank you here's a sample of students using technology to share padlet and they wanted to share their thinking and their progress so we see a kwl chart which is a no want to know and learned about and the general topic was the three freedoms they focused on literacy vocabulary as well as speaking and listening Arts integration was are some samples of students creating art with their teacher students were given materials at the beginning of the summer so they would be able to participate in art this year we really wanted to know especially since uh we were doing distance learning for summer school how we did so we sent surveys out to the different stakeholders to find out one student said the program helped him on his speaking and writing and something you very rarely see is a student saying I would like the summer class to be longer three weeks is not long enough shows we did our job it motivating our students and something this particular student said something I did very well was I learned about climate change now if people ask me what is climate change I will be able to answer them we also sent out surveys to parents because we really wanted to know what they thought one parent said I think that this was a good program a another said I am beyond happy his attitude toward reading is so positive and he is super motivated and finally the teacher makes learning fun and something to look forward to every day and of course we wanted to hear from the teachers this adventure was one of learning on both ends my students learned from me and I as I learned from them students left accomplished and ready to tackle eighth grade in any mode of language and a final comment from a teacher was I feel very ready and prepared for the new school year [Music] so with that I'd like turn it over Miss Garcia for final comments okay so uh thank you for uh Miss Hayes Perkins for the great presentation and um as you can see we were very busy this summer we had a lot of great things going on at our schools and just want to thank Miss Hayes Perkins for her dedication she jumped on in May and worked till the end of July I think she's only had like a week or 10 days off before she started back up again so thank you for your dedication and for leading our programs this summer and I'll open it up to any questions that you might have thank you Miss Perkins and Miss Garcia um I'll hold off on my comments um trustees any questions or comments trustee Marquez thank you so much for this presentation it really gave me um what I have been looking for in the last meeting since I remember asking I'd like to go visit what summer classes were like are there going to be people there are there not going to be people or what I don't even know what it's going to be like but this real um this was very very good Sandra and I love the comments and I love the engagement that the parents had as well uh I hope that there were more teachers like this one um that truly was engaging her students and that we have more of those that happen during the summer because I think that we are touching our children that way and and my concern here is that some peer parents are not you know following up or getting in or having trouble logging and getting frustrated and that's not bothering you know and that's that's what I have in the back of my mind all the time and hoping that that's not happening but wonderful presentation thank you thank you any other questions or comments from the board trustee I also want to thank you Sandra and the rest of the staff uh teachers and programs um everybody that participated uh I was fortunate enough to hear great feedback you know from not only the students directly the parents um and also want to highlight that we had um other supportive uh Partners um like the The Parent Academy through the work first uh uh Institute and um Evergreen College that supported our parents um in logging in and connecting with programs this summer um so you know it definitely takes us all right it took us all to get through this summer um but it was great to know that um you know it was it was including uh all the hard work that you all did in the in our district office but we also had Partners um in addition to you know Jose Valdez but new partners this year helping our parents log on and turn on computers and troubleshoot um when our our children were having issues so um I also wanted to highlight those those Partners um and know that you know we're all needed during these times and it was great to have those Partnerships as well thank you hey thank you any other questions or comments from the board we had been with you um and um it just um it just gives me one little concern that if uh you know if we have partners that are doing that and helping the parents logging in then uh what are what's happening with our parents our classified staff that you know should be doing that um were they working were they not working um were they I I'm just a little concerned that I don't want other partners coming in and and taking the job work I I agree and I think though Lotus let's make sure we put that on the side note so we can follow up to find out what the prayer Educators were doing or we're not doing um and to make sure that you know I agree that others aren't coming in to do the work I mean I just uh forgot to mention too um you know these are important right to close that achievement Gap right in our in our students um so you know I'm glad that we were having this um and we need to have more of these um but yeah Dolores let's make sure that you know we uh we look into that uh Dr Bauer there's one I remind the board that alpera Educators work 10 months so this is a a the summer program yeah but don't some of them get to work because you rotate those jobs in the summer I'm sorry don't some of them do get to work in the summer not the pair of trustee Marquez no not the Paris no uh I don't think that's right but I'll take your word okay thank you any other questions or comments from the board okay I just also uh want to say thank you and I also agree it's that was a um excellent presentation in particular because uh you know with all this distance learning and these things going on um it's it's good to be able to see both for trustees staff and Community who's already seeing it but it's good for when we're approving these contracts throughout the year for all these Services it's it's a piece of paper and it's you know it's words that we're approving but it's good to see you know inaction the impact of that of those things that we approve throughout the year those services that we approve and and here in Alan rock you know I'll have to say that despite what you know people may hear about the lack of services or insufficient Services I think um this demonstrates what at least I and I think some of our board members know is the hard work that goes on to provide these Services you know during the summer during the school year and so I just want to make sure that that the public is aware that this is the level of Services of interaction of connection that happens with our staff and our students so is there room for improvement certainly we always have room for improvement but um you know I want to highlight that when you hear some of the negativity there's actually a lot of positive things that are that are occurring here in our district so thank you for demonstrating that trustee Chavez glad to see that the money was well spent sometimes um I've gone to see those programs last year I didn't this year but I hope that we can have all these programs and thank you for all your hard work and not only the students but the Educators thanks thank you okay I don't see trustee Quintero anywhere on my screen so I'm assuming he has no comment on this one um is there public comment on this item Mr Gill so there's one there is one race okay so Maribel can we get the clock ready person is Veronica okay can you hear me uh yes but hold on a second we've got to get the clock up is mighty Bell getting the clock up Mr Gill or trying to oh there we go okay so when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin okay thank you everyone um and I actually had one of my students Isabella who attended um um a math program for summer school um and it was great it was uh we had a really great experience um and I do want to say though that we did start a little bit rough but teachers I think were able to get feedback from coaches and stuff like that which I think was made a very uh efficient um and so I hope that moving forward even though there were Partners we are collecting the data um of what worked and what didn't work with those programs and how can we use that data to make sure that our you know coming for virtual learning for our thoughts um we're using what they learn in the summer are partners and implementing that in school Arts um and for our virtual learning I really hope to see that and we and it was a great presentation um I do want to note that we want to learn about the obstacles that were also out there because we don't know the obstacles right it's not just everything it's great like I said um with the program it started off a little raw and I was there you know um with my daughter and the teacher as well um but eventually it started getting much much better but we also need to see um what those obstacles are as they support making the school a better school making our academics a lot stronger so thank you so much thank you what was that Mr you say something yes there is one more placed hand okay Miss and Vegas when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin can you are you even do we have her muted Mr Gill or does she need to unmute I guess I have animated Brenda Sandy house listen dejas are you there I can't see her on my screen so I can't tell let's give it another second or so and if not we'll just have to move forward listen that's can you hear are you able to talk we cannot hear you you I don't know if you need to unmute on your end or maybe she lost connection or something I'm not sure still visible on the list so maybe we can skip to the next person Gabriella okay um Gabriella when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin are we having some kind of issue Gabriella can you hear us are you unmuted um okay so how do we go about doing this now with The Interpreter yes [Music] so the inter you kind of broke up on me these interpreters coming in right now he's on is he on now Mr Tripoli are you there thank you can can people hear Mr Tripoli I can't hear him no you said he was on trustee Marcus did you did you hear him yes I can hear him plainly really nice oh really I can't absolutely yes I can to see the the parent that you know and now um can you come to the English session hola Senora Gabriela she is foreign [Music] I have unmuted both of them okay so to um trustee Chavez's suggestion maybe we'll go with that to try to move things along so um we'll let but we can't hear him no one else can hear him I don't know why you're able to but we can't can't hear him either okay either so so we'll let Miss Gabriela speak and then we'll is someone able to translate once she's done yes between us we can do it so yeah the interpreters are on but we can't hear them and I can hear them nobody else can um but I'm wondering now and I can't hear her I'm willing to translate as they if she does it in pieces [Music] immuted in herself Theory test in in mute um okay um [Music] implementary okay foreign what I was listening to about the virtual platform about the children and the parents and me is I was wondering if you guys have taken in consideration the parents that are working because I believe that it works more for the parents that that don't work okay [Music] I have a neighbor here who takes care of children she takes care of four children and she doesn't think she'll be able to help the four children with not only taking care of them but also supporting them with all the technical um issues so so she told the parents that she might not be able to to support with that foreign and also the parents at work we we are worried because we don't know how that works uh many of us don't know about uh how that works yes yes thank you I did not understand who was the were we talking to the person that was babysitting no Gabriella was talking of her neighbor who babysits four children okay I did not I did not I thought it was the third that was babysitting and no her neighbor and then she also spoke up on behalf of the rest of the parents who don't have um the ability to connect to address because that's gonna happen we know it's going to happen more yeah okay so are there any other public comments um Mr Gill there is one from Brenda zandejas okay she she didn't speak right we couldn't connect her that's right okay can um can you hear us Mission Texas because we still can't oh there you go okay so when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin uh good evening uh superintendium Board of uh trustees uh my name is Brenda sandehas and I have two kids um that took the summer program so one was in springboard and one was in the Jose bandes I want to say thank you for everybody that worked so hard and the wonderful teachers that did a wonderful job um they kept my son engaged he is going to sixth grade and he hates math but for some reason he loved this program and he woke up every morning on time to make sure that he was engaging with his teacher and his classmates my younger son however he uh loved reading but it was a little bit difficult um because of the fact that a lot of the younger kids you know they're more antsy and um they were playing with the microphone a lot so I did see some of the frustrations with the other students and um the distractions of um the teacher was trying to keep the kids you know engaged but you know it's really hard when they're so young and I just want you guys to consider that that it's really hard to keep little kids on soon for long periods of time and I think the amount that um springboard offered was great maybe it's a little bit too long for the kids and they probably need more breaks just consider that when we reopen schools that are younger kids you know to be on the screener is not as um easy as the older kids but I do want to thank Ms Nguyen who did a wonderful job with this program I did have a question though when I was looking at the slide I saw that Mariachi only had three kids and vapa 11.
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so the first funding our sb 117 funding with the initial money we received per pupil and we received approximately 501 000 this funding comes with no expend by date although of course we want to use it timely so that we're servicing our students originally this money was utilized for our initial purchases of hot spots some technology as well as cleaning supplies the funding mandates that you can specifically use it for maintaining nutrition services cleaning and disinfecting facilities personal protective equipment and materials necessary to provide students with opportunities for distance learning our next fund is called the esser act funding and this was about 6.9 million dollars this has a time frame that we can go backwards we can spend from march 13th 2020 all the way through to september 30th 2022 and this is a very broad discussion we can use it fairly pretty much for anything that we can determine supports coronavirus response activity our third set of funding is our learn is the beginning of our learning loss funds the first um apportionment of money is the governor's emergency education relief and this is a smaller fund of 1.7 million dollars this funding also can be backdated back to march 13th although we just found out about this and the amount at the end of july and so we can go back to march 13th and we can use this money going forward to september 30th 2022.
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is this a number overall for all the schools only three participants for the whole District um I just wonder why they had um so little enrollment was it open for everyone was it advertised or what happened with these two programs that's all thank you have a great day thank you any more Mr Gill none okay thank you thank you everybody for your presentation and your comments um for future uh regarding the second importation is that um we all should click on interpretation and pick the English language so that way when interpreter Mr tripodi he speaks we would be able to hear okay because trustee Marcus was a computer because she is on English channels okay that makes sense so we have to click on excuse me I didn't hear him well click on the globe icon at the bottom of the screen where interpretation and select the language English oh sheesh I just lost it I just you can just get you can get tech support from trustee Marcus she's the high-tech expert here she's the only one that had it right today I learned it all so I'll be back in one second give me a minute we're on we're hearing you you just got to get that little something okay thank you for that that makes sense and thank you for for clearing that up as you know we're learning as we go and and just follow good directions follow trustee Marquez and we'll get all the tech stuff right okay we can move forward to item uh 3.01 request to address the board on items that are not agendized this evening um so this is the space where people the community can provide public comment on an item that is not on the agenda tonight uh Mr Gill do we have public comment on item 3.01 just a quick reminder mightybell if we do have more Spanish ones to uh put the time I don't know if it's easy to put it at four or if it's easy just once it goes to two just reset it for another two to make sure that we provide the truth interpretation enough time okay Mr Gill so I have three public comments the first one who was the first one DeLeon okay Miss de Leon when you begin speaking your two minutes will start yes okay uh good evening everyone my name is flor de Leon I am a parent and a community organizer in the parent community group first I want to thank superintendent Bauer for attending the request to meet with them who had parents and to listen address some of the concerns parents have with the distance learning and share the reopening plan as soon as it was ready on the same day that the plan was shared on Tuesday that we best for reinvest for racial equity in the alanbrock schools now Coalition had a forum that uh planned was reviewed by several stakeholders parents teachers and Community Advocate members the plan highlights some key elements in the reopening plan needs to be revised with more concrete steps to maintain high quality teaching learning and support students families and teachers we were the superintendent to take our recommendations and integrate them into the a reopening plant before it is approved also we are demanding a community oversight committee to support and oversee student support services and safety in which we can Advocate demand and recommend the high quality safe and sustainable educational plan last we want to collaborate in efforts to ensure that our students family parents Guardians teachers have the support and resources that will set them up for succeeds and prepare them for the high quality sustainable virtual education and school plan that Allenbrook has and I am also invite you trustees um to consider in uh in uh doing something like getting more grants like we know that Franklin McLean is getting 230 000 uh on grants for their computers because one of the trustees Advocates Santa Clara County and we expect that more trustees to do more for our district thank you next person Mr Gill it's the next person is Veronica okay Veronica when you begin speaking your two minutes will start Veronica do we have her unmuted Mr Gill Veronica are you able to speak we can't hear you you might need to unmute on your end hello okay can you hear me thank you um uh my name again my name is Veronica school and I am calling also um one of uh a member of the reimbursed for racial equity in Allen Brock schools now Coalition and as Laura mentioned we review we were able to review the plan um that the superintendents shared with us and um and this was also advertised um in different social medias for people to come in from the community um and so we were able to review it we knew that um once we review it that it was not something that our students um can and our families will be nrt church will be supported by and we've provided uh Dr Elena Bauer with recommendations we're hoping to please do not support this class and uh urge you to have Dr Larry of our look at those recommendations they're critical questions that our families are in need as you heard just a family right now how are they going to take care of that right I also have to work and I have my children I'm not alone either um I don't know what I'm going to do um and so definitely please take a look at that we also want to urge you to open a community oversight committee to support this kind of questions where we're able to look at this bring you recommendations right because as Unity working together we can bring better Solutions um right now you get to hear us only here you don't get to hear us if we had that oversight Community um that Community oversight committee we're able to provide you with those recommendations beforehand and we're able to work together again as in collaboration I really urge you to please modify that plan look at the questions look at the recommendations that we provided this is this recommendations are coming from teachers families the students and Community Advocates um I urge you to please look at that you all got as well a copy of it and we can talk more into it if you would like to thank you next person Mr Gill next person is okay Earl when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin hi yes uh can you hear me yes hi great um My Name is Earl um I am the parent of Two element kids um and I just have two comments um I would like the board to take the look more into detail about um the plan I know that there was there was some thought that went into it in terms of how we can reopen our schools virtually um and I think it's a great framework but I think there's a lot more room for improvement um it doesn't seem like it it answers a lot of the questions that parents had and I mean we heard one concerned parent um just in the last comment who who has several kids that um doesn't feel like they would be supported um in terms of meeting the needs technologically for their children in the home environment in the classroom that they're setting up for them um so along with the other two um ladies that had voiced their concerns about this plan I I stand with them and I think I think we need to think more critically about the needs of our of our community because it seems too vague and I also agree with uh forming you know a new focused uh sort of committee um an oversight committee um like the other ladies had mentioned um because you know I feel like their input would be you know much more valuable in a sense where you're getting the voices of people in our community saying you know what they what giving their input and their feedback about what um what the process should be for for going back to school um and you know in other safety initiatives um just you know to name a few examples so um I I do hope that there's another item on the agenda to you know review the the reopening plan and make adjustments that meet the needs of our community um in Greater detail and and also having a talk about creating an oversight committee where we could have more members of our community involved in the Pro in the decisions that the board makes thank you thank you next person Mr Gill I mean okay Anthony when you begin speaking your two minutes will start did you guys call my name yes you are up so once you begin speaking you will start your two minutes awesome uh well hello everybody my name is Anthony uh born and raised in San Jose uh currently Alum Rock teacher um you know I'd just like to mirror what the community has been saying at this point uh brass stacks and some facts uh we got school starting what next Tuesday uh and it still seems like there is a little bit of uncertainty as to how to move forward with this uh with this framework for distance learning uh so just like to mention that in order to you know kind of highlight the necessity of having a community oversight committee uh I think personally that that would be a really good option in terms of you know accountability so we can get these these time frames uh in a reasonable way so that everybody is kind of on the same page before we all have to you know start educating the children as well as taking care of children in a an essentially impossible situation um so I'd just like to voice my support for a community oversight committee uh in the district and I'm just citing the evidence as this scenario right here thank you very much thank you Mr Gill next person yes [Music] okay dilsa when you begin speaking your two minutes will start good evening members of the board um I am a parent of two students in larumbro school district I am here first of most I do want to say thank you to Dr power for sending us the opening plan as well as meeting with the parents and answering some of our questions um unfortunately when we checked that plan as my colleagues and my and and the people before me stated we saw that there was a lot of things missing me personally I said as a parent with a special need I don't really I didn't really see I'm not specific on how you guys are gonna do that trimester and be able to use different ways to address the needs of our students as well as um I don't really see how what are some of the trainings you guys or professional development you guys are providing for that teachers to be able also for them to be able to be capable of showing our students in a long distance um and finally I um I'm gonna go back to the minutes and the time management I know um president behrano that you stated that you may that you made data I don't pass meetings I would like to know what kind of data you use because to be honest if you're looking into how many minutes parents are talking and you are talking just to prove a point you should be spending that minute minutes trying to get resources and Partnerships of another type counties and other people like miss my most um there in Franklin McKinley to bring resources and money to invest in our students education then lastly I would like you to share that data with us and tell us what kind of board meetings you wanting to look to it so we could do our own data as well um so once again pay attention to that plan please follow the recommendations of the parents we are here to help we are here to be an ally and have communication and work together for that for the better of our students thank you have a really good day thank you next person Mr Gill this is Brenda this is when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin you guys hear me yes okay uh my name is Brenda Cinder has uh once again I'm here um echoing the concerns of uh not only parents but teachers um I also am encouraging you guys to open an oversight Committee of parents teachers and stakeholders I think that um this plan excludes a lot of people a lot of our special ed kids um and also not only that our teachers that have kids they too also have to worry about um putting their kids and their classroom and not only that it's it's a lot of things that we're not talked about or listened to and there's a lot of questions still not answered um for example PE and music how will that happen will they continue to have this um there's just so many questions that I would love answers to and I think that we need to uh consider having a oversight Committee of parents who can modify and together you know make a more clear plan than what is put out there for the sake of not only our kids but our teachers and our parents because at the end of the day we all need to have something clear that we can all work with because our kids cannot succeed if we don't have something clear our kids are gonna learn regardless we know that our kids are especially here in the east side we have Warriors you know these kids overcome diversity overcome anything that happens to them and um you know I just want you guys to consider having this oversight committee because it's really important that our parents students teachers and stakeholders get hurt thank you thank you next person Mr Gill it's Claudia okay Miss cuello uh when you begin speaking your two minutes will start good afternoon my name is a parent and also a member of employment in regards to the reopening plan it is very apparent that it still has loopholes where accountability is lost and it doesn't fill everyone's needs like for example would be am and afternoon classes or even high reading it would have been much easier more manifold for parents with multiple students in the same district um to be able to manage that also some parents haven't even received an official notification um to what school their student will be attending or what teacher they will be having we're just like three days away from school starting um which is also a very strong reasons for why I also see a need for the oversight committee thank you thank you next person Mr Gill There Are No More Republicans okay so with that thank you for your comments everyone we will move forward to item 4.01 Teamsters um do we have a representative from Teamsters here this evening I don't see anyone do you do you see anyone Dr Bauer do you know if we have anyone here no call in the morning okay well if they come in then we can take them out of order item 4.02 uh CSEA do we have any CSEA Representatives here I don't see Sharon Fontaine she will be she she didn't mention she was going to be here tonight so I don't know I talked to her this morning okay um I don't see it either so same story as Teamsters with CSEA um Alum Rock administrators Association I believe we have someone okay Miss Martinez um yeah four is yours thank you so good evening Alum Rock trustees and superintendent power as the Alum Rock administrator association's president this year I am thrilled that Alum Rock is on the verge of launching another excellent academic school year araa members have been working hard to make sure the school year starts off strong side administrators have been working diligently in conjunction with it Department to ensure that all students are receiving devices so that everyone can engage in Virtual learning starting on Tuesday uh there have been distribution days uh parent trainings on how to use zoom um are being set up and curricular materials are being passed out at the sites and yes everyone is practicing social distancing we're very proud to announce that our District's dream of starting a Vietnamese dual language immersion school is now a reality through the Visionary leadership of principal Lee Tran we will have the first TK Vietnamese dual language immersion classroom in the state of California and this is something we should all be super proud of um over the summer um a group of Administrators and management staff we completed a book study on the book how to be an anti-racist by Dr Kennedy and it was definitely an eye-opening book which when we first started reading because of the title how to be an anti-racist we thought that it was going to be step-by-step guide on you know what we need to do but it turns out that it gave us a lot of food for thought on how it isn't enough to be Against Racism but we actively need to be anti-racist there's really not a whole lot in between so um yeah it was a very enlightening and and great book study that we engaged in so um with all of these great things happening we are ready to move forward and thank you so much for your time this evening thank you Ernesto real quick maybe we still can catch somebody to translate her stuff apparently the translations might not be working um so I don't know if uh I know Carlos is translating but I don't know that we know that do we know that's for everybody or this one from three different people so so thank you for that um Mr Gill or if someone can look into that please while um I don't know if we can go back but we should definitely address that um sooner than as soon as possible in the meantime maybe Mrs Martinez can uh translate or give a summary in Spanish if uh I couldn't hear the translator I am so just um [Music] um and you know what Andres maybe you have more because I was trying to text about the translations but I know I went on to Spanish it was working yeah yes we can hear you and we know that the translation is working yes yes and actually that's not needed I think we can move forward yeah no it wasn't apparent um but it sounds like it's working so as long as it's working for you guys uh that's great thank you um thank you Andres for double checking that for us great sounds like it's working now thank you perfect thank you for doing that okay thank you everyone thank you Miss Martinez Mr tripodi and everyone else um okay we'll move forward to item 4.04 area Jocelyn the floor is yours can we we can't hear you do we have her unmuted Mr Gill yes she's on mute but we can't hear her you can't hear me oh now we can okay you can hear me okay now yep great thank you and good evening everyone this is the start of my 31st year in Alum Rock and while each year comes with its unique set of challenges I think this one probably ranks right up there about first place it's like the start of something new for everyone hopefully things can revert back to normal if if we ever get back there um and then not too far for sure but in the meantime I know that our area teachers are committed to making it work and I am sure it will be a year to remember for our students as well in a very positive way I hope I want to thank the district's bargaining team and attorney Rogelio Reese along with our area bargaining team for working to come to an agreement on an mou to start this new school year and with no time to spare uh you may know that we just came to an agreement like two days ago um I particularly want to acknowledge the area bargaining chair Sam eastep and members of our team Ryan Jaeger memona of salberta and Danielle d'ambrosio who volunteered countless hours of their summer vacation unpaid I will add both in preparation and in actual bargaining sessions to get this work done I am personally very grateful I also want to thank our CTA staff contact Chris Clark who not only negotiated our agreement but did it well simultaneously bargaining similar mou's mousse for four other local associations at the same time seriously I had a hard enough time keeping things straight just for area let alone five at the same time but in the end I do believe we reached a very fair agreement that not only prioritizes the safety and well-being of the staff and students in Alum Rock but provides the terms for uh for allowing for a solid educational distance learning program for our students in keeping with the guidelines set out by the governor in SB 98 and ab 77 now I think it's going to be perfect from the start of its rollout probably not but I do feel that if the language of the mou is followed by all parties combined with the passion and dedication of the teachers in this District along with the services provided by the various departments and staff within those departments at the district office and the partnership support and commitment by the families we will reach excellence in no time in order to get there though I am going to need to reach out to The District staff for your help since there's already some misinterpretation about the terms of the mou particularly regarding the scheduling and some increased Expectations by some site principles that are resulting in a change of working conditions so I will be reaching out to someone at the district level when the need arises but I want to extend my very best wishes to our 21 News certificated hires along with all of our returning members who survived the crisis teaching period from March 16th through the end of last school year and have come back this year for more you are all brave souls and I admire and respect you for what you are about to do for our students have a great school year everybody thank you thank you Jocelyn okay item 4.05 superintendent I just want to thank everybody for getting us to this point every single person every single parent every single stakeholder has allowed us to get to a place where we're ready to reopen schools on August 18th I think Josephine capture uh exactly kind of how I feel is not going to be perfect I don't think that if there's anything for sex but I think that listening to each other is very important I want to thank the teachers who sent me emails personal emails um explaining to me and and sharing with me their feelings their frustrations and some of them including solutions to the to the problems I so appreciate when someone reaches out to me and says you know have you tried this have you thought about this because I think that that is that allows us right to open our minds and our ears and our um in our uh the way we do things so I wanna I wanna thank you to those teachers who did that I I really um uh it made a difference for me I also want to thank um all of our Community Partners of one way or the other uh I wanna get up give a big shout out to City year who have put on hold some of their initial training and they have deployed uh core members to uh the majority of our schools to support to deliver to issue in distribute the devices and the hot spots that our families needs thank you so much City here for being flexible with us and allowing some of your core members to help some of our principles uh I also want to thank our principals for all the work that they have done because none of these can be achieved with without somebody kind of making it happen so thank you principals I know um all of you came back except for those of you who were at risk and those of you who were at least were able to make sure that your school was taken care of and you did you you're doing that from the distance so thank you so much let's have a fantastic opening of school year 2021 thank you thank you Dr Bauer we move forward to item 4.06 Board of Trustees communication in the comments are there any um trustees that would like to speak trustee Chavez and then I saw trustied and then trustee Quintero um go ahead you guys can go first and then I'll go after oh go ahead trustee Chavez I'm just gonna take it okay and then yes community so uh I'll go ahead and go to us uh so I just want to congratulate um all the staff who worked hard um I know Jocelyn mentioned you know the negotiations that were happening um and I just want to highlight you know the extra work late hours um to make sure that we have a fair contract for all of our teachers um our staff which is important um so you know just want to give thanks for that for that work which is very important um especially being a union member myself um and then also I just wanted to thank the parents that have spoken um especially about you know our plan uh it's important for me to have parent you know input and engagement so I'm happy to hear that you know parents um are taking the time to not only read it and understand it but also provide feedback um you know to make it better as we all know you know this is a president times and we're doing things differently starting a new school year in a new way so um thank you Steph you know for um doing all you've done up till now uh from the administration all the way to the classrooms um I know that you know there's bienvenidas happening tonight at my daughter's school um so I want to congratulate not just you know the teachers and stuff but also all the kids coming back the parents um this is definitely you know gonna take 110 from all of us you know to um to ensure that our children have what they need in order to be successful in this school year um and I look forward to continuing to work on those you know highlighted um areas that you know the parents um I did read the email that was sent to us um highlighted because all of those are priorities definitely for all of us um and I'd like to you know I like that um they are priorities and you know we have been um talking we have been looking we have been working hard um and I know there was more than one um parent who mentioned you know about us advocating I want to assure you that as trustees um and of course you know speaking for myself but I've also seen some of my peers I'm at different meetings advocating also iladia bringing in speakers um you know with with uh County Board supervisors continuing to highlight the need of our students um so I've been there myself and I've seen it myself so I wanted to assure parents that we are doing what we can um to Advocate on behalf of our of our children um you know I know I mean off the top of my head I remember hearing something about a two hundred thousand dollar contract um you know obviously that's information that maybe some of the parents have not heard about um but I agree you know if we can have maybe um continuous communication because I think that's what it is you know um the missing links in communication with where maybe some of our parents might believe that we're not doing anything or you know in those certain areas um that we can assure you that we are but we can always do more so um we appreciate your feedback um because there we always have area for growth you know I know some mentioned that although the programs in the summer were great you know there's still areas for growth so definitely um always open for that so thank you for um communicating with us you know and um I look forward to continuing to uh Implement changes that will continue to move our district forward in working with our community including our parents and stakeholders um in a positive way to ensure that our children have what they need um and our families in the Alum Rock Community have what they need in order to be successful this year and then the years moving forward thank you thank you trustee Chavez are you ready to go now um actually Karina touched on the same subject that I was going to say and just because you don't see us uh our names in a meeting that doesn't mean we're not in the meetings um the seven and a half hour city council meeting that I sat on to get the connectivity for the Broadband divide the digital Coalition made that happen and uh thanks to Lorena Chavez she let me know hey can you sit on this meeting and they did vote for it we are going to get it but we're not going to get it until uh 2022 and as you can see with tonight's meeting and all the previous meetings we really need that connectivity and also the supervisors meeting um you don't see me on the screens as me logging in but me doing all the work in the scenes before the meeting ever went calling the supervisors I know and everybody that I know that knows them also calling them emailing them the hairdresser their uh cleaners everybody that they go to we know who they have contact with so just because you don't see us on the screen doesn't mean that we're not doing our work from behind the scenes and sometimes those personal relationships that we have with uh whether it be with a council member or a couple of Supervisors or even even offices that people will hold after this election also working with them to let them know what our needs are for Alum Rock and the only reason I do this and have all of the dialogue and all the time that my family says I don't have for that for to do all the stuff that I need to do I think that I set that Priority First above everything else is what I'm being told right now but it's worth it because it's for the students this is for the students connectivity the parents and the teachers to keep this District moving forward thank you thank you trustee Chavez trustee Quintero I believe you were next yeah he uh I want to thank um everybody who's tuned in uh to the meeting I appreciate the the folks who are coming out and paying attention and uh raising concerns it's always healthy it's a part of the democratic process and so I do uh generally appreciate the feedback and the support and um some of the concerns that you raised um I wanted to provide an opportunity for Dr Bauer to provide a um inform the community of the grant that we received for uh the laptops I obviously we didn't get as much as Franco McKinley that's yeah that's par for the course Franklin McKinley gets a lot of love from a lot of places and you know we have to do our part but uh can you let us know I think it was like about half of what they got correct well we got two hundred thousand dollars in a ground there you go it's what uh I was alluding to um we have already um worked with a with uh the city and the county to be able to order the LA the iPads that we need those are going to be going to rtk uh Jason King in first grade however we we deployed every single device to make sure every child is ready to have one device in their connectivity for you so thank you the board is also going to hopefully approve a Verizon grants later on in the meeting we have a fantastic uh partnership we're the only ones in the county who has that kind of money coming to support our middle school students with one-to-one devices and now the labs that are being built in our Middle School we won't be able to use them in the fall but that willing we will be able to use them in the spring so thank you uh trustee kinsero for that opportunity and um so I do appreciate the feedback I I appreciate that our Administration is out there on top of stuff as well um there are instances where I'm hassling the superintendent hey there's this great opportunity and uh generally my Approach is hey let's talk about it let's figure it out and see if it's a win-win for the district because I definitely don't want aim to get 10 000 bucks and then spend fifty thousand dollars on a grant that really is not going to work out for us um so you know whether it's bringing in half a million dollars to renovate our our fields to preserve open space in East San Jose those are the type of things that I'm very proud to have been able to do um thank you for the update uh um Martinez with regard to the dual immersion I'm very proud to have been able to introduce the memo that uh brought forward that process and so to see it come true fruition is uh the joy uh you put out an idea and people support you and uh all of a sudden it is now happening because of the hard work of our hard-working staff so thank you all for everything you do uh that goes to all the parents to all the teachers to all the administrators here I'm looking forward to the start of this this new year I know that there's a lot of concerns but um you know in this time of um of uh you know jury news and I just had somebody in my immediate family pass away um we we need we need to continue to focus on the positive which is getting our kids back on a routine back into seeing other kids and even if it even if it's virtually so thank you all for everything you do thank you trustee Quintero and condolences to your family um trustee Marquez thank you um I first want to start thanking all the parents that have come on on to the zoom and join us in our meeting and thank you and um the the parents that are first joining us for the first time those that have continued joining us um and hearing from you um you're the ones that are out there you have your ear on the ground and you know what the rumbling is and what the parents want and what the community you know would like to see and I I really appreciate hearing all of that um we hear a different perspective of where all the professionals are getting together and what they're doing and what that's what's coming down the pike but what's down on the ground is what's really important to me um those are the parents those are my constituents those are the ones that I had worked with for over 50 years you know in a total of um they were either neighbors or friends and then they became parents and been with them for a very long time so I'd like to thank those parents that are on on Zoom with us tonight um I also like to thank the staff that has been working to get us going I know um we're getting kind of a late start um we had to get the not the contract by the mou settled with the teacher and um I think that um that I wish we had done it earlier but it did come when it did get here and I appreciate that being signed that on the mou that helped us move forward to get started for the opening of the school year for all of those parents that um that uh foreign and uh it's going to be a problem uh you know for daycare or something uh I I feel for you I really do um we'll try and help you at our end what we can do and um and let's see what we're all going into this new so we we gotta go step by step and um and then I want to thank all the teachers that are getting ready and prepared I got to tell you though teachers for those of you that are on and I know you get you get on um if I was me I would like to go to a sterile room and do my um my teaching from my classroom um I I I think I would be more comfortable having I.T support if my families or students could not get on and I could just call the the district and say can you help me you know or I can't get this started I can't get that going or this parent or this child I think that's what would draw me back into the classroom um instead of from home if I was in my classroom alone where it had been cleaned and sterile but like I I know that the staff superintendent and everyone has already told you those rooms are available if you want to come into the classroom and work from there um because Zoom can be done from anywhere uh I thank you for doing all you can to get our children back on track um it's going to be new for everybody and let's see how this is going to be improved from what the summer sessions were um I'll be interested in seeing the data as to how many um how many hours and how many students are logging in and doing their homework and returning their their um their work um I know there's a word for it when they do work with Synchro sizing I think that was the word Dr Bauer you want to help me with that word asynchronous and asynchronous so I am I am really looking forward to seeing that data I'm glad I hope it has it all down and ready to go so that we get that data and um and I I just really want to see the enrollment numbers that we're gonna have so um thank you very much and let's get a great start going thank you um so I actually want to first and foremost just um thank all of my colleagues tonight I think everyone's comments tonight and our little communication section have been spot on um and I appreciate all the comments that that all of all of you have given so thank you for that um one reminder that I do want to give just in reference to a statement that was made earlier we did actually get um a portion of our state audit that that did speak to meetings late into the evening I won't read it or anything right now but I bring it up because to the point that we just we do need to continue to be vigilant about keeping our meetings um from going too late because it is actually something that was brought up in the state audit um you know and so that's just the point being moving things along um I also want to I won't go too much on this because everyone already has done it but I really want to thank all of our all of the individuals and the teams as a whole um during the negotiation I know it's a you know it's a difficult process because everyone wants to do right for those that they represent and I agree I think you know given this situation given the scenario I do believe that because of everyone's hard work that we have come to something that that's a good start um to trustee Marquez the point that she just made about like you know we're just starting we're all learning we're nothing's perfect a statement that I had made when we first got into this covet thing on a Saturday when all the stakeholders came together and we were trying to figure out how to provide services is let's not get let's not let the good let's not let the perfect get in the way of the good and what's meant by that I think is that we all want perfect Services as soon as possible perfect class rules perfect everything and of course we should strive towards that but because of the fact that we experience bumps along the way to get there we should still acknowledge those good um points and I think I hear all of us and Community included doing that we acknowledge that we've started we've done good there's a lot of stuff happening here that's not happening anywhere else on a positive side um but there's certainly room to continue to develop and I think that's that's part of the plan and part of what I think that the district leadership has integrated into how they do things is continued um iteration in in how they they Implement programs and services um the other thing I wanted to oh to trustee Chavez's point I also again want to thank you for you know there's a lot I've seen a bunch of you on in meetings too in these Zoom meetings when we're advocating for ethnic studies and the digital divide and going to these County weekly csba meetings and talking with colleagues from other districts and there's so much that happens behind the scenes that unfortunately the public doesn't see all of that stuff but it really is a full-time job a separate full-time job and you know when you're working full-time as a grandmother or a professor or you know approving homes for foster children that I do 40 50 hours a week There's an additional 30 or 40 hours that we're all working that that you don't see as the public but we all want you to know that that is happening um and and I think there was comments last month about something along the lines of like where rubber stamping items and we're just passing things without knowing anything about them and another thing that maybe not all the public knows but during the month we are in constant communication with um either our colleagues or outside people that have to do with these items or Dr Bauer doing the work because really the the work of um passing these items and getting knowledgeable about them is not intended to happen during the meeting or we would never finish meetings so we do a lot of that work in between and during the meeting we try to provide information or ask questions that provide some transparency to the parents but that don't you know take the entire time that we do during the month and the last thing that I I just want to say is you know there'll be an item to speak to this a little bit later but um with regards to getting resources I want to um you know again thank my colleagues for all the work that we do and there's the item the solar item that's coming on later tonight that that um you know it's it it is an opportunity um potentially to bring significant resources to the district and and I'll talk about it at its point tonight on the agenda um but I mean I think that all of these things that we're talking about demonstrates the work that we all do behind the scenes um that happens in between these meetings that not everybody sees so thank you everyone um for your comments and we can now move forward to item um 5.01 approved city of San Jose Aces contract to approve okay there's a motion to approve 5.01 is there a second question uh I heard a second from trustee Quintero so there's a motion and a second on the floor um do we have public comment on this item Mr Gill 501 thank you Mr Gale are you there oh there you are public comment for 501 yes there are two okay uh who's the first one Veronica okay uh do we have the clock ready okay mighty Bell thank you uh Veronica when your mic is unmuted and You Begin speaking your two minutes will begin free um can you hear me yes awesome um thank you so much everyone again for being here and um you know I I do want to comment on the city but I also do want to let you know president borva Hannah we you are the one that's holding us back bringing us back to other meetings you know we do not need to hear those kind of comments anymore let's move on let's move on forward and what we're asking for is not reflection as parents it is not we're asking for collaboration never have you seen how many survey how much of a survey percentage there was for collaboration from parents it was a 20 we can pull that data up all we want is collaboration and when we're talking about this such as this um with the city we're letting the city use our buildings but yet we have to pay them to get a resources from them it doesn't make sense we need to make sure that the city get some money and funds us okay we're in citizens as well we are not here uh to give them money they should be giving us money we're letting them borrow our building fine now give us something in between right or lead us halfway because it is not okay that we get to spend over a hundred thousand dollars for a great program that is many cities are giving it out to their um to their schools right so again this is the collaboration that we're talking about and yes you might say that you are all working behind the scenes that's fantastic but we're also working behind the scenes you know I'm also in those meetings the city council uh this uh the county I'm also advocating to make sure that we're being hurt I'm also in the County Office of Ed again asking to be collaboration for that collaboration that Dr Eladio Bauer you do not want to open that door for our parents um we're here to bring and advocate for our children for our communities but yet you only want to hear the good The Good the good no we also need to look at the bad and we also need to make sure that we amend it and heal our communities and move forward working thank you thank you next person Mr Gill ES when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin can you hear me yes uh this is a common for item 5.2 right or 5.1 5.01 okay I I think that I'm in the wrong one but it's okay um I actually have a question over this um to approve this for these schools they're going to be virtually uh meeting with students right and then it says um homework assistance on site I would like more information on how this will be done if they are meeting with their kids on site um again how is this gonna happen I want transparency are these kids going to be chosen is there going to be a waiting list um how is it safety going to be is it going to be like certain amount of kids only meeting in the school because from what I heard we still have covet 19.
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we're gonna see for all three allocations of the learning mitigation money there are four general principles for which you can use it student learning lots general measures that support extended instructional time for students academic support for students and providing integrated services that support teaching and learning and this could be technology this can be mental health professional development and our student nutrition um one thing to be very careful of is because most of this is federal money it does come with more significant audit um limitations and most funds and so we are making sure that we are looking at every expenditure we place under this we're double checking it with our auditor to make sure that we are doing it correctly and accurately so that as we expend the money we've expended it correctly and then our next pot of money is our corona virus relief funding so this is you you've never once heard me come in to a board meeting and say gosh we have too much money um but this right now is um it's a kind of an overwhelming amount of money it's 26.5 million dollars and granted i guarantee we can spend that money on great things for our students but the issue is the timeline that comes with it so we can go back to march but we can only go through from to december 30th of and so what this means is we have to have expended the money fully meaning it's important it's in process being used by students or already being having been um used if it's a person's services by this december 30 date um i can tell you that we have been reaching out to every advocacy group that we work with to try and get them to extend that timeline the fact that we just found out about it the third week of july whereas yes we can go back to some of the things we did but we know that we have the capacity within our district to do amazing things for children and we'd like to extend that timeline out so that we can use those funds very intentionally at looking at what losses our students have had and being able to mitigate them i know dr freda will be sharing with you a little bit about some of the things that we've already come up with through engagement with our stakeholders already and then our third part of learning loss funny is our general fund prop 98 money so this is state funding and this is about 2.8 million this again has that very short timeline um and again the same four factors you can spend the money on so if you look at the next slide it will tell you the total um so for those of you that were writing it down to try and add it up when we were done i did that for you so you can see the five uses the amount the allocations we've received and the date of expended by so in total we will have received 38.4 million dollars in funding to support this time that we're going through um although you may read that allocations were made and the learning lost money some was allocated on special ed population numbers some was allocated on our number of supplemental concentration grant funding and some was funded on general ada the money all does go into one pot and can be used for all students um but we have some timelines of course we're going to be highly strategic we're going to use the money that needs to be expended by 2021 then go into the money for 2022 and then that final open extended money so that we maximize our revenue and how we're going to expend it for our students now i'm going to turn it over to dr freda to tell you a little bit about the new lcap yeah so you'll notice uh thank you doctor you'll notice the lcap learning continuity and attendance plan not to be confused with the local control accountability plan so as you know in the spring because of the covet 19 and the pandemic uh the l we weren't required to do the l cap in the spring like we normally have done that will take place and resume this spring but this this l cap the learning continuity and attendance plan as a requirement of sb will take place in the fall this must be completed and adopted by the board of trustees by september 30th i'm going to talk in a moment about the process we intend to go through to really do some authentic stakeholder engagement to solicit additional input in terms of how we might spend this money and how we might hold ourselves accountable that what we're spending our money on is having our desired impact and outcome some of the areas that will be included in this learning continuity and attendance plan will include in-person instructional offerings distance learning pupil loss mental health and social emotional well-being pupil engagement and outreach and student nutrition it's important to note that we have as a result of the pandemic in march we were way ahead of colleagues throughout the county and i would argue the state where we began the opening of school task force where we began actually developing and doing this very much this very same work in the spring and into the summer so again well ahead of our colleagues but we've been working with input to develop a distance learning plan to develop a hybrid model if we're given permission to return back to school even part-time or full-time so a lot of the work that we did in the spring has paid off because it will be embedded into this plan now again part of any lcap whether it's the one we're doing in the spring or the this learning continuity and attendance plan it accounts for how we're spending the money again and that is reaching our desired outcomes so these three learning loss mitigation funding allocations are contingent upon the adoption of the lcap that you'll be approving at the september uh 24th which i'll talk about in a moment so again we have an authentic stakeholder engagement process that we're going to go through and i'll talk a little bit about what we've already done but we have scheduled a stakeholder engagement meetings on august 20th august 27th and september 3rd you can see because as dr root said there's such a short timeline in terms of when we can spend this money on that we have to also go quickly with the stakeholder engagement process um so we will do this virtually but we will solicit input and be real transparent with our community stakeholders uh in the meaningful way that we've always been able to do this work to collect that input to then uh use that input to determine how we're gonna be spending the money to support our students now as you know in our last board meeting we already had done a parent and a staff survey so we're using that initial data that we have been given and i'll share as a reminder what we found from those surveys in a moment but we're using that initial data to guide some of our initial expenses in terms of software platforms mental health support services uh and professional learning that we're putting in place in addition to technology and the purchase of new equipments and hotspots that i'll talk about um after the stakeholder process takes place through the month of august and early september we will then do a presentation to the board on september 17th very similar to what we've done in the spring uh mr malone manuel colon our chief academic officer and mr carmona one of our directors will lead this presentation so you can see in greater depth the process we've gone through what is actually in our plan and how we're gonna be measuring uh the success of those different actions to show that it's gonna help close the learning gaps that our students may have suffered as a result of the pandemic and then of course following that presentation we will have a special board meeting on the 24th where you can take action to approve and adopt the learning continuity and attendance plan that we have developed in partnership with all of our stakeholders again i think it's really important to remind everyone that the process we have gone through with our opening of school task force which involves stakeholders from all groups parents staff teachers classified administrators even a couple board members participate in this process we're using that as initial data or input in terms of this process but then also mr colon has been meeting with a teacher group of over 30 teachers every tuesday we're using some of that information as well to inform some of these initial or early on purchases that we've been bringing to you as a board because of the the urgency and time sensitivity around these monies as a reminder we shared last war meeting the survey data that we had been given uh that we had done with our parents and our community in addition to our staff these are as a reminder the key takeaways that we got from that survey data as parents they had said and reported that technology access and support tutoring for their students and mental health supports were really their big three takeaways that they supported in the survey there of course are some other things but these were the biggest uh issues that they brought forward in the survey our staff similarly talked about technology access and support as it related not just our students but also for them as the instructors the ones connecting with our students they talked about the need for professional learning in terms of how we're going to support our teachers to adapt to this online platform but then also some of the technological software platforms we're purchasing some of that will also need to come with training so our staff is equipped with the skills on how to use those different platforms this also connects to the appropriate materials and platforms to engage our students and of course they also talked about mental health being a top priority in meeting both our needs as adults and of course the needs of our students in our families now some of the initial purchases of services and supports that we have done as a result of the of the input that we've been given so far we have spent a lot of money on computers and hot spots making sure that any student who needs these uh technological uh supports has them but we've also done the same for our staff we're gonna make sure we've equipped our staff with what they need to be able to connect and support our students we have also purchased different software platforms i'm just gonna go over just a few as an example again you're gonna get a much greater detail at the future board meeting uh where we go over all this in depth but we've purchased the online dbqs as you may recall in social science we have been a long-standing partner with the document-based question uh instructional program we are actually one of the pioneers in that program where if not all most of our social science teachers have been trained over the years how to do these dbqs we are now purchasing the software that allows us to transition and do this software integration online so that is something that we're going to that will support not just social science teachers but also potentially english teachers as well uh because obviously we care about all of our classes here's an example of something we're doing to support our vapa programs we're looking to purchase smart music which is a platform this is the leading browser-based music education platform that connects teachers and students whether in the classroom or remotely it facilitates focus practice assessment immediate feedback and making the link between educator and student even more powerful again this is for all of our instrumental and vocal music teachers who can use these are banned orchestra and choir uh teachers who can use this platform as an example as you know schoology has been our our main learning management system that we've been using so we obviously wanted to purchase the upgrade with schoology being that we are starting the year completely virtual and not knowing exactly how long we're going to be we want to make sure we equip our teachers with all the bells and whistles to support their efforts to better support our students and as the board knows at our last board meeting we approved the gizmos platform which allows our science classes to continue doing and offering labs virtually this is critically important because as you know we want to keep our science classes a through g accredited and part of the a3g accreditation requires our science classes to have a percentage of our instruction connected to labs this allows us to continue that process we are also looking to bring back at least through the first semester because again this money has to be not just used but the services provided by the first semester are ed tech coaches now because master schedules have been built it won't get necessarily a period of release but we're looking to go through a process where we hire edtech coaches and give them a stipend through their additional support that they provide through the first semester this support will really be given to our staff so they're equipped with the needs their needs for being met to support our students and of course an upgrade to the phone system that we currently have as you know part of our outreach plan is going to be to connect regularly with our families especially to those students who maybe aren't connecting or who are having trouble making those connections many staff worried about using their personal phone numbers they don't have district phones per se so this will allow those teachers and classified staff office level staff to make connections to family where it's still connected to our school lot uh lines uh using those numbers as opposed to their personal numbers some of the academic supports that we're going to be providing our students is the summer and fall professional learning i'm super proud to share that we've had over 1100 of our 1200 plus teachers trained before school even began we paid those teachers because it was during the summer and it was their time and because it's something that we we valued and wanted to make sure we prepped our teachers with before school starts uh was it tremendously popular and well um viewed training that we gave our teachers and as you heard i think grant say in his opening during the union report um that they are well positioned to provide top quality first best instruction to our students in a virtual format also because of what was happening throughout the summer not all students were able to take advantage of the summer program options or perhaps there were some challenges that happened when this first took place in the spring and march we are trying to boost up our fall credit recovery options so more of our students have a chance to recover some of the credit that was lost as a result of the pandemic we put down fall boot camps we're looking to also do remedial options for our students in the fall probably sometime closer to the thanksgiving even at the beginning of winter break where we can pay teachers to do recovery instructional recovery plans with our students so it's not waiting for a student to fail but we can actually do real-time grade recovery so the student doesn't fail we can we can help them while they're still in the class and be to be successful some of the things we're looking to do with our visual and performing arts program or we're looking to purchase art kits and additional instruments as you know in the pandemic we don't want our kids sharing instruments so we have used some of this money to really beef up our instrument and art kit procedure so all of our kids have what they need individually so they can still continue to perform in the bands or have what they need to perform in choral programs or our programs also and i know carlos will be talking about this in a bit we are spending some of that money to continue to connect and empower our parents we are building uh as you know we've had nationally recognized parent learning walks in parent leadership academies this will be virtual so we are transitioning what we've done in the classroom and physically on campus to now a virtual format so we can continue to support and empower our parents to not only support us with what we're trying to do but better support their students at home when they have questions where they have help they may need the parents can now interact with and of course you heard tutors was a big piece we're looking to hire over 150 tutors to support our students throughout this fall the way that works out is that each high school will get six tutors and our junior highs will get four they'll be used to support and i hate to use the word core because i think all of our classes are core but the traditional core the english math uh science and history that we use to support students in those platforms not just on the synchronous days mondays wednesdays and fridays but also on our asynchronous days where they can be working with students in small groups to continue to help support them with their learning and then lastly in terms of some of this examples of purchases and services that we're looking to do under the area of mental health we're looking to add 12 additional social workers through december and that's important to note that remember as dr root said it's not just having to spend the money by december but we have to use these products or services and purchases through december so we're looking to hire 12 additional social workers through december that can help with case management work more closely with foster youth became vento students also english learners and help our current social workers with case management and responding to crisis as you know right now the pandemic has made some some uh home life challenging for a lot of our students and our staff and we want to make sure that we have people in place that can really help treat the different things that they're going through additionally you heard how important our counselors are from doc and we couldn't agree more we're adding 12 additional counselors as well that's going to help our counselors so our our permanent counselors can do some additional work and working closely with our student groups as well while these these 12 counselors were hiring us on a temporary basis can backfill some of the day-to-day operations that our counselors would normally do so they our current counselors can be freed up to do some additional uh work with student groups uh in in closer contact this is gonna be really important because as you know if we hire a temporary counselor to do that work they'll form relationships but then in december when they leave that's now a relationship with a kid that goes away we want to use our current counselors who already have established especially through the grade level counseling the importance of making those connections with kids and families they already have established relationships with you know that mindfulness is a big part of what we're doing in our district already we want to expand the mindfulness professional learning that that goes with our staff our parents and then obviously trickling down to providing these opportunities for our kids this would be in the form of work that we've already done with illumination and mine kind and then additionally we want to add specific hours for our counselors um this would be after school or on the weekends for them to hold those at-risk meetings with students uh specifically english learners or foster youth who are particularly challenged given what's going on so they can continue to connect make sure they're on the right pathway and provide them the resources and give them access to the different resources they may need to help get them through this difficult time and then finally special education english learners um we've had already a very successful saturday language academy but we want to use some of this money to pay our teachers to do additional saturday language language academy offerings for our el students and then also we want to be able to expand our progress monitoring specifically of our english learners as you know in the world of special education case carriers serve as rock stars and supports for our students with disabilities but in the english learner world they don't necessarily have a case carrier so this will allow us to hire teachers to go above and beyond outside of the school day to do specific work with our english learners and help progress monitor with them and make sure they're getting what they need they have access to what they need access to and then they'll be there as a support group for these students to help them be successful during this time and then of course with special education as you already know our school psychologists are stretched already very thin we want to add additional psychologists during the time through december so that way we can use our current psychologist to increase the mental health supports of our students with disability in addition to the academic supports that our students are entitled to their designated services outlined in each student's iep and then along those lines we also are going to be adding some speech and language pathologists through december again to be able to increase and improve our services for students who are entitled to those services through their iep so as you can see a lot has already been done to support our students that we're putting in place but as i shared with you we really do value the the process and we do value value authentic stakeholder engagement so the process that manuel colon and joe carmona will lead is an added touch that i think we do above and beyond as a district because we want to hear again uh not just what we've heard before but now as we're going through this the needs may change and that input is going to be really important in terms of how we spend this money to best support our students and really close the learning gaps that occurred as a result of this pandemic i now want to turn it over to my colleague carlos hernandez i'm hoping that he's on i know he has some technical difficulties he's on yes i'm here carlos thank you thank you very much and good evening everyone trustee o'neal i think you jinxed me spec the spectrum on my side also uh you know just gave way so we're back on thank you very much all right we i wanted to go um in depth a little bit about um what we are doing to uh address the needs of our families our community to you know to beat covid and it's really this is a microcosm of what is happening in our um in our areas that we call hot spots there are zip codes that are seeing a spike or i've seen a spike for now weeks and and this is only one piece of the inequities that we have seen in certain zip codes and so we talked we were talking about racial inequities just a little bit ago we're talking about health and inequities here and of course the economic inequities that take place and so what we are doing is we are you know creating and designing that additional civic engagement you know up upstream flow from our students our and their families and their voices are being heard through the ability to educate uh to create systems around resources and then to respond to in this case covid so um training our families and building them up and our parents up is is is the beginning uh as they you know uh have uh misunderstood or understood or not not not uh become aware of what is um what are the guidelines that we should follow to be able to address the the covid you know staying you know um safe and healthy uh they are helping in their communities now with this additional training and summits that they that uci has provided and and latino health access which i'll get into in a little bit they are now being able to support their families and their neighborhoods our students have gone through uh trainings and and summits and they are now the leaders on campuses to help other students um become aware of what they should do in order again to be safe stay safe stay healthy and to move forward and and from surviving to thriving uh we are we are systemizing our resources so it's not only our district resources that dr freda is mentioning here we are also working with our faith-based organizations our non-profits uh the city of anaheim and others to be able to share resources across streams our you know our fellow district elementary districts are also helping to share the resources and to do a more intentional job of being um you know proficient in our resources and what's available uh you know it's not just the food distributions but it's also the tech distribution it's the material distribution and and we're now talking about care packages uh distributing to our most media families um the last piece is on this slide is responding to the kovid so we're to get into the testing piece but it's testing not only the testing but what do i do now as a as a person that is has tested positive well we now needed to work on the contact tracing so our our own parent leaders have become these promotoras they are parent leaders that are now hired through latino health access and and others of caprica is looking to do the same to be able to be the ones that um from the community can work with these uh families that are stressed and anxious and saying now what i i i have to stay home but you know i have to you know pay the the rent i have to pay for food and there are resources and there are funds available and and these are the you know the pieces that we need to make sure that our um families are aware of um to be able to again beat uh um uh our next slide is really a a very busy slide i apologize for that but i wanted to just give you a breath in terms of what is existing and what's happening and what has happened since uh you know beginning of july when we started to collaborate with orange county health care agency with latino health care access or latino health access with uc irvine uh with our our elementary school districts and then el capica and as you see uh anaheim union has been trailblazing saying yes and thank you board for saying yes to these opportunities to bring you know testing um you know to partner with our latino health access and our hearts getting health care agency to get testing to the sites um you know there's three testing sites that that are happening every week um again since july 15th tomorrow will be the 14th testing event that happens in anaheim union um they are happening at at magnolia on mondays catalan tuesdays and um anaheim on fridays and again this is happening we have had more than uh 2 000 close to 2 500 uh tests take place in those three sites and and they're still a huge need i know we're seeing sort of a dip in des in covid cases but there is still a significant need in our community and again i mentioned uci training i've mentioned um latino access training for our parents and our leaders and and our students and they again they are a an amazing organization that we are now continuing to grow our relationship the next slide just simply a big shout out to our pio um and that uh is because um you know when when we push out flyers we want to make sure that it's hitting the families that need to hear this information and this is just you know two examples and when we push our flyers uh twelve thousand people are reached or eleven thousand folks or reits and another flyer um so this is again uh the work that we have to do to be able to communicate effectively with our families a big shout out to our faces a big shout out to our school sites that are also doing this work as soon as we get the flyers they sent out in mass and uh you know our families that are in need hear it understand what resources are available and uh and and they are very appreciative um the next couple slides are really um to really go deeper with our parent leadership academy and our parent learning walks and again as dr freda mentioned an opportunity to move to the virtual platform because there is still a need to build you know bring our parents along uh as uh grant you know schuster described you know we've we've trained up our teachers we've trained upper administrators we're training up our students in terms of the virtual world and our parents are are are also being trained up to understand what is their role and how you know what what they do they need to know to understand um the virtual environment the challenges in that so in collaboration with cal state fullerton our our faces a focus group um facilitated along with araceli chavez this development of our virtual parent leadership academy these are our four modules we're going to go into family engagement in a virtual world and what that means we're going to look at supporting your student through the distance learning so what tools are they using what resources are they using we're going to look at technology and distance learning platforms again schoology aries you know the different platforms that are available that we're continuing to add to because you know our teachers are very creative and they've found some amazing tools and they want to use them so we want to make sure that our parents know what those tools are and then of course as uh again dr freda has mentioned mental health is critical the parent survey shows that that is a continual need and so with the help of dr dela cruz we created and designed this module four to be able to support the mental health uh you know needs of our parents and our current reality the next slide um shows and again this is happening very very quickly the development of our virtual parent learning walks with the the the support and the and the the support and training of our uh curriculum specialists and our our five c's are going to help us deliver the virtual parent learning walk so that we can um understand as parents how to support learning at home so when my student is sitting in a synchronous environment what kind of conversations can i have with them what kind of questions can i ask them so that we have a dialogue so that i know their experience and understand their experience in an asynchronous you know what kinds of questions should i be asking what kind of dialogue should i be having with my son or daughter in the asynchronous environment and so these uh you know experiences are are going to be a part of you know our parent experience very soon so that we can have them support learning at home and um i just want to bring it this presentation to a close and i and i again um we know that we have some visionary leaders working with us in our district we're working alongside is staff members classified certificated our superintendent uh as you know wrote an article in that source and you know he entitled that uh the obstacle is the way and so i just wanted to close by talking about this because as we mentioned the multiple challenges that we face as many of you have already talked about we are pushing through those obstacles and so i'm just going to quote the last piece of this article on it and as from superintendent matsuda and it says that kovid 19 is the obstacle but it is also the way forward now is not the time to have this disease push us back to the old ways let us instead move forward on the path together with courage and compassion that is the way and so it just speaks to the work that we are collectively doing together that this is we're not talking about surviving we are going to push back past survival and we're going to get into the thriving piece because our community deserves it our families our students our teachers and of course uh you know all of all of us and the work that we're doing together uh this uh the obstacle is the way so thank you for thank you for your time all right word president um that concludes our presentation i can keep this up just in case you have questions and you may want to see the money slides again but otherwise i will it hit escape so i can see all of you but i'll put this up for a moment in case you have some questions over to you thank you dr fred thank you uh jennifer thank you carlos it's just an amazing presentation uh so overwhelming the work that we do and we are heads and tails up above all of the other districts i i have to say um so i uh i'd like to open it up for the board for any questions um mr o'neill no questions just feel free to have the people in the district that we have doing what what they are doing to help with our student education thank you one and all thank you trustee jabar yep i have a few questions so just clarification and and wanting to make sure that you know uh folks who are watching also get this information and highlight it um i think i've had numerous conversations with a few of the cabinet including jiren and uh jennifer regarding internet access so i wanted to make sure that we are clarifying the fact that currently we're giving we have the ability to give uh a hot spot to a student who is in need because i believe our district right now we only get one per household but one of the things that i've been asked from the community is usually you know you have two or three students who are going to our district and for them internet connection in terms of the speed becomes an issue so my question i i want to clarify and i want to make sure that everybody gets the opportunity to answer is that if a student from the same family asks for another device we are able to provide that to the families yeah so you know i think eric greenwood is on the call eric because i know you've been handling these but yes um we're doing it based on need if there's a need then we're providing those hot spots in fact we've because the needs have been so great we've had to order an additional thousand and now an additional 1 500 hotspots to make sure our students staff have exactly what they need to be able to connect uh mr greenwood is there anyone to comment on i know you're on the call i just can't see it that is that is correct so we uh messaging out to parents um many times since uh since march and we have been giving devices to two families that are requesting them the hot spots can handle multiple devices and uh the demand has been uh sharply increased i would say um in late since late summer so uh as dr fred had shared we've had to order we had 700 that that were approved in the 1 million project and then a thousand and another 1500 are on order right now we actually are receiving we received 400 of the thousand this afternoon and and the rest of the thousand early next week and we'll be distributing them okay but i want to clarify though if a family has three kids or two kids who are going to a uhsd and somebody requests for an extra hot spot because of internet connection issues we will provide them i want to make sure because i know jiren's answer and eric's answer kind of he said yes but then i didn't get a clear answer so that's a yes or no well it i think it it depends if if there is a need we will give the additional hotspot if if it is a matter of there are three students that need to connect to the internet the hot a single hotspot can connect up to i believe it's either five or eight devices so if there is a need where more than one hotspot is needed we would give more than one hotspot um okay all right um thank you in a the the second question that i had was regarding our social workers so the social workers that we are hiring i i miss the number how many social workers did we hire again we're looking to hire 12 social workers and 12 counselors on a temporary contract through december okay and and these folks would basically do the temporary work and i'm trying to figure out okay so our current social workers will kind of continue to develop relationships and i got that part what exactly would our temporary social workers and counselors do so it depends on the nature of what it is they're asked but for the most part they are going to backfill on some of the day-to-day duties that the social workers or the counselors would normally be doing um our obviously our permanent employees are the ones who have relationships and those are the ones we want our cur permanent employees really doing the treatment long term because they're the ones who are going to be here after december now obviously the temporary social workers can assist with with crisis and some of the other things they're also going to be used to help build the system as you know we're working with the mental health task force to build a comprehensive mental health system and some of that work has obviously been delayed because we are so busy responding proactively to so many students and families with their needs this will also help us to continue building that system to mitigate learning loss not just for what's already happened but even future plans same with our counselors i know adela is on the call too adele is anything you want to add to that piece yes i'm sorry i'm trying to fix my my camera without having problems with that with our mic in camera can you guys hear me yes we can hear you thank you yes so a lot of uh a lot of them you know jaren is right with everything that he said an additional task that the these 12 social workers are going to have is really assist in making sure that our families are connected so you have students with severe mental illness um they have severe issues going on so it's critical that we connect them to the right resources but part of that is really hand holding on a lot of these families so that oftentimes takes a lot of work from our social workers which prevents them from doing all the other stuff that jared mentioned right so and we're expecting more kids so one of the things that we want to leverage them is into helping us with those families and navigating all the systems that they have to interact with like hospitalization as they exit making sure that they're linked adequately receiving mental health services in the community so the case management is a targeted case management very intensive case management that we need that level of professional to be able to help us with okay thank you and then uh the next question that i had jaren was regarding our um you said that we were going to hire or we were actually going to hire pay teachers for saturday academy then i also saw the component of assisting our english learners with tutoring how is that going to look like so um essentially the saturday academy obviously teachers get paid to be on a saturday and by expanding we're going to be offering it on more saturdays um or allowing more teachers to participate to help uh mitigate the loss for for our students um so so that expansion could be more teachers to be on the saturday or even more saturdays that we can offer for our students so we can continue to connect with them and provide those services in terms of um the other question you asked was about um which one was it tutoring oh tutoring yes thank you so dr bryant and mr colon had a good meeting the other day with um a number of folks beginning to put the plans in place where we can hire teachers who will serve as i for lack of a better word it's like case carriers or case managers very similar to the to a special ed teacher who serves as a case manager for their caseload or their students um we're hiring people who can serve uh oversight over english owners on their respective sites to do additional work um with them outside of the school day making sure they're they're getting what they need making sure they're connecting they're not having connectivity issues really being that liaison that support to help them along the way they can also provide them with additional academic support they can help connect them with some of their teachers so really doing some intentional and strategic work with our students and their needs and again because of the learning loss budget right we're thinking strategically around the kids who typically will have the most difficult time with the online learning which is our guild horse our english learners our foster youth because students um so these are these are these are teachers or these are students these are teachers so it's paying them to go above and beyond so they have their work day where they're working but then above and beyond they can be holding additional meetings with teach with students following up with their these kids and their and other teachers so um because as you know the teacher work day ends you know between 2 45 3 o'clock typically so when they're working these additional hours making these connections intentionally we want to be able to pay them for that because as you know this the transition to virtual learning by itself is difficult right teachers are going to do far more planning in that transition because it's not um business as usual it's going to be very different so this at least compensates them for that additional time they're putting in with the students after their typical school day okay and then um i i i know i don't have another uh location in the agenda to ask this question but jennifer i know you and i spoke about food distribution and uh food distribution in our neighborhoods um hopefully i know i'll get back to you on the different neighborhoods that we're looking at but hopefully as a district we're looking into and partnering or working with ymca to figure out how we can actually take our food distribution to our neighborhoods so um as i shared um we trip we have the ac the capabilities of doing this by ourselves we really don't need the support of any outside services we have our food services department that has our meals we have our transportation department so we have buses um right now we have repurposed our bus drivers to be doing custodial cleaning and disinfecting but we can always pull them back so um based on your request orlando met with his team this week and he's looked at right now at several sites that we are going to try to start making work um before based on some of the addresses or areas you gave me were balsam and briarwood rosemont and belmont kenwood near a mobile home park and possibly east folsom avenue which are apartments one thing they're looking at right now is to make sure that there are enough students that would come from those neighborhoods to be able to get food at the buses and so right now right here's a new development too and that's why i brought ymc into the picture i heard that ymca is actually going to continue their program so i don't want to double up and you know waste food so maybe we'll touch base with them to figure out if they're going to continue their program that they're doing currently and if they are doing it then there's no need for us to do it so ymca cannot do the national school lunch program during the year they're getting a donation they're getting donations and they're continuing to do it okay so i know they're doing dinners and snacks so we would want to reach out them to find out because we want to be able to run our food service program because and ensure that we're paying our employees um for the district as well yeah and uh i'm going to make a couple of things and then i'll cut short my um questions is that one i think we discussed this before i've spoken to eric greenwood and i've spoken to mike matsuda you know i know mike wrote this article about you know it's also the way forward and we got to be courageous in spending our money and jennifer i know you're probably going to look at me i we got to make sure that you know internet access has been an issue for our students uh district-wide so i want to make sure that we as a district are looking at this vision of providing internet access to all our students regardless and i know we have a eric and i have a meeting on tuesday hopefully we'll get some more information and we'll look at it but uh hopefully as a board we will support that and move forward in terms of providing internet access to all our students um wherever they're living within our district i also want to take this opportunity to thank eric greenwood i know that he has done a fantastic job of not only pulling this entire uh you know school opening by himself at least yesterday it's a great article on orange county register i'm sure everybody read it but you know we we had the opportunity to pivot and we pivoted pretty fast only because we have a great team so thank you eric for your work i also want to take this opportunity to thank our teachers um i know they've been thanked a lot everywhere but i want to take this opportunity to thank them again because i know that they're going through a lot in terms of i think they're putting much more work uh teaching virtually and i could attest to this because i have two kids and i see the work that their our teachers are doing at home i also want to take the opportunity to thank our staff afscme members csca members our counselors and our mid managers because i think we talk about teachers but sometimes uh we don't appreciate the work that our staff does to keep our schools running so i want to make sure that they are think and i know we thank them but we got to thank them again right um and and i also wanted to um thank uh uh carlos i know you've been working and your team who's been working very closely with latino health access so thank you for all the work that you're doing i know we were in a meeting today in the morning too um you know great work uh so thank you again for all the work you guys are doing appreciate it hey thank you mr jabbar miss piercy i gotta try to remember my comments now um let's see first of all jennifer thank you because you've explained where the money's come from now so i have a more complete understanding of what the esser is and and i mean the majority of the money though is the one that has to be paid you know spent by the end of the year um so that poses a problem there i know um my other comment was let me see i'd like to say that i think our ed division considers it as not a challenge but an opportunity oh yeah right we will find ways for it but it is an opportunity to stretch us to better serve our community right well yeah um it's interesting and oh i know what else i wanted to say come on l cap another elf cap we gotta change that come on i mean it's gotta be come up with a pre a pre name like you know community hell cap or something like that i don't know but i go oh you gotta be kidding me i'm saying okay um really good presentation thank you um i know uh there's a lot of things that uh we're going to be discovering and i'm but this connectivity issue is really a tough one um and it makes me wonder why our cities haven't gone further with some of their ideas anaheim was supposed to connect the entire city but that kind of never happened um it sure would be nice if we could find a way to cooperate with our cities and get more wide spread internet connection because i know it's a difficulty and like you know we know that we have families that have two or three kids my daughter has four in her home so you know that's for going to school at the same time that's a tough one so um it'll be interesting to see what what we can do in the future here and what will you know what will occur but thank you for that presentation thank you mr piercy miss smith do you have any questions or comments i just would like to say that i too appreciated this i think that anyone that is listening in on this board meeting will get a greater grip on the breadth of what we are contending with in societally and in our community and in our school district so thank you one and all thank you ms smith uh i just have a couple of questions uh and also a comment um i know you're doing fantastic work uh john bautista getting the flyers out and everything but um i think we also have to make sure we're we're doing those phone calls and even making sure that we're you know making um not not just the all calls but even individual uh phone calls and i think you can use utilize your um your instructional assistants for that to make those you know i know our faces are doing a fantastic job and kudos to the faces out there i know they some were even working during the summer on their own uh without getting paid so uh somebody owes them starbucks cards out there um but but you know that's how dedicated our our employees are um so i wanted to make sure that you know we're we're really reaching out and that goes in that goes also into with the social workers and and i think that that will pick up uh some of those needs um in connectivity um i was going to ask you eric um are we i know you have so much on your plate um i'm wondering maybe you can get someone else to do this but find out and collaborate with our feeders and finding out like um do we know like where the like the the sweet spots are for the connectivity and then where the the the you know the challenging spots are um because it just seems like um it seems like i hear like from a certain area where it's just really difficult to connect um so i'm wondering if if we can do that jennifer um just gonna ask the question i already know the answer but we cannot we can't pay salaries out of this money right you cannot pay ongoing salaries you can pay salaries for the timeline that the the money is in place so one of the things we're looking at is where we're repurposing people the definition is significant substantially repurposing them to serve for coronavirus relief support then we are able to put this in those funds so for example i mentioned our bus drivers are now doing disinfecting and cleaning that's part of the coronavirus relief we assume we're still checking with everything that we could shift them over there um some of our food service workers um that we we've been losing money in our food service department we can put that money there so strategically we can put some salaries there but nothing ongoing um nothing that could extend out past the dates because the dates are so finite so we can't give raises with this money unfortunately no okay uh and just to point out that this money does not make our district whole by any stretch of the imagination uh it doesn't um [Music] i love your idea uh is this your idea carlos that moving forward um from uh surviving to thriving is that your is that yours um i don't remember i mean there's so many different collaborations that i mean you talk about that you know the the zip codes the folks in the zip codes you know can't be defined by their zip code so they it's not just about surviving it's about thriving i mean we i think in different conversations our district leaders have talked about that as well yeah well thank you for all your work and i know our promethoras are uh happy to do that anytime we can involve our parents uh uh they really want to be part of the solution uh as uh trustee jabbar said a lot of our um our support staff they really wanted to be part of the solutions a lot of the times we're taught we talk about the teachers a lot but our support staff are out there and i got a lot of calls about wanting to come back and you know the guys wanted to come back and clean the classrooms they wanted to mow the lawns and do do that work you know come and work on all the buses and things like that and they're just we have such a wonderful supportive kind giving um staff and employees we're just so fortunate so thank you on that um i know there was one more thing oh the the process um i'm very confident i just want to put it out there that we're going to get through this process with the the mini lcap or whatever we're calling it uh very well because of um i saw how we all connected with the um with the task force and then um gathered all together and then everyone went into their perspective uh spots so it just really truly reminded me um of how we literally do it physically do the the lcap process so i have every confidence um we're gonna get this work done and i love the fact that you are already combining all the data that we already have so um bravo to that fantastic thank you so much for this presentation okay moving on to uh items of business okay we are on 10.1 public hearing of temporary interfund transform it's an information item anyone wishing to speak there are no comments for the public hearing okay and a public hearing and moving on 10.2 resolution number 2020 slash 21-8 sorry dash b-01 temporary interfund transfer action item removed second so randall trejo i just wanted to say for a moment so some of you may remember we brought something very similar to you like this back in march or april um typically this is a standard item we bring we are allowed to pass a resolution that allows us to transfer between funds up to 75 of money in any fund so for example if we needed money in our general fund because of a cash shortage we could transfer money from our food services fund and then we can pay it back at a later date however because like you said just a few moments ago that we weren't made whole as a school district one of the things that we're anticipating beginning in february without um any federal relief is a large amount of deferrals as i shared during the budget presentation granheim union i believe the last estimates were we would have approximately 58 million dollars in deferrals between february and june receiving them between july and november that money and so it's anticipated that school districts will need to take out loans that they will have cash shortages so this was a new part of the state adopted budget that we are actually able to increase that amount that we can transfer to 85 and so we wanted to put that on here so we had as much flexibility as possible but again this is in response to an expectation that many districts if not most districts will be experiencing cash flow problems at the end of this school year thank you any questions uh ford okay moving for uh the vote mr o'neal hi mr jabbar aye ms piercy i miss smith aye and i vote i thank you jennifer item 10.3 resolution number 2020 21-hr01 classified reduction in force action item so moved second you know this is a tough one we don't like this one you notice how slow we are to have to i am uh i just want to say uh on this um i i am glad that we um we have collaborative uh even though it's hard and difficult i think we have collaborative um you know partners working partnership and i think that i um you know uh that is positive um even though this is a negative i don't know what i'm how i'm trying to say this because it's just it's awful uh so any uh questions or comments board no comment except for this is not a pleasant thing to have to do but we are in a bind we have certain things we you know things are different right now so we have to try to stay afloat the best way we can so thankfully it's not a tremendous number but it's still a few yeah yeah thank you miss percy okay uh calling for the vote uh mr o'neal i with regret mr jabar i would regret it i with regret so for sure yeah this myth sadly i and i as well uh vote i with regret um yeah that's a tough one thank you board uh business services 10.4 agreement waste not oc fiscally sponsored project of one oc action item seconded uh are we gonna get a little uh little mini report on this market free oh this was under business okay sorry okay um so waste not oc reached out to us um about three weeks ago and they have a phenomenal opportunity for us and this opportunity is to have the first in the world not even just the first in the state or the nation but the first in the world um solar powered refrigeration center waste not oc has been a partner with our food services department and works with orlando griego and we have always when we've had excess food provided to them and their goal is to take food that would have been wasted repackage it and provide it to families in need what they're finding is they are actually having too much food through different organizations not ours we're very strategic to have very low waste in our school district but through restaurants and other organizations they have more food than they can give out on a daily basis so they're looking at freezing it for two purposes one so that it doesn't go to waste and two so that if we had an emergency an earthquake um something tragic maybe a pandemic um that we would have food available and so they'll be able to store in this facility up to 2 000 individual and family dinners as they will within the storage facility they have eight months they can be in there and then at the end of eight months when things are rotated out they will be provided to our community services um group which um carlos hernandez heads up along with arisely chavez and aristele huerta and tanya garcia and we'll be able to give those meals out to our families to support them and then a really nice touch to this as well is that it is going to be decorated with from the community so also be i know much our board loves our arts and so we'll also have an art component with representing the community arts as well thank you so much i wanted to kind of give kudos to our my boss's office i should say uh waste.noc actually reached out to me a few few weeks ago actually because they were planning on relocating this in another part of our district when i say our district in full supervisorial district but unfortunately they were taking a little bit of time and they wanted to move it all the way to south county uh and i looked at it and i said nope this is a great opportunity that i union high school district called up mike matsuda of course the the action man he is he jumped on it and directed jennifer to have a conversation with waste not oc gladly we had a partnership with them so it worked out so i'm very very glad that it's going to anaheim high school and it's going to be a fantastic program and a project that our district will uh definitely benefit thank you thank you trustee jabar and uh thank your office um and the it's just a an amazing feat you know how many years i've been complaining about wasting food it's just uh it just hurts my heart and so i think this is a fantastic uh first step and i can just see these all over all over the city and all over the county and as you said jennifer this is the first in the world i love it i love it any other comments i have a question i would like to know how they determined that eight months would be the amount of time before they distribute it how come it's not seven or nine or four months you know i should have thought someone might have asked that but i will look into that and get that back to you mrs smith thank you okay so this is an action item and i will call for the vote mr o'neal hi mr jabbar aye ms piercy i miss smith gratefully i and i vote i as well thank you moving on agreement suarez suarez sorry suarez and henderson llp action item roll call vote moved second okay move to seconded any questions or comments okay hearing none calling for the vote mr o'neal aye mr dubar aye ms piercy aye ms smith aye and i vote i 10.6 new board policy eight four zero i'm sorry my eyes are getting tired eight zero one parenthesis five one four one point five mental health of students first reading any questions or comments on this information item adele's at the ready all righty okay moving on 10.7 revised board policy eight five four zero parenthesis six one seven three education for homeless children first reading questions or comments okay moving on information item 10.8 new board policy eight five four five parenthesis six one seven three point one education for foster youth first reading questions or comments okay moving on 10.9 agreement c-o-p-e cope health scholars action item okay thank you any questions or comments i have a comment um this is another opportunity for our students um that is really it's really good i mean of course it is a furthery a furthering of education in a specific field but this is going to be offered year-round enrollment to our graduating seniors so in other words it's uh it's like a tray trade type education where they don't have to necessarily go to a junior college or a four-year college they have a an opportunity to engage in a learning program that will head them into work even much faster so i'm really glad to see this it's almost like a uh what do they used to call it when you were uh i can't think of the word training on the job like our aim only even more inclusive so i'm glad to see this a paid internship right yes yeah well no i mean they're they're paying to do to learn but they will be you know educated more it's it's a it's another form of schooling it's a trade school like the fantastic okay uh calling for the question mr o'neal hi mr jabbar aye ms piercy hi miss smith hi and i vote i okay moving on 10.10 was pulled 10.11 agreement uh the dbq project action item second okay move to second second questions or comments okay hearing none calling for the vote mr o'neal hi mr jabbar hi miss piercy i'm miss smith i and i vote i 10.12 school sponsored student organization action all right uh 10.12 school-sponsored student organization and i'm going to make a motion on this one you know what about 10.11.
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there's still a lot of cases here in east side and sadly yeah a lot of our own uh community members aren't taking this serious they're still going around having parties without masks I've seen it all and you know it's disappointing because we that are taking care of ourselves we're going to open these sites and we don't know how safe it is still so I just want to make sure that there's a safety protocol and that these staff members are also uh protected and that there is mass and then there's sanitizing and all that stuff is available before you even think about opening sites with our students and I want transparency in how you're going to choose these students to be on site because as we've seen um I don't know how many parents are going to want their kids to get assistance you know all that just consider it and you know again I just want to say thank you to everybody and um I'm kind of disappointed that you went ahead and you know counted our minutes and saw how many minutes like honestly you want to encourage parents to come here and speak and I'm sorry that not everybody wants to do it and it's maybe the same people and that's okay you should be okay with that you shouldn't be upset that it's the same people or County or minutes that's just really disgusting to hear that you as a poor president are attacking based on minutes on last meeting by the way that was a meeting full of items Mr Gill next speaker who is that yeah if we can um make sure that we have people's microphones muted I there's profanity that I think I heard and we don't it's not appropriate for this meeting so um Mr Gill who is the next speaker is I'm sorry I can't understand that oh e-a-r-l oh Earl okay Earl when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin yes yeah I mean this is the item for the aces program which you know as as somebody in the psychology feel like 100 agree and I hope everyone else in the court supports us as well um you know like when I think of this program I think of you know the way that we rolled out virtual learning um and you know how kind of last minute it was and you know it's still a little bit unclear in terms of like how it's going to be um you know how it benefits everybody who has access to this resource um so I hope that when we're looking into um you know how who is it going to serve and you know like just all the little finer details I do hope that we take the community's voice into consideration um you know I just I just think that there's more more of an opportunity for people to more involved especially in this new program this really exciting program that you know is is definitely um it has it has benefits for all of our children um so you know I really hope that you guys take into consideration the community's input um because you know like I said if if we're proceeding the same way that you know rolling out distance learning was then it's it's I feel personally it's not going to have a good outcome and I feel like we have a really great opportunity to shine in this area for mental health services um in the Alum Rock School District um and that's my comment for this item thank you Mr Gill next person yeah there are no more public comments okay are there questions or comments from the board I believe trustee Chavez said initially that you had a question yes and then trustee Marquez I see you after that I actually had a couple of the same questions that they covered uh Mr Earl and Miss Brenda said that uh I guess what I'm asking is how's this going to be without other teachers here teaching uh how to do their homework or please tell me how uh the staff is qualified to do this because it says assistance on site or or virtual so are these teachers here or are they just what are they are they credentialed Dr Bauer is I can you or someone from staff uh answer that question I answered but I was waiting for addressing marquez's questions so that I can take care of everything go ahead and do her yeah because I might have another question no these are the same after school providers that have been in the district for a number of years and this is just that renewal contract just to remind everybody this is not a new program I think I heard the perception is that this is new they're not new these are after school providers that usually provide tutoring for students uh and because this is an after school program the money the people the kids that participate in this program if there's a criteria that the schools have to follow so that answers that question from the public asking to get to but that doesn't answer my question I am I'm trying to answer the question about these are programs these are vendors for after school Services they're not teachers these are people who provide tutoring after school and because we're moving into virtual learning at least for the first semester of school we have to be able to provide virtual tutoring if needed this is after school children are going to be taking classes with our teachers this is after school providers and this applies for all the rest of the contracts regarding Aces um the question that I asked one teachers you answered that but what makes these people qualified to do that work was not answered can you please answer that sure so the Asus providers go through a very rigorous selection at the state level so nobody you we have a list of people that have already been vetted by the California Department of Education and they go through that vetting process um those vendors those organizations like think together City year the city of San Jose red Parks and Rec all of them are part of that list that that's the list that we can use can I ask another question also because these are people who are dealing with the kids so what I'd like to know is are they all fingerprinted because you know like with other things other hires that come we see their qualifications and everything so to for me to hear we've done it year after year this is not the first contract that's not answering my concerns and concerns that some of the community has asked me that's why I'm asking these questions and sometimes when I don't get my question answered I feel that I need to ask again but it's because it wasn't answered the way I asked it do are they credential they are all they all follow the same protocols thank you yes they are fingerprinted okay trustee Marquez you had questions yeah um so I I I want to thank Dr Bauer for um explaining this to me earlier on the one-on-one you did a great job but um as I have been thinking it through and listening you right now said that these are the staff from um a partners that we have had for years and years and years but now these are the ones that have done uh all of the after-school tutoring and you know following what what we needed them to do for the the after school this will not be done after school um this is going to be done during school hours and I think you said that you know for some of them it's going to be like from 9 to 12.
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we just did 10.11. the uh the other was pulled okay got it okay so we're on 1012 school sponsored student organization i made the emotion can i get a second second okay this is an action item i just want to say that this is just absolutely beautiful to see this all of these um organizations uh students uh stan stepping up and all of the teachers stepping up to um create these these beautiful organizations and uh can't wait to see what they what comes of all of this all right can i make a comment because to me to look at these seven clubs that are you know wanting to be around look at the work that went into this to get this accomplished when we're not even on campus and i mean and i and especially like the black student union i mean shauna and carlos had to do some calling to connect with teachers to see if they would or connect with students there was some work put into that and i just i want to acknowledge the fact that i mean i think this is great because that's a harder thing to do virtually than it is to do when everybody's there on campus and it's you know you shout out and you have people just running together and there you go but this was this isn't a real accomplishment very true very true all righty um moving uh for the vote to mr o'neill hi mr jabbar aye ms piercy i miss smith hi and i vote i moving on to item 11 consent calendar is there any item wishing to be anyone wishing to pull an item 11.10 b b okay eleven point plan b be anyone else 11.19 okay anyone else the balance okay move for the balance a second second i just i want 11 17.
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