So that's all I got. You guys have any questions for me? >> I don't have a question, but I want to give you guys kudos. Um I see you and Arian all the time at the basketball games and it's a to me it comes across it's a thankless job all the stuff that you're dealing with. You know, you've got all of our students you're trying to you know, excited, but within reason. I know how that is. You have another school who may or may not, you know, enjoy being in our building. You know, you've got middle schoolers running around. You've got parents, you know, whatever. I mean, just the other day we were there and I pointed out to AR, hey, one of the one of the urinal isn't flushing appropriately. And she immediately ran off to go take care of it. It just seemed like it's non-stop.
Had to double check. Sorry. So, that's the first one on there. Um the next one that's on there after that is almost kind of the same setup except it has the gray volleyball lines for a little bit of a difference. The third option that's on there is the one that has the black outline that has the O and the Oilers across it. And then the fourth one that's on there um has the same black as well, but it also has a has a little bit has just the O in the middle and doesn't have the OERS across it. So I put those on options on there for you guys to look at. Um the recommendation that we have to move this way from the coaches and administration is option two and some of the feedback that that we've received is option two with the gray lines.
Uh first I want to give a shout out to our culture teachers um and the intermediate campus um for supporting it at St. Lucy's blessing for the new historical site. Um also a shout out uh to all the principles in the curriculum um instruction for the data presentation during the month of January and it's spending the um the Sunday with us to celebrate the growth and also to let us know the next steps. Also, um I want to give a shout out which I will talk about it more during the February um highlights but right now I also want to acknowledge um Miss Cornell, Mr. Dan, Miss Medina, Miss Kinsy, Miss Valdez, Miss Beay, and Miss Onset for being a critical uh component of the uh interview during during the uh accredititation. But most importantly, I want to thank all members um of the district because of the work that they've been doing.
>> That's great. And what's one skill you've learned that will follow you to the future >> with sports medicine? Obviously, um the CPR certification, which would probably help me in dire emergencies that I have to help out at? >> Yeah, that's great. And in one sentence, can you tell us why people should join a CT class? >> Take CTE. It's very fun and it's really freeing as to what you want to do. >> All right, that's great. Okay. So then after that, I'm going to just talk a little bit and give you a few statistics and let you know what we're doing up there. So first of all, I feel like I work with the best admin team. Billy and Brian are phenomenal and you really need to see them on campus interacting with the kids. They're um it's a lot of fun. Um habitudes, you approve that at the beginning of the year and we have our monthly business partners that come in and um teach leadership courses to our students.
So, this is all about leveling up and empowering students to plan, act, and reflect in chemistry and beyond. So, as Steve just said, my name is Molly Greenberg. I'm the current team leader of our chemistry team. It's my seventh year teaching at Stevenson, and I'm a former Stevenson student. Go Pigs. >> Hi, I'm Chris Hickens. Um, this is my 26th year teaching here and um, fun fact, I am retiring this May. >> Wait. Yeah. >> No, I can't go. >> I'm so excited for you. >> So, I'm Alden Zik. I am also on the team here and I coach soccer. I've been here for 23 years. So, >> go ahead. just online. >> Um, I'm Maggie Armstrong. It's my second year at Stevenson. I also coach in the girls soccer program here. >> I'm Caitlyn Kramer. Uh, this is my second year at Stevenson and I'm also the sponsor of Charity Treats.
Um, and I think that's being shown across all of our classrooms. I've seen a huge um, gain in people, especially last year, kids were just not doing their homework. They weren't really studying. They were just kind of going through the motions of school. And over the past few months, I've seen that student ownership just go up so much. And I think students are actually doing their work. Students are actually getting everything turned in, and they're being proactive about what they're doing. if they're not going to be there, they're emailing their teacher and being proactive about the days that they're missing. Um, and that's really important to see and I think that's a goal that we've been focusing on as a as a board. Um, we had a student advisory meeting um a few or I think it was last week and one huge thing that came up was recognizing attendance.
We value the feedback we receive from our members of the public and encourage everyone to take an active interest in their public school system. Individuals interested in speaking to the board at this evening are asked to have completed a comment card and presented it to the secretary to the board. Any members of the public who have not yet turned in their public comment card to the secretary of the board are asked to do so at this time. When the secretary calls your name, I ask that you come to the microphone, state your name and uh for the public record and provide your feedback. Please note that comments are limited to five minutes per person and no responses to your questions are permitted. Uh, comments should address the board of education as a whole and not be directed to an individual board member, audience, or staff member.
>> Absolutely. Thank you. >> All right. Um, next item on our agenda before the West staff takes off, I just want to say real quick, um, thank you for hosting us this morning. Um, thank you for the staff and students that make this building a special place. As Mrs. Woodward already mentioned, we had been in here many times, but it was empty. In fact, boxes, dust, everything. We had to wear hard hats and boots and all the fun stuff during construction. Um, but being here this morning, seeing the students fill the hallway, it really reiterates every discussion, every vote, every policy that we look at, seeing the students just kind of echoes, you know, why are we here doing what's best for all students, and that includes the students here at West. So, thank you very much. Um, next we'll move on to item five, public comments to the board.
But I mean, that's up to everybody else. >> I would agree with that. I mean, it's it's pretty basic. I mean, sometimes we can make all the meetings, sometimes we can't. And at the end of the day, I mean, I think we should go with the first board. >> I think too when you look at like setting the board up, like we're not going to be on it forever. And I think that it's, you know, good that we kind of set something that's going to be um like routine. If we're saying we do the 10% of the lowest starting teacher salary, people coming in know can figure out what that is. And u I don't know. I just think I think that is seems to be the the smartest um just for future setting future board members up as well. And is this setting up to continue to follow that as they increase the the board or not?
Collective commitments and this is really geared towards staff beliefs, our values at Deli. Student centered excellence, people first, high expectations with support, safe, inclusive, and respectful schools, continuous improvement, partnership, and pride. So, the focus here is focusing on every student. You know, we value our people and remaining or excuse me, maintaining rigorous standards. you looking at data, receiving feedback, reflecting upon our practices, and of course, we want our students to feel safe, respected, and we want to partner and collaborate with our families and our community. Goals. We This is a nice summary of the goals that really um came out of these discussions. And this is a summary of five goals. But then from there, you'll see in the following slides, you'll see the goals are broken down with actual action. So what we're going to do to accomplish these goals. This plan is not meant to be achieved in a year.
Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I >> oppose the same. Okay, that will be tabled until the March. >> Um, Mrs. Cruz, I'm gonna turn it over to you. You have a presentation tonight. for consideration of the modeling youth apprentichip for education professions job description. You want to say anything about that miss? >> Yeah. So this is I had kind of briefly mentioned this. I'm going to do it briefly. I kind of briefly mentioned this the last time that we were here. There is um with the new diploma what one of the big changes with the new diploma track is getting students experiences in job like situations. Okay. So we often call it internships, job shadowing. Um there is the opportunity for a modern youth apprenticeship. Um we have worked with Katie Beck from SIEC to develop u essentially what we can call a a youth apprenticeship because the students will hopefully get over 650 hours in a primary school or intermediate school classroom.
>> Go ahead, Joey. >> Sorry. 882,1 Wait, let me say this again. Sorry. 882,12510. >> I want to get that on the record. That's That's a pretty good uh amount. So, make sure that it's on the verbal record for the folks listening at home. All right. We have a um do we have a motion and a second? >> We did at that point. Yeah. >> Roll call vote, please. >> Okay. I'll start with Vice President Mort. >> I. >> President Duckworth. >> Yes. >> Trusty Kefir. >> Hi. >> Secretary Dice. >> Hi. >> Trusty Hollingford. >> Hi. >> Raglin. >> Hi. >> And Trusty Gablin. >> Hi. That's a 70. Thank you. Finally, uh 6.06 06 consideration to approve the agreement's healthc care staffing. Michelle Williams. >> Good evening, President Duckworth, members of the board. Dr. Hooer, tonight I request your approval to move forward with a partnership with a marriage healthcare staffing to temporarily fill existing healthcare vacancies until permanent hires are made.
Does it disrupt their >> any change in routine and structure is difficult for any child, but it's, you know, specifically challenging for students that are in some of these classrooms because they struggle more so with that. Um, so for example, one of these students could not handle the fact that she couldn't have breakfast on two-hour delay day and it was the rest of the day was not good. My last one. I'm sorry. >> In my back. >> So traditional like >> it's not a traditional pathway obviously. I mean, so your role as a principal, how is it different? >> Like, >> well, >> how do you support? And >> that's a great question. And in full transparency here, my upbringing, if you will, as an educator involve special education. I do not have a special education background. I'm was trained elementary educator. So actually even going to Fairview as an assistant principal, I learned gobs about working with students in a practical skills and essential skills class because my prior experience at Franklin, even in Loganport, was just working with cross categorical students, a resource room type situation, if you will.
Over the course of this unit, our fourth graders were also challenged to generate their own invention ideas and create their own persuasive pitches to explain why their invention is important. I think the teachers would wholeheartedly agree that the heart of this unit was the team invention process. Students were put into invention teams where they were required to work together to identify a problem to solve as a group. They then assumed roles in designing, writing about, and presenting their ideas. All students were then expected to provide and accept feedback from their peers on improving their invention prototypes. The unit transformed the literacy block into a laboratory of ideas. By the end of the unit, our fourth graders hadn't just improved their reading skills and vocabulary. They had developed the critical thinking skills and resilience of true inventors. And to wrap up tonight's presentation, we have brought some of these students to share their thoughts on this amazing unit and maybe even show you their team's invention.
And so these are the these are the curriculum work across 21 pathways. And so most of our folks and our content experts are really locked up doing just that right now. Um along with um our our academy pathway leads and academy leads will be working with them this spring to to get that going. Uh there's also industry partnership collaboration. So where there's a need to um tap industry for some expertise. So there's a lot of that. So again, that that is still baked into what we're doing and um it's really really great work, but there's a lot of this type of work happening for next year and we have some of this baked into uh the Perkins grant and then also um a little bit in alliance and some other places. So we sort of tuck some curricular money in different places to to continue the work, title four, etc.
I just want to say thank you to you guys when you're dealing with that sort of stuff. >> I know you guys do it all day long, but doing it normal working hours is just a step above in my head. So, >> thank you. And we do have some rowdy kids in the front row that I have to >> Yeah, I understand. >> Yeah, I was going to say I sometimes hear about those conversations after >> that. Okay. Anybody have anything else for me? Thank you. >> Thank you, Lindsay. >> Um, just got a big thing coming up next week. Joe and I are going to the state leadership conference. It's the special ed association of administrators conference winter conference. I'm actually presenting at it this year, so it's pretty exciting for me. >> Um, yeah. So, been working on that presentation pretty hardcore, but um, so that's coming up actually the 24th, but that learn lots of stuff to bring back.
Um if this is the direction we want we want to go to get that scheduled in for that moratorium. We also just as is is something we we need on our radar too. We do need to redo. When I say redo, not all the way down to the wood, but we do need to work on the gym here as well. And when I say work on the gym, we need to have them come in and repurpose it like we did last year at the high school middle school two years ago. I think it will send it last year at Bushton as well. So, that'll be something that we'll try to work in there, too. And I'll get you guys quotes on what they're going to run for that we get there if this is the direction we want to go. But that's something that we need on our radar, especially the amount of amount of kids that that use the gym here in Hollywood.
Uh during the accredititation, we presented actual artifacts that they've been produced during the last three years. Um and it was not um a pretend show. It was the actual evidence that we presented. Um today we got informed by um Cogna they they want to come back and they want to do a study um a case study in Babok Unified School District um based on the documents review that they had. Um so they'll be back um they want to learn more how how did it how did it happen. So um I don't know how what that entails but they'll be coming back. So you'll hear from them soon. Um also uh from curriculum instruction I want to thank their support. They spent 25% during the month of January coaching 36% um providing site support 19% providing a professional development and 80 18% providing admin support. I want to take this time also to acknowledge um and and to the community that we have vacancies.
Um, it's been very successful. Our community members are building relationships with our students and enjoy seeing them every month. They bring them little the toys and snacks. I mean, they really enjoy the kids and the kids are really enjoying that time as well. Our discipline is down 33% from last year's first semester. So, we're really happy about that. And, um, also our attendance is up from last year. It's 94%. And so, it's up 2.4%. 4% from last year's first semester. So, we're really seeing an increase of kids wanting to be at school and enjoying it. Um, right now we're preparing for Aspire PreACT and ACT. Um, we're going to host a boot camp for about 50 students at the end of February. They'll start coming on Fridays and work on skills needed um to pass ACT. It's really a tough test. They have like a little over a minute for each question and so they really have to learn some test taking skills.
>> And I'm Ashley Rose. This is my 17th year teaching chemistry. Uh, my ninth year here and I teach chem and AP Chem. >> So, this is a brief overview of of what we're going to be talking about today and Chris will start us off. >> All right. Um well hello everybody. Um when our students walk into our chemistry craft classroom they quickly realize that it is pretty challenging and that's because um students have to think on three different levels. So we have the macroscopic, the submicroscopic and the symbolic. So here is an example from lab. Um, so we have a piece of copper wire that's reacting with silver nitrate. Um, so macroscopically students see that there's a blue solution and if you take a look there's a little silvery solid forming on the copper wire. Um, submicroscopically is when students have to zoom in on the particle level and they create models.