I had to go and poke through every department to see where this thing was. And the response that I got from everybody, DOE, from the AG's office, even from the land owner, everybody was just, "Oh, I'm waiting for them to get back. Oh, I'm waiting for them to get back. Nobody's talking to each other." So this is why I'm saying this reporting is so is so critical and I don't know how bad it is until I get something and then I realize it's there's more out there. So that's why I'm saying the basic reporting is important that we we don't have to go through all of this. Do you know? So thank you. Thank you chair. >> Thank you. Any other questions? >> No. Thank you. >> Okay. Moving on. Senate Bill 895. Establish new requirements for teacher-led kindergarten assessments in public and charter schools.
>> Okay. You are already shared with >> All right. and we'll see. We'll see for our next meeting like what that looks like and make adjustments. How's that sound? >> Great. >> Okay, >> sounds good. >> All right. Um the next item on our agenda is to discuss the creation of the comprehensive plan implementation committee. Um Yolanda had written up a proposal. >> Did that get out to everybody? >> It's in the folder. Y >> it's supposed to be in the folder. It was in it was in the um what I had what I had printed out. >> Okay. I didn't see it in the back up on the meeting the one that I printed up. Anyway, >> um so basically I created a document based on the information from the comprehensive plan, the full comprehensive plan and then based on discussion that we had had at the last comprehensive plan meetings as to what the um the implementation committee and advisory committee, whatever you want to call it, is uh going to be made of.
We looked at all of our survey feedback data from staff, from students, from parents. Uh, and we really created our plan around that and aligning with the CSD guidelines, reestablishing and clearly communicating staff expectations annually and increase whole staff community building opportunities. That was the big the staff wants more community building opportunities. And so we're we have our two climate coordinators working hard. they're doing the volleyball or nukem and so they organize some some celebrations outside of school. Uh and we I mean I'd love to see those numbers increase of the number but I get people are busy. They and I get it. We have our families and we have our lives. So we try to do those things you know at reasonable times. I know uh tomorrow is a staff volleyball game. So I'll be sure to lace up the sneaks and dominate that uh front row for consistent and effective student behavior supports.
So to answer your question, the subscription that we have, we do one, three, five, and 10year licensing. And that's paid upfront to essentially recession proof and help budgets for schools just like yourself for one-time grants or build it into their capital budget or operational, excuse me. Does that answer your question on the >> for the most part? Yeah. So, if the cameras if if we if the agreement were severed at any point for some reason, the cameras would would brick. >> Uh, no, not necessarily. They would be just uh the ability to send the stream out, but you would need another VMS to a video management to ingest that feed. So previously you had three different manufacturers utilizing a camera system trying to talk to each other. Vicata essentially replaced all three of them to be one. So we're a hardware manufacturer but we're in Sonteo.
Authorizes the Department of Education to adopt rules. Repeals certain requirements of the de department of education and state public charter school commission to share data with the department of human services. Uh first stop again is Keith Hayashi for the DOE. Heidi, >> good afternoon. Chair Kim, Vice Chair Kedani, and members of the committee. Heidi Armstrong, Department of Education. We stand on our written testimony offering comments. The department does find that the current standardized kindergarten entry assessment is effective for identifying student needs across all school types. We note that shifting back to the teacher-led observational assessments would replace the consistent statewide data with varying individual evaluations potentially complicating future efforts to measure the impact of the preschool investments. Thank you for the opportunity to testify. >> Thank you. Hawaii State Board of Education. Yoi Roy, >> the board of education um offers comments. The board defers to the department of education and executive office of early learning regarding the current implementation and goals of the kindergarten entry assessment.
It's basically one select board member, one planning board member. It was recommended to have two to four members of the com the comprehensive plan committee and then um three to four at large public. So it's at the the group would be 7 to nine and then ideally a staff liaison. Maybe the staff leazison does not have to attend every meeting but if there's things where we we need to coordinate with staff it would be you know they would be part of that. So whether it's you know someone assigned and then they would have the conversation. Uh I think it's important that we get this going. We have the plan it got approved in November. Uh we're already doing a lot of things in the plan but I still think it's important to get this committee moving forward. figure out who's going to be on it, set their first meeting, and then just like we did with the comprehensive plan, we said it's this the meeting is going to be this night every month.
retaching pause expectations throughout the years like we do uh not only at our pause assemblies but admin goes I address the whole cafeteria at lunchtime with expectations uh and then June and Danielle work on smaller groups and do by community not much like the discipline assemblies that dean does at the middle school strengthening the consistency of behavioral expectations and responses this is a big one because you know and and a big frustration is why can't you act when I walk into a cafeteria or with a classroom teacher, it's like, "Oh, we better behave." But we need the same behavior for our lunch monitors as well. So, it's really getting that consistency with the expectations and the responses, getting it to the point where, you know, your par educators and your secretaries and your custodians and your administrators and your teachers all have these conversations with behaviors and have our expectations with the students and our responses are all consistent.
We're a Silicon Valley. We're a software company at heart. >> So uh when AWS goes down um does our service go down security cameras? >> No. And I'm happy to address that with >> that's important. >> Absolutely. >> Great question. So if something went down, the cameras would still be accessible. Each camera holds uh memory locally on the camera. So all the footage is retained locally 24/7. So if the internet went down, AWS went down for some instance locally, you would still be able to get to the cameras locally. You just wouldn't be able to remote access from anywhere in the world, but the camera footage is accessible locally from a computer or a mobile uh mobile software. >> The camera holds 30 days, right? 30 days at 24. >> Thank you. That's good to know. >> Yeah, >> I hear you. Okay. Um, the end user license agreement that we were provided with uh states that we grant Ricotta non-exclusive right license to use, reproduce, modify, store, and process the data solely to maintain the products and to provide them to the customer.
Uh the board also notes that um if the committee is open to it, it may be more appropriate to authorize the DOE to promugate admin rules related to kindergarten assessments as the department would continue to be responsible for implementation. But that's that's up to you. >> Okay, appreciate that. Thank you. Yuko or call. >> Hi, Chair Kim, Vice Chair Kedani, member of the committee. I'm Yuko Adiko, director of the Executive Office on Early Learning. We offer comments on SB895 SD1 and we defer to the Hawaii Department of Education regarding implementation and funding. EO respectfully requests that kindergarten assessments remain uniform statewide and that EO retain access to the data needed to inform efforts to strengthen kindergarten readiness across Hawaii's mixed delivery early learning system. The current KA provides an opportunity to assess the impacts of recent statewide investments including the expansion of the public prek programs and the preschool open door subsidy.
And I think, you know, I I read would recommend that it's a monthly meeting, the first six months, see where things go from there. Um but again it's the committee that would decide how often they need to meet to start and then the reporting tool and working with again a staff liaison to to move that forward and to manage that. >> Okay. Does anyone Michael do you have >> Yeah. I think just I was kind of looking through my notes. So like um what I presented at the last comp plan meeting >> so we could have somebody like attend quarterly >> y >> and and check in. I think what would be really really helpful is if the um implementation committee like prioritized >> um like the projects there that would be really helpful in terms of >> I think so too. uh just kind of like you know what's what what should we focus on and and what should the staff I think like be looking at at trying to get done >> and and coordinate with stuff that's already happening right some of the stuff at the senior center is are things that we heard about in the comprehensive plan they wanted improvements for certain things right the focus that we're putting on the upper Charles Trail are things that we heard about from the comprehensive plan so >> yeah I think I think um so the the the question for us as a committee is who from our group would like to sit on that and I'm very honestly if no one else wants to do it I'm willing to do it because I think um I think it's important we spent all this time and energy and money creating this plan and I don't want to see it sit on a shelf.
We have our PBIS rewards data not to be confused with PBIS. PBIS rewards is a software system uh to monitor trends and the equity for instructional clarity, engagement and inclusion. PD is going to be focused on differentiation, engagement and the progress monitoring such as we've already done this year. Increased use. This is this is a great feedback from students. They want to see more hands-on and project based learning. Uh so really creating those opportunities not only in specialist classes but also in your math and of course science is always hands-on uh and math and then just the alignment with restor restorative supportive instructional practices. Now when we talk about PBIS the positive behavioral interventions and supports uh and that's all-encompassing that's our ruler program that's our uh restorative practices at the tier and it's the tiered level just like MTSS at the tier one level is just having our mood meter in the classroom our classroom charters uh having our morning meetings in all 50 home rooms and then you know into the tier two would be more of your restorative conversations that you have with the kids uh and adults present facilitating or behavior plans or what have As far as prevention and early intervention, again, PBIS, including rule and restorative practices embedded schoolwide, and then explicit instruction in the expectations, self-regulation, conflict resolution.
Um, under those terms, could you guys could Vicata see our data if they decided it was necessary to? >> Absolutely not. So, the only way we would be able to access uh any type of footage, it had to be explicitly uh granted access to us, the support team. It is done through a series of controls within the platform. And we use something that's called a support token, which is an encrypted token that allows us uh to access the footage. And that is also set on a certain amount of time, maybe seven days, two weeks, but absolutely not. We would not be able to get to the data unless you guys give us explicit access to it. >> Okay, I think answered my next question. So, if somebody came up with a a warrant or a subpoena to look at some of our our data, could they go directly to you?
We have concerns that the proposed changes to the assessment would likely reduce the availability of consistent quantitative data needed to evaluate the the effects of these and future policy decisions. Thank you. Thank you. We have Edn for charter school commissions in support. PK Kalaka Bardi Teach for America >> in support not here. Uh, Annne Weber Yarborough, Teach for America in support. Grace Brown, also Teach for America in support. Millian Akaka Manfrey, Teach for America in support. Nak Nico Lani Warrington testifying for Kuna for Mouna in support. Cheryl Birkhart individual support. Johnny May Perry and Rain Koh Cahula Young also in support. Anyone else here on Zoom wishing to testify on this measure?
I want to make sure we coordinate it so that it works with the work that we're already doing to see if we get some stuff completed. Does anybody else have any thoughts? >> I mean, Yolanda, do are you are you and do you want to be the select board lesson on to this? >> Honestly, I go back and forth. >> I just wanted to get some clarity on Um, I I mean, like I said, I go back and forth, but I I am committed enough to this that I think it's something that I want to see move forward. And I think for myself and for my personal schedule, it's a it's a meeting schedule that I could handle. So, I think it's unless someone else really wants to do it. Um, if someone else says, you know what, I I didn't get to work on the plan, but I want to help move this forward.
My dream is to walk into a kindergarten classroom and have the kindergarten students say, "Dr. P, I'm a little in the red right now. I just give me a meta moment." And for the kindergarten and our kindergarten teachers are great because they are teaching those regulation strategies and and to express your emotions appropriately. We also have the tiered response for high-risisk behaviors. Uh we have the tiered supports. We have an MTSS behavior coordinator who's our one of our school psychologists. So, we have the the tier one classroom interventions for behavior and then the tier 2 pullouts and tier three more intense immediate safety response and parent notification documentation. If if there's a safety issue with when they call the office, boom, we have seven people at the ready on a walkie-talkie that will respond to any crisis at any time during the day, including our mental health staff, our admin, our unarmed security, and our SRO.
>> They could not. >> Okay, that's good to know. Thank you. Um and then my question actually for uh John and our admin team, who sets who sets the policy for um who on our team can access the cameras? >> So that would be done through senior cabinets. So Jen and I work with um our dirt team um John Shepard to determine who has access and that's going to really be the KUMA team, right? That's going to be our principles and vice principles and they only have access to cameras at their site, right? Not districtwide. >> So okay, so that So then really then directors at the district office would have district-wide access. It's very very limited. And I've been a proponent of that for many years when we have our our current system because video camera footage has the potential to be like the most sensitive data that we have if something happens.
Hearing none questions? Uh let's see who should I start with? So I guess DOE Heidi, >> what is the cost for the standardized assessment? It's $15 per student with a grand total of 157,000 um a year and that equates to $15 per kindergarten student >> across the state. Yes. $15. >> Okay. That includes our Hawaiian Hawaiian merchant students or something. >> No, no, that's the English medium for the for the CAO assessment this first year. It's $31 per student because we had to pay for the creation of the assessment. And in the future, we won't be paying additional um funding for that assessment. We'll own it. Okay. And then what did it cost us initially to get this um software or assessment or whatever? John Hopkins. Is that where we got it from? John Hopkins. >> Is that one the same 57? >> Um coming up to the podium is Dr.
I would I would step aside, but >> sounds so eager. >> Another question. >> I'm just saying. >> Thank you for for clarifying that. I think uh but >> if someone else is like, you know what, I I I really want to do this. >> No, that's fair. I get it. I get it. Um but I I I do have a question about the the um selection process for participation. I think it is a great idea to ask people who were previously involved to to see if they want. But I I'm also kind of thinking like how you did mention like calling out the general public. I'm I'm wondering how we could expand the universe of people who would would want to work on this thing, right? Um you know what I'm saying? Like how would we reach folks who may not have been part of the original process but are now informed of this and want to be a part of it because I feel like those folks would have a lot to say and would be able to contribute a lot too.
escalating supports including behavior intervention plans, mental health services or multi-disiplinary reviews as appropriate. And then for communication review and continuous improvement, we'll do the monthly data review by the school climate committee looking at the PBIS rewards data so we can actually look at the PBS rewards and the incidents. Where are they happening? Where are they happening most frequently? Is it during specialist classes? Is it in the bathroom? Is it in, you know, at lunch, during recess? We'll do the quarterly progress checks where we are literally going line by line on our school improvement uh school climate improvement plan making sure that what we're doing is working mid-year and end of the year climate survey reviews and then our plan will be revised as needed based on the data stakeholder feedback and our emerging needs and that's the snapshot of class. >> Thank you very much.
And so keeping that secured is is extremely important and I've been preaching that for a long long time. >> Okay. I may have more later but those are the key points and I want to give everybody else some time to talk to. Thank you very much. >> I have a question. I think it's um and this is something maybe the public's going to be bringing up too. I just want it kind of in layman's term because that's what I understand. Um the possibility of hacking is I think a significant concern. Can you address statistically or anything regarding um how easy it would be to hack because we we hear about the bank gets hacked and the insurance company gets hacked and so can you talk about that? >> I didn't take that. >> Sure. So here's where we can start a little bit. First and foremost with our cameras, uh, what happens is that footage that I talked about that's stored locally on the on the cameras, it uses what's called an encryption key.