>> This Yeah. Anyway, something to talk about on Wednesday in the US. >> I just never noticed it before. Yeah. I believe there's also a moment of silence that's required. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> But at least in Texas, in Texas, they're making us adopt procedures for Christian prayer. >> Oh, yeah. >> And put the Ten Commandments on the wall. >> So, that that's been real fun to deal with legally. But anyway, so that that wraps it up. board president. Uh we went through the two main ones, chapter one and chapter 2. Uh super man said on chapter 4 that they have a committee that they're working on uh with respect to kind of the recommendations and whatnot, but I think you guys made a great progress with respect to your governance structure and uh the superintendent's duties and responsibilities and how how the board uh u wants him to operate the district.
>> Thank you so much, Mr. Cassillo, for that. And this is exciting. I know that our vice president, Miss Gibson McClean, has been dying for us to include our SOFG into our policy. So, I'm glad we're finally at this rate of including it in all the policies that we have to ensure that everybody knows the expectations of the district whether this board is here or not or whether we have this cabinet team or not. So, that was amazing. Thank you so much for all your help, Mr. Castillo. >> Not a problem. Thank you for having me. >> All right. And that brings us to What time is it? >> 10:56. Do you guys want to take a quick break or can we can we keep going? Keep going. Perfect. >> Um, so that brings us to our discussion of schoolboard school. All right. Um, Miss, um, Huarees sent you guys an email about an outline that we have of what the school board of school is.
Um the purpose of this is to build understanding of the responsibilities, mindset and commitments of effective governing board members focused on improving student outcomes. The school board of school will help us give out information not only to our community members and to our parents and on the work that we're doing but also upcoming new board members. And I would love to have Mr. Jones and Mrs. Marquez um perspective on this because this is something that I think the board initiated with them kind of try to give them the framework and where our goals were at. So any um experiences that you had, any things that you wish you would have known, this is where it lives because at the end of the day as we go on and we don't want to rerun. I think one of our biggest um the opportunities that we have is to ensure that we're keeping equipping new incoming board members or anybody that's interested in running in this district to let them know what the expectations, the vision and the goals are so they can continue the student outcomes momentum.
So this is a great place for us to tailor this to Kraton Community District and then eventually these are the ones that we're presenting at, you know, our PTOs and our town halls that we want to host or any new oncoming board members that will be um joining us. So are there have you guys had an opportunity to look at the document? >> Yeah, I know I got to go ahead Marcus. I got I got to look through it. Um I mean I think my situation was kind of unique because I was already like in communication with you. I had learned about SOFG. I did some training. Um but I could see how this is going to be helpful because say next round of elections we've got maybe two board members, let's just say who won't run for re-election, then we're due for two new.
Um it would be great to make sure that whoever that any that those candidates know what they're coming into um and and that they're ready. So I was able to to jump in and kind of hit the ground running um because I had all that knowledge prior. Um, but I could see something like this would be great for for even like even if someone is not a candidate and they're just considering it, you know, just to kind of help what's the word? Um, we'll just help help the district, I guess, essentially recruit better candidates. um that we'll be able to to to really understand what what they're stepping into to continue because that that's one thing with SOFG um that initially I a concern I had was like well how sustainable is this if our goals are five years but our terms are four and obviously with the work we did today excuse me enshrining this some of the SOFG work into our policy you know, it's going to ensure that we are able to kind of keep on that trajectory.
Um, but also if you've got people coming in who don't want to do it or are incompetent in in doing this, then you know it's it's going to be a hot mess. Um, so yeah, I think you know this is a good kind of draft outline. Uh, question, what's LSG? because it says right here for getting LSG aligned. >> Yeah. So LSG is the Lonear governance that Texas has taken over. So that's actually a statewide implementation and I think that's where because we got this from somebody in Texas. This is just a rough draft, >> but that's what LSG is. It's the governance structure that they have for the whole state of Texas in education. Um yeah, thank you for >> So that's the training that they give to their board members. So, it's a state mandate. >> State mandate to do this. >> And then, Mr.
Castillo, since you're in Texas, if you want to >> No, LSG, Nicole, is like the state's version of SLFG. It's just like enshrined in their >> They just call, >> right? No, I'm I'm familiar with it. I've heard of it. Um, >> it's just called Lonear Governance as opposed to student outcome focus governance. >> So, this is a a draft of what would what a 4-hour community candidate orientation would look like, but it's aligned to the LSG standards. >> I don't think so. I think that's what I'm saying. Is that a typo? >> I think it's a typo. I don't know who drafted this, but I think it's a typo. >> I just want to say it wasn't me. >> Um, so here are some of the areas where I think we can improve this, right? Giving this I think we need to add a section where it talks about adult behaviors.
You know, our model student outcomes don't change until adult behaviors change. and adding a section in this that really leaves a reflection portion of it because that's part of a lot of the work that we do is mindset, right? Um in portion three where we're talking about different case studies. I know that it says case studies from Arizona, but I think this is the opportunity for us to use an actual student outcome goal that the district will have at that time. a real progress monitoring report and a real guardrail because I think walking through what these different reports look like, what is an outcome goal, what's in a guardrail, that's a lot of different lingual. So including that in this framework would be really helpful not only to an upcoming board member or somebody who wants to be on the board but community in itself.
Um, and I think this is also going to be helpful just because in my own experience, you know, when I first ran, I had some individual agendas that I thought I wanted to come on the board and and support. And in reality, you know, the the number one goal that we should have is moving the needle for our students and making sure that they're they're exceptional selves. So, this also helps lay down the the framework of what that true governance role is versus bringing on our personal agendas to the board and causing disruptions that shouldn't be there. >> Um, is there a way for me to I made a copy of this so it's editable. Can I share my screen? >> Yeah. >> So, I can type what she's written. >> Absolutely. If you in the upper If you drag down in the upper right, there should be an icon with two squares.
>> Oh, just the screen mirroring. Okay. >> Should hopefully >> Oh, I'm not connected to the Wi-Fi here. >> Oh, you would need to be okay. >> It's okay. You can still >> I just need a password. I don't have a password. >> Can you share the password? I think I can. Or try to log it in. >> Hold on. Let me turn off my thing. If you choose LAN one, I believe >> CS1 >> and then >> No, I'm trying. >> She's helping me. There we go. >> Cool. Thank you. Says weak security, y'all. Just kidding. >> We have weak internet. >> I have a question while we're waiting. >> Yeah, of course. Where would this fit in on the timeline of like would it be the year preceding an election year? Would it be in the year of the election? where would we be would this be like a district uh recruitment for p prospective schoolboard candidates or would this just be we're going to do this once we know we have candidates that I know it's outside of the draft but I think that's kind of an important question >> you're absolutely right and I think this is an ongoing um uh town hall or whatever we want to call it that happens even if it's not an election year because this can inspire other individuals to maybe want to run.
So the main purpose of the school board of school is for community members to understand the role of a governing board and what is exactly happening within that district and that's to inform community members obviously right our parents caregivers but then when election years are happening if we do see other board members then I can I think we can strategize in election years what this looks like but in general it should be an ongoing living town hall or community event that we're having either on a quarterly basis or whatever we decide on that just because it's an ongoing information. We always have new parents, community members wanting to know what do you mean by student outcome goals and this is just lives within all the pre of what we are instead of them coming straight to a meeting and not knowing really what's happening. This is an ongoing livable thing.
But I think that's really going to be up to us on what that looks like. And a suggestion for that is us creating some ad hoc committees. Maybe you know we can have an ad hoc committee that's a two-way communication meeting and one of us is running that on what does that two-way communication look like in our district instead of you know having one person specifically doing that. We can have an ad hoc committee on specifically the school board of school on what are what are those timelines having somebody strategize that and putting in paper. This is just the very beginning phases of it. But I think all those questions are valid and that lives within us and how we want to control that. But for me, it makes more sense to have it as an ongoing thing because you always want to be informing your community and having that two-way communication and hopefully it will inspire individuals to actually want to be part of this amazing work that we're doing um for our students.
So, I'm hoping that kind of answers your question. >> Yeah. Um I didn't know what you meant right here. Sorry. A a real goal. >> Oh yeah. So um a real progress monitoring um report an actual goal like we have five goals. Maybe stick down to one of the actual goals that we have. Use that as an example. Include a monitoring report based off of that goal. Um and then provide an actual guard rail report that we have in the district. whatever is going to be the most recent of whatever time frame we're doing this. I would call it a town hall, school board of school town hall. >> Okay. >> Um I also added somewhere that we should add an adult behavior reflection component. >> Yeah, >> I also think we should add some re a research component. There's a lot of research out there that has been done for years or nationwide that validates why having a governing board that focuses on student outcomes and what the connection of having a focus board and how that translate to outcomes.
There's a specific study called the lighthouse study that's really important. So maybe adding some kind of research component into this so when we have individuals, you know, trying to do more reading, we we can add that in and it helps Um, what else? It just adds a little bit more credibility. >> Um, well, we started doing this, too. >> Yeah, >> it really helped. Uh, >> yeah. Do you have any experience since you've guys done it? That that would be great, too. >> Yeah, we we did it in my district. I know a couple of other districts starting to do it as well. just setting the expectation of what a board member is because a lot of people run they don't know what a board member does. Uh and to be honest with you and and I think SinTo this is Sinto's quote. How do board members learn to be board members?
From the behavior of previous board members, right? >> And so uh if you guys are setting the tone with the school board school, it really helps. We had one new trustee coming in in my district uh and we had the school board school set up for all candidates and he came in and hit the ground running. He knew what it was about. out. He knew what his role was. We didn't have to teach him anything. I mean, he still had to go through all the training and stuff, but he at least had a general idea. So, I think it's a really good idea. >> Yeah. Thank you. And I also want to emphasize the importance of having an attorney who's actually a governing board member in a different state is a mix. So, I just want to point that out that not only are we getting legal aspect, but we're having it from the brain of somebody who is in our role at other times in a different state.
So, I just want to make sure that we know that that this is awesome because it helps support our governing board work even more. >> Thank you for that. >> Um, couple questions. Yeah. Um, >> and you know, just let me know if I'm wandering off course. Um, so for this particular schoolboard training, what who bears the cost? Like are are we running it? Is leadership running it? Who's >> that? Is us >> to come in and do like how's >> No, eventually it's going to be us. It's a governing board role. And sure, sometimes we may need to collaborate um with our district team if we need a facility to use or whatever that looks like. But this is strictly us. We should not be depending on our staff members or cabinet to be putting out any paperwork, writing anything up. This is directly governing board work and this needs to be led by the governing board.
And then um my next wondering because this is not something that I've I've asked for before or or thought to look at but it just hit me. Like so as far as um for the SOFG work we've been doing and the coaching what has been the cost for that? >> Um that's oh first of all I don't know if that's something that we can discuss because it's not on the agenda item and if it is I can have and if it's not we can have that sent in an email and get you all the breakdown of that because that's not agendaized today. >> Okay. Thank you. And that's why I was put that caveat at first. I'm like, I'm not sure if this >> Yeah, no worries. >> Was that going to lead to a second question though that you >> No. And then I did want to add to that that this is why this is good for us to have because at some point a coach doesn't stick with us forever, right?
We're going to have to end services with a coach at some point and then we become the coaches and we become the experts of this. So, school board of school is another leverage of us handling it, setting the tone without having to have that consistent, you know, we will need assistance from here and there in coaching, but not at the rate that we've been doing it where it's been, you know, a whole year contract or whatever that looks like. >> Okay. Right. Yeah. Cuz I know from I recall from reading the book and just what I've everything I've learned about this. So, of gee, it's like the districts that only do training and have no coach, their results are the same as if they never even did training. Um, and so, yeah, the concern is is if we let go of the coaches and then then it can very easily just like fall flat.
And then if we're committed to it by policy, but we've got, you know, maybe perhaps some new members on the board or somehow like and all of a sudden we don't know what we're doing. Um well then what where does that leave the district and then it's a hot mess. >> And that's why I believe given all your concerns, the school board of school is an important implementation that we need to start working on and having as a non-negotiable because you're right. you know, we will probably get to the point where that happens. But if we have the school board and we're already letting our community, the most beautiful thing out of this, I believe, and this is what I see is I envision our parents knowing exactly what our job is and them coming in here and saying, "You're not being held responsible to what you said you would do for my student." But they can't do that if we they don't know what my role is.
They can't do that if they don't know how we're working on pivoting different strategies to increase those outcomes. Right. So, you're right and I think that's where all this lives because it sets a foundation. It's an ongoing thing and there we're we're educating as they're inquiring on how they can be on this board or how they can be more involved with the board. >> Okay. Thank you. >> You're welcome. Um, I'm trying to see. Yeah, I think those are pretty much the add-ons that I had on for the research portion, the adult behavior one, and just focusing really on Kraton versus the whole state of Arizona. Um, and this is >> where did you Sorry, where was that part? Because I want to make sure we added that in >> on >> where would I put that? >> I I think you put it on part three.