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>> Right. Right. So >> obviously there's >> there's some, you know, I mean I think a consideration to it is, you know, you talk about doing some acoustical treatments, things like that. I appreciate Andrew's help me with that. Um Max has also been to help with that. Like >> you know, >> you don't want to do a whole lot more if you're going to do some more later because then it's just more to take down and more to redo and you know what I mean? It it all kind of weaves into that conversation. It also is a funding piece. You know, when are dollars available that that could do that size of a project, right? Um timing thing. There's a lot of lot of things there. So, >> what's that? >> Kind of like a roof, you know, a lot of money for >> Yeah.
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Armed intruder, you guys hear about that stuff all the time. I'm not going to be labor this point, but I will be more than glad to answer questions after. Cyber attacks are the big thing right now, whether that's ransomware um for schools, also student use. I'm going to hit some of the digital things and show you something that's probably going to make you question if you truly know what's on your students devices. So, um, I I kind of want to push your your envelope mentally on some of these things, um, without scaring at the same time. So, it's it's a fine balance that we have. Anybody aware of behavioral threat assessments? Okay. Few people. So, I want to get past the stigma >> that you're a parent and you get a call that says that your student has had a behavioral threat assessment rain on them that day.
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>> That's really neat. >> Mhm. He's been that two or three years in a row at this point. >> He sounds like a good leader. >> Oh, yeah. He's a good leader. Good player. >> Awesome. >> Good. Good. Allaround good guy, I will say. All right. So, yeah. So, in the arena, oh, in the arena, it looks like Jaden has stepped into the ring and he's play picking his main character, Isabelle. And fun fact, Jaden was on one of the uh official Smash Ultimate rankings. He's one of the top 100 best Isabelle players in the entire world. >> Wow. >> I know. It's pretty crazy. He was like, >> he was like 86th or something on the list. It is crazy. >> Wow. >> This guy, he is crazy. >> Mhm. And what's even more crazy is the fact that Isabelle is a pretty low tier in this game, but Jaden just plays it her in a way >> that just that just makes her a really good player.
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Um, I've sent out anonymous surveys on felt appreciation, not just as the district, but for me as a principal. Um, so they can just tell me, you know, do they feel appreciated by me? And and if not, why? And it's all anonymous, so I can continue to improve my leadership. Um, and then every Friday, um, we have a staff circle where everyone circles up and we go through and tell say something positive about our week. So that's that's been really a big hit with the with the staff because we always have something positive. Too many times people focus on the negative. So we're trying to keep that out of our building right now. So supporting and growing our students. Um we spoke a a little bit about all of these literacy, STEM, PLC's. Well, I haven't really said much about PLC's, but we do PLC's.
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They said, "You need to do a better job of bringing public policy in line with the science, but it's been four years and they've done nothing." So we always have hope but we need to take action at the local level. We need for our towns to get informed on this and then to speak to the utility companies with which they are signing contracts and say anybody who wants an opt out gets an opt out without being charged a fee. And then we need to back these bills and have our towns speak up to our legislators and say we want choice. We want the right to choose not to have these radiating devices imposed on us without any kind of informed consent. So Lexi, given the decade that you have given of your life to deal with this, what would you tell somebody today who's learning about this and may become electrically sensitive or what is today now being called EMR syndrome or electromagnetic radiation syndrome.
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Courtyard landscaping, garden and circulation path. The garden. In our garden, we chose to have multiple different species of flower to add color and life to the courtyard. There's a bench where students can sit and enjoy the different flowers. We added flowers that are native to Massachusetts like white yarrow. We also have a small pollinator garden with different varieties of milkweed to attract butterflies, bee balm to attract hummingbirds, and other flowers that will attract native Massachusetts bumblebees that are endangered. The vegetable box. It's a good idea because it helps organize the vegetables and make them easier to reach. It also creates a very pretty view. The pebbles. These pebbles help with drainage and they make a clear path and way to traverse the courtyard. They also prevent the path from getting muddy. Courtyard shading and accessibility. Canopy. This canopy is a good addition because it keeps you dry from rain or snow.
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Um and some of those things are making sure that we are strengthening our tier one instruction. So it allows access to all students. Um including students with disabilities and our MLL students. Um like Mike had said, building our instructional leadership capacity. So really delegating and um distributing that leadership to the teachers so that they can start to to teach their colleagues and then using data to make sure that we have equitable student outcomes attendance. we we're using data to to um improve and then um one of the other things that we do at GMS is is we have these almost monthly family events that it was born from the teachers and they started volunteering doing them and we have one every other month and so working on expanding access. So with the support of of assistant superintendent Sullivan we're able to provide transportation to all of those.
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Um like Mike said, building our instructional leadership capacity. So, really delegating and um distributing that leadership to the teachers so that they can start to to teach their colleagues. And then using data to make sure that we have equitable student outcomes, attendance. We We're using data to to um improve. And then um One of the other things that we do at GMS is is we have these almost monthly family events that it was born from the teachers and they started volunteering doing them. And we have one every other month. And so, working on expanding access. So, with the support of of Assistant Superintendent Sullivan, we're able to provide transportation to all of those. So, um we're very proud of the work that we're doing. Hello. It's on. Hi. Um glad to be here. David Potter, I'm the principal of the Four Corners Elementary School. Um and uh I also want to shout start with a bit of a shout-out to the district um uh for welcoming me and for supporting me.
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On March 5th, Ashley and 15 students from ACE Teen outreach program went to Action Daycare to read to the students. On Tuesday, March 17th, ACE will run parent-teacher conference to address student growth concerns and goal settings. Parents will have an option of virtual conferences and in-person conferences. On March 18th, will be ACE SAT testing day. Kyle, Ashley have been running flexes designed to prepare 11th graders for the test. This preparation includes not just digital readiness flex, but also test-taking tips and test prep tutoring. On the day of the SAT, the ninth, 10th, and 12th graders will visit White Memorial Conservation Center. Thank you all for allowing us to share what's going on with our ACE family and have a nice evening. Stay healthy and remain ACE strong. Thank you. Thank you, Ashley. Thank you. Okay. So, we scheduled about three times this winter due to weather and all sorts of weather-related havoc.
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So the first column you see what um it looked like what trends looked like before implementation. Second column is after implementation. So this is including year one and two. For instance, um students were calling their families directly from their cell phones rather than going to the office and using an office phone, >> right? And then um with like the day-to-day like the the uh class disruptions um this has really reduced that um since you know the expectation is that students keep the cell phones in the backpacks. It's away from them. they are able to focus on their learning and able to focus on the instructional time. Um, and so that's a change that has been reported. Um, even at the, you know, the lunches and breaks, students are socializing more, they're interacting, they're playing basketball, they're playing volleyball, they're engaging more in social activities rather than, you know, sitting on their phones or just kind of being on their phones on their own.
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This is a policy that requires Chico Unified School District schools to socially transition students who ask to be transitioned without telling their parents. I am here today to ask the board to revote to remove the parental secrecy policy at Chico Unified School District. I stood here before you about 3 years ago asking the same thing. You voted to keep the policy. Now we have a new ruling from the Supreme Court in the Mirabelli case backing parental rights. In that case, the Supreme Court said that parental secrecy policies like the one at Chico Unified School District are likely unconstitutional. It is clear that the Supreme Court is standing behind parents and their right to direct the upbringing of their children. I see some new faces here since I was here last and I hope you will reconsider and vote on this issue to show our parents and community that you stand behind parents.
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So going up to $16,500 which again is an increase of just 9.5% or about $1465. Um, again, the reasons you needed this, you're in exceptionally strong position to sustain these proposed increases as I just showed you. Again, this saves any um M obligations that you would need to make in terms of compensation by by leveraging this fund. As I stated earlier to your fun, your revenues are about 55,000. And then even with these proposed increases, um I'm anticipating your your annual expenditures still being below your anticipated revenues. So again, you'd still be in a strong position in case sales tax or we get into a recession or sales tax or or that revenue coming in takes a takes a dive, you would still be in a strong position to support this on an ongoing basis for several years with the the fund bounts that you have in place.
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It's not exciting. I understand. >> Yeah. Phil usually get to do the really exciting sexy things, right? Nobody Nobody gets really excited about some structural steel or some blocking. Andrew gets do all the cool looking stuff. And >> yeah, Phil will make sure it'll still stand still stand up when you get done making the cool stuff. Right. >> So, >> okay. Questions, comments? >> Is the acoustical stuff I know we've talked about that. Is that also wrap that would be going around the gym? >> Well, there was there was some different options. There was yeah there was some one there was some you know options on the horizontal walls. I I think the and andrew you were well both you guys were in that call. I think the biggest bang for buck was looking you know if you were only going to do one or the other like do something on your ceilings.
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To your average person, that would indicate my son or daughter could potentially be a school shooter. Is kind of what we hear across the state. State law defines the need for a behavioral threat assessment to be ran when there is threatening or apparent behavior. I'm going to kill you could fall into the threatening category. So, there's a couple different ways that that we can run these. There's what's called a screener. So, it's like a one-page sheet that kind of helps it determine on if that's just a a fleeting type comment being made or if it's something that could be more indepth, more intense, then we would run a full screener or a full process for the behavioral threat assessment. This is not a punitive or a disciplinary tool at all. It can lead to that. It can lead to charges from law enforcement. That's not its intention.
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And one thing you're going to see Jaden doing a lot is placing down landmines. >> Yeah. >> What do these do? >> The landmines um well, if you step on them, they send you up. And Jaden is really good at comboing you. It's really good at comboing you if you step on them. Mhm. Yeah. So, there's a landmine right there. Kirby's got to make sure to stay back. Oh, yep. What Jaden's doing right there is what's known as the pocket ability. So, he can basically take any character's projectiles and throw it right back at them, which means he's got to react to all of Kirby's projectiles in order to uh throw them himself. >> He's really got to be on top of it. >> Mhm. Oo, >> look at that. Yep. That's another way Jaden takes advantage of Isabelle. Isabelle has a really good recovery, so she can go all the way around the stage.
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They're data driven. and they're I mean the whole corporation is we get so much um good learning and information from our PLC's. It's it's just been amazing for us. Um we also have MTSS which are tiered interventions with progress monitoring. Um we have supports for academics and behavior. Um responsive instruction based on data. So um but things that we would like to continue um oh I do want to mention our preschool. Our preschool has had amazing amazing growth on the BGance testing this year. So, we're really excited about that. Also, um with our TBRRI, we want to continue to enhance TBRRI. We have nurture groups in the classroom. Um there are lessons each morning that the teachers give. So, they either have a nurture group or they have a TBRI lesson that they go through through the building. We are using um consistent language, TBRRI language.
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What do we say to somebody who wants to avoid that or who is already struggling with EMR syndrome? >> Some of the interventions we did that were particularly helpful before the meter was removed was turning the power off at night. um ideally turning it off period while you're in the house, but I recognize, you know, you have you need the power for for living. But at night time when you're trying to sleep, you it it prevents the emissions of these transients, these frequency transients that many computerized equipment, motors, um and the smart meter particularly are so strong and they're just so irritating. So the the body is unable to rest and in that evening detoxification process while you're trying to sleep well. It just can't happen when you're constantly being um irritated by these frequency transients. >> And then in addition to that turn off all wireless devices that you have control over which are you know cell phones and iPads um and games decked phones.
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It also gives you shade so you can sit under it comfortably. Collapsible ramp. This is a durable metal ramp that can be folded in half when not in use. It has a textured surface so people on wheelchairs won't slide down it. It'll allow people with wheelchairs to access the courtyard, and it can be used in other parts of the school, too. There's been a problem with birds crashing into the windows in the courtyard, and to solve that, we got window alert UV stickers. The stickers are coated in a UV coating that looks really bright to birds, so they'll avoid crashing into the windows. Smart. Yeah. Okay. The total cost is $3,304.06. Amazing. Wow. All of you did such a wonderful job, and yeah, and so thorough and impressive, and we love your models. And you could hear them throughout talking about um the durability of some of the products and how many seats and the size and the dimensions of everything.
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So, um, we're very proud of the work that we're doing. Hello. It's on. Hi. Um, glad to be here. David Potter. I'm the principal of the Four Corners Elementary School. Um, and, uh, I also want to shout start with a bit of a shout out to the district um, uh, for welcoming me and for supporting me. It's a very collaborative and collegial uh place to be. Um a lot of good um progress moving forward and uh I'm I've been very impressed um and glad to be part of the team. So um yeah, at four corners um we have a little bit of a different story in terms of our accountability status as as compared we we um we are in a position of not requiring assistance or intervention uh having made moderate progress toward targets. Um, so, um, I apologize. That's my alarm. >> Exactly.
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It's a very collaborative and collegial uh place to be. Um a lot of good um progress moving forward and uh I'm I've been very impressed um, and glad to be part of the team. So, um, yeah, at Four Corners, um, we have a little bit of a different story in terms of our accountability status as as compared. We we um, we are in a position of not requiring assistance or intervention uh, having made moderate progress toward targets. Um, so, um, I apologize, that's my alarm. What's it time for? I was going to say. That's right. Exactly. So, um, you know, while that speaks to a a great um, sense of success and progress with the school, um, we understand that there's lots of things going on um, below that sort of uh, um, number, you know, and that achievement that there's still a lot of growth to be made um, and a lot of work to be done.
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