Um, we do, um, pay for a lot of pair pair of professionals through our funding to help with title one services. Um, training before and after school programs. We offer after school programs in our district. Um, we don't do before before at this time. Um, parent and family engagement and then supplemental materials. We do purchase a lot of supplemental materials as well for classrooms through the funding. But once again, our focus um for tonight is mostly the parent and family engagement. So every year we go through a process for improvement and where we look at what how are how our school well the schools go through and look at how they're doing and they create um goals and action steps what they're going to do next year to improve the student outcomes for their school and then as a district we take all the school plans we put them together and create a district plan that supports what the schools are trying to accomplish.
Teachers must exhibit a deep understanding of their students content knowledge, use of data, and assessments in teaching practice. The certification process requires that teachers demonstrate standardsbased evidence of the positive effect they have on student learning and align with the five core propositions. The National Board Five Core Propositions and Standards describe what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do to have a positive impact on student learning. The certification identifies teachers who meet those standards through a performance-based and peer-reviewed series of assessment components. And I can tell you the four uh teachers up here are outstanding in their field. I've had the opportunity to jump rope with one of you. Um, we just finished some Dragons Love Tacos. Um, I was, uh, drowning in science on our visit and an incredible story that you still owe me the second half of when I was there.
Over the course of his four years representing the Panthers on the tennis court Parker won two individual sectional titles was voted MVP for all four years. He was all HCC all four years all district all four years all state honorable mention for three years and all state second team for one year. Parker finished his high school career with an overall record of 85 and 11. So he had an outstanding career and I hate that he couldn't make it here tonight but I wanted to make sure you guys heard how great of a career he had. And Gomey if I could have you stand up when I talk about you. All right. Christian Gomey Gomez is a junior at JCHS where he excels in multiple sports football and wrestling as well as in student leadership clubs and activities. Gomey is a high character young man that often is referenced for making a difference in the lives of students around JCHS's campus.
>> Carter just missing the aerial, but he's keeping a very good hold on the aerial. Baral are running on zero boost. >> That's terrible. >> Looks like they have a Fenick two. Actually, >> two Fenix one off too, >> I believe. So, by the looks of it now. >> Okay. Baralo is running Fenick, which is the car type, by the way. Carter is running Octane. I believe Octane's what? Second best car in the game. >> Mhm. >> Fenck only beating it by the hitbox. >> Yep. Well, Carter says that the Merc has the biggest hitbox. It's just the Fenick >> is >> down to its size has the best hit box. >> Everyone else's frames keep dropping. >> Merc has a little bit too big. My frames keep dropping. Yep. It's too big. >> Can't hit those clean aerials like you can with the Fenkick and the Octane.
Tonight, I will explain my error in posting the meeting before proceeding with the forum. I'm sorry for this change and hope that we can still achieve our goal of listening to the community and deliberating as we should. Um Margaret, is this on Arps Tube or only Zoom? >> It's both. It's on both. >> It's both. Yes. >> Um so that being said, um I need to say that this change means that because this is not a regular meeting, we are not taking public comment tonight. Um, I did receive one voicemail and I will hold that and I will play it at the next meeting, our next regular meeting. Um, if any of you out there were hoping to do public comment about something other than comments in the forum, I apologize for that too. And I hope that you will bring those comments to the next meeting as well.
So that did go out. Okay. So um next on the agenda is public comment. The room is quite quiet this evening but there may be people online who want to make a public comment. If you do please raise your hand so that Jasmine can see you. None. Okay. Seeing none, we'll go on to our next agenda item which is public hearings. The first public hearing on our agenda is from Eversource. It's a scenic roads hazardous tree removal which we started um talking about uh two weeks ago. Um I see Matt Mitchell online. So um I think I think when we last talked about this topic, we were going to first of all look have planning board members on their own. were going to look at the marked trees if possible. Um, and Matt was going to find out about um potential replanting of some trees.
Okay, let's see if this works. present mode. Okay. >> Okay. You good? >> Yeah. Can you guys see the the um slide first? First slide. >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. So, I've changed the date several times of when this was presented. So, depending on which uh slide deck, but I have to be here now. And this is to go with um Carara's goal around teaching and learning and and specifically when we're talking about the accountability index, we're talking about systemic school improvement and district improvement and really trying to look at how are we supporting all leaders to be empowered to make evidence-based decisions to improve student outcomes. So as we look at these this slide deck um we definitely want to give you a little bit of context of where we are today. Um although these results of the accountability index at the front of the presentation are around the 2425 school year.
Next slide. Um A151302 does not allow for duplication of services. One rumor that I have heard is that ASDB is uh going to be involved in the specially designed instruction for students who are deaf and heart of hearing in TUSD that go to miles K8. Since that program already exists within TUSD, TUSD will continue to run and operate that program as well as their own uh in district itinerary programs for students who are deaf, heart of hearing or blind and low vision. Next slide. with regional cooperators. Um when regional cooperators began, there were five regional directors across the state. As ASB continues to restructure, ASV itinerary programs to outreach uh will include changes from having regional directors to having an an executive director of outreach, a director of deaf and heart of hearing outreach, and a director of blind low vision outreach. Early learning programs, blind programs, and deaf programs, deaf programs will also fall under outreach, but do not have any major structural changes.
We're in the middle of this right now. So, the plan the schools just turned in their plans today and so next week I'll start work start working on um the district and then pulling in some other perspectives to see um if we're on the right track or not with that. Uh, one um, let's see. I do have I don't know if you guys have handouts or not, but for those out in our own, we do have the goals that we for the current year because we haven't created next year's goals yet. Y and we do review these every time we do a bud assessment. So, we bring up the goals and see what our progress is towards our goals. Um we also really want our families and community involved in this process. That is something we struggle with. Um the schools invite people in. Um some are some attend some parents decline.
New version of Cinderella. Currently, we have 21 nationally board certified teachers in three nationally certified school uh, nurses in the district. Attainment of National Board Certification is one of the most prestigious and respected professional certifications available in all of K12 education. We are incredibly proud of our staff and recognize the extensive amount of work that is involved in this rigorous multi-year process. Please join me tonight in congratulating our outstanding teachers. And then we're took it and then we're going to go two rows. >> There you go. Thank you. Next up is board communication. Does anybody have anything tonight. >> I do. Good evening. I had the privilege of visiting Coyote Trail and I read to several classrooms which was so much fun. Um I also attended the Pimac County uh co collective of school boards and superintendent as well as the final meeting of the strategic plan which I know we'll all be hearing more later.
This past fall Gomey earned prestigious recognition of being named IFCA Class 4A All-State as a defensive lineman. To follow up his stellar stellar fall season Gomey went on to the semi-state qualifier in wrestling this winter. Gomey is working hard in prime to have a fantastic senior campaign here at JCHS. So we're hoping for big things from Gomey here in his senior year. >> [applause] >> Addison Long cross country. So coach Stoner wrote this. To say that Addison Long has a outstanding rookie season is to say the least. She broke the school record not once but twice as a freshman. Um and she also appeared in a state meet. So the track record was 19:06 by Emma Morrison she broke it in Brown County 18:55 and broke it again in the regional 18:47 in Evansville. So as a freshman she's already crushed the the records that we're hoping to see that then keep going down.
>> Octane is like the build for precision. >> Exactly. >> Cuz I believe it hit box like only covers the car. Like there's no space above it. >> Exact car. >> Fenic on the other hand is like a box where it has a bigger hit box than the actual car. >> Ooh, Jordan almost getting the shot in. Turn back, >> but coming back to do a perfect stop. >> A perfect but not so perfect stop. It was a good stop and roll. >> Carter being pushed onto defense along with the rest of the team. Barollo getting it out of there. >> Carter gaining his boost. Probably to do another uh aerial attack. >> Okay, >> passing it straight to Carter. misses the block. >> Oh, >> but hits the juke. >> Just completely missed. >> Is it going to stay at zero zero the entire time?
Um so the procedure for tonight is to have a presentation by Shannon Bernacia. You probably all know her by this time. Um she is the executive director of finance and operations and the director of finance. Um after the presentation we will listen to your comments. Um and uh the comment should be addressed to me. Um, if you want to speak, please click your hand icon. Um, and Megan is going to track those hands and we'll try to give everyone one turn. Um, and then if people have a want to speak for a second time, um, we will recognize those people. Um, so >> point of order. >> Yes. Um I just want to say that in my definition a meeting is any gathering of a quorum of a public body and we are a quorum of a public body. So we are in a meeting a school committee meeting because we are a quorum.
Is there anything I missed in that that we were going to look at? Okay. Um, I did go out I with Melissa and Becca who's also online did go out with Matt on was it Tuesday? The really really nice sunny day. We went out and looked at trees. It was quite nice actually. Um, and didn't obviously walk the whole way or look at every single tree, but looked at all kinds of example trees um up close to kind of understand those conditions. And I highly recommend if anyone ever wants to know anything about trees or how a forest grows, please ask uh Becca to take you for a walk in the woods and you will learn lots of stuff.
But right now I just want to embed you in what our school demographics look like or district demographics. Our overall enrollment for this year as of our October 1 collection um from our freeze date is actually now 11,450. So what happens is throughout the year even though we take a snapshot snapshot on October 1st, we actually have several um other deadlines where we're cleaning up the data with other districts and things like that. So that number does fluctuate a little bit. Um but when that did fluctuate at by the end of January, we had an overall decrease of enrollment by 471 students from the previous year. So that is if I'm comparing the October 2024 collection to the one we did in October 2025, as of this year and as of today, we actually have 11,385 students. So that's as of March 12th. Um our high needs population, just kind of as a reminder, high needs um also consists of our multilingual learners, our free and reduced lunch um students who qualify for that.
All three of these programs provide services to all student to all ASDB students and staff, but do provide majority of services to the greater Arizona community. Next outreach continues to focus on an overarching mission of ASV which continues to be commitment to excellence and innovation in education for all children throughout Arizona. Leadership and service collaboration with families, school districts, communities, and others. Partnership with other agencies that will enable children who are deaf, blind, heart of hearing, low vision or deaf blind to succeed now and in the future. Next slide. While the agency has its own vision statement as do ELP blind and deaf programs, the overall vision of ASDB outreach is through regional outreach and cooperative sites. ASUB regional programs is building a network across Arizona with expertise where expertise is shared, supported, support is strengthened and no uh community must stand alone when educating its students who are blind, deaf, low vision, heart of hearing or deaf blind.
So they don't come. We do offer surveys. That's another way we get input from our community. Um but unfortunately we usually get 10 to 20% maybe responses on our surveys and that includes our student surveys for grades 3 through eight and our family surveys. Um so that is one area we would really like to improve because we need their feedback in order to improve on what we're doing. Uh just quickly the curriculums programs that we use right now their general program are the standards and that's anyone can access. It's on the Arizona Department of Ed website. Um all of the resources that we ask you to approve for our use do match up with those standards in the classroom. So that's a list of what we are currently using for science. We are completing our pilot right now. So, the teachers turned in their rubrics that um evaluate the two programs that we have piloted plus the current program, Amplify, and we'll be looking at that after spring break with my curriculum committee to determine what's the best way to go for next year.
Uh, I want to wish everyone a safe and restful spring break and enjoy yourselves. Thank you. >> Thank you. Any other board member? Okay, I have some statements. Thank you, Dr. Strereer and my fellow board members. It was my pleasure to also participate in Love & Reading Week by reading to several classrooms at Coyote Trail Elementary. I also attended the Puma County Collective at Flowing Wells. I attended the monthly SASBO meeting in Sarita. I participated in the strategic planning committee and I attended the ASBA president's meeting. It's great to see everyone involved in our district and public education and have a great spring break. Uh next up, superintendent. Oh, excuse me. Remarks from the public. Uh Riley and Annabella from Twin Peaks, would you like to come speak? Good evening, MUSD board members. My name is Annabelle Himenez and this is Riley Wright. We are eighth graders from Twin Peaks K8 and TED Ed was a new elective choice for us eighth graders this year and I'm so glad I chose it.
So, um her work ethic goes above and beyond the workouts I set for her. She lifts up her teammates. She is positive, a driving force on our team. The minimum is not an option for Addie. Even average isn't good enough. She wants to be the best, and she trains to be the best. She deserves every accolade she receives. So, Addison won a cross country meet. >> [applause] >> I wanted you guys I wanted you about you guys to walk around and meet all these people. >> [laughter] >> Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. You have so much to Thank you. That was really awesome. Thank you. Thank you, good job. This is hard. That's what I think. Thank you. Good to see you. Good to see you. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you. Let me take a picture. Let us move so we >> [laughter] >> There you go.
>> It may. It may end up going into overtime because of it. >> Yeah. >> Therefore, meaning when we go into overtime, if the ball hasn't made a goal yet, so if either team is still at 0 0, then it will go into infinite overtime until someone scores. >> Mhm. If someone scores, say in the next minute, because there's a minute remaining, when the timer goes down, it'll stay at one until the ball hits the ground and then the winner is declared. >> But by the looks of it, this might stay at 00 going into overtime. >> Yeah, >> that would have been a good fenic shot if they were using a fenic, but they're using Octane. >> Exactly. And since the Octane was angled a little bit, ball was angled. >> Mhm. >> Looks like Vartulla was demoed though, so they might be able to get the upper hand if Carter wasn't in the air.