Yes. As his occupational therapist, it's my job to adapt anything that he needs, you know, so that he can participate as his same age peers. So, when they came to me, I took a look and kind of had an We had been through all sorts of adaptive crayons, you name it, we had tried it throughout the years. Um but, I had seen something online that I wanted to try, but I'm like, it's kind of expensive. I can make that. So, I got an old computer mouse and marker lid to try to fabricate something to hold a crayon. Couldn't get it to work, so I went to Braden. He's like, "You're out of your mind. What are you doing?" >> [laughter] >> And I'm like, "I think I can make it work." So, he humored me for a little bit, but then he's like, "I think we can maybe make this piece.
All right. >> The utensil is very important. I mean, >> she's she's getting a pen that'll work on the myar. >> I've driven I drove on the little road behind there once when we saw it. Yeah. >> Next time. >> Yeah. Yeah. Next time. Yeah. >> Oh, we're going to sign the ones out here. But we're we're getting the right pen because my won't take Thank you. You as well. Thank you. >> All right. So, why don't um while we're Let's see. Next we have the YMCA, but um you know Anna's on her way and she wants to be here in person for that one. So why don't we go ahead and take care of the meeting minutes. >> Okay. >> I mean if Anna has any changes, she can let you know. But usually there's not. So we're looking at the meeting minutes for March 12th.
Dominic plans on studying exercise science in college next year. Congratulations to Dominic and his >> SP please. What does that say? What's that? Okay, this is ready. Yeah, whenever you're ready, right? All right. Congratulations. Um, that concludes our celebration of excellence tonight. We're going to go on to our regular part of our meeting. If you are so inclined, you can join us or if you have to get home and do homework and all these kind of things, now is a great time to excuse yourselves. >> Thank you. >> Please feel free to say All right, on to BHS student representative reports. >> So, our spring sports are in full swing. Many many teams have had their first games, matches, and meets. We are all looking forward to highly competitive seasons and are excited to be having such good starts to our seasons. We have 85 BHS students participating in sports this season and that's 42% of student body which is huge.
The board of trustees is proud to recognize Kennedy High School student Krishna Patel for outstanding academic achievement. Round of applause. Krishna has been shortlisted in the politics category of the prestigious John Lock Institute 2025 global essay competition. This competition is one of the most respected international academic contests for secondary school students. This year the institute received over 63,000 essay submissions from students around the world. Of those only 18.65% 65% were selected for the short list. Krishna's work ranks among the very best globally reflecting her exceptional talent, intellect, and dedication. We would also like to recognize the support of her teachers, Miss Panel and Miss Santin. Their guidance and commitment played an important role in helping Krishna develop the skills needed for this achievement. Their efforts exemplify the dedication of Kennedy High School educators in fostering student excellence. We commend Krishna for this remarkable accomplishment and celebrate her as a shining example of Kennedy High School and our district.
Anyone have any questions? Thanks, Jim. Thank you, Jen. I'm I'm happy to see that there's some been some improvement. Um, but I wish there had been more, but we started at such a low level. Take a long time. This is this is this is pretty good stuff. Yes, we're seeing I'm I'd like I'd like to know what Desert Valley is doing or what the science teachers are doing. Maybe science teachers should be teaching language arts, you know. I don't know. Um I think everybody looks like they're working hard. They are. So, yeah, they are. And we're interested in seeing how um you know how our kids are doing on the state testing. Yeah. Uh the little I've heard related because of course we compare it to our benchmark. And remember this is the this is the first year of this new benchmark testing too. So we don't have anything to compare you know we can't even compare this to previous year's data um uh because it's a new you know it's all it's all a new test.
Any questions from the board hearing? Hearing none, I would entertain a motion. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> All right. The next item is to consider the May ultimate shield trip. >> Okay. And this presentation is about the ultimate field trip. So, where would you like to go? We would like to go to Indiana Beach. >> Why? Students have worked very hard throughout the school year to meet the requirements for this ultimate shield trip. They've got good grades, had little to no tardies, and no excused absences. And there's a couple other things. When? This trip would be on May 15th, 2026. We would leave during advisory and return to school. later than 7:30 p.m. How we would get to our destination by charter buses. To help fund this trip, each student will pay $40 unless money is otherwise donated. This money includes a meal voucher for lunch.
We can 3D print it." And so, then I'm like, "Well, how far can I push that 3D printing?" And so, I sent him a picture of what I had in mind, and then they took it from there. Yeah, so I really appreciated Heather's McGyverness. I think >> [laughter] >> the best way to put it. Um But, yeah, so the what she had the the resources she had, it just it it just wasn't going to pan out. It would have been very difficult to do. But, it was it's it was the perfect and we just finished our 3D printing unit in class. So, it was like the perfect timing. And I met with Danny's my TA. But, very very sharp. He's the lead tech head Black Cat. So, whatever I throw at Danny, he just takes it and goes with it. And so, I I was like, "I'll put Danny up to this." So, he came in during his TA period, and we looked at what Heather had sent us online, and I said, "Go for it.
I Is that the only ones that were in there? The other ones weren't in there yet? >> We didn't get those yet. Okay. So it's just March 12th. This is when we had um the scenic road uh tree removal discussion, one of them anyway. I think the second one and also um um the YMCA. Oh, and we went through the housing production plan. Boy, that was a that was a busy meeting. Yeah. >> Where where are they in here? >> Oh, sorry. Um, >> yeah, if you >> Yeah, it's only like five pages back from the front of the binder. Jasmine, I think the only uh very minor edit I had on the meeting minutes was line two 229 and it's just the spelling of my name. It's just sha which I don't use. It's not a big deal but I think it's a pretty common way for a lot of people to spell it.
Uh last Thursday was the culmination of our second battle of the classes and our spring cup rally. Seniors took home the win this time with a winning tiebreaker dodgeball game day sophomores. And then tomorrow the VHS art and music students will be going on the Boston trip to visit the Museum of Fine Arts and the Boston Opera House to watch the Outsiders. We are all super excited to go on this trip and spend time with friends while being immersed in art and music. We leave at around 9:00 a.m. and return about 1:00 a.m. on Saturday mornings. It'll be a long day, but we're excited to have it be filled with many friends. >> Last Wednesday, Bolton High School Jasmine and the Middle School Jasmine performed together at the first ever Bulletton Jazz. The night was a great experience for both ensemble, giving opportunities for high schoolers to help the middle schoolers and for middle schoolers to learn from the high schoolers.
Congratulations Krishna. I'm good. That's it. Okay. Power. >> All right. We are going to move forward with our 7.1 student representative report. Uh Leah Garcia, whenever you're ready. Hello everyone. I would like to start with Anaheim High School and to commemorate all the amazing work they did there this month. Firstly, they had their Anaheim Performing Arts Conservatory that had their annual spring musical. It was called Between the Lines. It was a fairy tale story brought to life and warmed the hearts of many. They also had their women's march on March 13th where the sophomore class was able to put together a women's march. They had their RZP food testing where the RZP cabinet was able to bring the voices of so many students to to life by allowing them to taste food and change the upcoming menu for the next year. They also had their prom expo where they able to showcase the outfits that students wanted to wear for prom.
Um, so it'll be interesting number one to see how it how it relates to our state testing results this year and then it'll be interesting to see how it looks next year compared to this year on the benchmarks. Um, but you already noticed that, you know, we've already found some problems. So, particularly with our math screener, we thought we'd picked a pretty good math screener and it isn't helping us. Um, so we're not gonna, you know, we're not gonna stick with something that's not giving us the data and the information that we need. So, um I'm really happy that the committee said, "Wait a minute, let's let's not wait. Let's move forward." So, all all kinds of efforts to move us forward. That's good. Excellent.
So, the students who would be going on this trip have worked very hard and we would really appreciate it if they can go to Indiana Beach. Please grant us permission to go on this trip. It is a great opportunity for a priceless memory making and a ton of fun. We thank you so much and hope you will approve this ask. We would love to have your permission. >> All right. >> I do want to say that we have received a very generous donation from SSC to pay for the entire trip. >> The students we just learned that so the students will not have to pay to go which is very kind of them. Okay. And then here's some data showing the bad behaviors in the 2020 2022 to the 2023 school year. And then compared to when the shield trip was added and then also compared to when the ultimate shield trip was added and you can see that it went down drastically.
Make make something." And he needed a little bit of help on figuring out how to hold the hold the devices in there, the pencils and the crayons. And And that was the cool thing, too, is he made it um multi-purpose. So, it hold multiple sizes. It hold pencils. It hold crayons, whatever. Um and yeah, he 3D printed it, and designed it. >> Yeah, he designed it. He He drew all that. He That was That was his his idea. So, um he put it together, and we 3D printed it in a couple hours, and Seth had it in no time. So, >> The amazing thing about this is it truly goes to show everything that goes on at the high school and how it's inner working. You know, we've got staff members that are are trying everything to make sure that a student can have the same opportunities as their peers.
You guys good? Ready to go. >> A motion to approve the minutes. >> Are you ready? >> I did. >> Oh, okay. >> That was it. >> That was kind of like a casual like should I Is there a second? >> Second that. >> All right. Roll call vote. >> Inad Scott. >> Paul Montto. and Trisha Kendall. >> You're on top of things, Scott. I think you're like awake tonight or just a lot of caffeine. >> I got a lot of stuff I got to do. >> Okay. >> Mo motivated. Got it. Got it. Okay. All right. I'm Okay. We're still waiting for Anna for the for the public hearing. So, why don't we um talk a little bit about um skipping ahead? Um right after the agenda is the um this design review committee uh bylaw and Anna's very familiar with the design review committee.
Their set list consisted of a few songs separate and ended the night playing two songs together. Overall, it was an excellent night and the musicians and the audience had blast. 26 BCS students joined the BHS Seattle Band for this concert. Last week, students in ECE and early enrollment classes visited Eastern Connecticut University. The students that attended were able to learn about the college experience and spend the day on campus. They love being able to have this experience and grow their learning. ECSU even wrote an article about the subject he saw on BHS social media. As an extra treat, some of the college students that presented were BHS alumni and additional BHS alums joined us for lunch. We are currently in our annual spring break spirit week. We are loving seeing so much school spirit throughout the school. >> All right. Thank you very much. the same invitation to stay or >> right additions to the agenda.
On the back here, you can see the many um pictures about the AP pack musical between the lines and their open house. At Campbridge Virtual Academy, they had their capstone showcases where 8th, 11th, and 12th grade students created and presented vision boards, e portfolios, and passion projects. Students showcased their interests and highlighted their personal growth at CVA. They demonstrated the skills they've developed over time. The capstone showcase allowed them to bring to life a huge part of themselves through this. Here you can see pictures of the open house they had with um the principal and all students being really excited. They also had a car wreck trail where they were able to explore nature and navigate both uphill and downhill terrain. On the back page, you can see pictures from the beautiful capstone showcases that all the students had. And we also had a market day where students were able to showcase and sell their goods.
Any questions? Any other observations? Okay. Just I'd like to congratulate all of our teachers for we're seeing results from all your hard work and your dedication and you guys are just awesome. We love you and we're here to support you any way we can. So any teachers here that have ideas and want to bring them forward, we welcome them. We want to hear from you guys, support you. Thank you. Okay. Um item 1.4, employee appreciation event. Cassie, are you in charge? And this is Cass. Uh so I just wanted to give you guys an update. Uh the planning for the appreciation lunchon to celebrate all of our incredible employees um is underway. Uh Desert Valley will be hosting. This is a luau themed event. It will be on Friday, May 1st, and doors will open at 11:00 a.m. Uh, Chartwells is going to be catering and island cuisine.
And then here is also a graph showing the model attendance. First of all, we should be really proud because Even without the shield trip, we were still above the state average. And then after that, um, with the shield trip, oh, the percent of students with model attendance shot up from 69% to 83%. Here's a few photos of the location we are requesting to go to. And finally, please grant us permission to have a fun-filled day at Indiana Beach for the ultimate field trip. >> Well, I certainly don't want to be the one to argue against that.
But, when we when availability comes into to play, we have a team of of teachers and students that can go and make that stuff happen. I can tell you I've I've had the pleasure of getting to work with Danny a lot this year as the lead tech and in Black Cat, and with me trying to come in and act like I know what's going on with the Black Cat computers. Um Saying he is sharp is a major understatement. This kid is is amazing when it comes to what he can do with technology and and designing and things in CAD and being able to to print things. And so, I just cannot say enough. When I I got an email actually actually Mr. Day sent me text pictures first, then I got an email of what had taken place, and it it's just the coolest thing.
Obviously, this was this actually was her suggestion about how we could potentially modify. And so just a little a little bit of history. The design review committee right now is set up and has been set up since I don't know a while, right? Um yeah, I'm not even sure how many years, but um it was set up it's set up currently that there's a standing board of five people um uh generally same verbiage that's in here that have experience in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and engineering. and um one person owning a business. Well, that's that they look for that, right? It's not mandatory. Um and and they would serve for three-year terms. What the problem we've been having, at least since I've been on the board, um is is kind of finding keeping people on that board and finding people really with the depth of experience that we need.