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i just want to express my appreciation for all the district has done to help kids stay in school it's meant a lot to me and my kids as far as their mental and emotional health to have friends that they can they can learn with and learn in that environment so i appreciate all that you've done to make that possible thank you thank you thank you so much i just want to kind of take you back on what she had mentioned about the mandates that are coming down and i haven't really seen anything mentioned marilyn trump i have two children that were in the district i took them out this year because my children will not wear masks um they will not be forced to do anything that they don't choose to do um and i attend regularly to all the board of supervisors meetings i listen to the health updates live in person every couple of weeks so i know exactly what they're telling us and i know exactly what they're not telling us and i i would like to ask this group here to agendize whether you're going to put these mandates forth for your group i haven't seen anybody take a stand on what i've seen what you have said on social media previously that you did lean towards encouraging or supporting the mandate i haven't seen anyone else take a stand here so i would ask that you guys put that on your agenda and see where everybody stands because they're they're unlawful even osha has put a hold on mandating those for employees so i would encourage you to take a look and and i know that i'm not the only parent that unenrolled their children this year and that's why i did ask that question because i have two neighbors that move to placer to take their kids and i have another couple of friends that moved down the street for other reasons they they believed that they were getting more from their history more support so i would encourage you all to take all of this into consideration and put that on your agenda and find out where you all stand thank you okay see no more no move agenda passed moving on to item number 14 business items continue item number b schedule the annual organizational meeting of the board so every year um education code 35143 requires governing wars to set an annual organizational meeting within a 15-day period of expenses with the date upon which a governing board remember elected in that election mouthful organizational meetings and years in which no such regular election for governing board members is conducted shall be held during the same 15-day period on the calendar the board members are seated on the first friday of december following the november election the 15-day period for 2021 is december 10th through the 24th so we need to conduct a organizational meeting somewhere between december 10th and 24th and that meeting is to determine who will be our president and our clerk and i believe representatives to avoid a couple of other things we have a motion to approve or i guess we would need a specific motion we would want the motion to set that on december meeting our tip of our december meeting would be the one that before the cold their uh organizational meetings motion i'll second thank you mrs sanders i mean mrs anderson okay do we have any discussion on the organizational meeting being held at the december 15th 15th uh cj usd board meeting no discussion hearing none roll call vote dr lee hi mr roberto hi this is pope hi mrs anderson i am the general advised me as the past organizational meeting is scheduled for december 15th csba delegate assembly nominations business item c uh nominations will be accepted until sunday january 7th any csba member board is eligible to nominate board members within the geographical region or sub region each board may nominate as many individuals as it chooses subreddit for cj usd is 16.

3.1 million dollars is our total funding for chico unified that's been allocated and it's earmarked to use to be used to support professional learning for certificated teachers administrators paraprofessional educators and certificated staff there are about 10 allowable uses for this money if you click to the next slide areas 4 and 5 are the areas that jumped out at us mainly because area 4 includes counselors and area 5 includes our multi-tiered system of supports counseling we know the board of trustees approved eight hundred thousand dollars for counselors for two years to support students and staff that was recently approved by you all in the spring this uh additionally you approved 520 000 for two years if we were to utilize this money that way years 23 through 26 that would give us three more years of uh counseling staff you can go to the next slide there jay where's kevin baltima for me to tell him i told you growth mindset mindset it is this shows that tim cares put this slide together for us to show contacts per student and i want to make note this is through day 62 i'm sorry that is not noted on here but it is through day 62 of this year jay i'm not sure what i know i have that but is it on the big slide tim has been out of town uh we asked him to do a comparison for us from 2019-20 school year to 2020-21 school year for counseling contacts and unfortunately it is not included in here i'm sorry about that because it does show quite a growth in the counseling contacts i can tell you right now foster just as an example foster youth was barely over 0.5 in the through day 62 to over 2.5 that's an average so it's grown quite a bit and again my apologies for not having that hard copy first in that afternoon yeah so that would be comparing the actual contacts made um from one year to the next correct um and and it would be expected that there'd be more contacts made because we have increased the staff right it would be i don't know if we would have this data and it's not that important but it would be interesting on a data nerd tangent to see how if the number of requests have increased because i'm sure that there was a lot of students who didn't request or didn't know how to request before not just contacts made but when you know almost like more of an apples to apples comparison you know what what did i say that was not what was not clear uh the contacts uh so contacts versus um requests yeah sorry so anyway not important here but just it would be interesting to know there it is if the yeah okay and i think you're right to your point because we've increased our counseling staff and the communication with our students about the availability i do believe it would be higher yes i do here's the comparison graph thank you jay for pulling that up erica the light blue oh thank you the light blue is the 20 19 20 number and the dark blue of course is for this year and again these are through day 62 on average so you can see quite a big growth there dr kaiser i also think a major point in this is having it for five years would let us take a kid from eighth grade to graduation and that seems like such a critical critical time period in a kid's life so i have to tell you when we saw this was one of the available ways to use these funds because not only our counselors supporting our all of our students they're also supporting all of our staff with our the strategies that they are able to give to administration to teachers to parent professionals to our classified staff who work with kids on a daily basis is phenomenal i know when i was on a site as an administrator i relied heavily on the expertise of the counselor staff that the counseling staff that we had there and it was not nearly what we have now but they were just wonderful with providing strategies that people may not know that can help make a difference with a student they're working with all right jay if you want to go to the next slide please the second piece that actually comes out pretty pretty good with the math is to approve to continue with the block funding for four more years after the approval that the board made on this last spring for the mtss coordinator so that was approved in march this will would allow it to continue as we've just started the movement forward with this program of the person that does oversee the tremendous assets we already have in our chico unified school district working with our students next slide this shows you an example of what kind of an over an overview of what the mtss coordinator net services do to work together to support the academic support social emotional and behavioral there are the point twos and down from those groups of people are our district leadership council our dlc and our k5 reading teachers on the intervention side dr kaiser so um we've had in the past a number of reports from the district leadership council but we haven't ever to my knowledge had a report from the counselors district leadership council go ahead thank you dr kaiser we just created that dlc this year and we've met about eight times we have two groups we have an all counselor group so that's elementary and secondary and we have a secondary only group so we have just started meeting as i've said we anticipate the same amount of meetings in the second semester i just would just strongly encourage having one of our board meetings where we get to hear from some of these individuals that'd be great thank you i'm sure they would appreciate the opportunity yeah i believe we'll be addressing that one of our workshops in the spring and then of course we have the behavioral side as well with the district district lead in jessica capen with our site pbis teams across the board so as you can see it's a pretty comprehensive overview of all of that and again supporting those pieces that we have already in place and that we have had in place as resources as we continue to grow a consistent program across the um the grade levels so the math came out to just over 3.1 million um in this and and tonight is a public hearing it will come back to you in december i will be back with the chance to go ahead and have a an approval if if that is the case um you said that this was a public hearing this isn't listed as a public hearing it's listed as an informational item that was my question is what what do we need to do to secure this funding in the program we have to have it approved by our board by december 30th 2021 with one public hearing in between so that's a pretty tight turn around uh with us here so this would be the public hearing so it was not listed on the agenda as a public community it's information so we'll have to have the public hearing at the same one that it's adopted you said there has to be time in between it would have to be adopted at the december board meeting we only have one meeting in december i need to check on that i just want to make sure because i thought that we and tina i'm gonna we'll look at it again and get back to your board but i thought it was more of an informational only item to bring to the board and if they needed to make any changes we would make those changes before that the vote on in december but i'll double check for that and get that back to you and it can still be a public hearing at the december board meeting and then you'd have the public hearing get the input and then prior to uh adopting the plan yeah it just says in and by the it says here it just needs to be presented in a board meeting it does not have to be okay as we are doing right now and then adopt it at the next one are we good tina we're good okay board members do you have any more questions of ms keene yes this looks wonderful to be able to stretch out this support over a couple more years um just fantastic great i have a question okay this is i have actually a question for staff i don't know um the the confusion right now where you're getting your clarification from is it in is it the instructions for the grant itself or is it is an internal procedure from the california department of education okay it actually was a federal grant originally correct and then it went and then it went to it was state money and then the state california department of education um gave us the rules of what we needed to follow okay so i mean just putting it out there worst case scenario if we find in the fine print that it actually does require time in between we can always do a special call special meeting as well yeah so let's get it done yeah if it means you know protecting the grant we will meet i think we're good okay thank you miss keane okay next miss krueger you're on we have a item business services charter school measure k projects request yes so the measure k charter school subcommittee did meet and there were two requests that came forward at the last meeting both items for were from core butte charter school the first item is storage cabinets for the tk center that are related to their increased enrollment so they have more items that they need to store these cabinets are do match the cabinets that have been purchased with prior measure k money so it's just a continuation of increased storage there and the charter school is requesting 35 000 for that and they have attached the quote in your report documentation the second request is for additional audio visual equipment related to their board meetings because they've seen a larger increase in participants so they need better audio visual equipment to be able to basically host those board meetings so they do have a quote in your packet and they are requesting 17 500 for those and both of those allocations are definitely within the allocation that core has available for them okay um board you have any questions okay do i have any requests for public comment there is no request for public comment okay um board do we have a motion associated with this agenda item i'll move to approve the request oh second okay mr landau moved dr kaiser seconded no more discussion i'll call for a vote uh madam parliamentarian we were unanimous on our last vote so we can do a um voice vote all those in favor signify by saying i i that was five to nothing we're in favor of thank you okay items from the floor i think we still have one public comment request for item under items from the floor yes we do i'm calling jessica no last name jessica hmm is the line ringing the wireless customer we are trying to attempt to notify is not available please try again later okay thank you all right our next item is board member requests to agendize future items to be considered anyone have anything nope then i'd be up for a motion to adjourn so move second all those in favor aye aye we are joined a joined we're adjourned board thank you oh and everyone you

the recommendation is that we would adopt the constitutional amendment on school funding i did not concur one it says that i mean these are you know it's it's opining that these are human rights regardless of and then even within it you know part of it says that their goal is to reach for students to reach their economical social and political potential it's not our job to help students reach political potential we're still teaching them and you can't you're not in politics until you're out of school anyway i'm not going to advocate for any position that says our goal is to add politics to students so you're in opposition which is contrary to what iasb saying that's correct is there anybody that feels strongly to argue the other side i agree with adam you agreed with adam so anybody want to argue with adam and miss corey are we in opposition then yep charter schools number 18 they say to please adopt this iasb shall urge adoption of legislation that allows for participation of the host school district in the charter renewal charter school renewal process we don't have a charter school here so i'm i've never worked in a district that has had a charter school so i'm kind of unfamiliar but the recommendation is to support this it sounds to me like they're giving the public schools more say in what a charter school should be that's whether or not they should be re revisited and i think public education has a right for that but there anybody that wants to speak out about this one or do we support it i'll go with the iasp's recommendation yeah this is definitely a support i mean again the these charter schools not our district isn't here but basically for these charter schools it's 100 funded by the districts if we did have a charter school here we would be paying for it but we would have no input on how it's ran or anything else so it's our money but we have no say so so we should support this i think we should support it okay i wouldn't like it if it was in my backyard number 19 and again isb says that we should um and this is again it goes to the charter school educations all four of these are regarding charter school education and they all pretty much have except for the last one funding and special education programs 19 and 20 is there anybody that would be in opposition it kind of falls into the same thing that you were saying before mr myers 19 and 20 are we good supporting number 21 [Music] this one actually is saying that we need to lobby and try and get the federal program to fund our idea i would strongly encourage that we try to get our federal funds to fund our idea which is individuals with disability education act so is there anybody that wants to oppose that one okay 22 the title prepare all students to succeed and they're saying we should adopt this um i'm opposed to this one it's basically saying it's okay to turn in late assignments then you've got to give them credit regardless and it's not teaching responsibility i i know that the debate is back and forth on that one i would probably agree with the opposition just because i think that it's the local school district's decision as to how they're going to handle homework and turning in of assignments i agree with that yeah i don't like the no zero policy if they if they give teacher gives them multiple chances and they still don't do it that's why you have good teachers and you let the teachers do their job yeah so we opposed that one we did oppose that one i've got them all circled out here for you oh thank you i made you a cheat sheet you keeping score over here i am um last but certainly not least uh the belief statements the illinois association of school boards is being is saying that they we should adopt and we're adding physical and mental health to the belief statements that the illinois school association school boards would believe in is there anybody that thinks that we should not add physical and mental health of students is something that we should carry in well this also has a requirement for vision testing before they go into kindergarten i think doesn't it vision dental and physical looking yeah and again vision's already there dental and physical would be an ex additional we do that at certain grade levels and so all they doing is doing what they already do and putting it to other grades so i don't think that needs to be at the state level i think that can be at our level so you're in opposition to that one not in not the context of it but in the delivery of it i guess i would is my issue do you enter me to vote in support or an opposition ain't it clear that's mud i i would oppose this because i don't think this is a state mandate i think this is a again if you're talking the entire state of illinois you have poor districts and districts without access to the healthcare that we have we're very fortunate this area that we have all this and it's very easy for us but other districts not so much is there anybody that wants to speak to the other side well doesn't it i mean it is saying local boards of education and school district officials should have the authority and flexibility to assess state and community health services as appropriate i mean i iasb is urging but it's not mandating unless i'm missing something so we're just adding these additional mental health and so forth to the guidelines if it's not a mandate and it's giving us the opportunity to add those things on our own then i'm certainly in favor of it yeah i don't think there's enough okay i misread it my apologies number 23 are we in support then okay yeah i'm good i'm sorry all right perfect perfect thank you very much miss heinz i have this great thank you take it it's the dark the little dot is what was recommended in the big circle okay is what we voted on i'll go over it with you after the class no i get it but what is one two three four like one through six is gonna say they're in the listing of the things weren't the same as in the book right which was one through 23.

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we have any nominations for a delegate again i don't think i need to be her her term is not up so i'll be foreign thank you mr sanderson do we need to vote on that i'm sorry mr procedure says we have to vote on it okay so dr lee aye this is mr mr bruno hi this is pope hi this is anderson i am the chair of outside this assignment c has been tabled all right authorization for the cjs student financing team to proceed with the sales in aggregate principal amount not to exceed 43 million of the issuance an election of 2008 series 2021 general obligation bonds this is a follow-up to resolution number seven 2021 that was passed by the board of trustees at the october 20th 2021 board meeting a pro approval of this would allow the cj usc financial team to determine the amount of bonds to be sold not to exceed 43 million dollars and proceed with the process we have a motion to either bring this to the floor or to approve and emotionally approve with a second awesome thank you mrs anderson and mrs cook do we have any discussion houses are being built houses are going up i would just share that this is a follow-up to the item that we said last month that when all of the information we've been working behind the scenes as well to prepare for this it is looking like it could be a good time to go to market this december uh based on different different variables so i would encourage the vote board to approve this and we'll we will take it myself and then our financial advisors to try and secure the best deal for us if we have anything left on the first one we do we have about 5 million uh remaining on that this would be from the second quantity and it also caps that sixty dollars for a hundred thousand of the evaluation so what we're going to see is a uh this year is kind of our highest level it drops down with this issuance it actually just fills a little bit of the gap but still will be a little bit lower than it previously was based on the projections we have any discussion further discussion seeing none item d has been approved um this is item b i'm sorry e bb 9220 governing board elections was requested that cj usd update bb 9220 to include a requirement to provide annual verification of residency status within the district boundaries all such verifications would remain confidential and not be for public distribution we have a motion to approve almost i have a point of parliamentary procedure and inquiry to make and i tried to raise it earlier and i was asked to wait until now so i'm again raising it i have a question about the process and the appropriate process for new [Music] revisions to our adoptions of new policies um our board bylaws 9310 make clear that there is a process and a procedure that is to be followed for the adoption or a modification of our board policies and it doesn't just include an action item being put on the agenda for example i'm referring specifically to point two which states that as needed the superintendent or designee shall gather fiscal data staff and public input related district policies sample policies and other useful information and data to fully inform the board about a particular issue and not only that these things should also proceed as outlined in items three through five of our board policy so i'm again requesting that the chair um provide clarification about uh why we're deviating from our board bylaws um and and not providing us with the information um that we need to to make um a decision on on this matter i don't even know what this is because it hasn't gone through the appropriate process so once we bring it to the floor for discussion i believe that there will be some clarifications made and then if there is further information that you would like to request um we certainly can table it and and it will work towards providing that information for future but for now i think we just need to bring it to the floor for discussion in general and then um we have a motion to bring it to the board and this is it so um if you have are we talking about making um an action item to update our bylaws i'm not clear on on what we're actually it's not a policy change actually it is it is a change to board policy it is a request to change the foreign policy so i think since uh does somebody have comments sure uh let me let me give the background behind this um i was discussing with somebody about what the requirements were to be on the board and they asked me how do we know if someone continues to reside within the district and i well we don't really check in on that and so that got me thinking well how can we do that and i i just like a simple thing where we verify it to the district the same the students do to verify that they're living within the district to be enrolled we just do it annually i talked to superintendent where and he put this together now as far as the policy number two you said as needed the superintendent or designation will gather fiscal data staff and public input related district policies sample policies et cetera i would argue that i don't see that as being needed for a simple address verification to show that we've been disturbed most of these things on the list says as needed or as appropriate and i don't see i don't see a fiscal impact here so physical data would be completely irrelevant um it's a law i mean it's it's just it's just showing that we we still meet the qualifications to survival it's just updating our bylaws is not something to be taken lightly and if we're gonna start just being willy-nilly about it and not following process and procedure i i have a a big point of privilege a big discomfort a discomfort um with that um there's many there's i'm sorry i heard something but um there's many um things that a board member does um to qualify to serve on this board um and i think that uh changing our bylaws to you know add on additional requirements um that aren't required by any other board that aren't in the ed code that aren't in the um elections code would be very problematic and so that's why i'm i'm calling us back to step two which usually when we look at board by-law amendments or changes the superintendent does bring information so it sounds like steve i'm sorry trustee bruno has mentioned that where it came from which is addresses item one of the process item step two is the superintendent bringing us information so that we can make and consider this item and actually draft up a policy for first reading which is step five after that so i'm asking this again to follow the procedure what information would you like him to bring us about this i would like for him to bring us sample policies related district policies and other useful information and data to fully inform us about this particular issue you don't realize it's a requirement by the word the state that you live in the district to be on our school board i think you're confusing the issue i'm not discussing that aspect of it i'm talking about the process that's being used in us following our bylaws which state that we have a policy development and adoptions process i'm asking you to follow that signed an affidavit saying you lived in the district to be on the school board we're not discussing that we're discussing we are changing our board policy and that's what i'm focusing on okay let's let's not okay so can i go ahead and make a content so in your in your comment dr lee you mentioned that it's not part of um encode it is you mentioned that it's not part of elections code it is what are you reporting it is required that we live within the district so those things are required we're not adding anything we're not adding anything or any other requirements to to the to the requirements that are necessary in order to be on a board we're not adding to any requirements we're just providing a method for verifying that so that we can provide transparency to our community to our the people who voted and who have questioned how do we know a very simple addition to board policy no it's a change to our great laws we're suggesting a change to our bylaws and i'm asking us to take caution with that and if you follow right and to follow our own bylaws which outline how we adopt and approve and change policy as well what's on the table is a discussion of changing our bylaws and we're looking at bypassing step two of that looking at bypassing any steps i have not been provided with useful information data or related district policies i am requesting that information so that i can make an informed decision on this action and we're not denying you that that's what trustee bruno just asked you what more information would you like to have you provided that information to us you were given and so that's our next step is to get that information so i mean no one is denying you anything thank you i didn't say that anyone was denying me anything the process that we're following is exactly the correct process for making a change to my laws so we will be receiving information is that what you're indicating uh madam chairperson uh i would just i think it depends on what the vote is i mean at this point if we vote to approve it then there won't be any further information requested but noting again we cannot vote to change our bylaws without following the process that's outlined in our in our bylaws we require any further information that we can make a vote so i have a call the policy typically would be the original one is there the sample policy the sample language is what's highlighted in the packet if the board chooses to ask for more information i would just want clarity on that sorry i'm a little bit behind so at this point we only have a motion to just bring it to the floor for discussion now i'm making a motion to table this actually is there a second to motion first i think you can call me question first okay so there wasn't a second the motion probably someone fails on the floor and we have a motion to approve give me a second all second thank you mr bruno we have any further discussion on the question well i do i don't understand the motion and what we just approved the motion is to approve the check revision has brought forth and it was to revise our bylaws and revise our bylaws by mrs anderson and seconded by mr bruno i'm objecting to the consideration of this motion do you have any further public comment i'd like a second if possible you just disregarded my objection you didn't ask i asked for a second for tabling it and there was no second and then i said the seeing no second the motion has died on the floor then i got a motion from mrs anderson to approve in a second from mr bruno and then i objected to the consideration of the motion i objected to the consideration do we have a second to object to the motion i don't know [Music] okay i'm sorry just to clarify um because reading this over it says must provide verification that they continue to resign into the school district's boundaries what form of uh verification would we require the and my thought on that would be if if the board did approve something is the verification should be similar to a student that approves residency within the district whether it's utility bill uh driver's like mortgage statement uh two forms is provided so i would i would follow that lead if that if that were to be approved so we're not employees um of the district and so i'd like to add to that since we're in discussion um you know it's it's really um first i'm continuing to object to us disregarding our own policy about how um policies are developed and adopted on our board and then second um i just want to point out again um that there is ed code and there are election laws that are tied into this item in our bylaws um and unless the superintendent can produce um you know examples from other districts where this is being done uh other district policies where this happens on other boards uh then i think it's really an overreach not only are we not following our own policy adoption process um we're overreaching into verifications that are duplicitous each member of this board has already certified under penalty of perjury um where they reside and so for us to then require additional verifications on top of it something i've been talking about since i started on this board was the various barriers that this board puts up to public participation and creating even more barriers and verifications um you're starting to really restrict even more who comes here who's allowed here who's welcome here and i think it's a barrier how can it be a barrier when it's already required right so why are we revising our policy to make it even more duplicitous things that people have already declared under penalty of perjury they register with the secretary of state if it's good enough for the secretary of state what's the problem is the question is why that's the question of the day so dr lee first of all regarding uh your statement that we're not following our policy i respectfully disagree i believe that we are now and i don't have the information i need as a board member it's not it has not been provided to me i don't even see a draft policy okay you've made your position clear i've heard you i'm expressing my opinion now i believe that we are following it now as far as why um you know even though we have stated under penalty of perjury that we do reside within the district over time people can move and your residency can change so this is why we want to do an annual re-verification that everyone continues to meet the requirement what other district does that trustee bruno do you have examples of where that's done in other districts i i i don't know of one you have to do it first i don't know the community's request i don't know if other districts do it or not and frankly i'd like to know what i feel is best for our district and not what other districts do yeah yeah and i and i'd like to deal with best for our district 2 and that means removing barriers that this board continues to set up for people to make it difficult for them to serve and to make it a challenge with additional paperwork and bureaucracy around it it's already been something that each person who's serving has already stated under his penalty of perjury where they reside and each in our policy it outlines what you do when you no longer reside in the district so again it just seems very duplicitous and it seems like we're again just putting up another inconvenience for false i mean who really thinks that someone wants to spend their wednesday evenings um engaging uh in this kind of interaction with someone who doesn't reside or have a time because policy for kids control freaks do you know what we as parents in this district want to make sure that you i'm calling point of order this person's speaking out of order they're not yeah the chair recognizes my name is maryland a parent in this district i removed my children because i didn't feel that these policies were being made by the people in this community i felt like the state is made the secretary of state gavin newsom they're making the policies for our children i want people in my community to make policies for my children not people that don't live here that don't know my kids that can't come to the school and visit my kids or my neighbor's kids if you don't live in this district you don't belong here and if you have a problem with proving it that is an issue the issue that i see as a spectator in this is that why wouldn't you want to prove that you lived here why wouldn't you i mean we're not just arbitrarily as someone who talks about liberty and and all of those other issues um i find it very interesting that we're we're talking about not following our own policies making up additional bureaucracies and and just you know making um board policy on the fly incompetence of this call for the vote so we're going to move to vote at this point roll call vote dr lee what are we voting on i don't unders i don't know what's going on to approve the um the resolution and a second to improve the resolution and we've moved to vote which resolution i'm i'm not understanding let me start what is the update to the policy and how are the verifications going to be provided you have not provided that information to me as a board member yes we did it what will the annual verification process be and what does it mean as the students she's right that we did not do a friendly mr bruno would you like to make a friendly resolution or a friendly amendment to your own resolution first of all i would like to read what we have here um and this will be the first reading board member annual residency verification prior to the governing board's annual organizational meeting each board member must provide verification that they continue to resign via the school district's boundaries this annual verification will be made to the superintendent's office and shall not be made public upon verification from all governing board members the superintendent shall report their findings to the entire board and i would like to amend this to say um acceptable forms of identification would include uh mortgage or lease utility bills or other verifications similar to what students provide so the same requirements as what students are required to provide you say district involvement district yeah yes that's very good okay so can we get can you put together yes so is this the first read of the policy or the second read i'm just curious that was the first read um we're revising it and then we're going to do a second reading oh we're doing it all in one meeting okay that's a new procedure as well okay the procedure does not mention how many meetings it must be spread across and it can be in one it says the superintendent our designee shall develop and present a draft policy for our first reading at a public board meeting at its second reading the board may take action on the proposed policy we are at a meeting we're doing the first reason but we can read it we need a second for the amendment thank you thank you i love you all you know what i just want to say i appreciate you to it i'm like [Laughter] so there was a motion and a second on the friendly amendment because the board would indict carol to read what it is that if this district is unable to verify the documents that they're given that [Laughter] no rush so what was it added to the end the whole thing board member annual residency verification i'm sorry prior to the governing board's annual organizational meeting each board member must provide verification that they continue to reside within the school district's boundaries this annual verification will be made with the superintendent's office and shall not be made public upon verification from all governing board members the superintendent shall report their findings to the entire board acceptable forms of verification could include mortgage lease agreements utility bills and forms used for district enrollment oh yes she did okay okay and so then since that was the amended resolution read for the first time through can we just read it one more time just to be sure absolutely certain thank you karen sorry can you want me to hold it over here i can see you buddy board member annual residency verification prior to the governing board's annual organizational meeting each board member must provide verification that they continue to reside within the school district's boundaries this annual verification will be made with the superintendent's office and shall not be made public upon verification from all government board members the superintendent shall report their findings to the entire board acceptable forms may include mortgage lease agreements utility bills and other forms used for district enrollment [Music] okay first and second second well we've already got a relationship i vote no for the reason stated that we are not following our own board policy for new policy adoptions and i have not received information that was needed i vote hi hi this is anderson i am the chair of outside the resolution is cast moving on to resolute to uh this item f recognition of heritage months of the september board of trustees meeting the board requested stacked and filed a list of heritage-related recommendations from the california department of education's calendar of events special recognition events this modified list is attached with consideration and also provided its possible process for acknowledging recognition do we have a motion to bring it to the floor or to approve so moved i'm sorry are you moving it for discussion before to the floor to the floor great and wait a second second whole second thank you mr friend mrs dr lee and mr rooney um i i have a question regarding this um at the last board meeting dr lee you stated that our intentions were made clear with the revised list that had been put out um i don't understand what you meant by that could you please elaborate yes um i was really speaking to the fact that our board had laid clear parameters um to our superintendent on which list was to be used and then there was a draft list that was circulated that did not include uh the items that were on the list that we had directed our superintendent to use that's what i was commenting on and in that meeting our superintendent did recognize that that had in fact happened and he brought back the list that we were originally discussing okay what do you believe for the motivations that we make clear without risk i said to maintain the status quo uh instead of making a shift to the heritage moderations that was my full statement mr uh trustee bruno uh so mr laira i have a question for you um how did the list grow from the cde list to what you had previously presented uh so i had shared myself and mishanded pickle pickled through the list from cde i put out a list in a friday communication asking all board members to please provide if i missed anything forgotten anything i received feedback actually from you mr bruno uh adding a bunch i think trustee anderson also gave me a couple that i added we did denote on that sample list that there were the ones with asterisks were from cd the others were additional so that's where it came from and upon reviewing tape from last meeting it was clarified so that was my uh mistake i probably should not have asked for any other feedback on that other than what was on the list but that is where it originated from okay and i would like to read from the email that i sent to you i said i've been doing a lot of digging about heritage months and what i found is that almost no two sites colleges cde various diversity websites etc have identical lists i sent an email to the communications office of the cde to inquire about how they determine which months to show on their web page um by the way i still have yet to receive response from them one of the most inclusive calendars i found is that and i provided a link to it i used this site and a few others to complete the below list picking out month-long uh events to honor heritage here's heritages here's the list i compile it admit at least some of this is subjective and it can easily be argued that i'm including or leaving out too many i mostly used heritage month or history month in the name is criterion with a few editions and then i provided the list from that site that included national hispanic heritage month filipino american history month german american history month italian american heritage month lgbtq history month polish american history month national american indian and alaskan asian heritage month black history month irish american heritage month women's women's history month greek american heritage month arab american heritage month tartan scottish american heritage month asian pacific american heritage month haitian heritage month indian heritage month south asian heritage month jewish american heritage month caribbean american heritage month lgbtq pride month portuguese heritage month and the french american heritage month and i said i hope this helps with your efforts to put together a list it's the most comprehensive list i was able to produce and goes well beyond what is recognized by the cde see i took the comment about pulling from the cde to be a starting point what i actually did was not an effort to do to preserve the status quo but to be as inclusive as possible because i believe that every heritage is valued and there's one that that i thought uh that i don't believe has been mentioned on any of the lists and we have a very large population over here is the ukrainian i was unable to find uh the heritage month before the beneficial heritage month but i did look so right off the bat we're getting somebody off croatian americans so um again i'm going by the official heritage month and i was looking for the ones that were already established and i was unable to find one but if if one was established i would be open to doing that as well i'll again just point out something that i've consistently stated i've provided the definition to our board multiple times of what heritage months are and what their purpose and intent is in american culture and history and it really is to elevate marginalized um groups and communities who've been traditionally left out of american history that is the purpose and intent of heritage months and so that's why you see the groups that are mentioned on the cde site so we are in the state of california and so our state has listed the heritage months that are recognized at the federal level and at the state level that's why it's been suggested that we look at that list and that we honor the intent and purpose of heritage months do you have any information on how the cde puts together its list because i was unable to turn up anything on that and if you look at the cde compared to other state agencies their lists are not the same and the only problem i have with that is we're not elected to represent state we're elected to represent the local community that's what the school board is for the local representation that's right and heritage months are for elevating marginalized populations at the local population so let's include what we have here at center i mean i really i really feel like no matter what we do with this now that we've opened pandora's box exactly nothing is going to be right we vote to approve then someone will be left out if we vote to you know we decline the resolution then we're being racist or we're we're not being you know different diverse sensitive it's just it's just such a nightmare i still i mean if i haven't i don't know what i'm gonna do but please i will have by all means motion recognition of certain days or months including purpose and description will be brought to the board by your center community such as district departments school site a class a student or outside community including board members for consideration the district will be the district will include recognitions in the monthly newsletter and the board president will announce them at board meetings so then basically if someone wants to be recognized or someone wants a group to be recognized they bring it forward and the board member could do so absolutely so let's say we're going to celebrate korean heritage fun hey we want to celebrate it in january you bring it to the lord november december and if the board approves so then once it's on the list would it remain on the list in perpetuity or would it need to be brought back again every year what is that i didn't hear it you can bring it back next year you're going to be held responsible yeah i didn't hear your emotion if your emotion included uh creating another list yeah the staff would then publicize that uh approval or that uh yes and foreign it in that month's meeting i would boy think that i think that's a great friendly amendment that um that trustee pope is suggesting um i don't know trustee pope if you're intending that that would preclude the list that superintendent lair has already gathered and that we've looked at multiple times um or if that's attaching on that we're leaving it open so others can also nominate additional months i i just was requesting clarity i'm saying to just eliminate the list because obviously it's causing conflict with the board can you imagine if it was absolutely it's going to cause conflict throughout the district so eliminate the list and have the community come to us our center community and bring forward and then as maryland i'm sorry i called you by your first name i apologize wonderful because as she stated and she had a great idea bring it back next year on a yearly basis the only the only thing i see with that is that is that someone has already brought forth one two three four five six seven eight eight items for approval so would we vote to approve what's already been brought forward or just eliminate that and start fresh and let's embrace our community with what their what is this then we continue to not recognize the marginalized communities that are known and that we've already documented and put forward and i guess i guess what i'm saying is you're saying that people bring it forward that someone already has brought it forward a very easy solution uh dr lee you keep mentioning marginalized groups which if they're adopting to what you just put out there there's nothing that would stop any member of the public or the board from bringing any names on that list forward whether there's a list or not so if if we want to honor and accept that honor for a particular month individuals can notify through any agendaized item you just let the district go work with the the board president at the time we put it on the agenda it it seems to me that that would be a compromise where people problem with this because [Music] you have we're talking about marginal groups so say we have group a over here with two kids in it we come over here with five kids in it group b has a kid they can send to a board meeting and say we want to you know pat ourselves on the back let's have this fancy day group a over here has two kids in it that are artistic and either way then we're going to come forward and say i want dave recognize me aren't we doing the opposite of what we're doing no no no i think no no no so i i think we're over i think we're overthinking the process i think i mean i think what you're saying is right scott is that if we do it the way that that del rey is proposing then it's possible we would require you dr lee to bring each of these forward like for the for the um february one maybe bring it forward in january as one of the items and then just have a standing item on the agenda that would be uh recognition of marginalized groups someone could come up and present it and we could recognize it can we say recognitions um that is the purpose of heritage months to elevate traditionally marginalized and ostracized groups in american culture and history that is the purpose that's why we have black people that's why we have a native american history month that's why we have an lgbtq line those are marginalized there and then steve you have a comment i do have a question okay so you need to walk away for a minute all right let's take your financial reasons sorry yeah i know the meeting's almost over and we're taking a break but i think we need it so just a couple minutes thank you guys for your uh patience and tolerance with that i think we have a a resolution to bring forward and some questions yeah go ahead so doctor they said that you preferred the cdes list because uh it's about the marginalized communities um how do you define who is and who is a marginalized community so in this um motion um the one that's on the table um the list that's been provided um really gives examples of marginalized communities that have you know traditionally and historically been excluded um in various ways um that's where black history month comes from that's where native american history month comes from seek number six appreciation month um if you just look at the lists and the names of the groups um you would be able to hopefully uh better understand how some of those groups um all the groups that are on the heritage month list for the cde have been historically marginalized and actually excluded um from from many uh history storytelling efforts and elevation in the curriculum that's how heritage months came to be as far as i know so the expanded list i provided included jewish american heritage month and i didn't see that in the cde list but i think we can all agree that they have been a marginalized community as well so again i don't think the cde necessarily has it right and the list i provided was an attempt to be inclusive because whether or not a group feels like they've been marginalized gets very subjective so okay i and i i would like to clarify if we're going to improve the lists in here we're approving everything on this list that other list is provided for reference only that's the just the first page was the list but i think that we're going to probably diverge from that so um it'll be root i i'm again making a motion that we approve the eight that are there and if there is a friendly um amendment to have another process where other groups could be elevated um to do that process i think for us to continue to be one of the few districts in the area that doesn't recognize heritage months is deplorable and um and for us to just do it um it's time that's like a small action it's very um performative actually just saying i recognize that you know there there there are these groups who exist in our culture in our society um so i i'm making the motion that we approve the eight that are listed there that the staff procured from the list and that we do have a process to bring others forward as trustee pope had mentioned a second to dr lee's motion um you need to finish the motion to dr lee's motion i believe we have to ask twice hearing no second the motion is done on the floor do we have any other motions to entertain um i do please please i move that recognition days or months including their purpose and or description will be brought to the board flyer center community such as district department school site a class a student an outside community or outside community including board members to be considered for approval if approved the district will include recognitions in the month in the monthly newsletter and the board president will announce them at the board meeting recognitions must be submitted to the district superintendent's office during the month prior to the development of the next board meeting agenda does that mean that steve could submit his list to the superintendent he would submit a day or a month prior to right the recognition oh second the motion is the motion up for discussion or are we just i just seconded oh it's open for discussion yeah um that seems like a really cumbersome process um there's already eight that have been submitted from a member um and so um to just say that those weren't submitted and that a process wasn't used to vet them it's deeply concerning to me i don't think we're saying that that these are going to be disregarded i think that what we're saying is that we're going to put a process in place and that then the ones that you have submitted can be considered under that new process which is a monthly process instead of us stating that we are recognizing those months as a district every month we'll have to come and and say that which doesn't even give folks time to prepare to incorporate that into you know on their activities it wouldn't what would be the purpose of that is my question to the chair what would be the purpose of the monthly approval how would that give staff or faculty time to do anything with with that and i understand what you're saying um i mean i don't think that i don't i don't think it's cumbersome i think if we put the motion or approve this motion um and make it starting next month if there is a month there might not be a month that there is a recognized date or day or month um so i think bringing it to the board when the community member or people our community brings it to the board then we can prior then we can discuss are we going to put a limit on how many times a year we recognize each group because they can come in coincide with national you know another day that it's it has happened during some time here the month that they're recognizing of course okay there should be some guidelines i mean would there be any problem to approving them in advance like if she wanted to say these are the ones i want to present for the whole next year i i mean just from from my standpoint receiving these um and knowing dr lee working with her she probably set up an email and it would probably auto populate anyway so why not just give me the list but i think your point dr lee is recognizing a bigger group right away gives more time for people to acknowledge and see that this board is um standing behind or standing with these eight marginalized groups i don't know why that would give us more time no i just think that's what she's saying yes but i don't understand but that wouldn't give us any more time the problem with um approving these these these eight months what's the problem with that what's the problem with saying leave the board stand by yeah that doesn't have anything to do with that i mean if we're going to say that anyone can bring something forward she's bringing these forward and she's saying what would be the problem with bringing all eight of them forward all at once and you could okay you can that's the beauty of the resolution is that you can have you can submit whatever you want let's add autism and there's a special option okay yeah let's now let's let's let's just take motion and take things not any more than any others so why should they be brought first because she is a community member who's bringing it forward with explanation as to why she feels it needs to be brought forward and then we can choose to vote for it or vote against it then i should bring some i should be able to bring something forward you can anybody can your god that's what the resolution is that anyone in the community the motion sorry the motion is that anyone in the community can bring something [Music] and all these saying dr lee is saying is why couldn't she do all of them at once okay but just so we realized that there will be more added that's fine absolutely but then they would need to be brought forward again the following year yes is everybody so do we want to delete during the month prior um just say prior to the development of the agenda so that she doesn't get it on friday before the meeting when the agenda's already posted and then they're mad because it didn't get included yeah just need to follow the submission for the agendas i mean yeah two of the groups that were on this list that i actually liked and i'll find them um okay but we're not going to vote on those just yet we're just going to vote on the process which is that they can be submitted okay no that's correct they're not mine they're not mine these are the heritage months that belong to america doctor i hope you don't mind that i'm going to say let's wait and submit them for next month because the first one on here is for february so i think we're we're safe in saying that this could be brought forward under the new process next one is that does that sound right to everybody okay so we have a motion and a second is there any more discussion on the motion on the floor which is could you read it one more time i moved that recognition days or months including purpose and or description will be brought to the board by our center community such as district department school site a class a student or outside community including board members to be considered for approval if approved the district will include recognition in the recognitions plural and the monthly newsletter and the board president will announce them into board meetings recognitions must be submitted to the district superintendent's office prior to the development of the next forward meeting agenda only one correction recommendations will be about forward right recommendations must be submitted and we have a motion and a second any further discussion that's exactly where we started out yes it's i'm going to make an additional motion on this item but yeah i guess we're going through the this first part of it so so if you want to make a friendly amendment to the motion that has to be done prior to us voting on the motion okay so i'd like to make a friendly amendment that the list that's already been submitted be approved as well do we have a second on the friendly amendment so that i i'm not understanding the process here um uh president kelly because on the agenda this states that the motion that we're doing action on is on the modified list trustee pope has submitted a completely different motion and that's what we're now discussing so i'm i'm confused about the process because what it says here on the agenda and what we're actually talking about doing are two different things so anyone on the board can submit a motion so i think that that's all copacetic with you would have the right to amend that it sounds like the original proposal or the visual recommendation was not accepted by the board the board came back with a membership with an alternative yeah the board got it first they got a second you would vote on that and then go from there and then we had a friendly amendment which i'm going to ask one more time is there a second to the friendly amendment to approve the list that has been brought before us to are you asking for dicta race no no no so there is no second for the friendly amendment which then has died on the floor and we're going to revert back to the original motion we've already heard it twice is there any further discussion i do i would like to further discuss it because the way that motion is written it says that every single month someone must come i'm again asking for clarification if someone can bring a list um and ask for that to be approved by the government i think we clarified that that can happen under the way that it's worded okay i i still just hear it saying month that will be brought by a member of the community they can if they choose to bring it forward but it has to be submitted prior to the development of the agenda for the following month so in other words they can't bring it in like our meetings on december 15th they can't bring it in on december 14th and say hey i want you guys to approve this it has to follow that's all that piece of it says is that it has to be submitted to the district uh superintendent's office prior to the development of the agenda for the following board meeting so someone could submit a list under that absolutely yes yes i think that's what we determined is that a list could be provided right so any board member any community member and then they would then because we're the ones we're going to try to make sense of all this uh with then uh these lists come forward we then bring it forward to the board for a recommendation to approve the recognition for that month whether it's one or two or whatever heritage months or months are on there correct yeah and then we would then okay i just want to make sure we're i would say that we could approve anything for any time of the year at any time of the year but then the recognition would happen during the month that it applies to correct yes so and i'm very curious about that president kelly because i you know again did ask the board to consider those eight heritage months and the board declined so our board is then saying we don't support uh those heritage months is that correct we're saying we're gonna put this new process into place and then we're hoping that you will bring it forward next month i have a question does that sound weird we are in no way saying that we don't support those communities yes absolutely we are 100 i mean i am for for my clarity just for my clarity so let's just run the course of this board approves this res this paul this uh practice this promotion uh tomorrow let's say dr lee sends me the list of eight uh months so then carol and i then would cue those up we would then bring those months the particular month prior to for the board to recognize supporting that um heritage month for for that time we would then you guys would consider it if approved then the next month when it was being honored we would then put that in there is that just the particular month that pertains to december or october not the whole month not the whole list well it depends on yeah but if i had a list from dr lee that had eight right off the bat for the month of december no you know let's say december or january whenever it comes up whenever it comes up we would then put that on for that time frame correct for the internet fair it doesn't really because we go back to sometimes our meetings they're mid-month and so we're approving we'd be doing it the month prior prior and then it's like we don't have a regular rhythm but but okay yeah i i understand thank you i understand better february which the next one is that in january we would vote on it okay question since we're talking about the calendar and groups and how that's processed there's also on this list a bunch of days that are recognized that's what we said nancy days or months yeah so so that listing is is back up to the original where the eight were called from as heritage month so the board had directed me so that was just his reference so you guys could see that but based on the motion that was just made if approved an individual could bring some of those days forward when and let's see there's there's a bus driver week if transportation wanted to bring that forward it obviously it's not a heritage month but there is a recognition that the board is saying recognition could be straightforward but i think to dr lee's point is she she's saying right now i'm going to submit the eight heritage months and then we would then bring each of those eight back prior to the month that the recognition is being given and then that helps us because then as we're putting out communications we can put that you know the board had approved board is the support center unified school district this in support of uh national african american history month for february so that that's the clarity i need and then if someone wanted something additional mr bruno wanted to bring uh something else we can we'll call that list together well now this is probably not the appropriate place to say it but for next month let's talk about committee updates not being at the end of the meeting so that these poor guys don't have to sit here wait until the very end they'll be here no matter what okay so committee updates item 15 is number one curriculum special education update mike jordan come on down good evening i'm i'm just going to highlight one very positive thing that's happening in the district yeah as we talked about before we brought in social workers we've got uh four different social workers at different sites plus one commission that came from skelly and i want to just give you an uh a piece of information about what they've been able to accomplish at one site and i'm going to pick north country north country is the site that historically we have not had a counselor there before a full-time council or a social worker just in the first quarter this year our social worker has had 64 referrals they've done 40 individuals services with students 186 individual counseling sessions have been delivered 34 lunch punch students these are students are coming into friendship groups those kind of things that uh six peer mediations facilitated gone to 11 different classrooms and and taught uh seo activities and lessons and had 86 parent contacts that's remarkable how much has happened in a short amount of time considering that person is brand new to the school the first few weeks you're just figuring out what's going on social workers are very valuable counselors are very valid as our teachers and everybody else am i discounting anyone else yes but this just shows what the positive impact of this coping money has had and uh also highlights the needs of our students yes uh but we did have an impact on them from a mental health perspective and we're trying to meet that need and i applaud our social workers and those as a aboard the superintendent for uh allowing those funds to go towards that that's right it's the year of the child's mental health their children's mental health i think it is i would argue every year [Music] is i ready or helping with the assessment so we're going into our so we have our baseline data we took the thing in the year we have our second assessment opens up after thanksgiving break we'll go for a few weeks at our next board meeting i'll bring back the data from that from our baseline and hopefully from our psychic uh assessment as well disaggregated right yeah that's right it's actually sitting on my desk very nice all right any questions from mr jordan thank you sir thank you for your patience do we have an update on your brother uh i'll give you my offline committee updates number two facilities update with richard putnam good evening everybody all right so we've got some little updates and then we've got some bigger updates so number one uh for trustee pope i don't know if you've seen but we have the fencing up around the first wing and mccullen high school we also have two gates there to help with some access but we've also still left the open end that would go out towards the playground hardcore area so that way we don't have to go through all the additional uh items with panic hardware and other items for fire codes so we have that all taken care of it's nice iron defense that we did on that [Music] center high school we got the new electronic marquee up the problem is the control panel control board for it went down uh stewart signs is in the process of as soon as they get those components in for building a new one then they'll get it to us so we're hoping here the next couple weeks we will have the sign fully up and running but the top part that says center high school and all that that lights up at night now also so we're making some progress on that is that the same area as the original yes it's right up there in the same and it did drive by and it wasn't working anyway what am i missing yeah so that's why um some bigger items coming up um i was in talk with placer county uh in regards to some of the work they've done here on pfe road because here to the west we've lost access to our property because of the elevation changes so with the developer and with the county they're going to cut us a new access so we have that and having that discussion also i asked them alerga intersection they're hoping to have things wrapped up by the end of this month beginning of december then i asked him the next question what gonna happen yeah that will be happening this next spring and they will be starting at pfe and the wad intersection moving north but that will impact mccullen high school as well we don't know the full extent on that as of yet but that is what discussions i've had with placer county i will reach out to sacramento county traffic because then they're going to have their portion because on the place county side watt's going to be at least four lanes wide if not six they'll have a new bridge which will actually be bigger than the walerga bridge so it's going to become a main thoroughfare in that area and then the last we finally received appraisal on the property for the rex fortune site we have engaged our attorney mr david saldani to negotiate with the property owner and those are currently going on and we will hopefully have some news shortly hopefully good that'll all depend on how fast we can finish up with the negotiation on that and then of course with weather and everything i would anticipate if it was a perfect world we'd probably be breaking ground probably april wow nice thank you any questions ceremony thank you thank you mr partner okay moving on to item number 16 board and superintendent reports uh i have a question is 10 minutes supposed to be our total time for this typically yes oh my goodness okay well let's try and keep an eye on that for tonight let's try and be mindful of that a little bit okay so uh dr lee would you go first please i went first the last time i prefer for someone else to go first this time mr bruno would you like to go first and then we'll go back to dr lee sure um i would like to start off by saying i apologize to everyone for my continued coughing up here good news is i got tested today it's not covered it's just cold um but it is quite annoying and i appreciate everyone staring with me and making adjustments to kind of put me back in the corner here um and in other personal news um last week i took advantage of the holiday and uh using some vacation time to schedule getting my uh booster shot and some time to recover because it is not easy on me personally but um i did get that and um and then just as i was recovering from that i got hit with the cold because that's the way life works um and i would just like to state that in my opinion bringing forth what's going on with me should be the driving force behind our board reports however last month some comments were made during board reports that well frankly i felt attacked and there was no place on the agenda to address that so i would like to take a moment to address that here um i'm far from a perfect individual there are many valid criticisms of me um i'm rather disorganized and unpolished which is why i read from just some general notes and i don't have a formal well-written speech and i'm clearly not going to be taken off in the political world and i'm okay with that um my family will tell you that i can just stick there for rules and they encourage me to be more flexible that's not easy for me i've been told that i can come across as condescending at times my kids will tell you that i have a horrible sense of humor and i love dad jokes a little too much [Music] um my wife will tell you that i have no fashion sense and only fake it because i have teenagers and a wife to help me out however those are all valid criticisms of me and i accept them you know i may not entirely agree with them but i accept those criticisms however to say that i in any way shape or form um am approving of racism or homophobia shows an ignorance for who i am as a person and i find it grossly offensive um yes some comments have been made during board meetings that i considered to be racist for homophobic and i didn't sit by quietly i spoke up i made my feelings known and not to be naming names but i reached out to trustee anderson and sent her an email letting her know that i was upset by her comments and that was followed by a lengthy phone call that was not entirely pleasant um and we both had a very deep discussion and i think we both came to understand each other much better and um you know i i understand better where she's coming from she better understands where i'm coming from i didn't just let the comments slide instead i discussed it with her as an adult and i think that um that she really did develop a better understanding of where i'm coming from and i can say i honestly believe that her comments were coming from a place of poor word choice and not understanding the hurtful nature of what she was saying and not from a place of hatred and you know one of the things that i mentioned is as a country we do have some some things in our history that are not good and we need to analyze those and change and do better and she said that gives me something to think about and i i appreciated that conversation and i thank you very much i think that is a mature way to handle disagreements um regarding the comments that were made at last month's board meeting i tried to follow a similar procedure i emailed you dr lee and said that i would like to speak with you about it but you said due to the hostility between board members that you would prefer to communicate via email so i put my thoughts into an email to you and i did not get a response regarding hostility between board members to be blunt i don't see any hostility between board members that doesn't include you and i think at some point you need to own your role in that um [Music] excuse me a moment um you said that you want to work together but i'm not seeing an effort to do that when you won't respond how can we resolve our differences and get to a working relationship at our training a few months back it was stated that no board member can accomplish anything by themselves and that is a hundred percent true if we if we're going to accomplish anything we need to do it as a team we don't always have to agree and we can passionately disagree but we can do so respectfully and we can then leave it at the door and move on and come back to the next meeting and start fresh community members have reached out noticing obvious tension between dr lee and trustee anderson i'm asking you to to sit down and resolve these differences and quit dragging the rest of us into it so that we can get on with the business of the board i'm more than willing to do that you'll have your moment um and frankly this disruption is not professional it's not providing a good role models for the students that we represent and we should all do better thank you thank you dr lee yes um i'm going to reserve my board report to reporting on things that i've been doing and not on commenting about fellow board members or trying to police or or make comments about their behavior because i find that highly unprofessional um so welcome welcome to november it's hard to believe how the months are flying and i find this behavior it's just indicative it's been ongoing um and i don't know if you notice how you look um it's hard to believe how the months are flying as we continue to navigate this global pandemic i hope that our students and our families are safe and well i had a parent drop into my office hours this month with special education services concerns and i did refer them to the superintendent and hopefully they're able to get those issues resolved i just want to again say to all of our parents um whether your student is receiving special education services or whether they're from a marginalized racial group or other marginalized groups you're welcome here at this district so i want to report that i'm really excited that we've approved the district's participation in the california school board association's equity network activities for the spring i think that we're waiting for the registration form to open up for that but i'm really excited to participate in that myself and president kelly and superintendent lair are going to be signing up for that and i think it's great that we're going to move forward and move ahead with learning more about how to govern with an equity lens because i think that that's something that's so crucial for our education and and for our agile educational efforts at this time um i also want to thank and recognize our community members for november uh is california sick awareness and appreciation month as well as national native american heritage fund and both groups uh have made many sacrifices for our communities locally and nationally so thank you and elevating those months which are taking place now hoping that our teachers and our staff are celebrating these heritage months with that my next open office hours are monday december 6 and you can access the zoom link on the board website my open office hours are open to all so i welcome my colleagues here on the board community members anyone who'd like to connect with me that's a consistent time and place welcome to drop in anytime during the hour four to five on first mondays i remain holding those consistently and love connecting with my colleagues as well as community members and so be safe and be well and we'll be in touch soon that concludes my report thank you um i'm going to go ahead and go next just because mine is not that long i just want to say happy holidays to everyone i'm looking forward to spending a real thanksgiving with real people and you know being able to actually interact so that should be great fun and i hope you are all vaccinated and intermingling with other vaccinated persons um you know yeah that's my my feeling but anyway um recognitions this month of new people and promotions and retirements so um on the classified personnel we have jamie buchholz who is retired rose marie huggins congratulations marie for your retirement sandy wise library technician and then we have promotions kiera jennings who's uh staff secretary to a curriculum and instruct curriculum and instruction sorry leslie rodriguez the bilingual assistants from spinelli elementary school georgia standdiffer campus monitoring center high school and new hires welcome to the district nancy martinez ramos who is a bus attendant tina milton noon duty aid samantha murphy behavior specialist 2 elizabeth pineal instructional specialist at dudley elementary and for our certificated personnel we have anthony quantomatio oh please tell me i said that right i don't know at center adult school fun to matio sounds right and um that's it so welcome and congratulations on the retirements and promotions and that concludes my would you like to do this um just as a reminder it was brought to my attention that not everybody knows where to get the agenda when they're watching via live stream so the agenda is on the district website it's right above the live stream link actually if you want the backup and board packet go to the district website site menu boards board meetings and the links are all listed there um i did hear a concern from community members that once we do not approve av that we will no longer live stream and this confusion came from last meeting when there was a comment made about our digital processes so i'd like to reassure that we will be live streaming from for from now on or going forward the only change if the resolution is not approved for the public is that public comments will be made in person we will not take written or or phone calls correct correct correct okay and then a point of clarification and i'm i'm going to go with steve here um in regards to last meeting i'm going to say this once and and i'm going to be done but i need to clarify i want to thank the community members are reaching out to me in regards to last month's meeting i was not in attendance due to a prior obligation however i did watch in the live stream and i have to agree i was totally embarrassed by the continued figuring and animosity within the sport this has now continued for almost a year also to call me racist or mcfarland hater more than once in this public forum is untrue i do not am not and will not ever pin down such behavior you do not know me we have never met we have never spoken publicly or even had a personal email to say such negative words is a form of bullying and it shows the inability to communicate sometimes you have to look at the character within before you judge or label me or others i highly suggest airing your grievances with one another and hopefully before the next coordinating these actions are ineffective to the business of this board we are losing focus on our purpose which is to serve the students and that's my hope this is anderson this has been a long time coming to many of you i have an apology and i'm sorry i had just been at my wit's end over what's been going on with these board meetings i have been a member of this board for longer than i care to admit but i have never seen a new new board member come in and immediately start jumping down the throats of bella board members and attacking staff it usually takes a full year for a new board member to learn the district and its programs you don't just jump in and start telling tearing people apart comments to staff members have been rude and condescending attacking people who are are too professional and possibly afraid to speak up because they are will employees the open hostility and hate has been that you have created i did not in the beginning do anything to you or say anything to you the only conversation we've ever had is i asked you if you got the recording of me congratulating you when you won the election and you jumped down my throat you said you never got the recording the next meeting i said something earlier what it's called point of privilege it's [Music] every right to speak her mind and she would write myself against you every immediately it's my turn and i'm putting it into it right now that's great but what you're saying is false it's simply not in the heat of an argument over transgender let's go by [Music] one word i have been in this district for 23 years i fought tooth and nail for a transgender teacher who had did nothing wrong to keep his job the people in this district know me they know my character for you to sit there and repeatedly i think 20 times in your statement say that i was racial prejudiced and i am not homophobic i'm not prejudiced and for you to sit there and repeatedly say it in a public meeting with community members is horrible so if you want to know how the troubles coming from you look at yourself if you're going to point of privilege this board act wonderfully for years until you walked in the door without ever an argument enough said when she was attacked again we did not allow her to respond and we were not going to allow you to respond so i just hope that my objections and my points of privilege make it into the record that is what i'm requesting okay yeah please so i just want to take a moment to acknowledge and appreciate the board for your action tonight to approve the uh the bond uh sale uh we look forward to that next phase in evolution of districts some of us who've been in the district uh for some years i have really looked at the growth that we see moving in that area we've been hearing about it since the first day i started this district so it's really nice to finally see uh that coming through um so i also wanted to add with that just a thank you to mr putnam and miss coronado we've spent a lot of time behind the scenes working with the bond agency your action tonight solidified the work we've been doing we appreciate cfw and the work they've done to help us get to this point um so i just want to publicly acknowledge the two of them for the extra time they provided with that i also wanted just to to to echo the comments it's funny mr jordan and i did not talk about his comments but i wanted to say it's so neat we we see the uh plethora of supports we have for students mental health within our district now uh it's a great need and as a result of that we're seeing a lot of benefit to our students in our community the work that mr miranda does is also to be complimented um and and the giving nature that i heard from this board and even the community how do we get how do we help how do we support so we'll make sure we get an email to staff to show them that they can uh provide that support and then finally i just want to wish everyone a happy holiday happy thanksgiving i can't believe that we're already to november and it's thanksgiving time um and i know that we'll be in graduation before we know it so uh with that i i thank you i wish everyone a great week away i think we all need a little vacation so thank you very much have a great evening that's all i have tonight and happy thanksgiving we have a motion to adjourn oh no i'm sorry we still need to talk about i apologize advanced planning future meeting dates regular uh next regular meeting will be wednesday december 15th at 6 00 p.m here in the district board room room 503 browse middle school 47 47 p.m et cetera et cetera uh do we have any suggestions i adjust the items i do um we had an apparently a grandparent here that wanted us to agendize their in their situation is that something we could do in closed session it doesn't definitely matter that would run through an iep that legal process so i would want to run it through that if a complaint or something came up i would think we need to drive it to the process so i'll work with mr jordan i will follow up with the board to ensure okay um that that matters address but i think it might be well out of order because i think there's more context that the iep process might be working through okay thank you yeah i don't think we can agenda as a student an iep yeah and i did since i did want to also plan as mr jordan we do have on we'll bring forward the assessment data broken down i think he's going to use the ap and the ira stuff yeah so i thank you in uh sorry i'll call you out based on your comment you're not up on your email i've heard from all four board members on dates so there's a couple dates sitting in your inbox um so not to call it down the rest of these folks were really quick you guys and i got all four responses for four so kelly homework there's some dates that are out there also there's another potential possible date uh for a uh special meeting in december uh to address the educator effectiveness that i think i've spoken and shared with each of you and then also if we do get close to a land deal we may want to have a close session with our attorney on that piece as well so maybe if you can buy those two so the dates are out there for december and then um there's some two january saturdays that are left but i think everyone all four of you except kelly will see if those work for you now get with monica yeah i do have a couple um one i'd like to bring forward the eight heritage months that were submitted in this month's packet to our next meeting for board consideration and approval um two i heard one of the parents um and they've spoken to us a couple of times now asked that we take a stand on the covet 19 policy issues so i'd like to see that agenda is at our next meeting i'd also like to just have more clarification about our public our new public comment process i don't know how it was communicated to community members and um you know how we're going about promoting that so just bringing that to our next meeting and the last one is something that's actually in our board bylaws but we haven't had to my knowledge i'd like to bring up a discussion of a student board representative at our next meeting yeah we've had it in the past because we know that we can't have it we can't have it we will definitely have them right now we just did not have them so we absolutely would bring bring that back for sure we're just it was really a covet matter because we were distanced so are we not emergency anymore no we are so as if you're not legal is that satisfying is that okay or do you want to deserve i would like to bring it as a discussion item um to our next meeting if possible um so that we can get moving on it um i serve on um other boards and they're student reps and they've been serving throughout this pandemic so yeah so are we allowed to have them right now or do you know we just for my clarity that uh leon your second request their code you said come in 19 you mean the board stance on vaccination on the board stance on on mandates and they were talking about the mandates so i i don't understand is it she wants each board member's opinion on the mandate i think there wants to be what i thought i heard was a discussion around the mandates i think yeah what will happen is if it's agendas that will open it up to public comment and um board discussions i don't think there's a choice last month it was on the agenda i can't remember are you guys gonna what i wanted to know just to clarify is are you going to work mandate it's up to you guys to enforce you know you hire and you fire your teachers what are you going to do with your employees that don't want a vaccine are you they're getting tested but that's not right that's not forever next month that's they're trying to change that osha is trying to change that so again this is not agenda right now so the board cannot discuss sorry sorry sorry i know better but definitely we will bring it forward next month and we will be able to answer those questions or at least answer them to the best of our ability at that point um the board will not continue in closed session item number 19.

i had to find one and then circle yeah i don't think it's in alphabetical order either i i gave up trying to find out what the reason was i make sure you have all these in the order they were submitted i worked for the state too long it's sometimes you just kind of overlook those things obviously in my case i quit reading as i got to the last one i'm so happy to be finished with them all right all right uh another discussion item here with our discussion items is uh be our facility study this one um i've given you a bunch of information this first sheet the short sheet with numbers on it i got from the the city these are the number of lots or units that were created over the last 10 years in our in our area in our district these are our buildings that were built houses that were put up okay so this was our last 10 years of growth as far as houses are concerned this sheet of paper that you see is a fascinating one it is our from from 20 the 2011 12 school year all the way to the 21 22 school year it is our enrollments for every grade level and then at the bottom in the bold type you've got your building enrollments you'll see like on eagle view i did a dark yellow from three from the 18 19 school year to the 1920 school year because eagle view school went from 369 students to 349 students it took a large drop there what you see is that in the 1718 school year we had 172 kindergarteners that the next year became 166 first graders which then left eagleview so that was a large class going through and so that lighter yellow is a step going through so when i'm looking at this i see that next year um fourth grade we've got a big class of 162 fourth graders they're going to be moving into fifth grade next year my middle school is going to be a little bit larger as far as its enrollment goes i did this because i was looking at when was it a big jump in a a small jump trying to find some pattern some reason we've had a lot of growth in houses over the last 10 years what this shows us is that we had our total enrollment was 2097 in the 2011-12 school year this year it's 1952 okay so we've gone down in the last 10 years with these new houses coming in part of that has to do with covid you'll see that we actually went from 2097 to 2010 in 1920 and then the last two years we did take a jump and i think we talked about people going across the river because of the masked mandates the missouri people are leaving illinois for a lot of reasons and it doesn't we live this close to the border it makes sense that they might send their kids over there too before they can get over there um but this enrollment the the key question i have for the board and the conversations i've been having with local people as i get chances is with the number of houses that have grown why have in our numbers and then you know because we're posed with a question in the next 10 years we're going to see another influx of a lot of houses do we need to look at that so this is for you to think about ponderon i also have for you a map of like the high school and it then the sheet of paper that goes with the high school shows you that in first hour we only have two empty classrooms in the high school second hour we have three empty classrooms fifth hour there's only one empty classroom as is sixth hour and one empty classrooms third and fourth second third and fourth hour when we have the most open classrooms with three or four i'm looking at this and i'm seeing our high school being rather full if we wanted to add another program like the three programs mr reeves talked about today luckily some of those are going to be done in the greenhouse which is a room that's not on our map but our high school is pretty full our middle school our newest building does have some room you can see where fifth grade is we've got some empty rooms um that is the building that has the most space parkview is pretty full however we have the administration offices here we've talked before about how we could move out we could move into other locations maybe we could move to the middle school where there's room that would you know or we don't want to have to pay rent someplace the middle school has it we could do that that would alleviate parkview a little bit eagle view is also extremely full and so as we're looking at our enrollments looking at our facilities we need to start having a discussion as to what do we think the next 10 years are going to bring us as far as students and how do we make sure we don't get slammed with overcrowding if we do happen to go up um i think for me the biggest question is with the houses that have grown why haven't we grown in numbers um i don't you know the information i have are the number of houses it doesn't tell me what price range these houses are in are they you know more older families that don't have kids yet are they you know and so there's a lot of factors involved luckily we have a real estate agent on our on our board that might be able to look at some of those things um but what we need to do is is really think about what's going to happen to our growth in the next 10 years and if there's something that we're doing that has stopped our growth because they're sending kids elsewhere i mean i can't do anything about the missouri mandates being less than the illinois mandates but if there's something else that they're not sending their kids here for that we can correct i'd like to know maybe we'll talk after class or maybe we need to have an open forum where we invite the public in to talk about some of those things um or maybe if we could go send an email or a letter to the parents who have left the district to find out why that might be a lot of work to figure out who those people are but to ask for honesty on why they left i thought of it at the last minute tonight about 4 30 and i uh i sent a text message to five families that i know that have done that i got replies from two so i'd rather hear from everybody you know you see but but more than anything i mean the the people that are going over to missouri they're going over there for uh catholic schools most of them maybe there might be somebody thrown schools but it's faith-based as well too so there's that there's that component of it as well but i got some feedback from it and i'll share it but like i said only got responses from two people because i thought of it too late today but when i get i i will hear from the other three and so i can share that with them with everyone and looking at this development like walnut ridge they're just now starting to develop that so they have 34 down but those haven't been built yet and then i think briar lake over the last 10 years those lots were developed probably more than 10 years ago but they built up over the past 10.

and mccabe goes over the top of biggins and can goes over it and and giroux is certainly not happy about that mccabe kicking the ball after the whistle into the net and canton fan section booing for absolutely no reason yeah i'm unsure what that was i think that they thought that was a goal yeah they thought that was a goal but clearly mccabe went right over the top of biggins yeah no whistles and whistle was called and now mccabe does it again and is booked once again mccabe's certainly a physical player yeah i'm surprised he hasn't been carded yet he's yet to do something severe enough but he's using his body pretty well colin evans crossing can't get his hips around bouncing ball inside of the 18. evan's looking to make a play in front of the net ball goes out of bounds just under two minutes remaining in regulation rougieri with the goal kick now [Music] sends it to midfield headed by ryan morneau up to sonny mazza mazza head ball over satout but then dowling's there to take out the trash clears it past midfield to ryan morneau mckinney a pass to shea shea looking out wide dribbling and passes it back to dowling dowling a very long through ball up to volvino and giroud goes up for it and volvo vino makes contact with giroux and that'll do it for regulation of this final four soccer game between the cannes bulldogs and east long meadow spartans and we are heading into overtime so the rules of overtime chad golden goal 10 minutes first to score wins if nothing happens in the first overtime we go to round two once again same exact rules first person to score wins if we surpass that then we go into shootouts five rounds and obviously the people are excuse me the so we are getting yes right now five minute break so each team will be able to regroup as i was saying so i was interrupted by the pa announcer um but five rounds of shootouts and the positioning of who shoots first will be decided come then with i believe i i think a coin toss but that's if we cross that bridge so four minutes remaining in the break and each team is regrouping and the captains are getting together with the referees at midfield to get ready for overtime this score is currently 1-1 scoring for canton jake mccabe and it's going for east long meadow luke mazza so far this second half has been back and forth but east long metal able to get that quick goal early in the second half is led us to our current point and hopefully they'll be able to bury one in overtime sending them to the state championship fun fact three western mass teams are remaining in the final four east long meadow west springfield and i believe um longmeadow so three western mass teams remaining in the final four canton being the only team outside of western mass remaining in the final four and i believe the west springfield and long meadow final four game is occurring tonight i am not exactly sure what that score is perhaps chad will look it up for me that'd be phenomenal and he looks to be doing so at the moment so once we get that information we will relay that to you it is nice and overcast here tonight and sky looks to be clearing up a little bit i can see the moon so beautiful night here a light wind going from our right to left but overall this has been an amazing night for soccer it is 43 degrees right now mostly cloudy and shad and i might be freezing our tails off a little bit up here but uh because we are currently i don't know probably not dressed appropriately but not appropriately we you know obviously we wanted to go with the more uh formal look tonight however we probably could have brought an extra one of those i forget what those long coats are or whatever probably could have brought one of those along trench coat thank you peacoat yep probably could have brought one of those along but uh me and chad are just you know living out the new england weather right now gotta love [Music] it we're having a lot of fun here at aztec stadium in marlborough or near marlborough i don't know if it's in marlborough that aspects casabiz technical high school and canton will be kicking off the first overtime jake mccabe sending it back to dowling dowling sends it sky high and it's headed down jacob paschetta chasing it now and allows the ball to go out of bounds east long metal throwing now for jacob paschetta and that ball goes over luke mazza shea shea stepping up into evans able to connect with the ball mourinho and sends it out wide to brunel colin evans with a great shield to get around eagles evans tries to get it inside to brunel and it's cleared out by dowling ben biggins with the throw in now for east long meadow just around midfield biggins to brunel brunell a head ball directly to shea and shea heads it out east song metal throwing again for ben biggins biggins a long throw in inside the 18.

we have a motion motion to adjourn any second second thank you [Music] hello good night happy thanksgiving for hanging out all right

they just were filled so this is just showing probably anything new that's been approved in the last 10 years but not necessarily what has been built okay so what you're saying if i'm hearing you correctly was that in the last 10 years these would have been put on the docket but they still haven't been done well correct some of them like walnut ridge jazz and walnut jet there's rice that's good okay so but for instance briar lake was developed probably well over 10 years ago but sat fairly dormant for many years and then over the last six or seven really built up yeah empire lake isn't on there so what you're telling me what i'm hearing you say is is that our growth might not have been with a bunch of new houses we might not have actually stayed flat because we didn't see much growth of families brought to this community in the last 10 years what the question might be to the city how many new construction permits did we have over the past 10 years instead of what's been planted yeah right um yeah that would be that would be the question and then you know from i mean along with what you were talking about you know other places this the some of these homes here folks have moved from other parts of the city or this community and moved into these homes and then you know we have younger folks that don't have kids or what have you into smaller homes or homes are like like me i moved out of a bigger home and into a condo so next steps do we want to not in december but like in january have an open forum where we discuss some of the the curricular see what kind of feedback we get and that and that kind of thing to see why you know and is it is it more on the high school end of things um you know folks going going here for for a park and middle school and then and then they go someplace else for high school um you know that's that's what we need to look at i mean your trends here we should we should be able to see in you know five ten kids on on 2000 is is a lot yeah i mean you know our numbers aren't huge so every every student counts one thing that i have heard is years ago we must have done placement so when kids from ics would come over they could place if they were ahead they didn't maybe have to take algebra they could skip up to algebra two and then we quit doing that and so then the kids were coming over and they weren't challenged for their first year or two and kind of got bad study habits and then it's interesting that you bring that up because that's one of the things that um we're looking at is uh the eighth grade math uh placements and how that works so that is something that alyssa's been diving more into so and you're right that is something we had in the past but i you know of course my youngest has been out of school for a while but you know it and i want to say it again beauty and the beast was a fantastic performance it seemed odd to me to be the in a middle school to watch the high school play an auditorium at our high school would be something that i think that our children deserve um and then and then their the cafetorium is nice but it's you know i was sitting in the back and that's fine my kids weren't in the play but having stadium seating in a nice auditorium would be uh nice and i i'm sure mr reeves would love to have assemblies and whatnot in a much larger uh area and then you start looking at things that you can do if you have an auditorium with a big things you could actually in your cte classes start doing set design classes you know your art department could be making the handouts for the the plays and stuff and so you can really start integrating these pieces um a health classroom that's located by the gymnasium with big windows can turn into a event for senior nights where your foods class you you mr reeves read this somewhere i forget but we were talking about it how your foods class cooks the food and you've got students serving it for your senior parents to be able to sit there and watch the game and you could rent out this room possibly for some of the games and stuff i mean there's a lot of neat things that a a high school would allow us to do curricularly that would be getting those kids involved i mean mrs smith's writings today we've got a lot of very active kids learning in the classroom let's bring the community in and let them see that that that kind of integration is anyway um i'm getting off my soapbox i'm sorry we'll need to discuss this more though because um our high school is pretty full and all right i think it's important our job is always looking to the future and planning and being prepared so okay c is our individual member comments board members have anything they want to talk about board parents is prerogative you guys have heard way too much of me tonight so i'm not going to say anything more and that we do have executive session we do have an executive session but i don't think we have any action nothing coming out of this evening so uh you guys are more welcome to stick around until we get out of the executive session we're just going to make an emotion adjourned but it's it's riveting if you want to come catch that but uh there will be no action from that so uh did you sign in okay i'll call you tomorrow thank you if somebody would like to make a motion to enter executive session do we adjourn we have to adjourn we adjourn from this one then we enter okay it's pushing to adjourn make a motion to adjourn like andrew no second time thank you adam have a motion in a second kim please yes hi lisa schumacher yes tyson search yes adam henkin tammy hines yes andrea corey yes perfect all right directive session thank you all for attending all right we are adjourned from executive session back in open session uh there's no action items as a result of our executive session i don't believe any new business in front of the board and we have anything with that i had entertained a motion to adjourn so i moved thank you scott driver second second nice and second roll call please tyson yes lisa yes heinz yes yes yes yes perfect motion passes that concludes our meeting thank you very much for attending [Music] you

the sunny mazda mazda shoots and it's blocked by number 20 jay keller an amazing defensive play from keller to keep that ball from going anywhere near the goal east longmeadow as a result has a corner kick ryan brunell taking it passing it to colin evans evans lets it goes past him bru morneau rips a shot and it goes sailing over the crossbar east longmeadow has sent a lot of shots over the crossbar this evening hopefully at some point you know they'll be able to get over the ball a little bit more and put her home gary with the goal kick now sends it just short of midfield evans goes over the back of shane heads it evans a through ball up to sonny mazza mazz is in a foot race with dowling mazza able to win inside the 18 dowling forced to clear it toward the sideline and out of bounds sonny mazzle with the throw in for east longmeadow unfortunately they will not have dante bates here to make this throw in which he usually does i believe it was him that got injured earlier right i believe so sonny mazza throwing inside and they're going to call it a goal kick deflected out of bounds off of east long meadow canton giovanni rougary will be taking the goal kick just over seven minutes remaining in the game excuse me in the first overtime grew gary playing it up field short of midfield and biggins heads it down comes right back out to keller and he's able to head it up luke mazzle with it on the near sideline eagles breaks up that pass mazza's second attempt goes to evans evans a soft touch pass up to morneau morneau across to the far post looking for benjamin biggins and i believe that's mckinney mckinney lets that ball go out of bounds going to be goal kick for giovanni rougary rougary sends it to dowling dowling contested by mazza and mazza able to deflect it to morneau mourinho into the middle of the kirana karana plays it back to pachetto pachetto up the sideline keeping it in bounds sends a far through ball out of the reach of mazza and rougary with another goalkeck allows his team to move up field through gary gold kick ends up on crude now krug now excuse me and canton with a free kick just short of midfield excuse me just past midfield dowling lined up to kick dowling sends a pass up the sideline to mckinney mckinney across and it goes to the left of the net way high out of bounds ben giroux will have a goal kick just over five minutes remaining in the first overtime score is one to one giroux his goal kick goes to midfield right off the dome of shea moreno a head ball looking for karana and keller's clear goes off of an islam metal player canton throwing and mckinney over on the far sideline taking the throwing gives it to mccabe mccabe shielding off biggins a great move around biggins creates some space voldevino the ball on the sideline passes back to mccabe mccabe looking for options gets a shot on net and it goes off the post and a rebound is blocked by enzo mazza and mazza flying out of nowhere diving blocking the rebound giroux seemed to be caught off guard on the shot there and enzo mazza goes down hard and is certainly very very slow to get up in some visible pain but mazel with an absolutely heroic use of his body to defend that play from getting any worse unbelievable what a play from enzo mazza to sacrifice himself for the sake of this soccer game and keeping east longmeadow tied with canton and mazza sitting up now slow to get onto his feet but he is and he slowly comes off unreal canton will have a corner kick jake mccabe taking it 354 remaining in the first overtime jake mccabe lined up to kick as he waits for enzo mazza to get off the field [Music] and some let's go spartans cheers and let's go bulldogs cheers from both sides mccabe with a chip headed out by colin evans right back to mccabe mccabe defended nicely by ryan brunell and brunel's clear is deflected out by mccabe and that ball goes out of bounds mccabe's throwing looking for volvino inside the 18 volvino shielding the ball and luke mazza comes in from behind and toe pokes out of bounds corner kick now for jake mccabe 3 30 remaining on the game clock [Music] jake mccabe a low laser to the far post mon carano heads it towards the top of the 18 ryan brunell chasing it down mccabe coming after him sonny mazzle with it now mccabe coming after mazza mazza crosses inside and sit out chasing it down and ends up by rougieri brunel with it now crosses inside to evans evans playing out wide to biggins biggins to presnel on the sideline president nice head fake move towards the flag crossing side and a head ball from colin evans goes just wide of the right side of the net chad i thought it was in i did i almost said it but i waited and thank god i did what a play there though from from fresno a great head fake on the sideline to give himself some space and a beautiful cross inside of the six to find evan's head chrono with an out pullback move inside to sonny mazza mazzle gets a shot on net and it goes left and wide under two minutes remaining now it'll be a referee's time in this first overtime session mckinney with the ball on the sideline mazza chipping it to evans and it's cleared out by sitaup chased down by mourinho and he sends the ball up to colin evans evans has got a little space one-on-one with shea evans passing it to mourinho mourinho one touch pass looking inside of the 18 and it's cleared out by dowling mourinho again a volley dowling blocks and then a send-in i believe from kirana ends up in the hands of rougary rugeri a low punt to the opposite side of the field and patrick stevens steps up keller putting it back in to the zone mccabe i would estimate just a near around a minute remaining in the first overtime volavino chasing down mazza mazza beautiful pullback move good to see enzo mazza back in the play volvino chasing down mazza and mazda's able to maintain possession sonny mazzanau touching it around a defender across it from joe presnell ends up inside and it's headed out by ken a great defensive play by cannes defense and now they have enzo mazza set up as a midfielder instead of a defender and they'll look to take a more aggressive approach and a timeout taken by east longmeadow i would say chad probably under a minute now remaining in the first overtime so both teams getting together to regroup 1-1 is the score i believe he saw metal will set up for a throwing if i'm not mistaken yeah we'll see who takes that throwing certainly someone with a cannon i would assume yep that's usually the play from coach serafino so chad this this first overtime has been back and forth quite a bit some outstanding scoring opportunities from both team recent one from colin evans just missing the head ball to the right side of the net and then one for canton and enzo mazza had to sacrifice himself to save from the rebound and did so but if he did not i don't know if this game would be continuing right now yep absolutely and now we'll start back up and it will be a throw on freestyle metal i believe it is for shadow and ben weldon i think is also coming into this game now i don't know if he was in before so throwing now far side pachetta and weldon yes did check into the game pachetta's throwing to weldon weldon gets ahead on it sonny mazza inside the six and rougary comes out and makes a big save his punt short of midfield pachettel steps up on volvino able to win the battle pachetta's pass broken up by baird paschetto again and shea popping it up to volvino volvino contested by stevens and mccabe a chip pass and that pass is going to end up in jerusalem and that'll do it for the first overtime we are going into the second over time between these two teams wow this is unreal and i mean chad islamido again coming alive in the second half able to tying the game and now we have gone through one overtime already very even so far and we are going right back into the second overtime no break oh okay and the second 10 minute overtime just about to start we are currently pushing over the two-hour limit or excuse me not limit but we are over the two-hour mark of the soccer game currently the time is 708 eastern time so that is a total of two hours and eight minutes in this soccer game keller knocking the ball out of bounds jacob paschetta with the throwing on the near sideline [Music] paschetto eyeing up the field fires it towards the pk mark ball pops out mourinho chasing it down and a great defensive play from number 10 of canton and he passes baird's pass goes to volvino krugnali back to baird beared a quick pass inside to mckinney mckinney defended well by evans evans able to shield him off touches it back to enzo mazza brunell a cup move past mckinney and he sends it the opposite direction towards ahmad kharana karana a pass to sunny mazza mazza a chip pass inside ryan brunell gets a shot an amazing save by giovanni rougary to keep this game tied this time brunel in that position was able to get over that ball and he had a great shot on net unfortunately he could not get by the keeper unbelievable save there for more gary [Music] and rougary punts it over midfield piranha sending it out wide ryan brunell in a foot race with mckinney brunell playing footsie plays it to mazza mazza cup move around shea got a little bit of running room tries to rip a shot on and it's blocked down by satou kicks back out to mccabe mccabe some running room sends a big through ball up to ben giroux and goes drew keeps it in play and brings it all the way inside of his 18 and picks it up giroud's punt sails past midfield on to colin evans a beautiful directed head ball out wide to presnel president one on one was with dowling president a beautiful pass out wide to my corona chrono takes a shot on net and it goes high over the crossbar 7 30 remaining in the second overtime gary with the goal kick gary plays it out to dowling dowling all the way up for the vino voldovino cross inside and drew comes out of the net and scoops it up geru colin evans a pass up to eagles eels out wide of volvino ben giroux coming out of the net a shot on net it goes just wide and jacob paschetto re-gathers the ball sends it up to enzo mazza mazza quiche touch past morneau and it looks like we have vol devino down on the far side inside of the 18 a through ball up to sonny mazza rougary comes out of his net and voldavino is still down in the attacking zone near benjaroo inside of the 18.

fall the vino is still down and they're finally going to blow the whistle for the vino certainly in some significant pain as benjaroo goes over to check in on him so we do have an update from our camera operator i know this might get a little hearts racing but please bear with me and relax we only have 11 remaining on our battery 15 excuse me it's gone up that's a good sign it's gone up so we have 15 percent remaining on our battery and if it goes out just immediately refresh your live stream or home page excuse me our home page our look at home page and we are going to start a new stream off of a phone so we are going to get the stream back to you you just might not have our commentary but you'll be able to at least watch the rest of this game voldavino still down slow to get up is helped up by enzo mazza and taken towards the sideline voldovino was was down for quite some time but he seems to be walking on his own strength back to the canton bench six minutes remaining in the second overtime a lot of injuries in this game yeah if you're just joining us perhaps uh in the first half of the soccer game east long meadows number one michael monroe suffered a hip injury and was stretchered off of the field [Music] so our thoughts and prayers go out to him six minutes remaining in the second overtime period is still one to one and if no goals are scored and a live ball drops to dowling darling sending it all the way up satout chasing it down jacob paschetto jacob pachetta able to win that battle and clears it out right to mccabe's foot jake mccabe contested by karana and mccabe again using a little bit of his hands grabbing karana a little bit no call on the play baird in the corner and forced out of bounds a goal kick now for east long metals ben giroux as i was saying if no goals are scored then we will go into a shootout period i believe you have the rules on that brady yes i will explain them if we come to that point yep benjaroo [Music] his goal kick goes right to mccabe chased down by krugnali and now morneau morneau through ball is broken up by dowling mccabe kirana touching it to evans evans to ryan brunell brunell's got some space a touch pass over rougary and that was a pass i don't know what just happened of whistle on the play we have an east long metal player down and the goalie and rougary down see the thing is chad ryan brunell is down on the play and so is ruger but i want to there was a pass so i believe it was so taut defended the shot from brunel and then kicked it out right to rugeri who then scooped it up and a pass from a player to a goaltender is an automatic penalty and it should actually be a pk so yeah so i have no idea what is going on here however however i'm not sure if that same rule applies when the player both player and goalie are inside of the 18 so that technically is still the goalie's home it's not coming from outside of the 18 inside of the 18 and then the goalkeeper is taking possession of it i'm not sure if that is coming into play here i'm going to assume because that is certainly would be a significant issue and i'd expect more emotion coming out of the east long meadow sideline so i'm going to say that because they're both inside of the 18 the ball never came outside of the 18 and then back inside of the 18.

i'm gonna say that that play was legal based on my analysis of the situation ryan brunell back up onto his feet after a quick stretch and a live ball will be played i believe yeah live should be a live ball for east long meadow just around midfield roster somewhat thinning yeah we've saw yeah so brunel shaking up on the play we obviously we've lost monroe really and they're going to give a free kick for cannon actually or a live ball for ken brunell obviously getting a little hurt now we saw enzo mazda get shaken up earlier seen a couple canton players go down today mccabe the goaltender gary right there and now we have a sub coming in voldavino obviously he went down earlier voldovino back in the game good to see he is all right and he will be replacing number 25. of canton so a live ball being played now for canton mckinney on the near sideline referee drops the ball for him mckinney looking for his options looking for mccabe inside more no comes up with a steal joe presnell lets the ball scurry to the sideline and plays it back to luke mazza mazda de morneau morneau back to the sideline to presidential presidential cup move inside and switch its fields to biggins at midfield biggins a through ball up to colin evans evans got some room kicks out to joe brizzle brizzle gets a shot on that and a beautiful save by giovanni rougary karana a cup move trying to get past shay and shea comes up with a huge defensive play andrew comes out of the net clears it back out of the defensive zone right to colin evans evans plays it back to mourinho mourinho up to sonny mazza mazza a touch pass looking for biggins and stolen by mckinney mckinney and biggins in a wrestling match just around midfield colin evans plays it out wide to paschetta pacino one-on-one with voldevino paschetto pass to biggins voldovino stole and switches it out wide to kugnali krugnali and luke mazza in a foot race and krugnali forces mazzle to kick the ball out of bounds canton throwing on the far sideline 3 20 remaining in the second overtime and jake mccabe will be taking the throw in for the canton bulldogs mccabe's throw enters near the pk hash in pachetto and mazzle let the ball go through and benjaroo able to come up with it colin evans chased down by shea evans with a beautiful touch move to himself switches fields far side looking for president president chases the ball down towards the sideline and it does go out of bounds will now be a canton throw-in for carson eagles eagles gives it to dowlings and they want a handball call off of luke mazza nothing given there more nose pass to paschetto paschetto trying to send it up to sonny mazza colin evans taking down behind the play a little slow to get up roo gary coming up with a stop 210 remaining in the second overtime rougary with the ball and the wind has picked up just slightly rougher a squib punt under two remaining here so we no longer have the definite time the time will be kept by the referees and now can making their way up field ben biggins with a beautiful slide tackle on mckinney throwing now for baird baird iron eyeing up his options sends it to keller keller sends it up but it goes directly to patrick stevens moreno with the ball in midfield sends it through ball and dowling breaks it up dowling's clear goes to corona corona pass to evans evans chased down by shea and dowling picks up the remaining bits and now a through ball what would have been joe president on a breakaway we have colin evans down at midfield and he is slow to get up holding on to his left knee and we have had quite a few injuries here tonight cold weather will do it yeah the cold weather certainly playing in effect it is 40 degrees out me and chad staying nice and toasty warm up here hopefully all you are enjoying a nice cup of hot chocolate if you wouldn't mind do it for me have a nice warm cup of cocoa by a nice roaring fire and watch the remaining finish of this game so a live ball will be dropped for ryan morneau and jake mccabe right in front of him to contest or no sends it inside and it's cleared out by dowling moreno and mccabe go up for a head ball and dowling clears up to krugnali biggins his clear back up to mazza ball squirts out and they're going to say i have absolutely no idea maybe over the top not really sure but dow uh with a free kick now under a minute remaining in the second overtime rougary up to biggins biggins clears it now oman karana karana playing it to the middle to mourinho mourinho through ball gets past sonny mazza and mazzo would have been on a break and that is going to do it for the second overtime we are going in to penalty shootouts and we're gonna take a quick break as we charge up the battery so and just refresh our homepage and we'll get a new live stream going for you shortly

hmm yep good stuff this is the clifton board of education regularly scheduled meeting for thursday november 18 2021. if everyone would please rise for a salute to our flag and a brief moment of silence i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you all right roll call mr shiatta mr abhijava here mr awad miss basford here ms beltran mr kanova here mr daley here dr danny here vice president casper here president smith here mr president we have a quorum uh accordance to the guidelines that are presented to us we ask that everyone here this evening to please have a mask on at all times board members and people coming to the podium you may lower the mask to speak and then when you're finished if you kindly please put the mask back on we thank everyone for your cooperation mr casper would you read the mission statement please the mission of the clifton school district in an open and reciprocal community partnership is to provide all students with a quality education to develop the skills necessary to become literate lifelong learners who are responsible and productive citizens contributing to a democratic society in an ever-changing world the public meetings act the new jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right to the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provisions of this act the clinton board of education has caused notice of this meeting to be publicized by having the date time and place thereof posted at the city clerk's office clifton public library administration building senior citizen nutrition center on cable tv in the local press and on the district's website and mailed to presidents of parent teacher organizations this meeting will be tape recorded in accordance with policy zero one six eight okay we're now going to move on to recognition and award presentations we have miss ragoza rpsis district coordinator here this evening to do a brief presentation for the board and the public so paul you have the floor thank you is this can you is this on yeah i'm sorry i couldn't all right um so thank you thank you uh president mr smith vice president mr casper commissioners of the board of education dr robertosi and central administration for the opportunity to showcase the positive behavior support in schools framework during the clifton board of education meetings in the continuing effort to promote pro-social behaviors and provide students with access to an equitable learning experience we proceed to recognize the importance of positive relationship building between school staff and students tonight we highlight the ongoing dedication of woodrow wilson middle school their staff and students and their implementation of the pbsis framework this school year marks the ninth year that wardrobe wilson has been implementing pbsis over the years they have instructed students and staff on what it means to be all in which is what their pbsis framework is called the moment you walk into woodrow wilson you are magically transcended to an environment where one feels the support and empathy regarded by all what you're about to see is how a village grows and how it sustains throughout the years with the ebbs and flows of life to quote abraham lincoln i like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives i like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him we can all say we are so proud of the woodrow wilson middle school community mr bajica pbsis co-coach will take us on a journey on how students and staff relationships are built and maintained at woodrow wilson good evening everyone my name is mr bajica i'm a sixth grade social studies teacher at woodrow and i'm here tonight on behalf of the administration staff of woodrow wilson middle school at woodrow we say and believe that mustangs are all in to be all in we encourage everyone student and staff to be more ambitious respectful and empathetic these three core characteristics embody what we try to implement with our pbsis framework here at woodrow ambition respect empathy after the year we've been through with the covert empathy is especially important now more than ever and it helps us build a community together at woodrow to implement our pbsis framework we work on recognizing positive behavior reinforcing expectations often and rewarding good choices because let's be honest it always feels good to hear someone say thank you i recognize you i appreciate you as we recognize our positive behaviors in school we give out what we call mustang money to date we've already given out 209 thousand 235 points that means 209 000 positive interactions between the staff and students at woodrow we also have our all-in awards kind of like a student of the month program we recognize up to three students a month we have a golden ticket program which will be doing in december where each staff member gets selected one student who tries their best every day but maybe sometimes flies into the radar they might not be the loudest one in the room but they deserve the same recognition for their positive choices every day anyway and as we are in thanksgiving the holiday season we're also beginning a reverse week first week is where students are able to recognize their teachers and say thank you are two of our administrators speaking on behalf of this mr jagger our principal good evening clifton community i'm andrew jager i'm the principal here at woodrow wilson middle school and the thing that i am most thankful for good evening clifton community i'm andrew jager i'm the principal here at woodrow wilson middle school and the thing that i am most thankful for is the staff here at woodrow wilson reverse week is a very important part of our pbsis program it allows our staff members the opportunity to see what it feels like to receive mustang money here's what our students say about when they receive the mustang money and the opportunity to give this recognition to their teachers and staff these are our eighth grade all-in ambassadors here at woodrow our teachers reward us for a positive effort in the classrooms by giving us mustang money when i receive mustang money i feel really good about myself and i feel really appreciative that my teachers recognize my positive efforts in the classroom it's only fair then that we get to give nesting money to our teachers we call this reverse week reverse week is where we get to show our teachers gratitude and appreciation throughout the year [Music] last year when we did this programs reverse week we received so many beautiful messages from the students and those messages would get sent to their teachers and staff members just small little glimpses into how appreciative and thankful they are for the work our wonderful staff and teachers here do in clifton you were so supportive and helpful in this challenging time you made lessons so fun you are the best counselor ever thank you for helping me make my schedule today he's one of the nicest teachers i've ever had also he makes social studies better i never not feel like going to his class i think that's mine i feel like when i'm in her class i feel more open she helps other students out with work when needed and in her class she's so funny she teaches very well and is very patient she helps people a lot and never makes anything complicated i have many fond memories in our class we've read some of the best books i've ever read and we always had a lot of fun together she is so dedicated and cares about all her students this is how it makes our staff feel one of our sixth grade teachers mr giordano so with regard to our woodrow wilson reverse week within our pbis program i feel that there were certain comments and certain thoughts that were conveyed through students that i would not have otherwise realized for instance when we are done with a lesson oftentimes as teachers were unsure you know did the student really get the lesson was i was i really making an impact today and getting those reverse week emails just solidified that hey you know we are making an impact and we are making a difference pbsas reverse week is something the whole staff looks forward to every year when students send you letters of kindness just telling you you made them smile or they look forward coming to your class or maybe you're a counselor and you help them with you know a personal issue or a custodian getting thanks for keeping our building so clean and safe there is no greater reward knowing that the students notice and you are making a difference so this is from last year's reverse week students gave 785 messages to their staff and teachers and counselors each one a small moment but worthwhile because it just makes our day and our years so much better and we are currently in our reverse week now as we go into thanksgiving and we're so excited to see our staff and teachers getting that feeling of what it's like to give that that positive energy back to them and so in the spirit of thanksgiving and spirit of our reverse week i want to thank dr robert tozie our administration our board members because you probably don't hear it so often so thank you for your leadership in what you do to our administrators at woodrow thank you for all you do and to our clifton community thank you we have built something beautiful we have work to do but we're all in this together thank you mr bajica uh uh mr president smith would you do this the honor of presenting uh woodrow wilson middle school administration and mr bajica a certificate of recognition school district certificate of appreciation for outstanding b s i s implementation presented to mark showcase school for november [Applause] next we have our principal certificate of appreciation for outstanding pbsis implementation presented to andrew yeager richard wilson middle school [Applause] can you see it to the magic uh mr mankind joseph lincoln appreciation for your sis implementation [Applause] thank your you of appreciation for the pcs [Applause] thank you congratulations uh thank you miss rigosa for a tremendous presentation to the board and to the public we appreciate it so very much all right next we'll go on to adoption of the minutes for october 21st 2021 regular meeting so moved so moved by mr casper second by mr abu drabbo discussion seeing none roll call mr abhijava yes mr awad miss basford yes ms beltran mr canova yes mr daley yeah yes dr danny yes vice president casper yes president smith yes motion carries okay before we get to the superintendent's report i would like our um our student uh liaison here uh andrew uh for his report so that he could get home andrew hello good evening everyone it is currently a very exciting time to be a clifton high school student i want to tell you a bit about why uh the clifton high school varsity sports fall season is starting to wrap up boys soccer finished the season as parsee county champions advances state semifinal round the girl girls volleyball team finished the season at the state farm the state final semifinal round excuse me finished the season with a 14-3 record cross-country finished as paste county champions and lastly of course is our varsity football team if anyone is aware of the football game last week it was thrilling to say the least with the win over phillipsburg and the next game is tomorrow home at seven against east side it is looking to be an incredible game tickets have to be purchased online though for students it is three dollars regular admission is five dollars the winter sports season has also actually begun tonight uh hockey had its first game and won 6-2 but there are other teams that are starting tryouts and having interest meetings such as bowling and basketball i know that also the high school is starting to look at a girls flag football team which is very exciting after a bunch of other nearby schools started doing that last year the clifton high school drama department is presenting its fall play the greek mythology olympia ganza for three nights starting tomorrow at seven there's also another show on saturday at seven and there's a sunday matinee at 1 p.m general admissions tickets are 15 and tickets for senior citizens and students are 12 the clifton high school mustang band is bringing back their standalone show from last year under the lights is going to be on wednesday november 24th at 7 at clifton stadium ticker from information is to be announced this week sca has been working with deca and key club at the high school to collect items in preparation for thanksgiving there's still one more day to donate items if you are able to we are collecting cereal canned fruits and vegetables rice pasta soups and sauce sugar cookies snacks and jello crackers coffee and tea shelf stable milk and breads specialty items like individual pie crossword puzzles word games books and thanksgiving cards if there are any students watching who are interested in donating tomorrow is the last day student council members should be going to your homerooms to pick up items but they can also be brought to the media center or room g21 coast county school is also starting a chapter of the national english honor society applications were due yesterday i mentioned that to show you this is still in its infancy but it's a very exciting opportunity for students who are interested and i'm sure they will be doing great things lastly i do have a few things that i've been going around the high school i'd just like to address openly here and the first is the new lunchroom uh it was open when we returned from break earlier in the month and it has honestly been a hit with students especially all the new options a bunch of my friends and actually myself have really enjoyed those however there's one issue with it and it's just that the lines to get food are rather long they've been getting better definitely but for example the one day that i wanted to try out the food uh it took until 12 11 for me to get food the period ends at 12 24 leaving a very short amount of time to actually eat uh however like i said it's definitely getting better the next is something that was brought up last meeting i know is still open and those are job openings across the district and i implore these openings to be filled by a more diverse group of people most of my teachers have looked like me most of my classmates have not i see this as an issue and i please please please ask you to consider this as you advertise these openings as well as while you fill them the last thing which is actually a question i'd like to ask is about the plastic dividers such as the ones on these desks i know that after a last meeting there was a survey sent out district-wide to staff asking generally opinions on them i'm not entirely sure but i'd just like to ask if there are any updates with that or anything that's been taken out of that that can be applied in the future besides that i thank you for your time i wish you all good night good health and get home safe [Applause] thank you andrew we appreciate your time and effort and uh being here uh to present your uh statements to the to the board and to the public and i know it's a school night so you're more than welcome to uh to leave and get home if you wish okay now we'll move to the superintendent's report thank you mr president just want to address uh our student uh before he leaves yes we did send a survey out to to our staff we didn't have a great response to be honest with you but of those that responded and i'm going off the top of my head it was really split it was there was no consensus either way so my administrative team my executive administrative team and i will be making a decision by the time we return from thanksgiving break and the thing is it can't be so you can keep them or not it can't be left up to the to the individual discretion of the teacher has to be a district-wide decision so we'll be making that decision soon as we evaluate all the things that we evaluate when it comes to covet thanks for a great report you took about five of my items great job good evening commissioners members of the community and public faculty staff and students pleasure to be here with you tonight as we get close to the thanksgiving holiday i think it would be important for each of us now to go around the room and say what we're thankful for no no no no good i just want to see if you're paying attention all right we'll save that for uh we'll save that for another time no not good all right i'd like to uh just have a few announcements to recognize some things some really positive things that are going on throughout the district that i'd like to publicly recognize october we had a couple of really great events a week of respect which different activities were were completed in all of our schools we had red ribbon week which is anti-drugs all of our pbsis schools had pep rallies you saw the great pbsis presentation from woodrow wilson middle school it's just it's really i don't know it's just it's just nice to see i'm a touchy feely guy i'm uh i'm uh everybody want everybody to be happy kind of guy uh and i just love that i love when students are happy when teachers are happy and you know the past couple years we haven't had too much to be happy about so it's nice to see that it's nice to see students and teachers recognized i'd like to recognize the school one hsa and principal romeo they hosted a pumpkin patch and allison armstrong and her husband brian armstrong worked together to bring mr armstrong's high school students from clifton to school one to share in the event and the high school students helped the elementary school students pick pumpkins and they took pictures with them and you know the elementary school students just felt really cool hanging out with the high school students and it was such a really great event and it's just an excellent way to celebrate one clifton that's really what what we're all about so thank you to the armstrongs thank you to school one hsa and to mrs romeo the principal school 15's full season of girls on the run culminated this past weekend with a 5k run on sunday 5k not bad not me either we had one of our students who opened up the event with the national anthem and our girls along with their running buddies did a fantastic job there's there's no elementary track team so this is just a nice way for the the girls to bond team building kudos to our amazing coaches who who run the program mrs duarte mrs vega and miss newman they've spearheaded this program thanks to principal lugenda dr legenda baton walker who has supported this program and it's really having a positive impact on school 15 and the entire community i'd like to remind the board and the public uh that december 1st there is a really cool event going on the harlem wizards will be meeting the clifton fighting mustangs on the basketball court yours truly will be the coach and i don't know anything about basketball so i don't know but i'm gonna make it look good kind of like what i do here at these at these meetings um but please come out it's for a great cause it's for the superintendent scholarship fund all the funds raised will go directly towards clifton high school seniors to help with secondary school expenses last year the superintendent scholarship fund was able to give out eight thousand dollars in scholarships with very little fundraising and we're hoping to at least double that this year and finally uh tonight uh two more things just want to give a uh update on the referendum which i i've said i would do at each board meeting tonight on the agenda there is a resolution for the board to select a construction management company the role of the construction management company is to be the eyes and ears for the board of education they do not work for the architect they do not work for the vendors they did not work for the contractors they work directly for the board they're the they are there to protect the board we're going to have a multitude of projects going on at the same time throughout the entire district at multiple schools this construction management firm uh will be there to ensure to the best of their ability that everything goes as smoothly as possible and that when there are challenges or issues they're addressed immediately so we're excited to get these projects off the ground at this time all of our all of the drawings are almost complete for our projects we anticipate going to to bid in january or february and shovels in the ground in april which uh is right on time with our our timeline that we said last year we knew it wouldn't be a year from the date that we that the community supported this referendum that we'd actually see some work getting done because a lot of stuff had to happen behind the scenes but it's coming sooner rather than later and it's very very exciting very exciting that our students and staff are going to be able to have upgraded and safe facilities and finally i want to reiterate what our student representatives so eloquently stated about employment opportunities our teachers are struggling in in many places due to lack of substitute teachers teacher may teach five classes then they're supposed to have a prep period supposed to have a a duty period and a lunch and and too many times they're missing their prep periods because we don't have substitutes to cover classes when other teachers are absent it's not good for morale it's not good for um you know everybody everybody needs a break especially when you're a teacher and you're teaching all day we need subs if you are interested in becoming a substitute teacher please come to our website you get a chance to work with amazing students i started my career as a substitute teacher you too can be the superintendent of schools starting at 125 a day it's not bad and the and the new jersey department of education recently created another pathway for people to become substitute teachers if you have 30 college credits and you are currently a student and you are over 21 i'm sorry over 20 at least 20 years of age you are eligible to apply for substitute teacher credentials so we need you you may just find that it is the career you've been looking for and it would be a great help to our district that's it for tonight mr smith thank you very much and happy thanksgiving to uh to all of our families to our entire community uh i am thankful to be the superintendent of the clifton public schools thank you dr rubitozzi uh in case uh i know board members know but in case the public does not know on our website we have a section called peach jar and peach jar is where all the events that are going around the schools are supposed to be posted in the peach jar so there's many opportunities of things coming up um in the next coming weeks that are located on peach jar so um instead of me reading through all of them uh if you would kindly just go to the to the district website and look for peach jar and you will see all the flyers of everything happening in the district and there's a lot happening some are directly from schools others from the clifton recreation department which is holding a door decorating contest there are other various things that you might be interested in they do the candyland in december and then many of the schools are holding fundraisers so food a school five is doing a food drive just quickly going through some of these for you many of the athletic groups are doing fundraisers for themselves for each of the groups christopher columbus is doing a mask sale and the key club is doing photos with santa and um decorating the hall so if you please go to our website under peachtree and you will see all the happenings that are happening in our district i'm glad to see so many active groups and i hope that the public would go out and support our our kids so uh take a look in there uh a big one that is coming up i don't know make sure it didn't pass yet is the uh the stampede through clifton it's this week right this sunday that's always a great event if you can run or walk in the event they're looking for both so just take a look at all the opportunities that are there for you [Music] that is where all the groups are supposed to post their flyers so they should be available to you there all right let's move on uh we have uh first reading of policy miss password do you want to read all those or we just want to put it in just put into record they're all mandated so they had to move forward all right so the committee met and these are policies that are mandated uh so uh we want to move these forward under policy so we'll have our second reading next week next meeting okay presentation reports we have none okay we'll go to board committee reports um i guess we'll start in order uh we had diversity and inclusion uh mr abhijava thank you president smith diversity english community meeting began at 1pm attendees or myself and my job with the chair and commissioner joe konova ministry assistant superintendent gina kuzlovic mr uh hamda the principal of chs uh mr thomas hewin who is the supervisor of the history department and mr david white teachers were mr la llama mrs carlo rodriguez mr john o'reilly and miss jacqueline turk four students were in attendance as well topics discussion number one new student members were introduced to the overall group under classroom or added to the committee in order to broaden the student perspective um and just to give a little clarity on that a little bit so various grades and levels are added so if a senior graduates a junior would pick up in that slot when they become a senior sophomore junior and so on number two wounded law was the primary type of conversation assistant superintendent gina kucilewicz explained how this new law may have an impact on how civics instruction is moving in the curriculum at the high school and middle school levels number three the committee discussed the importance of diversity equity inclusion dei in our curriculum mr celebs discussed the meeting that was held with the student representatives prior to the full committee meeting student representatives offered the committee different resources that they had gathered to enhance the current curriculum mr abedrabel asked about the results of the survey that was disseminated to high school students mr cybadro also inquired about future di surveys for our middle school grades mr abdul asked the administration to share the surveys with the board members or a presentation conducted for the board of education members number five mr white and mr q and discuss how diversity inclusion are currently woven into the english and social department the number six the meeting adjourned at 209 pm committee chair and myself dr robert tauzy and chs principal hamda will work collaboratively to determine the date and the next diversity inclusion committee meeting questions all right seeing none thank you uh next we have a policy uh miss password yes thank you uh the policy committee met on november 11th at 4 11 pm in attendance were vice president frank casper myself board members dana beltran and from the administration was luis ross the committee discussed the home schooling policy and requested that the administration provide data regarding the number of home school students in the district to be reviewed at an upcoming policy meeting the committee recommends abolishment of the following policies as recommended by straus ismae for those that don't know strauss's mate is the company that um guides us with policies that are updated and mandated and um they're like the clearinghouse of policies so we hire them up so the ones that we're going to abolish are policy five one one four eight eight one zero one six four eight one six four eight point zero two one six four eight point oh three the committee recommends the adoption of the follows following mandated policies as per straus may policy two four two two five one one one seven four three two eight four two zero eight five four zero six one one five point zero one six one one five .02 6115.03 6311 1648.11 1648.13 2425 and 5751 the committee recommends adoption of the following mandated policies with stated changes policy number 2467 retains the optional language on page two and inserts director of operations and special services on page three policy number 5116 inserts director of operations and special services on page 1.

[Music] hmm foreign [Music] welcome to the eastern township school board meeting i'd like to do a roll call mr vashenti here vegan here here okay pursuant to the open public meetings act adequate public notice has been given by the secretary of the eastern township board of education in the following manner poston written notice on the official bulletin board at the board of education office emailing written notice to the burlington county times and the courier post and filing written notice with the municipal clerk of yvesham township roll call please okay 2.1 resolution to go into executive session whereas 10 njsa10 allows for a public body to go into closed session during a public meeting and whereas the board of education of ysham township has deemed it necessary to go into closed session to discuss certain matters which are exempted from the public and whereas the regular meeting of the board of education will reconvene following the end of the closed session at approximately 7 pm now therefore be it resolved that the board of education will go into closed session for the following reasons as outlined in njsa10412 roll call may i have a motion to go into executive session mr lanzalota first motion i have a second miss fleming roll call please yes okay thank you we'll see everybody at approximately 7 p.m do [Music] foreign mmm so um [Music] do foreign so [Music] do [Music] foreign hmm foreign [Music] would everybody please rise for the pledge of allegiance to the fight of the united states of america to the republic for which it stands a nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for the all of the eve shum township school district is to promote excellence in an environment that engages students in meaningful learning experiences in partnership with students dedicated staff families and community the district provides a strong educational foundation that will empower our students to achieve their unique potential embrace self-directed lifelong learning develop the skills necessary for appropriate risk taking and responsible decision making respect themselves and others problem solve individually and collaboratively become contributing members of a diverse global society at this time we'd like to go into presentations we'd like to recognize 4.1 we'd like to recognize student jolene costley for winning the burlington county red ribbon poster contest [Applause] hello there we go all right jolene this is amazing so you were the number one contest uh artist in the entire county for this contest this is prevention plus so it's a county-wide organization the leadership of prevention plus came out tomorrow middle school to personally hand you a gift card which was a pretty large gift card by the way i know you're in it for art and saving the world but that that helps too right a little bit right um and to recognize her with a certificate our mayor was there members of our eevsham police were there the principal was there i was there snapping pictures and it was all about you you know and your your artist talent so thank you so much for that we wanted to give you a certificate and this is our board vice president this is everhart and then can you stand with us when we take a couple pictures mr case if you can do that and i think my mom's there too just come on down so being being in seventh grade this means if they do it again next year get another eaten another time to think about it right defending champ maybe we'll see i see i see mr hoffman taking pictures in the background leader of mms thank you sir okay at this time i guess i'd like to introduce uh director of curriculum and instruction daniel mcgulac to do the annual state of the schools presentation along with robin collins okay good evening everybody so robin and i will be giving our annual state of the schools so typically this happens a little bit differently when we're not in a pandemic so traditionally one of the requirements of the state is that we're reporting out on state assessment data however if you have children in our school or you work in our schools you know we haven't given the state assessment the last two springs so kind of to give a a flavor but still meeting the requirements of the state we have new information in here from our local data we have some old information that from the last time we actually gave the new jersey student learning assessment and then we have some actual fall data that we gave that's going to fulfill a requirement that the state had in terms of federal testing so we'll get started there's four different areas that robin and i will talk about one being esea performance so this is reporting on the federal dollars that we get and just kind of giving a snapshot of what it is we use it for and some of the results connected to that the second area is district assessment results again just to kind of give a little bit more of a broad picture so they actually see rather than one test one moment in time you get a broader picture standardized test so that's where state assessment testing falls but again in avsham we don't just give a state assessment state state assessment generally is looking at aptitude is looking at achievement or summative assessment overall um so that is the new jersey student learning assessment however this year with start strong that actually is not a summative assessment so it's totally different and we'll talk you through that tonight and then we also though give an aptitude assessment to really get a deeper dive and in terms of looking at our students so that's an ability assessment and then the last area which really for us is the most important area is what do we do with all that data what do we do when we're looking at um how our students are doing where are they starting growth that they're making throughout the course of the year teachers making goals schools making goals and things of that nature and then how we come up with focus areas so really i think the most important thing that we can kind of talk about is the whole idea of assessment is not ever a single moment in time assessment and the idea that it's made up a variety of assessments so we just listed some of those up here for you so that idea of a standardized test there's achievement ones there's aptitude ones the second being district-wide assessments so they're assessments that are standard for our district meaning all teachers give them at particular grade levels at particular times so a couple of examples of that are benchmark proficiency mid and end of year math assessments classroom performance so that's teachers assessing kids on an ongoing basis that's formative assessments which are kind of checks for understanding as well as summative assessments which are more looking at content learned over unit lesson things like that and so a couple of examples of those rubrics checklist portfolios anecdotal records teacher observations play a big part of assessments feedback report card grades and parent observation and feedback as well so again making sure that we have a complete look as we're talking about kids progress and growth over time in terms of the esea part so we get through that four different titles title one looks at at-risk literacy achievement so for us we're looking at last year's data we served 102 of our lowest achieving general education first grade students and that happens in all six of our elementary schools of that 43.1 percent of those students were successfully discontinued and what that means is they left reading on grade level being able to problem solve along their grade level peers the national average for reading recovery is 32.1 percent the next bullet talks a little bit about reading levels so in terms of reading recovery students what we look when we looked at that data they made an average gain of 18 reading levels from fall to spring as opposed to comparing it's typically 14 levels for a typical first grader and then the last piece is just another it's kind of reading recoveries for first graders but we also have literacy lessons which is the grade two to five program and we have title one literacy specialists which is what the funding goes towards and so they're delivering or giving that intervention to students at those levels the second area is title two and four so title two connects to professional development and four technology technology is also integrated into title two in terms of that funds really we use those to look at different teacher leader positions in each of our eight schools so like things like math coach tech coach responsive classroom facilitator [Music] don't move that about 126 these are workshops that are attended by staff during the course of the school year again last year pandemic those numbers were down we didn't offer as many professional development workshops but those that were attended both by professional and paraprofessional staff were sessions related to literacy math responsive classroom technology and miscellaneous areas and then of those workshops 100 of them received the uh two highest ratings which would be a four or a five when participants reflect on the sessions and then the last area is title three which is english language learners so for us in terms of number of students that qualify for esl services across our district that's 44 41 in program three or parent refusals um students who completed the access for elle's test because all kids are required to take that assessment 30 of them took access for l's i'm not moving it one took an alternate assessment which is the widow um number of students not tested or incomplete if you remember again last year we were not able to administer and a remote option it either had to be in person so if students were remote parents could have their child not take that assessment we did give them the option to come into the district if they'd like to but some parents did not so again we had some who either didn't take the test or if they didn't answer all the questions they would call that incomplete test and so that was that number below it of 13.

the meeting started here our mission statement here at center grove is we develop knowledgeable confident and responsible citizens through inspirational and innovative learning opportunities at this time i'd like to call representatives of troop 621 if you'd like to step forward and help us with our pledge this evening to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you thank you gentlemen thank you gentlemen ladies and ladies oh thank you all they're all-encompassing sorry they were in the back our next order of business is the adoption of the agenda mr president i'd like to amend the agenda to move public comments to after item 5 presentations and before item 6 consent items any discussion okay all those in favor say aye aye motion passes five zero opposed anybody everybody's eye i heard okay okay our next order of business then is um presentations do we have any presentations this evening yes thank you mr russell this evening um we have a presentation on graduation pathways by the high school and mrs hoover dr is going to provide you with some additional information before their presentation so laura hello i'm excited tonight to welcome with me dr henderson principal at the high school and jennifer misses jennifer perkins she is one of our assistant superintendent that's my job assistant principal yeah she's awesome though i will let you know um assistant assistant principal at the high school and she works um very closely with a lot of our programs under her current duties that are impacted by what we're going to talk about tonight so um so the next level program of study which you'll hear us keep calling nlps tonight um is really just the state's way of they've changed the graduation requirements and it's going to feel more like a program because of how we're going to help hopefully support students into that post-high school careers in college and um but it's a lot of changes and so we wanted to let you know and these will be changes that will be impacting us um some sooner rather than later but all of them will impact us um in the next few years because this starts with our freshmen currently sitting in the high school so so why are why did the state feel like they needed to make a change and that is because the department of workforce development had went through a lot of data and discovered some really important trends from our graduating seniors over the last few years and so to look at cohort information of 000 seniors in the state of indiana there's some data about what happens or doesn't happen with those seniors nine thousand of those off the top don't graduate from high school and we know we know the things that are in store for students that don't cross that first hurdle to being a young adult to being an adult 25 000 of those that do graduate don't have a career plan they don't have some skills to go out and get a career they're just going to get a job and while we want everyone to have a job careers are better and having a pathway to to something um the next thing 4 5 000 of those go on to college their first year after leaving high school but 8 500 those won't go back either a semester or they'll make it through the year but they won't go back to be sophomores fifty percent of the cohort is out of this the the system when i say system that means our post-secondary education tracks be it technical schools or four-year universities they're out of that after the first year so as a result 62 percent of our kids are not in a credentialing or a degree category at the end of six years after they're out of high school so this program we're going to talk about tonight is really a response to having some very purposeful connections for kids in high school to post secondary opportunities because we want them to land in high demand and high wage careers and jobs so stacy did a great job to explain there's buckets and kids have to have things in each one of those buckets and some of these bucket things have been around for a while and haven't changed that first bucket or just the types of diplomas all high schools in indiana offer and so our kids that walk across the stage have filled that bucket that's the first requirement in the second one complete a project-based service based or work based learning project during high school and our high school administration and our teachers have done a phenomenal job of creating experiences and some of the courses every kid is required to take so that we fill that bucket either freshman or sophomore year and most kids have more than one of those experiences because they double up and have them across multiple courses and then that third bucket is where all the changes are at we're going to talk we're going to talk about tonight we're moving away from my step for the graduation qualifying exam and it will change to the sat that will start with this year's juniors they will be taking that in the spring and those other things you show all the different categories those are things we're mostly used to what we're going to spend the time talking about tonight and i'm going to let dr henderson and mrs perkins share their expertise because they're in this every day is that cte concentrator concentrator place because that's where we need to support a lot of our students who are not going to have success on those other bullets so sat impacts our juniors this year but the real all of this including everything in bucket three impacts our freshman currently sitting in the high school good evening i want to share with you some of the great things that are already in place at the high school that we've been able to celebrate over the last few years mr ashland and mr schultz who are both in our engineering and technology department as teachers have received recent grants from indus and hauser project lead the way and nmac for teacher training equipment and class projects that they're offering in their programming mrs t van was recognized as one of the project lead the way biomedical teachers of the year these are all credentialing programs that help fill students bucket three business professionals of america had over a hundred and forty thousand dollars in scholarships awarded to students and five of those students competed at the bpa national competition chef greer in our family consumer science department in nutrition and advanced nutrition has participated in acef national culinary convention as the judge for chef educator of the year she's also been recognized as the prostart educator of the year by her peers and mr schultz was recently awarded the indiana air force association teacher of the year recognition so we already have some programs in place that are providing great opportunities for our kids and we're extremely proud of those and extremely proud of the hard work that our staff members have put in to developing those programs in addition to that we have programs like what's coming up here november 30th mrs berger our director of school counseling and mental health and our high school counseling department are hosting 50 i think the numbers up to 54 now 54 companies for a career jump start day to assist senior students in post-secondary opportunities that's going to be held november 30th in our west gym throughout the course of the day students are going to have an opportunity to come down and meet with those representatives and learn about the opportunities that exist in in local careers in many companies that provide tuition embarrassment for furthering your education once they're employed mrs brennan the coordinator of connected learning and the teaching and learning department are going to be offering some specialized professional development programs in project-based learning this summer for our high school teachers so that we continue to have those opportunities available to fill bucket two for our students and then not to not to forget about the importance of our partnership with central nine we currently have over 200 students central nine and over a hundred sophomores that have requested to tour c9 this month we have a great program with them and they are heavily involved in providing next level program of study opportunities for students who attend c9 but let's talk a little bit about our current reality and some future opportunities that we have obviously with the change to the sat as a school accountability assessment we've done some preliminary research and based on sophomore psat scores we anticipate that we'll have approximately 200 juniors that will not meet the s.a.t cut score required to fill bucket three central nine will continue with their nlps programs to meet the requirements for graduation but our concern is that not only have we maximized all of our seats at c9 but we also fill seats with our students of schools that don't fill their allotment so if for example greenwood doesn't fill all of their seats we have kids waiting on wait lists and we fill those seats whenever additional seats become available but c9 alone cannot meet our student needs so given these graduation requirement changes we really need to create pathways at the local level in our building to meet the needs of our students to become cte concentrators and a cte concentrator is a students that that has completed six cte credits within a next level program of study pathway so that's where that's the direction that we're headed and mrs perkins uh kind of supervises all of our cte program all of our programming and is our liaison with central nine so she's going to share with you some of the things that we have put in place and some of these courses you'll see in the course approval list this evening and we want to tell you why they're there and kind of the plan for implementing those jen um good evening um what you see on the screen is our pathways that we have um that we feel like we can offer in our business classes we're in really good shape in business because a lot of the classes that our nlps pathways have already been offered at center grove high school the biggest change will be that we'll offer principal business next year as the first class that the majority of the sophomores would have to take and then in business where because we're in such good shape instead of opening up three classes and having an additional pathway we're going to be able to layer on those classes so for example the principles of computing that'll be the first nlps class and then we'll just gradually add on because we're in pretty good shape in business just because of the wide range of courses that we already offer in family and consumer science we're going to try and offer two pathways that are high interest and hopefully can lead to academic success for our students the biggest one will be culinary arts and the other big one would be human and social services where we'll offer all three pathways at once to hopefully help our students next year especially our current juniors to be seniors fulfill bucket three with those two pathways will then add on the beginning classes for education the careers the principles of teaching the principles of interior design and the principles of fashion and then each year we'll add an additional course on so that we have that full nlps pathway the last one is pltw and pltw biomed and engineering we already offer the full complete pathway at center grove high school so that will not be a that won't be a change because that's something that we already do unfortunately the only place that we cannot expand is engineering and technology classes those construction type classes because of the heavy equipment machinery that would be needed for nlps so that is something that c9 would still be a need for those type of courses we'll have the introductory courses like normal to get kids interested but we're not going to buy cranes and rigging i don't think our next steps we're going to identify juniors that need a pathway the juniors took the sat in the beginning of october we'll have the scores back at the end of november and that should help us identify students that may need a pathway as they get ready to schedule in january for classes we need to make sure that we're informing our students and parents of the implications and the changes and how they need to make sure that they fulfill that bucket number three we'll have additional nlp options in scheduling requests and making sure kids understand that if you're a junior and you're opting into nlps you have to take all three classes at once next year and what that looks like and the implications in your schedule we need to determine our staffing needs and the master schedule is going to look a little bit different so that's going to be an exciting challenge to figure out how to put all these things in so we certainly want to emphasize the fact that our intention is not to replace anything that our our students currently take at c9 we really love that partnership that we have with them and recognize that our students who are interested in going there given a seat that's the first place that they go but because we can't meet the needs of every student with the limited capacity that we have at c9 these are the ways in which we can build onto our current programming to ensure that those students complete a pathway are unable to graduate with a diploma uh i will tell you that what we need uh it from from you all is some flexibility and understanding and some grace in our course proposals jen found out today that all of the course numbers that the department of workforce development assigned to these courses cannot be used because they're middle school course numbers and they didn't know that so all the course numbers that are on the course proposals that apply to nlps today will be changing so as you consider those this evening just know we're going to need some grace as we get updated and mo and the most current information from the department of workforce development and the doe they're going to be some shifts and changes in that we need support for development of additional programs when the department of workforce development approves new pathways they've already said on the front end these are not all that will exist this is where we are starting we will build from here we will add from here so we're going to need some understanding that we may be responding to new opportunities as they become available and then assist us by investing in resources in the development of quality nlps programming at cg with time and professional development for our staff as those new programs come along new curriculum comes out and we need to support the teachers in the implementation of these new programs all right thank you very much any questions yeah just one from me about you know when i was looking at this and i saw the it courses listed the it guy me got kind of excited i i mean that's a big mind shift change for some of our staff at the high school especially in those areas you're talking about i mean do we do we anticipate having to hire like staff from the professional world to help come in and mentor and teach or i mean because you know cyber security and those kinds of things is a pretty heavy subject matter i think for right now we are we are we're in pretty good shape my concern um and i don't think this is unique to center grove i think the concern across the state is you're looking for people in education that potentially don't exist trying to find tech ed teachers and trying to find they're going to eventually look at our program and we want to make sure that the the opportunities we're creating for our students are quality and the educators that are providing that education are providing them the quality experience i'm hoping at some point that if our teachers need professional development and support to meet the standards that that also will come from the department of workforce development or the ido right now i think we're in good shape he kind of said it i was trying to say it a little differently but you said it exactly right it's and and the other thing is in the professional world those resources are hard to find as well so now trying to find them in the education space i think is going to be a bigger a a challenge as we move forward than that because as a hiring manager resources with those skill sets are that's why i'm excited we're doing it at this level but agreed and the other component that obviously we have to be concerned about is the salary differential between someone with those skills in the private sector versus someone with those skills in public education and we have to recognize the challenges of attracting individuals who have those skill sets who are willing to and passionate about teaching young people yep so these are the pathways we're starting with is my understanding other pathways will open up as we can work them through such as a student that wants to become a music teacher do we have those courses already for a pathway or we're going to have to look at things in the music department so the department of workforce development and the doe work together to establish what those pathways are and so we get provided a list of what the pathway options are and then we have to evaluate whether or not those are programs that we have staff in place to be able to implement currently or if that would require complete new programming and complete new staff we have started by selecting those those pathways in which we already have some courses that lead that direction and we're adding to those with the courses that are necessary to ensure that our kids have those opportunities to get all three courses done as new pathways get released obviously and as we continue to grow right now our analysis based on a enrollment of about 2 800 kids a little less than that is that we have 200 juniors that are going to need a pathway as as our numbers grow those numbers are likely to increase and so we will continually re-evaluate what the needs of our community are and what we can offer with our current staff what we can supplement our current course list with to meet a new pathway that comes out or if a new pathway is generated that we think is really would be a really high demand program here in our community how can we put that in place starting from scratch do we anticipate like yearly changes from my doe workforce are these going to be static for two or three years to get them implemented then they'll route new ones or i think they'll continue to roll out new ones as they're developed and i don't think it will necessarily even be annually i think they might happen more frequently than that obviously we're not that nimble yeah you know we can't just offer a brand new set of courses in the middle of a semester and get a kid through them but i think they may release them more regularly than annually but our response is probably going to be annually i understand i was going to add that where we have some limitations like there's a strand that we can't offer at all at this point which is in agriculture however clerk pleasant and franklin and surrounding schools have them so we partner with them and as we develop we may trade students back and forth because this might take a village this might be more than any one school can do and smaller schools have to partner so i think we should adopt that model before we have to and we already have some students that travel to other schools to take advantage of vocational programming that we don't offer okay but i guess what i'm hearing is we're talking about partly adding programs not necessarily taking them away so we're talking about supplementing we're talking about additional pathways we don't foresee a student being along a pathway and then getting ripped out from under them as being acceptable no not at all if we commit right we're committing in the state too i think that there that's why i think the rollout's a little slow um is because they don't want to play a bait and switch game they can't do that for kids because this those are really does um there's a along that path you can't just jump in and out it's not that easy so to me supplementing and being nimble and trying to change is a positive because it could be giving a new opportunity to a student that's just a passion but i'm hearing a lot of good things i like what i'm hearing and i applaud you all for your efforts and ever changing directives from from above so to speak our students being receptive our students seeing this as a way to engage and maybe find their is it too early to tell or what are we getting back from stuff i would say that anytime you give a kid a multiple opportunities to be successful that's never a bad thing and i think that they enjoy the opportunity i mean we had a hundred kids who were super excited to go to c9 and that makes that makes me happy as someone who's overseen c9 for a while um the numbers of kids who are interested continue to grow and so i think these opportunities are good for kids it gives them a lot of career exploration and hopefully they can find something that they're passionate about and how does c9 decide how many seats we get is it based on enrollment it's it's based on enrollment and what they a lot per school based on all of the sending schools that go there and how do we determine which kids get it versus which gets done there's an application process c9 reviews student applications and they select so similar to early college it's an application yes and those that aren't selected we wait listen we hope or we hope to be able to offer a program within the walls of our own building if if they wanted to go there and couldn't there are some kids who will not want to or will not be able to give up a half day to be able to go to c9 every day their schedule won't align they have other interests in the building that they don't want to leave the building for so it's about finding that right blend for a kid given all of their interests and all of their passions but giving them multiple opportunities to eventually earn a high school diploma and as these opportunities expand i could see a situation especially in 19 being a great example where we might be a part-time person instead of a full-time person correct somebody that's in the professional world that may want to come back for a class or two classes is that something we consider absolutely yeah absolutely we would hire more of those now those existed the other place you're talking about students and i think of the flexibility part we don't know exactly what kids are going to want to do and that's where that will really come into play so we i know that high school will really look at data and start to see trends and then we'll know what we need to build out more of and and you know what's engaging and what's not and sometimes if things aren't in age and we think they should be maybe it it's a different structure or something within that program and i couldn't agree more where you said we have to be flexible if you had because when they weren't a changing world or in a changing business environment you name it so i applaud your efforts thank you jeff i got one question sure um i am glad you've been on the c9 board i'm glad you said that c9 is still the priority so i do appreciate you saying that um out of the 100 kids that showed an interest in c9 this coming year i know you guys had tours this week was all 100 of those able to get to the tours or was yes they did and then tammy walker who is the career and technical educator like coordinator she works a lot with us and she's helping with the career jump start day she is probably she's going to work with c9 to see if she could bring some of those kids back on a mini bus who felt like maybe they needed a few more minutes there if c9 has the availability this semester before they schedule just to bring them back to give them another opportunity to tour the facility and maybe answer their questions what's interesting is covid last year they didn't tour and we had the highest numbers we've ever had they just did a virtual tour so i think that says a lot about the opportunities they're providing our students and i think we're seeing the pendulum swing all over the state in terms of the number of kids who are recognizing that maybe a four-year college degree is not their path to a high demand high-wage job there are lots of opportunities for individuals in the world that don't require a four-year degree and there are lots of our kids who are beginning to recognize that i can get a job right out of high school in a company that will provide tuition reimbursement for me to advance my education and i'm not saddled with a lot of debt right out of college and maybe i'm underemployed when i graduate from college there are a lot of kids that are beginning to realize the value associated with that two-year technical degree that immediate job placement with tuition reimbursement with a company an apprenticeship an internship lots of those kinds of things so i think we're seeing the pendulum swing a little bit back away from all of our kids wanting to enter a four-year college right out of school i would i will tell you uh the second thursday of december i believe is the 9th of december at 5 30 we are having an open house at c9 so any there's no there's no minimum or maximum of people anybody could come in bring kids can bring their parents all the teachers will be there the ability to be open to get any kind of tours you guys want we will certainly advertise that to our kids december 9th 5 30 starts okay very good thanks for the opportunity to share with you thank you very informative patience will be needed as we make this work okay we move on here and since we moved public speaking this is going to be the time for that bear with me as i read through some things here the school board recognizes the value of public comment on educational issues and the importance of allowing members of the public to express themselves on corporation matters the presiding officers shall be guided by some of the following rules anyone have any legitimate interest in the actions of the board may participate during the public portion of a meeting registration will be available at least 30 minutes prior to the meeting and will close five minutes prior to the scheduled start of the meeting attendees must register their intention to participate in the public portion of the meeting upon their arrival at the meeting participants must be recognized by the presiding officer and will be requested to preface their comments by an announcement of their name address group affiliation if and when appropriate each statement made by participants shall be limited to three minutes duration and may only speak once all statements shall be redirected to the presiding officer no person may address or question board members individually the presiding officer may prohibit public comments which are frivolous repetitive or harassing interrupt warn or terminate a person's statement when the statement is too lengthy personally directed abusive obscene or irrelevant request any individual to leave the meeting when that person behaves in a manner that is disruptive to the orderly conduct of the meeting request the assistance of law enforcement officers in the removal of a disorderly person when that person's behavior interferes with the orderly conduct of the meeting call for a recess or an adjournment to another time when the lack of public decorum so interferes with the orderly conduct of the meeting as to warrant such action and waive these rules with the approval of the board when necessary for the protection of privacy or the administration of the board's business the portion of the meeting during which the participation of the public is invited shall be limited to 15 minutes total unless extended by a vote by the board this evening we have one person who would like to speak bill collins please state your name and address bill collins 3865 new battle lane bargersville real quick i'd like to thank mr alexander and the rest of the board for moving public comments up it's pretty frustrating to most people that come to these meetings when votes and things that we want to make comment on have already happened by the time you allow us to speak so thank you for for moving that reason i wanted to speak was on action item 7.2 the increase of the superintendent's 403 b contributions i would encourage the board to vote no on this as it stands the superintendent is already one of only 12 superintendents that makes 200 thousand dollars or more as of 2020 he was making 214 thousand dollars 214 434.63 assuming from 2020 to 2021 a three percent cost of living increase he's now making over two hundred and twenty thousand eight hundred and sixty seven dollars and i don't know if he gets a uh a car allowance or anything else like that most superintendents in the state do the national average for superintendent pay is already 82 696.

okay so we are live and i think we'll see i hope that people will join us otherwise i'll just be you and i julio we are live welcome people we've been live for 18 seconds okay we are a little early oh yes do i sound with an echo or something no do i no you don't have an echo do i have an echo i'm on my finger good lights are bothering me though all right oh we've got somebody here hey put your name in the chat we'd love to know who's here with us joining us i can see the comments i also talk to myself a lot so do a lot of self verbalization okay all right wow it was a beautiful day everybody got outside today ate lunch outside so that was really lovely trying to come up with some creative ways to keep kids outside eating outside even during the winter right we'll have to get some more of those like buckets for kids to sit on it's gonna i know we'll be weather dependent i'm super excited we got more people joining us yay we'll give some more i know it's bedtime i probably should have made this a little earlier wait you know what we're we're gonna figure it out we'll figure it out try and get as many families joining us this is good all right all two people are here that's awesome i wonder i think there's a way i wonder if i can see the chat hold on [Music] hey [Music] i see that we have two viewers yeah hey just went up to three that's right wow this is it see we only got we only go it up julio we go enough there's only one way to go that's right we gotta start somewhere we're gonna be a youtube sensation the dynamic duo strikes again we're gonna be rock stars people i know clearly we are artistic we tried we did try we put in good effort and that's what matters we had a growth mindset julio we didn't give up with all that paint was there we're just like i don't know i don't know we did it we were like the energizer body we keep on going and going and going we know right that is so true it was fun riding bus 10 everybody was so excited to see me that all the kids were excited to see me this morning i'm like wow you all stayed seated i made a promise promise is a promise so it was good to be there we have awesome kids in that bus business oh my gosh i know right we really do they're just so happy i'm happy well we'll give everybody a few more minutes it's only two minutes after seven takes time people are probably just finishing up dinner getting cleaned up [Music] there's always things going on [Music] super exciting and then you'll join the two old boring administrators are talking to us through a youtube show what actually we rock this thing i know right i think yeah it'll be good it'll be good this will you know we'll we'll do this once a month and more people will keep joining us because they'll be like whoa we don't want to miss out on that that fun we'll have to do music next time julio music that's the key um yeah do you sing are you a singer um sadly no but we can try it yeah right all right maybe we can invite heather next year next time and she can lead us in a little like sing along that would be fun i used to play play the guitar for many years really yeah but i don't know i went to college and i was just like i don't know so i haven't played it very well that when i was a kid i tried to learn how to play the guitar i went to classes for almost two years and i learned nothing that artistic part it's hiya yumi how are you oh yay i'm so excited you're here oh it's posting well we we are up to five this is amazing like people are just joining us left and right julia they're like who who are these people and what are they about we can't learn wait to learn all about them [Music] thank you for joining us in a way thank you for allowing us to be at your home at this moment i know yes if you're opening your doors to us at seven with a weekday oh my gosh i love zika hi carla how are you [Music] yay all right well we are up to five people all right i say julio we just get started because hi jennifer hi jennifer ellie it feels so weird because it's like the tammy julio show and we're like yeah but we're sick people we're really excited ask for your thug and we're playing we're gonna play do it all right i'm going to share my screen um i i'd like to be organized and have a plan because i think like have a plan and not use it is one thing but to have no plan then i'm like and i could just talk i think julie and i could just talk for the next couple hours and be like i don't know what i said what did you say i don't know that's not maybe a little organization would help us okay see how this works all right oh i gotta share my screen woohoo all right doing it here we go and i'm gonna present all right but this is not where i wanted to start so here we go so this is we choose amore welcome to our fort river community channel julio and i are the school collaborators and leaders this year and i mean i can't speak for you julio but i know i'm super thrilled to be continue to be part of the fort river community um but also be in this capacity this year what do you think i'm really excited i'm coming back to the fort it's like coming back home um people i start my career here in the district at four river so when this opportunity came i was like wow i'm gonna be working with tammy i've worked with dummy and she's awesome so i dived into it it was like okay let's do it yes and you know i feel like we go way back julio and then we see our kids like playing lacrosse and um we meet up on games like it was just meant to be just completely meant to be all right so what we're going to do now is our agenda for tonight is we're going to do some introductions julio's going to tell you a little bit about himself i'm going to tell you a little bit about myself we are going to review some of the school expectations uh and look at some student work and then upcoming events and then if there's time and you want to put a comment or a question in the chat and we will try and answer as many as we can alright here we go your fort river administration team wow look at that guy who is that handsome guy my journey into this position this year it's been a long one it's been an interesting journey um when i went to college i was hopeful that i was going to be a doctor and interestingly when you're afraid of needles like to see blood that's something that will not work so i went into the second thing that i liked the most i i finished my bachelor's degree and i went into law school yes i've been a lawyer for the past 20 years please don't do the math i'm still in my 20s early 20s and 5 years ago i felt like i needed a change and we moved here to amherst and i started working in the district by that time i was also i started my master's degree in education in special education and everything pan out i was part of the amherst future program and it was probably the best move the most fulfilling professional move that i've done in my life working with the kids coming back to the fort i it's very special um we have in our building the best t-shirts that you can find we have the best teachers in our district and we have the best tools so coming to the fort it's been like a highlight um of my career believe it or not um i'm a husband i have three boys three teenagers at times it can be really difficult tommy knows that tommy has four teenagers so it's a it can it can get hectic um i have a senior i have a junior and i have an eighth grader um [Music] and basically every day you encounter something different so i have a pet i have by dog ginger and i can tell you that yourself in the fort when you have kids you can you have to be prepared for the other practices going to you all right thank you all right so um i'm tammy i have um been at fort river for many many years and i've really loved and continue to love and choose fort river to be my community to be where i work uh because i just i i love the people i love the students i love the families it it's it's just a true calling for me so i started um in education way back when i attended a college that is now part of boston university and i got my master's degree from umass amherst uh i'm advanced certified in orton gillingham i've done extensive training in different reading programs uh to in order to work with students who have dyslexia and reading disabilities i've done a lot of work in teaching mathematics and understanding some the underpinnings of how to work with students who struggle in the area of of math literacy executive function and currently i've been working really hard on really expanding my repertoire of working with students who are multilingual learners and um and understanding the the foundation of when someone comes to my when someone comes to fort river and speaks more than one language and how can how can that be addressed so that way we're meeting the needs of the whole student um in in terms of in terms of linguistically and academically uh so currently both julio and i are in the same bilingual dual language program and we are in our final class kind of exciting um and i'm also a lecturer in at mount holyoke college in the masters of arts program and i teach a course about the science of reading which is really great because i love working with pre-service teachers so one of the things i love to do with my students is have fun i think that increases engagement wants them to come back and learn and do some really hard things um nobody likes to do anything hard right so what i found is reduce the cognitive load increase engagement and then begin to build that capacity uh i also love to be creative and make games that are engaging as well and on a personal level i do like to try new things i'm not always good at it but i i get better and you can see this picture of i decided i could paint rocks one day i was like i think i can do this so i found that picture on the on the bottom there and then you can see what i did so i'm still working on my visual spatial skills that's okay because next time i try that rock painting i bet it'll look a little closer to that one um and as julio mentioned i do have four kids i have a 21 year old and i have an 18 year old that goes to mass maritime and then i have two 16 year olds that are currently learning to drive and if anybody's been in a car with somebody that hasn't driven before you know what i'm talking about right you know that's like the scariest thing all right so did you know fort river we have over 350 students there are more than 10 languages spoken or understood and teachers respond to an average of 30 male 30 emails weekly collaborate daily with other staff members and continue their own pd okay so one of the things i thought julio and i were thinking would be really important is to fill you in on how we shape our day how we shape our school culture what are the structures and the routines that we build into the into the school and into the building and into our classrooms and so here's a little look of what we expect students to do in all settings so um treat others the way they want to be treated include others use appropriate names and pronouns be flexible be kind with your words and actions to everyone around you and be aware of other people's space this this is especially important right now while we're still in coven we really want to maintain the three feet um but then also outside at recess right like did you just want to have fun but we just have to keep uh impressing upon them the importance of social distancing all right we want we want our kids to have fun in a safe way i know where that we have kids and that they need to be in a space that they feel comfortable and that they feel safe but also i we understand that they need to do fun stuff so that's the balance that we're trying to maintain to keep and maintain when we're working with our kids so in the classroom these are the the things that our school team came up with that we want all students to do while in their classroom try your best be kind to everyone around you help and include others and we're lucky we have such amazing teachers they work on these things and review these items every single day talk to our students about it and come up with some really meaningful insightful lessons all right so we wanted to i know it's been tricky to have parents come into the building and families come into the building but k3 shared some images of work that they've been doing um they've been learning about different life cycles including trees pumpkins owls and turkeys i know right i know that poor turkeys i feel like i shouldn't say that too loud um we learned they learned some new science vocabulary did some really great exploration and look at these owls wow we have awesome artists at their schools they're off the charts they're like i know how we could sell these all right so here are some students so proudly sharing their artwork really proud of their cutting like think about the fine motor skills that went into this um all the multi-steps that students had to do to know what to do to put these uh owls together so what looks like a really cute art project is actually filled with lots of skills that students have to be able to do um sequencing fine motor skills um ordering uh working in collaboration with one another so this is great here's some students working on pulling out some pumpkin guts that's always great all right so we also i don't know julio if you want to introduce this um are our during the month of november and december we're gonna be focused on the importance of a great forehead and we're gonna be using two books um where one book in spanish and english maybe something beautiful i think they gave us a couple different books but these are the two that we have here so ask your ask your students about they haven't read them yet but um these will be books that will be shared all right so wow we're onto our third thing already we've got a coat drive coming up that the pgo will be organizing don't forget december 8th we have an early release day and our winter break starts on december 24th now today and now yeah we have our family meetups from 4 to 4 30.

what so [Music] listen i would like to welcome everyone to the national junior honor society induction and to introduce elise shafer who will lead us in the pledge of allegiance please rise good evening i would like to welcome you all to the 2021 inter-election ceremony for the taunton chapter of the national junior honor society membership of the national honor society is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon a high school student after academic eligibility has been established at five-member faculty council select students who have demonstrated outstanding performance in the areas of service leadership and character membership is not only an honor and a privilege but also responsibility and an obligation to your local chapter in your school and in your community i would now like to introduce to lana mancini who will speak about the history of the national society [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] in 1921 the national association of secondary school principals officially established the national honor society under the leadership of dr edward ryerson principal of fifth avenue high school in pittsburgh pennsylvania despite being beginning in 1921 the national honor society grew to become president in over 1 000 schools by the 1930s the organization soon became recognized as one of the nation's premier student achievement organizations established to recognize outstanding high school students four purposes are said to guide their local nhs chapters they are to create enthusiasm for scholarship to stimulate a desire to render service to promote leadership and to develop character in the students of secondary schools seventh and eighth graders at tohonto must earn and maintain a cumulative 3.3 gpa by the time of application throughout their eighth grade year to be considered for membership then students must submit an application to a five-member faculty council that will fairly achieve students based on demonstration of service leadership and character within toronto and the community these four criteria which students are chosen upon scholarship service leadership and character are most important to becoming an active participating member in the school and community it is my privilege to introduce our vice principal miss sally steer goals who will perform the induction ceremony [Applause] [Music] [Applause] parents friends and most importantly inductees good evening tonight marks the celebration of achievement not only that of academic achievement but more importantly that of civic and social achievement as well the four pillars scholarship leadership community service and character of which you were judged for acceptance are a true measure of toronto's core values and beliefs which are dedication education enrichment and responsibility when it comes to scholarship james russell lowell once said true scholarship consists of knowing not what things exist but what they need it's not memory or but judgment stephen covey said of leadership what you do has far to greater impact than what you said and as for community service winston churchill said we make we make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give and finally john wooden said character is who you are when nobody is watching when it comes to character there's another passage that actually resonates me by craig law and that is this watch your thoughts they become your words watch your words they become your actions watch your actions they become your habits watch your habits they become your character and watch your character because it becomes your destiny inductees you represent all of which every student at tahanto should strive for never take your abilities for granted and always look to keep a balance between the pillars i am truly proud of all of you for all that you've accomplished and all that you will accomplish in your livestream congratulations [Applause] i would now like to introduce donna who will recite the pledge for the end inductees and as declan comes up if the candidates could please rise i state your name pledge to uphold the high purposes of the national junior honor society to which i have been selected and will maintain and encourage high standards of scholarship leadership service and character scholarship leadership services will the inductees please be seated at this time i recall the candidates to sign the register and receive their certificate jacqueline dunham [Applause] look work equipment [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] juliana mancini [Applause] [Music] [Applause] are you safer [Applause] so [Applause] camera inclusion [Applause] molly ortela [Applause] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] jasmine bella [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] tyler bergman [Applause] [Music] jillian bradford [Applause] [Music] i'm capable [Applause] [Music] colin kasperson [Applause] [Music] owen folly [Applause] [Music] ashlander [Applause] [Music] come on [Applause] my liver [Applause] so [Music] thomas [Applause] [Music] pull the leg [Applause] [Music] [Applause] camera [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] taylor johnson [Applause] [Music] logan lewis [Applause] foreign [Applause] lila martinez [Applause] [Music] [Applause] emily munter [Applause] samantha corelli karen gretzky [Applause] [Music] [Applause] line square [Music] [Applause] [Music] luke stephen [Applause] [Music] daniel solomon [Applause] [Music] the yellow water [Applause] i would like to introduce the 2021 members of the toronto national junior honor society [Applause] the installation of any group of officers is an important and serious occasion you the new members have indicated your faith and trust in your newly elected officers to serve for the coming year the success of their service and accomplishments depend largely on your cooperation and support we work as a team as we know the national junior honor society is founded on the principles of scholarship leadership service and character so may you and all you do keep this in mind with the new officers please step forward historian juliana mancini treasurer cameron cushion secretary elise schaefer vice president brooke eckelman president zuckerlin dunham [Applause] new officers you have expressed your willingness to give the best in time and effort to carry out the principles of the national junior honor society yours is a responsibility as well as a privilege you know that our world needs faithful responsible and efficient leaders and it can start right here with our own organization do you pledge your best efforts to these your elected officers offices congratulations have a great year [Applause] if everybody would like to go to the auditorium for pictures to the cafeteria for pictures thank you everybody you

here thank you carol i ask that we stand and join the pleasure allegiance this world good evening everyone thanks for joining us this this uh somewhat cool evening uh protocol here at town hall is masks are optional this week uh board members and folks i could choose to wear or not wear them i am not wearing mine because i am separated by plessy glass so i hope i don't see any memes on facebook later i don't wear my mask but all serious walking everyone it's nice to see some friendly smiling faces uh so we're to jump right into it um starting with our student representative reports annabelle hi everyone um as you can probably tell i'm flying solo tonight and that is because rowan is performing in the opening night of our school play um so this year the school play is the red velvet cake war and it's described as the southern fried family reunion comedy so it is showing tonight friday and saturday we're really excited to have those plays back because that's a big part of our school community um next the really important thing that i'm so excited to share with you all is our week of giving that's coming up in december so student leadership groups um such as the senate peer health peer advocates and various sports captains have come together um to create this week of giving for the holidays so the first part of that is the young republicans who are doing their annual toys for tots toy drive under the marine foundation um and this will run from november 17th to december 6th next we have our supermarket challenge and this is hosted by coach lee and his peer health class so different groups are going to be making teams personally i'm going to be on the student senate team and i think we are going to win um and we are going to try and collect as many items on the cheshire food pantry list under a certain amount of time and under a hundred dollars so that will be a very exciting thing happening and all of those all of those items get donated straight to the food pantry so that is part of our week of giving then we have our district-wide pj day so all the entire district is going to be wearing pajamas to school and making monetary donations to help kids receive pajamas for the holidays which i'm so excited about because who wouldn't want to wear pajamas to school and then we have our local dcf toy drive so this is specifically run by the student senate and the peer advocates we're kind of separating it from the toys for tots toy drive that the young republicans are doing so instead people are going to be making teams so either a friend group makes teams or clubs have their own team and sports have their own teams and those teams are going to collectively be bringing in toys and the student senate is thinking of really creative ideas to keep track to show the school what progress we're making as well as finding ways so that the different teams can indicate their participation in the donation so we have some friendly competition but in the end it all goes towards our week of giving so that is very exciting and i'm very excited to report back to you on how that goes um then we have the nhs college fair which is on wednesday so alumni are coming to share about their colleges and their experiences but something that's really important is that we are staying with our strict code protocols so we are limiting it to 11th and 12th graders and alumni cannot walk through the school which is really important they're going to stay in their designated area talking about their designated colleges and we're going to maintain our spacing in order to make sure that in the future we can continue doing things like this that will be beneficial to the school next for athletics i have a lot to share in athletics so girls cross country runner sophomore alexis saccone was named the sec conference runner of the year she was the top finisher in the league and ranked 29th in new england so we're very proud of her next our girls volleyball team went undefeated for the entire regular season and won the league tournament unfortunately last night they did lose in the semi-finals but we are so proud of everything that the team put in to you know their accomplishments because it brought so much school spirit and everyone was at those volleyball games and rallying for our teams and it was really an amazing thing to see especially after last year when we really didn't have that so that was probably the best part and we are very thankful for what their success brought to our school next boys soccer was runner-up in the league championship tournament um in that seat tournament the team has advanced to the state championship which will be played in dillon stadium this week versus farmington so a lot of us are very excited to make the trek and go support our soccer team and then field hockey was runner up in the league championship tournament play girls swimming was the class l state championship runner-up and then our final football game of the season is going to be played um in the apple valley classic against southington on thanksgiving day and this year the game will be at southington but i already know that so many of us are going to be there to support our team which i'm very looking i'm looking very much forward to um and then the last thing is our ramlan super bowl flag football game is in play so um it's a juniors versus seniors game seniors are gonna win um i'm on the team so i can say that for sure um and we had our first practice today and it was absolutely amazing and all of the girls are ready to work hard and have a great time because that's something that we didn't get to have last year so we are very excited that is all i have for you tonight thanks thank you annabelle any questions or comments from the board and thank you annabelle i just wanted to let you know that my students at quinnipiac university come to classes in their pajamas all the time so you have that to look forward to when you go to college i'm not saying it's appropriate but it does happen and you are able to do it yay i i could just add a detail real quick on the soccer uh state championship that'll be held saturday night at 6 30 in hartford at the hartford athletic where the soccer soccer team there plays and there will be buses available for students uh ram land will travel well i'm sure to that game to support our soccer team who's playing in their first state championship since i think don inaudi our former teacher of the year is here i think she was just out of her induction program 33 years ago when we played for our last state championship so we're really excited about it donna remembers i'm sure any other questions or comments from the board as seen as there are none annabelle thank you so much for report hope you enjoy the rest of your name you don't have to stay thank you so much everyone have a great night and enjoy your your holidays next week up next we have some awesome presentations this evening um we're going to start with the school partnership award for darcy um i guess i'll wing it here a little bit uh this even this evening the recipient of the school partnership award for darcy's school will be recognized um charlie slaughter is an early childhood prevention coordinator for the connecticut department of children and families and has a passion for children parents and providers thriving in life just so you know there's a lot of pees in this it's right up here um charlie is the program lead for the triple p positive parenting program and the early childhood consultation partnership eccp program charlie was awarded the first ever circle of security international award in 2013.

thank you Carlos marel can you please go over roll call today is a regular board meeting of November 18th 2021 at 5:30 pm members of the board in attendance president Cora pres vice president Andres kto clerk Eno Beano here member Linda Chavez present member MF present the members of administration super than you I think our YouTube is catching up can you repeat that Mar sorry I had to put it on mute um members of administration super intendent Dr B pres thank you uh now we'll do the Pledge of Allegiance please join me I pledge of allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the justice for all thank you okay and today's meeting I'd like to dedicate it to uh all of our veterans I know uh we just celebrated Veterans Day um all those that have served um to make our country better and one way shape or form um thank you so much for your uh service um to making our present and future better for our country um and with that we'll go ahead and move on to item 102 any uh discussion or modification of the agenda at this time Dr brow Madame President I would like to ask you if we can move um item 6.01 right after 1.03 it's a special presentation and the other item that I will ask um to be pulled is item 106 okay so 601 after uh the special so 2011 so right after that and then 10:6 uh we're going to pull that out of today's agenda yes please any other changes to the agenda recommendation discussions okay seeing none um anybody against um changing the agenda at this time any of those changes okay okay so we'll go ahead and move on with those changes um and then just on 103 a reminder to all of our uh public that uh we will be giving two minutes after each item for public comment so uh everybody will have two minutes in order um in order to give your public comment if for whatever reason we have um way too many uh that we might adjust the time um otherwise we uh give the two minutes per member of the public for agenda item uh with that we'll go ahead and um start with the special education board overview presentation to a one um Madame President I would like to call Mr Anthony Colona there he is he will be bring presentation thank you good evening Board of Trustees and uh superintendent Dr Bower my name is Anthony Colona and I'm the director of the alumrock special education department and I'm here tonight just to give a brief update and a status update of our special education program in Alam Rock so I'm G to share my screen can everybody see the PowerPoint we good great yes so I wanted to start by just giving you an overview of our staff and how many students we're currently serving um as you can see just things to point out we have 72 special education teachers we have Behavior Specialists occupational therapists we have 98 pair of professionals with 26 openings so that definitely is something we're working on very thankful though to our HR department who's recently worked with cs CA to increase the hours we offer our pair of professionals with our hope that we get more applicants for these openings we currently have 19 speech therapists 13 School psychologists we have Abba we offer a wide range of services especially for a district of our size and we have one special education nurse this U doesn't include the district nurses we currently service 1,114 students has of today um we do currently have 130 students pending so this is the first year you know declining enrollment I know you've heard about it it is we are seeing it also in special education which is sort of a first for us um but at the same time we're now in the process of assessing students sorry there we go just wanted to give a brief overview of the programs um it is really unique for a district in our area to offer so many specialized programs so it's something we've always been proud of in alumrock because we really make it our Focus to do all that we can to service our students within our district that's always been my priority in the few years I've been director um I just think it's really important that we service our own students and we do that by offering resource specialist programs at both at all of our schools so elementary and middle um we've really expanded it in middle school because we want to look at not having having special day classes at the middle school when possible so we've expanded our resource programs at the middle school but we also do offer special day classes where students receive their services for the majority of their day in a special education class we do two types we do non-categorical and then we do something that's a little bit more restrictive we have specialized special day classes for students with autism we have therapeutic programs and then we offer basic programs we also offer a preschool starting at age three it we do offer services through our preschool program and then we have students in that only receive speech so our speech only students they're at every site and then this year we' have started our independent studies program program and unlike some of the other districts we are doing it in house so we have hired independent study uh special day class teacher a resource specialist and a speech therapist but special at is a Continuum so we're not always able to offer what our uh students need in District so we do utilize County programs basic autism programs medically frag mod programs and then therapeutic programs and then we also have some students in state schools School for the Deaf and School for the Blind and then as a last resort um we do offer services to some of our students through non-public schools that is something that you know not post pandemic but after our return we have seen an increase in having to place students in non-public schools hopefully it's only temporary but we've had some move in students and we've had some that we've needed to place but we're still well below our Target and the state um caps on that and then the services we offer through District specialized academic instruction is what happens in our classes with our teachers we also offer speech and language adaptive physical education and we offer behavior supports through um counselors our therapists our psychologists and our onetoone par professional and we do have special education Behavior Specialists that support our students in our program and then applied Behavior anal analysis or ABA for our students with autism we do contract out for some services so we contract out for these individuals to come into the district and offer occupational therapy we have an ABA consultant that manages our ABA program and then we do contract out for our marriage family therapists and um service plan support which is service plans if you have we have students who attend private schools within the district we do offer a service plan and that we have somebody that goes into the private school and works with those students and then through the Sela we get Vision Services orientation and Mobility Services and then they have a we have a de and heart of hearing teacher that we work with through the Sela again you know Alam Rock we've really been at the Forefront with our special education department for years now we were one of the first districts to offer intervention curriculums in this area and we currently use three of them we use readwell is for our elementary K through3 students that are in our special day classes it's a phonics based program we use language live for our fourth through eth grade and our Middle School all our middle school students we've recently piloted and we've started using transmath which is a math Intervention Program in our middle schools and we've used steps to advance uh which is a aligned with Benchmark which is our Core Curriculum in General Ed steps to advance is being done in our elementary RSP programs and then we have additional curriculums we use unique for our basic classes and then we give students access to striving readers and then there's very I want to say dozens of online programs that teachers have access to preschool again we use math shelf is a preschool program that we use that's very technology bace and students use tablets and complete activities I was in a class today and they were using it it's great to see we use some it's called get set for school curriculum and it teaches foundational skills getting our students ready for Kinder and then they would transition to readwell if they still require a Intervention Program and then we also continue to use Handwriting Without Tears so I think what's really led to all you know one of the benefits of getting these curriculums and keeping things standardized is that we do see positive impacts and this is one that I'm really proud of is that we've worked with academic Services Under Mr Sanchez he's brought all the Departments together and we really spent really I want to say years working on how can we get our special students into general education classes because research shows they do do better in general education so we want to really include students whenever possible and one of the indicators the state looks at is indicator five and this is one where we've made significant gains and we now have met the state Target and we do we've met over 52% of our special ed students spend 80% or more of their time in special education really proud of this here's an area where we still are working on it we've made gains but we're not there yet of getting our more impacted students so if you have a student in a special day class perhaps we really want to see them at least 40% their day in general education we're making gains we're not there yet though but this is something we continue to work on and as I say the goal is to increase mainstreaming opportunities and inclusion for all of our students again I want to focus on as I said earlier we really do strive to keep our students in District so we've clearly met always have met this target uh sending students to separate schools such as NPS we exhaust all resources within our district we currently have students at some of the achieve Beacon and then spectrum and Pine Hill but again we're meeting the Target and then this is a parent involvement indicator that the state looks at as part of an IEP meetings parents are asked do you feel like you are involved in your students education and this is one that we've consistently met this goal all of this you know all of this hard work does have a payoff and we want to because at the end of the day it's about student achievement and this is something that again we've seen pre pandemic we were on an upward trajectory very proud of you know it's been a lot of hard work but we have seen gains in our esack testing hopefully we're going to test again this year we want to see this continue but we've seen these gains in ela and maass but you know there's still work to be done right so we've come back um areas of focus that my goals and things I need to work on with the department number one is something we're seeing Statewide is Staffing probably you know the m a big chunk of my day is spent on really looking at solutions for our staffing shortages whether it's par professionals we've had to contract out for spee teach therapist we are doing better than some of our surrounding districts but we still it's still a stressor for us finding qualified staff when you know we've getting students are back in person which has been great but it's been a challenge for a lot of our students and they need the academic social emotional and Behavior Support that typically you maybe would use staff to do that so some of our shortages have really impacted this where we would have put staff in to support in a classroom we have openings and then always always always our focus is inclusion so we'll continue to work on that to address some of these things we have been you know there are monies from the State we did formulate a learning recovery plan it outlines how we plan to address students with the impact of school closures and how we're going to support them so I wanted to we developed a plan that addresses our areas of focus as far as supporting students academically we want to get additional training for our staff on udl Universal Design for Learning credentials my goal goal is to have all staff trained with associate credentials we'll work with the county they offer that support we're looking at targeted software interventions that we can use because of Staffing concerns we may need to use some software interventions with our students so they have that extra support things they can do at home along with that school and then as I showed you in the beginning we're currently in the middle of assessing 130 students so we are we did recently uh through your actions you've approved a contract that we are bringing in support to assist with assessments and then our social emotional support working with the inclusion collaborative through the county just to offer additional trainings and support for our staff along with oural Department how how are we supporting students emotionally their social growth making up for some of what they would have gotten over the past 18 months and then we have brought in additional contracted support staff to offer Behavior Support in our classrooms especially in our intensive support programs such as for our therapeutic program and our autism programs this you know I wanted to put this in because this is something I'm really proud of and I'm proud of it that we for the first time in my knowledge my experience and I've been with the district and special ed for over 20 years we did we passed our compliance review this year we were 100% compant which as I said I've never to my knowledge has have we done this so I'm really proud of this especially during a pandemic time so our when the state comes in they review IEPs they found us 100% compliant with our board policies and our student level IEPs so something that I'm really proud of I just want to end it by saying you know I really believe that it takes a village and I couldn't have done this or we couldn't have done this and all the gains we've made without our students and our families they truly are our our partners my not my staff but the District staff and the special education staff teachers par professional really a team effort because and they've just given us invaluable support resilience hard work and dedication so I'd like to thank you and I'm available if you have any questions thank you so much Mr Colona um that's amazing and before I open it up for comments and um questions or uh from the board I'm gonna go ahead and open it up for public comment at this time and then we'll come back to the board so Jose if you can please help me with the public and see there's any members of the public wishing to address a board on this item hello Madam president yes we have two speakers uh first speaker is Miss daa Gonzalez Miss Gonzalez you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi good evening my name is s Gonzalez um I am a parent of two students in D BR school district and today I'm here as a parent um first of all thank you for the amazing presentation and all the work that you're doing second I do have a questions because I saw some of the trainings that the teachers are be getting but for those teachers that are having our special Aid as students inside the classrooms as a regular classrooms what kind of training and support are you giving them um and I'm saying this because I know that right now these of the classes have at least 25 to 30 students and for a teacher to be able to handle with meltdowns um fidgeting it could be a little bit H it's an extra or challenging work so I would like to know what kind of work what kind of support you're giving them is there a a part assisting them when our students are in there is there um a Special Ed training that they receive to identify when they when they student is doing a meltdown and how to support in during that crisis um the last thing we want to do right is to um ask a student to leave the classroom or call for or call for help when we have um teachers that could be training in this area um but thank you for that amazing work I am really proud like I said I am I have a student in the special a I seen how teachers um are um there for my for my son so um thank you for that but those are my questions because I did not see that on the presentation thank you have a good evening thank you Miss mades our next speaker is Adrian B Miss B you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin unmute can you hear me yes all right hello my name is Adrien Bain I'm a teacher at Joseph George middle school and I just wanted want to say that our specialed teachers Rock um right now they've been pushing into our classes and they've been doing a phenomenal job uh not only helping our uh specialed students but helping us regular Ed teachers uh not only deal with the specialed students but how to better accommodate them and so I am so appreciative of our special ed program and all I wish and hope is that we can retain our special ed teachers because they are so needed and if we don't settle a contract soon I'm afraid we're going to lose them so thank you very much you guys are doing an awesome job special ed department and I appreciate you so much thank you you thank you Miss F Madam president at this time we have no more public speaking thank you uh so now I'll open it up to the trustees any questions comments concerns anyone uh I see vice president gto's hand up welcome I'm sure you probably in were in earlier uh but we hadn't seen you I'm glad you're here more than a question just a comment I want to thank Tony for uh the great work that he's been doing um we uh on a personal level have been able to observe the the DraStic change in in the department um and um yeah at the policy level we've been able to see that uh things are are going great and you're you're moving forward in in the right direction so obviously you know there's always room for for improvement and you know continuous Improvement should always be applied but uh as somebody who's he's been here for a while I've been able to observe the significant change and so I think credit needs to be given to those folks that are who are who are doing a great job so thank you very much to you to all your staff teachers everyone uh who's uh who's helping support some of our most for vulnerable students some of the students that have highest needs that um and without your services would definitely um suffer qu or or or would have difficulties later on in the future thank you very much thank you thank you vice president and I saw the three hands up go at the same time so I'm just going to call you as I see you on my screen uh trusty Beano okay thank you can you hear me yes right there we go okay um so first of all again um also I want to I guess really congratulate um and thank Mr Cola and and all of the team that has been working on on this I continue to find it amazing that through all the adversity that we've had not just the pandemic but just the things that are really specific to our district and our community and yet in spite of all that you know we find a way as trusty kto mentioned and as we quite often say there's always room for improvement in every area that we work with but to see those dashboard numbers creeping up you know I I I would rather kind of see um slow and consistent growth in those dashboard indicators than like a big jump because to me that indicates a sustainable progress that that's happening as opposed to just like a kind of oneoff thing that we may see when it jumps like from red to Green so I'm glad that we're seeing that um increase um I did have a couple of oh the other thing I wanted to just say is um you know I'm actually really proud also of of our board um and our you know our administration because I know month after month when we you know when we have contracts come in and and things that we need to provide for special education those services are not cheap you know Services it's it's quite costly um to provide the services that that these students deserve every single day and so I'm very happy that we with all the challenges that we have you know with regards to to our budget that we're still able to provide these very um you know costly or these services that that that are not cheap I'll just say that but the kids deserve it so I don't want to put even a price tag on it but I'm just glad we continue to be able to support that work um a question that I have one of them with regards to the Paras that you said that we've been working towards getting their hours increased um what what is the and I don't know if this is actually a question for you Mr Colona or maybe for Mr changen but in terms of budget and and the difference in funding for the previous amount of hours and what we're trying to get to entice some pair professionals to sign on with us what does that look like what is the budgetary impact of of that um modification or change that would be something that I'd have to defer to Mr Chang on and I don't know if he's of all areas is that money that we already have had built into our budget or are we how is that working yes so fortunately um you know the the state and also the FED has given us some additional funding for this specific purpose if you call the um elop Grant I'm sorry the ELO grant that was approved by the state back in the spring um allocated um a percentage I believe it was 10% um of the total funding to go towards Paris um and then also in the um in some additional uh federal dollars we were able to use that money as well um to go and increase the hours from I believe four to five Tony yes yes yeah um but yes yes those those those funds are in our budget so it's additional funding that we're receiving specifically for this purpose that is correct yes okay thank you for that and then another question I have um this one I think is for Mr Colona so the the connection with the work that you're all doing already and our social emotional learning team um I mean I know there's a lot of connectedness and you guys are doing you know very interconnected work so could you you just give a brief description of what that teaming process is looking like at this point so so all of our you know the social emotional team has offered trainings for teachers for General Ed and all of our teachers participate in those programs and those trainings so they get the support like that and then we piggy back on it for our special ed teachers with our Behavior Specialists who go in and train not only our teachers but our bus drivers and they offer that daytoday support and then we've also brought in additional staff through Behavior text to support on an individual student or program need well I'm really glad to hear that particularly with the bus drivers I know my dad is actually a driver in another district and I know that the interface that happens on a day-to-day basis with these students is you know a lot of it occurs at that point in time and so that's I'm really glad to hear that we're we're doing that um the last question that I have uh is just kind of I guess maybe a little bit of speculation or um the question is what lessons Mr colon do you think that we're learning at this time um as we move into possibly a new reality with regards to Staffing this whole um you know what is it called the big resignation or whatever that I'm drawing a drawing a blank on the term but with what we might see potentially as a different reality what lessons do you think we're learning now obviously you're you're getting a lot of great work done and are there things that we think might move forward as we move into this I mean I'll be honest in the middle of it right now haven't had a lot of time to think about you know the big lessons but I think one thing that I go back to is that you know it's teamwork we need to look at how we can offer services in an inclusive setting so instead of having you know all where we're pulling out kids and needing to have separate staff would it be more effective we know for on the student level it research shows it's more effective to have them in General Ed but Staffing wise could we get more bang for our buck if we were servicing more students in General Ed you know which we did during closures really because of the online aspect of it we did have a lot of kids push in and teachers supported in a different way during closures so I think looking at that we're always going to need our specialized programs I think but um just I think that it's going to become more of a necessity that we're just not going to have if this stays like it is we'll have to look at alternatives for yeah for shortage staff shortages okay well thank you again I'm glad to hear the progress we're making and I look forward to continuing to support it thank you thank you trusty trusty Chavez okay um actually he took one of my questions but I did want to ask uh but first say that since you have filled the position Mr gulan that you have done really good results so congratulations on that um I did want to say that um I heard I thought I heard you say that the state has given 10% um and so when Mr Beano asked the money question um on the additional funding would you say we've been the district has been given 10% 20% and is the other percentage say the the 90 or 80% is that coming out of the general budget and I have one more question after that's answered please that would be a Mr Chang I think he was referring to yep okay Mr Chang please sorry I had I was on mute yes it'll be coming out from the restricted um general fund um the the the two components of the funding is one is from the state and one's from the federal um the federal did provide some additional funding related to learning loss that we're able to use to increase services for uh student for special Aid okay so percentage wise what percent would you say that the state and fed Federal are giving us and how much percent is coming out of the general fund um it's hard to calculate the exact percent right now especially on the federal side um and also you know we just came to an agreement to this mou so we still need to figure out how many employees currently are going to opt in to increase their hours from four to five and so we don't have all that finalized number yet until we do then we're able to calculate um the the additional increases in costs okay thank you um and another question is um I heard that you with the preschoolers they're three years old and at what age group do you assess them at third grade or do you assess them um zero to two years old because I seen that in Contra Casta over in La yet that they were already asking the ones who were in daycare from zero to two years old to a assess them would it be wiser to assess them earlier to know what our budget will be when they do be hit the age of 3 four five can you please tell me a little more on that yeah so we assess by their third birthday is when the district takes over prior to that there's Early Child through the county they do are on an infant IEP and ifsp it's called until their turn three and then by their third birthday we assess so we have a preschool Assessment Center that's been relocated to Chavez and that's they assess approximately 300 students a year okay thank you yep of course thank you thank you trusty fam okay uh then just uh you know before I move on to my comment question to uh Tony here uh so how does the the preschool assessment work uh well I I just remember when I I don't recall I I I have memories of being three myself and so I've never recalled a assessment however I do know that I did attend a A Private Preschool so uh you know uh would would you be so kind as to watch me through the the assessment at age three yeah so it's really happens in two ways the first way is if a student has been assessed previously for early Ser intervention services they have an issp we get a list of those students that are turning three and we reach out to parents and do a transition we do an assessment and a transition IEP by their third birthday that's one way and then it's through parent they come in a parent comes in writes a letter they have concerns about their student um and they request an assessment okay and that helps and that's very nice that we we are intervening early as I mentioned when I was when I was three I never remembered uh that you know that that type that kind of I forward approach right uh so moving on uh I I want to thank you and every teacher who works under your division for uh everything you do I say this in part of I was once a special education student myself although not in the way you think I have a problems with uh hand eye coordination and all and dexterity and all that so I so it would be the Adaptive PE program that I am most personally uh intimate about the balance beam and the trampoline and the the what is it uh the velcro dart board and all that uh but in all sort but but in all sorts of areas of special end my had the pleasure of visiting uh special ad at uh 19 out of 22 schools and I hope to finish my site visits by the end of the year but uh you know from from occupational therapy to all the way to uh autism at Lindale and that Russo mckinty for example uh very proud of the fact that we are you know through your work and uh you know the work of uh the teachers in your team to provide a a a leg up to to our students who are uh you know uh struggling to get to get to swing the bat you know we have you know some some students we have at third base some students we have at second base some at first base these are our students that we're trying we're trying to get them to step on the home plate and swing the backat and so I uh so I thank you a and all the teachers very much for for all their work and I as I like to say uh teacher for Teacher the the finest Special Education team in the county I agree thank you thank you so much I see trusty Chavez is handing back up TR Chavis thank you um so I heard Mr uh Tony mentioned that the parent has to ask for it uh is it just the parent or the teacher also has to recommend it and has a parent been denied in the past we typically don't ever deny I know it's something that we're able to do but if a parent feels there's a need you know my thought is that let's assess and see so are we talking for students earlier than three we do get some teachers we have you know students that are in Head Start kadango we've occasionally have teachers reach out but ultimately the parent has to consent to any assessment thank you thank you all right seeing no other hands thank you so much Mr Colona my questions were answered and I just want to highlight you know the fact that you're doing an amazing job I agree uh when I first came in uh you weren't leading the department yet you know and so in the little time that I've been here I've seen a huge difference I can only imagine you know over time so thank you for your leadership thank you for each of your staff that are in your team um and basically I think switching it no not on your team but on our children's team ensuring that they have what they need that they're successful and I really like the idea of really shifting it to uh regular classroom and that all of our teachers have those the training needed in order to serve our children all children better um I know one of our parents talked about training and I'm in agreement I think all of our uh staff should be trained um for whatever can come up in any classroom and so I like that idea I know it won't happen overnight uh but I look forward to being able to um serve all of our children because as we know as parents at least you know having had uh you know a time where um I wasn't sure about my daughter's needs you know is it special ed is it not um I think if every teacher was trained then it might even prevent you know some of our parents from um from even having to go through that is my you know student special IDE we're all uh treating all of our students um the same and um with the training that special ed can also come with um then some of our children might not even have to be um assessed which is important absolutely but um I think also it teaches our children when they have a job in the future you know um they get out of our schools at about 13 14 two years later they might be in a job and so um it teaches them how to be in community um with you know all of us um and so I I really love that idea I look forward to having more discussion about that to see what that can look like um and again Pat on your back too for the work um and everybody in your department thank you again thank you and I just can't leave without really a special thanks to my two program Specialists I really could not do this without them so I wouldn't want to leave without calling out their hard work but thank you everyone for your support thank you Mr Colona all right um moving on to next item um item 601 and I believe we have Erin here who will be presenting for us on the Strategic Plan update information only welcome Mr Price both Mr Price Glen and Erin thank you so much Madame board President and Vice President Kinto and honored members of the Board of Education superintendent Bower and team and everyone that's here online woohoo we're just so happy to be with you tonight to talk about this topic super appreciate that we were able to be here for that outstanding special ed report and we want to add our congratulations to that all team that whole team and also just extend our appreciation to the tremendous effort that everyone at all levels and parts of elmrock are making at this time from your administrators teachers classified staff and especially students to continue the extraordinary word that you all are are leading and given that context given these extraordinary times that we're living through we super appreciate the above and beyond efforts that you're making to start the strategic planning process which is the subject of this particular agenda item and in so doing we also want to acknowledge the critical support that this effort has received from Dr Mar and Dewan and the San Clara County of a education in supporting this work so tonight um we're very conscious of the time constraints and and the agenda that you have in front of you but we're really looking forward to your to your feedback and guidance and we're going to make this report to you in in three sections um first of all and just FYI for those of you who are listening at home and may not have access to the screen uh the the PowerPoint slides are going to be presented begin on page 28 of the of the board book um and as we start out in these three sections of our presentation tonight three brief sections um I will start and discuss the purpose of this work um what we have done to date where we plan to go um as well as U board members of draft guiding principles that emerged from your retreat earlier this year that we're we're delighted to bring back again bold facing underlining that their their draft um following that piece my colleague uh gpg president Aon price will present some of the themes emerging from our our initial stakeholder engagement and many thanks again uh to everyone who helped us arrange that we're very appreciative of the bodies like the Dak and deac and others with being so generous of their time and getting us on their agendas and the kind efforts of Sandra Garcia to arrange those opportunities following um President Aaron Price's presentation of the that stakeholder engage those stakeholder engagement results we're going to hear from gpg vice president Caitlyn vakara who's going to outline several areas where we're really excited about getting some feedback and guidance from you all on the on the board and we will then turn it back over to you Madame President to to facilitate that discussion um so with that in mind uh if we could move to our our first slide we start going through where where we've been and onto our guiding principles so what is the purpose why why are we doing this strategic planing process um when there's so many plans and and things that that you're engaged in and what we're looking at is providing support to elmrock Union School District to develop some guiding principles frame key issues and opportunities and identify some strategic options that you all can use to address these so it really provide you with something of a I'm sometimes tempted to replace the word strategic plan with roadmap really a road map that you can be using to help help help gu the future and unify and provide a lens for all the different kinds of planning efforts that you're engaged in so that's our project purpose can then hit the uh the next slide what we've done so far um in fulfillment of that project purpose um starting in March out to now um is we we had a series of interviews with you all and again thank you for your time with that uh we had that excellent Retreat where we focused on developing guiding principles um we took the opportunity to review excellent background material you all have available your lcap demographic study uh materials coming out of the facilities repurposing committee and other district and and and and Community data um we then were able to contuct 22 interviews with folks from the district offices office from schools your bargaining units parents Community Based Partners um and others and we want to express our appreciation to them as well well for spending time with us and really helping us understand and get a full picture and that data is going to be coming back to you tonight as I mentioned uh we had input sessions with spark uh Dak and daac and again really appreciate them uh giving us time on their agenda and being so honest and open and forthcoming with us and then we've started to engage and have identified members of a coure planning team that's going to convene monthly starting in January to support the and guide the development the plan which obviously will be brought back and forth to you um as it iterates and goes forward for your uh guidance and uh support as well as that as that's developed so that's what we've done from March until now if we can look at the next slide we'll U talk about where where we're going next so we're I guess moving to the to the the Finish Line we're hoping to be able to provide you with a a completed strategic plan a road map that you can be uh looking at in May of of of next year um so as we move towards that some of our Milestones are taking all the information and resources and data that we've gathered so far and providing that to The District in the form of a discovery report and some of the key findings uh that will be Amplified in that Discovery report will be discussed tonight uh we'll be putting together this core planning team that I mentioned representative of different parts of the district and the community to provide guidance um and support as the as the as the plan or Road M map is developed and that team is going to start meeting monthly uh with the launch meeting now scheduled for less than a month in this time January 11th and that should read 2022 um is when that will occur um and as we go forward we're going to be seeking um opportunities to come back to you like we are now and report on progress as we move along to make sure that what the worth that's proceeding is aligned with board policy and and strategy so we anticipate working closely with that planning team the board um to revisit and revise the guiding principles that you began working on earlier this year uh and then using that Discovery report as a foundation uh look at some of what these key strategies will be for for moving forward so it's ambitious but we think um given the the strengths of the district and the the strengths of the work that's been done so far we can do it and we're very excited about continuing to move forward with these these these Milestones so let's look take a brief look at the draft guiding principles that can have emerged from the the board retreat earlier earlier this year you know and and some people will say well you know why why in the world do you want to spend time on on Guiding principles you know why why do that uh when time is so precious why take time to develop guiding principles and the the reason that we've brought it forward and prop propos that be part of your strategic planning process is that those guiding principles can be used when issues come up that maybe haven't been foreseen at this point or when there's a North star needed for where we're going to be moving as as as a district and these are some of the draft ones that emerged from The Retreat earlier this year can think of a guiding principle as something that you hold dear to your heart um that you would never give up um it's something that's that's that intrinsic for you that that's that's important um so I'll just Briefly summarize these uh that we would serve our families and Community as our essential and foundational public education institution we safeguard that sacred almost uh institution that is public education in our community that so many rely upon uh that we focus on a successful future for every student seeking equity and justice for all they really make that part of our North Star that that destination of equity and justice for all uh as we do that we support our education team including staff teachers and administrators to grow and Thrive uh knowing as a guiding principle that our team uh is the central way that we make progress towards that that NSTAR um we think about our opportunities and assets as the basis for growth in other words we're we're not building on deficits uh we're building on what we see as opportunities and Assets in the in in the district and as part of that um the culture of our communities is probably the biggest asset that we have and we maintain number five cultural curiosity and humility recommend realizing that our communities cultures are a course strength or major asset that's available and last but not least uh we seek to work with open minds respect compassion empathy and integrity we're not always going to agree on every issue it's it's um it's often not the the the reality that people of Goodwill will disagree on the same issue even on the same set of facts uh but in doing so recognizing our children's interest or at stake we work together as with respect compassion empathy and integrity so we lay these guiding principles on the table for you for for discussion they're not uh it's not an action item tonight but we'd like to continue to work on them with you and the core team as we move along and with that I'll turn it over to uh eron price to uh talk to us a little bit about in the second portion of the presentation about what we've learned so far thanks Glenn uh and as as Glenn had mentioned in one of the earlier slides we we did about 22 uh interviews with a variety of of representatives from from different um different different groups internal and external to the the district as well as some some listening sessions and and the themes that follow which which are emerging are in uh of draft uh State and and we're going to be building on and and carrying forward in that Discovery report which will then serve as a a basis for the work of the core planning team moving into the uh those meetings taking place in in 2022 so we've organized these into as you can see in in the the slides you have them in in front of you different uh areas for for emerging themes there's strengths and assets there's challenges there's opportunities and finally there's some uh emerging themes around what is the vision uh that that we've heard what are the aspects of of the the Future Vision for the district that we've heard coming out of these these interviews and input sessions so in the area of strengths and assets of the district the board uh District leadership and staff principles teachers and site staff heard that from many uh interviewees that the people current leadership um as at at the district level at the site level as well as uh teachers and and staff at at schools are a a major strength the district's commit m to the community and commitment to serving the community specifically this commitment to to multilingual Learners dual Learners are multilingual Learners came up um and specifically things like uh the the dual immersion programs and strengthening and and interest in expanding those uh the whole approach whole child approach and this emphasis on social and emotional learning uh focus on early care and education which will I we'll see some of these come back around in some of the opportunities as well Labor Management Partnerships which is listed here as as a strength that that there's a sense that we've heard from some that that those relationships and that Dynamic is is in a healthier place than it has been at at times in the past also um is on the next slide around around challenges areas where there's still further opportunity and room uh to to strengthen we heard a a number of stories and and um appreciations for the district's response to covid really rapidly responding to the community's uh needs and and coming to the table with devices food other supplies and and being quickly uh responsive to to the situation um the real asset of of school properties came up as well and then the community itself as a strength and as an asset and I think this ties a little bit into What Glenn was saying in the last slide uh around some of the The Guiding principles that that you all have have informed that there is cultural and linguistic diversity as a a strength and that the community has a commitment to the education and and success of its students as we think about some of the the challenges declining enrollment and that and its impact um financially uh kind of as a direct Financial impact including this reduced Revenue as well as the impact of of Distributing resources across sites with with fewer students so kind of being stretched in the human resource and facility resource spaces that that comes along with with that staff turnover and shortages and some of these items have come up already in in in tonight's meeting um including for substitute teachers a shortage or challenge in securing uh sufficient numbers of substitute teachers aging school facilities so while those School fac sites and school facilities are an asset there's also some challenges around aging infrastructure as I mentioned on the previous side Labor Management Partnerships being both an area where there's some success and strength to recognize as well as an area where there's further uh opportunity for for improvement Broad and meaningful family engagement we heard this um quite a bit elevated as an area for for continued and further attention um and and not necessarily that it's for lack of providing opportunity or for lack of uh uh trying and and effort um but that there are some some some disconnects uh you know that that that's not always Landing with the intended or hoped for results and so exploring those a little bit more where can can that uh approach be strengthened structural economic inequalities facing the alumrock um Community specifically the the cost of housing came up quite a bit for uh the the community that the district serves and then the impact of covid on on the community as well so while the district was uh had appreciated efforts um to respond to that the covid-19 pandemic had and continues to have um know significant impact on the community as a challenge as we move into opportunities we've we've there's a lot of text and we've we've kind of tried to categorize them a little bit into these four different Main buckets of opportunities again that are emerging through the work so far so the first major area being maximizing services for students and families some of the specific ideas there that have come up around uh expanding the role as a community hub for various services and activities potentially with a focus around Early Learning or Andor expanded learning out of school time before and after school programming this idea of establishing kind of an early childhood focused Hub or center location with child care and preschool and other services that families with young children um may be interested in or or in need of similarly establishing additional or or expanding this community center uh footprint with services for for a variety of different populations children families but also adult community members perhaps um you know adult education services as one example expand bilingual immersion programs uh Cas that suggestion and idea has certainly certainly came up a lot in the work to date as well as career pathway planning and thinking about how does alumrock as as a TK um a tk8 think about career planning and and strengthening and a lot of um uh attention to to the possibility um to to to build on what's already uh going on there as well as um steam learning as another theme that came up and then finally and I think this is a one worth calling out specifically as well is is clarifying indicators of of Student Success how are we Mo monitoring how are we um thinking about Student Success and and including within that but not limiting it to academic assessment as well as measures of social and emotional learning measures of critic critical thinking teamwork skills so that that seemed like an area from what we were been hearing where there could be some additional Clarity or some additional Clarity there would be would be helpful um increasing enrollment so kind of in some ways a direct response to the declining enrollment suggestions there around focusing on branding and Communications efforts and um and and addressing facility utilization low facility utilization in a way that provides additional value so some of the suggestions above for example around Early Childhood uh education hubs or other community services hubs of adding on more services to those facilities where there is space to to do so the other two uh kind of main buckets of of opportunity here one focused on family communication and put in engagement and then maximizing um resources so in the first one here kind of building on that that challenge area around Broad and meaningful um family in input in engagement uh some suggestions to have more dedicated Staffing for family engagement across all Sites uh pursuing a range of activity types to engage different audiences and certainly to to a a degree that's happening already so I think um the recommendation that we've heard coming out of this is to to go further in that direction a broader range think about what that range looks like and and um which parts of it are working well which parts of it might be modified um and then communication uh of of particularly decisions and decision-making processes clearly and and and quickly um was another item that we heard finally in the opportunity section maximizing resources so some ideas around seeking more flexible resour sources from private uh or corporate donors and Foundations potentially looking at Partnerships with other um school districts that may benefit from some sort of shared services joint professional development or other other shared services and and resources and then uh this idea to of where there are tk5 and and and six grade six through eight schools to think about what combination of those might might look like we inter inserted this additional slide it just felt like we we it would be helpful in in immediately after talking about some of those opportunities to raise a a few of the aligned State Investments and these I think some of these already came up earlier in tonight's meeting so I I don't imagine they'll be particularly new but it does seem like uh the California budget for this fiscal year includes some considerable Investments uh in areas that are aligned to some of the opportunities that uh were were identified through the workto date specifically in Early Education the universal transitional kindergarten um program expansion over multiple years to have all four-year-olds eligible for transitional kindergarten and this California prek planning and implementation grant program providing some funding to uh assist with that expansion of services the expanded learning opportunities program I think that might have been one that came up earlier to provide um additional time outside of the school Services uh outside of the school day and then the California Community School Partnership Act um considerable funding for for um the planning and implementation of Community Schools finally as our emerging themes um we we did ask uh some questions about what do you see as being different a few years three to four or five years down the line the district and thought it would be helpful to also Elevate some of those items so continued stability of leadership there's a lot of appreciation for um the current that current stability and and desire to to Really ensure that that is carried forward that that is institutionalized to the extent possible stabilized enrollment um increased reputation and recognition as a district dedicated to whole Child Development and Community strengthening so that the wording of that is specific or or intentional in that that is that uh dedication um was elevated as a strength and this is about being recognized known for that for that to be more more broadly known uh improved academic performance continued emphasis on early childhood and further integration of some of these services particular on early learning expanded learning family services and and school day programming so with with that I'll pass it over to um my colleague Caitlyn just to to put a few questions out there um you obviously you all are invited to and welcome to comment and ask quite any questions you like but we wanted to put a few out there for um for as food for thought for you thanks so much Erin so the next slide uh we offer some questions for your consideration and discussion in relation to the emerging themes that Ain just reviewed we'd like to hear which emerging themes stood out to you and are there key strengths challenges or opportunities that you think are missing from the emerging themes but that you didn't hear tonight that are top of mind for you we'd also are eager to hear your guidance and have some quests related to the upcoming work so earlier Glenn presented the slide of kind of what's coming next um so we'd be eager to hear your your feedback related to these questions what Guidance Do you have for the core planning team in its upcoming work to refine guiding principles frame issues and opportunities and identify strategies what key questions do you think are most important for the core planning team team to address and finally how would you like to hear updates on the work of the core planning team and provide feedback and guidance moving forward so perhaps Ain we can keep these questions up on the screen and um I will hand it back to you Madame board president but thank you so very much for the time to to provide these updates to you we're we're really honored and excited to be engaged in this work and very much look forward to your feedback back thank you so much um thank you to the entire team for helping guide us and uh you know bring all these all these uh strengths out and areas of improvement um and I look forward to you know may I mean it's just around the corner so I know there's a lot of work to do but we're all committed so um to make it happen uh so I guess um what we could do I know that um you know I'm I'm going to open it up for public comment if that's okay first and then let kind of our thoughts I know we have some questions also for you all um that's my thought what do you all think um is that are you all in agreement I'm also looking at my board let me uh I agree okay okay so we'll go ahead and um open it up for public comment at this time Jose if you can please help us out with that uh yes M President we have one speaker our speaker is Mr Michael poing Mr ping you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin yes um good evening can good evening um I'm a teacher at Joseph George and I see some very ambitious plans here I think uh you're getting way ahead of yourselves though your school district is going to my school district is going to go into a death spiral if you don't start to take care of your teachers I know of one teacher who um 17 years in the district he's bought a home in uh the Sacramento area and you won't have them next year you've got to pay us enough money so we can possibly afford to live here and raise our own children here you spend all this money on grandiose plans and I don't see how you're going to do any of this without a teaching staff that is knowledgeable and experienced driving good experienced teachers away good new teachers are going to look at this district and its bottom of the barrel uh pay scale and frankly it's fairly dysfunctional history which is getting a little bit better I'll give a few of you some credit for starting to reach out and do things a little bit better but it's not enough yet we should have had that contract a month ago well actually we should have had it a year ago and you promised it a month ago and you haven't gotten your stuff together yet we were on the street yesterday we were on channel uh 14 News you don't want that public you don't want us to to end up having to be on the streets again and again and going on strike we know we can't do that just yet but you're pushing us there you need to give us a contract now our next speaker is Miss Adrien vay Miss vain you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hello uh I was watching the presentation and I liked a lot of what I saw but I'm very worried about the projected three to five year plan because I'll tell you right now without a contract without a pay raise what you plan for the 3 to 5 years is is not going to happen we have Educators that do not want to stay here and they want to quit and I'm very concerned about this because we have the you have this three to five year plan I don't see how it's going to happen when people tend to come here just to get experience until they can go to better paying districts this is something that you need to consider and that our Board needs to consider we the plan that you guys presented I we have been doing good things but what happens when all of these people that have working so hard for these things leave we need to think about that thank you and I appreciate everything you guys do thank you Miss V our next speaker is Toby neelson Toby you have two minutes please unmute yourself and You Begin speaking the timer will begin all right thank you um I'm Toby neelson I'm a teacher at aptitude and I was very pleased to see that in the plans um the concern about teacher shortages and turnover was addressed um and I would like to say that that would be significantly reduced the concerns about shortages in teachers we would have more teachers and teachers would stay if we had an equitable and fair contract settled instead of having to work without a contract over and over and over so I again encourage you to look at an equitable and fair contract settlement to maintain the teachers we have um rather than having continuous teacher turnover which is bad for students and bad for Learning and bad for morale um when we have a stable Workforce at a site the students feel confident they see the same faces over and over and over it helps them feel confident in their learning and it helps them be more feel more safe and ready to learn um so I would appreciate your consideration of that matter and again thank you for this presentation and for all the forward-thinking goals I hope we can reach them and I'm sure if we settle our contract when we settle our contract soon we will be able to reach those goals thank you miss neelon our next speaker is Jessica leod Miss Lei you have two minutes please send me yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi um my Jessica leod I'm a teacher in alumrock um I'm glad you guys got to go on a retreat um and talk about what the the district needs it would have been wonderful if you actually came to our school sites and saw the packed classrooms and the the infrastructure falling apart and the teachers uh you know overwork and underpaid without a contract and you're driving us out and I I love the forward thinking I think all of these things are wonderful but what was missing from the plan is the word Educators and it and on-site administrators like principles in those plans um without any of that none of these great ideas will come to fruition so I would have loved that you interviewed us and asked us what we need because we know what we need we're in the trenches every day doing what you put on paper and we don't need more trainings or more beautiful language we need staff we need a contract we need classrooms that are safe and come and see what we need ask us what we need um you know and observe our schools um so the three to five year plan is a wonderful idea um but right now we're in emergency situations here and we need a fair contract we need safe schools and we need help thank you thank you Mr V our next speaker is sewi Mr swis you have two minutes please sub me yourself speak yes um can you hear me I guess I unmuted but hey yes we can hear you um I'm GNA talk about just this program I'm a teacher at dorsa um I I like the program um I will talk about the labor stuff later but I didn't hear one thing I didn't hear from this is where's the funding coming from this is the funding coming from the state of California to this your company or is the St funding coming from our district because our district keeps saying we don't have the money so could you address where the funding is coming from um all right that's all thank you thank you m Madam President we have no more public comment thank you so much now I'll uh turn it over to our trustees um any questions comments concerns and answers that we can maybe put the uh the slide back up with the questions and maybe some of us can uh we can go through and answer some of them I do see vice president Kino's hand up uh feel free to take on the mic yes um thank you very much for this uh presentation uh it aligns with what we've heard and I really appreciate the fact that it's brought together a lot of this information that we've seen in different areas through different uh um through different committees different reports that we've we've we've uh received and so I do appreciate the fact that now we have it in one place so we can start focusing on how to how to move ahead uh so the themes um are things that I i' I had I had heard but uh not they were not as well packaged as you have thank you very much for that um the question for the administration the question was raised as to where the resources came to to do this this um strategic plan can you uh provide a response to that ch chimy um man through the president yes please Dr Bower yes this was a generous uh support from the Santa Clara County Office of Education Dr Maran the one um when uh we approach her uh with the need of resetting our district um prior to the pandemic she uh approved the uh funds necessary for this kind of work so nothing is coming out of alumrock funds vice president is it okay to clarify something on that because I don't want there to be any misunderstanding um Dr Bower was the funding provided for the um like cpg to come and do the strategic planning or for the work that comes out of strategic planning for the gpg to do the work for us to put this together to facilitate the process all of that but not for the what we identify as a need I just want to clarify because I the work that follows is the work of the district right a strategic plan is kind of What Glenn mentioned is a road map and so it's always very helpful for organizations from districts to hospitals to counties right to have to know where we're going to set up the North Star and we um the presentation that was brought before you uh represents a number of St stakeholders including area um uh president Joselyn MERS was part of the individuals who were represent uh interviewed and providing feedback so we do honor our teachers greatly and we uh as well as CA and Teamsters they each each of those uh organizations were interviewed to provide their position their views about what we need need so this is again kind of What Glenn said this is a road map and the facilitation the writing all of the the process of a strategic plan is being paid by Santa Clara County Office of it does not come out of alumrock funds the work that we together are going to generate and continue to do because a lot of those things as many of the speakers mentioned we um are beginning to do some of those things I think Mr swis mentioned uh where at the very beginning and Mr bowling mentioned that and he they're right so these more robust plans will allow us to um concretize a lot of those initiatives in a you know in a path that we will be able to measure at the end of of of this process so um that's where the fun the funds came from for the work of the process of the strategic planning thank you Dr bar I apologize vice president GTO I'll turn it back over to you uh no that was I I like I said I appreciate the work that has been done this far and I'm looking forward to what uh what's to come in the future thank you very much for your work and to all those uh stakeholders that participated in the process thank you uh trusty fam okay yeah so I'll I'll have a qu question to Super endent Bower before I move on to my comment uh you know uh since this was a uh this was Prov since uh the services of the Glen price group was provided uh in part by these uh Santa clar County Office of Education was it a grant that uh the county office uh Awards to districts or did this come out of some I mean uh development budget that the uh County Office of Education has the County Office of Ed is charged with supporting districts specifically those districts that are that struggle and rock um if you know we had um a number of challenges for for a number of years and we're just coming out of that and so in order to stabilize and to continue with the work of institutionalizing some of those changes to develop a stable system I reach out to Dr danan as a result of multiple interventions that the County Office of Ed had to come specifically around our budgetary practices so uh the County Office of Ed in their role of supporting districts like ours uh graciously um approved this kind of support for Alam Rock uh thank you very much so I uh you know so I wanted to thank the The Glenn price group for working with us to uh put together this outline of thing uh of things to do as Alm Ro moves forward you know uh uh you know Rec we recently celebrated our 90th year anniversary and also I I wanted to make note that you know uh as a member of the board I have gone to the school sites and I am you know I know that our district had you know a as our district moves forward you know I the dis Alam walk has uh you know challenges to work on just you know at the same time that there are opportuni ities of uh you know improving what we can do H though I wanted to to kind of uh you know make it clear to to our public that you know first of all this this you know the you know this work was not something that you know the board paid out this was something that was you know provided by the County Office of Education to help our District uh you know uh keep on making progress as we uh move to a better place uh and lastly uh you know I I want you know uh put it out there that you know I've been going to the school sites I've responded to teachers emails and uh I hear all the concerns that that uh that are being made and uh believe me when I say that you know I I hope to be a bridge uh to the differences that we are having now and find a way uh you know find a way where we can come together and move forward I think that part of you know part of this is part of this is building on the outline that uh was uh worked on by The Glenn price group to get us thinking about areas that uh uh we can improve upon as well as areas where there are opportunities for us to seize and so I you know wanted to to stress that you know uh that thankfully you know this is something that you know that was not done out of Ward funds and also uh hopefully we you know we have an opportunity to uh flush out this outline and uh bring uh bring to fruition uh you know the fruits of our labors thank you very much thank you trusty F trusty yes thank you can you hear me because I switched microphone so okay yes we can hear you loud and clear all right thanks so I I guess I have um some comments that maybe are a little more I guess specific to the responses and guidance that questions that that we have up on the screen um before that I do actually though obviously want to thank the Glen price team for for compiling all of this from all the feedback that they've gathered and that work that's been done and also to Dr Bower and Dr Dewan uh because I know when we were trying to initially identify how we would move forward in this process we were looking at options that were like in the you could correct me if I'm wrong but like in the5 to $10,000 range to to try to um you know get someone to come and do this work and and so the very um you know we're just so appreciative of the Glen price group and and Dr Dean for making this happen for us in a way that is um that maximizes our our budget and and doesn't affect our budget actually so one of the things that I wanted to um that I guess kind of jotted down as as the presentation was happening was I think that for me uh one of the key principles um is is just the fact that that are the environment at least right now and in the most very recent past is very is so Dynamic like within the past two or three years I mean from everything from enrollment to covid to to large you know more macroeconomic conditions in the in the country and in the world world like all these crazy Dynamics are happening um and so with all those changing the changing environment that seems to shift daily um I think that it's key for us you pointed this out in the presentation that we have those kind of guiding principles or or key principles that we can revert to and look to when we are making a decision it you know we might be thinking in a certain way right now but as the environment shifts it may cause us to have to think about it completely differently and we'll need to kind of lean on those whether it's a mission statement or a vision statement or key guiding principles we or anyone because it may not be us you know the the five of us that are here now could be a different five people you know come a you know a little bit of time from now and so those individuals or the ones after after that should be able to have you know something to lean on so that work of the work of the district can remain consistent can remain um kind of can move forward in a in a coherent way so I think those key principles are are key but not only that I think one of the things that we may need is some kind of mechanism again whether it's for our five board members that are here now or whoever may be here in the future that kind of triggers us when the when it's needed to go back to those principles because I think in our Zeal to find Solutions and collaborate and do all these things I think it's a natural process that individuals or organizations just kind of have that um what is it called mission mission stray or Mission drift or whatever it's called and so I think if it were possible to have some type of mechanis ISM built in such that when those times occur when big decisions are needed that it kind of reminds people to that those decisions should be based on our guiding principles because that's really what the district is trying to do from a very high level so so I think that was one of the things that um that kind of stood out for me um the other thing is you know it addresses it it ties into the dynamic nature of how things are going on um and and it you know I kind of asked a similar question in the previous presentation in that we don't know right now whether this current reality is close to what a future reality may look like I think whether it's teachers or social workers or police law enforcement um at this time it seems that people are taking a look at their their careers their professions their Futures and and making decisions based on what's best for for them and their families I know I've certainly made those considerations and you know as a social worker by by day my profession I know that in my work we have had people that have made decisions to to leave that you know this where we live obviously is not easy for people even you know professional people that are kind of at a a higher Pace scale much less people that are you know not as fortunate to be in those types of roles um and so that being said I think that first of all we need to respect the decisions of those people who decide to that whether it's in our district or you know a city office or whatever if if their opportunity is not allowing them to live the life that they and their family want to live and deserve then I think we have to respect that from them and and and acknowledge that that is a reality of of the condition for all of us and so with that being said I think that it's wise for us to plan for that as a potential reality and and think about in all of our processes and as we're working through this how efficiency plays a role and and you know whether it's talking about repurposing of facilities or you know how we Al staff or whatever it may be how can we be more efficient not only you know we've talked a lot about efficiency in terms of trying to be fiscally um responsible but I think a big larger concept that maybe will weave in through through all of this work that you've done already is looking at efficiency given the fact that people are struggling and and may not be here you know with us like I said as it is in a lot of jobs right now and I could you know maybe things can turn and we go back to how things were and it becomes more stable but I think it's wise to at least consider that there may be a new reality on the horizon um so that's another thing uh let me see if I missed anything on that and I had one more point after that um I guess yeah this takes me to the final point that I had is just that um you know I think because of a lot of what I've already talked about I think that the draft guiding principle I don't think that they're necessarily in any order of um importance or anything but number one serve our families and Community as their essential and foundational public education institution I think that for me is key because that as a board guides Us in what we really can do you know how can we remain solvent how can we remain competitive how can we remain um you know efficient and increase increase efficiency so that that number one draft guiding principle is really important to me because um you know there are certain decisions that we need to make or any of our boards that are are here in Alam Rock in the the near future will need to make that UR that we are the the foundational public institution here in this community and so um you know I think that will help us guide help guide us in our many difficult decisions that we need to make with regards to facilities and you know Staffing and programs and everything that is key for me that we do make those decisions in such a way that we can can perpetuate the 9 plus years that um trusty fam has referenced and and we can move forward to another 90 years so I think for now th those are kind of the things that stood out for me and hopefully they're kind of helpful to the process thank you trusty Chavis uh oh I did see her hand up so um give her some time to cough and to come back no not yet okay sorry I got a cough can you take the next person I'm gonna try and stop if there is yes uh hopefully maybe you can get some water trust uh vice president Kinto um I have a few but go ahead and then hopefully trusty Chavez is back after your comment uh um sure well I already went so if you want to go go for it um I can wait trusty Chavis how are you doing not yet I think I got it all right we can wait okay so from the emerging theme um one thing that keep standing out to me is we should have been doing this back in December 2018 when the superintendent and I when I was President tried to bring this to the board but um the key strengths and the challenges and opportunities that we are missing from the emerging things this needs to get done and it should have been done long ago and I'm thankful that blend price team is on board to help us um do this process and we do we need to find Opportunities to find solutions to strengthen the District budget and in turn we can offer better pay once that is done but first we need to put these things in order and the strategies that we identified we should start there first as far as the repurposing of facilities and then um one of the last questions when do you want to hear about the updates I would like to hear the updates every two weeks if that's possible or the next day after the core planning team meets thank you thank you trusty Chavez um and I'll go ahead and go and then we'll come back to you vice president kto um so some of the emergence uh emerging themes that stood out to me um you know in reading them I uh I um really liked the fact that I think you all initially got a good uh picture of um of what we're going through right it's not I mean I feel like you're a part of us you know so that I mean the fact that it's all here um and even you know some of us mentioned that we didn't see it or you know but it's all in here um and the only things that I would add for example in the draft guiding principles on number three where it states support our education team including teacher staff and administrators to grow and Thrive I would add parents as the um support supporting Education team because we are a part of the Education team um so that I mean you know and it doesn't mean there has to be in there these are just some thoughts when I was reading you know that I highlighted because parents are you know again a big part of that education te team and when I saw these guiding principles um you know we are a school district absolutely and we serve our families um and communities um but I didn't really see them as a part of uh of the um of those that were're serving for example maintaining cultural curiosity and Community recognizing our community's culture as core strength I like that we're recognizing it but I don't really see them a part of the process if that makes any sense um and so you know on number three support our education team including teacher staff and administrators to grow and Thrive um as you know Dr bow did mention you know you did talk to um Joselyn and other members but it was just the beginning right of all the work that's going to be done and one question in regards to the continuing um process and the team that will gather in January a question that I have on that core planning team is how how are you going to identify the core members of that team is it going to be somebody that's picked how are they identified to be a part of that team so we're in the process of of of that identification working with Dr Bower and closely with Dr Bower and and and her team and there's a few different ways so there's some direct invitation of um bargaining unit leadership and then from uh as well as um external Partners uh after school providers Early Education providers and then um there are and Dr Bower please weigh in as well to speak to some of this process um request for representatives from spark Dak and deac um to participate in the core planning team um with part of the thinking being that they can also be kind of bridging some of the communication between those groups and the the core planning team Dr bow anything you add answer that and then just to add to that question Dr Bower um are these folks from those groups that you will pick or how will that work if you can explain that please thank you so much for president for the opportunity to clarify for everybody so the groups themselves select their uh representative including the units so I had um last night during the spark meeting the parents themselves uh you know kind of selected who's going to be the spark representative in the spark alternate to the to the committee and the same process was followed in DC and deac those are the main parent groups uh in our district that represent all the parents uh each of the units is going to be uh selecting their own person that they are uh representing um and uh at this point I have spoken with CCA and area and they will be sending those names to me um for the December board meeting the hope is that during the December board meeting we will share with the board who as an update who the core uh committee members will be we cannot have a very large committee Because by the nature of this work we're trying to come with a plan with a very short amount of time and so um we are expecting to have a committee between of between 15 and 18 people representing all stakeholders in the district thank you um and you know in regards to challenges it's no secret that the cost of living is a challenge in our Silicon Valley for all of us across the board so I think that alone you know um hits number one right declining enrollment our children are leaving to other you know communities where they're able to to pay for rent and I you know can't be mad for that staff turn over for many reasons you know including finding a better job I can't blame them for that either you know if I were to find another job I might uh you know put a application elsewhere you know then that that pays my bills but really I think the cost of living is huge and unfortunately it's not something that our small school district can change but you know as leaders in our community we could definitely be involved in different conversations so knowing that you know as as a a leader here um you know I I am being a part of some of these conversations um with other entities that might have be able to to do something about that um in regards to emerging things um that might be missing um again it's not missing you know but I think really um centering the coming together as school staff as Community um and you know for our children right on behalf of our children on the center like that North Star um and just reiterating that um because I think you know I have I have my own things that I'm bringing in but when I think of children then then the conversation might shift a little you know um and then in regards to uh the way that I would like to be um updated is um you know at our board meetings um that we have set aside already you know that we can provide a update there as to what's happening um I get it in January you'll be convening for the first time so not much will happen um so there might not be an update in January and I'm not sure when that many might happen but that you know um February March April we have an update and then it looks like we're you know looking at May to to finalize something um so that we're not surprised you know at the end um so I would like one monthly if that's possible um and you know another thing that really stood out you know that I think you know our teachers as a parent our aging school facilities that need a lot of work right I've gone to all the schools and I've seen that myself but I think as a parent is where I really experienced it you know my daughter trip the friends breaking bones you know things that it's like it's not something that I can change overnight but if we work towards this three to five year plan that it's something that you know um we we can we can change one of the many things right so I'm really excited I mean of um the direction we're heading into um you know we've we have shifted our ship in in the right direction year months ago now and so this is just kind of adding gas to it you know um I feel like um and I see I see our destination um you know we're almost there and so this is really exciting thank you all for helping guide our work here at alen loock um I did promise that I would bring it back to truste kto and then I see trusty Viano vice president so my question is for um for gpg uh with regard to guidance and requests do you have have a framework that you or you've seen somewhere else or best practices with regard to um the guidance and requests from at the board level because what I don't want because we've already heard U multiple requests some monthly another individual said give me a report right after you're done and so my concern is that we're going to wind up getting in the way of of the work that needs to be done so if you do have a sweet spot because also I'm also concerned that that you um that that the that the if this moves too far ahead the board is not made aware and it's it's you know it's already kind of just getting life of its own so would you have like this this goldilux where it's not not too far out but you're not your your work is not it's not getting in the way of your work because you're having to report out every five minutes I hope I hope I was clear and that I'm not completely confusing you oh vice president you're you're completely clear and and we have had a lot of experience and I think you're right to use the metaphor of the the Goldilocks approach um we're going to need to this is as you've seen this a very rapid process that we're engaged in and we really want to honor that and get back to you with something that you can be looking at in terms of a plan by uh May 2022 so we're going to need to be in very close communication with the core planning team anyway and developing updates and reports for them so it feels to me like a a um to Winer situation it might be difficult to do as the morning after the core planning team meeting but certainly getting to you updates for every board meeting should not be a problem and I think that's that feels to me anyway if you all agree I like the right Cadence great thank you that's exactly what I was looking for trusty wano yes thank you um so another thing that um I remembered actually that I wanted to also bring up um it was under the emerging themes opportunities number two with regards to increase enrollment um and the first bulling point is improve branding and Communications to attract more students and families so without a doubt I think that's something that we need to be doing all the time um and I think we do a decent job of that but there is room for improving that um however that being said I think it's becoming more and more clear that the enrollment issue is for for sure a regional issue if not a Statewide or even national issue it's not necessarily um something that was is within our Locust of control um or at least in any significant way I think obviously the um you know the the patterns of people migrating in and out of our region um dictate a lot of what we've been seen and and I think that that we need to be cognizant of that but I think that to it ties to another Point somewhere in your presentation I think that we do still need to improve branding and Communications but I think potentially one of the things that we may want to do is have an eye more towards um communicating out the positives of the district communicating out all the progress that has been made all of the Milestones that we've reached all of those things because we do tend to get um and I don't think it's uh necessarily particular to our district but it feels like it's sometimes we do tend to get um media uh stories or or things that are that don't quite communicate the at least in my perception the reality of what's happening in alumrock and so I think that improving our branding and communication with an eye towards getting that message out and not again to fabricate this but I think there are real stories to be told that would that creates um or that shifts the perception of our district to the reality of of what it is with all its challenges um and I think that's key and that's important because one of the points in here that I know and we've talked about for any number of years is bringing in P private Partnerships and corporate Partnerships and all of those types of um collaborations and resources that we would like to bring and we do a decent job of already but I think when we can create or or not even create when we can reflect The Narrative of the the actual alumrock the reality of of all the positives and demonstrate the stability demonstrate the the the positive things that will help us to bring in those resources because you know if I'm a Google or a Facebook or whatever Corporation you want to think of and I'm going to invest my resources into a district or whatever I want to see something that you know I'm going to get a return I'm going to see a positive impact and that will be demonstrated to me through seeing that this is a a district or an entity that that's moving that's progressing and so um so I think that's key I think that's one of the things um that we should focus on so number one the enrollment thing we should always keep our eye on that ball and potentially I look forward to reassessing um you know our demographics in the near future to see what the actual impact of covid has had on that um but I think secondary to communicating that um branding for purposes of enrollment is I think for purposes of demonstrating the true story of alam Rock in order to bring resources to the district so that was another thing I wanted to add thank you trusty Bano any other hands uh okay seeing none then uh thank you so much uh cpg team look forward to continuing to see you and excited for the continuous work to come thank you for having us tonight hope everybody has good has a nice break thank you too all right coming back to item uh 301 members of the public who wish to address a board on matters not in the agenda uh Jose can please help us with that item M yes Madam President we have um two speakers first speaker is Danielle anderas I believe it's Danielle deos Miss Danielle you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin okay got it good evening can you hear me yes so yes my name is Danielle de Ambrosio and I am a fourth grade teacher at Lindale school I am also on the areas's bargaining team so I've had the privilege to sit in on all of those sessions so this is my 21st year of teaching in alen rock I would like to start out by saying that when the state gives you the cola which is public knowledge which is at a 5.0 0 7% ongoing the intention is that you pass it along to your employees it is not a good feeling that you make us beg for the cola every time in fact it's insulting let's get our salary schedule out of the bottom third in the county that is not a good look when teachers fresh out of college are out shopping for jobs all we are asking for is safe schools for the students smaller class sizes and attracting and aining great teachers with a livable wage board members and Dr Bower I really hope you're listening we are valuable we are worth a fair contract invest in us and stop dragging this along I look forward to meeting again on December 2nd because that is when we are meeting again thank you for your time I really hope you listened to all of my points thank you Miss Ambrose our next speaker is Sandra rera Miss Riva you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening members of the board and Dr Bower I'm coming to you tonight as one of your Educators and I know that I have a lot of other colleagues that will point out that we're working for small class sizes safe schools and to retain my colleagues so that every year we can have a launching off point rather than a starting over point tonight I wanted to bring to you some frustrations that I've been receiving in my classroom I'm been told as a TK teacher that TK through 2 is supposed to be doing an Imagine Learning tool where the students are to log on 15 to 20 minutes every day the the first thing I want to point out is that the district has three different icons related to this program making it extremely confusing and difficult for teachers and students to navigate why can't we streamline it I was told by the representative that it's because the tech has not updated our systems secondly I've been asking repeatedly to get my devices working TK is using iPads so is Kinder yet every time I put in a work order to get my iPads up and running it never contacts me they just release the ticket because they think that everything is fixed I have 25 iPads and only 10 cords so I can only charge 10 iPads at a time if one of those iPads isn't working that means I only have nine the programs are thrown at the teachers without sufficient knowledge of what I'm doing why I'm doing it if this is such an important program Direct your principles to have Tuesday staff meetings that delegate time for us to learn about it one of the last things and the hardest part is that why are all the TK students being judged on kindergarten standards with some of those lessons being solely in Spanish that's not supporting all of our Learners thank you Mr R our next speaker is Michael ping Mr ping you have two minutes please unmute yourself when we begin speaking the timer will begin yes uh good evening again uh the long range program 3 to five years that you um have been looking at earlier again there's very good things in there but as other uh people have stated I'm not sure we're going to get to three to five years you're you're creating a a situation in which there's uh turnover of experienced teachers people that have been with you for uh 10 years 17 years and you're not going to attract new teachers as the previous speaker uh mentioned we don't function well the previous speaker with the her it issues um all sorts of things like that happen regularly in our district and I don't quite know why why that is it it just doesn't seem that there's any uh coordinated effort to really get things done just on the ground just on a respect of nitty-gritty day-to-day issues and that's because you don't really talk to us as teachers and say what do you need what do you want um and you make us spend way too much of our time worrying about you know are we going to get a cost of Ling increase uh what are you spending the money on and more often than not it seems it's getting spent on chasing the latest fad the latest new piece of technology uh when you just really need to invest in your teachers we'll do the job you need to give us enough money and you need to give us a contract instead of stringing us along stop stalling thank you Mr P our next speaker is Adrien B Miss V you have two minutes please onute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin thank you I appreciate uh the time that you are giving me uh first off somebody said um I can't remember who is cost of living is something that you guys cannot change yes in the Bay Area you cannot change the fact that cost of living is extremely high but the district got a 5.0% from the uh State of California for cost of living why is that not coming to us we have gone 2 years without a pay race which is we none of the other unions in the Bay Area have done that we have been helping you guys um president uh uh Herrera Lorena you said that you've gone to all of our schools I haven't seen you at our school school at Joseph George I'm sorry I've I've seen uh board member fam uh I've seen uh Dr Bower I haven't seen you at my site and I would love for you to come and see my site and see my kids the other board members I have never seen you um and uh board member uh Bano uh you were talking about our students achievements at Joseph George Middle School one of our kids got accepted to Harvard and that he didn't do that alone he got that from us so please don't sit there and think that we have nothing to offer our kids because that's what it feels like board member Chavez I would love for you you to pretend that you care about us thank you thank you Miss V our next speaker is Sean swis Mr swis you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin okay um first of all I feel disrespected when I'm talking to the board because I can't see any of my other teachers or anybody else on the thing second of all I can't even see all the board members I really get I watch in nesto he turns his camera off every time a public speaker speaks it's it's bothers me honestly if you're gonna be on the board why don't you let us see your face honestly that's number one you can start being there number two Dr Bowers you posted the other day about the update about the how things were going or not going and you posted on November 3D that you met at F for five hours with the bargaining team but that only lasted 58 minutes so I don't know if the board knows that it didn't last all five hours um in esto all those programs that we run at that the school runs they they succeed well because it's all of us teachers on the ground doing the programs for them honestly you should know that yes they're great programs but mirror the ones in the trenches with the kids I have I have 17 kids reading first grade level and third grade I have two at grade level and two at at um I'm sorry I have three at grade level and two at second great honestly it's going to be a tough year and by having no money it's going to be hard I'm running out of time I have so much to say and I you only give us two minutes so last but not least least is that we we honor a man named Caesar travez in our district you guys to me you are acting like the farmer the ranch owners with us you really are you treat us like we don't know what we're doing um you know we are we're on the grounds toiling the soils with the students we're making them thank you Mr s next speaker is Erica Grant Miss Grant you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hello my name is Erica Grant um I just want to check you can hear me yes we can hear you awesome thank you so much for giving me an opportunity to speak um I want to Echo the comments that have already been made by other alen Rock teachers that we are working under a lot of difficult circumstances this year due to distance learning due to the covid-19 pandemic and also due to the fact that we live in the highest cost of living area in the United States it is imperative that if you want to retain quality teachers if you want to support students in your classrooms if you want to make the initiatives possible that you have so wonderfully outlined in the previous presentation you are going to need to pay your teachers what we are worth consistently and with Fidelity and you are going to need to meet with us in a way that allows negotiations to be productive and to give us what we are asking for thank you thank you Miss Grant next speaker is D gonalez miss gonalez you have two minutes please send me yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening members of the board once again I'm here as a mom um I've been hearing all these teacher speaks and to be honest as a stu as a former student from the Alum school district and as a parent of Alum Brock I know firsthand how much we need our teachers how much our teachers are value and how much support they do not only academically but mentally and social emotionally with our kids as a parent having 30 plus students per classroom in a in the middle of a pandemic when we are about to go into search because numbers are shown that we're going up instead of going down again with this um pandemic we need a smaller classrooms I agree with the teachers on that one we do um I know that district is doing everything they can to provide mask hand sanitizers but we could do better that's another thing and when we talk about this and living we our teachers serve that too they deal with our kids every day I heard comments like we can't solve that the leing the rent increasing we C we have to show that good about our brck but we also have to talk about that bad and have those difficult conversations why because that's how we've been growing as a as a as a district that's how we' been growing as an Educators in the during this pandemic and years before that we had to know about the problems so we could solve them I heard great ideas about partnership Partners ship with um companies and other people let's do that let's look for Partnerships together parents District staff board members so we could actually help and support our teachers and our students students we need good teachers for so our kids be successful in the future think about that let's work in Partnership let's bring that money to home thank you Misses our next speaker is Miss Tanner Miss Tanner you have two minutes please unmute yourself when we begin speaking the timer will begin hello this is Miss Tanner I hope you can hear me and I Echo what my uh colleagues have said but the purpose for my speaking today is because I know if I speak to the board I'll get some action I have a student that on the second week of school was unable to log into mobimax to do an assessment and I have put in work order after work order after work order that same student cannot do Assessments in MO ma cannot get into Google Classroom has not been able to do our assignments has not been able to participate in things at home because he has no access there's something wrong with his account I have put this in over and over so now I bring it to the board so maybe it will get some action thank you for your help I appreciate it and this young man will really appreciate it that's all thanks thank you Miss Canon our next speaker is uh in the system as Community member you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi hi everybody um this is Brenda SAS um I had my zoom for another account but um I just want to say that seeing everything um just makes me really sad that our teachers are out there they're out there by the gas station you know I've seen them through the CTA NA national page they're fighting for a living wage and I'm here to say that it is not okay and we have to do better our teachers have put their bodies in the front lines through this pandemic because covid 19's still out there I want to tell you that because I myself have been battling with it and it's not something to take lightly to expose your body to this it is this virus has doubled in strength and to have these classes as 30 kids and rainy day seasons are coming and stacking them together it's not okay you have to look out for the safety of your teachers and staff and the children because this attacks kids as well it attacked my kid as well and just even recovering has been very long haul right now so think about that when you're thinking about classes we're low on staff we can't get subs because Subs are scared to come in right now because they're a lot older we have to figure out something to work with our teachers because they have done so much through this pandemic and I'm here to stand with them today and I know it's not an easy job for all of you guys because we really are low on staff and we're not the only District this is everywhere so we have to put our heads together and see how can we support our teachers and how can we get subs and how can we keep our staff safe it's just not okay and I'm just here today to support our teachers as a mom you know and I just want to let you guys know as my testimony covid is still out there it is real thank you mras Madame President at this time we have no more public com thank you uh at this time I'll go ahead and move on to item 401 Alam Rock administrators Association AA if we have a Our member here um J say if you can help us identify them and unmute them yes we have Mr Man great good evening good evening Al Community Trustees of the board superintendent Dr Baron the rest of the district team involved tonight I'm Joseph manuco the proud principal of Ben painter Elementary School hosting our growing Vietnamese dual language program I'm here tonight to share some updates with you all regarding the programming at our school sites and District on behalf of the Alam Rock administrators Association as a newly elected ARA treasurer uh first up we have some updates from our academic Services team uh this morning administrators across our district engaged in a three-hour instructional leadership collaboration to focus our work around the district vision mission and core values with a special emphasis on Student Center practices uh principal Jackie Monahan wanteded uh newly assigned to academic Services shares that we are excited to share that thrive an on learning online Gam ified learning uh PD platform is being launched across the district this platform allows people to access resources of choice and incentivizes asynchronous professional learning we hope that all of alumrock celebrates the virtual professional learning through the Thrive program our vapa coordinator denell finnen has been setting up a uh several contracts to really engage our students with Visual and Performing Arts uh tonight coming to you at the table will be be a contract with the get down dance studio we look forward to partnering with the get down uh with schools across our district to bring musical art and dance to our schools under the vapa programs thanks to our partnership with the Community School of Music and Art based out of Mountain View nine elementary schools have visual Visual Arts instruction for students in TK to fifth grade this year uh additionally the vapa Showcase will be virtual again and will be sent out to the community in December uh we continue to uh our work with concentric to increase weekly covid-19 testing participation across sites in the district at painter we've specifically increased parti uh participation by 50% since the start of the year and we hope to continue to increase uh our our families and student participation throughout the winter as trust and confidence uh with our testing provider increases uh multiple States throughout our uh sites throughout our district have begun serving our community with covid-19 vaccination clinics for students ages 5 through 12 uh Ryan Lindale Renaissance at Matson and atalante 1 were our first schools and upcoming we'll have mullum on November 16th Meer November 18th uh George kurtin and Linda Vista cluster November 20th based out of Jo Joseph George the San Antonio Lucho cluster at San Anton in their Cafeteria on November 22nd uh Chavez will join Renaissance at Madison during their second dose uh the rest of the sites are to be determined uh Okala families will be directed to the East Side YMCA and Okala had a vaccine event when teens started to get vaccinated uh we encourage all of our community to engage their sites uh to get that specific date and time information for youth vaccination as more information continues to be shared with our communities uh also many of our sites are proud to announce uh the resumption and Adoption of a variety of programming initiatives uh Dr CIO at adalante 2 shares that their fifth sixth and seventh grade students were able to engage in a science camp uh with the collaboration of PTA parents teachers and staff who made it happen in less than a month she sends a huge thank you to all that made that happen for adalante too uh PR principal story B Basu at Lindale shares that Lindale vaccinated more than 90 students and 35 adults in their first round of vaccination on November 4th with their second uh vaccination drive on December 2nd she also shares that Texas Instruments engineers in coordination with high-tech heels of Silicon Valley will be supplying snap circuits kits and batteries for every fourth and fifth grade student in their after school program and share pre-recorded videos of Engineers teaching snap circuits projects uh every student at Lindale will receive a steam toy for the holidays courtesy of two Bay Area nonprofit organizations uh at painter Elementary hosting our Vietnamese do language programs we're proud to share that uh We've begun a Genentech funded partnership with science from scientists and Dr Esther an ecology PhD C graduate from Cornell University has begun teaching science labs and our uh developing lab space to third fourth and fifth graders uh with over a dozen Labs each assigned throughout the year uh we're one of the schools that also have the Community School of Music and Art we're in our fourth week again thank you to uh vaffa coordinator denell finnon for setting up this Arts Grant uh we're we're just having so much fun here with students engaging in media uh different media art we're also in uh week four of 10 for our uh first round of after school intervention up to 4 four days a week uh we are targeting students uh who are performing below level and are English Learners and specifically we've had teachers in our vdl program step up and offer those uh services to our students to provide that primary language intervention after school uh among other things we have our interelement uh Sports League that we look forward to H hosting uh and and that's under coordination by Sandra Garcia little Heroes and Dr Montes we're going to have inter Elementary Sports to really get our students active and focused on Fitness and active uh Healthy Lifestyles uh Renaissance Matson and fiser schools with principales Vince osaki and Doug Klein hens uh hosted their vaccination clinic on the 6th uh they really appreciate all the hard work that went into making that possible for the students at the Renaissance campuses uh they also ran a joint PD led by the restorative uh justice practice facilitator seeds um who came out of Berkeley uh this through this work staff are developing their skills and building relationships with students who are struggling often to due to the stagnation of their social skills and the isolation caused by the pandemic so good good work to all of the teachers at the Renaissance sites especially in building trusting relationships with students uh after coming back to school uh after a challenging time uh lastly the alumrock administrators Association wishes you all a safe and restful Thanksgiving holiday thanks for allowing me to share thank you so much for such detailed report uh now I'm gonna turn it over to Teamsters do we have anybody here from Teamsters yes uh Alan Dory with Teamsters 150 welcome I was hoping I was going to be able to get on uh we just want to tell you that we very much recognize the many challenges that the district faces with declining enrollment with the covid with bargaining and while the solutions may be very challenging if there is one I am very confident the teamsters will work collaboratively with the district as we have in the past and we'll find that solution I am C certainly sympathetic to everyone that's talked t oh no we might have lost you if you're able to come back on please uh return and uh we will pick up from where we left off um let's give it a couple seconds see if they come back on did I lose you yes there you are you're back I lost you did I say anything before I got you did you did you said that you were confident that we would find a solution and then you cut off soon after that well the rest of it is I'm confident we will find a solution if there is one to be found we'll work collaboratively with the district but we understand that the challenges are all real just as people have said from both the district and from the different you know groups such as the teachers and the parents uh but if there's a solution to be found teachers te Teamsters will work together with the district as we have in the past and we'll find it thank you so much thank you um and now we'll turn it over to California School Employees Association CCA and I see Sharon here welcome good evening Dr Bower members of the board board president first I would like to say a big congratulations to Dr Bower her daughter son-in-law and family on the arrival of their new grandson being a grandmother of three grandsons I can honestly say let the fun begin because it will be a blast and then moving on I also wanted to thank um Teresa Smith and the management team that worked with us CCA to put together the two US that we ratified these last couple of months increasing the hours for our special ed Paris and our health assistants we truly believe this this will be a great benefit for both the district and the members as the we'll give help to the teachers in the classrooms the students in that come in and with their little um boo boos and ouchies that fall on the playground the health assistance will be there that extra hour to give them that extra care and they're very excited so we we do want to thank the the management team for working with us and putting this together and on the board and understanding the need and and accepting the mlus as they were presented and just one more thing I don't want to take up a whole lot of your time but I do want to wish everybody a happy healthy safe Thanksgiving enjoy your families enjoy some much needed vacation thank you thank you so much Sharon uh now we'll turn it over to Alam Rock Educators Association area we'll say if you can help me identify anybody's here on behalf of area I don't see any raised hands at the moment Madam president okay I'll give it a couple of seconds if anybody's here to speak on behalf of area any nowos Dr bow I see your hand Madame President uh Joselyn mentioned to me earlier on that she was running late I I told her that we were going to modify the agenda a little bit to see if she made it back I guess she didn't um but maybe we can continue and then wait at the end perhaps sure um if we do see her maybe can she just texted me and she says that she's here so there she is sorry okay great welcome Joselyn thank you that is frustrating when you can't see who's on and and I'm trying to wave and say I'm here I'm here anyway um I would like to Echo what Sharon said to Dr Bower uh and congratulating you and your family on the arrival of your grandson uh I too as you know we spoke earlier today have a grandson that's um so let me just tell you there's your life will never be the same again it changes permanently anyway um I would like to uh ask for all of you to listen very carefully while I provide you with some numbers four four four 7 7 2 3 3 3 4.5 and three these are the salary increase percentages that the other districts in the county have recently settled for for this year I will repeat them now so that you know what they represent four four 4 33 2 4.5 and three together they have average a 3.7% ongoing increase to the salary schedule and just so you know many of these districts also are experiencing the same type of declining enrollment That alen Rock is now I have a couple more numbers zero and zero not too hard the significance of those numbers that's what the Alam Rock certificated teachers have received for the last two years in a row as an increase to our salary schedule zero we were the only District in the county that received absolutely no increase to our SC salary schedule for two years in a row not exactly something to be proud of and definitely not something to attract or retain teachers in this District the next set of numbers 28 out of 34 what do this referred to Alam Rock has dropped to number 28 out of 34 districts in the county when it comes to starting salary somebody mentioned earlier the bottom third actually just since last week we dropped down one more on on tonight's agenda you will be voting on an increase to the substitute rate for retired teachers and the contracted substitute teachers increasing it to $300 a day obviously we are in desperate need of Subs but are you aware that our first five steps on the salary schedule only paid $25 more a day than that what will be paid to the subs next set of numbers 5.07% and 5.35% I think we all know the 5.07% is what the district is receiving for this year's cost of living increase from the state did you know that the next year it is expected to be even more at 5.35% the next number 6.2% this reflects the US consumer price jump in the month of October the highest surge in more than years the next set the next number is 3% not 6% not 9% but 3% is the state required Reserve that the district is required to maintain for economic uncertainty alen Rock's Reserve is at 14% And is expected to increase that is far above the required 3% Reserve I can continue on with many more numbers and statistics but I think you're getting the clear picture teachers cannot afford to work in alumrock I need you to ask yourself what efforts are you making to even try to keep them here and or to attract new teachers to our district the other aspect of the picture though that I do need to fill in is that once again our teachers are tired they are worn out they are feeling used and oftentimes abused they are feeling disrespected and dissatisfied but rather than continuing on and on our teachers have had enough and we can't take it anymore so as you probably are aware yesterday after a long hard day of teaching our area teachers rallied together with parents and students to let the community know that it's time to stand strong together we had an estimated 200 people United together carrying signs and making loud noise at the corner of Capitol and mcke for 90 minutes spreading our word that area is United for our students we are united for safe schools for smaller class sizes and to support our teachers we are united what was really ironic though I have have to point out is that we were gathered in front of a gas station that displayed today's gas prices reaching $5 a gallon for the cheapest gas our salary is still stuck during the time when gas was just above $2 a gallon don't hang your hopes on the mediation process we've been there many times and it probably isn't what you think it is ultimately it is up to the parties to come to an agreement please choose to work with us rather than against us to reach a fair settlement because we won't give up until we have one we will do whatever it takes for you to realize that you can't run a district without the teachers but we'd rather put what little energy that we have left to better use than to constantly be battling over working conditions and a Better Learning environment so please let's get this over with let's move on we have other things to focus on you've got many plans in the future but they're not going to come they're not going to happen without teachers and we're losing them fast and it's not just because of the rising costs in this area they're going to other districts around as well because they can thank you thank you uh and now I'll turn over to superintendent Dr Bower thank you Madame President and thank you Sharon and thank you Joselyn now I am part of your club and um I am looking forward for those you know I started it's magic um I also want to thank um the county of Santa Clara for reaching out to alumrock and and I'm going to use my comments to highlight and the the work of a very uh important person who pushed through in the middle of a lot of um a lot of um uh challenges himself Dr Marty fener shy and his assistant Teresa shagya um as you can imagine when the um pediatric covid vaccine was available um Alam Rock was already kind of first in the list but there were a lot of other districts that immediately wanted to jump in um and so one of the things that I reach out to the county and I said well you guys told us Alam Rock was going to be first and you know I understand the county they have to serve a wide variety of populations across our County and it's a it's a big County but um Dr fener shy and Teresa um who are the second in command with Dr Sarah Cody um made it happen for an alumrock brought back to the calendar the covid vaccine clinics for our children so from the bottom of my heart and I know that each of you board members who know how important this is for our community and for your support in this I want to thank you on behalf of the family releas of alumrock um because as you heard from Mr manuco we had a very fantastic turn up to be vaccinated I also want to highlight Elizabeth ree from the county Maria Solis from the county jesuso from alamro in student services and edal from mot to making things happen so thank you so much Team all princip were immediately um welcoming and saying whenever whatever the day whatever the time we're ready to go and that's the spirit so thank you so very much everyone because we do want to turn the needle on this silent killer thank you thank you Dr bow uh now I'll turn it over to the trustees anybody um would like to go first uh trusty fam getting used to this I keep forgetting to unmute uh alrighty uh first of all uh congratulations as the superintendent on becoming a grandmother uh though I'm a bachelor you know uh I I I can certainly understand the great joy that uh you you have in in uh seeing your child have their child you being a part of their life uh aside from that I also wanted to highlight the you know opening of vaccine clinics across our uh District I highly encourage um parents to get their children vaccinated and if they're not vaccinated themselves you know please parents go get your vaccination this is the uh as you heard from people who have uh uh commented this is the only way to keep our classroom safe uh and turn the page on the pandemic the quicker we we get the shots over with the you know we we can look forward to uh safer classrooms and yes family gatherings dur uh for the upcoming holidays um in addition uh I I had the uh pleasure of being uh part of the Santa CL County School aards Association dinner along with my colleagues board president board vice president representing our uh District as well as uh representing myself representing Alam Rock I think for its first time uh at the Asian Pacific Islander school board members Association mixer uh last week and I'm glad that we're you know our district is uh taking steps to become a member and I believe it's a great place for for us to have an informal Forum to discuss issues with uh other board members especially with our neighboring districts in the east side who are also part of the the Asian Pacific iror school board members Association uh you know uh next up uh you know though though it has passed I wanted to uh validate the uh you know thank you uh to Veterans especially veterans who work in the alen Rock district for serving uh serving our country uh you know your sacrifices are you know uh you know uh what makes uh it possible for us all sit here today uh and on that board vice president and I had a uh great time at the opening of the battle of Quang tree Memorial at history San Jose Park uh over uh the Veterans Day weekend uh it's a a memorial to The Valor of H the South Vietnamese Marine Corps and American veterans who fought to uh retake take the province of Quang tree against uh the com against the Communists and so uh you know it was a pleasure to and an honor to uh commemorate uh such courage and heroism um I also wanted to uh provide an update I've uh since the last board meeting I've had the great pleasure visiting uh Kon George my my old school Lindale dorsa Meer hubber Cassel and a lante to and uh you know as I've said the these are uh long and uh in-depth visits and I'm always I'm grateful to meet you know all all walks of life at our school site and as I you know from the classroom teacher to the cafeteria cook uh I full well know that uh inside and outside this district has challenges but we've also got opportunities too and you know visi the schools is uh what helps me do my job better you know it gives you know to gives me an insight to know that you know uh the good things we're doing but also areas we need to improve on uh as to the uh you know uh in in rem you know uh in shouldn't say but in acknowledgement of the public comment I I want to say uh I understand the frustration and I certainly hope that you know uh where I can uh to bridge the differences and to uh bring agreement where there is this agreement and I wanted to conclude on you uh with the upcoming holiday to wish everyone in the district a Happy Thanksgiving thank you very much thank you trusty fam vice president kto uh yes so trusty fam mentioned some of the the events that we were able to to where we where we went to and so um the Quang tree Foundation memorials is a great event and very enlightening and I appreciated the opportunity to have been able to join um the uh Vietnamese American Service Center a very festive moment very festive occasion and so very excited to be there and sharing the joy that clearly everybody was was feeling as a result of having that great asset to uh be unveiled to to the public it was very um great place uh with a lot of uh um amazing services that are going to be provided to the community uh there um aside from that uh as a part of my service on a nonprofit board I serve on the hate uh prevention and inclusion task force uh as part of the working group and so um I received an invitation to a hate crime Roundtable that was hosted by attorney general Rob B very much appreciate uh the Attorney General's uh Forward Thinking him uh coming out and and is part of a 13 City Tour uh where he is going out to various communities to hear directly from the communities as to what uh the concerns are what things are going uh what are the positive uh views of things that are being done right and then where are the deficiencies and where where we have to work and so there's a lot of great input from a lot of uh various groups uh that were gather around that round table so very excited to have been part of that and U it was a great opportunity to provide some feedback um had the opportunity to head out to the EAD Union High School District Hall of Fame uh dinner is a great opportunity to see uh how will the feeder districts go ahead and provide those individuals that eventually go on to do great things and are recognized by uh the the the area high school district and so I'm very happy moment always people being recognized for going above and beyond and doing great things and so it's always uh always appreciative of the fact that we can gather and recognize those folks from from our area that are are doing great work um also happen to attend the Veterans Day Parade and so it's always great to go out there and recognize the work uh the the the sacrifice and the service of those folks who gone out there and done this for our country so um um yeah um in addition I have the opportunity to stop by the uh ribbon cutting for the Carpenters uh training center it's an apprentice uh it's a place where you can go where Apprentice can go and get trained and continue to build up their skills and eventually become carpenters and so uh I would encourage everyone uh who's uh considering um who is still thinking about what career path to take that this is a great opportunity while paying opportunity and a a job that cannot be outsourced so uh it's a beautiful state-of-the-art facility we're able to put on devices and masks um to learn how to weld and to do all kinds of stuff and so if you're in in in um still thinking of what career uh for all folks out there uh this is a great opportunity right south of us right here in Morgan Hill and U you know get out there with skills that uh uh lead to a job that cannot be outsourced so uh those are my comments thank you uh trusty withano thank you uh I'll just have a couple of comments first of all I want to um thank vice president kto for reminding me and and um indeed not letting me know about an opportunity yesterday to speak on behalf of our um families in our district with uh at a one of the the city um committees that there was an item that was regarding the city's project labor agreement the pl um and expanding that so what that basically um what the what we're speaking to was that the city should expand the scope of these plas and what that actually does is or what it would do um is increase the ability for for skilled laborers for Working Families to be able to have more opportunities at at um at jobs in in the area and to have more protections when they're in those jobs and so we know that um a number of many of those laborers and and skilled workers live in our district in our community and so you know trusty ketto and myself um were there to speak on behalf of of those families additionally because we know that when we have families in our district who um are able to have job opportunities and are able to have their wages be safe and their conditions be safe in those um job opportunities then that trickles down to our students be you know the social emotional learning um that that area of our district is impacted by the Home many times by home conditions and when you have um parents who are able to have that stability at work it trickles down to our students performance and indeed their social emotional well-being so so I was happy to um be able to join vice president kto in speaking to that yesterday um the other thing that I want to mention is not directly District related but um it's definitely connected um and I kind of alluded to it in comments earlier that um you know we've had ongoing discussions and we'll continue to have discussions about our enrollment and the challenges with the Alam Rock District enrollment but unfortunately you know we've seen more and more other districts all around having similar scenarios and and you know one that was It was kind of shocking to me um was I believe the I don't want to misspeak but I believe it was a copertino school district you know one of the districts that's considered to be you know one of the I don't know what you would call it most desired or highest performing districts and they um I believe Clos one school and are considering closing another and so the the reason why I bring that up is because I think at this point although we continue to work at doing what we can to um protect our enrollment and increase our enrollment we do need to at some point also realize and validate that this is a a regional issue if not bigger than that um and so we're not alone as a district so I sometimes I think we all feel that you know alen rock is this one District that's just bleeding off or losing students and and you know we need to do X Y and Z which we certainly do need to do things but at the same time it's important to understand the bigger context of what is going on with regards to enrollment all over the place um so I think that that was something that's kind of stood out to me and the the other thing I just wanted to say um so when you know I was given direct feedback by uh two community members and in the you know past months that that having our cameras on during their public comment took attention away from the commenter so I that's the reason why I took off my take off my camera when people speak because I was given the feedback that it distracts from the comments but I certainly have no problem with leaving my camera on um during public comment um if that's you know if that's the desire of the public it's not a problem for me at all um I wanted to respect the the feedback that I received about making sure that um the focus at that time was on the speaker but if it's not an issue for the public is not an issue for me so I will you know leave my camera on it's not a problem for me so thank you I appreciate that feedback and that's it for my comments thank you trusty Bano uh trusty Chavez do you have any reports at this time I keep coughing um I'm gonna try uh I also want to thank all the veterans and um all the work that they did and I hope that we can do more for them since they did they laid their lives on the line um I have two uh that are veterans my kids son and daughter uh Afghanistan Iraq and my husband Vietnam and his brothers Vietnam and Korea my grandfather my father Frank's father his fa grandfather everyone uh we owe a debt of gratitude to and I also want to bring up uh when they touched on the subject of having uh these classes I've gone to the one that's over there in San Jose and I remember Alan Rock uh one time I think it was O Garcia who brought this to Alan Rock years ago uh maybe a decade but they had like Saturday classes and these little kids came up and they showed up with their parents and it was very successful and all of the classes were filled to the max they were teaching them carpentry work and everything if we could ever get something like that and ask the unions if they could possibly uh work with us and maybe bring that to the kids um I remember my husband was on the board at the time when they did that and he said that they were so happy the kids to be there with their parents and knowing that you know the little skills that they learned that day uh not only did they get time to bond with their parents but it was very informational for them as well as looking towards those uh jobs in the future I think if we could bring something like that to Alam rock that would be great thanks thank you so much trusty Travis um now I'll give mine um I want to start off by thanking our parents for taking advantage of the vaccine clinics that Dr Bower mentioned um as another hat that I wear in the community public information officer Dr bar I want to thank you for jumping on the opportunity and highlight Rosio Luna's name that um was left I know there's so many people to think uh but when she contacted us and said I want to make sure that our clinics are at your schools at alumrock um and we made that connection and and you made sure to connect the staff so um thank you for making that happen um the importance of having leaders right that do not forget our families and our needs um here um and with that uh I also want to thank all the principles for allowing me to come um I've been fortunate enough to go onto every campus not as long as I would like um but you know I've been able to go on to every campus and um you know I I love when teachers invite me to the classrooms please let me know and I'll make time to go impossible to go to all of them but I will do my best um but with that I've been able to sit at the parent meetings at the schools um to update our families as to the need of why it's important to have our children vaccinated um um and I'm glad that one of our community members came on to you know be testimony in that covid is still very real in our communities um and the importance of having that vaccine because the symptoms are no fun um and I don't say that as somebody that's gotten it and I will Lo knock on wood here but I have lost my godfather to covid-19 and so I would hate to have anybody else you know um affected with it and have the severe symptoms um and even end up in the hospital at some point or dead so continuing to you know um ask our community to get vaccinated if we haven't um and you know also get your um booster shot if you haven't um if you've gotten your vaccine in our County more than six months ago um then you're ready to get your booster so please go go to our clinics and get that so important I also want to thank Dr almasan and Dr artigas for their amazing work work in addition to all the teachers and everything everybody's doing in the classrooms they you know often stay at the late hours ensuring that um CPS calls are made that children are being taken care of that their emotional well-being um are put at the front line because we all know that if our children aren't um safe they can't be in class they can't focus so I want to um give a big shout out to them and their entire team um and I was fortunate enough to sit on a uh uh panel um this last month that uh council member soia Arenas LED um and invited us to um to highlight what is happening when child abuse reports are made um and how we can improve our systems right we all know that we can all improve in anything that we're doing um and so looking at our systems in place police department social services um school districts and how we can improve on behalf of our children so thank you so much Dr Aras and Dr alasan for being there and providing the amazing um presentation that you did and all the work that you're doing um also it has been my pleasure to serve you all as board president this is my last uh report as your board president at a you know regular school um board meeting uh so I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart um you know it's been tough times um you know as we all know when you sit um alone and you don't have people around you it does something so literally I've sat in this boardroom here alone um and I you know it's it's indicative of the times and the pandemic um but really you know it's not something that I'm dealing with alone I know we're all dealing with this in one way shape or form right um and it hasn't been easy as a leader thank you trust Bano for saying what you said in regards to you know you've been asked to turn off your camera now you're being called out for you know not turning it on and that's just the reality of what we're going through as um board members you know and always learning always doing our best and saying you know maybe now the shifts Chang and we need to have our cameras on or um but know that we're all doing our best you know um and I know that you whether you're a parent whether you're a teacher whether you're Community member that's invested in our district we've all gone through something difficult at um you know during this pandemic and so just want you to know that it's truly been an honor to serve you as your board president um know that you have my commitment as your trustee to continue to govern the best I can as a mother of a seventh grader s soil Ortiz um here in our district always keeping her as my nor star and the reason for every action which also represents all the children that we serve here in our district um so I'm always open for feedback you know there's always area of improvement um but know that I can vouch that um you know not only myself but each and every one of us here we're doing the best with what we have and what we know um you know some of us a little better than others uh you know and I speak on behalf of some of those especially that have been here longer you know um I appreciate your your leadership during these these tough times especially when um we're having those difficult conversations about you know salary raises and knowing that every teacher deserves a salary raise but also knowing that it's uh under our responsibility to ensure that our district is here for seven generations to come and Beyond um to ensure that we provide the emotional wellness support to ensure that we're providing the intervention programs to make up for the loss that uh the learning that was lost during the social distance year all of those things right um and just doing our best with what we have um and at the end of the day that really it's just pennies you know we hear that you know the state has poured money down and at the end of the day it's really pennies with what our needs are and so I uh look forward to continuing to unite with our community um to advocate for what we need um and not necessarily we but that our children need um as an adult responsible for for them um and with that I'll go ahead and end my report and go on to item 51 at this time I'm gonna yes before we move on I I really apologize but I wanted to use my experience uh as a PSA for asking I know that everybody else has mentioned it but I went ahead um took my son in because he wanted to get his his uh vaccination he finally qualified when the um when they lowered down on the the vaccination we walked in uh it was really fast filled out two forms and I was able to get my booster shot right right there on the spot I happened to have gotten covid before the vaccine was developed and was being um administered and it is not fun um I have permanent damage to my lungs and as a result of that uh nasty horrible vaccine I have loved ones uh very close relatives who now are going to have to go on vac Co right we got not the vaccine I got Co um last December and it was a bad it was really nasty situation that has left left permanent damage to me uh and and some of my loved ones are now having to move uh move around with the oxygen tanks as a result for life it's not just a short while they're they have permanent damage to their body so uh and they are publicly telling everybody please get the vaccine this is not a joke this is very serious um so that's why I'm out I'm sharing it myself because they are very public about their desire to uh not have people go through the same thing that they did that they went through um but as I mentioned uh vaccines at our schools really fast we were in and out in a few minutes it took longer just to have the observation uh just to make sure that we were all okay than than what it took to to go through the process and they were packed uh it was a full house but it's such a great uh process that the county has that we're able to move through really quick so thank you to our partners at the county for the great work that you're doing in uh bringing in this very much needed vaccine to our community thank you and I apologize Madam president um if I could do something similar in support of your comments with regards to that ugly disease not the ugly vaccination um but you know tonight I am actually well I I missed tonight A Rosario a rosary of a family member who passed from covid um recently and you know the young father father of three and you know he his family believed that you know they could Ward it off with peas and you know different remedies that they thought that would work and unfortunately it didn't so 12 hours from now I'll be at a funeral for that so really this is a a a plea um to our families and I'm not want to tell people what to do or what to believe but please just consider if you or your family are not wanting to get vaccinated please know that you know those of us who have had it those who all of us who have had these negative impacts you know can tell you stories about how it impacts so consider it please families and spread the word to those you know um to consider getting the vaccination and we have it accessible here so um I just wanted to share that because it is very real and we know that and we want our families to be safe from that so so thank you president um Loa for your service this past year but also for allowing me to support your comments with regards to um vaccinations thank you trusty wano it's free you don't need medical insurance you don't need to be documented you just get to show up and get it so um it's available at all of our or most of our schools uh if you haven't checked the date near you please um please do or at your school all right um now we'll uh move on to the um the public hearing Teamsters Local 150 initial bargaining proposal uh open negotiations with the alumrock Union Elementary School District for the period of July 1st 2020 through June 30th 2023 opening the public hearing at this time all right um Dr bow remind me public uh comment okay I'm like I'm so used to it I don't want to miss it I make sure that the hearing is the public comment if anybody have something to say they can so if there's any hands up right now is that a good time to open it okay so uh Jose can you please uh let me know if there's any members of the public wishing to uh make any comments on this item uh yes M President we have two speakers first speaker is Gonzalez Miss Gonzalez you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening members of the board once again I'm here as a mother of two students I just want to say um and at lift the work that um the district has been doing with this vaccine distributions and making sure that all our kids are getting vaccinated I myself have two students one of her was able to get her vaccine because she's over 12 but the other one just got it actually this week he autistic and I had to share that needles it scared him and we had to hold him down but when he find out that we're giving and the district was giving that vaccinations he got so excited because he saw a sense of relief a sense of um this is getting better and I need to get it so he was the first one to jump on it and tell me mommy this is ready we had to go get vaccination so thank you very much for hearing our community when we said that we needed testing when we said that we needed um the vaccinations to be on our on our schools so it could be accessible for our families and our kids thank you for um the Departments that came and reach out to you we as a mother as a community member as a person that have seen how much this has impacted our our um Community negatively I am really thankful I want to cry because I know that um we've been talking a lot about the bad things that have that can happen right but this is extremely good thing this is something I am proud to say I am a mother of the AL BR School District my kids go to the AL Brock district and when I say when we work in teamwork we could do these kind of things for our kids our communities and our and our families so once again thank thank you very much thank you for that great work thank you for all those Partnerships that allow this to happen and um like everybody said go get out get vaccinated we need this our kids our most vulnerable little kids ages Z to five need us to get vaccinated for their own good thank you and have a really good evening I I don't know if there's any more Jose let me know if there is yes M President we have two more okay I just want want to remind our public um thank you uh daa but um we are only hearing uh comments on the public hearing Teamsters Local 150 initial bargaining proposal to open negotiations with the Alam Rock Union Elementary School District for the period of July 1st 2020 through June 30th 2023 um so that is the only item that we are listening for public comment at this time I just wanted to remind our speakers um go ahead Jose and any others yes we have one speaker Mr Michael poing Mr P you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin yes so I I don't know why we're getting this feedback are you able to fix that on your end no I can hear you clearly with no feedback okay I was getting I'm getting I'll just speak through and hope everybody is hearing me um you need to deal with all of your districts uh uh bargaining units your teachers your Teamsters uh everybody needs to be taken care of and treated with respect and that starts with honest and uh Speedy negotiations not the the standard tactic of this District to delay and delay and delay um it's basically union busting technique to just slow things down so much that the union seems ineffective because you uh just refuse to to have a a quick and fair negot negociation waiting two years for a contract is is uh just wrong and please get this done uh get it done with all of the partners so we can be a functioning District so the tech teams can come and get stuff fixed for teachers that needs to be broken I mean if I was a tech person and waiting for my contract too I wouldn't be terribly motivated to jump through all the hoops and everything thing um the frustration is palpable you saw it if you looked at Channel 14 News uh we were out there for nearly two hours they covered us for about three minutes on the news but that's getting the attention of the public and they're going to be putting the heat on you as politicians soon enough so help yourselves out by getting things right with uh your teachers bye-bye than you Mr B Madam president at this time there is no more public com thank you uh now I'm going to open up the public hearing for District's initial bargaining proposal wait any do we take questions comments from the board on this item yes if there are any okay I don't see any hands all right so I want to make sure all right now opening the public hearing District's initial bargaining proposal to open negotiations with the teamers 10 uh50 for the period of July 1st 2020 through June 30th 2023 all right now I'll open it up for public comment at this time Jose any members of the public wishing to address the board on this item no public comment at this time I will wait a few seconds any now still none okay all right any questions comments from the board all right seeing none we'll go ahead and move on to 602 discussion consideration to approve resolution 122122 authorizing remote virtual teleconference meetings of the board and the district committees subject to the brown act for the period of November 18th through December 2021 move to approve move to approve by tryano and I don't know if it's your mic trano but you sounded really low but I could hear you to approve thank you yes second second by trusty Chavez all right um any members of the public wish to address the board on this item I'll say uh we yes yes Madam President we have one person Mr Michael ping Mr ping you have two minutes please send me yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin yes um i' I'd like you to consider uh if we're still going to be in this world of virtual uh that you try uh letting some of the public into your room see what you feel how how comfortable you feel with 30 people in the room with you and see if you want to continue to do it that way um I have to do that every day sometimes 32 sometimes 33 people when the special Educators and the par educators are in the room it's up to 34 so uh we're doing a hell of a job right now and it's still scary for someone like me who is dealing with cancer and uh I'd like to see you guys face to face I would like you to see the anguish and the fatigue and the frustration on my face I'd like you to see all the rest of the teachers that are just just plain tired okay and some of us are angry and some of us are just ready to walk away and that's a Pity because they're very good people and some of them are just going to walk a few miles down the road and get a great job in another District uh and you could have kept them the cost of living is not great here but some of us have spouses and we can find a way to make it work uh but the disrespect that is shown to us as teachers uh needs to change um I'd also suggest that you increase the length of time that you let people speak uh no one else wants to talk now because most people probably dropped out of this meeting a long time ago you guys talk a long time and you give us two minutes and then that's it maybe you could talk a little bit less and maybe we could get four minutes to speak instead of two have a good evening good night thank you Mr P Madam president at this time we have no more public com thank you uh any questions comments concerns from the trustees on this item uh trusty fam we can't hear you your on mute again one of the one of the difficulties of Zoom you know keep for thinking I'm on and turns out I'm muted but uh thank you madam president uh you know I I I I've had you know I had to think about this item quite quite a bit and uh you know before we move on eventually to a vote I'm going to you know um you know the the Board of Trustees is the governing board of the district and you know as the collective leadership of the district U you know we we have a responsibility to to those who work in the district and um you know it is a fair point that you know if we're asking teachers teach and janitors to clean and secretaries to uh you know keep the office running uh there is a fair point about you know the board returning to an in-person meeting however you know um you know there there is an import you know important display of uh of leadership uh that that I think at some point will have to be addressed but uh given the situation I can understand uh the reticence uh the second part is that um you know last uh at the last board meeting which was a special board meeting I asked the question of uh a trustee and a trustee uh citing continual technical difficulties never got back to answering my question and I think it presents a issue of accountability you know if a trustee is asking another trustee a question I think that trustee has an obligation to answer the question I understand that you know in the virtual setting there may be technical difficulties but when the technical difficulties are uh resolved that trustee ought to answer the question and the uh presiding officer you know should take take care to ensure that uh questions are answered um so on so on that note uh for for this month uh I will reluctantly vote Yes uh however uh you know if I I mean uh ask the superintendent uh for an estimate if in the event that we we may need a larger venue in the event of a return to an uh uh a traditional in-person board meeting you know is there a uh exact exact number or dollar amount that that would that the district would incur if the district chose to have a board meeting at a cafeteria in one of our school sites that could accommodate uh crowd you know um a crowd of persons uh to safely hold an in-person board meeting thank you thank you is that a question for Dr Bower or yes yes that was a question I I did Administration if there was a exact uh cost if if the if we were to choose a a temporary seat for the board at one of the school one of the cafeterias at the school sites Dr Bower about $33,000 for meeting it's overtime it's equipment it's it's it's a a a lot of things we don't have um things that are that you can move easily and it's not your traditional you know when you're trying to house even even in a cafeteria trust if you know and you been around the schools we have to limit the number of kids that are in the cafeteria because so it present the same challenge plus the added equipment and overtime and moving things and it needs to be ready for Friday because we are on a Thursday night and we need to disinfect and get everything ready for Friday and with the environment that we have and the board meeting length of time that the meeting takes when sometimes we we leave you know we close the meeting around 12:30 and we have to have staff waiting for cleaning and disinfecting I just think that I'm I I know I wish I can tell you yes we're going to snap our fingers and we're going to in the past I you know my team my wonderful team will always say well make it happen but I also have to be mindful of the you know the late nights that we have our meetings and that it will have it will require for us remember the cafeteria staff shows up early in the morning to get breakfast ready so those are the kinds of things that I have to be looking at I I can't wait for for all of us to be face to face it's a wonderful Community event um but it's just at this moment we don't have the bandwidth and and that I just gave you the approximate cost yes and and that's completely fine you know but I you know part of it is again you know I think that uh you know as I mentioned the the situation as such is that you know I have expressed that I do intend to vote for the extension of the resolution that's presented but uh you know um as I say there are certain you know uh you know the sometimes the captain of the ship or I should say the admiral of the fleet has to be present at the bridge and in this case uh you know I wanted to to have at least an estimate of what it would take you know to have the the captain up at the bridge of the cruise ship thank you very much thank you for your question justif always good to know the uh information right and at the end us make the best decision um on behalf of the district so I've been here at the boardroom captain of the ship presidenta uh and you know I mean we've been making a work but um yeah just to see what our options are moving forward I do see uh vice president K's hands up um so I pass it over and then trusty Lano yeah I have no issues uh going to in person I you know welcome it uh at this point however I'll defer to staff and they're letting us know that this is a a better way to continue um I'm assuming that it's also it factors in that we need to hold meetings in order to get things done and improve things and where we not to have this um flexibility we might might we we wind up limiting ourselves to be able to to continue to do the work of the district so uh I if if this provides us greater flexibility then I'll support it but I I'm I'm happy to return to in person as soon as it's um possible I'm here in the district office right now uh the only reason why I'm not in the boardroom is so that we won't have to be wearing masks because there's multiple people in the same room and so looking forward to to the time when we come back and in person get together thank you trusty yeah um you know I certainly understand the sentiments of of you know public comment that we've heard in the past um you know as one as a person or I know several of us and others you know go to go to the office and there's upwards of 60 people at any given time in the office so I understand The Angst that that can bring and the anxiety when you're Milling around and there's air flowing around from you know 40 50 75 people in this office in an office building and so I get that um at the same time you know to to the point one of the things that doctor bar mentioned or she she gave a estimate of about $3,000 per meeting um to to go ahead and and do it in person and I one thing I want us I would want us to remember is that we don't always just have one meeting a month so I know I just got you know a a message today from marel about my availability for a special meeting and we continue to have special meetings so if we have two three you know meetings a month which is not uncommon for us that's 9,000 times 9,000 time 9,000 month after month and so I mean who knows what that would actually look like but it I kind of would if there's other Solutions I kind of would rather dedicate those let's just say 10,000 monthly dollars to other resources um and so that's one thing and the other thing I think that Dr Bower alluded to is also the a there's a limited capacity in a cafeteria or any facility that we have to bring in individual people who may want to see us face to face and see our faces or whatever it may be there's a limit to that in addition though we would need to if I'm correct I believe what we learned um from the the legislation last time was that we need to still provide kind of like the live access virtually to be able to have those who can't come into that cafeteria or whatever to have access to the meeting and and see and participate which I don't know if that Dr B was including that in her cost but that's you know that's an additional um whether it's equipment or or I don't know what services would be needed to set up the streaming and live broadcast and things like that so as just I think for me um and that's significant because that again I don't want to limit the ability for the public to participate although it may not be optimal that they're doing it on on Zoom or maybe it is optimal um for for people I think in some cases it is but for the time for myself as as long as the conditions remain as they are with regards to the cost of our um you know having in-person um meetings the number of or frequency of meetings that we have per month and the limited access that potentially the public would have you know I I as I sit here tonight I believe that I'll continue to support this until such time as we can have some significant change in at least one of those areas if not a number of them so so I'll be supporting this tonight thank you trust each other uh yes uh thank you um I remember when I was born president in 201819 everybody kept saying how they wanted for us to take the show on the road so uh we went to maton is that right Mr uh Dr bow that when we went to Matson I uh in August 2019 can you hear me Fisher yes Fisher sorry close um Fisher when we went to fiser there was no new participants there was actually less and it was a lot more work for the staff a lot more hours for the staff and I tried to oblige the community at that time and I also took pictures that day because I thought we had first said we were going to do two meetings and then when I seen the turnout at those meetings I said why are we gonna do all this extra cost if nobody knew showed up and as a matter of fact we had less participants so on the zoom meetings we actually I have always watched the numbers of how many participants we have we have a lot more people participating and not just the same old same old people that always uh will put their two cents in I'm saying we had new ones we had others that don't really speak up or won't go to those meetings so as far as hearing from the whole Community I think we've had a better sense of what they wanted and I see the different meetings um as far as the parent groups have gone because we have the district has been able to put zoom on for them I think that's been very successful and I will be support I will be supporting this thank you trusty Chavez and trusty I know I'll go to you after I say a few comments uh so I'm I'm in agreement with you all um you know I wish that we all could be back here but the reality is it's not we're not in the clear yet so I really appreciate um the fact that you know we have this coming back in December because it's not you know for the next three months or the next year but that we're able to assess it on a monthly basis um you know at this point I don't feel comfortable coming back um like trusty Chavez said I also see a high number and you know there's a couple meetings where I've seen it at 150 or more and there's just no way that we're going to have it here or at a school where we can fit that many um people um you know but I did think about you know what if we start with our uh board members and you know our staff we're all here I mean not we are all but most of us are here in the district office somewhere in the office or in the other room or in the conference room um so you know if we start like that um that was a thought and you know nothing that we need to vote on today um but just you know I agree in the sense of you know asking our teachers to be at the front lines I get it and be in classrooms I get it and not just in our district but across the state and Nation um and for us you know at this point they have this um and really I'm thinking of the safety and health of our entire Community because I would hate for you know one of our district meetings to be a spreader event um and then you know our children be affected and next thing you know you know it it just that would be bad but you know knowing with what we have now knowing that our children are getting vaccinated um knowing that when we have a certain percentage of our children being vaccinated then things will open up more and it will be safer to come back I think we're pretty close I think we're close I think we're months away and that's my hopes and what I see um I could be wrong but at this point I'm you know I am not ready to come back so I will be supporting this month um this item it could change next month and it you know or the following month uh but at this point you know that's some of the reasons I will be supporting um trusty Bano I know you had your hand up also yeah um I just also though did want to speak to I think um trusty fam makes a very valid point I think this digital environment that we find ourselves in and it sounds like we will at least for one more month um find ourselves in um I think along with that still though is an obligation for us as as a board and and staff to to still be responsive and accountable to to the community um you know similar I guess to you know the request to turn my camera on if that's what you know at this time that what the request from the community is then you know it's my obligation to be accountable to that and so in our meetings you know when there are acknowledging that you know all of us have been in parts of the district where it feels like it's a dead zone with um you know with equipment or with access but you know I think that that's certainly understandable but that's but even given that all of us as board members I think need to be accountable to our to at least to our votes um so we should um you know once in a while things are going to happen and they just can't be avoided but I think we just all need to be very cognizant that we still have the the obligation and the responsibility to to put our voice on the table via vote um and all of us need to vote all of us need to be able to respond to questions um to to ask questions and so I guess you know acknowledging the challenges that may exist and the times potentially that we just can't do anything about it I think we just need to re remember that we still have the obligation of accountability to our actions as Representatives here on the board so um I just wanted to add that part thank you just um any other questions comments concerns before we go to the vote okay seeing none I'll go ahead and take the vote I'll call you as I see on my screen trusty fam hi trusty Beano hi trusty Chavez I vice president kto Hi and myself I passes unanimously all right going on to 1102 announcement and public comments regarding items to be dis wait am I reading that wrong I think that was uh are we sorry I I I'm on a different one and no we're not there yet M pres I believe it's 7.01 the literacy support block grant for uh aptitude at GS yes thank you so coming back I was I was going forward I'm like no we're not there there yet all right so item 701 as you mentioned M California Department of Education expenditure quarterly reports from aptitude Community Academy at gos early literacy support block grant elsb and literacy action plan information only Dr Bower yes this is uh I I was looking to see if Mr Sanchez was here this is just for information only uh the board uh approved the this plan um back in October 26 and because aptitude is that District dependent Charter it requires to have a uh basically the same plan so that's why we're not planning to do any you know any speaking about it because you already approved the plan am I getting that correct Mr Sanchez yes um this is just uh to update you on the expenditures um as a requirement um for the grant um we are to present those expenditures to the board so you have a report there and this is just an information item only thank you very much uh so no presentation okay thank you uh so I'm gonna go ahead and open it up for public comment at this time Jose any members of the public wishing to address a board on this item no public comment at this time okay we'll wait a couple seconds any now uh still n okay uh Dr Bower I just want to remind the public that all of this is available on our website if anybody wants to see how this monies were spent they're welcome to check the the report on our website thank you very much uh trustees any questions comments concerns okay um seeing n we'll go ahead and move on 272 approved California Department of Education agreement for child development services at dual emerging preschools adante one and adante move approval second second move to approve by kto second byano um all right we'll go ahead and open it up for at this time po do we have any members of the public wishing to address the board on this item no public comment at this time Madam president okay we'll wait a few seconds seconds any now still none okay thank you uh any members uh of the board wishing to ask any questions comments concerns on this item all right seeing none we'll go ahead and take it to the vote I'll call you as I see you on my screen trusty fam hi tro yes truste Chavez sorry yes vice president kto yes and myself yes passes unanimously moving on to 703 addressing the whole child academic progress interventions and social emotional supports Dr Bower I'm gonna turn it over to Mr Sanchez thank you um I'm gonna ask Mariel and Jose if you could let uh Sandra Garcia Barbara Campbell Amy alazon um Dr artiguez and and uh Dr George cidon into the group um I know that last uh time we met at the board meeting uh there was some questions that came up regarding students academic progress and we wanted um there was a request for data from our trustees so we wanted to be able to share with you um not just a glimpse of students academic progress and that data but also a more comprehensive look um at the work that we do here in alumrock and I know that you've seen some of some of these pieces um in presentations uh in the past but I think what we wanted to show you is how all these pieces work together and how the team works together to ensure that we're addressing the whole child um Mari if you could allow um either Miss Campbell to be able to share her screen so she could share the presence ation with the group and so um again we wanted to be able to share with you not just how students have been doing for the last few years um we wanted to share with you how we're addressing their needs both academically and with regards to social emotional needs and mental health so um with that I will turn it over to Miss Campbell yourself I see the scen good evening can can you see my screen yes all right so good evening board president era loera board member superintendent Dr Bower we are going to present tonight about supporting the whole child and looking at what we're doing as a in a holistic approach so um the academic Serv the instructional Services team has been working in collaboration throughout this school year to support our students focusing on the whole child through monitoring student progress providing academic interventions and supports as well as addressing their social emotional needs so it is a three-fold piece where it's it's all pieces working together to support the whole child next I would like to introduce Dr cidon Who will present on monitoring student progress all right good evening board president board members and superintendent Dr Bower we're going to talk about we're going to go over assessment overview here is a recap of what has happened in assessments over the past two years uh some highlights I want to point out spring two spring of 2019 is when we last took the state esack assessment in the spring of 2020 we used the flexible guidelines set by the state to not give the esac assessment using the flexible guidelines set by the state in the spring of 2021 giving districts the opportunity to use a local assessment as a measure of progress Alam Rock rech chose to give the standard aligned fastb assessment in lie of of the state assessment espac in the 20 2122 school year we are continuing to administer the fast Bridge assessment three times during the year the fall the winter and the spring and later in this presentation we'll be going in digging deep into the fall data next slide please here is a look at some of our local assessments that we utilize this school year so TK through first grade it's a series of foundational skills assessment ments called esgi we talked a little about fastbridge fastbridge is the screener assessment that we give students in second through e8th grade in math and reading we also give another assessment to students in kindergarten through fifth grade uh it's a reading level assessment it provides teachers and students and families with their students independent reading level and we also dig into some seal data for students in third through 8 grade we not only do we get data from students also from families and staff two times a year in the fall and the spring next slide all right so here's the overview of our fast Bridge assessment this slide shows you about the skills that are assessed during these assessments the students take a reading assessment and a math assessments after each fast Bridge assessment academic Services team comes together with our site leaders to analyze schoolwide data and develop site specific plans which support student interventions and the learning as well as site administrators going back with these plans and working with their instructional leadership teams and the rest of their teaching staff so let's take a look at some of our of our assessment data for the fall so how did our students do academic with this fall in the fast brige assessment so this slide here shows you how our students did in math districtwide grade 2nd through 8th grade you'll see standard exceeded in green and you'll see standard met as we go through our data points in yellow overall as a district 37% of our students made ored standard in the area of math next slide here is a different view to segregating the data by grade level so same thing standard exceed is in green standard mid is in yellow this is in the area of math second grade through 8th grade and you'll see how our students did uh throughout the grade levels now let's take a look at how our students did in reading so in Reading 38% of our students met or exceeded standard in grade second through 8th grade as a district you'll once again see the data desegregated by grade levels 2 through 8th grade now you may be thinking how did our schools do academically this fall on the fast brige assessment let's take a look at that data so here's our middle schools in the math a fast Bridge assessment so this graph identifies standard exceeded and standard met so this side shows the percentage of students meeting or exceeding standard as you'll see our traditional middle schools seem to have a similar number of students meeting or exceeding standard in this Slide the next slide shows how our students did in reading so this graph this graph uh this graph shows the percent of students meeting or exceeding standards in reading now let's talk about our elementary students so this graph here identifies how our students did in math well you'll notice is 11 of our elementary schools have over 30% of their students meeting or exceeding standard four out of the 11 elementary schools have 40% of their students meeting or exceeding standard in math thank you this slide also shows the percentage of how our students are doing as far as exceeding and meeting standard in reading so you'll notice that nine of our elementary schools have over 35% of their students medary ceeding standard four out of the nine have over 40% of our students meor exceeding standard in reading so how does this overall academic data compare from Fall 2020 to fall 2021 let's take a look so the data here gives you a comparison over time on how our students did starting with the last time we took the esac assessment in 2019 the data shows the percentage of students are who are on who are on or above grade level for each of the assessments so we have the spring 2019 esack data we have the fall 2020 fast bridge and this year's fall 2021 fast bridge data some some elements I'd like you to consider while looking at this data is we the fall 2021 fastbridge assessment was taken remotely and we were still in the pandemic the fall 2021 fastbridge data is was taken in person as we have all come back to school sites so there may be some additional factors which could have influenced some of these results connectivity supports logging in multiple times and attendance in some can I ask a question to this slide in particular before we move on sorry yes um is there any here to the best of your estimation that we could consider kind of apples to apples I know we've there's so much change and different um variables that have gone into these numbers but is what would you say is the closest thing to Apples to Apples that we could kind of compare here if that's possible if I can respond um remember we're using we're looking at cast data right so this is the local assessment which was state approved right so all of the all of the assessments that um we utilize are are standards aligned so this is as close as we can get in terms of being able to share with that with I mean without really taking into consideration all the other factors right when we took the last time we took espc these were students that had been on track here on campus campus all year long when you're looking at these last two assessments this is students having missed out being face Toof face and receiving that direct instruction on a regular basis um for a year or over a year so it it it's it's hard for us to say you know this is a a direct comparison um but this is as close as we can get based on um the parameters that the state gives us in terms of what um what we can utilize to gauge student academic progress so we the fall 2020 and fall 2021 fastbridge assessments were they both were they both administered in a fairly similar environment or given that those were within that kind of pandemic range or still too different to put too much um stock into well not really because if you look at the fall 2020 right these were students that were do that were taking these online at home 2021 this was after a year in the pandemic taking them here in school um and and this clearly what this clearly shows right that they're is a significant Gap in terms of the learning that has happened right and we're going to talk a little bit more about what we're doing to to address some of those things so it it's really hard to um say Apples to Apples in any of these three assessments um but it is a way where we're monitoring how students are progressing giving all the challenges um that they're being faced with and and it's important for us to gauge where all those students are at so that way we can provide the the additional supports necessary to to bridge those gaps okay thank you sorry about that no problem no no no problem yeah the fall 2020 uh fast bridge data is giving us a new Baseline that we'll be working with this school year also we we're in line to take the esac assessment this spring they have modified the assessment as well to a short form um that was just announced about a month ago from the state of California so in summary we know how challenging has been the last two years for our students academically uh it involved finding ways to navigate new platforms the use of technology and learning in a different setting or through Zoom um and coming back to campus has also been uh you know a difficult time for our students and our families to to re-engage so next I would like to introduce Miss Sandra Garcia who will share with you all the wonderful things that we are doing as a district to support our students in Bridging the achievement Gap Miss Garcia good evening everyone um to begin um we've we've had an opportunity un this year to provide additional learning opportunities for students through our lcap and supplemental plan such as the expanded learning opportunities Grant or the elog and the sr3 um much of this information has been shared already at previous board meetings but it is important to share again in the context of this holistic approach sorry so the following are some of the support services um we are able to provide this school year to support the learning recovery of our students the first one is that all schools have uh been designated a budget allocation to provide a homework Intervention Program tailored to the unique needs of their School site the second um is the working with think together and EnV visioneers um have they have worked with us to increase services to offer additional push in support during the school day uh at the schools that they support in addition to Site Services we have secured contracts to provide centralized tutoring programs to our foster Youth mckin vento and migrant ed students other students are served on a referral basis by principal um or you know the site we've also expanded our services and I think U Mr manuco spoke to this earlier that we've expanded our services with little Heroes uh to offer an Afterschool youth sports program at our elementary schools the hope is that this program will provide socialization and movement opportunities for our students as they return to school from the isolation they encountered during um distance learning um and we've also used Imagine Learning um for English learners for many years Imagine Learning is an online support program that supports foundational skills for our students this year we expanded that support for all of our TK through second grade students um to support their learning recovery um one of the um one of the biggest um Investments we have made is in the nine new counselor positions uh that we have uh added to the budget for um our elementary schools to provide support at our elementary schools we all know um you know we've heard from so many different people uh the need that is there for our students as they return to in-person um learning and these um counselors are are definitely um needed at these sites and I know that Dr Ortigas and Dr almazan will speak um to this uh during their presentation a few more support services in the works are um some type of targeted school day intervention that we will be um funding through the eser3 Grant and um the addition of a few behavioral specialists um to support with student reintegration we know that we're having some difficulty with some of the behaviors um students are coming back to school with so um we're looking to add those um Services um in the near future another important service we continue to enhance and improve is our summer programming uh despite the challenges of the pandemic we ran successful and meaningful summer programs this past summer um we uh were able to serve a total of 1,853 students at 10 of our district schools seven Elementary two middle schools and one tk8 school we offered 16 different programs between those 10 schools um we and we were fortunately able to continue with high levels of parent participation although virtually but we still had Parents participating um in our springboard and Bridge to kinder parent workshops which is a great success uh we continued meals in the community for all children under 18 years of age um and the other thing that we were able to do was um increase the number of support staff that we had on every campus to ensure that we had um safe schools um you know in relation to covid protocols this is a snapshot of what we were able to offer based on the um different programs we offered this summer and you can see the um the different programs the number of students that participated and the grade levels of the students I'm now going to turn it over to uh Dr um artigas and Dr Alazan and they will be sharing some important information on the social emotional learning and mental well-being of our students thank you Miss Garcia good evening everybody um I wanted to open by bringing our attention to the following slides that we're going to um share with you um if we can move to the next slides please so we wanted to talk a little bit about the pre-co trends that we saw from a national EST State as well as a county level um and as we look at the first set of slides so there's going to be a total of three that are connected with one another what we're going to see is that um there is a similar pattern of maltreatment across the ages of 0 to 13 with the highest number being Z to less than one um and the reason that this is of special significance is because the reality is uh for us within our district and with our in our community with the F frc's we are serving children from zero all the way to 13 and so uh this is the national uh data if we can go to the next slide please this is the state level data next slide please and this is our county level data and so like I said what we can see is this emerging pattern of children between the ages of 0 to 13 uh being um victims of Mal treatment and again this was uh pre-co in 2019 if we can go to the next slide please and what you'll see uh in this next set of slides or the second set of slides is um that they represent male treatment types for the first two which is the national level as well as the state level uh if we could go to the state level as well and then when we go to the county level the data that we were able to gather was actually built off of a collaborative that was done by the District Attorney's office and uh DCFS um and this was connected to uh the calls that were received uh by DCFS um during 2019 uh and and what you'll see at the very top are the number of cases that were actually referred to the district attorney's office um and this was the county data that we had for 2019 you can see that um there is a small percentage that was referred uh for child abuse or neglect uh with the largest number at that point in time being referred to the district attorney for sexual abuse next slide please and uh at this point in time I do want to hand over for uh the presentation to Dr Elan to talk a little bit about our current trends here within elmrock School District thank you um I I want to share some preliminary data on our current trends that we're seeing on campuses and before I do that um I'd like to acknowledge the work that all of our middle school and elementary school counselors um have been doing to support our students um they were a tremendous help in assisting us to compile um this data and additionally our counselors um have been uh you know helping students and families as well as staff with various concerns that are presented and it is very evident um that our counselors are critical School Personnel um you know that students and their families trust and feel safe with in Sharing um sensitive experiences and so next slide please on this particular slide um these incidents were reported during our first quarter uh which was approximately 51 days of school and so after 18 months plus of distance learning um we need to take into um consideration the physical and social distancing and re-entry stress that our students um have been uh experiencing because they have habituated uh to an indoor way of life um from relatives friends classmates and rituals and um and uh routines uh with school and so the pandemic has uh impacted students both developmentally as well as emotionally and so you know returning from this traumatic uh experience you know some students have reported heightened levels of uh Stress and Anxiety which may have manifested in various ways um such as physical aggression abuse grief and loss um so next slide please so here is what we are doing uh to assist students um in order to um in order to to support them to acclimate to school and reestablish you know uh rituals and routines and so miss Garcia um mentioned earlier that we have uh additional um counselors and so with the help of state and federal and our business uh office departments um we have been able to to do that in our counselors um have been uh hitting the ground running in terms of one-on-one uh counseling um small group uh curriculum implementation um guidance lessons Etc um we continue to work with existing communitybased Partners um as well as seeking new Partnerships to expand our uh connections to resources for our students and families and we are continuing to offer umal parent trainings as well um and to our staff uh you know we're we're also continuing to offer various training and the most recent one that we are looking into right now is the Cognito training which is a suicide prevention training for um for for educators and uh finally We are continuing to build our structure with our multi-tiered system of support and our current um our our current steps right now um are doing some resource mapping and and needs assessment in order to determine um strengths and opportunities to enhance our tier one tier two and tier three supports um for our students and so um I'm going to hand it back to our assistant superintendent uh Mr Sanchez for our closing comments so um I hope this gives you a glimpse of the tremendous amount of work that um not just the instructional services but but our teachers our principles are engaged in on a daily basis um and the approach isn't just looking at the academic gaps right that are very evident uh but it's truly addressing uh the needs of that individual student uh because as you can imagine it's very difficult for a child that's having anxiety or having some challenges at home and bringing them to school um to really focus on math or on you know just general learning so um our approach is to work collaboratively amongst our teams to ensure that we're addressing their particular needs and we're providing plenty of services plenty of opportunities plenty of programming for both students and families right to make sure that we are addressing whatever those challenges are um this is an ongoing uh evolving um progress right um or or system uh where we're adding support systems where we're adding Partnerships uh and we're constantly looking at different ways of addressing uh specific needs of students um um I hope that you can appreciate uh the tremendous amount of time and effort um that not just again not just this instructional Services team but every single stool school is engaged in um to ensure that you know we're providing that optimal optimal learning experience for students um so thank you again for the time and we hope to be able to update you on a regular basis every few months in terms of programming in terms of services and in terms of just general academic progress for our kids any questions thank you so much Mr sanchz uh what I'm going to do is I'm going to open it up for public comment and then I'll bring it back to the trustees for any questions comments or concerns um thank you all Jose can you uh please let me know if any members of the public are wishing to address a board on this item yes madame President we have H one speaker Miss camil Janis FIA M you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin hi board trustee superintendent Bower and staff I I just want to thank you all for this presentation um I want to appreciate that it's grounded in the experiences and the voices of our families and the data that was shared reemphasizes the trends um and I just want to commend the district for both acknowledging the gaps in academic learning but that being noted to be tied to the emotional health and well-being of our kids and families and I don't think many districts are thinking about the magnitude of how these things are connected and so while we have a long way to go and there's a lot of supports that are needed I just want to really commend that your staff um in its totality is thinking about how these things are tied together um and how we can best prioritize our kids and families and I also want to uplift the Enrichment Services that are going specifically to foster kids um mckin avento kids um and other specific populations that a lot of these funds are very much intended to serve so thank you so much for this presentation and have a good night thank you Miss next speaker is Michael poing miss Mr poing you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin uh yes I'd like to second to the fact that it is good to see this data as disturbing as much of it is um many of our kids are hurting many of our kids have had a grandparent die or um even a parent die uh from covid and uh that's the the biggest thing but there's the the job loss the the underemployment of many of our parents during Co it still continues for many of them and it's tough and they're struggling and the programs that um have been mentioned uh they've got one thing at their core is that they need a good teacher to implement them and uh again you've got to invest in the teachers that are there doing that job okay it's a it is a challenge it's a strain uh and I'll take a moment to not talk about teachers here for a second let's talk about the counselors it is good that you're looking to get new counselors for the elementary schools uh the uh counselors at George in particular are heroic they come in every day they deal with the greatest of stresses the the stories that they hear day in and day out are heartbreaking and they hang in there and it takes a toll on them and uh they need to be commended and they also need to be acknowledged and respected with the contract and with reasonable cost of living increases and all those things I've been talking about all night please support us our counselors and get us a contract soon good night thank you Mr P our next speaker is Eddie corat Mr Cor you have two minutes please unmute yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin thank you very much uh board members and Dr Bower um I'm pleased to see the uh the work that the school district is doing to to help our children during this difficult time um and I like many parents uh support the uh the need to to Really um increase the the pay of of our teachers the one item that um I haven't seen any discussion about is the fact that over two years ago our libraries were closed we have thousands and thousands of books that our children do not have access to and I have not seen a plan for our school district to be able to have our students have access to these books um without having to go to the local library that's a uh incredible amount of resources that we are not tapping and it would be great to see a uh a plan I know that there are some limitations with regards to not being able to use non um contract or not uh Union employees but I I think um that's something that we should uh pay some some attention to so once again I uh I Echo the uh the comments of many many people here let's not delay giving our teachers uh an increase I I think the fact that we delay it is creating some animosity and come sooner or later we we will have to do it so why uh create some animosity um during this period of time and then uh I definitely would like to see uh the district create a plan of what we're going to do to uh give access to our students to those uh libraries that we have at each of our schools thank you very much bye thank you Mr cor Madam president at this time we have no more public comment thank you um at this time I'm going to turn it over to the trusties any questions comments concerns um Dr Bower I saw you put your I'll wait I'll wait my turn okay justo yes thank you um so I guess uh thank you for the report as always very thorough and and informative um I want to thank Dr Cen for that just that comment about I believe it was TW like using 2020 as the new Baseline that we'll move forward to kind of measure up that that really helps me to you know think about how we're going forward with that data um this question is either for Miss Garcia or maybe Dr Bower and maybe there's not an answer right now but um Miss Garcia you mentioned um that we were able to bring on some additional staff to help with um say schools and covid protocols um and so I was kind even it's related to that but I'm wondering I guess if that is a result of us having like significant um outbreaks or challenges with covid or it's more preventative or have we had clusters of of covid um outbreaks throughout the district with our students and I guess the followup is is that is our beefing up that staff a result of that so so my comment was for summer we did increase am of staff for summer we had additional um uh campus Paras at every site so that we could have more um supervis vision and keeping you know the distance and things like that with kids and staff we also were able to um have uh administrative support at every site this summer so we're very um lucky to have that and all of that helped with keeping our we didn't have any outbreaks this summer actually we we had a really um nice summer with not a lot of um cases so it it turned out really well okay thank you Dr bow do you happen to know and I if you don't have the answer right now that's fine I'm just wondering since it's related have we had any other kind of big incidences or or outbreaks or clusters we have on our website trusty Beano something called the arusd covid-19 data dashboard for 2122 and we have a spreadsheet that anybody can access um and I'm I just pull it up because of uh to answer your question um and it just kind of mentions the number of cases um and I am looking at you know from the beginning of the year to right now and it's very erratic in some ways for example the week of October 31st there were um 10 positive cases reported and then you go to the week of November 7 where only two cases were reported so you you know the discrepancy it's very hard to say here is an outbreak or here is not an outbreak so I think that's an that's a that's an interesting chart to look at to keep monitoring and I want to thank um uh there were a couple of parents who made that suggestion and um I want to thank them for for their suggest gestion I think it was a good thing for and it's everybody everybody can take a look at that yeah and thank you for reminding me of that I completely forgot about that we had access to that and it's publicly available so um that could have answered my question but thank you for reminding me um so the other couple of comments slash I guess there more comments U one is a kind of super trivial little correction or whatever but I in most counties the um child welfare department is DCFS are many counties in California in Santa CLA County it's um DFCS we're kind of an outlier so we're Department of Family Children Services but like I said super minor um but the other thing that I wanted to mention and bring up with regards to the data around the um types of Mal treatment is you know as you saw as we saw that you know neglect is always the you I mean I'll say usually but pretty much always the top number of um referrals and substantiations that we get as a department but one thing to keep in mind about that and this is how it pertains to us is that often times those instances Are CL that are classified as neglect um I mean in my opinion I guess I'll say boil down more to socioeconomic conditions and and the realities of certain communities and so access to food access to care after school school care um those types of things sometimes can result in a child being referred to or entering the child welfare system when really it's an issue to of resources when it boils down to it and so I think as was alluded to in the presentation the fact that we are continuing our commitment to provide you know meals and and you know all of our after school programming and all of the things that we offer it connects to those neglect numbers because you know in many obviously in many cases or in some cases there is actual neglect that we need to um you know address but oftentimes it is these things that can be addressed through prevention or preventive effort preventive efforts like what we do as a district so I think that's significant and it's another thing that you know amongst everything else I look forward to supporting that type of programming because it translates into bigger kind of familial and and you know CommunityWide issue so thank you for for continuing that work and and presenting it to us um and that's it thank you again thank you any other members um I just want to add I want to thank you I have a a seventh grader who's struggling really struggling and so I really appreciate the intervention programs that are being offered to her and also that she knows that she can go to her counseling whom she loves and you know goes by and sees um so as a parent you know I really appre appreciate it's a hard time right you know pre- teens teens um but it's a hard time for everybody and so I really appreciate that extra support um trusty fam I see that you put up your hand trust yes thank you madam president just the question to academic services and um maybe it's uh you know based upon my experience with testing but um why you know normally uh isn't isn't testing done in the spring cycle when you know children have an opportun you know have the opportunity to have gone through a significant length of the curriculum whereas you know we testing them in the fall and uh you know the children might not have had um how you say enough time with the curriculum to to uh you know to perform as well as they can't and they possibly could so uh could you kind of leave me you know guide me as to how you know why are we testing in the fall and not waiting till the spring for testing trusty bow trusty Bower it's getting late superintendent thank you trusty fan because that that that was the comment that I wanted to make uh thank you so much for bringing that question and we have um since the cor Common Core and a little before Common Core was implemented um we the states the different states that implemented Common Core need to have a Baseline and you're absolutely right it takes one year to master this the specific standard and so that's what I all I wanted to say um in terms of my comment when you see the re the the the tables that were presented those are the efforts of students as of right now so they have one full year to learn the standard so for example I I was just um mentioning to Mr Sanchez this is very promising a lot of times when we see a lot of red red sometimes doesn't look very good in a chart but in this particular case that means standard nearly met and the yellow and the green those are the kids that already met the standard for this gray level and this is only the fall so it looks very very promising I know that we have talked a lot of hardships and we have had hardships but kudos to the teachers and to the support staff that has been able to bring those kinds of results at this moment so right now trusty fam we have a baseline that's what the fall assessment is it's sort of like assessing where are the kids and then in the spring we measure the growth so the students need to you know kind of use the rest of the year to be able to show the growth for every student that's the difference from um his you know the the more historical spring testing of the students as a matter of fact we also have one in the middle of the year in January the winter so we really have three assessment points the fall to see where they start the winter sometime in January February to see how much they've grown to also reassess our interventions and finally the spring so that we know where what they have been able to accomplish thank okay thank you and I this you know my uh thank you to academic services for putting together you know the the picture of what our kids are capable of but at the same time uh what types of challenges they face and I uh I you know I want to acknowledge that uh you know this this year has gone off a lot more challenging than any of us had ever imagined I you know I was all of us I think we're hoping that you know by the sum by the last this past summer we would have kick kicked uh or at least Turn the page on Co but unfortunately for uh microbes keep having a way of uh changing the situation and sometimes not to not to our not to the benefit of us or any of our children and so um you know ju I just wanted to be make sure that you know if some people are looking some detractors are looking at these test scores uh you know to keep in mind that the many difficulties uh Technical and emotional and physical that that uh our students and their families face and that the goal of educ it it's great always great to see high achievement but at the same time uh a lot goes into high achievement it is not it is not just the classroom and it's just not the homework but uh often times uh emotional needs and uh F you know even clothing food shelter uh needs have to be met for this children are able to go into the classroom ready to learn so I you know e even though uh some people will say that these numbers are not where they need to be I want to you know uh the fact that you know uh I if I if if you know as long as we're on track we can see the vast majority of our kids meeting grade level expectations and if not higher while at the same time uh providing for their emotional and physical needs at the you know as well as uh filling in the gaps for those needs so uh thank you ve again very much for uh putting together you know uh this report of our children's progress but at the same time you know the challenges that they face and that we face in trying to fill in those gaps thank you trusty fam and the only thing I will add before we move on is that all of our students are intelligent and that these tests unfortunately do not test for all of the intelligence and I Know It by by uh my own experience when I was younger growing up I never tested high right I never got straight A's um you know I and I know many of us have have examples like that um if not ourselves people that we know and so you know we can't expect a fish to jump but unfortunately that's what they ask you know it's kind of like what they're asking sometimes it's so just remembering those things um knowing that you know there's so many other factors that are affecting our children um but remembering that each and every one of us brings um our gifts and our medicine and um you know we're all we're all intelligent in our own ways that sometimes don't fit the box that these tests try to test us at um so thank you all staff for doing your best to ensure that all of our students um you know continue to do well and that our quality education along with all the other programs that we have are being offered to all of our students and families at elen have a great uh time off thank you um okay we'll move on to item uh 801 resignations uh for information only um I don't know if there's anything you want to add Dr Boward to this report other than the names that we have um I'll go ahead and take public comment at this time Jose if you can help us identify any members of the public wishing to address support on this item no public comment at this okay seeing none any questions comments from the board all right see none we'll go ahead and uh move on to 802 certificated substitute pay rates effective November 19 2021 Dr approve um it's on for information only Dr bow correct yes it's only information oh okay yeah it's sub rates great than thank you uh Jose any members of the public wishing to address the board on this item Madam president no public comment at this okay wait a couple seconds any now still none okay all right uh moving on to 803 um and before we uh move on to 803 I want to go ahead and close uh the public hearing at this time for item uh 501 um Team team stir Local 150 initial bargaining proposal to open negotiations with Alam rocking Elementary School District for the period of July 1st 2020 through June 30th 2023 closing the hearing and uh also closing the hearing on public hearing District's initial bargaining proposal to open negotiations with the teamsters for 154 period July 1st 2020 through June 30th 2023 closing that all right moving on to 803 receive Teamsters Local 150 initial bargaining proposal to open negotiations with Alam Rock Union Elementary School District for the period of July 1st 2020 to June 30th 2023 move to receive second both I heard both of you at the same time I think um so uh Mr fam I know right well I said moved to receive and so it's all right we can't approve we can only receive at this point so I guess it would be I move to receive uh the the initial bargaining proposal so trusty P moves to receive and uh vice president kto seconds um and uh I'll go ahead and open it up for public comment at this time Jose any members of the public wishing to address board on this item no public com at this okay we'll wait a few seconds any now still n okay any questions comments from the board on this item okay seeing none all right so we'll go ahead and uh take a vote at this time I'll call you as I see you on my screen trusty Bano hi trusty fam hi trusty Chavez hi vice president GTO hi and myself I passes unanimously all right moving on to item 804 adopt the district's initial bargaining proposal to open negotiations with Teamsters Local 150 for the period July 1st 2020 through June 30th 2023 move to approval approval move to approve trusty fam second second by trusty Chavez all right um at this time I'm going to go ahead and open it up for any public comment Jose any members of the public wishing to address support on this item no public comment like this okay we will wait a few seconds any now don't okay uh now turnning it over to trustees any questions comments concerns see none at this time I'll go ahead and call you as a see on my screen for the vote trusty Beano hi trusty fam hi trusty Chavez I vice president kto Hi myself I passes unanimously okay um let's go ahead and move to 901 um approve the contract extens extension with the chief kids for to approve by trusty fam second by trusty Chavez um okay at this time I'm going to go ahead and open it up for public comment any members of the public wishing to address the board Jose say no public coming at same okay we'll wait a few seconds any now still no okay uh with that I'm going to go ahead and open it up to the trustees any questions comments concerns seeing none we'll go ahead and call for the vote trusty Bano hi trusty fam hi trusty Chavez hi vice president kto I and myself I Yay unanimously again 902 approve the contract extension with Beacon nonpublic school for 2122 motion to approve please by trusty Chavez second second by trusty fam uh going to open it up for public comment at this time Jose any members of the public wishing to address the board on this item no public we'll wait a few seconds any now still none okay uh hearing none any members of the any trustees wishing to make any comments have any questions on this item okay see I'm we'll call you uh for the vote trusty veano yes trusty fam hi trusty Chavez I vice president kto yay and myself I passes unanimously all right consent Madam president move to approve the entire balance of the consent calendar items 10.01 02 03 04 05 07 08 and 09 second right uh any um members of the public wishing to address the board on these items no public comment at this time we'll wait a few seconds any now don't okay all right uh so we'll go ahead and uh open it up for trustees any questions comments concerns on any item on the consent calendar all right Madam president really brief I just want to app I appreciate the work that's being done uh by some of our schools with organizations like Stanford University we have world renowned institutions and so we've in the past uh par work with them to to um help them with their research and develop some some of the you know policies and and things that are going to guide the entire country and so so very appreciative of the work that the administration is doing to uh continue that that practice of engaging with these uh institutions um that are around us here in the area like Stanford University Sun State others uh in particular I'm pointing to the theou that is in the work that's being done at Renaissance of Fisher with stord University thank you thank you any other comments questions okay I'll just add um I also want to thank um all those I'm thinking of you know just being a parent and fundraising activities and the ptas um thank you to all the volunteer time that you all put to make this happened on behalf of our children um and then also all the donations that we receive whether it's $2 to 200 to 2,000 to 20,000 whatever the amount is we really appreciate it um so I just wanted to also highlight that um all right seeing no other comments questions concerns we'll go ahead and uh move to the vote trusty Beano hi trusty fam hi trusty Chavez hi vice president GTO I and myself I passes unanimously all right um I do see the time uh before we go and uh report out on um our close session or announce the items um I'm thinking we should move the end of our meeting um back because I don't think we'll be done by 10:30 any suggestions I move that we extend to 11:30 so that we can force ourselves to be quick and sucin second okay um any members of the public wishing to address board on that before we vote or all right any questions comments all right we'll go ahead and vote trusty vano hi trusty V hi trusty Chavez hi vice president kto Hi all right myself fine all right 11:30 um and now we'll go ahead and um announce um the items to be discussed in close session um re can you first say again Excuse excuse me can you first announce how much our break time is going to be because I got a check out right now we got to 11:30 so let's do 10 minutes break time thank you thank you when we break um okay so uh I guess we'll open it up now for public comments on any items on the close uh close session um agenda uh Jose you can help me with any members of the public wishing to address the board on these items yes Madam president no public comments at this time okay we'll wait a few seconds any now still now okay great um all right so we'll see you back here at 11:30 um we'll take a 10 minute bio break I'll see you all in close session at 10:20 um thank you very much see you soon bye am I on the close session link or did I click the wrong one you're still in the regular meeting oh I think I clicked the wrong email okay thank you yeah and I didn't put that up there either you're unmuted Linda I'm muted no you're unmuted just okay yeah yeah I I meant to unmute oh okay I didn't put that up there either testing testing one two three uh we're back in session here I do hear Andres I do hear trusty Chavez I do see trusty fam um and vice president GTO trusty M are you here well we got quum so take care business I I know I know it's late all right um so just a report out on the items that we uh voted on um public employee performance evaluation for a superintendent um that passed for um and then one no uh by trusty Chavez and then public employment um Public Employee employment extension of contract um uh to extend for two years um passed by four and one no with trusty Chavez and that is a report on our um items in close session thank you very much um at this time uh any future board agenda requests that anybody might have at this time to request to be on the next agenda if I don't see any um we'll go ahead and adjourn the meeting at 11:45 PM good night good night good night everyone good night the

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place this week at orang view Junior High School it happened with one of our students earlier this week and our hearts and our prayers are with this student and their family and the entire orang View Family so please in your mind in your s moment of silence pray for the best outcome for all of them thank you all now we will go to our Clos session report the clerk of the Board of Trustees will now report on the actions taken during our Clos session 5.1 no reportable action taken regarding public employee performance evaluation superintendent 5.2 no reportable action taken regarding anticip ated litigation 5.3 no reportable action taken regarding negotiations 5.4 no reportable action taken regarding Personnel 5.5 no reportable action taken regarding Personnel 5.6 no reportable action taken regarding Personnel 5.7 the Board of Trustees unanimously approved the settlement agreement in oah case number 8375 resolving all issues in students due process complaint by changing students placement and providing compensatory services and reimbursement 5.8 the Board of Trustees took normal formal action with a 7 to zero vote to approve the expulsions of students 21.05 2.06 21.7 okay thank thank you now the Board of Trustees would like to recognize our community stakeholders for your interest in the Anaheim Union High School District and for your attending our board meeting thank you so much to each of you for your participation and your contribution as we create an educational environment that graduates socially aware civic-minded students who are College and Career ready for the 21st century and our guests this evening include Robert Boyington the VP of operations for Pinner construction Danielle Boyington marketing Pinner construction Grant Schuster our ASA president uh is it Natalie salivar all right she's our apga co-president Amanda Bean here for an Al the Alta group um Lisa e the CTA Advocate Gail kyus from North Orange County Community r o not Community College North Orange County r o how could I do that Gail I'm [Laughter] sorry okay um did I miss anyone I hope I haven't I I tried looking over the audience to make sure I saw everyone here so thank you all for coming and all the rest of you as well for being interested enough to attend this evening okay um our next item is going to be uh a recognition here uh of donations Pinner construction while uh while serving as an Anaheim Union High School District partner in the con comprehensive modernization of Dale Junior High School Pinter construction has had an opportunity to support our community in many different ways they are proud to award more than 15% of their contract value to disabled veteran business enterprises and are honored to have had a Workforce that consisted of more than 50% local resident participation now as they complete services on the campus they have an opportunity to continue to better the lives of the students using the modernized campus by partnering with the ASB to support them throughout this coming year as they leave the campus Pinner construction is honored to know that they have made a difference in many ways and as a business headquartered in Anaheim they look forward to supporting the Lancers in the future on the behalf of the Board of Trustees we would like to to thank Piner construction for their generous [Applause] [Music] donation I failed to mention what the donation was they gave $110,000 to Dale ASB to continue through the year that is [Music] phenomal pH okay and if any of you have not seen J it's phenomenal take take a chance with somay and drop by and look at the C great thank you so much um we are we are proud to be a part of the project and we are proud to the to help students get started we lately and hope you enjoy it's beautiful it is just gorgeous our second item is item 7.2 and this is our kindness matters Awards got be done and we celebrate kindness as a valued quality and a priority of the board of trust and I would refer to Rita Ray who will take over the announcement of the kindness matters Awards good evening Madame President Board of Trustees cabinet and guests I am privileged to present the first recipients of the kindness matters awards for the 2021 22 school year the kindness matters Awards began in 2011 as a way to recognize and show appreciation to ahsd staff students and community members to be a recipient of this award one must go above and beyond to demonstrate compassion kindness and care for others the following people have done that our first recipient is Sharita Black Shear Sharita is said to go above and beyond the Call of Duty Sharita is a teacher at Walker Junior High School a according to her nominator Sharita searches for ways to connect with students such as finding guest speakers and introducing curriculum in exciting ways she has volunteered to teach during the summer on weekends and online she has also created cohorts to connect students in more meaningful ways thank you Sharita okay and please as I read uh your name and read uh the information about you please do come up our second recipient is Pastor Kyle bonenberger pastor bonenberger and staff at City Church gathered donations of student backpacks and other supplies and gave them to Anaheim high school they also hosted a number of school events at the church which couldn't be held at the high school lastly pastor bonenberger and staff host food drives for the surrounding Community thank you Pastor bonenberger and church [Applause] staff our next recipient is Jose Allan Cruz anales Allan is a youth Outreach coordinator at the Dale McIntosh Center he volunteers his time to work with visually impaired students Allan who is legally blind himself provides assistive techn Technology support for students in our district his nominator says Allan serves as a wonderful wonderful role model by demonstrating all that is visually impaired all that a visually impaired person can do and Achieve he never fails to answer a call for help and he sometimes volunteers as much as 15 hours per week to work with our students and by the way Allan is a graduate of Anaheim High School [Applause] Mark Fieldhouse is a teacher at Hope School his nominator says Mark supports and treats the homeless Community like people with a capital P when Others May ignore their requests for help Mark donates his time to help with construction at a halfway house and he's also involved with feeding the homeless on a monthly and sometimes weekly basis thank you Mark Mark our next recipient is Andrea glap Andrea is a teacher at Lera High School her nominee says Andrea is a leader for the mtss and PBIS programs at loera she consistently goes above and beyond and works after school to ensure the programs are running in addition Andrea donates money and gift cards for PBIS raffles for student recognition thank you Andrea and by the way PBIS stands for positive behavior intervention support similarly our next recipient Larry Greer is also a teacher at Lera high school and he too makes sure that students are rewarded for good behavior Larry has donated hundreds of dollars to the school's PBIS program to fund Raffles for students students are given prizes via the Raffles for showing respect Integrity scholarship and Excellence thank you Larry our next recipient is a student Erol pan is a 12th grade student at Anaheim High School Colleen Hanley erol's fourth period teacher says he is polite considerate and kind and he always helps other students one example of erol's kindness and consideration followed a recent lockdown at the school which of course can be frightening for students once the all clear was given Errol went to miss hanley's classroom to make sure she was okay we appreciate you [Music] Errol GA Stein brick and Janette Riel are the next recipients together Gail and Janette are the adult transition job coaches at Gilbert High School their nominee says these two ladies are the reason the adult transition program at Gilbert is successful and their compassion is the reason students want to attend the program at all times they are in tune with the students needs and ensure they are working toward success thank you Gail and Janette that concludes our kindness matter award recipient for the first semester of this school year thanks to the nominators for taking the time to recognize and show appreciation to a fellow staff member or Community member and a big thank you to all of you recipients we want you to know that your thoughtfulness and kind acts are noticed and appreciated thank you Bravo you I'll stay there so we'll take a picture with the board we we're going to right on [Music] [Applause] congratulations now our next Awards under 7.3 are perfect attendance Awards the Anaheim Union High School District values and appreciates perfect attendance of their employees it's been one of the district's Traditions to recognize and applaud on an annual basis the staff members who have had perfect attendance consequently a red Apple award will be sent to each employee of the district with perfect attendance for the 2021 school year a gold Apple award will also be sent to each employee who has had three consecutive years of perfect attendance the Board of Trustees congratulates the staff listed on the exhibit who have earned this recognition and we thank them for their dedicated service to the Anaheim Union High School students and community and believe me this is an accomplishment I taught in this district for 38 years and I got one gold Apple so that's I got a few red ones but these people are to be really you know congratulated because it's tough sometimes to be there every day day when things can get tough so let's applaud all of them we have like hundreds of them so we just decided to send it to [Applause] them now we'll move on to the student Representatives report Abdullah our student representative of the board will report on student activities throughout the district thank you all right hi everyone um um I'm just going to share some of the stuff that we're doing all across the district uh mostly led by the students and uh what we're trying to improve on so um just a few weeks ago October 25th to 29th uh districtwide we celebrated Red Ribbon Week a lot of these activities were held by uh asbs and students that were just guiding activities to help be uh drug free and spread that message um similarly we got to have a lot of Halloween dress ups it was really fun a lot of asbs got to hold uh different dress up days and um yeah it was really fun uh similarly we had these things that we were introducing districtwide called Summits as I'm sure you all know but some people may not know Summits are where students all across the district every single student at every single site gets to talk about what they want to see improved at their School site and how we can improve that the great thing about it is that it's all student l so it's ran by student ambassadors from their from their school sites and the feedback comes directly from the students so as a right now Lera High School Oxford Academy and Cambridge have held their Summits and the rest are preparing for their upcoming ones Stu students are preparing for an event called bags of Hope where um they're they partner with this company called bags of Hope and they create like a little bag for uh students in our community that are in need and may would like little toys and um items that they can keep for the holidays uh all the ambassadors had a great privilege to participate in the first ever District artif official intelligence Summit uh we were invited for the whole day at the anahim Hilton uh where we got to lead up meet a lot of Industry professionals and it was put together by the amazing Mrs Quan I think I saw her back there um it was really great Round of Applause for Miss Quan and it was really great because we had uh two Kennedy students Alissa Stone and Adam Nam uh where they shared their experiences at Kennedy and Walker Junior High School and Eunice Kim and Alexis Alonso uh Unice is from Cypress and Alexis is from Anaheim high school and they shared uh some soapbox speeches that they created uh about the future of artificial intelligence and how we can better prepare for that future uh the ambassadors also got to partake in the band spectacular so pretty busy week um and we got to see these amazing bands across the district perform um Anaheim High School in specific on Tuesday November 9th had more than 2,400 students of vote to either keep or to keep their mascot name or change the imagery and different uh variations of that and voting exactly 100 years after the students had voted on choosing the mascot to represent Anaheim High School uh as a student representative it always makes me happy that to see students taking their own voice and taking their own action so it was really great that we got to see that Anaheim High School uh similarly students across the district got to share their career preparedness systems framework uh which you might have seen at the vid in a video that we shared uh last board meeting which basically just entails how we're preparing the students for our future and everchanging world uh laera is holding a once a Saxon always a Saxon really cool event where an alumni from the Class of 65 Palma manzer the first graduating class from Lera so it's pretty cool and finally uh the mindfulness committee at our district uh had its first meeting what's great about this mindfulness committee is it's all run by students the ambassadors like myself uh so we had our first meeting where we're going to try to create new initiatives to help students uh with mindfulness and have mindful uh thinking and it's all run by students it's all run by us and we were trying to create stuff that we want to see for our own students and finally before I finish there's a lot of sports stuff because you know it's November so a lot of sports it's all good stuff we got Lera the girls tennis team is got to the third round of CIF their football team uh um is fighting in CIF right now as well so they're in the semi-finals uh Anaheim High School varsity football made it to CIF round three after not qualifying for CIF since 2006 so pretty good yeah pretty pretty good upgrade um coach Davidson from Western is currently in the race for the LA Chargers coach of the year which will grant $11,000 towards the winners of the school athletic program and Western's football season came to an end on Friday as Western lost to Cyprus but it's it's in the district so it's okay it wasn't too bad um we we'll root for Cyprus now and Oxford's girls girls tennis team ended in third in their league for CIF playoffs Oxford girls volleyball ended second in their league catella football uh recently got out during their second round uh against St Anthony Cypress football team became the Empire league champions for the first for the third time in a row sorry uh Cypress Varsity Boys cross country team made to Empire league champions as well sophomore Katherine gerbing from Cyprus is the girls golf Empire league individual Champion uh there's a few more sorry Advance uh sorry Magnolia Advanced the CIF round two versus citos high school but unfortunately lost recently uh Diana V singles number one player was able to end her season undefeated during the preseason and season and during playoffs she will be advancing to CIF individuals alongside two other players from Magnolia and they also made it to CIF um and won their orange league as well and finally one more thing before before I finish I want to share two quotes from some students at laera High School uh the first one is it's been an experience getting used to being around other people again and getting used to hanging around friends and spending time at lunch and socializing it's been hard to get used to and definitely a struggle but also an educational experience figuring out who I am now as a person and how I've grown from sophomore year now being a senior overall I am enjoying going through my last year at Lera and can't wait to finish it off and that's from Matthew Thompson a senior and another one comes from a junior he says as a junior back on campus I feel like I'm back in the ninth grade in a good way of course the feeling of being back at school with friends and teachers is amazing although I have different teachers now the vibe that I get from school is the same and very fun that's from Jenny Den uh Jr and that's it for my board report very good thank you very much all right he gives us a very good glimpse of what's going on in IND in our individual schools and some of the successes we've had too on the football field and in the basketball court and volleyball court and whatever okay um next item next report from uh an association um ASA are we ready Grant good evening president piery trustees cabinet and everyone else here and online it was difficult to figure out what I was going to say this evening but is important to acknowledge our teachers administrators security guards and other support staff who illustrated such compassion and caring yesterday while acting so quickly and professionally the orange view staff and District team have gone above and beyond to support our community and each other it is a true reflection of the phenomenal District to which we all belong it is also important for us in leadership at this time to not only make sure programs that support the mental health and well-being of our students and staff are ready and in place but also that everyone has the knowledge of the programs we have and the understanding of how to access them our insurance plan our district wellness program and a variety of other District Services have so much to offer we need to intentionally make sure that everyone receives the services that they need let's make sure that happens everyone recognizes the need for self-care but what it looks like individually can often Escape us and we need to make it intentional that we provide for everyone what they need uh finally I want to say a few words about bar bargaining we're pleased as an association with the Common Ground already found and progress being made in every area we're hopeful that we can find a path to agreement quickly and finish another positive round of bargaining with the district we had asked to wish everyone a happy and healthy Thanksgiving break may we all hold our friends and family close while we enjoy a well-deserved week together and special thoughts going out for a speedy recovery to fellow Association president Jackie Brock uh of csca thank you that concludes my report thank you grant um is there anyone else from CSEA here this evening did anyone I didn't see anybody okay um is do we have uh apga which you'd like to come forward and give us a report good evening my name is Natalie salivar and I am the apga co-president good evening board president pierc Board of Trustees superintendent matsuda district cabinet ahsd students and families guests and those joining us online tonight I am honored to introduce my wonderful colleague that will take the time to report on their School counseling program we will begin this evening with Penny h speaking on behalf of Savannah High School's counseling department good evening everyone it's such a pleasure to be here before you this evening um gosh what are we doing at Savannah in the counseling department well we like to call ourselves the wellness center uh we package that as a a way to explain to families in our community that we're not just a group of counselors we're counselors we're social workers we're psychologists right we have a group of interns and we all work together to service our students so it's exciting to kind of package it that way and explain to to families that way uh this year we were able to accomplish some amazing things uh we we've opened a Wellness Center that our students have it's been all student driven and student l so students uh designed it planned it um decided what it will look like what will be available to them what services they want out of there and they named it the rebel relaxation room so students are able to go there when they're feeling like they need a place to re replenish and renew and just be for a moment so we're excited about that but I just want to tell you about one specific student I mean I could go on about many students but but I'll tell you about one so let me start here the Savannah students Center that's where the counselors are it's not called the Counseling Center because our work is centered around the student and our students needs so it remains aptly named the Student Center where students and parents can come to find the answers and the help they need in 2019 we had a parent of a plur lingual newcummer student who was recommended to enroll in El courses we will call this student M M's mother discussed this placement with the counselor and learned that M was a high achieving student with goals of going on to a fouryear university and the desire to enroll in challenging and advanced coursework the counselor guided M and her mom through the process of waving this recommendation of taking El D classes and with the district's blessing was enrolled in mainstream courses as a ninth grader they were challenging and M struggled but her counselor continued to encourage and support her and empowered through it all M's counselor took time to learn more about them and and discovered that mem had friends in El D classes who were struggling in their sheltered classes and this was M's Community this was her friend group and she noticed they were struggling M's counselor worked to learn more about M's friends and it was obvious that they were speaking mostly Spanish outside of the class and inside of class too since they all spoke Spanish it was just easier for them and more familiar for them to find a way to connect and build their community so they spoke mostly in Spanish in speaking with the counselor em quickly realized that her friend group needed more talk time in English and it wasn't just Em's friends there were also many other students in the same situation so em and her counselor interviewed students to learn about their interests in order to launch a speaking Club just for fun this in the speaking Club um students have activities centered around soccer and fashion because that's what they were interested in talking about and use the time to speak together in English for fun after School em was also encouraged to try out for a sport by her counselor the following year and she made it m currently has a 4.0 GPA she's not only excelling academically but she's also helping her friends and her community rise up so em has a counselor who's working to put their needs and goals first so M's needs and her goals first to listen and to support student students ideas and not just assume what students need but to listen to what they want to accomplish and help them to accomplish that giving them a voice in helping themselves and others that's what's what builds confidence in our students that's what empowers our kids thanks that's it thank you very much next um do we have Amanda Bean yeah I know Amanda Bean for Alta hi good evening Board of Trustees cabinet community members in the audience and joining us online I just want to give a quick recap of all the great things our administrators have been um supporting over the last month um first you know the AI Summit uh we just just it was a really great gathering for our community for the purpose of preparing our students for the future of work powered by artificial intelligence our sites are really taking that information and thinking about what it means for them and their exclusive pathway and how do they advance that work across all of our sites um many of our administrators attended um this band spectacular um to provide supervision and to ensure a safe and successful event our high school marching bands performed their field shows and the junior high mass band performed um and I just have to say the talent of our students is truly outstanding and very impressive um Athletics um as our student representative has mentioned has been very busy and exciting our administrators have been supervising and supporting all of our teams many of our High School athletic teams have made it to CIF and um want to give a special shout out to Anaheim Lera and Cyprus who will be competing in the semifinals this week uh we're uh very thankful our administrators are very thankful for a productive inservice that we held last Friday many of our schools use that time for Department planning EC Cadence support and wellness activities um and I really just want to take a second to Echo what Grant um said about the situation yesterday at orang view um the response and the support of all levels of our organization was tremendous um personally um I've spent the last two days at Orange view supporting their team and I was just so impressed with everyone's calmness and willingness to jump in to do whatever was needed um I personally you know in this season of thanks and reflection I'm am grateful for our teams and the work that we get to do together and um and you know is really evident in this situation um with that our sites are really um continuing to focus on the students academic and social emotional need needs especially as we're heading into the end of the semester and the holidays um and lastly our teams are just really looking forward to the break and finishing our semester strong um and so thank you for the work that we get to do and thank you for your [Applause] support okay um do we have a representative from the Anaheim PTA secondary PTA I don't see any uh asks me any representative they have come in late later are are the MMA mid managers okay I don't want to slide anyone so I had to make sure they didn't come in after I read everybody's okay thank you all for your reports uh now let's see we will move on to 8.4 or no nine I presentations okay so we have 9.1 our educator effectiv Effectiveness block grant and I will refer to yes M so I'm excited to bring up Mr Joe Carmona our director of special programs he's going to be leading us through the presentation this evening okay Mr Carmona good evening Board of Trustees cabinet and guests both in person and virtually uh my name is Joe Carmona director of special programs joined by my colleagues Dr Scott Jensen and Brandon te uh representing our certificated and classified Human Resources uh so a little bit of uh background uh so the California Budget Act of 2021 authorized funds to support educator Effectiveness uh these are uh part of the uh funds that came from the state to support our efforts as we uh return to school in person uh and allowing us to uh uh really target areas uh to uh develop and build systems that would sustain us over the next few years knowing that the pandemic was uh obviously very uh taxing on not only our students and families but also our staff and so these funds are targeting um our staff there designed to support uh certificated and classified employees who work directly with students um so about 5 years ago there was a similar block grant uh which only supported certificated employees so it's important to note uh this additional support for those other staff uh who work directly with our students These funds will be available to the district through the 2025 26 school year uh and so part of of our plan is that uh we will actually not start using these funds until the following school year uh the reason for that is we want to make sure that we intentionally plan our implementation of these funds uh and also taking into account the uh labor shortages that we are facing in many positions uh we did not want to uh try to add additional uh uh either support positions or uh bring up our own staff until we know we can address those shortages and we want to give ourselves ample time to do that so we will actually begin implementing These funds in the following year uh our allocation for these funds is just over $6 million there's 10 categories that were laid out by the state the rest of our presentation will uh explain the target areas that we'll be looking at um as part of the implementation um over that time our plan includes several actions um with no allocated dollars to it uh and the reason that those are included in the plan is those actions are actually included in our lcap already we do a tremendous amount of work supporting our employees and helping them build their capacity uh and be uh effective um in their jobs and so they're included there to tie and show the interconnection between our district plan the elcap which is an ongoing three-year plan and these funds right that they're really together and they're not two separate things so with that uh talk about the the first area of the plan uh Dr Jensen we'll come up and talk a little bit about that okay good evening so um one of the initiatives that we look to put in place with these funds is the creation of online modules uh for use while on boarding TR and training new employees these modules will be intended for both classified as well as certificate employees and and we'll cover a variety of topics some that will be shared here later tonight as for the instruction instructional design of the modules um they will be an interactive um um process requiring that the user engage in the learning it will not only be just a purely sit and get type of a module there will be some engagement with that as well the interaction will include interactive triggers or buttons to enhance engagement Branch learning scenarios where staff can make uh real-time decisions based on their learning the use of virtual reality to allow employees to experience the precise environments that they'll be working in as well as provide knowledge and comprehension checks to ensure that information is being understood throughout the course of the training we will also be using different forms of multimedia to appeal to multiple learning styles these include um the use of audio a video uh illustration just to name a few we will also be including um accessibility features for employees who may need accommodations such as close captioning color contrast Zoom mode font size and more the the modules are designed using a competency based learning model which offers the user a self-paced learning experience in which staff will earn a certificate after successful completion of the of the course uh assessment uh we do have the ability to house all these modules in EC Cadence which of course is our LMS and um we'll be uh we'll be able to monitor the learning of the of the users as well as course completion by using a Cadence um and the great thing about this approach is that the learning modules will will be built from hundreds of hours of already existing PD that we have that's created by our own staff um we we'll be just packaging and presenting it in a different way so it's really training for us to us and and in a unique way that we're not looking for vendors to come out and provide that for us as well as the learning module piece we'll also plan to create a coaching model and structure for support of our instructional assistance where they will be have access ACC to season Mentor or a coach who can provide Direction and professional support as needed okay question for you yes sir did I hear it right that you said that this will be developed by our staff we already have the we have the PD yeah so the so the question so what we're doing is we're taking the hours the hundreds and hundreds of hours of PD that we have we're identifying the topics that we would like to go ahead and work with the onboarding with our staff our new staff that are coming in and then we're going to package this and create interactive online modules that will be housed in the in the uh uh learning management system so go ahead so that's create or designed created that part which I'm assuming Whoever has that right we're going to have to package it and redesign it again so really that's done by us too or is it outside company that's a great question so so ultimately what we'll be doing is more of a project management piece to it so the district will go ahead and handle the project management taking a look at the different departments and the professional development they've they've um acquired we'll be then trans transitioning it into a module based learning which really really works similarly to a PowerPoint just an interactive PowerPoint that will be provided with narration and engagement and scenarios and like I said um different types of multimedia so we'll we'll be contracting with folks to build that out so that's what I wanted to I wanted to get clear are we Contracting it out or are we doing it internally so just it's a combination of both so it would be basically just to build the actual piece to put all the bells and whistles and all those things together but the project management of put of curating all the information and providing it to them and giving them actually working in in conjunction with a uh a designer to go ahead and piece that together will be providing the uh blueprint for them to do that M so the next part I want to talk about is the support around effective instruction so uh we we actually have a tremendous amount of capacity within our district already uh we have our 5c coaches we have curriculum Specialists uh and these funds will provide us um an opportunity to uh dig deeper into our teacher leaders uh and so uh this part of the uh the plan it is really intended to roll out starting in 2324 where we will ident ify some lead teachers across our content areas to uh help us further uh build our our practices uh around capstones uh AHS detox Civic engagement uh where they can work with groups of teachers uh not just providing the training but then the ongoing coaching throughout the year right so uh when you decide to try something new you might attend a professional development you hear about it you get excited then you go back to your classroom you start to do it and you're like I'm not sure how how might I get this accomplished right how might I get there uh and so this will allow us to really build um those project-based learning um units and those performance units uh and Coach the teachers along the way so that they get that practice under their belt they become a proficient doing it themselves uh and then that that's that's forever for them right now they they can do that on an ongoing basis so uh this will allow us to um identify uh a select number of teachers uh across the content areas who can provide that um ongoing support um to really further many of the Innovative instructional practices that um are already happening across our schools uh the next area is around uh social emotional and mental health and we've actually talked to quite a bit about that this evening already uh so under the direction of Dr Cruz this past summer her team developed training materials that were used by all of our sites uh before the school year began and so uh we're going to use some of this to continue to update and refine that training on an annual basis uh so we can uh develop Uh current up to theate uh modules and materials that will be provided to staff before the school year begins right so some of these um is part of the training that she's already done including um crisis response risk assessment uh and so we'll continue developing those materials um each summer so that our staffs have them ready to go before the school year begins another area within this plan is positive School culture uh so here again there are many positive things positive uh things that we've done to uh support our sites including capturing kids Hearts uh as you are aware uh we had planned to fully Implement that at uh final schools this year um and that plan is currently on hold uh due to the uh difficulty in attaining subs and so we've built in um two years down the road to be be able to support that for those sites um that have not yet been trained so they have those skills available to them uh additionally um at our Junior highs uh we have worked with Orange County human relations to provide restorative um Justice uh practitioners uh we have that at six of our Junior highs currently and so we want to use part of these funds uh to really take those practices um across all of our Junior highs and not to have it just live with those restorative justice staff but really with all of our classroom staff right and so uh to go deeper with that work and to make sure again similar to when I talked about the effective instruction that they're comfortable in implementing those practices in the classroom and we don't have to rely on an outside person right to facilitate um those kinds of activities so again building off some of the great work that we're doing already uh but really having it go deeper and become more um systemic particularly Within uh the junior high uh locations and the next area around inclusive practices I'm going to turn it over to my colleague good evening everyone it's been a while it's good to see you so in a time of so many new challenges for staff as we've had in the last two years really it's so nice to finally have some good news like this come in where we have real funding for specialized training that we can put to so many good uh uses and there's just really a great potential to benefit both staff and students um particularly from my side I'm representing H classified here I'm especially grateful that this funding is finally available to the classified staff uh who are working with students and that as most of our staff and our biggest uh job families so it's going to be have a big impact on our side I've talked for years with the sys leadership and more recently with Dr Jensen and HR on specific ideas for creating truly effective and engaging training for classified staff and particularly the instructional assistants who make up our largest job family and work most directly with the students this funding will help to bring our training aspirations into reality so from the I end from instructional assistant in they work closely with teachers to support the students in areas such as academic instruction Behavior Support adult transitioning medical support language support and other specialized areas this new funding will help to deepen this special collaboration between the teachers instructional assistants and students to provide a richer instructional experience for everyone we anticipate that the training modules will cover topics such as IEP development and implementation updated instructional techniques and Technology Behavior plan management deescalation strategies bilingual training and really generally mentoring IAS for enhanced collaboration with their teachers really just strengthening and growing that partnership and creating a synergistic kind of cycle where they both kind of enhance each other's uh roles in the classroom so basically we're just super excited for this opportunity and really for the time that we've been given to make sure that we get it right so I just want to thank uh Mr Kona and the state and everyone for not forgetting the classified side and for letting us really dive in and seeing what we can do with this thank thank you all right I think I just got a promotion without knowing about it I got thanked by this uh obviously um one of the areas that these funds uh must address is are our English Learners uh and again uh I want to emphasize the critical work uh that Dr Bryant Diana Fujimoto uh and many of our leaders across the district are already engaged in in supporting um our English Learners uh but additionally uh this will provide funding for some um uh additional support staff to build this workout further right so when we talk about English Learners uh we use that as one term but we really know there are many different typologies of English Learners right there are those students who are new to the country right they they operate in a very unique space we have English Learners who were born in the United States have been English English Learners all of their educational career they have unique needs so this will allow us to bring on um additional staff where we can really differentiate and Target those needs more directly um not to mention our dual language programs and our world languages we have a robust World languages program I would argue um one of the best in the county if not in Southern California we offer multiple languages very highly effective and qualified staff and we continue to build our our dual language programs and so as we grow those programs as the feeder elementaries um you know bring new students to our doors it's important that those staff are trained um in the strategies that really address dual language because they're not English language Learners and they're not World Language Learners right they again operate um in a very unique space so this will allow us to uh bring on some staff who have the expertise to further develop the capacity of our teachers to address those needs and with that that concludes our presentation there any uh additional questions that we can answer any questions I I guess I'll start uh thank you for uh this wonderful presentation you actually answered all of my questions except just one maybe comment question um but I I really appreciated that you talked about um our process with um uh with even developing we didn't really have to reinvent the wheel we've already established all of the needs in our district and we had um you know we had our um our parents our staff our teachers uh students you know involved in the in this process of where we needed to put these funds and place these funds um um so I'm really excited to hear hear um all the great uh ideas and I really really appreciate the uh instructional uh staff piece um as an instructional assistant um I wear that hat in the other district and uh so my um I think my request or my concern is when you go through like a module and I really um am excited to hear about all the enhancements that you're Prov proving um when you go through a module and you get your certificate you feel like you've completed it and then you go couple months down the road and you kind of like okay what was that again you know is there an availability for um uh someone to kind of go back and okay I'm seeing knotted heads yeah because that's really a concern of mine um because usually sometimes I'm I'm hopeful that because we're we're making this program um that there will be an availability for our staff to go back and review and those two um that piece is really meant to be the the first layer and then that mentoring and coaching is the second layer yeah right so we want to build people's knowledge base especially when they're new employees you know many of whom may have not worked with um secondary age students before right so that builds that knowledge and then the mentoring and the coaching allows them to get that support while they're in the classroom right while they're encountering things for the first time um and so they're really meant to build on one another um because CU because you're right right to to just get the training and then no support while you're in the job right can can be very difficult sometimes so that's really uh the intention in the plan right is that there's that initial layer and then there's that coaching and mentoring that comes along as well um provided by some of our own veteran staff right who've been very successful in their roles thank you so much that assuages all my concerns thank you turn Mr thank you you answered my questions that I had been were were on my mind but a couple morees um uh you it it's for design as it says here on the in the third where the number one coaching it says new staff what about the younger staff that haven't had the opportunities to go through this new program will they be able to go through it just for their own knowledge or is this only designed and allowed to have for new student new new staff I think our intention is it's meant for onboarding new staff but that it's really open to all staff right um and part of it also is uh in the example that uh Brandon was really instrumental and bringing up is that within our instructional assistance there are actually different levels right and uh this kind of training and support would allow someone to uh prepare themsel to move into a higher level right so you start out as a instructional assistant in a regular classroom then maybe you want to move into a behavior role right and so this training will allow you to build some of those skills to move on to um uh some roles uh further up in the organization right so that would include our existing staff right who maybe uh hadn't thought about taking on a different role and this will give them some expertise and knowledge building uh to to potentially do that okay and what period of time is are these um the the training for the new staff the modules so our goal is to have them developed next year uh and then to begin implementing uh them um sometime I think we have a window we think we can get it done within about the first half of the year and so then we can start using them in the back half of next year and then ongoing and then how long does a ma module take or a person take to go through a module is it weeks or months or years or it would vary it' vary in basically the the subject matter and what we're looking at but for the most part for each individual Mo modules anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes and then there may be multiple modules because the idea is that you're not going to be on for extended length of time that you would be able to get these in bite-sized chunks that you'd be able to do it in an expedient Manner and then you can really design your learning and go at at your pace but there would be multiple modules but not longer than probably that duration okay I hope when you get these modules put together you can come back and give us another presentation on what the modules are like yeah and I think what would be really exciting is to actually have someone who goes through them as an employee come and talk about their experience right so as an example um our bus drivers interact with students quite a bit right and so we want to make sure they're well trained right they have a very unique group of students they're in can find Space right they have a unique work environment so we want to provide training that's going to meet them instructional assistant campus AIDS our classroom staff so uh we really want to make sure that none of our folks are left behind in these opportunities thank you Mr Jabar yep uh I had a couple of questions thank you uh Mr O'Neal I think you had um you asked some of the questions that I had I'm sorry I'll take them back that's all right okay that's why we got a good mind all right so um I'll start out with a budget I don't know if it's a you question or Nancy question so it's 6 billion right as a board member I'm looking at it and saying okay if you're going to use some of them to develop with existing uh uh what do you call material that we have and I'm also looking at the Timeline so that's about four years we're expending these what are we using the money for one is to hire that consultant to put it together with the bells and whistles that's number one right what else can you give me some examples of other expenditures sure sure sure yeah there will be some additional staff right so when I talked about um identifying those teacher leads so the idea is that we would identify them on a year-by-year basis right and so we would um uh identify a veteran teacher who can build out some of these practices uh that's really planned for 2 years out um so we can continue to uh maintain some of our staff right as our one-time monies um are used and they expire this will allow us to um extend the life of some of those staff by calling upon the expertise of our veteran staff to do some of this work um so there will be Staffing costs associated um uh primarily within teaching uh but not just within teaching we uh anticipate we will identify again those instructional Aid coaches so that might be someone who won't serve in the classroom for a period of time right um because they'll be doing some coaching uh and some uh staff around the supporting of our English Learners like I mentioned uh so there are some staffing costs associated as well as development of training materials and the building of the online modules okay I'm sure other board members will love it too but I'd like to see a breakdown uh maybe on a Friday letter address that $6 million breakdown right uh the other question that I had was in terms of our social workers I know that I I um spoke to some of our social workers on Monday not some of them all of our social workers on Monday uh one of the things that they requested is you know having time to be able to spend time with our teachers so that they could incorporate some of their uh uh skill sets or some of their ways to identify trauma in classroom with their uh uh I mean with the classroom teachers so that it's easier for them to identify these uh measures right so one of the things that we had was challenges looking at budget budget-wise can this be utilized to expand what we are looking to do with social emotional uh project on that particular aspect I know we're we're creating modules but I also want to see how we can incorporate the social workers maybe bring them into the discussion to have more of a robust how we can do it better uh that might be I'm not the expert so maybe we can bring that yeah no that's a great question and uh actually uh Dr Cruz within our Ed division leaders we' we've actually started talking about this quite a bit right uh that we we have some of the training and the capacity but you know where do we find the time right to really bring that to all of our staff and uh you know our approach is really to identify uh unique groups right so our school psychologists our counselors their calendars look different than the teacher calendar right so finding the right time to bring them in and provide some of those training like to I like to chime in on yeah and then using the systems we have in the district right we have PD systems in place to support our teachers um also and being strategic about how we land those so thank you Mr mats time in if I may I was at that meeting with Mr javar and I think that we Mr javar we can integrate uh with the social workers but this is I want to underscore the importance of the curriculum specialist because if the training is meant to be in the classroom right we need to make sure that the curriculum Specialists are included in all of this right so that does uh increase their load as well so um yes the short answer is yes Mr dbar we'll make that happen that was a short answer answer long answer but that's all right it's all good got the both both end of it all right um the the other question I had was I just underlined it maybe you uh tapped on this before I know the allowable activities are broken into 10 categories but we are focusing on seven what are the other three uh one of them is for like prek TK so obviously not applicable to us uh one of them is ethnic studies actually uh and so there's an additional 50 million out by the state that will support ethnic studies so Our intention is to use those additional State funds that are coming down to Target that um that area uh the last area that we did not call anything out specifically is kind of the category that I would say they State cause learning loss um that doesn't really mesh with our philosophy around our students right we don't actually believe they lost anything our students bring a number of assets to our classrooms and so we're building the capacity um of our staff in those other areas uh and so we did not identify activities that fall under that you know we need to accelerate their learning because they lost something so so we do have the uh luxury of saying okay you got 10 but I could focus on seven or five or three or two right yes yes and then so I wanted to underscore that ethnic studies piece because that's what I was getting at is so the reason that we're not actually focusing on that is because we have a different strategy of going after the 50 million which is out there to bring that down correct so so those additional funds will also be allocated to districts the state hasn't worked that math out yet of how they're going to do that um but that money will also be coming to support the work that um you know my my colleague Carlos Hernandez and many teacher leaders around the district are already engaged in all right uh I think I had one more question but I'll let go ahead and um continue and then uh just a comment I just sounds like the financing of this is so intrical and I'm assuming that Dr Nan's department is going to be compensating for all these different levels of folks that are functioning into this program well definitely we'll be working with um Joe kona's office on all these um categories I mean this year has been just a lot of different categorical dollars all the extra dollars how they're broken down we've added a ateas right now 14 new resource codes within our budget just for this fiscal year so it's a great question uh trusty Smith uh but I think it's uh we you know obviously this money is going to go quickly it's $6 million uh and also uh in answering the question mrar you earlier had part of it is incentive monies as well incentive monies uh so I think the challenge is that how we layer in in uh integrate these dollars in ways that are not duplicated or wasted so that's our challenge as it's going to be a big one yeah and I I feel confident that our team can do that all right so I have one simple question okay now I'm looking at this did I not get a page but I only see six items cited here seven where's the seven no that is number seven but I don't see three three four five three three is not on here the last area is professional networks so when we talk about our coaching our mentoring and all of that work that's embedded in our professional networks so we actually have a number of professional networks right we call them our plc's uh and so we're really um going to be building that out for our in our uh classified staff and then also um you know we have uh you heard Amanda talk about our AI Summit right so that's an emerging field in our district uh we have some folks working there and we want to target areas like that and Mac to build a network around those projects going forward as well so right we have meetings we have people coming together but it's not really a network yet right so we want to be able to strengthen and build that up and again that's actually embedded in our LC cap to do that work right because uh that's TI to much of the professional learning uh that we believe is valuable right those reflective practices that collaborative practice um that's really important for us well I I think this is a great idea I really think that getting those things put together and into a presentation online that someone can refer to especially new employees you know because they get so much thrown at them all you know I mean it's like this year when we had so many new teachers we had a full day or two or three days but that's a lot to absorb if you've never taught before or you're from an entirely different District but most of those I think that were there a good num of the 125 new teachers were new teachers and so this is great because you can hear it and you can listen to it but you get just so much that stays and then you get need to go back and this way they'll be able to do that this is money well spent I believe know whether it's a teacher or an instructional Aid you know or whatever so now you had one other question did you find number three no I that's good one um no I think like I know you guys will flush out how it's going to laid out and how you will have employees do this training going back to Mr O'Neal I think I like to see the presentation as well once you guys flush it out in terms of how you plan on doing it because for me I'm trying still trying to figure out you're building all these modules what is the criteria where are you going to insert it how are employees you know are we doing new employees old employees uh employees who need Improvement how are we planning all this right so I think once you flush it out I'd like to see a presentation or at least a Friday update which allows me to uh understand it a little bit more better too thank you thank great presentation thank [Applause] you okay our next item and our next presentation is on family and Community engagement yes Dr fre gives me great pleasure to introduce our director of learning development Mr Carlos Hernandez uh he will also introduce uh our colleagues and teammates who will be a part of this presentation Mr hernandz thank you Dr Reed and good evening uh Madam president board superintendent matsuda and cabinet members uh it is my honor to be up here representing uh family community engagement uh and and sharing in the successes um uh if we can just start from the beginning of the slides I think that's there we go we'll get there um so I'm going to introduce who's going to come up here that way we can save a little bit on time um Kenny perz is going to be up here and K pz is going to be up here interim coordinator of family community engagement um areli wera s Garcia both our community school coordinators representing Sycamore and Anaheim High School um we're also going to have with us uh our AA uh steering committee are asked to Grant members and that is Grant Schuster uh Lisa e our uh Anaheim education CTA staff and Jesse Alvarez who wears a lot of hats and this hat she's going to wear is the Community Schools steering committee which we'll talk about you know a parent lead for us all right I'm going to appreciate if we can um hold the questions there's there's a few different pieces that we'll get through and and uh and then we we're happy to answer all of the questions uh first let's uh start off with sharing and celebrating our um 2021 uh virtual College and Career Fair we had an amazing turnout and it is because of the work that uh our community members our staff our teachers our our counselors that did a ton of leading our teacher leads our administrators our uh different you know stakeholders at the uh at the school sites uh we you know last year we came here with sharing that we had 4,000 students engaged amazing right we more than tripled that um we had 176 College uh you know career Partners Community Partners we had 75 live booths we had College workshops live um workshops that were sessions to support our students right so we had a lot of amazing work uh Karina Bradford Charles C shout out to them they were part of the lead to to get this um you know done and executed you have numbers in front of you and I I won't go through the numbers simply that our district was well represented across the board all schools engaging registering kids 22,000 students registered plus 2,000 community members and other students outside of the district we had over 24,000 registered right um and so again huge shout out to everyone that participated to get us to this point in the classroom registering kids get them getting them excited there's a process to see the value it's not just one day it is connected to their pathway it is connected to their um the work that they start you know with counselors and then they continue in the classroom seeing the excitement of where their interests lead uh in terms of career and postsecondary um our numbers again show a high uh the day of the engagement of our high schools and those are the high schools there again huge shout out to Magnolia High School who had a huge percentage of their high school students engaged um and again uh another huge shout out for all of the junior high students um that had another 6,000 students again uh a ton of engagement on the day of during the day our our teacher said this is that important that we're going to uh connect it to what we're doing in the classroom we're going to uh you know the instruction is about College and Career affairs so they went on and they did this in front of the computer in the classroom and then continued as students and parents outside of the classroom and in the afternoon into the evening so again um I I'm very excited to talk about next year as well we're already planning that uh October 6th 2022 Anaheim Convention Center right iners there's going to be components of in person because that's what you know we we're hearing from our staff like gosh this is great our parents this is great but I really want to talk to them in person you got it so we'll we'll continue with a hybrid version of that uh virtual some components throughout the year but we also want to make sure that we're in person at the convention center right and and so I just wanted to you know start with that the family community engagement these are the things that we can do together when we see our our vision uh come to fruition through our College and Career Fair uh execution uh all right so if you can't tell we get excited about these kinds of uh events and activities so to start with our why our our why when we talk about family community engagement when we talk about what we do in our district right it's to create a better world through unlimited you and that is the work that we do together depending on what um perspective we're working towards in this case we talk about family community engagement um so we took that Vision that we have as a district and we we looked at it through the lens of family community engagement and you have our vision statement there it connects to that unlimited you right and so together we build the capacity of our community in a welcoming culturally responsive environment that Champions trust cultivates empathy and empowers family and Community engagement for unlimited success of our students so at the end of the day as we're supporting our families and our students uh and our stakeholders to come together uh in this work that we're going to talk about you know It ultimately comes back to the success of our students right and so I'm going to bring up Kenny he's going to share th we just talked about our why and so what does it look like here in Anaheim Union through the lens of family community engagement okay thank you good evening Board of Trustees and aohd families here in person and online it is an absolute honor to be present here today as a graduate of catella high school and former student of South Junior High School to be serving in my community as inter coordinator of family community engagement is an honor so thank you thank you so I I would like to briefly share our family community engagement systems and structures in the amazing work that our family and Community engagement staff is performing across our district as you can tell none of this work would be possible without support of you our board members our leadership team our superintendent matsuda and the rest of our leadership team including but not limited to assistant superintendent Dr freed Chief academic officer Mr colon and our of course our director of Learning and Development Mr Hernandez we are proud to be to have a robust family Community engagement team here at ahsd and it has grown exponentially in the past few years to meet the demands and needs of our diverse Community our team consists of three components our family and Community engagement specialist our community schools coordinators and our school Community Liaisons and these position these various positions work together to build a capacity and Empower our community each position has a unique strategy and purpose to ensure that we're maximizing our resources and supporting our families meeting their needs and using their assets to continue to build our community up our family community engagement Specialists develop workshops that are relevant to our fam's needs across the district they create content and identify Community Resources they are open to We Channels of communication with our families they support families during home visits in in partnership with our school social workers and they also manage Our Family Resource Centers at our various sites our community schools coordinators needs Drive our services and that is a very important component of what our community schools coordinator Community School coordinators do they they uh work on ongoing surveys to ensure that we are meeting the needs of our families that our Focus that we're meeting with our Focus groups that we have forums and our needs assessments they manage and schedule events and services they coordinate new Partnerships and bring in new partners to our ahsd family they refer students and families and make sure that they're staying connected and of course they manage uh what we're very proud of our new Community School Resource Centers now our community liaison we're here to ensure the success of our students and ensure that they're succeeding at academically so with our Co funds we were able to bring and add Community School Community Liaisons to our team that are now connecting with our families that throughout the pandemic were not able to engage with us the way we would like for them to be engaged with us they follow up with parents in regards to Services they provide training and support to our families with our technology platform such as our Aries Parent Portal such as our parents Square communication system and these are individual workshops that they host that they have with our parents so these teams together have different parent programs that were created to meet the needs of our families we have parent learning walks and as you can tell on this slide this is the timeline of how our family community engagement efforts have expanded and have shifted to meet the needs of our families we have our parent leadership academy that through in the pandemic shifted as a virtual parent leadership academy to make sure that our parents were still staying engaged we have a parent leadership academy 2.0 which was developed in 2017 where we talked about cultural identity growth mindset we also have in 2021 Ready set go a parent program that was created so that our parents had were equipped with the tools to succeed from day one one and moving forward as we move to the Future and we look to the future we will continue to use our parent leadership academy we will continue to use our parent learning walks continue to use Ready set go and we will add grow which are Standalone workshops that are focused to meet the needs of various campuses such as financial aid a through G and various other topics that our families would like to know more about now we want to continue to be Innovative and not only Innovative in the way that we create our workshops and our systems but we want to be Innovative in the way we track our data so that we can so that we can ensure that we are building on the assets of our family and that we're meeting their current needs right now we're using family engagement tracking tool which is a very traditional way of tracking family engagement through the use of sign and sheets but looking forward we are going to use the organization management system which is known as MS for our large scale events and a family key which is unique to ahsd in that it is linked directly to our areas to our student information system so our families are going to be able to type in an identifying number whether that be a telephone number or an ID specific to them and we'll be able to track engagement across our district this will help us stay Innovative and ahead of the curve when we when in regards to family and Community engagement thank you all right thank you Kenny we're going to shift to really talk about the Community Schools approach and as we do this um I just want to highlight our Partnerships and this is only one slide I could add 20 more of our partners uh that trust the work that we do here our our families have a relationship with our partners and you you could see um who's listed here and they're really are four main buckets which um will help us understand how the Community Schools approach uh really is our our next phase as we transition to uh arel ananya we talk about our partners in terms of educating our education our students as our primary you know customer and client uh we support in the classroom but also outside the classroom we're doing so many things inside the classroom with our teachers and I know Grant is going to share and also outside of the classroom with our with our partners and after school could be weekends could be um embedded in the in classroom instruction as well mental health I know we've talked about mental health so much and we continue partnering with our organizations uh also around physical health family and home and so these four buckets with you see exam examples of these partners are where we're um going to talk about our community schools approach through these through this lens I'm going to bring up areli to to kick us off with our community schools what's next for family community engagement here in Anaheim Union good evening everybody members of the board Mr Met studa District leadership colleagues families and students I see some Sycamore parents in the audience so thank you as well as principal Romero back there from Sycamore Junior High School so thank you for being here tonight and thank you for the opportunity to talk about Community Schools so I'd like to begin um this portion of the presentation just to quickly Define what community schools are and also to say what they're not so Community Schools are a strategy not a program so a strategy for organizing the resources of the school and the community around Student Success so simply put um a community school intentionally creates the conditions that children need to thrive in their environments here is our very own definition of community schools in our district a safe place at the heart of a community where students staff and families are connected and work together to expand opportunities and address the needs of the whole child so that all students can thrive and realize their unlimited potential so again looking at this through an asset based mindset and working on um the values and the assets that we have as individual communities in ahsd and to go a little bit deeper into the fundamentals of Community Schools I'm going to introduce my better professional half Tanya Garcia thank you areli so Community Schools are really based on a set of guiding principles which are our four pillars of Community Schools so first we have integrated Support Services these are our programs um services and support systems that are available directly on our campus um in order to really help our families overcome um barriers to our Student Success so really what we're doing is we we're creating uh access right on our campus um these services are really tailored to meet the specific needs of our community so while areli and I might be feeder schools we might serve a lot of the same families um our needs are still going to be very different and so these Services can really include anything from physical and mental health care to uh resources that support family and home um our current services do include um commun Community Health Initiative of Orange County we actually brought them into Anaheim today they were there to help our families enroll in different Social Services programs uh like uh medical Cal fresh um CalWORKs and again this is this is in order for them to create access they they trust our schools and so um they can come right on campus and receive those those services and supports then we have expanded and enriched learning time and opportunities so our partners really collaborate with our community um in order to bring supplemental academic instruction um different enrichment opportunities um maybe one-on-one mentoring and tutoring support um and just different learning activities that go beyond the normal school day um so we see this with our partners um at Anaheim Cheves where uh they have a pretty robust after school program I've worked in many after school programs um nothing like Anaheim achieves um not only do they provide tutoring opportunities but they also provide opportunities for our students to really explore um their interests within their different clubs that they have I've seen a gaming Club I've seen like a dance club um so again it's just a really good way for our students to explore what it is that they're interested in then we have active and family and Community engagement um these are our systems our structures um that have been established in order to really prioritize um family and Community engagement um these systems are really essential in helping to build the capacity of of our of our parents and of our um families um and this couldn't be done without you know the integral role that our our faces play um in bringing these these support programs for our our parents as Kenny mentioned we have our parent learning walks our parent leadership academy and so our faces really play an integral role in making sure that um that we're building that capacity and then next we have collaborative leadership and practices so community schools really view all of our stakeholders as key Partners in the success of our students so everybody's at the table um everybody participates in shared goal setting um and decision-making so we're going to see this with our community schools advisory boards that we're establishing at each of our community school sites so these advisory boards will include our parents our students um making sure that we have that student voice piece in there teachers um our family and community engagement team members um and again we're all coming together to make sure that we're really addressing um and identifying what the needs of our particular School Community will be so just to give you an idea of um the work that we've done so far um in the 2020 2021 school year we kind of pivoted from being this traditional Community School model uh which is more site based to being more districtwide um and so with these efforts um our priority was covid prevention and so with that we provided covid-19 testing and then once vaccines became available we've pivoted towards um vaccination efforts so as you can see we were able to establish testing clinics at various School sites throughout ahsd um we had up to uh three sites a week that were able to provide testing opportunities um we went from about 18% positivity rates when we first started in July I saw saw um at its highest at its peak which was in November December I was seeing up to 22% positivity rates and we ended up dropping to 0% positivity rates come May of 2021 thank you and then of course as I mentioned um we did pivot towards vaccine efforts once the vaccine became available and so we were able to establish vaccine clinics again at various sites throughout ahsd um and with our community Partners at UCI Family Health Center they actually were able to provide daily um slots for us they provided 25 slots Monday through Friday um we actually did a Saturday Clinic with them as well um just for our ahsd families and it was it was just a lot easier for our families to be able to make those appointments where they can just call us directly and we were scheduling them instead of going on something like my turn which was not very easy to to navigate so just being able to get on the phone with a face um and making that appointment just made that that um effort um be less of an effort for our families we also really prioritize food security um a lot of our families um saw job loss and a decrease in the hours that they were working and so because of that we definitely saw a need for food so we partnered with various organizations Orange County to be able to provide food distributions um at one point in the summer we were having weekly food distributions um I believe from May to August we had a food distribution um a week um and sometimes servicing up to a thousand families Within These uh food distributions part of our covid response efforts we also um providing care packages to our families so because of our structure and how close our faces and our face team are to our families and our staff just in general we will we were able to meet um some other basic needs with these care packages so we applied for a rapid response Grant through the Anheim Community Foundation and we secured $50,000 um to be able to purchase and assemble these care packages and get them out to our families as soon as possible we had about nine distributions throughout ahd and we were able to serve over 10,000 individuals through these care packages they consisted of PPE um toiletries and important information that families needed um to be able to safely navigate the pandemic and a lot of the work that went into these um care packages um was supported through through our partnering organizations so that speaks to yes the structure of our face team but also the relational capacity of our district and our staff so just going back to the collaborative efforts of our partners um we also secured a um $20,000 Grant from Kaiser thriving schools with that money we were able to implement A diversity day um at Anaheim High School it was actually one of the first big events that we had um in the summer was one of the first events that students had as they were coming back to campus we were able to invite different partners um and they implemented workshops just based on identity and um embracing diversity and embracing um inclusivity it was actually called Embrace Anaheim our students Nam that uh themselves um we were able to expand our food distribution so not only having the food distributions accessible to our auhsd family but also just the Anaheim community so we were able to to make uh marketing materials that we distributed out during our food distributions we also gave um some of those materials to our partners at the city of Anaheim who then distributed out those cards as well to um community members as they were coming in for their their vaccine appointments um we also were able to provide restorative practice training for all of our face staff um in order to really help them understand how to build community and then in turn take that uh to their parents where then they those parents can then take that back to to their own home and then lastly we were able to implement our community fridge um program which I know arel and I are both really proud of um so we both have well will soon have um refrigerators um at our school sites and because of the work with our with our partners at abound food Care at Saddleback Church they provide uh food to us on a regular basis um whether that be shelf stable food items um that are nicely packaged in a box that we can then distribute to our own families or um produce we often get produce from them so we have fresh fresh vegetables fruits um milk and dairy that when students and families need they come to our community resource center and um are able to pick up food when they need it so as the pandemic endured um so did the needs of our families and we saw that they were multiplying and we applied again for a second Grant through the Anaheim Community Foundation this time with the help of the ahsd foundation so thank you to Gary Humphrey and the members of the foundation for supporting us with our second ACF Grant um through this grant we were able to help families again with basic needs that they were experiencing um so a few of the things that we were able to do are listed there meals for one week for 100 families so we worked with the Northgate um to get gift cards for our families in need and again we were able to distribute all of this through our family and Community engagement specialist as well as through our school community leison so again using that existing structure that we've grown over the years um to quickly and effectively meet the needs that our families were experiencing we were able to provide transportation assistance for 70 families so this included um bus passes through OCTA as well as some assistance uh with Arco gift cards clothing and basic necessities for 150 families warm weather gear which included beanies socks and blankets as well as heaters to approximately 500 families Vans shoes for 100 students 300 care packages 300 backpacks um fully equipped with supplies and we also contributed to 120 hygiene kits uh for our hous houseless folks in collaboration with Anaheim autonomous a grass Roots organization that's been supporting Community Schools um for the last year and a half again we were able to rely and work with our partners um other partners okapa this time to support our families with financial assistance this included uh groceries rental and mortgage payments and utilities bills so okapa we connected our families with OK capica and they were able to support Anaheim families with a total of $50,000 in monetary assistance and that also includes Latino Health Access who also provided funding um for our undocumented families so we were able to provide $5,000 in um rental assistance to 10 of our um ahsd families so what's next at Anaheim um we do have ongoing Services as I mentioned earlier we've already brought in our partners from okapa to facilitate workshops on um mental health we had our mental health Mund days uh where we had a series of uh workshops where we um gave parents tools on how to navigate social media and all of the crazy Tik Tok trends that are going on and um really for them to be able to have conversations with their kids in regards to social media and as I mentioned our partnership with chiok um this has definitely become something that we are doing now on a monthly basis because clearly the need is there um we had six parents come in yesterday three of them were able to sign up and three of them just had basic questions about the application and what it was that they needed um so our community schools Resource Center is now open we have a specific classroom at Anaheim High School where we are providing these Services um for our families um and then I know for both areli and I our community schools advisory boards will be established next month we're going to start meeting with our key stakeholders um and then hopefully with our community schools Advisory board we're able to provide our needs assessment to our school communities in the spring and at Sycamore we look forward to um continuing our partnership with North Orange continuing education currently we're one of two sites um offering in person adult ESL classes Monday through Thursday evenings once we get our Center open they'll be able to move into the community school resource center um we're also looking forward to Bringing High School graduation and GED equivalency programs for our parents so that's a big goal of s that's something that the community is really hopeful and excited for so we hope to continue that relationship with noce to bring that on site at sore we have a really good relationship with Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County we were one of the first schools many years ago to implement monthly um food distributions through a farmers market style approach so we are continuing with that and we are also um going to ask them to support with our community fridge program and the big news is that hopefully very soon we will have our community schools Resource Center opened so we've moved two portables to the east side of campus and they've been refurbished and retrofitted and this is where we'll be offering our services from that's where I'll be working out of they look beautiful I don't know how they were the same Portables that were on the west side of Campus once upon a time but we're very excited to get those up and running um we have a few de delays right now with construction but once those are ready to go you'll all be invited to the ribbon cutting ceremony so we look forward to that all right I'm going to invite our U AA team up and part of this conversation this is our last piece and that is um as arel mentioned this is a couple pictures just a little bit of preview of as to what's to come uh really the vision is across the district that is the goal to have these Community sour Resource Centers available to our uh families to our uh neighborhood and it's it's you know it's adjacent to the parking lot so they don't have to come in to the school it's right there available to them uh and again ribbon cutting uh is coming soon as soon as they can release the building and we can get situated in there very exciting um uh to understand more that this is just the you know that the work that they've been doing the efforts that they've put together to find these grants to research to find our partners to have our you know different partners in the audience be a part of this is exciting there's more to come our AB 130 from the state of California is is is coming our way we are very excited as soon as we uh get additional information I know Grant has some just shared with me a little more he's on the inside on hearing what is available 2.83 billion dollars to our schools to our communities to um be able to execute our community schools approach here in our district and we're eligible and and as as we say we're excited to to share that uh and it is aligned with the work that we've been doing and it does align with the work that you're going to hear from this particular Grant from our team here caros just wanted to communicate that appropriately 2 B yeah 8 billion not to Anaheim Union but all over the state to the state yes to the state yes yes thank you for the clarification we're excited and that's correct it's we got to share it with other school districts thank you yeah I will say Mr Jabar we do have the goal of a half a million dollars per site that we can apply for this Grant and we are already um far ahead of many other districts with what we have in place and what we're going to be able to put in our grant proposals and we're very excited to do that um so very quickly um uh I'm Grant Schuster the president of the Anaheim secretary Teachers Association and Lisa e is our CTA staff Jesse Alvarez is a parent on our uh Community School steering committee and also uh rosan AA in the audience is with OKO and Marissa Bermudez is also one of our parents on the steering committee uh we're very excited um excited that the the district was interested in this sort of partnership that puts the union up in a presentation directly to the board in conjunction with the district um oh you have it no other way way there you go there we go um so ASA is coming uh at this through an Nea Grant on Community Schools I wrote this last year when I saw that Nea was funding organizing grants around the ideas of Community Schools you'll see that there are six pillars of the Nea Community School uh model but those pillars are complementary to the four pillars that ahsd has in their Community School model there's nothing that is is different about any of them that cannot be easily integrated with the other and I think it's important to recognize that historically in the short history of Community Schools there's been a real primary focus on the pillar of f of of Community Support Services and we're looking to build something that is much more than that and that can integrate with all of the great work that has already been done with the district at Anaheim and Sycamore and so our Focus um is to bring together parent parents students teachers Community groups as well as the District staff together to give input um and uh be able to be part of the decision-making process in all of these areas the a lot of times with programs you talk about Buy in and to us that's you're trying to sell someone something we want active uh participation we want active engagement in these programs to build schools within the community that these are going to last the program is going to last far beyond us and provide you know the social Bedrock of of the neighborhood school as the center of a community to to grow and support everyone that lives there um one so our role is kind of as a a facilitator of what we're trying to put together um to lead Community conversations and gain the community commitment we already have three Community Partners that I'll speak about in a moment we have uh parents we have teachers we have the Community School uh coordinators other District Personnel already on board meeting regularly to discuss how we're going to implement the individual site teams and how we're going to do our our needs and asset assessments to make sure we direct whatever uh building we do specifically for the needs of that Community um let's go to the next one so the grant that we got was for $75,000 um as far as training at the top we already had 10 people uh District Personnel parents communities uh teachers attend a conference a virtual conference for the national Center for Community Schools that was out of Manhattan uh it was a very good conference we haven't met yet to debrief but we're going to soon it got a lot of questions uh going and a lot of ideas uh came out of it uh from our members and so we look forward to uh the next uh steering committee meeting so we can start talking about that but the networking and mentoring that we get out of those T sorts of meetings um you we we also we start our meetings each month with lunch together before the meeting starts so even on the steering committee we can start building relationships between the community groups between it was interesting one of our first meetings we're sitting having lunch and talk about the Anaheim refrigerator led to a parent saying hey I have access to food uh through a company I know that ended up filling the refrigerator that was just out of a conversation a casual conversation at lunchtime so we're trying to build these relationships even with the steering committee that then will build at sites between all of these groups so that they have a comfortable relationship to work together and build these Community Schools um again integrating what has already been accomplished and what has already been put into place with the model that we want to expand to include um uh several different things in the pillars from the Nea model um is is one of our goals and I I also appreciated that when Tanya gave her talk she also already spoke about how we've kind of combined some uh groups that that were already in place or teams that were already in place with this model that we created with the Grant and now have uh those already moving forward so we're very excited about that and then final thing I'll talk about real quick is um our steering committee and our steering committee has 16 members I mentioned uh rosan Hera before she's from the Orange County uh Community congregation organization we have um also Community groups Los Amigo St orang County uh the chapter we also have OK Capa the Orange County Asian Pacific Islander Community Alliance present at all of our meetings um we have our community school coordinators we have uh Carlos Hernandez and Joe Carmona U myself and Lisa e and Jeff morger represent ASA and Ellie robbles Marissa Bermudez and Jesse Alvarez are parents at these meetings we've already had um leadership from uh the California Teachers Association come down to watch what we're doing to take that back as a model of what we want the California state regulations to require and in fact um in the requirements that came out applying for the grant if you already have one of these steering committees in place it gets you closer to getting the grant it gives you a higher priority on the Grant List by having that sort of thing in place so we're very excited I'm going to turn this over to Jesse just to talk very quickly about the site implementation committees hi good evening so like uh Grant mentioned my name is Jesse Alvarez I represent um Sycamore um so the site Implement implementation committees um each site will have a a a site specific Committee of three teachers three parents three students and three others um our the others are going to be representatives from our like Community Partners that are already working with the school um or like our site um professionals like maybe psychologists counselors um you know like uh like Tanya mentioned you know and and everyone has mentioned you know like we already have a lot of Community Partners you know there's a slide where you see all of those Community Partners so we're still going to kind of nail down like who from which types of groups those three others will come from so we have like a diverse representation of the Community Partners we're using and maybe site um a Personnel like the psychologist or mental health um for that three other people in the committee um the uh educate inform and engage local school community so emphasis on students and parents being equal Partners um it's you know with with the school so it's mutual respect or equal partnership of mutual respect and validation of the family experiences and the ideas and assets that are that our families have in part of this you know like decision making and just keep building on that to to for our students to have success in their schools um and it's an and it's an ongoing process of engaging um like Kenny said you know needs driving the services and the programs Services you know may change May evolve as the needs evolve in our sites and that's what's so great about these site specific needs or site specific committees is that they really are representative of that site's assets and needs in their Community um and I think that's it thank you well the last few sides that I'll be sharing with you summarize what we've accomplished to date so far and what we hope to accomplish in the near future so what we did in trying to Envision uh what we would achieve during this particular school year we broke it down by semester so we're just about at that end point and this is where we are the key to creating or kickstarting the process of community schools for us was to go back to the Coalition of stakeholders uh that the district had already established uh to pull from them and to pull from all of our staff and our Administration to establish that steering committee and to make it operational because it's that committee that is going to take on the task of creating the vision for the district the plan and the timeline to implement the first cohort of community schools here in the ahsd and a big part of what we've been doing recently and Grant already mentioned the conference opportunities and the training opportunities that we've had is to locate and seek out those resources and to identify those best practices so that we put ourselves onto the best pathway for Success here with our local Community Schools project so again Jesse had mentioned that a key part of our plan during the first semester was to educate and to engage Administration and School staff we're out there and we're in the process just like we are here with you tonight uh about informing everyone related to the characteristics the benefits and the power that Community School can have and then we hope to model and to create a similar process and a similar set of stakeholders uh and leaders at each of the four uh key sites that we've identified in our first cohort of schools so you can see from the calendar that I'm sharing we're just about at the point where we have informed and involved uh both District leaders ERS ship and Teachers Association leadership about the characteristics benefits and power of community schools the principal's meeting was actually just added uh after we finished the presentation and provided it to you so on December 15th we will be meeting with the principles to review what you're seeing here tonight and to answer their questions we also have had some site presentations that have already been completed some that are upcoming and a few that have yet to be determined in the month of January because our goal of course is to finish all of what I've just shared with you by the end of the first semester so what's next in the second semester we actually want to make those site implementation committees operational and we want them to begin to conduct a process for their sit's needs and assets assessment so we can create that Vision on a very local level which may look similar but may look different at each of the sites depending upon what we find from the process of conducting those assessments and debriefing and Discerning the information that we receive we're looking forward to collaborating on the Grant application uh both the state grant that Carlos had previously spoken about and others that we might find from other organizations to secure the needed resources to support our site and District plans and we'll look forward to coming back to you during the second semester and hopefully gaining a commitment from you uh through a resolution that the steering committee is going to present to validate the district's commitment and our joint commitment to Community Schools in our local area and then finally we're looking to eventually constructing working agreements contract language uh and or a set of processes and procedures that we would use to memorialize all of what we've done and then also to put it in place for continuous application for additional cohorts of community schools in The District in hopefully the very near future so we look forward to coming back and presenting to you sometime in the second semester uh as a joint group to update you on our progress that concludes our presentation and so thank you and are there any questions for us do we have any questions from the board wow yes I mean um comments that uh gosh where do I begin thank you first of all um this this work that we're doing I I'm so um enamored with this presentation because it really puts into view um I think what a lot of us have been seeing over um this last couple of years we've been talking about it and bragging about it but to have these really uh amazing concrete numbers um it warms my heart what what um you all have been doing the work that you've been doing you've you saved our community [Applause] um jumped in and you saved um the people um and and uh you know brought the resources that they needed from a a real uh perspective um when others didn't um and I won't get into that but um that work helped to create you know this greater work that we're going to be um en endeavoring and you know that helps with the getting the grants and that helps to um put us out in the spotlight and I know we didn't do this work for that but it so puts us uh way ahead of anything out there I have never heard or seen um anything like this in all of the meetings and uh you know um the travels no one is doing this and so um I am I I'm I'm almost rendered speechless um I don't I I I really want to convey my gratitude and my admiration um without this kind of work um our teachers can't teach without getting the needs met um of our community our kids can't come in with full stomachs they can't if they don't have a place to sleep you know they they come into school um full they come to school you know ready to learn and so um this is beyond any expectation that I could have ever dreamed of um of the work that we're doing in this district and I so applaud I applaud all of you and um we I I'm going to speak for the board we wholeheartedly um are are grateful and thankful for this work um and and I I thank you thank you from the bottom of my my soul thank you Bravo Mr O'Neal well I don't know what more I can say besides what Miss Reynold tro just said but I was thinking while she was talking I was thinking back to when I came on board excuse me uh which was basically the same as when I was in school where this the child came to school went was in their classroom and at the end of the day they went home and there may be a PTA or PTSA or ptso whatever organizations on the campus with minor interaction with with with the community but that was the extent of it and to see it move from that point to where uh the district is so involved in bringing the community into the process and making it really it's a family affair um it is just it's mindboggling to see what's going on so I am I hate to say this word I'm salivating in anticipation of seeing where we are down the road and it's not that far down the road to see really how this is all going to come to fruition so thank you for all of your work it's appreciated jaar all right I'm going to jump on that bandwagon right so I I think you guys I'll I'll start with the Community Schools First uh it's a model that you know again I was salivating as well trying to see when it will get um implemented here at ahsd so I'm very very happy to see the progress of it um and flipping back to our community schools uh I mean our faces presentation that was made I got to tell you I think Tanya and uh arali you guys you know just were amazing during the pandemic in terms of leading the efforts from our district to uh get the things that need to be done for our families right so and I saw many of our faces who were there day in day out during our uh vaccine sessions making sure that you know quite bluntly put saving lives in our community right so I'm I'm very uh thankful on behalf of the community I want to thank you and our system that we have here which assists on that um I also like to not only ask a couple of questions but uh make a couple of suggestions right I think we talked about um basing our programs based on the strengths of what we have and I think the biggest strength that we have is our parents so I'm going to ask you which I've made it clear to uh Dr Fred and Mike mitsura as well and I've had a conversation with ar arel and Callos as well is that we need to make sure that we are using our best parents who are part of our parent leadership academy they come to the parent leadership academy because they really want to be a part of the system so it's our job to make sure that we create a system to get them involved every step of the way right they may get they may graduate from the program and leave but I want us to go back and ask them to come back and be a part of other projects or programs even the slightest thing get them involved because they are our ambassadors and they are our biggest strengths uh and I think um some of the parents obviously have jobs and they got to do their work but then there are other parents who really want to dedicate themselves in order to do the work in our campuses so let's make sure that we have a system I I'm glad that we have a even registration RSV or the the OM model that we're bringing in which allows us to have now a software to really uh go after and not fall uh have our parents fall through the cracks so make sure that that's the primary goal of you guys because they are the biggest strength that we have and I think utilizing them to do a lot of the work I I I wouldn't and I see a lot of the parents out there I see them at community events they don't get get paid but they're there because they love the community they love the work that we do you put in a call I'm sure that they will organize about 50 of them to be there to do the work right so let's make sure that thank you let's make sure that we use that resources very very efficiently and that's my ask from the DI today I'm not I'm not going to be a trustee for too long in this District I'm done after this term but I want to see that continue even uh later so that's one of my asks uh the second part that I wanted to emphasize is our Partnerships right uh I think we are I heard SSA came on campus to do the Cal fresh and Cal uh that's part of the Community Schools right but I also want to make sure that we explore having M with our Orange County healthcare agency and our SSA for our community schools because I think we have a lot lot of resources within the uh County that as school district we are not utilizing much so I think we have an opportunity there to really create M us with organizations and depart agencies within the county to bring those services to our families um at another couple of points here and the nonprofit organizations we have a ton of them like you mentioned we've made strategic Partnerships with some of them right but I think we can make strategic partnership with a lot of them who are not being utilized right now I can think of about three or four uh nonprofits who do different things that benefit our students that if we have anou it's going to be easier to invite them and be a part of the system so let's make sure that uh and offline I could be helpful to uh connect those organizations as well and I think um lastly I I just want to say like this is a great model for our school district uh matter of fact I had a conversation the day that I was supposed to be at the uh presentation with uh uh with the uh um your state folks who came to do the presentation at the community schools I was actually at a simultaneous meeting with the Attorney General of California and we were talking about some of the work that we are doing in our district and I actually mentioned about our community schools model and he was very impressed with the work that we're doing right so I think um again we we are the model where we can actually lead the way and we are leading the way and I just want to make sure that we have all the systems in place so that we could get that two billion most of it coming to our district so thank you okay Mrs Smith do you have any comments um just some thoughts as I was listening to the presentations and people that that spoke earlier I'm just wondering about replication or duplications of services and how those interact what you're doing interact with what we're already have accomplished or are accomplishing through different areas Counseling psychology Health um uh so the the the question really is how do we ensure that we we're not double book you know the servicing the same kind of kids or the same parents or the same Community but really sharing in that and also bringing you know the partners you know because they're working with those families outside of the the the trusting school and so how do we ensure that we're working with them here uh and that's that's that's that's the work um you know our faces work with the parents through the lens of in on the campus supporting you know engagement and supports in the classroom right to be able to make sure that our students can then self-actualize which is our com you know career preparedness systems framework that's the the goal right but we got to make sure you know to get them prepared to get them there um our community schools Resource Centers can do just that uh and I think be more efficient and and and not duplicate and the short answer is yes we're going to try to ensure that we're not duplicating services for the same because there's a lot of need there's a lot of need with many students many family uh members many community members [Applause] I don't have any questions um but I do have a comment having been in education for over 50 years I know education has changed tremendously and I've been with this district for a long time and this district has always been a Forward Thinking District we have tackled and led new new ideas and led the way and here's another example we're tackling this and leading the way in Community Schools so schools are changed they're thinking wider and broader what we need to do for our students and it's like the saying that you hear when it comes to educating a child it takes a village and we're putting the village together and now and on the campus and trying to you know get all those needs so that child will learn well um we've got a start but it looks like we're going to be moving strongly ahead and hopefully we get a good share of that two billion you know but you guys are doing a great job you're planning it well and some of these are looking really good so keep up the good work I just had I just had a couple sorry a couple of questions really quickly and this is actually Jesse for you um you know when I was sitting um and looking at the virtual uh College and Career Fair um you know I was really thinking about like our feeder elementary school kids and what a great opportunity it would be if we really uh honed in and it's for you as well um uh if we really honed in on maybe the say the fifth targeted the fifth and sixth grade students um as I was watching it it also just enhances our Outreach to the parents as you were talking about um Mr Jabar um so we're going to be doing this in person next year is there there is a possibility we're going to do virtual so can you see how we could Outreach to our feeder Elementary School uh students and my my my question to you Jesse is can you help with that advocation to to really get you know our feeder School tools on board to really look at um you know all the things that we're offering in our district yeah and and if you notice you know like we have a lot of parents that are already involved where we are you know sitting in those both districts right now we have a lot of uh parent leaders that are parent leaders in both districts and we're coming up now into um the secondary and that's always been a big thing that I I wish we you know we can continue to expand on bringing in those um collaborative things of you know like I'm going to be a seventh grade parent like you know what what am I coming into and what can I expect and how can we partner while we're making those Transitions and um The College and Career Fair you know I know we I believe we did reach out and invited the elementary districts um and sixth grade teachers you know to promote that um the through the parent engagement um leaders in Anaheim elementary they did promote that at their parent our parent meetings in the Elementary District uh promoting the event and inviting their parents to you know to start you know thinking about that and start continuing to have that conversation from a young you know the primary level about College and Career Wess so so we are doing some of that work already and and and US parent leaders that we're we're passionate about that you know we we we share cross communication through all of our Outlets um and that's why having us be you know parent leaders on these committees cuz we we are doing that you know and and we can bring those this is these are the effective communication tools that we use as parents in those different committees and different um you know all the different like leadership positions we have within the two districts um so so yes that's a that's that's what we we want to do more of that as well okay we we we we will we're with you and then for Grant and Lisa as um leaders as as um you know um how can we help you how can the trustees up here how can we help get this money how can we help you do this Outreach I you I would say you know something that um trusty Smith her question about about duplicating things and worrying about how we're going to uh get all of the the services out there and all of the the different input from the different groups I think the the needs an asset it's important the the the word asset the needs and asset assessment that we're going to be doing that involve the students the teachers the parents the community groups to get that overview of all of the Assets in the community all of the needs in each individual community and be able to look at it in the aggregate to figure out which PL which pieces fit together best to serve our community and once we have that to bring that to you to bring that to you and show you what it is that we can do and how the district and the board can you know allocate their assets to make sure and their Staffing to make sure all of those things work as best they can I think is what we hope to do to bring to you uh in the spring great thank you thank you very much all of you good job so that concludes our presentations for this evening and we will we'll now move on to item 10 which is public comments Open Session items now the opportunities for public comments occur at the beginning of each agenda item and at this time for items not on the agenda persons wishing to address the Board of Trustees should have completed a speaker request form which was available on the information table at the back of the room and they should have submitted it to the executive assistant prior to the meeting each speaker is limited normally to a maximum of 5 minutes and each topic or item is limited to a total of 20 minutes the board members cannot immediately respond to the public comments as stated on your speaker request form but now we will take the public comments for those of you that submitted the speaker form but please be mindful of the timer in front of you because we uh you know have um five speakers speaking on Sycamore we're asking you to limit your speeches to 4 minutes and we have 14 speakers wishing to speak about the mascot so the maximum is 20 minutes and so we are asking you to to keep your speech each one of you to a minute and a half and we have a timer with our uh legal counsel here in front he does the timing please keep an eye on the timer and try to you know keep moving moving so everyone has the opportunity we want everyone to have that opportunity to speak that's why we kind of ask you to limit your speeches or your comments now I'm going to ask also that each of you please uh as on your form state your name and your city of residence when you come up to the podium so our first Speaker for the evening from my stack of forms there's a number of you that want to speak tonight and we want to hear you all um will be Jessica [Applause] Guerrero good evening president piy Board of Trustees superintendent massuda um cabinet and District staff and families U both online and the audience my name is Jessica girl and I'm here on behalf of supervisor Doug chaffy to let the district know of our up coming Future Leaders program this program is available for high school juniors and seniors who reside in the fourth supervisorial district which includes the cities of Anaheim Rea Buena Park Fullerton La Habra and placenta the purpose of this program is to help students attend weekly Saturday sessions where they are going to be exposed to experiences that nurture their leadership potential and prepare them for future in college Andor the workforce some of the topics are very excited to cover through our program or more information about our County departments financial literacy college readiness professional development advocacy and Leadership training and mental health students will also have the opportunity to meet local elected officials from both uh federal government state government and local uh local level our goal is to have the students leave with the better understanding of the resources available to them and a firsthand experience about how County government works um the program was is going to run from January 15th through February 26th and applications are available and are due December 10th via email or on our website at www.4.com and on a more personal notes I also am a graduate of the district from an high school and SG high school and I also participated in a similar program like this in state government so I highly recommend to all our students uh to apply and if you have any questions please contact us at 71 4834 3440 thank you and available for any question thank you very much another Anaheim graduate all right Jessica do you have a happen to have a business card with you I do yes I could pass it out okay thank you okay our next speaker will be Samuel gsman hello everybody uh thank you for having me my name is Samuel gasman I am a parent a concerned parent of uh two athletes who attend Cypress uh high school and uh I'm up here to talk about some of the protocols you guys have for covid-19 when the kids contract and coming within contact my children aren't vaccinated and I think that's a personal right and until the mandates come into effect they will remain unvaccinated so um my son sits within a proximity of a child who was fully vaccinated who um contracted covid and he was called into out of class with a bunch handful of kids and they were separated unvaccinated and vaccinated so my son being the only one who was unvaccinated all the other kids were to told go ahead and back to class my son was told you might be sent home and you're going to have to take two covid tests before you're allowed to come back so my question is with all the new data and science coming out catching you you're still able to catch covid contract it go to the hospital and die from it while you're fully vaccinated and how come those kids weren't get the same speech my son was about having to possibly go home and uh have to get tested before coming back it's like they're giv a high five because they were given a shot when my son wasn't another uh issue I wanted to bring up is uh like I said they're student athletes and they the ruling before you know they all had to get tested in order to compete heat which I I was like okay I agree with that but now because the kids are vaccinated once again it's like they're giv a pass you guys don't have to be vaccinated in order to compete in your sport but the unvaccinated kids do like I said the new science is out new data whatever you guys want to call it and they can still catch it spread it get sick go to the hospital and you know I would like to know who my kids are wrestling because that's the sport they do and um yeah there's kids are going to catch it with the vaccine my kids can possibly catch it even though they don't have it but they're going to be pointed at and looked at as in oh well it's because you're unvaccinated well how do we know that when the kids that they are wrestling that are vaccinated weren't tested it's not fair to me it's not fair to them it's not fair to a lot of kids that are in that situation that play other sports so I guess my question is is like is this something that you guys think about and is it something that there can there be changes because I know you guys are following you know the rules that are given to you by Orange County Health Administration and uh CIF and all that but I don't know it's just it just doesn't seem right to me that they're being singled out you guys talk about anti-bullying and uh Suicide Prevention and all that well these kids are bullying each other oh you're not vaccinated you're going to die you're going to catch this you're going to die you should probably get vaccinated it's like you're creating a divide between them vaccinated unvaccinated and it isn't right and um all these programs and things you guys are talking about that's great and all but there is an issue and bullying is still going around suicide side is still happening maybe not in your District but in other districts the same situation well that's all I got to say thank you thank you well I just have a clarifying question to our uh to jiren can you clarify our protocols real quick so that I know it's a it's live streamed too I want to make sure that we have the protocols um in place and I I doubt that we're singling out people so I want to make sure that Manuel that is correct Mr Jabar um the current we're following all the current protocols set by both the orig County healthcare agency and the California Department of Public Health and so uh it is correct students do have to get um tested on a regular basis currently uh with the new guidance and so that is part of the protocols that we have in order for students to participate in uh in athletics all right so I just want to make sure that we're not singling out people and I don't think that's a district protocol or if I don't think that we do that anyway so no we don't and and keep in mind when they do contact tracing uh there's certain questions that they're required to ask and if a student is vaccinated and is not showing symptoms they may have a different process than a student who is not vaccinated and Sh so that's where it may differentiate a little bit but they don't get singled out they do things um you know they try to do things in privacy where kids are not being put against other peers thank you for clarifying that hopefully we can reach out to the parent too thank you okay uh my next speaker or our next speak excuse me our next speaker is Linda yeah whoops okay Linda [Applause] Martinez thank you for allowing me to speak I know that my form was turned in late and I appreciate that you're taking this time to hear me my name is Linda Martinez formerly known as Linda lovatos and um I come before you first of all thank you all of you for serving our community thank you to the parents that are here present you guys make it happen if it if it wasn't for you guys this community would not be what it is today because of your involvement and because of that I want to speak to you on behalf of our children here in Anaheim uh I am a parent I I have six children and three of them have already gone through Anaheim Union the elementary system and now I have currently a student that's going to Sycamore I want to thank Mr Romero he has been incredibly awesome at Sycamore just like the experience that I had with Manuel remember those days with Kelly and um I want to thank him for listening to me but I reached out to El thank you L for listening as well um there's some safety issues that our children are experiencing where that bus stop has been for many many years the one on uid and laama there is syringes there is condoms there's all sorts of paraphernalia left behind there and our kids have to board our buses there at 7 in the morning they're there one of my well my daughter was one of those students and so I bring it before you I know that Al was going to take care of it but because I need you to be aware of what's going on this is how important it is to me as it is important for me that all of the other children that ride that bus which is like about 30 students that they are safe okay um that area needs to be clean I want to have somebody I know that it takes a lot it takes a village for us to raise these kids okay and what I would like to ask is if we can have somebody ride on that that bus with the bus driver he can't control everybody and what happens in that bus and there's situations that have happened in that bus that are not very you know good for exposure we don't know what other kids are being exposed to at at their homes I know what my child is exposed to because she lives with me but um I ask that we take um very serious the safety of our students you know and that we keep them safe going to school coming back home um if we can have somebody monitor that ride with that bus uh driver that would be great and if we can have someone you know uh I'm not saying on a daily basis but just clear out that deeran parking lot the kids don't need to be seen something like that imagine if they pick up a syringe because they're kids they're Junior High kids they'll pick it up and say oh I'm going to do something to you and they're probably just kidding but just remember it's all about safety we cannot have somebody who's going to be doing something like that and then the other thing that I want to talk to about is after school programs right now we have a lot of great things happening in the district we have a lot of great programs happening in the district that are after school based but they're full and that's one of the things that we need to address we need to reach out um I've been sharing information with um Mr Romero about the Boys and Girls Club it's just about knocking on doors seeing who's going to partner with us um and I have achieves there's a big need at Sycamore I've been trying to get my daughter in the program there's no room there's no staff available so it's reaching out and talking I've talked to board members at um you know um uh Anaheim Cheves and I'm talking to you now why because it's very important that we open up those doors for our children especially when we have a lot of parents going back to work after covid-19 hit and they're trying to make efforts to bring food to the table so with that being said I want to thank you for your time I want to thank you for your service to our community and believe me I'm a homegrown anaheimer went to Sycamore Junior High went to Anaheim high school went to Lincoln Elementary this community is dear to me and the safety of our children is very very important to me thank you so much Madam president I have a clarifying question for Miss Martinez so Miss Martinez um you aware that the Boys and Girls Club is not associated with our high school it's it's it's a it's a kind of a private yes it is okay um and are you aware that Anaheim Chiefs is we work with them but we're we don't run that right I'm very aw how both programs work and what I'm saying is I've talked to the people that manage both programs you know um you know me on Marie I I when something is concerning to me especially if it comes down to safety of our kids I will knock on doors myself personally so I know and I know that if we partner with them I know that they're a private entity but there's ways or around to make sure that we bring more resources to our children and all that I say that I'm asking is that we bring something that we bring an extra staff if we have the money for it so that our kids are safe and Sycamore Junior High is condensed with a lots of needs just like Anaheim High School is and it's been like that for years the East Side Anaheim and Sycamore they really need that support my last clarifying question is have you gone to the city um it's a city-owned property at the deer Den um market and I understand our part that we can play but I'm I'm asking you have you gone to the city and asked them about that's my next step so I'm knocking on your door letting you know that I am very concerned about that my next step is going to the city and hopefully the city will do something and if not we will go to Lou and talk to our congressmen we will knock on doors because it's very important to me thank [Music] you I want to ask you is it the southeast corner of laama at uid that you're talking about where that debris is it's the one right at the corner where the um free is is it Freeway Insurance Hub is that right at the corner there a a furniture store that's been empty the old furniture store I can tell you I have called the city about that I many times drive by there I haven't seen the debris that you're talking about but the people I have reported and so I I'm very very upset to hear this well you know and that's a thing when you know I was never aware because I never drove my kid to the bus stop I've always driven my kids to school but now you know I mean I am working so my kid I told her the option is for you go to go on the bus she's fearful of going on the bus because of the things that happen in the bus and because of the things that she sees around the bus we have a lot of homelessness homelessness we have a lot of issues in Anaheim you know that has to be addressed to different places like the city you know our Congress person you know our school board but I think the most important thing is that we keep our kids safe I wouldn't be here I could be at home you know I had to cook my meal before coming before here to you so that I could let you know how important it is to thank you thank you Linda thank you thank you for your time all right moving on and I just wanted to say on behalf of the board uh I did bring the issue up to Nancy and Nancy is working with transportation to come up with a solution for that uh at the same time uh we I I'm reaching out to the city as well to take care of the Clint on his part so thank you we need to talk to the city okay um our next speaker will be one of the Sycamore four so you have okay Rosa Bond [Applause] okay oh five so you have four minutes okay hi everyone uh my name is uh rosaa my ma name so it's to me uh my husband just prefers I use Rosa Bond um but um I just wanted to say how excited I am about the community school structure uh you know I have been advocating here before on you know equitably Equitable racial just relationship centered schools for for students and I think that the community school structure offers that so I'm very looking forward to seeing what comes next you know in in really engaging you know as parents this amazing PE speech I can't believe um I have to top that but um I'm just excited I am a parent although they're still in elementary school you know I'm looking forward to seeing you know my um the amazing moms that have empowered me to you know start that process cuz it is going to be a transition and I want to be prepared for that moment but just really looking forward to what comes next and really engaging parents in this process as equal partners because we have something to contribute you know like mentioned in in the speeches before we have different talents other than being a mom because being a mom is already uh one big uh task of multitasking and we have the passion for it we want to give to the students you know I am also uh went to palom Lane Elementary School Ball Junior High Lera high school and you know I am with the community and I hear all these uh struggles that we have to deal with and I just really want to have conversations and how to make these uh structures really uh really Centered for students you know really when I went to school it's nothing like it is now so I'm very excited for all these students to have these great opportunities and expose them to what really what real life is so I'm really excited and hopefully we can use this um this platform the community school platform to really use those resources and really focus on a structure that's not that's going to be really strong so at the end you know when the funding diminishes or when we have to get additional support it's already grounded on what we focus in in with the with the students so and we can still continue to receive funding but we need to prove why that funding is important so I'm just really excited and you know keeping an eye out for uh you know what we all have to offer at our local schools being Community Schools and having parents really engage in this process cuz we still need to inform what a community school is and how amazing and what the structure looks like so that everybody can be um looking forward to it and and really contribute so I want to thank you all thank you now I hope I say this name right is it Rosal Sala Pescador was I anywhere near close hi good good evening my name is Ros Cella Pescador also known as Ros in the community um I want to thank you guys for um listening to us this evening um I know the presentation for our parent engagement and our Sycamore um stuff going on was very very beautiful I really loved it but I wished um I can take this to someone and say I want to be part of all this make me part of this I want to be part of whatever is in here I don't think it's fair that um that you don't give new in incoming parents a chance to be involved I suggest we rotate we um don't work with the same parents all the time give new incoming parents the chance to show what we have and um yeah thank you uh we can do many great things if we all work together if we take the time to listen to the parents' concerns um just because all this is going on I also would like to read out a letter that I did um send out to our school principal which I do thank for him reaching out to me and um responding the the email um I do think that the school um needs to give us more reassurance that our kids are safe in school because most of the time kids are in school they're more time in school than they are at home uh whether it's just the school or the after school programs the the sports um but before I read my my letter I do want to thank um um OKO for always um having us uh be part of the workshops they do on community Community School um and their Anaheim intersections um space um we are very aware of the Community Schools what they are thanks to the workshops they have been giving us um now on to my email that I wrote this this morning um so this morning a sycamore this morning a sycamore uh junior high parent reached out to me regarding an email that was sent on on Friday Friday uh afternoon regarding the incident on November 10th I did reach out to other parents to discuss a concerns and it appears we all share the same concerns the security of our students is our top priority and we are all aware of various incidents occurring at sore Junior High on a daily basis from school fights on and off campus to recent um incident this past week um even though there was a no threat to uh the safety of the school and staff it is very concerning and we the parents want to make sure that the safety of the students staff and everyone on C on campus is a priority with this we would like to remind um our principal of the email that we that we emailed him on October 6 2021 stating our concerns ideas and how we could help implement the ideas and create a solution to which we did um to which he did respond but we have yet to see any significant changes it is uh believed that our school along with the parents can come together collectively and make great things happen for the well-being of our students and the community uh we would like to suggest a coffee chat with um any police officer as soon as possible so we can hear from them on what we can do to reach out to our students and Community um in conclusion we would like to thank uh all you guys and our principal for reading or taking the time to hear me out again I feel like um having parents along will make a difference and giving new parents a chance will make more of a difference thank you thank you okay our next speaker will be Marissa bermudes good evening trustees um superintendent and cabinet and everyone that's here and online um my name is Marita bermudes I am an Anaheim resident I am a parent of Sycamore Junior High and first I want to start off by giving thanks because this is the month of giving thanks even though we should give thanks all every time but um we have been doing great work in our district and our schools um those presentations that they gave are super great lots of information um but like R said um there's so much information in here that um I'm wondering wow where are those opportunities because I'm a parent at that school and some of this stuff is new to me I don't I've never heard it or I haven't seen it implemented right so um I know there's a lot of great work that's being done and I'm very thankful because I'm part of that um steering committee for the community schools which I was super excited to be part of but I don't think I would have been part of it if I hadn't been present at one of the board meetings where I actually heard about that um steering committee and with that said I find that a lot of stuff being here at this um at these board meetings not exactly through my school or through the district so with that I would like more information going straight out to the schools and in a timely manner because for example we got a midweek um email saying that we have a coffee chat tomorrow Friday at 9:00 and I'm like oh my gosh I'm super booked but you know it's very important that I attend that coffee check CU that's like the space where we can come collectively with other parents and have a conversation with our principal other things on here that I would have liked to see in the presentation for um the par um parent engagement is more information on how many parents are actually being engaged at each schools um how many parents are actually participating in the workshops um taking advantage of the workshops or the information that's being given is it of interest to them is it not are we um lacking on certain information um they mentioned here um parent learning walks we have yet to have one at Sycamore um they talk about the parent leadership academy that's nonexistent right now at um Sycamore um they did have the Ready set go um but um I really wish they would engage parents in that they have the faces giving it and I think that sometimes when um parents um like Al had mentioned right to have um parents um before I I go on thank you Al for for mentioning and always bringing up the parent component in that I really really do appreciate it because I always feel like that's where we're we're lacking we're doing we're working towards it but it's like always lacking and like Ros Sal says I'm willing to give up a spot for any new parent to come in but the opportunities like I said I found out I find out opportunities through board meetings that's how I get on committees because I like to learn but I'm willing to you know Mentor a new parent on how to be on committees what to expect you know how to get more involved I always said I've been willing to do be a mentor because I've been here for many years you know with my and I'm going to be here for many more years I have a four-year-old so I just want to see more information on um how are we engaging our parents and also the faces um Des job descriptionyou our principles and make sure they're sticking to it and they're making sure our faces are doing their job that they're letting them do their job that they have the space to help us and to um you know connect us what what we have to be doing and not having been doing other clerical duties that maybe correspond to another um job um what else I think my time's running out right that's pretty much it I just really really excited about the Community Schools model I am I just can't wait for the needs assessment for us to move forward but I know everything takes time and I'm just very glad that I'm a partner in all this and that you know we keep on engaging our parents and um we're I'm very sad for the incident that happened yesterday at um orange view it really really hurt me but um but we need to do more work in engaging our parents and having them pick up those signs um so they can see with their children thank you m president I have a clarifying question what I have a clarifying question for U Miss Bermudez hello hi missen did you say that you just found out about a coffee chat at which school I know you're oh that's where fre at sore okay yeah midweek um midweek announcements because I don't believe there was Sunday announcements sent out which I found it rare because usually they do send it but usually a lot of the stuff is not sent out in a timely manner okay and then um I just wanted to clarify I know that we still have covid protocols so um I know a lot of that is uh permit you know it's it's keeping parents off of the sites for now so um but are we doing things virtually yeah yeah we've had virtual activities and we also just you know second semester we're kicking back off the parent learning walks and parent leadership academies that we revised it with the cpsf framework as as as a part of it the principles were trained last principal meeting so that's coming back but um we've also were giving space to the sites to transition because as you all know it's been difficult for the kids in transitioning back so having some of that space has helped the students and the staff acclimate back to iners learning okay thank you thank you okay uh Maria villan wer vill and Vera okay hi good evening everybody um first of all I'm so excited this is my first time here by the way but I'm very excited to be here I'm the mother of a 12-year-old he's in seventh grade at Sycamore and I'm first of all very excited for all of the support um especially all of the um professional development for teachers um specifically for uh um IEPs and just wanted to thank uh Mr javar Miss bermudes as well um and then also just wanted to mention the importance um of how how important it is to take in mind of our children with IEPs that they be in uh regular classes to get the U adequate attention uh based on their needs so that they are their academic achievement can be um so that they can uh have academic achievement and then um success for when they meet their goals and their objectives and basically in in one single word their dreams and I'm not only a representative of uh my child of one child but of all of the mothers out there as you can see all of these empty chairs so uh I'm a I'm a voice for them and and being able to talk with uh the mothers such as Miss bermudes and others um and it is by speaking with Miss Marita bermudes that I was lucky enough that she was a able to listen and understand me as a mom and she was able to uh communicate to Mr aljabar and sadly it wasn't until then that they finally understood my the worries for my child and once we were able to have that communicated and Miss uh Mr javar they finally understood those needs [Music] um and that's why I'm so happy to hear that there's going to be more professional development for teachers that when um we as parents communicate with them they understand that importance that when we call them uh such as if am to call about a problem with my son that I need maybe an appointment to discuss something with them that they immediately answer because that is a parents concern right and we're always trying to address those needs for our [Music] children thank you very much and thank you in advance thank you Mr Al Jabar thank you Miss bermudes thank you for always being there supporting us yes okay our next speaker for Sycamore is Wana Reyes I'm wondering if it would be good to have the next person come I'm going to ask them to do that I already decided that because they only have a minute and a half good afternoon um everybody good afternoon board and everybody here my name is Han re um I am a parent leader in the community and I uh have a third child in h Syer School and first of all I just want to congratulate all of you for your hard work I know it's not easy I have had the opportunity to participate with Mr Mr matsura and um just want to uh let you know that you're doing amazing work but also last year I just want to mention uh how worried we've been uh for certain situations that have occurred in our community and speaking with other parents we don't just have this uh concern but the idea to a [Music] solution and the first of which as parents and communities seeing children walking on the street uh where there are people that don't have a home uh and some years ago I had the opportunity to walk with um uh some community members in Sycamore and and um we were able to uh as parents um with other parents observe what was happening on the streets of East and State College um and seeing how we were able to support um and we asked what we could do to work United with the school the city everyone to find a solution for what's happening outside um and as I already mentioned um and or as has already been mentioned uh it takes a village right to educate a child and when we see that children are walking amongst the trash that they're walking um in front of people with you know different situations with different um chemicals or not chemicals but um body system situation you know what I'm referring to when they have things in their body system when they're suffering from homelessness and they're sleeping on the ground and they're having certain behaviors that are not appropriate for children to observe I [Applause] Grand that's [Applause] time and and I just want to um say that I value the education in Sycamore it's an excellent education it's wonderful work that's being done um but when students and teachers who are doing wonderfully in that school step outside it's a completely different reality I love Anaheim I love my community but when I'm trying to uh handle this I call the police they say call the school and vice versa and then I think I should go and my husband says don't you're going to get into trouble and I say I'm not going to to try and provoke things but I'm trying to put the peace amongst everybody thank you so much for listening me thank you so much God bless you thank you now we have 16 people wishing to speak about the mascot issue so I'm going to ask um I mean we're going to give you about a minute and a half each so that you have an opportunity to speak but I would like to ask the first five people that I call your names to come forward and sit on the front row and then we don't have so long in between what can I ask um the students to be recognized first because they probably have to leave uh for tomorrow so if you get identify the students come stud come on up front and [Applause] then very important whoever comes up because I don't have you in order just give me your name so then I can write it down and I can pull your card then afterwards I know you had the opportunity to speak my name is Alicia Sasa I am a student from Anaheim High School can you sweetie you have to speak into the microphone I can't hear you you need to yeah speak directly especially with the mask on I'm I'm from I'm Alicia Sasa I'm from Anaheim High School um I want to start off by saying good evening everyone and I hope we're all doing well um my pronouns are she her and I'm currently a senior from anahim I hope everyone is um I'm sorry I am speaking to you today on behalf of the 59% of students which is the majority vote to have some type of change in the colonist mascot using the actual data as evidence my argument is Ed to have a change in the AHS mascot I take pride to be in the school demonstrated by my involvement in programs and participation in all school spirit events I am proud to be in dance production at AHS president of the club Leaders of Tomorrow which are these students here today um ambassador of crown and I have accomplished um the an internship over the summer and a part of the ethnic studies test Force for ahsd in the past um I have been heavily involved a lot more throughout the years because I truly care for not only the school but the district as well in all school spirit weeks my blue and gold is unmatched and the sport games I'm always cheering however go Anaheim colonist is never in my vocabulary as students we were given three choices to vote to either keep reand can I interrupt real quick can you please not applaud because we want to make sure that we hear the students so that we can hear what they're saying so if you could refrain from applauding I really appreciate it thank you and also it's difficult I know but when we have as many people as wanting to speak if you want to give everybody the opportunity please get to get to your argument and then you've got a minute and a half and keep an eye on the screen so that you know that you kind of give the others the opportunity yes I'll try to be as respectful for everyone's time um just just so you know the the time has expired but the board may wish to give you 20 okay yeah absolutely and then the next person will um this flaw led to the belief that the 41% of students that voted to keep the mascot was the majority vote when you actually think about it the entire other 59% of students that voted all wanted some type of change including the 34% that chose to Rebrand and the 25% that chose to replace it anyone that voted to replace it completely obviously did not want to keep the mascot anyway you are not dishonoring the 41% of students that chose to to keep the mascot if you make the final decision to Rebrand or change it because you can see it yourself that 59% of the students was the majority vote that wanted to change the mascot in some way additionally I would like to share why I voted the way I did and what I thought in this process I voted to replace the mascot completely because I did not feel prideful of the name colonist and did not choose to Rebrand it because I felt like you couldn't really Rebrand the imagery of that word I believe the packet used to teach students was very watered down in the history of the colonist and did not go into an in-depth explanation of why we are having this vote in the first place I believe that once a colonist never again wrap it up you know you're taking away from the other students you cannot do your you know your written speech because you don't have your full five minutes she not she needs to stop and have the next person right you're taking the time away from the other students young lady I I believe it was really important for what I'm saying but I'll I'll let my peers as well speak you talk about being future you talk about being Progressive you don't give her a chance to wait wait we I'm sorry but I specified we have normally it's 20 minutes you have 16 people that want to speak um hello good uh good good afternoon um Boards of Tres thank you for your time um I as well want to bring to my reflection on the mascot project in its entirety I want to state that 59% of students at Anaheim voted for a change um I believe that our votes were in fact um misinterpret red um Miss inter uh many of our many of my peers like we are here today voted for a rebranding or voted for change I myself voted for a Rebrand because I believed in compromise and settling settling but I believe that having three choices which were which was keep Rebrand and change was at at a disadvantage for all for the students at Anaheim because it it watered down our our votes and had there only had been only two votes two choices for vote the call for change would have been unquestioned and I'd like to say that you some some people may ask why we care so much and why this is an issue and I'd like to say that if you allow this issue to go off the table and if you allow it to go unseen it creates ignorance and can breed microaggressions in our society and it takes us one step back in in efforts of achieving social awareness of these and I'd like to say I hope you take um into consideration my reflection and um of my peers as well when proceeding in this um in this process thank you what was your name young lady I didn't get it Janet Rodriguez thank you um hello my name is Alan perala I'm a senior at Anaheim high school and I'm speaking on behalf of Leslie V who is one of my peers and I'm going to go straight to the point the word colonist also has negative connotations and it leads many to think about colonizers Mass genocide and the negative effects that it has had and still has had on those who are affected by colonization although we know the history and meaning behind why the colonist was chosen for Anaheim High School when people hear the word colonist what is their first initial thought when I hear the word colonist I don't think about the German immigrants who created Vin culture Colony instead I think about colonizers and those who are affected by violent colonization I I remember the brutal history event that I was taught in history and in my Cho Chana ethics study course when I hear the word colonist I don't think about the school spirit that I see during Spirit weeks football games vapa events or the school pride that students have it is also not the first thought that most individuals will have if they know absolutely nothing about anaheim's history their mind will lead them to think about the brutal events that they have learned about there are some connections that cannot be severed changing the mascot will not destroy the memories that the L I have created or their legacies it will not destroy the anim school spirit that many students hold the students will continue to show their support for their school no matter what it has it's been 100 years since the mascot was chosen and the school and its students and what we want has changed the col mascot does not resonate with its students or the German immigrants that sett in Anaheim 59% of students want change thank you for your time um good evening my name is Jennifer Santino and Anaheim High School senior in our survey conducted on November 9th 2021 many opted for a compromise and in this instance the compromise is to Brand how can we possibly Rebrand a colonist their branding and keeping of a mascot will only ignore the history of sexual violence and white supremacy that the colonist actively partook in as a woman of color in anahem high school I've never felt connected to the name of the colonist being represented by a white man in a predominantly Hispanic school and Community will not accurately represent the student body of Anaheim high school and will continue to idolize someone who caused harm to conclude I believe they removing the mascot and the name colonist would be the best for our school and would be a positive would be a positive response after countless years of historical oppression I would like to remind you all about the outcome of our survey 41% keep 34% Rebrand and 25 replace if we were to combine replace and Rebrand the amount of people leaning towards change the majority rule would be 59 while keep is 41% choosing to represent the name the colonist is ignorant and enables the system that the colonists were able to drive once a colonist no longer colonist thank you good evening my name is Vanessa Le and I'm a senior at Anaheim High School I was part of the 59% of the students that voted for some kind of change and thought that some kind of change was necessary at our school before I was educated on why the image of the colonist was seen so negtive negatively I'm sorry I never really thought about the matter but after learning as to why there was such a negative association with the with the mascot and after learning of the negative images that come to mind I this um topic became important to me this is why that is one change became necessary for me if I was still ignorant about this topic the packet we used during our weeklong seminar would have failed to properly educate me the packet was very one-sided and gave um no kind of information as to why some students wanted to change the mascot this is this may be the case to so why so many students were this might be the case as to why so many underclassmen weren't properly educated on all sides of the argument not to mention that students had voted voted before hearing um students talk about their positions and this could have led them to change their mind Unfortunately they had already vote um voted and it would have been too late for them to do anything about it um I also have to say that um Mexican culture is a really big thing at our school and in our community considering that it is Anaheim High School the city of Anaheim and I don't think it's right that we have a white man holding a gun represent the majority of our um people at our school which is Mexican thank you um I'm sorry I'm kind of disappointed it's the first time for many of my students that have been actively in any you know taking action on any topic they have been very patient waiting here they have homework they have places to be they chose to be here I would have hoped that they would have been treated a little bit nicer and with more patience with [Applause] dignity you want to call the next speaker all right um I'm sorry Maryanne El Mero hello my name is Maryanne my native name is jet my tribe was forcibly removed from the great lakes and forced down to Oklahoma my grandmother was stripped from her family and forced into a boarding school where her hair was cut her culture was ripped away she was forced to forget her language learn English and assimilate she was given the Name Margaret Bersa there's no record of what her name was prior to this I share this with you today because native and Indigenous people are in are diverse however the there are many aspects that tie us together one including the attempted eraser of our culture and the Eraser of our history I'm speaking today to voice my disappointment in the district's contribution to the Eraser and in which the the way that the vote took place and the way that the changing of the mascot took place I understand that your intention was to educate the student body but the way you went about it was totally wrong to begin Anaheim Anaheim history lesson with the exchange of land between the Spanish and German colonists and not speak of the original inhabitants of this land the Tonga people and their forced removal the violent way in which the land was acquired is a failure to your students especially to your indigenous students a failure to your Township and a failure at a small step toward operations toward the Tonga people and the bipo people in the Community due to the undeniable white supremacy running rampant in our City's history the results of the vote were the cause of misinformation the colonist is not a symbol of peace the colonist is a symbol of genocide toward indigenous people and to ignore that is to ignore the responsibility that you all have to enrich our students with the truth of our history this is a chance to do better please don't throw this opportunity away change the mascot period Meg witch thank you um okay Jonathan Daniel good evening board my name is Jonathan Daniel you can call me Johnny I'm an Anaheim alumni Alum I graduated the um 2014 um I think um matsuda was there as well when he gave out the um the graduation diploma anyways um the decision is very simple you could choose to be on the right side of history or the wrong side of History just like the D segregation um of the very famous photograph of the um black the first black um girl to attend a deated school you can actually identify most of those people in those pictures so you have a choice you have a choice to bring shame to your family you have a choice to decide what is the best decision and I think the best decision is to remove the Anaheim colonist because the colonist word the atmology does not mean oh just settle this land just farm this land no it means violence colonization is not just onetime thing colonization is a process it continues to this day it it started with the Spanish coming 1492 and it continues with like you mentioned the Germans the French the British even the Russians in Hawaii and Alaska it doesn't matter who colonizes what matters is the word colonist is offensive it's not sensitive to any of the people and if you have any native blood in you you should be against this colonist thank you for your time okay U Maria Reyes was she want [Music] oh and then Victor valades and then mazat L know you know I want to say this I'm sorry we had to reduce your amount of time because you came here to speak but unfortunately it's getting later and later and I want to invite any of you that want right the board email us at the Board of Trustees we'll read your email we we've gotten many emails already so I I realize it's kind of disappointing to have a minute and a half when you normally would have five so please if you don't feel you get your words out that you want email us as well into the mic please yes thank you thank you so much um sorry I don't speak English but we're going to be interpreting so I just wanted to say um I'm sorry I got very excited um to to get up here to start to talk and um I got so excited about seeing the students and I thought oh maybe I won't get a chance to to talk but um just want to say thank you [Music] um so yes I thank you so much thank you for uh listening thank you I I've got very excited to listen to the parents listening to you I feel like this um is a very uh strong community and sometimes as parents I know that we fail but you know as um United Village we can make changes and I feel like it's so important that parents uh unite and they look for each other and that's a good thing and I got so excited to hear that you were saying yes let's search for these parents I have been a volunteer like I said for 10 plus years at Laura Madison [Music] Madison [Music] and I no longer have I no longer have uh children I have grand children I have children that already completed University and all of that is thanks to the parents to the teachers to the Educators it's a great support and we don't want to say that oh there's only a handful of parents there are parents there parents out there they're fighting they're asking for change and I'm so grateful to see all of them and I'm grateful to have this time and I think our time is up but I just want to say thank you and I'm going to continue you're going to see me here continuing because I have grandchildren and I want to keep here oh I want to read a letter from Virginia criminal she's Native American from Anaheim I'll make it short this is to the school board we s you guys should have a copy hopefully you guys should have a copy but good to see you guys let's move Anaheim towards a more exclusive and dignified future by removing the mascot and the name colonist many schools and national sports teams have come to a rational understanding the negative impact of mascots that are offensive and harmful they have chosen in a spirit of respect understanding and for the better benefit of communities to remove their dis distasteful mascot names such as such actions in our country demonstrate that removing long time negative of Oppression racism inquality are a step towards healing healing guys we need healing uh preserved and historical injustices towards minorities especially Native Americans and Indigenous peoples which is the Mexicans and chos we are also Native Americans This is historical disconnect between the colonist a predicted at Anheim High School mascot as much later German colonist in anim colonist arrived in America's East Coast in the early 1600s were never in California quote colonist predates establishment of the United States and democracy quote colonist worldwide took indigenous lands as their own under violent demonizing um methods raids and warfare child molestation and rape and genocide which is the reason the word should not represent the high school students in 1877 the Germans that planned project to move to Anaheim were in fact investors it was local Native Americans and Indigenous agricultural work that made possible that water supplies the land preparation of Vineyards of the so that the Germans could Prosper three years later when all was ready the Germans arrived to make their homes and unseeded land during the same era Local Natives barely survive in coration having 90% lost populations on horrifying attempts to completely exterminate indigenous peop and the land for Native Americans the term colonist is a reminder of a rule in distrust treatment of our ancestors in 1963 Dr Martin Luther King Jr said the following quote our nation was born on genocide when embraced and doctrin the original American the Indian quote unquote Indian when not from was an inferior race then before there were large numbers of negroes on their Shores the scar racial hatred and the dispite colonial society from the 16th century towards blood flood and battles of racial Supremacy we are perhaps the only nation which tired of matter of national policies for wies and indigenous population moreover we elevated the tragic experience into a noble Crusade indeed even today we've not permitted ourselves to reject the federal remorse of shameful episodes our literature and films and drama and Flor cor and all let us be the for thinking the responsible to all let us create much needed sensitivity for all cultures and be the change for our community all cultures black white brown doesn't matter let us end and a on heartful mascots remove the disection of the colonist respectful Virginia Carmelo and Virginia Carmelo couldn't be here because of um uh Co you know Virginia Caro is a gab L Tanga descendant and Elder is a longtime resident of Anaheim she is a native to this land and was her ancestors before her Virginia family has lived in Anaheim for three generations before her her father graduate from Anaheim High School Virginia is the former council member of the former tribal chairperson of the gabri LEL Tanga nation of Anaheim and Great Lake Los Angeles Basin he uh her six children attended School in Anaheim High School District and do her grandchildren today she is a culture educator and consultant thank you so much and we mean no harm and please we will be here till the end remember if it wasn't for the Native American talkers Native American cold talkers we would not be here it would have been very horrible but thank you to the Native Americans and we honor all of you for your work and please it's time for healing there's people that committed suicide recently that went to Anaheim high school thank you and we have the next speaker Victor Valadez valadas Victor not here Alan Peralta that's W I don't think victoris is here Victor baderas okay Alan Peralta Jennifer Santa hero Vanessa leel Aros span Victor panoa I mean we get a little bit more time maybe just like 20 20 seconds more as took up all the time back went through five people can hear you all right first I want to say thank you for everyone here and all your presence this is uh how we make things happen right also want to thank uh the students that were here and their beautiful words um well I don't have a whole lot of time so I guess I'll get to it um I I grew up checking the ethnicity race box kind of being confused to be honest you know I didn't know how to how to answer those questions I used to check off Latino Hispanic um you know all of those words chano right and uh as I grew up I didn't realize that none of those were actually the words that would describe who I am or who I where I come from um to kind of elaborate more on that my uh my dad was in mean Mexico and uh uh this is the homeland of our people we're our tribe Peta and um my grandma grew up with a lot of racism you know she was in that time in that time period where she couldn't uh speak her language or any of that and um because of that she chose not to teach my dad had our native language so because of that I'm a bilingual instead of a trilingual um the word colonist I'm going to try to keep it short um the word colonization or the colon the colonist isn't just a one time or one person story it's the story of all of those who were colonized before us that's time the Philippines the Africans you understand what I'm saying thank you thank you for your time thank you uh Jano figuroa guys hear me okay okay yali Nan uh noes good night everybody uh good evening my name is janaro I am a resident of Santa Ana however I do work here in in Anaheim and uh I belong to a uh dance group we do dance uh Aztec dancing and as you know the tongva used to be uh they're related to us cuz we both lived on both sides of the border so um they're basically our neighbors our neighboring tribe so I mean as I feel that I should um you know represent my brothers and help them support them in any way that I can um I mean let's keep it short we all know what colonization means and the word colonist um we've grown as a society to this point where we've all opened up our eyes and we're able to we're able to speak our minds now without uh having any backlash or uh back blow to anything or our ethnic groups or our our uh religious preference nowadays we're more open so uh I'm I'm glad the younger Community came and I'm just here to support that not only only um do we need to represent them but also the people here that are undocumented that are related to us we do have ancestors here that chose to come here later and uh I know my time's coming to an end but I am um in favor of changing the name of the colonist to something maybe more indigenous or something more open to uh uh a little more open to all of us and us that we're more open nowadays I think we can come up with the solution thank you very much thank you and once again I know it was a short amount of time we've had a lot of public speakers this evening so please if you didn't feel you had a chance to say everything you want write it down send us an email you know to the trustees Board of Trustees for Anaheim Union High School District okay thank you all and one we'll move on the girl right there she raising her hand you said her she was INR she speak she was in oh was what was your okay what is her name I don't know yet ask her name she'll say it I'll give it to she say it when she gets up there hi guys U Can You Hear Me hi your name please uh my name is Ariana um well we all heard Ariana what is your last name Rees okay thank you yes um I also want to keep it short I did step out to go to the bathroom and I met with uh some of the students that came to talk and they were crying so um I just want to say if that was the goal um for the night I know they were very upset um for um the outcome of what they were trying to reach um I just feel a little disappointed that I saw them that way I hope you guys take this reflect on it hopefully something comes uh a solution comes to this um yeah have a good night yes I appreciate your comments but you didn't fill out a form okay and I I I'm sorry um and I tried to explain I know it was hard on the students but we were trying to get everybody the opportunity to speak of and it says on the on the form we have a limited time per subject so I I feel badly and that's why I'm telling you please write us all right but right now the the time limit is way past the normal so I know it's hard when we've got a lot of people so I understand they were upset and oh I just mean more for them you know so thank you thank you okay we'll move on to the next uh item of business we still have quite a few thank you all for coming I'm sorry you didn't have more time to speak we we heard you okay thank you okay item 11 items of business 11.1 resolution number 2021/22 db-9 committed fund balance roll call do I have a motion second I have a motion in a second any questions or comments seeing none uh and uh I Mr O Brian Mr O'Neal I Mr Jabar I Mrs Smith I and I vote I item 11.2 resolution number 2021/22 D e-09 day of the special educator move second I have a motion in a second roll call vote Mrs any questions or comments and Mrs Randall tro I Mr O'Neal hi Mr javar hi Mrs Smith hi and I vote I 11.3 selection of firms for architectural and Engineering Services request for proposals number 11.4 educational educational Consulting agreement Vicki sren I move second I have a motion in a second any questions or comments seeing none all in favor I I opposed motion passes 11.5 this is the 11.5.1 through 11.5.6 school sponsored student organizations move move all of them second second all right all right we have a motion in a second and I'll me any questions or comments and so I just wanted to comment when I was looking through all of these applications I was so proud and and uh thrilled to see a lot of our 5c's built into a lot of these clubs a lot of them involved building School Community uh and um joining sharing these are some of the words uh I'm we're talking about um relieving mental stress um inclusivity um expressing ideas um just you know it was just a a a a reminder um just how um we are engaging our students and just a reminder of how important even a club can be in enhancing um our school community and I just want to commend our students for all of these I was really thrilled to see some of these um groups our clubs are coming conations after a couple of years of you know and they kind of faded away now they're back and that's good to see okay any other comments questions all everyone gets to vote now okay all in favor I I I oppose seeing none motion passes six to nothing okay I'd like to say now that you had your opportunity to vote if you'd like to leave I think think the rest of the board would be okay if you want you're sure okay CU it's getting quarter to 10 here trusty piery trusty piery if the board would like I I would recommend taking 11.6 through 11.10 together okay so moved second okay 116 to 1110 I have a motion in a second this is all the M us thank you um okay I have a motion in a second and this is all an any questions or comments seeing none all in favor I I opposed seeing uh oh wait a minute to 10 yes okay right all right then we go to 1111 this is amended I we already voted motion passed 1111 amended 2021-22 student teacher calendar motion so moved second any questions or comments I have one I'm going to vote no because I I really believe and I've sent a letter out to everyone on the board that I believe that we have to be on in tune with the climate change that is happening here the whole world is getting on board just about and part of that climate change here in Southern California we have a distinct climate that is changing and it's getting hotter and we have changed our school year from what originally was to starting in August and August and September are two of the hottest months and when we received our know we we look at what we spend on energy and how much energy we use in this two months I think it would behoove us to look at using some cooler months for our going back to the original uh school year where we started after Labor Day and went through June because we we would go through June because we've given a whole week at at Thanksgiving now and I know it's not going to change this year because this you know it's a little late to change it but I do want to that we look into this because we're Southern California and the reason that we went to this school change I don't think is officially valid anymore and so I think we need to think about our society and our world and get on board with climate change and the things that need to be done to help with climate climate change so just as a you know just a kind of a because I I've got something against it I'm going to say no but you know it's not going to change this year I've already told Grant I was going to vote no so so anyway that's my Spiel anybody else got anything to say I got something to say so when you say climate change I'm there but I just want to give it opportunity for Brad Jackson to clarify something with the timeline yes uh so thank you Miss piery so so this item is actually for the existing calendar for this school year right this is simply indicating that we switched the professional development day uh from January 28th of 2022 to November 12th and that was just to make sure that um we didn't have a a large number of absences with the that's right Veterans Day weekend so you could vote Yes I yeah in that case I Can Vote Yes I I'm sorry I blew that one but I no I forgot it was just the amended I thought we were okaying the calendar for next year it's already been approved it's already been approved it's already been approved okay I missed my chance I think you sent the letter good intentions we'll probably have to have a discussion well it takes time I didn't expect miracles to happen immediately miss your chance so so we've we're working on that in negotiations and then when we when we we'll be bringing that forward at a later board meeting we have an opportunity good okay okay I would like to add something I want to thank you for what your intended comment for the T change of time I think it's wonderful and I I just want to thank you for that no but I will go for that amended calendar because I thought that was a good idea blue that one I make mistakes okay in that case everybody all in favor I oppose okay motion passes okay consent calendar what are we going to pull pull 12.7 GG 12.8 1211 please and move for the balance if there are no others second okay all in favor I I I opposed okay 12.7 GG and 12.8 12.7 okay second okay any comments questions all in favor I opposed abstained I okay 1211 so move second okay I just wanted to clarify really quickly um in the interest of time I I understand I just wanted to clarify the duties of the um the teachers involved in this for that for the typen for the Orange County human relations so the Orange County human relations uh they do the program but then you're giving stiens to to um uh the teachers teacher advisors and and so what are their duties that I was curious as to what are they doing to get that stien right so for for for for this money really this is for the the RJ folks that we're giving to the sites to support restora of Justice now for the bridges program we do have teachers that serve as links and advisers to the club so um and as part of that they have um different events they partake in I walk in my shoes is an example they also meet with the students on a regular basis and part of the work that they do through Bridges is a they get a stien for that work because it's above and beyond um it's it's uh yeah it's something that that we've had for a number of years now and it's it's most of our schools I can't remember I don't think all of them but most of our schools have the bridges program okay thank you this is really to extend the restorative justice specialist because as you know with the increased mental health needs at our sites uh some sites have requested a tosa uh to support some sites have requested some additional clerical staff or office staff and then some sites have requested the resort of Justice person so we try to accommodate based on the need of the school okay so that's what this was for thank you thank you for the clarification I appreciate it I think this is a outstanding program okay did we vote on it yet vote no vote no well we can vote all right all in favor I opposed okay it's four Z 4 to zero okay okay moving on to number 13 superintendent and staff report no report no report real quickly uh first of all I want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving uh secondly I know they just left but I do want to acknowledge our interpreters who are here this evening there we we borrowed them from Anaheim elementary school district they did an outstanding job as you saw they were having to keep up with some pretty fast speakers I was actually pretty impressed because I know they were matching me with their speed um but I want to acknowledge Mary mreal that's a bad task right that's a strength I want to acknowledge Mary madreal Elina Ro and I hope I said that correctly and Jasmine annia so they were great and I know Dr Bryant will convey our appreciation to them and to anim Elementary again for allowing us to use them tonight so thank you thank you for that I know Mary magical I didn't even see her back there they were great they were very good no comments nothing nothing Nancy uh no one for for tonight Carl you got your speaker working now okay Board of trustees report starting with an mared MRS TR in the interest of time I'm going to reserve my report until next month but I just want to acknowledge the students that came out today and I uh want to share um I I feel that they left um disappointed and upset and I would like to apologize um on my behalf um we we we we tout that we're a district of you know we want we want our students to have a voice and I felt that they didn't have a voice tonight as much as they would have liked um it's intimidating to get up and talk in front of us um and I felt that we could have um done a better job of um hosting them and so I apologize and I hope that that never happens again and I invite as uh trusty piery said to please write us and let us know your U feelings on this subject matter thank you uh do you know who the teacher was that was with them yes I give me her name please cuz I want to email her and talk to her we'll get it to you will you get it to me okay no cuz I I felt bad about that but I was trying to you know to keep it within the time because we it's we had a lot of you know speakers and and I agree I just felt badly but trying to get them to you know not read the speeches they had already prepared is was kind of tough okay in the future you might just they don't need to address the board and address the audience and do that because that's going off their their time clock right your name and get on with the program and and the idea was I was hoping they would realize that they were reduced in time they couldn't read what they had prepared because that doesn't and hindsight will correct that but you know I know the board's always shown grace to the students and we didn't really know they were students till the last second but they had rehearsed you know this the first time they had come up to speak so it was difficult we'll straighten it out yeah well and that's why I want to I want to get in touch with the teacher I I just want to say I mean I agree with anur on that and I I did go out there and apologize to them because all of them were in tears uh unfortunately uh this is their first time taking the opportunity to speak uh and Advocate on behalf of an issue uh and I I think they felt like they were slighted uh were as the board was rude to them uh I did apologize to him on behalf of the board and myself uh I think it's we always talk about giving the opportunity for students to speak and I get it I think we have to be more patient with the students regardless of how much time we have I think when students take the opportunity to come up and speak especially when we are a democracy School District I think we have to be patient with them even if they go over their time limit it is our job as Leaders who are encouraging students to give the opportunity for them to speak uh I I I I feel bad that I did not interrupt uh that particular interaction to give them more time uh but I was also cognizant of the fact that you had a tough job in your hands uh Madam president to kind of make sure that we keep everything on track uh but I think we have to be very very cognizant of the fact that students take the opportunity to come staying here till 9:00 9:30 to give their Public's comment uh we have to be cognizant of it and I think the rest of the public will be uh cognizant of the fact too even if you would have given more time to them to speak and limited time of the public I think they would have understood because students are the priority for this District I don't disagree and I and I wish I had thought that sooner okay because that is what I would agree to I mean I feel also but you yeah well um and yeah and I think maybe in the future okay uh if it's a student speaker maybe there should be a spot for that right right well and they don't always hit it though in other words are they I don't think there's a spot well yeah it ask are you a student of the Anaheim you know right here so but I mean if and a lot of them kind of just don't always fill out the whole thing but I would like you know to know ahead of time and then you know because I agree with you they you know that's this is intimidating okay and I was trying to you know because we had so many speakers we had several different speakers and several different groups so and presentations that took quite a while so I was trying to move things through so I know I feel badly and I feel badly that they were upset so I uh you know it's a it's a lesson for all of us all of us yeah so and we'll we'll make some changes when we have students coming forward to speak to and and let the audience know especially if it's a large number of people say okay we're going to give the students a little bit more time than you you know thank you madam president lunch and speak to them oh I'm going to I'm already going to take care of that yeah we'll get the name to okay so you I a going to pass due to the time well keeping that with that I'll pass to but I'll just say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and I just wanted to uh give and hope and we already mentioned it but give our prayers and thoughts to Jackie Brock's family so that way uh you especially the son and then also remind everybody that uh Robert salivar's daughter's uh uh memorials on Monday and the viewing starts at 10:00 so thank you is that a school day yes no no no Monday oh that's right it's a next week is spring break break it's a work day for me so so it is not a work it's not a the school yeah I mean well District sta come in if they choose but it's not it's a non student day and our teachers are off it's at 10:00 November 22nd at 10:00 yeah that's when the Vie I think I think it's at 11:00 is is the rosary 2:00 1130 is the mass mass 2:00 I think it's already given to the board members Molina will get it to me thank you very much Mrs Smith um I just want to thank Mr uh Matt suda our superintendent for a wonderful AI event it was wonderful I learned a lot and I deeply appreciated it my husband really enjoyed sitting next to Neil I think his name was and um this has been a very um TR traumatic time in our lives with everything that we're all dealing with on so many different levels and I think for our youth tonight um they have had a loss with their principles daughter I'm sure they have feel that very internally and um we all have losses uh that we're dealing with and I just want to say how much I appreciate the people in this school district they are extremely caring wonderful human beings and over the years I've had this work here I have felt so blessed because of wonderful wonderful people that have come into my life and I'm just grateful the AI was just extraordinary and I wish all of you a lovely holiday it's not going to be extremely lovely for many people but um it's life today and I wish you all well okay thank you um I I'm going to keep this short I will push off when on my report too but I do have a question um about the the issue I was was running on about about on the calendar you know the uh my idea of the calendar change and you said something about talking about this about the calendar change uh yes uh so so that's something that we're currently in bargaining um on and it we be bringing that forward as a recommend because I was going to I you know I I all gave you a letter and I mean I have I have some questions that I would like to to ask about you know the AP classes and the number of students that we have enrolled in them and how many are passing I would like to get some of that information and um you know it's interesting because I've talked to students who took AP classes and then you know took the test passed it but then it didn't do them any good when they signed up for the colleges that they went to and I was talking with the teacher last week at at the band festival and he said that you know some some of these colleges won't even accept them unless they're a you know they got a five on the test and then all they give them credit for is electives so it's like I'd like to know how many of our students are taking AP classes and how many of them are really utilizing it in other words I mean it costs us a lot a lot of these students take the test but they don't get a five they get a four or a three you know so I kind of like to see some statistics on that now this isn't an something I'm going to ask the the staff to do so do I need to make it an agenda item or can I just give you the the stuff I'd like to know okay because I think that that reflects to me on the reasoning of our calendar and I think we need to change okay times have changed and we're doing a lot different things now so perhaps the time for making all these ex uh exceptions for our AP students is passed and uh let's think about the majority of students rather than the select few that actually take the test and use it so okay that's my last thing then I won't ask for an agenda item okay does anyone else want to ask for an agenda item okay no okay future meeting dates our next annual organization meeting of the board is set to be next month on Tuesday December 14th so that will be our next meeting it'll be after the csba conference and our next Golden Bell award I mean to be how about that so um do I have a motion to adjourn second I have a motion in a second all in favor I I okay the meeting is adjourned at 10:03