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and 52 cents and on measure h our current tax rate is twenty dollars and sixty six cents so you can see both cases were well below that that thirty dollar maximum okay and at the the rate of twenty four per hundred thousand which is the the midpoint on page eight what does that generate in the way of a bond yeah great um okay so again just for context what was tested was 30 and 498 million and so um just caveating this with uh with the idea we'd like to do sort of a deeper dive but i can give you some some estimates right now yes so at 24 we'd be at about 390 million okay if we're at twenty dollars which is i think uh as tim described it that was kind of the comfort zone um that would be 319 million maybe we could do 320 million okay oops can i ask a question in relationship to that um those z and h were both advertised basically at approximately up to 30 dollars correct correct all right so this would be in other words if we were to let's say look at 20 we would say up to 20.
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right so this is just growth this is not overall score okay does that mean we're it looks like maybe we're kind of low or scoring kind of low is there like an average or where should we be uh basically what we're looking at here is growth not proficient okay or so in theory by the end of the year they'll be it in the 90s i'm not understanding i guess how the the ranking that those score those numbers on the bottom relate to the overall picture so when a student takes the test at the beginning of the year yeah they're given a score one through 91. okay okay if they know uh if a kindergartner comes in and they know you know seven sounds at the beginning their score is seven points okay if they've grown in this case it would be about five points that would say the average average that student would have grown to uh 12 say so really what we're measuring is the rate of growth here okay i think i understand one last thing grades three to five we're looking at star reading text level um the numbers at the bottom of this one indicate um the amount of growth as well however for this measure every student at each grade level has the same growth goal from baseline to try to they're expected to grow 0.6 points so that's roughly two-thirds of a year and we can see that overall and this one's clear with what you were getting at mr tennis we can see that on average all students grew 0.9 years so that's almost a full year of growth students with disabilities grew 0.7 points which is still above our expected growth number for baseline to try two measures um i think you said this a second ago but it didn't process what where does that point six come from who determines the the growth that that is the star reading test so the state determines that or is it star star state i'm sorry renaissance place is the event is the company that we contract with and star reading is the test within their assessments that we use to test text levels so they're the ones that tell their purchasers like us their consumers that that 0.6 is the is the basically your target and anything above that's even better correct yeah okay cool thanks all right now that this one is focused on secondary kids and we wanted to make sure that we were coming out of um it some of you remember last the fall of the 2021 school year where we had a significant increase in in the numbers of d's and f's we've seen that decline in students with disabilities by a greater percentage than all students so that's a good sign it's still higher than any of us would like to see but it's good that we're moving in the right direction uh the bottom chart is displaying percentages of graduates or i'm sorry of our graduating cohort so this includes non-graduates as well that completed the a to g course of study so that's meeting uc and csu entrance requirements and we see students with disabilities grew fairly significantly while are all students took a little bit of a dip okay with graduation we also see students with disabilities increasing at a higher percentage than our all students student group and in suspension while it is higher than we would like students with disabilities have declined at a greater rate than our all student student group so from the previous comparison here uh mr harris can you go back one slide please so graduation students with disabilities declined at a greater rate so they're graduating fewer graduation rates students with disabilities the percentage grew at a greater rate than all students thank you so we're looking now at um students taking any um college and career college sorry career and technical education course um and what we see is a significant increase in students with disabilities that are able to take um cte classes at the high schools this is largely um attributed to chico high's block schedule yeah i'm sorry yeah yeah their block schedule that they implemented this year and so we hope to see even a higher growth with pv implementing the block schedule next year so in a sense what i don't know it does that means that it's not quite comparing apples to apples then right so um it would be interesting to know i'm sure there was probably still a growth but you know if you took that factor out um because i was before you even said that i was wondering if that was because there was greater availability of those courses um which kind of levels it out a little bit you know instead of saying look how much it grew it's like it's because there was a better availability for them to actually take those classes which is which is still a positive but just not just not saying the same thing it's a huge positive and having a broad course of study for all student groups not just students with disabilities is a big part of the reason why we are moving forward with block scheduling at both of our comprehensive high schools so i do think it is something to celebrate making that move will give kids a lot more flexibility in their courses of study so i see that this is the numbers of students taking the cte courses have the numbers for uh completers of cte pathways gone up similarly we won't see the outcome of the block schedule as far as like completers for a couple more years just because it'll take time to have those kids give those kids time to take those classes and move through them but even before we look at the block schedule are we seeing a similar is the trend for for uh completers similar to the trend presented here which goes back to 2017.
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this is the first fee increase in six years 100 percent of all tuition fees aren't collected are used to pay preschool staff do i have a motion to approve well i guess a motion to hear this um this recommendation absolutely all right any discussion on this item after school tuition i'll just say for myself having paid preschool fees i really hate that we have to do that um but having kept it steady for six years i think is uh is pretty good so i'm i'm sorry that we have to raise that but it is just our part of our daily lives these go up um we have a role yes yes stephanie yes steve yes carol yes hi classes number three is a recommendation to accept a donation of five hundred dollars from isi at aida alpha chapter for the brown county high school drama department for the purchase of a new spotlight for the stage uh is there a recommendation to do this item and uh any comments or discussion on the site no thank you but this is one of those things high school drama speech and theory music are the areas that they uh really support so we should really appreciate those spots um let's have a look amy yes yes stephanie yes stevie yes carol yes all right number eight are consent agenda items for personnel we will be starting with separations brown county high school cheer coach stacy price and separation effective immediately through our appointments and the last one of those is brown county school's health deaths technician jackson county part-time without benefits fourteen dollars an hour effective april eight twenty twenty-two a replacement for samantha locker i think we can go away yeah i think we can [Music] so those may be modifications two very important transfers uh so don't want to forget those uh van buren elementary school principal gavin steele will be transferring to brown county middle school as principal uh with a salary of 103 750 per year effective july 1st 2022 as a replacement for brian garman and our second transfer is as this crc director greg bernard will be transferring to van duren elementary school principal effective july 1st 2022 as a replacement for athens any um do you have a recommendation i'll second that all right any discussion well i would just say that i am really excited about these things i know that van buren is crying right now but we are really excited to be able to move everyone around and to really be excellent administrators who are able to step into these roles as things grow and change as they do all the time so we're really excited to have both mr steele and mr pinard in some new roles so very excited about those changes yes c yes carol yes all right uh motion passes um so final issue here is superintendent's report and i believe um emily tracy is not here this evening and i'm not aware that she has sent us the superintendent's report tonight okay very good i want to make sure we didn't miss it so um we don't have anything there is there anything else uh report has to bring to our attention [Music] all right let's go to adjourn let's do that as a consensus all those in paper say hi all right hi all right we are thank you all very much thank you
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that's the number comes from sling those projected elements that within an eight year window multiply that and we come out with 85 363 square feet that's the number we'll compare that's the building area or comparing to the 9144 that i mentioned good so far so what the state connect does it says okay and this says we think the right building is you want to build 9144. you want to overbuild and this is not big any space standards right it's a base value and this i can't i don't know when this was created i don't know if these factors took into account some of the newer programs that are required in just about every district specialization math intervention reading intervention um what they use they're going to hide what they think they should build you should build on what you want to build and that's your space standard ratio that's that magic number that 93.3 percent that jeff was referring to the closer we can right sides to what they want more reimbursement you're in again and when we were doing going back to when we were working with the whole smc we didn't have educational specifications yet we didn't have perspectives in front of you so we made assumptions based upon our experience i think how high we were using 10 or 15 above space center because at that time if you come in at 90 percent we're going to put you on the list so we use 10 i think we might use 50 actually on the high side of those estimates we incorporate this excess square footage between you know typically just experience so coming to how they calculate it it is i'm going to zoom in let me zoom in a little bit more on the percentage your new rate for is the biggest twenty two eight um if we hold the referendum right that's gotta be popular so then tweet a little bit so right now they're saying 35.72 is the 22 rate we take that point one percent multiplied by thirty five point seven two comes out right now is thirty three point three three so you re it's reducing your reimbursement and that that's the number it's kind of your new rate now that can fluctuate when we finish the design space that can tweak back if it's 96 at 33.33 we'll get there we'll get back to 34 35 72 maybe but you know what we can say but you're in this 93 i think for the state so what happens is the way the state's told us to calculate that you're going to take your total price cost so right now we're about seventy one plus seven vertebrae they take the ineligible costs right off the top anything it's a normal project but it's new renovation extensions it always says anything inside your property line utilities extend to the water line it's sending the gas line we talked i think we talked about the last one tim we put a million dollars into extend to get the gas that made full you know um but wait until we do the design that we know we don't know what the value is but we'll be assuming but typically we see our new ones anywhere in in the five to seven percent range in rate or our exercise we're assuming five percent i think original i think we're 3.65 for that project that's pretty clean project pretty low and eligibles um very few outside the product line um they had some they bought chromebooks laptops those are ineligible in the binos and the f they take that all the time it's kind of like going to college and it's okay yeah you know financial aid is going to okay what can you put in they're going to take that off the top and they're going to calculate off of that so the eligible ineligible buses the 60 estimated 68 million dollars that's what they apply that reimbursement rate to they don't apply it to and then take off they take off the ineligible left then apply to the eligible costs so the 68 million is what we're calculating so you own the 3.6 million individuals you own that and then when we apply 33 to that 68 the state of connect is saying we're estimated to be 22.7 million what we're going to pay essentially you're paying rest that's what we call estimated district chair because it's just the next bit but they do the final audit that that can vary that kind of thing district share is the um non-reimbursed amount plus you know it will cost yeah so yeah it's your share of the up which is be in this case 67.66 yep good question though it was just that right yeah sure if that sells the a formula here you yeah see it's it's basically the the your individual cost and we multiply the percentage by that so so these two numbers here 71.7 million dollars charles um is importantly what you're using for resolution cost percentage yeah so that's that is going to be the fun question right so um up until probably the last four or five and this was a question i think matt bowman brought up a couple of times and very breaks up um concerns with material costs long need items constructions um just recently um we saw big uptick in escalation costs our professional assets we were using 300 for quite a few years maybe 84 but yeah fairly reasonable now they're telling us 30's and 80 in our residence these um these numbers right now we actually there's three tabs here we calculated one using six percent one for seven for that one for eight percent uh frankly we're moving one conversation obviously town council and uh just see what the collectively we think is reasonable to care for its voters 49 million is what escalation costs including that that one there's six percent the one [Music] so six percent is seventy one point seven seven percent the total project cost that i know it's almost seventy three point six right checking this one and i just worked on this step i it is eighty percent the product cost goes in seventy five five million seeds and there's other factors that are percentage on top of it so just yesterday and um sean and can talk about interest rates and [Music] sense should be so you over conserve because okay if you don't exercise they're more focused on that natural interest rate but interest rate with uh the fed start to act soon that's completely wrong with it uh jeff i don't want any i'm not asking any details let's just say it goes up 10 a year for the next three years do you have an idea in mind of what you do to change if the council has no money you have to cut spending is that something that you could go through and think about it i'm not asking for any details i'm gonna plan out you know visceral reaction on it the uh last several years prior to this current year have been pretty financially mean when you look at the you know if you've been through the budget process the chair slide with you you know many years with average is basically one percent increase on our bike lines this year um we were zero or lower on almost our budget lines when we we approved the budget and what's the top they're currently reviewing that it would be a three percent budget increase because we've had to add a number of teachers to sustain the student teacher ratio that we've had over our history um if there were substantial cuts to our budget um at a time when if this is improved we have to add trailers anyway we're gonna have to add treasures at the bottom okay just leave your moment increase let me rephrase it i was not clear to november yep 18 months from now you find out the inflation's about 10 or 15 percent and the council says we get doing more than you know we'll just say that happens sure then it seems to me the awesome small footprint so i'm not asking for another school but what i'm talking about is you're saying the contractors are coming back and saying we need 10 to the raw materials do construction 24 months from now you don't have to answer that out there because the question yesterday didn't come back yeah it's two percent yeah that's a valid point it's really quite complicated the question becomes you can't do anything more ever so through but it's not just one in the middle of constructing what happens um contractually they own those numbers however the reality is it's like we're dealing with right now we're going with roof materials right now we're doing some roofing jobs and contractors were setting bids and then getting to the scope and they're going well our we don't know what the relationship is going to do they're only holding for like a day and we know it's going up two percent a couple months we don't get them great and just go well what do we do i said well i think we need to play open what i suggest it is they need to open their books and say what they carry at the top bed i said if you want to get this job we got to have to work together i know what you carry we will give us a certified invoice you know from the manufacturer that says here's the cost and whatever the delta is we'll give you 10 percent on top and you just pay for that you get your job done they they keep otherwise they're going to pull out in that case but in the middle of the job this is why especially right now we might recommend hiring um a construction manager who has her pulse on the industry um that's kind of you know they're doing a lot of jobs getting in beds through the design process uh this is something we have talked about through the design process there's three major points when we're in stop pause and we're gonna put the drones we're in have a professional submitter from architecture manager they're going to do two estimates we're going to put them side by side and compare them we're going to do all the meaning we're going to compare quantities and assumptions and all that stuff we're going to go where is the where's the probable cost for this we're going to compare to your budget and hopefully it's within your budget if it's not we're going to manage we've got your house the key thing is managing to the budget if it gets the point say before we go out the bid and that's like the first thing if we bought a bid it's that much the question is if you go out to bed you know do you can go a bit and see hey take your first spin and see what it does but it comes in over it can be tough management the device intense question is if yes worst case scenario you know conscious come back afterwards i said comparison things are higher than expected it's not budget you can't necessarily cut out space that point because the space and went through the calculation reimbursement so you you're not going to become paramount very special program we'll say for this one say north then okay hey you know the rapture is okay hey do we eat your your pre-k program at darcy for the time because we can't afford that might be an option i mean that's what they did there you have a building place you could read yourself but norton i don't know i don't know if you could do that to norfolk yeah we don't want this happening of course but these are some that we've run these problems before and that's how we handle kind of a similar situation there so um and we're highly built we're finally um getting back so just one thing chuck well you're having numbers right now you're using a higher square foot cost than you were traditionally previously using right just because of where the market is correct you're somewhere between six and eight percent on construction inflation which is also higher correct and you also have a contingency of how much what percent in the budget roughly seven now so yeah i mean there are there's quite a bit of escalation that's built in compared to previous years posture contingency um and then go to bed i mean literally we're two years from now myself continues right i would hope that things start to come back to more normalized levels and when you get to bid that's when you actually know where we stand yeah i mean are the numbers per square foot cost are based on as we received in south under november that's the latest numbers i've heard it's a new school new elementary school 100.3 000 square feet very comparable and the quality is going to be very comfortable for the build itself the sites are a little unique but for the software sorry about that we're using um 400 square foot we came in 395 in there i mean that's just three months ago so um use the max 360 you know for what we all know so any other you know i think these are all important questions and as a community we want to know the answer to these things um certainly for me if i'm not trying to particularly by these things necessary it's i have to know some of this stuff but you know for today what we're looking to move forward is does the educational specifications these buildings make sense from an educational perspective from the board of education perspective do these buildings and these specifications look like we can facilitate our programming within these test trucks tuesday again you know we'll be at the town council talking about some of the same thing but you know to say that the board is advancing this to a proof of what this would be because if we don't approve what this is that changes the numbers obviously we said no you know i think we need to cut this by ten thousand square feet probably not an arbitrary number then that is going to change but um i think we want to just try and maintain the focus on or that we'd increase this bike square feet you know just is this does this look like it would be a good educational facility for our business community um addressing the needs that we have you that's my question i'm gonna go back to what faith asked earlier is i i've old school discovery had a lot of these similar specs here right one of these things we are now in backgrounds what am i paying for i can i'm not going to sit here and read all this so i need samples of how this is going to look what's the vision you're going to have to have is that going to happen hopefully prior to the referendum because if i can't see what you're telling me in these pages it's a hard sell so you know i think the architect would need is this what you're looking to do because if this is what you're looking to do i can design that if this isn't what you're looking to do what are you looking to do so we can design that you know i mean um if we feel like this is educationally sound and we move that forward then you know time could look at it allocating the funding to be able to do something for design we did the middle school um six years ago uh we did some renderings and if you're looking for earrings that's one thing if we're looking for like a floor plan i think that's another layer of work those greater costs there but i know there's a lot of competition right now in the field you know in our texture so you know it would be a decent price point i don't know what that first point is but your truck could work with some folks to help us figure out what are you looking for what do you think would be advantageous and then we could find out what that cost is any of that reimbursement prior to referendum they are not reversible and that's where some researcher okay we'll spend some are like first why are we going to send that i don't want to throw a number because it really depends on what the expectation is okay do you want to say playing with it a floor plan in a conceptual kind of model you know that needs to be discussed and yeah well we could rfp that like whatever the group wants and put it out and see what the proposals are yeah med specs i'm playing with it the visuals and the important um right yeah and as you're going through it i i've sat in these classrooms we built it there's only what you have here but that's me having the experience for somebody who's watching right now they're not going to know exactly what's looking like yeah yeah the late person who has to take it from there enough in 2d let alone taking it 3d i'm sorry i mean we're professional educators that are in rooms all the time we had to go to south wind or really appreciate that price tag and we have really it's a very important first step and one shot together right it's it's kind of grabbing some kind of visual right the key casper the design work yeah um even if it's the running stop short essentially the look and feel would be that you have 50 firms in this area that will jump on this a heartbeat there's no shortage of hearts yesterday they're experiencing it'd he was saying about something ending up being substantially different from what was put out so maybe the internal i don't know about the architect the interior design versus architect pictures renderings inside the building that may be a lot easier than a rendering you know what would it look like we have pictures from various schools too that they're like hey this is a symbol of what a new kindergarten classroom look we have plenty of those and we have a series i think we have five brand new buildings in the last five years or elementary schools or actually two i'm sorry two they're when they like new but they look and [Music] you then three what's a charrette it's basically a umbrella it's basically an interior 3d rendering and i'll say the space and you need to be looking just yeah it's just for the interior rendering basically do they can run these things they look exactly what we're seeing and i mean they're they can do it perfectly or you make them so they're a little bit um imaginative or like whatever term [Music] it is just that hey this is an idea versus this is your final product portfolio projects yeah yeah you know i think we're gonna hit ourselves but um i think we're all i have two the two architects this uh they have those um with the interior design likely conveniently between the architecture the location on the lot all of it all because we did the test so you can hear disasters yeah so that'll change to the interiors will change depending on your interior designer you know there's a lot of great ones out there that they're so good you get five different percentages five different totally i i don't want to give one impression of something that ends up being way off base and if that when you have different images of different places within the build yeah i'm going to go off here just to be served like one room could be camouflaged after you look at it orange next room you look at it they're they're gonna have different looks then to know that you know these are potential renderings they are not the plan and i you know i've just had this conversation and numerous pto meetings around you know here's one potential of what the test fit on normal here's this is one of several possibilities of what north end contest looks like it's not don't get married to this idea but notice these key points separate boston vehicle notice the fields notice this you know so i think we have to be caught to your point and have the provide a couple different looks and i can appreciate that so what i'm thinking going through my head is that picture ends up above the fold and cover the hair sure and it doesn't have the option you told him it says jeff so with that quarterback yeah yep kind of curious how did you do it south winds are have any renders or best votes we checked the site but we didn't go any renderings um and but that's that community right every community is different with respect to sensitivity to what are we getting um you know for it it's not a one-size-fits-all that that worked well there um we always always can it's going to change even if it's probably going to change still even with the same architect um but idea could be you know we could we you know we weren't architects we could still say hey would you be willing to share and hey you can put your name on it right i do uh quiz eric or whoever techton put your stamp on it that's fine you're going to submit anyways we'll give you credit for but can you give us your professional photos of you know you know k k-6 schools pre-k for mtc they have beautiful photos and these are what they could look like your media centers your gyms and you're going to see a wide variety and in it these are some options that you're probably going to get do you you dial too far oh i don't like can you focus on that teal two all over there i don't like the t-lock well it's pain well maybe it's more showing like what we're gonna be replacing you know showing exhibit conditions this is where you're at this is what you're gonna get yeah well i know i actually haven't seen me square one over here and i know people who are asking the question your word are our kids going to be 71 million dollars greater so i think our what we have to say when we had a rendering whether we have pictures is to explain you know some of this is mandated by the state we keep guys we got to do this but but by having kiln by having what for many people in the community would seem like extras we have to persuade them that this is a keying with what we are trying to do with our with our students going forward and if we make that argument we could have we could have the taj mahal yeah um and we've been talking about it you know but but somebody says they're gonna say well why do you need dimming lights you know and i don't mean to belittle that that's a legitimate question they are cheaper but you know these are the the kind of my new arguments that we're gonna have to have answers for and i know we gotta go but just your point is something that we have definitely spent a lot of time working through there's not one path at all right there are a lot of different ways to help people understand why this is the right thing to do and it is a different reason for a lot of different people um sometimes it's the fact that we have uh you know we're not going to want to put trailers and pay for trailers on these properties because we will definitely far exceed in our capacity so for some critical that's the reason but one reason that isn't out there and i would never say that our achievement is going to improve as a result of this well we're top five in connecticut today you know all of a sudden our elementary kids are gonna be one you know um this isn't gonna fix that but they won't be going classes and trailers they will have handicap accessibility they will have um you know better security it will be more efficient in terms of heating and air conditioning you know all those things are there we do presentations on that on a regular basis i think it'd be good for all of you to see that and we can share that too definitely so are we at a point yeah i just go back to the comment of um paying sort of big money for architectural renderings and models um i really like the sound of this idea i feel like we could do it more in-house sort of some kind of presentation that shows things side-by-side that we can use over and over again too um but on the education specs at the end of the key points you know it may sound weird that you know they're saying you know our education is not going to however this ensures consistent integrity that cheshire public school has been known for so that's key to me and to me this gives us a foundation to keep that moving forward um so in here it mentions this is energy [Music] um environment systems equipment building systems timber page number and which is yeah um i'm not sure if i see cd jeff but um basically the concept here is one of the arguments that you have made for uh new building over renovation is that we're getting 50 a 50-year building instead of 20-year building for uh an incremental cost it's not a half times the cost and i forget what that cost is but you're getting a lot more life for relatively fewer dollars so my question is under environment uh build systems let's see in addition utilizing renewable energy sources including solar geo thermal as well as natural emissions will be considered in the building design in the context these are my words that i'm adding um in the context of a 50 year life cycle because what we're talking about solar is relatively simple there are no no fuel costs the idea and you know we've got asteroid standards we've got all sorts of information out there that can give you an idea it could give everybody the builder's idea of what production would be involved for the cost and so that's what i just want to have baked into our our product here that we're not just looking at we're looking looking at this in a logical way which is the life cycle cost here we don't need to make a motion i don't need to make a motion on this but i'm wondering if it's cause can this be incorporated at that point or what is the moment time to incorporate this i think right now is probably the best time to incorporate it if there are no objections to say within the context of a 50-year life cycle um makes sense that we are considering that and don't let me reframe it i want to say 50 years because i don't know that that's the right period but within a life cycle lifestyle analysis so analysis is a perfectly normal phrase to use yeah so that's why yeah but that's basically what i'm looking at let's say there are no objection objections to that you couldn't incorporate such language i'm going to say is we we should add this to the educational specs so i mean they're approved tonight and then the board can weigh in on it at the board of edmond 21st okay thank you awesome planning committee approves the education specifications for the new northern and new england and schools to be foreign uh here
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we are doing much better than 30 but i was curious as to what we were promoting when we went for the bond it was up to 30. yes yes exactly so in this case if we went with 20 we'd say be promoting up to 20 and our goal would be to come in you know just under that in in actuality so we also have uh other feeder districts that have bonds too so uh bb would you happen to know anaheim elementary just a ballpark yeah along the same lines would you say yes the most that they would be able to do is 30. okay okay yeah you know i might have and i think did that come up in the polling did anybody who knew uh did did anybody raise those questions they don't i mean we we we'll test negative arguments about taxes being too high so broadly but we're not going we didn't go in and say you know there's 20 bond here there's a 19 bond there okay yeah so i think what i can share with you right now so anaheim elementary did have a bond measure in 2016.
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uh sorry for me to pick on the spot yeah i i don't want to speak without the numbers though thank you there are no numbers on that but that's part of the um right now that's part of this presentation is that inclusion is allowing us to be able to do that and the block schedule is allowing us to have more opportunities for that inclusion my prediction is if we were to pull out numbers it might not match right now but having those eight periods and therefore having more opportunity with your schedule to access those classes will provide opportunities for more completers also the this also allows all of our students our mod severe students are now able to also go into a lot of those cte with modifications and accommodations and supports from their teachers and their staff and so overall it the completers that's i think probably a goal area that we need to work on and my prediction is that i would not see the same growth but like tim says until we see that actual data it's hard to give you a direct answer on that right and as a another thought on that we would expect ct cte completion rates to go up significantly over the next few years with the availability based on the block schedule so tim when you say completion rate you don't mean one course you mean the sequence finding completing the entire sequence of courses with a c minus or better right okay i just think we needed to clarify that so what we're looking at here is a least restrictive environment which is one of the the um uh focuses that this the state gives us um from an accountability standpoint regarding our students with disabilities and their inclusion in in regular ed classrooms and we can see we have met the state target in both and i'm going to do my best to explain the second one but i might need to call dana can explain the next one so the percentage of students in the classroom of 80 percent more of the day is higher than the state target okay so we're at 53 53.53 the percentage of students in a regular classroom less than 40 percent which we want kids in the regular um classroom more so by by missing that by being below the state target that's actually a positive okay any questions thank you so as you can imagine uh professional development and training are important in supporting the inclusion of our students with disabilities in our larger school community so these are some of the areas that we focus on in ongoing professional development for our staff um i won't read all of these aloud but you can see where we have a lot of important topics to cover for supporting inclusion and then on the next slide you'll see these are some of the opportunities that we have for this professional development and training anything from our district-wide staff development to site-specific trainings new teacher trainings at the beginning of the school year in a variety of number place and different places can i ask you a question about an article that the er ran yesterday about state-funded training for faculty to recognize mental health issues and they were saying that any teacher could get it and that state would pay for it so are we spending our own dollars instead of the state bonus money or is this more diverse and it's aims these trainings are more special education okay so specific to students with disabilities okay um as compared with the mental health trainings that are available for all staff okay thank you i have a follow-up question on that if if these trainings are specific for special ed staff at what point do regular ed teachers also get exposed to this kind of training because if our if our point is to have our students integrated at a greater rate and you're not helping the general ed teacher learn you know this the skills and the pitfalls of of how to support special ed students when did they get it so we do our general education teachers and general education staff are included in this professional development so our our focus is training people in how to support students with disabilities within our general school community so but however gen ed teachers and gen ed staff are included in these trainings um at multiple opportunities is it voluntary or is it well i guess all of them are voluntary yeah sometimes we have voluntary trainings but then sometimes there are site specific trainings that happen at a staff meeting where all of our general education teachers are present so it's it's though thank you yeah all right now we get to get into the fun that all the data is fun for a lot of us but this is going to celebrate we do like to look at data but this is going to celebrate our teachers who are working hard in the classroom our students who are supporting each other and um gives me chills i'm very excited about this so starting with preschool we have three inclusion grants that the preschool is currently working on we have one called embedded instruction another one called inclusion inclusive early education expansion expansion programs and then we have a grant that one of our teachers applied for on our own has um and the team is meeting it's the norcal educational leadership consortium and all of these are working towards what we can do for students and staff for that inclusion and there is coaching involved with the embedded instruction and this next one is i want to introduce marissa and jacy they have a program at chico high it's our vocad program and i'm going to have marissa share a little bit about that thank you i'm marissa alvester and i'm not a public speaker so you are now yeah forgive me if i refer to my notes while speaking um so i'm the vocational aide at chico high and i write curriculum and then i provide those lessons to students in classrooms and also in my room i work with small groups or i work one-on-one we talk about job readiness interview skills nonverbal communication networking skills resume building i also offer career assessments so that we can help students identify their skills and their interests and then i try to follow that with some job research and we do that one-on-one usually um let's see um well when i work with students one-on-one we are typically creating resumes and cover letters um and then with small groups we do mock interviews they either hate that or they love it that's kind of the hardest part and we do some vocational games as well i don't know if i have time to go into that so i might just keep going um i try to send all graduating seniors home with a portfolio i try to include a copy of their iep i give them most of their vocational lessons and worksheets that we've done together i try to copy those and keep files on all the kids i send them with vocational resources that they can refer back to um what else is in there oh yes i try to make sure that they all have a current resume and a cover letter that they're proud of um i include several copies actually so that they have a hard copy to keep um they don't always love to do these things with me um so i try to offer incentives um i have dutch rose cards and mod pizza coupons for them um each time i feel like they're really engaged and they're really making an effort or they show up and complete a resume that's a big deal let's see i try to make it a fun process i try to help them discover how many relevant skills they have to offer how many skills they have to share in the community we talk about how to advocate for themselves in the workplace um so far this year i've been able to help 23 students find jobs in the community yeah that's really good thank you i like those questions thank you so much i i have just a recipe yeah i i don't think you were the teacher at the time but i visited the program at chico high and you had an employer visit that day to talk about having yes okay you might be thinking of my predecessor yes sharon she so part of this job can also include inviting speakers to come onto campus and with covid and with this block schedule um we haven't been doing that this year and i'm really hoping to get back to that next year because that's something the kids really enjoyed i'm working on it i'd love to do that it was probably four years ago at least but the comments from the employer who had received one of your students as an employee said that it was wonderful the student showed up on time took instruction well had all of the skills that you know an employer wanted and was willing to to you know to learn new stuff and find the thing i was very impressed with with how prepared um someone coming out of that class was had a wonderful um trainer in sharon byrne she did a fantastic job yeah yeah i was impressed with the whole the whole presentation that's great i'm gonna pass it on anything else okay thank you thank you both marissa does a great job getting the kids ready for um the job opportunities that she um sets them up for our second program is from chico junior it's naomi perrin and holly gutierrez and they have a co-teach program over there that they've been co-teachers for six years unless they're sure about their program hi my name is melanie perrin i'm a sixth grade math teacher at chico junior this is my 19th year of teaching and my 10th year with chico unified my name is holly gutierrez i'm an educational specialist at chico junior i've been teaching for 11 years and this is my sixth year teaching for chico unified we are here to talk to you about our experiences with co-teaching we have co-taught for the past six years at chico junior and sixth grade math a um so our first year was a learning year we didn't even know that we were co-teaching on the first day of school um holly walked in and said hi i'm going to be with you and i was like all right so i really focused on the math curriculum and how we were going to deliver that and i was learning during this time who my students with ieps were which accommodations they needed holly focused on making sure that the kids with accommodations and ieps had everything that they needed as well as learning the math grade six math content standards over the years our roles have shifted and changed naturally if you were to walk into our classroom today you may see holly teaching the whole class and me walking around supporting students or you may also see one of us at the back on the back whiteboard and one of us on the front whiteboard working out the same problem with different methods that kids are coming up with throughout the classroom so um we're calling attention to all the students in the class and what they know and need in the in the class what was important is we both had to come with the mindset that we're going to learn different contents areas from each other we also had to trust each other this wasn't something that could be forced upon us it was something that took time and something we worked on this is a long-term commitment not only to ourselves to each other but to our students if we only did this for one year we would not see all the wonderful benefits we've seen the past six during the past six years we have attended many training sessions uh for co-teaching offered by chico unified they've helped us to create different opportunities for our students they also provided us with times to be observed ourselves and then reflect upon our teaching and how we can make it better together a few of the many benefits of co-teaching are we are able to run small group instruction with differentiation meaning that each student in sixth grade is getting exactly what they need at their level students are able to see both teachers as equals not a teacher with an aide we are able to see students through two sets of eyes which can see many different things the students also have two teachers that are able to go that they are able to go to for help so that is what we have thank you for listening to us about co-teaching do you guys have any questions since i have a kid that thinks math is uh horrible and i was a math freak i really appreciate that you're [Laughter] i saw a number of demonstrations on uh co-teaching and i i loved your description of how you got to get because i said either it works or it doesn't work and you get a divorce [Laughter] but one of the interesting statistics that came out of the reports that i said saw was that over the three years that they measured that the non-special ed students gained at a greater rate than than they would have been had they been with a different cohort and it was um it was interesting the explanation was that they become part of the teaching and learning process and by doing that learn more than they think they're going to learn so i i am very much in support of co-teaching and i appreciate you ladies not having gotten a divorce [Laughter] all right katelyn um i think it's really great to hear that it sounds like it's a true co-teaching program because i think a lot of people misunderstand what a co-taught classroom looks like which is two teachers that have equal presence that do co-planning and talk about how we're going to each tackle giving this lesson are you going to be the person who floats are you going to pull those three kids off who missed the last two days and kind of catch them up as i'm you know moving the rest of the class forward are we gonna split it into stations there's lots of different co-teaching strategies that it sounds like you're implementing which is great um i had just a couple questions so that we all can get a better idea a better picture of of your classroom as it has evolved to what it is now um how many periods um are you guys are you sorry are you two teaching this um this code top yeah so we co-teach uh three periods of math day okay okay um and then so um your other math classes what else do you teach oh i teach two other math a classes um without paulie okay gotcha and then holly what do you do when you're not in the co-teaching classroom i run an academic support class the period that i'm not with her the other two periods are preps gotcha okay cool um and then so as far as um the percentage of students with ieps in your class goes what's the what's the percentage of students with ieps in in each class or generally so the best part about that is i could answer that question as a general ed teacher which um i think is important and it's about so an average or in each class in each class awesome in each of our code classes yeah i like the smile my i know the answer [Laughter] yeah and so um how much time do you have to actually do your co-planning you know the stuff outside of the actual lesson presentation because i think what a lot of people who haven't been in education at the k-12 level in the classroom understand like it's not just those 50 minutes a day that you're with kids that there's so much that goes into that and that comes out of that you that you still have to process and follow up on so this year is the first year we actually don't share prep um and actually it was last year also but again it was a different model last year and just due to master schedule so melanie and i create our own time together um so when we're just talking about oh that first period that didn't go well so we have four minutes to change it up before second period comes in um because we're probably going to see the same thing maybe they missed that concept as a whole then let's change it up oh we need to add some extra notes so we do a lot of that in between that four to five minute passing period just to kind of prep for how can we make it better just the next period that we see a set of students um so we just we share a lot of documents together we you know edit a lot of things of what we're going to present each other it's i think that's the other part of liking who you're working with is you are always talking to that person and so anytime you're thinking of an idea you do have to fly it by the next person so like at night we'll be talking like through text like okay i was thinking of changing this so it's on our own time too that we're coming up with those things those strategies that are going to work better for the next day do you also still have students with ieps outside of your cot classes so there are some iep students who don't have math goals and if they don't have math goals then they could be in a non-co-top math class okay and then so those three math a classes are those are the only periods with students with ieps that have math goals in sixth grade and sixth in sixth grade yes sorry yeah um and is there anything like this happening at the seventh or eighth grade level or is it just six co-teaching itself is only at the sixth grade level and i wanna say because we've been trained and we know it truly is a true co-top model we have age support in our seventh grade and our eighth grade classes gotcha is there any other co-teaching happening um i think they're trying to branch out into english but it is finding the right person to co-teach with um you know the first year we didn't really have a choice we were just like all right we're doing this and it was the first year at the junior highs like all of us just started at the junior highs um and it just became something that we were both passionate about so i think that's the other thing is that when i look at a student i don't just see a master i see the whole student and so that makes it easy for me to see where holly's coming from when she's seeing a student and so it kind of blends our ideas together so i think you kind of really have to have a different mindset when you're seeing those kids yeah teaching together yeah i think what's really great about the co-taught classroom especially when we're talking about inclusion and eileen kind of brought up the topic of of training general teachers and really the best way to do that is to be in the classroom with a teacher who is certified and can you know uh be your teammate in developing those lessons and what you do and the accommodations you make in those lessons really do spill over and help all kids all that scaffolding and all of those different you know differentiated types of approaches to learning you know really help i think all kids and i think that that's that's pretty awesome um yeah i just i'm really excited that you have that going and can serve as a model hopefully for some expansion in that field thank you for sharing yeah thank you thank you thank you both and stay married [Music] so another one of our programs is from pv which is our access program we do have access programs formerly known as our ed program both at marigold marsh and pv and amanda and danny are here hi it's really nice to see everyone this is my first year here in chico so it's very inviting very warm and welcoming my name's amanda ramirez i am a part of the access program here at pv high school so i teach grades 9 through 12.
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that was 318 million um i don't have the tax rate handy i can definitely get that um and then they have a as charles said they have two bond measures the second one was in 2010 for 169 million centrally i had one two in 2016. i'm not mistaken and then the savannah i know we did one for savannah a while ago maybe 10 years ago yeah yep uh savannah was did one in 2008 and since centralia did do one in 2016.
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as you know the access program was our emotionally disturbed program ed program um so i'm very excited to be a part of this wonderful program as it continues to support an inclusive environment for our students so today i'm really eager to share some of the many supports that we do provide our students as well as our general education teachers and that process as it develops for through our inclusion process um so a big part of having our students with such significant needs to integrate or be included our students be included within the general education and a part of that process is communication and collaboration again with not only just our little department but with those teachers that we're working with um one way of communicating the needs of our students with our teachers is through our is through our action i brought a little example um we share our binders everything's highly confidential um so i communicate with my teachers um of course we've provided some strategies for support management behavioral management within those classes who to communicate how to communicate so just little cheat sheets such as this and flow charts because it can be very confusing on who to call and what to do so any kind of support for the student and the teacher we will we do training and i do training with those teachers as well um sorry a little anxious a little nervous um so going back to also included within these binders as well as the behavior support plans so all the students are the teachers are aware which also includes just their basic iep information which is the the bit or behavior intervention plan on how to work with our students as well as accommodations and any goals that we might be working and we work with the teacher to help support those goals as well continuous collaboration through email and in-person talks is also a large part of our access program another piece that i really want to highlight are repair educators they to me it's my my personal opinion that they're the backbone of our of our program because they go directly into the classes with their students um so our behavior at para educators are known as intensive behavior interventionalists um they go ahead and help students assist in identifying when the students are becoming emotionally elevated they assist students with self-regulation they also collect behavioral data to drive our iep goals and behavior intervention plans this is also what helps with the placement of our students we definitely look at the behaviors to determine the appropriate support as a team as a team along with our clinicians we strive to support our students in transitioning to independent adults having our access students have the opportunity to be included with typical peers has greatly benefited their ability to learn how to function and cope within typical academic environment this is just one step forward in shaping young adults with significant social emotional needs and living successful lives so i look forward to continuing to work with this program this is just an extremely positive program as we move forward and continue to grow i have kind of a dumb question are you roughly equivalent to marissa at chico hi an educational specialist so kind of the same apples to apples a child who was and the goals are different yeah the programs are the programs are very different yeah so this is you were talking about getting i thought you were talking about getting people into the workforce did i hear you saying yes so i also work as part of the transition planning um of course it's individualized for student student need so we work with the goals of the students so transition planning is a large part of of my student population um grades for ages 15 and above because i think their question is about so when a student turns 16 and they have an iep every case manager has to make sure that we're doing those transition activities and then each of the high schools we have also hired a marisa to help with implementing those transition goals so they're all responsible for it thank you dr kaiser i i have a question is it your experience that most students attend their ieps with their parents i'm not sure if i understand the question do they have their parents participating with the iep process uh i always sat in on the ips yes my student insisted on being there too or you know grandma wasn't going to give him a ride home um no she was just very interested in in hearing what the teachers had to say about how she was doing and um being part of framing the goals even though that was difficult for her to agree to goals because that's making you know a big commitment do most students participate in that process yes absolutely having student understanding so so for me as a teacher part of the transition process is including the student the iep is based on them and as we're working forward it's based on their goals of employment or you know life after a big part of that is at the age of 18 for my students they are going to be making these big decisions on their own so they do need to understand what they need as an individual so part of my process in supporting my students within transition is understanding the supports that are available to them understanding life after high school which would include them being a part of the meeting and also developing those goals it's um my experience that that looking forward to um [Music] even what the next day is going to bring is very difficult especially for kids with autism for some reason or another they don't connect to future do you [Music] do you recognize that as a universal issue with especially some of the high achieving autistic kids and autism is very specific it's a spectrum so some students are a little bit more able compared to others so it's really based on their individual abilities so it is an individualized piece but yes part of the autism spectrum there are sometimes those difficulties of looking into the future and understanding the greater you know the greater the bigger picture of what they're doing now and and accepting that um however again i i've worked with this is my 15th year of teaching um so i've worked with students who are very capable of making those decisions and other students who have struggled so it's a it's a spectrum thank you um so just so i'm understanding correctly you are specifically um in the access program which pre so access is a new concept for me um what brand new acronym um so when i was teaching at marsh it was the ed program um and uh there was uh i got to have that inclusion in my classroom with the apera and it was a really enriching experience i think for everybody um but i was curious about when this program whether it was 80 versus access like whatever it was has been called when did this start really trying to do the put the push into the general classes with these particular students my understanding would be that that is always the goal of for students on ieps is to mainstream and include as much as possible as much as the student can and feel comfortable and be successful was your experience at marsh that it wasn't no no well there's i mean so we have students with ieps but then we have our our mild mod mod severe and then our now access students and you know there's some overlap in some in some areas obviously depending on each individual student's circumstances but i'm specifically speaking to inclusion for those access students previously known as ed students so yeah i've always experienced inclusion in the classroom as a science teacher but it was the last i think two years at march that i was there was when i would have an 80 student placed in my classroom which is a very different experience you know sometimes it's more of just getting them used to showing up to class with a room full of other kids you know at the general ed level and you know celebrating the fact that they made it through the day and they asked questions and we're excited but they didn't do the work which is fine you know so it's there's there's obviously each individual student has individual goals which is why it's a iep um but i was curious about the push in for specifically the access kids because i that doesn't seem to be it did hasn't seemed to be as prevalent in my experience very personal experience i understand as as so much as you know more of like um mild to moderate students with ieps does that make more sense i i can say it used to be more of a self-contained like day treatment program where the students were with one teacher and the clinician for most of the day since i've we've taken it over it's not a regionalized program anymore and i've you know overseen the access classes for the past two years so that has been a goal is more blending and more inclusion so i think it has gradually become over time that's all i've known and that's what we were doing at pleasant valley high school as a school psychologist um but i can see there being a time in the past when it was more self-contained and was this all of the transitions that happened was that 2016 or was that something different yeah two years ago it was two years ago okay so i guess so so in my experience i'm just trying to connect my experience to what's the what's more broadly happening now um so i can have a better context of of like what it looks like you know and i feel like maybe i was in kind of the piloting phase um of of pushing in for those types of students um if that makes sense okay so it's broader now and it's much more okay much more robust at this point okay and accepted i was just talking to one of the bcoe school psychologists and it's still they can't find a school that has room for their ed program for the middle school on this campus because they tend to be more challenging students and that's what she's feeling like a little bit of discrimination like um so i i can see being a part of a campus and being part of a school district it's blending more and the students are definitely more included than they were that's amazing and so it's happening at both high schools we have two programs at pv high school one at marigold and one at march okay oh sorry i'm sorry sorry two at one high school two so they're both at pv okay thank you okay thanks all right thank you all right and um we'll go ahead and have sarah van work come up and sarah is going to talk about our attendant program which is our inclusion program in the elementary sarah is both at marigold and at lcc running the program there hi everyone i'm super nervous sorry um okay um i'm an inclusion inclusion support teacher for the elementary schools here in it see chico unified in my 19 years of experience i have watched firsthand the amazing effect inclusion has on all individuals in my classroom we had a mission statement to foster an environment that promotes inclusion and independence in my role now i provide support to general education teachers push in support to classrooms and try my best to support the site however they feel my skills could be helpful with behavior social skills academics recently i was able to attain a copy of the special education study that was done in may of 2019 their goal was to provide the district with a review and objective analysis with recommendations regarding effective and efficiency of the special education programs on page 49 of this report one of the emerging practices was to expand the implementation of co-teaching models across the elementary schools i realized the district has made an effort to increase inclusion by collapsing the mild mod classrooms and pushing those students into general education classrooms unfortunately from my perspective it feels like on a daily basis there wasn't necessarily the support or the education for the general education and the special education staff to make such a large move inclusion is hard really hard sometimes it takes training support collaboration and follow-through consistently and often research shows that this is the most effective service model for many students and is one of the most cost effective as well special education is not always just a program it's a set of services on page 47 of the report it indicates that the district operates quote a model integration program at the preschool level innovative preschool innovative preschool is a blended preschool is a blended preschool of students with differing abilities they create an adult rich environment where they meet where they meet students where they are and teach them they educate the students about differences and teach them how to help each other this deeply rooted program in the community for 31 years should be adopted and implemented at the k1 level we should make it a priority i propose that we begin a pilot program at a few schools and utilize udl strategies implement mtss supports heavily in the hopes that we can provide a support rich inclusive environment for the younger grades and fade it out as they grow the inclusive program like this provides support for students with ieps as well as students without as those supports are embedded in the program innovative provides us with a model to start with designate an inclusion coordinator to oversee and support programs provide training to all educators and administrators together on ways to support students with all abilities within the general education classroom research shows that early intervention is key thank you [Applause] you're not going to get away from the microphone your last statement about what um the benefits of inclusion in the in the things that i've read too the early intervention and early inclusion like starting at innovative is is how students are able to transition into full um [Music] special or not special ed but uh general ed classes and um i think we have evidence of that in some of what we have already tried and are already doing at our younger grades and am i hearing you correctly and that you are recommending that we just focus a little bit deeper in getting that accomplished i know it has to do with money because it um you know it's the staffing that makes it work and that is definitely the journey that we're on is working for that inclusion going back to that preschool grant or grants that we have working on that inclusion inclusion continuing with the co-teaching and continuing with our attendant programs and fostering that with the education to our general ed teachers as well well i support it thank you i feel like we've seen like some of the amazing programs that are happening at the secondary level and sometimes in my little elementary school bubble we don't always get to see that i think that we could probably do a better job of starting them off in a more inclusive setting so that more students are benefiting from all the amazing programs at secondary because at elementary it's still pretty yeah so we're going to go sorry i think with the same thing three times i just want to make sure we're talking about taking a model that is like innovative and expanding it to other sites well and forgive me um what is the status of innovative right now hey kate so we are obviously now we have new legislation that is encouraging pre-school for all so we will be opening our own preschools and actually already have some and expanding that so we are in conversations with innovative about learning from them working with them and bringing those programs together and that's kind of where the conversations are right now there's lots of ways it can go you know they may or may not want to be a part of chico unified they may want to break off on their own our goal i think they run an outstanding program and i think we could learn a ton from come from them but that's all part of the negotiation process we'd love to have their staff as part of our staff thank you um so first i was going to say at the beginning and this is to go out to anybody who's come up and said i'm not a public speaker all you that are educators are public speakers you get up in front of people every day it doesn't matter how tall we are you're still the expert not us so just the fact that you know our our age is a little higher um doesn't mean that you can't speak to us as the expert in the room um yeah i also want to thank you wholeheartedly a lot a lot for standing up there and saying this is what i recommend because i think that sometimes these presentations turn too much into let's pat ourselves on the back and look at all the great things we're doing it's true there's a lot of great things that we're doing but there are always ways we can make things better and i think in this field we can make a lot of things better and i think that it's really important that we hear from you and from your peers you know what needs to happen because yeah there's there's always going to be a money budget issue but let's prioritize and say fine let's figure it out let's write some grants let's do some things in a in a more innovative way and so i think that it's really important that you as that educator and your peers always always come and advocate and not be afraid to talk to the board or just people like i'm literally just an educator so so um anyway i just wanted to thank you for for pointing that out because i think that that's a great place for us to start this or start to further this conversation you know i we were given some numbers about budgets at the heist or at the secondary level for doing co-teaching but also like we need to talk about the big picture and it it does start at the elementary school level and i think that all of us can agree that are that are familiar with educational research that that up to third grade that's kind of our our key time to capture those students and to really do the most work the most bang for our buck so to speak if we're going to talk about budgets at that level and you know 10 years from now we're going to see that pay out in dividends at the high school level so again thank you for being here and advocating i think it's amazing i got a question you probably said this but what is the grade levels that you focus on well currently i serve all all candors so i serve k5 but my proposal would be to do an innovative model for the kinders and first grade and then as they're transitioning to second grade we can look at student need and project from there whether they can move to a mild moderate caseload or whether they need a separate mod severe class or maybe they can go to an inclusion case load where they push you know they push services into the classroom but need a little bit more support you work at innovative i do not personally work at innovative my office is at loma and i work at marigold and i work at little chico creek but my daughter attends innovative she'll be at marigold next year she's a typically developing peer and that program is as a special educator i could not speak highly enough about it it is inspiring honestly the culture there the inclusivity thank you all right yes lots of kids and you'll see um graham that's going to be coming up at the end of this of he went through innovative and went into um well i'm going to let graham tell you a story but um he also spoke highly of his time and innovative our next one is a new class over at chico high that melody come on up melody um proposed this class to chico high and doug um made it happen with her actually melody made it happen along with um he allowed it to yes and she goes hey i'm going to let melody talk about the pe enrichment this is a program that is going to be pe credits next year for our students go ahead and i'll let you introduce the video oh okay well we can watch the video in just a second uh netflix did not pay me to say this but if you have not seen love on the spectrum because of autism month it's amazing it's okay so uh i just wanted to put that out there for people with autism but this is my class a student made this video [Music] is [Music] i know [Music] i really enjoy this class because i get to make a special bond with the kids that no one else will have and you get to learn about their disabilities and all the little things that come along with them yeah i just think it's a really good experience to be able to work with kids with disabilities this class is a great learning experience for us and students with exceptionalities and opens many doors we love pe enrichments the kids helping kids the best part [Music] of the class because it allows my students the ability to be in a class that is geared towards them and it's teaching regular kids how to work with kids with special needs [Music] so if you haven't seen sing two that is a reference from that little song from sing too anyways so basically pe enrichment is peer tutors doing physical activity with two t's and it's almost a one-on-one sometimes we get people absent and whatnot so we have two on one this is gabby she's one of our students for uh general education and she actually started an innovative so i don't know if you want to talk about that um i started it innovative and that's where i met my best friend with down syndrome so growing up i've been involved with special ed and it's something i've always been very passionate about so when i got told about this class i wanted all in i wanted all sorts of in and so coming into this class has kind of taught me more about it other than just knowing from my best friend and so i can't speak for all the students but i know for me it's kind of showed me like they they're not different we all just have differences and they have their own differences and they shouldn't be treated differently so in this class we're kind of taught how to not treat them differently but make it to where if they can't figure something out then we can make a difference to make it work for them and so this class just kind of helps our like us students show them like just because they can't do it away we do it we're able to make a difference to make it happen for them and so they don't feel left out or they don't feel like they're different from everybody else because they can't complete something that we can i just wanted to add on that so basically this class before kids with disability or exceptionalities come in i train the kids that are in the gen ed pop and they don't have to have experience but gabby never told me about her experience actually until tonight but i could tell as soon as i i've seen her you know she just goes right in and is not afraid and gets how to modify everything so it's really amazing just to see both the kids and the whole class work together because i've actually had some of these students with disability in my class in previous years and some of them would not you know be pretty afraid to move or really do any of the activity and now they're just all in and it's so nice to see and actually lindsay canales comes and she's oh i'm ape certified as well but like she is the ape for chico unified and she says the same thing she's never seen them like move as much as our class so it's really cool and these guys go through a big like sifting list they have to be recommended so um they have to do kind of like this interview process to be in my class but i mean they just make it i i'm i'm there i made it you know the curriculum and everything and i trained and i help along but they're the ones that actually make the class run smoothly so marsh had a class interaction that was apparently quite similar where quote unquote the regular kids would be interacting with the kids that were had some kind of physical disability and then one of my granddaughters was a big soccer star and at pv and they let that class of kids come and watch the games and the kids were completely involved they were so excited to see somebody they knew you know playing soccer so i i was just really touched by how much it meant to them to have a connection do you know when that class was because actually my dad i have a big like special ed background my dad taught at marsh he's especially a teacher he actually retired but dennis schultz i don't know if you know him but that's why i'm in it because i couldn't decide whether to teach pe or special ed so i kind of brought it with my masters i did a big project and whatnot and brought it here so i get the best of both worlds well i think it i think it's great just from uh it really made i think a difference to the students who were some kind of a disability but it also made a difference to the athletes to realize that they could interact and have a positive influence i agree it was called the social club at marsh we interviewed kids to be part of that program that what we used all all kids to be in that because we found it was a positive thing for both the kids of uh especially in those classes but it also helped the students um that were working with them to become um you know better individuals and they felt like they were part of something and so actually those kids became bonded during lunch also outside of the social skills it was a very um successful program that they did in march yes amy and karen yeah yay oh good so amy and teren blizman both were big parts of that and actually got the marsha golden bill for that program so thank you all right so this class is basically the peer system with um it actually counts for gen ed students for pe as well but it's not at pv i hope it becomes that pv i know i saw that on the slide it's only it's it's going to be oh it's going to be yes so that's amazing because that's the first time i've heard of it all right so excited cool all right thank you so much and then gina is going to introduce our next um right it is my absolute pleasure to introduce amy ellen speech therapist extraordinaire at marsh junior high you guys stepped on my intro there and isabella sanchez we call her bella and i will let amy introduce the rest of her team and they're going to come talk about inclusion and how technology can really help get our students better access and i won't say that she's been totally bored tonight but she has requested to board a plane she wants a window seat and she's ready for some music all right so tonight i have the pleasure of introducing this group my name is amy ellen i'm a speech therapist at marsh junior high and tonight i also have you can just say i'm carly nielsen the spanish teacher at marsh and who do we have here are you going to share with everybody the technology that we're going to talk about and she's the star of our little group she has been introduced to a new device this year it has just grown fabulously with her and three other members that i want to discuss tonight are her classroom teacher her her case manager which is nick castle she seems to think it's her favorite teacher but i think i'm her favorite teacher and then patty pruser who is the instructional assistant and another team member that comes through the celta is nicole eads so we have a great team that works together um because it takes a lot of focus as you can see and all of you are pretty distracting we did do a quick little video here to talk about inclusion and aac so i'm going to let bella take it away and i think it we only have a few minutes we're only going to let us what do you want to tell them emotional and communication with resolve students yes we've got to do that can you tell them about your devices is [Music] so thank you for sharing that information about inclusion and aac um carly can you share a little bit about what inclusion was like for you in intro to spanish this year sure um initially i was really nervous when i heard that bella was going to be in my class just because i've never had a non-verbal student in a spanish class before and so i didn't feel very prepared for that but i had an amazing team behind me and that really supported me first and foremost her teacher nick castle who just helped me going through her goals and laid that out for me additionally her aide miss patty is just an amazing person supporting me supporting other students in my class as well as supporting me and helping me and guiding bella also my students just opening their arms and hearts to bella and including her in my classroom amy um for the speech therapist for helping me and accommodating and making modifications for her um helping me to help her engage in class and communicate with others um and it's just been an amazing experience i'm so blessed to have had her in my class she's an absolutely amazing person and i love seeing her smile and shine and getting to use her device with others so it's amazing thank can you share an experience or tell us a little bit of what inclusion looked like for you in the classroom maybe give an example cool you want to be braver in class it was really interesting having bella because i'd never seen anybody have a device like that or have anybody who couldn't speak in a class but it was also really fun because i got to learn about how she could communicate with others and how i could help her and like we were doing a project one time and like she helped us so much with figuring out what we were going to do and it was just really fun being able to work with bella and help her and have her help us too [Applause] and we were doing a group project for the coffee bar unit and we had to draw animals for the four levels of the jungle we decided to draw a frog and so we asked bella what color we should choose for the frog she used her device to say a purple frog so i searched a picture up and i showed her that and she was smiling and laughing and have you guys ever had a class where you have had anybody use any type of communication device never so what did you think about that device i mean what did you think about bella using that i've never had anybody um have a device like that in a classroom and i thought that was really cool that technology has gone as far so that people can actually talk and communicate with other people yes and what takes us usually what a year to get our first word out she received her device in october and i mean in her trial the last spring she was already in her trial time using it to communicate by october i mean she was saying things like i love you for the first time just really precious little things um when she's not feeling well that she's not feeling well so super quick she has learned to navigate through the system and use it which is pretty special is there any other little experience you want to share with everybody tonight okay so there is one more slide and she's learned like i mentioned so many words so many phrases and in that middle section there is a video showing her holding her marker or her paintbrush for the very first time let's do it keep going i can get your video this takes a lot of skill a lot of practice we have watched videos because there are eye gaze experts and artists out there so we have a goal set we're going to someday reach those goals of getting more fine-tuned but she does see those things available so it's been very exciting having her learning from her seeing her growth but honestly this inclusion has happened because of the team that comes together they work together they're consistent and that is inclusion as a team that's our message here today all right [Applause] well thank all of you and bella especially thank you for sharing our next slide just shows some other um students at chico high in the welding program um and then i'm going to have joanna introduce so i'm very happy to introduce graham rhody graham is a 2020 graduate from chico unified school district i first met graham when he was a student at marsh junior high school and so graham is going to just spend a few minutes telling us about his experiences with chica unified a song okay um so of course my name is graham rhody and first off i think first thing you should know about me is i am a person with autism i was diagnosed at a young age about three or four years old and it's been a part of my life uh since then it's usually affected the way i learn and in terms of thing interpret things excuse me like when someone's talking to me sometimes i may need them to repeat it once or twice but um i think the great thing about that is that my autism my disability has helped me to help me get to where i am so i'm going to just briefly explain my journey and how i got to where i am at at this point in my life today so i started uh with the chica unified school district when i was again about three or four years old i first went to innovative preschool and then i went to chapman elementary um and i think i was in a a mod severe program i believe i'm not i can't remember off the top of my head but um then after that i went to mars for three years and then after that i went to pv for four years of high school um but uh i was a special ed student pretty much my entire school life and so um starting at junior high i took a special educated class and uh how this worked was like i uh was in one classroom like i was in the same class uh when i when i began junior i was in the same classroom for uh pretty much the entire day you know i was being taught math and maybe english and you know school subjects i'm sure but um i always felt you know just different because uh every other student that i you know walk past or maybe even just saw had a lot of different classes than me they were all mainstream and i was not you know a mainstream student just yet but at that time i always felt like really different because uh because i wasn't mainstream and i feel like i was like i wanted to just get out and see the world basically within school so it was late 2013 i uh had a discussion excuse me i had a discussion uh and i asked like if i could you know try and uh get into a different math class or you know something bigger and so come late 2013 i uh took that step and i got into an advanced math class and throughout my school life throughout my junior high life i slowly transitioned uh into getting more mainstream classes like at that point in uh like it was december-ish that year that was my start my my my start to my road of independence basically like that was my starting point uh so then after i graduated from marsh i went to pv uh again i took special educated classes but at that point i was just pretty much full on mainstream and i took a class with gail olsen who was who's now a great family friend of ours i've had her for i think an english class and maybe a couple other classes down the road and then i took video and audio production over time is my as a couple of my electives i switched between those throughout my school life and then i took summer school and then i took some summer school but i did workability which is a uh which is a paid work program for students to apply to uh you get i think you only get a certain number of hours but it was about a two-week long program um and i did that after uh freshman sophomore junior year i did that for those three years and i graduated with a diploma in 2020 but getting back to pv i and and and march as well throughout my school i've also had a lot of instructional aids that would be with me in the classroom and they would mostly help just to keep me on task and you know just keep me focused uh because i often would get distracted a lot because of my disability i often get distracted excuse me so but over time um i uh noticed i seemed to find that i didn't need them like to help me as much like they would still be in the classroom with me but they wouldn't help me as much if you can unders if you can understand where i'm coming from um they would be helping other students which was which is great but uh like like i said they didn't need i didn't need as much help back then um so then after i graduated in 2020 um it was one of my main goals like was uh i it was in late 2019 i had this goal in mind to like my top goal in my life was to start working after i graduated so then after i graduated about in about mid-august of that year i found this program through uh ils in in living services and i uh did a bunch of zoom meetings with them online and they taught me different topics within the job aspect like uh how to act uh how to maintain cleanliness uh what to wear when you're on the job or when you're working in different jobs and a whole lot of different topics so then we had a like a scheduled in-person interview in november and uh my dream job at the time was to work at ups and up maybe load packages in their trucks um so they were going to get started on an internship with me they were going to schedule that for me but i didn't get a call back from them [Music] but in december early december 2020 i i got offered an interview from my uh regional service at far northern uh and i got i got an uh an interview offered for me at save mart and about so i go in for the interview the next day and then i do the application online then about two weeks later i got hired and my orientation basically was my first day so so i went in and i got like a tour around the store and uh and then i got straight to work i do bagging nowadays in with in the store and maybe a couple other different things like maybe collecting carts and all that and since then i've been working there for about a year and a half [Music] almost a year and a half actually and just recently in about february i believe i applied for i applied for college uh for uh uc davis it was i applied for a program called the seed program and it was four years of college um and you get to live on campus and they would uh mostly teach you about different job aspects within the world uh and it also helped to and it would help to give you more independence and it would also help to set you like on a career on a career path um for like something that you want to work in like like for instance me being a store manager uh and uh so it was it would help you set uh a path for you to work something a long time and a long term until like maybe retirement for instance um unfortunately i didn't get accepted to that but i believe we're i believe i'm currently looking into different options as of now and just to see where i can go and and you know i'll just see where the road takes me from there um and i one thing i want to add on i think before i i end here is uh i've been i feel blessed to have a lot of different people involved in my life that have helped me with my disability i think it was early on in my life i had a lot of different people even my teachers just um help me uh in my life i feel like a lot of different people just don't like uh they don't what's what's the word i'm looking for like they don't right i feel like that doesn't get recognized enough uh especially for me uh it i i wanted to just recognize that and just thank all the amazing just amazing people in my life that have helped me to get to where i am and that's about all i have to say well hope it wasn't too long of explanation no but you made your parents cry graham do you remember when you and i met you were in kindergarten you're from oh really miss robinson i thought you were from marsh i thought you were no in fact uh i think i took you out to the fairgrounds to do uh the cars oh when we went and and did uh go carts i um you were not been to the fair before recently but i i um i barely really remember anything from when i was in preschool or elementary well when we went go when we went go-kart riding you still fit in the go-karts i don't think you would anymore um most of my memories that i just explained about were from when i was in junior high and pv um but uh that's yeah graham you know how many people don't succeed in their first their second or their third job option i um i could assume a lot of people but um a parade a parade like what just a whole a couple thousand ten thousand people i'm just assuming but the fact that you're still looking ahead and planning and taking steps that's what matters thank you way to go um you had a question i just want to say um you're really a good public speaker very articulate and it's a real pleasure to hear you you know tell your story and give a voice kind of this whole program my heart was like my worst racism just sitting down i've like yeah i'm i keep thinking how am i going to feel when i stand up here and tell everybody this i i think that as a speaker today i think you're representing a lot of kids thank you you know who would like to say some version of what what you said so well yeah i kind of feel like i'm coming full circle in a sense yeah they helped you and now you're helping them by helping showcase and explain you know the value of the program so great job and thank you thank you um [Applause] thank you thanks graeme um i'd just like to finish by saying that we recently had an lcap students with disabilities parent night um we were really very happy with our attendance um and we we continue to value parent input parent input and is very important in the development of our programs um and allocation of resources so um that's something that we're going to continue to promote as well i had a real personal member of my family that attended and was just thrilled to death so glad to hear that excellent thank you i was going to say before graham left the podium just that um dad's listening he did the work so he can have you know the recognition for the teachers and you guys and everything but he's really the one that did the work so i wanted to just plug that in there and that we started at marsh at the same time it sounds like [Laughter] i started in 2013 also so um anyway thanks for sharing thanks for sharing and bringing him here to share his story since he's over there you know being the cool being the cool kid yeah a lot of work yeah very inspiring i liked his skittles when he was little do you guys any questions i know you guys have been asking questions all along thank you so much for giving us this time this year i feel like one of my questions has already been addressed a little bit and i was able to kind of get it out there a little bit and this is just an open-ended question and i think that it would be great to continue to focus on the big question which is where do we have room to grow and i know that that information is coming from the lcap meetings and it's coming from individuals who are coming to speak from our educators but i would i guess just want to keep that communication open to help us prioritize where we should be focusing our growth on because there's always going to be budget constraints and we can't have that be our excuse for inaction so that's my question where do we have room to grow and it's open you can answer it now if you have an answer we can talk about it some other time we can you know figure out what we want our next steps to be to start to as an educator myself i just feel very blessed by chico unified by making this a priority and allowing us to move forward to where we have gone we have learned a lot from our lcaps last year our lcap with for students with disabilities gave us so much information to move forward and this year it was um an even larger group that is going to give us we haven't gotten all the notes but being there we heard absolutely that behaviors is a big piece of moving into our inclusion having pd's for our teachers social emotional having counselors readily available both at the school sites but also which you guys are um supporting and funding for that and then if because many of our students that have disabilities don't need urms which is a more intensive counseling they just need just a basic counseling on campus so those are things that we heard at the outcap this year and we will be receiving the rest of that um we listen to our teachers we um listen to our students so there's many different areas so we are going to be meeting we meet weekly and come up with plans on how to make sure inclusion is a priority for our students so that we can have more grants in our life coming out and co-teaching our training we covered kind of shut everything down but we have co-teaching coming back next year so our trainer is coming back into the district from west end all right good eileen yeah one of the things mr tennis mentioned [Music] about graham's presentation was how his representation of what he went through is so helpful for others and i know as i said i've known graham since he was kindergarten because i had a kiddo that was the same age and even though mine wouldn't come to the meeting but we did share some conversation about on this topic of what went right what didn't go right and some of what graham talked about in in the way of how much progress he made as soon as he became more mainstreamed and felt more inclusive was the exact same thing that my kiddos said was that that it should have happened sooner in the elementary level it didn't happen until bidwell and once it did and and i remember this too uh she was mainstreamed the first semester into three classes and immediately we could see it was exactly what needed to happen and so she was mainstreamed with with the aid assistant into the other classes and it just made a tremendous difference in growth one of the things she used to say was that coming out of the self-contained special ed into the mainstream classes was the other kids showed me what the behavior should be like and being in the mainstream classes it was like you look around and go oh so this is what i'm supposed to do and it was it was a big aha moment and so i i really do you know applaud that work and um just anything to support mainstream thank you for sharing that graham was still here but that is one thing that i was gonna not get a nod from him but as we were talking to him about his journey through chico unified he he stopped on that and he goes that's when i became independent and it was just like a a-ha for him and so that's when he felt it and he didn't want to be he used the word limited he think i don't want to be limited so anyway yes good i i need to apologize is jessica hunt still here oh jessica i'm oh my god i know but i just got so wrapped up in the presentation i should have let you as a speaker go much earlier oh after okay oh well then i'm i did i'm fine in closing i just want to add that the district as a whole and i mentioned this at the l cap i'm just very proud of all of our administration from the school sites to my team here because they have embraced this idea of multi-tiered systems of supports of universal design learning including all students where appropriate this is not an easy journey and we had discussion about elementary and doing more of an elementary students with disability supports needs and learning they have different learning they need to do in the beginning they need to learn how to be a student they need to learn behaviors they need to learn how to be part of a big group that actually sometimes drives them crazy and so it has to be very methodical in how you do this and junior high is where you see that growth typical students and students with disabilities there's something that happens in that fifth grade the seventh grade year where this maturity comes that you can do a lot more but the basis is set in some of the things that our special ed teachers do to teach students how to be around other students how to be in classes and how to be teachers so it's not an easy journey and the decisions we make are always a challenge of making the right decisions at the right time for every child so i want to applaud everyone that presented tonight my team and what they did to share with you what goes on especially oh yeah all right thank you [Applause] okay jessica so as you know i have twin boys that are in the special ed program at pb they also started at innovative well gina payton was their first teacher so it was a incredibly amazing program for the boys i'd like to point out in the data where everything has grown where we saw significant growth in things you have to remember that's when these kids were going half time and had half the amount of students in their classrooms again that smaller classroom my boys saw tremendous growth three reading levels in that time we are now in our first year of high school we've lost two reading levels we are now in the larger class so we need to look at that i get it we're impacted and we need help we need aids in those classrooms i know it's a difficulty getting i've said it again over and over again i know it's a difficulty getting them into but why don't we why what are the reasons why it is so difficult to get aids into these classrooms is it a budget thing are there not enough people applying we don't have any answers on that that's what we need to hear are reasons why yes we know and i know you guys know that we need aids but why are we so desperate to get people that fill that position are we not offering compatible payment i don't know um a lot of these programs sound really good to me in theory but if we don't have the support i don't think they're going to go a lot of places we're having a very difficult year with getting things for my boys we just had an iep that's been a little bit to navigate and i see a push to pull things from them very quickly and then we're back again when we have behaviors coming up so i just want you guys to remember that this all looks great but not all of us feel that things are going really good thank you jessica i'd like to ask a follow-up question um of staff in response to her comments um do you have any sort of thumbnail response to jessica about um it sounds to me like the primary thrust of what she's saying is she'd like smaller classes or more attention you know maybe a change up in the ratio or something like that what what what's our thought so why don't we start with the initial question about staffing because boy that has been a challenge and it was really difficult the last two years and so we made some changes to actually address that and i'll let mr hanlon talk about and they've been successful that like the rest of the country we are struggling to find employees not just in special ed but bus drivers everywhere but the special ed was an area that was really of concern because we knew our students weren't going to be successful if we did not get the help in there and we knew our teachers weren't going to be successful if we didn't get the help so we did go back to the drawing board and jim can explain some of that yeah so we faced a lot of the same issues that businesses are now with getting aids in the classroom you see help wanted signs all over over town when coveted hit we stopped tiring because we weren't in school initially and and we have a lot of turnover in our aids naturally just as time goes by aids come in aids leave and so when we stopped hiring and then school started up again we immediately were looking for aids but people didn't apply it was very difficult to even get you know a full interview pool and we had constant openings we still have constant openings right now so we went back to the union we renegotiated the starting salary and jumped it up four four steps that helped somewhat we in the last couple months i'd say we've had been able to hire more aides but we're still short so it's been a challenge there just aren't people out there looking for work many of our older staff that have been around a long time quit for health reasons didn't want to be exposed to covid um that type of thing so we lost this segment of our workforce that that um didn't want to take the risk if you will so so the same challenges that we see in their community in the nation this is kind of a recurring theme through other positions and vacancies that we've got in the district too i mean since i got here two years ago or whatever a year and a half ago um bus drivers have been short um i think there was a plumber it was a plumber that was not available you know there was no plumber for a long time um yeah it's it's it's bad but thank you for bringing this to our attention and um you know your point is very well taken dr kaiser yes um one of the things that that you mentioned and and that you alluded to as well um remember tennis was the class size reduction and i know this is a topic that gets brought up quite often in negotiations i learned how much it would cost to just reduce one class by two students district-wide you know at the different grade levels mr hanlon do you have that number at the top of your head i do not have it on the top of my head i know it was a large number because we have a lot of kids in the district um but um just reducing i mean we're talking in the millions i mean it's not a it's not a small number so it has a huge impact on on the budget it was staggering to just you know reduced by a couple of students um into the millions one more question um what do you think about um or any parent for that matter you know we we heard about coho teaching um how do you feel about co-teachers versus versus the teacher in an aid situation elaine so you know my name elaine ward very passionate about special education um you've received my email regarding co-teach i'm very in favor of the co-teach program um just so you know sarah and i have worked together since my son was in kindergarten and we did not have the best working relationship when we first we're working together it literally took um a lockdown for us to work past our differences so to know that we are both on the same page with co-teach to me speaks volumes i've seen the success of the program that lynette ford is in overseas at parkview it is incredible i personally know that this was the missing piece for my son that he needed for his education he's considered in the middle when it comes to autism that mild mod classroom at his school site disappeared and he was thrown into gen ed it was a very very rough year for him i was very nervous about what third grade would look like for him knowing we'd go to a full day he struggled with the two hours and we can't say it's because of covid and it's because it wasn't that him being in that full class in that gen ed classroom full-time was not working for him enter parkview did he struggle in the beginning he absolutely did but you know what that child that entered at the beginning of the school year and the child he is now that student is completely different i will never say i will never have anything bad to say about the co-teach structure and prior to sarah getting up here i wrote a note after jacqueline shared the numbers for secondary with co-teach and i said why only secondary primary creates that foundation that foundation which is important to making sure that your student that has extra needs is successful in high school is successful with anything that they choose to pursue after that high school level to me it starts in that primary level and i know there's budget and i know there's all these different things and factors that go into it but it it needs to start in the beginning it needs to start at that foundational level start an innovative loma vista going having teachers like sarah that are passionate about inclusion having that co-teach structure because a big factor in that too was having a para in the classroom with him is she just for my son absolutely not she's there when he needs it and she is there to offer support to all the other students as well so i gather a teacher and an aide is less expensive than a co-teaching situation would that be accurate you know so so do you have any feedback on that you know compare and contrast the two i mean i don't know numbers i'm looking into numbers because i that's that's how passion i am about this people may not this may disagree with the passion that i have for it may feel that sometimes my comments and regarding it are inappropriate at certain times but i know what has worked for my son and because i know it's worked for my son i know will work for students like him i hope lynette comes up here or she's invited to come up here so she could share from her coming into the classroom to really give you guys a picture of what's happening in those elementary classrooms at parkview well i've taken note you know that you guys have been here every every meeting and and so i mean this seemed like a good meeting to hear really to go deep on on what you guys think and so thank you for your comments and i mean i have a lot more but i feel it's not the appropriate time because i am very fired up but a lot of things that were shared tonight as well um but i think lynette needs to share that's just my i just want to add one thing the reason that secondary co-teach costs were added in that elementary because it takes extra uh general ed teachers in order to quote teach at secondary at elementary we as a team have actually already been planning on how to expand co-teaching at elementary and some of the steps we've already taken this year are moving towards that and moving to students there's not really any added cost to run co-teaching at elementary because you don't need to add any general ed teachers because all students are already on a general ed teacher's roster what we need to do and what we're in the process of doing is getting special ed teachers ready to understand how to do that co-teaching piece they haven't been trained so that's why we brought the training back so it's not just training though it's also giving them time to co-plan and debrief and all of those things there is extra time that would need to be built into the schedule so it's not i mean i don't think it's it's not fair to say that there wouldn't be a budget difference because unless you're not planning on unless we're not planning on uh affording them that extra time to co-plan and debrief they have a schedule where they have preps and so those preps can be coordinated just like they can be at the secondary level both generally ed and special ed teachers ask preps and to be truly called co-teaching and our model of co-teaching that we've implemented is co-planning looks at the numbers of students that are included in each class looks at what the training is and the six models of co-teaching i i would encourage any the diverging opinions or perspectives to be brought to the board as well um because there may not be so there may be some people who don't see it the way that you're seeing it play out there are some people that don't want co-teaching there's some people that don't but yes there's a variety of opinions and every and everything that's going on right yeah i hear you um i have a question for jim if i can ask a question of jim of jim hamlet yes of course um so just a follow-up on the though we just can't keep aids comment um why do we have we done an analysis or any kind of follow-up or an exit interview do we have data that tells us why we don't retain classroom aids it's the same as with some of the other positions we have they're not full-time they don't necessarily have benefits low paying so people are constantly looking for higher paying positions they may transition into some in within the district they may take jobs elsewhere um so it's all kinds of different reasons so with any lower paying position um it's difficult to keep keep people in those positions long term we have aids that have been with us for 20 years um it works out fine for them but it doesn't work that way for everyone so if the model's not working is there an effort to reframe the model it's it gets to be dollars and we compete well with other districts we constantly do what's called reallocation studies to look at other districts so we're competitive in those areas it's not just us it's it's districts across the state that are struggling i guess my question is is are there districts that aren't struggling and what are they doing uh that would probably be a question for mr cole david cole who runs classified but he is he's he is connected throughout the state on many committees um he does reallocation studies within our district all the time and makes those comparisons i'd be talking off the top my head quite honestly classified and he would be better we can certainly relay that information to you and i can tell you from the meetings that i go to across the state and even with superintendents from other states it is an issue i haven't heard anybody say we have the solution we know how to keep all of our classified positions filled as jim mentioned there's issues with the number of hours and so we have had discussions about how do we get people in certain positions that we really know we need to the seven eight hours even though we don't have students here that entire time how do we increase the hours so that they are getting the benefits for that so it's conversations that are happening not just in chico unified sure but around the state and frankly around the nation yeah and it's not just classified it's teachers as well there's a huge shortage of educators and i mean you can take it even further there's a shortage of workers one i think that we definitely are seeing this huge shift in the educational paradigm anyway and everybody seems to be behind it behind the shift you know and and trying to play catch up and trying to figure out creatively how do we solve this problem but what what definitely will need to be prioritized and i know that we're just kind of shooting out to the universe at this point is the individuals who are directly interacting with our students and responsible for our student growth every single day and so if we can focus there get creative with these jobs to retain these folks it's going to look different than it's looked in the past clearly what everybody's been doing the traditional instructional model isn't working if we can't keep these positions filled it's really an employee it's an employee's market right now people are shopping for jobs all over the place they want remote work they want to have flexibility that's a really big thing to have to fight against so some some creative things are going to have to happen we can't just shrug our shoulder and say well we can't get enough aids right so it's that old way of thinking's gotta go is gonna have to go and it's not just gonna be us obviously um but just i guess we are just about to see warnings that we then take to the negotiations table so if you have ideas bring them on we're happy to listen to ideas and see what we can make work i i feel like you guys are doing your best and i think you're doing a great job yeah my my comments are not directed at you i'm saying this is like the reality we're all living and having to look forward to is is is retooling the way that we see the way that our our system works and it's kind of scary and uncomfortable well i believe that we have heard some really uh dynamic uh presentations on what people are doing attempting to doing and some look forward to what we would do next year and you know areas of investigation potentially and i really complement not just the teachers but the parents who also came to you know speak so at this point um we should move dr kaiser can i i just want to did you want to speak i mean i don't want to i mean you're if you're running questions at um for seven years so i started as a film inclusion specialist like sarah and they called us all the school inclusion specialists together to see if somebody wanted to volunteer for a co-teaching program and i volunteered so started the program seven years ago and um still at parkview and um most of our co-teaching is k2 i was told this year that i've been extended to tk5 but mostly the fourth and fifth being an inclusion position so i have five parents that work with me and they are all absolutely amazing um we work very very well together and i have a core team of teachers that i work together and they volunteer to be on the co-teaching team a lot of work a lot of extra time a lot of extra preparation um before covid and all this craziness hit in the educational world we set in some prep time and we don't have prep periods but we um like our computer teacher would come in and teach a class and that would allow the teacher and i to to meet and talk about lots of curriculum lots of assessment where the kids are where they're going so um right now with time constraints and staff constraints we meet at lunches we meet after school we meet before school so we are so passionate about this program that we find time to make it work for all students appreciate that thank you we can't we can't that's amazing and i just have to put a plug in that we can't count on passion to carry our teachers through without burning out and you guys need more support so all my kids are also mod to severe disabilities so um in all age ranges there at parkview so huge kudos to general education teachers for spending the time and the effort to meet with me and we really do a lot of the universal design we do the greatest thing about the program is not only do we meet the needs of students who have ieps we meet the needs of students that just need a little more than just the general ed teachers can give them a new class of 25 to 28.
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so i think what i could do if it's okay i'll get i'll pull up those tax rates and i can share them with with nancy and she can distribute anybody else questions yeah this um this a poll that you took was uh conducted march 17th to uh excuse me february 17th to march 2nd which is about what two weeks two and a half weeks in a time span and right in the middle of that is when the ukraine war started on february 24th so i am assuming that the results that we got on this really is not taking into consideration what turmoil that has caused in the way of the uptick in gasoline the uptick in in food prices the uh all the upticks that we don't really want to have happening uh i don't think though you probably were taken in into consideration this poll so with that in mind i don't know how how we can rely on on this here to make a final decision even if we didn't do another poll i don't think we could use this as a as a finality so with that said i would think that before any decisions made another poll would have to be taken to give us a better idea what's going on in the world yeah i mean i i don't disagree with the the notion that before you have to officially pull that trigger right which is probably in the deadlines in early august um realistically you'd probably be late july before a lot you know a lot of things can happen in the space of a few months and so plus i think ideally you'd be out communicating with your voters helping them understand what your facility needs are uh you know in preparation for potentially putting that measure on the ballot and so i think the idea would be yes you'd do a tracking poll closer to when you have to make that official decision and um you know i will say though that the although the fallout from the invasion of ukraine obviously hadn't started until the middle of the data collection period um you know the the idea that about inflation being present and the price of things being more expensive other than gas because that's been more associated with the ukrainian invasion certainly the idea that inflation is out there food prices etc that's been in play for a good six months or more right so that piece of it i think is baked in i think you're right that some of the things that happened from the point of the ukrainian invasion forward those aren't sort of built in here yet yeah good good poll thank you good information so one of your recommendations would be to have a poll probably in june yeah i think that and charles has a timeline um and that would be one of the components he has to speak to did you did anybody else have any questions nope okay go ahead i'd just like to thank you i thought the information and how you put it together and it just shows the broad span of work that you do to accumulate this and i thank you well thank you i appreciate that thank you good afternoon my name is charles heath i'm a partner with tbwh props and measures we're the strategy and communications consultants on the project so it's my job to take the findings from tim's opinion research and use it to put together the bond proposal that we think is viable but also the communication program so that your community understands your facility needs by the time they're asked to vote on it so the timeline that you see uh on the slide in front of you here kind of maps the big picture steps that will get us from where we are today to being on the ballot uh this november with a bond measure so we're here today presenting the results of our feasibility study as tim indicated you know with some qualifications around the pricing of the bond and some of those factors we're seeing the signs that would lead us to believe the bond measure is viable so our next step from here would be to go out and begin that outreach and communications process to make sure people understand what your facility needs are but also warm them up to the idea of a bond measure and explain the uh components of that measure and what they'll be asked to vote on and then sort of concurrent to that will also be building the actual documentation that will become your bond measure so when you vote to put a bond measure on the ballot you're approving a ballot question you know what people actually vote yes or no on their ballot the project list that determines how you how bond funds can be spent in the future the tax rate statement that goes into the ballot pamphlet that explains the cost of the bond to voters so obviously we want to develop all of that so that it's prepared in an optimal way and will help us maximize support as tim mentioned august 12th this year is the deadline to qualify for the november ballot so we're kind of working against that deadline to get all that documentation prepared and back to you for approval once the board votes to call for the election then we transition we make an important transition to the independent advocacy campaign so from now until that board vote by law the school district can use public resources and staff time to educate and inform the community about your facility needs and your bond proposal but after the board votes to call for the election any advocacy in favor of the measure must be privately funded and independently coordinated not using any school district resources so as we're working towards the ballot we also want to make sure that advocates and supporters of the school district are getting organized and they're prepared to take the baton forward once the measure is is on the ballot and trustee o'neill i appreciate you bringing up the the issue of sort of the volatile environment that we're living in right now we work on lots of bond measures and have for the last couple of decades the last two years has been the most tumultuous environment we've operated in and we've seen some pretty radical swings in support and i think you lived through that in march of 2020 where there were a lot of unknowns that popped up late in that election that you couldn't possibly have foreseen six months earlier and you know sort of that roller coaster ride if there's any number of crises around the corner you just don't know which one and how severe it's going to be that we have to be trying to anticipate and engage the impact on as we're planning these measures so i do think that before the board casts that final vote to put the measure on the ballot we'll want to come back and do a tracking poll and just check in and make sure that we're continuing to see positive trends um and that was one of the key takeaways from 2020 is kind of frequent um up-to-date opinion research is really important to measure the ebbs and flows of public opinion because it's it's always changing so just looking at next steps in a little more detail you know with your approval to move forward with planning and preparing a measure we will start developing the informational messaging that will be the the centerpiece of that communication and outreach effort part of that is developing a target list of key stakeholders in the community you serve a lot of different cities and you have your feeder elementary school districts there's a lot of opinion leaders within those communities that need to be engaged with to make sure they understand what the needs are and had a chance to ask their questions so there's sort of that targeted research sorry targeted outreach to uh to key opinion leaders and groups and organizations out there then there also has to be a broad-based communication program to reach the voters right and the vast majority of those voters don't have kids in your schools and so they don't have direct connections into your facilities and may not understand the need so that's where we have to use mass communication strategies like direct mail social media digital advertising you know those types of strategies to get the message out to a broad audience to make sure that people are developing that understanding of what your needs are so then we would develop that ballot language and the other documents for the bond measure bring them to you i know you have board meetings scheduled on july 14th and august 11th that we would sort of target and work with staff to figure out for bringing back the tracking poll results but also those details for for your review and approval and assuming you vote to put the measure on the ballot we deliver those documents to the orange county registrar voters by august 12th and we're on the ballot and we have to make that transition to the advocacy campaign so that's a little bit of what we have in store for us if we move forward with the bond and happy to answer any questions you have anybody else no all right well thank you very much for the presentation we appreciate it and uh mike will be in touch we'll give a direction for you thank you very much thank you thank you all right good presentation yeah it was a very good presentation so um public comments for close session uh is there anyone that wishes to address the board of trustees regarding closed session items only at this time seeing none the board of trustees will now hold a closed session to discuss item 5.1 through 5.9 on the agenda and it is now 3 p.m time will be uh we will move to closed session now thank you the director
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so we run lots of small groups and we are meeting the needs of i probably serve probably about 90 kids a week a day not only my special ed kids but we incorporate all those kids into small groups and my parents run reading groups my parents run math groups my i mean it is it's a crazy schedule and i would invite all of you to come and visit we haven't had a lot of people to come and visit our program i have a question now yeah um forever i was not prepared no no no you're you're great um so because it sounds to me like people are giving up their their lunch or they're giving up their after school time that you know and i say giving up loosely because i know that it's something that you do because you know it's what's best for kids that's important but is there oh is i want to know if you have ever envisioned and you don't have to answer this now if you've ever if you've been able to envision a way that that the program could work just as well or better while also allowing the the teachers involved in the program to not give up all that time and to actually have time built into their instructional time to to do those extra things that aren't just and we've had that in the past the last couple you know before two years prior um we get some time a half days a whole day sub um and then they go from teacher to teacher whom i work with and then i meet with those teachers so our school principal mrs fuentes has allowed to get us like a sub once a month robin sub um that works really well the computer teacher now we've hired a new computer person so they can come in and teach a lesson and then i can meet with a general ed teacher um and with my pair in that class to talk about curriculum things like that so i see that it's coming back i push every day i'm in her office constantly i'm talking to these people constantly about we need more we need more we need more we need to do what's best for kids and um i bug them a whole lot they call me i know how to advocate for myself but really it's not advocating for myself it's advocating for our students and not only my students for all students our kids are behind they need help so my program actually helps all those other students also not my program our program yeah but it's coming back we're being more we're getting that work that creativity is coming back of giving us more time to be able to prep and hopefully by next year that will be in place yeah as a parkview parent i want to thank you for what you do thank you there yeah and and your team spirit really comes through and i appreciate that too thank you all right thank you very much [Applause] so we're going to move to does a board member have a request agenda as an item yes okay tom there it is i spoke a little bit about um what it would look like to uh locate one level i would like to agendize a deeper discussion about uh what what that's going to look like what kind of support it's going to entail and what a timeline might be for moving something like that along that seemed like a reasonable motion i'll second it you want to repeat conclusion at the k k one k one okay okay thank you okay the risk of sounding ignorant i'm going to ask you a question what would that look like that's different from what we have what we're doing some of the speakers spoke earlier about extending programs like those that are innovative where we have preschool k-1 students who are taught in a small group setting directly with their general ed peers which is not happening on all sites right now you're just talking about preschool no sorry i apologize i think of in fate of and i think preschool we're talking about kindergarten and first grade sorry okay okay so we don't obviously yeah we don't do that is that correct because i i just do you want to come clarify no it's okay you could we we do so sarah will come back up but we do have some inclusion programs already sorry being expanded next year we already have there's a tk blended program that a very specialized credential teacher's teaching next year we're going to have two tk's that are blended programs that means half the class general ed and not half the class but a percentage class is my sphere and then it's going to be two general and teachers and a special ed team co-teaching at that tk level and that's our beginning to kind of expand this program is that just one school site 10 year old so sarah asked a question for a moment thanks earlier you were advocating for some program changes can you kind of elucidate exactly what those are yes so what i was proposing was an innovative like model um in the k1 setting and targeting maybe one or two schools and doing the kindergarten and first grade so it would be an all-inclusive model that is honestly very very similar to the one at parkview um because unfortunately i know i'm not sure what's in the works for next year i don't have that that much knowledge yet but um right now that's not the case it's really just parkview or you hope to be put in a class and you get the inclusion that you get so i think it would be awesome if we could target just a couple sites and pilot a program like that and with the hopes of expanding it farther that was obvious so perhaps i misunderstood dan is that something like what you're what you're talking about so that's not k1 that's tk okay so i think what we're talking about is seeing what it would take to get that going into k1 level instead or in addition in addition thank you okay we have a clear understanding of that okay any other [Music] items that people would like to see agendas well we would if we got a second i don't know i'm waiting oh i'm sorry i didn't hear you so um yeah anybody have a comment or well just a clarification so the admin knows what to build for us if we approve this if we already have plans to begin this is what you're asking uh a financial impact or a staffing impact what what what can we it sounds like what dan was talking about was that the tk program so we're talking about extending up to through first grade so we'd like to know what kind of resources we would need to do that and um maybe some very early plans about what such a program might look like if we took the innovative model and started at the k1 level at some of our elementary sites and uh the financial impact okay so my understanding of that we're talking about tk to first grade so it sounds like diane already has plans for tk in the in the works so we're talking about extending those plans out yeah okay yeah and just so that we're not limited it would be nice to have a full view of whether it was if we just started in a few schools or what it would mean to expand it to all elementary schools so that would be i mean the hope that a complete presentation would include varying levels of implementation so i guess what i'm saying is my goal is to see if we decided we wanted complete inclusion everywhere at each site at the k1 level what would we need to do now to start getting there all right everybody clear okay um so you're clear okay so we'll do a name vote so eileen robinson i landed hi kaiser i don't be a tennis eye okay any other uh request to agenda is an item all right going once going twice okay so with that we're going to move into closed session i do want to very sincerely thank all of you for coming and you know mothers if you're the war mother that's just how it is right okay good thank you you
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could you help us through the role and don't forget to uh say where you're calling it from yeah say the jurisdiction that you're calling in from so city township or village and then also as you may notice we have dr missy stoltz here with us tonight as our special guest so if you want to say a little bit something more than your name and where you're calling in from like perhaps if you're representing an organization here and then maybe a little fun trivia thing about yourself like um i don't know what pets you have running around right now maybe your favorite fictional character or i don't know any any sort of interesting tidbit about yourself so go ahead i'll start with steven hey president uh salt lake city utah and that's the tidbit also [Laughter] all right um jennifer hi jennifer present um i'm here in ann arbor and [Music] um i know missy because i get to be an a20 collaborator i'm super thrilled that you're here to talk to us tonight um i am betting that i am the only one of this group that has been certified to coach olympic weightlifting wow right wow all right allen you followed that up i'm alan haber in the enchanted forest on third street on the old west side ann arbor michigan bamboo it is and i just came from the uh the uh ambassador's uh program in uh gala park so i galloped over along with missy so it's been a busy day and right before that the powwow had its debriefing so i'm catching my breath between here there and whatever is next all right thank you all right sarah oh sarah's not here today sarah is officiating a wedding so that's right interesting tidbit of the day all right um jeffrey i'm jeff heny uh from ann arbor and uh i'm a professor of sustainability and economics so that might be of some interest at clear university thank you all right camilo hi i'm camilla i'm calling from the city of ann arbor um i am a urban planning graduate student and my fun fact is i'm graduating in 23 days congratulations nice all right rita i'm rita mitchell from speaking from ann arbor and i am a member of the environmental commission and the um recently named a2 pollinator network and um i give points to anyone who can name the flower that's behind me is it trillium no i won't do it for too long this is called dutchman's breeches it's a very early spring ephemeral and look at that big bumble bee it's one of the um early blooming plants and and queen bumble bees need early pollen and that's one of the plants they go for and they shake it out of the flower it's very cool wow called buzz pollination very nice all right alice well i can't beat that but i'm alice ralph i'm attending here in ann arbor on east stadium boulevard i have five lanes of traffic in front of me um but um i am i guess i'm an archetype and i've been involved with many civic issues for some time including most notably the tree line as originally called the ann arbor greenway and also um the city of the center of the city since you know 15 years ago um so um looking forward to having an ev vehicle sometimes thanks alright we've got frank up next uh frank wilhelm from the fifth ward uh many uninteresting things that i've done i um on the historic district commission most of these things were half a century ago i got busy with my career at the university the ross school of business um still playing hockey i think i'm wavering now whether i'm going to continue that but we can go offline later if you want to know anything else missing actually missy called me out at a at a initiating committee meeting i i was valley healing my age and she said she doesn't cut any any any of the older folks any slack so i have to i have to really step up from here on in that that gave me some backbone thank you nice all right adam uh adam zemke calling in uh from the fifth ward as well although probably a different precinct than frank um and uh missy it's good to see you again and um engage in a different role so thanks for being here and then we've got mr dahony who i know you know missy but we're doing roll call mr de honey so you need to say that you're here and where you're calling in from uh milton dehoney i'm here in ann arbor thank you and councilmember briggs yep erica briggs here in city of ann arbor um the fun fact i guess for me today was that i was working to overcome my fear of riding with clipless pedals as much as i like to bike um i generally do not clip in um and so that's what i was working on because i'm doing a bike trip from grand junction to moab in late may and i probably will need them so wow yeah that's quite a ride did you flip on over or did i'll report on that next month cool all right lisa i'm lisa dish of ward 1 representative ann arbor i am in my basement with my dried hydrangeas which were a gift from my mother in a 125 year old croc wow very cool all right and that's everybody thank you all right thanks heather you want to state a fun fact about yourself since uh we all uh had the opportunity oh gosh i forget that this is a group that turns my icebreakers back around and i never prepare for it um i don't know fun fact for me um gosh i don't know i just took a trip to new orleans how about that that's that's still on my mind i've still got a little bit of afterglow happening with that one that was a i had never been to that city and it was really it's really a great experience well i i think you'll have to learn how to say new orleans yeah we're working on that still yes yeah i should have said it's my birthday today that's probably the most trivial thing i can think of were we supposed to give a fun fact about ourselves is that what the question was yeah it's so nice to get to know members but yes i'd love to hear a fun fact from you if you've got one you asked i did ask um probably right around um 1999 when i was deputy mayor of louisville kentucky i got to have dinner with muhammad ali and three or four other people when we were planning the creation of the muhammad ali center which is now open in louisville if you you ever go there and for for me um a kid that grew up in louisville and saw him uh you know through the years it was a thrill of my life to sit beside him i have a picture of the two of us and it's just fantastic yeah that's great that's amazing yeah wow cool well uh with that uh can we have we have a very busy agenda tonight uh so if we could move through these things as quick as possible that would be uh really good first thing up is the approval of the of the agenda uh heather sent out a link to the agenda on legistar earlier today are there any questions or could we have a motion to approve the agenda did did we receive it earlier um i i have it but i i'm surprised that we would only have seen it today it was posted it was posted on legislator last week but i thought i should send out another link today so that people know where to find it okay any questions at all about the items for tonight i greatly appreciate that it was sent out is is item uh 11 recommendations report we were to have on the agenda our annual advice to the city council that is coming up is that what that item is yes that's correct there's uh there's a couple of items we're going to take uh really do some deeper work on tonight in addition to hearing from dr stoltz and others but there's uh the parks advisory commission report that we're going to provide to parks i'm going to start talking about that tonight and we are going to talk about what we want to report on to city council tonight as well thank you erica yeah i just um was hoping that maybe we could just move um dr stoltz's update before member news and updates just to respect your time tonight i have no objection to that [Music] could we get a motion to amend the or to adopt the agenda as i move to adopt the agenda as amended all right all right we got a motion second uh all in favor say aye all right opposed all right excellent uh so we have the agenda as amended um let's go ahead and move on to uh approval of the minutes from last meeting they are in the agenda any questions at all about the minutes and if not can we have a motion motion to approve the minutes all right second seconded by frank uh excellent all in favor say aye all right hi can you pose saying all right motion carries um with that we have public comment uh heather do we have any members of the public we do and we have a hand raised at some phone number ending with three to six so i'm allowing you to talk right now if you'd like to go ahead hello this is jeff crocker can you all hear me you can yeah great okay my fun fact is i started uh playing in uh recreational softball starting in 1975 uh in the city leagues and morphed over playing at leslie park for many years with the same group of guys and as a result of that i have no ego left so i just want you to know that that's where i'm at which which prepares me greatly for this statement tonight and i sent this statement to heather and you may or may not have gotten it because i sent it late but my name is jeff crockett and i am calling from 506 east kingsley and i'm a member of the initiating committee and i'm the leader of the green team which has been developing a community garden on plot b3 it has been there at three and it's been three and a half years since voters passed proposition a and in late december city council passed resolution r dash 19-569 a resolution of support the city center of the city interim use and long-term planning for the center of the city library lot property one of the resolved clauses of that was resolve that the city and the downtown development authority will coordinate to implement the center of the city charter amendment with a focus on interim changes to the use of the street level surface of the library lane parking structure and liberty plaza to occur beginning july the 1st 2020 that's quite a long time ago and in my opinion there's really no excuse for delaying the removal of parking one day longer one of the most curious aspects though the activation of the commons is the absence of data about parking vacancy rates at the library lot parking structure so last friday i said okay i'm going to go ahead and start to collect some so i started to collect some data and as it turns out it's fairly easy because there's an lcd screen on a post-it library lane indicates the vacancies so today for example the parking lot vacancy was 581 yeah got that right 581 there are 744 parking spots in the entire complex that meant that there were 163 cars parked in the lot today except for april the 2nd during the hash bash the parking vacancy rates varied from 575 to 595.
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april the 7th if you would all now please rise for a salute to our flag followed by a brief moment of silence i pledge allegiance 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 if we could again remember our friends neighbors and the people of ukraine in our thoughts thank you roll call please mr abedrabo mr awad here miss basford here miss beltran here mr kanova here dr dan mr paris here vice president daley here president smith here we have a quorum uh dr danny did notify me that she is not feeling well so she will not be here this evening anyone that's up can read the mission statement for me please anyone who's up the mission of the clifton 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 open 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 clifton 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 on the district's website and mailed to presidents of parent teacher organizations this meeting will be tape recorded in accordance with our policy zero one six eight okay we'll now do our um presentations of our students of the month for the month of april for clifton high school miss basford if you yes i have the honor of presenting freshman tristan rivera tristan rivera is our freshman student of the month his favorite subject in school is math because he enjoys being challenged intellectually and loves the satisfaction of getting something correct tristan's history teacher mrs petty has been very influential and also pushes him to succeed tristan also finds inspiration in his older sister and has always looked up to her in school tristan participates in almost every type of band and had a lead role as lumineer in our spring musical beauty and the beast and the certificate says this recognized recognition is certified to tristan rivera on behalf of the clifton board of education administration for chs freshman student of the month april 2022 with sincere congratulations on your meritorious achievement with recognition by resolution of the board of education the desire to excel is the formula to lifetime of success your efforts have brought distinction to you your family and the clifton public schools signed jim smith board president and superintendent of school dr danny robitazi tristan [Applause] thank you mr smith it's my honor to present to sophomore kimberly carazaz kimberly carazos is our sophomore student of the month kimberly credits her older sister for inspiring her to achieve in and out of school kimberly's eighth grade science teacher mr farrell influenced her the most and taught her how to be the best version of herself kimberly's older sister has always been reliable and has guided her in life and in school kimberly has managed to be successful student by having a positive attitude and learning how to manage your time effectively the certificate of achievement this recognition is certified to kimberly corazos on behalf of the clifton board of education administration for chs sophomore student of the month april 2022 with sincere congratulations on your meritorious achievement with recognition by resolution of the board of education the desire to excel is the formula to a lifetime of success your efforts have been brought have brought distinction to you your family and the clifton public schools congratulations kimberly [Applause] um [Applause] he's looking all right next we have uh tiffany guerrero tiffany is our junior student of the month tiffany purstit participates in many school activities including student council and junior representative for the board of ed and recording secretary she also participates as football manager and jv cheerleader tiffany's grandma inspires her the most because she's an intelligent caring person she's been able to help her through any tough situation and keeps her grounded and stable every day tiffany aspires to be a businesswoman in dreams of starting her own business she has already started talking college taking college classes as a junior in high school tiffany [Applause] [Music] congratulations to liam riley the senior student of the month liam is a member of the clifton high school orchestra pit band jazz band bell choir triam music honor society new jersey sympathy youth orchestra boy scouts clifton community band and is also a cello player for his church liam thanks his parents for always showing him the value of hard work and dedication liam's teachers have also helped guide him specifically miss miller hamilton and mr henry liam's future aspirations are to become a music educator and performer he hopes to one day teach music and perform in an orchestra and will start his journey in the fall where he will will be attending the college of new jersey to study music education and music technology liam come on up and your parents and your brother uh liam is a liam and his family are personal friends of mine and uh that's why i asked mr paris if i could i could do this um just a tremendously hard-working uh dedicated individual and if you ever want to be moved and uh hear his performance of playing the cello uh you will be in for quite a treat so no spare cellos and his brother colin is uh right here and he's coming up on the wings as well and uh and he has another brother aiden so congratulations [Applause] well that's gonna cost extra superintendent picture i know just think about the number of students that we have at clifton high school and to achieve the honor of being student of the month that is a tremendous accomplishment uh and congratulations to each of our students of the month of the month of april next to our our pbsis program which again is uh run by miss paula ragoza such a tremendous job that you do with this program the time and dedication that you put into it and seeing your efforts go forward in honoring the schools that we honor here at each of our meetings truly shows you what a what a great program this is and we have the right person in charge of running it so thank you for all your efforts and on that note you have the floor thank you president smith for that wonderful intro thank you vice president mr daley commissioners of the board dr robotozi central administration thank you for allowing us to once again get nice and cozy under these lights and celebrate our students to begin i want to wish the clifton muslim community of ramadan mubarak wishing you all the blessings of the holy month in april we celebrate world autism month clifton public schools continues the efforts to spread awareness and promote acceptance of students with autism tonight we recognize school 16 for the skillful and considerate way they incorporated the universal prevention tier of the pbsis framework in their aba classrooms we are honored to say that the clifton special education department and the school 16 aba classrooms celebrate the talents relationships victories hurdles and everything in between on a daily basis in a moment you will see the picture come to life as on how we make a difference for learners with different abilities through support and accommodations students with autism are making social connections with their peers at school that enhances their educational careers tonight we will also recognize student logan reyes logan is an exemplary student in one of the aba classrooms who has accrued the most class dojo points in his class he is a true beacon of the paws framework and we are grateful that we get to help educate such an amazing little human we are one clifton and it is my pleasure to show you one of the many colors in our clifton rainbow hello clifton board of education members administration school communities and friends i am mrs farbay school 16 principal pbsis stands for positive behavior support in schools and it is an initiative we started back in 2018 it was intended to improve the climate of schools using system-wide positive behavioral interventions almost every school in our district has implemented this at their own schools as part of our clifton one initiative i would like to take this opportunity to explain what pbsis looks like at our school together with our school community we developed our paws expectations pause represents who we are and what we stand for at school 16.
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thank you very much i actually stand for the pledge of allegiance which is committed to the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty i just want to say thank you everyone for joining us this evening we apologize we started a little late we had a planning committee meeting uh that ran a little over but the got a report the planning committee forwarded uh approve ed specs to forward to the board uh for the new uh school projects that's a huge milestone and the board will be voting on that spec on april 21st so it was important work so thank you for staying by if i turn it over it's going to say this is one of my favorite board meetings because we really have no business to do we got to sit back and see all the cool stuff that's happening our schools particularly so marlene are you going to talk about the showcase and yes i'll give you a little bit of an introduction so you know that last um june we had what we called the curriculum writing institute and we've talked over time about why we held the institute and that was because we really heard from teachers and i'm sure many of you have been hearing this now too throughout our meetings that they're looking for more time to collaborate with each other they're looking for more time to revise and reflect on their curriculum it's very difficult to do that in the midst of the day when you have a 45 minute planning period to really delve into that i mean even this meeting that we had tonight was an hour and we delved into some things but not all things so tonight we're here in the second phase of our k-12 showcase to hear from teachers from dodd who were beneficiaries of the curriculum writing institute and to really draw a line from what teachers did and how this benefited kids how this time and the energy and the money of um preparing reviewing writing curriculum what the end result was so i'll turn it over to mike to introduce his fabulous team thank you very much this is hard mike am i good um my name is mike woods i'm the principal here at dodd middle school um we're really happy tonight to have our educat our educator team showcase some of the student work that was a result of the summer curriculum writing project so um marlene actually took most of my speech for tonight so this is really really short but i do want to introduce our teachers that are here this is marie volley kristen shanley jenna podell and tom discano i also want to mention that carly brandon is one of our eighth grade language arts teachers she worked very hard with this team too unfortunately was sick yesterday and she's out so um without any further ado i am going to have our la teachers come up here first kristen maria to talk about what they did at summer curriculum writing and some of the student work that came from that so all right hello we are excited to share all of the good things that happened this past summer so just giving you kind of an overview of what the institute was all about and then we'll dive into the student work so we were taught by a consultant named linda van wagnen and she taught us the importance of choosing an authentic assessment to start off our curriculum design and so this is information regarding beginning with that authentic assessment this is research that is backed by curriculum design specialists and one of the important things that led into our design structure one of the tools that linda shared with us was this squared template and this squared template was something that that created and led our design to the best organized fashion these are things that teachers a lot of times so we have that big picture in mind but a lot of times keep making sure that we do all these little things along the way is something that's very important and marlene mentioned that teachers were like asking for this time for um this time to collaborate i can honestly say that participating in this writing institute this past summer was some of the best uh professional development that i've experienced in cheshire in my 20-something years of teaching so it was that combination of instruction that we needed in order to know exactly how to write curriculum and then it was the time to do the work and that combination of those two things truly made it a very valuable experience so this squared template has you look at things like incorporating the standards and then also making sure that you do some extension activities and also differentiate all the things that good teaching involves marie is going to explain another tool that we used in our creation so before i start i want to thank marlene and kevin for offering this opportunity to the teachers again it was i could reiterate one of the best pd opportunities i've ever received another anchor tool that linda shared with us after squares squared was grass and without going through every single component you can see that the theme is real world and that's really the the take away that the outcome product from the students is something they can apply or see in the real world so when we look at the goal is it a real world goal their role as an individual who is their audience is it real world um their situation the product they create and their standard for success for seventh grade we decided this summer to use those anchor tools to revamp our argument unit our argument writing unit so the students were presented a task to determine an audience and create a claim and then maintain their claim through their paper not only maintain the claim but offer a possible solution to their audience so they can maybe meet that audience halfway just like in real life students were establishing a claim creating reasons a solution providing evidence and organized their thoughts and also included a strong writer's voice i have two student samples literally due last week so we really came together and they did a remarkable job you have some amazing talented students and i have two examples here that really showcase the idea of their passion their voice their attention to their audience and choosing a real life um claim so for our first one i have juliana who will be talking about native american imagery as school mascots and her position in discontinuing those types of um in our in our nation so this is her introduction inaccurate offensive imagery that mocks native american culture is everywhere many people may think this problem is over-exaggerated but once you start thinking about it it is very clear that this is truly the case sports teams logos names even school mascots offensive imagery is everywhere such as the washington football team formerly the redskins native americans and others have been protesting about these images and names for years all of the imagery is very mocking the native americans being shown as savages wearing stereotypical versions native american clothing and headdresses the names are also extremely hurtful some names even being slurs and derogatory statements these have been historically used to discriminate against native americans there is seemingly no reason for people not to change and protest against these names and images historical roots disprovable from native americans and changing social views are all reasons native american mascots and names should be banned from school and sports teams just through her writing and her own personal voice you can hear that passion with this assignment students were able to choose what they wanted to write about and i think with that element of choice it just leads to a different level of voice in their writing our next example comes from rain a 7th grader and he wrote his paper about banning standardized testing so i chose one of these paragraphs from the body of this paper and again uh rain has done a remarkable job with the voice in his writing the amount of stress standardized testing loads on students is unhealthy in fact the stanford 9 exam even comes with instructions on what to do with the test booklet in case a student vomits on it testing companies and schools know that testing is stressful yet it is still required by law according to education and research for gregory j sizak anecdotes abound illustrating how testing produces gripping anxiety in even the brightest students and makes young children vomit or cry or both a study shows that during homeroom before high stakes testing students had a cortisol level over 15 percent higher than on non-testing days scientific evidence demonstrates that standardized tests cost students high levels of stress harming mental and physical health students can become incredibly obsessed with test scores that they forget about learning altogether and just the gritty just here in connecticut darien high school students stole test answers from the faculty work students are so desperate for good test scores that they will steal to get the grade they want standardized testing changes learning in the mind of a student into a test score so again um rain's power of voice through his writing really came through and rayne also took it upon himself to add graphics cartoons comics throughout his paper as a way to again illustrate his point um and to the fact that now it's going to be a part of my curriculum i'd like to change that in the future and encourage students to do so to add a comic with citations uh because that's how we read in the real world we open up an article and it's not all just plain text it's broken up with images a picture a graphic an infographic a cartoon and i just appreciated that uh his power of voice allowed us to change a little bit of our curriculum um through linda bandwagon's leadership through the summer curriculum workshop we learned so much about just applying these uh anchor tools like grass and and squared but at the same time knowing that collaboration is ultimately just such an important valuable tool among all the different anchor tools that we were received that summer so thank you so much for your time tonight the eighth grade team of teachers worked on creating a task for the eighth grade students and what we decided on was coming up with a way to make figurative language more interesting to the students and also incorporate that in their own writing so we created this task an open mic night at the spartan sims and that would be coffee and we are creating having the students create found poems which are created after analyzing and reading a bunch of different texts from anywhere from a picture book to a poem to short stories to speeches and then students were picking important lines out of those and then creating their own found home this is a screenshot of some playing with words on a program called jamboard which is an online tool where students can collaborate or you can create individual it's individual pieces it's basically like an online whiteboard and you see those like post-it notes are all different pieces that the students can manipulate on the jamboard so these are words that are from famous quotes which you're going to have an opportunity to play with in a moment and they created it into a piece of their own here's another example and then showing some higher level thinking at the bottom explaining how they made the choices that they did or why they made the choices that they did here is a student sample of a final found poem the students were asked to be change makers themselves so they studied different voices from all different change makers in our history and then they put together their own poems that were about topics that they were passionate about because of us storm during summer snow during spring warm during winter polluted shores polluted clouds earth or sacred ground burning fuels shedding the light of earth injecting new carbon into earth trapping heat in our atmosphere so much that the clouds are covered animals diminished forests inflamed they are unafraid they let nature graze away they let icebergs mold away they are unafraid the earth is eroding because of you because of me because of us we can turn the dust of world back to gold if we try so sajuda created that pretty powerful poem and um she was really excited to share it all with you because of us sorry storm okay so the next slide is going to show some of the complex thinking that students had to go through in order to create these poems they were asked to pull information from a variety of texts and you'll see in the next slide that she actually chose 12 different pieces of text that that wove together to to create that poem that you just heard they also had to explain the meaning of the line why that line was important and then what figurative or in connotative language was used in the poem so here is her brainstorming to create that poem that she you just heard so lots of work went into that here is another sample of a student's poem about small businesses streamers the dreamers from the doers the believers and the thinkers the dreamers will share it because they are happy sharing it the doers they hide it pretend it never happened and rejected outright it's frustrating to see the doers blow it and win the dreamers hold themselves to these crazy high standards and still fail even though their peers also have these standards and make it vague in darkness dreamers can only dream and they are silenced because they can't speak up dreamers have to begin in the beginning unlike the doers who begin and make it to the end almost immediately the doers provide benefits for their employees while the dreamers can only provide a paycheck but the dreamers provide an amazing experience no doer could ever provide give the dreamers the respect they've earned give them the same respect you would give a doer give them even more respect than you would anybody because they work day and night to make it big just like the doers the doers work a basic nine-to-five job and get applauded for it dreamers work 24 7 to get a little applause this stops now believe in the dreamers support them the same way you support the doers [Music] so charlotte was pretty passionate about her topic also as you can see there and another student who was very excited to share so one of the things that prompted these changes where we had discussions with students prior to this unit and some of the feedback that we got was that the prior unit was all about the figurative language that was used in martin luther king martin luther king jr's speech which obviously is an important piece of our history but students gave us the feedback that they did that in elementary school many many times so we had decided that we needed to make a change and here make more voices heard in this unit and that is what um made this decision all right that's the fun part for you we have little envelopes with some quotes on the outside and on the inside are words and a glue stick and you can create your own found poem if you prefer to work with someone next to you you may also do that so the assignment is if you open up your envelopes you are going to see all the words that are in these quotes cut up into pieces and your job is to make a poem out of those words are we being grated [Laughter] marlene was wondering it doesn't say roses so this is this is an example of what the students did in this unit and we figured a little time for you to play would make you realize how fast people make us better people there you go better people are words those words are all those words yeah okay we have to use all the words you do not have to no you pick out what you want so the students when they were uh creating their own found poems had an idea in mind so charlotte knew that she wanted to do something about small business owners so when she created her poem she had that in mind now obviously you are bound to the words that you have in front of you the students had lots of more words that they were able to choose from but that's the essence of the idea our poems will be shorter it's okay [Music] you know you didn't give them a time limit that's very stressful then you can't put a time limit on creation and we don't really have to finish this process for a while yeah exactly oh that is pretty deep i feel like this is pretty good too yeah the first line's good like your epic line there you go come up with your epic line so that our math colleagues can share share do any of the board members want to share a line or phrase that they came up with i have one all right go for it failure is just the courage to continue failure is not going for truth anyone else want to share anything yes i think this is so great great minds continue truth suffering failure all right say it one more time great minds continued truth suffering failure all right very good all right we're going to turn it over to math you can put these things away and have fun later on you know when you have nothing else to do tonight and you can create your own pumps on to jenna thank you [Applause] we're going to switch gears a little bit here for some math um i'm jenna podol i teach eighth grade math at dawn it's my sixth year here i'm very excited to be standing in front of you guys tonight um you heard a little bit about the writing curriculum institute that we went to over the summer i would like to put a mask in on it and tell you what we did in the math part so after dr van wagnen had her presentation on how to make a creative and engaging performance tasks for the students we were able to break up into our departments the math department was very lucky because we were able to work with the high school algebra 1 teachers along with the special education teachers we had our math coach there there was a lot of different people that collaborate with on our different performance tasks that we kind of finalized so like marlene was saying before we want time to be able to work together and this was five uninterrupted days which like never happens to be able to sit down in a room accelerate our standards for um a couple of the different units that we have in seventh grade eighth grade and in algebra one so middle school and a little bit of the high school as well um some of the different learning targets i mean learning tasks that we came up with were two different ones for the pythagorean theorem we had an echoes performance task and a fencing performance performance task we have one for exponential functions which was on mice population and our favorite one which you can kind of see here was a catapult for the quadratics unit so in the quadratics unit we made model catapults um part of the process was that we give the students a certain amount of money that they can spend on their supplies fake money of course um but they have to come up with a design for it they work with their groups to think about what their budget's going to be what type of supplies they can buy they have solo cups rubber bands popsicle sticks okay we have a whole list up there then they have to actually construct their model they get to test it a couple of times they put it into some math formulas figure out all the different the minimum i mean the maximum height the time it takes to launch the ball how far it goes and then we take all the things we did in the quadratics unit and analyze it as a final project okay so we're testing the students in a non-traditional way using manipulatives and kind of getting them to work with their peers to show their what they know um so the idea of doing this is we're trying to target both the traditional math skills from the common core state standards and grow them as learners um and math learners so the three um common core standards we looked at or arithmetic with binomials and rational expressions interpreting functions and creating equations um what does that mean what are we actually trying to get to is we're trying to hit all the um cheshire public schools performance centers trying to make them complex thinkers skilled information processors collaborative workers self-directed learners and effective communicators um and this really hits on our standards for mathematical practice we focus so much and we should on the common core state standards those standards for mathematical practice are what every math teacher wants their students to grow and learn from when they're counting to when they're doing calculus so it really helps them grow as not just here's a skill but grow as math learners when we talk about you know real life skills or whether what are we trying to learn they're planning they're designing they're budgeting constructing measure and evaluating we talk about authentic learning um once we get up through algebra 1 and geometry and algebra 2 the learning can be abstract for students and anytime we can put a physical product in their hand so they can actually see the math at work um it gives such deeper meaning to it and um like i said i think of the five days this took two of them having that chunk of time to be able to make this and and set up this project for the kids to see how their learning is used was um it wouldn't have been possible without the curriculum brightness to do and we do talk a little bit about you know kids always want to know what am i going to use this and um unfortunately it's not always a clean answer but when we talk about something like quadratics you know there's um lots of things out there one of the things we kind of talked about was military law enforcement or ballistics um how think you know economy engineers all those things where this might not be what they're doing they might be doing these quadratic equations as adults but it's the stepping stones it's getting them excited about the learning it's getting them excited about the product so we were thinking oh yeah so we need um two volunteers i think we decided two volunteers to help us launch this catapult and measure it and be able to put it into the front launch anymore should go a lot farther than that oh sure i'll do it okay thank you you can stay right there i'm still working no no no no you can watch it you can launch from there you might move a little bit and we need a time slip can you do that yeah okay so we want you to hit the timer um nope just two times as soon as it is once it is hit and once it lands so what so so usually we um our classrooms have those nice tiles that are exactly one foot line so that really helps with measuring um but then we have ceiling problems hitting the ceiling with some of them so we've gone outside and done shocks so give it a good whack but not like too strong oh wait oh wait hold on we're not ready yet okay timer so once she hits it hit star and then once it hits the ground hit stop okay okay ready oh i took it no that was good that was a good launch one second sounds alright all right very good anyone else want to give it a go while he judges some numbers over here it's pretty sturdy when we do this with the students we'll have multiple trials and then we'll kind of average it but for the sake of the time of tonight we'll just time one of them tom's crunching some numbers right now to be able to put it into the equation but anybody else want to try without jeff you want to get back it seems like so the kids get really into it obviously you know who can watch the furthest no no no no no yeah on the spoon who can launch it the highest all right so then what we make sure we do is part of this and one of the standards is we're going to graph so so if you've never seen desmos.com it's an awesome place to be able to graph things right on the computer what is it this is a desmos.com it's just a free free free graphing calculator they also have a lot of cool activities on there too for all different topics so so this was our flight um it's a little flat because we're not outside with the rain um but what it offers the kids to do is they then can compare um not every ball that's launched that lands 11 feet is the same right so what we do is we actually are able to give them a intro so we're talking about is it geometry we try to stick to the algebra one standards but we get into some great physics ideas um we can measure how high the ball is because by taking half the distance we know that's the maximum and then we use the gravity coefficient to figure out what that actual height is so it's cool for them to see that um a lot of our athletes look at like statcast when you see a home run now they show that right they show that so not every home runs the same we see um not every ball it's in the air for one second so they see how we can manipulate it they have a good connection to it and um any time we can make math more fun make them want to come to math class you know it works but again this was an activity that you know we had three of us working on for a couple days we didn't want to get too nitty-gritty into the math that you know we had to crunch to do to find what that is but um it's just a great opportunity for kids to see their learning see it in something you know one of the nicest parts i think about the writing institute over the summer was that we were able to come up with a final product like we had the introduction we had the actual assignment we had the rubric to go along with it and everyone was on the same page because we were there for a few days and really fine-tuned our assignment that when we started the next school year we were ready to go with them so having that trying to do that in school doesn't really work when you've got a 45 minute period and kids come in for help so it was really nice to have that time away during the summer with our colleagues [Applause] any questions don't go too far guys questions no well thank you very much for being our audience this evening i know we're trying to figure out our words i know this is so much fun so i was gonna say how late will the library be open this week until the rain stops so this was done over the course of a couple of days so the actual curriculum writing institute was the five day piece and then throughout the year they've been working on and tweaking and those types of things but as jenna said you don't get that chocolate time no i yeah right just trying to find time to think right sometimes is yeah we uh have curriculum the writing institute 2.0 plan for this spring or in the process of being tough to trump last year because it was so unique last year i think this year it'll be even better because people know what to expect it makes a couple of minor changes but um to provide that opportunity is really positive and it we pay people to be there so this is an investment um that we are making but you can see the dividends that it pays off for our kids in the learning that they get to experience and engage in the enthusiasm and our staff to to do that and our teachers so you know it's a worthwhile investment yeah and i would say it was awesome to see enthusiasm for everyone obviously you can enjoy doing this advertising so thank you so much you even got me here as well we definitely don't make cannibals who is the faculty that was involved was it just dodd or was it the whole asian teachers k-12 special education teachers the arts so what you have about 350-400 teachers right yeah yeah but we have about 400 total teachers and i just want to put this in context a little bit you know the last three months of 2020 everybody went remote it was crazy last year was really challenging we had so many teachers who were teaching kids both virtually and in person kids in and out regularly during quarantines and isolations teachers in and out during that time a lot of pressure because it wasn't just the professional life they were juggling but their personal lives with those same sort of challenges with their families yet marlene and her team designed such an incredible worthwhile experience that almost 25 percent well 20 percent of our staff came back for five extra days after that year well let me tell you everybody wanted to just shut it down after last year and like go hang out by the pool or something but of our staff which speaks volumes about our people that work in our school system and the program that marlene put together that is i don't want to that's a real testament right there so thank you guys for participating that's it really speaks so much about you as teachers tremendously see that we're excited is we want to do it again it's not just the opportunity to work with each other you know get the whole fomo [Music] we're likely to keep it to 80 because of the space and the ability for us to get around to provide that feedback gotcha and i would think it would be ongoing because you guys only accomplished one unit over the summer one unit for each grade level yeah so you have several yeah yeah we did three different performance tasks but like yeah so for two different grades but we had a large we were able to have a large group yeah we had a lot of math seven through 12.
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i was very surprised and you may be too i had no idea that the vacancy rates were so high and on april 1st i went down to the different levels and found that level 3 3 and 4 for example were completely vacant i was really surprised so it seems pretty clear that the dda needs to be asked to provide longer term data and to learn when the last time was that the library lot parking structure was filled with capacity the bottom line is this clearly the removal of 32 parking spots on ground level can easily be accommodated by vacant underground parking spots and it should be easily it should easily accommodate a common common storage facility on level four and it is worth noting that the library square already has a storage facility in place on level four please work with the dda to remove parking as soon as possible the voters have waited long enough thank you for your consideration chef any other members of the public wishing to speak heather yep uh robert black go ahead you hear me heather yeah yes all right thank you very much uh just a fun fact for you guys too as a principal of sun structures architects on the corner of forth and liberty for 30 years one of the early early 1980s art fair meetings is we ventured out onto the street on a friday with a bunch of sidewalk chalk and began what i believe is the very first chalk the park experience that happened in liberty plaza and around the downtown anyway that's a piece of history i can't go back as far as frank does but that's a good one so um a couple of comments about the past progress on the center of the city is growing well your work this past year is showing great results you are building alignment together fueling common purpose your working groups are effective especially the comparable communities results you are beginning the block partners outreach and it's very good but two key players need to be engaged as soon as possible in our district library and first martin corporation they will change the vector of this project dramatically their involvement is critical the rfi that you sent out although you got only two responses has given you a broad spectrum of ideas to consider as you advise the city on sending out an rfp for professional services and i really appreciate the public feedback that's forming both from mr crockett and from letters like kitty khan and libby brooks i would hope that more and more people get engaged to comment on this process the initiating committee has is which i'm a part of with uh mr crockett and others has been a great ally in supporting the center of the city work especially as a driving force to plan prepare and carry out activating events like the fun art and food art and nutrition event last year to activate the kind of recommendations it's creating a dynamic public spirit capturing public sentiment and feedback and kudos to mr crockett to odile and alan and others for the green team uh rita and others chad monfreda for growing the garden in there as a metaphor for the commons it's really working people are becoming engaged and that blossoming garden will be a an example for you in the future the initiating committee's plans for earth day you should check out i know leslie science center has some amazing events i was one of the architects that created the science center out there the lab you know the broader engagement of the city government will happen at the earth day event including dr stoltz will be speaking about 8-2-0 and osi um you'll hear from city council candidates the public conversation is growing uh there are important diverse speakers on key topics like the green brick road indigenous peoples public power climate lobby student actions and much more but my favorite thing is matt altruda coming in from sonic lunches and his backing by the bank of ann arbor to bring more music beyond liberty plaza and out into the heart of the city the drumming that will come that i've worked with this person drumming and matt's work with the bands he's bringing together are going to really create a beautiful spirit that will drive other events this year so you have an ambitious agenda tonight i wish you respectful and attentive dialogues with each other geared toward aligned and purposeful actions as a new spring starts to blossom in ann arbor and especially in its center of the city heart good luck and have fun you robert anyone else no one else with their hand raised all right in that case we will close public comment uh and move into uh the update uh from the office of sustainability and innovations uh and turn the floor over to uh dr staltz dr stultz thank you so much for joining us thank you for having me it is so delightful to be with you all tonight in this virtual space that we are sharing i appreciate a little bit of your time i'm gonna take you on a whirlwind adventure so get excited strap in or flail the hands whatever you need to do because here we go just uh to kind of start us off how many of you via show of hands have heard of something called a sustainable energy utility anyone well we're gonna talk about it uh so let me let me take you back in time in january city council adopted a resolution that asked the city to look at a lot of different options to meet our a20 carbon neutrality and equity goals and uh some of those pathways include looking at traditional municipalization looking at things like virtual power purchase agreements i could throw accurate inside you all day there's a lot of acronyms in the energy system but one of the things that we proposed was exploring a sustainable energy utility and council directed the city to move forward with getting public feedback on this concept and you are the first that we are coming to out of the lineup to start talking about this so i just want to take a few minutes and tell you a little bit about the sustainable energy utility in the hopes uh as leaders of our community you feel comfortable talking to your friends and neighbors so we can start registering much more public feedback is this a good idea what do we like what do we not like should we pursue it should we not pursue it so no obligation to move forward but i'm hoping by the end of this conversation you are so jazzed any way you need to be jazzed that you're ready to talk to people uh about a sustainable energy utility so i'm going to take you through a very short presentation you ready for a journey here we go let's go all right i just forgive me i'm not i'm going to go off camera because i'm looking at a different screen and this is going to be bonkers for all of us so i am with you here we go can you see the slides first yep okay great still see them in full screen which screen is sharing you can't because it's sharing in the wrong side well that's painful we're gonna fix this do you love technology it's really delightful when it works and it's painful and it doesn't all right let's try again [Music] it has been hard to check well monkey this is not going to work for me here we go we're just going to do it can you see now yep all right i'm dead in the water so i can't see it so i'm gonna hope that i'm up uh just for funsies are you seeing the introductory side are you seeing emissions my source we're seeing them oh go ahead i was just we're seeing michigan energy contacts third slide down you're not saying no i'm sorry it's uh yeah third no right now we're on the front yep we're in there okay great and are you seeing it in side view this is painful y'all i really am not this tragic normally uh are you seeing notes uh yes we are yeah this is tragedy my boss is on the line and it's just not looking good here so melt and close your eyes we're going to try this again all right that's my view here we go friends promise not to read the notes if that's how you have to go yeah it's any calculation they're too small to read yeah yeah but that's just like silly all right we're gonna blow it up and we'll just play here we go we'll make it we'll make it look like it's real all right so i am super excited to be here to tell you a little bit about the proposed sustainable energy utility which is uh modeled to be 100 clean reliable locally built and community owned power so just to lay a little bit of context about uh why this is important we have as i heard i i know almost all of you so i know that you know we have a goal in our community of being carbon neutral in a just an equitable way by the year 2030 known as a20 and guiding that work is uh an understanding of what our emissions profile actually looks like and here locally 40 of our emissions come from our built uh the electricity used in our built environment we also know that our buildings when you look at the energy we use to heat and cool them use two-thirds of the emissions or emit two-thirds of the emissions that come from our community we're also working to electrify and so uh whether that's our vehicles or whether that's our building stock and so doing what we can to make sure the electricity that actually flows and powers our life is clean reliable and and resilient is really really important it's a key part of the work that we're doing as is working towards this idea of a just transition i just want to share a little bit about michigan's energy context with you because i think this is important to understanding uh what we can and cannot oh that's funsies what we can and cannot do uh locally just one second you may know uh this is a little bit wonky uh but you may know that michigan has what uh is called the foot act and for the purposes of the city of ann arbor we signed a franchise agreement to provide power provided to our community in 1902 and that predates the foot act what there's a lot of history here and i'm not going to belabor it i can direct you to more information if you'd like to dive in but basically what ended up happening this has been tested in in the courts is that uh our franchise pre-foot act is in perpetuity so we can't you sometimes hear stories uh of minneapolis how they negotiated a franchise agreement they got better terms and conditions we can't negotiate our franchise dte its predecessor but now dt has the right to serve our community in perpetuity there's the news uh here's the positive the michigan constitution protects the rights of cities and villages to create their own municipal utility and this can be done by either a taking uh aka condemnation and a buyout of an incumbent utility in their infrastructure or via the creation of a supplemental utility now today every community that has started their own municipal electric utility within michigan with the last being zealand which formed in 1902 has done so through uh initial startup they didn't have to take because they started it themselves and that sort of makes sense because you can imagine it's really expensive to buy out and incumbent utilities infrastructure it's also really expensive to stand up parallel poles and wires that run adjacent and that's what you would traditionally have had to do if you created a supplemental utility so what do we do well what if what if we created that supplemental or complementary utility that was community owned that provides electricity from local solar and battery storage systems installed in homes and businesses in our community and what if that community owned utility provided 100 clean reliable locally built and affordable electricity built right here in our community by our community this utility would give residents a choice for where they procure their energy a choice that we don't have today and this parallel utility would not duplicate the traditional grid with all of its vulnerabilities but focus on generating new clean reliable power now and that is a vision of a sustainable energy utility as envisioned as sustainable energy utility would focus we call it an sau for short so hence the acronym you'll see a lot would focus on generating local clean energy energy that would feed directly into our homes businesses places of worship community centers and this clean energy would be paired with storage to help improve improve energy reliability and offered in conjunction with things like deep energy waste reduction programs to help our residents lower their energy costs and usage all while improving comfort the concept of an seo is grounded in choice providing all of us in ann arbor another way to procure a large portion of our energy one that's coming again from clean local reliable and resilient power sources y'all are doing great you're about halfway done already uh as we uh designed and conceptualized seu what is important is it would enable a lot more people to get the benefit of things like solar and it would do this by directly paying for the installation of solar systems on residential and business roofs carports ground-mounted systems uh you know open space where it makes sense and is viable for one reason or another and what's important in this model is residents wouldn't be the owners an individual resident wouldn't be the owner of that solar system the public or the sustainable energy utility would residents would then subscribe to purchase their energy at a rate that's based on the cost of installing that system and the su's operational needs they would pay a cost from that system or from their neighbors system that's installed on their road for their neighbor's roof if all the residents power needs are met the excess generation from that solar system flows into a battery this means that residents could still have power if the big traditional grid goes down so this is supplemental this means you could actually have two providers of power with the seo providing the vast majority of the power to our community through clean reliable sources here's the good news what i just said it's already possible today i already do it today at my house right i already have a solar and storage system i just happen to own that system but in this model the sustainable energy utility or the public would own that system additionally the seo would not be limited by current utility restrictions that constrain solar system sizes or the amount of solar that's allowed on the grid you may know this as the one percent cap which is something that we're working hard to push to push against ideally make completely and totally go away instead the seo would seek to maximize the amount of solar that we have using all the viable sunny roof space and over time we are working to figure out how we would connect all these solar systems into microgrids meaning that we really literally are sharing power with each other the su could also offer robust energy waste reduction programs thereby helping people lower demand and improve their comfort these services would be available to anyone that participates in the seo that you don't have to get solar to participate in those kinds of programs uh we could have lots of opt out in services and ultimately the goal here we all know the the goal is to have improved comfort to reduce our bills to save energy to adjust the climate crisis to make sure equity is centered in this work and what's super neat is that the seo allows us to offer those programs through something called on bill finance onboard finance is exactly what it says uh the sau through that mechanism is able to pay the upfront cost of these improvements energy efficiency or even electrification upgrades and residents pay those costs back through their utility bill over time and this allows the cost of the improvements to stay with the home as opposed to the resident right so that helps reduce the upfront costs to make these kinds of improvements and because this is a public utility we can amortize those costs over longer periods of time working to get as close to parity and ideally savings through these kinds of improvements and what i mean by that is if adam invests five thousand dollars in a new system and we can work with him to pay that back over seven years and make sure that the payment is equivalent to his savings so that he has no change in bill or ideally the payment is less than the savings he's actually gonna get therefore he actually reduces his bill makes an improvement gets more comfortable uh and is oh by the way helping to address the climate crisis so that's one of the really powerful things about this tool is it opens up opportunity to a lot more people uh that can traditionally invest in some of the more costly upfront kinds of things many of us uh are doing to address climate change this is also true for beneficial electrification which is here just want to flag that same mechanism i just talked about for energy efficiency it applies there so why um i know that i just give you a lot to digest but i just want to reiterate the core concept that we're unpacking uh through an su which is the creation of a community owned utility that focuses on generating local clean reliable energy fast it's about leveraging existing technologies and practices solar and storage to reduce emissions quickly while improving reliability it's about ensuring all anarbrites have access to solutions to improve comfort reduce their bills and reap the benefits of the clean energy economy that is the core and i just want to end by sharing a few examples of what this could look like in practice just to kind of help uh drive well drive is a bad word bike this home ha ha so first example this would be a homeowner or a business that has good solar potential but doesn't have the capital ability interest whatever it might be to install solar on the roof in this case the individual would subscribe or enroll in the seu as a supplemental utility to dte the scu would work with that homeowner or business to conduct a needs assessment identifying potential energy waste reduction opportunities electrification opportunities really maximize the solar design on their so their system that homeowner or business identifies what opportunities they want to move forward with they have the option of financing them through the onboard finance program and then we work with them to try to create the right financing package to make sure that it is really really viable for them to make those payments and of course once those payments are paid off the resident gets the full benefit of all of the improvements right so while that's also happening we're installing solar on the roof the seo is the residents continue to pay their bill as they always have they pay per usage kilowatt hour of usage and they're paying per kilowatt of our usage they draw from that solar system if that solar system produces more power than they draw then that is feeding into a battery that they're pulling energy from if the power goes down and eventually that excess power is moving into the microgrid helping power their neighbors home who may not be able to have solar because they have glorious glorious trees that we want to protect in the system if the solar system doesn't produce enough energy they're drawing from dte because that is still a power supply that they have so in this way they have two bills they're paying ideally the majority of their bill from the seu and the renewable energy power that's coming from their roof and whatever else they might need is being pulled from dt so that's one example second example uh a resident or business wants to to move forward but that roof for any number of reasons just cannot handle solar so we work with them to understand what energy waste reduction and beneficial uh electrification opportunities make sense the individual we do that same assessment they customize that assessment figure out what improvements they want to make we make those improvements they amortize them and pay them back over a period of time have they having the option of going to the private market or using on bill finance to make that a little bit more digestible and they could register to join the micro or nano grid as soon as uh deadly people in their neighborhood sign up for the seo so as soon as we have enough energy in that system in that region we can we can have them be connected to the seo and actually procure literal electrons to power their home this individual also received two bills but the difference is the one bill from the seu is for the on bill finance should they choose to use it the other is from dte for the actual electrons that they're pulling until the se microgrid gets stood up you're doing great almost done a third example is a resident who already has solar on their home or business in this case the resident would still be able to take advantage of all that energy waste reduction and benefit beneficial electrification programming i talked about before and the seo could still enroll in the seo for a battery if they currently don't have one but they can also enroll in the seo to sell their excess power to the utility we are working on the modeling right now the goal is to get as close as possible to net metering right the true value of that energy getting that individual compensated at that that rate because that energy is going to flow to their neighbor right and it's going to be shared throughout the system and that's how we make sure that everyone to the extent that we can can have access to this renewable energy system two more examples to finish out a fourth is a multi-family rental in this case the seou would work closely with the landlord property owner as well as the tenants to customize solutions that meet the individual needs different units might have very different needs the entire building might have similar needs so we've got to really do everything we did before just at a different scale rentals are eligible for every single offering that we have through the program and what's sort of neat is we've been working on green leases in our office but when you pair uh that or just by itself on bill financing we address a lot of the uh the tension in the landscape that exists between who makes the improvements and who reaps the benefits of the improvements in rental units and that's really powerful and a way to kind of address that disincentive and we've been talking to various landlords and property owners about this and what we can do uh to make sure that the seo really supports them in this landscape so this is all viable within the rental market and actually helps correct some of the problems that we're facing now with uh the disconnect between renters and women's and then the last example is of community solar it the truth is in some cases individuals are not going to have access to on-site renewable energy generation in these cases we would be working on off-site solar in common areas very close to a region that just doesn't have good solar potential for whatever the reason might be that could be the common areas could be things like parking lots school rooftops parks uh shared places it could be a community center and in that case the individual subscribes to take a portion of their energy to help power their life their business whatever it might be from that community solar asset in this way anyone in the community can participate in the seo even if they don't own their own home they don't have great solar potential they're here for just a blink of an eye but they can still be part of this movement and in this way individuals that subscribe uh for whatever amount they subscribe to to the system how many other kilowatts they get the benefit of those kilowatts and they pay for those kilowatts so that's how we sort of slice and dice uh this example so those are just a few um i am at the end examples of how the sau could work i know this was really fast and furious just want to share if you'd like to learn more there are videos there's really detailed fact sheets there's uh really detailed trainings there's a lot of information on our website including the report that we drafted uh it's super simple a2gov.org backslash a2seu but if you are so kind you personally we would love you to go to the second bullet point and register your interest do you like it do you not like it what are you looking for in your energy system what don't you want in your energy system tell us if this is bonkers or if this lands for you and it's something you want to see your community invest in the survey launched today and we are excited to get feedback we would also appreciate as leaders in our community if you could share that this is now open and direct people to the website uh if you feel comfortable talking to them please do and if you don't and they have questions please send them to our send them to the email address in the third bullet point because we want to make sure that every resident has a chance to give us their opinion on whether or not this is a viable pathway that the city should be pursuing you made it uh so i guess i'll just say thank you for letting me take a little bit of time to tell you about the ant the proposed ann arbor sustainable energy utility which we envision as a clean reliable locally built and affordable way to power our community thank you [Music] thank you very much dr stultz is there uh are there any questions at all for missy uh alice i saw your hand up first can well before there's not a question i'm sorry heather um steven got kicked out and he's waiting in the waiting room [Music] he pinged me and asked me if i would let you know that he's uh caller o204 with his hand raised okay okay thank you sorry to interrupt nope you're fine uh alice you want to go yes i will um i take note of the fact that our meeting is now more than three quarters of an hour through our period of time um and i appreciate missy's uh rapid fire presentation uh however um the main question i have is um that i would like to know now that we've heard so much about the seuss um how missy might see the relationship between the make between making a place at the center of our city and achieving the goals of e20 or maybe more specifically the establishment of a supplemental community utility and uh establishing a place at the center of the city um i you know i appreciate your compliment to us those leaders among those in the city but um you're here at our meeting and i would like to know um how uh an seo might benefit our processor how it is related to what we are doing here at this committee yeah well so intentionally i mean we are going to every boarding commission because you are leaders in the community so i want to name that that is part of the objective right that you are a voice that people listen to and an opportunity just to share these are ways to get involved and share your opinion within the community in terms of your specific question uh there are limitless ways that we could talk about activating the comments to align with sustainability which i i think and i hope is one of the core values of our community it could be as simple as a kiosk that demonstrates all of the renewable energy that we are generating in our community and the value and the benefit that that has for all of us in the shared space it could be demonstrations of renewable energy in that space so people can interact with it and feel it and see it and understand how it actually functions and benefits us it could be a physical manifestation of the sustainability that we want to see throughout the rest of our community i think that there's no limit to what's possible i think without without making it sound uh too fluffy i've been talking to lots of people that want to have this conversation about what's the limit of our imagination of what we want this to be i have too many ideas that you don't want to hear about how we could activate that space but i would love to have a sidebar conversation with you anytime you would like to have one about what's possible in that space i think the limit is what we can imagine thank you are any other questions at all from for missy jeff oh yes first of all wonderful presentation and i'm really excited about this uh that you're doing this i think it's really important to do it i've always been very uncomfortable about our being so dependent on dte and uh um just a a very brief technical question do we have the battery technology currently to be able to actually do this because it's my you know i know that elon musk and all the rest of them are building all these wonderful systems and what have you but battery is still a problem i mean it's expensive still and there's there's a ways to go as far as i can see uh to to make it really you know sustainable and reliable maybe i'm not up to date but can you just speak to that the answer is the word storage rather than that yep yep good question so the the answer is yes and no that battery technology has and is changing so fast we're seeing alternative forms of storage you know there's lithium ion we're testing lots of other things things are already at market other materials that are fabulous you know conductors and stores of energy sources uh in the residential market that we have we have really good options around storage so thinking about an individual home the first phase of the su that solar and storage we have no concerns whatsoever commercial batteries are being deployed in a lot of other areas like in the southwest in california at scale we're not quite i would say ready to deploy a large number of commercial batteries yet we're still doing our learnings in that landscape but that's okay because that we can do a whole lot with that first system of residential batteries before we have to get to a commercial system that sort of allows for for that microgriding phase so yes and no if that makes sense sure thank you good question uh rita you're up next you're on me arena sorry um thanks missy um i'm interested in knowing the proportion that you anticipate the seu to provide of the energy total in the community and i realize that the total is a variable kind of thing and could expand over time so but if you can give some sense of what the expectations are for this i'd appreciate it yeah thank you it's an excellent question so we worked with google to do some analysis of the viability of ann arbor only looking at rooftop so we never looked at any ground-mounted spaces because it was just easier to to kind of take roofs from that uh initial assessment right now our community uses 400 roughly 440 megawatts on average of energy our rooftop assessment showed if we maximized those roofs we're at 400 megawatts so uh we can actually go much further than we thought no i want to name we're talking about electrification too right so demand will change so we'll we'll be increasing load we'll be doing hopefully much more energy efficiency which will bring that down a little bit um and this doesn't include geothermal which is something we're also piloting so the goal is to make solar which is what i primarily talked about because that's what we are ready to run at uh the first phase and then district geothermal where we share geothermal systems within neighborhoods handle the the heating and cooling load primarily which then lessens the demand we have to have on those solar systems being dispatched great is the proportion are you saying it's near 100 you're making me do math on the spot i feel like it's close well you said you said four we're we're using we're 440 and we have estimated 400.
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the p stands for practice safety the a stands for accept responsibility the w stands for welcome kindness my favorite and the s stands for show respect at school 16 this may look slightly different in our aba classrooms but we are still using positive reinforcement to help foster and develop positive behaviors at the heart of it all we are still recognizing our students just in a way that works for us so come take a look i'll show you what it looks like [Music] we modify our pause program for our students in order to make sure everyone can earn their dojo points to spend their bobcat bucks and participate in school-wide activities students earn their dojo points through discrete trials completing their activity schedules and even as additional reinforcement within their behavior intervention plans students are in dojo points from their specialist teachers as well powers also play a very important role in ensuring that our students receive immediate reinforcement throughout the day and they also let their teachers know when the students earn their dojo what's mom's name movie good what's that name hurry up good what's your name what's your sister's name madness what's your brother's name tyler nice job give me high five hey logan what's this couch good what's this [Music] cracker very good what's up chair awesome couch dad you got another token okay what's he doing he is clean awesome and what's he doing he is cutting great job logan you earned your last token and you get here you got it nice job buddy slime [Music] we have our pep rally ms payton creates a slideshow to share with staff so that all students and staff have the knowledge of the pep rally activities beforehand miss payton also practices the pep rally activities during her gym class so that the students have the repetitive practice they need [Music] [Applause] most importantly every student earns dojo points and gets to trade in their points at the school store since waiting at the school store can be overwhelming for the students specific prizes are awarded to the students in the autism program typically based on their sensory processing needs students get to pick from toby's cart and they pick a prize that they enjoy every student is able to spend their bobcat books without having to leave the classroom here at school 16 we always show our paws [Music] all right guys you guys get to see the prize from the school store for earning your dojo [Music] let's boys let's go can i i won't have him in oh nice shot clean enough teddy bear thank you all right fernando go ahead bubble oh bubba nice job all right come on over kiddo we have squishy balls play-doh bubbles you will definitely you want to come on this side come on alan honey good idea [Music] [Applause] thank you school 16.
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and there's a lot more to do in the revision cycle i would assume you have to unpack your old units and embed all these activities you heard the math people talk about you know tom and jenna talking about the incorporation of the performance standards too i mean as much as uh i appreciate you guys mentioning it explicitly but it was also evident in the la bla components too the more that we can do that the richer the experience is for our kids i'm sorry tim no um i'm just wondering you said 80 last year 80 this year is it kind of like that was the graduating cohort and they will move on to the second year new people could be moving into it without it getting lost like going out to the second there will be some people who come back who we're going to repeat from last year and we believe we'll have new people also who want to participate a lot depends on people's summer schedules those kinds of things and what works we're looking to we had we tried to get a special education teacher embedded with each group so that that scaffolding was there yeah um so we're looking to increase the number of special education special educators in that process so it'll it'll be a mix all right thank you i just wanted to comment that um i think it's really important that you bring this to the board of ed and to the people in town um because success it for professionals which you all are is dependent on having the time to really rejuvenate constantly i mean that's what that's why these are creative experiences that's why they affect our kids that because you've had you were given a gift and you were paid for it which you should be because this is your professional time and i i just think you know people need to realize how important it is to have this professional development to have the time put aside for teachers to collaborate and to work on cooking in a meaningful way in a really deep way so i'm glad you're doing it again and um thank you for bringing us yes um question for jeff actually um so a couple of nights ago you had mentioned that we were we were reinvesting in our staff this is an example of what you were talking about it is yes so there was some federal money used to help facilitate this and um you know we've tried to evolve uh and provide new professional development opportunities this is one example acceleration of professional development we had a number of staff participating after school hours again last year after school hours our people were participating in these acceleration workshops which was really incredible of them but powerful as well we also have done um uh coaching uh we've invested a lot in coaching and helping our staff because if you remember we as a board adopted that bounce forward plan our federal money won't last us very long we didn't get a ton of money when that money runs dry all of our people are better for the experience but i also realized that you know tony had said to me on multiple occasions about you know it's important to see the power of this investment and you know when we build budgets in the future i think this provides a more tangible understanding for members of the board and the community about why like ambulance you're saying why this is valuable and why it is important to invest in in professional development is we continue to evolve as a school system i just think for long term because the funding will be sustainable is there a train a trainer motto because you will have new staff and you will have you know units that you have to go back and check and and so on so just yeah it's definitely the coaching uh component is very much grounded that way we have reading math specialists we have middle and high school coaches that our coach to be able to help others learn to be coaches and things like that acceleration and curriculum writing because it's always and changing um we don't have as much of that element that you bring up into it but we are certainly cognizant of how do we how do we do that better in our mental health work we are doing more of that where we're training people to be facilitators to train other facilitators any other questions from the board as members as aaron and i just realized i skipped public comment before i jumped to the showcase my assignment got the better so before we enter the meeting uh did we have any public comment any comments from the audience everyone has to go home so i won't keep you they they got the memo that's impossible so uh before we journal i just want to thank thank you mr winston staff for everyone you guys the outstanding job beyond our four teachers who uh who presented tonight we also want to thank kevin and john for really helping with their guidance so thank you so much um so once you guys are home early night um but i have a motion to adjourn some of all those in favor unanimous this meeting is adjourned thank you
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that's it all right well thank you very much and congratulations to all the appointments [Applause] i'd like to invite all of them to come out and say a few words and introduce their guests so i'll start off with reuben reuben cairos thank you so many people to thank i wrote it down but i won't be long thank you i want to start by thanking the board of trustees board president al-jabbar mr matuta our executive cabinet for believing in me and giving me this opportunity i want to thank anaheim high school admin team robert saldivar for his great leadership and being a great mentor to me these past few years a big thank you to our staff our teachers students and parents i would not be here if i did not have their support so thank you last but not least i would like to thank my family my wife daisy my two boys reuben and gabriel my mom my brothers and sisters thank you for always being there for me and supporting me in everything that i do i love you please stand up stance please stand up just i just want to say that i'm truly honored and humbled by this opportunity what i've learned about anaheim high school these past few years is that anaheim is a very special place there's a lot of rich history at anaheim the school means a lot to the community our staff our students our parents and it means a lot to me we plan on continuing the great progress that anaheim has made in recent years there's a lot of need at anaheim and our school needs a leader who understands these needs and is mindful of the importance of being a servant leader i promise you that i will do my very best to be the leader that anaheim needs i'm excited about the future of anaheim high school and i'm looking forward to the opportunity go anaheim thank you all right thank you reuben you and i are going to be talking a lot late not that we're not we always talk but yes more more now exactly all right next is uh rafael come on down thank you thank you very much i again want to thank the uh and echo what reuben said in thanking the board mr matsuda the executive cabinet for this opportunity um i've been a loyal servant to this district for the past 16 years before that i served at buena park and before that i taught at centralia so i'm a local boy i went to boynton park high school i went all the way away to cal state fullerton to go to school and i returned back i live in the community my kids went to our schools i am auhsd through and through and so it is with i'm humbled and i'm honored and i thank you so much for the privilege and the opportunity to lead dale as we continue to grow the programs there and continue to establish our district initiatives as we move forward and so i apologize my family is a baseball family and i don't know if you know what tonight is but they promised me they are watching it on the youtube channel uh my my grandson is four and i'm sure he's wearing his angel's hat right now and i look forward to catching a little bit of the game with him but again i want you to know how humbled i am how honored i am and we will make you proud at dale go lancers [Applause] [Music] lauren klatzker come on down i'm clearly the shortest person to come up here tonight president jabar board of trustees superintendent masuda and cabinet i would like to thank you all so much for this opportunity i began my career in anaheim union 18 years ago i know this because my son was an infant and i've reached that point in my life where i track time by how old my children are i never thought at that time that my path would lead me to this new role but i'm so excited to be here i'd like to thank all of the principals assistant principals fellow teachers speech and language pathologists and psychologists that i've worked with over the years because they have helped to make me who i am i would like to thank carl waddell who unfortunately isn't here tonight for providing insight and guidance to me over the past few years through some extremely tough cases as well as all of my colleagues in sys i'd like to give a special thanks to amy our and our outgoing director celeste krueger for allowing me to take on an extra leadership role this year which has really helped to prepare me to take on this new role as coordinator i'm excited just to say that i could not have gotten to where i am today though without the love and support of my family only a few of them were able to come here tonight in person i here with me are my husband danny our middle son ian and and my mom and dad weren't able to join but they did also assure me they are watching it um our oldest son jake who's a freshman at the university of washington also promised that he is watching it from his dorm room i'm not sure if i believe him or not and our youngest is away at sixth grade science camp so i know he's not tuned in um i'd like to give a shout out to my sister becky and her family who are watching my sister-in-laws ilana and lisa who are also watching with their families at home i'm excited to work with our new incoming sys director amy maya and help her lead the teachers and staff in their work with students with special needs in our district i truly have a passion for special education and for special education students and i am so excited to help them realize their potential and to develop their unlimited you and whatever that looks like for them so thank you all very much thank you very much now we're going to recognitions i just want to go ahead and acknowledge some of the folks who are in the room with us grant schuster ask the president um i don't know if you have natalie saldivar and corey oh now he's there all right and corey kretz nope she's not here hilda vasquez alta president amanda is here representing and uh jennifer hippo hippolyto nope okay all right that's right and then we got to give special recognition to lauren classical because she's also a board member at fulton joint union so [Applause] all right now we're going to recognitions in terms of donations do we have the kauffman foundation folks here okay since they're not here i'll still read it uh although they're unable to be here tonight on behalf of the board of trustees we would like to thank the kauffman foundation for their generous donation which will help promote entrepreneurship throughout the district so thank you very much to kauffman foundation 75 000 so let's give him a big round of applause and now we go to kindness matters awards presented and i'm going to defer this to rita ray do you want the board members down there after or before that would be nice yes sure yes after thank you good evening president jabbar board of trustees and cabinet i am privileged to present to you the spring recipients of the kindness matters awards more than 10 years ago the district set out to recognize and show appreciation to staff students and community members who go above and beyond to demonstrate compassion and care for others tonight we are honoring 15 people who have shown exemplary kindness recipients when i call your name would you please come forward to receive your certificate in pen and remain up front with everyone until everyone has been acknowledged our first recipient is cesar alvarez okay it doesn't look like cesar is here but cesar is a student in the adult transition or workability program a cypress high school student caesar is new to adult transition this year his teacher in the program says caesar can be a little shy but he is an extremely kind person she says he never fails to open and hold doors for all his peers and staff she writes that while some people on campus seem to always be in a rush caesar never fails to acknowledge others or to demonstrate kindness on a daily basis lindsey bolton lindsay couldn't be with us tonight but lindsay is the owner of the good samaritan restaurant also known as subs and grubs lindsay's nominator writes as a new business owner in the city of cyprus lindsay and her family are passionate about giving people with disabilities the opportunity to have work experience lindsay's mission is to raise awareness of how capable people with disabilities can be she works with adult transition students during the day and hopes to create an evening social gathering for this population as well when auhsd hosted the orange county business advisory council recently lindsay spoke with other business owners about the benefits of working with students with disabilities our next recipient is rosie cardozo [Applause] school counselors are known for their compassion for students but magnolia high school counselor rosie cardoza goes above and beyond her job title during senior night for the boys basketball team rosie noticed that one of the boys was about to walk down the aisle alone so she quickly jumped in as she escorted him in addition she was president present at cif and regular season games to show her support for the athletes rosie's entire paradigm is based on student support for their overall success while doing supervision for instance she actively looks for students who may need extra support and then informs them of possible resources thank you rosie our next recipient is lisa freeman lisa is not here tonight but lisa is a teacher at sycamore junior high lisa freeman's nominator says that when a sycamore family lost their apartment and all their belongings to a fire last year lisa used her personal funds to shelter the family at a motel lisa then kept in touch with the family and did what she could to help them get back on their feet we know there is nothing in her job description as a teacher that includes helping a family through such a crisis this was simply an act of kindness [Music] our next recipient is monica gibral looks like monica's not here monica is a student at kennedy high school she is an rsvp facilitator that stands for raising student voice and purpose as a member of the class of 2023 monica takes time out of her day to help others and to support others to be the best version of themselves monica's peer writes that monica is always kind and is always there for other people monica also participates in the kika club which supports children in guatemala our next recipient is debbie hell i don't believe debbie is here tonight but according to her principal debbie does not abide by her contractual hours she says she is everywhere all the time as a teacher at oxford academy and cambridge virtual academy debbie offers her students real life opportunities for her business and entrepreneurship classes she organized lessons and events with companies in los angeles and new york debbie runs a pop-up shop on oxford's oxford's campus where students run their own business the students are able to market and sell student wear that they create in class debbie's classroom demonstrates in debbie's classroom students are able to demonstrate the five c's through active participation in the world of business [Applause] the next recipient is hallie hood right here until very serve yourself hallie until very recently hallie hood was a senior administrative assistant at catella high school but i'm happy to say that hallie is now part of the hr certificated team people at catella say we stole her but that just means they've lost someone dear to them halley's nominee is a staff member at catella and he writes that hallie is an exceptional person who does more than she is required to do to ensure that all staff are taken care of of course as an administrative assistant she arranged class coverage she enlist assisted the administrators with whatever they needed she set up meetings answered questions throughout the day but beyond that her nominator writes hallie is just the nicest person all the time thanks for all you do hallie teresa hajola is another person in my office she wasn't able to be here tonight but teresa's nominator writes that teresa has a servant's heart she consistently gives of her time energy and kindness and she never complains teresa is relatively new in her position as lead credential tech in the human resources office yet everyone can depend on her to get the job done she puts in countless hours of her own time to ensure everything is completed and done on time in fact she looks ahead to see what will be needed next and is always ready for the challenge our next recipient is christian mendoza [Applause] christian is a youth pastor at sandals church savannah principal mike pooley says christian reached out to savannah high school and asked how he could support the school's efforts this semester christian and the sandals church are supporting the school's hot cocoa mornings they also provide toiletries and gift bags to savannah families thank you christian for your generosity [Applause] monica mikhail all right doesn't look like she's here but monica is a junior at kennedy high school a peer of monica's rights that she is a hard worker and she always goes beyond to help others even if she doesn't know them she shows others how important it is to forgive and to not hold anything against anyone she is inspirational and a true student leader monica is also an rsvp facilitator a national honor society representative a california scholastic federation community chair and a member of the kika club to support children in guatemala teresa parent okay teresa parent is a resident substitute teacher at loire high school she mostly works with special education students at the school her nominator says teresa connects on a personal basis with some of the most challenging students and she does so with respect and appreciation teresa seems to understand their unique behavioral needs and she addresses them with the calmest energy with the calmest energy sorry while a lot of substitute teachers do the minimum teresa doesn't because she gets to know every kid in the class denise reston part [Applause] denise is a volunteer leader at seacoast grace church in cyprus our adult transition students have been volunteering at the church through our district's workability program for about 10 years during the last five years denise and her volunteers have reciprocated by donating classroom supplies to the workability program they have also helped cypress high school by giving of their time and their skills with the school's campus garden thank you denise our next recipient is mellie santana avila [Applause] boy the angels pulled a lot of people that's all i can say all right mellie santana avila is a ninth grade student at loire high school her nominator says mellie exceeds what it means to be a good student she is truly a good human being she enthusiastically gives up her time resources to make others feel special and acknowledged she stays after class to help put textbooks away and she volunteers time with the after school club that her teacher advises mellie is also known to bestow gifts on others nick valdivia nick was actually nominated for the kindness matters award by counselors at three school sites nick is the parent and financial aid director at california state university long beach he's a community member in the city of cyprus and he has volunteered his time over the last five years for financial aid parent night presentations for cypress oxford and kennedy high school parents nick does two presentations a year where he helps parents navigate the financial aid process the time he takes to assist our families is beyond his work day and yet it's not uncommon for him to stay beyond the meeting time to answer individual questions from parents thank you nick raquel viegas [Applause] raquel's job at anaheim high school is to make class content accessible for plural lingual students as a bilingual instructional aide raquel works with students new to this country but she goes beyond her job duties she spends time getting to know each of them she laughs with them teaches them fun rhymes in english and demonstrates compassion sometimes she's even the shoulder students lean on when they're struggling to adjust to a new country or a new family thank you raquel [Applause] that concludes our kindness matters awards for this year congratulations to all of you all right if if i could have if i could have everybody stay up there just back up so that the board members could line up behind you and take a picture thank you [Music] we're almost there congratulations [Music] okay [Applause] [Music] board members [Applause] if we can if we can have a little bit of attention we have one more recipient who just arrived so we'd like to acknowledge her so folks if you could take this seat [Music] thank you amy all right thank you amy timeout rita would you like to introduce her real quick okay it's millie i know she's a student just want to recognize millie santana avila she's a ninth grade student at loire high school okay thank you [Applause] well i'm going to take this uh special privilege i want to recognize rita ray rita stand up please i know this is you've done this for four years and i know this is going to be your last recognition so thank you for all the work that you've done here she's retiring so let's give her a big round of applause all right i know everybody's probably gone so we're gonna have [Music] all right so let's go ahead and start off with the student representative report abdullah yes sorry one second all right um so there's a lot of things that happen in april and uh a little bit of march um so one very big new piece of news is that the new ambassadors for the cut for the 2020 20 2022 2023 school year were chosen and they're a really good team so i'm excited to see what they're going to do uh next year and how they're going to take on the the big role um and the ambassadors also created a brand new event for the first time called a mindfulness saturday academy that we held at western for the first time ever we got over 110 sign ups and we had a bunch of different activities where they got to sing some karaoke make these affirmation jars for themselves arts and crafts a lot of other things and then we also partnered with illumination institute a partner of the district uh and they gave a a presentation about mindfulness for students so it's really great to see how that affected all of our students and then at every high school we created these testimonial videos with athletes uh staff vapa leaders on how they practice mindfulness in their own way um to show students that mindfulness is available not just in the classic way of deep breathing but in every way that they they approach it uh we had a lcap meeting a little bit a little while ago uh and students got to voice their opinions um and kind of make more concrete ideas and our next lcap meeting is going to be coming up next week so we're going to get to see them next week as well we had a medieval times event district-wide a lot of people showed up and they really loved it um there was a theater and dance festival showcase and all the ambassadors were there and got to cheer them on it was really great we got to see a lot of different showcases of theater and dance at the k-pac so it's really great to see students doing that uh coming up soon we have the cenopalooza where uh students are preparing with different examples of steam with their engineering art in different ways the color and light show was just last tuesday where we got to honor a lot of different students in their art and 3d design and photography so we got to see a lot of students there the robotics team at oxford is competing uh currently at the avr and just competed at the orange county regional so hopefully they do good and oxford and anaheim actually both had their uh prom last saturday and many more high schools are having those so it was a little bit of a bittersweet moment for myself got to have my last prom so it was exciting um jose state conference was last week during spring break and we got a lot of wins there so they'll be going to the national level and then also currently right now we have our fbla uh future business leaders of america in ontario california uh we have chapters in cyprus high school and oxford and actually i'm gonna be heading there after this meeting so a little drive over to ontario once this meeting's over so i might have to leave a little bit early and then at western they had i think that they call spring surprises where asb created these little opportunities for students to give free yearbooks gift cards new pair of headphones and a bunch of other different wishes to other students that expressed need and then western also had a what they call a dancing with the staff event so their annual event where students and teachers paired up to deliver a phenomenal show uh where teams spearheaded their own educate educators and they battled it out uh in a dance competition with their uh staff and then at anaheim they also had a staff versus senior soccer event which is really great to see and then at western the senior ahmad hamuri hamudi was selected back at the orange league mvp and this year was an integral part of winning cif at western and ahmed was also named the oc registers student athlete of the week um so yeah congratulations to him and i think that's it yeah that's it great job abdullah you covered a lot of things that shows that our kids are really engaged and uh doing a lot of work so thank you how can i say something real quick yeah go ahead i just want to take a moment to celebrate abdullah and sebastian who's our ambassador at anaheim and cynthia who's our ambassador at luera they joined our ed staff virtually last week to present an idea that i know you're working with dr cruz to potentially take to fruition on developing a website that is created and run for students by students regarding mental health their presentation i feel like it was in a business meeting it was just so professionally done i mean they all dressed in the nine they came with the business plan they had all the potential roadblocks or barriers and they had solutions to potentially how to solve them just really well done so i want to celebrate you up duel on the team so thank you dr fred thank you appreciate it thank you and congratulations yeah absolutely they're definitely the best stressed team they always outperform me all right elementary school oh yeah oh i totally forgot to mention it um our ambassador team has actually gone to a lot of different school sites are actually all the school sites at the anaheim elementary school district and presented the pledge and what opportunities they have at the district and what they have in the future so it was really great to see a lot of different parents and students getting excited about their college career and whatnot even at the elementary school level so yeah that is awesome thank you thank you abdullah and please thank the ambassadors i know that they're one of the busiest groups i've seen at every event so thank you thank you absolutely all right hey 8.2 we usually invite all our student speakers who are here and i know that we have three student speakers but they put in one card to speak so i'm going to invite all three of them from cypress high school hannah pratt oliver weber olivia webber and molina donna [Applause] good evening i'm olivia webber this is hannah pratt molina duna and where's emmy this is emmy said we are a student group from cypress high school and we're just interested in making some improvements to our student parking lot our purpose of speaking here today is to take some civic action and just to spread some awareness about what we think is potentially dangerous in our crosswalk in the main parking lot as student drivers we personally have experienced or at least witnessed some minor collisions or just some unsafe usage in the main crosswalk and after a school-wide poll it was determined that around 76 percent of our students feel that they are unsafe in the car and the whole parking lot so that's where you come in so we did like a survey for our students and asked them about their first-hand experiences in the parking lot and one of the questions that we asked was is there anything that you would like to see fixed in the parking lot and one of the responses was we need more rules in the parking lot maybe speed limit signs or extra ways to make people slow down because it is ridiculous quote-unquote good evening my name is hannah so if you will look at the second page in that little packet we just passed to you you will see the diagram of the existing parking lot as it is now including the existing stop signs if you look right where it says b there's a crosswalk that runs all the way across directly across that letter b is that main crosswalk that where we're having issues right where that little arrow kind of points to there is no stop sign nor a pedestrian crossing sign right there and we have constant issues with students trying to cross there and parents or student drivers not stopping for the pedestrians in the crosswalk we believe that people do not realize that pedestrians always have the right of way in a crosswalk whether it is marked or unmarked in addition to that if you look above the letter a there is another crosswalk that runs from the parking lot to the sidewalk that is also unmarked and we do have the same issue there normally in the mornings we do have a security guard out there directing traffic but her job would be eliminated if we were to fix the problem if you will flip to the following page we have spoken to mr sean pfeiffer our assistant principal at cypress high school and our campus safety officer you and they have helped us come up with a few methods where we think could assist us in this problem for method one it would be highlighting those two crosswalks adding a pedestrian sign at both and repainting the existing crosswalk a brighter color to make it more noticeable or another potential issue keeping that same method for region a and eliminating the crosswalk above option b or area b and making a brand new primary crosswalk right at c where that other yellow line is it would not only shorten the length of distance that students need to walk to cross onto the opposite side of the school but it would eliminate students from crossing like cattle across from the school into the parking lot which is another big issue and we think that highlighting a second crosswalk that goes the opposite direction would help eliminate that issue so our purpose for coming to the board today was to protect the safety of our students through though there have been no major traffic collisions to date we fear the occurrence of one is inevitable on the previous page you will find some potential options for how to solve the issue in our parking lot we have worked with mr sean pfeiffer our assistant principal and officer yu our campus safety officer and they both support our ideas we hope solving these issues decrease the chance of any potential accidents occurring in our parking lot we sincerely thank you for your time and consideration below you'll find our contact information if you have any further questions thank you so much i know usually board members don't give comments but i'm sure that everybody's burning to give comments and i'll start off with just saying that you guys really were impressive by presenting this to us that's number one and i'm sure that there are some budding city planners out there especially you you had a fantastic oh that's her okay all right but i want to thank you for taking this opportunity i just saw mike go out and give the packet to patty who takes care of all that so rest assured we're going to listen to you and take care of that for you so awesome thank you i'm sure we have a lot of board members who want to complement you yes just very well done um if you come through like this it's very professional i'm sure that maybe mrs shimagawa helped you along the way a little bit so when you go back to class say uh hello and thank you to her for us and we just we we really look forward to seeing presentations like this from a lot of students but you did an excellent job so thank you and i wish to ditto what mr um o'brien mr o'neill said in all the years i've been on this board we've i do not recall ever having a presentation like this and with this it was costly it took you time a lot of thought had to go into it discussion back and forth and i don't think you'll ever forget what you did tonight as you get on through life and i want to thank you because something good will come out of this thank you absolutely and you know just taking the time to be so considerate of others you know a lot of people like you know kids your age they just go on with their day they've got their own their own things to think about prom and dances and sports and whatnot but you guys actually took the time to care about your fellow students and if that is not the epitome of civic engagement you know i don't know what is i am i'm so enamored with you and this process that you went through um taking the time to care um is is what is what we hope that we can instill in you and this just sends a brilliant message to everyone out there thank you so much thank you and last but not least i'll everything that they said as well as the fact that the four of you got together and did such an excellent job and then made the next step and came to a board meeting to present it that is phenomenal and i love to see that and i'd like to see even more so you have really made an impression on all of us and it's funny because the parking lot's one of the newer things but it's brand new but there are a few problems just the same and it's unfortunate but i think i hear you say you know the parents and the students they're going a little fast because there's nothing to stop them and so you've you've identified a real problem and thank you so much for all your work it's phenomenal the presentation is great uh good job and thank you for making all the effort we appreciate it we are aware that the parking lot is like brand new but we're all all four of us are seniors and it was just getting finished as we were incoming freshmen and then kovit hit so the parking lot was not used as frequently as it would have been and now we're all driving we're driving ourselves to school for the first time and we're all experiencing these issues every day right so you've experienced it and but you took the time to get together to you know bring a proposal come here and tell us so we can take care of it and fix it thank you thank you so i want to acknowledge i know i've known uh uh molina duna since she was like five years old and and i know her aunt who drove her here she is a cypress grad and also we served together at cypress college she was student body president i i was student body president uh before her um so i want to acknowledge a cyprus grad who came here too so all right very good thank you girls again [Applause] all right thank you very much yeah patty got one yeah all right reports of associations do we have associations coming up mr grant grant has no report wow all right [Applause] what are we applauding we always enjoy them grant all right do we have any other association president stepping up for amanda good evening board of trustees cabinet community um just want to present on behalf of alta um just have a few shout outs we'd like to give first off to our assistant principals it is national assistant principals week and so just wanted to officially recognize that team in our district a very hard working group and want to recognize their efforts their expertise and their care for our students in our community i also want to just applaud a couple of events and things that have happened recently uh first off color and light last tuesday night i'm just so wonderful to be in person and to see all of the artists and their work and just the pride and the awards and so a wonderful event to be a part of our administrators are very busy planning the end of year activities such as prom awards ceremonies graduation and really just enjoying the normalcy that comes with with these events in person and seeing students enjoy these events our teams are really working very hard placing a high priority on the culture and climate of our campuses through systems building through activities such as course selection master schedule building planning summer events and getting ready for the next school year um it's kind of funny that we live pretty much half the school year already in the next school year and so we're always like two years at once um but our teams are just really getting ready for for that next step i want to just make sure everybody knows about steemapalooza on april 23rd it's a great opportunity to showcase our schools our amazing students our hard-working teachers and a really an opportunity for us to connect with our feeder districts invite them to showcase all the amazing things happening and to make those connections with our community i also just want to acknowledge on behalf of ulta our ambassadors as well and their work with the first ever district-wide wellness workshop it was just very impressive to watch these young adults come up with an idea they identified in need and they built the workshop and planned it themselves and just with the guidance of their advisors and they make our schools proud very proud i mean i personally want to thank them as well the presentations that that were mentioned that the 24 anaheim elementary schools that's a project that i work on and worked with our ambassadors and i am just so incredibly proud of their professionalism and you know they made it on time early 30 minutes early to every presentation um got such amazing feedback and this was the first time we used our high school students and it was a success and so next year we will surely do it again um so julie i just want to thank you again and your team for um for representing yourselves well in our school as well so thank you thank you thank you it's an honor thank you i just want to say um you know we have so much to be proud of in anaheim union um and our teams our administrative teams are just so very thrilled to be a part of it and just want to thank you again always for the opportunity to serve our schools and our students and our communities [Applause] do we have anybody else go ahead good evening board of trustees superintendent matsuda district cabinet auhsc students and families and those joining us online my name is natalie saldwa and i'm the apga co-president i wanted to take this time to give a special shout out to to all of our assistant principals happy national assistant principal week we appreciate all that you do for us tonight i am honored to introduce two wonderful colleagues of mine michelle and diane that will take this time to report on orangeview junior high school's counseling department and i see that the principal's here too oh awesome there we go all right good evening board of trustees cabinet community members and the audience joining us here and online my name is michelle swanson and i am currently the seventh grade counselor at orangeview junior high school it is a pleasure to be here to share an inspiring story with you of about of a former student of mine as a junior high school counselor it is important to get to know our students to help them through roadblocks and to find a pathway to their future since we only have the students for two years we don't often hear about their future successes however when a former student returns to say thank you for helping them in some significant way it reminds me why i love my job so much the student i will be sharing about today is a student from a number of years back she was referred to me by a teacher who was concerned that the student may be pregnant after checking on her the student assured me that she was not pregnant we talked about other things as well since i always try to get to know my students when i meet with them she was a very intelligent student a very intelligent young lady with much potential and she was earning good grades she lived with her mom who was a single parent and seven other siblings mom was currently pregnant with the ninth child there was no father in the picture a week or so later during my follow-up visit with her i asked her again if there was any possibility that she could be pregnant it was now the day before winter break the student assured me once again that the pregnancy was not possible however she was careful to cover herself up with a large sweatshirt every day i sensed that she was scared to tell me the truth so i asked her if she would agree to take in a pregnancy test just in case she said yes when she shared the results with me it was positive later we learned that she was approximately five months along at that time i could see the fear in her eyes and i assured her that i would help her get through this and that we would discuss her options that is when she started to open up and explained that she had been raped on multiple occasions by a close family member i called child protective services as we were waiting for them to arrive i asked the student what she planned to do over the winter break she mentioned christmas but was sad that they did not have any decorations nor could they afford a tree she did not expect that there would be any gifts either cps arrived and her mother came and was informed about what was going on and the police came to question the student although her mother was shocked she was very supportive the family member was nearby and the police went to question him as well during the questioning he admitted to what he had done and they took him into custody i went home that evening with a heavy heart to say the least however i was home for the holiday break and i had already finished wrapping gifts for my own two children but i still had a few gifts to wrap for my cats yes i'm one of those that wraps gifts for my pets anybody else here okay so in doing so i broke down i began to weep because i knew that there was a family down the street that had nothing to open and here i was wrapping gifts from my cats so i began making phone calls to my amazing orangeview family all i had to do was tell them that we had an ov family in need that's all it took they in turn collaborated with others from orangeview and before you knew it we had collected a donated a collection of donated items as well as money that we put into a target gift card for the family a day or two later after getting permission diane and i went to the house and gave the family the gifts that we had collected during that time including a small christmas tree upon receiving the gifts the family thanked us for helping them just seeing the joy on their face became the greatest christmas present i ever received even to date after returning from winter break the student and the parent let me know that they were going to go ahead with a pregnancy so we looked at her high school options since the family was interested in the pregnancy minor program as well as the child development pathway at lower i helped them by connect by connecting them with a person in charge of those programs the following year the student called me to tell me the news about the birth of her sweet healthy baby she thanked me again for supporting her through this difficult time and to let me know that the things that things were going well with the program counselors in junior high often play a significant role by getting to know their students stories in order to help them navigate the way forward to find success in high school and after they need someone to model the five c's for them to help them build resiliency to remind them that even when they don't feel it they are strong enough to go through difficulties and come out even stronger it is a privilege to be an encourager to our future leaders and to remind them that their potential of their potential towards greatness i especially want to thank our district for supporting counselors thank you very much and i'd love to like to thank you for the many resources that we have and the many programs that are offered through our district to make education possible in the most impossible of circumstances thank you very much always for sharing some really heartbreaking stories but they're also motivational stories so thank you very much to our counselors um okay i don't think we have csca okay we'll move on to our presentations uh we have measure h l what about pta do we have any oh we had some pth numbers here earlier oh i guess they left no okay okay all right so uh thank you miss piercy uh just want to make sure yeah i know i've seen them here okay yeah i think they were from dale so i'm glad that and ball um and all right so we'll go to presentation measure h citizens oversight committee annual report and i'm a uh clicker well good evening board superintendent matsuda staff yes it's great to be with you guys again it's been a little while it's good to see all your smiling faces it's good to see you again we're going to basically do a little recap of what the oversight committee oversaw this past year very exciting as i'm i suspect if some of you guys got out or maybe all of you got out to some of the different campuses very impressed very pleased as i'm sure you must be as well it's it's incredible okay so the following summary of the committee's activities are actually from march 2021 through february 2022.
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