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um everybody had growth not everybody met that growth expectation but all of them had benchmark three scores higher than benchmark one and like i said everybody had growth um it just didn't quite meet that growth expectation and then for our k-8s um everybody all schools in all of the k-8 structure schools had growth from benchmark one to benchmark three um their scores were higher and um eight of the 12 schools met that growth expectation so you can see the growth expectation was 52 there were a couple that were really close to meeting that and then um some that were just a little bit below that um but they also um many of the schools when you look are much higher than last year's a.z merit scores as well so there was some good benchmark scores related to that when you compare those as well before we move to the high schools and and without speaking of any in particular necessarily but when you look at some of the scores some are some you'd expect some you wouldn't expect when they're when we're looking at some scores that maybe didn't meet the growth um are you finding that there was any like prevailing reason like a like a theme as to why some of this so some of them had to do with um there were a couple grade levels where um not to mention schools but like where the entire grade level was either long-term subs or teachers left during the year teachers were sick during the year so we had pockets of that in the district um you heard stephanie talk about that she realized fourth grade's really important in the k-8s or i mean in the k-4 structure so she changed her she said wait this isn't this isn't what's best for kids i'm going to departmentalize so some of them um are making changes and reflecting on that data to see like what do i do i have the right teacher teaching the right thing um to students and being able to use that data um but yes so there's sometimes it's there's campuses who had to pull interventionists out and put them in classrooms because of shortage so then kids aren't getting tier two and tier three instruction because it's better to have somebody doing tier one instruction than it is to have somebody you know a sub do tier one and have an interventionist for tier two or tier three so i'm sure every one of them could tell you the reasons why they maybe didn't get the growth that they were looking for but those are ones when i was out on campuses meeting with people um big grade levels of absences or teachers that were not um there the entire year um it makes a big difference okay thank you all right moving to high school benchmarks and of course the high school's only benchmarked twice um because of final exams so um theirs are listed as benchmark one and two instead of one and three um the growth for um ela so you have all five of our schools listed ela one two is ten we had really great ela one two benchmark scores this year um everybody had growth there was significant growth in all but one campus and then when you look at three four the negatives mean that they didn't meet that expectation they were actually less they were below or a negative growth score they all had increases in their test scores but they did not get the growth that was expected um when doctor and i acai and i talked one of our hunches about what happened is that english 3 4 is no longer the tested grade 9 and 11 are the tested grades so there might be some of that lack of motivation that this has always been a predictor for us and how kids are going to do on testing and we use that to help teachers plan and intervene and so the students may not have had the motivation that they normally have for the um test that they've had in the past but like i said everybody had growth they just didn't they increased their proficiencies but we didn't have growth that we were expecting and then when we look at math um there's a couple things i want to point out with math um in two of our campuses and i've marked them with asterisks for you because we test now in ninth and eleventh grade shadow ridge and willow canyon gave their geometry soft their freshman who are taking geometry the algebra 1 benchmark because that's more of what's tested on aspire than geometry so they had their kids take the 9th grade benchmark even though they're in geometry because they wanted to know how to intervene to have them be successful for aspire so their scores look a little bit different because all of their kids who are actually taking geometry are in the algebra benchmark scores so that just gives you that background um and we the geometry we're not i won't say we're not happy with ati but the benchmark that was given to us by ati both benchmark one and um the second benchmark covered lots of standards we had not yet taught even though we had we gave it in february and there was still i think um 25 percent of the test was standard so we still hadn't taught um in benchmark one the first 12 questions were all standards kids hadn't taught and what do kids do when i get 12 questions in a row that i don't know the answer to i shut down um so benchmark is concerning we have met with all of the um schools we we recognize you can see they all got growth they weren't um the growth scores that we were anticipating um dysart did exceed um the growth for the geometry benchmark but um with us moving to a new assessment platform and moving to a new math adoption we will be working with new companies to prepare students for the benchmarks and we're actually um with us moving to act for ninth and eleven we'll be using a pre-act test for that's part of our new assessment that you guys talked about at the last board meeting so the ninth and tenth graders will actually take pre-act benchmark style tests instead of content area benchmarks so that we can truly identify standards across the board that they need of course when you see dysart high school geometry they need like a pizza party or something i mean that's like incredible not only are they um just i mean their proficiency going up but then those growth points they exceeded oh okay i was looking at 26.
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still they still exceeded 34 points they got 35. but is there a way that and i'm sure you do this but i mean definitely this shows an opportunity that um you know what how can we how can our dysart people our dysert high school people help their friends over at some of the other schools because they've obviously tapped into the secret they've got something good going over there that was one of the things that um because dr couldn't be here tonight she kind of gave me some of her notes from things that when we've met with campuses but when you look at dysart high school a practice that miss rush has continued is we regularly meet with plcs on a weekly basis to talk data and they are the one school that all four areas algebra only missed it by two points or four points sorry and so i think that's a practice that we can see and um the other campuses have really started doing that this year it's a really important practice because they're they're important conversations that are had on a regular basis and not just when we get data at the end of a benchmark there are conversations you have ongoing so that the benchmark isn't a surprise because you're doing it after every unit test so those are really strong practices that um miss rush has continued um to do with her teachers this year maybe that needs to be an expectation i mean that's that's that's just too good of information to not be doing if we know that that's successful for students we should we should be doing like i said we've seen it lots um dr sai and i went to shadow ridge did it with their teachers on a regular basis this year um and um miss karenitz we attended one with her as well so it is definitely a practice that um at least the high school level has consistently been adding and the elementaries um the data specialist and tls do it um much more frequently than the high schools had in the past so thank you all right the last one oh there we go um is act so this year we have two programs that we're piloting and doing a program evaluation on um shadow ridge uses methodized test prep as their act practice one and um the other schools use chalk talk willow canyon actually has one content area using method and one doing um chalk talk both of them allow the kids to have two full-length practice tests which we did in august and then we did in february and the um with that is activities and lessons that the kids can do out throughout the year to prep um so these are the pre and post tests for each of the schools um that are that like i said they took in august and then again in um february and you can see everybody grew shadows stayed pretty um stagnant or consistent but again they used a different program than the other schools did so we'll be meeting with both companies um just to kind of talk about their predictors and their analytics um when in the next couple weeks so that we can kind of see what there's come how there's come back and then how they compare to our actual estate test when they come back and look at um which one really best serves our just our district and our students ms hart who did you say the other one was you said chalk talk and chuck talk and methodize nice okay okay thank you and then with that i will answer any additional questions so how indicative are these scores of the tests that they will take next year as far as because ninth grade's doing aspire right ninth grade just took a spire last week and the juniors took the act um yesterday and then so sophomores and seniors they still take benchmarks right but they're but they don't take more stick those shots take the benchmarks okay and then i guess we'll we'll get that data this summer is that correct yes so um we will yes we don't get so act this i don't know what the how they're going to do it the the response from the state says prior to june 23rd we don't have an exact um release date but it won't be no later than june 23rd that we get act back um that's the last one that we get back the others come in um may and early june you uh-huh sorry anyone else i do appreciate the format it's very easy to understand okay so thank you for doing that all right next we'll move to information discussion item 5 review of the little book of restorative justice and education dr kallis thank you madam president members of the board and members of cabinet just for historical um reference several meetings ago this item was this book was on a voucher list and was a point of governing board discussion how the governing board approved the voucher with the exception of this purchase with this book so the book was essentially not approved for distribution in the district the governing board requested copies of it i believe each member of the board received a copy of it and at the request of a board member this item was added to the agenda so i will refer it back to the board for conversation thank you i'll start did anybody else get a chance to look at it i'm not okay so i don't know if you guys found what i found but i found troubling information on pretty much every single page um you know i i think the most concerning is it does contain a lot of elements from the crt on page 30 it's talking about privilege and the last paragraph and how certain students are more prone to discipline because of other people's privilege um page 34 it talks about wants to please me i'm sorry when you talk about paige could you tell us which because we have two books oh the little restorative and little book of restorative and just not the teaching tools okay yeah not the teaching tools you said page 30 page 30.
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the last paragraph it talks about privilege and how certain students are in trouble because of other people's privilege on page 34 it talks about a fix judging measuring a student's ability to read is not it wants to fix the judging system um instead of focusing on their ability to read their talk they want to focus on just the teaching capacity and the well-being which yeah that's important but we need our students to be able to read it's definitely a shift from individual behavior to group to everybody else's fault and page 46 it or page 45 it talks about the outcome of justice is related to the wholeness and healing rather than right and wrong um basically that's saying okay no more right and wrong we just want to talk about the wholeness of the child and then page 46 it talks about overcoming oppression justice creates a world where there is no need to fear one another um you know sometimes fear is a good thing i feared my dad's belt when i was out of line and i was not abused in any way shape or form but i feared a detention when i was a kid i didn't want to stay after school that kind of helped me you know um let's see page 47 it talks about oppressed minorities um let's see i've got all sorts of pages we could be here all night if we wanted to but um i'll just kind of highlight the last last little bit page 67 it suggests getting rid of behavior management i'm sorry what did you say page 67 right suggests get rid of behavior management page 69 individualism and narcissism can undermine meaningful relationships individualism doesn't really undermine meaningful relationships page 85 offenders are the ones who have experienced injustice that's the big one for me so basically if the student's acting out that student is a victim of injustice so those are some of the things that i found um i know for a fact that i've talked page 75 talking circles privilege climate change um i know parents in other districts who've had their children engaged in a talking circle and basically a talking circle is where everybody gets in a circle from what i understand and then they kind of air grievances toward one another and oh lil susie did this and then another student says little johnny did that then another since well this little kid you know had a bunch of people complaining about this little kid and so it ended up the talking circle ended up doing more harm than good so those are some of the things that i've found and i just want to say that when i pull these things yeah sometimes there is a reason for this and for us just to approve and rubber stamp everything i don't think that's always right so these are some of my findings i don't know if anybody found anything else i just have one question though before we go much further why are we talking about this this book wait this book was pulled it was a voucher book or on the voucher list it was pulled there's no books being distributed it was made very clear to cabinet etc that they're not and they came back and said they're not going to use this book so it's not being used so why are we talking about it i guess that's what my confusion is we are talking about it because we are constantly told there is none of this happening in our classrooms but materials such as this have been showing up on expense reports so we're i'm me personally i'm just trying to point out the fact that yes we continually bring this up and we are continually told this is not happening in our schools and this is proof that sometimes things are snuck through or tried to it's not snuck through it's in a document that's public but when you're talking i mean i okay let's go to page 47 that you talked about and i don't even remember what paragraph but it talks about two students get into a fight one's in for one reason and one student's his frustration is academics the other one is whatever so they get into a fight they were both treated equally they got suspended but what didn't happen was with the rest of the kids that were impacted by the fight so i'm i'm still very and then you brought up crt yet i think if we went around this room everybody would have a different opinion of what crt is so i don't think we can even use that as an example i just don't understand and you talk about there's material be and yet we still haven't i don't know of any other material that has been is of concern you said that there's more there is material on it consistent that i can't remember your words i'm sorry no that's okay i'm just pointing out the fact that i find these things on the expense report and then you know everybody you know is like well i'm not quite sure what is what's going on with that and so i'll do the research and yet i'm still called the book police well wasn't this book to be used as a tool to um to assist our gen our general education special education um more like i mean this was facilitator-led correct this was supposed to be a facilitator-led type book madam president miss sourcing bill yes this was an opportunity for the staff to understand what restorative justice is about as i explained at the previous board meeting restorative justice is a means to not replace consequences but to assist with in addition to consequences to right the wrongs meaning if there is a fight how does that get resolved research shows i mean we've been dealing with fights for many years in schools and research has shown that simple suspension does not resolve the conflict what happens when they come back and what happens to prevent future incidences with not only the students who are involved but with other students so restorative justice is being used by police departments all over the country and as i mentioned previously it's being used it was mentioned at the school safety summit that we attended just about a month ago so the intent of the book the title of it talks about restorative justice it was that very intent the intent was not to sneak in anything and i would reject that accusation the intent was to assist students with their behaviors so that we can correct wrong behavior inappropriate behavior and move forward the [Music] as i've explained in previous board meetings there are so many materials sources books conferences workshops seminars podcasts to avoid every single one that mentions privilege would be impossible we would not learn anything about restorative justice or many of the other valuable pedagogy and behavior management and safety and security and other responsibilities that we have as a district so as i've said before administration has received the message loud and clear of what your intent and what your expectations are that we are not going to be teaching about the many of the things you had on your list but that doesn't mean that just because it shows up in a book that we are underhandedly trying to sneak in a curriculum to students that the board has very clearly directed us not to do but there are gems of wisdom that can be gleaned from these sources of of text understanding what to reject and what to learn from is a very important and a very educated form of learning and education it's something actually that we are very intentional about with our students about when they review material whether it's online or in the media how to separate out fact from fiction and how to decipher information that is valuable versus what is rhetorical or what is is nonsensical and i think as we continue to have these conversations i appreciate the board's reminders but i would again state that it is not our intent to disavow the the board's directives we will continue to be vigilant about that i will guarantee you there are more books that we will have that will mention something that somebody is opposed to guaranteed and we will understandably um not promote the things that we understand we're not supposed to be promoting well i think that um when you're talking about this we need to also keep in mind that our hands have been tied with regards to students not being suspended in k through was it k through four and um so what means can we assist that child and to we'll help our administration and teachers um suspension is not the the end all beetle as far as trying to make sure that that student doesn't do it again so um i mean you suspend a child and then they come back and then they do it again then they didn't learn anything from it but this would be a tool to assist for those students to have the opportunity to learn what they did and what they did wrong and it's i i don't believe that our staff would be using it i think that the trigger words in there are social and justice and i don't believe that this is something that's a back door to crt i just don't think it um but again this was going to it wasn't we weren't going to be using the entire book but it was certain aspects to help our teachers to assist the students not for crt not for anything else like that i mean i don't know how else to describe it was this intended for reminding me was this intended for teachers or was it intended for the behavior text coach miss densboro this was a requested purchase through the ess department madam president and members of the board for behavior coaches in the uss department thank you my concern with the whole restorative justice is that the whole premise of restorative justice takes away a consequence and this what i am reading about restorative justice is not at all the diversion program described by ms densmore that's being used at valley vista all our high schools and all our high schools that was just one example you know a divergent program says we're going to give you the consequence and we're going to talk through that consequence with you we're not just going to give you a consequence and be like you're done we're going to talk to you yes you're going to serve that consequence but we're also going to use this as a teaching moment and we're going to talk through this and teach you that that is entirely different than saying um johnny started to fight so johnny experienced injustice but it talks about the kids were suspended they were both there was consequences so i and i don't know that wasn't the whole context but it talks about respect dignity and mutual concern healthy relations but students have to understand their what the consequences of their behavior you know and everybody needs to understand why they had a fight or because things happen at home they they may be mirroring behavior that they've learned at home on how to express their anger or whatever this is just a tool that's it it's not going to be a textbook but again i'm not sure why we're we're discussing it because it's not being used i my takeaway from this number one and i i really um maybe it's a leadership style for me but it's it's happened a couple times and just to address it now as far as you know asking a governing board member why are we talking about this and it can be you know for the next board president in january it might be a completely different style but for me board president doesn't have any more power authority than any other board member sitting here no one should trump anyone when it comes to a board member who did what they needed to do to get their name on the ballot to get elected in to bring something forward for discussion i even asked dr kellis have you talked to crystal about what this item is about so it didn't it didn't matter to me all the details of it it was a book that was pulled from an expense voucher that there was that one board member had concern about and she wanted to bring it forward for more discussion i don't ever want to have anyone feel like they don't have a right to bring it forward and have more discussion number one number two i understand her point in that yeah there were some references to book police and um this one and you know several conversations about crt and people saying it doesn't happen doesn't happen you say that well we're not using the book well we purchased the book though that's the takeaway from this the district purchased this book and had this not have been and and i'd be interested to hear from dr kellis i mean knowing knowing what's in this now and i understand you don't read every single book um would you would you feel comfortable with this being in our schools i mean now that we know what we know madam president i again would say that there are gems of knowledge that can be gleaned from that book would we purchase that given the board's opposition to it no obviously we would not well and then and so thank you for saying that because there are things in there where you know restorative justice you know people can say okay alternatives to certain consequences whatever but this particular book and people can think what they want but i'll tell you one of my biggest pet peeves is white privilege i absolutely hate it i feel like it perpetuates division and racism i hate it um and that's in that book so it's not like well what's the big deal we're not using it we bought it taxpayers bought that book and there's things in that book that i don't care if it was being sat in front of a student or if it was or a teacher had it i don't want us using a book like that that's going to reference some of the other things that crystal referenced being used because i feel like it perpetuates bad things there may there's probably another book another guide where we can help as tracy had mentioned you know with with our restrictions now with um suspensions we're going to have to find other ways to work with these students but i don't think this is the only book that you know i'm sorry white privilege does is like crt i mean it is along those same lines to where we sh that's that's the big deal that's why we're i feel like if if her point then and hearing her discussion was to say hey look this isn't just for nothing this is the reason why i'm bringing this forward this was a concern with the book i feel like after book police comments she should have that that time to explain herself and i have not read the book but knowing the white privilege piece that would be enough for me i just i think we have enough racism and division in this country and i don't want to be a part of approving something that would reference that so again let's just be respectful of each other and how we're all equal board members and if someone wants to bring something forward let's just hear them out and then move forward that's that's that's my response to some of the conversations said i appreciate you outlining this i'm glad we've pulled it um are there other comments or concerns oh dr collins and president i may just share what changes we have made administratively to assist us in assisting you in helping us okay um there will be many more books that show up on the expense voucher as single edition books as we review and read the books prior to ordering bulk quantities so we are committed to being vigilant as i have said and just so you understand what that translates to in action that we will be purchasing more books rather than going off of titles and summaries we will be purchasing more single copies or small numbers of three or four so multiple people can be reading them but um small quantity books not for general distribution but for review and even i appreciate that and even too if there's an opportunity to do a little research before you even purchase one book i mean some books can be a hundred dollars i mean i just if we can do that that'd be great if from based on the preliminary research hey it looks like a a book that's going to be okay order one like you're saying and then go from there but i'm assuming we do that we kind of check into a little bit before we even buy any book madam president yes it's not always just by title um as you just go on amazon you can see that there's a you can read the first five pages of a book a sample of it and often times that sounds great sometimes it's not reflective of the ensuing 10 chapters afterwards but by purchasing single copies or a small number of copies we will continue to be vigilant to your point miss pritchard racism is a big is a big issue and i appreciate you saying that you really hate the thing about white privilege and um you know i face it every day with regards to with a caucasian husband and um we get different looks we get different all different gamuts from both sides of the track um so i do appreciate what you have said but to the point of our hands being tied now with k4 no suspensions or anything we have to keep looking and keep looking for ways that we can assist our teachers and administration and if we have to purchase a book to find out if something's in it then we have to purchase a book to actually find out what we can and cannot use so i i do appreciate that um but i quite honestly i don't believe we are teaching crt and i just have to stay on track with that i i hope not yeah for sure i just want to mention one thing um you mentioned that i think it was joe that mentioned they might be mirroring what they have at home bringing that into the classroom maybe acting on some of the things that they're seeing at home but in those conversations with the the staff at the school no matter who that is i mean they're mandatory reporters so if they were to learn that there was abuse at home they would need to report that i i don't have a reasonable expectation for our staff to be able to fix the whole child i i just i don't have that expectation for any one of our staff members um it really does take a team it takes a lot of exactly it takes the schools it takes uh potentially law enforcement in some cases um i would just never place that on any purse any specific or you know individual in our in our schools um i i think that it's awesome that we that we want to help along that way and be part of that journey but i i i just don't ever want the expectation um to be there but that we are fully responsible um from beginning to end on that no but we do the best we can we and i don't want things to be made worse along the way either by enabling the behavior we don't want that behavior to continue right so they need the tools in order to help these children learn how to change that behavior it's got to be all on the school to do that when they're in the classroom part of it if they're disruptive in the classroom then that child will be well i guess they have they have to figure out how to get that child back in the classroom where they're not disruptive because when they're disruptive in the classroom the whole classroom is affected by that but you spoke to root cause though if there was a patient no i said that no i never used the word abuse okay i said that sometimes students are they could be mirroring behavior that they see at home i mean we don't we don't know what happens when they go home you know that's all i'm saying okay i mean especially like i'll just use an example of foul language you know mom or dad cusses a lot and all of a sudden they drop a pencil or make a mistake and they go oh you know and they do it a lot and then somebody tells them that's not appropriate but yet they learned it that's how mom and dad talk so that's what i'm talking about sometimes their behavior is mirrored by what happens when they go home but but as far as the child i mean we have to educate the whole child and we want them to be in the classroom but if they're disruptive the team it can't be the teacher can't deal with just that student they have the rest of the class they have to deal with so i don't know they just have they need tools and i just see this book on a lot of this stuff in here is a good just a tool to help them learn how to work with these students that's all i will say as a teacher though we have to have consequences we have to have consequences and every single day you know i i know teachers are giving out all right you got a warning all right you're moving your seat you're doing this you're doing that and if they continue that behavior they escalate and most teachers are taking the time if that student ex escalates they are taking the time to take that child out in the hall and have a ten minute talk not a ten minute like a sixty second talk with that child and say hey what's going on today you're not following my expectations this is happening this is happening what's going on with you and they're taking that time to talk to these children but there have to be consequences because if they don't have consequences nothing is going to change no matter how touchy feeling we talk to them and as far as educating the whole child again to miss dense more point do we want our teachers responsible for educating the whole child if i could just add to that i mean that would include their their morals their values right you know their entire lens um you want to talk about like their political lens even i mean we don't want to go down i just don't think we want to go down i'm not sure so go down so tying it back to the book though just because you have to be too careful um it sounds like there's there's need to find new ways to address behaviors in the classroom but this particular book um is not going to be an avenue for that um this particular book thank you yeah um but we'll continue to research other we have to methods and ways in which to address those issues in the classroom well especially when you talk about when you talk about consequences they cannot the k through four cannot even be suspended right that doesn't mean they can't have consequences well there are i know but that's what they're trying to find are other consequences to get keep them in the classroom especially at that age level so we'll find other books or other materials for that dutch house all right thank you so we will move to action discussion items h1 recommendation to approve the appointment of principals dr kalis thank you madam president members of the board members of the cabinet this is an exciting part of the board agenda and we are happy to reach this point and would like to thank our audience for their patience we have a lot of celebrating to do and dr credo will get us kicked off on this item thank you dr kellis madam president members of the board superintendent kellis uh cabinet and guests it is with great pleasure that we bring to you four candidates for principal ships in our district as you know and we've previously talked before uh these four people have gone through the gauntlet to be hired as principals in our district they go through a very very extensive process in that they must go through in-basket activities as i mentioned before so videos uh evaluating teachers in the classroom through a video they have they have to sit these four sat in a pretty daunting interview with 22 panel members to answer questions they sat in this room at a table in front of 22 people so they made it through that and then they have to sit with an interview with the cabinet and go through that the very next day so they have made it through that and these are our top candidates so i'm going to introduce them please stand and then we will let the governing board vote and then we will welcome you afterwards uh and they are here with their families too we want to acknowledge their family members that are here tonight so thank you for being here we appreciate the support all right so to lead it off we have mr andrew frazier who you know is currently the principal at sonoran heights middle school he is being recommended for the principalship at valley vista high school monica krenitz who you also know is currently assistant principal at willow canyon she is being recommended as a principal at dysart middle school and then two others you may or may not know they are not in our district but we are welcoming them to our district mr dustin hammond uh who is currently a principal in the peoria unified school district is being recommended to take mr frazier's place at sonoran heights middle school and last but not least miss debbie cruz who is currently also a principal and she is being recommended as the principal of mountain view elementary they have extensive backgrounds all of them and that's included for you and i will stand for any questions or await your vote you don't have to stand you can sit well with that i will make a motion before you do that i just want to point out that i have already called if we have any basketball two on two competitions mr hammond is on my team just want to point that out publicly all right it's noted i moved the board to prove the appointment of andrew frazier as high school principal monica krenitz dustin hammond and debbie cruz as principals for the 2022-2023 school year second motion made by christine pritchard second invite don densmore suspense what will they say did you refresh it is it are you guys waiting on me yeah oh yeah i didn't get a pop-up and now i just got blocked out too really i'll get back yeah earlier i did it i noticed it though okay yes are you using job's computer i know it's a sign congratulations to our new principals in the district so thank you very much we appreciate you welcome we will not make you speak so you can sit down and sigh a relief but thank you very much actually the governing board may want to say something or ask a question so if not we can congratulations congratulations congratulations everyone welcome dustin and debbie yep thank you yeah back in the day i used to he's andrew frasier used to be my boss he used to call him the boss man so you can feel sorry for him because it was an awful time for him i'm sure good to see you moving up in the ranks dolly's lucky to have you and welcome to the rest of you as well yes and i'm refreshing my computer so awesome that's gonna we're going to go ahead and take a five minute recess eligible certificated staff for the 2022-2023 school year dr kellis thank you madam president members of the board and members of cabinet dr croto will introduce this item thank you dr kellis madam president members of the board superintendent kellis cabinet and remaining guests we bring to you the pay for performance chart tonight back about a year ago we brought a performance package to you that was approved and received some direction from the governing board that we would like to see a few different options in the student achievement piece in regards to is it possible to bring forward a plan that would have more individual accountability rather than state testing for all the teachers we've got the committee together that committee consists of teachers administrators a whole variety directors in our district and met several times to discuss this whole process with that i bring tonight to you three different plans so you have the first plan in front of you which is the current plan there are no changes to that plan that is the current plan we're operating under this is the performance plan for this year how teachers will receive their pay for this year that is one option we can stay with that plan the second plan option two is to take student achievement and tweak that to student success rates this will be based on grades and teachers classrooms that is one of the only measurements that we can have that every teacher controls and affects in their classroom that takes away the student achievement portion from the first plan of the state testing there is no state testing involved in that plan it's just straight across um if you receive if students in your class have grades of c or higher if 90 to 100 of all your students you will see 100 percent of that funding and you can see there 80 to 89 is and 70 to 79 is 50 if you have 69 percent or below of your students that that don't receive c's or better you're going to get zero percent of that funding again for the high schools it's taking classes in both semesters high schools and middle schools and then for our elementary schools it is just taking the combined yearly courses all other factors in this performance chart stay the same so your effectiveness classification your employee attendance and your achievement profile are staying the same option three comes to you with is which is a blended model between option one and option two it still has the student achievement piece in there with 30 percent and that still is estate testing so there are still accountability with our state testing system it has taken the effectiveness classification and split it if you look at the first plan these the effectiveness classification is forty percent of the total it has taken that forty and made it two twenties it has added the new piece of student success which i just uh outlined for you in option 2 so it is using that model and using the effectiveness classification but has split that 40 percent into 220s so with that i'll be glad to answer any questions receive more direction again this is not for this year's payment this is for next year's payment so it is a plan that we need to adopt and let employees know before next year so with that i will stand for any questions or comments that you may have i just have a question when we talk about i guess it's in plan one and a and b um achievement profile and i'm not as a teacher i'm not going to get anything if i have a student that's a d or an f correct am i reading that correctly um madam president member grant for achievement profile that is letter grades of the school so that is not the grades the achievement profile piece is okay i'm sorry i meant student success so 69 and below is a zero percent if 69 of your class correct if 69 do not have c's or better you get zero funding so it looks at the class as a whole your students at a whole so 65 nine percent um or below if they do not have c's so if only fifty percent of your students in all your classes have c's or better you will get no funding in that category so if i've done everything i've offered tutoring i'm available on tuesdays i've called the parents i've i've done everything possible to bring those students offering them help and they're not they're not taking advantage of it is there a justification process that they can is there anything that um anybody else looks at for something in that i mean if they document that i've i'm there on i've offered these days i've even offered to come in on other days my lunch art whatever well you're gonna remember grant at this time there is no there is no process to document that again the research department and ms hartjen is responsible to collect all this data so that is a a process we look at she is part of this big committee because it is very very time consuming to collect all this data and collect it accurately um not to say that we couldn't do it but that was just a huge test we do not have that in here to answer your question at this time well also to think about this if your entire class if 69 of your class has below a c average then we need to look at other things and not just not just whether or not a student's doing the work yeah like your contract for next year you got other things to worry about yeah well i i personally i say thank you for coming back with these options um because i know as a teacher it is frustrating when my scores are based on somebody else's test scores i know that's difficult um and especially at our k4 schools for fourth grade bearing the brunt of the entire schools pay for performance that's that's not really fair to them um although you know it does bring up a concern i don't think many teachers would do this but would a teacher who was panicking be tempted to change a grade right great inflation certainly a big possibility in this possibility we don't know if they would do it like you said we hope they would not do it great inflation is definitely a possibility i mean i i do think it's a lot better than just basing everything on the student achievement on on the test scores my only concern with option three is the effectiveness classification goes down to 20 percent i mean is it possible to eliminate the achievement profile the school letter grade how do we feel about eliminating that from the 301 i would rather personally my opinion i would rather um take some maybe 10 10 out of the 20 based on the comment that was just made about concerns about grades 10 from the 20 of student success and add that to the effectiveness classification keeping the bulk of everything up in like the student achievement student success areas then i don't know about getting rid of the i mean because still the letter grade of the school i mean being a part of like some of those a plus the processes and things i know there's a lot of a lot of work and a lot of interventions and things that go into those achievement profiles and the school letter grades and things to where i think it does speak to a school's success so i think it's good information and it's only 10 anyway i mean that's just my personal opinion i think if we were gonna change anything maybe take some away from the the student success piece make that 10 instead of 20 and add the 10 to the effectiveness classification just just curious with the achievement profile for the school letter grade um how long does that last because don't you have like the letter grade for like two years or something like that um the state has kind of taken a hiatus on school out of grades because of kovid but they're back at it and those will be coming annually so it's not normal that they're saying that correct okay all right um but it's still an application process that they would need to go through do we allow for every school to do an application every year um madam president stansberry just for clarification there's two a's that can be earned at a school and there's the a plus award which is through yes which is through the arizona education foundation and that's an application process and has multiple it's like a an accreditation visit there's a team that comes out and they do lots of visits and um the other is just 100 based on the state test and that is the school letter grade or the school performance label okay um could you explain why 20 goes for employee attendance well madam president remember grant um that is what was decided last year and has been in all past okay since i've been here uh to award attendance um for our employees the importance of attendance them being at school and at work and in the classroom teaching kids so well to that extent it doesn't it um stafford employee attendance four days of leave or most teachers go for this or activities must not be other compensated and ninety most teachers you know a lot of them use for less days just because they don't like they don't like it's easier to just show up than to try and take a day off and have a sub i mean if you're sick you can't avoid it some of that plan is cut off there's hours they can do yeah 15 hours it's cut off on this copy i think they were trying to fit on a page so it shrank it out of there but most most teachers just do this extra 15 hours i don't know that we neces i don't know that i feel we need to include that part of it the employee attendance because teachers typically show up to these things anyways like i always ended up with way more 301 hours than i needed just because i was there at events and functions i see the benefit though of if we know the ramifications of students ramifications on learning and student success if they have subs long term subs teachers isn't there so i would say them i can see the benefit of the attendance piece only because again if a teacher isn't there or misses a lot then their students aren't getting the same level of instruction they would if they had consistency so coming every day kind of ensures consistency for your students and you would hope that would be reflective in the students growth growth as we heard earlier that is reflective in some of the the growth points at some of our schools i guess i i think i would be okay i would be comfortable with reducing that a little if you wanted to increase it somewhere else i just wouldn't feel comfortable eliminating it well and looking at the student achievement my the whole reason that you came up with option b is because as a teacher like you know it's it's very frustrating to have my pay based on somebody else's class and um is there a better way to do the student achievement portions i i don't know because especially if the high schoolers 9th grade taking aspire and 11th graders taking acts the 12th grade teachers and the 10th grade teachers are basically at their mercy and when miss harton was doing her presentation she was saying that sometimes these other grade levels just say oh well it doesn't matter because our our data doesn't really reflect on the maybe not the teachers but the students it doesn't matter because our data doesn't reflect on anything so is there a better way to do the student achievement piece like i don't know keep the student success piece with the grades because i feel like that's a better reflection of everyday work but i understand that um sometimes the summative assessments are valuable i just i don't like basing i don't like basing more of my performance pay based on somebody else's scores those are my thoughts well does option three though at that hybrid kind of addressed that so what they're doing now it's it's all based on the the like the az merit testing and the standards based testing um or state level testing and then the third option is actually bringing in that classroom assessment piece with constructiveness because then we have to then consider like what you mentioned too concerned about hopefully just a very small percentage but we wouldn't ever want people to feel we wouldn't want we want grades to be reflective of a student's ability not linked to how much money somebody gets so there's that kind of i hate to give the student success area a lot more that's why i'm thinking um i thought three was a good hybrid of the two i agree i agree i like three and i like the student success i think it makes everybody have to work harder to make sure these kids graduate and are prepared for work or college or the next grade if we're talking first first grade never mind i'm trying to add here well yeah and i i really like the student success piece that is based on their grades i feel like that and the effectiveness classification combined would be 40 percent um that is 40 combining on the option three yeah is there any way we could add a little more to the effectiveness classification we feel like we have some what if we took the 10 away from the 20 for student success and added that to effectiveness classification so it'd be 30 10 30.
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well i like option three no matter how you slice it um i see what you're saying miss pritchard i do think that that would be a good idea so you said 30 30 10 and those first uh three no she was saying 30 10 30. oh did i have that backwards 30 10 30 10 30 okay because crystal is saying that she um as far as putting some extra into effect in this effectiveness classification i don't i don't want to pull any from student achievement personally um we just talked about how attendance is important for consistency for students and their learning and then i still feel there's even though it's still a little bit just ten percent i mean we can't really go much below that as far as that everything that goes into letter grades achievement profiles and what about the 10 make it 10 for the employee attendance and do the student success 30.
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my only concern about bringing student success up higher it for that classroom grade is because of i just don't want to worry about because there's a lot of there's there's been instances that um you know a student may have straight a's and then they take their state test and you'd think someone who's getting straight a's should exceed the standards and there's been instances where that doesn't they don't align and so then you wonder okay is the classroom grade really reflective of their ability are they really learning so i don't want to i don't want to build that up super high i mean i i think you know i totally get that the state's test is not should not be the bl end all we've always said it's a snapshot there's multiple measures we use so i get that it shouldn't be everything and i like the idea of adding this other piece in there so it's another measure but because it can be so subjective and some of those some of those concerns that i mentioned i don't know that i want to increase it what if we what if we split it 25 for student success and 25 for student achievement because i don't know that i want to go down on student achievement personally i mean that's just me but i just really don't want to student achievement from day one 2006 has always been my thing that's always been why i'm here i just i don't i don't ever want to scrump on it but i guess i didn't want the if you were talking about before um bringing that student's success down to you're putting more emphasis on the employee attendance no it was to take take the 10 from the 20 on student success and move it to effectiveness classification is what i suggested i would rather i would rather take 10 from employee attendance and i know bef i know 100 what you're saying that we need our teachers to show up we need them to show up every single day and if you still don't feel comfortable with that that's okay but most teachers as a teacher i didn't even know i didn't even know about this staff member used this for or if you were earned leave days yet that's on me it just wasn't made clear to me that um four days or fewer to me it was always make sure and get your 301 hours in so the teacher culture is most of them some of them are going to look at this document and be like oh i don't have to do the fact hours if i use 4 or less pto time most teachers are some teachers are going to look at that but as a teacher as a culture every single time i got back the fact hours were pushed so this was cut off so what is it because i maybe i don't know what it is activities must be otherwise compensated and 90 what madam president i'll read it to you um it says or activities must not be otherwise compensated and 90 of the time spent spent in these activities must occur inside of the regular school day a minimum of 15 hours including planning and implementation is required so how is the 15 hours documented or how is that tracked or what is that that is tracked at each school level by the principal and and the teachers and that planning that has to do with things like um like reviewing data or are you talking about like no that's student activities right student activities that is correct so as an employee to get my fac hours i showed up to a baseball game or i guess it was softball to get my faq hours i would show up to i could choose tutoring i could do an after-school club for 15 hours and that's how i got my attendance long-term it's not compensated you're not compensated you're not a coach or something right so as a choir teacher when i was stipend i would not get fak hours for that when i wasn't stipend i would get back hours so your employee attendance in your mind is not what happens in reality with this so you're saying and i completely understand that we need our employees to show up every single day we need to eliminate long-term subs we need to stop you know having these gaps in our data and you know if you still feel the way you do that's fine but i just want to communicate to you that the culture on the campuses is most people aren't aware that four or fewer earned leave days so you could technically be out for four leave days um but you're still gonna get your full points as long as you go to these activities yes so if as a staff member if i've got 10 pto days i can use every single one of those as long and still get my funding as long as i do my 15 hours of baseball games softball games um community fairs community carnivals as long as i do my activities i can use 10 12 20 whatever leave i have as long as i do those 15 hours i'm gonna get that money knowing that i would be comfortable with 30 20 30 10.
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are you saying eliminating employee attendance no i'm saying if we move it to 10 10 are we on option three option three option three so 30 student achievement 20 student success 30 effective cost effectiveness classification 10 employee attendance 10 achievement profile i would be fine with that if we can get a motion read that motion that way and also mention as i read the employee attendance since it got scrunched up and i didn't notice that just as i read as i read it that'll be good enough okay i moved the board approved the district's pay for performance plan for eligible certificated staff for the 2022-2023 school year referencing option three with the exception of increasing effectiveness classification to 30 reducing employee attendance to 10 and also to include dr croto's explanation of employee attendance and this is option three yes right i'll second motion made by christine pritchard seconded by tracy sorosinkbill not a president if i could just make a quick note that your emotion has been recorded but luisa couldn't type that fast but it will show up in the minutes and it will be accurate on the official record thank you motion carries thank you again dr croto for all of your hard work i know you've been working very hard on that for many months thank you to the committee too yes and committee thank you yes next we'll move to action discussion each discussion on dysert's covid protocol and mitigation plan dr kalis thank you madam president members of the board and members of cabinet dr dean will introduce this item good evening madam president members of the governing board dr kellis and members of cabinet this evening we bring to you just a brief update and uh recommendation related to dysart's covet mitigation plan over the last month we have been averaging just a little under four cases reported each time we have made a report on our cova dashboard we do that twice a week on tuesday and friday and as i stated we are averaging just about four cases on each one of those reports that includes staff and students we are recommending this evening that we eliminate the use of the the continued use of the dashboard and move another step closer to returning to normal operations and would certainly be happy to answer any questions from the board or if the board wants to have further discussion may do that as well thank you any questions or comments from the board yes um while we're on the topic of the ovid protocol and mitigation i do want to bring up one of the one piece of the mitigation plan that has been in place is for the the water fountains at all of our campuses that they cannot be drank and drinking out of directly they're only to be used as water bottle refill stations um i would like to end that piece of the mitigation just because it is way too hot and these children don't always have a water bottle with them and i just don't want anything to happen while they're at recess or at play so i think that's really important i i am just so you know i'm i'm fully ready and on board to get rid of all medication but so if anyone wants to make a motion for that but i at least want to put the water bottles on there thank you my only question was are we still receiving information from maricopa county regarding our area and numbers madam president member of sorry sink bill the maricopa county department of health changed their protocols they are not reporting obviously on a daily basis any longer dr klaus correct me if i'm wrong but they're also not holding weekly webinars any longer governor ducey a few weeks ago ended all emergency actions related to covid that were undertaken so those are all now disbanded at uh from his office as well so we don't receive anything okay just want to make sure madame president sourcing bill just to correct dr dean as he asked i do they are doing it on a every other week and the topics as i've listened in on those don't talk about the protocols it just talks about trends nationally and state and brings up the delta cron and some of the other types of variances that are appearing around the world but they're no longer providing those regional reports as you mentioned okay and the focus has shifted so if the focus has shifted from protocol and mitigation to information do we still need our other protocol and mitigation well madam president member chaffin administration would recommend at some point in time in the upcoming meetings removing protocols to return completely to normal at some point in time we would make that recommendation what protocols are left besides the water fountains madam president member grant we still have our maintenance staff which is stretched very thin at this point in time with vacancies who more than once a day are going through the building and sanitizing all door handles which we know we know a lot more now about covet in terms of surface transmission than we did obviously initially so that's still happening teachers are still provided with cleaning supplies and material to wipe down desks throughout the day the water fountains are certainly part of our protocol the dashboard continues to be part of our protocol as well other than those major topics mr hicks correct me if i'm wrong most of our operations have returned to normal okay just a madam president miss grant to continue we will still tell students who submit positive tests that they stay home for 10 days we don't um that's still in place right we don't do the contact tracing like we used to but if a positive test is reported then that's that would be part of the protocol correct the ensuing months as the health officials are stating is that the omnicron is what the latest is is no longer at anywhere near the stages it was in january and it is becoming more like the flu so at some point as dr dean mentioned administration would recommend that we treat covid hard to believe as we would with any illness if you're sick you stay home until you're better and then you return so if we end the mitigation and protocol tonight are employees still going to be able to take that extra 10 days if they test positive madam president miss chaffin it is it is our understanding that that is through the remainder of the school year and that was a separate motion outside this was a separate item okay outside of this thank you i'll go ahead and make a motion i'll motion to end the reporting of active and confirmed coven 19 cases in the dysart unified school district um i'd also add to end restrictions on water fountain usage and to end the additional coveted precautionary cleanings the additional copic plannings what does that mean additional madam president mr stensmore i believe what i'm hearing you say is that your emotion would end the pieces the cleaning pieces that we put in place specifically for covid not our normal janitorial services correct so a custodian going and cleaning up a mess right so the those pieces would be the requirement for teachers to wipe down desks um with cleaning solution um in the classroom and the requirement that our maintenance staff uh sanitize uh door handles throughout the course of the day and you said like that was happening every hour right it's happening a couple of times during the day right so yeah it it typically is occurring before school starts and then at least once throughout the day you would still have those those cleaning supplies um available to anyone who wanted to for anyone who wanted to use them yes is there a reason why administration wasn't bringing that forward then you said at a future meeting madam president the the thought moving forward is that by the end of the year administration's recommendation would have been to eliminate all coveted protocols i feel like they were just kind of tapering off is that with the recommendations you were just recommending tapering off madame president miss chaffet i think that's a fair assessment okay so hold on because you still have emotion i'll say okay somebody's second i don't care okay now go i mean personally i don't know i don't know i don't mind people cleaning um for but motion carries next we move to action discussion 4 discussion on governing board meeting schedule and this was my request [Music] oops so [Music] um so i know like over the past couple years we've been asked about i've been asked about our meeting schedule and it's not perfect for everybody and everybody has their preferences but since we reviewed this in february um i've been presented with new reasons to consider our meeting day that i just wanted to discuss with the board and throw out there one of those things is that it conflicts with our ability to attend west met governing board meetings and because our partnership with westmec i can see would be beneficial for interested board members to attend some of those meetings and changing the date would allow attendance on both sides um and then it would also bring forth an opportunity to cultivate relationships with the west mech board who are fellow board members in our community as well and then also um i've had some discussion with some community members especially when i was at a recent el mirage event a couple weeks ago and learned that many parents would like to be more involved and attend our meetings but a lot of them also go to the city council meetings and both of our cities have their meetings on tuesdays and so some of these families are feeling like between their work home life balance to be gone two nights in a row with kids at home was just is just too tough so normally other than tonight our meetings aren't well attended anyway and i didn't know if maybe this was one reason why and if that would be um a way we could possibly bring more parents or more people to our meetings and then the other half of that was the frequency and i know in the past we've discussed summers and i kind of i can see both sides i have mixed feelings on on summers as far as are light agendas there's not a lot going on um so why do we have to have two a month although i do see it being as a an opportunity to take advantage of the slow months and maybe have some good study sessions or team buildings things like that um so as far as putting a second meeting day set in stone i don't really care one way or another just as long we can continue on if that's what the majority of the board wants to do and just set them as needed but my bigger concern is there's been months during the year where we don't adjust the calendar like for school breaks and things where we'll only have one per month and i feel like with the district this large and with as much as we have going on in our district having a meeting once a month in the midst of the school year is is not enough so i really feel like we should try to have two a month like for an example this last march the way the weeks fell out we could have adjusted the calendar accommodated spring break and still had two in there i think october might be another month um they're sporadic but they happen so just um wanting to see if the board wanted to consider that piece as well as it pertains to frequency what day are you suggesting we move to well i'm assuming no one would want a friday no obviously so that leaves that leaves monday or monday or thursday and monday would be the opposite of the council meetings on tuesdays would be the same way for those family members who are saying two in a row so i was thinking thursday i'm okay with thursday and i know that one of the the common themes i have heard is that um families have different um church groups that they attend on wednesday whether they're youth groups or um even just general you know church council meetings they they tend to be on wednesdays um i know that's been a big theme but i do wonder too if if moving it to a thursday would just maybe give administration a little bit more time to plan um you know instead of it you know you kind of you set the agenda the week prior maybe you could you know set it on monday or tuesday i don't know how that would look but i just wonder if it would give you guys more time to plan for that and then do you have a preference on um what does everybody think about like for example march we could have had two meetings in march or some of the other months with the exception of probably december because it's a really we take two usually it's two full weeks off in december anyway so i'm not suggesting a board meeting back to back or week to week but for the most part there's usually room to just flip-flop some of the weeks if we know we're going to have a week off and fit two win well if you remember years ago miss pritchard our meetings were on the first and third wednesdays of the month and at some point in time um i can't remember what year and it seemed that we kind of flipped and went to the second and fourth wednesdays and i i don't remember why but it just seemed to flip instead of from the first and the third so anyway i didn't know what you guys thought as far as moving it to a thursday and when would you want to start this that's my question definitely after this i mean finishing the school year everybody's all the administrators and teachers have planned their lives around again not that a lot of people come but they know we have board meetings um on wednesdays so like june madam president just as a reminder that the board has approved a a board meeting calendar for the next year we would bring back a revised calendar based on information so the action i think would be to bring that counter back to another board meeting for for action um given your feedback is there a reason why and just just curious so i can understand the procedure why wouldn't just because you'd want to approve a whole calendar rather than changing the dates and then going back and revising a calendar is that what you're saying correct and then we'd bring it back again for approval right because you'd be revising the calendar you could make a motion you could take action today but we'd still have to bring back the calendar because you the board um it's changing you're changing the count okay um and just for your information um on the the the months where there are week-long vacations and why there's not another one scheduled typically if there's a meeting and then there's a week of closed offices the following week and then there's another meeting to miss dennis moore's point there's it's difficult to put together an agenda when everybody's been off that week prior and not a lot has happened during that week um the other part is when we say it's the first or third or second or fourth we have been advised over the course of time to be as transparent and amenable as possible to our constituents to our community that they know board meetings are on these dates and when you start moving locations there was a time when today we're going to do it valley vista next week we're going to do it just when you start moving around locations and schedules then it can be confusing to the community who gets off the track of it's always on the second and fourth unless it's not but that's just information and it wouldn't be i mean obviously it'd be more the exception the rule just how we do now sometimes we'll we'll add in a we've had to swap out meeting dates or add or change our account we've changed our calendar before so i could understand you wouldn't want to do it last minute but if like you say when we bring it back it's going to be transparent it's going to be available um and then also for like i understand what you're saying as far as like anything um current nothing maybe would have happened the week we're on break but just knowing like when you go into march for an example we knew we had spring break so if we had a meeting that following week after spring break you would maybe already know in the beginning of the month okay so if that meeting we're going to talk about revision department policy monitoring on this policy or things that have to get done or school reports and those schools are going to be ready prior to that so little things like that not necessarily something that happened the previous week when it'd kind of be a moot point because nothing happened the previous week if that makes sense well couldn't we just adjust the day that month to where we either had that extra board meeting the week before a break or two weeks after a break does that make sense but that's what we that's what march would have looked like if we'd had that second meeting i don't think did we didn't we just have one meeting in march or did we have two meeting in march we had one right we had one meeting so if if we're meeting on the second and fourth and we've got spring break on the third week maybe we do a meeting on the first and the second instead of the second and the fourth because if we try and meet on the fourth everybody's off the week before does that make sense so like within reason if we really want two meetings in those months we can just adjust them accordingly that way we're not asking our staff to come in and work when yeah that's right yeah so it's planning ahead so for example there was five wednesdays in march so what i'm saying is theoretically we could have just when we look at the calendar we could just plan around that there's five there's there was five thursdays in march this year so same thing but we only had one meeting in the five weeks of school ish four and a half weeks so that's all i'm saying i think it's gonna take a little bit more planning or looking at and not gonna be able to approve anything tonight i'm going to make a motion for the thursday and we can talk about and we'll see how it goes but i we can talk about adding days or not for the rest of the calendar maybe when we bring it back but for me for tonight i do want to move that the governing board change their meeting date to thursdays effective june first madam president also just as a reminder we will bring this back again with the calendar because even changing it to thursday is the calendar change yes that's fine does she need to modify her motion if you're proposing to change it as a june 1st you would be changing two approved calendars the 2021 this school year calendar and next school year calendar so you want two calendars changed then okay yeah okay does she need to say that in her motion and that being said we can just as we didn't include columbus day last year we came back and we brought the calendar back and we approved it so we've done calendar changes after the fact before so this really isn't anything different i don't see the purpose in changing the day it's wednesday i mean if families want to come they can come but the beauty of now a technology they can watch this board meeting either at home or in another day i have not had one person complain to me i'm sorry i couldn't come to the board meeting because it's on a wednesday because i wanted to go to a council meeting and wes mc only meets once a month on the second wednesday of the month so if a board member wants to go to a westmec meeting they can but i just don't see this as a as a big deal i mean people know i mean we've been meeting on wednesdays for quite a while um i just don't see the purpose in changing it and like i said i've not heard from anybody to say i'm sorry i don't come because um i've got something else going on a lot of the a lot of that conversation for me personally was at an el mirage event a couple weeks ago i was just talking with a lot of families but i made a motion it can be seconded or not but the motion's out there i just wanted to clarify does she need to modify her motion or is she okay i did not catch a motion oh i said that i moved the governing board moved their meeting days to thursdays effective june 1st second motion made by christine pritchard seconded by dawn dunsmore i think what don was asking luisa was if i needed to include those calendars but i don't think so because yeah that's kind of what i was wondering okay i just to wanted clarification know you'll be presenting be presented with two people okay get ready to do that yeah i need to discuss it more okay motion carries next we have a request for future agenda items i have one um i would like to discuss the possibility of the board getting their own legal counsel and i would also like a discussion on how certif i guess how non non-teaching certificated employees are evaluated for 301 performance so i would like i guess i feel like their their evaluation should reflect their own job not a teacher's so if i'm a certificate an employee who's not a teacher my evaluation should be geared towards me not a teacher's evaluation okay so if i'm misunderstanding and that's already happening then the presentation you can just let me know so i did not get a chance to pull something earlier from consent so i would like import more information on the student fee schedule for the 2022-2023 school year and any details you guys look forward to luisa just to make sure she understands your 301 thing anybody else okay all right next we have executive session um i move that the board there's a call for executive session pursuant to ars 38-431.03 a5 for the purpose of discussing or consultations with designated representatives of the public body in order to consider its position and instruct its representatives regarding negotiations with employee organizations regarding the salaries salary schedules or compensations paid in the form of fringe benefits of employees of the public body and pursuant to ars 38-431.03 a1 for the purpose of discussion with and to provide direction to the superintendent regarding communication regarding contract of employment and community engagement wait a second motion made by christine pritchard seconded by tracy sawyer sinkhole that was a mouthful yeah i can't even spell my own name right we're at recess for executive session at this time we'll reconvene the regular meeting we do have an action discussion item on the agenda to provide direction to the superintendent um unless i'm hearing of any motions to provide any direction we do not have to take action anybody want to make a motion not hearing anything i move that we adjourn the meeting motion made by tracy singfel seconded by christine pritchard i don't know do i have any motion by tracy saw your sinkhole second by christine sure let me know yes yes yes okay so we're not even using this thank you
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like to call to order this workshop um thursday april 14th 2022 at 5 30 p.m roll call corey burgess here amanda ayman here charlene d is here anna boyd here melinda zabroski here all present item 1.3 fox creek science olympiad students dr stewart well mr president and board members uh i'll introduce jillian martin and her crew to france francis ding sorry francis you'd think by now i would know this it's just her daughter introduce her and have her introduce her other coaches and this wonderful group from fox creek please yes yes please so we get you on the microphone good evening board members my name is francis martin i'm science teacher up at fox creek and i am the head coach for our science olympiad team i have with me tonight jamie mccune science teacher from fox creek who's an assistant coach and kate hall from desert valley who is also an assistant coach a few of our science of olympiad members are here tonight and they just wanted to show their appreciation towards the board for the support over the past year and for myself multiple years and let you see how accomplished they were this year so you guys want to come up here um we're short a few people due to short notice tonight do we have time so we have seventh graders malachi hack okay seventh grader valeria zambrano seventh grader mike and gonzaga eighth grader chelsea engelhardt and noah beck here in the back and what do you guys want to say to the board i'll let them talk to you um thank you yes yeah sorry um same as miss martin said um thank you for your support and everything especially mr mcnutt he came and helped us build our airplane so we got second place on that that was um really exciting um so yeah thank you awesome we got first in the regionals and i'm really happy that we got it i'm really grateful for the support in this team thank you very much welcome [Music] so um and then we went to state competition which as you guys probably know was in phoenix and so we did that really fun experience and we placed third overall which is which was really cool that's excellent yeah because it was really good and we got multiple first places overall which is which is uh the gold one yeah and and multiple second places and multiple third places yeah we did we did good this year thanks for single-hard [Applause] so as we were up in phoenix on our wonderful trip uh we went to the science center and we are very grateful for your support and that's that to make it so we could actually go to that awesome yeah awesome anybody else so everybody has a whole handful of ribbons are these for separate events or so there are 23 science olympiad events and we've had four invitationals over the course of the season which started back in october the invitationals were all held remote this year but state was in person and their ribbons are from different events that they competed in throughout those invitationals and regionals medals and trophies from regional assistance noah what was your favorite thing at the science museum my favorite dance science museum can you remember back that far my favorite thing was no was no specific thing it was just being able to look around at the different exhibits that they had and all the cool sign stuff it's pretty phenomenal isn't it yeah also we used in experimental design that's one of our events meaning noah and valeria we did experimental design together and we used an idea from the science center um in experimental design they gave us a packet and told us we had the new experiment based on memory yeah so we had seen something at the science center um where like somebody draws pictures um and then they hand it off to another person to look at for like 30 seconds or so and then they have to draw it again without um looking at it so we did that as our experiment and i was very hopeful that was the first thing i said when they came back from that competition was we used what we learned yesterday in the science pictures to answer our our question inside miss martin did you tell them that they also made statewide news uh the article that mr ross wrote and put out to the press ended up in the azad news and they were and they were the top article in that uh so statewide you guys your photo and your success has been has been put out to all the schools in arizona greetings make us proud congratulations [Music] yeah yeah and show off those medals should be used he's the shortest one there what are you talking about i don't want to be in the picture no don't we need the coaches up there too there you go buddy noah did you see dodgeballs thank you hey why are you not betting on me because jimmy congratulations that's incredible we love to hear the the successes of our students and amazing students we have congratulations and see them and and get to to be a part of it i always love science olympiad you ladies do an amazing job that's all i can get out it really did help us to being able to go down the night before and get a good night's sleep before starting our competition um on saturday morning if we saw a difference in the kids throughout the entire day they weren't like falling down dead by three o'clock they were actually still going and they ran from one side of the campus all the way across campus to the other far side as far as you can go from one end to the other so it really helped begin back on the north side for some of thank you for letting us do that this year it was it was nice yeah normally they leave around like 2 a.m and not get back till 2 a.m the next morning so crazy awesome yes thank you so much appreciate you guys coming out awesome on to item 1.4 town hall dr stewart mr president and board members i put this back on the agenda for you all in case there were last minute things anna's been in touch with me melinda's been in touch with me partly because i want to know if there are things you need me to do for you for that before next week i will have some things to have on display for folks but if you have things you'd like to have displayed if there are things you'd like me to look up for you let me know and i'd be happy to do that when are we going to get publicity out on it like the url and all that stuff yeah lance has been uh talking about some of that you want to share that mr president members of the board uh ms sobreski uh we've got a strategy on it where we've already had some publicity there'll be additional publicity that we will be putting out some facebook reminders another news release and i don't want to speak for my colleague in the fourth estate behind me but i'm pretty sure that the daily news will probably have some substantial precede coverage about it as well okay thank you and i've been giving you trying to send you information as i've been gathering it but there may be things that you know that you decide you want if you're if you're like me you wake up in the middle of the night and go oh i need this information so if that's the case shoot me an email or a text and and i'll be happy to do that uh for you so or if you have questions now and and then otherwise i want to talk to you a minute about the resolution but um what can i do for you so the only thing that i had a question with was uh because we're looking at leasing and it's it's further you know the actual agreements and things um have we've gotten a lot of information on how it's like others have done it have we gotten any like the agreements on what they have included in their agreements like their lease agreements or anything the only ones the only one that i've actually gotten the document was the one i gave to you last month from here in the state perfect um probably the biggest advantage of that is it's in arizona and so it probably fits arizona laws and those kinds of things not such detail from other districts but i will tell you that um lausd yeah of course garciala garzioli that i spoke with for probably 45 minutes yesterday he was excited about our project because it's it's different from what they've done and he's excited that we get an opportunity to do something that doesn't have all the red tape attached to it like theirs did and he said if any of you want to call him he would be happy to talk to anybody and give information so i think if we asked him specifically for their lease agreement we could get that okay perfect i do have a question um some of the other arizona teachers had um as far as the priority list who you know who gets priority over someone else do we have that no i think that's something about that we have but i think that's one of the things that you all will have to work out in the details okay part of that's going to depend on how many units we can get built you know our our original idea even a year ago with what we could do with these funds was probably 15 to 20 units well i will tell you that learning over the last two weeks what ex what has happened with prices we're not going to get there so i think part of that's going to depend on how many units we actually can get can end up financing with with the money we have and of course we're not going to spend any more than we have you know we will have to build we'll have to plan i told this to somebody yesterday because they asked me they said well what happens if there are cost overruns and i said well there can't be there simply cannot be cost overruns so we have to plan smaller and then you know and then have some extra money on the end to do add-ons if we need to so i think part of it's going to depend on exactly it's going to depend on how many units we can actually fund if we can do some of the things that were that were involved in the discussion that corey was part of where we might be able to get i don't know in my head i kind of see legos i think corey was seeing legos too but it's kind of these you know pieces you know here's that here's a kitchen living room piece and here's a bedroom bathroom piece and here's another bedroom piece if we can you know if we can find a some resource to do that where that's pretty much already built and you bring it in and you set it down and you put the finishing touches on it we're finding that that that's about half the price of stick built right now i think that was those were the numbers we were quoted so the idea is the biggest bang for our buck so for instance we're already moving away from the idea of duplexes because that common wall has to be fire rated so there's an expensive wall it also means garage doors and those kinds of things so we're we're now talking about things that will put more into the actual living space and less into some of those other things so you know every time we turn around we have we have challenges to consider and that's part of the fun other questions okay so in that conversation with al yesterday uh at the end he told me several takeaways and i sent the that information out to you today but one of the things he said uh that he would highly recommend based on his experience with la unified's issues and programs is that the board do a resolution that says here's what we're doing here's why we're doing it and make it as a formal resolution because as he pointed out boards change leadership changes and this is a project for the long term this is not one of those one and done kinds of things that would only last as long as the six of us are around for example so i sent you a sample resolution it's not on the agenda for the business tonight but i thought you could give some feedback first of all if you know if you'd like to have that on the agenda for next meeting and and secondly if you've got ideas for for what you want it to say his idea was to pick the two or three really core beliefs or values that you have about this project and that's what you state in the in the resolution so i'm open to feedback i know i think that's a good idea because really you know we're not going to be up here for the rest of our lives so correct i don't know [Laughter] the resolution you sent out to us really did look good did you like that yeah okay i think it's a good start for us i think maybe putting it on the agenda for next time would be a good idea okay well um yeah i try i went back through the notes to you know went back through all the things you all have said and tried to pick what i thought you'd said the most often and and figured those were really probably the core the core values for this okay we'll put it on the next agenda great thank you all right item 1.5 policies d j g a d m dr stewart well continuing with our review of policies we're getting almost to the end of d we have actually there was d n and i pulled it because i recognized that it does not cover some things that have been practiced in the district and i want to make sure that practice and policy match and that they are legal either either way what we're doing is legal so i pulled that one but these are just some of the some of the policies to finish up letter d would you like to look at them okay so this one has to do with sales calls and demonstrations and those kinds of things any questions yeah all right once again sales calls any questions no all right if you have any questions on dk nope if you recall earlier this year we asked you to to do this and i'm a little embarrassed to say i didn't recognize that we had realized at the time that we actually had the exhibit in the policies so we did it correctly all right questions on warrants okay payroll schedule good all right acknowledgements any questions on deductions i will tell you that this one surprised me a bit because we do not make a practice of reimbursing people for funds that they spend on their own so i don't know if that's one that you're going to want want to review um at you know and put on the agenda for next meeting or not um we just simply don't do that don't we have a document though if they're getting reimbursement that they fill out prior to this it goes with this they get approval for expenditures in advance about the only thing that we do reimburses meals because because people don't know so that would cover this yes but we don't we don't let people just go shop you know go buy school supplies i'm sorry that didn't sound very good but we don't we don't say to somebody you know somebody says oh i need uh i need supplies for my science classroom for instance we don't let them just go purchase science classroom supplies and then give us a bill and expect us to pay it we we don't do that they must have to yeah they must have a requisition and purchase something that's provided that prior authorization has been granted right i was going to say i mean i think this one is pretty safe in the sense of that you have they have to have prior authorization and we have the forms yeah we're we're very strict about it so yeah so i don't see anything wrong with it okay and i didn't particularly i just wanted you to be aware of the fact that we don't ordinarily do that okay any other questions all right that's a given it is a given all right any questions on fashion schools okay good excellent all right okay item 1.6 mutual lincoln county sheriff's office safety program dr stewart mr president and board members two months ago i think about two months ago sheriff schuster attended the county superintendents meeting and shared with us that the county sheriff's department has received about a 350 000 grant from the state to improve security at schools and and there were some stipulations of course there always are stipulations with grants but the idea is to one of the things that's been recognized is that when there is a police kind of emergency at school sites communication is a nightmare because everybody's trying to call 9-1-1 everybody's trying to do whatever so having done some research the sheriff's department presented to us this program with a company called mutual link and i've sent you some links before i i have them prepared to show you again if you want to see them see a little bit of of what it does but essentially what the program does is it has a a button an app on the phone and everybody has the app everybody employed by the district has the app and it doesn't matter what radio system bullhead police uses bullhead fire the sheriff's department or any other first responders you push the button and the information immediately goes to all of those it overrides 9-1-1 it supersedes any of those things and immediately there is notification exactly where the situation is might not say what the situation is but that there is an emergency that needs to be dealt with this grant would pay for installing whatever hardware software that needs to happen and training for folks who are involved for the beginning for a period of time and then the cost to each district to continue that is only about twenty five hundred dollars a year which is really really reasonable for this kind of a service there's not enough there's not enough funding for um for all of the 14 school districts in the in the county and some of the districts recognize that they're not really in a good position for it to work for them anyway but there's not even enough for all of the schools districts that might want um so it's kind of in a way right now competitive until there might be future grants but i wanted to know if you all are interested in having bullhead city school district apply and be part of this if we can get chosen for it yeah so it's on the uh did i put it on the agenda i don't think it was i don't think i put it on the agenda i'll put it on the next one but i kind of wanted some you know some ideas before we went forward with this information together and then we can make a decision don't we have the resolution in new business it is a new business so if you're interested i mean if you want to do it but i wanted a chance to to give you a little more information and if you wanted to see a brief video or if you wanted uh you know to see something relative to mutual link and link 360 we could do that so i i i would like to see something okay how it works okay um about five minutes yeah it's short it's only about four minutes yeah that one like 360.
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we'll call the meeting to order we'll start with the pledge of allegiance i pledge the allegiance for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all so we'll start by just welcoming everybody i just want to remind everybody that we are streaming live streaming um the board meeting um this evening so um just know that you are being overheard and um watched on the world wide web welcome those individuals who are streaming with us today do apologize for the late start so i appreciate a little bit of leniency there we will start with um the consent agenda items earl makes a motion do i have a second second a second by pat is there any discussion all those in favor raise your right hand almost opposed 7-0 all right um i do have the public participation sign in and there was no one on the sign in list who is asked to speak on any item that's not on the agenda for this evening so we'll start with the stronger together recognitions theresa we have several of those tonight which is our lovely audience that we have here today and so it's my pleasure first of all we're going to start with a gentleman who's made us very proud in multiple ways i'm going to recognize him tonight um and it's my pleasure to present a stronger together so let me finish before you come up where are you there you are so i was sent an email from the district executive for the hoosier trails council the boy scouts and he covers nine counties in southeast indiana he said that their district gives out up to three awards each year out of 400 volunteers for noteworthy service a district award of merit and i am pleased to tell you that one of those three out of 400 volunteers is with us tonight so it's my pleasure to present a stronger together to eric kelly and eric before you come up here i'm going to read this letter that was submitted on your behalf so that you're thoroughly embarrassed i nominate eric kelly of pac 518 for the district award of merit eric kelly is a registered scouter with pac 518 in jennings county he has been a den leader for the past three years serving as a tiger leader wolf leader and this year as a bear leader with the challenges of covid eric has stepped up with many exciting ideas for the cub scouts in our pack he has created and successfully implemented our pack monthly hikes utilizing the local state parks clifty falls hardy lake versailles brown county muscat attack national wildlife refuge musketeer county park in north vernon salomon state forestry and the jackson washington state forestry in brownstown every month he prepares and disseminates suppliers that tell how to get to the hike how long the hikes will be the difficulty level the six essentials that come that each scout should carry in their backpack and a list of all hikes to come this one activity for our pack has been a lifesaver for the survival of our pack eric has planned and facilitated a campout for the scouts last october which we all know is what the scouts want to do he has contributed many hours of service to the scouts in the pack by helping plan and carry out fun activities such as our new cornhole tournament pinewood derby rain gutter regatta pumpkin carving contest bicycle rodeo blue and gold banquet and our pack pinnacle hike picnic and crossover ceremony he teaches at jennings county high school has been the key club advisor for eight years he's been the indiana key club district administrator for the last two and a half years this position serves over all key clubs in the state and trains and advises the district board on district activities and events he has served as a youth coach in the county for soccer spring and fall baseball and basketball for the past four years he's a member of the north vernon kiwanis club and is geared which is geared towards serving the youth he's invis he is in the business of serving others in the community especially the children he goes above and beyond all his endeavors to put forth worthy activities for our youth he has impacted not only our scouts lives but also the lives of all of his students and the local communities athletic programs he's a great role model for the youth he's upbeat positive in his dealings with the youth organizing his approach to any and all of his jobs and a hard worker i encourage the district committee to strongly consider this registered scouters nomination for the district award of merit and terry french wrote that and not only did they consider it but they awarded it so congratulations eric kelly we're getting you a t-shirt too they're all gonna get one you're gonna get one too it'll just come to you later eric we require the winners [Laughter] all that service so the next person we'd like to give a stronger together today um the adult variety is from the middle school and we would like to recognize missy vance we um mrs comell wrote a letter i recommending that missy vance receive a stronger together over the past two years missy has stepped up to serve as an assistant to the head custodian on several occasions allowing us to not miss a beat and for everything to be handled thoroughly she has never asked for anything and yet fulfills the responsibilities to their fullest capacity she volunteers anytime we're in need of additional support or an extra set of hands the outside of our campus has improved aesthetically beyond measure this is because of mrs vance's hard work the donations she collects flour seeds mulch flowering pots et cetera and then the hard work to plant mulch and arrange the landscaping for our campus this is very much appreciated in the administration of jcms believes her continuous efforts and commitment to our school is beyond anything expected thank you missy vance for being the very best so missy vance come on up thank you so next it's my pleasure to recognize the spelling bee winners for each of our schools and then the district winners so we're going to start i'm just going to call you up in alphabetical order by school and then save the winners for the last so when you come up if you would come up and then just start going around here after you get your your shirt and your certificate we'll just keep going so from representing brush creek elementary school as the winners we have cameron brooks sixth grade and coraline stevens great come on [Applause] [Laughter] uh representing graham creek we have delaney ritz fifth grade and salomon shaw sixth grade congratulations i love the cub scout before that was appropriate tonight from hayden elementary school we have sebastian white sixth grade and peyton colette sixth grade [Applause] thank you congratulations congratulations did you get that vulnerability from your mother or father [Music] [Laughter] north vernon elementary school representatives we have and this was cute as a button to watch because she's just a little bitty thing and she was up there with those big kids abby patterson in third grade and zelitas got in fifth grade i love watching you walk by and look at your mom every time you're so cute congratulations school we have seventh grade heidi hughes and drew spurlock in sixth grade [Applause] [Music] from sand creek elementary we have marietta claudio hernandez in fifth grade isabelle little littlepin in sixth grade [Applause] congratulations tidwell fourth grade and madeline crockett fifth grade [Applause] congratulations and last but not least we have the winner and the circle place finisher in this bubble and how many rounds was like 17 or 18 feeling it went like a long time we just kept going so in second place we had from the middle school abby vance was having here and the winner was molly watson [Applause] all right well you can give this to jamie when she leaves too so all right that's it congratulations to everybody super exciting we're glad that you were here and allowed us to recognize you i think it's extremely important um for our community that they see the wonderful things that you all are doing so thank you for coming and um being part of um allowing us to be part of that celebration with you so congratulations um so now we have a middle school presentation yes mrs coleman um thanks for having us tonight middle school um what we've been able to do over the past several years and share a little bit about what's going on this year that we'd like to make a big difference after coveted so um as the administration um mike greene angie clint and myself over the past four years we've tried to operate with the philosophy of making certain we have positive communication uh respect and encourage leadership in our building and then also striving to develop the relationships not only with the students but with the staff and the parents in the community um and that's kind of been our focus for the last uh several years and so we we're trying to keep things on the same pathway and we want to we haven't had an opportunity to talk with you guys because of covert so we're kind of catching you up on some things we also have tried to create visions and dreams understanding that when we work together and we have heart good work ethic that um you can succeed and meet those um dreams that you might have and also um we've just established in our community our school community a sense of trust and mutual respect um that's something that sometimes you know angie will mike will call me in and tell me to back off that i need to think things through a little bit and then we do the same thing to each other so that's that's been our philosophy as the three administrators the three principles along with that we've tried very hard to and take that down to the level of our students with the employability skills serena nicholson is here with us today she is our the director of guidance at the middle school and when covet hit we had to make some changes because we couldn't take 55 kids into one room and have them in sitting there together for 45 minutes so sabrina worked very hard on what's called mindful moments and i want to have you watch a clip i won't take you into the second part of the clip but many of her heard not just her but mrs cardinal as well many of their clips are just them talking to the students and and then sometimes it also leads into some research based supporting information for students but with that being said they do this every single morning to start their day off and so they come across the screens in the classrooms the tvs and just kind of help to set the day to make it a positive start for every student so with that being said i just want to share a little bit about this this clip if we could and they're very simple and they're everywhere so we are getting to a point of the year that things might be getting a little chaotic a little you know stressful maybe on your end we've got i learned is midterms up you know there's end of semester stuff that's happening we've been downstream transition things and i mean i i know that sometimes things can get a lot of pressure and you just feels overwhelming at times and so i thought today we would take a second and just kind of talk about stress um so stress actually can be a good thing just a little bit of stress it kind of gets our adrenaline pump a little bit it says those endorphins flowing and it helps us to kick into that that fight or fight that call to action kind of things where are we gonna we're gonna step up and do something are we gonna walk away to go somewhere else you know find safety whatever it might be and so a little bit of stress is actually really good it gets you going too much stress over a long period of time is where we have to worry about trouble and it can have physical you can have physical reactions to an overwhelming amount of stress and it can affect your skin and your heart your stomach your muscles your eyes your lines i mean all kinds of different stuff it can affect you mentally and you know scattered thinking hard to learn you forget things you can't focus on things it can affect you emotionally you know you get angry easily you get laid down i mean there's there's all different aspects of how too much stress over too long a period of time can have some really major impact on you so we want you we want to give you a little bit of tips and tricks on how to manage that stress so i'm not going to talk overly long if you click on the the chocolate cake because like it says stress is desserts fall backwards and so it's all just taking that time self-care to find something sweet to do for yourself can help you know ease that stress a little bit take your mind off of it if you click on the cake there is a short video we might think i'm stressed or this is stressing me out but what do we actually mean and what can we do about it so what i wanted to share with you so you can see is every single morning the students start out um with with a way of being able to think about themselves and making themselves calm down making themselves think things through um just they cover every aspect and many of those aspects also include what we are really focusing on on our employability skills so i'm going to turn it over to sabrina at this time she had no idea was putting this clip in um and so she's probably going to ring my neck later but i'm telling you i want you to see it because it's so good that that's how they start their day out and sometimes when they come to school they've had you know especially middle school i don't if you remember your kids at middle school but they come to school they've already had an argument with you at home as a parent or um they've been uh sometimes they've always been a little bit too big for their bridges when they come you know and they come into school and they're in an upset mood or um they're tired because they've been up on their phones all night or they don't have their homework done or something and this allows them to just kind of get themselves in the right mindset and and start the day and i do believe it's it's fantastic and i do believe um that they they deserve credit and i wanted you guys to be able to see that because um it's something that they developed on their own and to make certain that they still got into the classrooms and still was able to be able to communicate with the kids so um all right she didn't mention there's a song on there too but you don't have to play the song there's always a song on there so a lot of our students identify with music and so i do come from an english teacher background so the songs vary in all genres because i just have this part that kids should be able i mean we should let them see there's more than just today's music so anyway we started mindful moments last year it was me and the counselor that was there with me and we covered coping skills and character building and stuff like that this year mrs cardinal has done coping skills she has seventh grade she's the eighth graders but she's done coping skills and i have done more on the side of career exploration and employability skills and that kind of thing so we've been bouncing back and forth so our school counseling program we are a gold star recognized comprehensive school counseling program so that means that we cover three different areas throughout our program we cover academic achievement career planning and then social emotional development so within that academic achievement we do have the students do a weekly grade check so every tuesday they have a spreadsheet that we share with them the first the second week of school really once we've got some grades going and every week on tuesday they update that they can check their missing assignments they put their current grades in there it gives them a chance to have them accountable and be responsible for those grades so we look at that we do have one-on-one meetings with students to discuss missing work or low grades organization those usually come from referrals from parents teachers or even the students themselves when they think they're struggling and we try to do honor roll recognition every quarter we work with teachers to be sure students are placed in the classes to help them best so if there's something that we need to do some adjusting the teachers will talk with us and we'll do some consulting and see about making those changes we do a classroom lesson every january with our eighth graders to help them see what their graduation pathways are to kind of help them set off that transition to high school and a better on a better step so i understand what it takes to graduate we also do classroom lessons in seventh grade and eighth grade about learning styles that way the students can kind of see you know how do how do they process how do they approach different things how do they learn best and then we kind of help them to see how they can apply that to their own studies and then we do a lot of transition activities our spring is a lot about transition so we do 8th grade visits we do 8th grade parent for 6th grade visits 8th grade parent night 8th grade visits to the high school and then our big one is our new student orientation in july and that one we really push a lot because that is a great four hours for those incoming seventh graders to learn our building and kind of get it used to it when it comes to career planning um the mindful moments this year did hit on a lot of career stuff i did the career things with that and i usually focus on more of the trade type stuff a lot of our students know about the traditional careers so we want to introduce them to some careers maybe they hadn't heard of before so we focused on that college go week activities in september kind of kick off our career planning and career explorations mindful moments this year because of not getting a chance to do reality story we did introduce resumes and interview tips and tricks to our middle school students that is a standard the state has for school counselors so we did that through our mindful moments and then we did discuss employability skills in lessons and mindful moments and then we do career type things in our impact lessons we both of us i miss cardinal and i both go into the impact classroom about every other week and we do either character building or career exploration um to help with those students next year we're going to be adding back high ability lessons this year that kind of got with all the chaotic stuff we didn't quite get that in there but that will be returning next year when it comes to social emotional development and the mindful moments covered a lot of our coping strategies we do different things all year long mrs cardinal we rotate weeks so every other week that they were learning some different things just with the thought in mind that the students will find a strategy that works for them so we put a lot of tools out there for them to try to use and we do mindful moments covering self-care and working to find balance between the different parts of their lives so they're not becoming overwhelming or getting behind um classroom lessons start the year we do cover respect of self others and technology we do one-on-one meetings with students to assist when needed so if the parent reaches out or a teacher reaches out for them to be checked on or if a student contacts us then we will meet with them and then we do lessons in impact and high ability resuming next year that also focus with that social emotional development in addition to what we do with our program we also promote 21st century scholars program we do a monthly push we get applications out to our students we do like little incentives each month trying to get them to turn that back in we start that with college go week and they have an application that week that they didn't get points for um we get one out to our incoming seventh graders so when they take the folders home from our sixth grade visit there's an application there so parents can see it if they want to fill it out and get it back we hold it and wait because we really want every parent to have that opportunity and then at the end of the year we have um a big type of thing that we give for everybody who has turned application in whether they get approved or not we also maintain um the nutrition club and that is like i don't know what other schools call it what we call nutrition club it's like the backpack blessings that food gets home sit home on fridays right now we are providing food for 43 students so every friday afternoon we have teachers that help us out and they deliver those bags to lockers we try to keep it very confidential and then students take those home um this year we're down to 43 last year when covid was high we were up in the 60s so we're trying to maintain all of that um we also maintain maintain a school supply closet a clothing closet and a hygiene closet so anytime a student comes in and needs something we have those items for them um and then the last thing that we're just excited about next year we are planning to bring reality store back that is a huge undertaking but it's so so worth it for the kids so i'm very excited about that one and we're also bringing back career day mrs cardinal doesn't she is planning that one because that is her baby i do reality store and then we're also bringing back our auditorium lessons so this year we do classroom lessons like every other month and then the other months we do auditorium lessons which are large group lessons um because of code we didn't do large group gatherings but next year we're hoping we'll be able to do that and those are shorter just 20 minutes 25 minute lessons but we can make a great impact in that time all right thank you and the other portion we wanted to share with you um that's going on with the middle school because you know you don't know if you don't get to hear about it um and that has to do with over the past uh four years that i've been at the middle school we've really worked hard on the remediation because when by the time the kids get there you know people say oh they you know first grade they didn't teach them this in second grade that's not the case at all the pro the situation is they've been taught it it's just sometimes they don't always remember just like all of us so we have um we don't focus on first and second and third grade skills necessarily fourth grade skills we focus on the indiana state standards for the seventh and eighth grade and if students are struggling with that we work with them on those standards we started out with karen pedego as the instructional coach and did an exceptional job uh we went into uh she got an administrative position we went into uh the covedgier and lo and behold we were like oh my gosh this is this is crazy and it was just it was just truly a blessing we had cali garrett who steps in and um it must be coming from like three generations younger than me because she came up with really creative ideas and we did all of our lessons live at the middle school and that was totally callie garrett that all did that so you want to go back into the classroom totally understand um and then since then we now have karen field who has stepped in um and i told theresa when we when we brought her into the middle school she has the pedagogy that i'd like to see for remediation that's an elementary background and but she has organization skills of i swear she's it's got to be a god her organization skills are higher than anyone's i've ever seen and so she's going to talk to you and i told her that she's very very limited on her time just so you know okay i'll try to go a little faster well i will say that when i took the position at the middle school that the question you know that i had for mrs coleman was but i have 25 or so kids every year that i impact and i just don't know that's that's a big undertaking she goes but now you can impact over 600 and that kind of sold me and um i've never looked back and i'm so so excited at what's happening there and so many terms that she mentioned in her in her speech up here about vision and ethic work ethic and things like that that we're doing it's it's making things happen for our kids and that's why we're there we're all there for our kids so we have um paula ertl who helps with the math remediation side of our remediation team and leslie brown who's our english and language arts specialist there my team is fortunate enough that i have worked with them in the past as well so we do make a fantastic team downstairs in our room 20.
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uh before we do so we'll go ahead and get uh in and carry out the landing acknowledgement board of trustees of the alum rock union elementary school district does hereby acknowledge that the district that the district schools and facilities sit on the traditional lands of the maloney people and these and the board of trustees further again reverence people tribe of san francisco bay area for their stewardship of these lands all right next we'll go ahead and proceed with the pledge of allegiance please uh find your nearest flag and face it ready pledge allegiance [Music] all right moving on to item 1.02 discussion and modification of the agenda are there any requests for members of the board to discuss to modify the agenda see none then i'll go ahead and uh we will go ahead and proceed as it as is um all right 1.03 welcome and explanation to audience any person may address support in any item on any item on the meeting agenda persons who wish to speak on the item on an item on the agenda will have the opportunity to do so when the agenda item is introduced and presented during the meeting if you wish to speak on the item on an item on this agenda please use the raise hand function on zoom as described above the above on the on the agenda item is called there's a speaker the board has a right to limit total public commentary agenda item to not more than 20 minutes persons wishing to speak to the board about any matter within jurisdiction of the district but not on this agenda we'll have an opportunity to speak during item 501 on the agenda seated below all right moving on to item 2.01 we're going to go ahead and take on item 2.01 2.02 and 2.03 all as one given the fact that they are all essentially very very much related and so let's go ahead and proceed with trusty questions firstly chavez do you have a question do you need a motion for all three um at this point give me a second let's let's go ahead and uh here it this is a presentation at this point so let's go ahead and hear the presentation we'll go ahead and understand the direction i'm sorry on the first one 201 it's the so we're not going to take that different from on a separate motion because the other one is a presentation 2.01 2.02 and 2.03 are all dealing with the same issue and can be taken on as one okay thanks yeah so at this point let's go ahead and turn over to the administration doctor thank you for president uh you will have to do a vote on after and they all we check with legal and they all can be one but just to remind you that there is a vote for 201 and 203 just to remind the board that those are two separate votes okay all right thank you for checking all right let's go ahead and proceed dr bart you want to go ahead and introduce the item yes thank you so much board president um these are unprecedented times in not not only for alum rock but also for our state in terms of education and um we have um [Music] a tremendous opportunity to do great things for our children utilizing some of the one-time funds that the state has sent to us so i'm going to be asking sandra garcia director of state and federal and dr diana vallesteros director of early learning and mr rena sanchez to present to the board this uh all of the the work that alum rock is doing on behalf of our students of all of our students and utilizing the resources in a way that will increase the opportunity for our children so i think ms garcia are you the first one in the presentation so i'll turn it over to her thank you so much okay i'm gonna go ahead and share my screen um i'm not able to share my screen okay good evening good evening board president quintero um superintendent dr bauer board members community sandra garcia director of state federal programs and i'm here this evening to talk to you about expanded learning opportunities plan so we all know about after school programs which we call asus programs and those are through a grant that we received from the state of california and during the pandemic a lot of needs as we all know rose you know needs of families and ways to support students uh in our schools and um through this was born expanded learning and i believe you all remember last spring or even summer sometime i came to you with a plan for expanded learning opportunities grant and that was more focused on how to support kids as they were coming out of uh distance learning and back to school so this this one is called expanded learning opportunity program and um and what it is is an expansion of what we already know and after school is aces so when i refer to expanded learning that includes our aces programs but it's calling for an extension of these services to include programs that focus on developing not just the academic but the social emotional physical needs of our students through hands-on learning experiences the presentation tonight will share some background on expanded learning assessment of needs and a program structure that i'm recommending so some of the background is that through ab130 um ali allies are asked to offer tk through six pupils a comprehensive after school and intercessional expanded learning opportunities um we're also asked to provide all students access to nine hours of developmentally appropriate academics and enrichment activities by the year 2025 through 2026 rolling it out every year until full expansion in 2025-2026 the nine hours includes uh recess lunch and instructional time as well as the expanded services to develop the elop infrastructure so that we can integrate arts music and sports present programs into the enrichment opportunities for students so the context of ab130 some of the important components is that uh again we offer uh the elo program to all tk through six uh pupils in the district um and that we prioritize service to our unduplicated pupils which are english learners our foster youth and our low-income students um that it is aligned the program is aligned to our aces program so we use the standards that are required in our current aces programs that aces and elop should be considered one single comprehensive program that we provide no less than nine hours a day of programming when combined with the instructional day and that's including inner sessions and summer that we provide programming on all plus 30 intercession days which could be summer provide before or after school components on one site or multiple sites depending on the needs of the district and then again that we prioritize school sex in the lowest income communities i'm showing you this statewide funding source just as an example of some of the funds that have been provided um as we get to this new opportunity of expanded learning opportunities program so we already have aces programs that we've had in our schools and uh that grant funding has been available since 2006 and we're fortunate to have a program in every school in our district as i mentioned before during the pandemic we were given elo grant monies and that was of one-time funds to support our students as they returned to school and then now this is the new pot of funds called expanded learning opportunities program funds and those are scheduled to be ongoing so in once we learned that we're going to be receiving these funds i started gathering information meeting with different groups to gather information input on you know how we're going to go about this and we're the needs of our district i had ongoing planning sessions with our current aces partners to kind of just gauge their um capacity and interest in partnering with us on this um had alignment discussions with our departments of early learning our vapa and scl departments we analyze current site needs you know including waiting lists that we have at certain sites just looked at information that we've gathered through our elk cap community forums our panorama survey and then i sent out an additional expanded learning parent survey through all of this some of the highest needs based on the input is that there are a majority of families that do need the support through 6 p.m um but there's also a high percentage of families that favor just one hour after school of additional support and a form of investment or possibly two hours like enrichment and homework support parents do favor more enrichment programs during the summer there is an interest for intercession support and enrichment and homework are the highest interest options for families so the parent survey that i sent out kind of gave that information that i just shared with you this is just kind of the graphs of where things fell most people want till 6 pm summer enrichment was very popular and then summer academic came second and then a lot of interest for a full day summer program till 5 p.m and then um kind of gauged interest on intersession um and you know what that would if people were interested and this is where um the idea of having the spring break camp came from which we will be having next week and we already have um 320 students signed up for that camp so very excited about that hard to interrupt ms garcia can i just ask one quick clarifying question about these graphs yes yes okay thanks the numbers that are on each graph the white numbers on the bar themselves what are those indicative of so you know um there were these are all parts of questions that i asked so they're not going to come up to 100 percent they're just the parts of different questions that i asked um so i may have asked for options and there were like five or six options in each and these were the highest of all of them so the numbers are the number total number of responses for that particular category yes okay thank you thank you for asking that question um and then the types of programming again the enrichment was the the most popular and then homework plus enrichment was second in line then tutoring and then only homework was the the fourth so in gathering that information and talking to different um partners and um people uh staff in our district um i came up with um some a program structure that we could follow next year and again the details still need to be worked out so the logistics the details of how we will do this but this is an overall uh i mean um general vision of how i see this playing out so um the vision would be to provide a safe and stimulating environment where students engage in a variety of experiences that support their learning and enrich their lives the mission would be that the alam rock expanded learning program offers a quality pre-k and school-age program during the after-school space that exemplifies our district vision of providing excellence through service perseverance love trust and equity and then the purpose would be to enhance the school experience for all children during the after school space in alignment with our district l cap goals and priorities so again we already have our asus programs that run through 6 p.m and that includes homework learning support um enrichment activities integrated sel and supper daily monday through friday so adding on this piece the reason why you know we have the arrow going back and forth is basically what we would be doing is uh um adding on more spaces for more students to be involved through some enrichment cycles and i see those being like six to eight weeks long throughout the year but this would also be provided monday through friday just as our aces program are and we would at some point everything would be integrated and you know students would be able to take advantage of the parts of the program that um they need so if they need a full program through 6 pm then they would stay through 6 p.m if they wanted to um you know enroll and just be part of the enrichment cycles and have some homework support that would be an option as well so this these are just samples of what the day would kind of look like for the different um options so the instructional day plus elap would be the instructional day this is just a sample because not all schools start at eight but if you start at eight to 2 30 would be the instructional day they would then have their snack and then they would have enrichment and then they would have homework support and for a tk kinder student since their day is shorter um they would go to lunch after their instructional day and then their program would go from 12 to 5 p.m so this would be the 9 hour day and of course if a student had a late start kinder they they could have the option of having the before school support which we do provide at at our schools intercession camp and this is the structure that we will be following um next week during spring break when we offer our first spring break camp and it will be eight to five monday through friday and it will be a combination of enrichment sel you know some literacy type activities um and just you know kind of mostly just fun and entertaining and enriching for students but infused with some type of learning support daily and then our summer our thought for summer is that we typically have our summer learning support from 8 to 12 daily and then what we'll do is we will offer parents who who want the opportunity to have their kids stay 2 5 through 5 pm we would offer camp uh from 12 to five with um in collaboration with our partners um think together in ymca so then the students would have the option of having both the learning support and then the the camp from 12 to 5.
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evolution in uc irvine so with that i'm going to turn it over to our good friend carlos hernandez director of learning and development thank you carlos he's he's actually you know i texted him this morning he's pinch hitting for christina fernandez who's also part of the collaborative and was going to moderate uh the student panel but uh is not field was not feeling well this morning we totally understand that but we have uh carlos that will be doing a great job so thank you carlos all right thank you very much and good morning and we're going to move the mic so i can get out of the way of who is behind me uh and again thank you manuel for giving us an opportunity to we we heard of the successes we know this the story of success on paper in terms of data and this is amazing but let's put a name to the success stories let's put a name to the journey into the stories that we uh have before us so i'm going to do a quick introduction and they're also going to go deeper with with that first question of you know introducing yourself so uh melissa guerrero is over here and i'm high school uh melissa i also want to give a shout out to she so she went to six sycamore she went to sycamore junior high and also horseman elementary so shout out to the entire feeder pattern right all right from cypress college we'll get to haley barcumian from cypress high school lexington junior high morris thank you can't read my own writing morris elementary so she went to two different elementaries there and then moved over to lexington and then cyprus all right we have ricky roman here from western high school junior high and san marino elementary park high school and then we have rosario rosie aviso [Music] [Applause] an um group that we have of students and so we're going to start with our first question and we're just going to go from rosie and then all the way down so please tell us a little bit about yourself we have your name we know where you came from tell us about your college your major and then career plans great thank you hi everyone um like mentioned my name is rosie rizzo um for my higher education i did go directly to uc irvine um so you know a proud ant eater just very proud to also still be working and closely connected um for my major i did major in international studies um because i just found an interest for just like cultures in society and um just learning a lot about inequities and communities of color and ways to of course support them for my career plans i would like to keep continuing doing the work that i'm doing eventually later on i just for context i am a program coordinator for i've been working very closely to my own community and working with the school sites so i would like to keep continuing the work that i'm doing and just hopefully elevate within the work and the center of course so thank you mr rosie melissa hi everyone my name is melissa guerrero and i am currently at kelsey fullerton i graduated from anaheim high school in 2018.
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us and we will continue to be working with you so now i'll hand it over to juliana for the next piece sorry hi everyone my name is juliana hernandez and i serve as assistant director for strategic initiatives and partnerships and i want to talk to you today about some of our pipeline data so looking at our students that go through a uhsd to our community colleges into csuf and again we have some good news in the spirit of keeping it brief i'll give you some nuggets and snippets so we'll look at cypress college first right so two of the students that we were able to identify um to date we've had 518 students that have gone through our pipeline since 2018 since the fall 2018 cohort 46.5 of them have been underrepresented right which is the students that we serve um we can go a little bit into the breakdown but as you know we're hispanic-serving institutions so 45.75 of those identified hispanic latino 26.45 were first-generation students that's the community we survived i was i myself as a first generation student and proud titan alum um we're everywhere and i think somewhere in the room as well of those students were able to capture some financial aid data and over 20 of them were pal eligible which is again representative of our student populations and then oh i swapped the first generation students 39.7 or first generation students i get nervous in front of a crowd it's been a while it's a pandemic it's too many faces uh um yeah you know you get there uh but of these students to date 47 of them have received or been awarded their degree which is exciting for us and exciting so congratulations to you all as well and of those students that are still enrolled with us and is still in their academic program over 90 percent are in good academic standing and we're able to pull some average gpas for you and the average gpa is over 3.0 so congratulations to yourselves as well this picture and you'll see them sprinkled throughout is a sneak peek of one of the events that we have hosted for our students and this is actually from this weekend dr savala mentioned we held our experience csuf we held a special reception for our pledge students as well and so these are snippets of them at the reception i couldn't fit them anywhere else now looking at our fullerton college pipeline two dates since fall 2018 we were able to identify 576 students that have gone through this pipeline 71 percent of them identified as underrepresented our number of hispanic latino students were a little higher close to 70 percent about almost eight percent were asian students their pel eligibility is about 27 percent of them were eligible and over 50 percent of those students were first-generation students again similar to their degree status i'm close to 50 48 but close to 50 percent of students have been approved to receive the degree or have received their degree to date and of those still with us 92 percent of them are in good academic standing and their average gpa is also above 3.0 with the 3.21 so again we're excited we love to see our transfer students i have some sneak peek data for you all as well as we think about our successes and so some of the successes that we've seen overall right for our pipeline students we've come to who have transferred into cal state fullerton but are also auhsd directly you all continue to be a top feeder school districts community colleges for us and we're excited we love having you come to our campus adriana mentioned about the the pipeline retention rates but also the overall retention rates they continue to be comparable or higher than compared to other community colleges and other school districts which is also great i shared with you about our experience csuf reception we had over about 100 students that attended our reception most of them were actually some of our transfer students coming from fullerton college in cyprus which is exciting to see so we know that they're excited they're eager to come join the titan family and then we also wanted to talk about some of the initiatives in progress some of the things that we're working on on our campus and dr savala mentioned a few of them you know we have expanded our career center programming to help our students with career preparedness through our i am first program we have a freshman cohort and a transfer cohort and our goal is to provide these services to our pledged students so they come and take advantage of these opportunities early on in their time with us another one we like to highlight is our tiny shadow or titan takeover the job shadow program where we have students participate and shadow job industry folks to learn more about their careers and we want to provide more opportunities and make these more visible to our pledge students to take advantage of dr sawad also talked about our revamp transfer services and so we actually will be having some of our transfer staff calling our students encouraging them to submit their offer in the next couple of days so community colleges you'll be hearing from our transfer staff what your students will be hearing from us and we talked a little bit more about the graduation initiative but part of my role is to keep looking at the data working with mariana our partner and the center for educational partnerships is we have identified some great information my job is to identify more see what we're doing measure the magnitude or the impact of our programs because we know it's there we we've heard the stories and so that's what we want to continue doing and so sneak peek i'll give you preliminary data as i look at the enrollment data for this upcoming fall i have some preliminary numbers for you as of yesterday i pulled the updated ones this morning but didn't make it here but to date well yesterday we've had 785 auhsd students in admit status so they've been admitted we're waiting for them to commit so far 96 students so you've had more than 700 some students who are admitted 96 students have accepted their offer we need those 785 to click yes by may 1st take away may 1st for cyprus college we have 474 students in admit status we've extended the offer 165 of them have accepted that offer we need 474 more to come and say yes fullerton college we have 736 students in admit status as of yesterday 363 of them have accepted their offer they're excited and eager we got 700 more to go uh and then my last tidbit and takeaway is the students have until may 1st to accept their offer to come be a titan that's all i got for you adriana just i want to give kudos to uh mariana she helped us put the powerpoint together and she's also working on our annual performance reports along with joshua and the team do today so thank you so much and have a wonderful day thank you adriana juliana appreciate it and last but certainly not least our data from uc irvine so we'll bring up uh santana rhys our good friend deputy director center for educational partnership and amanda baluena who's also amazing data guru that always is part of our collaborative conversation so come on up so thank you very very much we'll do a joint presentation our presentation is going to be very short but powerful so first of all let me set the context before before we actually show the first data just a quick update for fall of we received 119 000 applications for freshmen students and we received 22 000 applications for transfer students a total of 142 000 applications for uci for fall of 2022 uh which is our record again we've been breaking our own record every year and so and that's important because as i've always and i'm preaching to the choir selectivity is here to stay based on on the reality of the numbers of seats and the enrollment target is usually about five to six thousand students so that means over a hundred thousand students well we admit a little bit more and and every year is that trying to land just right to make sure that the right number of sirs our students pick us and we have enough to make sure we given the the resources but what i'm about to show you we actually just we have three slides that indicate and i think you're gonna the to recognize the excellent job you all are doing so slide number one this gives a snapshot from the inaugural class in 2018 how well they're doing at uci and this is phenomenal given that you know we've tracked them the average gpa is 3.41 that is amazing and but that is a combination of a lot of things obviously you're doing an excellent actually you should applaud yourselves because that's we do a lot of applauding for you guys when we talk to our our colleagues at uci but as you can see it's been consistent so that indicates that's a good sign because as we become more selective we have leverage from first from students from anaheim union high school district because we could demonstrate this data that these students that are choosing us are doing well where very well above the campus average so that says a lot to the curriculum the innovation that's happening at this district that's making your students competitive at a very selective campus that is continue to be very selective so congratulations once again now the other we took a snapshot to go further of the fall of 2020 entering class and that should be the next slide and this is how we actually broke it down and this was even more amazing and we shared this with the superintendent matsuda that year 109 total and totally total enrolled and after their first year 86 percent had above a 3.0 gpa and if you know you all are aware we've all been through it the majority of you that went to college the first year is always the toughest year especially for first-generation or students income students that's the challenging year that's the one where you're no longer the big fish in the little pond right now you are with the sharks and 86 percent had above a 3.0 59 had above a 3.5 30 had above a 3.8 and 7.5 percent had above a 4.0 so that deserves another applause excellent job so we're partners we share data throughout the year so i don't want to you're going to get a lot of our data throughout whether it be the summits the inter implementation team meetings so we wanted to keep it just this is like the data we usually don't talk about retention and that's where we are acknowledging and we acknowledge we're also it's not about access anymore it's about accountability to make sure they graduate and obviously these cohorts are in a very good position to continue on to graduate school so now i'll hand it over to my colleague and talk about our transfers i'm actually going to hop back to this slide really quick just to point out one thing at the bottom so if you notice for the class of 21 i know we highlighted mostly the class of 20 20 for freshmen but for the class of 21 do you see in that third column where it says freshmen coming in directly from auhsd their range of units they're bringing in is between zero which is kind of what you would expect closer to that lower range but we had students coming in as freshmen that already had 80 units so that is absolutely amazing and you'll see that same trend when i switch over to transfer students right now okay so i'm really excited to share this data with you dr astuccio previewed this a little bit but i want to give you a little bit more information and a little bit of context around it so we're looking at students that came in during the 2021 academic year these are students that graduated from auhsd in 2018 so our first pledge class coming through as transfers there were 52 students 31 from cypress 21 from fullerton college and that's kind of the same trend we see as we look at later classes coming in the average number of transfer units that students had was a hundred and eight who can tell me how many are required sixty students only need sixty and they're coming in with up to a hundred and sixty three the range was actually 90 to 163 average 108.
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[Music] ready in the morning right never ever ever wow can't believe we're here once again in person and seeing everybody this was the the way it was supposed to be in terms of building community uh so good morning everyone my name is manuel colon i'm the chief academic officer for the anaheim high school district proud to be here today with all of our friends uh from throughout orange county that are here today including all of our schools so thank you for being here i'd like to start by acknowledging our anaheim collaborative partners without you this cannot happen we've been together for many many years and every single day that we're with our kids you're with our kids as well and so i'd like to acknowledge all of our partners they're on the boards as you can see obviously from the school districts we have the anaheim union high school district and the anaheim elementary school district our college partners we have cypress colleges give them a round of applause stop race college fullerton college cal state fullerton uc irvine our community partners the city of anaheim north orange county rop ocapica and the ttr foundation and we do have an extended partner who will soon become part of the anaheim union educational pledge and that is the orange county department of education no pressure it is my pleasure to introduce some special people that are in the room i know that all of you are special but there are some people that i need to acknowledge because of their support and commitment for the work that we do first of all from our board of trustees our board president mr al-jabbar thank you for being here mr jabbar and miss anne-marie randall trejo thank you miss rando trejo also from the city of anaheim we have council member dr jose mourinho our superintendent mr michael matsuda superintendent from the centralia school district norma martinez cabinet member from the anaheim union high school district nancy nien from the orange county department of education marty salman [Applause] from fullerton college vice president of student affairs elaine lepice gonzalez from cypress college we have vice president of student affairs paul de dios and from cypress college dean of the school communications and computer science henry huang from cal state fullerton vice president of student affairs i'm sorry associate vice president of student affairs elizabeth savala aceves and from uc irvine uci assistant vice chancellor of educational partnerships stephanie reyes tuccio i also want to acknowledge our student ambassadors who are here present today joining us student ambassadors stand up and just want to say a couple of quick things our student ambassadors have been amazing every year they're amazing but this year in particular they went out and did pledge presentations to all of the anaheim elementary school district school so thank you very much abdullah for your leadership thank you all right let's get this show started so for today we wanted to obviously start with some opening remarks we felt that it was important to hear from our institutional leaders who will guide and also align their vision their goals with the work that we're doing as part of the anaheim collaborative so we will hear from them uh and and hear their remarks we are also going to celebrate our accomplishments um i think all of you know that this year we have our first pledge graduating class from the universities our class of 2018 are graduating today so we will also be hearing uh from our um our students those graduates who will be graduating uh in a month or so will be graduating from cal state fullerton uc irvine and cal state long beach who have gone through and have participated in the pledge and so they will speak about their experience and honor you guys for all the work that you're doing and then we will make some closing remarks so that's our agenda for today our hope is that we affirm affirm the work and the great work that we have been doing uh create some next steps we'll have some table top conversations for you to one reflect on what is being said and reflect on this process and just the thinking uh that we will do collectively and most importantly celebrate celebrate the great work every single day we know it's hard we know the pandemic has been hard in the last couple years but we've made it through we've made it through together and so it's important for us to obviously celebrate the space that we have so with that i'm going to go ahead and introduce our first speaker mr michael mitsuda superintendent of the anaheim union high school district thank you manuel uh as all of you know this celebration is manuel's last celebration with us i know we were manuel and i were talking about you know reflecting on his career a long distinguished career and what is he most proud of and as a once a teacher always a teacher manuela i think that was first and foremost he looked back on his teaching career and uh as i think all of us will who are teachers at heart uh value because that interaction with kids is something that we administrators miss right a lot he talked about his principalship at sycamore and and that was a real challenging situation because we were still in the process of you know moving cultures and transforming schools and of course he went on to become principal savannah and identified leaders teacher leaders because we've moved to a sort of flat organizational and management structure and out of that you know was it 10 years ago the whole capstone process and you think about if you don't have a manual cologne at the right time at the right with the right people perhaps there's no capstone in auhsd today even so tremendous tremendous work in legacy of course the pledge but the pledge coming out of the collaborative so manuel this is your legacy and i'd like to honor you today i know it's going to be one of many it's emotional manuel and uh but you have always led with uh grit and determination but really you've embodied our 50 of compassion and kindness and with so many of us here i think you've put your stamp on as many of you have led with kindness above all else because we could not have been here we could not have accomplished what we have accomplished together and had those difficult conversations putting tension on our systems and our people and you know out in the field and interacting with students with parents with teachers and our classified people to move this district forward and help transform public education not just from a k-12 but k-16 and beyond what we've done is transform and shift the the the driver from traditional academics to now preparing students for meaningful careers and calling and especially now so so important to go beyond traditional just you know whatever the academic metrics have been we've not sacrificed those academic metrics so and that's why our model is so powerful because our traditional academic measurements have have risen so but it's really about preparing young people for beyond their uh traditional academic journey into careers in this challenging thing called life that many of us still grapple with throughout our own lives in our own journeys and holding i think the other the other thing i forgot manuel is you are a person of grace because i think that is one of the most important attributes of becoming a whole person is giving grace to yourself and others as well if we are to grow and reflect and and move forward as as human beings in this difficult volatile society that we live in that we find ourselves with i feel that there is there needs to be a sense of urgency moving forward because the the stakes are very high for our young people moving ahead so moving from and defining social justice away from sort of the traditional drivers of academics and looking at the academic gap we have if you think about civil rights and social justice from martin luther king jr chavez to glorious diamond steinman it's always been about equity and access to meaningful and purposeful jobs and so that is the transformation moving away from you know sort of an s.a.t multiple choice driven world to preparing kids for purposeful meaningful jobs and of course this is robert moses the founder of the algebra project who recently passed away but this this quote has always affected me the most urgent social issue affecting poor people and people of color is economic access and of course he went on found the algebra project which you know he doubled down on the importance of stem we call it steam to the future of young people and the future of this country so i really like the way he framed this it is about access to meaningful and purposeful jobs and of course our cpsf embodies that and i think many of you here are familiar with our three drivers but i would like to today in the few moments i have to draw attention to the top driver how do we develop purpose and meaning how do we connect the child's students identity and their voice to purpose and the sooner that we can address that i think the better for them and the better for our society so some of you know um have heard of dr home nguyen he's the founder of mine kind which over the last five years has helped transform us into more of a reflective culture uh we we we are a more meditative culture and um he has influenced me a lot and he shared because we've had conversations about how do we tease out one's purpose in one's calling in life and he asked me if i've heard of martin seligman a psychologist from university of pennsylvania who in the early 2000s posited um i mean this whole research was really about finding happiness and joy through optimism you know and that's so important optimism and hope especially now post pandemic there's a lot of negativity and pessimism and that hit that theory has guided a lot of scholars in psychology including amy wisnowski from yale university who built on seligman's work looking for job and career satisfaction and satisfaction and joy with life so she came up with three different ways to look at work we can look at it as a job a career or a calling and um i am reminded of the story of the three bricklayers they're all laying brick and there's an observer who goes to the first one and asks what are you doing and the first bricklayer says i'm doing my job i lay brick okay goes to the second one who's also laying brick what are you doing i'm doing my career i'm laying brick and i hope to become a manager of bricklayers right so i can be the the boss the bricklayers that's my career and he goes to the third person who's doing the same thing what are you doing i am building a cathedral for god and they're all doing the same thing and when i'm reminded of this metaphor i think about the collaborative and about what we are doing here in au hsd we are building a cathedral for public education we are building yes thank you and each one of us needs to really remind ourselves of our purpose and who we are and how do we fit into this great cathedral that we are building this is a custodian who's been with us for 25 years rafael munoz and i've known him for probably 20 years and he's one of the type of people who just takes pride in his job every day and always with a smile he and that everything's always working and i know him and his uh through his and he shared his story his sons both went to savannah high school his oldest is going to be a doctor went to ucla and is going to be a doctor he's in residency right now second one is going to be an engineer because of the education that they received here in auhsd and when i asked him the other day you know what how do you always come so like happy and joyful and working so hard and that's what he said he goes it may not seem much but i know the teachers need clean bathrooms in good spaces so our kids can reach their dreams and you know he is building a cathedral he knows he's part of something bigger and even though his kids have already graduated right he's continuing to lay those bricks brick by brick because he knows and he's part of something bigger than who he is just as each of us are but we cannot build a cathedral for public schools without addressing the really really vital issues affecting this society and without addressing the intersection of race ethnicity class and gender and um i think that it's really really important that we as leaders develop skills to address that the ascension of the latest supreme court justice brought this discussion to the forefront for all of us and it reminds us that we we have a long ways to go and um in achieving the uh and achieving equity in society people talk about equity all the time but really what does that truly mean i am really proud of our family our auhsd family for challenging ourselves and addressing these difficult issues i um i know that with our hr brad jackson who's been part of these discussion our entire cabinet has been part of these discussions on how do we move the needle and it's not just about you know specifically people of color but it's about all people that we recruit and promote and hire who have the understanding who get it in terms of what we need to do i'm really proud that in the last eight years we have focused on recruiting and hiring employees regardless of color or gender who are advocates for kids for students and their families especially marginalized students and families i am proud of the fact that we have doubled the amount of we have more like tripled the amount of people of color in administration administrative roles and doubled the amount of women in our district is it enough no it's not but we are getting there and we're moving in that direction um we have as you know that we're the first district i think in orange county to address black lives matter we have created a task force and um and we have built on the work of the collaborative and in terms of at ethnic studies we are one of the first districts to offer ethnic studies through our collaboration with cypress college and fullerton college and i think that deserves a round of applause and we have focused on recruitment in promotion and i've got to say this i recently interviewed a young lady who's a graduate of anaheim high school she's a third year at ucla cindy guzman co-founder of the crown which is basically like the bros so you listen to her on auhsc future talks but she speaks very candidly about these issues about you know what's the difference between black lives matter and all lives matter why should latinos are whites are asians support black lives matter um i asked her about you know the issues of implicit bias that all of us have i've asked her about toxic masculinity within the latino culture within the asian culture right these are tough issues and one of the big takeaways for me was she said that we need more the students need more vocabulary to express themselves in these issues they're so volatile right and that begins with us as adults we need to develop the words right understand what those mean so that because if we do not have the courage to address that where is it going to happen in society right it's so quick that they come through our system and before you know it they graduate and they're gone and they're adults they're voters right i feel that we need to double down on democracy schools on civic engagement on developing student voice so kids can ultimately have a purpose and a calling but we cannot do this without healthy mentorship and i'm proud of all of you because we're trying to mentor kids through our aim program um quick shout out to scott rendell who's really helped us with our aim programs but it's not just the kids that need mentoring as all of us and that's why i'm so proud of our partners and hire ed because they mentor us and we you admins are out there mentoring uh other young admins for succession and i'm proud of the uh of actually seeing that in action um this young lady uh is a product of our district she was in elementary school in our district that's then she went to sycamore junior high she went on to anaheim high school that's her as a i think a ninth grader and then she went on to cal state fullerton and then she came back to give back to the district as a bilingual aide at sycamore she went on to get her teaching credential and became a teacher an el an english teacher at sycamore and then she decided i'd like to go in administration she came in an assistant principal in our district and because of really strong mentors that she had this past year she was elevated to principal of south junior high so give it up for yoli represents many of our admins who are not only have the experience the lived experience of the intersection of race class gender but she owns it and she has agency and she does have the vocabulary to talk about these tough issues and the courage to talk about these tough issues because she's had good mentorship and i'm really proud of all of you for being very intentional about building young people building young people up who are grounded in the five c's and especially that fifth one of compassion and caring and kindness because and grace i mean all that those are not that's like 10 c's or you know but i i'm really proud of all of that because ultimately it is all about building a new type of cathedral for k-16 education a new transformative cathedral that's not only transforming orange county but i think will serve as a model for this country to help move us forward our doors are open welcome thank you very much you mr masouda for starting us off and inspiring us um every minute um at this time i'd like to introduce uh our speaker from fullerton college uh elaine lipis-gonzalez who is the interim vice president of student affairs thank you so much manuel superintendent matsura all of you for having me here today on behalf of our interim president at fullerton college dr gilbert contreras it's a pleasure for me to be here with you all to celebrate the successes of both the anaheim collaborative and the pledge program long before the pledge program was in place to tie together all of our educational institutions all of our campuses and schools anaheim union high school district cypress college fullerton college cal state fullerton uci were all busy at work serving students and our community and my family in particular is a beneficiary of that commitment and service across all of our institutions i want to tell you a little bit about my family my father is a graduate of anaheim high school coming to this country not knowing any english really not understanding the culture he went to anaheim graduated and because of the open access mission of our california community college system in particular the excellent academic programs and the stellar support programs at fullerton college college was a reality for him and that laid the foundation for educational attainment in our family we are a family full of hornets chargers anteaters titans a few more hornets and his start at anaheim high school is what laid the framework for us to be able to transform the trajectory of our own family and i share that story with you because my family is an example of many many many other families in anaheim that depend on all of us to row in the same direction to row in the same direction of making education and a college education possible to make it relevant to make it accessible and to make it transformative for themselves as individuals but also transformative for their their families and for our community at large and in particular the pledge has been instrumental at fullerton college it has allowed us to showcase our excellent academic programs our support services and to showcase that we are a vibrant campus community that allows faculty staff and students to come together both in person and in the virtual space to teach to learn to engage to build community and to really capitalize on their big dreams and so that we can give them the tools and resources they need to actualize their goals we have an amazing team many of whom are here today working very hard on behalf of our pledge students at fullerton college and i want to thank them for their tireless commitment to making sure that each and every one of our students and in particular our pledge students are successful at fullerton college we're very excited to welcome another pledge cohort in the fall we're very grateful for the pledge students that you have entrusted in our care they have added so much to our campus community so much vibrance strength resilience and and so much more and we're very happy to have them as part of hornet nation looking ahead to the fall i want to share with you a couple of developments one in particular that applies at north orange county community college district-wide and another that is specific to fullerton college as you may know our board of trustees in the fall of last year implemented a vaccine mandate and that's very similar to other community college districts certainly in line with csu and uc last month our board of trustees extended that vaccination mandate to continue through the end of this calendar year um with the addition of a single booster requirement and i share that with you as colleagues because as you work with your students that may be considering community college after graduation and in particular fullerton college and cypress college we want you to know that we're absolutely committed over the next few weeks and months making sure that all of our continuing students certainly our incoming students are prepared to meet that requirement so that they can take advantage of all the the classes that they would like to take both in person and virtual that if they want to come to campus to interact with our programs and services in person to receive support face-to-face they can do that and so we will be sharing information with you all certainly with our students and parents and families that attend our events in the spring and the summer so that they know well in advance what the requirement is the resources available to them to become in compliance and how we can help them get there the second highlight i'd like to share with you specific to fullerton college is about our brand new foundation you may or may not know that we have a new foundation it's called the friends of fullerton college foundation and friends is very busy at work building our endowment awarding scholarships to students and also to get grants in that not only provide financial support to our students but also expose them to career readiness opportunities and meaningful work experiences and so we're very excited about that because we know that our pledge students have significant financial support when they come to our to our campus but we also recognize that they continue to have unmet need with regard to books and all other expenses associated with being in college and we want to make sure that they are fully taken care of and at this time what i'd like to do if you'll indulge us for a moment i'd like to invite rolando sanabria to join me i know that rolo doesn't need really an introduction in this space but for those of you that do not know rolando he is our counselor and also outreach coordinator at fullerton college absolutely instrumental in the development of the pledge from its inception and he's going to join me up here so that we can collectively share our gratitude to humanwind manuel thank you for being such a strong friend and ally of fullerton college we are so grateful to you you've been a friend of the college and we wish you the best of luck in this new chapter we promise to pledge our continued commitment to the collaborative to the pledge moving forward and felicidades there is so much to say about manuel and it's all good but for the sake of time that for the sake of time i'm just going to read a quote from maya angelou and she said i've learned that people will forget what you say people will forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel manuel and i i know for myself and a lot of people have worked with you made us all feel good about ourselves there was never an act of power struggle there was never an act of who gets credit it was just a matter of let's do the right thing for students i still remember five years ago the five of us sat together for a year and we created the pledge uh and and those moments are for me special because uh because i share them with you so in appreciation for your contributions to the fullerton college community we present you this plaque and we sincerely hope that you enjoy your retirement as well to serve my friend thank you manuel thank you for indulging us in that moment of gratitude and recognition to to manuel and send your students to fullerton college we promise that if they come to hornet nation we will we will take care of them with the same kindness compassion and love that you all have invested in their success here at anaheim union high school district so send them our way thank you so much thank you dr libius gonzalez and thank you rolo and i agree those were special moments and thank you for for everything you do i really appreciate it with that we go on to our next partner again inspired by the work that they do and the work that we do collectively i'd like to introduce the vice president from cypress college of student affairs paul dios good morning everyone thank you manuel and uh superintendent matsuda i was talking to manuel this morning he said he has 30 days superintendent i know there's board members in here can we add a zero to that make it 300 no but in honesty uh meanwhile you're going to be sorely missed but on behalf of uh president uh joanna schilling at cypress college and our team here at cyprus who was here this morning good morning to all of you first of all i'd like to thank manuel carlos amanda santana adriana elaine denise and gisela and the rest of the event planning committee for this opportunity it's a truly honor it's truly an honor to be here it's hard to believe that four years ago the first inaugurate inaugural pledge class graduated in 2018.
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we win all right roll call rick raleigh is absent bender's here chris here maria president wilson okay maria can you lead us in the pledge of allegiance put your hand in your heart ready begin 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 thank you the board bylaws 92 9323 uh conduct at a meeting is listed do we have any public comments tonight um we do have seven pertaining to closed session all right as provided on our public comment cards you re requested to limit your time to three minutes if more than one person wishes to speak on the same topic subsequent speakers should limit their remarks to um new information i'm not going to cut you off in the middle of your thesis i mean it's just you go three minutes and 15 seconds this isn't russia okay so no it ain't gonna happen we're all we all got guns all right let's go ahead who do i have first lorraine webb former students good evening my name is laureen webb i am an apple valley high school graduate and an ffa alumni i have three children who are also adheres fabulous and ffa alumni and my youngest daughter is a current ffa member i'm here tonight on behalf of my daughter and all apple valley ffa students to talk about the current circumstances at adhs and the ffa program an advisor plays a vital role in teaching and mentoring his or her students because of mr rice's absence these students have been struggling for months my daughter has difficulty with self-esteem and confidence both mr rice and mr pimple have worked with her diligently to help boost her confidence with her peers her volleyball coaches and her teachers since mr rice has been gone i have watched my daughter take a step back and no longer be excited about school or the ag program that she's been raising and it is not just her i believe that it is difficult for many faculty students to stay motivated and this is disheartening it is completely unacceptable that these students have gone without their advisor for almost the entire school year haven't they endured enough these past two years many adhs staff members and coaches communicate with students and student athletes outside of school time and practice on a daily basis and an advisor is no different this arises interaction and communication with students whether it is a phone call a text message or in person is always professional i trust him 100 and is thankful for him and all he has done with the san bernardino county fair right around the corner i am asking you to reinstate mr rice as it is imperative that these ffa students have their advisor back without him is administration prepared to endure nine days of non-stop work at this event in my opinion and with all due respect they do not have the knowledge nor the experience for what it takes to manage this many students and animals apple valley ffa brings the largest chapter and the most animals to the fair which this year begins the first day of summer break his administration prepares for this additional time and investment from the time the sun rises until the sun sets and late into the night until the fair closes and then comes this sfa family of students and parents have been heavily concerned about the program being shut down we have been reassured that this is not going to happen however without an advisor this state is imminent we are aware that the district is still actively searching for an ag teacher and advisor to take over but they will not find one we already have a qualified ad teacher his name is jeff rice [Applause] thank you good job next speaker ryan ashley good evening i'm ryan osley i'm a teacher and the instructional leadership team lead for the current technical education department at alabama like me you all are and should always be focused on student support and success i want to speak today to reinforce the student need that is ffa on campus i know that the intent is not to close the program but i am worried that we are damaging it in a way that will take many years to resolve i think that you all have the power to help students and ask you to be an active part in helping ensure the future of this impressive program regardless of the transition it's now experiencing students who choose ffa love ffa they dedicate more to it against classes than any student does to our school through clubs and sports it fits them where nothing else will abhs prides itself on making those kinds of connections to students we have a proud history of six-year wasp accreditations that all tout that as a triumph at our school i have many ffa students in my classes and even those not in office or roles have skills and experiences that help them perform as leaders in my class more than their kids i would like to give you my perspective on the last year of the program as it appears to be in that capacity as the primary lead i've been the department lead for the last decade i've never before worried about ffa i have to pay classes always feels that they're bursting at the scenes the students are involved and perform well at leadership bear events they run many meetings and fundraise throughout the year at the beginning of the year by periods of ineffaba has very full classes and i can tell that the students have found a place of belonging the students seem excited to be there and were not walking at the workload it was a positive atmosphere i was sure i would still not have to worry about ffa fast forward to a few months now and it's a very different feeling the students who are expecting a heavily project-based experience are now disappointed with what their class has become the duration of time without a strong program lead has noticeably causing a strain on the students when i talk with my own students who are in ffa about their animal projects at the upcoming fair i don't get the rush of excitement that i used to see this time of year then last week when i got there when i checked next year's registration numbers i actually began to worry about ffa for the first time because of this amount of time in limbo and leadership uncertainty the enrollment numbers have dropped significantly right now without adjustment to fix the problem there are only three periods worth of students choosing ffa as their first choice elected for next school year we have time to fix this and our counseling advocate teams will be able to make a full-time position for this program next year however that won't continue i am worried this new numbers will continue to wane without a strong presence at its lead i knew going into this year that mr pimple's 30 plus year old cheese would be very hard to fill but please help me make sure that his legacy is not allowed to struggle as you were forced thank you [Applause] hannah kunkel good evening my name is anna henkel and i'm an apple valley alumni um when i started high school i was a pretty reserved unmotivated girl with no true direction or guidance that changed when i grew more involved in the agriculture program at the high school and met two of the most influential people in my life mr penfold and mr pepperette from day one mr ice encouraged me to get involved in the organization and to reach outside of my comfort zone he took the time to get to know me as a student and find ways to help me reach my potential this wasn't just me though see this was for every single student that he met with his goal has always been to meet students where they are and guide them to reach their potential as individuals the guidance that mr rice allowed provided for me allowed the shy freshman girl to feel like she belonged and i was able to trust mr ice for counsel and for guidance even though mr rice taught at a different school he would always help us with our tri-tip sales our speech contests and help many of our members at the fair he encouraged me in my leadership role as a sectional officer and as a regional officer his he was always the fir the voice of encouragement and support even in my first bid for state office he was there to advise and help prepare me for the grueling interview process and the support when i wasn't elected this past year i was blessed with the great honor of serving as the california ffa association state vice president where i represented 95 000 students but most importantly i got to represent apple valley ffa i would never have been able to get to this spot if it weren't for mr rice continued to give me through my college career as a freshman in college he continued to support me and through this encouragement he suggested that i should run for state office once more through the grueling interview process and when i wallowed in self-doubt mr rice was there to believe in me i reached my goals because mr rice was steadfast in supporting me this isn't just this is just my story but i've had the chance to interact with my peers both younger and older than myself who shared this exact same belief mr rice is a role model and guide to students and helps us connect our dreams to attainable goals the absence of this consistent support has left students without someone to guide them in their supervised agricultural experience programs they're without guidance in their personal growth and they're without a mentor this will continue if we don't recognize that without mr rice his expertise knowledge this program will collapse please don't destroy this outstanding program with its rich history in preparing students in agriculture leadership and career success thank you joe affleck good evening my name is joe affleck i am the president of the serrano ffa advisory board for their ffa chapter i'm here to talk about the character mr rice before i do i want you to think of two words and i want you to get to this meaning in your head by the end of my talk integrity and morals i've known mr rice personally for 10 years and have worked professionally with him for six i knew jack when he was student teaching and attended ffa conferences at that time i witnessed him invigorate students and assist in the building of ffa program at paris high school during his two student teaching years i was extremely excited when mr rice accepted the agricultural agricultural teaching position at serrano high school mr rice miss may's school administration the advisory board and the alumni association worked hand-in-hand to build the ffa program at toronto high school to new levels mr rice was instrumental in building the agricultural mechanics program and shop to a new and vibrant level he was a driving force to innovate the shop's capabilities and made sure what the students were learning and the tools and equipment they were using met industry standards mr rice with the help of others spearhead the installation of ronald's livestock facility which we've been trying to get for 20 plus years he helped us do that we all know programs like ffa always have a target on them for funding administration support mr rice was able to navigate through those difficulties and bring new ideas and support from the community and administration as well as help implement those ideas remember i mentioned integrity and morals keep thinking about that mr rice along with other teachers were able to take an ffa program that becomes stale and stagnant and help us go in the right direction by bringing fresh ideas and implementing curriculum and streamlining streamlining cte pathways all in while keeping the student's best interest at heart integrity and morals i've attended many ffa functions with mr rice and the student body whether it be affairs workshops judging competitions community events mr rice led the students other faculty advisory and administration as well as volunteers and did it seamlessly i have watched mr rice's interaction with students in the classroom setting mechanics shops school farm community events fairs and have never had any concerns i have observed mr rice around a large number of people and in a one-on-one setting and admired his passion for education and ability to find a good way to i'm sorry an ability to find a way to get through to the students he exhib he exhibits fantastic motivational skills important and more importantly follows through with his good intentions remember integrity and morals the position of a good ag teacher and ffa advisor requires more attention to students and parents and to the community than other than any other teaching or school admission employee the 11 pm calls for advice on how to deal with a sick calf to drive a more the drive of more than an hour away to help a sick pig plus a time there and the drive home and the ability to be back at school the next day without hesitation plus the endless hours of regular teaching duties while at home is what makes a good ffa advisor integrity and morals without agricultural teachers and ffa advisors like mr rice ffa programs will cease and those students will find who find a connection with the many agricultural aspects will be left behind to fend for themselves in my 30 years of agricultural leadership involvement i have personally witnessed ffa programs go extinct due to ineffective teachers for administration support and funding issues i've witnessed our program at toronto high school go to go through lows with bad decisions and i know outright that it takes several years to overcome a bad call the students lose interest which in turn brings down enrollment that the gentleman before me spoke next it goes down to lower funding and it's a constant fight to recover and we're still trying to fight to keep that program alive don't let your program fail from a poor decision there is a reason the ffa advisor is stationed by the owl the owl is a time-honored emblem of knowledge and wisdom remember integrity and morals thank you for your time thank you kelly c chord good evening uh most of you know that i'm a little loud not naturally so if the microphone is a little overbearing just let me know and i will back away from it just not my name is kelly o'brien c cord i am not originally from apple valley i actually grew up in bloomington at bloomington high school was the first american farmer to come out of that program and the only female american farmer to ever come out of that program in bloomington uh also uh colton joint this is amazing it's at to listen to first of all the fact that we're standing room only should give you some idea of how much this program and jack rice mean to this program that's unheard of these blue jackets if you're in a blue corduroy jacket would you stand up please you have your half your officer team here and you have candidates for this coming officer team that's important thank you i'm come to you in twofold one as a parent i have two students excuse me two sons uh one has graduated out of the apple valley program he would not be the child he is today without this program our youngest is running for office now he could have gone anywhere it wouldn't have mattered this is where he chose because of two people jack rice and duane penfold without them he would not be where he's sitting today he would not have run for office excuse me this is how much this program means to my children and every other child here please understand that okay down to brass tacks here laura lori i think he got to me babe um of the things that these kids come to this program for is for their vet science program there's a connection between the high school and the community college to for those kids to go through the vet science program we've talked about this and retain credits for their vet times program into uh their college career thus lessening some of those classes that they have to take later in in their vet science program great we appreciate that our our son is headed down that pathway the problem this year is last year excuse me last year we couldn't do that because of coven it didn't make any sense the kids were not getting the education they needed now they're they still are getting they could possibly be getting those credits but they're not getting an education so now because of jack rice not being in the classroom we're looking at those vet science students being at least a semester behind on their vet science program where they wouldn't have had to have been if he were in the classroom teaching my son comes to me often and says this judging portion of class does not make any sense well why not he's because it's not hands-on we're not we're learning via video he said we watched the oldest goat goat judging classes the other day and they don't make any sense we don't have any hands-on because jack rice is not in the classroom i'm going to change hats here not only do i represent a parent but i also represent though i am the livestock superintendent at the county fair in san bernardino county at victorville we have some rules and some guidelines there that everybody has to follow at our local level as well as our state level one of those is that our exhibitors have to turn in what's called a code of ethics or a code of conduct it says things like you have to behave you have to dress properly we have a stricter dress code than most school districts have then they have to agree to that they have to agree to wear their uniform they also have to re they also have to agree and sign that they are following something called the wholesome meat act in other words when you go to the grocery store and you purchase a steak or a pork chop or bacon or whatever that meat is we're guaranteeing you that if you purchase it from one of these exhibitors it is not going to be a mistreated in any way it will be fed correctly and if it were on any medication at any point in its life that it had the correct withdrawals done on it so that you're not receiving that medication in the meat that you are that you are consuming they have to sign that their parents have to sign it and so does their ag teacher their ag teacher is not on grounds if we don't from the fair receive that paperwork written and signed these kids can't show the only person that can sign it is their ag teacher and that is jack rice i'm telling you this because are there are those animals being treated yes they are but if they're being treated outside of what mr rice knows then he's falsifying a document when he signs that piece of paper saying that yes it hasn't been treated with something because he doesn't know all that encompasses the treatment of an animal that's been sick that has not been under his care so we're looking at 30 hogs 14 calves a steer or two at least a dozen lambs we're putting everybody at risks there we're putting mr rice at risk we're putting the exhibitors at risk and we're putting the ferret risk not to mention the consumer for those of you who are sure going to come to the fair and purchase an animal to put in your own freezer just something to think about if jack rice is back in the classroom this is something that the fair doesn't have to worry about your exhibitors don't have to worry about and neither does you do you as a consumer okay a little off track there sorry about that uh one of the heavy loads that our ag advisors handle at the fairgrounds jack royce mr penfold when he was an advisor troy ban babel is is they are they become chaperones they are the chaperone they are made they're making sure that animals are fed twice a day that their pet their bedding is cleaned that these kids are participating in what they've signed up for this is a money deal these kids have signed up for classes it's roughly on an average 30 to 50 on these kids for entry fees so if they miss a class they're out if they miss a market class they don't get to sell they don't reap the rewards of seeing their business all the way through till it sells that's an ag teacher's job they also volunteer for our office they build pens they help load commercial trucks i'm not sure who's going to do that if jack's not there that's part of the dedication of an ag teacher is to fulfill those needs done all the way through these kids businesses whether they have a hog business a steer business a lamb business rabbits whatever it may be that ag teacher is responsible for making sure that those animals get on on the truck with the student on the truck that they're supposed to be in thank you sarah very much we hope that you reconsider not only bringing back jack next year but getting him back in the classroom in the next week or two thank you [Applause] troy van devel i hope [Music] hey good afternoon thanks for good to see some of you here and good to see the blue jackets um i am uh troy van babel i'm an agriculture teacher at lucerne valley high school for 28 years um and i good to hear everybody and see everybody here and what i'm going to do tonight is i'm going to actually read a letter from jackie jones who is the educational program consultant and there's our southern region supervisor so she controls um and looks over our program plans and also the ag incentive grant which we have various things that we need to do as ag instructors so i know you have the letter it's a really good letter i'm going to take some highlights and some excerpts out of that okay it is with great enthusiasm that i write this letter of recommendation on the behalf of mr jack rice regarding his character impact on agriculture education community and integrity i've had the pleasure of meeting jack six years ago through agriculture education since then i've come to appreciate jack's passion for teaching agriculture leadership and ambition mr rice has made an impact on his students colleagues teachers throughout the section region and state he provides opportunities to all the students not just a few and as always encouraging students to become their best mr rice shows these qualities of mentor with students and others in the high desert section he's constantly pouring his time energy and heart into the things he loves most teaching others about agriculture jack shows dedication determination and drive his purpose and passion for agriculture education shows with each student that he takes in the class and who is involved within the agriculture program he is dependable motivated and always finding ways to make improvements for future events and opportunities you know and we've kind of heard that but here's here's where you know you kind of get into the part where hiring new teachers and looking at new things for the program and we all know apple valley is a legacy and i know myself and many other advisors would like to see this legacy continue on unfortunately within the agriculture education community we're facing teacher shortages throughout the state and finding high quality teachers who have the experience with working with a variety of livestock projects multiple classes and taking on the role of a department head are few and far between even though our universities have close to 85 teachers entering the profession we have more openings offered in the teach then teacher candidates last year within the southern region we had a two out of eight positions that were opened had and they had to close without having an agriculture teacher hired what that does is it sets the programs back significantly having to dissolve the classes completely or by moving students to other programs within the high school that were not agriculture based this year within the region we will have 13 positions that need to be filled by the end of the summer with not having any student teacher entering the profession from cal poly pomona we're recruiting from universities north of the grapevine in hopes that we consider taking job down southern region knowing this is this does worry me when it comes to finding a quality replacement as stated before apple valley has been a running legacy for years and i would hate to see the program struggle with finding replacement with just a fill-in position as a program education consultant and someone who works with agriculture educators throughout the state i can confidently say that jack is one of the best teachers we have he cares for a student successful or not he pours his heart into each program and he's been a part of making sure the program focuses on the three ring model that is for everyone not just some he goes out of his way for his fellow teachers and students whether it's helping with a sick livestock or providing resources for others to be successful jack rice is a compassion has the compassion character and integrity of a agriculture educator and i know as agriculture teachers we don't just teach agriculture we reach students and that's using that as a tool and i know i've known jack since you know he was in high school and i hope we can all really take this all in and look for a right decision thank you for listening [Applause] finally last but not least dwayne i talked with him for over 30 years he's the man yeah i like that 30-year comment for those of you who don't know me i am dwayne penfold i taught agriculture science at albany high school for 42 years um and i retired this last year which has been good and bad after building an extremely successful program i was not walking away without making sure first that the program was in good hands for the past 10 years jack rice has been a big part of our agriculture program and ffa in fundraising leadership training helping students at the fair as you prepared to become an ag teacher himself his ultimate goal was to teach at apple valley high school his dream job if you will i am embarrassed and disappointed and angry about how this district has handled a complaint from a disgruntled parent that has led to an investigation that has taken four and a half months to remove an ag teacher from the classroom and strand those students not only has this action caused damage to his reputation and integrity and incredible stress to our family but as you have heard students in this program excuse me have struggled in the classroom and with their ffa activities after month of being out of the classroom parents were angry and have contacted me and i worked to restrain their outbursts until february when i not mr rice told parents to write letters to the district about their displeasure and the way that this was being handled with their permission i have included some of the letters in your folder and kylie i we were to pass those out so you could see that material understand that ed code procedures and board policies in a case like this require investigation but it seems that mr rice has been treated criminally by not resolving this situation in a timely manner with with uh while he is a probationary teacher at alpha valley high school and only had four months in the classroom he has been tenured for four years outstanding years at serrano high school and i assure you that any perceived impropriety could have been corrected with guidance and directives my friends of the school board you have voted to non-reelect jack rice this next year i would implore you to reevaluate that decision based on what you've heard tonight and knowing that he has another year of probationary period to evaluate that performance especially in light of the fact that he has not had a completed formal evaluation this year i and every stakeholder in the ag program ask that you as you reconvene in closed session that you will reevaluate the decision to non-re-elect mr rice for this next year and even consider returning him to the classroom for the end of the year education and grading hosting the awards banquet for students and getting 70 students through the county fair with their over 50 thousand dollar investment in livestock projects please consider this serious matter and thank you for your time [Applause] okay you have to bear with me here we're going to talk about what we're going to be discussing in closed session conference on litigation government code section 54956.9 current legislation litigation yeah oh pupil personnel expulsion cases number 22 21 22 through expulsion number 24 21 and 22 and ar number 621-22 and then to continue uh number 2023366 cibsb 210396 c ib sb 211303 government code section 549 5.5 and 54956.9 anticipated litigation eight cases 2018 1907 1907-07 20 21 5 20 21 through 21 20 through 21 7 20 21 20 21 22-6 2021 22 202 1 20 21 2021 2209 government code section 54954.5 anticipated litigation two cases hofstella sanchez allison well that's interesting in it republican employee discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leave title certificated and classified employees number four public employees appointment resignation retirement reduction title certification and classified employees number five conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator dustin conrad employee organization apple valley unified teachers association number six conference with labor negotiation negotiator dustin conrad employee organization california school employees association number seven conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator trine nelson employee organization unrepresented number eight conference with real property negotiator government code 549 56.8 negotiation parties matthew schulenberg apple valley unified school number nine the superintendent's evaluation number 10 conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator trenay nelson b employee organization unrepresented assistant superintendent of administrative service employment contract government code section 54957 number 11 conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator trine nelson the employee organization unrepresented assistant superintendent of educational service employment contract government code section 5497 and number 12 agency negotiator conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator trene nelson employee organization unrepresented assistant superintendent of human resources employment contract government code section 54957 can i now have a motion to go in a closed session maria chris second all in favor hi we're going into closed session we need to accept foreign [Applause] okay we'll bring the meeting to order and uh first of all superintendent's gonna make a report here on behalf of the board of trustees in regards to the ffa program i would like to thank the speakers for expressing their position and concerns in all personnel matters because of the employee right to privacy there are often facts and information that cannot be shared with the public the opinions that were shared this evening many of which we do not dispute do not reflect the entirety of the facts of the case it remains our goal to continue to have the apple valley high school ffa program be the premier program it has been known to be thank you okay go on student representative rancho verde elementary hey matt will you have him come in front so we can see him yeah move out here okay [Music] good evening members of the school board teachers principals parents and students my name is chiara cisneros i am in fifth grade and the student council president at rancho verde elementary i am so happy to be back in school i like it because it's easier for me to learn or understand more most things online school was hard for some kids to learn because they got distracted easily today i would like to tell you a little about the activities that my school rancho verde has offered to to offer to all of this its students number one clay club clay club is fun is a fun activity to do for students students have been making pink pots and animals number two yoga club yoga club is calm for students and they get to relax number three steam club steam club helps students stay focused plan and come up with ideas on how to create robots number four we have many students compete in cross country this year we were so proud to have rancho verde represent by such a dedicated students number five this year our party participated in scripts spelling bee students enjoy the contests and learn some new words naomi hardo made it to the district and country spelling bee level she represented rancho verde ver ver very well number six every year our school participates in raising money for the america heart association during our jump rope for heart event this year if we can meet our goal to two thousand dollars then our students would get to slime our principal mr cranston today i'm happy to report that one day soon we will have a slimy principle [Laughter] right now we are working on our state testing this is the first time for most of us and for some students it's hard because they're used to it even with all this testing we are really happy to be back in school we love joining in the activities seeing our friends and learning our next speaker is yido pang our student council treasurer thank you [Applause] good evening members of the school board parents teachers principals and students my name is ito peng i am in fifth grade and a student council treasurer at rancho verde elementary we i feel glad to be back at school even though online was fine for me we get to have after school activities and be with our friends i feel less distracted and i get more work done when i am learning in person thanks to mrs beo we received a 1 500 vegetable garden grant the student council officers have been reaching out to apple valley contractors to ask if they wanted to help start our vegetable garden for the students here at rancho verde elementary we hopefully have found someone to help us with the benches and planter boxes for the garden and plan to start very soon the student council earned about by selling roses for a valentine's day fundraiser and are currently planning another fundraiser to earn money for the garden and system being back in school has been great and the student council hopes that having a vegetable garden at school will only make it better every year even during the pandemic our school hosts a two-day arts attack event students and staff participate in fun learning activities centered on the arts and music kiara is handing out invitations to help each of the board members for this event if you attend you will receive a rancho verde architecture and get to experience some of the activities we have planned on these two days thank you [Applause] that presentation was by a key and now we have sandia angel acevedo joseph gonzalez samantha haskell and daniel who is [Applause] good job hello and good evening board members and guests my name is samantha and i am sandia's asb president and with me are daniel and angel the three to five asb representatives and joseph's the k2 asb representative who could not be here today we want to start by saying that for everything that we have all been through in the last few years we are so glad that we are back in school in person we also appreciate the opportunity to present to you tonight in person a report of all the great things we have accomplished in the experience at sandia this year we want to share with you about everything from our mascot change outdoor back to school night and just to get and to just getting to be with our friends teachers and all the other adults in person again during school events some of our highlight events include an outdoor 911 remembrance ceremony where the apple via apple valley fire department was able to bring their truck on campus and our choir students sing the national anthem we had to name the mascot competition for a new mascot the wolf the winning name was announced at our rock the wolf sculpture unveiling during that event we officially named our mascot shadow all event all students and staff had the opportunity to add a rock with their name on it to the heart of the wolf in september we also began our new after school program called excel each day the students have a one hour class for literacy and then a one-hour class for fun we do things like makerspace archery theater and cooking in october asb house hosted an outdoor dance for our six eighth graders it was the biggest turnout ever with over 100 students attending everyone had a blast and the weather was perfect the back to school dance may have a new tradition of always being outdoors sandia also hosted a family night for our fall fest families came onto campus and enjoyed activities offered by the teachers families were able to play games take pictures at the photo booth win some desserts at the cakewalk and even win books at the book walk hosted by the literacy committee we ended the month with our annual costume parade about the center of the school in november the tk the first graders celebrated fall with their annual leaf play day our front office also was remodeled and we all are thankful for that in december we celebrate the holidays in each class with our sandia wolf pack choir perform the avhs desert concert also our sandia elf burton reappeared and hit all over campus for 12 days dr mrs gillette brought science to life with explainers and their puppet show get us all excited for our night at the avci right after the winter break in january our students our school participated in the national spelling bee for the first time ever with 66 students participating in an event eight of our students moved on to the district spelling bee and our very own dean anderson was the last speller standing he participated in the county spelling bee on march 22nd finishing in third place some of our smaller events that we include many spirit weeks and holiday grams we participated in the great kindness challenge with the door decorating contest miss brewster's class posted words of kindness for students to take with them and of course we had a blast on tuesday 2 20 2 22 2022 and we celebrated the national day of play students and staff dressed up with their twin or war tutus and played the day away in march sandia participated in read across america with a variety of literacy activities including reading to the principal with nisswa our book vending machine was delivered on on this day and the students were able to get a golden token to receive a book in our second trimester award assemblies our cross country team ran at bearwolf invitational with several students finishing the top 25 of the group and our own victor winning the 5th to 6th grade boys race right after spring break we celebrated keeping our hearts healthy with the kids heart challenge the entire school came out to participate in healthy heart activities we are now looking forward to the end of the year with one more spirit week a staff appreciation event and in may we have our annual field day celebrating another amazing school year coming to an end the 8th graders will be celebrating their journey to high school with a drive-through advancement ceremony on tuesday may 24th 2022 at 7 pm and remember at sandia this is how we hull how help to be safe offer respect work responsibly and lead by example we brought a small gift for the school board tonight we would like to give you a token to our brand new book machine and invite you to our campus to try it for yourselves thank you and have a nice night [Applause] yes thank you all right from granite hills high school ella houseman i know it's great to be back good evening board members superintendent nelson and attendees my name is ella houseman your 2021-2022 grand hills gc president this month we are filled with many activities such as our spirit days following up to our spring pep rally prom with our theme to the moon and back a hawkins dance and a masquerade dance the campus vibe has been excitement especially with the amount of participation in the running for prom king and queen there are 19 candidates running and the school is filled with pro posters and bribery with candies and pastries our chamber singers won silver at a competition in anaheim sports have been mighty with boys tennis wrapping up the desert sky league champion title back to back our track boys and girls both accomplished league championships as well the swim team is glad to be back after a year of no swimming and the softball and baseball team have great participation and motivation lots of fun this month and it will only get better nearing the end of the school year with many more activities planned thank you all for your time this evening and always remember maroon and gray leads the way apple hi daniel good evening steam board members i'm daniel ariana a above apple valley high school's line president it is my pleasure to bring you news from appa valley high school the month of march was a busy month with many extraordinary extraordinary events as usual i will start with our school sports our baseball team won their games against sultana burroughs and hesperia and our softball team won against zoltan and burroughs and hesperia as well as their games against serrano and knight with them being in second place in the mojave river league our boys tennis team won the recent match against oak hills in single and doubles and they also earned first place at the hesperia scorpion invitational our mast academy competed in the hosa state leadership conference over spring break where four amazing sun devils placed top five in the state of california students place fifth place in nursing assisting competition and fifth third and second place in the healthy lifestyle competition speaking of competitions the skills usa state competition will take will take place next weekend our students have been working hard to continue the momentum they gained during the regional competition and bring many medals to our school as for school events we saw the return of the mr sun devil pageant to the delight of many students sun stations held their throwback recital and also organized a spring boutique partnering with local vendors the month of april is here and that means one thing for hundreds of students prom we will be having our prom next saturday the 23rd at the mahantos wax students are ecstatic about the return of one of the most memorable high school experiences after almost two years of remote learning lastly as the end of the school year approaches many of our seniors are making the decision of where they will spend the next chapter of their life it is my great pleasure to announce that this year apple valley high school students have been accepted to schools such as mit nyu princeton ucla columbia oxford and many many other amazing institutions we recognize the commitment that our students have made to their academics and wish them the best of luck as they prepare for a life lasting impact i thank you for your attention and remember sun devil pride is contagious [Applause] all right those people that have homework to do here's the time to escape report union rep csda hold on just a moment ladies and gentlemen sorry i know this is out of protocol but i wanted to uh i thank the the students who took the time to come and speak to us today uh it's because of you that we open our doors and we're so proud that you are able to come out and give us a rundown of what happens at your schools i'm particularly impressed with sandia school because all of my children went through sandia and so um i i cannot wait to see what you have become and as for apple valley high school and the high school students uh we can't wait to see you in may when you walk across the um stage and receive your diploma but i want to also take this time to thank your teachers and your parents who continue to help you so that you can become better than we are thank you so much for your time okay now cse i don't have a name there's nobody nobody okay av uta is that okay excuse me that's good i don't know i'm kind of worried i have a hard act to follow oh okay good evening board members superintendent nelson assistant superintendents and members of the audience for all views for all of you who do not know me my name is karen sabers it is an honor and a privilege for me to stand here today and to introduce myself not only as the new avodah president but more importantly as part of an extraordinary executive board team as you know the strength of a team is each individual member the strength of each member is the team as we embark on a new chapter with this in mind i would like to introduce you to each of the executive board members corinne mathis is our treasurer shannon sovereign is our secretary martha lopez is our ps6 segment director and wendy kelly is our ps8 segment director in july we'll have two others joining us as i shared in the letter to the avuta members the executive board's vision for a buddha is that through communication transparency and building relationships we can engage all of our members in the process of improving the conditions for our teachers and become a powerful voice that affects positive change in our education this is not my organization this is a member's organization and i along with the exec board must facilitate the needs of our members in order to do this we recognize that there may be times that we need to agree to disagree but work in unity with the district to help our members when there are disagreements and differences of opinions a great team looks to resolve with open communication patience and care someone once told me many years ago if you have a disagreement with someone you take them their favorite drink during a downtime and you resolve that disagreement therefore i will be sending all of you our favorite drinks and we would like a list from every one of you in conclusion we are excited for the future of evuda and look forward to not only working with our members members but also working with every one of you we ask for grace and understanding during this transition and would like everyone to know that we are and always will act in the best interests of our buddha members in solidarity via the avodah executive board although i am finished with my speech we cannot leave this podium without giving a shout out to all the hard working teachers in apple valley this has been a challenging year for many now that the pandemic is over if you will the teachers are dealing with the social emotional difficulties that students are faced with as well as their own emotions not only are they dealing with the difficulties that the students are having but we are all now facing the challenges of inflation brought about by the pandemic in the ukrainian war through all of this they continue to show up to work put a smile on for the students and give their best the ukrainian war has personally affected one of our teachers here in apple valley his family is in kiev ukraine he was married there and with all he is dealing with he shows up every day with a smile on his face but hurt in his heart not only do we want to give a shout out to the teachers but we also want to give a shout out to the classified employees the principals the district admin and the school board i'm sure i'm missing a group and if i did i apologize everyone is facing challenges yet continue to put their best foot forward we can't direct the wind but we can adjust the sails every single person in this district has had to do this this year and we should appreciate one another please remember the next time we feel like someone isn't putting their best foot forward they're doing the best they can at that point in time they may be dealing with something that we don't recognize or know they are coming together is the beginning working together is success the executive board and avuta strive for success now i can say thank you and have a blessed evening thank you [Applause] all right tonight chris is the clerk he's going to read action taking in close session okay um we have in closed session the board of trustees took action in support of the following recommendation from the superintendent on conference litigation government code section four point 54954.5 subsection d uh s hof versus av usd on a motion made by vendor and seconded by opara the board voted unanimously to deny the claim of stella hoff on a four to zero on four zero vote with president raleigh absent in the closed session of the board of trustees took action and supported the following recommendation uh from the superintendent uh conference on litigation government code section 54954.5 subsection d a sanchez versus av usd on a motion made by bender seconded by so the board voted unanimously to deny the claim of allison sanchez on a 4-0 vote with president raleigh absent in closed session the board of trustees took action supported the following recommendation from the superintendent public employee discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leave for search for certificated and classified employees on a motion bait by so seconded by opara with a 4-0 vote with president raleigh absent the board of trustees voted to release classified employee number 6804 effective april 15 2022 pursuant to the notice of intent to discipline by dismissal date march 2nd 2022 and that's all thank you adoption of agenda the board may approve the agenda as is or add and pull items from the consent agenda for discussion or action may i have a motion okay motion in a second all in favor hi hi okay do we have any other comments we do not superintendent you want to make any more comments tonight um well we still have an audience let's i want to um first express that the students did an amazing job tonight that's as miss okpara said that's why we're here um they brought up to state testing which i think in years past prior to the pandemic was like a very stressful time not so much anymore we're just going to do what we're required to do but kids need to be kids and be back in school late this afternoon right before the board meeting i shipped out to the board we posted to social media that senate bill 871 which was the pan bill that had a requirement for the coveted 19 vaccination to be listed on the immunization list um which took away parents parental personal belief exemption is not moving forward so it is done they may still add through the governor the requirement for a covid vaccine but it would require the state to allow for personal exemption so i just that's a celebration on our end because this has been um something we have been advocating for parental choice on that particular topic and um right before the board meeting um it occurred so just as parents that have been out i see some of you in the audience who have been advocating know that that one is not moving forward in the session and there's still some work to do as an axa member i was on yesterday again today on advocacy and dr pan was on yesterday could not answer the questions and i think there was a little bit of pressure from a lot of the groups that he was having to deal with and our local senator was not going to vote in on behalf of that bill because of the way it was written so that one will stall for another year he may repent it but it's done and last week i got to attend the medical and health sciences student debate at apple valley high school each group had prepared and debated different topics all controversial in nature but totally aligned with what they are studying they did an amazing job we were only able to stay for a short period of time because at the same time we also had a construction trades competition going on at victor valley college and so it was a sea of orange some green districts from all over the valley were there competing it was a great event our students did very well and then tonight the board will take action in a little while regarding classified and certificated employee recognition week that takes place in may and we are thrilled to be back this year with our ice cream social um not drive-through there will not be a drive-through we will have um scoops and people coming so we're excited about that and i'll wait for the rest of it at the end because i'd like to explain a little bit about our rural resolution coming forward at the next board meeting and i appreciate it thank you okay board comments wilson earlier in our district is from ukraine here and of course i just might not watch too much because it really is disturbing oh yeah about the children being killed over there but from my standpoint i have something to send money to help organizations to provide food supplies in ukraine it's just it's just tragic to see what's happening over there that's all i have maria um going to start by saying that i i just attended two days of masters in governance training um i was actually finishing it out in the parking lot uh today because i missed the first day and so i had to make it up and in that training a lot of things came to light in my head and i wanted to be sure that i addressed those as we we go through as a district that we have to know what our goals are as a district so that we know where we're going if we don't have a road map every road leads somewhere we need to know what our graduation rate is and what our dropout rates are and we also need to know who's dropping out and where do they go we also need to begin as a board and i'm a member of the sitting board uh to begin to go on learning um trips with the superintendent so that we can let her know and we can go into those classrooms and actually see what is happening in the classrooms and what's happening in the offices because sometimes when you walk into a school it tells you a story right away especially for people like me who've been a principal i know how to walk the walls i can walk into a school even before you scurry the kids away i've seen everything i need to see so we need to start going on those learning walks so that we know what's happening in the schools and let the teachers tell us how things are going for them and when i used to sit on the wasp committee my job was the school climate so i used to go in just so that i can talk to the custodian because the custodian will tell me what's going on and if i ask the question and they put their heads down i also know what's going on i like us to begin to look at our border agenda when we said our job is about student learning then our border agenda has to reflect that we need to begin to have those deep dive questions we need to know what our police is doing at our individual schools during passing period where are they so we need to be sure that where they say they are is where they should be so that we don't have our teachers and administrators running all over the place trying to figure out what's going on otherwise i think as a district i had the opportunity just before i got into the board meeting to brag about the district to other board members who came to masters in governance and the first thing that came out of my mouth in the bragging was a food pantry i had to share that we have a food pantry that most people are really not aware of i also had to share that when we had a shortage of of teachers that are administrators from the central office and this is here the central office went out to the schools and they served us crossing guards and one of them was a bus driver um you know so we do everything that we can but sometimes as a district we spend so much time talking about the things that we have done wrong and we don't talk about the things that we're doing right so i think as a district we're doing a lot of things right but we cannot take our eyes on the things that we need to fix so i'm really glad glad that um i put a call out to the nwacp and they came today so i'm really thankful that you all showed up today otherwise um you know i have nothing else to say for now okay i might mind brief i'd like to point out that these student representatives that come from the high schools it's interesting to watch how they improve on their verbal presentation and then where they are in 10 years you'll be amazed you see these kids and read about them where they are down the road they're shakers and movers okay to go on here um no public hearings a discussion i'd like to say something oh excuse me did i already skip your name yeah we're tight it's in time for my half hour wait a minute so forgive me i was trying to make it short i know it no that's okay uh very briefly i just want to say um congratulations to ms sabres and thank you for assuming the role into your entire executive team i know there's a lot of work to be done but glad to be working with you so thank you um congratulations to apple valley high school construction department um as uh miss nelson said they competed at vbc earlier that last week excuse me in a dog house construction contest and gosh they represented our our district so well to show that we really have a lot of talented craftsmen and students right here so very nice to see um and then this if you all haven't had a chance to see this i invite you all to visit our social media pages recently yucca loma posted that they had got their book vending machine fully um fully stocked and i'm so excited to see that sandia has this also this is one more way that we show how important reading is especially to our kindergarten through first kindergarten through third graders and making sure that they're incentivized and keep them going so keep them reading keep them learning that it pays so that's all i have so thank you thank you you did a good job all right discussion action session the board action this evening is requested for amended assistant superintendent employment contracts administrative services item 1.1 educational services item 1.2 and human resource item 1.3 there are no changes in compensation provision from the previous contracts all three will receive the health and welfare benefits provided for other abusd management employees annual salary for the assistant superintendent human resources will be 163 000 a cut of 10 thousand dollars no i'm just kidding 29.82 effective january 1st 2022 and 175 effective january the 1st 2023 annual salary for the assistant superintendent administrative services and for the assistant superintendent ed services will be 175 988.35 effective july 1 current proposed contracts on our file at the superintendent's office for review approval of the amended contracts for employment of the assistant superintendent of administrative services i need a motion so second okay any discussion all in favor aye aye approved the amended contract for the employment of the assistant superintendent of edge services motion so move thank you any discussion all in favor all right approved amended contract for employment of the assistant superintendent of human resources motion second one all right all in favor aye approval approve the recommendation of the administrative hearing chairperson affected immediately on expulsion case number 22 2021 through 22.
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hospitals and community resources can be invited into a dynamic mutual aid group instantly establishing voice communications over a shared digital infrastructure that integrates legacy systems creating a seamless communication experience and providing inter-agency connectivity beyond voice users can share location information and data that improves situational awareness including floor plans tactical plans evacuation maps sensor network data and real-time video feeds allowing responders to work smarter together mutual link is the only network that powers the connections that truly bring people together to create an informed collaborative emergency response that saves lives and build stronger communities the things when you were looking at what looked like a computer screen that's what the person who is thanks for sharing a few minutes of your time i'd like to show you mutual links sorry um that's what the person who is at the main center is seeing and is then able to send out uh two groups and so on the left side of that screen you saw a whole list of people or groups or whatever and they can and they can grab those and put them into uh into the same thing and then they all get the same message at the same time and that kind of thing so there was they did a demonstration for us at at the superintendent's meeting and actually called in and did like a drill one and it was pretty impressive that how quickly things then just all pull together for everybody and of course we know that in any really ugly circumstances usually the incident is over in five to ten minutes and you know and then it's everything after that so to have really immediate contact is a good thing where's the company based out of i'm not sure where their home base is um i know that the the command center is like i think it's in new jersey the demonstration that we saw that's where it is [Music] okay then on the on the money right yeah money a representative that would work just with us they have they have approved for us to continue the same services that we have had okay and that was recommended to that was the information i shared with the the advisory insurance advisory committee and they compared with kairos and nobody else was interested in picking that up so so yeah they stepped up okay any other questions yep so we got that resolved uh we need a motion to adopt the resolution i'll make a question i'll make a motion that we adopt the uh resolution to terminate of the termination of the c r c-r-a-e-b-h-t i'll second that motion all in favor aye corey burgess i am ann amen you have a second a second all in favor aye corey burgess i'm amanda ehman aye charlene diaz hi anna boyd i'm melinda sabrowski i'm sorry i um i i do want to compliment because i attended the the meetings i do want to compliment the people there the the the professional staff that you brought in to actually do this thinking was really phenomenal they did a nice job thank you and um and bill and bill we need to compliment bill and hope that he stays with us for a while absolutely bill hart is was one of our community reps and he has a long time history and experience with insurance so he's uh he's a very valuable information resource for us and um and a good advisor for us and uh we appreciate him and he's agreed to help us again next year so thank you so much voluntarily yes volunteering to hear your kudos miss sobrowski he couldn't no he couldn't quite hear your kudos okay i just wanted to thank you for being on the committee with me and everybody else that was there it was really um the information you brought was really interesting and informative thank you all right item 5.1 offer contracts for administrative positions dr stewart mr president and board members we have had two administrative openings the principal position at bullhead city middle school and the assistant principal position at diamondback we had committee members from both of those sites and three from each of those sites and mrs lott and i served on that committee the recommendations for you are that cynthia cochran be offered the contract for principalship at bullhead city middle school and margaret emlind who is currently a science science and math teacher at the middle school be offered the assistant principalship at diamondback do we have any questions no all right did i move we approve item 5.1 i'll second that motion all in favor aye corey burgess hi amanda amen hi charlene diaz aye anna boyd i'm melinda sabrasky so moved item 5.2 renewal of abm contract for the fiscal year 23.
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if you go on to the next slide seth our remediation intervention program has key components and it's our panther den team that's what we call our our area where we invite the kids down there's a lot of collaboration and a lot of conversations that go on among the staff and even with the kids that make us successful we do a lot of student data tracking we have something called a classroom connection i'll touch on in a moment and a panther study slide please so again my team leaders are paula and leslie and together we meet very frequently informally and formally with a group of pair pros that are also down there with us uh several ladies and gentlemen that are very much an impact on our kids and it's so nice to have both men and women working with our students because that gives them some good role models for the work ethic that we're looking for so the picture of our team part of our team there they're not all there but this team is phenomenal they plan together they support our students with incentives they sit down and they brainstorm what what makes our kids work for us you know what what are we going to do to offer them some some good feedback and they model the work ethic this this team is such a model for our kids and the work ethic that they put forth they review what the students are doing in the classroom they go in the classrooms and they see what they're doing and then they come back and they re-teach that instruction and they help create the better understanding of the content from the classroom we are data driven all the time as you heard z talk about how they do their great checks the kids do that we're doing that for our kids too we have our teams downstairs they work on this where they track every week what these kids are scoring in their classrooms and their math and their language arts and then they'll take notes right beside that student's name when they've reached out how they've reached out did they email them did they did they send them a note whatever it was however we're reaching out we're documenting all that we're doing to get those kids on board and you'll see their grades every week whether they're going up or down and then that that's where our targets come in as to who are we going to get down there next week so then every day we send out a sheet like this every one of our teachers in math and language arts gets this and so they can put on there what's the skill we're working on today and then our parapros and ours our staff downstairs they get the student down there and they work on that activity and they'll put notes it's completed or you know somebody needed a quiet place to work that was sitting down there because they just were having a tough time getting something completed so we document this every single day i'm also not just organized i'm the binder queen at school so i'm binders full of this where we're working with our kids on a daily basis and we're tracking the things that we're doing to help them here's an example of one of our students in language arts this was their beginning grade 24 and you can see all the many times they went down to that lab in that semester and by the end of that semester they were at an 82 because they're working they're working hard and they're making things happen and that doesn't happen overnight it takes a long time to make that progress but it's that commitment from the kids and the commitment from our staff that's making that happen and with that staff that we have downstairs it's just phenomenal what we can do with our kids so data driven remediation and instruction from our our group of panther den and we offer lots of activities for them when they're reading a certain thing in their language arts classroom we may have a challenge that goes with that if they're doing something in math we may offer a challenge for something that they're working on in math we send them a lot of positive things locker notes or an announcement over the intercom or a good news note home we celebrate what the kids are doing it's the little thing sometimes and it's sometimes it's the big things but we want to celebrate all of it because they are making the effort for us and we offer them you know incentives to have no missing assignments or bring up your grade by you know one letter grade we celebrate all of those things because that's what makes our kids successful and we try to always recognize that we also do our clear site assessments throughout the year that obviously get us ready for ilearn and so what i do is after we finish those assessments i sort them by every one of our english language arts and math team and i color code them so they the teachers can actually see how each one of their students has performed and then we use the color coding and we sort them once more and then after our winter assessment we take our groups by their color code and we do more small group remediation with all of them to get them better on those skills that they were obviously struggling with so we just wrapped up our winter remediation session where each week every group got a small group dose of something that they were working on on the assessments and so they were able to improve they the teachers gave them some exit tickets each time that they would do some of the remediation to see how well that was working and small groups as you know are incredible when you can have a smaller group of kids so the teachers the parapros and everyone split up and took a group to work with so we could really be more intensive on what we were working on so a lot of good effort on their part there we also have the ixl program that supplements what we're doing with the math and the language arts and we encourage the kids to use that both in the classroom and outside the classroom teachers can assign things they can check the progress of the students and then the staff down the panther den even start started thinking okay well let's make some challenges here and so we just finished some challenges from the math and language arts departments where the kids mastered so many skills and they earned things on each level as they went and we have some kids that we've been celebrating in that area as well so just a lot of things that are happening there that i'm so grateful for that their kids are motivated by and they were very motivated by by this the classroom connection came about when at the beginning of the year when we started getting those emails saying well we have some extended absences so extended absences is like oh my goodness what are we going to do this the students going to be out for a little bit we've got to do something to help them so even though our teachers were doing all this phenomenal work on their google classrooms teachers can't stop teaching in the classroom to help somebody that's sitting at home so we established the classroom connection which was a google classroom page that i set up and then i would either email or call home and say to the parent i know your students out please reach out because we have a staff member that can jump on a google meet with your child if they're working on math their math teacher may not be available but we are so reach out to us and we'll set that up for you and try to help your student while they're home that worked phenomenal we had a lot of kids reach out to us on that and i emailed and called every single student all year long that was on the extended absence list to make sure they knew that was available to them um actually mrs comell told me i should tell you that it's crazy i sent out i looked i've sent out over 10 000 emails this year to people so parents and students mostly she said 9 000 to her but that's not true i do reach out a lot i do a lot of phone calls a lot of emails i email not only the parents but the students they need to be advocating for themselves as well and i am so pleased to say that there's probably not a day goes by that i don't get an email or from a parent or a student reaching back out to me and that's what it's all about making those connections and then we have the after school program and you know kids is that detention it is not detention it is an opportunity and i sell it that way to the parents we have an opportunity for your child to stay after school to get some extra support to get some extra time just to sit down and work on some some assignments that you might be missing i have some students are like i've got so much going on this week can i stay after one day and get this stuff done absolutely absolutely so we have this program in place and we have different staff members that stay out or stay after throughout the week and help with math language arts social studies whatever they're working on and it's not limited to just you know a tear student it is for any student in our building and i reach out a lot to parents and invite them in i i document all of those connections that i try to make for our parents to know that we do have support there and i do get a lot of i didn't even know you did that well we do and so please take advantage of it and so i do literally have a parent nearly every week asking for their student to join and stay after school uh sometime throughout the week so it's been a wonderful program and i hope to expand that next year and add even more staff members that i can bring in to help the kiddos and then this is what it's all about is it a reason a season or a lifetime connection because it is the connections that we make that make the difference in our kids and in us and so to finish up and i don't like to read things out loud to you but i'm going to read this one because i think it's important many conversations happen among our staff to make decisions based on what is truly best for our students we have to ask sometimes if we come into someone's life for a reason a season or a lifetime a reason to meet a need provide guidance or support a season to bring experience and teach something new or a lifetime to provide lessons to build upon in order to have a solid foundation for the rest of your life at jennings county middle school i hope we meet all three of these criteria but it is certainly our goal to help our students build this lifetime foundation through each reason and season we share with them so thanks um this is the last time i have to to come and present to you guys um it's kind of bittersweet it's probably a little sweet but it's a little bittersweet you know i'm just being honest but the truth of it is i'm really going to miss being being at the middle school i've been in three different schools and at central office this middle school staff is phenomenal and they make mike and angie and i look pretty decent pretty good and then we love coming to work every day because it's just that's exactly what she said it's we're here to make it the best for the kids and um when a decision is made you know it's easy to say oh you know is that what's best for kids it's easy to say that but they truly are looking at ways to make it better for kids and committing their time and you know i've been accused of recruiting staff members i i did recruit karen that's that's the truth and i can say that since i'm going to be leaving but you know you got it you got to surround yourself with the best and um over the past four years i truly believe we have the best of the middle school so we appreciate you giving us time to talk to you today um and i say i i promise them that they didn't have to stay through the yola policies so but we'll read about them later and then you know missy vance i have to say um missy vance you know linda is a fantastic head custodian she's fallen twice this year broken five bones total i think and every single time missy will just step up and take over and make certain that we don't miss a beat and has everything in place and she makes the outside and i don't know if you've noticed but the past four years um between mike you know changing the sign doing things outside and missing doing the flowers and landscaping and stuff the place looks so much softer and so much nicer and so much more inviting and so i couldn't let um this year go without making certain that missy had credit for what she did because she truly and linda will say i give it to missy and she makes it happen outside so thank you missy for that too so thank you guys [Applause] thank you middle school thank you i can't believe you don't want to stay for eola well we'll read it yeah i am a little hurt by that and she had an athletic event [Music] okay for those of you who are left old business what do you know neola policies it's quite exciting yes um i would like you to pull neo policy 167.3 public participation i think we have some more work to do on that one okay but the rest of the new yola policies are up for second reading and i would recommend that we pass that so i have a motion by pat in a second by travis is there any discussion again we will be pulling just to make sure everyone is aware one six seven three 7.3 um hold that one and take a look at that one um the next time since i have no discussion all those in favor new business under administration yeah so at that time of year i would like to present to you administrator contracts for renewal to add an additional year to their contracts for two years and if you um i'm just recommending the award approve those as presented in your packets okay do we have a motion motion by tony second by earl is there any discussion hearing none all those in favor any opposed one opposed okay um next under programs um bringing just an inform the 22-23 student handbooks the buildings have those ready so um sent those to you this week if you have any questions or anything following those just reach out to me and i'll get back to you on that and then i will bring it back for approval next meeting okay and then summer student programs so later on the agenda i have some requests for some staffing positions for some summer student programs so i wanted to share briefly some of the things that we'd like to offer for students this summer um due to covid we have gaps like everywhere else across the nation they've been kind of created by some of the covet times we particularly looking at our data and noticed two areas that are of concern that we think that we can help by providing extra support during the summer one is credit recovery for our high school students that have developed some gaps and need some more credits and then the other particularly is primary literacy so our smallest students k through three the pandemic had a big impact on how they are developing in their reading so we'd like to offer some opportunities this summer to students in need to help get them caught up there's really three main areas first is high school and this looks like this for the cover sheet the first is high school summer school this is traditional summer school programming comparable to what we've had in previous years for the high school they anticipate at least a minimum of 60 student course enrollments so that can be funded through the summer school grant is how that will be funded and that would be equivalent to four certified positions and one paraprofessional that would start tuesday may 31st it's that tuesday after memorial day and students work on their own pace with teacher guidance and the edge annuity platform so they'll work throughout the summer then for our elementary students to focus on those primary literacy needs we have two programs that will work together the first is remediation for i read so students take i have two opportunities to take i read in third grade every year the first opportunity is in march and that's already completed if students don't pass they have a chance for intensive remediation and another opportunity to take the test again in the summer so we have identified who those students are who need that intervention and we'd like to provide an opportunity two different ways the first for those who are very close to that cut score just need a little more push and a little more work and reading an intensive week right after school is completed so that is the may 31st to june 3rd four days that they would come and get help and practice in reading and then retake the assessment and then the second half of that is some who are a little further in that gap and need more help getting help throughout the summer with a tutoring program with a teacher and then retaking the test later in the summer so that program would be four staff members total it would take us three certified staff members and one non-certified staff member and it would be about five thousand dollars which we would use s or three funds to cover and then the second program that we would have for students is for our k-3 students and a few identified 4-6 students for an elementary summer reading tutoring program this is a little an out of the box idea but to support our kids in reading last year we were successful with summer school we saw that data particularly with our third graders that we saw a big change in the reading for pre-test to post-test so looking to expand that with our younger kiddos the summer reading tutoring program would be one-on-one it could be a small group with some k-1 kiddos we are able to provide based on money that we still had left an so3 for summer school that we had budgeted originally we had some leftover money last year so that would be used to provide this program each school would have a set number of students and that's in your packet you can see on the tutoring program the estimation of what we're able to provide it would look like two certified staff members at most of the buildings nve would have a third and two non-certified staff members per building that would be working with students one-on-one so they would have six open spots in a day schedule to work with kids if you account for contract time and so six students would get a scheduled with one teacher and that teacher would reach out with parents and schedule where and in time for that tutoring to take place so offering flexibility both for our parents to help kids get the reading help they need and our staff and it hopefully encourages more staff to want to be a part of the program because they have some flexibility on when they can schedule that summer's nine weeks long so if you think that it's 18 sessions for a student that's like equivalent to two sessions a week it'll carry them completely through the summer and help hopefully raise some reading levels for kids who have gaps developed so the pro the total cost of both of those elementary programs fits within the budget of what we had left over that we budgeted for summer school last year and so3 so we would just capture the use of that money and provide the tutoring program to at a minimum 156 students if everybody takes advantage of the opportunity if they choose to do a couple small group sessions with kindergarten and first graders it could be greater than that so those are the three possible summer programming options that would be available for parents and students to take advantage of for the summer questions about any of those programs or details on the budgeting and flexibility with the parents and the kids and the teachers and we know the only way we're going to make up the gap is additional time we just have to have that there's no substitute for it thank you that's just an inform correct that isn't informed here i i'm asking for the positions to be posted okay for permission to post positions further down okay does anybody have any additional questions right now for serving another opportunity to ask questions if needed okay so we'll move down to professional staff and then i have recommendations now we have the career increment master teacher stipend for michaela hines casey ernst is going from the middle school head track coach girls track coach to assistant girls track coach josh land we're looking to extend another year on his current supplemental boys basketball contract to extend extend that through 22-23 and christy sigler the high school head girls varsity basketball coach add another year to the current supplemental contract hers is well extended through 22-23 that's a question before you ask for it you can okay i must have missed this but uh on the high school uh sports uh uh that we're talking about the basketball i would like to have a report from the aed on what his recommendation that i didn't see we have those i have that for you girl if you want to see it yes before i vote and i'd like to know the record and all of that can we table this for one name yeah i'm with mania okay thank you so i i just want to be clear you're we're only talking about tabling or pulling out um josh land the head for the head boys varsity coach and christy siegler jchs the other okay just those two thank you so what earl has asked as we pull out those bottom two so we still need under recommendations the master teacher stipend and then the um casey ernest the jcms girls head coach to assistant correct correct okay okay so i have a motion by travis do i have a second okay second by tony is there any additional discussion on the two positions no additional discussion all those in favor any opposed so 7-0 okay do we need to i want to make sure we're doing this correct do we need to make a motion to pull out and hold those for the next or um i think since it's already on a posted agenda did you did we make a motion to table it so i didn't get a second to vote though oh okay okay so now um earl that's what i wanted to make sure we did um earl has i believe made a motion to table um the two for the high school so do i have a second second by chelsea is there any discussion no discussion discussion all of those in favor and any opposed so seven of them um okay so then um next on the agenda we have um posting jcs jchs certified summer school positions and this is related okay we'll go ahead and nicky europe so permission to post the four um certified positions for the high school summer school salute okay so i have a motion i pat do i have a second second by chelsea is there any additional discussion again we're talking about the high school positions any additional discussion okay all of those in favor any opposed 7-0 day next we'll move to the 14 certified summer tutoring for elementary positions nikki so the 14 certified teachers for the summer tutoring program this is for the one-on-one or small group focused on k3 but 4-6 could be included this is already budgeted within summer school for esser funds so permission to post those do i have a motion motion by susan do i have a second second pat is there any discussion no discussion so all of those in favor any opposed 7-0 and then we'll go to the um i read so then permission to post three certified positions for the i read summer remediation program that's for four days as the length of time for those positions that's that intensive boot camp okay i have a motion by travis do i have a second second by chelsea any discussion all those in favor aye opposed w okay so now moving on down the agenda we have support staff recommendations we do have blake clanton for the jennings county high school a volunteer for the boys track and field coach i have jennifer campbell she's going to be a jennings county high school parapro in a sped self-contained classroom savannah kneer is a sand creek paraprofessional matt capes will be a middle school assistant boys track coach cassie elliott will be a sand creek paraprofessional hannah everhart an nbe parapro brenda little is a sand creek parapro shanna lovett an nve cares paraprofessional lori mccain is a jennings county school bus aide wyatt messer is going to be a high school volunteer assistant strength and conditioning coordinator catherine safely is a saying cook elementary sorry sand creek elementary cook megan stevens is the jennings county middle school head girls track coach asking for approval motion my girl do we have a second second by travis any discussion all those in favor any opposed 7-0 day and then it looks like we have another request yes so permission to post one paraprofessional position to support high school summer school okay motion by chelsea do we have a second okay second by pat any discussion all those in favor any opposed 7-0 um and then and then permission to post 12 non-certified paraprofessionals for the summer tutoring program support okay so moved motion by path do i have a second second by tony you need discussion all those in favor and any opposed seven and then permission to post one non-certified paraprofessional for the i read remediation motion by tony of a second susan second by susan any discussion all those in favor 7-0 thank you and then we move down to summer internship positions yes that's one i'm going to present this summer as usual we usually have students or staff that maybe want to work additional hours during the summer asking for permission to post three grounds worker positions that would be the weed eating mowing taking helping take care of the grass during the summer we're asking for four technology positions one central office assistant position one i'm going to change the wording on this it's not directly working on buses i don't want to mislead anyone it would be a transportation assistance so washing buses helping with that process six custodial positions and two maintenance intern positions but we would look be looking to fill those for the fall asking for permission to post those positions so promotion by pat do i have a second second my chelsea is there any discussion no okay sorry all those in favor any opposed seven of debbie and then down under students teresa right so each year we have to turn into the department of ed our student transfer cutoff for non-residents and so i'm recommending that we use may 24th after that date for the next school year which will be the last day of school so we would continue to take transfers if we had space in each of our places through the end of the school year so i'm asking for approval do i have a motion motion by travis do i have a second second my path any discussion all those in favor 7-0 and then under finances we have donations we do asking the board to accept donations from ascension st vincent for one thousand dollars to the high school student athlete leadership team nvic 250 dollars for the high school student athlete leadership team in the ic 250 dollars at tammy galloway at hayden to help fund the lego club betty lois paulie and member of curly patterson fifty dollars to the high school panther pantry nvic 250 to the high school choir for musical supplies dmv embroidery 120 to sand creek for student council t-shirts joe mills from sims park in crothersville 400 worth of mulch for landscaping at the middle school jc pallet of butlerville 150 trucking fee to haul mulch to the middle school the erler cardinal family foundation 565.71 to nve to purchase comprehensive research-based toolkits to help students with math facts so asking the board to accept those donations do i have a motion susan is there a second second travis any discussion all those in favor 7-0 um and then we have under finance the march fund report discussion about that that's information okay all right so under operations then um review and update the panthers prepare and care plan yeah so we are required under the esser guidelines to review our panthers repair and care plan each six months the letter that we used in february to state our update of the plan i presented you with and asking you to approve that for our six month review um it is also posted on our website basically that was when we were sending the masks and social distancing and those kind of things the department of ed came up with new guidelines at that point so that's what that letter reflects and then of course the follow-up when the department of transportation allowed school buses to stop wearing masks that was a few days after that letter so that was also included in your packets so asking the board to accept those two things as part of our six-month review requirement okay do i have a motion susan you have a second second pat any discussion all those in favor and then i think we're down under relations mlu yes we are bringing an mou from western governor's university for a student teacher relationship between jenny's county corporation and that university so it's a typical mou that we share asking the board for approval motion by travis do i have a second second by susan any discussion just a question do they have any kids right now two okay yeah two great opportunities any additional discussion all those in favor 70w and then resolution and engagement agreement yeah so if you recall earlier this winter i shared with you a desire to enter into litigation with jewel labs as a result of the marketing to our students to high school students and so we have initiated that we have a resolution and engagement agreement that we're bringing to you tonight we're ready to file that on behalf of jenny's county schools to initiate the litigation with jewel labs and join that class action suit with other school districts so asking the board to approve that agreement so that we can sign and move forward do i have a motion promotion by pat second by earl any discussion all those in favor 7-0 and then down under other yeah so um we are interested in investigating the purchase of land on highway 50.
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and that is that the end of my presentation and i will stop sharing just in case you have any questions on that piece uh no question just thank you very much for the presentation and all your work you put into it thank you trustee chavez um i did include uh a plan that does need approval so that we can move forward with offering these services and that was included in the board packet all right we'll take that uh once we're done with uh we'll take that in an item 2.03 okay we're done with all the items okay i'll go back and we'll do the second now yeah okay so now i'm going to turn it over to dr diana vallesteros and she will be sharing some information with you on universal pre-kindergarten and the reason why she is following my presentation is because we'll be able to offer the nine hour day um through the ela program um with the plans that she has through universal pre-kindergarten so um dr thank you thank you brahma good evening board president quintero and um superintendent dr bauer and our board trustees um thank you for this opportunity to share about all the the buzz about universal pre-kindergarten the upk um coming from the state of california so i'm next slide thank you so you may be wondering you know what is all this upk what is happening and you know in about 2000 a group of scientists really got together and and put together this science saying you know this early years really really matter and one of those discoveries you know was that ninety percent of a child's brain development is happens by age five here it says before five but by age five so the other ten percent happens afterwards so this focus on the neuro scientists and the brain and the development really told us that when we were saying you know kids need to be ready when they come to kindergarten it's really before they come to kindergarten and so part of this you know brain science is really um giving us the trajectory in the state of california to move forward and provide more early learning and i want to just say high quality early learning for our children because um many times people say early learning early learning but we really have to stay focused on the high quality you know and and they also laid a foundation that you know environment really matters for these children they may not have the language but their brains are ready to learn children are born ready to learn thank you next one so then um we had a whole you know group of economic scientists who also started looking at this early learning and the brain development that the neuroscience had put out and um heckman was one of the scientists who has dedicated the the final um years of his research on early learning and the and why it's so important so here you can see that you know he's added the importance on the return on investment in the dedication we do prenatal early childhood preschool and then you see the k through 12 and the j job training so it really gave us another um picture of why this is so important to invest i think you know it's been difficult in a sense that you know we want instant gratification and that our investment of um into education into early education um returns the investment but as you can tell you know the return on investment really comes at a later time it really does you know um some of the work has said you know it really helps um with the achievement gap it really helps um the productivity of these children once they are in um in society uh it really helps them have a um a better outcome in life and so it's a lifelong investment um this um uh economic impact of investing in early childhood so as you see all this information is coming out and the states are looking at it and education is looking at it and so really early education prenatal is really that first stage of education next slide please so here's where we are now that one dollar of investment in early childhood yields 16 return so i have been in this field long enough to remember when it was one dollar and invested in early childhood the return was seven dollars but it has been growing you know as the science has come out and the science has told us you know that this is really a significant investment in human development to start at the early stages next slide so here we are what is ubk so upk is really this this bridge you know that really unifies you know all these different um entities that have been working in early education private cspp is the state program head start and then our universal transitional kindergarten some of the points next slide please sandra so one of the unique things about universal pre-kindergarten that you know i really like is that it is really um encouraging i would say encouraging um all these entities to work together and not be isolated in a single system to become you know this one unified system working together so here it says you know the universal transitional kindergarten um california state preschool um the community based organizations private preschools even our family child care homes and it really is to to encourage that every four-year-old no matter what zip code no matter what background every four-year-old will have one year ahead of kindergarten in universal pre-pre-kindergarten next slide peace [Applause] so how do they work together how do they work together and one of the key things is they they align you know they all align if you have all these partners and leveraging on the partnerships they're all going to be aligned so they're going to be aligned in a sense that it integrates for the first time you know these two worlds that have been separate most of um education the the early childhood education and then the elementary education but here with upk it's going to unify these two worlds thank you next fight please sunday how is it going to be done and here is you know straight from our state of california it's going to connect um kindergarten first grade second grade and third grade you may hear this p three prenatal three p through third grade um it's called you know variety of ways but it's it's a mixed delivery system and the reason that characteristic of a mixed delivery system has always been um early childhood education you know you have private school you have public school you have employee sponsored um child care but in this process it's how do you unify unify all of them and really with the core intention of serving all four year olds these four year olds this is the exciting part for alumron we have served four years in alan rock since 2015.
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i am going to get a degree in human services this may so it's very exciting [Applause] and currently i think my career path is going to be with community engagement and community outreach and i currently also work with cal state fullerton with educational talent search as a college mentor and with the program of avid as an academic tutor awesome thank you melissa thank you all right we're going with you hi everybody my name is haley i'm a cypress high school alum as well as a cypress college alum i am now transferred over to cal state long beach where i am majoring in psychology i also work at cypress college as a student ambassador so i do work very closely with all the students and i am looking forward to beginning my degree next may and continuing my uh education with psychology as becoming a sex therapist and working with people through sexual trauma and sexual education hi everyone it's a pleasure uh being here um i attended um so i want to start off with my junior high weren't you um and then straight uh from high school i attended fleurson college they did two years there uh transferred out i'm currently attending cal state fullerton so i'm a business major at cal state fullerton uh concentration in operations and supply chain management um it's kind of the industry in the field i'm trying to get into um currently in the job search um so we'll see how that goes um i'm also a mentor um with denise the pledge program without the fed program and everything we do after to college [Applause] a little bit um we're going to ask you to describe your educational journey and who and what made a difference and why and i'll ask whoever's ready to share that question i can go first so um i think especially for who the people that impacted me a lot of you are actually here today i was just talking to all of you in the lobby and then in the room and i think it's the people in the district that have personally impacted me because you've been there i've asked you a bunch of questions i've tried to figure out what am i going to major in what college am i going to go to i don't know what i'm doing and a lot of you have helped me figure that out you've um provided the safe space for me to actually share these types of questions and to share all the concerns that i had and it's a big thank you to all of you [Music] thank you i could go ahead and share um so as far as my educational journey i would say it really was molded and shaped at catella high school um i was a puentesta so definitely had a lot of support and help through that sense with my buena counselor ms pineda who's actually here today um and also miss diaz who was our college and career readiness person at that time i really got so much support and preparedness and just was offered so many resources that i definitely feel prepared me um into my journey at uc irvine uh just being a first generation student i really didn't know you know the college process um how to fill out a college application all of those like questions that are you know asked was i was a little like nervous and scared to just overshare a lot of information um but definitely felt comfortable once you know just being provided with so many uh just like resources and information and just preparedness right to just pursue my higher education i'm going through irvine it was a little challenging again because it's a completely new system i didn't have the amazing like counselors and support that i had in high school but i did have the resources and the ability to like reach out right and communicate and ask for help so that was definitely helpful for me once graduating from uc irvine in 2020 i still came back to my community and i wanted to kind of ask for help right of like what was next so i reached out to a lot of my old teachers and um asked for you know just kind of like an informational interview about the way like how they pursued their um journey and how they like identified the career that they wanted to be into which eventually led me into applying for like my graduate program that i'm currently in right now in education so um definitely you know i have received so much help and resources from you know my educators my counselors and my support here in anaheim union high school district so i definitely have a lot of things to give and just super grateful and appreciated um all the support i received thank you guys you guys answered about 10 of the questions that i had so i'm almost done good thing because we only have about six more minutes uh let's get into the pledge and knowing the pledge and understanding you heard um from the different structures and what you know relationships mean and matter but how do you represent the first pledge graduating class so what does that mean to you um benefits the the partnerships that you know you guys started to describe um ensuring student success what what is that you know first class you know me to you of course yeah i kind of started off um so for me um being a first generation student a college student um everything was pretty much new to me um going to flirting college i think it's important um to to have a face um to what you show and the first time i actually went to fullerton college um was a pledge coach shout out to juan who's not here today but him helping me out throughout the process the transition from high school um to college really helped out shout out to valerie here in the audience on being my pledge coach at the time helping me out my two years there um it means a lot to be a part of um something so special and being in this this room right now seeing everyone's have a part of um in it um helping my success um helping me be the first in my family to graduate um have any college degree really associates and bachelor's also being the first in my family to do that i couldn't have done it um without the help of everyone in this room um and the direct help of my coaches and and my peers who are also part of the program who kind of um who walked me through it and we've been doing this since fullerton since 2018.
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that student that came in with 163 units left auhsd passing 13 ap classes also already with some community college units and then went on to cypress college from cypress high in case you're interested went on to cyphers college and then transferred into uci so we noted earlier that the retention rate was 98 which is huge way way higher than we would typically see with a sample of 52 students this means we only lost one okay so that's really great the other thing that was really thinking the other thing that was really interesting is that as i'm going through and checking in on all of these students this particular student had a note that they were in hd and i didn't know what this meant so i had to call the registrar find this out this means that they were honorably discharged so this student was in great standing had a high gpa didn't have any financial holds which is what we would typically see when we're losing a student so there was some sort of life circumstance that happened around this student it was not preparation or commitment so i thought that was really exciting and i wanted to share that beyond with that whole this whole class actually as i'm looking into them all of them are green great gpa standing great academic progress standing no holds i never see that when i'm looking into a class of students so that's very very exciting as well and then as was already shared 14 of those of these students have already graduated there's many more that could have graduated but i think are hanging around because they moved through really quick and want some extra time in college which i agree with um and four of those students have already applied to grad school and that's only looking at uci so we know students are applying other places as well so it's really exciting to see how great these students are doing at uci and and again it's thanks to everything you guys are preparing them with as they come through so great work the last comment i want to mention is that every student that that is eligible based on financial lead which is a majority so every pledge student in high school and now a transfer student they get a scholarship a pledge scholarship on behalf of the center for educational partnerships something to help them with their books at a minimum so that's another little in addition to the handoff but at this time i do want to personally thank dr ashley sherry and her team because they're really the ones that keep us in check and our eyes and ears in the partnership making sure that this work continues so did i make my time rollo you owe me a beer thank you very much that's awesome we know you've been sitting in a while so i apologize ahead of time we're going to give you a short break we're going to give you a short break so take a few minutes to get some more something to eat restroom break and we'll see you back here in about seven minutes seven minutes [Music]
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many things have happened since then our second graduating class in 2019 has graduated however none of us would have experienced or foreseen the challenges of our scholars in 2020 and 2021 they had to endure a lot it was early in the fall of 21 when we made that transition to return to work at cypress college i believe it was august 2nd in particular and for many of our second year pledge students it was the first time they've ever stepped foot on campus i was i remember walking and then i subsequently talked to one of our charger experience students who was also a pledge student who graduated in 2020 she's currently our as president at cypress college and she was talking about her amazing experience as a pledge student obviously it caught my attention i wanted to engage in further dialogue with her a few minutes later but some of the themes that resonated in our conversation was that she was very involved in high school she knew about the pledge program the charger experience program at cypress college and she knew that she wanted to attend cyprus because of the reputation in our community it's students like sydney pike who graduated from kennedy high school in 2020 and countless of others who were prepared by auhsd for this transition from high school to college or university life it's students like haley bersumian who will you you will meet a little bit later who graduated in 2018 from cypress high and who is one of the first cohorts of pledge and she's also a charger experience student ambassador all of this reminds us how important our work is and how she is now going to be graduating soon from the university with her bachelor's degree so it's students like sydney it's students like haley and also other students who knew the answers to these questions how do i pay for school what do i want to do with my future what classes should i take who is here to advocate for me and who will be my guide while sydney and haley and the student ambassadors our student mentors who all from the pledge they continue to pay it forward by helping future pledge students have that smooth transition to cypress college these are some of the students that we've seen firsthand that there are some students that we've seen firsthand that struggle to navigate our educational system these are the students who may ask themselves those same questions those same earlier questions that i just asked these questions are viewed with a different lens though a lens that some of us have first-hand experience with which are those who experience uncertainties and have food and housing and resources insecurities these are all questions i've heard and continue to hear from students especially first generation college students many of our students are first in their families to even pursue a post-secondary education but the resources of auhsd cypress college and all of our pledged partners are definitely invaluable as a parent of a sophomore student at kennedy high school i receive those weekly texts those those emails those calls about resources so that our students and their families don't have to worry as much about basic needs so i want to personally thank all of you who are tirelessly paving the way for students to meet their educational goals but most importantly life goals as they balance everything that's going on in their life now pledge students will be walking across the stage at cypress college's 55th commencement on may 20th sydney pike will be earning her associates degree she well actually we are waiting to see which university is going to offer her enrollment in the fall the same goes for hundreds of auhsd students who came to cypress college and are just waiting for that that confirmation letter or email saying you've been accepted to university all of these stories continue to make me so proud and energizes me every day which leads me to the importance of the anaheim collaborative from kindergarten to college and university life the collaborative has been very clear about its educational priorities for every single student the original members of the collaborative came up with an idea of bringing the educational institutions together in the same room and i know that rolando mentioned those five people as a result cypress college is thankful that we are invited to the table we're also you know able to witness the students excel in education especially through our our service area in anaheim union high school district the collaborative continues to unleash the potential of students while giving the partners the ability to operate in the best interest of their students this continues to be the forefront of the work of the collaborative thank you to superintendent matsuda manuel rolando santana adriana evelyn and everyone who i failed to mention again thank you for inviting cypress college to the table thank you to the high school principals counselors and support staff for your partnership and tireless efforts to assist your students with the important transition from high school to post senior dairy education we couldn't have done it without you now i know that giselle will be sharing with you some data in a few minutes but before i conclude i'd like to share some cypress college updates so charger fridays will continue through may which we pay our through our equity funds buses to bless your students onto our campus and we're proud to say all 11 high schools in anaheim union are participating in charter fridays our commit to cyprus event is on thursday may 5th at 4 o'clock where we will be celebrating those students who've made that commitment to come to cypress college our charter experience fall registration events are going to continue in the summer so we can help those students transition from high school to to college our very their very first day by making sure that they register for all their classes and they register for the right classes during the summer we're going to continue to provide free laptops that students can actually keep right they can take home they can keep you know we're going to continue to do that through the fall and finally we know that so much more work to there's so much more work to do but the collaborative will continue to address what's in the best interest of our students we look forward to sharing the journey with all of you thank you and congratulations to the auhd inaugural pledge cohort thank you thank you dr davioson and your commitment personal commitment to the collaborative and obviously cypress colleges um so again very inspiring uh continue to inspire the work that we do collectively uh it is my honor to introduce elizabeth savala sevis it is a special one she's the associate vice president of student affairs at cal state fullerton and she was my student at catella high school [Applause] how do you follow that right good morning everyone buenos dias it's a pleasure to be here and um you know i get to see mr colon i hope not the last time but one more time and um again my name is dr lizavala sevis i'm the associate vice president of student affairs at cal state university fullerton not only am i a pride titan i'm a pride catella alum sycamore junior high alum sunkes elementary alum locally homegrown it is an honor to oversee what we call the college access and career pathways cluster within my division which i call the powerhouse of what makes the world go round at cal state fullerton because i have the distinct pleasure of overseeing adriana badillo's team center for educational partnerships which has our gear up our talent search our upper bound many other initiatives within our auhsd anaheim school districts and also get to oversee the outreach recruitment orientation team the admissions team the financial aid team the center for internships the community engagement team um and the career center so if you really think about the the cycle of pre-prospect all the way to matriculation to csuf and beyond we really are getting students prepared for not only college higher education but also the pursuit of a career or calling and ensuring that they have these lifelong learning skills beyond cal state fullerton i know that auhsd is very large and big in regards to not only creating college access but career pathways the aauhsd titan talks had our our own president verdi i saw the the video and really i know that there's a lot of great work happening within the school district not only because i know because of the collaborative but also because i get to experience it via my my own children who come to the school district and i almost think wow how amazing is it that you're this old and already know about brown nyu cal state fullerton and many others and it's because of the great work that is happening not only to think about college as an option but career and a calling and i know that it's happening through the transformational work that is happening through the partnerships and so forth at cal state fullerton you may know we are known for many accolades but i think the ones that make me the most proud is not only being one of the largest csus within the csu system but awarding the most degrees to our latinx community being fifth in the nation of awarding degrees to our underrepresented students but the ones that i feel most proud about is really knowing that our pipeline and our access to csuf comes from our partnerships over 50 percent of our students at csuf that get admitted and enroll and matriculate are from the partnerships um and just recent yes that reserves a round of applause [Applause] and you know another accolade that i i feel really really proud about is we recently got named and were certified as the seal of excelencia institution through the excelencian education nonprofit centralized in washington dc and only 10 institutions nationwide got the award you really need to demonstrate not only the enrolling piece of the nhsi but the serving piece and what makes me the most proud about the application i led a 20-member team to to apply for the for the application it took us about nine months to put it together um but the the most crucial piece of it that stands out the most and the story that keep bringing back to our campus is that these partnerships are crucial and important the application has so many examples of the partnerships that were highlighted in this application that demonstrate the college access the pipeline transition in and out and how when we receive your students how we service them and their families because it's not just them that are coming to csuf it's their families it is their community as you may know more than 60 percent of our students are first generation college students like myself predominantly the information that we provide needs to be relative to their language it needs to make sense to their communities to their families last weekend we hosted one of our largest yield events after the pandemic we had close to i would say about 7 000 perspectives csuf signs that were admitted i know jose mourinho you mentioned your daughter came to csuf um and some others are still wondering if they're going to step but we really hope that your students come to csuf because when we admit them our job is to ensure that they graduate that they graduate in a time and pace that works with them that when they graduate at graduation that they're ready for life after college whether that be a career whether that be graduate or professional school or have not and as you know as a csu we are committed to not only eliminate the equity gaps that exist but also to work on our graduation rates and to ensure that our students are graduating a timely manner that works within their life um so it is an honor and pleasure to be here with all of you we as a campus are doing a lot to ensure that when they get here we are ready for them and some of the things that we're working on i know my team is going to highlight some of those things but we are making sure that it once you hand them off that we're ready for them we're working on our transfer initiatives as well to make sure that we have a transfer and adult re-entry center that is comprehensive for our transfer students we are also working and have worked with our first generation career exploration program through the i am first we got some donor donations to continue the program to ensure that students get their career pathways at the time that they come as a first-time freshman and as a transfer student because as this transfer student as you may know once you step foot on our door if you're ready for graduate professional school that clock starts ticking the moment you step foot so there's a lot of great things we're doing in addition to eliminating the digital divide all of your students who come to csuf will have access to technology laptops etc those things are important and one of the things i also want to highlight um in my role that also makes me proud to sit where i'm at is that i get to be in the room where it happens i get to be in the room and decide on some of these important factors that are very transformative to our families you know we no longer have sats sats i get to now be in the room and talk about what does that mean if we're really providing college access and focusing on equity and inclusion to our local families and communities what are some of those factors that we need to also identify beyond the s18 sats right so at cal state fullerton as you may know we are moving and have adopted the multi-factor admissions process that not only looks at the gpa but also takes into account these partnerships puts a cap on some of the a3g requirements because we know that some school districts may have more a3g offerings than others ap courses and so forth so we get to be in a place where we make decisions that benefit our community if we really are about college access and equity it is through these partnerships that we have these collaborations and have a lens and pulse on what our community needs um as you may know mr manuel colon transformed my life i hadn't even thought about college until i stepped foot into a spanish class and you know i don't even know dr uh mr colon you probably thought i was always late to your class [Music] because i was that one student that i used to carpool with everyone and and it was always late and he would every time i would sneak into class and he'd be like muchachas but he was the one spanish teacher who you know paid attention he saw the potential he not only taught us spanish he brought culture into our high school you did the ballet for corico i think you were the only teacher who brought that to our campus i appreciate you i always talk about you you might have not known the impact that you had in my life but i stand before you very honored and privileged to have learned under your wing and i will always honor your purpose because this is why i'm here today and i want to thank you for everything that you've done not only for me but the other individuals that look like me sound like me have experienced the same type of first generation college experience and i am truly honored to be here and i want to thank you we want to honor you as well for all the work and collaboration that you've done and i know that you and superintendent matsuda had a meeting with our president president virgi maybe three weeks ago i saw him in a chief of staff and they said liz you are so lucky to have your kids in that school district because they are doing great things and i said we are doing great things so thank you so much um [Applause] do not expect this i did not so thank you thank you liz um dr savala and you know cal state fullerton is close and dear to my heart not only obviously because uh you know dr savala sevis is you know there and doing the great work that she's doing uh some of you may know both my kids are at cal state fullerton my daughter yay my daughter will be graduating in four years from cal state fullerton in may one more month and i will tell you she is very prepared she's very prepared she's doing communications and she's ready for the world she's applying for reporting across the state she might be in northern california next year which i don't like but you know what cal state fullerton prepared her very well and so we're really proud of her and thank you to cal state fullerton for educating both my kids with that i'd like to introduce and bring up again somebody who has been with us since the beginning in terms of the anaheim collaborative super committed to the work that we do on a daily basis speaks of us nationally internationally wherever she gets a chance to speak because she is a true friend and has been a partner in all the work that we've done i'd like to introduce from uc irvine the vice chancellor assistant vice chancellor of educational partnerships stephanie reyes tricho thank you manuel it is so exciting to be here i don't know if the rest of you are feeling a little bit emotionally overwhelmed like i am um and it's not just the thrill of being physically in each other's presence but also just the amazing grounding framing remarks that were provided at the beginning by your superintendent um it's a different kind of work that we do here you know people often ask so our charge is to work with any school district that has at least 50 percent or more of their students are would be the first in their families to go to college and our students of need and so but there's only so many of us to go around and i want to also before i even move forward thank my amazing team in the back who um who actually do this work on the ground on a daily basis um but there's only so many as hard as they work there's only so many of them to go around so and there's so many students of need in this county and we work in la as well and i explain well it's a it's a really um scientific process to figure out which precise school district we work with it's those that want to work with us that's it it's those that truly believe in the value of what we can do together and that we can do something better together than we can do on our own and that we want to take the time and put in the effort to build the relationships have the conversations and do the work together so that students can move seamlessly through our systems and not have to figure out different language different policies different procedures and just battle their way through that obstacle course and this district just came in with that in spades and i'm just really uh reflecting right now on what it was like five years ago to be in this room where we had a few of our other partners um from other school districts that we've worked with sharing about you know what we what they had done and what could happen and now here we are um and there's just some tremendous things to share um so who that's who the district is and who is uci we're lucky enough to also have some pretty amazing leadership both at the campus level and at the school level our chancellor i worked under three chancellors the end of one and then two and this chancellor that we have now was the first chancellor ever who called me and said you have students coming on campus i want to come talk to them usually it's the other way around we're begging their executive assistants to get time on their calendar for them to come to an event this time they called us because they said we care and he came and he spoke about himself being a first-generation college-going student and he made the point that i think is grounds our work you know uci is not an elite institution on the hill it is paid for our salaries are paid for by the parents in this district and our school belongs to the students in this district it's their right and it's our obligation and our responsibility to make sure that they have access and not only that but we know that we can't achieve excellence without them so we are really thrilled that the partnership has enabled us to bring on more anaheim students and for them to do amazing things one of the things the superintendent also noted in his opening remarks was that the there's a mentorship relationship between us and i want to make clear that that mentorship relationship goes both ways we are absolutely mentored by the leaders and the teachers and the sky site leaders and the administrative leaders in this district and the students we've been doing this work for many many years um i'm blessed um to have a calling um and we always did it based on the notion early on that of course students want to go to college of course students need to go to college so let's just help them figure out how to get to college and make them believe that they can do it but what we were missing is we have to respond to the change conditions of our world and the change conditions that students live in and students now require meaning they require personal personal individual meaning for their lives and connecting college to what their lives are going to be about not just that degree and so we're really excited to be focusing more than ever and growing our programs that really help students think not just about college and not just about particular majors but for what towards what purpose and just kind of a little uh headline of things to come we're going to be really focusing on building out pathways in education business health engineering and computer science in the next few years the piece around education is really critical and i want to share that our work used to be connected to student affairs now it's connected to the school of education wonderful things to be gained by connections with both units what's the difference well right now we're now under a leader whose research and focus has always been underserved students and higher ed access so we've got somebody in the leadership seat who for whom this work is central and we are really stepping into that so in the next five years you're going to see a lot of work coming out in two different domains that relate specifically to this partnership one is p20 work what sounds like jargon preschool through grade 20 graduate school basically looking at the whole spectrum the whole pathway connecting all those pieces so that's directly tied to the partnership and then the other is really leaning in to preparing teachers so in the past the csu has always had done the lion's share of work in terms of creating and credentialing new teachers and we believe that this is something that we can be doing together not as a competition but as a partnership lending the unique research expertise and piece of the uc system to this broader work of creating pathways for teachers and we're starting that by creating pathways to teachers to be to the teaching profession in community college we've written several grants now we're going to start working on building a pipeline and pathway for students from the community college to become teachers to become faculty to become professors we want to lay out the the sky's the limit for students and we want to lay that pathway out for them that's seamless and supported so that's something coming soon another piece that we're going to be working on is to take a really hard look at the relevancy of our programs make sure they're really speaking to the needs of schools and students right now we want to include new certification and develop new certification programs and ethnic studies to respond to the need for teachers to have additional training and support in that area we also are going to be developing a bilingual education certificate program to contribute to students becoming bilingual and multilingual we know that's absolutely critical and we're also going to be developing school specific latinx thriving and black thriving initiatives to complement the university-wide work that's already going on in that domain then i want to share a little bit about successes i don't want to take too much away from the presentations that are to come but i just have to share that something really exciting has happened when we work together to both highly prepare students and then highly support them when they get to uci we've been looking at the data of what's happened to your students anaheim students who come through fullerton and cypress and then come to uci the class of 2021 has a retention rate of 98 percent that's unheard of that's unheard of no matter what what district you're from it's unbelievable um not only that it's just it's amazing what's what these students are doing not only that the transfer students because of the pathways and the dual enrollment and the support that they're getting in the district they're entering uci they need to have a minimum of 60 units to enter the lowest amount of units that any student from this pathway through anaheim to cypress and fullerton was units they came with 90 units minimally speaking that means less debt that means a shorter time to degree and that means more opportunities additionally this is what's really very um inspiring to me is the point is not let's just get them out of there and get them in the workforce as soon as possible for some folks that's what they're looking for but let's also think long term about higher education degrees and additional graduate degrees because that's what we're going to need if we are ever going to have a professoriate that reflects the students which is a major goal of mine 30 percent of the class who entered last year already graduated from uci one year they were there one year and they're also applying to graduate school at uci so now we're starting to see students applying directly to graduate school so it's amazing it's amazing and so as the students are lifted our institutions are lifted we are um we're looking at our third year of being one of the universities um doing the most for the american dream one of the top universities in the country for social mobility of students we're our 10-year anniversary this year for the school of education and we just became one of the top 10 schools of education in the united states both public and private and we're developing we not only that but we are the only school of education in the top ten that is both a hispanic serving institution and an asian american native american and pacific islander serving institution that is our strength and we know that deeply committed to the work of the district and we're looking at what's next right so i you know the pandemic was this time of of um of death both literal and figurative for all of us i think and it's so amazing to be part of this moment of rebirth and i see that and i feel that um and we're just we're looking forward to all that we can do next um but before i close um i want to bring up my colleague who needs no introduction [Laughter] i'm sure but if you haven't had the pleasure uh deputy director of cfp's santana ruiz to share um our own token of appreciation um for dr colon i have to say that this um this work only happens because of relationships absolutely it's the foundation of everything and the most grounding relationship that has started this from the very beginning has been assistant superintendent manuel colon his kindness his generosity of spirit makes it truly a pleasure to walk in these doors of this district and sit down in an office and talk about the work that everyone is doing from the heart and he enters with his heart and encourages everyone else to be able to work from that place and do great things so we have a new uniform for you no more tying jacket we have a t-shirt and a baseball hat we love you and we'll miss you but i know you won't be gone no thank you all [Applause] thank you dr dania estricho and santana always thank you um so you heard our institutional leaders share their vision share their excitement about our partnership share their commitment to the work that you're doing so with that we'd like you to turn to the people at your table and share from those opening remarks what inspired me what from all the great things they said inspired me so i'm going to give you about five minutes to have that quick conversation there is somebody at your table who is taking notes who is uh listening intently and who will uh guide you you don't have much time so those that jump in first will get their thoughts in so again you have five minutes to share what inspired you from the opening remarks thank you [Music] advice [Music] in some ways [Music] channel [Music] is like there's thank you uh okay 30 seconds so all righty let's go ahead and finish your last thought and bring it back all right so we heard our institutional leaders share their inspiring remarks in terms of the work that's being done many of them gave you a preview of the data that uh we are now seeing we talk about right where does the i i don't know the you know that where does the rubber meet the road is that the where does uh you know where did where's the meat and potatoes in what's going on well you will now hear the meat and potatoes um we are going to have a presentation of data from each of our institutions to share what has the journey been in the last six years since we signed the pledge back in 2017 and where are we now with our first graduating class the class of 2018 from auhsd and the class of 2022 from our institutions so to kick it off i'm going to turn it over to our very own amanda bean our anaheim union high school district director of career preparedness systems framework thank you manuel uh good morning and it's my absolute pleasure to represent anaheim union today to speak about the collective work of our site teams our partners as you heard from our partners before many inputs are being put into ensuring that we're creating opportunities for all of our student groups and in particular underrepresented student groups and um since the pledge was developed in 2016 we have seen
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so i have a motion a discussion all in favor aye expulsion case number 23 2021 through 22 a motion second any discussion all in favor aye aye expulsion case number 24 2021-22 emotion so move second all in favor aye aye explosion case ar number six 2021-22 emotion second i need a second what is this all right all in favor i approve the certificated and classified personnel actions as listed i have a motion second all in favor approval yeah can we have a discussion go um on that hr report after the special board meeting from april 1st you directed the superintendent to appoint a certificated manager to the role of director of hr um because mr zimmerman who's sitting in the audience will be leaving us to go to snow line as the assistant superintendent um cbo at their chief business official so sitting closer to him is mr harrison who will be moving to the from sitting bull academy principal to the director of hr approved in that report that you just approved so i just want to acknowledge that he is here we are diligently working to um diligently working to recruit internally a principal to fill won't fill the shoes but to support sitting bull as he moves here to the district july 1.
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