001We would like to call this meeting to order. Thank you for joining us tonight. We will start with the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the standice for all. Do we have any needs for translation tonight? Doesn't look like it. Okay. Um, can I get an approval for the agenda tonight? I would like to make that approval with the addition of election of board vice chair under a board member discussion. Second that motion. I have a motion and a second for the approval of the agenda with an amendment to have a vote for uh vice president. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. 5 4 Z my bad. Um we will go ahead and move on to student representative reports. I think uh I'm not sure if the students have a different report
002than the one from NSBA, but our plan is at during superintendent informationational items to have them join the a couple of of others to share their experience there. Great. Perfect. Okay. So, we'll just move on to board member discussions. Um, and we'll start out with our legislative report by director Aaron Gerber. Okay, we do have a couple things on the board today. Amy is coming up because she's gonna help with some of these. So, the first part we wanted to bring to attention. This is a document that was gave us last week in our recent meeting. If we can go to the chart that compares. Okay. So, this is the as as you all know the legislative session is having right now. These are the two budgets that were proposed um few weeks ago. The
003Senate Senate budget is there and the House budget. Now, the governor didn't approve either one, so they're kind of going back and discussing things more, but it was informational to see what they both proposed. And you can see that well, for one thing, they're much lower than, you know, we would have liked than that was been advocating for. Um, and you can also see that the House was much lower in everything and I think every single category. Um so they talked about this in our WASDA meeting recently um just about the proposed bud budgets and then I asked Amy to talk a little bit about how this how how both of these how these decisions would affect our school district directly and so that's what she's prepared a little bit for. Okay. So OP OSPI
004provided a tool and on the next I don't know where to look. So if you look at the 24 25 baseline that is approximately what we're getting in this school year. The next column is the maintenance level that is mostly guaranteed money. That's the increases to uh IPD salaries and MSOC. So that equates um you can see the uh increase in aortionment about 2.98 2.5 of that's probably going to be IPD salary and the rest will be MSOCS um and then you'll see the CTE the bilingual highly capable lap special education those are the um grants that we get from the state so that's what we're talking about now as a state so maintenance level um comparing it this year is about 58 million with the maintenance with the increase is about 59.6. If the
005House passes their budget, it'll be 60.2 and then if the Senate passes their budget, it'll be 61.39. Bottom line, what does that mean? Uh we're going to get at least 1.58 million. Um the House we would get 2.15 and then the Senate would be 3.34. What does Lap help with? Um, LAP is for um RA range of things primarily for people though. Yeah. And one thing I want to point out too, I don't know if you can't hardly tell, but the ones that are highlighted in blue, CTE, highly capable, and lap, the increases that we're getting, even if it's maintenance house or senate, is not keeping up with the increases to the salaries of 2.5%. Just kind of wanted to bring that up to your attention. Um the net increase over maintenance the new money
006um would be about 0.57 million if the house passes and 1.76 if the senate passes. Um in the first line the aortionment like I said anything that's above 2.5% increase is u MSOC money and that's for material material supplies and operating cost. So you can see um in the house budget it would be about 1% more than IPD and then um about one and a half percent for the senate. What the other big thing is if you look at the bilingual that one's going to increase by a lot. So we'll have some bilingual money to extra next year which is a good thing. So again, neither um neither proposition is uh definite, but it helps us to see in the process like what they're thinking about, what's more of a priority, and so we'll see
007what they come back with. Yeah. And this was comparing apples to apples with no increase or decrease in student count. So this is taking this year's student count and comparing it what it would do if we had the same number of students next year. Is this is this is this the one where they locked themselves and they're not letting the public in to look at the budget that they're trying to have a resolution on. Is this the one? Yes, we will. We will um the session ends April 27th. So, they're right now they're Yeah, they I think if I read right is they literally shut the doors on the public and said it's going to be an in-house deal. So, how does that work? Do we just at the end get whatever they decide to
008come with? And yeah, we'll get a final meeting and they'll let us know what the final numbers in. The other thing on special education, the House, the increase would be 7.42 and then uh look at the percentage if the Senate. It's a 19% increase for our special education. It means everybody call your representatives and it'll either be the House or the Senate. Yes. The very minimum will be the maintenance level because every year they have to increase it for the increase in ends stocks and and salaries, right? So, like director said, this is, you know, still a time for advocating with our representatives that need more money in this area and they of course have a lot of difficult decisions to make with money here or there, but this is kind of gives us a
009breakdown of what we're looking at. What I didn't include here was transportation because that's going to stay even. There's um it was part of the the big three, but that Yeah, that one got shut down pretty fast. That got shut down. I think just one important thing to remember about the maintenance level. I believe that total increase is just below 2% if we got um 5.963. Yeah. And um the salary increases which is the bulk of our budget is going to be at a minimum of 2.5%. So to call it maintenance really probably isn't the right term. And even if it was level with the increases that are expected, um, maintenance across the state of Washington, if you went to a number of school districts and said, "You're going to get what you got this
010year," most people are cutting staff, cutting programs. So even this investment at a maintenance level, it's going to continue to be an issue. So, you know, the Senate is being much more aggressive and probably trying to address the issue in in a real way. Just we just don't know where it's going to end up. But don't get fooled by that maintenance number. And certainly we should appreciate any increases that flow through for students and staff, but um not a great number. Yeah, like in the lab too, like it's mostly salaries. We're going to increase salaries by 2.5%, but our funding is going to go down. So, yep. So, that's the update about the budget. Thank you, Amy, for um preparing some of those for us. So, any questions or comments about that? About the budget?
011Sorry. Could I add one thing for a student representative? Actually, one thing report um recently we had 14 guys get certified welding um in the high school and they were actually asking if they could come present to us on the 28th our next board meeting if we could add that to the agenda. Yeah, that's all. Um we did there was one more piece of legislative report today. We got some new guidelines that were now I I'm also not exactly sure what happened. Dr. president is going to explain some of this for us, but so the Office of Civil Rights and OSPI and WASDA adjusted some of their policies and so some of the policies that we're approving today are adjusted based on those from the federal government. Correct. So, um I was asking Dr. Pres
012about this today. So, he's the one who's going to kind of explain some of this to us about what exactly happened and where that influence came from. I think the best way to understand it is as the um number of executive orders and changes at the federal level were coming out and we school districts in the state were trying to deal with the volume of that. Um one of the uh key ones in title 9 was around um some of the gender related issues and what what the the guidance was go back to 2020 policies and programs. That was what was expected. You your state could meet standards right at the federal level. So the state of Washington said, "All right, we need to go step back to 2020." Between 2020 and 2024, you all
013went through a process with WASDA where they reviewed all our policies and brought them up to Washington state level and then and then the rules got changed and now we have to go back to 2020. So your approval of the previous stuff, we're just going back to 2020 Washington rules. So I I got a real good question. So we just follow some federal laws, not all. Just the ones that they care about. I mean, just how does that work? Today we are going to follow that one. Tomorrow's I guess where where is it that we do? We don't as a school district. Are we just playing checkers and whoever's going to not ding us enough or what's the Yeah, I think that's that's a good that's a fair question. Um, we're doing what? Um and
014I apolog I didn't mean I mean WIA like or or Yeah. OSPI sorry OS right where are they going to where's their line of saying we're f following state or we're following federal. Yeah. I think it's um where the guidance and the law pushes them. So I think what has happened in Washington is they said hey this one's been in court. There's a decision that's been made. Here's what the judge said. Here's what we need to do. and they follow the law and then we follow the law based on WADA's recommendation. So the consistency is that we're going to follow the law and that the guidance we're getting from OSPI or from WADA, we're going to put that in front of the board. Um I I think what the the work the laws that contradict
015what is coming out of the executive in DC, those haven't been determined yet. And so Washington is saying, "Hey, pump the brakes until this gets decided and then we'll fill you in." There's still a number of those to be decided. Um certainly there's going to be more bumps in the next three and a half years as these changes impact us at the state level. If what the department what the planning is is to rid us of the department of ed and then it all becomes state controlled, we might have to go back to and and so if they give it back to us, we'll say fine, we're going back to 2024 guidance and you might be asked to approve them again at the level we had before. So I I I hope that we're communicating
016to folks that the consistency is we're going to follow the law at the moment. We're required to do that. I am as superintendent and you are as board members and the confusion about um which law courts are are determining that and we're trying to pay attention to what the courts say. Thank you. And that's it for legislative report. Perfect. Thank you. Um let's talk about district 2 vacancy. Have we had anybody apply for that position? We have had um a couple of individuals reach out and engage in a discussion about the position. We've researched their uh residence and unfortunately they are not in district 2. So currently we don't have any um candidates in that area. What we were hoping tonight uh to discuss in public is what are the expectations of this board and
017and what guidance would you like to give me and and the district? I I mean there's a there's a level of recruitment from the superintendent and recruitment from the board. I I just think that there's a fine line that we want to be really transparent and clear with the public on that this wasn't someone the district appointed or or went and encouraged it. It it it's are we all contributing to that conversation. So if there are names of individuals that you would like us to reach out to, we would love to do that. Um because we do need some folks and we do have 90 days to do that. we have 90 days. We uh I think MAISA has the original timeline that we put out there. Um and so we were hoping to, you
018know, to um move forward uh next week with the application and interview process. I don't believe that's going to happen. But again, if the board is uh in the in the coming days wants to provide some names for me to reach out to and offer them an opportunity to come in and learn about the position, perhaps come in with one of you. If folks have reached out to you and asked about the process, we'd love to call them and tap them on the shoulder and and see if they're interested. Um, I I need a little bit of guidance on this board's expectation. Do you want me to go out and find someone and be a little more aggressive or would you like me just to be available to people who you might send our way?
019So, so for me, when I came in asking that question, there's a couple of people that have reached out to me and I know that the map is on our website. We could not find it. And we were there last night on Sunday. Now, Marisa knows I'm not the most techsavvy person in the world, but I want to say my wife and a few other people were there and they still could not find it. So, uh maybe making it easier, put it in on the front page, throwing it out there, big tab. Good lord, that the uh that is horrible. Even even the access to the map though, I will say this. Um it's challenging to understand that map and the zooming in and out. What Marica and I actually did last week is we
020hopped in the car and we drove the boundary of district 2 trying to brainstorm who lives in this area, who might be interested, who have who have our principles told us about, who have we connected with, we haven't knocked on any of those doors because we were waiting for this conversation. And again, if if you're comfortable with us doing that and saying, "Hey, we'd like you someone who you're someone who's expressed an interest in the work of the school district. We'd like your voice to be part of this. Are you interested in being a candidate?" we can certainly do that and if and if you give us names of folks we can reach out to them. I think the other part of this conversation that's be going to become a concern for the district is
021in May folks need to decide if they're going to re-up for November and uh we want to make sure that we have a pool of candidates to fill all five seats and so couple of things are kind of crashing together here rather quickly. Four seats. Well, four right now. Yeah. Yeah. Four. you or you want to amend the constitution and go down to four. I think I'm already in four. I don't have Mine isn't up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We need to fill four. Ex. Exactly. Well, kind of like you said, I think none of us we were all just waiting to see if we got anyone. Not to be impartial about things, just but um but that's how I got here was a board member reached out to me and said, "Would you
022be interested?" So, now that we haven't gotten any, maybe it would be. And and I think a lot of it has to do with like I said they're they're not familiar with the boundary at least for the two people that I talked to or they reached to me was they didn't know. Um I would like to give it another till the next board meeting. I I'd like to let it be from somebody who wants to come and do it instead of maybe egging somebody on or or going encouraging. Um I know we talked to a lot of people. I just think it's it's a big commitment. So, I'd like for them to be able to be part of their decision as well, not just us over there, you know, pushing. We did we did move
023it to the front page and and highlighted the vacancy. Um I I if it's not I mean at least heard from Aaro and I saw a head nod at least one. if if there's not any interest in us knocking on doors, um are you comfortable with us putting out another social media blast and encouraging people and then asking them to reach out? Yes. And so we'll we'll go ahead and do that and try and be a little more visible with it and and we'll hand out the names of the people that have reached out to me and and that way you guys can verify if they're in that area. Okay. Um, we Let's move on to our DOHS site visit on April 21st. Does anybody have any questions about that? My calendar says it starts
024at 8, nine. Yeah, I I do want to describe a little bit of the subtle differences with this site visit. Uh, Principal Tovar reached out to me. Um, we've talked yesterday and today to confirm the the style of this one because it is the last session at Desert Oasis. It's primarily going to be an update on the partnership and the integration between principal Cat Aerson and Principal Josh Tovar. There might be some staff there, but we we've taken away the um typical meeting with students and the meeting with staff. It really is to provide an opportunity for the board to spend a couple hours learning about this integration into Ulta High School. And so that was both uh principal Aerson and Principal Tovar's request. So it is a little bit different and we bumped it
025back to nine because also on that day Aerson and Tovar will be presenting to all secondary teachers at the high school during their PLC the plan for DOHS. It'll be a big day to update them. Okay. Okay. Will it be more of like a roundt situation? Exactly. Nine o'clock at DOHS and uh yeah it'll be almost like a workshop. I guess you you could expect. Great. Okay. Uh moving on now to um our vice president nominations. At this time, I will accept a nomination for vice president of the school board. I'd like to nominate Ken Johnson for vice president of school board. I'll second that. All in favor? I I I Any opposed? Motion passes 4 Z. Uh Mrs. Sorry. Roll call. Uharo. Yay or nay? I said yay. I know. I have to do
026a roll call instead of a all in favor. So Oh, really? Yeah. Isaro is a yay. Lindsay is a yay. Ken, yay. Aaron, also yay. Motion passes 40. Okay, moving on to required approvals. At this time, I'll accept a motion to approve the required approvals. I'll motion to approve the required approvals. I will second that. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? I. Any oppose? Okay. I didn't hear what you said. A K don't want to. Okay. So, three uh four and one opposed. At this time, I'll accept a motion to approve required approvals early accounts payable warrants two. I'll make that motion. And I'll second that. All in favor? I. Any opposed? I will abstain. Motion passes 30. Now we will have um our superintendent informational items. Take it away superintendent
027pres. Yeah, while the team comes forward who attended NSBA, I'll invite the student reps to the um to the front as well. And while they're setting up, I do want to touch on the second item there, which is the um printer purchase. You'll notice that we included a document. It doesn't require board approval, but we wanted to let you know that through collaboration with our teachers associations and our building principles and uh some maintenance issues we've been having around technology, we're making a large investment in updating printers for all of our teachers. And so, just wanted you to be aware of that because it is a big ticket item um but doesn't require board approval. And so, just again a piece of information for you. Thank you. regarding uh NSBA. Uh we have a slideshow
028that we've put together and um talk a little bit about our experience in Atlanta. Um it was a a wonderful opportunity to um I think uh to have a shared learning experience and uh for me to learn a little bit about um our student reps and uh the cool work that was happening uh across the country. And I know each of the board members has been to NSBA before. So a very similar experience. One of the cool things about uh the trip was it was held in um the hotel and the convention center were all near Centennial Park and in 1996 that's where the uh summer Olympics were held and so the park that celebrated that experience um in Atlanta uh we got a chance to walk through there every morning. Some mornings better than
029others, the walks were better and safer than others but we made it through each day and made it back. But but it reminded me the the experience and the opportunity something that George Warers used to say people we have good people. Um I was really proud of our student reps and their uh level of engagement the seriousness when it required the ability to have fun and engage with adults. I was really really impressed with them and you all would have been proud of them if you had seen them in action and I think you're going to be proud of them when they share what they learned uh on the trip. So we do have good people. Um, I'm going to share briefly on on two of the classes that I attended. This first one was
030on enhancing school safety. It was focused specifically on cyber threats and it was put on by a a particular agency from Department of Homeland Security. Um, they're they were SISA and they showed all their documents. Um, insurance in school districts has seen dramatic increases particularly in cyber security. Um, we had a an attack last year. Uh the Richland School District had a more public one recently and they happen daily across the country. So it was nice to hear uh what's happening at the federal level to help protect school districts, what resources are available and to recognize some of the good things that are happening in our school district not only around cyber security but about security in general. Uh the lefth hand side is an image from uh the department of homeland security who again
031uh was providing the content for this training. On the right is uh June of 2022, we had a presentation about security in the Oello school district at large and it was a good reminder for me about the good work that's happening in the school district. Um how do you know things are safe? It's just everyone stays safe, right? And and we so we haven't had these dramatic incidents and and much of it is due because we have good people, but also we have good systems. And you're going to hear a little bit from Amy later on on some possible next steps or ways we can improve um how we're keeping everyone safe. The next one I want to share with you is this image. Um, we often talk about this, right? Alignment and this desire
032to have everyone intertwined, but this was a new twist on it for me that I really appreciated. Um, one Clydesdale can pull about 8,000 pounds. And so, you would think, well, two can pull 16, but actually in a coordinated way, if they're trained, they can pull 18. Um, and then if they have the right gear and the right training, they can pull 32. And it it reminded me that this isn't isn't about um just doing the same things with the same content and same curriculum. It's that our our kids and our staff get better experiences if we work together as a team. And so it was a it was a good reminder from the Bethl School District in Washington State talking about systems alignment and leadership. And um I particularly enjoyed that session and that
033connection to the work we're doing here. And so now we're going to turn it over to uh the student reps and to uh Amy Suarez and and to Will to talk about um some of their experience and then uh Misa was there learning about boards and some other items of of school district work and so she'll share some of her experience as well. All right. So this is my slide for the first one. Um the two class that I took were around student centered classrooms. I don't remember the full name and then the other one was rules to engagement. That was the other one. The lady who taught that actually her name is Principal Mo. She's from the Massachusetts area, I believe, and she has like an Instagram and every day she dresses up in
034some kind of costume for her kids. It's really funny. Um, but yeah, so some of the things that we already do is a profile of a graduate. That was one of the biggest stressors in the um student centered classroom class. They talked about basically um the kids if they don't know what they're looking for, they don't know what they're coming to school for, it's there's no incentive. And um this is one thing that I think we do well with. Although kids may not know the profile at Graduate is there for them, you know, if they look for it, they can find it. And um that photo you can't really see. Sorry, I thought it was bigger up here, but that one it's a kind of a wheel explaining each of the functions. And then on
035the right side, it shows like a detailed plan of basically not just we want you to know how to manage your relationships. We want you to know when you have a conflict, what are you going to do? When you have a problem at home, who can you come to at school with? If you have a problem at school, who can you go tell about that? And it kind of gives like a detailed explanation of what's going on at home and at school and how you can contribute all that to be a successful student kind of all around, not just for someone someone who's in the classroom but an all-around student. Another one is the plan and process kind of what's in it for me that's the student question and then uh one question for us
036I say is how do we offer the education this class in the rules to engagement talked about the three Rs framework which is a way to engage students to want to come to school want to want to learn and also like want to have a like some people don't value education they say oh I have to go to school because my mom says so oh I have to go to school because the state mandates me something like that and um they talked about these three things re-engaging restoring and rewarding. I know there was one school that gives kids money to come to school. I don't know if we can do that, but yeah, money cash. So, cash cash to come to school. No, I'm joking. But yes, that was definitely a big spin for me
037and I was like, "Wow, that's that's crazy that people can do that." Um but it was more um on the focus of what can we do to reach out to the students because um yeah I didn't put it up here but it's kind of the kids these days type of mentality where oh nothing's the same and they don't listen they're always on the phone and all the things and that mentality is is not running us anywhere and so this is what we needed this is I think a better option to take you know looking at re-engaging what where did we lose them at what point are they checking out the classroom is it before they get there is it when they're tardy is it when teachers nagging at them for being tardy all the time
038me and then restoring even in Georgia. Even in Georgia restoring is that like how are we introducing them back if people are off on discipline and stuff? Are they just coming straight back to class? No question. Are they being bered with okay you're going to come do this this are sitting in you know meetings for lunch attention and then rewarding u you know it's good to want to have an incentive. It's good to have something to look forward to, not just, oh, I have to go, you know, money if we can't have money. No, I'm joking. But yeah, so that's one thing I would like us to maybe focus on. And I think high school especially too, the kids like now, spring break, after spring break, it's the drool falling out the mouth, you know.
039So this system hopefully we can start working on something like that to implement it. And then on the bottom is implementation blueprint, staff support, and collaboration cohesion. Those are two of the the big words that I like collaboration cohesion. Like I really stress these out because if we're not all on the same team, kind of like the Clyde Clydedale, Clydesdale horses, right? We can't all pull the same amount of weight or we can't all be pulling different weights. We all can't be pulling in different directions. Um the the framework for that they g the framework they gave us was adult engagement. So oh sorry, audit engagement. Making sure that we're going to the classrooms, making sure that we're understanding, okay, you have to do this, you have to do this, you do this. For elementary
040students, it may not look all the same, but make sure that kind of how we had the report the other day where they came and showed us, okay, in my classroom, we're going to follow this kind of system. This is how it evolves and it goes to the next one. And we keep going back and referencing like, okay, what went well, what doesn't, uh, the staff and the three Rs, obviously the re-engage, restore, reward, launch a pilot challenge. Obviously, this one was also money in involved or they paid the student, the teachers to whichever class was most successful. Obviously, we can't get that, but you know, something close to it. And then measure, reflect, and revise. What went well? What do we need to fix? Um, and uh, also where are we doing well in?
041Because I feel like if we stress all the time too about the the negative, the negative, then we lose kind of the angst or the the drive to want to try to do new things. Next one. And this is Atlanta for me. Thank you guys again for letting me go. That was so much fun. You guys missed out. You guys missed out. Like, it was really fun. Uh, these are some photos here. The top left is Atlanta. That was in Little Five Points, little neighborhood with a great shop there. Um, underneath that is the best peacon pie I've had in my life. Me and Marisa tore that up. Very good. It was so good. This is a salmon pasta we had. And um, we also had a little bet there. I was trying to guess
042what the waiters where she was from based on her accent and I was wrong. Lily got it. She was from Venezuela. That's a city skyline photo from We had went to Oh my gosh. What's the the ice cream place? Jenny's. Jenny's. So, we went to Jenny's ice cream and it was like this kind of storefront type of thing, but then if you walked further into it, there was like a hotel weird. There was like a restaurant below us and then there was a bunch of shops on the side. So, we walked out and we saw that nice skyline there. Above that is us all at the Centennial Park and then on the right there was Dr. Martin Luther King's niece, Celeste Beal. Yeah. And that was all by accident, too. Like, we all stumbled into
043we went to um the church that he pastored and it happened to be April 4th, which is his death date. having a memorial for him and she was there. Wow. Very, very interesting. The next one is my 70s outfit there. My mom said no. I called her wearing that whole get up there and she said, "Marisa, take my kid back home." The one on the right is Fellini's pizza. That it was huge. I don't have a photo with the comparison, but like my hand could fit three times on the the food there. 15 minutes. I took it down. It was very good. The bottom one is Will's senior photo, Mr. Vonier. Mr. Von Brock seen in your photo. Sorry. He's wearing a jumpsuit there in one of the stores we were at. And then that's
044us before on the plane going to Georgia moments before disaster. This is my side of Georgia. Um, this was my first time ever on a plane, so I did not know what to expect. Miles and Isabelle sat right next to me. And I told him, "Whatever happens, be careful. I will vomit." And um turns out I instead started crying because I m Thank you. Um well, that was my first time ever flying. It was a great experience. I was able to have people um there who were able to take care of me. Um we uh went to this uh what was it? The I don't know. Yeah, the barbecue place. Amazing food. Loved it. I only had fries, but it was good. Um then the same picture as Miles of Centennial Park. And then um
045me and Isel got matching shirts. Same with sister Amy. There's a background story to that. Then we were able to go on a ferris wheel, do fun stuff like that. Um again, the pizza. Um I was just so thankful to be able to go to Georgia. My first time traveling out of the state. I was so grateful to be able to experience it with these people. um I was um able to create a connection with them and be able to say that we the district definitely has um good people to have their hands on. Yeah. Okay. So, one one session that stood out to me was achieving greatness together through student leadership from the Pentagrass 8th grade superintendent student council. They have um 12 schools in their district. There is two for each school and
046what they do is like they go through the same process as the student board members. They get an interview. They they apply for it. They uh do all of that and they get hired by them. Um, so they are before getting into that, well once they're like hired and everything, they get trained as leaders and are and they are able to do stuff like volunteering and fundraising. They go to field trips and leadership um stuff. So sorry. So they before any before they do all that, they want to make sure that they're hiring the right people. So they go through this thing called chop. So they're putting into a kitchen and they're putting it all together to work together as a team and see how they would react because if they go on field trips
047they're going to stay in a hotel. So they put them in this room and be like okay you guys are going to be handling that we want to see how you guys work together. Um that's basically what they do and I thought that was very cool like something like that's I was like wow that's such a good thing. Um they also have this portrait of a graduate which is technology skills, character, career, success skills, communication, problem solver, collaborator. All of these are what a graduate has at their school. Um something else that the student council does is that they do pillows for kiddos. So they ask the community for fabrics, pieces of fabric so that they're able to create pillows for the kids inside the pillows. I don't have pictures. Oh, they were you just
048can't see them, but inside the pillows, there's like a a book in there so that they go into like kindergarten classrooms and they read to them and gifting that to them. I thought that was so cool be able to um eighth graders be able to go um read to kindergarteners. And these are only eighth graders. When they were presented by this eighth grade student council, if you guys saw the way they spoke with confidence, I was like, "These are only eighth graders. I can imagine once they get to high school thought whatever program they're using which is this super helpful. Yeah. And then the next one I went to was the classrooms the future for multilingual learners from Artisia high school's journey. I think this one's California school. Yeah. So they're 95% graduation rate. So
049these are some statistics about their school. most of them uh I think 100% of their seniors apply to at least a college. [Music] Um yeah, so their their school is very avid focused. So they do the corn taking all of that. Even though we hate it, it's really helpful according to them. As a matter of fact, I was taking Cornell notes in that exact same session. Um, so something that this that their school does is that they have um I'm not necessarily sure who they said, but they have some people go into their classrooms and have like this classroom observation tool where they have like this checklist and they check off things that they're doing so that to make sure that they're on pace or they're on track, they know what they're doing. Um, their
050school is a student student driven 4x4 schedule. So, I don't remember how that went, but I think they have like three periods each day or is I think it's four periods each day. Four periods each day. Yeah. And there's like um intervention in and the second day I think where they like help them a little bit more with whatever they need. Um their school is very diverse as you guys can see. There's 76% Hispanics, 7.8% Filipinos, 6.1% African-Americans. It's very diverse. So that's why they have this program called the newcomers program. Um if you if you're able to click on it, you guys will see a video of um how they use AI um how they integrated that into their school and how it's like actually successful to them. There's a I think she's in
051Spain. Hi, my name is Evan Bautista. I'm 70 years old and I am 11th grader at Artisia High School. I arrived to United States about 2 years ago from Guatemala. not speaking any English. Although I initially struggled in adapting to the new culture, language and school system, the usage of technology and AI really help accelerate my English and development my strengthening academic skills. My goal now is to go to a 4-year university and a study electrical engineer. [Music] Technology is very essential. We use our Chromebooks for almost everything. It's a way easier to access information quickly like looking up definitions or finding different perspectives on a topic online. AI tools like Grammarly or even some search engines can help us check our writing and understand concepts better by giving us different ways to explain things.
052Technology allowed us to dig deeper into topics that were really interesting and find more diverse viewpoints. Plus, online platforms for turning in assignments like Google Classroom and seeing my grades on areas make things much more organized. All right, class listen up. So, what we have going on today is in conjunction with the academic chats paper where you're supposed to be speaking about your classes, you are going to chat with AI about the subjects that you struggle with. artificial. And so when you are there, and I notice that a lot of you are there already, it's going to give me a report of the conversation. So on the left hand side, you're going to see your name. And then over here, it's going to give me a report of how the conversation is going. And over
053here, it's going to give me your name and details. about your conversation. So for example, about his aspirations, how he may want to be president someday. She has the desire to know more when it comes to her math class. Is balancing chores at home and schoolwork, indicating Maybe he has a little bit of stress, right? Maybe. All right. So, this thing is reading into it and it's motivating you to read to speak more English so you can express yourself a little bit better and let us know where you need help. Okay, so that was their AI tool. They use a lot AI at their school and I thought that was very helpful for especially for our newcomers at the hotel high school. Um maybe there's some elementary. I feel like this would be very useful
054to those who cannot speak English properly. Um something cool that also stood out to me was the AI by modifier. So what that means is that a teacher can give an assignment made by AI but they modify it themselves or it goes vice versa. They mod they they make the paper or the assignment and they use AI to go over it and just do whatever needs to be done. Oh, and I also really like their moto, which is do what's right for kids. So whatever they do at their school, it's all for kids. Yeah. [Music] Okay. So this one was my slide. One of the things I think that we do good is like you see over here it says like for mentoring you it says we can we improve, we develop, train, motivate, coach
055and inspire. I think a lot of teachers at OS do that a lot and that's something that we already do and also leadership skills like like all those words over there on the right. And one that I found interesting was I went to this one session about attendance and statistic that stood out to me was in 2023, one in three kids um were absent. They didn't show up to school. And I found it interesting because I wanted to know like why. It was like the same class he went to. And it was because, you know, students felt like they didn't belong in the school or they felt that no teacher liked them. So they felt like what's the point of showing up if I don't feel I belong. So, um, one one strategy on how
056to make students feel they belong was the lady said to get like all teachers and to put all students faces like just on a wall and like look at which ones like you feel you have a relationship with or a connection with. And the students that are left out, the ones the teachers don't have a rel relationship with, they focus more on them because they are most likely to be the ones that are absent all the time and to make them feel like they do belong. And like one of them was the modern reward system. That was the one who was talking about like money and you get Nike kicks for like showing up. and um the way we measure the attendance data and the participation trends and the student surveys. Um and for teachers
057also to not take it personally if if students don't understand what the subject is that they are learning. So, for example, the lady, she had a student who didn't know how to read, like even though they're already in high school, that's something you should like learn in like kindergarten already, like once you start school. So, what the teacher saw in the student was like they stood up from the from themselves because they felt because the student naturally would just be embarrassed to say like, "Oh, I can't read and I'm in high school." But the teacher saw um courage in the student to speak out for themselves, be like, "Oh my gosh, I can't read, so I'm not learning anything." So the teacher didn't take that personally be like, "Oh my gosh, you should have learned
058this a long time ago." No, the teacher actually helped it and didn't take it personally like, "Oh my gosh." And yeah, it's kind of Miles already went over it about like the the reward system and the attendance. Oh, yes. This was my experience. Um, the one on the airplane that was moments before disaster. I threw up three times going to Atlanta, Georgia. Miles really took good care of her. He was He threw away all my throw up in the back cuz I felt very dizzy and nauseous and I just kept throwing up and then but the food over there was really good like Like as you can see, that was a salmon sandwich and with the fries. That was bomb. That was so good. And then over there on the top right, the lady with
059the green dress, that was Celestial, Dr. Martin Luther King's niece. That was a crazy experience. Like, I can't believe we were there in that moment of time. And then the ferris wheel and a pretty picture of the skyline. Had you flown before this trip? Yes, I have. I I never get car sick, so this was like the first time I've ever thrown up. Oh, wow. Motion. Wow. Wow. Okay. Um, this is one of the sessions that I went I went to. It's uh when student staff speech collide with anti-discrimination laws. Um, this session was led by a attorney from New York State. Um, personally, I find sessions facilitated by legal counsel especially valuable as they often include real world examples of legal challenges from across the country. This particular presentation highlighted a range of cases
060involving student and staff speech, especially on social media, and explored how courts have interpreted First Amendment protections in those context. It also addressed cases related to gender identity and the rights of transgender students and staff. Another example discussed was a Breton school district case which centered around a high school football coach's right to pray on the field and raised important questions about the separation of church and state um let's see so when I attend these board conferences um I try to attend these sessions uh in the ready set govern series um because it's completely focused on board meetings and the school board and this one specifically was regarding roles and responsibilities for the board. Um it really emphasized the difference between governance which is what the board does and management which is what the superintendent
061does. Um it highlighted the importance of acting as a team where the board speaks with one voice and works collaborative collaboratively with the superintendent. It stressed the need for clear communication, respecting the chain of command and no surprises at meetings. It reminded us that the individual board members don't have authority. The decisions are made collectively. Um and then encourage practices like strategic planning, self-evaluations, um superintendent eval to keep governance strong and focused. So this is all just really good reminders. I feel like we do it already. Um so let's see. So, this one was on increasing engagement with school boards, state associations, and beyond. Um, one of the questions that it asked, which I thought was super interesting, was how do you as a school board engage students in your district? So, you know, that
062was like a turnand talk kind of thing. What happens in your district? And I feel like these are the things that we do for you guys to um engage with the kids. Uh, but the photo there, I thought it had some really good prompts because sometimes we go to those cookies and combos and we're just like, "Hey, you know, what questions do you have?" Um, but it has some really good prompts because what they do at theirs is they do have student roundts actually with the kids. Um, the school board sits down with them and then they have these prompts. It says, "What are the what are the biggest successes in your schools? What are the biggest issues impacting your school? How can school districts support you to help solve these issues? And then the
063closing reflection, it says, "What's a piece of advice you have for us as schoolboard members? And what's a piece piece of advice you have for us as current youth leaders?" So, anyways, just thought it was super [Music] interesting. Okay, so I went to with Is um Isabella, we went to the woman in leadership and wellness. Um it was a really good session. It was by three um two two superintendents and a former one and they just talked about how important it is to have a mentor, you know, especially when you're women to have mentorship. And I feel like that really spoke to me because I feel like we were being mentors to to some really young women that are going to go places. Um she said we need to make sure that we model wellness,
064happiness, you know, that that's important for us to not get so involved in our work that we forget about that there's we have to take care of ourselves. Um something that you heard in every seems like in every um class that you went to was mental health and not only for the students but for your for your employees um and the families. So, one of the to-do list, if you want to go to the next one that um Oh, and of course, I had to get a cute picture of them. I blew it up because why not? Um they had um they organized a cook center for human connection. This is totally anonymous and it's um we have the the link where families can go um and have a whole bunch of information on uh
065anxiety, self harm, and grief. The superintendent there said that they pay for a portion of it. The one that isn't free is a parent coaching where a parent can go on and ask a whole bunch of questions and they actually have a coach. She said it's uh well worth the money that they spend because they see a a big improvement in the behavior of their students. So that's something that I think that we should look into. Um they didn't go into cost because it's all based on the number of students and and where you're located. Um, but if you anybody wants to go into that link right now, they would be able to go on there and there's a whole bunch of information that um, families can go. And I think it's something that we
066should be able to when we um, the counselors see a student that's struggling or a family, give them that um, give them that link. Um, and then uh, I went to another one that was called building the safest schools for children. A very passionate Edward Selena said that he um had one of the safest schools. Was that him? Anyways, and he said um that there's a whole bunch of layers in security. Uh you have the layered security where you're going to uh make sure that there's trust between the administration, the board, the community. That that's very important. Um you have to have the collaboration of your community. you need to have strong uh partnerships with the enforcements and the hospitals. Um innovation with technology, it's always changing that just because we have something in place
067now doesn't mean that there's not going to be something better, more helpful in a year or two that we shouldn't just be stuck on one type of security. Um, and then so what uh what they were saying was um they have these lanyards that have buttons in them and if you every employee has one and they press the button and you get immediate um connection to the police department and they know exactly where you're at and they can follow you and it's um something that we want to explore. Um, so they're worn like regular IDs. Um, they have immediate uh, law enforcement alert. They triggers a lockdown. Um, they pinpoint the exact location and then why we're exploring this is it improves emergency response. We had there was two um, fathers there from the Parkland
068shooting and they said um, they were very passionate and they said our school board failed us. My daughter is dead because nobody did enough to protect my student, my child. And I think there was a quote in this slide before were they the previous slide, Marty? Uh, don't wait until a tragedy strikes. Build safety, interior culture, policies, and funding priorities. Like they said, no, even the safest schools are not really safe. So, so one of our to-do list is and I got the information is to start looking into how much this is going to cost and move forward with it. Could we get a followup with that in a couple of months to talk about where we're at with safety? Yeah, absolutely. And one of the one of the connections to this and the reason
069AB was able to attend this session is in Washington state the senator Torres from Pasco has put forward or not sen she must be representative Torres has put forward um consideration for four ways for school district to meet a safety standard and this is one of them. I believe we have one one at least one of the other measures already in place so we wouldn't have to make an additional investment but we definitely want to chase this one down a little bit and uh see if it makes sense for us. I also have I didn't put it on here, but I also have a slide. We had to take pictures of all our slides because they didn't provide them of a whole bunch of links of where we could possibly get some grant money. So,
070I'll be looking into those as well. Great. Before I jump into mine, I just want to make sure that everybody's clear that if we start paying students to be on time, Miles owes us money. So, it might be a good deal. Um, I'm just uh really summarizing a few things because I a lot of this has already gotten hit on, but um uh a couple of sessions that I went to that I I titled systems for excellence. Um I went to a governance uh session and then I also went to the Artisia High School um with Lily which was was really positive from the systems of excellence. something I think we know and I think we practice in this district, but I think it's really important to just reiterate is is that that process and
071and knowing and understanding our roles. So, how the superintendent kind of works between two groups, they they set the vision and really um work in that strategic zone with the board and then the superintendent has to flop over and work with staff to operationalize those those things. So, just thinking through that way that way. Um, and kind of where we're at in a position with our strategic plan, um, they the way they talked about the strategic plan is we've as we've gone through that process and we're working on getting that operationalized and in there is they asked this question. Does that strategic plan have a cadence in our meetings in the sense of I know I know we had like a a midyear check-in on that, but like how does it how does it keep
072coming back? How does it keep coming? And how are we we talking through that and how does it keep coming up in our meetings and have that I thought that cadence word was really really powerful. So, that gave me a lot to think about as I I considered um our relationship and the work that the board is doing with the superintendent and operationalizing those things for kids and making sure that it's it's getting down there. And um I think Artisia High School was a really really good example of that. Um at at a school level um as um Lily showed uh very similar demographics to to our our high school. um they were one high school in a in a district with several high schools, but their their specific high school um they used to
073be kind of that high school that was low achieving that nobody wanted to be a part of that nobody wants to, you know, and now they're to the point where when uh staff complain about some of the hard work they're doing, they say, "Remember, this is how we get kids." Because they're like a magnet school. Everybody's transferring in. Um, and some of those statistics they you see that they're very similar demographic to ours, very similar poverty rates, um, similar minority rates, similar um, multilingual learner percentages. Um, but that one that stood out to me, 100% of their kids apply to college. It's just what you do. You, we're going to take you through this and you're going to apply. But they had graduation rates up moved up to like 96% and 98% of those kids
074that graduate went on to post-secary whether that was a trade or a college. So really really powerful things and it's just was based based fully on that culture. Um and then all students were expected to take advanced coursework. It's just what you do. You you work toward that advanced coursework. You're going to be in there and and pushing. So it's really what we see in AVID. Um but it's pushed schoolwide. And then like she demonstrated um AI was seen as a tool a tool to be taught, not feared. So how are we going to teach kids to use this because it's reality. It's part of their lives. um if we're constantly pushing it away and and trying to tell kids to stay away, then they're going to go to it and they're going to learn
075it on their own and they're probably going to use it not wisely. Whereas, if we can do things, I thought that example that we saw in the video where that teacher said, "Hey, what you're going to turn in is your conversation with AI. Show me how you're using this." I I thought of it like Avid tutorials, right? You guys go in with your peers. Well, how do you use AI in a similar way when you're stuck and you're by yourself? What a great tool to have when you go on to college and university if that's what we're pushing our kids towards. Um, and then like she said the other way is they they put that that there's like a little watermark that they'll put at the bottom of their their assignments and say, "Hey, this
076was created by I by by AI um and modified by me or the other way around. I created it, but I used AI to revise it and modify it." So really really powerful stuff there that's just all about a system of excellence and what can happen when a staff comes together and says we want really really good things for kids um with that commitment. So that was really really exciting. Um and then the second kind of strand that I was in, I had a couple of sessions that I thought focused really on stakeholders. Um so the first one was community. Uh Pete and I went to um this one that was titled partners not clients. So not looking at our families and our community as a client but as a partner with us. Um they
077had um taken they had trained several uh staff members. They were district office spa staff members to be face specialists which is family and community engagement specialists. and they said they spent a whole year just training these four individuals. Um they would go out, you know, you think about like our fair, they would be the people at the booth. They would be there doing stuff and and they were really there to gather to engage with community and do that. And then the next phase that next year was to start training each individual school staff on on some of the things that they had learned. How do you engage with the families? How do you keep them in? Um regularly occurring messaging. um once they got it to the school level that was a principal like
078an actual robocall every week just celebrating and giving announcements and things like that that I thought of for my school that I thought were really really cool and then just using their resources and and and money wisely to create um I think as you combine it with some of these other things like these parenting specialists and things like that they would dedicate spaces in their buildings where people could come and access those resources and and engage and GED classes in the evening and I think of some of the 21st century grants and things that we're working on right now. I think there's some ways to incorporate that in there and and have our our spaces more open. Um and then and then when it comes to our student reps, um like Pete said, we just
079got to know these three really well and it was really really awesome. And I went to a session that just asked us like, hey, how are we empowering these three um to make change, to do some things? Um do we hear from them on complex issues? You know, I even some of these issues that we've talked about, do we take time to say, "Hey, we need to hear from from you guys. We're here for you. So, let's hear from you. What do you think on this? What are your what are your perspectives? And do we take that time even though they're not voting members? We did hear from a state that they are voting members like full vote, which was really really interesting. Um, but uh they were reminded that that's not that's illegal in
080our state, that we can't do that. Um, and then the other thing that I thought of um these three are really really um excited. They're go-getters. They have a ton of skills. Do we do we um facilitate for them to maybe in the beginning of a school year or something identify hey what's your project for the year? Uh Lily showed she didn't talk about it but that school in Artisia had an endofear I'm going to college dinner that was like a really prized and Lily said that was awesome and I said then do it right like go go get it. So, can we how do we work with with our student reps throughout the future and just say, "Hey, what's your project? What are you going to get done?" Right? Not just show up and
081give a quick board report, but but can you what can you accomplish? And I think they've they've got the the ability to do it. So, um yeah, really really exciting and cool cool to to hang out with them. And then, yep, just a shout out kind of going full circle. Uh we were there in the Olympic Park, so we got these three on the podium and these three really did earn their medals. They were awesome. Um they did good work. Um, one of them was the winner because she showed up on time and didn't throw up in the airplane. But, uh, but they all meddled, you know, they all meddled. She cried, but she got through it. And it was her preparation. She brought motion sickness medicine. She was well prepared. She was great. But
082no, all three of these these three are we're in good hands um in our future. And I know we have awesome students here in Oll. Um, and that's who all of this work is for. So I'm grateful for the opportunity to spend a few days with them and and get to know them better and to think about our systems um in this way. So yeah uh just the last slide there I think again tying it back to the value of collaborative learning. That's the uh motto for uh the translated motto for the Olympics faster higher stronger and they've recently added together. Um, and what I we had an opportunity in one of the keynotes to hear from Melissa Stockwell, who was the first female amputee in the um, war in Iraq and lost her leg
083and then turned into this tremendous world-class parolympian. And so having her there to kind of tie in the message about um, uh, her her book was about choice, the power of choice and the choices we all make in our lives and the choice she made that day that cost her her limb. And it was a powerful message for us and and a good reminder about um the Olympic spirit, right, and the kind of work that we do. Uh one other thing about the images of the because I thought with this I didn't see the student images. I didn't look too closely at the slides before they put them in there like their own experience. Uh and it's one thing to talk about the food, right? The kinds of things we ate. What was really cool
084for me and it's one of the reasons I love education so much is the energy and enthusiasm of students of young people. like to fly that far for 3 days, I was pretty exhausted and it took me about a week to recover, right? They they were ready to go the next day. But the energy that you feel in the car and at lunch or dinner, u we talked about issues of race, we talked about school choice, we talked about world view, uh just a number of things that is so interesting to learn from from our kids and to hear them talk about the experience that they're having in our schools and that makes it uh so valuable as well. So thankful for the board for uh you know it was a little different not having
085board members there but still I think a valuable experience and didn't want them to miss out on that and and a good opportunity for us to continue to connect with people from across the country and I think maybe one day we'll we'll be presenting at NSBA as well. Don't know if you have any questions for the crew or uh thoughts you'd like to share. Um I just wanted to say thank you for your presentation. I loved it. I thought I I'm so sad that I missed it because it is such a great opportunity for the board to especially be with the student reps and for us to spend time together. So, I apologize that none of us were able to make it because that was just an opportunity missed by us. So, I apologize for
086that. Um, I'm you got you all did a great job filling us in on all of the things that you learned and I'm excited to hopefully implement some of those things into our district and um definitely going out of this meeting reflective. Uh, a lot of what Will said really was like, you know, how can we help you as student reps? What are we doing to to answer all of those questions that um so I'll be doing some reflecting over the next few days and hopefully um come up with ways that we can be a little bit more supportive of our student reps because you guys really are awesome. And anytime people get frustrated and say kids these days, right, Mike, if you spend some time with kids these days, you'll feel really good about
087where we're headed because we have great great students and uh I'm really proud of you guys. So, thank you for filling us in. Thank you. I think for me it was uh not chance to be able to go, but last year when we were able to go, um you guys hit it on the nail. It was a a bonding uh because none of us had ever gone and got together and so it was kind of cool. We got to see Miles at 3 in the morning when they kicked him out for a fire drill. He does make it when there's a bell that rings. He absolutely wasn't late for that one, but um No. and and I'm um very grateful to have an experience of of doing something and going somewhere that you might not
088have gotten a chance to do and and doing it with the people that you did because as much fun as you guys had, we also know what kind of crew Marisa the babysitter um she did an amazing thing last year. I imagine she was like a mom to everybody else. And then with her sister there, I was going to sit there and say, um, MP, I think you picked a good group to go with you when we weren't able to. So, thank you. Thank you guys for the update. Yeah. I also want to say thank you to Sister Amy for protecting Isabella Liliana being our shelter. Thank you for Misa for my professional photography. Always, always. She knows how to get all the angles. Every angle. She's on retainer for me. Miles, you ought to
089see Aaron. Aaron's got some good pictures, too. That's true. Okay. Anything else, Superintendent? Uh, no. I I guess maybe two quick stories. Um, you would have been really proud when we were in the in the um, first keynote with Stockwell and there were probably 200 people there and music was playing and Miles got up and danced with this mid60s woman who was there helping as an usher. But the joy on her face and the joy of the people who got to see that and film that just this 30-se secondond interaction was really magical. And you would have been proud of of Miles and the interaction that he had with her and the joy that he brought to people in that moment. And then one of the meals we had in particular at the end, it
090was really uh the weather, there was tornado warnings, it was raining and we went into a Mexican restaurant um near the airport and uh it was very very crowded, very very busy. And you could tell how much the waitress appreciated uh Liliana's interactions with her in Spanish and so much so that at the end of the meal she gave her a free dessert. But you could tell that there was a a human personal connection uh between Miles and the person he danced with and between her and this person who was there to serve us. And so again, the apart from what we went to learn and all the time and and expense for the experience, seeing our kids do those things in a different setting was really really cool. And uh really proud of all
091three of them for attending and participating and like I have been along the way. board always picks really good student reps and uh so I want to thank them and their families for trusting us to let them travel and uh finish up by thanking the board for letting them make the trip. Another one too, Isabelle, congrats to her. She made it on the way back with the flying colors. Yes, throw. That's great. Well, thank you guys so much. Appreciate your your recap. Thank you. We will be moving on to item E1, policy review. We don't have anything to vote on, do we, Marty? No. Just uh review that and keep it in your mind and we'll be um approving that next board meeting. Do we have any public comment? Nope. Okay. We will move on
092to upcoming events. April 21st, we have our DOHS site visit at 9:00 a.m. And then April 28th, uh, we have our regular scheduled board meeting at 7 PM. And that will be our last board meeting at 700 p.m. for the next couple of months. We'll then be moving to 100 p.m. question mark one. Okay. So, we still have one more meeting at 7 PM at the end of this month. Does anybody have anything to add to that? to our schedule. Okay, we will move on to the board self assessment of the meeting. I'll kick us off with a really well planned agenda. Uh it was great start to finish and and the superintendent report with the student reps um and Will and Sister Amy. 10 out of 10. Great. I also appreciated all the strays,
093Mr. Very good. I do want to echo gratitude for the presentation. We were all sad to not be able to go, but glad that um you all learned from it and excited to see what we can implement from that from what you brought back. Miles had a great time trying on clothes. He stayed in the store for like an whole hour trying clothes. Were you in a Goodwill or a thrift store or where'd you find that outfit? It was V Oh my gosh. No. Vintage warehouse and if I could, I would have left with the entire store. I But his mom said no. Yeah, we had went to another vintage store before that in the same night. No, the night before. And this guy, he was like, "Oh, I'm a stylist. I'm a celebrity stylist."
094Whatever. Came up to me and gave me this like patched up jacket. Had like camo on it, but it was like a suit vest. And Pete said, "I look like what did he say? It looks like rags or something." And then I called my mom and she said, "No, no, no." Well, Miles, I I appreciate the Will's uh graduation picture. That was amazing. Didn't know you looked like Kid Rock. We'd like to blow that up. That could make it into the yearbook. That'd be great. Yeah. Um, I would have to say a delta for me is that we're still short a board member. I know that's out of our control, but um, it's always nice to have a full a full board of five. Anything else? Okay. Oh, sorry. For me, it's the upcoming Is
095there can we get an update on graduation for this year? Just seems like it's getting a little closer and closer. Um I seen something was put out on the on the uh always school. Yeah, I think if we could get an update, it'd be great. We'll plan on uh uh doing a superintendentform information items on the 28th, but I would encourage you on the 21st when we're meeting with Tovar and Aerson, bring some questions there that maybe the public won't see at that moment, but that we could prepare to follow up on the 28th. So, if you have questions, don't wait until then, but bring them. Perfect. Okay. This me uh at this time, we will adjourn to an executive session. um for 60 minutes to discuss potential litigation and the performance of a public
096employee. No action will be taken following the executive session. This meeting is adjourned.