San Diego Unified School District, Board of Education Meeting

001good evening welcome to everyone here those watching by itv and those watching the live stream and calling the september 13th 2022 board meeting to order this is our regular meeting and everyone is present and with that the army jrotc from kearney high school is here and i'd like for everyone to stand for the presentation of the colors uh monsignor would you please leaders in the pledge thank you 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 three thank you please be seated it's a little bit different but that's okay i would like to have a motion for to board today's board agenda so moved thank you second on that thank you so we

002have the motion by biser and seconded by basel let's see let's get nipple monsieur's vote first and then quitoriano hi and everybody else please vote electronically that's kind of tough but thank you that passes 5-0 and the students concurred with us thank you now let us move on through our agenda today's meeting of the board of education is a business meeting that is conducted in public board by law 1025 sets the time limit for public comment on agenda items at 10 minutes per side pro and con or 20 minutes total speakers will be able to provide testimony at the beginning of the appropriate agenda item or at the end of the meeting for non-agenda public comment the list of public speakers is attached to agenda item b2 please listen for your name to be called

003speakers are listed and called in the order received when your name is called please come to the podium to speak speakers participating via zoom will be asked to unmute when their name is called if you are unable to unmute yourself we will call the next speaker zoom does not allow staff to access your personal device to unmute a speaker please follow along with the agenda so you know when your item is coming up for discussion if you would like to sign up for public comment ipads are available in the back of the auditorium and in the lobby thank you and we have no student presentations today so with that we'll report out on our closed session uh we have no items to report out tonight thank you thank you superintendent jackson thank you president dr

004weiner's pain this evening i have one specific appointment this evening and that will be the principal for marshall elementary school and congratulations to yvonne munguia who will be joining the marshall team i also have a few announcements of appointments that i made in sept or during the summer months and so i'm proud to announce the following positions associate principal for the san diego school of creating performing arts richard ojeda principal for the logan memorial educational complex kimberly wright welcome to san diego look forward to working with you we also have a principal for toller elementary school laurie francis who'll be returning to san diego unified and also would like to welcome and she's in attendance our director of government relations dr sierra cook joining us from [Music] sacramento and she'll be based in sacramento so

005thank you and welcome we also have a few other positions associate principal for haige and sandberg elementary janiece jones liggin congratulations we look forward to your continued work in the mirror mesa community we also have instructional support officer for the extended learning opportunities division and that will be toby pace my apologies sabrina in advance instructional support officer my apologies community schools jason babineau and also joining us from the southern region of our county instructional support officer a through g roman del rosario welcome to san diego unified and that that concludes our appointments for this evening thank you and for those of you who don't know the inside jokes we hassle over our people once you get into school we don't want them to leave but unfortunately they want promotions too so congratulations to all of

006them and with that we will now move to our asb report today and it comes from the asb president at san diego high school and i said ali deborah yes ali dubois yes okay um so hello i'm the san diego high school president um so within our asb at the moment we are working on our beginning of the year activities as well as fundraising by selling our asb cards also as an asb we are working on reorganizing and restructuring our asb to include a new committee and commissioner positions one of which includes our student voice commissioner so this month we're holding our first ever student forum in order to get more student feedback in our school activities within our school we our three small schools have now become one school so this is the first

007year of our school being a unified campus though our other academic programs and pathways like medtech academy geotech academy still remain despite their no longer being three small schools and the start of construction for the renovation of our campus has gone underway and we are working through that so that is all thank you so you have fewer students right um same amount of students just um instead of being split up into three different small schools we're now all considered under the same school yes the next year yes yes yes yes congratulations and thank you and with that superintendent jackson your reporting thank you president dr whitehurst payne uh it gives me great pleasure to welcome everyone back to the 22-23 school year and we are excited to welcome our students our staff our parents back

008to join with us as we focus on equity belonging and thriving uh environments for our students and uh you know this year is certainly different than the last couple of the years and we should all acknowledge that and uh you know we had an opportunity to launch priorities around mental health and this is what we have as a board superintendent and staff our students have articulated our top priorities and mental health is at the top we also have launched a priority around extended learning and you'll hear a little bit about that in lcap goal 3 but continuing that effort to provide these opportunities to our students in addition we are very excited and and actually dr cook worked with us uh in her previous position on our priority around universal tk transitional kindergarten and we

009have classes at all of our elementary schools and some of our campuses have two and some have three classrooms and so we're very excited uh as we saw an increase in our enrollment because of this and so we're very excited to have that as a priority along with standards-based learning teaching and grading this is something that we carry over from the last few years as a priority from the board and we want to be able to do it more deeply and more broadly across our school system and so we're excited about that and then also along with that i know we've done our teach lead but really focusing on staffing and staff development growth and development and so those will be our priorities this year from the superintendent's position aside alongside the board our students

010have had strong voices around these concerns so we're really excited about that very very excited and optimistic for this upcoming school year first week of school yes you probably did catch me on a tricycle a little small for me but the students in our ut class some of our kinders out on the playground i couldn't help myself a large kid in me says get out there and try to ride the bike i wasn't as graceful and not as fast as the young folks but we did get out there was able to visit lmc and kick off the first year first day of the school year mason elementary golden hill elementary we got out to horton we got out to spreckels wangenheim nip away our newest school uh in in trustee bizer's uh district and uh

011as i mentioned sequoia i want to thank our congresswoman sarah jacobs who visited morris high school and i know we just saw the kearney jrotc but she was able to visit morris high school and really talk around civic engagement and really being a part of work in the community and we even have a few students that may take her up on an offer to go into politics perhaps and so it was really exciting very engaging with the students i also want to close by thanking pro tem atkins for her advocacy for our newcomer students and really excited because she was able to advocate for additional funding for our students to cover translation services and other supports that our our new students uh have coming from different countries uh war and torrent communities so our refugee

012students so thank you to both uh congresswoman jacobs and pro tim atkins and thank you to our students our staff our families for showing up and continuing to be unified with that i conclude conclude with ubuntu thank you and thank you dr jackson and now we'll every board member will have an opportunity to speak or to do whatever for two minutes and we usually like to start with our students so okay thank you so last month i had the privilege of joining zoe geller alford senior at plate loma high school and chelsea long junior at mission bay high school to film the instructional video for the implementation of bill a b 367 or the menstrual equity for all act which requires free period products to be supplied in all schools containing sixth to twelfth graders

013zoe and chelsea have done such incredible work in advising the passage and now implementation of this bill and i'm beyond excited that these product dispensers have already been installed in women's and gender neutral bathrooms as well as men's rooms and middle and high school campuses throughout our district throughout the summer and into the school year i've also collaborated with chief of police alfonso contreras to establish the district's police youth advisory committee an effort to strengthen trust and cultivate meaningful conversation between students and campus police thank you thank you trustee nipple monsignor right always i'd love to say it now okay about you leviano thank you dr sharon whitehurst payne um it's really good to be back here after such a long hiatus with summer and over summer i've been incredibly busy i had the privilege

014of attending an ethnic studies workshop which was incredibly interesting and i am so so thankful that us as a district we have the tools and we have the classes available for students to learn so much about themselves where they come from and how that ties into the greater story of america it was truly an amazing presentation to watch and it really really showed how far we've come as a district i also had the privilege of attending a graduation ceremony of all of our summer graduates they're students that have worked incredibly incredibly hard to get where they are today and i'm so glad that they can finally graduate um and regarding back to school i know a lot of students definitely were very much thinking about back to school coming back to school i know that

015i'm incredibly excited and happy to be back part of what coming back to school meant for me was building our student advisory board student advisory board we really think it's important to have student input on really a lot of things that go on the board and give students that voice that they need to be successful and have part in such in so much legislation that rules them thank you and thank you and with that we'll move on let's just do my right first twisty thank you president wiederspayne i'm so excited that we're beginning another school year in san diego unified especially opening up a new school nip away in the first elementary school in mission valley uh that's a phenomenal education facility i want to thank uh lee and everybody in the development in the

016facilities department and construction all all the people that have worked so hard for so long to make sure that we open the school on time and on budget thank you for doing that um i really uh also have been working with a variety of folks about the upcoming bond measure that will be on the november ballot i hope that as you look at the information that you just make a solid decision in support of this bond measure to make sure that we continue to fund public education in san diego a vote for this bond measure for san diego schools will not result in an increase in taxes at all everybody would just maintain the current same tax rate it's the right thing to do for our children because it's often said that the best measure

017of a civilization is how we treat our children thank you yeah thank you so uh tonight i will give attention to our garden programs around the district and i want to thank dan howe and our public information department for the video that i'm going to share two moms in the point loma cluster caitlin mitchell and renee branski enrolled their children in kindergarten at silvergate elementary school and they got involved so they created a parent-led garden program that won the 2022 classroom of the future foundation's inspire award let's play the video and see how this happened it's noon on a friday at silver gate elementary as these two moms volunteers caitlin mitchell and renee branski prep this outdoor classroom each child gets about 25 to 30 minutes of garden instruction every week and our goal is

018to make it as interactive active hands-on as possible this duo met way back in 2015 when their oldest sons started at the school we got along really well they got tapped to lead the school's garden program and to say it's been thriving is an understatement i love coming here it's really fun they use a curriculum that caitlin a former teacher and avid gardener spent five years creating i call it rutabaga just because i like the sound of it with rich content and beautiful visuals for different grades and seasons including dozens of lessons and activities today they release pest eating ladybugs this is a really good experience we call it a garden-based science program but it also incorporates nutrition it incorporates nature we tie in a lot of the grade relevant math and social studies renee

019organizes about 40 volunteers that use rutabaga education and lead the classes here our goal is that a non-green thumb can come and teach their story has a bittersweet twist after seven years their time here is nearly done their youngest sons graduate this spring i just wanted to create something that could exist long after my boys were students at the school in fact other schools and organizations are using rutabaga education and they hope to keep on planting it elsewhere thank you before you go on i do want to uh apologize i'll be leaving the meeting early to attend the 202nd 212th anniversary of the independence of mexico so i'll be leaving to attend that to represent our district at that event thank you and he had to show the garden i think i'm not going to

020be a gardener now mine didn't work this summer so trustee yeah thank you dr rodriguez payne i i just want to um thank all of our educators and all of our students um for getting uh the entire district off to a good start especially in the heat that we've all been experiencing and i want to do a special shout out to ali and matthew at san diego high [Laughter] we know that san diego is a little behind all the rest of our schools because we've had to go through this process of getting our lease signed with the city but now as ali said we're able to move forward with our improvements which include air conditioning in every classroom that is made possible by prior bond measures by the leadership of trustee visor and a special

021shout out to drew rowlands and gary patel and our operations at lee dolgar off our operations and maintenance staff i know um you've been working overtime these past couple of weeks to get out there and fix uh air conditioning systems that have gotten overloaded and provide portable units uh it's been uh it's been a lot of work but you've done a great job and that's allowed us to have a good start to our school year so thank you thank you and with that vice president thank you president waiters payne i'm also very excited about the school year getting started i did have the opportunity this summer to go to boston it was a program through the council of greater city schools at harvard business school and there were school boards from across the country and

022so it was wonderful to meet a lot of different individuals that work in large urban school districts you know we had a lot in common obviously and making those connections was was inspiring and uh had dr jackson with me as well and uh as as much as it was great to learn more about other school districts i we also decided that we were very fortunate to be here in san diego because we still feel like ours is the best and also i i attended a uh the helix mira mesa game right before school started and it didn't go so well for mira mesa but it was it was a fun time and um principal sabin's at mira mesa did a nice um for all the incoming ninth graders he had a barbecue set up for

023all of them at the beginning of the game just make them feel welcome their first football game as as as freshmen and um we also did a they also did a program for the incoming freshman called um what's your why and basically uh the vice principals um the principal was uh was um was couldn't attend that day he was with the other principals at the meeting but just talking to the kids about why they're in an education why they're inspired to be there every day for the students and i spoke as well just about why we're here and and i just found it very um you know it was just gratifying to be able to share that with the students and hopefully maybe it inspired some of them to possibly go into education as well

024so again excited to be here and that's my report thank you all and i want to just say thank you to everyone not only to lee and drew and but but to every employee of san diego unified because believe it or not in all of my years i think this was the best opening i've ever seen um yeah and you know i have a few years but this what this was the best um no complaints and um you know i visited what maybe nine ten schools in the last couple of weeks and when i walk on campus i don't only want to talk to the principal but i want to talk to the security folks at the gate and they were just like the kids came in and they knew where they were going and

025they went to class and they're not hanging out and they're just focused and i'm walking out of crawford high school walking down the driveway to my car and classes teachers are teaching and students are i mean they're about business they're learning so i was definitely impressed with this year i think it was by far the best opening and i want to say congratulations to you and the staff for every one of you for all of your hard work this year and i think we have a quick video they tell me it's 30 seconds but this is the school that my husband told me that i think the guy went crazy with the touchdowns or football whatever so let's see it was football yeah so let's let's roll that is alive are engineers we are artists

026we are inventors communicators creators innovators we are champions we are the change makers the playmakers the movers and shakers the future leaders of our city and beyond we are lincoln high school they had the first game on on saturday night i did tape it and i did watch it and i'm most of it uh but he got a lot of touchdowns i think so this this was actually the first high school game televised on tv in san diego wow well we did well yay for san diego unified we did well okay thank you and congratulations to lincoln high school and all of the staff there especially the coaches and the students who did the work this time okay let us move on now to item e1 which is the approval of the english learner reclassification

027i'll move item e1 thank you and a second by dr mccrary thank you and with that thank you president dr whitehead's parent in consultation with our dlac our district english language advisory committee the office of language acquisition is requesting your approval this evening to approve the updated information this is in regards to the alternative reclassification process for duly identified english learners that includes our 2022-23 summative alternative alternate english language proficiency assessments of california what we call our lpac reclassification criteria so this was some modifications we we made again this is adding a few components like the fountain panel reading assessment as another option for students to meet the reclassification criteria number two additionally we are now using the fast reading risk band level in lieu of cut points as the cut points are variable throughout

028the school year while much of the content is the same as i mentioned the plan has been revised it is also updated with the alternate elpac assessment information and so we're asking for that approval this evening thank you thank you and we have no speakers so it's all the matter is all settled we just need to vote so with that if no board members have any comment we'll start over here with you hi and the rest of you push the buttons please and that passes unanimously with the students concurring with us thank you thank you for that item e2 is our report on the level up summer program morning program thank you uh dr whitehurst payne and uh we will be reporting out on our extended learning program so i'm going to invite jen roberson

029and nicole dewitt along with our ethnic studies resource teachers who will be presenting on our district's commitment to providing extended learning opportunities so this is a comprehensive view and we will get updates on our summer morning academic program as well as our summer enrichment program so please join me in welcoming staff i'll turn it over to you good evening my colleague nicole dewitt and i are here to present and provide an update on el cap 3 and focus in on our extended learning opportunities throughout the summer so on this slide you'll notice that there are six priorities that we focus on for extended learning purposes we have our summer morning academic program our acceleration and credit recovery our enrichment which happens throughout the academic year and to the summer our middle school athletics program the

030expansion of prime times which is our extended day programs for our elementary tk through 8 and then middles and then also we're going to be talking about our tutoring and peer counseling programs um it's important to note that these icons signal to us transitions throughout our presentation so we'll draw your attention to those icons as we progress next slide this slide reflects our morning academic program enrollment you'll notice that the blue bar graph denotes summer 2021 the teal bar bar graph denotes the enrollment for summer 2022 you'll notice that our overall enrollment for our morning academic program in our elementary middle and high increased by 638 students i want to draw your attention to the noticeable decline in our tier one priority students and recognize that this decline is actually attributed to our high schools

031implementing credit recovery this past spring which lowered our need for our students to participate in the summer by roughly around 1100 students san diego unified was fortunate to partner with the cesar chavez foundation to design our curriculum for the entire utk through eight summer program our learning was well-rounded it infused and strengthened literacy and numeracy as well as integrated social emotional learning for our students i want to lift up and share a quote from our fourth grade educator at sequoia elementary ms werner a fourth grade educator shared that her fourth grade students really internalized the idea of community she's seen she says that she has saw her students come out of their shell they were excited to share about themselves and they built a very safe space where they wanted to share who they were

032and as we progress in the next few slides i'm going to share about the progress of our students in the morning academic program in particular our elementary and middle schools so we know that students grow the most academically when they are personally connected to their curriculum and to their classroom community this past summer we focused on growth mindset and measured the growth of the students personally and socially with the use of our summer curriculum with the cesar chavez foundation the blue bar graph shows baseline data for growth mindset competencies for our students at the start of summer in grades three through five and students in grades six through eight as measured by a core sel survey four point scale and the teal bar graph shows the students growth mindset increased over the five-week program the

033next slide showcases our middle and elementary experience with regards to the curriculum was not only culturally responsive but embedded social emotional learning throughout each of the lessons and as you can see it led to student growth in our writing the blue bar graph shows baseline writing assessment data for students at the start of summer in grades one through five on a three-point scale and students in grades six through eight on a four-point scale the teal bar graph shows that students in grades one through five grew at an average of 0.67 points and students in grades six through eight grew at an average of 0.79 points during the five-week instructional program in keeping in line with our morning academic programs for our elementary and middle i'm excited to share that baker elementary in conjunction with our

034math department and math transformation hosted a math explorer camp for over 184 utk students that focused on develop developing mathematical curiosity and building positive math identities in addition to our student learning 24 of our own very own our very own educators also engaged in professional learning before and after the camp and i wanted to lift up one of the quotes by our educator one of our educators shared that the camp improved my teaching by providing me with the opportunity to show how engaging enriching activities can make learning joyful to students students can be motivated to explore and love mathematics by tapping into their curiosity and now i'm going to transition into our acceleration and credit recovery for our high school students our high school students participated in both acceleration and credit recovery this past summer

03519 summer 19 high school summer sites offered two three-week sessions where our students were able to recover up to four credits while it's commendable that thirteen thousand eleven of the fifteen thousand two hundred and three total marks grades issued counted towards graduation i want us all to pause and pay attention to the thousand ninety seven f marks issued and i want us to think and ask ourselves if we understand the root cause behind the f marks and then ask ourselves are we really preparing and putting our resources and holding ourselves accountable to what it's going to take to work to address the root causes behind both the d's and the f's as you see in addition to credit recovery we also provided acceleration opportunities for our students so i'm very happy to announce that over

036300 of our students participated in acceleration program through uc scout taking an approved ap course this past summer okay and this slide reflect reflects our graduation cohort data the light blue bar graph shows cohort graduation data for class of 2021 the darker blue graph shows preliminary cohort graduation data for class of 2022 our preliminary overall graduation rates slightly increased by 1.3 percent there was a 4.3 increase in graduation rates for students receiving special education services and a 2.7 increase for hispanic subgroup while there is subtle growth across subgroups the data reaffirms the importance of our high schools understanding the guiding principles for students schedules and working together on innovative practices to support the success of all of our students and now i would like at this time i would like to call up our colleagues

037and invite dr ricardo medina dr k flowering follow i'm sorry fluelling and brian patugo our ethnic studies resource teachers to share and highlight our ethnic studies summer experience check good evening board trustees superintendent jackson sdusd staff and community um thank you jen and nicole for including us in this presentation ethnic studies itself stories systems social movements and solidarity ethnic studies is transformative these are just some of the takeaways from participants of our of s-u-s-s-u-s-d-s-u oh my gosh sdusds inaugural ethnic studies summer experience that i'm so excited to share with y'all some highlights over 100 students expressed initial interest when the course opened registration in the spring 38 students from across the district from rising 9th graders to rising 11th graders participated and received first time and makeup credit towards the intro to ethnic studies course

038we held class in the centro cultura de la raza a historically and culturally significant community center in our community movements was our central theme for the summer we studied the movement of communities of color to and around san diego and social justice movements among african-american native american asian-american and latinx communities we experienced ethnic studies out in our local community at the museum of us san diego state university and chicano park and students engaged in a culminating community showcase that featured poetry student-written theatro and visual art inspired by their summer learning for an audience of sds families teachers district staff and our beloved community members to talk more about the students photos presented up in this slide i want to bring in dr ricky medina so in that slide you're able to see some of the

039pictures uh that we were able to capture right and one of them that's the most favorite that i have is the picture of the kumiya thule boat and pottery making workshop with dr stan rodriguez but some of those other pictures also bring they bring into light the pedagogy the pedagogy that we utilize that was about community building that we utilize that was about really bringing in courageous conversations and dialogue that was really about centering student voice so they can share and build on their knowledge so there's there's a lot of pictures and we put them together in a youtube link that i'm hoping all of you will get a chance to see if you have and in those pictures you know we are we are very proud to be able to say that our students

040had workshops with community elders like world renowned chicano park artist guillermo randa or auntie makeda from the world beat center our students were exposed to the arts and had an opportunity to do a spoken word workshop with gil sotu or a teatro a theater workshop with california endowment of the arts um award recipient and district employee macedonia artiaga our students had a chance to to discuss conceptual um concepts around race and power with professors like michael dominguez out of chicano studies at san diego state or associate professor jojo ruan in asian american studies and so but the pictures that you'll have a chance to see that we're the most proud of is our student showcase and our student showcase was where students some of them for the first time ever had a chance to stand

041up on a stage be able to to to speak right coming in this time of the pandemic to be able to speak to their family to be able to speak to the community their their peers and educators and be able to talk about identity poems and perform social movement actos and so here to speak a little bit about our student perspectives and the data that we collected related to student perspectives is dr k flewelling hi so these perspectives that i'm about to share from the students actually came from a collaboration that we did with corinne evans she's the chair of the student subcommittee in the ethnic studies advisory committee and she held several focus groups with students throughout the summer to actually capture these perspectives so they didn't tell them to us but we were

042pretty excited about what they had to say about it one student said this class is more than just about learning about history this class is about learning about yourself and the point of view of others the lessons taught here are ones that you can hold forever creativity community and critical consciousness are just some of the many insightful things that you will learn additionally ethnic studies teaches you the power of your voice you will be encouraged to speak your mind at every turn and they were as you can see in the photographs it was constantly just focusing on what they had to say in their perspective of this important history another student actually highlighted the significance of this work being held at the centro and they expressed that the centro is an excellent space for the

043cultural things we're exposed to it was a very lively place with feeling and energy in the central you're jumping into the space that's already filled with life and culture and you're becoming part of it and that was a really powerful experience for all of us it's something i'm still like living off of in this beginning of the school year and i once again want to thank jen for asking us to share about this powerful work so thank you guys big thank you and gratitude to our ethnic studies colleagues for making that possible for students this summer thank you so much for your hard work um at this time we're going to transition to talk about one of our other priority areas which is our enrichment programs so over the summer the offering of summer enrichment

044programs was really a village all of the departments that you see represented here worked in collaboration and coordination in partnership with the san diego foundation to make summer enrichment possible for our students so we wanted to take a moment to personally thank michelle jaramillo dr pamela gray payton susan guin and the whole san diego fashion foundation team for giving our students unique learning opportunities throughout the summer so on this side you'll see the number of individual students who participated in summer enrichment programs for summer 2021 and this past summer of 2022. this year we saw an increase in student enrollment by more than 9 000 students in our enrichment programs with our tier one students making up 60 of the overall enrollment we also increased the number of enrichment partners from 88 partners to 94

045and that does not even include all the amazing programs offered by our own ccte and vapa departments [Applause] okay so what you're going to see on this slide it represents the enrichment programs that we offered by area cluster and type this year we hosted over 13 types of enrichment programs ranging from steam sports and fitness outdoor education and day camps as you can see area 5 which includes san diego high lmc madison la jolla cust clusters had the highest number of enrichment activities at 309 with area 2 having the lowest at 47 and this is something to recognize as something that we are paying close attention to and making improvements as we continue to engage in this work all of our programs that you see in each of the areas and clusters were purposely connected

046to our morning academic programs so there was a seamless transition from the morning program to the afternoon programs while we offered over 20 er while we offered over 1200 program sessions this slide shines a light on types of programs that we that we need to dig a little deeper into and expand upon next summer and beyond for example we had one tutoring program in the mirror mesa cluster where students benefited from peer tutoring as board vice president sabrina obazo has lifted up and mentioned we really need to pay close attention to our design and implementation of peer tutoring programs and tutoring programs across the district so in the next slide i'm going to speak into our next steps for growing our tutoring and peer counseling programs so we are very fortunate to partner with mdrc

047to conduct a study of our tutoring programs that currently exist within san diego unified and help us develop a plan for moving forward they will help us and work alongside us in developing that plan to to bring to the board for approval um sorry uh it's also important to note that we partnered with hey tutor hey tutor is an organization that will be providing and working with us to provide over 378 in-person tutors to our elementary middle and high school students i also want to highlight that we are providing more support for mental health and the social emotional well-being of our students through our partnership with mending matters at eight of our high schools as you can see on the screen this past summer and continuing into the school year we implemented the life program

048life student advisors are trained by mental health professionals to identify and respond to the mental health needs of their school school communities in the form of peer counseling so with the assistance of mdrc in working with hey tutor and with mending matters we hope to address many of the academic and social emotional needs of our students and now i'm going to pass it off to nicole who will talk through more enrichment highlights thank you so much jen so in addition to our enrichment programming it was really important to us that we offered high quality customer service to our families in order to match families and students with the enrichment program of their choice so over the course of four months our extended learning department assisted over 4 500 families through a daily district call center

049i believe dr whitehurst payne and dr jackson went and visited and answered a few phone calls themselves during that time we also hosted some parent guardian meetings in partnership with our family engagement department making sure that translation services were available for our family so they could understand the information needed for enrollment and we coordinated accommodations for our students to be able to access any enrichment activity that they desired so we especially want to lift up and thank our paraprofessionals who provided over 1500 hours of support to students throughout the summer enrichment programs so now we're going to transition to another one of our priority areas which is getting kids outside and getting them excited and active and moving so for our middle school athletic program we're very excited that 27 of our 36 middle schools

050launched this past spring and over 1200 students participated in middle school athletics with 700 of those student athletes maintaining a 3.0 gpa or above so you can see here on this slide our plans for expansion and offering more programs and more opportunities for participation throughout the year already for this fall we have over 1800 students signed up to participate so as we close out our presentation tonight we just want to reaffirm our commitment to the future we will continue to support a robust morning academic program for the summer we also want to ensure that we offer more access to acceleration as well as credit recovery courses before after and during the school day we want to continue to grow our community partnerships across the city to support enrichment for our students we want to add

051more options for a variety of sports throughout the year for our middle school athletics program and as jen mentioned at the beginning we do plan to expand prime time to serve more schools and more students so there will be more opportunities for before and after school care for our families we also are really excited to implement our tutoring partnership with hey tutor as well as our peer counseling program with mending matters and so we wanted to take a moment to thank the board and the superintendent for all your support and commitment to our extended learning priorities i particularly wanted to say how excited we are to have toby pace join us as the new instructional support officer for extended learning but wanted to express my heartfelt gratitude and thanks for dr jennifer roberson a year

052and a half ago i approached her and asked her to take on this incredible task and opportunity and she's done an amazing job setting the foundation for what's become just something that's beyond my wildest imagination that we could have accomplished in such a short period of time so wanted to show my gratitude and appreciation thank you jen [Laughter] and i too want to say thank you because i know it was a lot of work and we've come a long ways this was just a vision wasn't it and now it's come to fruition and we just say thank you for that we don't have any speakers but trustees if you want to say anything yes just yeah jen and nicole i just again want to say thank you it's um this as dr reiter's pain said

053uh we had to build this program sort of build the plane while we were flying it uh you know from the from the beginning and uh you've done an amazing job and to see the growth in the program from uh last summer to this summer uh is really uh phenomenal it was also uh it's very good to see the before and after growth in the students who participated in the program around growth mindset around writing uh uh scores so you know it's just uh there's so much to build on and i know that the work that you'll be doing with the superintendent over this next year is now that we've had a couple of years under our belt now how do we institutionalize this in a way that takes the best of what we've done

054and what we've learned and now you know brings maybe a little bit more accountability to it brings a little bit more clarity in our role as a district uh with with the partners that that we work with so i know that that's a lot of work that you've already begun um you know that is going to make the program even stronger and i just want to also uh you know especially thank you for the implementation now the peer counseling program it's something that we've talked about you know for a couple of years and to and to see this now uh with the relationship with mending matters coming to place at these initial high schools um we're going to look forward you know to a report at the right point um you know about about how

055that program is going and look forward to hearing from some of the peer counselors who've been trained and are working with their with their fellow students so again thank you for the for the effort and i appreciate nicole's slide of all of the different uh departments uh within the district that had to come together to to make this work yeah thank you yes that's very good thank you christine thank you president uh sharon whitehurst payne i want to say thank you to you and everybody on the staff that was involved this has been just a dream come true for a lot of us on the board and thank you very very much i mean you know to hear that there are 1100 students that didn't need to go to summer school because they passed their

056classes during the school year through credit recovery or after school tutoring or whatever kinds of support systems that were put in place to help them succeed that is a fantastic model and that's a great great initiative on the part of you and the district the other thing that i really would like to applaud is something that we on the board have heard since the beginning of prime time is the wait lists you know if if we have 120 children that need before and after school prime time support because it's what their family needs then how do we figure out how to accommodate all of those families to bring more children in to prime time where we know that there's an academic component after school so then those children are getting academic support as well you

057know the the middle school athletic programs and the grade requirements to participate in those really helps children get ready for the high school gpa requirements to participate in cif because a lot of uh athletes get into the high school they want to play sports and then all of a sudden they get hit with this club over their head oh you didn't make grades you're off the team well they can start learning that in middle school and to figure out how do they create academic systems and schedules and routines and where do they get the support i believe i just received an email today that governor gavin newsom has today announced that every student in the state of california will now have free 24 hour a day seven days a week free tutoring and all that

058any student at any school in the state of california needs to do is just log on to their local public library to create an account and then they have access to a free tutor 24 7. that this is a game changer folks for those students that are struggling and they don't maybe have the courage to go and ask a teacher or ask a friend they're embarrassed and so this is really really important that students have access to get help in different ways and that's really really important when i look at the middle school you had reported that we have 27 middle schools participating in this athletic program that is phenomenal and that is a lot of work to get all those systems up get coaches get figure out who's the but then there's the one

059question and i'm so sorry to ask the question uh but that's 27 out of 36 so who are those uh nine schools that are not participating where are they located is it predominantly all over the school district is it predominantly in one neighborhood or and what are we doing to try is it because those middle schools are really really small and they don't have the student enrollment numbers to make that program happen so could you speak a little bit to um you know those nine schools that are not participating in middle school athletics and are is there some ideas to try to get them on board that's a great question it's one thing that we're continuing to discuss with lonnie jones who's our athletic coordinator for middle schools i can highlight one example of a

060school so in our high schools we have a multi-campus agreement which allows an atypical school like scpa to try out and participate in their neighborhood athletic program we do not have that multi-campus agreement for our middle schools so scpa for example sorry principal farson did not have enough students to field a team therefore their students could not participate in their middle school neighborhood school so we are exploring options to build upon those programs the additional schools that you see were either they did not have enough students uh sign up to participate um and or they are our atypical smaller schools that we need to really dig deeper into and either transport students to a neighboring school but we are working through that currently great thank you so much and then my last comments are just

061thank you so much to ethnic studies i can't tell you how much i appreciate what you're doing to help our children to grow up to value all cultures and to value all diverse people that make up our community we are the united states of america look at our olympic team it looks like the world and it's through that diversity that we do have more strength in my opinion so i really appreciate the work that you're doing and other educators to help children grow up non not being judgmental of others not generalizing and stereotyping you know because stereotypes are really unfortunate especially the stereotype of a white old male person you know i'm probably uh an extremely uh uh you know anti antitypical of i'm the opposite of the stereotypical white male so you know all

062stereotypes are bad thank you for that lesson sir well it's incredibly relevant given the current situation we have experienced with an educator that accused all white males of being fascists thank you sir yeah thank you dr whitehurst pain and i also wanted to thank you guys i'm so excited listening to uh the information you've provided and also with the ethnic studies program it just makes me feel um excited for what's to come and i also i was going to point out the difference with the areas because of course you know three of those schools are in my area um that yeah so i'm glad you're working on trying to make sure it's a little bit more equitable in terms of the enrichment programs i'm sure the ones that we that are there are fantastic but

063for some of the areas that don't have as many um trying to increase that i think it would be great um i also wanted to mention that i did attend the elementary school downtown it's the i'm blanking down the name but it has a very high uh homeless population and i attended with the vapa board of directors and there's quite a few vapa foundation programs going on there and the the it's just it's one thing for you to describe it but to actually be there i mean i just encourage all the board members to to try to go out to see some of the um vapa programs and event well i know you guys do but this particular school had a whole for the whole summer program they had dance programs going on they were

064painting murals on the school there was um like a tap dance class the whole campus was just alive so that was really exciting to be able to see that all happening um and then also i i can't of course i know you guys are tired of me talking about tutoring program but i did want to um give a shout out to toby pace who was the principal at hagen has now been been promoted because she and i worked this summer with students at mira mesa high school to bring students over to haige to help out particularly with the younger students at at school and also she had a lot of utk kids she was concerned that they you know she wanted a little more supervision so initially we thought oh maybe we'll get like 20

065kids from the high school we ended up getting like 60 or 70 kids that came over just you know of their own free will they didn't have to be there and some of them told us because i brought dr jackson out with me to to to see the program the kids were crawling all over him [Laughter] but they were saying oh i only had to do i did this for a week because i thought i just needed community service but so a lot of them ended up staying because it wasn't just the kids the the elementary school kids that were getting the benefit of it the high school kids were really enjoying it as well and so now i'm very happy to say that we're extending that program into the school year as well so

066they can continue to be going over and hopefully we can like we were talking about um bring that to other elementary schools as well so i was just really pleased that i was just thinking more oh this is help benefiting elementary students but the high school students were getting a lot out of it as well so that was really nice to see so thank you thank you yes thank you i just like to say thank you so much for all this great work that you're doing i'm sure that um a lot of us in the crowd and on the diocese are almost a little jealous wishing we can go back to middle and elementary school and have these programs available to us so thank you so much worst thank you so much for all the

067great work you're doing that's just my little thing with middle ears yes i definitely agree with trustee couturiano and once again i just want to say thank you so much jen and nicole for bringing and highlighting the incredible work of the ethnic studies program i had an amazing opportunity to attend the showcase and it was incredible a part that was very impactful to me personally was the i am statements at the kind of closing ceremony at um at the showcase in which students lined up one by one reaffirming their self their stories their culture community and their passions and just witnessing their confidence is something that i'm very excited to see in the classroom so thank you thank you and my comments no offense to middle school students i am your strongest advocate for athletics

068program right yes always said that that's where i started out uh but i don't have a desire to go back um i um i did visit the showcase at lmc and that was an awesome experience thank you all for all your hard work this summer with that program we wish we could expand it so most students could participate in it and i know you're a few but i like everybody to participate in something like that it's really an awesome experience i i think trustee bazo for bringing this up and you know that's on my list i made a note yes you know my list i've got arrows going and whatever and you know that i want details i want more details on that as far as programs are concerned and then for the cohort graduation

069rates i'd also just sidebar like to know what was going on with certain groups that were rare that did not improve at all in terms of acceleration and credit recovery i mean what was happening with those particular groups and why the data look like that so i just want to say thank you again and um it was an awesome summer i i hope we can enhance that and go further in the future i hope it's not a two-year thing where they gave us money in two years and we did it but we can continue with this because this is the right way to teach students this is we know what's best we know what works and we need to do that instead of just allowing others dictate do we do we have a general sense

070of our planning out how many years have we planned out for extended learning we have a four-year plan extending into 24 25. thank you you sure okay very good thank you so we're planning to continue and to enhance it and that's wonderful thank you all very good so parents you hear that prepare now if you want to go on vacation then the month of august is usually open until we start early school right yes thank you thank you thank you thank you team thank you and with that uh let us now move on to item f and i'd like an emotion for f1 through f7 so moved thank you trustee second and the second by toriyano thank you uh let's see f7 i do believe we have some speakers on that is that one yes

071i have to log in again i'm not going to log in it takes too long for me to log in so f7 we have some uh yes we do we have four speakers megan phelps sanjana can i should ask again julie okay eva amato and paige rosales and they're all virtual so are we queued up with these folks you did have one uh in person theo martian signed up thank you so the virtual folks let's line them up and then the in-person person can start while we're nudging the others only two we have two available okay come on honey you're here hello can you hear me yes am i good to be again okay um hi my name is theo martin i use heave pronouns i'm a senior at mount everest academy and i'm here

072to represent youth for climate to advocate for our climate strike resolution so from being the first to pass the oil resolution to prioritizing student voices through swear sdusd has long championed student advocacy passing this resolution annually reaffirms the support in order to fight the climate crisis we must be able to articulate the problem and the solution and also understand how to effectively advocate for change this requires climate literacy and civic education both of which these strikes would promote these strikes also give newer activists an opportunity to begin engaging with activism for the first time and brings more people into the movement thank you so much and thank you we have megan phelps is not present sinjana you're up next and ghouli fitzgerald okay maybe up to three minutes to speak where are you please unmute

073yourself and janet please unmute yourself in that case do we have eva amato and if either one of you can unload okay uh hello can you hear me yes awesome thank you thank you so much for letting us talk today um [Music] i would i'm here with san diego 350 and youth for climate in order to promote this bill we're super excited about this bill we this resolution to excuse students for school strikes is incredibly important because it would increase student participation and overall turnout of each event students would be more compelled to stay involved in future climate action and keep an open mind about climate justice if they felt welcome to the community which excusing absences for climate strikes would do we would really love for san diego unified to show support school climate

074strikes because it reaffirms faith and authority in students my age the use of today have had so much taken from them that we feel we become wary and feel unable to rely on current systems to meet our needs san diego unified is incredibly progressive and has already shown support for social justice issues so supporting climate action education seems to fall into the line of reasoning if these absences were excused district-wide it would show that same degree unified really listen to their students we are so excited to see the turnout of this meeting and thank you for letting us speak thank you we have sanjana okay um hello can you hear me yes we can thank you okay thank you um good evening everyone my name is sanja nagali fitzgerald i'm a sophomore at san diego

075high school and i'm speaking today in support of the resolution moving to excuse absences in honor of student climate strikes this resolution is one that is of incredible importance as it is intertwined with the rights of us students as well as the grave issue that it is tied to in its relevance the climate crisis that us youth are tasked with bearing the brunt of as we move into the future the san diego unified school district student body the individuals that this board serves are youth like me that are living through the effort ever lessening time that we have before this planet reaches its point of no return we are struggling with this burden every day bearing the knowledge that if things don't turn around now the effects of climate change will be irreversible our futures

076will be sacrificed unless it is only right that our voices be raised to the ears of those in power this board must support the struggle that our students willingly set out on as it is of the most importance that this board supports our futures our rights and our voices in relation to this incredibly pressing global issue that will inevitably be thrown to face us in the very near future thank you so much thank you and the other two are not present and didn't show up okay thank you do we have any comments from board members otherwise we'll go with the vote yes oh okay over here in regards to f7 i just want to say whether it be you know preparing an essay or video on the experiences of global climate walkout or documenting planning

077time the active support and encouragement of professional educators truly equips students with the confidence and competence to effectively advocate for climate action and whereas climate change can impact the education sector quite directly through effects related to the damage of education infrastructure to the physiological stress resulting from exposure to extreme weather events it is more important than ever that education education systems like ours respond to the climate crisis which is why i'm honored to co-sponsor item f7 along trustee barrera thank you and why don't you give us your vote now i thank you hi thank you and the rest of you press your buttons and that pass is unanimous michael is dr macquarie is out and we have the students concurring with us so thank you all for that it's very good thank you for that

078we all need to wake up and listen uh item g let's go on to g i'll move item g1 okay i'm second on that okay thank you no staff presentation and we do not have any public speakers on that so any questions from the board members if not let's vote and let's see we do have the students this time nepal monsignor hi and hi thank you the rest of you please vote that passes for dr mike's not here and the two student board members will concur thank you let's move on to item g2 which is an information and an action item i'll move item g2 thank you second on that thank you pereira and with that we have any public no public speakers here on this one either so you go forward no thank you

079president dr whitehorse payne this evening i have the privilege of welcoming sarah vilma and terry mckerney we'll be speaking on behalf of the career technical education advisory committee and sharing the annual update to the board and i will turn it over to sarah delma thank you thank you superintendent jackson and board of education we're very pleased to have terry mckerney here today our chairperson for our cte advisory committee and our stakeholder input group our group cta advisory committee validates our needs and strategies as part of our comprehensive local needs assessment that we do every two years and revisit annually so this presentation will share data and information regarding highlights from the 2021-22 school year and then focusing on goals for 20 um to the current school year 22-23 uh and terry i'll turn it over

080to you well thank you and well thank you and i appreciate the chance to speak with you members of the board uh sarah said i'm terry mckearney for several years i've chaired the seatac i'm not a parent i'm a businessman and the reason that i'm involved in this is because as a businessman as a member of the community i'm interested in the quality of education that we provide students particularly with the goals that we have under the ccte construct here which is to prepare students as they exit san diego unified be either career or college ready and i've become convinced over the years that the ccte program is is absolutely key to that we'll present some data that kind of kind of backs that up first slide here uh just just basically overview and our

081ctte programs in in the district cover 15 of the 17 uh excuse me 12 of the 15 used to be 15 and 70. 12 of the 15 areas for ccte that are recognized by the state an important thing i want to note here is we've talked several years about articulation that is the giving of college credit through the community college system with our with our students and as you see we've made tremendous gains with this over the last couple of years and this has not been easy because it's been required to bring together both this district and the community college district and frankly to get past some of the educators at the community college level and make them realize that the quality of education that we're providing should be such that they can grant college

082credit for the for the students here next please just just a quick overview a couple of quick slides just to give you an idea of the scope of programs that are offered at uh at our high schools so this slide is uh the first of the high schools next please is the second high schools then the final slide here we've talked for years about pushing our ccde programs down to the middle school level and you can see the progress that's been made in that these are the middle schools and the ccte programs that they offer as uh as sarah talked about we we are in the midst this year of doing our uh our comprehensive local needs assessment that's associated with our perkins grant you can see what perkins 5 gives to us in terms

083of money here but the requirement for that is is that we do this self-assessment so next please so we look at these f these uh these five areas in doing this local needs assessment and the ctac actually sits down and goes through a very extensive process of reviewing what our ccte staff has provided us as the goals for this assessment moving forward we'll talk about a couple of these areas in the future those are the areas that we look at as i pointed out earlier one of the things that we are most interested in is is having articulated college level courses as you can see we have 35 courses and 15 pathways and that has over 8 000 students and 56 percent of our pathways do have articulated courses in them and that's a that's

084an important thing to to realize this is an effort that takes our educators students it also requires a very data-driven approach and we'll talk a little bit about these but the other thing that it requires particularly in the ccte staff curriculum is involvement of other of our stakeholders and it also involves a good deal of career counseling and assistance for the students and i think one of the things that's most impressive to me is the level of help we give our ccte students within their ccte programs next place this is just quickly to show you the kind of data that we look at i'm not going to get into the data that's on this chart because it refers to the way some of our students are doing in terms of meeting the requirements for college

085articulation credit but again i want you to understand how we subdivide and how we study at that level the the sort of progress our students are making next please the good news here 26 of our graduating high school kids in san diego unified have completed a pathway and a pathway is our gold standard for completion of ccte ccte programs go to the next slide please we'll dig a little bit deeper and you can see here what we what has happened first over the years but to take a little bit deeper dive you can see that about 80 90 percent of our high school students in san diego unified will take one ccte course then you drop down and you'll see that between 40 and 50 over the years take three ccte courses in their high

086school that's that's a pretty good chunk of of learning that's being distributed by our ccte programs to our high school kids unfortunately and i say unfortunately because this is my view again that number we looked at 26 percent which represents a growth of over 50 percent over the last five years in the term in terms of completion of the uh of the pathways that's where we're kind of at now it would be great if we could take those forty to fifty percent of kids who do three pathway or three courses and have them complete the pathway at the same time but there's a lot of there's a lot of reasons why we can't get every kid through a pathway it has to do with scheduling has to do with availability of courses and so forth

087so we're probably doing okay at the level we're at now but it would be great to see those kids complete more pathways and learn that we're trying to find ways to acknowledge the uh the pathway completion so this year we gave them certificates i've talked to ms bielem would be nice if we could give them something a little bit more solid that would be a little more recognition for those again 26 percent of kids in the pathway as far as our our kids go to complete the pathways as you you can see they have a very high rate of graduation higher than than most of the uh the rest of our student body next please take a little bit quicker a little bit deeper look at that you can see over the last couple of

088years the high level of graduation rates and what's important about this chart is it reflects at that higher level of graduation for our pathway completers goes across the demographics of our students and that's really that to me is is particularly exciting including our english learners and our our special education kids our ccte completers do better in terms of the smarter balance and this this reflects their english learning arts they're above the district in that and if we go to the next slide they're they're very competitive with the math as well in terms of being meeting or exceeding expectations next one of the things that we do uh do best at this in the ccte programs is have the students work together and the morale of the students in a ccte program is just extraordinary and

089i could tell stories about that but the the long and short of it is these kids are proud to be in these programs and they help each other so one of the things we were able to do we talked about tutoring earlier well we got some money and the kids are doing self-tutoring here within the ccte program that they're in just to keep themselves moving forward next week there's a lot of things that go into ccte programs but one of the most important things that we're doing now is working on this career development aspect for the uh for the kids and it involves several things some of them are programs such as adopt a school as you can see there in the think of it lab and so forth the other thing we're going to

090talk about if we go on please uh we well we'll come back and we'll talk a little bit about some of the some of the resources that we provide the kids uh in their in their own career development but let's go back and talk about what we did with our our learning assessment here and this was again the cctes the sea tax primary function this year was taking a look at the the areas that we needed to to to look at again reflecting back to the perkins grant so far and we looked at looked at all four five of those areas but i'm going to show you here just a deep dive into what we did when we looked at each at two of these areas the first being the student performance and you can

091see the level of detail we went down into the staff prepared these recommendations for the strategic advancement and strategic goals of the of the program moving forward and what we did as a seatac is went through these and made comments and made recommendations so for example one of the things we discussed at length was the relationship between the ccte programs and the vapa programs we'd like to see that those two merged a little bit closer and again that's part of what the seatac does we go to the next one the other one we we're gonna we took well we looked at all five but again another one we show you here is where we looked at the program size and scope and again you can take a look at the the sort of goals that

092the ccte department and the ctac have examined and validated for the program as we move forward this year so let's let's go back and take a look at some of these initiatives that the ccte effort does to support their students so among those things are things like self-exploration and really what we'd call career counseling for the kids and giving the kids the tools that they need to take a look at their own place in life and how they can move forward within this larger context of a career and then that's that's kind of important to us so we move to the next one and you can easily see some of the tools that uh that we're using this zello is kind of an interesting tool and what's different about the use of zello and the

093ccte program i feel is any student in san diego unified can access zello and use it to help plan his or her curriculum and or path forward but what we do in the ccte department is we have counselors and we have people dedicated to working with the kids and helping them fill out that zello form and use that tool to map their way forward go to the next one please that includes work based learning which is a key and very important in our ccte programs and again that's where people like me from the outside come in we need to provide from industry locally these these work based learning initiatives whether they be classroom visits whether they be visits to the shop floor whether they be internships so if we move on please so some of

094the work based learning things that we have done this year and you can see them as we kind of go across and you can see the number of partnerships we have when we look at the next slide you can even see that we've we've had scholarships as well as our internship so that's the involvement of the community of industries that want our kids to be educated to come and be able to work for them through these pathways next please the innovation showcase is is really the the kind of the uh the uh the capstone and the best advertisement for our ccte program so i'm gonna go ahead and just let the video we've got speak for itself here this is a cool video here there we go oh there we go this is one of

095those that worked at the rehearsal [Music] last week thursday the ccte innovation showcase was held at the town and country hotel in mission valley this is where the marston's 6th and 8th grade pbl projects finally got to show off their stuff after many long months of work let's have a look [Music] on wednesday may 25th the san diego department of career college and technical education sponsored their annual ccte innovation showcase held in ballroom a at the lovely town and country hotel in mission valley the showcase featured the work from over 40 high schools and middle schools from around the district [Music] marston was well represented by miss hall and her engineering robotics team the 6th and eighth grade pbl teams led by musashimoto and miss thomas finally got a chance to show off their hard

096work from the last few months all marston teams received high marks and many compliments the innovation showcase is an opportunity for the san diego ccte to display the many and varied project-based learning programs they sponsor throughout the district it's also an opportunity for students to take their learning to a new level by sharing what they've created and learned with the community [Music] ccte offers programs of study in a variety of disciplines technology finance hospitality and culinary engineering construction health wellness and more students moving to high school should look for a ccte class or pathway in a field that interests them [Music] maybe we'll see you at an innovation showcase in the future [Music] so the the only points i'd make is one the food is really good and they're prepared by the cullen the culinary

097schools all just come out from the dog secondly the you may have noticed that those kids were being graded on their projects so this was a competition as well and finally i'd point out this was done by marston uh their media program and their middle school so you see that uh so that they're dancing okay we had our we had our summer enrichment uh as well and uh you can see the things that we did which went all the way from just offering credit courses to enrichment courses to internships so that's what we did on our summer vacation uh next uh taking a look at our focus areas and working sort of from left to right you see where we're talking about having our standards and academic achievement again integrated pathways and an advancement to

098to college articulation again the second item though would be that self-exploration that resource provided to the individual ccte students so they're not only getting the academic training they're getting that motivation and what they need to move forward from a career sort of perspective work-based learning opportunities again very important to us and finally our focus at the seatac is also on what are the uh what are the industry certifications that we need and the ability to offer certifications to kids in those programs that you see there is really key to us in the cctv program i point out that we now have a regional collaborative goes across a couple of counties it's well funded and you can see the people that are involved in those discussions so again the the involvement of a wider community both

099business and uh academic at the college level in what our ccte courses should be offering uh finally uh we gotta got to give a shout out to the the people who make it work a couple of years ago when i talked to you i pointed out that the ccte staff had fallen to a really low level we're back up to where we really need to be now we have counselors as part of that and people that are assigned to work with the community colleges and articulation and and can't say enough about these these folks in the uh the work they do it's a it's a truly collaborative environment and i enjoy being associated with it and with that mrs bielma will be glad to answer your questions thank you that was a wonderful presentation and

100and i love hearing about your middle school i couldn't believe they did that video clip though right they're ready for professional work aren't they this is a situation where it helps to get them early and you know you realize that you know those kids may not wind up being newscasters or whatever but they're focused and they have to work together to do that project and they're learning how to work as they as they go very good thank you we do not have a speaker but we have several trustees who'd like to speak yeah just thank you dr what is prince terry as usual thank you for everything that you've done for this program for so many years and your reports to the board are always very clear and and allow us to focus on you

101know some of the key areas that we can get better at and tonight it seems like our focus should be about increasing that percentage of students that take the full pathway so i was wondering if you know sarah if you could give us a few thoughts about what are the most important strategies that we can move forward with to get that number up yes thanks thank you uh trustee barrera so uh yes definitely that is one of our key focus areas is how to increase our pathway completion rate so one of the things that we've been focusing on over the last several years is awareness and being able to have clear documentation and marketing materials and and information that can be shared with parents and and students and have our counselors be able to communicate

102and understand what a pathway is and why it's beneficial so those programs of study documents are now created and are on our website that can be accessed for every school and every industry sector so students can use them to plan out earlier their four-year plan six-year plan and now being able to incorporate and add that into the zello platform so that is coming this year where now they'll be able to select a pathway specialization within zello and see the courses as they build out a four-year plan so we feel that that information and that and not that you know access to that information early on will help students understand and be able to plan out the pathway and then understand completion the other thing that terry showed in the presentation is that recognition for pathway

103completion so um and really looking we piloted that with morse high school and they gave out to every one of their pathway completers at their senior awards night recognition and certificate certification for completion of the pathway so we want to expand that and grow that it seems like we would like to get to the point i can imagine this not an easy thing to do but where especially when counselors are working with students as they're planning you know their their their high school careers that completion of a pathway is almost the default you know that um that we're going to assume that we're going to um yeah and and really build it and we built it yeah exactly so i i'll say before uh for sarah got here we we had this i think we

104had an issue with counselors uh and using ccte courses is just another place to put kids and i'll tell you the store ad once uh visiting morris automotive program which is just a terrific program and so you ask the students well what do you think about your program these were the kids that were in the pathway and one of them a couple of them said well the only thing that bothers us is when they put kids in the kids in the program just to dump them here and then they then they bother the class and hurt the rest of us so i mean that's the kind of motivations but i think they've one we've got counselors now in the ccte department which works out but but there is an educational thing for yeah yeah and

105i should also mention that the zello platform um gives data back to counselors back to the school about student interest so we can now see when students take a matchmaker assessment what careers they match to which can then guide the conversations to completion of pathway and their future goals yeah and it seems like that allows us to push past you know to the extent that we still have preconceptions that ccte is you're either on a college track or you're on a cctv track and we know that that's not at all the case right uh and so you know for students and families who are thinking about well i want my kids to go to college yeah and you're better off having gone through a career pathway exactly for yourself for the college yeah and before

106we let uh vice president baso say something i want to say something about morses you brought that up it really was very disappointing it is disappointing to hear that because one year i think it was ford that used them as a stealth uh company they came here they used they actually used moore's high school as the lab to um i mean was it poor company i state farm or ford i believe they it was before i was here but i've heard about this amazing event that happened at morrison the on the auto body it's a terrific it's a terrific program and i gave them the car that i got wiped out on on i5 they repaired it for you didn't it but this was they they had a um what do you call them when

107they are modeling the cars and design they were doing a test run on them and they didn't want other their competition to know where they were so uh morse's lab was so good they used moore's high school that summer to uh to actually design them and the whole thing was going on it's ongoing our students had that level that level of quality to they could walk it out and get jobs i mean if they walk out of that program and some of the other autumn programs with the with the patches on their sleeves and walk right down the street and can work for mossy or yes absolutely but what got me is how motivated those kids work that's the important thing facility is great but what about the motivation of kids and since you mentioned

108it we do have a new uh instructor in that in that pathway and we're really looking forward to exciting things coming out world world renowned uh instructor in auto body paint and refinishing so a lot of good things to come and uh yeah thank you i just wanted to add to um thank you for all your hard work this is an amazing program um we saw marston up there which is in the claremont cluster i know that the principal there works very closely with ethan williams at claremont high they have a very good partnership when it comes to the pathways it's wonderful to see that connection from the middle school going into the high school he's had me over a couple times there was a they do a whole entire internship program at claremont that

109i've talked to dr jackson about that we need to expand to other schools it's amazing students in their senior year can intern at like local companies and i was invited the bos institute which was mentioned on their um for it's a research lab the students go there and they share their findings one of the girls had taken saliva from her dog's mouth and had like researched all the everything that was in the saliva i mean it was like very interesting and then another kid went to mission bay and researched what was in the water which was a little scary to see uh what was in the water mission but uh and the kids got to talk afterwards with the research scientists and some of them said well i initially wasn't really that interested i thought

110in science but now it really encouraged them to explore that more in college um so it was really cool again to see that in action and i think especially in the claremont cluster they've done a great job and i'd love to see that more expand especially that internship program they're doing and uh dr jackson did you want to say something i i just want to say that i i just think you're right the default needs to be that you complete something um in the old days you had to do one or the other but you can do it all we want our students to be well-rounded especially now with the cost of college and universities i mean it's absurd even you have to take some some college if you're going to be a fireman or

111if you're going into construction and so forth so we just need to just encourage our children let's go to college and and get something that we can use or something in high school the program is there for us to come out and not just hang around and say i'm going to work at mcdonald's but i'm actually looking for a career something i can do down the road so thank you all for coming and bringing that to us thank you sarah thank you tara thank you thank you so much and you need to vote on this we need to vote on this yes and yes we need to start with our students left right here i i orianna yes and let's press our buttons so that passes unanimously for those of us here with the students

112concurring and with uh thank you very much and with g3 no student vote here a motion on this please i'll move item g3 thank you all right and we don't have speakers as noted no student votes so let us just spend thank you and it passes 4-0 i'll move item h1 thank you a second on this okay and um let's see students can vote on this one no comments from anybody no speaker so let's go with monsignor aye and jano aye aye and the rest of us will vote electronically that passes 4-0 with students concurring with us and now i'll move item h2 public hearing action on the resolution for the issuance of negotiated sale of not of bonds and let me just say on this one it's kind of tricky i've been told we

113need two votes on this so i'm going to break it up we're going to do the first part before the and which is the adoption of resolution authorizing the issuance and negotiated sale of not to exceed from prop s prop z prop yy etc so we'll do that part and then we have to go back and do the second part of this after the n and get that one online too okay that's what staff has said so for the first one uh we have biz visor and i'll amend my motion to uh to move item h2 the adoption of resolution authorizing the issuance and negotiated sale and not to exceed 100 million dollars of prop s bonds not to exceed 150 million dollars of prop z bonds and not to exceed 350 million dollars of

114measure yy bonds on san diego unified school district okay thank you the rest of that and and you're okay with that yes thank you so let us vote and with that we need the student votes on this i believe so yes i and i i okay and the rest of you so that passes again unanimously with the students concurring and now for the second part now i'll move item h2 the adoption of resolution authorizing and directing the issuance of and sale of not to exceed 45 million dollars of general obligation refunding bonds and not to exceed 30 million dollars of forward delivery general obligation refunding bonds of san diego unified school district second on that thank you barrera and nipples okay thank you and the rest of you press the button okay that too passes

115unanimously for those of us here with the students concurring i'll move item i the superintendent's consent agenda and a second on that okay and uh we have a speaker on i14 in person d wall is it yes yes please three minutes thank you okay so i think this is um an item that dr jackson's just kind of gonna ratify so i wanted to speak um to dr jackson i guess i support this plan um to use the national conflict resolution center i looked at it on on the website um and i printed this up the code of civil discourse um so the code of civil discourse on the website is awesome and the program's budget of 1.4 million seemed a little bit high to me but it should be able to hopefully help a lot

116of students i do see a need for this program i wanted to share an example from this school year is last week at my middle school son's neighborhood high school an english teacher defined fascist in class using the words authoritarian which makes sense he also wrote on a white board and everything white christian trump heterosexual and republican voter i worry that since i fi that description uh my my son knows this i feel that he if he was in that class when he gets to high school he would feel persecuted and oppressed in the biased learning environment so i hope to sit down with the civil discourse mediator and teachers like that kind of to find out why they think that someone like me believes in fascism or supports fascism because of the way i

117vote or because of the way i was born or my religion or my family's identities so whatever you want to call it so i think that honest conversations with maybe a mediator seems like the best way to keep hate out of the teaching and to promote your goal of the inclusive environment where diverse perspectives and you know opinions are shared and considered so i hope that you will once it gets all through help share families how when they when they come across something like that um to get together and actually talk and i think if that teacher literally met me he would understand that i'm not a fascist because i support donald trump's politics and i'm i'm my christianity doesn't make me a bad person and i want to understand why he thinks that and

118help make it so that the environment where my son is and all the other kids don't feel uh scared or whatever you know i think you know what i'm saying okay thank you for coming thank you for sharing i refer that to you thank you for bringing that to us and with that no other speakers on that item uh we will vote and let's start first let's see we don't have anything that students can't vote on so they're able to yes let's do it hi thank you and the rest of us are voting electronically and that passes unanimously for those of us here with the students concurring and that takes us to the end of the agenda there we have some non-public uh testimony let's see five in-person speakers and they are harry dehasker pam

119nema student parent advocate and kurt stevenson and you have three minutes each hi i'm pam and i want to say i was glad to hear you mr bizer mention the dude who is accusing people of being fascist because the teacher at madison high school we all saw the white boards we saw his full his language of just that was discriminating accusing race-baiting and intimidating to minor children in the classroom these minor children are held captive to a teacher's thoughts bullying whatever and they have no recourse they can't object they can't run out of the classroom for fear of repercussions but one brave student took photos and reported the hate in this environment this individual created the principal hilgers has mentioned that this dude is a teacher from la mesa college ccap reportedly mesa college is

120looking into it i don't care about what mesa college is doing i want to know what this board will do to prevent this individual from ever setting foot on a campus in the district and approaching or speaking to any student in this district so i hope that you as a board will report back as to how this issue and this individual is addressed thank you we have harry tasker nima student parent advocate and kurt stevenson in that order good evening board thank you for seeing me good to see you again you know who i am right you have my name california teachers association has my name a couple weeks ago they just sent the wrong email to the wrong people they've been doing opposition research on parents like me right and i've been ignored by

121all of you this is my fourth time up here you know my issue right i have little children in elementary school they set up an elementary school lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer club and they refuse to notify me and the parents that i now represent just if they show up you've heard it all from me so let's get into it we've heard what happened with that other teacher now and like i've always said what we're seeing in the education system they want to hijack your kids and hide things from parents and we have a radical left wing indoctrination going on in our education system it should be just about science etc etc you know the deal so we did listen to dr jackson's uh 30-minute welcome to the new year speech and how inclusive he

122was and i appreciate that you know so i'd like to take your task and we at southern california parent advocates are officially submitting our request to fly a christian flag after we have been marginalized by your teacher we want a christian flag flown up on the district and we also want a blue lives matter flag so if you are so inclusive then this won't be a problem i'm not asking for a permanent thing like you have those flags just ask them maybe for a day and by the way we're not ante lgbtq we're not anti-club look look i'm not anti-lgbtq but what we're seeing is very unreasonable left-wing indoctrination so what are we going to do we pay their salaries to indoctrinate our children behind our back while we go to work and we have

123to wake up and we have to read about this we have to stand up and we have to support these groups these lawsuits in coronado by we the parents of coronado lawsuits in poway going on because of their masked tyranny by poway unified school district fight for the children support groups like sdusd parents united east county parent alliances santee for parents and we got to speak up and be that person on top of that hill because come november we're going to flip as many school boards as possible in this southern california region and take back our education system i don't want to browbeat you guys i want to be your friends i'm going to wrap up thank you i don't like talking to you guys like this i know you work hard you do stuff

124for the community thank you well you've ignored me you've ignored me thank you nima student and a parent advocate and kurt stevenson hi my name is thorbzade and i'm a junior at mira mesa high school and i'm here today to discuss the negative impacts of school laptops and tablets on students the mobile devices provided by the school cause two problems when it fuels a screen addiction into it it increases student stress and reduces student efficiency a poll conducted by a common sense media a non-profit that focuses on how to protect minors from the negative aspects of technology in media i've discovered that 50 percent of teens feel addicted to their mobile devices all 59 of parents feel that their kids are addicted to their devices as a team myself in high school i can tell

125you that those stats are not exaggerated and as someone who's recovering from screen addiction the school is signing work and communicating through the devices make it hard for me and many teens who are trying to stop and recover from screen addiction another problem mentioned earlier is it increases student stress i can think of many instances on how the devices can cause many stress-inducing situations an example of this is the constant awareness to need it to protect the devices from damage or theft going out in public like when i leave it in my car out in school watch out for it another common issue is the device randomly malfunctioning during a test or an assignment i can list dozens of scenarios on how the devices can ris can cause stress and reduce efficiency to sum it

126up the removal of the mobile devices in the schools will greatly help reduce screen addiction lower stress and increased efficiency thank you thank you uh and you are kurt stevenson thank you three minutes i appreciate you guys listening to me um again my name is kurt stevens and i'm with a company called safe haven defense and i'm here to talk about safety safe haven defense is a company that provides a laminate it's a proprietary laminate material that goes over glass doors and windows that make it resistant to bricks bats bombs hurricanes bullets and we have been in business for six years in other states we've recently opened a section here in southern california and i'm going around and introducing myself to the boards if they have any questions about what we do and and how

127we can help protect the students i'm happy to do a presentation at a later date i just wanted to come up introduce myself and talk a little bit about the the company to date we've done over 300 000 windows in schools we've done over 80 different schools in a variety of states and the most unique thing about our product is it protects from the outside in so if we put this laminate on your safe rooms or doors or windows an intruder outside cannot enter he can't fire a weapon into the building but if you have officers within the building they actually can fire out so it's it's proprietary it's unique and if anybody has any interest i'm happy to stay later and talk about it thank you very much thank you and a student and

128our parent advocate thank you um i have an instructional concern and i'm a student and parent advocate and i'm here to inquire about the recent publication about this article that talks about a san diego teacher defining a fascist to class as whites heterosexuals and christians and it states that on september 1st a teacher at quote madison high school in san diego claimed fascists are synonymous with the modern day republican party and white christian homosexuals according to a student in attendance this instructor wrote on the white board for the class quote the republican party is the fascist party and it does not fit the mold of a democratic party and quote it is it is currently constituted the publican republican party is now a fascist organization that no longer fits the category of a conventional democratic

129party as noted by photographs in the article that the student took during the class the teacher continued with his radical left-wing indoctrination and wrote the word fascist underlined it enlisted trump heterosexual white christian hatred of foreigners immigrants and minorities among others but according to the student what really stood out to him was when the instructor made the comparison quote of the republican party to the nazi party and that was really offensive to him he listed the republican party and the nazi party as similar and that's just ridiculous and i took offense to that so i took a picture of it unquote and also quote he just kind of put up that they're fascist and they support a fascist government and immediately he didn't even ask the class about it he just made the assumption right

130away that whites and christians automatically support a fascist government this happened in an english class at madison high school this is dangerous indoctrination not education what possible value is there in fanning the flames in an already overly divided environment kudos to the student for standing up for what they what they thought was right not so much for the principal fred hilgers who deflected responsibility stating he didn't know that's what was going to be discussed but it was his responsibility he should have known what was going on in his classroom on his campus and with his students this is total indoctrination of a left-wing political ideology and is totally unacceptable the principal and the instructor need to be reprimanded what are you board members what are you going to do to ensure our students are not

131subjected to this destructive indoctrination again i'll make reference to the settlement agreement i gave you a copy of people and lawyers in the settlement agreement are taking notice so you need to take this seriously thank you thank you we have uh two additional speakers james tillery and joanne fields uh please come in that order and this will be it because we'll be in our 21 minutes three minutes each hello hello hello i'm james tillery introduce myself and i would like to enlist the cooperation of about five of you board members to help in a civil matter pertaining to a former student at lincoln high school and his name is tariq harris and we'd like to you to come down as witnesses in the uh civil hearing pertaining to the case and so i'd like to

132give five of you members the subpoena document should i just come up and hand it to you or will someone thank you joanne field good evening superintendent school board members staff thank you for the opportunity to speak my name is joanne fields i'm the government and public relations director of the asian pacific islander initiative first i'll share my concern because i do appreciate all the school board members that i was able to contact and that was member biser dr mccrary dr whitehurst payne and richard barrera and i didn't have your phone number miss bazo otherwise i would have contacted you as well but i had a concern regarding the hiring process of a community relations manager within the communications department communications is an issue that was brought up during many times through throughout my experience

133working with san diego unified it was identified by superintendent cindy martin when she was superintendent that part of the 2020 vision was to address communications when we did the superintendent search again we brought up communications is a concern so when this community community relations position opened and people called me and asked if i was on a panel i said no then i started calling around myself are you on the panel no one's on the panel that should be on the panel as a community liaison to ask what are the community connections because what we experienced most recently during the search is that thousands of texts does not mean it's going to reach our community if even if it's in language if you provide translators if the outreach to ask for translation is not offered in

134the outreach that's like going to a restaurant saying i want pizza but you only see on the menu hamburgers you only see english and spanish offered you don't see the other languages that should be offered so i bring that up as a concern and i heard that the process and thank you enrique your chief of staff superintendent jackson updated me that there is a halt to that process and it will be revisited so i look forward to learn what how you're going to move forward with the hiring process but i want to end on a good note great note i'm so excited to hear our students advocating they're on the dais our mayor mesa student talking about you know the the screen like i'm addicted i just learned that because yeah we're so um hooked

135up with our our technology so i'm really excited with our our students and the programs that are working but the communications of telling the whole community this is happening will show more the great work of san diego unified so that's why again it's so important for communications to be offered for all people in all different formats and that we should be a part of the process just like when we were searching for a superintendent just like we're on a panel for our principals and vice principals thank you for your time thank you and with that this concludes the agenda's business of the board i want to thank everyone for participating in sharing your thoughts with us we will review them and we're here to serve our students better in the community thank you our next

136meeting will be october 11 2022. this concludes our meeting thank you you