San Juan Unified Board of Education Meeting - Feb. 28, 2023

001I call the meeting of the San Juan Unified Board of Education to order there are two closed session items on tonight's agenda student expulsion in one case Education Code section 48918f in Personnel matters Education Code section 44929.21 B non-re-election of probationary teachers we do not have any speaker cards on the closed session agenda items we will now move into closed session and will return to open session at 6 30 pm I called the meeting of the San Juan Unified Board of Education back to order the meeting is being audio and video recorded and the recording May capture sounds and images of those attending this meeting the recording will be posted on the district website board meetings are being held in person in the boardroom at the district office and the community is welcome to attend

002the meeting may also be viewed on the district's YouTube channel where it is being lived live streamed please stand for the presentation of Colors by the Del Campo High School Air Force Junior ROTC hello or Arch colors all right other guard oh raise and others please follow me of the United States of America Gary colors those others foreign good evening and welcome I'm zema creason board president to my left is Ms Pam Costa board vice president to her left is Mr Steve Miller board Clerk and to his left Mr benavi Ms polaviesquez Ms Tanya krevcheck and Mr Saul Hernandez board members to my right is superintendent Melissa bassadelli and to her right is board Administrative Assistant Stephanie Cunningham individuals who are attending the meeting in person and would like to offer a public comment we

003ask that you complete a speaker request card available at the staff table and you will be called out at the appropriate time during the agenda please note that board by law 9323 limits visitor comments to two minutes per speaker with no more than 30 minutes per single topic time will be extended for any speaker who uses an interpreter please note that public comments including your name become part of the public record we are now at item D approval of the minutes are there any corrections to the minutes seeing none is their emotion move by Ms Vasquez is there a second second second by Ms Costa all those in favor say aye aye opposed abstentions that was unanimous we are now at item E1 recognitions tonight we have two recognitions we will begin with Arts Education

004Month Ms Townsend Snyder good evening president creason members of the board of superintendent bassinelli and Ms Cunningham it's wonderful to be here tonight to celebrate the hard work of our Arts Educators this evening the superintendent is recommending that the board adopt resolution a420 recognizing the month of March as Arts Education Month with me tonight is program specialist Michael ditmer who will now share with you some exciting highlights from our Arts programs thank you first I'd like to also recognize and thank the Miraloma ban we have four members of the band that came to play for the beginning I think a random Supply thank you um president creason members of the board superintendent bastinelli and Ms Cunningham thank you for the opportunity to come before you this evening in acknowledgment and celebration of the Arts every

005year in March we honor the efforts and dedication of our Arts practitioners and celebrate the joy and excitement of the learning that our students experience through the Arts before I go any further I want to acknowledge our incredible teacher leaders that are the heart and soul of the department first Jennifer wolf Elementary K-8 visual art and she's here tonight Alice fellows are 712 Visual and media arts teacher and she's from Del Campbell High School and I don't believe she could make it uh Sarah Brown our Elementary music lead Sonia takanikos or secondary music lead and Denny's Schofield our secondary drama and theater lead we also have some of your many Arts Educators and leaders from our school district if you could all stand if you're in reaching for the Arts during this time of challenges

006and opportunities in education the Arts continue to be a critical source of EX experiential learning that keeps our students engaged in school supports our students social emotional and other trauma-based needs as well as being an effective means for an empowering voice and engaging in Dialogue on issues of social justice and educational Equity as always the San Juan remains committed to the belief that every child deserves a complete and competitive education which includes learning in and through the Arts we believe that Arts experiences are a key component in improving student learning wellness and life balance okay every year it is our commitment and goal to offer a robust sequential and comprehensive K-12 Arts education this includes the five Arts disciplines of visual art media music dance and theater I want to emphasize that we are one

007of the only districts in the region committed to Elementary Arts education taught by Art and music content Specialists these professionals strive to ensure that every student has the opportunity to participate in the Arts at the secondary level Arts teachers also create a variety of learning opportunities through Career Technical education programs and advanced placement accredited courses at all levels we offer Selections in the Arts through before and after school programs this year we are enjoying a Renaissance of bringing back key performance events to our communities such as this February we have the Wayne Reimers jazz festival and in March we have the San Juan sings choir Festival foreign there are opportunities to participate in the Arts in all forms and at all levels we continue to provide Arts experiences to our students in the district and

008have more than 25 000 students participating in our various programs it has been wonderful to watch students and teachers engaged in the Arts in our classrooms multi-purpose rooms Galleries and theaters I want to commend our incredible Educators in keeping our students safe as I participate in the Arts and in continuing to be creative and developing effective teaching techniques to support Arts learning during these unique times in education so far this year we've had the winter Arts showcase at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center the 39th Annual Wayne Reimers jazz festival and there have been many additional music concerts Art Gallery shows dance and drama theater Productions this spring we're looking forward to the three-night choir Extravaganza San Juan sings kids art at Fair Oaks Park and the theater Festival at American River College I'm also very

009proud to announce that we've begun the return of the parent volunteer art program at 13 Elementary and K-8 school sites the program has been reimagined and we are training community volunteers to present meaningful arts lessons as in the past this program brings vetted parents and community members into the classroom to work with the classroom teacher on a grade level standards-based appropriate art lesson we have a lead docent that works with volunteers to train them on using the online system and guides the volunteer through a meaningful art experience we expect that we will be able to grow this program to more elementary schools over time and with budget considerations I wanted to congratulate this very recent Miraloma student Nishka baliga for her painting longing last night's Blissful dream Nishka received the silver key award and a

010Scholastic art and writing competition for her painting we look forward to the rest of the 2022 at 23 school year and the opportunity for students parents and the community to come together in celebration of performances and presentations we hope that you will come out and support our wonderful Arts programs at the next school concert production or Gallery we also invite you to attend our many district events throughout the year and we will work with Miss Cunningham to ensure that you are aware of these events as they occur so at this time we're open to any questions you might have and thank you very much thank you so much any comments questions from the board Miss Ms krebchak thank you so much for the presentation I really enjoyed learning about what's going on in San Juan

011particularly the emphasis on elementary schools I know not all districts can afford to do that or have not put an emphasis on doing that so I am really happy to hear that and I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge my high school choir teacher Miss T who I see in the audience thank you so much for three years of amazing choir instruction um I definitely benefited from Arts programs and um I was just chatting with some other my sister was in drama my other sister was in choir we really enjoyed um the impact that art had in our life and as an immigrant and someone for whom English was a second language I really appreciate the opportunity that our program brings for all students we have many English Learners and it really is

012an equalizer so I appreciate that thank you and I am um interested to see what San Juan has in store for Prop 8 or excuse me 28 and the implications of that so I hope to hear a report or some instruction in the future of how we're going to implement even more programs thank you thank you I look forward to maybe seeing you at the choir Festival oh yeah Mr Amy so I for one um will not be in the choir but I I do want to recognize two things that I think it's it's appropriate to tonight's the uh the last night of the the covet emergency for the state and I think two things related to the Arts and unfortunately one of the first major impacts from covid was um me and a lot

013of other students we lost probably one of the most influential teachers in our lives um Russ Abraham who was the music teacher at Dewey and when he passed away Decades of students came together at Mercy San Juan in the parking lot spread out and they actually sang the school song and I think that speaks to the impact of Arts teachers um fast forward a few years it was actually the winter choir concert that was one of the first in-person events that brought us back together to as a community and I think I don't think I've ever experienced as much joy in a room as that might so I'm not an artist I won't be in the choir I promise you don't want me there um but I do appreciate the Arts and especially the inclusive

014nature um or even Mr Abraham had that impact on me and I was the kid that couldn't sing and he was the music teacher so thank you thank you Mr Hernandez thank you I just would like to um I too am grateful for the opportunity as a district to be able to offer programs such as Arts and Music in our district and to hear that we have 25 000 kids participating that's almost half of our total student body in a district as large as us that's just amazing so thank you we will keep it up and appreciate all that you do for our kids thank you thank you Mrs Costa first thank you for the amazing art music teachers that drama teachers that are in San Juan they really do make a difference in every

015child's life and I think art music drama all of the Performing Arts are critical for children's success in school and the thing I am most proud of is even in the toughest of financial times when we listed Cuts all the way around this room at no time did Sam Juan say we are going to cut the Arts from our program San Juan helped firm that our elementary students would have the ability to have Arts education and they're getting a quality education and I think it makes such a difference and I would also like to acknowledge Mr Abraham he was truly an amazing human being thank you very much thank you all right well thank you so much for the wonderful report um I was going to call on my colleague and our vice president Ms

016costix I love when she tells the story about because she's been in this in the district for 50 plus years now in various roles as a mom as a teacher as an administrator as a board member I mean she's pretty much done it all and um she tells the story about how you know we didn't cut the programs well we could have and art is important all the various types of art it's therapeutic putic it's a mental health um it promotes mental health mental wellness it's that whole child approach that we talk a whole lot about and I'm so proud we're in a district where we actually put our money where our mouth is so and thank you to all the teachers that bring it home my son and sophomore he he is the artiste

017I mean I'm really great with a glue gun and that's about as far as my talent jokes Mr Amy we could get you know we get crappy um together with a glue gun and um but yes I it has really helped my son in some challenging times so I think all of you for all that you do so one more read of applause so this is yeah this is an action item is there a motion to adopt resolution number a420 proclaiming the month of March as Arts education month so move move by Miss Costa is there a second seconded by Mr Miller uh all of those in favor say aye aye aye aye any opposed any abstentions that was unanimous something thank you again our next agenda item is for National School Social Work Week

018Dr Calvin good evening president creason members of the board superintendent bassinelli and Miss Cunningham school social workers are trained mental health professionals who can assist with mental health concerns positive behavioral support and academic and classroom support they consult with teachers parents and administrators as well as provide individual and group counseling at schools they are uniquely trained to integrate the school community and family context into interventions and resource referrals for all students across our system tonight the superintendent is recommending that the board adopt resolution number a421 for claiming the week of March 5th through March 11th as National School Social Work Week here to accept the resolution is support center social worker Erica Navarro and the director of multi-tiered system of supports Christine Moran foreign members of the board superintendent West Nelly and Miss Cunningham administrators

019teachers and staff here tonight students caregivers and families and community members in attendance as well it is an honor to be here for this resolution in acknowledgment of the upcoming National School social week social worker week my name is Erica Navarro I'm a practitioner in the student support center program and I also serve at the district lead School social worker in a newly created pilot position in its second year of existence in this District in this role I support a group of passionate and committed fellow School social workers some of whom are here tonight um our role is to remove barriers to learning and Empower students to be physically mentally and emotionally present and ready to learn in our San Juan classrooms every day School social work is a specialized area of practice within the

020broad field of this social work profession School social workers bring unique Knowledge and Skills to the school system and to the student services team School social workers provide a focused approach to support all students specifically in areas of mental health and social emotional learning and they are uniquely trained to integrate the school the community and the family context into school-based interventions home supports and community resource referrals School social workers provide services that increase the success opportunities for San Juan students and they positively impact student academic achievement furthering the reach of San Juan Unified School District's Mission which is that every student reaches their full potential our schools and Community continue to see an uptick on mental health and social emotional needs among our children and youth schools often are the first places where mental health

021issues are recognized and addressed through relational work school social workers are uniquely trained and put in a position to assist with mental health and behavioral concerns positive behavioral supports academic and classroom supports consultation with teachers with parents and administrators as well as provide Direct Services through individual and group counseling at our schools moreover School social workers are best suited to create and enhance programs that support and meet student needs and assist in promoting a school climate and culture that is conducive to student learning and to teaching Excellence therefore enhancing the district's ability to meet its academic Mission especially where home school and Community collaboration is the key to students achieving success of course a school social workers we know that we cannot impact positive change all by ourselves it does take a village and we

022are inspired by the many passionate and commitment uh passion and commitment excuse me of Education Champions all across our district in all different roles um in our school sites we'll like to acknowledge the unwavering support of our work by the student Support Services program director Christine Moran and student Support Services director Dominic Covello also from assistant superintendent for Educational Services Dr Deborah Calvin their support and advocacy of the role of school social workers in supporting student social emotional development and well-being emphasizes that these are a crucial part of every child's academic success and educational experience now that I have shared a little bit about the role of a school social worker and in highlighting this year's National School social worker theme We rise encouraging advocacy I humbly ask for your support of the professional and

023ethical needs of school social workers in our district such as continued lead support capacity building as well as the nurturing of existing and new Partnerships that create opportunities for future school school social workers through internships Recruitment and Retention of practitioners that are equipped and qualified to serve students with compassion and through valuable skills and practitioner competence as their core values again we'll like to express a huge thank you to the board and all of its members both new and existing for offering recognition to the contributions of school social workers in this District through this resolution on behalf of my colleagues thank you we are truly honored thank you so much any questions comments from the board Ms Vasquez is this thing on great it is thank you so much um for for being here to

024accept the recognition and I know you kind of waved back to some colleagues but can we have those who are your stand and and we acknowledge their social workers who are here thank you thank you for the important work that you do every day you did a great job of highlighting you know we've oftentimes focus on uh making sure that certain services are available um to meet the needs and there's a lot of Community Partners that provide services but you are the glue that ties those services to our students and more importantly really to uplift our entire families it's often not just the student but it's it's the families and the supports there too so thank you for being that glue and thank you for coming as well you know in that role you advocate

025for both the students and the families and you did so wonderfully this evening so I was glad to hear that I look forward to continuing to to support and hopefully grow the social work program here in San Juan but there is a shortage Statewide of social workers in every field and this is some of the work that I do professionally for my day job but whether it be in the school setting whether it be in the Child Welfare setting there are so many different Healthcare settings that we need more social workers and I was able to be a part of advocating for even just building more slots for people who want to go to school to become social workers there's not even enough slots to meet the interest there so we've got a long way

026to go but thank you for showing up every day for doing the hard work for our students and I'm glad we're able to acknowledge the work that you do tonight thanks yeah Mr Amy so thank you very much I so appreciate the work that social workers do and I think especially as we learn more about adverse childhood experiences and trauma-informed I mean in my day job we say trauma informed care about trauma-informed education um I think especially as we're coming out of covid we we have a lot of stuff that we're working through with kids and I think social workers are just are critical that and will continue to be critical to that as we help sort everything out so I'm I'm grateful I think social workers are just going to be Paramount to education

027um and I just appreciate what you do every day so thank you any other comments questions from the board I just want to thank you too so much I love social workers and the breadth of what you do I don't think everyone knows how much social workers do I had the opportunity to work pretty closely with the within ASW and I always mess up the acronyms I won't try but it's the Statewide Association for social workers and I learned a whole lot about the work you do and the heart I mean you see a lot of things a lot of things and you know your mental health is important too as you work to support the mental health of others um so thank you so much um I knew I had one other note oh

028the workforce shortage I just want to comment on that too and thank you to my colleague Ms Vasquez for calling that out because the load is even heavier for you when we don't have enough people to do the job this really heavy job that's so important to kids so again just thank you for all that you do every single day I wish we could celebrate you at least once a week um because we need you and our kids need you so one more round of applause and this is an action item is there a motion to adopt resolution number a421 proclaiming March 5th through 11th as National School Social Work Week moved by Ms viesca seconded second Mr Hernandez is uh all those in favor say aye aye opposed that was unanimous we are at

029item E2 high school student council reports tonight we will hear from student representatives from Casa Robo fundamental High School in Mira Loma High School welcome and let's begin with Kaylee Gibbs and Dylan Salcido from Casa good evening president good evening president creason members of the board superintendent bassinelli and Miss Cunningham I am Dylan saucedo student body president and varsity football captain at Castroville High School hi and I'm Kayla kiss rally commissioner and varsity basketball cats in the Castro Lake High School we appreciate the opportunity to represent Casa Roble in this meeting as we have some great things to share tonight last time we were here we told you about our homecoming events fall Sports the Boost in our Ram Pride each of our CTE programs and a vision statement that was still in the works

030since then there's been a ton of progress and I'm so glad to be able to share it with you all tonight first and foremost casserole student government has held five successful events and toy drive a canned food drive two spirit weeks and after this Friday three rallies as a collective we take value in making an impact on our peers and with the help of principal Miss Baker we've been able to do that through our newly established business statement our biggest event over this time was Harry was our Harry Potter themed cassava week which started off with spirit days such as quidditch day and morning at Hogwarts the rest of the week was magical with wins from both of our boys and girls basketball teams as it all came together at the Yule Ball cassava dance

031on Saturday night with 400 of our Rams in the gym after Gustavo both basketball programs finished their respective season strong and in the playoffs with with a 6-1 showing from the girls in a 7-0 finish plus a league title for the boys in other winter sports girls soccer plays third in the Geo also finishing their season in the playoffs wrestling won the Geo with both the boys while the girls finished second senior Casey Rankin qualified for the CIF state meet for the third year in a row and came out with two big wins to finish her amazing career at Castle aside from CIF Sports our students also love to play for fun and because of that battle of the classes may be the best events of the year every year this week we are holding

032the battle of the classes volleyball tournament on Friday night and at the end of April is our boc football event these events get kids included and excited to compete against their friends in other classes in order to win the cast of cup which is the main goal of all of our Rams at big events yesterday kicked off Miss creason's favorite spirit week of the year and maybe ever FFA week cash probably FFA is holding their Spirit Week leading up to our glow rally this Friday and we have hit it out of the park so far students will finish the week with Wildflower Wednesday and thank a farmer Thursday as well as some lunchtime activities including cattle roping hay bale races and of course their petting zoo on Friday Paso Robles High School is thrilled to

033start the new term as we honor the academic accomplishments from last semester before the February break our Ram family congratulated 268 students with Renaissance Awards in addition over 600 students earned the honor roll last term we look forward to the coming new term and the additional academic success of our community Casa Roble is very excited to announce a new club the AP ambassadors Club designed to inspire students to explore the world of advanced placement courses these ambassadors visited several class several underclassmen and delivered presentations unveiling the world of AP we look forward to more members of our compute of our community embarking on these offered rigorous courses at our school we as a school Community are persistently working more and trying to find more ways to make our vision statement a reality today our amazing

034principal Miss Baker hosted a listening Circle to support this cause ultimately the goal of this engagement was to allow our staff to gather a deeper understanding of what the vision statement means to students Casa Roble firmly believes in the power of student voice while building an environment that embodies our vision statement and inclusive community where all students are prepared for the opportunities of Life After High School in regards to Casa Robles Junior ROTC program we are happy to report the program's amazing opportunity to travel to Hawaii 23 students embarked on this trip some of their schedule included touring Pearl Harbor and USS Missouri as well as spending the night on the surrender deck and raising the flag in the morning the Air Force Junior RTC definitely loved this once in a lifetime military experience and

035the real world connection made through this opportunity thank you all again for the opportunity to represent Casa Roble tonight and we look forward to what's to come not only for Casa Roble but the San Juan school districts take good care of yourself be kind to each other and go Rams okay any comments or questions for the board means yes thank you both very much for the report and I want to acknowledge both both of you for the Fantastic report but also your cheering section in the back thank you for coming out to support each other it's really fantastic to see and thank you for being very vocal in your support I hope you all feel as supportive as you clearly are here in this room there was a lot in your report that I was

036really excited about so I'm going to focus in on um probably the the thing that caught my ear the most is the AP Ambassador Club because that's new and um we actually spend a lot of time discussing how do we engage more students and make it the participation in um in classes such as AP classes more representative of the entire student body and the fact is we could do all the work we wanted to and we could talk about it until the sun rose but it actually has not at all the same impact as students going to students to talk about it so I just wanted to acknowledge knowledge that and point that out and maybe that's something that can be replicated because I think that's pretty cool and you are all Messengers that can

037deliver um that message in a way that we just can't no matter how much we try so that was pretty cool I also might try to follow up on the Friday petting zoo situation because that sounds like a lot of fun um and thank you both for the wonderful presentation Mr Miller yeah great presentation uh Dylan and Kaylee um congratulations seem to be in order for all your athletic teams very good and I really appreciate the fact that you're out there also doing service to the community with your food and toy drives and such in Hawaii for the ROTC yeah it sounds like you guys are having too much fun out there keep it up yes sir well I was very excited to hear about all of that my son Caleb does cast alive and

038he tells me nothing about what's going on at the school so thanks so much now I feel very informed and I am really happy to see your classmates and supporters as well I think that's so awesome to have such great support from from your peers that's fantastic that helps your high school career a lot but I do want to report that the AP ambassadors are working because he signed up for two classes for next year so keep it up and go Rams yes foreign you know I always enjoy seeing you too so welcome back I have notes and I'm going to try to keep them brief but it's hard with you guys um so yes favorite spirit week I need my goat therapy I will be there very soon um that's a lot of kids

039on auto roll so congratulations that's huge and I think the environment that has been created under your principal's leadership and with just your school Community leads to that so well done so proud of you um just congratulations congratulations on all of your success I've said it once and I'm gonna say it again this collaborative uh model that was used to build your vision statement so it's yours you know it is the students it's not some adults telling you it will shall be is huge and I'm just so thrilled to hear it coming to life um I heard about Potter week and so I have to ask did you get sorted into a house and what's your house uh we were both thrown into houses um Friday was our house house colors day um or class

040colors day we were both sorting the Gryffindor so um yeah I love it okay you don't have to ask I was just at party Potter World celebrating my son's um 16th birthday wow there are a bunch of ravenclaws at my house but we like this yes yes and the last thing I just want to say is that is so cool that she went to Hawaii and visited the base um my other son is in the Navy and that's where he wants to be stationed right so it's um really exciting that you're getting a taste of that now to see what it's like so again just always wonderful to see you thank you for the wonderful report and let us know if we could be helpful thank you so much thank you um we are actually

041both a part of the AP ambassadors Club to touch on that um we both have taken initiative to spread the awareness throughout our school um to better kids in their ability to pick those classes to have those opportunities and to kind of push them to take those opportunities and not kind of be scared of those opportunities because a lot of the time that's kind of what is the reason holding people people back kids back from taking those classes and kind of pushing themselves forward in that um with ROTC the Hawaii trip was an absolutely great opportunity for them I think we have a few ROTC members in the student section over there um the Raymond family thank you very much for being here um aside from that we'd like to thank Ms Baker for giving

042us the opportunity to give this speech tonight as well as all these programs we have in place and thank you again so appreciate you awesome and now super excited to hear from Emma fam Tran and Claire Contreras from Miraloma good evening president creason members of the board superintendent vassinelli and Miss Cunningham I am as student body president MFM Tran I'm Clark Contreras student body vice president and we are from Maryland high school we are excited to discuss some of our recent achievements as well as some of our upcoming plans with all of you today just before we were dismissed for president's break our school celebrated our annual more love less hate week along with a series of spirit days Pride Club hosted the lunchtime activity to promote inclusivity throughout our campus but we concluded with

043a new event called black renaissance fair at which Mira loma's black student union worked to plan which was an event that would celebrate Black and African history and culture throughout the school day Not only was this event open to our students but students from other schools in the district were also in attendance students worked at stations to teach other others about black historical figures and cultural Traditions many performances were also hosted throughout the day as well the event continued until after school with the block party where students could buy food play games watch performances and more today is the first day of practice of our annual class competition Sports drama which is a long-standing Miraloma tradition students will practice all of March in order to prepare for this competition which will be held on March

04431st this year this is an athletic artistic competitive Sports extravaganza we hosted a bunch of preliminary events which include twerp a sophomore fundraiser with over 400 participants to get our students excited SAR currently has around 300 participants in the entire School we encourage everyone including family members and non-students to participate Within These preliminary events and we invite all of you to please join us March 31st for sports Aroma there will be food trucks available prior to the event and we hope you guys will have a good time regarding our spring Sports which are currently underway we would like to especially recognize our track team for having 75 members this year we are proud to have so many students participating in such a great event in sport our Academic Teams are also doing really well I

045would like to recognize members from One science Bowl team and members in two categories of speech and debate heading to Nationals this Saturday Mira Loma is hosting a Science Olympiad competition and we wish our matadors the best of luck in their efforts to try and compete and qualify for uh for Nationals one of our moot Court teams is actually competing in the county finals tonight and we also wish them the best of luck go Matadors regarding spring events our sophomores have their annual world's fair project presentation on April 13th and are working very hard to complete those projects tomorrow is actually a school work day furthermore we have our open house which we call International night on April 20th we invite you all to attend to see the many student performances and clubs talk about

046their initiatives throughout the year and their future plans on behalf of Miraloma high school thank you so much for your time okay so much going on it's so wonderful uh comments questions from the board thank you Emma and Claire for joining us this evening and for the wonderful report um always enjoy catching up with matadors as a former Matador myself and always enjoy hearing um I know that the campus just comes alive around SAR and so it's a fun time to be on campus I still have my star shirts from there that can still tell you who won every year so I hope it's a successful month really because it takes over the whole campus and we'll look forward when you return later this spring to uh for you to share with us who wins

047because it's very competitive I know and also just want to acknowledge a lot of the continued academic success and thank you for calling out and celebrating your peers both with the moot Court speech and debate and science Bowl we look forward to hearing about all those and the ultimate outcomes later on this this Square thank you both for being here thank you thank you so much for the report it was fabulous uh first of all just congratulations on all of your successes every time we hear from Miraloma you guys are always doing the thing all the things you're right there's never a dull moment at miralova um so congratulations on all that what a wonderful way to celebrate Black History Month and not just leave it on the paper like there was actual events and

048I was so bummed and so appreciate the invitation to participate in your event and I just couldn't because I was overbooked um but please keep me on the list um in any way we could be helpful um we're here for it so again appreciate you thank you for coming out and let's do one more round of applause love it um we are at items E3 through ethics and we do not have any reports from staff board appointed District committees employee organizations or other District committees we are at Ida Edom I item E7 closed session expulsion actions Mr Miller thank you president creason the board did vote unanimously this evening to accept the hearing panel's recommendation of one suspended expulsion case in case uh number S31 and also no action was necessary for item B2 regarding

049the non-election of probationary teachers that's it thank you Mr Miller we are not now at item F visitor comments we do not have no not for General comment no okay thank you we do not have speaker cards for General visitor comment that means we are now at item G consent calendar do any board members wish to remove any items from the consent calendar seeing none is there Mr Miller move consent moved by Mr Miller is there a second by Ms krevcheck all those in favor say aye aye aye opposed abstain that was unanimous we are at item i1 Equity update Dr Calvin good evening again president creason members of the board superintendent bassinelli and Miss Cunningham say equity and student achievement Department was developed in 2015 to help address in part areas of concern that

050were laid out by the department of education related to disproportionality in our schools since then it has become the mission of the department to not only help eliminate barriers but to also ensure that all students feel welcomed valued included connected and empowered to reach their full potential this goal is system-wide and embraced by all sites and departments across the district tonight's presentation will highlight the work of the equity Department in collaboration with a variety of community and educational Partners I'm joined by the director of equity Omar field Ridley and the coordinator of equity Lori Vine who report out on our district-wide efforts to ensure for inclusive environments the elevation of parent and student voice professional learning opportunities and the collaborative efforts of Department of equity is engaged in we are also joined by principal Cletus

051Puritan and students Serena Naran and Elroy kamalo who will share what Equity work in action looks like looks like at the site level we will begin with Mr Phil Ridley good evening everyone Equity is a foundation for the work that we engage in as Educators and because of this it is important to make sure that we have an aligned understanding of what it is can you move the mic so it's a little closer to yep yes thank you sir system okay there we go the definition reflects the work of Scholars as well as that of our practitioners and educators when we reference historically marginalized students we mean students receiving special education our foster Youth and our low-income students we mean lgbtq students and our homeless students and students with disabilities and our English learners we

052also mean our students of color the equity department operates as an extension of our district in support of students who have been underserved discriminated against and marginalized because we know it is the right thing to do and because we know that students cannot Thrive under those conditions this definition also encompasses specific and differentiated which means that we as a system make conscious decisions to identify the barriers and biases that impact each of our marginalized groups and to educate and to engage a myriad of strategies and actions to remove them the last point of reference in this definition is the word support by this we mean that we work collaboratively in community and partnership to empower educate give encouragement to and give assistance to individuals and groups of people because we want them to succeed this

053is how we Define educational equity it is on this Foundation that our eight-point commitments exist the eight point commitment is a framework created by our students parents and Educators that in part guides the work of this District the Catalyst for these commitments was the voice of our educational community and their stated desire to be better and do better for each other and for our students these commitments were crafted collaboratively over six listening sessions two sessions focused on listening to families and staff about the changes they would like to see in our school community two sessions focused on reviewing those results and prioritizing High leverage themes and the last two sessions were used to streamline those themes as a result and regardless of Department side grade level or professional classification this collaboration constructed this collaboratively constructed

054document empowers our intent to be stewards of these commitments each of these commitments has a focus that lends to thematic representation commitment one addresses our responsibility to continuously work on improving climate and culture commitment two and six address our needs to engage difficult conversations around Equity race and serving students from marginalized communities commitment three show how we value family and student voice and our focus on expanding and prioritizing those connections commitment four speaks to equity being a foundation for all of our training and commitment five addresses the work of our instructionally focused departments and teams commitment 7 recognizes that we value diversity throughout our district and commitment Aid recognizes the need for interconnected and collaborative approaches to ensuring that all students have access to a rigorous standards-based education these are the four themes that emerge

055from our eight commitments creating inclusive environments elevating student and family voice professional learning and collaboration an actor and Exemplar for these themes in action will be showcased later when we Spotlight Miraloma High School okay creating inclusive environments requires an intentional effort to cultivate welcoming spaces where everyone feels included valued and connected students that believe that they are supported by their peers teachers leaders and school communities have different School experiences than those who feel isolated alone or different because of how they look their disability their language their accents the color of their skin or a myriad of other factors that lead to ridicule and sometimes much more this type of exclusionary behavior is a barrier to the peace of mind and the safety of students in our district and we have a collective responsibility to mitigate

056it developing and supporting welcoming environments is equity in action these three examples Equity teams identity clubs and our Community Partners are a snapshot of the work of all San Juan Unified that all of sand unified is committed to engaging in our Equity teams are site-based and focus their energy on creating welcoming environments and removing barriers to positive experiences for students at the end of last year when we emerged from covid we had five Equity teams our bar graph shows that we currently have 22. most are in the beginning and developmental stages and because each site has a unique approach to meeting the needs of their students and Community each side is constructing their teams in a way that best fits their needs our department provides support through consultation participation and listening sessions and soon we

057will be able to provide focus group information about how other sites have established objectives and goals address challenges and about their successes our identity clubs are examples of the positivity that occurs when students are empowered the pie chart shows that we have more than 60 identity clubs throughout the district and each has between 5 and 50 student participants these clubs are created by students supported by teacher advisors and recognized by site leadership they provide students with safe spaces to talk share experiences share frustrations plan school-wide celebrations and recognitions and as a result these students feel included and empowered while being valued and seen one of the many great examples of this was shared last board meeting when encina's presenters identify the impact of their bsus uh that their bsu's had on leading and shaping their

058Black History Month activities into well-received events at their school another example will be shared by vice president of Mira loma's black student union later this evening when she speaks to the way that her BSU has impacted her High School experience the pie chart on the previous slide represented the breakdown of the types of identity clubs this bar chart shows how many of our students in fine community and multiple clubs this is a great example of intersectionality and how our students Embrace their identities it also informs our efforts to make our schools a welcoming place of belonging and connectedness a compliment to the bar chart on the previous slide can be found here on that slide we showed how identity clubs are embraced by our students the student responses on this slide are in their own

059words and explain how they value identity clubs and what they mean to them the bar chart on the slide further shows that our identity clubs are integral to our positive High School experiences for those who choose to participate Our Community Partners are important contributors to creating inclusive environments for students we call them partners because they have a kindred spirit of understanding what Equity is and that student growth and success is in part determined by warm demanders who Focus who certainly who have two harm two two Hallmarks one is warmth and respect and communication and affirmation and two is at high expectation High effort and hard work are not optional they are required as a result Our Community Partners are seen as part of educational communities that they serve not visitors and not Outsiders their support

060for students include but are not limited to building confidence developing their voice improving and using interpersonal communication showing compassion and empathy and embracing positive self-identity in partnership with schools and depending on their scope of work improved attendance disciplinary and academic outcomes occur as well their support of San Juan Unified also includes facilitation of listening sessions for our students and parents and include sharing their perspectives on how to support our school sites when demeaning and belittling actions occur like racial epithets and n-word being being written on school walls spray painted swastikas and various forms of hate speech that are brought to our sites they are a talented group and if you'd like more information about them please see attachment B this snapshot of January shows that our Community Partners serve 1 245 students this is a

061typical month for our partners as they consistently operate at capacity they are currently present in 21 schools and depending on the program they're at seven excuse me they're at sites between one and five days per week all are looking to expand however they face the same challenges that we do with recruiting and hiring due to the shortage of Educators and changing economy in spite of that challenge our partners have flourished and to bring the work of Our Community Partners a little closer to you we are showcasing iyt or improve your tomorrow the data here provides a great example of success and the impact that Community Partners can have on our students this data shows what can happen when authentic Partnerships are forged at school sites between our Community Partners the staff and students iyt has

062been with San Juan since 2018 and as a result they have strong ties and relationships which have resulted in data that reflect a positive impact on the whole child here you can see what students and parents have to say about iyt the data on the previous slide shows the academic impact that a partnership can have on students the comments and pictures on this slide are additional testimony to the power of engaged partners and meaningful Partnerships there is interconnectedness of commitments and themes that emerge from our eight-point commitments the coordinator of our equity and student achievement Department Lori Vine will speak to how our second theme shows up as equity in action good evening as a district we continue to be deeply committed to listening to student staff and Community voice two examples of departments currently

063engaged in this work are the family and Community engagement department or face and the office of student learning assistants or osla the face department has been instrumental in collecting feedback related to lcap goals and Outreach efforts for our families as well as helping to diffuse racial tension that has occurred in several of our schools through their work with our Community Partners they also provide ongoing support and resources to our families through listening sessions training and mobile Outreach the office of student learning assistance has offered parent workshops and listening sessions that have given us valuable insight into what many of our families need from us for example in the last two months alone 168 Refugee students have entered our district nearly 100 of which are from Russia or Ukraine many of these families in the larger

064Community have shared that English English language acquisition needs to be a priority and so the office of student learning assistance has put into place many supports supports that include English language development classes the use of Lexia which is a soft software platform to help learn English for all of our newcomers English classes for parents at school sites and in their homes including apartment complexes Saturday Academy which focuses on English language acquisition as well as navigating the school system for students and parents and various other summer programs osla has also collaborated with our department to offer a community luncheon where students were able to come together after having experienced racial tension on their campus this helped build a bridge between the students and give them opportunities to connect with one another our department has also supported

065sites with opportunities for student listening sessions around site-specific or identity specific concerns some of these concerns that have been shared are related to safety identity acts of racism the need for more gender-neutral bathrooms and changing areas and the need to have more restorative approach to discipline one of the biggest issues that's been raised by students across the district at many of our schools is the need to update our dress code we are lucky to have an amazing student advocate here with us tonight to share a little bit more about the power of student voice leading to action within the district it's my honor to introduce to you a member of our student superintendent student advisory Council a member of our lcap parent advisory Council and a founding member of the Rio Americano Equity team a

066senior at Rio Americano Serena Naran welcome Serena foreign good evening my name is Serena Naran and today I'm here to talk about my experience with Equity department and the district and that experience has been one where my voice as a student has been elevated now the elevation of student voice is extremely important the decisions made in this room and in this building directly affect my parents my peers and I so it's important for students to have a say in the issues that the district focuses on as we are impacted the most now during my four years of high school I've been fortunate to have my voice elevated in many different ways I've had the privilege to serve on the real Equity team where I've been able to work with other students to elevate issues important

067to us and Tackle them together we've been able to create subcommittees that have just addressed topics of cultural diversity positive staff and student relationships and issues of dress code I've also been a member of the superintendent student advisory Council for the last three years I joined during superintendent Kern's term and I'm happy to continue to work with superintendent bassinelli with both of these superintendents I've experienced an environment where my stories as a student are valued in decision-making processes and under both of these superintendents we've worked to change the dress code and this brings me to my next point the current San Juan Unified dress code is extremely outdated it includes language that undeniably targets girls students of particular body types and has words that are subjective to The Enforcer now the equity department has spoken

068to several groups of students at different School sites about the stress code and the qualitative data has shown that it's clear that students want to see a change in their code now sasak was focused on this initiative and was able to release a survey to students last year now the survey received nearly 4 500 responses the largest respondent number in recent years to a district survey which can show us that students do care about this issue now 65 percent of these respondents believe that the dress code was unfair to certain groups of students and as you can see 85 percent of those respondents believed that the code was unfair to students based on gender now I've been working with the District dress code committee and we are in the process of drafting a new code

069to present to the board later this year now this new code was created by student boys student advocacy and student work for students in this community I want to conclude my time by stating the most important thing I've experienced in this District over the past year is something I urge all of you to keep in mind moving forward I've had the opportunity to work in wonderful spaces in this district and speak with some very important people who have talked to me listen to me and most importantly worked with me as if I were their peer or colleague even though I've only been 17 and 18. this experience has been extremely rewarding as a student I know that I have a voice in this district and the kids that I go to class with every day

070also have a voice that's equally important as we continue to reform our dress code and as any other issues are raised by students and presented to this board I urge you to value and Elevate student voice thank you I will now hand it back to Mr field Ridley okay professional development that's our next statement it's our third theme our educational Partners have deemed it important and we all know that there that this is important because when we know better we do better so it makes sense for us to make this investment our focus on creating a welcoming culture and climate can be found in our differentiated approach to meeting the needs of leaders of Administrators supporting staff throughout the district embracing the exemplary work of our professional learning and curriculum Innovation department and providing access

071to tools that are needed to counteract bias disrupt discrimination and remove barriers to working in authentically inclusive environments for example our Equity Summits provided our district administrators managers and supervisors with the opportunity to participate in professional development that provided access to some of the tools that we use to counteract our biases introduce the tools that other departments use to counteract bias and support students through the lens of their work and then provided opportunities develop and practice using those tools and scenarios one-on-one role plays and in consultancies where administrators shared and addressed actual challenges from their sites and departments we also partnered with our senior leadership team to provide 71 site-based leadership teams and departments from throughout the district with training on counteract advice and improving outcomes for students through common goals cooperation and building trusting

072environments our work with our K-12 directors and assistant superintenders superintendents has helped us plan and deliver presentations at pres principal and vice principal meetings in order to practice collectively navigating equity-based scenarios and role plays and create a space for all of our leaders to discuss ways to tackle difficult Equity issues at their sites these and the additional listed events in this table are described in attachment C collectively they show commitments that are our commitments that our administrators have made to educational equity oh my goodness I missed the slide I'll give you a minute to look okay here you can see eight different areas of professional development that the equity department has focused on over the last two and a half years this bar graph of our optional professional development shows how well these options have

073been received the spark this first bar counteracting bias train training has been a focus this year and will be expanded to counteracting bias Pathways that will include options titled knowing your why knowing your strengths counteracting unconscious bias supporting lgbtq plus students and staff supporting Native American students and supporting Afghan students all of the list of professional developments and opportunities above are further described in attachment C Equity is a district-wide commitment to engaging Equitable actions one of the many departments that provide engaging professional development options is a professional learning and Innovation Department also known as pli the pli department embeds equity in all of their professional learning sessions and a few of a few of which that are on this slide they're focused on ensuring that instructional materials and experiences provide many opportunities for students to

074see themselves and others reflected in what they're learning and department is currently collecting student voice around what more and should be done in this area grading practices have also been ongoing topics of conversation in many of our schools and departments have been a top of a conversation at many of our schools and the department supports that work through book studies and site collaboration the quotes on this page show the work described on the previous slide was well received by District practitioners these comments are samplings of feedback that the pli department received about the work that they have been facilitating and they illustrate how teachers who participate in these professional learning opportunities are finding ways to embed their learning in their practice the pli and Equity Department equity and student achievement Department also collaborate to provide

075professional development recently we worked together with our principals to discuss historical reenactments and our responsibility to ensure that we provide students with accurate learning experiences that provide multiple perspectives of historical events these efforts are supported throughout our partnership with Sac State professors described in attachment B and our trips to the Museum of Tolerance described an attachment C both work with Educators who are interested in gaining deeper understanding of how our instructional decisions can impact the well-being of all students in addition the equity and pli departments have been engaging in conversations with the office of the superintendent to identify ways to include students in discussions about increasing their interests and passions for learning creating informed Pathways for students to contribute to District curricular decisions is currently being explored the equity and student achievement department has also

076partnered with K-8 and 912 teaching and learning directors this year it has been to support our District's effort around identifying developing and using tools and Frameworks for the purpose of making effective equity-based decisions and engaging in equity-based actions this is in large part because this is Who We Are it aligns with our eight-point commitment and because our equity-based challenges are significant they include but are not limited to supporting families from marginalized communities that feel disconnected from their school communities responding to families who struggle to navigate the educational system and overcome barriers to communication and building Community because of language and cultural differences addressing the needs of refugee students and other English Learners who feel unwelcomed and isolated navigating struggles and authentically addressing exclusionary disciplinary data struggling to address current interracial ethnic and cultural conflicts that

077have off-site routes and housing displacement and have been occurring between our African-American and Afghan communities and our Hispanic and Afghan communities combating the use of racist hateful language at their sites and unequivocally standing against racist propaganda when it spread in the residential communities that support these schools to engage these discussions meetings creating action plans and addressing the primary and ancillary challenges that come from these issues we have focused some of our professional development on the following reflecting on our knowledge of self and counteracting biases that's the equity lens up there asking questions about the impact of our decisions and actions and actions on our marginalized communities that's our four questions which are who does this who does this decision impact whose voices and perspectives are missing how does this decision impact our most marginalized communities

078what assumption or implicit biases might be present similarly the cultural proficiency Continuum that's the rainbow colored one asks us to identify daily scenarios on a Continuum of destructive to proficient behaviors and continually make decisions that make our response toward make our responses move toward proficiency additional professional development has been on creating truly inclusive environments understanding what prevents us from being The Advocates and catalysts we want to be and disrupting and interrupting bias bigotry and discrimination Department collaboration is the fourth and final theme that emerges from the eight-point commitment while all of these themes are important the one that clearly this one clearly shows that Equity work is prevalent throughout San Juan Unified this focus on the way that these are these listed departments address educational Equity through their work further shows that Equity is not

079a program rather it is a mindset an approach and action that focuses on removing barriers to teaching and learning and improving educational environments for all students this responsibility Falls to all of us and as such we embrace it the work of the human resources department includes their partnership with the Alder Graduate School of Education which allows participants to earn their credential and master's degree in just one year while getting hands-on experience with students in San Juan Unified Schools while they partner also and work closely with Mentor teachers and learn alongside other resident participants tuition supports and scholarships of up to ten thousand dollars are available our family and Community engagement Career and Technical education and Equity departments are working collaboratively with the Sacramento State Center for transformational educator preparation program to augment and create a

080future pipeline of opportunity for students through teacher clubs at middle and high schools and dual enrollment and teacher ctd CTE options at high school level that will intentionally improve access to teacher preparation before and during college student Support Services collaboration has focused on expanding support for many of our most marginalized students our highlight has been expanding before and after school Pro School Bridges programs at the Elementary K-8 and Middle School levels and providing access to expanded learning opportunities additionally an area of focus has been on providing increased resources for our unhoused students and families which has included new monthly Drive monthly drive-through food distribution events in partnership with the Sacramento Food Bank over the last several months thousands of families have accessed fresh food through these events student support support services also continues to increase

081our access to much needed support student Mental Health Services through the White House Counseling Center and multi-tiered systems of support through a referral based system mental health practitioners are able to eliminate Transportation barriers for families and directly provide students with behavioral health support at their school sites ongoing conversations and professional development with our principals and VPS have also occurred on a monthly basis and focus on disproportionate suspension rates and Equitable discipline practices the work of the special education department showcases their collaboration with School site staff and the work to ensure interventions and supports are available to all students this support is provided in various ways such as attending student intervention team meetings providing professional development for all staff and parent workshops and training special education teams are comprised of school psychologists mental health therapists behaviorists

082and program Specialists who support behavior in Crisis Intervention at the site level in the 22-23 school year the work of the multi-tiered systems of support department and the student support Center's multi-disciplinary team has been able to provide social emotional behavioral and mental health supports to our students the team consists of school counselors School social workers mental health therapists School psychologists school nurse academic intervention Specialists social emotional support technicians and coordinators the goal is to provide targeted supports and evidence-based interventions to students so that they are able to effectively access educational opportunities and achieve their full potential this team Works in partnership with school sites and District departments to ensure an efficient support system for all students San Juan Unified we have invested in developing Network Improvement communities to ensure that specifically identified schools and groups

083receive the supports they need to emerge from from State identified improvement-based designations teams of Educators from multiple departments sites and educational disciplines work with site personnel and teachers to identify strategies for implementation and a continuous Improvement model the Equal Opportunity schools program exists at all of our high schools and provides our sites with opportunities to address the underrepresentation of students of color and advanced placement International Baccalaureate and in dual enrollment classes through this partnership with EOS capable students are identified encouraged to enroll and provided with necessary supports for success the goal of EOS is to have participation and completion percentages of our marginalized student groups match the highest enrollment and completion percentages at the school for example if a site has 40 percent of the white and Asian population in advanced placement International Baccalaureate and

084dual enrollment classes and that is the highest enrollment and completion percentage in the school then we want other subgroups being students of color Foster youth special education and so on to be at the same percentage prior to being derailed by covid the data showed that we had made significant gains towards achieving these goals and now that we have reached the level of normalcy these programs are again being supported at our high schools in its totality the work of the San Juan Unified School District engages and to support Equitable actions and outcomes reflect a district-wide commitment to equity work this is because Equity work is the work of making sure that all students especially those from marginalized communities are provided with specialized differentiated supports from all of the Departments and sites that will ensure success and

085Equitable outcomes we are committed to that version of equity on that Foundation it gives me great pleasure to Spotlight Mira Loma High School as an Exemplar for the work that is going on in our district I'd like to welcome principal Cletus purington and black student union vice principal Elroy kumalo to the podium um thank you for having us it means a lot to our BSU um okay last year I didn't feel that I didn't feel very connected to the community on our campus but after getting involved into the BSU I felt more connected to my community not just people who look like me but the people who shamed this who shared the same uh struggle as me and my people and the people who were um allies to us BSU gave me an opportunity to

086lead a lead in a club and gave me a purpose by making a difference on campus it it has allowed me to help others get out of the place that I was in last year and it's a good feeling to know that I'm able to help others just like um the BSU helped me um last the Friday before last on the 17th Miraloma Buxton Union held an event called black Renaissance Day black Renaissance day was a way to connect bsus in our community and within our schools letting students know that we're supported by our teachers in our district and was helpful in building trust an opportunity for students to sign up for college through ucan and for other hpcu opportunities and scholarships English art social studies math music and math all contributed to this day

087and um showing how black African black and African Americans affected our country clubs like uh Latinos unidos a Filipino club and B Sharps also contributed to that day and it meant a lot to us skits and other educational opportunities to bring lights to topics like the issue of the use of the n-word and doing anti-racist work and having other a having eight other BSU Camp clubs on our campus provided a way to bring our schools together and build a community some BSU clubs contributed like El Camino did an African dance and they did another dance and then others other schools brought some posters and were helping out after school we had a block party when we all um we there is an opportunity to get food and it was like it felt like to me

088um a big like family cookout and it just felt really good to like see all of us like you know like dancing and singing together and playing games and it felt really good celebrating African African-American culture good evening everybody and thank you um Dr Calvin and Mr field really for the opportunity for us to just share some of the work at Mira Loma he used the words uh exemplary and I would say it's been messy um we're a work in progress so I don't feel like we we deserve that that high of a praise I would say that um one of the things that's been very um special about this is the support that we've had at the district level and with our Equity Department in this work to commit that all students have the

089opportunity to learn and to fulfill our eight-point commitment to to educational Justice unfortunately to be honest most of our work that we've done that I'm going to highlight tonight has been as a result of us responding to challenges and unfortunate circumstances conflict within our community Mira Loma is a very diverse campus we have um last time I did a little research on this we had 46 different languages represented at our school and so as much as that's a high attribute for our school it's also challenging work and to have that many different student body cultures represented does create um opportunities for conflict and you know in the last two years we've we've had several different racial incidents and uh racial tension on our campus in 2021-22 we started recognizing that we needed to hear from

090our students and our families because we we were missing something we weren't understanding what some of the tension was we weren't understanding actually a lot about our students because we were just coming out of of coven and so the listening sessions that we did really helped us develop stronger relationships with our families and our students and it helped us understand what we need to do to respond to our the needs of our students we we formed an equity team and it wasn't on purpose it just kind of happened as we started doing these listening sessions the idea came from our leadership team where each of us on the leadership team all nine of us were going to select five students that we knew we wanted to make sure we had a very diverse representation of

091our campus so we made sure all different grade levels ethnic backgrounds um we wanted to make sure it was a true reflection of our school so we brought about 45 students together to just hear from them what's going well at Mira Loma what are the challenges and from that kmr Equity team about half of those students decided they wanted to continue in that work elroy's one of those students and they continued every month we did listening sessions we had Christina Sparks that kind of guided Us in that work and they developed action steps to work with our leadership team on how do we address school-wide issues of safety how do we address the issues of racial tension how do we address improving relationships between teachers and students on our campus and other issues too academic

092related there was a strong feeling on our campus that students felt that IB students got preferential treatment on our campus those kind of things were real issues that we needed to address and as a result of that working with our Equity team our students that were involved in this and they came up with a name for themselves students for change we developed a couple action steps early on this school year one of them was developing a tardy policy to address the safety issues that they brought to our attention at our first staff meeting together in person last April so they had the courage to get up in front of our our staff and talk about their concerns and we responded right away by creating a policy as a staff that we were committed to all

093following we also over the summer we had a hundred students and 40 teachers um commit to coming together and working on developing a club called ml connect which was going to be focused on mentoring our freshmen and getting them connected to their peers and also to the staff so they had strong relationships as they came into our school one of the things I really want to highlight tonight was and probably the most powerful movement towards the black Renaissance Day a student wrote a letter to me back about a year ago at this time and I walked into my office and I see this letter on my desk and I start reading through it and right away I knew that it wasn't something I could just throw aside I needed to I needed to respond to

094this letter the student talked about being a student in our district her entire educational experience she was a 10th grader and she was um frustrated with the fact that she had never had a teacher in all of those years recognize contributions of African-American blacks in our country and she said that she's seen that our school values diversity we do a lot to represent culture but we're missing the Black Culture we're missing African Americans we're not doing enough for that particular culture it was an angry letter so I'm summarizing in a way that um you know wouldn't have been how she wrote it I brought I had her come into my office um I told her that I was really proud of her for taking the time to write this and to Having the courage to

095do so and I asked her what what did she want well you know you wrote this letter you took time to do this what were you hoping would happen as a result because I want to know as your principal I want to know what is it that we can do um to address this concern and she said she want to change she said I don't know how it's going to happen but I want change and so I encouraged her to get involved in the BSU Club I encouraged her to um I actually we have an international studies program that um really does most of these cross-curricular projects and activities related to our different cultures on our campus and I told her that she would be a great candidate to get involved in that because that's

096where a lot of our educational curriculum is developed and and she would have a chance to be um you know one of the leaders in that in that type of work and I also told her I was committed to reading the letter to our staff and I said I don't know what's going to happen as a result of that but I'm gonna I'm gonna read your letter to our staff and I'm going to ask them to be reflective and think about it and this process isn't going to happen overnight but it's going to take some time for our staff to hear your perspective along with other students and and uh try to address some of these concerns so as I was reading the letter to the staff mid I think I was just about finished

097my phone is blowing up we're on Zoom still and one of our teachers sent me a text saying we got this we're on this we're going to make this happen and so immediately the next week this teacher along with the International Studies teachers got together and started talking about what they wanted to do to support BSU and to make this an educational experience to really reflect the culture that represents about 10 percent of our student body so that's that's the heart of it and I'm not saying that to take credit what I'm what I'm I'm sharing that story with you guys because I want you to hear how responsive our staff has been to to student feedback and our students you know Elroy along with others have been incredibly courageous you know today we um

098the last day of February in our student bulletin we had um a BSU wrote up a nice letter that they wanted to share thanking the students for being a part of black Renaissance day and then Having the courage to talk about again addressing the the n-word and how that impacts the students on our campus um there's a lot and and as a principal you know there's part of me that doesn't want to say yes to those things wants to say no that could cause controversy that's gonna create an issue on our campus but I also know that it's necessary it's important and these students are hungry for change and as a principal it makes it um easy for me to say yes because I know that the leadership that they have and the commitment that

099our staff has made um we're United in this work and we really want our students and staff to feel our student I'm sorry we really want our students to know that they are supported and valued for what they bring to our campus I also want to highlight that over the last five years we've added a lot of these Partnerships that were addressed earlier in the presentation improve your tomorrow has been on on our campus since 2018 and that's been instrumental one of the things I'll just highlight about improve your tomorrow during covid when we were in distance learning we were searching for ways to try to support our kids and figure out how to how to get them the resources they needed how do we address students not coming on Zoom a lot of students

100were failing at that time when we looked at our data and we were looking at grades most majority of the students that were in the iyt program were doing quite well because they had a connection they were still meeting on Zoom they had the Brotherhood that had been established before covid started and they were invested in their education and a big part of it was being part of a community we've added this recently this year a program called gems girls empowerment mentoring and support and that's kind of our female version of iyt to support our female students of color and to provide that same type of mentoring and support um we've been working with a program called eaop early Outreach opportunity partnership through UC Davis to identify students of diverse backgrounds that have potential and

101to help them be successful and reach meeting the a through G requirements and getting into a four-year University we've also partnered with ucan where many of our students have been accepted into historically black college and universities and had support for enrolling in four-year schools through that program um another program that I believe Patrice from say says is here tonight and they've been instrumental and when we talk about student voice we've had that program on our campus for a number of years and we've had many students get involved in that program and I think to see their engagement increase to see their attendance improve to see their grades improve because they feel like they're connected on our campus has been instrumental and then lastly I just want to highlight Sacramento Youth Organization that's been a great

102program for us a mentoring program for our Refugee students and a lot of times the students that have been involved in that program have gone through it end up getting hired and now they have the opportunity to help their Community by being a mentor to middle school and Elementary students we've also done a lot of work with our professional development and this year we've partnered with Lori vine on a couple of issues one of them has been just overall making our campus more inclusive and the second one is you know the rir protocol recognize interrupt and and repair when we talk about how do we interrupt hate speech how do we interrupt derogatory comments how do we interrupt any kind of exclusive um language takes place on our campuses you know what we're really trying

103to do is create um a uniform consistent way that we address that and how do we repair that with our students and our community so that's been really powerful and we still have a lot of work to go there in that area and as you guys heard about equal opportunity schools a little bit earlier I want to highlight that as well because one of the our main goals at our site is to increase the number of students that are graduating college and career ready and so you know we're known for the international Baccalaureate program at Mira Loma which is about 40 percent of our students um but 60 of our students don't come to Miraloma before that program and our goal is to provide access to that program for all students that any student that

104comes to Mira Loma that wants to be an IB student has the opportunity and is given the support to be successful and so that's been something that's been very powerful uh partnering with them to provide more access we're also adding a new IB program called Career program next year and the the goal of that is to give students opportunities to explore College and Career so students would complete an IB course their Junior and C senior year and they would also complete a CTE pathway and they would get a certificate recognition through IB for that so those are some of the things that I just wanted to share with you guys and highlight tonight I am thankful for the support that we've had at the district level because this Equity work is the most important thing

105that we can do to support all students and make sure all students have Bright Futures and we've come a long way and we still have a long way to go and this work so thank you and at this time I'm going to turn it back over to Mr field Ridley so with that I'd like to thank you for giving us the time to come in and share with you what's going on with our Equity department and I'd like to open it now to questions foreign wow that was a whole lot of really important information and such a comprehensive report report so much important incredibly important work going on so we do have visitor comments um for this item if you want to make a comment and haven't filled out a card you can go see

106Ms Rye right over there comments are limited to two minutes the clock on the screen counts down the time under the Ralph m brown act the broad is not allowed to comment on items that are not on the agenda so we're not ignoring your comments um that does not apply to this item because it is on the agenda we just can't may not respond individually the superintendent can also refer staff who can follow up with you Ms Wright can you please facilitate public comment of course first up we have Ryan Dickman followed by Heather Taylor uh my name is Ryan Digman um I'm a father in The District my son is six and he's receiving special education services here this Equity work that you guys have talked about is amazing and you guys have been

107working so hard to uh create um you know all these opportunities I just want to remind I'm just up here to remind that we have over 5 700 individuals that are receiving special education services in the district that are really relying on this inclusive environment this inclusive learning and um I uh just want to uh you know uh recommend that you know we continue this communication with parents and families and students you know we should be asking these students you know about their experiences and making sure that you know they feel these things that we're trying to uh you know get these teachers to teach and my big thing is making sure that you know we also you know uh have strong policies in place to help in like uh enforce these and help um

108you know create buy-in amongst the teachers to really apply these measures throughout the district and I think that something that is really important and at times the district does lack the enforcement aspect because there is a lot of silos within the district and each school at times has different ways of approaching these things so we need to collaborate and we need to come together and find those ways to be successful all together thank you thank you next we have Heather Taylor followed by Luke Taylor hello good evening um I'm a parent of two students here at uh San Juan and I thank you and the district for your work uh in creating equality um both of my turn parents parents both of my children have been part of programs uh in equity and um ask

109that the communication continue to the students and parents sometimes when we're part of those groups it takes us a long time to hear it and to respond and then participate and then to support it so I just ask that it just continues so we can be part of that I also ask that we have strong policies in place so that we can reach all of our students not just the ones that are succeeding or on the outside edge that we can reach the families who who need the support the most which might take time um again thank you for all of your work really appreciate being able to give a comment next we have Luke Taylor followed by Jay Martinez good evening president Christian and members of the board my name is Luke Taylor I

110am a seventh grade student at Will Rogers Middle School I support my school district in positive inclusive practices and including and equity in education I am in special education usually testing below my grade and I'm empowered to be here talking to you I am proud to be here talking to you thank you for seeing us and helping us have a voice it is important to me because I like when all students are supported and included thank you next we have Jay Martinez followed by Jeffrey Perrine a very nice speech um good evening board members my name is Jay Martinez I'm a homeowner a small business owner and a parent in Orangeville uh come as a concerned parent tonight regarding the equity program with sjusd SJ USD Equity should mean uh to me bringing up kids

111and giving them the resources needed to succeed academically and professionally and not the learning standards it's not clear from a trip from materials available to the public that the focus of the program leads to better test scores for the students it's disappointing to see recent low c a a s p p test scores in Orangevale in surrounding areas as a substantial amount of new home buyers new home buyers base where they will live off these scores I currently opt to send my kids to private school due to some concerns regarding the program and the adoption of it and how it could impact my children I asked the board today to revisit the program at a feature board meeting and to ask if it really creates an environment for students to succeed academically and professionally I

112am also asking for transparency transparency on the equity program as parents should have access to this curriculum in full to see if it is results oriented and achieving the same admission lastly I ask for a public meeting on the topic to explore the program in more depth there seems to be many ambiguities in the equity program and a better understanding a clear picture of the program would be a good thing for parents and students and community members I look forward to participating in future public meetings where we can help the program evolve into one that truly brings students the opportunities they need and deserve for a successful future I'd like to thank you for your service to the board and service to our community have a good evening next we have Jeffrey Perrine followed by

113Patrice Hill evening board good evening board my name is Jeffrey Perrine um here is a concerned citizen I'm here as a person who lives in the community I ran for office in this District I had a lot of people who were concerned about the equity it's a really really big deal it's a big topic a lot of people as parents are concerned it's very vague ambiguous you see the language the rhetoric is discussing you know anti-racist education you ask a person of color who can be racist no one of color can be racist so when I see anti-racist education all I see is anti-white education so we need to stop playing games I'm not here to talk and play semantics with you guys I'm a concerned citizen who gained almost 3 000 votes in the

114local community I got votes based on my stances and My Views you might be a leftist extremist who wants to be funded by the gay queers of Sacramento that's your choice but I have just as much right to represent the Christians and the families that support two genders marriage between a man and a woman natural marriage natural family all the above okay so this Equity is just absolute trash I went to the curriculums meeting last two weeks ago it's just all anti-white anti-christian anti-european crap it is literally work of marxist cultural Marxist at that they're Communists and they're anti-white and I'm going to reiterate it at every meeting I have to come to it doesn't matter how you label it as anti-racist anti-whatever pro-equity Equity means we all get to the same place whether that

115is in a crap hole unable to read or write or do math which is what it seems like you guys are happy about 56 percent of kids can read write and do math wow but 86 are walking out the door with a call with a high school diploma wow they go work at the store can't read or write or do math what are you happy about but you want to talk about Equity you're going to drag everyone down make sure no one succeeds so all of our children can't read write or do math how about you start teaching children how to actually be human beings not worry about sex all day long sexualizing our children stop grooming our children you understand we groom our kids at home to have our values and and our morals

116and our mindset our beliefs thank you board next we have Patrice Hill followed by Mike Casper um good evening my name is Patrice Hill I'm the director of Sacramento area you speaks which is a critical literacy program based out of UC Davis I've been a community partner with the Department of equity here since 2015. um there is a need for equity in our schools in our community there is a need for anti-racist Education there is a need for cultural relevancy um we see the disparities in the schools that we are in every day as we provide direct service to young people who need these Services um Community Partners increase academic achievement not only do they increase academic achievement they decrease negative behaviors suspensions Behavior infractions it's also imperative that young people see cultural cultural relevancy

117in their curriculum and in their education um as um cleat brought up there are students in your in this District that are students of color that have never seen themselves recognized in any curriculum so I am honored to stand here as a partner of the equity Department I will say this we have been a partner with the equity department since 2015. because of our part our partnership with the Department of equity we have been able to have the National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States the 2122 National Youth Poet Laureate from Mira Loma High School Alexandra Nguyen who represented Sacramento Mira Loma High School and San Juan Unified School District on a National platform because of this partnership with the equity Department you've voice student empowerment cultural relevancy and Equity are essential tools that

118young people need to have in their schools and have access to I'm honored to stand here as a community partner and I hope that we do not let the rhetoric of discriminating against equity which is essential take any part in our schools thank you so much have a great night next we have my password Mike Casper followed by Murad MO sarama Ready Set Go good evening my name is Mike Casper and I am the co-founder and CEO of improve your tomorrow also known as iyt iyt is a college access and completion program and it was started in 2013. I co-founded iyt because I believe young men of color have immense potential and possibility however when you look at suspension rates High School graduation rate College attendance College completion data you will see large disparities not

119because of a lack of ability but because a lack of resources exposure a sense of belonging so iyt's mission is to increase the number of young men of color to attend and graduate from colleges and University universities forgive me currently we serve roughly 3 600 students across 64 sites eight of them are within San Juan Unified School District um and what makes out YT unique is our 12-year commitment so we start with students as early as sixth grade and we continue to support them until they graduate from car from college in partnership with counselors administrators teachers folks like cleat and Barry we've been able to do some meaningful work over the past uh 10 years and 99 of our students have graduated high school on time we have a 56 percent a through G rate

120and that's the power of partnership that's the power when you bring Community alongside school Personnel we can do some meaningful work it hasn't been easy but it most certainly has been necessary so thank you for the opportunity at being able to go alongside you all at making sure that young people are put on a pathway of success thank you for your time next we have Murad Mo sarama followed by Fabrizio Sasso good evening Madam president members of the board please excuse my beanies called out there and old all right um earlier earlier today I actually picked up my son from his after school program and I saw something on the agenda that says presentation about equity so I asked my son my son is in first grade the name is Moses my junior and I

121said hey what does Equity means to you because Dad can I see your phone I go sure you go Siri where his Equity means cool so I just gotta read what Siri looked at the web and told my son what his Equity means the term Equity refers to fairness and Justice and it is distinguished from equality so I'm just going to repeat this the term Equity refers to fairness and justice and it is distinguished from equality whereas equality means providing the same to all Equity means recognizing that we do we do not all start from the same place and we must acknowledge and make adjustment to imbalances that's why Equity told my son it means so the presentation that we heard today and thank you Miss Calvin and the staff for providing a great information

122and what it means for the San Juan Unified School District what it means for my kids enroll in those classes what it mean for them to establish clubs and be able to be free on the student campuses be able to embrace diversity equity and inclusion this is what we stand for this is what we stand for as a community we're a diverse community and embrace and Equity is a great is a great from like you guys Embrace another San Juan Unified School District so thank you for making my kids included in the classrooms next we have Fabrizio Sasso followed by Jennifer Morgan good evening president creason members of the board I'm Fabrizio Sasa I'm the executive director of the Sacramento Central labor Council we represent over 100 worker organizations representing 180 000 workers in Sacramento

123greater Sacramento region uh we're here today to say that San Juan unified's commitment to promoting social justice and anti-racism is commendable is a commendable example of a school district dedicated to creating a more just and Equitable Society the district's efforts to provide students with an education that promotes a quality fairness and respect for diversity is truly inspiring by recognizing and addressing the realities of racism and Prejudice San Juan Unified has taken a proactive step towards creating a more inclusive and accepting Community the district's commitment to anti-racism is reflected in its curriculum and programs which prioritizes the voices and experiences of marginalized groups and helps to educate students about the impacts of systemic inequality and social injustice San Juan unified's efforts to promote social justice-oriented education or particularly noteworthy by incorporating topics such as race ethnicity

124gender socioeconomic status into the curriculum students are exposed to a right wide range of perspectives and experiences which helps Foster empathy and understanding in addition to promoting social justice-oriented education San Juan Unified is also taking steps to ensure that schools and classrooms are safe and welcoming spaces for all students and for all teachers and all other workers they classified too let's not forget them uh the district's commitment to equity inclusion is reflected in its policies which aim to reduce disparities in access to educational opportunities and Support Services overall San Juan unified's commitment to anti-racism and social justice oriented oriented education is a model for other school districts across the country by prioritizing Equity inclusion and respect for diversity the district is helping to create a brighter future for all students one where everyone has an

125opportunity to succeed and Thrive regardless of their background next we have Jennifer Morgan hi my name is Jennifer Morgan my family has been a part of this community for quite a number of years now as a equally concerned parent just curious about how the system works I dove in to figure out what I could learn I joined District committees I watched board meetings very easily you can come in person or watch them online to take the time to actually observe what's really happening in the reality around here I thank all of you new board members that are here for participating your civic duty as here in the real world this is where it's happening not online where our algorithms are just showing us whatever the case may be I would like to draw attention to

126the people that are actually doing all of the work here are present tonight telling you exactly what we're doing and the people that want to contradict that are not even a part inside of this community to see for themselves they're just following things that they see online on their phones so as someone that has chaired the curriculum and standards committee a number of times in fact my seat was the one that was occupied by Mr mckibben's appointment so hopefully you'll replace me with someone equally as committed into pursuing progress in this District um I'd like you all to just be cognizant of separating the discrepancies between coming here with an agenda based on what you're reading on your phone and actually paying attention to what's really happening around here um perhaps reintroducing some of that

127digital citizenship curriculum we were talking about trying to do a while back um that might benefit the whole Community here if everyone was kind of on the same page about how we're using these tools and not just relying on them as crutches thank you next we have Mary Beth Barber hi my name is Mary Beth Barber um I know many of you because I have been active in for example the parent advisory committee for the local control accountability plan for at least oh goodness that started seven years ago and I've been watching for now seven or eight years and this kind of work has been asked for ever since I started getting involved and so thank you so much for really diving in and and taking this to heart and doing the work that we're

128talking about um I mean I'm hearing a lot of different terms and descriptions for what's happening in our classroom so not only am I seeing the work involved with a sense of belonging and multiple perspectives from our entire Community but there's also a tremendous amount of work being done by staff to take a look or teachers to take a look at that it has so many different names project-based learning inquiry-based learning but basically having kids work in teams and explore and really use their cognitive skills in a way that is Meaningful of taking a look in the district of multilingualism not as a deficit but as an advantage for those students of really creating a community where the students who attend and feel on are recognized as a part of the community and thank you

129for doing that for listening to us for the past close to a decade and doing the work that really needed to be done just wanted to say that thank you and that was our final public comment on this item thank you so much board members questions comments Ms Vasquez thank you for for the presentation and I want to start with additional thank yous before I forget I have a couple of notes written down forgive me in advance if it's a little bit everywhere and I'll um try not to take up too much time out of respect for uh for my colleagues and for all of our time here but thank you to the staff who keeps this work going um and who Shepherds this work every day from the beginning we were offered a very

130thorough history and from the beginning this is work I've been proud to not only continue to support but to be a part of every single day I think there was a request made during public comment for where's the curriculum as if we're hiding something it's not a curriculum that's what distinguishes this work every single day because it's not a curriculum it's not a piece of paper it's not check boxes that we go through at the end of the year to make sure we've fulfilled something it is work that happens every single day at every level of Engagement throughout our district from um what happens here in the district office to what happens at our schools every single day and that was highlighted through every point of this presentation and with that I want to thank

131our partners who are part of that because it's not something that we do alone it's something that we do with every aspect of our community and we and we have a number of Our Community Partners in the room we've got a lot that aren't here but the piece about recognizing and acknowledging that this is not work that we do on our own that we can successfully do on our own is important we need Community Partners to show up with for for us and with us and next to us every single day and they do and I will always be grateful for that and third I want to thank the students both the ones who are here but the ones leading this work every single day that's what um thank you both very much for for

132your presentations and for just both being here exemplifying how we do this work for our students led by students incorporating student voice um but also for just explaining and kind of um walking us through what it means and offering very concrete examples I think that's important and um it's also important to highlight that um there are some efforts or there's some rhetoric to try to separate this work from the academic perspective to suggest that it's separate somehow to suggest that they're not intertwined and the reason I've always supported this book is because I know exactly um that that they are in fact I experienced that firsthand as a student in this District uh a while ago a long time ago um fighting my way into the higher achieving programs because it wasn't believed that that's

133where I belonged to begin with at that time you could count on a number on two hands the number of students in the IB program and on the free and reduced lunch program and the reason I believe in this work is because when I graduated and then came home I realized that I was the exception and not not the rule that there were many many students that we were leaving behind every single day and then in order to succeed academically you have to feel safe on campus you have to feel welcomed on campus you have to have an environment that welcomes every aspect of who you are and how you show up every single day in order to achieve academic success so that's why I will continue to support and defend this work every single

134day and Miss cleat you discussed this uh work as messy um it's supposed to be messy it's not supposed to be easy if any of this work was easy if any of this work was comfortable we wouldn't be doing it right so thank you for the work you do every single day um I just want to reiterate my full commitment to this work my continued commitment and I want to thank you again for all of the work are there comments questions from the board MS krevchak thank you for the overview that you provided today that was a lot of information and also thank you to everyone who came and gave us input especially to the two students really appreciate that you're taking agency of your life and being so active as students as well as

135the parents who came and commented about your real lived experience I I really appreciate your input there was a lot that we heard today and so I also took some notes so bear with me as I um look at those um I I think it was fortuitous that we began this meeting with having the um report and having the chance to recognize the importance of Art and social work and then coming to have this conversation about Equity we can see that improving student achievement includes matters of the heart as well as the need to address improvements to The Human Condition and so it's just kind of this broad scope so I appreciate all of those things today I am um also pleased to hear about all of our Community Partners and thank you for those

136of you who are here to talk about what you're doing particularly I wrote down some of the positive data points for um improving your tomorrow and for them that's very impressive that you're working with the youth from eight from grade six all the way to college I can see how that support for all of those years leads to the the great results that you have so thank you for sharing that as a board member and as reflecting on the data points that we have received over the last three months that I've been on board particularly the lcap presentation that we had last time one of my biggest concerns is student achievement and seeing um the data points elevated for our district and so what I would like to do is um probably not today because

137I don't know how we have this information but I would like to see how our efforts and Equity relate to the lcap goals and improving student achievement part of what you do is not measurable we heard a lot of anecdotal data my colleagues shared her experience I have my own growing up free and reduced lunch and English learner some of the other things that I've shared before so I absolutely appreciate all of the anecdotal data but I would really like to see how we can measure this in terms of student achievement and when we look at Equity um and and then we start planning ahead to our budget and you know what schools have which programs last time we heard about some teacher development that was really successful for English Learners or learning to read

138and then today someone else highlighted some other professional development opportunities I'd like to see how those are available to to all of the schools are we Equitable across you know all of the the different areas within the school district so I don't know if I'm making sense here but I would like to connect all of the activities that the equity department is doing and see what the outcome is for our student performance I noticed that the budget for this program is about 1.3 million and I don't know if that includes some of our Community Partners or what all is involved and that could be really big budget or really small depending on what it is that we're doing so I would just like to come back to this report and and tie it into how

139it's contributing or how it's affecting student achievement thank you absolutely superintendent nationality um Dr Calvin can you elaborate a little bit more on the budget that supports the equity work certainly so the bulk of the money comes from supplemental which is part of the lcap dollars that are generated by our unduplicated students part of it is from our seeds program we're no longer in seats because we have raised our performance data up cease is when the state identifies us for being disproportionate in certain areas for example we were disproportionate in our suspensions for African-American students so we are allocated dollars that we are mandated to spend to address that issue um again and and the supplemental is also unduplicated dollars dollars produced by our duplicated students so in each instance these are monies allocated by

140the state where we are required to address the needs of our students who qualify we also use title dollars which are federal dollars that are also generated for our marginalized students so all of those spots and many are used to address those issues and I just want to add a little bit more information so the dollars that are included on the cover page tonight are centralized dollars that the department uses to deploy throughout the district every single school does a dated analysis where they look at their targeted populations and they develop plans and allocate resources based off the needs that are full population so I I wanted to share that because Equity isn't a program that's only comes out of the equity Department Equity is a part of each and every person's work throughout the

141district in order to support the learning for all of our students so every single School in the district looks at data through an equitable through a lens of equity looking at who is who is progressing who is struggling and then they do a deeper dive to identify what are the areas that are needed in order to address those barriers to Student Learning so that students can achieve to their Highest Potential so I just I wanted to share it because it's not we're talking about Partnerships and programs that are centrally deployed but Equity isn't a program per se it is all of our work throughout the district Mr Miller thank you and I just wanted to thank you for the very comprehensive presentation um I didn't even know what questions to ask before tonight as a

142new board member I do look forward to continuing the discussion I have some questions um and but it's getting late so and I know they're going to take a a lot of thoughtful explanation and discussion um so I'll leave it at that and thank you again for your presentation Mr ABY thank you very much so um I appreciated the presentation I appreciate it going to the beginning of the winter Equity Summit uh just a few weeks ago sorry I couldn't stay longer um I will say it's something that I want to learn more about it's something that I'm trying to better understand um I kind of echo Miss crab check's comments um with regard to equity because I think in some ways it falls into inclusion and belonging making sure people feel welcomed on campuses

143people have a place on campus because that's going to facilitate their learning um but then also looking at are we are we achieving our original goal are we addressing the barriers are we addressing the disproportionality and the outcomes specifically in our most marginalized schools um so I think we have to look at both of those and so I think that's where I would like to learn in future presentations more about what is the impact to outcomes however they're mad is it graduation rates is it promoting through grades is it GPA is it College I I don't know what the metrics are but I think if we can learn more about those in presentations because I think that speaks to the outcomes of the program while also talking about the inclusivity and belonging that we're building

144on campuses um a couple just small notes within that family and student voice because of its relation to the lcap I do think I'm sure you're already doing this but connections to the site councils I think site councils are a great place for local voice in addition to the listening circles like you guys have a lot of groups you're talking to let's make sure we include the site councils if if not already um identity clubs I think they're important I think they are a place for people that feel isolated to find a place where they belong and and I understand that I think where we have to be careful is at some point we have to bring everybody back to the group I think that's why I liked hearing about the black student unions uh

145programming where they kind of reached back out into the community brought everybody back in because we don't want to create we don't want to create isolated groups right we want belonging but then we also want belonging within the greater group so it's a balance and I know it's hard but I think we've all seen in society where we can segment ourselves too much and we need to avoid that too so it's a balance I appreciate that and then just some of the other more specific questions I think the superintendent distributed some some questions and answers that came in from the community I think that was helpful for me and some of the questions I have um I think a common one I hear is are we reducing standards or are we helping people live up

146to what they need I think we're hearing about the international Bachelorette program um you know in that case is it are you changing the standards to get in or are you figuring out how to help the students meet those standards so I think those are the things that as we can talk more and better understand what's happening I think that's where either there's confusion or there's consternation and I think if we can talk through it and help people understand what it is I think we'll have a more Community productive conversation about where we need to do more work so I don't know if any of that made sense but I'll end it there yeah I would just like to add that that um boy superintendent best Nelly talked about the fact that this is a

147district-wide effort it's our supplemental services are wraparound services that we provide for all of our students throughout our system in addition to core so sites are going to look at their data and they're going to determine what their individual needs are and they're going to tap into these programs and services that we provide and make accessible to them um we shared a lot of qualitative data just the the student voice the parent voice but we do also look at other indicators we look at attendance we look at grades we look at graduation rates all of those factor in when we determine the success of our programs and what services we want to continue to provide for our students I'd mentioned that we were identified by the state as disproportionate because of our suspension rates for

148African-American males we were called out on that and told to address that and those rates have dropped so we do have that that qualitative and quantitative data that we do look at Miss Costa thank you to the staff who are here and the staff on school sites who are doing this work every day thank you to the students who offered their voices who are here tonight and to the students throughout the district every time I hear students talking about this work they are so eloquent and it gives me such hope for the future that we have such passionate committed students in this District thank you to Our Community Partners you make a difference and when you looked at those numbers I I just kept writing wow with sticky notes page after page because you are

149making a difference when I think back to where we started in the mid 70s with Margaret Fortune doing this work in the district and I look at the work described in this report it gives me hope that every student will have their academic and social and emotional needs met and be a part of a school community and know that they are a part of a school community what I saw is a carefully designed tapestry of allies and voices speaking out and supporting our students Community Partnerships a collaborative work network of District departments student voices and engagement parent voices meaningful professional development everything woven together carefully to provide a comprehensive Support Network for our students and that is what will make a difference in student achievement um I was not able to attend the csba conference

150this year but through the magic of Technology I've been able to listen to the presentations and one of the presentations by Brandon P Fleming who wrote the book miseducated talked about how he was a drug dealer how he was beaten on a daily basis in his home how he was a child of trauma and a child of the streets and how he really I mean he tried to commit suicide how he tried to fit in how he never fit into the school system and then through the care and love of a teacher who wouldn't give up who found a way to connect him through black history black authors so that he learned how to read and write and went on to Harvard I think about that and I think that is student achievement but it

151begins from the heart it begins from connection it begins from community and then this weekend as if we didn't have this wonderful report there was a Sacramento Bee article about our English language Learners at dire Kelly and at Star King and it talked about again the community building a network of support for the students so that the students and their families were supported and were able to belong and then met the academic achievement so your work is beyond Noble I have great great hope for our district because of the work you're doing thank you so very much Mr Hernandez thank you I'm going to be very brief um and I'll just say thank you for everybody that made comment here tonight uh my colleagues I appreciate your questions um I'm going to take a complete

152sidebar uh from this presentation and focus on really just one and before I do that I just want you to know I attended that conference uh we went to and I specifically went to a presentation from a school district down in in Southern California and their presentation was based on their ability to communicate to uh to their parents 90 of their entire School District was of one culture and there being praised as a district because when there was an issue the district had a Advocate that would address those concerns whatever they were and I started thinking about hey wait a minute we have that too and our face department does exactly the same thing and as a board member you haven't have no idea that most of the communication that comes to us from a

153parent or a child mostly a parent there's an issue and to be able to have a face Department an advocate for that parent advocate for that student that's going to address that issue whatever it is and to be able to help these people understand we're listening to you maybe they're not they don't hear what they want to hear as far as an answer but they're being heard all the time so my thanks is a special part of to thank the face Department that helps does it that is an advocate and is a board member such a relief to know that we have somebody to address the issues of our district first and uh and uh in my mind they are our first line of defense to help these parents and these students whatever the issue

154may be so thank you I appreciate it I appreciate your report I too have some notes and I'm going to start with it's More Than A Feeling we don't want just want our students and our team to feel included and feel accepted we need them to be included and be accepted because seeing swastikas and what was it the no black policy that came down at one of our high schools that wasn't a feeling that really actually happened so we need that to not happen and we need to be what we say we're going to be and I want to say I'm sorry because I know that some really hurtful things were said in this room and I'm gonna call that out and I'm gonna put that out there my heart is with all y'all and

155you are great you are fabulous you keep doing you a hundred percent of the time you are beautiful so I know some hurtful things were said and I know my heart hurts with you but I'm here with you just know that okay we're gonna keep on doing this work now Equity Equity inequality there's this graphic um I know there's a lot of equity equality Graphics but there's one that I think is really good some of them are very problematic um and I'm going to try to explain it everyone you know there could be people a short person a tall person someone with special needs if you give everyone a 10 speed the same size the same capabilities not everyone could get from point A to point B but if you give everyone a bike that

156really meets the it's you know for short people someone with special needs for tall people so they could all actually get to point B then we all get there together I've said it once and I will say it over and over and over again our communities are stronger when individuals Thrive and we have to stop the haterade I'm not here for it it's 100 not acceptable we need to come together in community we need to be accepting of each other and if you can't do that then you maybe need to check yourself because we're here for these kids and that's our number one job keep in mind too we really need to make sure that our staff is supported as well so they could be and show up the best they can for our kids

157100 of the time even when it's hard so I'm going to be all over the place because I was writing all kinds of notes but I'm going to say them all um we heard well yes I'm going to take the time to make my notes this is a very important or read my notes these is a very important comments or topic we heard last board meaning very disturbing outcomes right you know in our lcap report nobody can done it all of us up here we have work to do and it's not these are not problems unique to sjusd or California it's a national problem um our outcomes need to be better we need to make sure that our kids when they leave our dorms really do have what they need the foundation to thrive that

158they really can get a good job with not just any job a family family supporting wages benefits that they have what they need to thrive we're doing a lot of great work a hundred percent but we have work to do that was the why last week or two weeks ago why are we doing this work that was the why and this is the what and so I think it's important to point that out um you know just for those that maybe didn't see it it's worth taking a look the whole child approach is a real thing it is really hard for kids to focus on their education and Thrive when they're hungry they don't have the support at home they don't have right you know their parents can't pay rent parents working multiple jobs and

159can't provide the support that they need I mean hell I can't help my kid with his math and I have an MBA like I I don't even understand the questions that they're asking half the time that's 100 that's my vulnerability I don't even understand what's happening on going on so we have to if we really want to see outcomes improve we have to take a whole child approach and this is what we're seeking to do through this work and not one size fits all we need to meet each individual child where they're at and support their family so the family gets to work their child and I it's important work I do want to talk about data because that is important um you know even at the Statewide level there's been investments in the new

160Cradle to Career data system which is so important because we need to have a better understanding of what are the outcomes for what we're investing in so we're not continuing to invest in things that are not working but what made me really happy tonight is that we heard that a lot of what we are doing is working and of course there's room to approve because our outcomes aren't what we all want them nobody in this room wants our outcomes to continue to be what they are we just don't so of course we have more work to do and there is data is incredibly important um but I think that we've heard a lot of evidence to the benefit of the good work I'm almost done I think I'll just end it with I'm committed to

161this work I know her very hurtful things were said I'm here for everybody you know holler at me I'm around we could have a conversation conversation I could give you a hug we could do whatever we need to do to make sure that our kids and our families have what they need so that they can Thrive outside of these doors so thank you for the presentation and now we are at item I2 instructional materials updates foreign good evening president creason members of the board superintendent bassinelli and Miss Cunningham tonight we will be sharing information regarding the decision-making processes that support the adoption the implementation and ongoing support for adopted instructional materials joining me tonight is director of professional learning and Innovation Nicole Cockrell who will now join me at the podium thank you and good

162evening to set some initial contacts for this presentation a version of it was presented to curriculum and standards in January as a launched to the professional learning and curriculum Department's CNS curriculum Series this series came directly from feedback that we received from the committee at the beginning of the school year this presentation supported the CNS committee's understanding of the curriculum instruction and professional learning landscape in San Juan so superintendent bastinelli recommended that it be shared with the board to lay the groundwork for the instructional materials recommendations that will be brought to you in April in the context of instructional materials adoptions the CNS committee provides valuable thought partnership to our department especially in regards to elevating Community voice and ensuring that this voice is embedded throughout our adoption process they also vet and improve each

163recommendation before they are presented to the board for discussion and action tonight I hope to take you on a journey that will consist of three parts first the parameters and conditions under which we operate when arriving at instructional materials recommendations second the essential elements that we need to take into consideration during this process and finally the process and long-term plan that guides us each step of the way with that said let's get started before we embark on our journey we have to consider the rules of the road when it comes to instructional materials adoptions those rules exist in both state legislation and board policy foreign addition to our rules of the road we always have to be mindful of road conditions these are the factors that shift a bit more easily than legislation and board

164policy and as such we must always be considering them in order to be responsive to our community's needs as you can see we take into consideration factors such as existing commitments within our district our shared beliefs and collaborative agreements the local context under which we're operating and the internal processes and procedures that structure our work foreign that set the parameters for instructional materials adoptions some examples of State legislation include the state's action on our adopted standards the legislated timeline for instructional framework and state curriculum adoptions State mandated graduation requirements such as the ethnic studies graduation requirement that will be in effect in the coming years and any content requirements in our curriculum such as the Fair Act which drives inclusive social studies curriculum and the California healthy youth act which outlines required content in our

165comprehensive Sexual Health materials in addition our board policy drives local decisions such as our local graduation requirements and our policies and timeline for adopting instructional materials which prescribes that in grades K through 8 we adopt from the state approved curriculum list within 36 months of State instructional materials adoption we'll get to that a little bit a little bit more later while the rules of the road are generally fixed the conditions under which we operate are often more flexible and require us to be responsive to the changing needs of our community for example when we are engaged in the adoption process we take into consideration our eight-point commitment for educational Justice the collective bargaining agreements with our labor groups relevant events such as the pandemic and ongoing Staffing shortages our budget including multi-year projections and our

166internal procedures for adopting instructional materials continuing with our journey analogy we can connect the elements of our instructional materials review and adoption process to something we're all likely very familiar with Google Maps moving to the Essential Elements for instructional materials Journey it's important to understand how different components work together to guide us first there are state adopted standards these could be standards such as the common core for English language arts and math our next Generation science standards for science or State written content standards for different areas such as World languages arts and PE no matter the content area our standards are our destination they are the goals for student learning in the content areas at each grade level or course instructional Frameworks which are written and approved after the content area standards are determined and

167revised on a legislated timeline offer guidance for the ways we support students through instruction to successfully arrive at their destination again the standards the Frameworks offer instructional recommendations based on relevant research and public input input and feedback finally when we engage in the instructional materials adoption process we are recommending Core Curriculum that will be provided to all teachers for a grade level or course this is like our vehicle that gets us around wherever we need to go these materials are resources that support teachers and students on the journey to standards proficiency however it's important to note that curriculum and isolation is never an adequate teacher the use of curriculum requires a skilled professional to determine how to leverage resources and use the instructional practices often those recommended in the instructional Frameworks that will move student

168learning forward in addition to the essential elements there are also aspects of our journey that benefit from him from some enhancement in thinking about curriculum and instruction one way to enhance the journey is through supplemental resources sometimes the sedan isn't going to get us where we want to go these are additional and or different resources that support student learning based on what the instructor notices about their students needs however as with Core Curriculum the goal of using supplemental resources is still always the destination students Proficiency in the standards another way the journey can be enriched is by learning in community with other professionals through professional learning Educators have opportunities to explore the resources more deeply engage in planning and assessment design get ideas from their colleagues and determine new or different ways to meet their

169students needs when determining what professional learning our department offers we are always analyzing student data and listening to our practitioners needs oh sorry about that moving on to the next slide just like any vehicle purchase we need a regular maintenance plan for our curriculum this is governed by a variety of factors a couple of factors that determine that maintenance plan are of course our finances our multi-year budget projections additionally we need to take into consideration other important factors such as not adopting English and math in the same year for Elementary grades however one important consideration that always drives our planning in the long term is the relationship between the state process and our local process first the state needs to adopt an instructional framework once that occurs because it includes recommendations for instructional materials the

170state then initiates their process for adopting instructional materials which can often take one to two years usually on the longer side closer to two years once the state adopts their instructional materials our board policy requires us to engage in a local process where we adopt our instructional materials within 36 months of the state's action on this slide you can see an image of our adoption Matrix also offered in your board pocket as an attachment this shows our planned instructional materials adoptions through the 27-28 school year as you can see the state timeline for framework and materials adoptions is on the top of each column illustrating how our state Frameworks materials adoptions and local adoptions are linked together this Matrix is continually updated in response to our local context and the updated version is posted online

171for our community to view you can always access an up-to-date version at the link on this slide the vast majority of our adoptions follow this specific process which includes an extensive vetting of all Publishers many materials including question and answer opportunities with our Publishers through that vetting process our committees which include staff members community members select materials to Pilot in classrooms during that pilot period materials are used with students in six to eight week Cycles depending on a variety of factors and our curriculum team hosts Community review and feedback opportunities the piloting and feedback process results in a recommendation for adoption which is then prepared for our curriculum and standards committee and the board if approved the team implements the support plan which includes initial summer professional learning as well as opportunities to collaborate all

172year as teachers plan with their new materials during this entire process which takes approximately 18 months from start to finish the team communicates with staff families on an ongoing basis and collects feedback throughout the vetting and piloting stages from staff students and community members often our CNS committee members take part in this process as well sitting on committees and offering feedback on the materials being considered for adoption there will be a number of opportunities for our team to share more information with CNS and the board as we move into the spring the team will be giving ongoing curriculum updates to our CNS committee through May we will also be bringing a K-12 math update to the board in March and in April we will bring our recommendations to the board for this year's instructional materials

173adoption and our proposed new High School courses at this time president creason I'm happy to answer any questions before we have thank you for the report any questions comments from the board Mr Amy yeah thank you very much I just have two questions first I saw the collective bargaining agreements how does that play into the curriculum and standards I think one of the things that we really need to be considering um in relationship to our collective bargaining agreements and our relationship with our labor groups is that there really needs to be a process of input so number one we need to ensure that teachers are well represented on all of the adoption committees and then we also need to make sure that our teachers have input and choice in terms of the professional learning that's

174offered once those materials are adopted and then I do a second question yes and I actually I I messed up and there is a public comment and I should have taken that first so if we could pause I apologize for that Ms Wright can we please facilitate public comment reminder everyone who gets two minutes we do have one public comment Jeffrey Prime no we're going to stick with protocol and I apologize I I missed it I apologize so again Jeffrey Perrine I'm here to Simply voice my uh concerns I went to the curriculums and standards committee that I'm trying to join trying to be a part of because apparently we can't get the Quorum done because no one else is wanting to go so I have my hand up I know that I might be

175extreme because apparently you have to be super pro LGBT or far left like Miss Christian if you want to be on a committee but I'm telling you we need equity in terms of representation okay you guys talk about equity and curriculum and all this stuff and combining and I'm listening to it there's no equity of thought okay what I hear is all a bunch of leftist propaganda garbage marks his crap I see the curriculum I mentioned at the meeting talked about it got women empowerments group you got all these other groups that we're dealing with where's the young boy club where's the club to teach a young boy how to be a young man you know got all these women empowerment groups all these identity groups where's the young Christian group or a young Christian

176can feel safe everyone I'm seeing on these campuses all have pride stickers on their chest walking around a Christian person's not going to feel safe walking up and talking to a teacher okay so let's talk about equity in terms of it all that's what I want to address first off but the curriculum we need to get Quorum going the parents aren't being represented okay you guys can't even get your minutes straight because you don't have enough people to vote so Step Up get some people on the board get some people on the committee I don't really care who it is at this point but the parents need a voice because they're not being represented at all when you guys can't even adopt minutes I know you hate me but at least I'll show up to

177a minute and I'll listen and I'll participate in it like I'm supposed to be allowed to do as a member of this community okay I've never threatened anyone here I've never harmed anyone here okay I have simply showed up voiced myself as a concerned member of this community and I think that the curriculums and standards these equity and representation okay all I see is pro homo stuff and I don't give a sh crap whether or not that's politically correct or not I'm a Christian based ethos man and my community feels the same way as I do but someone on these boards that think like us thank you next up we have Jennifer Morgan hi me again just want to remind everybody that I'm a parent I've been on the curriculum and standards committee for quite

178a number of years actually there is diversity of thought represented on there we have people from all different types of backgrounds there are many parents there are all kinds of folks that are on there so again if you have the opportunity to actually observe and participate first before taking a single snapshot of a single moment and taking that as color for an entire broader picture um perhaps that might be something we might want to be considering as a group when we're appointing people to these committees that was our final public comment thank you so much and again apologize to my colleagues for going out of order Mr ravy why thank you um this is more of just a process question I just saw uh February to May will be curriculum and standards committee curriculum series

179but I think I saw that it'll be coming to the board in April um those kind of overlap well the materials be coming with the recommendation from the curriculum and standards like how's that work on timing yeah thank you for asking that question um to clarify I will say this so at the beginning of the year in September when we worked with our curriculum and standards committee on just getting their input for the year um they really indicated that they just wanted to be more take more of a learner's stance instead of being a body that just provides recommendations all the time and so um the team gathered together and decided to do kind of a curriculum update Series so that each content area would provide curriculum and standards with an update around just kind

180of how previous adoptions have gone because there was an interest in that um and what professional learning is being offered in different content areas and items that are of interest to the committee and so that kicked off in January with a kind of a version of this presentation um and then our our curriculum teams have been offering presentations and that will continue through May so it's sort of separate from the instructional materials adoption that will be coming to the board in April curriculum and standards will also hear that report um the date of that is March 22nd where the teams will bring their the committee's recommendations for a variety of curriculum adoptions so the related ideas but they're also kind of separate activities if that makes sense thank you you're welcome thanks I really enjoyed

181your roadmap analogy so thanks for presenting it that was very easy to understand um on Slide Five uh weather and road conditions what do you mean when you're referring to sjusd commit commitments um that's really thinking about like for example the eight point commitment to educational Justice we ensure that we weave those ideas into our adoption process where they make sense to do so um you know in the past we've also really looked at things like our strategic plan our mission our vision our shared beliefs those items that as a community we come together and create and then use to inform our decisions moving forward okay so not like Financial commitments or like ideological or no not at all it's just what our community kind of our community agreements is a San Juan as a

182San Juan team okay um on slide 10 you're talking about enhancing the journey in supplemental curriculum additional or different instructional resources that teachers use is there like um money that's associated with that I always wonder do teachers have how much money do they get in order to be able to supplement the curriculum um I think that that answer depends so um in general supplemental curriculum is site-funded so sites would use their budget if there was something that for example a digital product that a school wanted to purchase because it filled a need that they had um we have in some cases we've purchased um district-wide supplemental curriculum that meets a need that we've identified as a whole District that doesn't happen as often but in regards to teachers getting like a separate allocation for supplemental

183materials in general that's not necessarily how that's approached it's it's mostly site-funded and and sight agreed upon or grade level wants something that they really believe will meet the needs of their students and then they work with through their site Council um and and their leadership team in order to make that happen yeah kind of um expanding on the topic of equity and thinking about some schools that don't have ptas or you know don't have parents that are as involved and help fund things just thinking of how parent how teachers receive these resources sorry a few more um slide 13 the initial curriculum vetting will this be available to view and comment comment for the public yes we do provide public comment opportunities in all of our process so the first the first part that

184happens during that vetting is often we will have kind of a pre-screening process for any materials that are that are submitted by Publishers to be considered for adoption um oftentimes that will look like kind of a open house event where people can come and look at the materials and that we work with our Communications team to advertise that or we make the and I think and it's not really an ore especially through covid we've we've gotten very proficient at using our digital resources and so the team will also make those materials available digitally for members of the community to preview and then when the Comm when the committee is deciding which materials of the kind of collective submissions they want to Pilot that review and feedback is analyzed reflected upon and considered when making that

185pilot decision so no go ahead how do we info form parents of that I I don't think that as a parent myself I've ever received information maybe I missed it somewhere but how do we inform parents this is available for them to view that's also a great question we work with our comms team really frequently to try to to get those the word out through social media through our San Juan scene newsletter we we share the information with principals to put it in their site newsletters so that those are going directly to families we can certainly we're always also open to suggestions if there are other ways that we can reach out we have in the past also worked with our comms team to do kind of an all call through the Blackboard system as

186well to make sure that parents get a phone call to know that those opportunities are happening and that will be before March 22nd or on or after that that process has already kind of wrapped up because our committees are now in the recommendation phase so those steps have been happening this year in relationship to the materials that are being considered currently um so at this time the the feedback period has has completed because our committees have looked at all of that feedback and moved forward with recommendations um that they'll be taking a curriculum in standards in March thank you okay one more question when we when you're piloting the the phase where you're piloting certain um curriculums or different things materials are parents aware and um if they are can they opt out like if

187a class is trying out something new and they're not really good with it is it possible for them to say I'm not comfortable with my child being like a guinea pig for lack of a better word um I mean not we don't no we don't offer opt out opportunities um necessarily because those are you know that there's a lot of Ed code that kind of governs what materials we provide opt-outs for and those typically is that's typically comprehensive Sexual Health if we're piloting those materials that's definitely a yes um if we're piloting English materials for example no I would say though in terms of your question around communication our teachers do typically ensure that their families know that there are new materials that this that the class is trying out and you know work with

188families in that way through normal channels of communication but it's up to the discretion of the teacher I would say the communication is dependent on what strategies the teacher typically uses yes okay thank you you're welcome any other question comment Ms Costa I really appreciated the report at curriculum and standards and for the board the entire curriculum and standards committee really found this useful and the members who are former Educators found it just as useful as the parents that sit on the committee so it was one of those presentations that really the committee thought was extremely valuable I think it's fantastic that we're getting this on video so that as new members are selected to be part of curriculum and standards they'll be able to watch the presentation and I think it can be used

189for many years to come with new members so this is a good foundational piece for what is happening with curriculum on a totally I don't want to throw you under the bus because I did it at curriculum standards but for those of you who have Elementary children and you look at this adoption list you will find that English language arts is not being adopted very soon and it is not a San Juan decision it is a fact that it hasn't gone to the state uh the state hasn't agreed on the state standards and so there is a delay in the process so kids will be using the current textbooks for much longer than seven years and so that was interesting to me I I thought as a board member I would have known that but

190as I was listening to the presentation and looking at the dates I asked the questions and I think they're so curriculum and standards is such a crucial part of the work that we do as a district and I think the more the seven of us understand it the more the community can understand it the better we will be so thank you for the presentation yeah any other questions comments okay thank you so much for the report thank you we are on item I3 Camp Winters fee increase mission good evening again on February 14th if you remember we discussed the need for fee increases for camp winter summer programs fall programs and also weekend programs tonight the superintendent is recommending that the board approved the fee increase for Camp Winters thank you so much this is

191an action item is there any speakers cards not going to make that mistake again is there a motion to approve the fee increase for Camp Winters as proposed moved by Ms krevcheck is there a second second by Mr Miller all those in favor say aye aye aye those opposed that you that was unanimous thank you so much we are on item I for conveyance of a permanent easement at the Sunrise Technical Center to the Citrus Heights water district Mr kimara yes thank you president creason Board of Trustees superintendent basinelli Miss Cunningham tonight's facilities item is an action item it is the public hearing conveyance of an easement at Sunrise Technical Center to the Citrus Heights water department uh the superintendent is recommending that the board call a public hearing to solicit public comment and adopt

192resolution number 4072 declaring the conveyance of a permanent easement at Sunrise Technical Center to the Citrus Heights water department ready to answer any questions that the board may have I declare the topic of advance of conveying a permanent easement at the Sunrise Technical Center to Citrus Heights water district a public hearing and it is now open for public comment any speaker cards there being no comments I declare the public hearing closed do any board members have questions or comments this is an action item is there a motion to adopt resolution number 4072 remove the item moved by Ms vieskas is there a second by Mr Hernandez all those in favor say aye aye aye any opposed that was unanimous thank you thank you we are on item I5 Mr or Apollo uh thank you president

193creason board member superintendent bassinelli and Miss Cunningham I'm here tonight but then the superintendent's recommendation at the governing board approved resolution 4066 reducing and discontinuing particular kinds of services and 4067 establishing our criteria to break a tie break in seniority I am joined by Ms Carlson to answer any questions that you may have and this is an action item thank you thank you so much any comments questions from the board we're going to take the that was that men okay we're going to take each resolution separately is there a motion to adopt resolution number 4066 so moved moved by Ms Costa is there a second seconded by Mr biller all those in favor say aye aye aye any opposed that was unanimous is there a motion to adopt resolution number 4067 or yes 4067. that

194was unanimous thank you so much no no Mr Paul is still up we are at item I6 Mr Arcola thank you president creason and again I appreciate uh I appreciate that uh we are here tonight to present the superintendent's recommendation the governing board of approved resolution 4068 and 4069 4068 reducing or discontinuing Services um particular kinds of services in ECE and 4669 establishing criteria in the ECE again I'm joined by Miss Carlson if you have any questions thank you so much any comments or questions from the board we're going to take the resolution separately so is there a motion to adopt rezo number 4068 so move move by miss classes their second seconded by Mr Miller all those in favor say aye aye those opposed that was unanimous if there were much to do a

195doc resolution number 4069 a move no move by Ms kreb moved by Ms krevcheck second is there a second second okay I think Miss Costa got that one second by miss costell those in favor say aye aye aye any opposed that was unanimous thank you oh are you still there I'm sorry okay give me that with all the love I'm sorry we are at item i7 Mr Apollo thank you president recent board member superintendent best-selling Miss Cunningham I'm here tonight to present superintendent's recommendation to the governing board approved resolution 4070 eliminating certain classified positions effective June 30th 2023 due to lack of work and or lack of funds and again I'm joined by Miss Carlson if you have any questions any comments or questions is there a um yes is there a motion to adopt

196resolution number 470 moved by Mr Krab check is there a second by Ms viesquez all those in favor say aye aye aye aye any opposed that was unanimous acknowledge Mrs Carlson's excellent work in this thing just so thank you Miss cross that's awesome thank you so much okay we are at item I8 csba delegate Assembly Election every year the California school board system school boards Association asked District districts to elect representatives to the csba delegate assembly for their design designated region there are five vacancies in our sub-region and two candidates on the ballot let's begin with the two candidates on the ballot is there a motion to cast a vote for Cara left her left loft house from Folsom Cordova USD who was a candidate on the ballot for the csba delegate assembly any abstentions

197that was unanimous is there a motion to cast a vote for Cindy corollate from Natomas USD who is a candidate on the ballot for the csba delegate assembly so moved moved by Mr Avi is there a second goodbye miss Kraft check uh all those in favor say aye aye aye any opposed the abstentions that was unanimous we also have an opportunity to nominate writing candidates for the three vacancies I'd like to nominate our very own Ms Pam Costa vice president Pam Costa uh Craig de Luz president of Roble Elementary School Board and Stacy Bastian with Twin Rivers Craig and Stacy came highly recommended by Jackie Wong Jackie is csba's region six director and Washington Unified a Washington Unified trustee uh we'll take each nominee one by one and I will provide more information on Craig

198and Stacy when they're up for vote are there any other nominations question how does this work I mean we're voting on a region and then then we're doing write-ins to do the rest of the boards come back and vote on our write-ins or how does that work no it's just like a real ballot like you know about that you get you can write in and whoever gets the most votes wins from here but it was anybody else voting on Kara and Cindy any other school boards can you explain I'm going to leave it to Ms cost to explain she's been at a deli it's everyone in our region now these are right in candidates but I think he was asking about the others that she's offering up right now or writing candidates I get it

199but and then the other boards don't know about it exactly so then it has to be voted on by the whole region okay I think that answers the question it seemed kind of weird we're offering up three candidates and I I support uh those three candidates so I'd make a motion for that well before we do that we are going to have to take them separately and I also want to give the board an opportunity if there's any other nominations decision three that I recommended or nominated I should say seeing none let's take them one by one and we'll start with is there a motion to cast a vote for or actually I moved it didn't I already I liked it all right nominated so there technically is an emotion yet so is there a

200motion to cast a vote for Ms Pam Costa has written as a writing candidate on the csba delegate assembly ballot second moved by Ms viesquez seconded by Mr Miller all those in favor say aye aye any opposed I think you could write for yourself can't you yeah okay thank you and I'll vote for myself you deserve it it seems pretty exactly if you want to do it you know what believe in yourself I'm here for it yes okay a bunch of eyes um any opposed any abstentions that was unanimous welcome back thank you you're gone for so long okay um next up um so again as I mentioned in my nomination uh Craig de Luz president of Robla Elementary School Board and Stacy Bastian were both recommended by um Jackie Wong um happy to answer

201I mean I'll answer what I can I want to be in full transparency I haven't met these individuals um I was provided with bios but because it wasn't part of the agenda packet I can't really hand it out to you I'm happy to read those bios if you'd like me to um Jackie has been in uh this classic can speak to this has been on the delegate assembly for quite some time I'm new to the assembly I don't want them to be behind in members right so it felt comfortable and I trust her I know her very well that you know she's recommending this folks that I could stand behind it um so we'll start with thank you Mr Hernandez let's start with Craig deluz moved by Mr Hernandez who's Jackie no I'm Mr Amy

202who's Jackie Jackie Wong is the region six csba director and she's also uh trustee in Washington Unified in West Sac okay okay Craig to lose it is Craig delucque I think or something but regardless I'll nominate him I think we already got uh okay so Mr Hernandez moves um Mr Deluge seconded by Mr Miller all those in favor say aye aye aye any opposed any abstentions that was unanimous um Stacy Bastion any any can I get a motion can I get a motion I'll move move by Mr Avy can I get a second seconded by Miss Costa all those in favor say aye aye aye any opposed any abstentions abstains so um need guidance from Council do I need to do a roll call vote in that case or I'm getting and I I was

203saying too I don't know and okay I'm just I hear you okay so just identify the two of stitches and move on thank you Mr Miller is now staying as well okay so we have two abstentions MS krevcheck MR Miller and uh the rest arise so the motion passes okay Miss Christian Susan Susan do we know what she's doing is she still gonna be active is she still on the board over there at Natomas or she retired we I believe and I could be wrong I think she has like a past president position yeah I'm pretty sure right yeah okay thank you all right we are on item J board reports are there any board reports um mystery um I apologize I know it's late but don't be sorry this is our work we're gonna

204do our job I I do feel it's probably important that we just recognize that today is the end of the covid pandemic emergency in the state of California and in Sacramento County um we were all in a very different place three years ago and so for better or worse I think it's worth noting today as a seminal moment in that Journey um as we move forward so I just wanted to quickly recognize and acknowledge it as we move forward onto March 1st tomorrow thank you Mr Avery Mr Hernandez I want to uh you know um announced that today was that we signed up a beam at Earl Legette a new school or remodeled school and I was happy to be there today in freezing cold rain signed a bean but it was it was awesome

205to be there it's exciting to see what's going on in that campus too by the way love it any other board reports I'll be really quick really excited Greer is doing a chicken project and I think it's great more on that another time I was able to uh participate it's very educational I love it I'm gonna help um look for a donation like it's coming soon they're going to need help with chicken beef um I was really privileged to be able to attend the American Indian program center opening at San Juan High School it was a beautiful experience they have some work to do on the room but the community came out and was supportive and it was a beautiful celebration of Indian American culture so just very thankful that we were able to be

206represented at that event um also was in the room with superintendent bassinelli and Mr Miller at the acsa every student succeeds Awards which was again a wonderful event where um kids that I mean all of the kids are going through a struggle one way or another right but these are kids that are going through exceptional struggle that overcame and it was a really beautiful moving experience to see you know these kids are so uh resilient um it's very inspiring we could learn a lot from them um star king oh this one was really exciting Mr ferreiria Van Lear inviting me to star king um he is a math teacher and he had his parent or his parents he had his uh students do an advocacy project I focused on the redesign of their quad area

207Mr camardo you'll be getting a call very soon um and he invited myself and the principal to come in and listen you know and really be a part of the advocacy experience and he built in the math because they had to do some cost analysis in there and these kids I mean blew it out of the water I mean it was amazing like they lifted their voice and they talked about what they wanted and they talked about how it made them feel and they had people leaders in the room that they were actually talking to so I'm really proud that I'm working with the principal we put together a spreadsheet and we're gonna do what we can and I got to call Mr Marta really soon and um see what we could do because some

208things were just real small ask like we could get some flowers in a pot for these kids you know you know we could do a couple things but things some things are bigger so more soon on that um was really thankful that I was able to participate in csba's board president Workshop so I don't know if you noticed but I felt much more polished today than I have um in the past and so I was really appreciative of that opportunity to learn and grow um csba has great trainings and I reckon there's something for all of us on this dice for you know to learn um this is you know this is not learned by osmosis it really does take time um to learn and grow in our governance roles and that's something that really

209stood out in that training so I appreciate the opportunity to participate and encourage all of us to continue to participate um I thought it was really timely I had the opportunity to listen in and actually participate in a listening session for our black employees and so much I already know you know we share so much lived experience but I learned a lot too so I'm really proud of us as a district allowing hard uncomfortable conversations so that we could grow and do better so thank you and I was just very appreciative for the employees to let me be in that space because although we share um that we have a lot in common my title could be scary our titles can be scary and it can shut down conversation and that is not what happened

210in that moment so I appreciate um being allowed in that space and look forward to the partnership I think that concludes board reports and the that leads us to you we are at item K feature agenda items do any board members wish to add any items to the Future agenda hey future agenda MS krebject um I would like to hear back from the equity Department um in terms of um how the strategies that we heard today are measured regarding student achievement and and particular lcap goals thank you Miss kreb check any other items seeing none okay closed session we do not need to return to closed session we are addressed