001okay good evening even everyone and welcome to the regularly scheduled March 4th meeting of the San Louis Coastal Unified School District Board of Trustees the board met previously uh in closed session we discussed uh a student Personnel matter a stipulated exposion hearing an item of anticipated litigation some Personnel items and we conferred with our labor negotiators and coming out of close session I have two uh announcements in closed session the board voted to deny a government Tor claim the vote was unanimous and the board voted unanimously to issue a notice of nonre elction to Temporary certificated teachers what oh okay we need to um what are you saying okay okay uh we are we have provided translation services for anyone needing them um if you require translation if you go to the back of the
002room and see Mrs Dawson or Mr Kelly they uh will provide you with headphones for those who are on Zoom if you push on the world icon you will be directed to translation services [Music] Rao um gracias thank you um we have now to vote on the expulsion the stipulated expulsion that um we discussed in close session I am seeking a motion I move that we approve the expulsion all second so I have a motion by Mr Mr Banfield a motion and a second by Mrs Sheffer Mr Banfield yes Mrs Sheffer Mrs badano yes Mr Clawson yes Mr Buckman yes and I'm a yes so that passes 60 with uh one absence Mr rer is not able to be with us this evening so moving on do we have consensus on the order of business
003yes okay um student representatives to the board this is our great part of the evening and we have we have everyone here so can I start with PB because we don't often have a rep from Pacific Beach High School yeah um hello my name is Isaiah Hernandez I'm a senior at Pacific Beach High School I'm excited to update the board on what has been happening on our campus uh one of the uh one of area one of the areas PB is focusing on the school year is an increase a parent reach out to meet the school the school has held three additional meetings after school hours to bring parents to campus the first was in November to bring our Spanish speaking families to campus with the help of our El student Gabriella Mesa parents learned
004how to use Aries parent Square access our progress reports and discuss college and career opportunities the school has also held two different School site Council meetings so far this year to get families and students to input on uh school goals last Wednesday we held a College financial aid workshop on five families attending along with two Questa uh two Questa representatives and our eel uh Leah Gabriella Mesa to to assist our Spanish speaking families another school goal was to increase the student opportunities for Hands-On learning this quarter we have we've had two classes which accomplished this goals we are finishing our quarter 3 skateboard class with guest uh artist Jenna Jane funded through the foundation teacher impact Grant each student is finishing this class will come out with the skateboard they've manufactured from scratch and our
005construction one and two class are working on building a dog agility equipment for our newly renovated lagona Lake Dog Park our last school goals is to ensure High School graduation rate so far this year student uh this year 17 students have already already graduated and we are expecting 50 total graduates by June I myself I'm planning on being done with high school in June well done thank you very much please okay um my name is air segler and I'm from Moro Bay and I'm Nate land and I'm also from moral Bay and to start us off this week we had some general campus updates uh last week our 9th through 11th graders had presentations by our counselors about class registration for the 2025 26 school year so our planning for next year is already underway
006also students were able to uh apply for summer school uh which is amazing because they were able to get ahead for the enrichment classes that are being held over the summer uh our lpac testing begins this week this test decides whether or not students will redesignate and uh to English proficient it is a very important test for the students it will decide future class placement and choices and it aids them on their path to biliteracy on Friday we had a Syrian refugee and questus student nor M speak to students about her experience growing up in war Tor in Damascus and her eventual move to S Louis abiso uh she discussed the Syrian Civil War and more recent developments and described how war and relocation affected her family she ended her presentation with a reminder to
007be grateful even when times are tough and we would just again like to thank her for coming out and supporting showing that her perspective in regard to our extracurriculars last week mbhs engineering students tour the cowply campus and participated in creating their own cast medal medallions the band trip to Lake Tahoe was a great experience and success a special thank you to Mr bellier and our community for the continued support of the Arts this Thursday and Friday night at 6 PM in our theater will be our annual Dance Fusion show this show includes several live music performances by mbhs students invited guest performances and of course our amazing nbhs Dance Fusion team and then for sports for our final winner sports updates our priate wrestlers did amazing congrats to the three CIF individual Champions Chelsea
008Catalin Shay Dawson and Alexis Terry for making it to state competition uh baseball is currently undefeated with wins over Fresno Templeton and Al Alvarez High beach volleyball has had a great start to the season with many members often winning their matchups I know last week they played uh Valley Christian and Moro Bay won all of their matchups so it's an amazing start to the season boys volleyball had a tournament at Pioneer Valley over the weekend and ended with a 4 to3 record boys golf has had a great start to the year with a two and one record and their two wins were over by over 40 strokes and in that picture in the middle you can see there the team was uh fortunate enough to go down to San Diego this year and atttend the
009Genesis Invitational after its relocation due to the LA fires and it was a great time for the team and everyone had an amazing time um in news of upcoming events next week several of our students will be taking the SAT and the PSAT test as well next week we'll have our annual neon dance this week uh this year's theme is win in Rio Monday will be animal print day with a drink station at nutrition Tuesday is karaoke and the quad Wednesday is Glitz and& Glam where everyone wears sponge jewelry and makeup Thursday is white out with neon swag station before the rally and Friday end off the week is where all your neon close and get ready for the dance starting at 7:30 p.m. so we're very excited for this event thank you very much
010Dan lisal High School hello everyone my name is Linda Roos um it is so good to see you all again I'm so excited to share all of the slow hes happenings with you this evening today was our first day of the last trimester of the school year students are excited as we begin the final stretch here all while doing some pretty amazing things so let's dive into what that looks like on campus to get us started Guys and Dolls a classic Broadway musical comedy is opening this Friday this award-winning show presents captivating figures and intriguing personalities and includes some unexpected romance with 70 with 70 students involved it is a must seat tickets are sale for $12 for adults and $8 for students slows has a special night for students with a $5 ticket on
011March 13th on a Thursday um the website is there on the bottom corner of the screen if you would like to purchase tickets and support our talented students who have been working so hard and rehearsing for hours on end on the screen there you can see some pictures of our students rehearsing and getting ready for that um the show times are March 7th 8th the 13th 14th and 15th at 7 o'clock and March 8th 9th and 15 at o'clock moving on at SLO High We Are Beyond lucky to have amazing classes led by some pretty incredible staff which are filled with amazing opportunities students in the Advanced graphic design class teamed up with quality tinting and signs to Jazz up 30 skateboards the students got super creative crafting and digitally painting some awesome designs if
012you have some spare time you can catch these cool boards on display at the Fremont Theater during the slow International Film festivals Community skate night from April 24th through the 29th along with these amazing opportunities we have the dpla program where recently members came along together to build little free pantries to help address food insecurity in our community through this project student students gained valuable skills through teamwork and Leadership one of the main goals in this program is to complete a community service project each trimester and this was a meaningful step towards that commitment we want to say thank you to Mr Sanchez our wood teacher for all of his help and support onto our Athletics our boys and our girls soccer teams earned CIF runnerup honors and qualified for the state regional tournament tonight
013as we speak both teams are participating in this very tournament we wish them good luck as they compete today for spring Sports week one has been looking pretty good Jack and field travel to Atascadero were 33 athletes set personal best marks boys and girls swim hosted the slow relays on Saturday where 10 schools and hundreds of athletes competed in their first meet of the Season we thank our swim coaches and our swim parents for hosting this event some other March happenings consist of esack testing um the 5th through the 21st Guys and Dolls with the dates that we've mentioned and psat1 and sat so our students are really getting geared up for those tests um on the 11th we have our winner sports awards night and on the 19th we have tigerfest if you're unfamiliar
014with tigerfest tigerfest is composed of two sections the first being the General Session from 5:30 to 6 which is intended for current eighth grade student families as well as prospective students and families then from 6:00 to 7:30 we hold openhouse activities in a farmers market style where individuals are able to meet are teachers counselors and coaches they can also enjoy performances toward CTE classrooms and learn more about programs clubs and really just get a good luck into all the cool things we do here on campus March is going to be a fantastic month all around and we are ready to hit the ground running with this trimester um with that being said that's all for me um thank you for your time thank you thank you all very much for joining us tonight are there
015any questions from the board Mrs badano I just wanted to say it was really nice to have all of you here today thank you um Pacific Beach for being here congratulations on upcoming graduation maybe we'll see you again you did a great job maybe we'll see you again before graduation um I've got my tickets for Guys and Dolls and um I am what did I write down here for um oh yeah I like how the campus is coming together to support English Learners um with their upcoming testing at Morrow Bay so thank you for everything that all of you shared okay and with that said uh you're certainly welcome to stay and participate in the meeting but we're mindful that you have other obligations as well so um please feel free to leave with our
016thanks moving on item 5.02 seal Smith program highlights Mr Black uh good evening thank you so much for having us uh I'm Mr Black I'm the principal at CL Smith and um besides all the hard work and the dedication that our staff and and parents and students have been putting forward we do have some highlights we'd like to share with you tonight of course spoken from our students so we have a few topics that they would like to share with you with their slideshow as well and uh we'll have the first ones come up and they're going to be talking talking about our student Le conferences that we've been implementing the last couple years hi my name is George I'm in first grade s Smith Elementary I am going to share with you we lead
017our okay hi my my name is George I'm in first grade CL Smith Elementary I am going to share with you how we lead our student Le conferences I talk a lot a lot about tests and what I want to improve in my school year I share how I plan to reach my goals and goals I'm working to achieve we also share our classroom rules and expectations and if we accomplish them the more we accomplish our goals the bigger celebrations hi my name is Charlotte I'm in sixth grade at Seth Elementary I've been doing student L conferences for two years during conferences I get to share the goals I've have been working towards with my family which helps me take ownership of my learning I also share progress on tests and determin areas I want
018to improve on we used to just sit around and listen to our teachers and parents talk about our learning with student leg conferences it gives us the chance to grow our leadership skills and make our voice heard I enjoy this version much more our student conferences are next week and I cannot wait to celebrate my growth next up we have a couple students to share about our student Lighthouse teams hi my name is Sophia and I'm a sixth grader at CL Smith and I've been a part of student leadership since fourth grade to part participate we have to be interviewed for the crew we want to be on I have participated in Galaxy guides Welcome Wagon in the assemblies crew in Welcome Wagon we do things like school spirit wear contests and spirit days we
019also help plan and organize school events like the glow-in-the dark dance school carnival and the Fun Run on the assemblies crew we lead the assemblies for our school we plan out ways to make the assembly more fun like minute to minute games we even have a technician who is in charge of the technology for the assembly on the Galaxy guides we give tours to new families to make them feel feel more comfortable in our school Community other Crews we have are the maintenance crew which helps educate our superstars with sorting trash and setting up cleaning schedules for us to take care of our campus after participating in leadership for the last 3 years it has helped me grow in the classroom and outside of school I'm hoping it will help others too hi my name
020is Eliana I'm a fifth grader at seal Smith and this is my first year doing student Lighthouse I am part of the announcement scw there are many jobs to do to make the video we switch jobs to make sure that people get a chance to find their genius my favorite so far is the editor the editor is a person who makes sure that there are no mistakes in the video so it is okay for classes to watch for schoolwide information in addition to the crew Sophia and I have mentioned so far we also have the peace Patrol they make sure that everyone is being inclusive on the playground to keep our school Community friendly if there are any arguments we help them resolve problems and learn how to do independently we have two students to
021share about our student clubs that are self-driven and they are two that have uh started a number of clubs on our campus at lunch hi my name is Adeline and I'm a second grader I started the art Club because I really liked art and wanted to try different kinds of art I also wanted to share my love of art with new friends I thought it would be fun to share this with uh other people some things we have tried are clay stamps [Music] watercolors Sharp IES and weaving bands into oven mitts half of the group each week are new people trying out the club I get excited when this happens because I like art s speaking in front of people and I like sharing this with other people and I like speaking in front of
022people next year I want to have the same club and maybe try to do it more often each week hi my name is Emily and I'm in third grade I'm here to tell you about student clubs the club I started this year is math club for first grade I did this because I love math and I decided to make a club to help younger students to start the club I had a meeting with Miss Chavez and I asked her if she would help me out with my club and she agreed we also discussed a few details about it we talked about how we could get first graders to come we also talked about what activities we can do and where we could host the club in the beginning it was a bit chaotic because a
023lot of kids showed up and not all of them was paying attention after the first session I decided to limit my advertising and not as many kids showed up this felt more manageable to me some things we did were Math workbooks and whiteboards I I would give them a challenge problem I had pre-printed sheets with equations and strategies I would help them if they got stuck now we usually have the same group of kids showing up however sometimes new kids show up to check it out running this club is fun and I like teaching math to younger students I feel like this helps them a lot I'm curious if it's helping their scores and our final two want to talk a little bit about prop 28 and our Performing Arts uh program that we inst
024started we installed this year good evening s Coastal Unified School District my name is Kaye and I am in the sixth grade this year we started a performing arts program at CL Smith our fifth and sixth graders are doing a big performance of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the end of the year I was super excited when I found out there was going to be a play so I felt out an interest form him stating my top two choices then I came in an audition for the par after that I did a singing audition and then I get to find out my role initially I tried out for the part of Bara salt but then I get selected for the role of Charlie I was overjoyed when I heard this because I did because
025they thought I was good enough for the main role and so um we've been practicing on Fridays for steam classes and in April we'll begin practicing after school on Wednesdays to make sure we are ready for the big performance which is at the slow High theater on May 30th and 31st we hope you come and support us thank you hi my name is aie I'm in third I am a third grader at the beginning of the school year I was Jack and go Jacko I I worked hard every day when auditions came I tried for the main roll and the over there were many teachers watching the auditions in the end unfortunately I could not do both but I was chosen for Jack it was my second performance in front of an audience I felt
026scared and nervous but all of the teachers were helping me with the performance when it was over I felt relieved and happy many board members have gotten an invitation to our CL Smith cultural celebration this Friday we'd love for anyone to join us if you are available thank you okay are are there any questions from the board okay well then what I would say is Mr sorry I just wanted to say that all of your presentations were really really great and I can tell by the fact that everything is student L that seal Smith must be amazing and I think that all that experience really helped you guys present the school really well tonight and give great presentation I just want to say thank you for being here Mr Buckman so I also want to
027say how wonderful the presentations were and made a big smile on my face but mostly I want to know how does one start a club at CL Smith how do you do that how start a club what do you do how you start a club is um there's a teacher at our school and her name's Miss Seer and she is in charge of the clubs and you have to fill out a form and write your teacher's name and your name and write why you want to do the club then you turn it in into her and then she accepts it and then we we and then a week after you can start the club Okay then if there's no additional comment I just would say that public speaking is really difficult and very scary for
028most people so I really appreciate how courage just you all were to come and speak to us tonight I thank you for coming and we appreciate seal Smith school thank you okay item 5.03 uh Mrs yamasa uh yes we have our computer trying to shut down let's see if I got rid of it thank you all right good evening Board of Trustees and community members with us here tonight um it's with immense pride and joy that we gather here today to celebrate an extraordinary achievement one that will highlight the dedication hard work and passion of the entire Pacific Beach High School Community today we stand together to Honor Pacific Beach High School's recognition as a model continuation High School by the California Department of educ ation this prestigious designation is not just a title it
029is a testament to the Relentless pursuit of Excellence that has shaped the very essence of their school and it is a reflection of our shared commitment to provide comprehensive services to atrisk youth through the use of exemplary instructional strategies flexible scheduling and guidance and counseling services during the 2324 school year so that was last year Pacific Beach High School had a cumulative enrollment of 107 students though our yearly enrollment is fluctuating the general demographics are roughly 54% Hispanic 38% white and 8% other a little over 30% of their students qualify as homeless 12% are English Learners 16% are students with special needs and 79% are student students that are socioeconomically disadvantaged being named a model continuation High School is no small feat and it is a recognition that comes from a rigorous evaluation process one
030that measures the quality of their academic programs the innovation of their teaching practices and the profound impact that they have on their students personal and academic growth Pacific Beach High School has set the bar for excellence and this recognition is a direct result of the incredible collaboration between students teachers staff you the Board of Trustees and our entire Community I want to take a moment to acknowledge the teachers and staff here from Pacific Beach High School Mr doar will come up at the end and intervie each of them the Pacific Beach High School staff is made up of 14 people who work full-time and in full-time and part-time capacities there's one administrator which is allocated halftime because of course Mr dallor has other roles in our school district as well and they have four and
031a half teachers in the major content areas of English math social studies science and also a05 CTE construction teacher and a certificated parttime special education coordinator the classified staff on campus include a full-time school secretary Miss Briggs full-time career pathway specialist full-time elel liaison and a part-time LM ft mental health therapist staff your tireless dedication your creativity in the classroom and your unwavering belief in the potential of every student are at the heart of this achievement and you've gone above and beyond to create a learning environment that is engaging inclusive and inspiring you are the reason our students are not only thriving academically at Pacific Beach High School but also growing as responsible compassionate well spoken and critical thinking individuals to the students although I don't know if they here he is here this achievement
032belongs to you as well let's celebrate the graduation rate of 94.7% last year which was an increase of 16% from the year before yeah let's clap for that you are the reason we strive to be better every single day in our work your commitment to your education your curiosity and your very resilience inspires everyone around you and each one of you play a vital role in making your school our school what it is a place where dreams are realized goals are achieved and Futures are very bright and to the parents and Guardians who support our students at Pacific Beach High School thank you your involvement in encouragement are invaluable as well this recognition is not the end but instead a beginning and it marks a milestone in the ongoing journey of growth and progress and
033as a model continuation High School Pacific Beach High School and their staff are now positioned to lead by example to share their knowledge and successes with other schools all across California and to continue elevating our educational practices and we will continue to evolve innovate and provide an exceptional learning experience for all who walk through our doors there in closing I want to express my deepest congratulations to each and every member of the Pacific Beach High School family this is your success and you should be incredibly proud of what we have all accomplished together and as we move forward let's continue to work handin hand to ensure that our school remains a place where Excellence opportunity and Community truly Thrive thank you and let's continue to make Pacific Beach High School a shining example of what
034public education can be Mr do if you'd please come join me and introduce your staff thanks Lisa that was a lot to live up to so I appreciate it um I would like to introduce my staff that's here tonight um our El student liaison who's working a lot with our Spanish speaking students and families um a bridge between um our Spanish speaking family community and and our school so it's a very Central role in our school Gabriela Mesa thank you so much our college career Pathways specialist this is Lisa padian my my right hand my left hand it's every hand in my in the book Jessica Briggs uh English teacher skateboard maker teacher sewing teacher filling in wherever is needed uh Stacy Nar math teacher extraordinaire Anne Wilder and Deanie greenel our science teacher and
035school mom School mom anyways thank you so much for the recognition tonight appreciate it we do have some cookies and snack for a break but if at first the board would like to acknowledge the school yes Mr Banfield well Mr dollar every time now that I've gone to your graduation ceremonies I've seen such a light reflected from the students they know they've achieved something and they they know they're loved by those that have cared for them it's just such a a wonderful feeling every time I've been there it just been on campus as your open houses it's just wonderful you you guys do a work of Love Mrs shefer I think you I hope you know that Pacific Beach holds a special place in the hearts of uh us sitting up here that we really
036appreciate the work that you do with a student population that wants to be there it's where they have chose it's their chosen place and um we are deeply indebted to the hard work you do and to the um the grace you display towards the students and the respect you show them and the work that they do to get through the program um successfully and as Mr Banfield stated we love those Pacific Beach graduations okay uh Mr Buckman and Mr bfield mron so I just I wanted to say and over the last 18 years every time I visit the campus I just blown away by the staff by the students and what's this guy's name Mr dor um and I do have one sort of memory that sticks with me I I was able to come
037by um for the Christmas celebration and and one year I did win the uh worst Christmas sweater contest so thank you for that opportunity but I just I knew this was coming somehow Mr Carson I just wanted to say that it's impossible to visit Pacific Beach without getting the passion and energy and hope that comes out of the community there that you guys have just created an environment that is so exciting to to be a part of and to see and just congratulations on this honor it's really welld deserved and thanks for everything you guys do Dr yeah I would be remiss if not to share the work of the student Senate um we have um all of our schools representing um from fifth grade to 12th grade um and the youth truth survey is
038a survey tool that we use which is nationally normed and in in in that tool Pacific Beach High School is the gold standard for culture for how the students feel they're respected treated and um not just with each other but the the whole Community the adult community with themselves at the center and um the director of Youth truth has called me and said that they're in the top 95th percentile in the whole country in terms of those indicators and that just doesn't happen by accident that happens because every one of these adults here really genuinely believe in the potential of their students that come through their doors and love them up and I see it I see it when I'm there I know um when you walk like you mentioned when you walk onto the
039campus you feel it and it's evidence in the survey data not just one year but but for the last nine years so well done you guys Mrs Mrs B uh my visit to your school was foiled uh in back in December but I'm looking forward to my next opportunity to visit which I think is going to be a very special occasion so um I really appreciated what M Mrs yamashta said about resiliency and you are a model of resiliency uh of resilience your students uh that we can all look to um uh for guidance thank you okay so my turn I think you all know how much I love Pacific Beach um you may not all know that a portion of my high school experience was spent at continuation High School um in Berkeley so
040I have some familiarity I have some life experience and uh I have a lot of empathy and compassion um and love for for the students that you teach and the teachers that you are so I just really thank you so much um we're going to have we're going to pause for 15 minutes to have some cookies and um I would like to stand for you so go enjoy cookies we'll be back in e e e what e e e okay thank you moving on now we are um at item 6.01 which is correspondence at the time the agenda was published we had received one piece of correspondence from Lena Eagan uh having to do with Furlow days to reduce the budget deficit item 6.02 public comment I have no written public comment and requests to
041speak Mrs Sheaffer oh um we uh we don't typically hold to our 20 minute um cap on public comment but we do hold uh very tightly to our thre minute cap on individual comment so this is your opportunity to speak to items that are not on the agenda if you um wish to wait you're welcome to do so and speak when your agenda item comes up um I think that's it I have or yellow sheet at this time if anyone else wishes to speak you could fill out the form and uh we'll collect it uh I have Lauren uh and please forgive me for mispronouncing names um Nilla followed by Heidi T good evening board members and District leadership I'm Lauren canuda I'm a Student Success Specialist or S cubed I'm speaking tonight on behalf
042of our MTS team we want to thank you for your time and dedication to the students of slcusd we know the budget reductions have been a difficult process and we appreciate the opportunity to share tonight recently our team shared our mtss program update in a Friday Focus we'd like to share how the mtss program aligns with the board's priorities and lcap feedback the board's top priority for the current school year has been to quote accelerate efforts to close achievement and opportunity gaps our staff family Ames Community and students ranked quote strengthened districtwide mtss academics as their number one Focus area on the most recent lcap survey the goal of the mtss program over the past three and a half years has been the same to close the achievement gap for our students our team is
043proud that our mtss program has started to accomplish this goal but our work is not done yet at its Inception SLC usd's mtss program identified reading as a top priority for intervention and this Focus has remained in our first year the mtss teachers and academic intervention teachers aits offered just a single intervention lli four years later we offer nine interventions all informed by the science of reading our system has strengthened in foundational reading skills intervention structures progress monitoring and goal setting in addition to the targeted interventions the mtss program created the what I need or win time structure ensuring that our students don't miss core instruction this year the mtss program evolved to include a full-time student success specialist at each of our nine comprehensive elementaries we support teachers and students every day we conduct
044one toone screenings for 2,000 students 3 to four times a year we've conducted over 700 diagnostic Deep dive assessments this this year every day we coordinate and serve almost 600 students in small group reading intervention we regularly communicate intervention details like goals timing Logistics to classroom staff teachers parents and our team reads one-on-one with all 600 students every week to monitor their growth we coordinate and train our aits so that they can spend their time supporting students we provide PD to our teachers in small and large groups we've LED shifts in the science of reading and the newly adopted knowledge-based curriculum this work strengthens the districtwide mtss program so that we can accelerate efforts to close the achievement Gap this system is vital because learning to read is vital Heidi Taylor will be followed by
045Aaron Bardo good evening board members and District leadership I'm Heidi Taylor I'm also a Student Success specialist anes cubed and I too want to thank you for your time and dedication for our students Lauren just shared about our systems and now I want to share about my favorite part of the system are students currently our mtss team is serving close to 600 kindergarten through sixth grade students of which 60% are part of an identified subgroup socially economically disadvantaged foster home homeless Youth and or English Learners we provide timely intervention and we see significant changes our mtss system is built on early intervention rather than a wait to fail model student screening data over the past four years demonstrates the effectiveness of our program and intervention services this year in the first trimester we provided intervention
046for 137 general education students who were at high risk for reading failure these students were identified at the beginning of the Year provided targeted small group instruction and after just one trimester 54 of these students moved out of the high-risk category additionally we've seen a significant reduction in the ssts um in students being referred to the ssts SST referrals have decreased by close to a 100 this past year our Collective efforts are leading to improved outcomes for students and our school sites as we narrow the achievement gra achievement Gap in St Louis Coastal with the board's number one priority being to accelerate efforts to close the achievement and opportunity gaps one of our proudest accomplishments occurred last year when our s subgroup outperformed our non-ed students on the esack in Reading growth this makes me
047think of a current fourth grade student at my site she came to our site in second grade and was quickly flagged as highrisk on a reading screener after doing a deep dive in her strength into her strengths and Gap I determined she was reading at a kindergarten level with many gaps in her foundational reading skills I placed her in a reading intervention group she was quiet she was hesitant she told me she didn't know how to read I told her that's okay we're going to help you we're going to teach you how and our team did like all of our students I monitored her progress weekly and adjusted our intervention throughout the year to meet her needs by the middle of third grade we exited her from Intervention as she had met her benchmarks and
048she was now track at the end of the year she took the S back and she scored a four on the ELA portion her journey deserves hearing because without our mtss system she would not have gotten to that point I could stand here for hours telling you more success stories at our site and across all of our sites our work provides Equity access and ensures that every student regardless of their starting point has the opportunity to succeed we hope you will continue to support the essential work that our mtss system provides which prioritizes our most vulnerable students thank you Aaron Bardo followed by Phill Angel and if anyone else has filled out a form perhaps you could give it to Dr P at the end of the table good evening board members and District leadership
049I'm Aaron Bardo and I'm also a Student Success Specialist or S cubed and I too want to thank you for your time and dedication to our students in St Louis Coastal we understand that our current budget reductions will have an impact on the growth and success of our slcu SD mtss model we also know that our district leadership and board will do their best to maintain some semblance of the program we as a team hope to be we as a team hope to be part of the restructuring of the mtss model if that becomes necessary however we see the m San Louis Coastal mtss system as essential versus supplemental especially for students facing academic challenges and unique learning needs the reality of the proposed reductions means that we will have less people which means fewer
050students who are positively impacted and ultimately we will see less student progress particularly for students who experience socioeconomic disadvantages are learning English as an additional language and those in foster care or who are experiencing homelessness we would love our trustees to observe the impactful work that we're doing to accomplish the board's number one priority closing achievement and opportunity gaps we invite the board to join us by attending one of our upcoming professional learning opportunities first our SQ PD and data day on Monday March 10th from 8:15 to 12:15 in B3 you're also welcome to attend our AI AIT SQ professional learning on Thursday March 13th from 8:30 to 12:30 in J2 finally we invite you to visit our campuses at any time to see the small group instruction in action and to experience the wide
051variety of academic supports that we are providing to our most vulnerable students on a daily basis our entire mtss team is committed to the work of supporting learning and academic growth we will continue to provide and Implement quality instruction to all of our students throughout the remainder of this year and hopefully beyond the success story that my colleague shared earlier is just one example of what we see regularly across all of our sites every day we see our Learners gain confidence de velop essential skills and reach their full potential thank you so much and we look forward to seeing you at one of our upcoming learning opportunities or on site to see this critical work in action thank you Bill Angel followed by SEO Torres good evening trustees again and I eeko I would like
052to thank you for the hard work you're putting in in these difficult budget times I'm here not as a slct representative I'm here as a student way back in the 1980s I went to a school that didn't have structured mtss support I was an S student Hispanic grew up in a large city Santa Fe 50,000 large by that standards and I didn't graduate with my class why didn't I graduate with my class many of reasons I was a squirrel I defied Authority from time to time but the truth is I didn't learn how to read until the fourth grade I had no structured multi- multi-tiered structured support at my school and what did that do for my education is falling behind and being part of the achievement Gap it made my secondary School existence miserable
053part of the reason I became a teacher I didn't have win time so when I finally got identified as someone who couldn't read I gave up band I gave up art I gave up all the fun stuff that brings people to school uh because there was nobody creative enough um like our mtss team like Corey to make win time available to students who really want want to learn my middle school I wanted to take photography and I wanted to take a library Aid and uh can't remember what else I wanted to take but those weren't for me I needed reading intervention supports telling you what a miserable existence uh seventh and eighth grade was not being able to be a part of the electives that my peers and that my friends were taking our kids
054deserve opportunities all of our kids our s kids every one of them deserve the opportunities that comes with having supportive strong caring teachers um and a program in place that helps kids achieve thank you for I could even I'll try to be quick um I didn't even think I'd be able to make it here tonight I had a open house but um I'm here I'm sorry my name is s tus I'm the site coordinator at the um small family partnership monor school that um on the moral Bay elementary site and I'm here to say thank you kind of give you an update on our situation right now and kind of a little bit of a wish as well um I do want to say thank you first to uh Mr Pinkerton and Prader um they've
055been very helpful with us we needed a letter just to operate um within the district um and and they were able to to do that for us so we really are very thankful um we're small but we feel like we're an important part of the of the community we kind of we feel a a small little niche um and then an up on our situation we've been looking for new locations um we have known about the possibility of us of us needing to move for quite a while um to be honest we were really hopeful there was kind of three main options from what from what we saw one um from the informational meeting back in September there was um interest in possibly developing the property um that would take like eight years or something
056I don't remember exactly how long and so we were kind of crossing our fingers okay that gives us more time if if that happens we'd be able to stay a while um the second option that um a lot of members showed interest in was the city of moral Bay buying the property and and a long time ago we checked in with them um and they were really positive about us continuing to rent from them and so we were really hoping for that would would have been the best because we would have a long-term um location and we could stay there um there was the possibility of course of the the property being sold to like a private developer for us that was a worst case scenario um it might be I don't know how it
057is for the school district but anyways um we were hoping that wasn't the case that still might be the case um I know Morrow Bay City is still interested in I um I've spoke with a few of them a lot of people come to me because I'm on the site one of the few people on the site and so I do get information from them um now and then um but I I do know that um there's a strong community grp group that's interested in the site and um and so that might be a possibility um so that's kind of an update of where we are right now we're having a really hard time finding a location even though that we're small it's it's really difficult to find like classroom size businesses Ian yeah rooms
058whatever so I'm running out of time my wish is that if it's at all possible to um extend our lease because if moral Bay does end up buying it we would need to move out and then we'd have to then we'd end up moving back in um and even a small school like us that that's really difficult to to do that kind of move um my time's up um and if it's sold any kind of development sorry is it okay if I finish my sentence um if it sold any kind of development it seems like it would take more than a year to get through all of the planning and the permits and the the coastal studies and all of that so thank you Mr Tes your time is set I don't have any more
059yellow sheets um yes you would state your name and your three minutes uh Michael low I just want to say you you guys have never let my wife or I go one second over the time ever just wanted to point that out uh I'd like to share a couple of stories about my children's experiences in school my son Theo is in fourth grade at CL Smith and he was really struggling in the fall particularly in a uh subject area one particular subject area um we got real low marks on his report card and what we found out was he just actually wasn't doing the work he wasn't interested in it and we were really concerned so we reached out to Mr Black who met with us and helped us put in uh just a real
060quick check-in support for him and it's completely changed him as a kid and a student and he used to really dread going to school and and still in the mornings he doesn't really care to but he's always in a better mood now he comes home in a better mood now and he it just was really great to have a principal work with us to just really change our kid um my son Lucas at uh lagona Middle School uh got punched in the head last week and uh this happened at uh PE and I just want to share what it looks like when this happens um from a parents perspective so we got a phone call from an administrator and they said there was an incident with like you to come in and my wife asked
061what happened uh well why don't you come in and talk about it and she said no please hand the phone to my son and so we had to talk to our son to get the story to see if he was okay so I was the one picking him up from school and I went in and sat down and uh what I found out was they were um two 13-year-old boys on a football field at 2 p.m in the hot sun and uh one of them got upset over something and the kid called my son a and then my son returned uh the admonishment back to him and uh then they got in each other's faces they started pushing one another and then the kids swung and hit the my son in the back of the
062head and as I was talking to the administrator they said well there' be consequences for the kid who punched my son I I I said hold on a second let's talk about what actually was happening you have 13-year-old boys who are filled with testosterone on a hot football field playing two-hand touch already pushing each other and now when things get escalated um a kid is GNA make an impulsive decision to strike another kid and this is exactly what I see between my two sons who are brothers and so what we requested was that the kid who punched our son in a moment of impulse would not lose instruction over this because my son was fine and so I just just the other thing was uh the administrator said that use of profanity escalated it and
063that was an indication of why the violence occurred and I explained to her that kids use profanity very casually especially in high school and in junior high and so I just hope that that's not an indicator thank you for letting me finish is there anyone else present in the room who wishes to address the board no we'll go to zoom I see Nicole Dorfman if you want to um address us over Zoom use the raise your hand icon please um Miss Dorfman yes hello can you hear me yes oh okay hi there uh Nicole Dorfman I live in Morrow Bay thank you for um allowing me to speak uh remotely I really appreciate it uh some of you might know I have had children um in various schools uh throughout Stan Louis Coastal I currently
064have a at uh slow High School um he's very happy and he's thriving there so thank you so much for all the work you are doing to uh provide an excellent experience for him um both of my children also attended the Family Partnership monu program in Morrow Bay um which was also an essential part of their education at the time it was just an incredible experience and exactly what our family needed and um I am just speaking up right now to um Echo what um Mr Torres just asked for which is if you could please grant them uh that monor school um another year lease as he said even if the property is sold uh soon it it would take at least a year uh for the permit to be you know to go through
065the coastal development permit on and on those things take a long time as I'm sure you're well aware um so um I'm asking the the monor school is a very important part of our community it provides um uh parental choice and education which is extremely important to our community and um so that's it I'm just requesting at this point um that they be allowed to stay there for um for the next year thank you next I have Maria Quin and Miss Quinn will you be using the trans uh translation Miss Quin do you wish to address the board [Music] yes good evening I would like to share a concern that I have [Music] okay I have a concern last uh week my son lost his telephone in the classroom he uh was taken out for
066testing and he left the telephone in the cubicle where they supposed to leave them and I didn't like uh how things turned out because um um as part of the process that we are always telling them to go and seek the help of an adult and I didn't like uh what happened after a uh because um I think for me it's very important that our children feel safe and respected and no one did um nothing when my student U went to seek help from two adults so they didn't do anything um and I know that it was a telephone and not if it was not a life and dead situation or an emergency but if someone is asking for help they should be helping them um because it was important for him uh and it
067was not until we had to go there in person and handle the situation um and I don't think that should be happening at our schools if someone um loses something I think there should be um help we don't understand also why they didn't use the footage on the cameras to see or or or to reprimand the person that had taken the phone um because it was also withness by someone else so um very disappointed is that [Music] all no that was uh that was it I just wanted to share my concern and I would like to ask um that these issues are handled in a different manner at the school sites thank you right I show uh Darcy if you could State your full name please for us okay can you hear me yes okay
068DRC Castro we're ready okay sorry yeah I was just calling um in actually to piggyback on what seu and Nicole commented on uh moral Bay Elementary School uh I live in moral Bay and a Community member um and I really wish that there had been a presence at the town hall meeting um from somebody from the school board um because currently the moral Bay Elementary School property is in your care um and at that town hall meeting um that we recently had discussing the property uh it was abundantly clear that community members do not want it vacant um we all know after going to a planning committee meeting um last month that it will take at least a year if not much longer whether the city buys it or developer and we are very concerned
069about having it vacant I know in September the school board was actually um I believe it was in September was uh consulted not to leave properties vacant um you know we're worried about you know you leave a property vacant um it depreciates um and even though I know that the rent that they get from the school um is not going to save them out of deficit I I would feel like um any rent would be good it would be good they've been very good uh long-term tenants um so I would really like the school board to consider um having mon more mon uh the monor school continue to stay there for at least another year and give them more time so thank you for your time and consideration thank you um I don't show anyone
070else on Zoom is there anyone else on Zoom who would like to address the board all right then we'll move on to the superintendent updates item 7.01 the business and budget update Mr Bon yeah just really quick uh just so the board knows we are preparing in kin in particular and the team are putting together second interim um and I look forward to sharing kind of an update budget wise with the at our our next uh scheduled meeting thank you educational services update Mrs de yeah we are all getting ready to slide into spring break with our students here in a few weeks um today we got to spend time working with slct and labor negotiations this is a big week for my department as we're having our federal program monitoring review so that means
071these are California Department of Education Auditors that come to review all of our title programming Title One title two title 4 they also are looking at our UCP compliance they go around uh to visit individual School sites and lagona Middle School Pacific Beach High School um Mr Smith at um I'm sorry Mr Black at CL Smith had their visit today Mr wizar Pacho is having their visit tomorrow so that is taking up a lot of time and I'd like to celebrate the work of Miss Shephard and Mr nef um you know shepherding these visitors from out of town around our school district sharing the beautiful work that all of our teams are doing to support students so that's taking a lot of time for my team um I've also been doing some strategic planning around
072our counseling programs for next school year um and doing site visits as well working with Community Partners such as caps slow and the um transitions mental health I've attended a daac we've held a couple principal meetings we are also working on a new project related to family guides so the family guides was a fantastic project that um Mr Martin had worked on while he was a principal on special assignment to develop specific uh communication for every grade level kindergarten through well TK now although I don't think we have a family guide yet we're going to add one um through 8th grade and then uh High School guide that explains to families and parents what are the highlights students are supposed to be learning in that grade level how to get help for your child what
073curriculums we're using Etc but we want to add on to that with uh Dr prater's visions of creating a short video that goes along with each of those projects so we are working with zpp rooper our new digital I innovate teachers at the two middle schools to start um developing and planning those videos for roll out next fall and then I've also had the opportunity to work on board policy um updates and we have not put uh updates to ARs and BPS on on the agendas because our agendas have been so packed but do expect in the next couple of meetings there's kind of this little backlog we've been working on and so there'll be a couple more than normal on the upcoming meetings to review thank you and then back to Mr Pinkerton for
074measure seat yes we have a cboc meeting our citizens Bond oversight Comm meting uh coming up on March 17th so I'll be kind of reviewing our our current construction what's happening um looking at our overall budgets uh Kelly Lee is going to give an update on all of our um requests for matching State funds and just a lot that we go into that next presentation for them I look forward to meeting with that group um and then I also wanted to highlight uh Mr bonnin was uh down at cash last week he was actually a guest speaker um so cash is kind of the it's called coalition of school housing but it's really a building grounds Transportation construction conference um they have one for business officials they have for superintendants they have for school boards
075well they also have one for bgt directors right so um but he uh tag teamed with RM RM uh architecture and um what they did was they they kind of talked about the process of design as well as um some of the kind of latest features that RM has developed and it's kind of that same software that the board knows the back beach where you got to kind of fly through the campus look in the room check it out um we actually have a a new presentation for Baywood Elementary School that I'll be sharing with the board at our next study session um and kind of giving you that schematic design look at Baywood so you kind of get to see Mr Bond and in action and then you know finally kind of talking with
076him Chris hey what how' it go over the week what you learn what you hear types of things going to you know just go to different things and um basically it was kind of a confirmation for him of all the things we're doing and the staff that we have and um kind of the path that we're on that as he went to the different conferences went to the different speakers um to see that we had a lot of those things already in place in our school district so I feel really fortunate for our team and kind of you know where where we're headed with with majy thank you Mr Buckman uh thanks Ryan can you can you give us a little more um little more detail on what Mr Bon spoke about so he was
077he was basically with the architect and they tag team kind of from a District's perspective the design process and then in particular um the importance of having those types of Technology tools when you share it with the board when you share it with the public so they can get that fisical you know View and and really clear idea about what this construction is going to look like yeah okay if there's no nothing else then we'll move on to item 8.01 lcap update number four overview document and dashboard analysis Mrs y all right are you able to project it for me I will get started as they get the presentation pulled up because I needed to do some background um discussion anyways so again I want to remind everyone that the lcap which is our local
078control accountability plan that's what an lcap is um it's a required document by the California Department of Education it's a threeyear long document we are currently in the first year of our three-year lcap and we're working and here to talk with you tonight about the development of the second year of our plan which would be for implementation in 2526 the plan has to include your goals actions and services the expenditures you're expected to spend um in how you're going to address local priorities those are the goals we set for ourselves and the state priorities and it must specifically be written to address the achievement of students that are English Learners foster home Youth socioeconomically disadvantaged and students with disabilities um one piece of the required lcap that we have to develop and post is a
079description about how we engage with our educational Partners formerly called stakeholder groups and that is what we're here to talk to you about tonight how we are engaging all of our educational partners and the work we've done on the lcap development so far this year year now luckily we've been having a large this our our large community discussion about budget is going to come into play and be really helpful now because everyone understands that we have revenues of about $130 $140,000 and the amount of money that we're required to put in the El clap is $6 million so it's a relatively small piece of our overall budget of expenditures and if that was all the money we were spending on helping students achieve in these student groups that wouldn't be very productive or appropriate and
080we actually um focus a lot more than just the $6 million on supports and instruction to help students that in those subgroups um achieve more and and do better and feel like they belong at our schools but really this is again a plan to um spend about $6 million on the students groups that I mentioned click on it okay so um we started this school year early on with lcap pack that's our parent advisory committee Recruitment and in our recruitment process we work with our principles to ensure that we have parent and family members that represent all of the student groups that are called out in our elap we also start designing the surveys that we send out and we develop family Communications and flyers and multiple languages to ensure that we're informing our community
081about our lcap and we also uh draft what is called our lcap addendum revisions and those are our um that's our federal addendum document that talks about how we spend our title funding money our federal funding money in alignment and it to match the spending that we're doing in our lcap in October primarily we focused on what we call the elcap road show and that's an opportunity where um I created a slide deck to share with our community at large some background information about lcap development what we've done in the past and seeking their feedback um I we got to go to a couple Elementary staff meetings and then um the Elementary staff participated in the the survey alog together I also attended the secondary professional development day and right before lunch presented the lcap
082road show to the entire secondary staff and they had an opportunity to engage with the lcap survey seeking their feedback what's working well and what should we add or do differently then in October we got to meet with you and shared um a updated number one and what our plan for the year year was and what our overarching goal development was going to be and later that month we got to meet with with our lpac pack we are doing those meetings right now on Zoom um and are collecting feedback and if that's working or not working because it involves people from many different sites across the city and the coast so far we've received good feedback that they like the meetings in that format then September through October we were focused on really implementing and
083kicking off the survey so we tried something new this year because we had heard loud and clear from the board and from community members that we really needed to increase participation and Outreach and one of the strategies we tried to do was to build our lcap survey questions into the youth truth survey that we're already doing with our students and families and that's been a major cultural institution in our school district and we were hoping and found you'll see in a minute that it worked that we got much more participation by our families a couple challenging pieces that came out with the youth TR doing it that way um first of all when youth truth created the survey in youth truth the way that they did the programming and the coding of it they were
084not able to attach those questions to the demographic information that had come earlier in the survey so we are unfortunately this year not able to break up the survey feedback we got from families according to their own self-represented demographics that hopefully will be changed for next school year as we move forward working with youth truth um we also put a QR code and a pop up on our web page to encourage any random Community member that would like to give us feedback and engage in the survey they had an opportunity to do that we also tried a different survey method with our students um we have the new tool called Parc real and it has both video audio and text capacities in multiple languages and so we were able to use parseek real with all
085of our student Senators student congresses at our high schools all the Avid students at our secondary schools high school El's and newcomers and you'll see we have much increased our student participation information as well and then um we were able to have El pack pack number two so we brought um the elcap pack group back together on zoom and then in February just um last board meeting we were able to work with you on the required midyear update and in that update we're able to share what metrics we've achieved so far and which ones we haven't gotten student data yet on and we were able to share what um expenditures we've already made this year so we're here though tonight to focus on the part about Gathering educational partner feedback from across our school and
086parent community and this is that um exciting slide that I wanted to share with you so overall you'll see the big increase of um survey participation now again I want to highlight survey data is not the only place we receive information and feedback on developing our lcap as you are all well aware we had many budget Town Hall meetings and we had very engaging board meetings where we heard lots of public comment about the types of programs and needs our students have and that is also all information that we take into account the survey is Just One Way We Gather feedback on our elap but we did have super increased participation in our parent group our staff group as well as our student groups and um the staff by the way took the survey through
087a Google form survey so we used three different ways to survey this year so Focus area one if you'll remember our elap has three it's broken up into three different major goal areas and so we were asking our community at large the first goal area is about first best core instruction that goes on every day in our classrooms and we were asking people to respond to what is the most important element or development that you would like to see continue moving forward and so nine the way to read this pie chart um the number in parentheses is the number of respondents and then we gave the percentage so overwhelmingly um about Focus area one about half of our respondents out of the almost 2,000 people said they believe that enhancing Hands-On curriculum learning opportunities now
088this is a shortened version of language of what was written out in the survey if you'd like to read the survey you can you can access it um online later or I can send it to you but we shortened it for this presentation and then when you we wanted to be sure to share with you broken up to see if there was a difference in what was the number one priority from staff versus students versus parents versus community and in this um example you can see that it's over overwhelmingly green which again is enhan on curriculum so it's not just one group wants that and a different group wanted to focus on something else it's pretty consistent in the messaging good evening board I'm going to guide you through Focus area number two which is
089really about our mtss academic supports um what you can see here and what is really exciting to me as I look at this data is that we had the most responses for this particular piece of um feedback around mtss so 2,518 individuals that responded to this section and you can see that within the overall results strengthening our districtwide mtss academics is the piece that stands out following closely behind is strengthening ELD academic supports and interventions um and a little bit of what our s cubes spoke to earlier this evening around those mtss academics was already described to you um are El Specialists and our newcomer program are really those Eld programmingsoftware far in a way we had the most student responses in this section here um you can see that it follows a similar Trend
090although not for everyone our staff um had our ELD AC academic supports and interventions edging out ahead of mtss and in our um parent responses it's pretty much neck and neck between those two groups while students selected mtss followed closely by ELD um and same with our community and for Focus area three that's our intentional culture of care social emotional um support and learning you can see with that one it's not quite so evenly split up it's a little bit more uh diverse with that you can see uh the continu to align systems of K12 around student Behavior edged out um a little bit higher than uh the second place which was Coastal 21.6% was the safe and nurturing campuses so that was overall and then looking at the breakdown again was kind of uh
091not quite as dichotomous uh with that you see kind of overlapping uh depending on the reporting group uh what they um highlighted what they preferred so you can see that split um with it looking at you know student responses really focused on the safe campuses and then the student Behavior piece almost a almost a 40 40 of 40 41% um with that but then you can see kind of was more of a hodg Podge than maybe in some of the other areas interestingly enough um so a little bit more split up with that with the intentional culture of care so in summary what we heard for Focus area one was overwhelmingly um our community would like us to focus on continuing to strengthen Hands-On curriculum opportunities for our students and in Focus area two um
092continue the mtss academic supports that we have in place and focus on ELD supports and interventions and then in Focus area three again it was split so refining our chronic absenteeism response system ensure safe and nurturing campuses strengthen our mtss secl so that's our social emotional learning mtss programs that our uh counselors and teachers helped do and then Community also was interested in refining chronic absenteeism and aligning our K12 student Behavior expectations so we had an opportunity to share this data with our lpac pack and ask them what did you notice in here as you were reviewing the data and um it was following one of our um very well attended and and vocal um board meetings about budget cuts and so there was a lot of concerns about upcoming cuts and budgetary um changes
093that were shared so parents are worried that programs like ELD may be cut due to BU budget deficits um again we're concerned it's hard to make plans without knowing what the budget constraints are going to be there was again support for handson curriculum mtss is valuable and student wellness are important priorities and then there was also um a concern or question raised about our new reading curriculum called Benchmark and the assess ments there in and how those assessments were being done in some of the classrooms then we asked for feedback on goals modification and if they had any um suggestions or ideas to modify the goals that we have in place and one group had suggested a focus on pathway and transition plans from middle to high school with counselor involvement we do already have
094a a robust um process of six-year plans four-year plans middle schools meeting with high schools but this individual group must not have had a member that had experienced that or knew about that and so this just led to more questions and that we need to do a a better job communicating um at our school level what is already happening in those areas so um the action steps um that some of our groups recommended was social emotional learning continues and it's important to maintain AVID program secondary wellness centers and counselors as well as preserving academic and mtss programming so this is our our timeline of upcoming action events and steps so February we we just shared um well this meeting we're sharing the lcap Outreach data but we just did the M midyear Report with you
095in February and we're seeking um kind of your input and feedback on this educational partnership and then in April we will be bringing And discussing with you the goals actions and budgets kind of a draft outline of big idea plans and then we'll be holding educational partner meetings with deac and the lcap pack in May to get their feedback on the first draft of the lcap those goals budgets that we'll do with you before in April and then we'll have the first reading in May a public comment hearing because you have to have like an open hearing time and then in June we hope to have the second reading with your approval and we also have to report on our state local indicators so with that what feedback and questions do you have on that
096input from our educational partners is there anyone from the public that would like to speak to this item is there anyone on Zoom okay seeing no one then we'll bring it back to the board Mrs baldano followed by Mr Clawson uh thank you um this is really helpful and I really appreciate the introductory language that you provided this evening I think I think it's really important every single time that we talk about the lcap to kind of provide that context what the document is how it relates to our broader budget the specific student populations that it's intended to serve um and so I I I think that's really valuable and I don't mind hearing it every single time because there could be someone new in the audience so thank you for that um and then
097and and thank you for meeting with me as as well to to discuss some of these things and one of the things that I was really surprised to learn is that the state of California guidelines do not require us to only uh receive feedback from parents and students that fall into these specific Target population groups which is surprising to me because the document is intended to serve them um so I appreciate that we do uh include uh try to to to include those groups in our in our Outreach and and in the feedback that we're seeking so um I'm really hopeful that we can um capture that demographic data next time because I I think it's really important for us to develop a plan and to to monitor the plan the three-year plan that we
098have um by putting those those perspectives first and foremost and so um you know to the degree that we can continue to um improve that Outreach I I would be really supportive of that um and uh yeah thank you so last year we talked about the surveying methodology and it seems like you made some really concerted efforts to expand the surveying approach and I was just curious if you feel like that's leading to a lot more meaningful information and ways to interpret that information I mean is that something that have those changes met kind of your goals I guess is can I I'll speak for yes I think we made some significant increase in being able to um get the attention in time from more people to give us feedback um I think parek reel
099did work really well with our student population because that's a format that they're pretty comfortable with um but it did limit us because of the way that the um feedback um is analyzed is reduced down to kind of like top three we could dig into it more but um but I think we likely will move forward with Park reel in the future as a tool for working with our students I think the only question in my mind is if we want to and would be well served to switch our staff to the um youth truth as well so that there's just one survey that they take each year because we did have a lot of success using the youth truth as the Avenue for our families but I I I'll just jump in and add
100the fact that we on this historical graph this was really exciting to see that big jump that we you know got three times the amount of survey feedback that we did even from just last year so that to me that's a that's a win and I I think what we're hearing um from parac as we partner with them is Echoes of that survey fatigue that they're attempting to overcome by limiting the number of questions that we're asking people I think their rule is five or fewer and so we really want to continue down that path because when we speak with stakeholders there is survey fatigue that occurs and um and in particular around youth truth as they dive in further and further to the survey that that time frame of you know above 20 minutes
101that maybe we're not getting the highest quality feedback so I think that as we're examining the feedback and the quality of that that we that Parc reel is going to meet a lot of those needs moving forward okay uh Mr Banfield and then Mr Buckman we don't need to discuss this tonight however I'm curious to know um focus area number three feedback and it's um continue to align systems K12 student behavior I'm going to need to have a refresher course on what that exactly means but you know we don't have to take time tonight if we're I can put a graphic into um our Friday Focus if you want that yeah so it's basically the other half of the mtss triangle there's academics on one half and behavior on the other and it's tiered I'll
102put that in thank you Mr bugman thank you wow the the contact the engagement is just better almost jumped out of my seat um so I guess uh for me maybe the next is is how do we have some kind of increase in with Community engagement and is community engagement valuable so the non-parents out there I don't know if it is but maybe that'll be the the next goal I don't know um when I looked at one of the links there was talk about um Family engagement and it it gave can the examples it gave were people attending families attending cab uh translation services and food for delac meetings and I know there's more is there an example maybe you can give me of this what's what's what's being done with families across our district
103as a whole or as related to The lcap Lending that that in in terms of which expenditures we made for family engagement right now right now what I found was cab translation services and food for Det I'd have to pull up yeah the last presentation on our expenditures report to be able to answer that that question does anything pop into your mind besides those I'll give a little plug for discipline POS ativa that's happening next week so we're bringing back Tony Rosco who came in the fall and so we're going to do a miniseries with him and that was so wildly popular and um well attended there's like two more coming up there are several yes correct and then we'll do a then we'll do we're going to do on zoom and then we'll bring
104him back in person one more time okay thanks um let's see there was something about the I innovate program and that it looked like the district's going to be taking it over or has taken over the expense of I the I inovate the um in our budget reductions that we had recommended the district is asking the foundation to partner and take over our expenditures on the I innovate tosas and instructional AIDS and materials for our I innovate Labs okay great that's we are very much the answer I wanted to get yes they very much know we were doing it we are very much hoping that those programs will continue but we are requesting the foundation to to support economically the people in those positions and so so part of my question was is it's great
105when the foundation comes up with these wonderful programs but the connection or ultimately comes part part of the district's responsibility is creating a program that we can't afford to maintain which it sounds like we've discovered is is difficult and so just throwing that out what I would add is that what we're hearing from our stakeholder groups though is their number one interest in engaging instruction is Hands-On learning opportunities yeah so um our community across all of our stakeholder groups very much wants us to continue to engage in the I inovate programming so perhaps I'm missing what your suggestion is okay you can talk later it's okay if the foundation creates great programs and then hands them to the district and the district can't afford to do them maybe the planning needs to be upfront on
106or at least in conjunction so that we don't create these programs and create expectations and then the district can't afford to maintain it so that's what I was trying to say thank you this other one caught my attention work-based learning opportunities to provide students in-depth interaction with indust industry professionals and if appropriate academic uh credit so that there's the the organization out at the airport are there other examples where we've had that intense relationship with businesses do you want to talk about the CTE exter I'd actually like to in my next CR yeah can we save that for the secondary engagement that'd be great great okay thanks I think that gives me those are the things I had questions right now thank you and congratulations it's just stunning I I should give Mr Pinkerton credit
107for the idea of linking elcap and youth truth together it was his brainchild and it worked really well may I just um I guess I'm seeking to clarify what Mr Buckman said I thought that I innovate was a sort of a joint venture of the foundation and the district and in the recent budget reductions we've asked um the foundation to pick up the entire cost of the I inovate tosis is that correct yes Mr Dr Brader would you like to speak because I wasn't around for the Inception but that is in my understanding Mrs Roger yeah everything we do with the foundation is a partnership and it started it's not um sort of it's not an idea that comes from the foundation and they come to us and say let's do this um and um
108and then ultimately pass that cost on to us it's it it really is a the foundation is a genuine thought partner where they are using the feedback and the observational data that we see and they're looking for opportunities to partner with us and I inovate came out of that Spirit where kids were asking for uh more Hands-On experiences and um one of the parents in our in our who's actually the president of the foundation board David Mitchell funded the entire I innovate Lab at bwood school we saw that and um and then what happened was we from the foundation in conversation with um our our entire District staff was the idea of replicating that across the whole district and it was a great partnership um and now what we learned as we as this evolved
109is that not all kids were getting access to the labs so the foundation agreed to hire two AIDs that specialized in running these lessons throughout all Elementary classrooms but in the labs at elementary schools so um those entry uh activities and so the foundation has paid for the two AIDS one of the two I inovate tosas and we as a district pay for one I inovate tosa the two I inovate tosas work together to create these activities and train up classroom teachers who are willing to um they call them LED teachers these are voluntary teachers that come in and and join in to do these um build their capacity as teachers so they can replicate some of these Hands-On activities in their classrooms and it's really taken off uh last couple years have been really
110busy especially with the adoption of the new Ela adoption So In fairness to our teachers that's a lot on their plate um and of course the refinement of our mtss program uh speaking of all you guys staring right at me um and uh I do love you guys just so you know that I appreciate what you're doing and so it's becoming quickly becoming an integrated experience we're getting better and better better each year and um this year because of our budgetary constraints we met with the foundation and asked them if they would take our portion of the I inovate which is one I inovate tosa and they well they're still determining I don't want to put decisions in their in their realm but we presented that as a concept they also want to keep the
111um youth Athletics for achievement going well they'll they will absorb some of those costs if they agree and not to forget about the NextGen program where they agree to approve another cohort of kids with promise and so the first cohort is really taking off the second cohort um is going to do the same and these kiddos are the ones that you're going to see in the data that are entering our more advanced courses in the high schools and even at the middle schools so what you're seeing with the foundation uh isn't just um uh getting into a lab and playing with things what you're you're really seeing with our foundation what they're trying to do is influence and impact the quality of learning experiences that our kids have where all kids not just the ones
112that are more Adept but kids that really have potential that all kids get access to these things and and um expand those opportunities in laboratory environments as well as in the classrooms across our district so and and then the next piece they're working on with us is the Outreach to Industry leaders where we're asking industry Partners Mr Buckman you asked about ACI jet are there others and Mr nef's going to talk about it the ultimate vision is that our kiddos from TK all the way up through 12th have this experience that's integrated and and so engaging and relevant to their world that when they when they are going to school they're developing these interests and passions and skills that industry is seeking so they can have opportunities not just to go to college but also
113to enter into a Workforce where they can make a really great living in our community and and or in our region and that's the ultimate goal I don't want to steal Dan's Thunder but that's the the idea behind the foundation is to expand opportunity and improve the quality of learning experiences for all kids inside the district thank you y let me get back to where I want to be here sure so the so the other thing is um is the the growth in the input from the community and it seems to be our our main groups that are within the district so when you reach out to the um the rest of the community I'm wondering um I just always have suggestions so um service clubs might be an interesting place to go religious organizations
114um the unions that are in the community other professional organizations I think there's a lawyers group um so I just throw those out as possible future survey takers thank you Mr Carson um just as a followup to your discussion mark on on the foundation I mean what I heard you ask is whether the foundation is creating programs that then become a financial burden for the district was that what you're were suggesting that's what I heard thank thanks for asking not that there a financial burden to the district just so long as they we can maintain them um because I I mean I just so we don't create public misers I think the opposite is happening I think programs are being created because of the foundation and as we hit budget needs they're stepping up to
115cover those costs so I just don't want a misperception that that the foundation is doing anything other than creating programs for us that are helping our kids and providing financial support to the district because um I don't know I just don't want it to be miscon that's not yeah I think there's at least two programs here where the foundation is potentially helping us in a time of budget crisis in a way that's very positive so yeah thanks that's not what I it's just it's just coming across wrong and thanks if I could remind the board we're also starting to braid Foundation funding as well as our prop 28 funding at our middle levels so our I innovate programming in the digital media arts lab is a combination of foundation materials and and um you know
116space things we need but the Staffing is provided by our prop $28 for digital media arts okay thank you if there's no additional comment then we'll move on to item 8.02 secondary engagement report right thank you very much for allowing myself and MLL clicker perfect thank you um as well as Miss gold here to presents on uh lots of different types of information for secondary student engagement uh as you probably remember um it was a little while ago but in the fall presented uh various academic metrics that we report at the secondary level especially high school we look at both Middle School and High School have CP of course um and then we look at college career Readiness indicator um back to P data CT complete complete pathway completion data all these different things um
117and if you recall I said kind of one of the big things at the end of that for me as a second director and as a high school principal and as a you know three kids that have well two have gone through High School one's in high school right now um opportunities for kids is super important and so when you talk about engagement at the secondary level secondary has so many things going on both inside and outside the classroom and outside the classroom and also co-curricular all those things that occur are super important for Student Success both you and anecdotally as a as a practitioner as a parent and research says the more kids are involved in what goes on at school the more successful they will both be at school and after school both
118literally after school and postsecondary right getting kids involved in things and one of the things in this District that I'm proud to say is we have a ton of things for kids to be involved in at the secondary level um for all sorts of different areas whether that's um CTE if it's Arts if it's Athletics if it's speech and debate mock trial all these different venues for kids to explore and figure out what they want to do as I used to tell kids when I was a high school principal I studied bugs all the way through grad school like I was an entomologist and now I've been a principal and a secondary director like you you don't know particularly what always what you want to do right and so being exposed to different things and
119for myself and college doing an internship and realize I totally did not want to do the job that I was supposed to get when I graduated from college was was a huge piece for myself and so I think that's also for one of my goals as I work in this position is to keep expanding those opportunities for kids and so tonight it's not exhaustive but tried to put together sort of kind of all these different ways that students are engaged um at our secondary schools that sometimes may show up on the dashboard but sometimes may not um but they are what they Experience day in and day out there we go so I I'll talk about some of the things we mentioned just a little bit ago in terms of avid and gen scholar program
120hi my name is Marcy Bell I have the great privilege of overseeing avid NextGen and our Career Technical education as well uh for Avid obviously as you guys can see and uh we're really fortunate to have a school board that is very involved in Avid and very supportive so I don't feel like I need to go over all the details with Avid because I think you know um but it definitely is one of those courses that um on top of College and Career exploration College trips um tutoring from CP fellows but all of that combined it's a safe space for those students that are in Avid it's a family and so while what's happening in the classroom academically is really important that social emotional learning that we're talking a lot about for students Avid is
121that safe space for them um and so I feel really fortunate and lucky to work with amazing Avid teachers that are helping create that safe space um I know this is about student engagement but I did want to give a shout out to our counselors we have now bilingual counselors at almost all of our secondary sites they've made an immense immense um I would say impression and just again that support system in our Avid classes um this is again just kind of a side note because you guys do know um Avid so well our senior Avid class I believe about two weeks ago two or three weeks ago um did a collaboration with our newcomer class and the seniors helped the newcomer students go over they're scheduling I was like this is what an elective
122is here are CTE Pathways and so being able to have that peer mentorship was really really powerful and being able to have the Avid teacher the newcomer teacher and our bilingual counselor all in the room and being able to facilitate um was just really a powerful so I wanted to share that story um it's not just that our teachers are having an impact on our Avid kids they're having an impact on our campuses um I was really hoping Linda Gary was going to be here ASB president at sloh high she's a six-year Avid student um and is one of many success stories so um for next gen Scholars I know Dr Prader mentioned um quite a bit about our next gen Scholars Program and I have some data that I'm going to share as well
123um for this year the nextg scholars this is the second year but it was their first year of being in high school and so we really spent this year collaborating um with Miss yashida with Mr nef U with Miss Robertson with again counselors School site members of what does this now look like when they're in high school uh Middle School is a little bit more prescribed they only have so many choices High School just opens up so many opportunities for them which is amazing but how can we help them in their navigation of high school so we really have been working with um all of our staff members on what that looks like um we're really fortunate to partner with the college Corps program for the last three years so currently I oversee 13 CP
124students who volunteer in our Avid classes but this year I also plac them in our math classes and so trying to um coordinate which classes the nextg students have to make sure that there were tutors in all of those math classes math is typically um I would say a pressure point for a lot of students so wanting to make sure that they were supported in that so that was something new that we added to support the next gen students not just having them in our Avid classes but also uh pushing them into our math classes um they also were in the newcomer math classes as well even though there weren't nextg students in those classes we had the availability and we wanted to support that program so we're doing that as well um high school
125summer school opportunities we are very fortunate in this District that we have a very robust summer school program as you guys I'm sure know um but we I think do a really good job of supporting our nextg students so last year the eighth graders who were matriculating into High School took a geometry class that's an advancement usually freshmen would take algebra we had two credential teachers in that class we had two CPO students who were supporting them in that class um and I'm proud to say that every student every nextg student that was in that course either got a b or an A in that class and many of them came into that class with c's um I'd have to again like look at the data specifically of the percentages but it was a really
126really great program very powerful to go in there um and see this students being able to this is their first High School class and to be empowered in that um and so we will be doing that again with the current eighth graders who are going to be freshmen for our current nextg cohort who are freshman matriculating into sophomore year as you know there's so many different avenues that you can take so there's not necessarily one prescribed class as we had with the geometry so we've given them a couple of options and again we'll be U working with the foundation to help support uh what that looks like between hiring extra AIDS extra counseling support um more cowply fellows to work in whether it is a math class a social science class um we will be
127working on those supports for them um so this is just a few um I like data I'm a former coach so I like statistics um so this is just a little bit numbers um to share with you you can obviously see enrollment numbers um we've increased enrollment at all of our sites and our goal is to continue um that increase um the one kind of percentage point that I really wanted to point out was the 100% so 100% of avid High School seniors um are a through G compliant between our two Comprehensive High Schools um and they all applied to three or more universities um I was at Moro Bay Avid um today and every single one of them have gotten into it least one fouryear University right now I believe sloh High um is
128the same so at least one if not more and as you know there's more more College admissions we'll be rolling in it's still very early um but really really proud of the work again that the teachers and the counselors are doing with our Avid students that's an incredible number to have 100% of those students be a through G compliant U for nextg So currently there are 41 freshmen um 16 students moral Bay High School and 25 students at St L St Lis abiso High School 75% of students are in one or more honors or accelerated courses which um is really staggering when you would look at potentially the demographics of these students that doesn't necessarily match up outside of a nextg program uh which I think really shows all the supports that are in place
129that not only help them uh be academically successful but again that confidence that confidence to be able to take those AP classes um to be able to to take those honors classes accelerated classes um so we're in recruitment for this next upcoming class um as Mr as Dr Prader had said um the Education Foundation was able to fundraise um enough money to fund 100 students so we have our current 41 we're trying to get that those current freshmen that are going to be sophomores we'd like to recruit a little bit more try to get 50 and then the current eighth graders who are going to be nth graders we have enough funding for another 50 students so to be able to have a total of 100 students that will be in high school next year
130is the goal um and I did put on there but we created a an avid NextGen website that is now on our district website it should be on our school uh websites here soon but we um collaborated with the teachers to come up with one common High School application one common Middle School application and have it on the website so it's a little bit more accessible uh for students and families and it's in English and Spanish as well yeah so I'm going to transition a little bit uh to CTE um Innovation and modernization so um as you can see over the last couple of years we've spent over a million dollars outfitting our CTE uh Pathways with Machinery technology um that is really to ensure that students are working with IND what we always say
131is industry standard we really tell the students you are so fortunate to be working with this equipment um last year the education found Foundation did a tour of um multiple of our CTE courses Dr Prader was there and um having some of the board members from the foundation that are in the industries that were wanting the students to be exposed to they were shocked at the level of Machinery that we have um I'm a history teacher by trade so I walk in the classrooms I have no idea what they do I'm just like that's really cool um and so to be able to have students teenagers explain to me like this is what this machine does and just their depth of knowledge um with industry standard machines is really incredible um I have a long
132list there of some of the recent ones um the two that I really wanted to highlight is a CNC machine that we just purchased this last year at s Lisa bball High School it was about a 70,000 investment um all of this comes from Grant funds not General funds don't worry um and so it is one of those things that um has really transformed a class so $70,000 some SS like a lot but it really has transformed the class they um did a project a few months ago that they actually partnered with Habitat for Humanity and Habitat for Humanity asked them to build um like playhouses for children toddlers they're like about six feet tall um I want to say they're six foot by 4 foot and our students designed them built them painted them
133and um donated them to Habitat for Humanity families that wanted them for their yards Etc um the Plastics project at Mor Bay High School if you have not been out to the moral Bay engineering lab it blows my mind um Mr wendorf who is the engineering teacher out at Morrow Bay um is very very Innovative um and really makes the students think Beyond just I think like General engineering concept so one of the projects that he started last year is the Plastics project and so we've invested about 50,000 so far this year um in Machinery to um have Mr wendorf teach his students how to uh they collect plastic from school from their homes they break down the plastic and then they make things out of them they've made surfboards skateboards tables chairs um so
134there's you know that environmentalist component understanding about your community and then being able to use this very Hightech powered Machinery so it's a really really um I I think impactful project on the students for them to be able to see it's not just about learning how to make cool things but it's also helping the environment and helping your community and then one of the things I wanted to highlight um again I know that this is about student engagement but I thought it was really important to share that one of the um I would think I would say things that separate CTE teachers from um our other teachers is that they have the opportunity to do externships and externships are basically they get to go into an industry they spend a day a couple days a
135week uh depending on what their need is and they learn about the industry um and that's really really important because they're coming back and sharing all that knowledge with their students um you can see a list of some of the um ones just this this is all just from this school year um I would say the one that people like to talk about the most is the SpaceX um externship uh Tim Fay who is our engineering welding teacher at St lispo High School had a former St lispo high school student who's working for SpaceX in Austin Texas he invited him to come and so he spent about a week um in Austin Texas at SpaceX and just really engulfed him himself in what does this all look like what opportunities are there going job opportunities
136are there going to be available um and he's been invited back again next year to actually be there for a launch so which he's very excited about um and we're excited for him because again just being able to share those experiences with the students um being able to see him talk he's a longtime teacher he's been in the classroom for I think almost 20 years and so the fact that they're constantly having that like growth mindset of learning and learning more to be able to share with students um I just think is really important and again adds to the student engagement and then my last slide um is College and Career Readiness um County and Statewide comparison so this is from 2023 the 2024 numbers aren't out yet um but I thought it was worth
137sharing and so you can see um the lighter blue is completed at least one CTE pathway so students that completed at least one C2 pathway and then the darker blue is students that were a through through G um compliant as well as completed one or more CTE Pathways um and I just wanted to kind of do a comparison for the State of California and then also the other schools um in our County and um as you can see on the light blue we have 33.9% of students who've completed at least one c one CTE pathway and 24% of students who've completed one CTE pathway and our a3g compliant um and are we are far above the state average um and and also beat out any of our um County counterparts so want to share that
138so looking at kind of other types of student engagements just to kind of give that more overall kind of rounded out perspective of a student's day both during the school day and outside the school day um you can see both in the middle school and high schools things of how many clubs how many kids ASB classes what's the makeup um you know all types of different how many dances do they do how many performances are happening in in the choir the band um we have now dance programs so are they you know they doing dance shows um some of those are developing some of those some of those will increase um more going to next year was athletic participation look like and so you can kind of see there's a lot of things going on
139in our schools which is great right as I talked about the big thing is getting students involved in things and um if one thing worked for all kids I'd probably have hair like it'd be our job would be a lot easier right right um but they're not kids aren't widgets kids are people and they have all different kindes of diverse backgrounds and interests and that's what we want because we want a diverse background um and interest in society and so trying to provide all those things um is a challenge but it's a fun one and that's it's a huge part of what happens at the secondary level so you can see uh all those sorts of things you know different um things of kind of clubing games was gone up at some schools some um
140you know loms maybe the athletic participation went up a little bit for slow high and have band and choir enrollment went up a little bit so some of those things in vary and those will vary year to year depending on you know each group of kids that comes comes through each coort has different interests and then also we try to expand and what we have um to offer can change and modify over time which may grab different students interests so those those numbers can kind of wax and wi over time but um having been now in two other you know this is my third District like we offer a lot of stuff here with kids so it's awesome it's great um so it gives you kind of a snapshot there from all the different things
141kids are involved in um looking at kind of those AP or Advanced accelery courses uh at the high school is Middle School you kind of see the breakdown sorry the numbers a little bit small also know in the notes you can see the actual numbers uh cohort sizes because I know those are just percentag but adding the numbers would have made the graph just kind of look really busy um but you can see the breakdown there both overall you can see AP numbers to advance accelerate numbers in Middle School percentages are uh overall kind of about the same like you see that background so um having you know 40 40% or so um between high schools and then both the middle schools uh being involved you know we have almost half our kids involved in
142those things which is great but also work to be done to get more kids involved uh in those areas or courses I should say um chronic absenteeism is something reported on the dashboard for middle schools it's not for high schools how the St State selected it um it's something that you know we can internally run those data queries but in terms of actually reported by the state um chronic aism is just for Height Middle Schools so you can see uh again percentages are there actual numbers are in the notes part of the the slide you should be able to see if not let me know and I can I can get that to you in fral Focus um you can see overall we're start we're trending in the right way we're starting to come down
143with the exception of um a little bit of change in the homeless Foster you see that big dip look at that size that you're talking like three to five kids total in the coort size so a couple can make a huge percentage difference right um but overall starting the trend the right way our middle schools have done some Focus work this year and we'll Contin continue to do so next year uh both uh on campus and working with uh some programs and we're partnering with the County Office of Education looking at positive behavior intervention systems as well as kind of couple with the mtss stuff um and we'll continue to work also with Mr dor uh who oversees attendance for our district as well and then I'll have Miss gold talk a little bit about
144our wellness centers and some fure good evening Janet gou director of student support services and it is very exciting to be presenting on our Wellness Center this evening which is the one-year anniversary of the grand opening of our Wellness Center at Mor high so we opened it one year ago today and it'll be one year um tomorrow for slow High um and in that time we've just have many great things to report from students and staff regarding engagement um that is being provided and services and support through the wellness center uh at Stan Louis High approximately 177% of students or 271 students have accessed the wellness center this year and that was Data as of January and about eight and a half% of the student population has gone on to receive um what we consider
145a tier 2 or tier three service in the wellness center so that means they are engaged in and um a a group setting or individual counseling setting within the wellness center and at U Mor high it's 25% of students have accessed the wellness center and about 10% of our students are again engaged in that um individual counseling or group counseling services in the wellness center um as we looked at student populations we saw we had a nice balance um of different student groups and also just students that really as we think of student groups didn't belong to any student groups but just a wide variety of students um accessing our wellness centers um one of the highlights I wanted to present comes from some youth truth data and this year we had a 19% increase
146in the question that was asked when I am feeling upset stressed or having problems there is an adult from school that I can talk to about it and we had a 25% increase across our two high schools our Comprehensive High Schools um and when I am feeling upset stressed or having problems my school has programs to help me so you've heard a lot about student engagement tonight and um we're not saying this is 100% related to our Wellness Center but we believe this is definitely a component of um having the space having uh the people um who are providing services to our students through the Wellness Center so you can see there's a lot of pieces to the Mosaic that makes up how we engage students at the secondary level right uh as part of
147this presentation I asked each principal to kind of give me a highlight of one of the they're doing multiple sort of Engagement things on their campuses but I wanted to you know hey give me a highlight of one thing you're really working on at your site um a lot of them picked uh sort of the equity work we've been doing this year have been writ it about in the Friday Focus uh and so I'll kind of go through each one and and share that with you so for Los sosos Middle School uh as you can see the lady kind of standing on the left there that's Joanna has been our facilitator from University of Washington which has been some really good work uh some of those culture walks talked about and this particular um shot
148you're seeing is when uh lomes brought in students and they were asked questions and then gave us feedback and you know kind of told us what was going on in their day and how to better engage them and what's going on with kids and so um it's like we're doing now lot adults tend to do a lot of the talking but it's good to listen to the kids and let the kids directly um say what's going on and and how we better engage them and so uh that's continued work that losos middle school has been doing looking at Chron taism and how to how to lower that number um and so reaching out directly to students uh that are some of their chronically absent kids and what's going on and how can we better engage
149and support them to have them be in school because if they're in school they're going to be successful uh and so that was that's one of the major things they've been doing at uh losos Middle School at Laguna uh they're one of our newcomer programs both them and in St Louis high so they've done a lot of focused uh and direct work on supporting those students and building that program out and so you can see the staff members uh involved there in that picture uh so they've done uh things to include them in having all come to their first dance having uh some of the bi bilingual students that are not newcomers that are athletes come speak to the kids about all the after school athletic programs uh to help them get involved in things
150and then being very strategic about for those students what their schedule looks like so they're in classes but supported both in co uh Co talk classes so there's two teachers in that class with them to support them as well as Minature as they move out they're in uh being a DLI program as well in Spanish speaking science and social studies as well uh for their classes and then one of the things uh Mr Miner wanted to highlight was uh their uh youth truth question about students uh being most are friendly to me as one of the highest rated ones on that but really doing a lot of focused work around their newcomer program at that site and then for moral Bay even though it's not a dashboard all our all our secondary sites are focused
151on uh chronic absenteeism how to reduce it in sometimes within a particular subgroup it depends on kind of their demographic or what they're looking at uh but moral Bay is definitely focused on reducing that and doing it by very intentional targets of knowing who those kids are and having staff that are connected to them uh Mr scaldia team literally has a spreadsheet of every single student and each staff member that knows that kid more than just their name it's pretty amazing that they literally know all their kids and what they're doing has a whole thing that you know data around their tracking of those kids and um it's a pretty frequent topic of theirs at their staff meetings and of collective effort of that staff to really know every single kid and what's going on
152how to best support them which again it's challenging you know kids aren't widget there needs change over time even if something a kid was struggling with in the fall and maybe something different in the spring and so it takes that continual connection to work with that kid to know okay oh that's changing what can we do and that constant communication and so that's a huge piece of what they're doing that part that is um built into if you know Mr scaly that's his passion as kids and getting no kids uh but it's also part of their Equity 2011 training uh and sight uh Equity challenge that they've been doing that all our secondary schools are participating in and so a lot of cool work they're doing uh there as well and then looking at Sol
153high is also a newcomer program at our high school level and so that has been a a huge focus of theirs as well um so both focus on supporting and building out that program and those students but then is also targeting them specifically you can see you know having those 90% marks for those students uh so they can be successful when they're really having their kind of first experience here and um oftentimes first experience like it's in our in our country and in American education system right and they have it in high school that's really hard um and a big high school school and so really look at that targeted Focus uh and focus support for those students and so uh doing that work you can see Mr G Mr Garcia and um Mar and
154the teachers and AIDS there that are really a huge help for those students uh to ensure their success and so the that's been a lot of focus uh for them this year and then for pack Beach as you saw they're red site they do tons of great things and you guys know that and so uh some of the things Mr darl highlighted was their construction class doing the skateboards and then uh partnering with the Sol City farms and also know that there's you know continual work to expand those um sort of workplace Readiness opportunities for his students going into next year um we'll continue to expand that for his students we were you know talking about it uh last month and so we'll keep working on that but uh Pac Beach does a lot of
155and his staff do a lot of cool things to engage their kids so you can see they're model continuation school for a reason they do a lot of good stuff there so those are the things they're working on and so kind of overall we do have a ton of opportunities for kids which is great right it's what we want to do because if they're engaged both in the classroom and outside the classroom whether that's extracurricular co-curricular um and athletic programs they're going to be more successful uh and so we want to continue to have that we want to keep focusing on our under represented groups and get them involved uh as much as possible and have opportunities that are meaningful for them as well uh and so then also then tieing that to The Chronic
156atomism and you know how can we continue to reduce that number to get down to prepandemic levels and even lower uh would really be the goal so that so kind of how do we keep you know we're doing some of that how do we keep doing that how do we get better one is keep focusing on those programs keep tracking that data there kind of different data to take and monitor and try to figure out what's going on and is the target you know are those targets moving or not uh and then you know with our middle schools as I mentioned a little bit earlier specifically partnering with uh County Office of Education has had some uh continu a program and adding some more uh that will continue to support support our middle schools uh
157in in doing that so we're not just doing it on we're partnering with uh County Office of Education for that um so continue those things as well I think that's it so I'd welcome your feedback if you have any questions okay is there anyone from the public that would like to speak to this item seeing no one then is there anyone on Zoom no one in Zoom then I bring it back to the board Mr shaer followed by Mrs balad Dono I'm really excited about this presentation thank you all of you for participating and for uh knowing what's going on with our secondary students but one of the things that I'm most excited about is the Avid kids and their college applications and setting these goals I think it's wonderful you know we you have
158a whole slew of uh first generation college students from our Avid kids and they will really do great things in the world I'm wondering about with that process as they apply is there anyone helping them with or will as they uh make decisions helping them with things like the Fafa yeah yeah yeah we're we're really fortunate that we have um our senior Avid teachers um are very experienced Avid teachers with seniors in particular senior year for Avid is a totally different experience as you can imagine um they also Outsource so we do have people that come from Questa from cpol um private counselors obviously our own counselors come in so we provide a lot of wraparound services for them um typically our Avid students complete fast fed before any other students because they have the
159opportunity to do it in class with lots of support um my my mom goes to the St Louis abiso High School um Avid class she was the director of admissions at Fresno State and she went to Morrow Bay today so you know we we use all of our connections to support our students that's great yeah I was kind of a neighborhood bapsa completer um for a few years there and uh it every time I uh thought about what an onerous process it is and difficult for kids who don't have uh parents at home who can help support that process or for whom English is not their first language that is a very challenging process for um anybody so I'm glad we're it has been streamline haven't had my first one and went through it and
160then the snapu last year with my it's gone up and down but overall it has actually gotten because I remember the first time I had first son thinking I'd do this for a living and this was really hard I can't imagine for you know our stud students with parents that don't have that it has gotten better but last year had its own sort of as they revamped it technical kind of blow up for a while uh but it has gotten better but it's still it's still it's still a challenge so yeah with abot has um been doing pass for for a long long time great um so and then it's my understanding that the foundation also helps with college application fees and it they did help students um the income level is so low to
161um be able to be eligible for we live in a high income area so our students who are low income are not low income as far as the country is concerned typically um so for those students that are not covered by the feed waiver we do do you know a very I would say diligent process to they don't get to just apply with wherever they want but the foundation has Steed up and helped us so every single student is able to apply to okay thank you yeah those are just opening doors that would otherwise not be available to them so thank you and thanks for letting us know about all that Mrs Balon Don uh yeah thank you this was a great presentation and I appreciate thinking broadly about student engagement because I mean I'm
162a parent right students engage in so many different ways so I really appreciate that um I really appreciate the uh inep in-depth discussion regarding our Avid and NextGen programs those programs are really near and dear to my heart um I was in the early stages of the planning for the nextg program and so it's it's nice to see how it has evolved um and to that end slide four referenced the application for NextGen on the district website which I found and then that led me to the Avid and NextGen handbook which I understand is really new and I just want to compliment you and I understand Miss Vidal worked on that and um it's a really good it's really well done um and I I think I heard that there was a reference to the
163application being bilingual being in English and Spanish will the handbook be translated as well yeah so the the handbook is sorry I'm loud I so can hear um so the yes the handbook is um translated we just haven't uploaded it into it was 30 something pages so we were trying to figure out how we wanted to separate it the website just went live on Friday oh I just loed out so you locked out yeah say you you got first dibs um and then yes the applications um are in English and Spanish as well okay I think that's important because the as much as um and the handbooks outline what the expectations are for participation what the benefits are for of participation what the expectations are for students and parents and I think having that parental
164um participation is almost as important to the success of the program as is having the student Buy in so um so that's really great um you know one of the concerns I have that I think is a barrier for College and Career Readiness is that if you are electing to do the AVID program it's an elective and you are not able to take other electives and um or even to you know complete a CTE pathway for example necessarily and say can I can I speak to that yeah um so and I can share this with you but um we just completed and I um need to confirm with more obey but we create sample schedules for Avid students NextGen scholar students um and they are able as someone who oversees CTE as well um also
165a former coach former athletic director so we do have samples schedules of if you're an avid student and you're an athlete this is what your schedule would would potentially look like with obviously there's different variations of which math you're taking in science Etc um with s lispo High School the trimester certainly allows for that for Moro Bay High School the seven period day and they actually also have zero period offerings as well um which slow High doesn't have but they don't really have as much of a need because of the triester um I would say Linda Gary she's not here today tonight to speak for herself she's an avid student she's an ASB student she is a CTE completer in two if not three different Pathways so she has been able to to do literally
166it and is an athlete she's a cheerleader as well SOA and she does FFA as those are the three CTE Pathways that she's completed are the agriculture Pathways yeah so okay so I'm hearing mixed information then so I I think I'll need some clarification on that because I'm hearing that you that it's not possible to do an elective that is your elective and I think at the middle school level that's true so yes yeah at the middle school level currently that's true um I did just have a conversation with Mr Miner and the Avid NextGen Scholars counselor um Mary aln Sanchez um s Luna is looking into doing a seven period day option which would allow to free up that elective space I think that's really important because you know you're talking about preparing students
167for college potentially and you also want to engage students we're hearing about that hand you know that engagement in school um so the opportunity to take electives is really important I mean you may not know that you're destined to be a to be in law enforcement if you haven't had a chance to take a criminal justice class or something like that absolutely um okay so and then I I I know this was mentioned but I want to be very clear the million dollars or so that was put into outfitting our CTE classrooms with state-of-the-art um industry standards Machinery that was through grant funding for the CTE program it didn't come out of our general fund and I'm just sensitive to that it did not come out of General funds it was all Grant funded yes
168so I just want to make that clear um and then the last uh question or comment is really just um and I want to thank both of you for meeting with me to kind of give me a really nice overview of the CT program we offer a lot of CTE Pathways and so I'm just wondering if there's any thought that's been put into aligning the CTE Pathways with the we also all went to the reach Summit together so are we aligning the CTE Pathways with those reach Industries so that really we're focusing on CTE Pathways that are um industry specific to local employment here locally um and head of household employment goals yeah absolutely so Melissa James who's the CEO in charge of reach she came and actually spoke to our CTE teachers last year
169um at our professional development and um yes and I would say as you spoke we have um 17 Pathways at St Louisa bispo high school we have nine at Morrow Bay which is a very large amount for the school sizes that we have just to kind of give a comparison the high school that um I'm from clis originally and the high school that I came from before I was working at s l abiso high school has close to 4,000 students and they have nine Pathways so to give a comparison of like how robust our CTE pathways are um the other challenge is to be CTE certificated you have to have at least 10,000 hours of work experience it's really difficult to find people in some of these industries that want to leave industry to come
170into um public education so there's some barriers there um but yes absolutely I think we align really well for the most part I would say that the one um caveat and you and I have talked about this um on the way to the to the reach event we have really great programs at each of the sites it would be great if s l biso high school kids had access to the biotechnology class pathway at Morrow Bay Steve Gate's biotechnology pathway is incredible it would be great for moral based students to have the opportunity of construction management at sandless biso high school um but that's just not possible within our current like structure of system of semester trimester Etc that would be a sorry that would be a semester versus trimester issue and that's that those
171don't align so you can't share those teachers I I think it would be a host of logistical issues our our campuses I think our district is so unique in so many ways having two high schools that are quite far apart from each other um logistically speaking I I think is also a barrier as well okay well thank you Mr bugman thank again wow that's a great presentation um great great information one thing I want to check on though first is I had a email conversation with Ryan today about is our bond money capable of used for other than doors walls and windows can you just fill me in I I thought we said that it was also okay to buy CTE equip yeah so some of the equipment in those J you know at Moro
172Bay High and Sligh is also through the bond measure and some of the CT matching grants that weeded from the state um but again Marcy does a great job of doing those CT grants every year and and uh it's really I mean kudos to the state for putting all these dollars towards Career Technical education right and having those funds available and it's one of those things that we actually as even as a basic Aid School District can receive so yeah it's awesome great um so um lots of success stories here there's some still some challenges you're facing can you just plans for next year maybe I think in terms of well speak you know Avid is continual Recruitment and expanding right The nextg Scholar program is Contin to build out you know what does that
173cohort look like what are they taking in their sophomore summer and their Junior Summer how are we supporting them as they transition through high school to have that okay eighth grade through 12th grade what does that look like and so we continue to build that out um one of the challenges we ran into to even um this you know the last few months is for this summer for them we thought well we'll just like the incoming nth graders did geometry right so we can all cord them do all that okay well what's the next class for so well it's not that simple anymore as they start progressing in high school they start branching out in their different needs and all there isn't particularly one class so we kind of thought we had it figured out
174and then we had a plan be we thought figured out and then it was pivoting again to kind of be more broad around how we'll support them knowing it really does Branch so it's kind of how do we meet those needs in the next gen for those un you know kind of as that those the first cohort goes all the way through high school and then the ones fall behind as they get more diverse in their needs right again they don't one size doesn't fit all that's awesome but it's a it's a challenge right so figuring those things out um I think you know having um you know we have some systems but maybe a kind of more refined way to collect that data engage with other than like our cast scores and things like
175that you know how are we doing in all these other sort of Engagement areas and specifically with our underrepresented group and how do we how do we bring more of them in and get them so they're able to do what they want to do um so that takes both knowing what they want to do it takes that relationship communication and then figuring out okay what are the barriers and again if the barriers were the same it'd be easier but the barriers can change too right and so it's sort of the ongoing work um not a moving Target that's probably a little a little bit dramatic but you know what I mean it shifts um and supporting them then just so that again kids can be engaged in the opportunities they want to be engaged in
176overall and chronic absenteeism and chronic absenteeism continue to get those numbers down uh so we have kids in class more often so they can be engaged in learning and in all the other things going on any any any plans on the horizon so you know a lot of it is so this year um Laguna Middle School participated in a PBIS which is prob positive behavioral invent intervention System Program uh with support from San Louis County Office of Education they're kind of in year one so next year they'll roll to year two lomes will join in coming on year one of that so our Mo our middle schools can be working I mean Mr Mr Meer talk literally multiple times every week they collaborate a lot um but this will be a program that they can
177participate together in so that will help then uh address absenteeism issues as well and then on the bar charts like the you know how good we're doing and compared to the state and compared to other districts here um I know there's some other districts in the in the state that are similar population similar income similar number of subgroups we did that for a little while we had that bar in there that was I don't know Newport Beach or down but it just would help me get a better picture um so just just a request from me as one board member um like a School sort of setup like a similar School District uh let's see um I think it I know you said it the charge would be too complicated if we put the number
178of students but for a while we were able to do it they just put it in the bar they so if it was five students it would have been in the bar for the foster kids um so it really helps me when I see that do you see them in the notes part of the slide if you go to the if you open the slide deck and you look in the notes they should be in there but I can double check see all the numbers I'm sorry I did not and I didn't look for it I apologize okay um so those are just some thoughts I had that would make it even more exciting okay but yeah great presentation thank you it's a little funky Dan you have to there's like a little bar at
179the very bottom it'll that you have to click on to be able to have the notes come up so it's we'll have to show you okay sorry about that Mr glawson uh yeah my question is uh how many of the freshman in the nextg program are also an avid and how do those programs overlap as the NextGen evolves in the and the cohort grows into the upper levels of high school hi Mr Clon um so out of the 41 students um it's about 35 it varies because for with SLO High you know with the trimester they um they switch classes a lot so but it's about about 35 students uh part of our work this year was again reenvisioning what do nextg look like as we continue to support these students um initially nextg students
180did not have to be in Avid it was kind of just an extra program and I think through a lot of discussion with students with staff members we realized that nextg needs to be anchored within Avid Avid is a support again with um a lot of those students not just academically but emotionally we already have so much success ESS and support within that program so trying to create additional redundancy why spend money when we already have a program that works and be able to partner together so Marcy can you clarify Avid is the big umbrella and some of the Avid students are nextg students is that correct yes so for example at um s Lou bisbo high school they have 38 freshmen in their Avid cohort 25 of those are nextg students and so moving
181forward W the students do need to reapply every year so we kind of see it as um like National Honor Society or CSF like a you know an extra support um and so they will reapply we have again expectations for them so an aid expectation is they have to maintain a 2.5 GPA to maintain Avid status for NextGen it's 3.5 for NextGen they need to be in two or more AP honors accelerated courses as sophomores for Avid it's only one you know and and it kind of builds from there um and I can share the um the handbook that U Miss badano was referencing all of that information it really breaks it down um so I can share that with all of you as well or put it in a link in Friday Focus thanks
182yeah thank you very much you so next we have the consent agenda uh please let me know if you'd like anything pulled 9.01 approval of certificated and classified Personnel items 9.02 approval of Foreign Exchange organizations 9.03 approval of furniture and Equipment requests 9.04 approval of minutes of January 27 2025 9.05 approval of purchase orders and calc card purchases 99.06 approval of warrants and payroll seeing nothing pulled I'm seeking a motion for approval of 9.01 through 9.06 I move for approval of um action items 9.01 to 9.06 I'll second I have a motion by Mr Banfield and a second by Mr Buckman Mr Banfield yes Mr Buckman Mrs badano yes Mr Clawson yes Mrs Sheffer and I'm a yes that passes 60 with one absent um is there anything for advanced agenda seeing nothing then we'll
183move to board reports Mr Banfield yeah I had the opportunity to hear the Los Osos Middle School band the other day and they were really really good had some really tight numbers and guess what we're going to be able to um see the moral Bay High School spring concert because they've moved it they're not doing it on a Tuesday and they're doing it at their theater yeah cool I'm excited hey thank you Mr Buckman thanks I just wanted to um I was able to attend deac again um it's it's just so inspiring um the parents sometimes have a totally different perspective and the questions they ask are just wonderful um I attended the equity program where the um middle schools and high schools were meeting I heard one it's interesting because Moray High School um
184I wrote it down they call it their relationship tracker um and it was and their big one of the big requests I heard was can we have the ability to merge spreadsheets so I I figur somebody at our district can help the high schools figure that out um I also was able to I attended that superintendence board I'd like to to say Mrs Sheffer did a great job at the board superintendent dinner and then I attended steam night at Hawthorne and um it was just amazing to see what the kids were doing calp sent some some uh students over to help and I was unable to launch a boat made out of aluminum foil with pennies in it I only got about 12 pennies and one student had 84 pennies in their piece of aluminum
185foil thank you Mr Mr Banfield are you done okay we are adjourned