001a little bit okay and uh trustee Marilyn Rogers joining us this evening via Zoom our first item is I didn't even get to say hello to you guys I'm still busy setting up it's great to see you our student representatives to the board so take your picks toss a coin who's going first tonight all right it's good to see everyone I got a lot of pie in the house today so yeah um focused a lot about ASB stuff kind of stuff that's been going on last couple weeks a lot of different participants just participated foreign yeah so we had a blood drive last Wednesday I was very successful we had a lot of participants um the statistic was that we saved approximately 90 lives was the number so we're very proud of that um we're
002very also just lucky that we're able to do blood drives and second one of the year it just feels really great to you know help some people out and it's a very great event so I'm sure you'll be hearing about them for years to come and yeah super excited about that we also had a rally Friday before last it was a spring Sports rally and the final rally of our year it was a great rally super action-packed I was to highlight our spring Athletics so we had a lot of the captains you know speak and celebrate their Athletics and then we also had a lot of fun games we had um Sumo like blow up hamster suit wrestling which sounds as exciting as it or as exciting as it sounds um and then we also
003had we showcased our prom video which announced our prom theme and location which I will reveal at the end of the board meeting so don't worry and then we also um had a promposal our very own SCI Isaacs did a promposal to his girl friend in the crowd which was very sweet and the crowd went wild obviously um so that was a lot of fun and then we finished it off with a pie eating competition actually between myself our vice president next year Tia cobblekov and Mr Rosenbloom who's a math teacher at our school so it was a great rally to end the year off we had a lot of fun and yeah one who won the pike oh I I did win the fighting yeah buy a hair buy a hair what what kind
004of pie it was uh a lullaby I think that's what you said yeah sounds messy but Taya almost beat me it was like bites like that close so yeah um but it was a really fun rally great way to end off the year um and yeah so next we I'm going to talk about the 50-day dinners unfortunately I was a bit under the weather for the 50-day dinner so I wasn't able to make it but I've heard from student reports it was a great event uh 805 tacos uh was the caterer at the event their consistent vendor of ours their food is really great um and it was just kind of Mr Dickinson spoke as well at the 50-day dinner and uh Julian Gibson who was a beloved good senior I'm at our school won
005the mini fridge that was raffled off so super exciting for him and overall it's just a good event for all the seniors to get together during graduation season a lot of us are going to you know have a lot of fun going to things like those just kind of getting ready for graduation so very excited that um you know it's it's that time um next I want to talk about intramural sports because we've been doing intramural sports all year all year long uh basketball Futsal spike ball there was um dodgeball as well um and our final one will be cornhole so we have our intramural cornhole tournament which will be the last one for the year um so that's gonna be signing up right now and it's going to be very exciting and then last
006but not least the moment we've all been waiting for our prom will be on May 13th from 8 to 10 30 at the Fremont Theater the theme will be a night in Las Vegas so we're gonna have you know card games each student will take home Ace like um personalized poker chip with like the tiger logo and then prom 2023 on both sides um and you know last year's prom at the Fremont was a great time and I'm sure this will live up to the expectations so very excited for prom it's going to be a blast and yeah that's pretty much all I have thank you all all right foreign go through last week uh this week and then kind of our upcoming stuff that's happening um so last week our Avid students were able
007to go on a trip to visit ucfp and see CSU Channel Islands we also held a book launch party for our student-produced book called The American Melting Pot immigrant oral history and we held our second meeting of College Bound today which is a new mentorship program for Quest College Bound students that aspire to transfer universities and it's the support what we hope will be a huge increase in the former morabi High students that successfully transferred to universities after two years at Costa we also held a student recognition luncheon with staff and each staff invited two students and there was a taco bar for 150 people total um and our awesome school Chef Corey our ASB class and our FFA class prepared and served all the food last Wednesday I believe or Thursday we had our
008open house uh which was super super successful and also last week we had a panel of 13 seniors that shared advice on topics such as developing a college list admissions essays committing to a college and whatnot and this was our just for juniors event which was geared towards educating our Juniors on the ins and outs of the College admission process and we also uh held blood drive that was through our philanthropy crew and ASB and then this week yesterday had our grand opening of our new common Zoo Cafe which many of you guys were at which was really cool to see you all there we also had our mayor and KSBY there which was awesome um and then today our student Senators met with the Morro Bay Public Works director and his team in order
009to have student awareness and input of the possibilities of improvements to the off ramp and the intersection at Main Street and Highway 41 and tomorrow our mock trial team will be recognized by the Los Osos Kiwanis and they've been invited to present at the slow law Day event on Thursday evening which is really cool they've been doing great this year and then finally for next week upcoming next Monday night is our more Bay High Film Fest at the Bay theater at four o'clock super huge triangle if you all can um next Wednesday is our FFA banquet and then next Thursday night is our Avid senior celebration all 24 of our Avid seniors were accepted to at least one four-year University wonderful see you next Friday May 12th will be our first ever part Olympics with
010uh fourth and fifth graders from Del Mar Baywood and Monarch Grove they'll be doing athletic and academic challenges and our high school students have the opportunity to come during lunch to the stadium they can watch a flag football tournament or they can go up to the pool to watch in their tube water polo it's really cool and that's all I have yeah that's all you have this is such a such a busy time of year for everyone and it's it's so it's great stuff so as always uh Atticus you'll stick around and hear what okay I think you should and you can listen in so it was I know those of us who attended the uh opening of the cafe yesterday it was it was so impressive and they have the tour of the kitchen
011it was great so and um yeah you're continuing to do wonderful things and you you will both be with us till the end of the school year won't you okay all right we just need to check in on that right thank you and as you know you're welcome to stick around um but we know you have other things going on uh I'd like to our next item is San Luis Obispo high school program yeah very exciting this is the last of our school highlights for the year as we have employee recognition at the next meeting in retirees at the last meeting of May and tonight as you mentioned we have San Luis Obispo high and principal Roland Dickinson is here with some students to share school highlights Mr Dickens thank you so much for having
012us here this evening Atticus great job now there really is so much to celebrate at slow High we're not perfect but each day we really take seriously uh the work that we do to try to continue the long tradition of Excellence at San Luis high with a focus on equity and really intentional work to create a culture of care and a culture of safety in our schools we have students who just got back from Texas with robotics and we're at the World Championships they just did a KSBY interview today at our school we have students in FFA who just won the state championship in that event we have students who are breaking records in the pool breaking records on the track the list just goes on but today for our Focus I thought I would
013highlight these moments where our students have created opportunities or participated in opportunities to have an audience bigger than the classroom itself so bigger than the students in the classroom bigger than the teacher and it's pretty inspiring what our students do so we're going to highlight what our new creative writing Club is up to and the district-wide creative writing contest that they did our student directed play our slow High film festival and then one of our Tigers who's been in the news a little bit of late just because she's pretty awesome so first Wesley about creative writing Club thank you hello members of this school board my name is Wesley Bartlett and I'm a sophomore here at slow High and the president of our slow High creative writing club I'm here just today just to speak
014a little bit about this about the club and how much of an impact it has had on our campus in the span of one year we have been able to greatly increase our membership and provide many students at our school with something that they desperately need a time set aside from their busy schedule to pursue a hobby it was a simple idea that our club was founded on and has led to some truly incredible things last Tuesday we were able to host an awards night ceremony in our theater with a district-wide creative writing competition that we created and held across the past two months we had an excellent turnout in our theater we had over 200 people express interest in competition and over in another hundred turn in their submissions my wonderful Club advisor Mrs
015Stansberry and I went to Bishop's Pacheco and teach elementary better advertise this competition I'm so grateful not just to this school but to all the schools in the district for making this first time competition such a huge success all principals and teachers were great at responding to my emails and caring news about the competition along to their students from the organization of Mr Stewart and his willingness to help us set the event in the theater to the easy ASB application process that started this club in the first place slow high is always there to help students pursue their interests and get involved with their Community it might seem small but the programs we created here got over a hundred people across our district to put in some time to reinvigorate their passion towards writing led
016to a wonderful Awards night in our theater that showed many incoming students what slow high supposed to offer and we have one of our winners here with us our winner in the 11th grade part of the competition hello everyone my name is Asia Jade and I'm a junior here at slow HS I also place first for the creative writing competition this year um and I was really happy and excited that the creative writing Club decided to host this event this year because I thought it was a really fun opportunity for all the like schools in the district to come together and express themselves using their own like creative expression and I always feel like our school plans really cool and fun events but I wish we started this sooner and even though we didn't I'm
017glad we have it now and I really hope this is something we can continue to do like forward thank you now to talk about our student-directed play Sense and Sensibility Charlie Beck [Music] and I'm a junior here at slow high today I'm here to discuss the Performing Arts including our upcoming projects the club community and the culture of theater on our campus overall I've been involved with the Performing Arts company for all three years of my high school career I've gone from performing plays on zoom in freshman year to finding all sorts of new opportunities in our new theater today I'm so grateful for the community we've created in our theater and as I approach my newest project of student directing Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen I'm only more thankful that I get to
018continue working with my peers in a new way in theater we are exposed to a whole different side of Storytelling we understand characters far more deeply than if we had just read about them because we are becoming them ourselves there are nuances to storytelling you don't get to see as a reader or writer because you get to portray a familiar story in a way that is totally your own the show has been no small feat but the incredibly determined supportive and dedicated attitude of our club members has made every step a joy to take I'm constantly inspired by my fellow performers so it is no surprise that they were my inspiration for taking on this show after having watched slow High Senior Lindsey Smith direct Much Ado About Nothing last year I decided that directing
019was something I wanted to try and the immediate and overwhelming kindness and support of the rest of the club made me believe we could create some some incredible production and now here we are Sense and Sensibility will open on May 19th and we can't wait to share our work with everyone we are so lucky to have this incredible Community around us and it's been truly wonderful watching everyone including myself grow as performers people and friends we are sharing an engaging entertaining and informative form of Art and we are so lucky to have a campus that Embraces our work so enthusiastically thank you very much for your time now to talk about the slow High Film Festival the amazing Gavin wren hello everyone my name is Gavin Rin I'm a senior at slow High and a
020CTE pathway completer of our film and video technology department I'm pretty excited to be here I've heard the great Tales by maticus in our ASB meetings it's a pretty great place we had the wonderful opportunity this year to show our final movies at the Palm Theater and it was really special to see a whole like town and so many different people come together and to see our movies get played in a real theater was really like it was a dream it was Unreal Mr Roper he gave us three months to plan and make our movies whatever we wanted we had no limitations other than probably going to like Europe or something um and high schoolers are really good at not planning we just like to wing it but this program really burns into your head
021that that's that's not going to work in like you know the real world which we aren't there yet but it really helps you get there and it was it was great we have to plan and prepare and execute what we see and we can't just wing it because otherwise it'll rain and you can't go out to the sand that's what happened to me um and then everyone we all had a great Community we worked together I would act in one film and then you know record a shot for somebody else for another and then go work on my own and we were really tight-knit group and so when we were all there at the Palm it was super special um Mr Roper at the Palm he said that him and Mr Heimerdinger are two digital
022media teachers are trying to build something great here at slow high and what I've witnessed and been a part of this year was something even more than that it changed my future I'm going to college for film now and I was not even thinking about that a year ago and I can't wait to see what they continue to do with this program and what great communities will be built and dreams will be lived thank you thank you and our final student speaking today is Clara and Clara has been in the news she's on kspy she got into 20 colleges including all these Ivy Leagues and so it's a good story to tell of course but one thing that I enjoyed was watching her be interviewed and she did this beautiful 20-minute interview where she talked
023about gratitude and the people who have inspired her and her parents and her teachers and Latin and all these great things I hope I'm not stealing any of your speech um as it was just so great and so um I thought you would all enjoy having Clara be here with you for a bit foreign I would just like to preface this by again a very big thank you to everybody here willing to listen to me um again I'd like to thank Mr Dickinson for inviting me to speak tonight and to share a little bit of my experience as a so high senior and as a graduate of the public system here at San Luis Obispo Coastal um I'd like to thank my friends and family and most of all my Educators because as I realized
024this entire journey and really all of us were Educators in a way or another and so I'm very grateful for that opportunity to have experienced all of that here in Sloan um so I've learned throughout this journey of this long month of travels having visited all these colleges that I was submitted to that education educators are really the course compelling or worlds around us at every school that I visited the students that really stood out to me the most were the students from public schools just like me because I found that they were the most compelling the most the most courageous the most determined yet humble at the same time because we're we're in this community together so I'm very grateful to have gotten that experience and I know that I'm going to be leaving
025Salon high as a product of that experience and as a representative for our little Community here and for everybody in San Luis Obispo I'd also like to touch upon the fact that my success I would like to attribute it to the bilingualism that I was able to Garner um going to Pacheco Elementary School going to Laguna middle school and taking that one dual language class the history class and then coming here just little high school completing the AP Spanish and Latin classes so I will say that that bilingualism that by by culturalism has been really key in my ability to attain the success in where I will be going um because I am very doubtful that without it I would not have achieved admittance to institutions such as like Harvard Princeton and my new home
026which will be Yale in the fall I would also like to end this by saying that as a Latina and as a Chicano student in this community it has been hard at times but I will say that I've received amazing support and that I would like to serve as inspiration for future generations of Latinos and Chicanos who are growing up in this community which can feel a little bit ostracizing at times but we find each other and we lean upon each other and I would just like to serve as a video for the next next Generation coming because I hope that they will achieve things that I will never get to and honestly that's the point of an educator to really see the potential in the future in the generations after us so thank you
027so much and I'm very happy to be here tonight that is our sharing I think we had five minutes we took a little bit more than that so thank you for indulging but you know we are more than students and teachers and grades and graders and I think you see that um by meeting our incredible students um so that's awesome so foreign thank you thank you and thank you for your stories you know you all have uh enjoyed the unique perspective and experience in your years in San Luis Coastal and it's wonderful to hear your story so thank you so much just over Drew all of you are amazing I just want to say the C the the one that was called amazing I'm sorry what the black shirt on put your name again Gavin
028oh just like the the governor oh well uh um so I wanted to say that your story is a real good testimonial to the success of the CTE program we here have here where you you didn't know before you got in and involved in a real life situation that you would be doing what you're going to do presumably maybe not for the rest of your life right and you found that out because you had a hands-on experience and and sort of an apprenticeship would you call it yeah so I just I'm so thankful that you're a testimonial to the success of the CTE program because it's an awesome program isn't it thank you Mr Claussen I just wanted to thank you all for presenting and also one thing I just noticed is how much the
029success that you guys have had as student-led and student driven and I wanted to commend the whole Administration and all the teachers it's so high for creating an environment that allows that but your stories are all just really impressive and uh it's great as a sophomore you're starting creative writing club club and uh I I personally am really excited to see your work Charlie uh in May so thank you again thanks for coming yeah so um stick around if you wish we have more student presentations to follow we really appreciate you coming this evening Dr Prater yes thank you Mrs Sheffer and good evening board the legend of Atticus spenton I can just Envision how that plays out at school so well done Atticus and Alana thank you for joining us tonight uh there's a
030theme I think that runs through this evening as well as I would like to believe our district in general and that is we care about what students have to say and as Educators as people who are drawn to public education in particular we understand the importance of listening to our students especially as it relates to the experiences that they have each day and um and so we've done that and evidence today tonight with Mr Dickinson and um you can see the evolution of how students are honored and taken seriously tonight I'd like to reinforce that with a presentation tonight around student goals developed by our student senators and our student Senators for those of you that don't know um have been meeting throughout the year this we've met this year seven times seven times uh
031usually it's about two little from about nine in the morning till about lunch and um and in those days we meet with over approximately 80 students representing our Elementary's high schools middle schools and high schools and we use we've been at this now for seven years seven years the student Senate is a California Golden Bell program and it's also a national um Magna award program so it's recognized as quite important and valuable and I'm proud of that but I'm really really proud of our student senators and what they have to say they've been working hard all year working with our um our site leaders that some of whom are here tonight and um it would be by itself this this just hearing from our student Senators you could spend all evening but we're going to
032condense that tonight in a very hybrid format and so we've invited some of our student Senators here tonight to speak to you we uh we'll hear from uh I think as of now we just have one Elementary student coming um and she will uh and we'll begin our evening with with her sharing from since summer and I think you will find Maggie to be extraordinary and um and then we're going to hear from representatives from our two middle schools and three high schools this evening and I think what you'll find is that what they have to say there there are um very strong commonalities that run through them what I'd like to do Mandy if you could go to the next slide what I'd like to do is talk about how we framed out these
033uh these particular goals that get folded into our single plans for student achievement at the site level in other words these are this is not just a casual activity among students no no this has a serious component to it and that is we're asking our students to actually speak with their teachers and their principles and um and have a serious conversation about the things they think are most important and we have three building blocks that we work within and these are leadership and influence engagement and relationships safety emotional and physical and you'll see the the goals that our kids have discussed and developed running through these three core blocks and then um I thought I'd take a moment and just kind of go through those themes so man Mandy could you the next slide of
034the um multiple feedback loops from our survey called youth truth which we're taking by thousands 92 percent of our students took this survey in October we had uh several hundred uh members of our staff take the survey as well as parents third grade through 12th grade and from that feedback in the survey that we received in November the students have been hard at work evaluating that feedback narrowing it down to core themes and within those core themes this is what we discovered in the First theme the things that we discovered is that that what's important to our students in this District is that their learning is engaging and challenging but it's not just enough to be engaging and challenging they believe that the teacher the teachers themselves need to be committed to a positive relationship
035with the students the magic sauce is there and that is because the kids we all identify with a caring person someone who really cares about the content and the the person that they're trying to convey that content to and that's the theme we saw running through all the the feedback the survey feedback the second theme is important uh the importance of every student having a trusted adult that they can go to on campus and I can't overstate that it was said time and time again there's a question on youth truth survey that says is there a caring trusted adult that you feel you can go to at school and um we in San Luis Coastal tend to fare Fair fairly well however in this particular question we have work to do now I believe we
036have caring adults I know we have caring teachers and adults on our campuses but if students don't feel that way we have a problem and I believe that in that second theme that's the work that's the work is to convey to students that I'm here for you and then the third theme is a sense of belonging for every student's and we know from the um from the um the work we've done with with um the Sandy Hook promise program they've done a massive study into what really creates safe schools and we know that's at the top priority for all of us and what the students are saying is that safety to them isn't about fencing it's not about locks to them it's about knowing that they feel like they belong at that school and so
037when you merge these three themes together what you see is there's a very important element between the educator the students and the perceptions that go with that and we have we have a remarkable opportunity to capture that and do some incredibly important work to engage our students through a caring uh thoughtful environment where trusted adults are are ubiquitous on campuses and that's what we're after tonight you're going to hear variations of that of these themes running through the goals so we'll start with since summer Elementary and I got to tell you young Maggie here she uh is a sixth grader at since I'm Elementary and she boldly started coming to our Student Center meetings this year and we oftentimes ask students to stand up and speak and there's a Podium there's a microphone and this
038young lady she just went up it goes right up and lets you have it so I'm so impressed with her so Maggie would you like to share what since I was working on this year let's hear it for Maggie Hello I'm I'm Elementary's 2022 smart goals first I will go over the goals and then provide details about each one smart goal number one is to improve student motivation towards academic achievement through more Hands-On projects and challenging schoolwork smart goal number two is to improve student relationships and connections between students and staff on campus creating a more inclusive and accepting environment smart goal number three improve students emotional safety on campus okay first smart role is leadership actions and influencers specific improve student motivation towards academic achievement through more Hands-On projects and challenging school work measurable
039youth truth survey data around motivation and achievement will go up in the 2023-2024 school year academic achievement will increase overall with more students showing academic growth throughout the school year assignable more time and opportunity to reflect and celebrate student growth in classrooms opportunities for students to recognize their peers who are doing awesome things in and out of the classroom talk to teachers about including more challenge problems Hands-On activities and real life relevant projects throughout the school year we will use the innovate lab not just for science but for other subjects as well to tie in Hands-On academic learning realistic this will help students feel more engaged and part of their classroom not only improving academic performance but also building more of a connection to school and teachers time based throughout this will happen throughout the
0402023-2024 school year some recommended actions include opportunities for teachers to learn about different ways to use the Innovation lab and integrate The Innovation tools into different subjects we will introduce Stinger student Stinger shout outs that are given that are student-given recognitions for peer-to-peer recognition for positive behaviors and actions on campus our second smart girl is based on engagement and relationship building specific improve student relationships and connections between students and staff on campus creating a more inclusive and accepting environment measurable we will see an increase in Connection in campus relationships based on the 2023-2024 school youth truth survey results assignable create a monthly mental health relationship check-in form that counselors teachers and an administration review and determine specific student supports needed we will also make connection and relationship on campus a focus during staff meetings so
041that teachers can bring this Focus back to their classrooms regularly realistic during our focus group meeting this topic came up a lot and stood out to students as one of the most important needs on campus currently time base we will present this information to staff and teachers at the end of the 2020 to 2023 school year and Implement these actions during the 2023-2024 school year some recommended actions are to share it with staff about goals student Senators share Outlook students about the goals and importance of connections on campus and plans to improve them in the coming school year we will also create the check-in form and share it with students and staff at the end of this school year to get Baseline data from second through sixth grade final smart goal is about safety specific
042emotional safety increase among students on campus measurable increase the number of students who can identify a safe adult they can rely on and confide in on campus and also a safe peer or peer group they feel comfortable confiding and based on 2020 to 2023 to 2024 gives truth results assignable bring up the conversation during class meetings about trusted adults and get students to start thinking about who their trusted adult might be include conversations and student stories about trusted adults and how they've helped students during class meetings realistic this helps students feel safe on campus by ensuring they have someone on campus to confide in and check in with time based this will work will occur during the 2023-2024 school year recommended actions bring up the conversation during class meetings about trusted adults and get students
043to start thinking about who their trusted adult might be include conversations and student stories about trusted adults and how they've helped students during class meetings our plan to present to staff is tomorrow at the staff development meeting thank you I think I have a question Maggie really well done could you come up there might be some questions for you so Maggie first of all beautiful presentation what what grade are you in I'm in sixth grade you're in sixth grade so then Mike that leads to my question which is you won't be uh since timer next year who will be following up to make sure since you have measurable goals to make sure that they're being met um the student Senator is next year who are in currently in fifth grade will be chosen for and
044and when they're in sixth grade and Miss Miller will follow up with them and go over these goals again to follow up on it okay I wanted to make sure that that follow-up would occur yeah so thank you that's wonderfully done thank you very much um yes may I ask a question yes did you mention class meetings yes okay so you have those in your in your class yes most we have SEL time that is regular for all classes so that's also um Administration is putting in more rules about having class meetings to yeah very good thank you he was Stronger so this is a question for you and perhaps Miss Miller would like to to weigh in on this as well so one of the things that Dr Prater mentioned uh was that these
045smart goals would be included some of the smart goals at least would be included in your school site plans which you know really drives how the important goals of the school um how do you see those being incorporated into your school site plans I think they'll be put in on a certain page or like available to look at them okay um I think too so one of the things I presented at the very beginning of the school year this year um some of you were there some of you weren't on the board yet um but all about how our focus on site is really that SEL piece and how do we build in those connections for our students and so some of the things that we did put in our site plan this year were
046things like recess coaches and that time with our counselor and making sure that groups were happening and as Maggie shared the class meetings and making sure those were happening in every classroom so those are things we'll definitely keep in our plan for next year and then as we start planning this year thinking about next year as well in our our mtss team and what other behavioral and SEL sports that we can put in that are really going to strengthen some of the things might be shared about here including that adult connection and making sure that everyone has a safe person on campus that they can go to thank you all right thank you very much thanks again Maggie that was great well there's there's more to come now we're going to jump to Middle School
047Laguna Middle School's Representatives have to leave following this presentation to go um to honor the redesignated students and from their um from their school in a celebration for which I believe Mr meinert told me there were upwards of 70 redesignated students so it's super exciting and um and so I'd like to all right for the okay I got a little overzealous 22 students 70 people honoring that and how cool is that so let me start we'll start with um Laguna then we'll go to Los Osos middle school and then we'll move up to the high schools Laguna Middle School please hello my name is I'm a seventh grader at Laguna Middle School hi my name is Natalia Hernandez so we have three different Sparkles um one based on relationships another based on academics and our
048last one is based on uh culture and so for our relationships um we want staff and students that um build a relationship to be beyond the academics and Beyond like anything because you spend a lot of time with your students and in classrooms so having that relationship is a big part of being at school so um this would be going both to the students and staff because this isn't a one-way Road it's a two-way Road and both student the student and the teacher have to be contributing to have that strong relationship um we want um we asked our students uh what like how they're doing with their teachers like what are their relationships like um in one of our surveys and they said that they're pretty well but not how we want them to be
049we want them to be where they remember those teachers and just to like go um to them for a trusted adult so um we are wanting to like take action now and start talking to our teachers and having staff meetings to talk about um why it's important for them to have in a relationship with them and um also showing the students um on our advisory slides why it's important as well and we want this to be start right now and keep going until like years and years come for um for Lancers and um that's it for the relationships and for the academics uh we want teachers to better engage student learning through cons through using activities and collaboration time in class and provide support for students so they are able to meet the high academic
050expectations we want students to feel encouraged to learn and to be um to when they're taking that YouTube survey to say that oh we feel confident in our learning um and go places which is one of the highest one of the most important things that I know slow um the slow Coastal wants to do for students to go places some of um some of our recommend recommendated recommended actions is during the summer or during um like school time to take teacher work or to take teachers and give them some training on how to recognize students behaviors um and mindsets so that they can know that if a student isn't doing well in a class that they should help them out um and how how feelings and emotions can affect their learning so that they can
051do better and and so we can get higher test scores and um the higher academics another thing is Hands-On activities not all students can learn by just hearing and by just looking at the teacher write down things they learn by doing Hands-On activities so we want teachers to include more of those Hands-On activities so that they can learn better I know like kindergartners they like add their little macaronis and all that stuff um and that's how they learned and they don't do that as much as in like middle school and all that stuff um because they think oh that's too childish but we all learn when we're adding things um like with our tables um using those like Hands-On activities is one of one of the things that we want to include more for our
052teachers and our third smart goal about culture is that when students get disciplined they often feel singled out and staff will seek to communicate in a positive way to help educate students on this to improve relationships and positive outcomes from these interactions but we hope that teachers will do is know how to discipline their students while maintaining and building these relationships and culture and it's all about that students getting disciplined and being aware of them we know you need to get going Mr Banfield well I'm hoping this is a quick question how can you tell when a teacher is concerned about you oh what does that look like well we know that when teachers actually pay attention is when they come up to us and ask us questions about um like just noticing our everyday
053behavior and seeing if like we're not doing the work we're not putting that much effort they know that something's up um because I know my trusted adult at our school they always um ask me like hey are you good are you okay like they um they ask questions and even when I'm like uh uh when I'm out like and I feel good or anything um they still ask me and I feel like teachers asking every day um asking those questions to all students um or maybe just making a Google form of asking the students um about what's happening then they can recognize the behavior changing or anything that happens in their life and I feel like that would make a big impact for students adding on to that basically just doing check-ins to see like
054how you're doing thank you and now you have a wonderful celebration to go be part of it's a big night it's nice thank you Mr minor so our next middle school is Los Osos middle school and they're joining us via Zoom tonight so um let's see Miss Contreras are you there hi yes we are here I have uh Ian Patel and sunny Stoneman with me foreign this is our our school board meeting where we've just now heard from our elementary group and our Laguna middle school friends and now you're up Miss Contreras so please take it from here for our first smart goal we have increased engaging activities inside and outside the classroom so we want to increase uh student engagement in the area of academics and school spirit so we want to host more
055activities outside the classroom as well as encouraging teachers to take more Hands-On approach to learning will provide that engagement Middle School is a time to develop this that the sense of self and identity with so much time being spent at school it's important that there be class competition class competitions for academics such as I excel tournaments lunch activities Spirit weeks and after school dances that build community and engage on multiple levels um for a second smart goal is to increase fair discipline and behavior expectations and behavior expectations and discipline would be greatly implemented at a school-wide and classroom level that work to support students this would include a revision of the student handbook specifically at the just code a school-wide implementation and education of behavior expectations with lessons taught in advisory and the restorative approach
056to further grow students interpersonal and interpersonal skills and our last smart goal is increase inclusive words and actions so inclusive words and actions provide safety that is deserved for all in order to decrease these of slurs in other inappropriate and hateful language we need to educate students and staff on how to do better and be better starting with celebrating our differences we believe that students will only stop using hate language and stairs if they learn and understand the negative impact and that's all we have for our goals are there any questions from the board for our friends at Los Osos Middle School thank you very much thank you everyone I appreciate you joining us well done so I believe we also have Pacific Beach High School on Zoom tonight um Miss Dawson will you uh
057bring on Miss Cooper and for those of you that do not know out in the crowd Pacific Beach High School is our our continuation High School it is a previously acknowledged State model continuation High School we're very proud of the work they do there and um I think you'll see that in their goals as well good evening to our wonderful board members and Dr Prater I have the pleasure of introducing our student analia Marietta she goes by Lulu um Lulu you there oh can you guys hear me I'm calling because my computer is not working I can hear you are you guys able to hear me yeah yes okay um so our first smart girl is team building activities and um we would like to Foster positive peer interactions through team building activities such as
058Minute to Win It games Outdoor Sports such as pickleball and scavenger hunts um the goal is to create common social norms to bring new students into the fold and prevent exclusive um accused um our second smart goal is enhanced field trips um so transfer cross curricular opportunities um for the whole school and course specific local field trips using our school van we have already successfully completed a field trip to Hearst castle with the whole school and so trips to construction sites in our construction class our goal is to plan at least two whole school field trips each year and at least one local field trip per class our third smart goal is inclusivity for lgbtq plus students during the intake interview to pvhs the principal will ask each new student their preferred pronouns see him
059see her they them and we'll share each student's preference with School staff will then establish School Norms by addressing new students with their preferred pronouns Senate feedback will be reflected in the YouTube survey results and from a follow-up survey in the spring questions Lulu thank you that was really really well done and we appreciate you joining us even on your phone thank you Miss Cooper is there any final thoughts you'd like to share just that we appreciate the continued support of our board thank you for always advocating for our school and as you all know the staff and principal we love our job and we love our students so thank you Miss Cooper very much and I'd like to move now to Morro Bay High School please come on up [Laughter] got it um I'm
060Krupa I'm from Morro Bay um I'm here to share the smart goals that we made this year and our first one is to ensure that our students feel informed and prepared for college and career opportunities following graduation um this year through the Institute survey survey we found out that our seniors felt a little unprepared while going through their college process and we did have counselors reaching out to them but they felt that they could use more support and we also realized that a lot of our 10th graders felt unprepared for college as they moved on to become Juniors and what we wanted as a student body is more support from our counselors whether that be to advertise the resources that they have to offer or and we also know that our counselors have a lot
061on their plate so that could also mean bringing in more people to the counseling department to help it then be more accessible to our students um our second goal is that teachers connect curriculum to real life projecting passion about their subject matter and life experiences and our students and teachers build relationships through this interaction um so this is the school is more relevant towards engagement and topics being shared and taught in class we wanted our teachers to take time aside to discuss events that are occurring in the world today or historical events that have already occurred and connect that to whatever subject they may teach and this would help prepare students for the world outside just more outside the academic class and it would also create a cultural awareness in our community and in our
062school environments we which would make our school more welcoming to others and our last goal also revolves around the same topic but it's more geared towards Personal Collection between teachers and staff and our students um Dr Prater was talking about how our district has been focusing a lot on safety but physical safety is not going to just cut it we also wanted to ensure that our students have emotional safety at our schools and this would mean that they have at least one adult to talk to at our school and that they can connect to and we know all our teachers are very caring but we also wanted to make sure that all our students felt that connection enough for them to be able to go up to those teachers and discuss their concerns yeah that's
063it thank you just don't seeing a theme here thank you so much thanks very much any questions for Krupa Morro Bay High School you're leading the way thank you for joining us tonight okay our final School presentation is San Luis Obispo high school please come join us please uh hi I'm Chloe Elliott and I'm a freshman here at slow High my name is Junior and we're from so high um so our goals kind of take on a slightly different view from a majority of the other schools and we're focusing more on what students can do here um at slow High our goals fall under a two-year cycle and so we want to ensure that our goals are implemented throughout the entire community Through the efforts of all the people here on our campus um and
064additionally like a reason for this two-year cycle was upon analysis of our use truth data we noticed that there really hasn't been that much significant change from last year and so we really just want to build upon our previous goals and ensure that we do see positive change in our future data and just positive a more positive environment overall um and so last year we were kind of on the first year of our two-year cycle and we were centering more around the what the staff could do and so this year our teachers and staff are still doing intentional work to make more progress towards the goals that we presented to them last year and so rather than giving them more completely new goals this year we are utilizing this cycle to give teachers more time
065to work on them and rather we are in the second year of the two-year cycle we are focusing on the students and so the main General goal of what we want to accomplish has remained generally the same except now we are centered more on what students can do in order to bring about a level of accountability to all the members on our campus and so for our first goal which is tied to leadership and influence um we will encourage students grades 9 through 12 to prioritize active participation and engagement in um in engagement in our classes to ensure that we are aware of the relevance and importance of the work we do um in order for us to better be better prepared for college careers and overall future success outside of the classroom and after
066high school and so how can we do this well to start off we believe that educating students on what active participation and engagement actually looks like and what effect it has on our learning is important to this goal because students need to know the relevance in order to succeed we also think that facilitating discussions among students can be powerful in helping build that foundational knowledge related to college careers and future success because learning from peers and collaborating collaborating with peers can be so much more meaningful and finally for this goal we plan to distribute phone Pockets to every classroom to help better engage students in class but our second goal which relates to engagements and relationships um we want to increase the feelings of belongings on campus by building relationships among students by creating more
067opportunities for students to share about their personal Journeys and experiences and in terms of action we've already started a project we launched launched last week called a spotlight on you um is where we highlight different cultures and backgrounds of our students in hopes of increasing the mutual understanding and support of each other um in honor we started this project with the NSA in honor of it being Ramadan which is a holiday for Muslim Students for the Muslim Students and this week we hope to highlight uh the Metro club or Mexican culture on this Friday in honor of it being Cinco de Mayo until the end of the school year we hope to continue highlighting different cultures um to hopefully like result in a culture Fest which will kind of like let the students on campus
068experience these cultures that we're highlighting for themselves um and then our third goal is tied into the building block of emotional and physical safety and we want students um it says uh sorry we want students that will contribute to a positive School environment and approve the physical and emotional safety of slow highs Learning Community by committing to engaging in respectful behaviors and words and in actions on campus and so what are our action plans for this well the overarching action that we want students to implement is really just being mindful of their own behavior which includes calling out any disrespectful Behavior they might see from other students even in a public setting like in a classroom in front of peers as this is something that we tend to see not happen all that often just
069because of an overlying fear of being the one to speak out and being the one to who is different in a classroom of so many people who are just staying silent um and so we really just want to create awareness of respectful and caring language to ensure that students will apply this to their own habits and just really understand the magnitude of their own actions as well as that of those around them and how we all really just need to be aware of what we are saying and what we are doing to create a positive environment where everyone feels safe just being themselves and like they can express who they really are um and so that concludes our presentation on our smart goals and thank you so much about our plans for the future thank
070you and I really I want to say that I really appreciate your cultural awareness video I watched it I look forward to seeing more I learned things about Ramadan I was not aware of and um yeah it was great so keep up the good work and thank you both for presenting to us tonight Mr Clawson uh you had a question that um Krupa brought up a similar topic just about emotional safety and emotional well-being and I really admire that you guys have Incorporated that into your smart goals but I I was curious both your take and maybe Croup is on how are we doing how would you characterize the current current state of the world in terms of emotional safety stands we could be doing a lot more than we are I feel like there
071is a lot of like division just between different groups of people because they don't quite understand where the other people are coming from because of such different backgrounds and I feel like in order to increase this emotional safety and this just feeling like we can be who we are we just really need to just push more of an accepting culture of people who maybe act different or practice different things because there's just really kind of a level of not understanding who other people are and therefore like a level of disrespect comes from that um yeah just adding on to what you said um one of our goals is just creating cultural cultural awareness in our school and we would do this by having teachers have conversations about different cultures and different vets that occur all
072over the world and by doing this we hope that we can raise awareness and educate those students at our school and that would lead it to a better kind of supporting environment that we can nurture at our school yeah that thing like what they kind of like what they both said is normalizing like different people you know like because right now like if you stand out you actually stand out especially in like San Luis Obispo um so it's like important that we normalize the the different people and like create like the appreciation and the value and respect for one another leaders in creating emotional safety so it sounds kind of kind of one of the themes I'm getting from high school students as well as I think the middle school students is that um you
073want your teachers to engage in some difficult conversations with you is that is that true um yeah I definitely feel like we want instead of like just having like this that curriculum just about what we are supposed to be learning in our classes we kind of want to have discussions about topics that more pertain to what's happening in the world and that we've like to just kind of nurture more deep conversations about things that like maybe mean a lot to students and that can help them learn about different aspects of what's happening so if you were to give a teacher some advice about this um what would it be because you know sometimes they're really difficult conversations that need to happen but teachers feel you know if I talk about this I you know somebody
074will you know could complain um I don't know if my students really want to hear this you know those kind of those kind of questions I might hurt somebody's feelings how how do you think what advice would you give to your teachers personally well I've noted for myself is like in one of my classes culinary we have like a slideshow every day um but like today for an example the teacher had like a poster with like a girl with the hijab on and like personally that made me super happy I pointed out to my friends and I was like that's amazing the teacher actually included like other cultures um and then like this is similar for other teachers as well especially in classes such as English or history when you can like make it your
075warm-up you can be like um my English teacher he has a different warm-up every like day um and sometimes like he'll include like an article a recent article about like a current event and then he'll dedicate like 10 15 minutes to like us reading it and then discussing it and what our thoughts are thank you thank you did you have anything else oh okay all right thank you so much so Dr Prater what we heard was that that the student Senate goals we hope to see those implemented these via the site plans right um and I know that we're in the heading into our third year of ours of our lcap cycle how do you see the student Senate's input um being influencing our lcap as we look at a new health cap next year
076yeah that's a great question many people believe the lcap somehow has its Origins at this top place and it's dropped down upon the sites but in reality to answer your question Mr Unger which is an important one the best and most profound understandings come bottom up and so when we look at our lcap especially next year in our third year the board has done a phenomenal job of seeking input from the sites from the parents from the students you've Incorporated not just in the cycles what the students had to have had to say over the last several years now they're being reflected in the district level lcap goals under each of those themes okay and also this school board and the reason I SP I'm so thankful that you've given the students this level of
077commitment and time is that you speak to these statements and goals in your annual board Workshop and you do that by looking at those driving goals of achievement wellness and intervention and when you do that as a school board you embody this feedback so it's coming from the bottom meaning the site up to the district level through the lcap and through the annual board priorities every year so I'm super proud to tell you that this district has made not just the lcat but its annual priorities part of what the students are suggesting we need to do and um and I just see us getting better and better at it there's a reason we use those building blocks because those building blocks are part of what the board does they look through those frames every year
078when they decide to approve a budget and adopt their driving goals and priorities and and so the student voice is a major driver in that um and another group that you'll hear from or committee that you'll hear from next after this is the district Equity team and those two are part of this so I hope that answered your question bottom up not top down Mr buckburn well hello Mr Brockman Hi how are you good it's been a long time that I guess seven years with the Student Center that's correct it's amazing and I know you've gotten a lot of Kudos locally and from the board and and from the our fellow school boards but I think when I was there this this last time I think the real biggest Compliments are starting to come so
079there was observers from another school district I can't Mojave but do you remember that yeah Western Placer Unified School Western Plaza unified and as I walked around I and they brought what like six seven people nine nine people including two students what a compliment to you and they were just like wow and so I mean well you're gonna you're gonna have impact on the whole state and by the way it's you it's you guys that wowed them not Dr Prater so thanks yeah I will say to you it's it's really this group of students inspires me and our board joins in in observing these student Senate meetings on rotation so they don't violate Brown act and I know that you know what what we have here and it's it really should be happening in every
080school district in this country it's it's that important I believe thank you thank you thank you so much for coming students if I can just really quick yes I just shout out to the kids tonight um what I loved I think most about this presentation today were the kids taking action it's not just up to the teachers to do it you know they're creating the creative writing club they're doing the play they're producing things for the tip television show right like they because at the end of the day it's going to be up to the kids to make a difference right for the students to treat each other the way they need to be treated and so by you guys going after the the students to do this I think is going to make that
081resounding you know impact long term so just fantastic job thank you thanks yeah it was really great yeah it's really wonderful our next item is our uh Equity yeah Equity District Equity leadership team thank you very much yeah we sure do let's see here and um we are fortunate to be in year five of the district Equity leadership team and we've accomplished a lot over that period of time thank you appreciate it yeah so um go back here to the start so this is year five of the district Equity leadership team and yearly we come in front of the board to present recommendations on on things that the school district could do through the lens of equity uh and to promote diversity equity and inclusivity throughout our district and in tandem with common ground advisory
082task force student Senate District Equity leadership team is doing some important work with the district and we have two long time members of the team with us here tonight uh Chelsea Smiley and Vanessa from Hawthorne Elementary and they are going to share with you our recommendations from the district Equity leadership team and I'll see Vanessa thank you for having us Chelsea Smiley Elementary curriculum tosa it's hard to follow kids so thank you for engaging with us we won't be long but I think you'll see a lot of connections can I do it okay so the district Equity leadership team our biggest goal and I want to emphasize this is that all students meet rigorous academic standards and you could hear it in the presentations that the kids gave before that's what they want for themselves
083too but for the equity team um our focus is to eliminate those educational barriers and provide equal educational opportunities for all students so they can reach those rigorous academic goals but that is our goal for our Equity work and a quick snapshot of our Equity leadership team it has broad representation we have staff we have Community some of you have joined us thank you for those times when you are able to come and we do have students who come to the the team meetings it is really powerful Inside Out work and as Rick said we've been doing this for five years so it's not any one thing that it is is as a result from there instead it it is every site is inspired to take a look at what they need and bring issues
084of equity to the front and center and you'll hear many people doing different things we just got an email the other day asking for a book study because one site really felt like they had an issue they wanted to work on so we see this team as continuing the conversation and encouraging people to continue to reflect on how they can address those academic barriers that are happening on their site so that's exciting and as equity and in our team it's a journey and not a destination so it will continue to evolve as we evolve in our capacity to do this work so quickly the equity leadership team sees our work as acting as a resource for the district um by sharing our best practices we invite people to come and speak to inspire our our
085members we conduct listening sessions to get feedback from the district from all across the district and that's exciting we really Inspire each other continue to share that local knowledge and expertise of the members and looking at the equity roadmap recommendations and working with District leadership our last meeting Dan block came to give us an HR update and Janet Gould came from student services to give us an update and that was awesome to hear from them and get feedback from and share with um on our Equity goals and a big focus is to support retention of diverse staff I think we heard kids kind of speaking to that that they wanted representation by being a safe place for all voices to be heard good evening board my name is Vanessa Parsons and I'm an mtss teacher
086at Hawthorne I'm on my Tippy Toe so all right so I'm going to be just talking about our goals as an equity leadership team from this year we had two focuses this year the first one being creating trauma-informed schools and just like Chelsea said we had the honor of having Janet gold um be a guest speaker to talk about how in a counseling perspective we're able to support and enhance those supports um to address trauma so students can learn as well as training for and using practices that support student well-being okay our other guest speaker was Dan block who from an HR lens talked about how we are bringing Equity as a focus to our our hiring and retention process um so in order to do that we hired a third party which basically analyzes
087our hiring process we again are prioritizing retention of underrepresented staff and we're trying to continue our effort to expand the diversity of the applicant pool um at our most recent Equity meeting we also had the time to reflect upon our progress um it was our last meeting with our facilitator Rick Mayfield and we will be he will be so missed next year um so with that being said um our aspirations for next year so for our next steps as an equity leadership team we um brainstormed some ideas how we can support our district effort not only district-wide but also at sites um as far as our Equity plan updates we talked about that the student Senate kind of touched upon the fact how it's really integral to monitor our goals for our single plans for
088our student achievement also update our district Equity plan to align with our current goals and then last but not least for our progress we're always revising we're always refining and one idea that came up that I thought was awesome was to provide and create a shared Vision to measure our progress for next year and kind of inform our Pro our priorities based on the data that we have so very similar to what teachers are expected to do in the classroom as well foreign thank you very much this is such an interesting um system that we're using to Foster and develop and create additional equity in our schools and and having this uh this group really helps guide the board and the district as a whole and to next steps we need to take to best
089serve our students are there any uh Mr Unger I see you quite on so um one of the things that we do when we talk about the School site plans is that there are individual goals for each site that each site develops and then there's sort of a template that the district has expectations and goals that sort of I think the district expects um how how do you see the equity team's recommendations being included in the school site plans and you see them being included in individual School site plans does the district have an overarching some overarching goals that they like to see increa included in all of them you know tell me a little bit more about how that works great question sometimes it's difficult with District initiatives too it's not one size fits
090all so when we say to all Sites you know here's a professional development training that can take place sometimes that's apropos and it fits and it works for all Sites but other times it doesn't and sites have individual needs that pertain to that site in particular and so like you heard in the goals that the students came up with there are some similarities from site to site but there are also some differences from side to side so one thing you'll notice in the lcap is that our work is focused on supporting site goals and helping them to establish goals that they want to accomplish at their particular site while still providing some report from the district level for overarching things that need to occur from a district perspective the first slide that on the first
091slide um the phrase um eliminate educational barriers was presented yes what does that look like and again I would say it looks different at every site one of the opening activities that sites did five years ago which was really powerful was put up a Continuum of uh Equity practices from culturally damaging things that are happening in a school to a culturally proficient that are empowering of groups of students and it was really interesting to see what people came up with so people had time to talk in groups write down jot down notes on Post-its and then post them up as to what things they saw happening at their school that they felt were really empowering that made students feel included made students feel comfortable within their school and things that were kind of in the
092middle of the spectrum down to things that were really what they thought of as damaging things I remember um you know things with students lunches and if they if they owed money on their account at school they had to get an alternative lunch and you know go up to the office and make a phone call home and remind their parents that they owed money so you know things like that that we've we you know in the past maybe just accepted oh it's where we've always done things to really stepping back and taking a look at what things are keeping kids from being successful in school another example would be it's also in the budget action goals document that will go in front of the board tonight um is the purchase of uniforms at our middle
093schools and high schools and rather than just expect families to purchase things like PE equipment uh you know to participate in sports we're providing those resources because it's an expectation that all students have those things and so we don't assume that they all can just write a check for I think Dr Prater shared the example of 400 or something one trip to a middle school you know just write out a check to the student body for all the different charges so taking a look at those things through a lens of equity thank you I appreciate the way things like that um the examples you just gave we made me think about the student senators and talking about a safe School environment so many of these things align and that's pretty wonderful that we're the students
094the staff the teachers were working towards some common goals here Mr Claussen yeah around the goal of bringing an equity Focus to hiring and retention how do you feel that we're currently doing I mean if that's a great a great goal and a wondering your perspective on where we're coming from and it is historical I think we've made some progress I think we're going to see it with some of the administrators we're going to hire this year that will be added on next year it's in all of our conversations you know how do we get the pool of applicants and Mrs Parsons mentioned that in her portion how do we increase the the diversity in our applicant pools so that we can find the very best candidates that uh you know that also look like
095the students that attend our schools in our district um we're meeting tomorrow with Hanover and that'll be the outside evaluator that'll come in and kind of take a look at our practices and give us a recommendation on things that we can do to beef that up not only hiring you know recruiting candidates and hiring but retaining candidates as as well let's talk about Drew what would Hanover Mr Ms Hanover it's a it's a company oh the Hanover Corporation yeah they do lots of different work kind of measures do they use to see whether we're up to I mean demographics and portions of student backgrounds that are represented yeah and we Mr Block and I met with several different companies that came up with proposals that to do this kind of work and Hanover presented theirs
096and they take a look at our processes and make recommendations on how we can better recruit candidates in general they look at our interview process and the hiring process and make recommendations there as well and they have several other components that they can take a look at they can do a staff survey for example and find a climate survey to find out how Staff feel they can conduct exit interviews with staff who are leaving and find out what their experience was from their perspective and make recommendations based on that and it's just kind of an outside set of eyes an experienced outside set of eyes that comes in and looks at our practices and procedures that we have in place and says here here are some areas we think that you could make some improvements
097I'll be interested to hear more about that anything else thank you very much oh I'm sorry I'm sorry can I ask one more question well so um the concept of trauma informed schools is a really interesting concept to see it's one of our goals it's a sophisticated thoughtful goal um I guess my question here is how do we Define that and is that like a broader term that's already is trauma-informed um a broader Concept in the industry how do we measure that and um uh I I like it as a goal I'm just right I'd love to hear a little more about it sure great question I would say it's very complex I think trauma-informed is kind of an umbrella term for a lot of the things that we're seeing with the return of post
098covet of students back to school I read an article today and I mean one of the Publications that we get as a district um on just the impact that we're seeing with students the behaviors that we're seeing with students we hear from teachers daily we need help we need professional development we need we have a different level of behavior within the classroom and within the school campus that we didn't see previously we need help with how to help kids deal with and process the the things that have occurred to them and also learn how to you know live together as a group of kids I think you heard that from the student Senators at every single School site that you know we want to help kids learn how to treat one another respectfully and you
099know use proper language and So within tier one which would be you know the regular classroom teacher doing instruction we're having a lot more of those classroom conversations on uh you know being civil and treating one another respectfully uh and then I think administrators are in the same uh the same boat like help us to navigate what this looks like in terms of restorative practices keeping kids in school you know lowering our suspension rates you know increasing our attendance rates there's so many different facets to it one of the things that you're going to see in a few moments in the lcap is increased funding for transitional kindergarten so we can push in program Specialists to help with some of the behaviors that TK teachers are seeing in their classrooms you know things that we
100didn't see before and especially with four-year-olds you know when when students are acting out in these ways it's indicative of deeper things that are occurring for that student and so trying to solve those problems and helping families to solve those problems in a multi-faceted way and providing resources to staff I think is really kind of uh you know as I said it's very complex and we we could talk about it for a long time but those are some examples of trauma-informed things maybe this is something for me to unpack in a deeper discussion but so so to the degree that you've got trauma intersecting with Equity you've got trauma intersecting with covid and post covid um and we're within the context of an equity presentation here so I'm just curious what what part of equity
101and Trauma are are type tightly tied together as a goal and how much is trauma and being trauma-informed just a universal goal that affects everything we do um great again great question um I would say that you know there is crossover and we do see our most impacted groups during covid where our lower socioeconomic uh students our English learner families and I think you know that it speaks to uh to equity you know those students were the most impacted those families need support on how to support their children you know oftentimes you know we'll call home and the family and say well I'm so glad you called because I need help and you know can you help me and it you know it's it's not uh it's not the old you know I just make
102the phone call home and Mom and Dad will take care of it it's we need to work together as a team to support our most vulnerable students to you know learn how to be productive citizens in a School academic environment so that they can learn no thanks I recommend you guys for putting the goal in this context because I think it's just much more actionable and real you know with that as a specific state of goal so yeah and these were our goals last year as they mentioned and as a group we talked about it and said you know we've made a little bit of progress but we're not there and so we rather than just add on another set of goals and some more things that we should do we said no these are
103really key really important and we need to continue again this year all right thank you very much thanks for coming Chelsea and Vanessa all right our next item is 7.01 correspondence and at the time of um the publication of the agenda there has been no uh correspondence has been received no official correspondence our next item is public comment and this time we welcome any public comment on matters of General District district interest uh if if you're if you have an item that you would like to discuss that is on the agenda later but you don't want to wait you can bring we can just you can speak about that now uh each speaker is limited to three minutes a timer will appear on the screen uh countdown countdown timer and at this time I'm going
104to ask if there's anyone present for public comment we'll do in in-person comment first followed by uh online any virtue anyone on Zuma wishes to make a comment followed by any written comment anyone in person here tonight we shouldn't just they can come right anyone on Zoom and we've received no written public comment so thank you very much um I so we're ready for the superintendent's updates and I think after we have um well we'll do the superintendent's updates a couple of resolutions and then we'll most we'll be ready for a break so uh Mr Pinkerton well it's a busy uh budget season if I could spit it out um so a lot A lot can happen here in the next few weeks the governor's going to come out with May rebuys normally middle of
105the month um and so it's it's an interesting time because the governor's promised a lot in his budget in January um the tax revenues aren't coming in quite as expected so um with pushing off the actual Tech when people have to turn in their taxes there's just a lot of unknowns um at this point so it's going to be really interesting to see what the governor does to um to keep that you know Revenue versus expenditure together and get this budget passed we've made a lot of promises about what he's going to keep he's potentially running for president right so there's just a lot a lot to unfold as this kind of moves forward um for us as basically School District Community funded um I'm really interested to see if he's going to make those
106reductions to the art music instruction materials uh Grant which could be up for two a couple million dollars to the school district right that we were supposed to receive him in one-time funds but have yet to receive basically received half of those and waiting for the other half depending on how this decision goes um there's things like elope funding which we feel like is going to be maintained that's what helps us with summer school and for the next year we'll actually provide free child care for our students that are English Learners uh Foster homeless Youth and economic disadvantage so really looking forward to that program in the future um and so it's just going to be an interesting season right to see how this all unfolds with the budget um those types of things for
107us we um you know big picture you're going to hear a lot about the lcap from Mrs Frost from the team counseling supports things that we're adding we're kind of in this third year of the budget where we have added a lot of things to our budget expenditures right mainly through covid funding one-time funds those types of things and so and I don't estimate us having to change anything for this third year of the budget but next year is going to be really a critical year where the board will um we'll be looking at a new three-year l cap and so you know we've talked with Dr Prater myself with a team about starting in the fall to really begin that conversation right and having so we're not just trying to push it all into
108one month right for Budget adoption those types of things but really having a thorough discussion about how we move forward along with that probably our number one cost is teachers in the classroom um so just finished enrollment today TK uh enrollment with Mr Block for elementary sites and so just you know schools now okay confirmed how many kindergartners we have how many TK kids do we have you know what are the class sizes gonna be what are those they're trying to keep combos down so um across the board still very small class sizes um for next year moving you know across the board another one or two here are there types of things that you might hear about but overall very few combination classes class size is low um and so again that's one of
109those things that will have to be discussed next year as we look at the budget cycle in terms of moving forward right um but but it is nice because now we can actually finish Staffing um it was interesting in that TK did not grow as much as we thought it would so we're only increasing two TK classes for the district um and so really Los Ranchos had a big big bump and then um Hawthorne riding a second class but the two classes right now are only 14 each so Room to Grow I don't know if people just don't know about TK per se if um if they're just set with their preschool program that they're in maybe or how that goes but you know over time hopefully that unfolds um and talking with staff and
110Dr Prater I I do think next year and hopefully measure c will have kicked in and get those tkk rooms ready to roll um we may want to just look at expanding instead of going out two months and then having that whole group of parents upset that didn't make the two months we might want to just open up to everybody next year right in terms of that and and just you know move forward so that every four-year-old gets that opportunity and I think that may help kick in and get people um get keep up people going so again a lot of a lot of work with those efforts with the budget um kudos to Katie Eckland and her staff right a lot going into right now preparing um and really helping this Hellcat process putting
111the dollars behind um kind of what we're talking about thank you next we have our educational services update yes thank you just a couple of updates for you starting with Los Osos Middle School a couple of big events there over the last couple of weeks first of all last week Tiff Buckman in our special education department hosted a Unified sports event on campus and we've had the Unified sports in San Luis Coastal for a few years but you know covid had everything slowed down just a little bit so it was nice to bring this back through Los Osos Middle School Unified sports is through Special Olympics and it promotes social inclusion through shared Sports training and competition experience so we're talking about kids with disabilities and kids without disabilities Tiff hosted other schools we had
112Monarch Grove CL Smith Itasca Atascadero unified sent some kids as well and then Morro Bay High School sent students over and they were the peer buddies for our students and then we even had lone students who were helping out so it was a really wonderful event and again that was Los Osos Middle School who spearheaded that our kids are actually going up to Paso Robles for something similar in about a month so another Unified sports opportunity so we love to see this back we love to see it growing for our students and then Los Osos Middle School also hosted their tough 2 which is a two mile obstacle course with mental and physical challenges for the kids so they're not just running two miles and they can walk and they can jog it and all
113of those things but there are also some Park course kind of difficulties there and Mr Bloom really talks about it being teamwork and cooperation among the students and the staff and a really good opportunity for his site and then maybe just one last thing I called Mr Dowler I really wanted to highlight something from Pacific Beach I haven't talked about Pacific Beach in a while and he said Diane you've talked about the construction program with the board before but I want you to do it again tonight it's such a powerful new program on the campus it says we have eight kids in a cohort they're moving on to their second course they've done field trips which one of our Pacific Beach students talk about tonight they've had experts from the field come into their classroom
114and he really sees it as a beneficial program for his kids and really hopes over the years to kind of track their progress is this a field that they go into so just a little highlight from PB thank you all right measure D oh I'm sorry um Diane do you see the Unified sports in in lieu of the giant Special Olympics event that we used to have annually I don't know if I see it in lieu to tell you the truth I don't know where the Special Olympics event is over the last few years but it really did bring out students from across districts I know that this is a really wonderful opportunity for that inclusion piece right there they're competing with kids alongside sometimes from their own schools so hopefully we'll have both all
115right next is measure D update as you see measure D we have um uh Mr Bonner myself have been meeting with site Architects going to sites reviewing kind of the phase one projects uh that the board approved um at the May 11 study session I'll kind of update the Border kind of where we're at the budgets associated with those projects so very exciting uh of course yesterday we had a thank you to to the board and to the um you know representatives from Morro Bay to KSBY coming out and the News uh they had a great little article on KSBY this morning that kind of highlighted the Morro Bay Cafe in Commons area um it I got it you know again kudos to Aaron and her staff because none of that happens you know it's
116great to have these shiny machines and all this other stuff but Somebody's gotta cook the food right um and so I mean just a fish taco like really like fresh fish tacos you know and again the uh the Chinese cuisine that they had the the pizzas going through you know I'm watching high school kids eating pesto Pizza it's just I mean really incredible what she's doing and for the for the audience to know Food Service um if this is good for the kids to know too the more kids eat the more money Food Service makes which means they can buy better ingredients and hire more people to work all the money and Food Service stays in Food Service it's like a business right and so they literally can help themselves by eating lunch and breakfast
117on campus and so I can't wait to see that um just Build and Grow right over time what Aaron's done since you've been here and moving forward but the chefs at each School site again just the kind of the glow for even the Food Service workers to take pride in what they're doing for kids right it was it was fantastic yesterday and again for the community thank you because none of this would happen have they not passed pleasure d right have they not passed measure c um hearing the kids tonight talk about their theater performances and you know that doesn't that doesn't necessarily happen in the old black box right but now we have this beautiful theater to have creative writing project you know all those things because um the voters approved measure D and
118we were able to to make those facilities what they are and I look forward to uh again making our elementaries our two middle schools our continuation school also places that just Foster again student growth and learning and all those great things so it was it was really nice so thank you next we have a resolution Mr Block yeah so over the next couple weeks we get to recognize the outstanding staff within San Luis Coastal tonight board president Mrs Shepard is going to read a resolution recognizing our staff both certificated and classified staff as we heard with the students presenting tonight they recognize the impact that staff on their campuses have had on their education the projects they're doing we are so blessed to have the employees that we do in tonight's resolution honors them in
119the weeks coming or a couple weeks away we'll be doing our employees of the year and our teacher of the year honorees so tonight this resolution thank you I just want to say that I know that we have Educators on the board former Educators and I'm really honored to read this as a parent whose kids experience in the wonderful opportunities to go through uh San Luis Coastal Unified School District One from first grade to graduation the other from kindergarten on and um I think it it means a lot as a parent to um honor our arm our District employees so this is resolution number 15 22 23 appreciation of San Luis Coastal Unified School District employees whereas the San Luis Coastal Unified School District Board of Education believes that every student has the right to
120access high quality educational programs to further their academic and personal success and whereas the San Luis Coastal Unified School District Board of Education believes that quality educational programs are made possible thanks to the dedicated talented Innovative and hard-working Educators and support staff who have chosen Public Service as their calling and whereas the San Luis Coastal Unified School District Board of Education acknowledges the extensive skill and effort required to provide individualized educational opportunities for students and whereas the San Luis Coastal Unified School District Board of Education further acknowledges the challenges faced by our Educators staff students and families during the transition back to in-person learning and whereas the San Luis Coastal Unified School District Board of Education is fortunate to have a team of skilled Educators staff and administrators who have taken the time to find
121Creative Solutions and provide unwavering support to our studies as they return to their classrooms and whereas the San Luis Coastal Unified School District Board of Education is proud to recognize the dedication and commitment to Excellence displayed by the team throughout even the most challenging of times and whereas the San Luis Coastal Unified School District Board of Education believes that the San Luis Coastal Unified School District team serves as a model of public service and pride for our community and whereas the San Luis Coastal Unified School District Board of Education believes that such a team deserves the Gratitude respect and recognition from the board students parents and the entire Community now therefore be it resolve that the San Luis Coastal Unified School District Board of Education proudly proclaims the month of May 2023 as Employee Appreciation
122month to include the California day of the teacher on Tuesday May 9 the week of classified employees May 21-27 and recognition of support and administrative staff in making this declaration the board honors the San Luis Coastal Unified School District team for dedicating their lives in service to promoting the success of our children and our community adopted the second day of May 2023 by the Board of Education of the San Luis Coastal Unified School District by the following roll call vote let's start at 1am Mr Claussen Mr Banfield yes um Mr Buckley yes he's stronger yes the silver Drew yes Miss Roger yes we did this without emotion we're just adopting the resolution so it's not quite as formal as we should be as Dawson will you accept this okay is there anyone from the public
123who wishes to address this on this I'm really glad to say that I I'm fortunate to still know some of the teachers in our districts as teachers of my children one of whom is present in the room standing in the back and um how much we appreciate not just our the entire team I I really like that the word view the team was used throughout this so thank you one and all Mr Pinkerton well I have another resolution coming forward right yes it's exciting stuff um so it's kind of strange because in the furniture equipment budget I'm asking you to buy five gas power four gas powered buses right but at the other end right now tonight we're going to celebrate the potential of us receiving 10 free electric school buses so um by passing
124this board resolution tonight what this does is basically it allows us to um replace a current gas powered bus that's old that's ready to um you know be stopped using to for an electric bus the issue we've talked about this before with the board the problem is is the technology hasn't necessarily caught up with the grants and the funds that are available for climate friendly practices like this right so um we currently have a bus that we've been awarded and we're still two years waiting because the bus company the um it's an issue with the the weight of the chassis and the um the drivetrain so there's just some issues that they're still like the bus manufacturers are facing to get those um so I currently have Mr bonden and our lead mechanic calling that
125bus West Company every day where's our bus where's our bus um so it's hard to know the impact that this will have long term now that said I do anticipate that electric school buses are are the future and then we'll be moving this way this this forward and moving this direction right and I'm just like with electric cars every you know it seems like every month every year they get better and longer life and those types of things so um all of that said yes we we are in need of some gas powered buses to replace our current gas Fleet um because I can't not have buses until these new electric buses show up right so um when and if we can move forward right and get these receive these buses we have plenty of
126buses to turn in to get these new electric buses I shared that information on board Doc's kind of the age of the fleet um the buses we have so again kudos to our staff to our mechanics to Philip um however our our bus transportation supervisor for going after these grants for making them available um and we look forward to again one day having a an all-electric Fleet that takes our kids around town and moves forward and uh and hopefully these 10 buses will will be here sooner than the current bus we're waiting for yes well I've always had an electric vehicle since they first came out but you know regarding a heavy electric vehicle isn't there an issue about propulsion going up hills and things like that there can be of course um so it's
127it's all part of I I think that's part of the issue that they're facing right now manufacturing those types of things um that said there there are electric buses being used throughout the state of California right in different areas different places so um I I would have to bring the mechanic back to kind of you know give you the rundown on also the charging when they go on long trips yeah um I guess there's going to be uh places to do that hopefully so so again those are all things we're concerned about moving forward right but for right now we have enough internal routes within our school district that we feel like we could utilize those buses um you know on smaller routes throughout Town those types of things until the battery life engages I
128would assume at some point in the near future all the schools would have electric buses all the districts would and so hey if we went to Fresno in our bus and took the football team and they played like we would be charging our bus in Fresno at that District school right while we're waiting for the kids and then they drive home so I you know I envisioned that in the future um I think the state envisions that I think these grants these billions of dollars they're putting forward envisioned that I just don't know that the manufacturers have caught up with the vision yet um so that's it's kind of what we're faced right now again we're not talking about cars we're talking about buses so we are already also looking at just you know our
129White Fleet our smaller Vehicles because that technology is here right so I think in the future you're going to see us bring forward some um you know electric you know smaller cars bands things that our computer techs use our maintenance or um you know our maintenance crew you know those types of things in the future that we'll uh we'll expand we have a two charging stations that came with our free grant from the last one they finally got the parts um here um issues in China in terms of getting those parts and having them available so that's uh moving forward at the at our transportation yard so we're gonna have kind of what's called a high level charger where you can charge you know bigger buses those type of things as well as a smaller
130charger that we can charge you know our lighter fleets types of car so we're trying to get that background ready to go right so that we can expand on this in the future um and then this is also something I think more of a car charging station aspect of It Solar those are things that we'll be looking at measure C at all of our sites as well how we can incorporate that into uh some of our new construction yeah hey first of all I want to thank you and staff um or having a foresight to apply for this yeah um I do know um while they're our old old feelings about the capability of buses to to move and and how fast they can climb Mills I would note that um the East Coast Corridor
131or um Amtrak is now electric I'm pretty sure if they can pull the train we'll figure out a way to get the bus up the hill hopefully uh hopefully um I also um I just don't remember the board voting on each grant that you guys do so I'm kind of wondering if there's something special I mean don't we do for some grants I think we've brought them forward for the most part I mean like textbooks I mean there's a lot of Grants well I don't know about yeah I mean there's I know when it comes to vehicles I appreciate that so I just I think it's just really good because it forces this public discussion in the spotlight yeah on the need for a need for this type of great this activity and I would
132I was going to point out you already did later in the budget we're about to approve yes a million dollars for um for diesel diesel fleet um and that that I think the eight of those buses um it's like fifty percent the cost of a of an electric bus right now so pretty crazy uh Dynamics um if nobody else well that thought just I'm gonna go to the public anyone from the public we're gonna do this resolution right um anyone wishing to address the board no and then when do you think we realistically will get the buses well hopefully we get our first bus within the next year and we can move forward with that and then in terms of these you know we'll as they come in as they're available I would assume that
133we would just start bringing them in bring them on board as they you know as they're available I mean realistically it could be a couple years which is why you see that I have four guest diesel battle buses again if I if I felt like if we got these right now we could move forward I wouldn't even be moving forward with that but I mean this could be years in the making right and we have as you can see from the the age of our Fleet we do have a handful of buses that need to be replaced um you know we we bus a lot of students in San Luis Coastal from the coast to Avila to Shell Beach to San Luis we have schools of choice so we take kids you know throughout this
134community so transportation is really when you talk about equity and things like that it's it's a big piece of what we do you have a way of finding better buses Mr Claussen faster let me know the answer is you're not sure but as soon as you can get them we'll go after it yeah absolutely yeah how's that for specificity okay um I would like to give you a better answer Mrs Roger thank you um I understand everything that you said Mr Pinkerton uh I but I am wondering we're being asked tonight to approve a million dollars for these these four buses and I'm wondering what the funding source is for that do we have a sinking fund for bus replacement do not but we have a fun just you know that we fund everything in
135terms of the school district but what I would tell you is this is the first year where we're actually receiving Transportation fund in the school district and it's a little over a million dollars so the goal was to maybe utilize those Transportation funds um Miss Roger and and put them towards those the the purchase of those four buses for this year that's really fortuitous how wonderful for us and then my my second question is uh and this is kind of an oddball question but what do we do how do we Surplus buses that we are removing from our Fleet and I ask that because you know it's interesting to see how people take old school buses and turn them into tiny homes and such what do we do with a a bus that we are
136retiring so when their buses um that are tied to these types of Grants where you're changing them out for an electric bus they literally take that bus from us we drive it to them so this this bus will not they they will not be on the road ever again is what happens with these particular buses through these grants is there a trade-in value no basically it's part of the it's part of this process where they're going to give you a free electric bus if you give them your old your old car right your old bus in this case um and they dispose of them I think they crunch them and Mr Pinkerton I have never known how many buses we have in our Fleet do you happen to know offhand that's right there on the
137board agenda oh I beg your pardon there's a buses quick look which kind of has um again a list of all of our buses so there's 36 36 buses average age of the bus is 17 years we have 17 buses that are over 21 20 years of age we have six special needs buses that are 29 years old um so you can it has that that information there and then there's also another one because I knew this would be a question just about overall vehicle Master lists and kind of things so again kudos to our mechanics yeah who keep these buses running um over that amount of time and I mean the thousands hundreds of thousands of miles right that we put on our vehicles on an annual basis is pretty unbelievable but there's another
138sheet too that has the vehicle Master list um that lists the age or the model of of bus and the age as well well you have totally shamed me I guess I didn't read far enough down in my agenda item can you give me the VIN numbers please thank you Mr Pinkerton it seems like the terminal for poor charge you give them beautiful yeah all right um Mr Unger I I just wanted a big bus discussion I just I'm not counseling we're talking about point out I have to point out that one of csba's major legislative goals for last year was transportation funding and the state eventually passed it in school districts throughout California are benefiting it's fantastic it really is including community-funded school districts as well Mr Banfield did you have anything else I
139just you're like okay Mr Buckman I will return to you now thank you so um I do sit on um the csba legislative action committee um there was a legislation that Mr Unger's mentioned and there's another one that's going through that um would push the deadline to replace bus leads at schools with much tighter window and we actually took a stand I think not in opposition but somewhere along those lines because the discussion was pretty heavy about none of us can get the electric buses we ordered nobody can tell us when we're going to get them and so to make a tighter deadline it's going to make things a little tough so um I think again it's really smart that to go ahead and get these diesel buses also along with Chris there was also
140a climate action subcommittee of csba and one of the one of the goals of that was to eliminate diesel buses so we're getting there and along with all that if it's okay with the rest of the board I'd like to make a motion to approve this resolution we have a motion by Mr Buckman and second by Miss Dover Drew Mr Buckman Miss dobler Drew yes Mrs Roger yes Mr Unger yes Mr Banfield yes Mr Clawson yes and I am a yes thank you very much I'll try to get you some better dates in the future all right let's um let's take a break until 7 15 and then we'll come back and Tackle our discussion action items foreign waiting for our tech people to give the high sign that we're ready to go all right
141I've gotten it all right our next item is 10.01 local control accountability plan update all right good evening good evening Connor this evening as well we're here for the fourth time to share with you our progress on the lcap you all remember that the lcap is the local control accountability plan we've talked about it so many times as a group and I think because it is so important to the district to our staff to our students and to our community we spend an awful lot of time and there's a lot of resources in this plan so number four of about number six or seven presentations makes a lot of sense um we are to date in a draft form with our document there's an awful lot of information there but I do want you to
142know that it continues to be in a draft form we will be making minor changes based on feedback funding and metrics now I want to remind you and we've spent a couple of meetings on this that stakeholder feedback is very very important as we in San Luis Coastal build our lcap and this is a document that I shared with you at our last meeting but I think it um I think it would be important to at least look at it quickly reminding the board of this document here this is our lcap overview you have it as a link and you will see that all of our stakeholder input is included on this form as well as the metrics that we are looking at as well as our categories for action and then again I always
143want to pull you back to this green section right this is our stakeholder feedback and it is critical as we develop the actions goals and um the financial input on each one of those actions to so and then finally before we talk about broad Strokes in our draft lcap we do want to remind the community that um we are looking at three groups we always focus on El on Foster homeless and on our SED students every student across San Luis Coastal is listed or addressed in our El cup but these three groups must have some specific metrics and specific action items and funds attached what we wanted to do was um give you some um major action items that we've added this year for the most part these are new action items that we have
144added um in response to the feedback or needs across the district that we are aware of you remember that we have three Focus areas in our lcap Focus one is rigorous relevant and engaging instruction two is multi-tiered academic support and three is our intentional culture of care Mr Mayfield would you talk a little bit about some of the new Focus or some of the new action items and focus area one okay so this document the goals actions budget document is one piece of the Elka it's not the completed l cap so the overview is one piece this document tonight that you you will that is in front of you is one piece and then at our next meeting on the 16th of May we'll present uh some of the other components of the lcap but
145these are like the action items that are going to occur throughout the district as we've mentioned several times this being year three coming up being year three of a three year cycle there won't be wholesale changes but there will be some new things added so we're looking at curriculum at all of our school sites Elementary School sites and reading and writing and we're kind of accelerating the process for our dual language immersion schools so we're going to bring an adoption to you at the 30th May 30th meeting for our DLI schools and training in that adoption will be included in this document tonight Mr Mayfield yes what's elevation or is it elevation or elevation yeah well it has two L's there I just I'll get right because it's ell for English language Learners so I'll
146get right to that oh um math academy we're looking at our math data and seeing the need to have articulation meetings with our teachers from grades five through eight uh so Mr O'Connor and I are working together to actively plan what that's going to look like there'll be some summer components there'll be some components next year led by teachers working together our teacher leaders in math working together on math instruction and especially articulation so elevation is a new ELD monitoring tool that we're going to bring in it does several things it allows us to it's a database that allows us to crunch numbers and and manipulate data very easily for Els it's a tracking system for compliance so it allows us to quickly see who who is eligible to rfep or redesignate as fluent English
147proficient it also has some teaching components to it so the teachers can use it to get suggestions on how to do designated English language development instruction and it will help us with the efforts that we're going to make next year in terms of English language development and working with our El students so it's an item an action item in that budget of actions goals document um next year we're going to do an elementary English language arts pilot so we did the pilot for Spanish language arts this year in the adoption next year we're going to Pilot English language arts uh in our reading committee as I've brought to you before has done some great work there uh and then um at the end of next year at this time next year in front of the
148board will come the English language arts uh adoption recommendation and they'll be training right away in June uh for that so we'll that is included in this document as well uh HSS history social studies for elementary curriculum adoption we'll go in front of the board at the next meeting on the 16th that's included in here along with training we're adding Heritage Spanish for Native Spanish speakers uh at Morro Bay High School and also AP Spanish and we're purchasing materials to make those things happen so both AP language as well as um literature yes at least the DLI curriculum adoption for for Pacheco and Baywood is is that our reading language arts specifically or is it is it a broader curriculum covering all the areas reading language arts specifically yeah yeah and we'll have uh we'll
149come to the board I think it's the 30th meeting that we have for that and we'll give you all the information on the pilot and how that went and and what we're recommending for adoption um and then uh secondary science adoptions in physics uh and AP Chemistry and you'll see those things within this document as well in Focus area two which is the multi-tiered system or academic support or mtss we're going to exchange a little bit the responsibilities of our mtss teachers at elementary to include some behavioral components so really mtss would have behavioral components within it and school sites are seeing the need as we talked about earlier with trauma-informed practice and whatnot we're seeing the need to to have that included in the conversation so we're going to help sites by changing the
150mtss teachers focus a little bit to include Behavior uh Avid we're continuing our kind of full court press to get students early on uh sixth grade fifth grade on the coast into Avid and Jane hawley's done an outstanding job doing the parent nights to recruit students for the middle and high schools and you'll see that in this document as well as our six-year plans for College and Career Readiness we're also doing that kind of work you know recruiting talking to kids you know and encouraging uh them to finish the career pathway um we're gonna along the behavior lines we're going to increase program specialist time at several sites we looked at data across the district and identified sites that had a greater need and so you'll see more program specialist time at those sites and
151then transitional kindergarten as I mentioned earlier also has seen a need for Behavior Support so we'll have program Specialists working with teachers to help develop plans to help students be successful in school at the earliest stage and I love our conversation about you know having TK go for all four-year-olds next year the sooner we can get those kids in and start working with them and helping them to be successful the better and then we're expanding our co-teaching model especially in the way of training at the high school level so that would be multiple teachers in classrooms supporting students with special needs and teachers have said you know we need a little bit more training a little more support to make this successful so you'll see that in that document as well and then in Focus
152area three Mr Banfield has a question Rick what is PPS again the first increase in middle school PPS counseling what is that so PPS is pupil Personnel Services it's the name of their certificate and I can give you a little bit more about that so so thank you that takes us right into Focus Area 3 intentional culture of care and what we tried to do here was give you one example from each of our levels so the first one is to increase their middle school PPS my watch so the first one was for our middle schools and it's to increase our school counselor percentage right so PPS counselor that's the type of um credential that our counselors across the district hold and I think you all remember that last year we added full-time counselors at
153all of our elementary schools this year at the middle school we're looking at increasing a little bit raising the um number of days at Laguna right now we have 1.8 and we'd like to go up to 2.0 so we'll have two full-time counselors on the campus five days a week in addition to other supports that we have on that campus I'm at Los Osos Middle School we would be increasing as well right now they have 1.0 PPS counselor they also have other supports with Janet we'll tell you an awful lot about but we're looking at increasing that PPS counselor role at the um at Los Osos middle school as well then the second one sbhip that is our student Behavioral Health Initiative Program and this is a grant that Janet Gould in her Department worked
154together um to earn through the county and what it does is it looks at Behavioral Health at the high school level and we are looking at hiring PPS counselors at the high school as well through this grant we would really be focusing on somebody with social work or maybe LCSW but they are also PPS counselors so our first bullet looks at Middle School our second bullet looks at um High School we've already added to our elementary schools so maybe taking a little bit of a left turn there youth Athletics for achievement that is in our lcap it was a very popular first year program this year and we have it in there again and we want to hit more kids right we want to really look at the leadership a piece that we have in
155that program you'll see that we also have Leader in Me curriculum a district um a district what would we say we're purchasing um part of leader in me so that it can be used throughout the district one of the things we want to do is kind of enhance our after-school youth Athletics program to really get that that leadership piece in there so those are just a couple of ideas a couple of things that you'll find in Focus area three along with the things that Mr Mayfield talked about in Focus areas two and one now this link down here takes you to our draft lcap and I think Mr Mayfield was going to get into that link and just kind of show you what you're looking at in that doctor you remember from the spsas that
156come in front of the board uh this single plan for student achievement that come in front of the board from each School site in the month of October late October or early November and that is their action plan at their site level this particular document the budget action goals document is similar to that from a district perspective so we have metrics in here it's divided into the three Focus areas that Mrs Frost mentioned before and then within each of the focus areas are all the actions that we'll be taking um and the and the cost and the proposed budget category that kind of thing and again it is a draft you can see the watermark there clearly in the middle of the page because we want people to know this right now is a working
157document uh we'll talk about it again at next meeting and then we'll introduce the third component of the lcap at the next meeting and then um at the final and I believe the hearing public hearing takes place at the next meeting and then at the May 30th meeting we'll have the final reading of the lcap and then propose it for board approval you'll see in the metrics uh um tables here that of course we don't have the finished 2223 metrics in there and then once we put those in the finished 2223 metrics then we can set our goals for next year the 23-24 school year and I'll just scroll down uh to there's a lot in this document but I'll just scroll down here and you know highlight that again these are the action areas
158um the the amount of the cost there in the actual activity and then we highlighted in green and the left hand column some of the newer items that are in for this particular year either new or kind of enhanced and and changed a little bit and then some of the other ones are things that were in before as we've mentioned many times that I've even mentioned tonight not a lot of major shifts these are these are little tweaks and additions that we're doing and we're staying with our focus on mtss and really helping students uh you know at greatest need to be successful true I was wondering about the something else that you were talking about up top um where the I our five percent Improvement has taken uh projected for 2324 based on the
159fall results is that right because I was noted because you we don't have the end of the year and then it's going to be a different cohort that starts it up again so you can't go straight up in percentage-wise so you have to go back to I I just was noticing like for example for fast Bridge or any of them that the 2223 results 66 and then the goal for the fall a year later would be 71 so it looks like just methodically added five percent and it looked like a good way to go and have you found that uh what have we found so far as far as well is it all shown right here as far as the results well I guess the 2122 is shown yeah as we finish the 22-23 school
160year we'll fill in those results and then we'll have the goals that would then be reflected off of that and and in general as we've discussed with the board previously we use five percent as uh what statisticians call statistically significant uh increase in in student achievement right and something that I as I'm pointing out that I've observed this time that I hadn't before is that it's based off of an incoming class rather than an outgoing fund results thank you one other thing that I would like to clarify is we have a couple of meetings coming up the next of which is at a study session which where we'll do another Deep dive we'll look at each of the focus areas we'll probably give a summary of the expenditures for each Focus area highlights some more
161of the action items answer more of your questions so we have one more meeting together to talk in depth about this document before we go to first read so that's important to know too I think we have three more meetings together one for a deep dive the first read and then the second read and hopefully approval is there any are you is now is this are you is your presentation complete before I go to the public anyone from the public wishing to address this on this maybe any other board comments questions oh yeah Marilyn did you have any remarks I well I just had a comment um this must be my night not to know things um but I wanted my colleagues to know that I um requested that uh we be provided a legend
162for the um the education acronyms that are included in the lcap because they change so frequently and also I can't remember what they all mean so I don't know if anyone else will benefit from receiving that but um I know that I will um so I just wanted to let you guys know that when we have our study session we'll be receiving uh [Music] kind of a crib sheet on the different acronyms thanks for all of our areas have acronyms so thank you and then I understand um Miss Egan that's a question perhaps I had a question on the sbhip Grant and how long that lasts for because it was for three looked like it was for three um uh counselors at the high school and is that just one year or is it a
163longer time frame a longer time frame our hope is that we can hire 2.5 we're looking at one for each of our comprehensive high schools and then a 0.54 Pacific Beach it is a one-year Grant and Mrs Gould knows it much better than I do but I'll give it a try it is a one-year Grant it um focuses heavily on Medi-Cal and trying to apply to medical based on the services and eventually you will be reimbursed to the point that you can maintain the program after the grant sunsets um the total of the Grant I think is 400 000 we are not certain that we will have four hundred thousand dollars in medical billing after the first year but we think every year it might get a little better there may you know there may
164be District decision making after the first year thank you that answer your question Lena yes yes okay thank you all right anyone else thank you very much we'll um we'll keep chipping away at the lcat all right next is uh 10 item 10.02 a counseling presentation good evening I will wait for our presentation wow there we go good evening everyone I'm Janet Gould your executive director of student support services and I'm happy to be here with you this evening to present the comprehensive counseling program in San Luis Coastal and with me this evening I have John calandro principal on special assignment for student services and Angela Angela Riles our District counselor first we want to start by recognizing the board in our district and appreciate your ongoing support of student counter of counseling in our
165district our school board and our district has always been a huge proponent and has recognized the need for counseling so we just thank you for your ongoing support and tonight we're pleased to share with you through data and stories our District's comprehensive program we have much to share with you into the extent possible we ask that you hold your questions until the conclusion of our presentation so I want to start by highlighting that we do have a comprehend we do take a comprehensive approach to counseling in our district and tonight much of what we will talk about is our PPS our school counselors but really when we look at counseling across our district there's many different facets that are coming together and working together to support the counseling that we have in our district and
166one of the things that Diane France just mentioned to you is our SB hip Grant staff and I'll be talking to you a little bit more about that at the end of this presentation this is a visual of all of our elementary school counselors and it makes me smile in recognition of the board's work and approval of increasing counselors at our elementary to full-time counselors this past year so we have nine full-time school counselors at our nine comprehensive elementary schools and a 0.4 at teach elementary and one of our new counselors this year Kayla is in the audience this evening and we're really happy to have her joining us and our professional counseling team continues on at our secondary level and this year we were able to utilize CTE grant funding to hire Jessica Baza
167a CTE counselor who splits her time between Los Osos middle school and Laguna middle school and we'll talk a little bit more this evening in our presentation about some of the exciting work that she's done as well as Jessica Hoyt who's our Questa liaison last year we were able to utilize her in our district for four days a week and we're able to increase that to five days a week this year while our allocation for our the rest of our middle and high school remained unchanged this year and at this time I'd like to welcome Angela Riles to talk a little bit about our elementary counseling data hi everyone thanks so much for having us um I feel honored to have been able to talk to you for the third time this year about School
168counseling at such an important aspect of our schools and I'm here to share with you several types of data that we've collected throughout the year and really there's three types that we're looking at and this data here on this slide really represents some process data kind of those hard numbers that we look at to see the effects of our programming when you look in that First Column here we talk about tier one Services tier one is those services that reach 100 of our students and looking at these numbers we see that at our seven sites that are teaching the Second Step SEO curriculum this year over 1 000 lessons were taught to students so 100 of our students received over a thousand Second Step lessons and then we look at classroom lessons taught 476 counselor
169lessons were taught in the classroom to students whether those be in response to specific Trends or behaviors that may be teachers or the school we're seeing those may be curriculum type programs such as zones of Regulation or they may be many of our or all of our fourth and fifth grade lessons or all of our fourth and fifth grade students received bully prevention lessons um this spring so 476 lessons that's a pretty big increase from what we've been able to do in the past when we look at tier two that's a smaller group of students that need a more intensive service for some of their needs and when we look at that those numbers we see that nearly 600 students in our district were seen in small group instruction this year by our elementary school
170counselors across 175 groups and just to give you some context for that I spoke with our Hawthorne Elementary counselor last year she was able to give nine to hold nine groups throughout the school year and this year she held 15. so we see almost double the number of groups that she was able to hold and of course that results in the number of students she was able to reach this year finally we see our tier three services here which is our most intensive services that we offer for students the smallest percentages of students but usually the students that need the most intense work 68 of our students across six sites receives support through our contracted services for therapeutic support in outside agencies and 92 97.2 percent of our students that were deemed high risk through
171our Universal screener received either tier 2 or tier three services this year that small percentage that's not represented there did decline services so again this slide just really represents some of the data that was collected that's really processed data and gives us some really good numbers to look at the impact of our elementary counseling program one thing we're really proud of that we did this year on a tier one level was Implement climate and culture weeks across all of our campuses so all of our campuses held start with hello week which is tied to the Sandy Hook promise programming and that was held in September all of our campuses participated in some way in the great kindness challenge in the winter time and all campuses held to be unique or ability Awareness Week throughout this
172at some point throughout the school year so again that's a tier one service that we were able to implement because we had such an increase in elementary counselors over 3 000 students impacted by these climate and culture weeks now we're going to talk about some of that individual counseling data when we pull from our student information system in Aries we see that our elementary counselors had 8 000 over 8 000 contacts this year with students and those contacts include personal counseling Behavioral Counseling or at-risk counseling that doesn't even include parent conferences parent contacts or teacher teacher contacts or resource referrals so when we look at that we're looking at each site had an average of 862 [Music] contacts which is a pretty amazing number when we look at last year's context it was about four
173thousand so we're looking at Double the number of contacts this year with the increased counseling services when we talk about individual counseling support when we see students on what we call a short-term basis so anywhere between four and ten sessions throughout the year nearly 400 of our students had services that were short-term this year and long-term Services which is anywhere 11 or more sessions with a counselor individually this year with 250 average of about 27 students per site so those are some really intense services to see a council more than 11 times in the school year and because of our increased Services we were able to do that this final number here gives us an idea of how many the percentage of school populations that had some individual contact with counselors this year and that
174was over 30 percent of our sites had an individual contact with a school counselor this year additionally we held 383 Student Success team meetings Elementary counselors took over the facilitation and coordination of those meetings this year and that aligns pretty closely with what we've done in the past moving on to parent engagement of course parent engagement has been a big part of implementation at all of our schools especially when we're talking at the elementary level so we were able to hold some parent engagement lessons both on the coast at Monarch Grove in the fall and um here at Cincinnati Elementary in the spring with a positive parenting project put on and parents were invited Child Care was provided food all of those great things and we had some great turnout at those events also also
175we had an opioid awareness and prevention parent Forum hosted at Lambs that was also attended by many elementary students and then individually at our school sites uh counselors were doing presentations on topics like Internet safety emotional regulation visiting PTA meetings or e-lac meetings to talk about the services available along with family newsletters educational videos in general just involvement in many different team meetings and parts of the school so we're gonna now talk let's see if we're going backwards here we go um we talked about process data and kind of those specific numbers now we're going to talk a little bit about what we call procedural data so how attitude skills and behaviors really changed as a result of our school counselors so we did that this year by doing an administrative survey we surveyed all
176of our elementary principals and got some feedback on how Elementary counseling increased Services have affected their school and we really talked at the beginning of the year that that was our goal at the end was to talk about how we've impacted School sites and you can see here that ninety percent of Administrators say that counselors strive to be visible and available before school at recess and lunch and after school and that's an answer to a call by our superintendent to be more visible and available both for safety climate and culture increases on our campuses and our counselors have really answered to that and our administrators say they they're seeing it ninety percent of our administrators say that the increased School counseling support has made a dramatic difference in how their sites run in a positive
177way and to me right there that's that's some procedural data that really speaks volumes to what we've accomplished this year this quote from an elementary principle the overall day today functioning of our school feels noticeably different in this year in a significant and positive way so that's hard hard data to quantify but definitely good diabetic here and finally 100 of our elementary counselors would like to continue the increased uh Services of Elementary counselors you know we like to throw a good question out there that we're going to get 100 on and a good procedural data so obviously Elementary principals are happy with the extra support and are really seeing the difference on their campuses so as I wrap up talking about elementary counseling I just want to touch on a few notable pieces that we're
178really proud of first of all all of our schools participated in culture and climate weeks this year which I think all of the teachers really appreciated the counselors had a great time and people saw some significant changes in students all of our principals report seeing a franchise model which I talked to you about in September where many of our schools are doing the same types of programming across all 10 schools we saw an increase in contacts in small groups and in classroom lessons this year we saw some significant and meaningful professional development being offered by our school counselors in April we were able to present to many of our elementary schools some trauma-informed care and practices training a variety of different trainings were held at various schools across the district I mean that was Sometimes
179some of the first time that some counselors have had that opportunity to really do meaningful PD for their schools and we got great feedback from it and finally every elementary school counselor completed an end of year report this year which is something that they'll be that they've turned into us and we're able to use to collect data for this but also to start developing some Trends and goals for next year so that we have some long-term outcome data on what our elementary counseling program is doing for students lastly um while data and numbers can tell a lot of things that can't always tell the story of our students and so I have a short case study here I'd like to share with you um about some about one of our students um that's at the
180elementary level so I'm sharing with you about a student we're going to call Jocelyn Jocelyn is a fourth grade student her and her mother struggle with homelessness hopping from motel to motel throughout the week and often sleeping in their car on the weekends when the hotel rates Skyrocket she's a good student that struggles getting work done because of the instability with housing and her mind is often elsewhere whether it be from worry or exhaustion from a bad night's sleep her struggles are displayed outwardly and her behavior having peer relationship struggles along with behavioral outbursts in class Jocelyn is someone we might call a frequent flyer and checks in with a counselor daily while on the playground and is always in the office needing a pack of ice or with a tummy ache Jocelyn participates in
181a weekly small group with the school counselor to work on friendships and often is also in for one-on-one Behavioral Counseling and support a couple of times a week when Jocelyn can't calm down in class the counselor comes and takes her for a walk around campus to help her work through some breathing techniques and regulate Jocelyn is on a check and checkout system comes each morning to get a high five and some words of encouragement from staff members and checks out daily reviewing what went well that day and what can go better tomorrow every Friday Jocelyn picks up a backpack full of food to help her get through the weekend she has a new winter coat from a coats for kids drive over the holiday season today her shoes busted right open on the playground but
182not to worry extra shoes were in the Shoe Closet and now she's sporting some sweet new bands Jocelyn and her mom have received approval for some low-income housing and they're hopeful they won't have to change schools once they find a house Jocelyn is really working on her coping skills at her counselors teaching her and making new friendships that are maintainable for her next year is looking up for this kiddo who is supported by multiple services in her school site this year so just a little peek into what the day-to-day life of some of our students is like and how our elementary counselors are able to support that I appreciate your time and I'm going to pass it on to my friend and colleague John Calandra to talk about secondary all righty thank you for having
183me uh it's my pleasure to share a bit about what our secondary counselors are doing to support our students and they've been doing a ton just by the Numbers uh this was pulled about two weeks ago we had 24 612 entries in Aries for our secondary counselors that averages to about 6.72 entries per student at the secondary level there are over 3 000 schedule changes that our counselors took care of 503 students saw our counselors four to ten times 183 students have seen the counselors more than 10 times over 150 lessons taught 12 parents tonight nights LED those are primarily at our high schools and this does not include all of the time that our counselors actively spent with students outside of their offices as well because as Angela mentioned our counselors have really committed
184to being present at lunches and at breaks to connect with our students in that tier one relationship bill building way and those are not Quantified here mostly because if you can see that little tiny quote at the bottom uh you have to be the ice cream truck rather than the ice cream I broke down uh the data as Angela did with our three tiers because our counselors do work with kids in all three tiers but when I was looking at the secondary our secondary counselors really focus on kind of three domains when they're working with kids College and Career academics and then social emotional so I broke it down into those and I'm just going to share a few uh highlights from each level on the slides here uh so in the areas of college
185and careers they got middle schools on one side in high school on the other because they do focus on slightly different things though there are some commonalities between the two so we've been fortunate enough to have both Jessica Bowser and Jessica Hoyt helping our students specialize in some of those College and Career areas but our counselors do a lot of that work in addition to having that specialized support from both of the Jessica's uh of note our middle school students start off with college the ccgi the college career guidance internship programming so they log in they do a interest survey and our eighth graders get lessons on how to select a college also at the middle school level with everybody our eighth graders do start there for your planning uh they meet with their middle
186school counselors and their high school counselors so every single one of our eighth graders has that experience at the high school level our counselors committed to every counselor committed a meeting with 100 of their student caseload this year to talk to them about where they were on their College and Career planning so that was every student at that tier one level at our tier two level you're going to find our Avid students those are a small group of students who is getting some specialized support but also at the high school level in addition to Avid our counselors are providing specific targeted uh instruction on how to fill out different types of college applications and they do this at lunch they do it after school and they do it during specified tutorials where they're working on
187specific types with college applications so groups of students can come in and can get help at that top level we've got students who are meeting with our CTE counselor at the middle school level that would be Jessica Baza we've got Jessica Hoyt meeting with students who are doing dual enrollment at West and also taking questor courses and then we've got our counselors who are working with individual students who have specific questions about whatever college application they're working on so our counselors are there to provide that one-to-one support for our students when it comes to academics our counselors are also doing a lot at each of the levels one of the things I want to point out that 48 of the each caseload at Middle School met with their counselor to talk about an academic issue
188that's separate from the typical class scheduling all of those types of things that they do and 33 of each caseload for high school came in to talk to their counselor about a specific academic issue and that's in addition to 100 of all of the students getting that College and Career guidance so some of those academic issues that students might be coming in if they end up on the D or F list the counselor might be seeing them about that if a student is struggling with the class the student is absent for a prolonged amount of time our counselors will pull them in and help them figure out how to get back on track academically so those are some of the things that might fall into that category students who have trouble with organization or just
189need that check-in for motivation those would be some of those things that uh our counselors would be providing support with in tier two sloah high has had about two-thirds of all of the schedule changes that's partially due to the trimester system and the complexities of the trimester system they also have more opportunities for students to need to change classes because of one more trimester than our other schools Morrow Bay is close behind on that and then our middle schools usually have about 100 class changes per counselor and again that's our middle school schedules are much tighter um and don't have as much flexibility as our high school schedules do so that makes it a little bit easier at the tier three level the smallest amount of students uh sorry at the tier two of you'll
190also see ssts our student study teams our counselors are in charge of collecting that data from the teachers collecting information from the parents and really bringing everyone together to look for what's going to help this student right now so our counselors at high school and middle school do coordinate those ssds not as many as at the middle school fortunately but still plenty uh at the high school and middle school level and then on that top level those are our counselors who are sitting in on those higher level ssts the 504s the IEPs and you're going to see a little bit more of that at the high school because at the age of 16 students with an IEP start to look at their transition plan as their transition Beyond high school once they've left the high
191school environment once they've they've no longer have their IEP what is their plan so a lot of that involves having some vocational planning possibly some extent of learning Beyond high school and so our counselors are there to help support them in that and then we look at our social emotional uh and again we did a lot of work on that tier one we had our counselors in the quads at breaks in the lunch our high schools really committed to having 100 of their students meet with the council I know by Middle School uh counselors go into the classrooms and introduce themselves to the students so students know who they are they do a quick interest survey at the middle school we also are doing Sabers and my Sabers so we're collecting that Universal screener information
192uh and that 97 also applies to the middle schools that we are hitting those students that show up on that screen or we are providing them with tier two or two of three supports across the board so in addition to those things at the tier one level our middle schools and high schools are also hosting Focus weeks they do start with hello we've got uh the say something clubs at and the promise Club in our in-town schools uh I know right now we're in May which is mental health awareness month and our high schools are working on Mental Health Awareness weeks at the high school when we go up to that tier two level uh we've got about 12.2 percent of our caseloads at the middle school level at seeing our counselor four to ten
193times for personal issues um 15 at the high school so a little bit higher at the high school Morro Bay High does run some small groups as well San Luis High School does not have the small groups and then at our tier three level we've got our school counselors seeing about five percent of our students and then you can see underneath there on the high school side about three percent of our students are participating in our contracted uh supports that we have so those are our outside therapists that come in that's so those that three percent is seeing the uh specialized therapists that we're Contracting with but they're also seeing our school counselors so even though we've got tier three supports coming from outside our counselors do tend to see those students uh they're not
194fully taken off of our counselors case loads uh so the thing about this slide is that tier one support where we're hitting hitting all those kids we do spend a lot of time there but that tier three kid who's come in 11 or more times that's a kid who takes up a lot of time for our counselors and they really need our counselors one-on-one specialized attention so while the pyramid looks like we spend a lot of time down at the base it it would probably be flipped which we looked at even though it's only five percent of the kids our counselors are spending a tremendous amount of time working with those students because they do need a lot of support so this is our our tier three support so these are our our contracted counselors
195that we're working with through County behavioral health or Community Counseling Center uh at lambs and loams we have a Pei counselor uh that counselor is working with doing small running small groups and seeing lower level students and then we've got a licensed marriage and family therapist who's seeing our students of higher need and the the numbers are there at slow high school we have a LCSW who came in in November Morro Bay High we have an mft who came in also in November just like with uh our own schools and our own Community we know that it's really hard to hire people in these fields and we suffered that same problem with our Community Partners they were looking for qualified people to get them into the schools at slow High one of our frustrations was
196that our LCSW uh ended up seeing a lot of our students who had drug and alcohol issues and needed to see the LCSW because of our the way our discipline policy runs so that person was filled up very quickly so right now our LCSW is beginning to finally get to some of those students who've been on that waiting list because our LCSW has worked their way through a lot of the students who were required to see the LCSW and now we're going to need those kids who really need to and want to be seeing that LCSW so uh like I said these students who are on that tier three support are receiving specialized support but when these counselors aren't there they do have to go to the person that they've got the best relationship with
197on the campus which is often their school counselor too so it they're they're kind of getting extra help and our counselors uh are seeing them as well as these specialized territory counselors uh when we look at how our high school counselors uh what their work distribution looks like I threw it into this lovely little pie chart this is what they're logged work looks like so this is based on log entry data we charted how our counselors work log time is not the same time the same as spent time but from this chart you can see that 82 percent of our high school counselors work is spent on College and Career or academics leaving about 18 of the time for personal and crisis counseling the graph doesn't of course demonstrate the time spent in each of
198these areas nor does it show that when our counselors are meeting doing academic planning they are building relationships with his students they're talking about other things then just academic planning uh so counselors who are meeting with students to discuss academics are building that relationship and those students who are in crisis are probably going to take up more time than is represented by this charge so when we look at the levels of need that we're seeing we might think about how we want this chart to look as a board and as a district so I'm going to end with a case study as Angela did so my case study will be a middle school student who has talked a lot about high school social a little bit about what our Middle School counselors are doing as
199well so Angel is a seventh grade student he's been in six schools in his eight years of schooling he currently is living with his family in Section 8 housing he's been in an abusive home most of his life Mama Brothers moved here to get away from Dad they still have some contact with Dad Angel struggles with self-control and he's been suspended in the past for fighting one of those kids that you can see the energy run running through him even when he's trying to stand still he's always had a hard time controlling himself recently he was suspended for hitting another student when that student made a crack about him being short he had just left the counselor's office when it happened Angel has ongoing struggles with keeping his emotions in control Angel sees our counselors
200pretty regularly having first connected at the beginning of the year when our counselors meet with all new students to help them acclimate that would be a tier one Outreach that we have for our students I'm looking for the rest of my thing with the angel here which is gone and I'm just going to pick it up because I Know It uh so uh Angel also sees the counselor for academics because Angel is on the dnf list so the counselor sees him for academics which becomes a tier two counseling as they have these meetings for the academics Angel actually likes coming to the counselor and starts coming to the counselor when he's struggling with other people again that would be a tier two Angel starts to see that counselor fairly regularly when the counselor helped Angel
201when he returns back from his suspension they have a meeting with his parent and they offer Angel The mft Counselor because Angel does need that chair at the new level of counseling as well he's going to need that specialized support so with our counselor on campus our counselor is going to pass Angel off do a warm handoff to our mft counselor but is also then going to follow up and make sure the angel is meeting his needs academically keeping off of the dnf list and also meeting the needs of his suspension contract when he comes back so building that relationship with Angel early on makes it much easier to get Angel into other services later okay okay we could literally fill hours talking with you and presenting with you the important work that our counseling
202team has done this year but I want to take just a minute to slot light our CTE middle school counselor which is a new position that we had this year thanks to a CTE Grant this counselor spends half of her time at Los Osos Middle School in half at Laguna Middle School she works primarily with our seventh grade students with a focus on our English Learners our reclassified fluent English proficient students and are socioeconomically disadvantaged students to help develop their understanding and really build their enthusiasm about their middle school high school and Beyond careers so this slide speaks to the many facets of the work that's being done and words like GPA and a to G requirements and CTE Pathways can sound like a foreign language to our middle school students and while this academic
203vernacular is something that we introduce to all of our middle school students Jessica's work is really aimed at providing ongoing additional support and inspiration to these targeted students giving them a positive pathway forward in our schools um what we have found is that while our counselors have just done amazing work um it's been tough it's not easy it's never easy work but over these past few years post pandemic it's been more challenging than ever and we've seen significant behaviors with our students and one of the ways that this is displayed is through our suspension rate and this slide shows that suspension rates have overall increased since the 1819 school year and additionally our administrators are expressing continued concern over increased behaviors that they are seeing on their campuses and suspensions alert us that students may
204need additional support and so when we dug into the data and what we found is that of all of the students that are suspended 85 of our students have had multiple interactions with our school counselors at our secondary level we know that our our counselors ensure that they're being informed as students are suspended and they re main included in return to school meetings as well as follows up with parents reaching out to teachers or coaches if there's any activity suspensions and just continuing to follow up with our students we see our suspension data as an ongoing opportunity to develop some goals with some outcome data in order to reduce our suspension rate and this is where our counseling team will like to start some focus in the fall of 23 24 in order to proactively
205address this so finally looking forward into 23-24 there are many things that we want to focus on as we move forward and one of the things that I want to highlight at our elementary level is you know we had increased counselors full-time counselors and they really make a difference on our elementary schools and our principals were introduced to them this year we want to spend time working with our administrative our administrators at the elementary school really ensuring efficient and effective practices and uses of our elementary counselors to really support the school climate at each of our schools in our secondary we talked about the student Behavioral Health Initiative Grant at all of our high schools so all of our high schools San Luis will be hiring a full-time counselor more of a high a full-time
206counselor and a 50 counselor at Pacific Beach who will really focus on the social emotional supports that we offer our students and included that is developing a wealth space at both Morro Bay High and San Luis High um I think San Luis high was working on it as like the care space at the commons so coming up with a nice uh name and just a welcoming space and one of the things that was really exciting about this is when we looked at the feedback that we received from our students in student Senate both of our high schools were asking for a wellness space on this on their campus or additional access to social emotional emotional counseling and this grant is going to provide us with us that opportunity so we'll be working very closely with
207our administrative and counseling teams at the two high schools as we roll forward with this grant so thank you for the opportunity to present to you this evening and I will open it for any questions that you might have first I'd like to go to the public see if anyone has any questions no if you will conduct the back to the board Mr younger so just a couple of things um first I I'm excited to see that we're really looking at our suspension rates because one of the things as a board member I notice is uh students that we see who are brought forward for expulsion typically have a host of suspensions and um I'm thinking about your case study Mr calandro you know that's that could be something you know a student that we've
208seen on any number of occasions and if we can reduce suspensions and expulsions I think that's beneficial for all students the second thing is a question for you for Janet um when we talk about our tier three our tier three interventions and some of our tier three interventions are mfts lcsws are we able or are they able to provide family therapy as well that's a good question our mfts are at this point are not providing family therapy other than our students with IEPs that have ursus counseling on their IEPs and some of that does have a parenting counseling component and and and and do the counselors I'm assuming the counselors work really closely with our family advocates yes okay thank you definitely this dobler Drew before I come to you someone from the public did
209raise her hand Miss Eagan are you with us I just wanted to acknowledge everybody um especially um the counseling team at the district office I mean this presentation is pretty amazing um and it shows the collective work of all the counselors at the school sites as well as the district office so I just wanted to acknowledge you all for that I think I think it's remarkable so thank you for that um thank you and then my only question was the pie chart I was just curious pie chart I was just curious what the difference of that pie chart would be between the trimester system at slow high school and the other scheduling systems at uh at Morro Bay Laguna or loans yeah [Music] I don't I don't expect an answer right now but I was
210just curious in in the computer and how it's broken down by uh counselor so the a lot of the data that we used was holistic data for the high school so it it doesn't have as big an effect as you might think uh because there's many more facets to it to the academic other than just the class changes but we certainly do acknowledge that having a trimester system and having one more chance to make classes does impact thanks anything else Lena nope thank you nope thank you okay let's double or Drew uh um similar to Mr Unger's question about parents um it would seem to be very important to have this parent connection because not having that parent support might have been some of the causes of the problems in the first place so I
211just really hope that we are able to bring the families in more somehow or whatever the guidelines are I don't know you don't want to if if they if they're not certified to do certain things with families I realize they can't but the mfts are so it's just really important to keep the family togetherness in this day and age because there's a lot mitigating against it I agree thanks Mr Button thanks I like these new microphones this is kind of cool yeah it's very very horrible um so I have I have several questions that are not about microphones um one is um as sometimes advocate for Pb on your pictures of a secondary PST team pb's not there there is no PPS counselor currently at Pacific Beach they have a four day award a week
212um mft who is uh through our um Behavior it's like one of our contract employees but it's not a PPS counselor good good okay thanks uh let's see um is there so on slide eight we were talking about contacts and the number of contacts and all that and the variety of contacts and so I'm wondering the caseload just seems really I don't know if that's the right term is there a maximum number of hours that's recommended for this this type of counselor for contact with students is there something in the field that's like a recommended it just seems like there's a lot of a lot of student contact time right is that are We There is are we pushing it to them yeah any recommended number of hours in terms of I'm not sure if
213I'm understanding your correct your question yeah you've got a number of contacts I haven't heard anything okay related to a number of like our credentials are specific for School counseling and so if you are not licensed to be therapist that's why the contracted typically we like to see some a short-term basis which is falls into that for the 10 session area but of course there's always kids that we need you know and so when they get into that 11 plus range of course that's when we start looking at some outside yeah and and I appreciate that and I'm not answering I'm not asking my question well if you had 400 or four session kids that's a lot of content so is there some kind of hourly Max that you guys can devote your time to
214those individual less than 11. therapy justify me we want to help with teachers and the students well I'm glad I don't have your job I guess um on slide 14 we're talking a lot of talking about support for students and it seems like there's a lot of emphasis mostly on College like helping fill out applications and what college to go to and it just seems like there may be some other options and just I mean both my two kids smart as they are oh one didn't finish college till 32 the other has is a carpenter um and just not all kids go to college yeah there's definitely different Pathways for kids right but are we helping them discover those alternative Pathways I mean contact with the with the trades contact with contractors contract with auto
215mechanics yeah I would say our district is doing extensive work along different Pathways okay all right just Board college isn't here uh policy it talks about chronic talks about absences and it talks about chronic absences can you help again Define for me what chronic absenteeism is when students Miss 10 or more of the school year for any reason so with 180 days in a school year if a student misses 18 days of school for any for any reason so it could be illness it could be unexcused or excused then students are considered chronically absent and the consequence or the support for somebody well what we know is that studies show that students who miss school don't do as well right so we know that absenteeism and chronic absenteeism has really been a focus in our
216district free pandemic for many years and we we saw some great movement in our chronic absenteeism rate and then the pandemic came and we had to really change our messaging from come to school to stay at home and if you remember the 2021 it was like oh you're sick you need to stay out for 10 days so I mean chronic absenteeism rates across the stage raised from went from like nothing but Chris is saying like 25 to some places two days a week two days a month yeah yeah 50 some in some places 50 of the school district was chronically absent so we are working um with our uh administrative team looking at different plans that um we can put in place that are really addressing chronic absenteeism changing our messaging now too we need
217you in school um and part of that too is it's creating these warm welcoming School environments and making all of our schools a place where students feel safe physically and emotionally and want to be yeah so so I think it's an interesting message that when you say no matter what the absenteeism is and that it affects their learning because I'm still hearing about people that are taking their kids out to go on a ski trip or to go back east and whatever and um it still creates chronic absenteeism um yes we do have yes another messaging well we do have a short-term independent study in our district where students can take between six and I believe it's 20 days any one time in the school year so if the family has an event or something
218that they're taking their child to they let us know ahead of time we create an independent study and then they are considered present if they complete the terms of their independent study that's one time so that is outside of The Chronic episode yes and that determines when they contact us and I would say if they contact us but yeah okay um and um I thank you for this this was a really good thought-provoking presentation thank you Mr lertrude so now that we're in a different kind of epoch post covid and everything is there talk anymore like when I was a teacher when they reached that 10 or even before there was like talks of truancy or those talks no longer no there's still talks I mean truancy has to be if you have three unexcused
219absences then you're labeled as truant and all of our school sites monitor absenteeism of all students and address so well before student reaches the 10 of missed days we are reviewing the attendance records of all of our students looking at reasons for why students might be absent our principals our counselors are working with families to address needs that they may have or reasons for why they may be absent and then we do of course have a school attendance review board um that is a different members from our community that are all coming together listening about what is happening what barriers are preventing um a parent or a child from getting to school and how that how that can be supported and does have a um the potential for a punitive outcome for families as well
220if children aren't coming to school okay thank you Mr Goodman yeah just real quickly and I was looking at the presentations that the counselors do with parents I'm really excited about that um is there social media or the hazard we did one on social media this year um and that's definitely an area that I think we need to continue to look at expanding because it's definitely a challenge great thanks or maybe you could do like a tick tock video and yeah yeah not me but I'm sure there's others thanks I wanted to just point out that that several of the throughout the evening I've noticed that comments made by our student Senators again are aligning with some of this and I and especially the the um trusted adult piece because I think we do have
221students who for whatever reason don't have a trusted adult at home and having this great variety of sources counselors being at the Forefront but also the mfts and the social workers and the these um I appreciate very much that our safety net gets broader and broader right and in in ways that can hone in on specific issues that our kids may have and I think that speaks well to concerns expressed by our students with in that realm of trusted adults and I also want to point out I know there were only two but I noticed we do have a couple of male counselors and I think that's important too we've got kids who will feel more comfortable um perhaps with a with a male counselor so I appreciate that as well Mr stogler Drew so
222have you got any data yet about whether there's an increase in problematic families where there's not a trusted adult at home is this going up or is it not going up and we're not have to be concerned and do I have any actual hard numbers day to know perception data is in general our families really struggle post pandemic and we've seen increased behaviors we've seen you know families that struggle so I don't I don't have like a hard number but I can tell perception wise um it's pretty challenging out there and that's why we are so appreciative of the support that you as a board give to counselors and of a comprehensive program that can start to address and continue to address many of the concerns that our families have right and I'm going to
223be a broken record I I really look forward to bringing the parents in more sometimes it's just a little bit change of perspective where that kid and that parent can understand each other better you know so I just really hope for more family counseling I just feel it's urgent okay um Mr Buckman oh I'm sure yep okay all right [Music] um I see no other lifetime thank you thanks very much this is really informative thank you for for hanging in there with us in a long meeting okay our next item is uh a measured D Award of this riveting track shed nice presentation I know it's three it's pretty exciting so we actually went out and did a cup to bid for um a large shed for the track area at San Luis Obispo High
224School they've based all the tracks equipment that goes into it um so that bid came through as you can see there were several bids that came through and I'm asking the board tonight to um award the bid to uh Atkinson Concrete Construction Incorporated um as they were the low bid and uh and were qualified all right I'd like to go to the public anyone from the public wishing to comment on this item we know and we'll come back to the board for any discussion questions uh and if there are no none then a uh emotion this is an action I'm I move approval of item 10.03 measure D awarded bid number 309 San Luis High School new athletic storage building project right we have a motion by Mr Unger and a second by Miss dobler
225Drew um um Mr Banfield yes Mr Stover Drew yes the stronger yes Mr Buckman yes and I'm a yes and Mr Claussen is I don't see him right now and um Miss Roger is not with us so motion carries five zero to absence thank you all right next um always our favorite some revisions to board policy thank you so our first one is board policy 3270 sale and disposal of books equipment and supplies it talks about unusable obsolete or no longer needed materials and supplies that the board reviews their estimated value and that determines which if they should be donated sold or disposed of I recommend this comes back for a second reading anyone from the public with a comment on this item right Miss Dover Drew is your light on don't remember if it's
226this policy or another one but when they get disposed of are they recycled or landfill I'm afraid I can't answer that question I'd have to look through my guess is that we'd have a little guidance on that there's certain things that can be recycled and certain things that cannot be there are certain things that can be donated and certain things that cannot be there was something about take them to the dump and um yeah and completely disposed of yes it is in there no we're talking about books in some cases it's also um equipment and supplies so we might find those things in the dump versus our textbooks you're just 20 with me Mark I know okay all right um this everyone okay with this coming back for a second reading next meeting thank you
227uh next yes number 6178 this is Career Technical education and this is um implementing assembly Bill 101 so it talks about collaboration with businesses trades and government agencies to provide learning opportunities and Career Fairs again we're in CTE programming it allows the participation of private school students in CTE programs as spaces are available and it also talks about CTE courses as an alternative means to meet credits but lists that they have to have rigor like our other classes do that allow for a through G4 I recommend this comes back for a second read anyone from the public interested in this um seeing none we'll come back to the board any questions or comments everyone all right with it being brought back for a second reading thank you and one more all right this is board
228bylaw 9323 and this is mandatory and it is updated to reflect Senate Bill 1100 and this is from 2022. it removes it allows the board to remove an individual for disrupting a board meeting but it establishes that warning the individual prior to removal is required and it defines a disruption versus a true threat of force one other piece in this board bylaw is at 10 pm end time to board meetings it does allow the board to vote to go beyond 10 o'clock when the subcommittee was looking at this the um uh gamut the school boards Association talked about a five-hour meeting we went back and forth with closed session and Open Session and what five hours isn't and really settled on 10 o'clock as an hour that we might end with an opportunity to um
229the for the board to extend that time and I do recommend this comes back for a second read anyone from the public hey I'm stronger yeah I I did read that and um although we rarely go past 10 p.m I I can't remember in fact the last time we did it was it was common uh years ago um with our meetings though beginning early at five that becomes a five hour meeting which is a long meeting and and I would like to suggest that as we look at this we do consider a time a Time 10 o'clock for example but also we may want to consider a time limit on the meetings as well would you want that to include closed session no I think close I think it would be separate and that was
230one of our questions that we discussed as a subcommittee Mr Barkley um while I appreciate the the concept um I would I would like to stick with somehow with it not being a limit but a suggestion and then this concept of the board voting is full uh whether to consider keeping the meeting longer and I don't know if Mr Unger is amenable to that yeah I I just think that for example if we if we a board study session other than say an all-day Retreat um for example a five hour board study session is a long it's a long time and and in addition it's it's a lot to ask our administrators to sit in a meeting for five hours when they have a lot of other work that they need to do and you
231know get up the next morning and and and do it well so um I'm I don't have a problem with the 10 o'clock um but I also think that we may want to consider a you know a time limit with the approval of the board to continue with of course yeah okay because that's as a group we would we would be able to vote on that yeah okay to see us end a discussion that was important or uh one where we have a lot of public comments because I think it's important for us to hear the public comment as well thanks I appreciate that this will come back for a second reading all right thank you thank you we'll move on to the um certificated and I mean I'm sorry to the consent agenda please
232let me know if there's anything you'd like pulled 11.01 approval of certificated and classified Personnel items 11.02 acceptance of donations 11.03 approval of furniture and Equipment request 11.04 approval of purchase orders and Cal card purchases 11.05 approved quarterly report on uniform complaint filings the Williams settlement 11.06 approval of warrants and payroll 11.07 proposed revisions to board policy 3600 Consultants second reading 11.08 proposed revisions to board policy 4030 non-discrimination in an employment second reading of items 11.01 to 11.08 I'll second so we have a motion by Mr Unger second by Mr Buckman Mr Unger yes Mr Buckman yes Mr Claussen yes Mr Banfield yes yes all right motion care and I'm a yes um Miss Rogers not with us right now so we motion carry six zero with one absence all right anything for the advanced
233agenda reports by board members says Dover dirt enjoyed everything but especially two things about the district that I've done since the last meeting the students Senate and it was my first opportunity to go to the student Senate because of a conflicting normal conflict but I I um excuse myself from the normal commitment and uh certainly enjoy being at the student senate for um I believe the entire duration unless did they come back after Pizza okay so I only five hours it was three hours and then I left before Pizza um and uh the diversity that's represented there is quite amazing I mean last time I you know when I was uh working in a neighboring District um we had all of the diversity down there and there wasn't that much up here but it's been
234made up for over the past few years um also the grand opening of moral Bay High School cafe was very very enjoyable yesterday with the mayor of Morro Bay president and some members of this of the city council there and board members and Dr Prater and Miss Bros and Mr I'm going to name everybody aren't I guess uh Mr Pinkerton was there and um yeah so that takes care of most of the people in this room and Miss Dawson was there so anyway it was great and I love the ribbon cutting and and Mrs Shepherd did that very well and very nice thank you he's a big scissors yeah yeah and they were yeah they were Sharp yeah you don't want to be caught with sensors that don't work right when you cut it you
235actually have to they just pull it apart it's like velcro that's cheaper or anything else see no thank you Mr Buckman then the stronger yeah so I again want to take this time to thank um some folks um I wanted to thank um Mr Roper at um at St Louis High School um for the work he's done with the students on the films there was also um a film at the film festival I think from Laguna middle school and another another either School in the county or one of our schools um the film that the students at San Luis High did took home an award so that was really special I want to thank the um I don't know how many people are involved I mean you went into the new what they're calling the
236commons but we used to call it cafeteria you went to this room which was basically just a big empty Square it was like a cube and it was empty when they started and now it's like with the help of Pinkerton staff with the help of the more of a high school staff with Food Services um it's this amazingly inviting inviting room um the kitchen's amazing so I just wanted to thank Aaron primer and everybody for that just an amazing accomplishment and um it's the second day of teacher appreciation I I just I I don't even know how to say anything um it's just it's absolutely amazing um but I also wanted to note that in our um in the uh consent agenda item for the human resources we're losing 29 people from the teaching side
23729 staff people so we have to somehow come up with uh a reason an understanding of why we're losing so many folks but what it's just you know they are they're what keeps America going they're they're what keeps us on track it's the teachers it's where it happens after the parents so anyway that's my report I'm just amazed I'm stronger yes um in an in addition to Mr Shepard and I attending the csba acts of coast to coast advocacy conference where we talked about special education funding actually advocated for additional special education funding mental health supports and additional funding for that additional money for School meals uh cyber security Broadband access um and other things I wanted to point out that um while we were in the halls of Congress there is a congressional art
238competition and last year's winner for our district was from San Luis Obispo High School it was from a woman named tauren Larson with a beautiful uh pennant called distortion um and it was it was wonderful to see that um I went to The Bishop's PTA sliming of Mrs Jones and Mrs Hollis Miss Jones the principal and Mrs paulus the secretary they had net their march-a-thon goals and that the reward for that was being able to slime their principal and it was pretty neat and they made they made some good money for the uh for the school itself um this is Ms dobler Drew mentioned the Morro Bay High School catholic Cafe opening Mr Button was there Mr Sheffer was there um we got that it was great and then I I did go to Los
239Osos tough two obstacle course and it was very impressive there were hundreds of students not only from Los Osos middle school but also from schools throughout the area um you know and kids when they call it the tough two there were some pretty tough tough team challenges and obstacles one of the ones I kind of watched for a while was on your belly under some ropes having water poured on you you know it was it was it was pretty fun and I think um the whole staff at the middle school helped out but I believe that coach negler really is the person that has taken the lead on that and I think we should say congratulations to the school and thanks to coach negler okay right not seeing any other lights on we'll call it
240a night thank you very much everybody see you uh at a study session next week