001okay you ready mandy all right thank you very much and we apologize for the tardy the tardy start um sometimes getting all the technology working uh correctly takes a while and we want to thank though our technology crew who's here to really help us bob back there and and just everybody who's really here to help us out um it's the may 3rd 2022 meeting of the san luis coastal unified school district board of trustees and at this time we'd like to ask those in attendance to please keep your video off and your audio muted unless you're presenting information or speaking in public comment and that's for the zoom people of course we're offering translation services for our spanish-speaking attendees to access translation please click on the globe at the bottom of your screen and then
002the language at this time we'd like to ask if anyone who might need translation would please click on the participants icon at the bottom of your screen and raise your hand and great the board did meet in closed session we discussed four items one was anticipated litigation significant exposure to potential litigation one case we also discussed and reviewed personnel possible action on employment dismissal or discipline of district employees uh we had a conference with our labor negotiators um regarding our negotiations sc mec seiu and slcta and then we had a short discussion on public employee performance evaluation the superintendent's evaluation is there a consensus on the order of business we would like to ask uh i would like to ask for one for one favor we do have some folks here from the assistance league
003who would like to address us tonight and um they've asked if they could come now rather than wait until public comment so if it's okay with the board i'd like to ask them to come up now everybody good with that okay thank you very much thank you uh good evening i am judy jimenez i am president of assistance league of san luis obispo county with me this evening is chris pontius our vp philanthropic programs our primary philanthropic program operations school bell provides new school appropriate clothing to kindergarten to 12th grade students in need and all 10 school districts of our county i cannot emphasize this enough we could not do what we do without the support of the district personnel from the superintendent to the school secretaries spite of the restrictions due to the pandemic
004last school year we which is what we were reporting on tonight we closed 2021 students county-wide statistics prove that when students go to school dressed appropriately it positively affects their attendance academic and social success we have confirmation of that in january our chapter conducted a measured outcomes survey all schools in the 10 school districts were asked about the impact of our operations school belt on their students 55 percent reported students participation in operation school bell had a positive effect on classroom behavior reported students participation in operation school belt had a positive effect on student attendance and confidence 98 reported that operations school bell served a as a high priority need in their school first and foremost we want these students to succeed academically but we also want them to have the full benefit of what
005their schools offer them san luis obispo county schools have rich inter and extra curricular programs especially in high schools students can participate in athletics band choir drama the school newspaper and ffa they can find their niche make friends become part of a school of a group on campus so i'm going to ask my vp philanthropy to continue with some statistics for you chris thank you we can start the clock over again please all south county students are met by our volunteers and clothed at old navy in san luis obispo with our tax exempt status and old navy discounts each kindergarten to fifth grade referred student receives a hundred and fifty dollars in clothing and shoes each sixth to twelfth grade student receives 185 dollars in clothing and shoes last year assistance lead clothed 262 students
006in your district the cost of clothing the students was 23 eight hundred and sixty dollars the number of students clothed from each school baywood elementary school we had 16 bishops peak elementary 11 cl smith elementary 19 del mar elementary 20 hawthorne elementary 22 laguna middle school 28 los osos middle school 25 los los ranchos elementary schools seven monarch grove 14 morro bay high school pacheco elementary 30 pacific beach continuation school 3 san luis obispo high school 34 sincheimer elementary 6 and teach elementary school 3. as district administrations and boards of trustees change we believe it is our responsibility to continue to inform you of our efforts in your district that is our purpose here this evening and we have a letter for dr prater and rat cards for each board member thank you very much
007for having us tonight and we appreciate all your support thank you thank you um marilyn yes i i think that we are all aware of your efforts and very appreciative um i for one support your store in san luis i'm sure there are other people uh on the board that do and um you do wonderful work so um please accept our thanks and also mrs pontius thank you for your efforts in years past to support skateboarding and skateboarders my son benefited yes i do remember it so thank you very much thank you very much um on behalf of the board i i also want to echo mrs rogers comments and her uh thanks to you for the all the work you do obviously you're serving a tremendous number of students at a tremendous cost for
008you and and and it really does help students it's really important so thank you for the important work you do for all of our students great thank you chris go ahead you know what i'm you usually we don't engage in in uh allow you know we don't usually as a board do public respond to public comment but i see several board members didn't we opened it up already so mark and then evelyn i just wanted to personally thank um as having a being a former el teacher within our district it was kind of a highlight of our meetings when at the beginning of the year to advertise operation school bell and so it not only seen the families it brought families in to the meetings it brought families um students and so it was a
009it was kind of a um a nice introduction for our students and families to begin the school year and it was a really important kind of pathway for our students to feel successful for the rest of the year so i really want to thank you for again for this work that you do and have done thank you okay yes thank you all right um let's get back to where we were we are at 6.01 student representatives to the board and we have three student representatives this evening so let's start with noah that's noah here knows hey guys how you doing oh you're on you're there you are yeah yeah and and and i and i have to tell you i i made a mistake last week last meeting i heard about it yeah i really
010messed up but but i do want to congratulate you on your great pitching performance thank you very much i appreciate it yeah um thanks for having me today i hope you guys are all doing well uh at slow we're getting getting towards the end of the year now and i think at least i'm excited i think we're all pretty excited to be getting more towards uh prom and graduation and some of the fun events we're gonna be having um i'll share my screen real quick because we have a quick presentation today um um no can you guys see that yes awesome yeah so um a few things that have been going on at so high uh recently we had our first indoor rally of the year or actually in two or three years which is
011really exciting um it was a split rally where we had half the students uh come to the first rally and then we repeated it and did it again for the other half of the students um but it was a lot of fun we we recognized our our spring sports uh our band played coming in and out our choir saying the national anthem and we recognize a bunch of uh students that are on the honor roll so it's really fun to uh have everyone in the gym and uh be able to recognize the students for everything they've been doing at our score and four school and uh we have some more pictures here um we played some rally games our stunt team performed it was a lot of fun there's also our asb director mr johnson's
012last uh last rally which was um really big for us and he's done everything for our school uh for the last eight years so we're really appreciative of him and everything he's done and uh so it's cool to be able to recognize him a little bit um we also had an outdoor dance music festival called slocella where we were able to have a bunch of student bands come up and perform for their fellow students which was really fun it was uh the saturday the day after the rally so it was kind of cool to be able to roll right into that um we also recently had a blood drive where we were able to donate 33 pints of blood um which was really cool donated which was really awesome um just uh just yesterday we
013had our college decision day at slow high where all the slow high seniors got to go and write what they're doing next year on the on the career center which is really cool um we have a lot of students going to a bunch of cal states a bunch of uc's some private schools a lot of cuesta um so it's cool to see how diverse you're seeing your classes and uh we're really excited for everything they're gonna be doing next year and uh the years to come which has been really fun and then also we have our spring sports going on we have some seniors such as rory devaney who set the school record and discus and william merritt set the school record and diving um so really all across the board our tiger athletics are
014getting into it and uh it's it's fun to see all the students supporting them too and i think that's all we have going on it's a little high right now but uh we're really really excited and um having having fun so thanks for having me well thank you very much are there any questions from board members all right uh let's move to morrow bay high school michaela avila who i guess will be joining us next year welcome michaela hi it's nice to be here um i will be next year's asb president so yeah um recently we had prom which was amazing we had over 300 students attend and we had to turn the lights off to get everyone to leave [Laughter] the spring choir concert was wonderful thank you to mr unger and mr buckman
015for attending recently we hosted two local companies for tours that are engineering and transportation areas as we build stronger links to local industries special thanks to christine robertson for connecting us with avi jet and rentec aci jet is working with cuesta college to create a two-year program in which students become certified airplane mechanics rentec is a firm in los osos with over 200 employees they produce electronic and mechanical components for every for a variety of military and commercial applications the f-35 and patriot missiles have rented components as an example we already have one mbhs student set to intern at eci jet this sunday there was a parade through morrow bay and then cif ring ceremony for our football team we are thankful to the city of moral bay for supporting this celebration it is great
016to see how high school athletics can bring our community together over these recent weeks our school has completed sbac and elpac tests this week and into next week we have ap testing in sports many are drawing to a close stunt boys volleyball and beach volleyball have gone well this season swimming in track and field have league finals at the end of this week our softball and baseball teams are doing very well and both are very likely to make it to playoffs and our boys golf team became undefeated league champions last week we have just announced that we have two new assistant principals for next year students from our avid classes and asb class were part of the hiring process and had to up the opportunity to speak to seven different candidates for the assistant principal
017positions we were excited to share that will wallace and ben davis were hired mr wallace is currently finishing his 10th year at atascadero middle school and his 20th year in education he has been interim principal for toscadero middle school since february 2021. he shared that he's thrilled to be joining the morbid high school team mr davis is currently an assistant principal at eastern high school in washington dc and he has been educating youth in the district of columbia for the last 16 years mr davis shared that he is passionate about supporting all students academic and gross social growth and is extremely excited to be returning for to his home state of california and joining the more of a high school family college signing day was yesterday and the seniors are writing their college destinations on
018a huge glass wall in the college and career center much like the students at slow high tomorrow we will host the what we wish our parents new event so i did this last week and we're excited to do it this week lastly we have our film festival coming up on monday may 16th at 5 p.m we have over 50 current more by high school students submitting films in categories of animation comedy drama and other the films will be narrowed down to a top three in each category that will be featured at the event the purpose of the festival is to celebrate the achievements of morrow by high school filmmakers as well as showcase the work being done in the design visual and media arts cte pathways the film contest is student-run planned and organized the
019first round of films were judged by a student panel made up of students from journalism and tv video classes at moorleigh high school the final round of judging panel the final round judging panel will consist of local professionals in the film industry students and slc usd staff members and that would be all right thank you thank you any ques mark any questions from anyone well thank you very much and good luck to the end of the year and we look forward to seeing you next year thank you and lexi moreno from pacific beach hi can you hear me well perfect hi i'm from pacific beach high school um i'm just gonna be going over our smart goals um pb we haven't had much to do lately just trying to graduate we actually had a graduate
020today which was really exciting and super fun um so yeah a lot of our seniors were just working on like scholarships and if we're getting them and that's super exciting um but i wanted to go over our smart goals for the 2021-2022 school year um i actually was um we a lot of these are recycled which i'm hoping that we'll be able to recycle next year um unfortunately i won't be at pacific beach next year as i'm graduating this year so i'm really hoping that i can convince my friends to recycle them into next year so one of them is our job fair which i'm basically i've with the help of teachers been able to set up which i'm really excited about um we're going to have it june 8th in the quad at pacific
021beach um from 8 40 to 11 40 so we've invited some local businesses to come and talk to our students and kind of mock interview we're going to have our students um create resumes and kind of just get to know what it's like in the workforce before they have to actually go out and do it which i'm super happy about because i wish that someone would have done it for me when i started working um so yeah we've been invited local businesses like around pv and also in morro bay and los osos because a lot of our students are like from moro bay high school and just like live around there so that's really exciting i'm really excited for it um another one of our smart goals was a hands-on learning and vocational opportunity um
022so a lot of our students just wanted like more classes like cooking construction um yeah cooking construction just like hands-on learning um i know that uh our principal chris stellar has been talking to some people for the construction program and our cooking class i'm pretty sure that's going to be able to succeed next year which excuse me i know a lot of our students are really excited for um so yeah it'll give more opportunities to earn elective credits and econ credits math and fine arts credits which we all love to hear um so yeah it's just like uh teachers and students will be working on it and then i talked about the job fair just super cool super excited um a lot of our um students wanted to have more field trips so it'll be
023cross-curricular so like we'll get credits for it too um they wanted to go to like the mission the museum of art slow maker space morrow bay state park hurst castle and they just also want to visit colleges which is obviously super cool we're hoping that we'll be able to drag that into next year that would be a super awesome and then our last smart goal is an update on iw offerings um so a lot of our students just want more individual work that's like more dated to like 2022 and like stuff like that because it's kind of our independ independent work is kind of just like old so they're hoping to get a little bit more fun stuff too so staff can research research and order new materials for that um so for the next
024steps we're going to survey students and staff regarding iw offerings we're going to contact questa to adopt new dual enrollment course improve quest to do enrollment attendance for saturday classes and then portfolio is going to be blended in with a get focus which is a questa class that uh miss naren stacy niren teaches at pacific beach which is really really cool but it's kind of uh like repetitive with portfolios so they're hoping to kind of blend it to make it a little bit more easier so yeah that's all i have for pb we're all really excited to graduate and yeah thanks for listening okay thank you mr buckman has a question for you yeah so congratulations on the job fair can you just tell us the date and time again please it's gonna be june
0258th um 8 40 to 11 40 at pacific beach in the quad great i have one yes eve thank you i just wanted to say it sounds like uh that many of the students sent goals that were stated by pack beach a year ago have been realized this past year i remember some of them being job fair and more field trips i remember those two there was others too that so you really accomplished a lot it's beautiful to see yeah thank you anybody else eric i'm sorry dr prater yes uh lexi i just want to tell you that um i just i'm so impressed with the work you did this year in student senate you're you're just an exceptional person and i just appreciated your contributions not just to pb but also to the whole
026group and i just want to say thank you and and i look forward to seeing you graduate thank you dr prater i'm very sad to be leaving but i have a lot of great opportunities at high school that i can't wait to tell you about so i really appreciate that and do you have any idea when the pack beach graduation is going to be because i know most of us try to attend that yeah graduation is going to be june 9th at 11. tonight at 11. okay great thank you very much any other questions or super all right thank you thanks to everybody let's go to 6.02 which are del mar program highlights mr mayfield yeah good evening as you stated del mar is on for highlights tonight and our first year principal michael wood
027is here from morro bay to share those highlights with us mr wood thank you mr mayfield can i share screen let me do that all right can you see my slides yes uh so members of the board and uh members of the public who are president i could share a lot of things about the amazing del mar program but um back in the fall when um there was potential for a board meeting here on site i had reached out actually to mandy dawson and i'd asked if members of the board had had an opportunity to um be in one of the i innovate labs yet and do a project and um she indicated that you would be thrilled about that so i i'm gonna talk tonight a little bit about um the i innovate lab
028at del mar and how teachers have pushed into that lab and and uh really what a gift that was from our education foundation and the support that we've received from the district office from sarah garcia and katie peters and our led teacher here on site samantha montoya has been extraordinary and and really the kids experience this year in the in the lab has been wonderful so why are teachers and students spending valuable time in the innovation lab at del mar and this is because business and industry leaders are calling for us to adapt to cultivate in student minds the unique human functions necessary to harness and direct emerging technologies things like curiosity imagination exploration perseverance flexibility critical thinking problem solving and working creatively as part of a team and so what does that look like
029in kindergarten and so here you've got some pictures i've got kiddos uh who are engaged in collaborating to program bee bots again these are kindergartners um who are already beginning to dabble in coding skills um to get uh acute bee bot uh to follow their uh their instructions and literally after they program it to hands-off run by itself i've got students uh who work together teamwork is required to change the dashbot's functions and movements these are things that are aligned with science curriculum these kindergarteners constructed their wagons for their push-pull and forces lessons and so again they're learning really scientific principles of scientific inquiry of coding there's mathematics involved uh it's multi-disciplinary much like the real world and they're having to problem solve and there's and there's not necessarily um one right answer in addition
030in first through third grade uh students uh in fact one project students use the laser cutter to cut wooden rounds out for this sensory caterpillar that you see pictured right in the center of the slide and engrave directions for the calm grounding garden that you see in the top right students as they push into the lab are learning the seven norms of collaboration to successfully work together as teammates and also as leaders in fourth and fifth grade um exploration students use devices to film and edit stop-motion videos in fact i've got a stop-motion video right here hopefully you can hear the sound [Music] needless to say on the right side of this slide there's a higher level of programming required to run the sphero spots so students actually went outside with the sphero spots they
031drew geometrical shapes and chalk on the ground and then they had to program the spherobot to actually move along the lines of the geometrical shape oops we'll ignore that in third through fifth grade um our third through fifth grade music teacher actually i met with um troy kutch um recently um who's doing some um some work beyond his degree and one of his projects that he had done and some graduate work was to write a whole unit um to integrate um our music classes into the actual in innovate lab and so he actually created a unit he posted it online shared it and he plans on utilizing our 3d printer to have students explore creating their own instruments that they can then play in music class next year and so i want to conclude tonight
032really with an open invitation because the five minutes that i'm allotted doesn't really give you the flavor of what an um an i innovate lab does um and how kids own that lab and function with autonomy within that lab and so i want to extend an open invitation to you tonight we would love to extend an invitation to any and all board members to visit del mar and try an activity in the lab that's created by our amazing i innovate team headed up by jeff martin katie peters and sarah garcia and we would absolutely support board members so you wouldn't come in and flounder we would have our site led teacher and a fabulous del mar student assist you in the lab please reach out to set up a time to come and experience a
033hands-on learning activity and we hope to see you soon thank you so much for the time tonight thank you very much mike uh questions from the board well i you know i i was just going to say i particularly appreciate your uh volunteering you know asking the board if they want to come and volunteering one of your students to uh assist us because we definitely will need it you know um so that would be great evelyn yeah um mr what i really appreciate this um great presentation on um quick question though is how um you know this your your site is uh seems to be doing a lot how much time do you you know your students you know spend it are you able i mean operationalize it i mean on a weekly basis what
034does that look like well part of the strategy and i'm sure jeff martin has talked to you about this part of the strategy this year because obviously the labs were built during the pandemic and and students were in distance learning you know really the that team um of support at the district office has really set up what we call entry-level tasks which is really like um imagine um you know a kid that's never been in a pool before right there's going to be there's going to be quite a bit of time of dipping our toes in and testing the temperature of the water and so that's exactly what the entry level tasks are designed for they're low risk low demand high engagement and they really let kids kind of get in and and and experience
035the lab experience the equipment and and get a feel for what it feels like to be in a in a lab like that and work together and so we'd absolutely want you to come out and experience that and see what that's like for kids anybody else from the board well thanks very much mike we really appreciate it absolutely and uh i think we'll see you i or others of us will see you please come out yeah please come out okay uh 6.03 student senate draft recommendations um i believe dr prater you're leading this one yeah i really appreciate uh how our students are coming coming alive in our board meetings and and that's the i think the ideal um picture that i would like to present to the board and so this next item is
036about empowering students voices in our in our district so several years ago i think going on six years we created the uh student senate and the student senate is made up of over 80 students representing all middle and high schools in our district that also represent within their schools a cross-section of of who we are in our district and in our unique schools that serve our students and so at the the foundation of the student senate is built upon the youth truth survey which is given to all of our students grades 3 through 12 as well as our staff and our parent community and that data given in october is reviewed in november december and january and from that analysis of the youth truth data our student senators work on developing site-specific smart goals for
037their particular schools and we're able to come together um in normal years non-coveted years we're able to to meet approximately seven to eight times a year during covid unfortunately we we met but it was on zoom and there were a number of our kiddos that i i hadn't seen in person in two years so we were thrilled to be able to have our first in-person meeting of the year in the month of march and during that meeting and we held at rancho la chorro at the county office of ed we had a great day and i was just i was i was very emotional on that day because just seeing the kids was one thing but being able to see them work together collaborate at such high levels gave me um confidence that these smart
038goals that you'll hear tonight from our student senators are not just words on a piece of paper but are actually geared towards creating action towards creating change and change that the students themselves see as being required and needed so what you're going to see tonight and here is just the scratching of the surface of these smart goals but these students will also be sharing these smart goals with their teachers and their administrators at the school sites and having this very critical conversation about the things that they believe are important as students at their school these voices are not only being heard at the student senate level but they're also being influenced they're also influencing the local control accountability plan that we approve in a month or at the end of this month and they also
039influence the board's annual decisions when they establish priorities i'm so thrilled to know that that is happening now because it really it tells me that the board that represents our entire community in san luis coastal respects you the students respects what you say respects how you think and is listening so tonight what i'd like to do is just begin we'll go alphabetically and so we will start with laguna middle school um to present their smart goals i've asked each site to give about five minutes um and we heard from pacific beach high school lexi moreno already so um mandy is laguna online tonight okay mr calandro we are thank you very much dr prater uh we're excited i have uh two of my three students uh are gonna present and ariel's very excited to go
040first because uh she has to go to basketball practice so we're gonna get her going here so uh mandy may i share my screen i think i got it here ariel if you can unmute yourself and turn on your camera you can get started our first smart goal was to improve respect between our students and teachers because some of our students when i went around asking them said our student our teach our teachers some of them weren't as respectful and how we can do that is we can have the teachers build respect by teaching students school-based behaviors how to speak with adults and other students how to send an appropriate and good email and ask for help and we can also build skills by doing those students can work to build class constantly consensus with
041norms and qualities that reflect we want each classroom to be all responsible for people are teachers students and staff as well while our students scored themselves higher on the students treated adults at school with respect they suggested their experiences in their classrooms identify identify this as an area of need students suggested using advisory time to do some of this work and recommended we do it in all of our classes and the time basically would do this is 22-23 and 23-24 school years these full change and culture reflect changes perfect thank you ariel next up we've got lucas lucas you can unmute yourself and undo your uh camera there all right so our second smart goal is to improve rigor and relevance in instruction uh this is measurable because it improves academic challenge summary measure from
0423.64 to 3.80 uh teachers focus on relevance of student lessons uh independent steps uh next steps college career life uh where is the application uh how what how do we show kids this and challenge uh provides provides students with variety less procedural work and thinking and creating more thinking and creating teachers teachers can provide more instruction through review of assignments clarifying instructions and checking for understanding with their students along the way want we want we we really want teachers to like respond to their students needs uh this is realistic because it ties in well to the work the district will be doing next year in developing teacher clarity students express that clarity helps them understand relevance and teacher responsiveness to students designing instruction that is varied with frequent checks for understanding and ensure ensures students
043are getting what they need uh this data will be used from the the the 20 to 23 and 20 through 24 school years will reflect the change in academic challenge all right thank you lucas and then our last smart goal is to increase conversations among students and staff regarding race gender sexuality religion and culture we want them to be open conversations that we want them to be happening frequently we think that this goal will be reflected in a number of our youth truth areas particularly in the area of culture it's something that we've been working on for the past few years our staff is currently working with outside agencies to provide continued training on unconscious bias uh and uh oops sorry let me back that up there uh i apologize our our next step has
044been to start developing the opportunities school-wide to have some structured and consistent conversations in our classrooms um it's fantastic to listen to our students talk about what they want to hear from our teachers um it's work that we're currently doing it's work that we're going to continue to do to next year students are identifying this as one of our areas of greatest impact to our school having open conversations across campus are going to allow all of us to feel more comfortable and seen on campus so again we're going to use our data from our 22 and 23 or 22 23 and 23 24 school years uh to reflect the change in school culture so looking both at student to student student to staff and then also staff to student and our students will be presenting
045this these three goals and talking with our staff about how we want to implement them at our next tct on monday may 9th so we're going to meet with our student senators tomorrow excuse me thursday to lay out particularly the smart goal number three um because our students want to have a little bit more of a demonstration of how they might want to have those conversations with our teachers so that's our plan for bringing it forward okay um mr buckman do you have questions for just one specifically yeah just specifically for laguna yes okay great so um thanks john and thank you to the students this was great i i just want to just check in on this and make sure so these are the smart goals that students develop themselves right yes okay this
046is the ones that we looked at through our our youth truth surveys and they've been amazing in coming up with the ideas of how to really refine which ones they wanted to to look at and then how they want to talk with teachers about them too okay so these are things that students want okay great thank you okay great other questions from board members to mr calandro or his students right now okay thank you very much mr calando and thank you very much to the students who participated in this thank you okay so now i'd like to move on to los osos middle school i know hello everyone i'm i'm heather contreras assistant principal at los osos middle school and with me tonight i have four of my 18 uh student senators here to present
047the goals and as was just shared our goals were created by our senators using our youth truth survey data and also they facilitated a great meeting with our teachers a couple weeks ago in presenting their goals and also getting feedback on how to accomplish our goals and what that looks like as well throughout this year and next school year so i'm gonna go ahead and and send it off to um our first group for our goal number one okay uh hello i'm laura sarupovin i am a seventh grader and this is my second year in student senate and i will be talking about the first goal which is fair discipline and the first part of this goal is specific and we want to make sure that student discipline would be fairly implemented at a school-wide
048and classroom level that works to support students this would include a revision of the student handbook a school-wide implementation and education of behavior expectations and the restorative approach we would want this to be interpersonal and intra-person personable conflict management the second part is um measurable and this is discipline data and it's on education code violations um conflict management suspensions correction survey and we want to serve the teachers and students and we would like to start tracking our think sheets um at our school hi i'm sunny stoneman i'm in sixth grade and this is my first year in student senate the third part of our goal is assignable so this would be assigned to students teachers support staff administrators and parents we'd want our role to be realistic so that students feel that focusing on the
049culture and process of discipline is a tenable and relevant goal and looking at the 2021-2022 youth through survey data 37 percent of students feel the disciplines fair and 63 percent feel that is not and that decreased by 2 from last year's data we begin or we began work in late spring 2022 and will continue to do so um in the 2022-2023 school year um hi i'm bridget o'leary i'm an 8th grader and this is my first year of student senate and i'm going to be talking about our second goal so our second goal is to increase a sense of belonging and acceptance there is a need to increase a sense of belonging and acceptance because when students feel accepted and that they belong they learn more and they'll enjoy going to school more to increase
050a sense of belonging and acceptance we can implement schoolwide lessons on respecting others and their differences encouraging students to try out for new activities like sports and drama and offer intramural leagues for sports and non-sports activities homes teachers have done equity work this school year with outside consultants that can be carried into the classroom for student growth this is measurable because data on students involved involved in various activities the number of times lessons i talked to all students during advisory student surveys on citizenship and second step continue equity training for all staff and students we assign this to students teachers support staff administrators and parents students feel that this is realistic because youtube survey data shows that 55 percent of students have a sense of belonging while this increased five percent from the previous year
051it is still too low and all students deserve to feel like they belong and are accepted within their school community in addition only 41 felt that there was a sense of culture and respect amongst each other we began work in late spring 2022 and continue to do this into the 2022-2023 school year okay hi i'm patel i'm a sixth grader and this is my first year of doing student senate our smart goal number three is to increase school spirit so to start off there's a need for students to feel excited to go to school have fun and socialize with one another middle school is a time to develop the sense of self and identity there are many differences between elementary and middle school that often cause students to deal with more social emotional feelings and
052responsibilities because so much time is spent at school it's important that there be things that the school offers for a liveness of fun this can include lunchtime activities health assignments for friendly competition spirit weeks and after school activities we will measure this by our surveys decrease in discipline data data on attendance presentation we'll assign this to students teachers support staff administrators and parents um students will listen to realistic goal that will increase the data of culture 41 engagement 53 belonging 55 and relationships 50 that was collected in the youtube survey we'll begin work in late spring 2022 continue to do in the 2020 and 2023 school year so those are our three goals that we have for loans are there any questions that we can answer any questions from the board um i do have
053a question you said that about two weeks ago you presented this the proposed smart goals to the staff during a staff meeting and i'm curious to hear more about the staff meeting with what the staff reaction to it was um how the staff and the students feel that they can work together um so if somebody could just help me with that i'd really appreciate it so um with a couple weeks ago in our staff meeting um we basically talked um a lot about this kind of sparkles and went in depth and we also started to get into groups and discuss with other teachers about how they feel about these smart goals and how we can do what we can do as a school and a community to feel to fulfill these needs and to make
054our school better great thank you yeah it was really amazing each of our senators um they um facilitated these small group discussions with their teachers and they planned out the event um what that would look like taking even some of the strategies that their teachers utilize in the classroom for participation which was phenomenal and they assigned teachers um to be note takers and we were able to collect all of that information and what our next steps will be as our student senators is to bring back all of that information and then implement and look at all right what do we do next year um you heard about some of the work that our staff has done with um in equity and we are starting an equity committee um with teachers as well and to look
055through the lens of veteran loans and with that we'll be pulling in our leaders on campus and some of them being our student senators to look at our just ways to improve our school and to make sure that students feel like this is a place where they belong and where everyone belongs and where they want to be great thank you very much mrs contreras any other questions from the board thank you dr prater yeah thank you ms contreras and the loans team you guys are fantastic uh now i'd like to turn to morro bay high school please come on up hello again um i'm here with my fellow uh student senator jackson meal yeah i'm jackson nice to see you guys it's really good to like be standing here it feels better to actually talk
056to people um so i'll share our first smart goal we really want teachers expectations of our students to increase because we think i at least we think we're all really capable and i think if we if our teachers just push us just a little harder we could get a lot more done our second smart goal is we want teachers to inspire our students we want to work collaboratively with and collaboratively with them to um have them understand what inspiration truly means to us and how teachers can lead students and inspire them and we want to get that done in the next school year um and so our last goal is what we're really going to try and work on we're going to start working on it this year because it's really big and we want
057to prepare for next year um what we wrote out is that we want to tighten the discipline and make sure that we focus racism misogynistic and homophobic hate speech really what we just want is a bunch of good people i've talked about this in student center before but we're really just looking for good people and it really starts with accountability and we think we're lacking in that area um and so we're gonna try and get there next year thank you questions for more obey i i have a ques i have a question for you on number two you said one of the things you want to do is inspire students and teachers to work collaboratively um can you talk to me a little bit more about how you think you might implement that goal well
058what we really want is uh to be in a classroom and have a teacher who not only knows what they're talking about but is really passionate about it a great example is our brand new engineering teacher mr wendorf he is an engineer so he's talking about stuff he he knows what he's know what he's talking about but it's not just that it's like the way he is and his vibe he just like he kind of just he he he looks the part and he feels like he is he knows what he's talking about and that's really cool for me to see like oh i could be like him yeah he he has an infectious spirit yeah and yeah yes anybody else dr eisendrath rogers i i heard you say that um your interest is in
059setting higher goals and i know that you're smart so that you know that that's going to make you have to work harder what drives you to say that and to do that um well delicately there is this thing at moro bay where it's kind of like okay to be okay you know and i think of some of the students who i mean we're smart people i think um but and i know a lot of students who don't act like it but they're smart right and i think if teachers can just push us that extra much and empower us to use our intelligence in like a really good way um i think we could accomplish a lot more and do a lot more have you guys presented this to the staff yet we have not we're
060presenting on monday at a staff meeting and we're mostly gonna we're gonna say their smart goals but we're going to focus on goal number three since we are trying to tackle it this year i was just going to say you can't see him but mr scaldi was shaking his head behind you about about the need for um yeah he was like yeah yeah we need to have hi you know we want to see we we want to see this the teachers having high expectations for more bay high school because it is a great high school i mean several of our several of us up here had kids that went to more bay high school and it's a good spot yeah um evelyn and then ellen and then i think that's it for now well um
061i just wanted to compliment because um i and dr eisendrache rogers and miss chef where we had the opportunity to see the in-person student senate and i remember walking around and listening to each particular group and students and what really impressed me is the rawness and the honesty that students were speaking and so you know you had administrators sitting there and you kind of told it like it was and um that on this authenticity really drives um and it makes informs my decision and it really um informs all of our decisions to really prioritize what you are experiencing in um on your campuses so i really appreciate that and the work that all the senators are doing at all our schools is really invaluable so thank you very much yeah thank you we're we really
062care about being authentic it's really important to us in orbe and i would just add i think it's a wonderful opportunity for the senators to be in this position which is taken very seriously to give some marching orders to your staff so mr scaldi i know you're i can't see you but i know you're paying close attention and uh and i'm heartened by seeing how seriously the administrators at each site take your role and what you bring to them it's not an empty exercise so thank you for what you're doing and thank you to administration for paying attention thank you yeah and i know we have san luis high coming up but i just got to say um i i want to echo what mr scheffer said you are our customers and we need to
063make sure that you get what you need so thank you dr prater and i would like to say before jackson and michaela step down i just i witnessed your conversations during the last student senate meeting and it to say i was impressed is an understatement you know it was it was as mrs frame said it was it was kind of raw but it was honest and we were all listening and i'm still listening and i think what you have to say will benefit not just morro bay but our entire district because you know this i think i think everyone in our organization comes gets up in the morning and and really puts their best foot forward to the best of their abilities but hearing it from you adding your conversation and your uh and your
064experience to that to that equation will serve all of us well and not and the purpose of student senate isn't just to serve you this year but to improve those that are coming after you so that every year we get just a little bit better just a little bit better and then pretty soon over time we change the culture of how we are and and to me um you know you are you are paving the way for us to truly become great and so i thank you for that yes thank you thank you our next school is san luis obispo high school please come on up don't forget to introduce yourselves um i believe we have some slides perfect all right so we are the san luis obispo high school student senate representatives i'm elita
065and i'm in 10th grade i'm ariselle and i'm a senior i'm asriel and i'm in 10th grade as well and we conducted the youth truth survey at our school and used the data from it to create our smart goals so here's our process so the first step to um making this a successful survey for us was making sure we had proper advertisement uh we all obviously you know went through the episode of kovid where we had this kind of disconnect so a lot of our students didn't know what youtube survey even was in the first place and so we made sure we advertised it on our uh news network that we have called tnn uh we made sure we made clear you know what the process was gonna look like and then also what exactly
066it was they were filling out um and what we could use the data for i mean no one wants to fill out a survey without knowing like what good it's gonna be for them and so yeah we had a really good turnout rate for that and then after we proceeded with the survey we analyzed our data and we observed all the sections that the students had filled out and then we thought what more information could we get from our students so we went further and sent out even more surveys they were a bit smaller but we did get a bit more information on them and um yeah we kind of built off our smart goals based off of the information that we got from our peers we then unpacked the recommendation from slc usd's 2020
067to 2021 common ground advisory task force and our district equity team to help streamline our collective goals we presented the youth truth data and observations to the slow high school site council and created smart goals and recommended actions based on the recommendations and the data in the 2022 and 2023 school year teachers will implement the student senate's recommended actions we created several suggestions so teachers can choose which action steps best fit their classroom and their classroom environment these smart goals and recommended actions will be shared with our staff on may 18th so our first smart goal was to ensure that students in grades 9 through 12 are aware of the relevance of the work they do in each class so students feel more engaged and better prepared for college careers and success outside the classroom
068and after high school so based off of our youtube uh survey data from 2021 we noticed that there were so many students that reported feeling um a bit lost and not prepared at all for college um firsthand i am a senior i'm first generation and so it was really really hard to like apply for fafsa like look at housing like even figure out what i wanted to do after high school um you know my parents they wanted to help me they wanted to see me succeed after high school they sacrificed so many things they wanted me to get a higher education but they didn't know how to help me they were they were um they've never gone to college and the thing is that this isn't an individual story there's hundreds and hundreds of students
069walking on our campus with the same story they don't they don't have the support that they need at home and it's pretty obvious the school system should be the support that we need if we don't have it at home um i'm an avid student as well so i feel like the only reason i like went through that whole process and survived was because i had that support i had someone to guide me to tell me what classes i needed to take what were the next steps um what were the deadlines and obviously like i said my parents wanted to help me but they just didn't have the support and so many people don't have the support at home um avid like i said is a great program but we should really think what more can
070we do that shouldn't be the only um source of help that we have for college readiness so we had some recommended actions we should have some college and career readiness workshops and then also you know talks with staff and counselors about what classes we should take in order to pursue a higher education or whatever it is we wanted to do after high school and how those classes would actually help us and even things as simple as teachers sharing their college journeys encouraging us and making us feel like we aren't the only ones going through this process there's a lot of people that went through this process and that we're not alone and um that we can surpass any obstacles that we're kind of having to face uh our second smartphone uh our second smart goal
071is to increase the feeling of belonging in marginalized groups through including more representation of various cultures and lgbtq plus community in the academic curriculum and the school community this is obviously really important because on the youth truth survey for 2021 and 2022 minority groups reported a much lower sense of belonging than the majority groups so to help this some of our recommended actions were to add more diverse characters and authors to the english curriculum and this is really important because students should see themselves represented as authors and in books that we read in school to help them see that they are a part of this community we also recommended to have tnn include segments on various cultures to help bring minority groups to light to highlight historical months and classrooms such as black history month
072women's history month and disability awareness month and in bold here you can see an action that we've already taken which is to use proper pronouns and print on sheets so students feel respected so what we did is we sent out a more directed in-depth survey and we got back uh students who said that they wanted their pronouns respected and that was the most common response that we got and so we took a model of a teacher who already did this at the beginning of trimesters and we used his sheet as a model and sent it out to other teachers and at the beginning of this trimester and they gave it to their students and we received overwhelming positive response from both staff and students for our third smart goal we said we wanted to strengthen
073the relationships between student and staff by encouraging teachers to reach out to their students on a deeper level outside of academics this goal was really important to us because the youth truth survey data revealed that there had been a decrease in students feeling supported by teachers in comparison to the previous years it's vital that we make sure our students feel properly supported by teachers and staff in order to form a stronger and healthier community at slow high so to increase this feeling of support among students we ask that teachers and staff members make an effort to understand what students life is like outside of school they can do this by building time into each of their classes to allow students to get to know each other and their teachers better teachers sharing about their personal
074lives and experiences would also deepen this bond by making them more relatable to the students in class teachers can create opportunities for students to express their needs by explicitly stating that they are there for the students if the students need somebody to share with and teachers are always welcome to ask students if they need support if they notice a student is visibly sad or distressed thank you go ahead questions for for them uh mr buckman and then mrs scheffer oh i just wanted to state uh let you know how um i it's awesome how proactive you are you are actually providing not just information to teachers but but resources for example the sheet you provided with um as an example of of proper pronoun usage or preferred pronouns i think that's great that you are
075actually helping to guide them uh not just through the survey results but also by getting them information that can help them do their work the work that you're requesting that they do and on the flip side i'm also really impressed that you had such a positive reaction i think that speaks highly of the staff and their desire to uh to do what they can do to to help you all i do think the issues of college readiness you know that sort of thing has been compounded it's hard under the best of circumstances and we certainly haven't that's not what the experience has been for the last year so during covid so i know that that's been that's been rough i think back to the fafsa days with nothing but horror and i've had a great
076deal of time to recover from that and it's it's a it's a tough process so i applaud you for making the effort to go through it and recognizing that there are others in your situation who share that those challenges so thank you for sharing that with us it's a it's a really good reminder to how difficult life as a junior and senior can be thank you mrs roger thank you um just to piggyback a little bit on what mrs heffer said i um well i i really am impressed by all the presentations tonight but particularly i wanted to note that it's impressive to me that you you student senators took the time and made the effort to go beyond the youth truth survey that was provided to you and was a source of of data
077for you and looked at common ground and looked at equity team you really went the extra mile to examine all of the information that you could in formulating these goals and um my hat's off to you i think you did great work thank you mr buckman yeah um amazing thank you one of one of the things and i echo everything and this actually goes out to everybody um who's been with us tonight and all the student senators it's amazing because as you are coming into this time of greater responsibility responsibility for yourselves driving maybe dating and now you're taking on this one extra thing that we put before you and you're doing this so well and i it's extra work for you and i just respect you so much thank you and i just would
078close i guess for to all of you um i was in high school a really long time ago and um and and when i went to high school the sense for students was you know basically what i always felt was sit down and shut up you know teacher knows best administrator knows best um i don't think there was any ever any thought that my that my si teachers or my administrators would pay attention to what i had to say or what my needs were as a student and um it it thrills me to hear that you all had that everybody who's here been here tonight has had an opportunity to really give the survey get the kind of participation you got on the survey you know i think most most survey participants were like 90
079something like that and then for you guys to take them into actionable goals take them to your school staffs and and have what you know almost recruit you know critical crucial conversations with your staff about what you as students need and then to see these plans be carried forward and then you know like anything anything else we want to check and see how did we do next year are we making you know are we moving forward on the things that we think are important and if not what can we do to change it so to all the students i just want to really um thank you and congratulate you and dr prater and the staff um the the willingness to hear from our students i think really says a lot about what's important in our
080district so thanks to everybody and i just would like to just say your recommendations had depth and there's something about them the way you process them the way you as you heard the board members capture um those recommendations are are rich that will allow you to actually change the culture of your school and to have to have the knowledge that you came up with them that you own them and for all those students that are coming after you um i can only tell you they will benefit and so you there's still a few more years and um well can i ask where are you going next year what's your plan all right i'm going to be going to san francisco state for civil engineering go gators congratulations you're going places i can see that um
081and i just want to say thank you for your work this year ms dellinger i appreciate your advocacy and the way in which you're just a you're you're a great former teacher you stay in the background and let the kids take center stage and i see that and and these are these are the fruits of the of that labor and that strategy so i look forward to working with you guys for many years to come so thank you so much this is frame yeah i just had a quick comment because one of the the things that you know i noticed about your presentation and about all of the presentations and the work there are these common threads of that relationships to our youth matter and it's really central to your academics but one of the
082things that i was as i was reading through all the senate um presentations um and recommendations it struck me and i i had to go back because i went back to the guiding principles and i was you know i didn't know if you know you if they had read them beforehand but you know high expectations civil discourse and collaboration and um a culture of care safety and respect and so that's kind of our guiding principles as far as a district and so that's exactly what you're telling us is that is really critical so i thought it was kind of remarkable that i don't know if did you give them a a oh okay so this is really kind of organic sense of coming out so thank you very much to everyone thank you thanks to
083you know and again thanks to everyone who participated tonight and thanks to the student centers and we look forward to hearing more um from you next year and and and again as i think dr prater explained we do pay attention to that it's part of our lcap goals i'm sure he explained that to you but our lcap is pretty much our guiding document for how we spend the money that we need to spend to make sure that students get what they need so thank you all um dr prater do you want to go on to 6.04 common ground advisory task force recommendations yes and uh to the public who may not realize why are we doing this tonight uh these three groups the superintendent student senate the common ground advisory task force and the district
084equity leadership team those are three primary systems or structures within our district that we receive feedback and recommendations from and we believe they're critical to informing us um as to where we should move what our next steps should be i think they're just it's critical so this next group the common ground advisory task force if i could go back one step um the student senate is acknowledged by the california school boards association as a golden bell model program across the state of california and this next group the common ground advisory task force is acknowledged by the national school boards association as a what they call a magna program which is a national model program for equity and outreach and i assume and i believe that the district equity team will follow suit in the next
085couple years so the common ground advisory task force i'm privileged to work with uh gila paragabager and maggie torres and they are our facilitators for this group which started five to six years ago and it came out of turmoil in crisis it was formed out of crisis and it has emerged as an opportunity for us to improve our systems to improve the way we are with kids with adults and with our community and this group is focused on taking difficult and controversial uh topics that we we as school board members superintendents often are faced with and try to grapple with them in ways that are somewhat challenging because the common ground group is made up of district site leaders staff as well as community leaders parents um religious leaders across our community and they come
086together oftentimes having very different opinions and belief systems so it's critical that this group develop that that belief in civil discourse to come to common ground on solutions and recommendations for how to manage controversial and challenging topics or wicked problems so so please jila and maggie please come and discuss your recommendations it's great to see everybody i'm jila hi jila hi thank you this is maggie okay so we're going to jump right to it i'm usually when i present i just will talk but i don't want i want to make sure i don't miss anything the the details so forgive me i will be looking down quite a bit um so i'm jingle this is maggie we're both from collaboration business consulting we've actually had the privilege of facilitating this group for the past five
087years we're just finishing up our fifth year so as a reminder the purpose of the common ground advisory task force was designed to proactively provide our superintendent with the sounding board to find common ground suggestions through civil discourse on controversial issues that impact our students provide specific suggestions to improve program policy and practices as they relate to these issues and to provide suggestions that will improve conditions on school campuses for all of our students the common ground advisory task force met monthly this previous school year 2021-22 this year's meetings in particular included the following discussions there's a few one how to continue to foster strong public interest and discourse at board meetings second one an analysis of youth truth survey data about student experiences feelings and morale regarding academic cultural and social emotional support on
088district campuses and the last the nationwide debate about appropriate instructions instruction excuse me for students about issues of race and ethnicity the task force developed two sets of recommendations one set was the creation of key assumptions regarding the district's efforts to address equity on campuses based on the information provided by staff presentations input from students and parents and the experiences also of our task force members connected to these key assumptions are specific action steps you were provided with those you should have those as well um that the record the task force recommended the superintendent to take to address equity issues on our district campuses maggie will go through a summary of that uh in just a moment and the other set of recommendations constitutes a brief summary that the task force is made based on
089a look back of the past five years i will go through that brief summary in my closing the following four key assumptions to address equity that we dove into during the 21 22 school year all have been provided to the board with recommended action steps to ensure all students receive what they need to develop their full academic and social potential the common ground advisory task force believes the san luis coastal unified school district is and will remain committed to the following basic assumptions number one implementation of history social science curriculum the district will ensure that students learn a thorough and accurate account of history based on the california content standards the updated history social science framework and other applicable law including the fair education act the district schools and teachers will teach students how to
090thoughtfully evaluate history as appropriate to the students ages and grade levels using for example the u.s history framework number two belonging the district and the schools will create an environment where students can feel connected and belong when attending school and we're still where students feel represented that they belong and where they are comfortable being themselves in curricular and extra co-curricular experiences across campuses races number three racism and discrimination district administrators teachers and staff will model and teach that all forms of discrimination and racism are wrong number four safe student learning the district and school staff will create a safe school culture and environment where students can respectfully share their opinions and ideas without infringing on the rights of others now i'm gonna i'm gonna walk us through a brief summary of the recommendations from the
091past so it's it is hard to distill what this group has uh come up with as far as recommendations go in five years think about what happens in that amount of time um i had a three-year-old you know five years ago a lot lot life was very different and so there's been a lot of um improvement over the past five years for these recommendations so i'm going to go through if you will these the the six uh summarized recommendations from the past five years so the district should facilitate and support continued collaboration between school sites and departments within school sites to utilize existing expertise maximize efficiency and ensure common curriculum tools and assessments across the district second all classrooms should demonstrate culturally responsive instruction and be inclusive and welcoming the district should measure how the
092accessibility of inclusiveness of offerings of and participation in clubs and school activities informs student outcomes number four teachers should increase emphasis on making lessons relevant such as discussing historical events within their historical context and connecting history to current events number five the district should provide training to staff on conflict resolution bystander training unconscious bias free speech rights social emotional learning and trauma-enforced practices lastly the district should provide ongoing and year-round student training on social emotional safety and responding to discrimination and harassment we just wanted to thank our superintendent in advance for considering what the task force has come up with with their recommendations over the years and also for this past year as well to address equity on our campus thank you questions or comments from board members dr prater oh catherine i'm sorry it's
093your life i'm just impressed with the the use of the word uh force um when you say how to enforce engagement with the community which because it comes down to that doesn't it we have to work very hard at this to make this happen and you're doing that for us yes our group is is strong advocates of our community and our students we're correct excellent thank you and and i guess um i i i think i i was there at the beginning i'm not obviously not a member of the task force that's not an appropriate role for a school board member um but seeing the you know the genesis of it and the the turmoil and what what caused us to get here you know this is this is definitely a case of something good
094coming out of something that really had the potential for ripping the community apart um and i'm so glad that that you all have spent the time to do it and i'm glad that we have community members of all stripe there to represent different viewpoints because that's what our community looks like and then to provide those recommendations to us as a school district is really helpful to us and really i think again shows the kind of effort that we're trying to put into making sure that all means all and all students are included so thank you very much um dr prater i do have a question for you i want to get to actually i think we have the equity team coming up next and then i have a question for you okay now maggie and
095gila i just want to say thank you again for coming this evening and also i look forward to planning out next year where we're going to do some site visits and engage students and staff all right so thank you very much mr mayfield yes good evening there you go mandy will you share the slides or do i have them okay right then share screen is that here where is that okay you allow me to share mandy not yet great thank you all right so this is the fourth year of the district equity leadership team and it's been a an honor and a pleasure to facilitate uh that group as you've heard from the student senate in the common ground advisory task force these are critical groups to our district and to moving equity forward within
096our district i'm joined tonight by dawn addis and becca carcel via zoom they've been integral to the development of the equity team and also by parents sandra ceruff and gracie who will present uh the recommendations from the equity team in just a moment this is our working definition of equity to eliminate barriers and provide equal educational opportunities for all students to meet rigorous academic standards we it's a broad representation on the group we have staff community members board members and students from the secondary level it's inside out work and it's created a lot of movement in four years i think we all agree that it's too slow and we wish that it would go faster sometimes and that these changes would occur at a more rapid pace but we've seen a lot of movement over
097time within the last four years and then of course you know it's not one goal that we're after but rather a journey and i think we've seen a lot of progress over time the team acts as a resource for the district by sharing best practices we conduct listening sessions it could be with students it could be with community members we continue to share knowledge and expertise because there is a lot within our community and on our team and then we monitor progress and try to uh you know inquire about the progress that is occurring within groups and then we strive to support the the hiring and retention of a diverse workforce and you'll hear in our recommendations tonight that continues to be an area of focus for us so we'll begin with our recommendations and
098race we'll start us off please gracie hi there thank you for having me speak tonight i am professor at cal poly and parent of three children in the school district at pacheco laguna and slohai the first recommendation from the equity leadership team is to create schools that truly implement trauma informed practices to address student needs and the document that you would have received with the recommendations also has links to the equity team recommendations for the last two years as well and in many ways the recommendations don't change that much year by year because this is many of the work is they're years long in in progress but the one thing that really changed or shifted this year was the result of of course the pandemic and what um learning online um might have done with
099students and also all the trauma that people have experienced whether that is illness or death of family members or challenges with teaching and access so this first recommendation is one that really stands apart from what we have seen in the in the current recommendations and past years recommendations and there's three points of elaboration first is focused on academics and having trauma-informed practices in um in the classroom and this means support for teachers but also time we need to leverage the the superpowers of our teachers right they're already amazing at what they do but they need the time to actually be able to exercise some of those practices second point of elaboration is to enhance tiered supports to address trauma so students can learn and so this is just we we just need more staff more
100support more adults that are there to support beyond you know the teacher and the students so in the classroom in targeted work in one-on-one counseling there's just more staffing with this kind of expertise that is needed and then it ties into the third point of elaboration which is to train for and use practices that support student well-being we really need to take care of our students if they're not taken care of then they can't even get to the academics right and so this last part includes trauma-informed restorative or culturally responsive practices and then understanding that students are are still processing what's happened in the last two years and so some of the things that teachers in the equity team meetings said they were seeing really had to do with not necessarily bad behavior but just
101not knowing how to be with people again or processing emotions that they don't know how to handle so there's a lot of support that needs to happen in that way so thank you for listening appreciate that let me bring uh presentation back up and sandra saroof will share the second recommendation with you hi my name is saunders saroof i'm a parent in the district actually my seventh grader was part of the student senate so i got to see her present which was really fun at loams and i also have a ninth grader at more of a high school i also bring the lens as a professional and in the field of diversity equity and inclusion building bridges across differences and have been doing some work at laguna and los osos middle school in that realm
102which brings us to our second recommendation for you tonight is to deepen our equity lens to the hiring and retention of diverse staff in our district i was part of the discussion at our meeting with teachers and staff and it was very real it was very raw and it was very urgent there was clearly a need and a consensus specifically to this point of hiring a third party organization to come in to the district to help review our practices and perspectives and policies to help inform the next steps to make recommendations and to monitor that process throughout so that we can truly bring a diverse staff that represents our student body time and time again tonight we we've heard from students how representative representation matters they want to see themselves represented and that also includes
103who their mentors are who their teachers are who they see on a day-to-day basis basis and sometimes we need that outside lens to come in and to look at that what are blind spots what are we seeing that were what are we not seeing that we should be seeing what are we not doing that we should be doing and why the team really felt strongly about having this third party organization come into the mix and help us see those blind spots the second point is to prioritize retention of our underrepresented staff so this is the staff that is represents and reflects your subgroups who are how are we retaining and prioritizing that rotation with prioritizing that retention of our underrepresented staff that's a tongue tie um how are we supporting them to become leaders within
104the organization how are we offering spaces for them to have conversations to share about is this a welcoming environment where they belong so having exit interviews and that process that was also a very real and important discussion with the equity team and lastly to continue the efforts to expand the diversity of the applicant pool we know that the hr department has been looking at this has examined their hiring practices so we want that to continue as well as to expand so that the recruitment the hiring and the retention stays to be more reflective of the student body which you've heard from so many students tonight so this extra component of staff is also part of that concept that representation matters thank you thank you thank you sandra appreciate it and we discuss keeping our recommendations
105to a small number and uh as i believe both grace and sandra mentioned you know repetitive in nature because there are things that we that are multiple years in the making and so our next steps as a team you know we continue to identify ways that we can support the district in our equity work uh monitor goals each school and their single plan for student achievement has an equity goal as well and we continue to monitor that and help sites i'm really heartened by how many principals have reached out to me this year to say hey i'd like to do this in the realm of equity at our site and i'm thinking about this for next year and it's really amazing that it's on so many people's radar we're really starting to see that pick
106up uh and then our equity roadmap which we developed last year we continue to monitor uh to make sure that that is uh happening okay and that's it from the equity team great thank you um mrs roger before we before i get to you um i did not take any public comment on this topic and so i'd like to see if there's anyone from the public that would like to address us seeing no one mrs roger thank you um that was an excellent presentation and i you know i very much appreciate the work of the equity team i my question has to do with under retention um the suggestion is to hire a third-party expert to inform plan review and monitor our practices are we aware of a firm that does such work certainly yeah
107there have been many institutions around california the city of san luis obispo went through such an audit and there are groups that specialize in uh hiring and retention of diverse staff who could come in and as sandra said kind of you know help us with our blind spots right what is it we're missing where else can we look how else can we uh you know get applicants into the plan i know that sounds great because i know we are making a concerted effort to seek um actively seek applicants and um [Music] we're meeting some we're having some difficulty in that regard so i'm i'm encouraged if they're um if there is a third party that can come in and you know and give us some advice and thank you mr buckman and thanks i just
108as as one of the board members that sits on the equity team i just i'm always impressed by the discussion we heard about how honest the students are and i think our staff and the people that sit on the team have always impressed me as being very honest about their feelings and and what they think we should do and so i just i just thought i'd take the opportunity to thank everybody that's on the team and for letting me be honest it's great absolutely thank you um mrs sheffer and then mrs framer you saw you adjusting your mind okay i just wanted to i it's been very interesting both when i read the attachments to the agenda in preparation for tonight's meeting and then listening to all the speakers how interesting it is with the
109students senate draft recommendations the common grounded value task force recommendations and the equity leadership team recommendations the amount of crossover and the common goals which makes in some ways it makes thinking about how to address some of these things a little easier because of the commonalities and on the other hand it makes me think boy these are some glaring issues because everyone's picking up on these so it's it i think it's interesting we have some we talk frequently dr prater to use the term you use frequently about lifting up the rocks looking under the rocks these are some boulders apparently because they are expressed by all these groups so we really um i know this board is devoted to doing what's best for kids and all of these issues bottom line have to do with
110how to best uh work with our children to to make sure our students have what they need while they're going through the education process and not just and the culture of care the academic goals that have been expressed by the students which is awesome and then the the other interesting and urgent i like the use of the word urgent issues facing our students and our staff and our district and i know that i have great faith in our teams at all levels in our students obviously they're really proving their mettle and in our board that we are really devoted to doing the right thing for kids and it doesn't mean it comes easily and it certainly doesn't mean it comes rap as rapidly as we might like but we as a board share these common
111goals as well as evidenced by our our um our goals that we've set out so thank you mark yeah and just in general after the groups that are presented one of the things that's become clear to me is the students are asking or telling us and each of these groups are telling us you can't learn just in the vacuum the vacuum of the textbook or the vacuum of the four walls of the classroom and they're asking specifically the students but every other group is also talking about it's it's a much broader um broader area that needs to be addressed and i'm taking that to heart so dr prater um i i don't imagine that this agenda was built randomly um and it's interesting to me that we have these three groups that presented to us
112um as well as the beginning real the the beginning discussion on our lcap so what i'd like to know is what your takeaway and what your staff's takeaway is on these things what you see is the commonality between the themes that they're presenting to us sort of what mrs shepherd and mr buckman were talking about and then i'd like to know how that's influenced the lcap development yeah that's a excellent question and i appreciate all the comments tonight and the participation for me the commonality and you're right this this agenda was designed to lead us to this very place and for me what it is we're trying to do based on what we are hearing is that we nee we have a responsibility to create the conditions for our students to maximize their potential in
113order for that to happen we have to bring our community together our staff community our parent community and our student community so it's a unified um what we're finding here is uh our synthesized um common um common areas of focus students are asked asking us to hold them to account with high expectations they're asking us to engage them in a meaningful and authentic relationship to honor who they are and we're also hearing from the students that they want to see themselves in their teachers in their principles in their schools and to accomplish that we have to be honest with ourselves we have to have we have to constantly check for our own our own assumptions that we think the world is a certain way when the students see it a little differently so to remove
114ourselves from an adult centered perspective and put ourselves in the shoes of our students as they grow as they grow up and grow through our schools i believe strongly that we have a moral responsibility to address the things that you heard in every one of these recommendations but to do that we have to be systems oriented we have to think through what are the systems to ensure that we are giving our kids the very best they deserve so this last presentation from the equity team talked about um the trauma informed classroom and all the supports that kids need so you got to be aware that the kids are having these these genuine needs and then their second recommendation is really about challenging our own bias our own biases on our hiring practices the way we
115evaluate people the way we view our employees hold them to account yet understand the the challenges that they face themselves so these are all very important very important uh ideas and recommendations um that all lead us to that central place which is we must give our kids the best that we have and that's what we're called to do and so that's why tonight you're hearing the voices of our students you're hearing the voices of our community and you're hearing the voices of our staff and that is the that is the best i have right now and it's been like five years in the making and um i understand it but what i struggle with is getting there right and i'm i've heard something well in my studies in my own academic studies and in my
116own experiences a true the truest statement i know you can change a bell schedule you can change a master schedule pretty quickly in fact overnight but what you those are called structural changes but what takes a whole lot of time and a tremendous amount of energy and skill is to shift and change a culture the way that we are together the way that we in unity share a common purpose and when we do that and then really generate that focus that culture will shift the kids are asking us to do that in many ways our principals our our teachers our support staff are asking us for help to do that and and i know that we have a school board that are willing partners and as superintendent i'm trying to get us there and um
117and that's really what the lcap is about that is what establishing your board priorities for me are about and which is why i'm feeding this information to you in such a public manner because i do believe that these are grains of wisdom that are coming before you that just need some time to absorb as you have your board workshop june 6th you have the adoption of the el cap and the budget may 31st so these are all coming your way but it's an it is going to be a journey and it's going to be an ongoing journey um and i just i'm excited to be a part of that okay thank you um before we go on to item 7.01 or actually seven item number seven items number seven we're going to take a 10
118minute break so please let's come back at about 10 after seven and we'll continue the meeting with correspondence and public comment this is frame i'm talking to you this is the voice of doom mrs frame as soon as we get a quorum we'll get started shall we okay right let's begin oh is everybody ready yes mrs dawson are you ready okay uh let's item 7.01 is correspondence the board did not receive correspond official correspondence at the time the agenda was published uh 7.02 is public comment i'm going to read a statement regarding public comment at this point in the agenda the board welcomes comments on matters of district interest the board will listen but cannot engage in discussion or take action on items not listed on the agenda generally this section of the agenda is
119for individuals or a representative of a group to address the board on issues not listed on the agenda speakers who wish to discuss items on the agenda are requested to wait until that item comes before the board however comments may be given on agenda items at this time if it's not possible for a speaker to stay until the agenda item is heard by the board if you've written submitted written comments on a topic you will not be allowed to also speak on that topic comments or correspondence submitted anonymously will not be accepted if you'd like to speak in person please complete a yellow public comment request form and re submit it to mrs dawson in-person public comments will be read first if you wish to speak via zoom click on the participants icon at the
120bottom of your screen and select raise your hand when your name is called you may restart your video if you wish and unmute your audio if you need assistance with your video please let us know and we'll attempt to fix it you'll have a problem with your audio please click on the thumbs down icon and we'll attempt to assist you written public comments submitted prior to the board meeting will be read by mrs sheffer and that would be following verbal public comment and i don't believe we have any written public comment this evening all public comments will be limited to three minutes a limit of approximately 450 words in written comment you may not cede any remaining time to another speaker any portion of your comments extending past the 450 word limit may not be
121read aloud due to time restrictions and anyone who tr exceeds the three minute limit will be reminded that they need to end at three minutes all written comments that are not read into the record will be made part of the meeting minutes provided that such comments are received prior to the end of the meeting please be aware that written public comments including your name may become public information and again there will be no seeding of time is there anyone from the public that wishes to address the board mr anger i have two people okay thank you mr shuffer would you go ahead and call them please first is juna judea and second is marissa looks like borja borgia sorry for mispronunciations good evening it's nice to be here i haven't been in this building in
122about two or three years i don't even know um i'm jenna juday i'm a speech therapist in our district i was hired back in 2000 i had a lot of breaks in there having babies and all that so right now we have 15.3 full-time employment speech-language pathologist positions in our district some of us are part-time so there's more people filling those positions and this year we are losing four full-time slps um these individuals are leaving for positions that are more manageable and offer higher compensation but more manageable i think is the key word i hope that we can attract fully credentialed and fully licensed slps this fall for interviews that were held this past year applicant pools were small half of the slps who applied weren't even done with the graduate studies which i don't
123even think was legal back when i applied none of this was because of covid this has been an issue for multiple years now this district simply can't attract and retain slps under the current contract and we aren't just speech teachers who work on articulation we do so much more speaking and listening skills are the foundation of reading writing and learning i'm feeling encouraged about section c of the new tentative agreement i feel like it is a step in the right direction and i appreciate that i'll be given service credit i earned working here many slps were placed further back on the pay schedule during the last negotiations and in an attempt to recruit rather than retain and unfortunately we are leaving we are losing a really good slp because of that um it never felt
124right to have new hires making almost the same as an employee who was hired 10 years ago thank you for making this right i hope that our membership agrees with this proposal as well and it was nice to hear all the equity comments this evening because you know people with disabilities they are the largest minority group and we work with people with disabilities thank you thank you jenna next i don't need to use the rest of my time oh you and then would you state your name please because i probably mispronounced it it's okay you wouldn't be the only one my name is marlisa borja and i'm standing here today representing 16 highly educated and skilled speech language pathologists who are at our breaking point at a minimum we are required to hold a master's
125degree license credential and often national certification we are overwhelmed with the excess amount of clerical duties such as record keeping billing maintaining electronic and paper files scheduling and so much more in other districts much of this is handled by administrative or clerical staff so that specialists can ethically legally and appropriately provide direct and related services additional concerns are that are the amount of meetings that we are required to attend for most of us the majority of these meetings are held outside of our contract duty hours either before or after school one slp reports that to date she has attended 140 meetings which when you do the math is an average of 14 meetings per month that's unsustainable unreasonable expectations and high caseloads which are far exceeded by our workloads are only the tip of the
126iceberg for most of us some of us have additional special skills like bilingualism um supervising certification aac certification and much more we're not compensated with caseload or workload reduction um for many of these and they just end up creating more work for us there aren't enough hours in each day nor are there enough of us to serve the students we um and get it all done the work unmanageable workload paired with un with non-competitive salaries are leading to high attrition rates each year the majority of slps begins with full caseloads and overwhelming workloads the district has consistently been forced to hire temporary positions mid-year students on emergency waivers contract employees teletherapists and clinical fellows as a result of higher as a result of high attrition rates and current employees unmanageable workloads half of our current
127slps have been working here for two years or less half this cycle of rotating slps is not sustainable in fact some of the slps that we've hired have come from other districts with hopes that slc usd would be a better fit some of them have worked here for a year and returned back to their district that they came from by the end of this year alone we will be losing four slps the cycle of attrition perpetuates one of these slps has been working here for 10 years another is bilingual all of them are exceptional these are huge losses for everyone if we're able to fill our four positions that would be great but we'll have to train them because the latest handbook is from 2011 12. thank you mar alyssa your three minutes is up
128thank you is there anybody else that would like to address the board i just want to say thank you so much thank you is there anyone else that would like to address the board thank you all for coming tonight okay item 8.01 business and budget update mr pinkerton yeah a few things to review at the board um we are right now working with sites in particular on staffing so getting uh all the numbers worked out new kindergarten enrollment right those things especially in particular with our elementary sites i'm working on tk enrollment so mr mayfield myself went through all the different schools today the number of students trying to you know make it fit this this first year right stk has expanded um and it seems like we're going to have the facilities staff you
129know there to to meet the needs um and of course we're already planning for future years in terms of the growth of tk um into the future so just just so you know just working with principals we have an elementary principal meeting on thursday to kind of talk with them about staffing and kind of moving forward um with that and and uh and the impacts um happy to uh let the board know that we we came to a tentative agreement with slcta on friday so um the last of our three three union groups uh dr prater and i will be meeting with the ms mec group as well as our admin group next week so that we can kind of finalize negotiations with all of our employees as we move forward um next for me
130we also have a new health plan that we're going to be adding so we we have a health advisory group that meets and it has members of all the union groups um get together and we talk about our health plans what plans we're going to offer we try to you know we have 100 plan and 90 plan a couple 80 plans we have the hsa low cost plan uh or not hsa but anchor bronze plan well we found out through you know they asked if if we could add more plans so i went to sisk talk to them and we actually can add an additional plan and so we're going to be adding an hsa plan this year or a health savings account so another option um for staff to to look at and so
131uh this is a you know hsa plans are very different than the plans we currently offer um and again health health care is a risk reward right if you don't want risk you pay more in your plan if you are willing to take a little bit risk you pay less right that's how they work um but what i've done in in talking with the groups um we felt like it would be really good to bring maggie um from uh burnham benefits out to kind of just talk about health benefits well with all of our staff as well as really um focus in on the hsa plan that option for for staff if if anybody wants to take it so um for the board as well we'll be offering those here in the next month when
132we have open enrollment for for the next healthcare plan so again have her come talk about all the different plans the pros and cons how they work as well as in particular kind of share information about this hsa plan and health savings account that that staff can set up so looking forward to sharing that information um and then dr prater do you want to talk a little bit about just really quick about senator laird coming to baywood on friday yeah thank you mr pinkerton uh we received notice that senator john laird is visiting baywood elementary this friday uh i believe at 11 a.m um 11 11 30. i will make sure the board has that information if you'd like to come and and be a part of that tour um it's he'll be there about
133an hour um but he just wanted to he's a big fan of dual language immersion programs he himself is bilingual and um he reached out and um requested to come visit with his staff so um so we have of course i'll be there talking about tk funding um just because i'm gonna be there and um and so yeah you're more than welcome to join if you'd like thank you and i would just point out that senator laird i believe is chair of the senate education budget committee and so we're lucky to have somebody who was that involved in education coming to visit our schools and also i just would like to thank senator laird and his staff for the outreach that they've done to san luis obispo county and we really appreciate that so thank
134you um 808.02 educational services update yes thank you just a couple of updates for you just a reminder that we have a lot of activity going um on on our campuses across the district open houses other year-end events our schools are planning graduations we've got all district band concerts we had some college signings on our campuses so it feels really good to get back to that point where we're coming together and celebrating our students and celebrating our community i think you're also aware but i want to make sure that the public knows as well that we had several groups two schools in our ed foundation who were recipients of the california pivotal practice award you might remember this as the california distinguished school award in the past but during pandemic the cde kind of changed
135it a little bit and they were looking at pivotal pivotal practices across schools so del mar ciel smith and our education foundation all were awarded um i guess just awards and i know that and our district as well um dr prater is going to keep you posted on when those um events are happening when the celebrations are happening at our schools but we're really proud of the work that all of our schools did during the pandemic the way they were able to pivot they talked about the sel programs they continued to offer in the ciel smith application they talked about the way they continued to connect with their kids and their families through videos online they had kept up with their assemblies that type of thing and our ed foundation was honored for their um
136challenge boxes which i think you heard a lot about um over the last couple of years just a couple of the things we've got tk and k roundup happening um at our elementary schools and i know that mr pinkerton talked about it but our directors and many of our principals are really working furiously on hiring the best for our district so you're seeing a lot of interviews of teachers administrators that type of thing so a lot going on as we uh come to the end of this year okay thank you uh 8.03 and any questions mrs frost 8.03 measure d update uh just a couple of quick things you know dr prater and i have been meeting with a variety of representatives throughout our communities um los oso san luis morro bay to discuss the
137potential of a future bond and kind of get their feel so that we can kind of take that information report that back to the board and give you some insight as we as we have that conversation um as well i want you to know today uh chris bona myself i met with uh with gary geary to look at beginning to develop plans for our tkk classrooms into the future as we look to expand those and modernize there are some state grants that are becoming available for us to go after those funds so we want to have those plans ready to go so we're going to actually start tomorrow walking sites with with mr geary and um kind of you know just putting together where the classrooms will go the plans um kudos to rick and
138chelsea smiley who's one of our ptosis have been coordinating with our tk teachers as well as arcade teachers in making sure that they have all the materials they need the furniture they need the curriculum they need to go full day next year so that's been you know something that rick has been working on again as well as chelsea throughout the year to make sure that they feel supported and ready to go um but putting those plans together i think will be important for us to have that picture um i'll be sharing that information with the board as we move through because it's it's very different right you can't put you know preschool tk class in a you know a normal portable right and so when you talk about restroom facilities you're talking about increased spacing
139right um playgrounds uh fencing you know there's so there's a lot that will go into this work and so i look forward to to getting that going now right being ahead of the curve and ready to go if um if this if this moves forward again we are looking at expanding all of those programs next school year our next week but also the year after that potentially doubling the number of tk classes so we you know we need to get ahead of this game um and ready to go as we as we proceed into the future you did you have a question eve yeah is the property on grand avenue that's being rented partially to a private school is that being taken back from the private schools to make more room for this expansion no
140so not for that so sloka currently rents a portion of the facility right now that teach school is located on and so that is something that is kind of a different conversation just in terms of teach and the school which we can have it's a little bit addressed in the facility master plan as we move forward um sloka's kind of known that there's an end to that term at some point you know in the facility um we recently granted them another two-year extension so they you know this has been kind of an ongoing um kind of conversation that we've the districts had with sloka thank you yeah um we are also along with the tkk also beginning kind of schematic steps with pacific beach high school so putting together kind of a plan um mr
141geary and myself mr bonham are going to meet with mr dollar and his staff to kind of talk about pb their needs their goals for the future so that we can put together some kind of tentative plans for what that high school could look like should we pass on the future should we move forward with it i think it's important that we have some again shovel-ready product projects ready to go if that's the case so so look forward to kind of sharing that information with the board as well but i wanted you to know we're beginning those conversations um with the site and uh and really all the sites when it comes to tk and k classrooms uh mrs frame um mr pinkerton thank you i was curious um you probably don't have the numbers
142but you know what is it looking like for our tk enrollment or do i need to wait and you know no we have we have them there's um across the board you know we're actually kind of fortunate really most of the schools are kind of right at that 23 24 number right which is kind of what we're shooting for for a tk class 1 to 12 you know a dolta ratio um you know we don't want to go over that so if it's a little bit less than that fine great right but but we're you know we're kind of that was kind of our meeting today because we're right you know one school is 25 one that's 23 one has 24 one has you know um so we're we're good when it comes to that
143i will say the coast in particular is having a low year so um del mar monarch grove baywood is just a low kind of tk kindergarten class this year across the board so um but there's still every school is going to have a tk class and well you know there's still room to grow and so we'll kind of go into the summer as we proceed yes thanks ryan was a little taken aback by the comment about pb and shovel ready so let me just check is it is it staff's understanding that the board has already approved projects no okay so then can you help me understand what we mean by a project so the the only thing we're going to do at the pbs i discussed today at the you know with you is just
144kind of having a schematic look at what pb could be but so the tk classrooms i do think we need to be shovel ready all right no no problem on the subject no problem on the tks because we've the board's kind of already chimed in on that might i don't i just need to understand where their staff feels that the board has settled on the fact that we're going to be remodeling pacific beach board approved a facility master plan ah okay that showed some of those changes but it you know in terms of final project moving forward i guess i can that's okay i'll i'll just come in and talk to you thanks okay anybody else right um i'm going to go to the public and see if there's any public comment on item 8.01
1458.02 or 8.03 okay see no one will go to item 9.01 which is a resolution in appreciation of san luis costa unified school district employees and i believe this is mr block yes it is me miss stronger but i think you're going to help me out with this tonight so uh this evening we recognize that our classified and certificated staff are the backbone of our our programs that we put on here they're really uh the foundation of everything that we can do in our classroom so tonight's resolution the school board the board members are going to read our resolution acknowledging our employees all employees in our district so what i did was i passed out a copy of the resolution to each of you and i wrote your name on what i'd what i'd like
146you to read so everybody gets a chance to read a little bit of this so um eve if you'd like to start please whereas excuse me whereas the san luis costa unified school district board of education believes that every student has the right to access high quality educational programs to further their academic and personal success in 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 hardworking 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 individuals at individualized educational opportunities for students and whereas the san luis coastal unified school district board of education further acknowledges
147the 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 creative solutions and provide unwavering support to our students 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 costello unified school district team serves as a model of public service and pride for our community and whereas the sun san luis costa unified school district
148board 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 resolved that the san louis coastal unified school district board of education proudly proclaims the month of may 2022 as employee appreciation month to include the california day of the teacher tuesday may 3rd 2022 which is today the week of classified employees may 16 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 and service to promoting the success of our children and our community and i was wondering if i may make a motion make that motion i would like to make a motion to pass this resolution we have a motion okay well
149i you know mark kim i think eve is a retired teacher might want to second this motion you're a retired teacher yeah i second okay so we have a motion by mrs frame a second by ms dobler drew any discussion any public comment okay mrs frame hi this is dobler drew hi mr buckman yes dr eisendrath rogers yes this is roger yes this is scheffer yes and i'm a yes motion carries 7-0 thank you very much okay 10.01 local control accountability plan update um mrs frost well thank you for having us here tonight we are here to talk about our progress on the lcap our local control accountability plan um just a couple of slides to describe our process and a couple of details about the actual lcap4223 so starting with just a couple of
150reminders we've been before the board a couple of times talking about the lcap it's that important a document in this district and every district across the state but we do want to remind the board that we are in year two of a three year lcap which means that we're going to have kind of more minor changes than you would in the first year of a cycle um this meeting today what we've given to you as an attachment in the board docs is a draft of the document and in fact we were doing little tweaks on it today so we continue to make minor adjustments to the document that you um see in your board docs we also want to say one more time how much stakeholder feedback we have received and we really have come
151at this topic in a number of different ways you know that we have the lcap survey and we push very hard to have our families fill that out but we also use the youth truth survey you know you heard from our student senate you know the information that they provide to us and how important it is to them on their sites so youth truth survey in addition to the lcap survey and there are so many groups across the campus who give us feedback as well and that feedback is not only in the survey i know in a number of these things dlac elac the equity team common ground task force they are really doing activities to identify things that they believe is important that they can give us in feedback outside of the survey we
152also get informal staff feedback when we visit campuses the staff talk to us our classified staff our certificated staff we might find ourselves at a staff meeting so there are a number of ways that we get feedback that informs the lcap and then finally i'd want to remind the board that really we focus on three different groups in the lcap our el students our foster and homeless youth and our socioeconomically disadvantaged students we do know that the items the action items we put in the lcap will affect kids outside of those groups and that's what we expect and that's what we want we're looking for achievement across our district but the lcap really asks us to look at those three group okay so just wanted to give you a couple of examples of things that
153you will find in the lcap this is not an exhaustive list and i want to remind you that we're before you in a study session on may 12th where we will go into greater detail but you remember that we have three focus areas in our lcap rigorous relevant and engaging instruction and curriculum multi-tiered academic support and intentional culture of care this document that you have access to has many many action items just a few of which are highlighted here if you look at rigorous relevant and engaging instruction we're supporting our tk expansion you'll see high school curriculum pilots you'll see cte middle through high school we talk a lot about that and you'll actually see a cte counselor for the middle level so a pps counselor we talk about clarity training as well this is
154that engagement across every classroom on our campuses do you want to talk a little bit about multi-tiered absolutely yeah our big focus at the beginning of this three-year cycle was on multi-tiered system of support and specifically on interventions to help our students returning to in-person instruction you'll see increased number of instructional aids for tk and k in going to a full day program tk requires by law that aids be in there so that there are two adults to a maximum of 24 students and then for kindergarten to assist teachers with the transition to a full day we're adding half-time aids in all kinder classes as well our summer experience program as you know is expanded we're up to about 2 000 elementary age students who will participate including dual language immersion and many high school
155programs as well we continue to have an eld focus and that is also work that takes a lot of time and a lot of training their summer planning for eld focused work at our dual immersion programs on english language development and that continues and then as i mentioned our mtss focus continues as well and then finally focus 3 intentional culture of care we have a number of these things things in this area as well counseling allocation and mental health support we really did get stakeholder feedback telling us that they wanted more pps counselors on our campuses and we're looking at that especially at the elementary level there's sel social emotional learning positive student-centered campuses is reflected in focus area 3. you'll see big brothers and big sisters mr mayfield has been working with that agreement
156elementary athletics you've heard about as well after school interventions and transportation for our students we heard that specifically from our english learner parents our equity work continues and mr mayfield is working with a consultant who will work with el families to develop leadership and other skills this is just a sample of what you will find in this larger document that many of you have in front of you right now we've got our metrics as we've talked about before for each of our focus areas and then we go into the action items and there are many many action items for each of our um for each of our focus areas we are coming back to you on may 12th during a study session and we will do a deep dive into this document we'll be highlighting
157the new things in the document the new action items as well as those that are specifically attached to stakeholder feedback by may 17th we'll have a first reading before the board again and then on may 31st a second reading and then hopefully an approval of rl cap we're happy to answer any questions you might have why don't we go to the public and see if there there is anyone from the public that would like to address us on this topic okay see no one will bring it back to the board are there board member comments mrs frame thank you very much for the presentation one thing um and you know when you mentioned uh mrs frost and the document um that it's looking at our we're addressing everybody but specifically our um um the english
158yeah mr mayfield but i don't see any data on the homeless and foster is that i can't remember is that do we just not include them but when i look at all the charts i never see them call that i would say we look at that data individually and we don't include it because the numbers are so small within the charts that are located in this particular document okay but that is tracked at sites okay okay so okay um and then the other thing um and this may be for a deep dive um later but and and and don't answer it but what i'm curious is i'm reading the document is noticing the um you know measurement of growth and and and really that focus that we appeared we've heard um throughout the night about
159addressing our social emotional and having our counselors because really if our students aren't really supported in that way they can't achieve academically but one thing i noticed in the document that i've seen across all of our lcaps is that five percent target growth and so i i guess i'm curious is how we arrive at that number it's kind of been this consistent number and it's consistent for all groups so you know it doesn't have to be answered but i'm just curious as as how we arrive at that particular number what what what causes us to put that particular number um in front of us and then is it um if we're looking at um addressing the needs of learners differently um how does having the same growth goal right you know um look at that
160so i i think those are just kind of you know perhaps they're deeper dive questions but um just putting that out there yeah great question i think statisticians would say that five percent represents a statistically significant growth that when you look over time what you're after is slow growth over time i mean obviously you'd want kids to grow 30 percentage points but that's a difficult thing to do within one year period of time so within the document we set that goal that statistically significant uh advance of five percent but certainly nobody is out there doing work saying hey i'm only after five percent so you know obviously um people would be putting in the maximum effort and oftentimes we do see significantly higher growth we've had schools jump up ten points in english language arts
161on the spec for example and even higher growth in in terms of some of the reading benchmark assessments we use but that that's recognized as kind of a statistically significant uh growth goal for schools to have and i think it's pretty common mr buchmann my i'm already on um thanks but this is incredibly complicated and i know you had input probably from the largest group that you've ever had input from shaking heads yes so it's really exciting um just some just some things to think about i'm not necessarily looking for answers tonight um the total the total bottom line on this document is roughly does do we ever total it up 5 000. okay and so are there other dollars then to do curriculum and all of that stuff okay many other dollars okay thanks
162um so things to think about um i look at this and i see um one of the sub two of the subgroups that's near that are near and dear to me sed and parents are kind of not necessarily here um just bear with me um some i guess a question that i've never asked and i don't need an answer tonight is what percent of sed are el or or vice versa because that may be pretty nerd um and then for me um in going through this in terms of parent communication and parent involvement what i came up with was um in totaling each of the items that said parent was about 128 thousand dollars and then i had a friend of mine do the math because i couldn't even find a calculator to do this
163um and so the percent of our entire district budget that would f that would fit in which is probably not very fair but um is about 0.1 of of the entire district budget for parents um and i know that they don't don't have to answer just these are things that jumped out at me um and i think we heard pretty clearly tonight especially from students that they're they're counting on us to fill in the gap for some of the things that parents might know and have time to deal with and so i've heard from some parents about parent square being lacking in terms of some parents and and um so i i'm gonna i have some specific questions that are more and so just i guess let's be prepared because i guess my biggest fear
164is if we look at that time frame what happens if the board uncovers something in its discussion and then how can it be is there enough time to change it to adjust to it or are we just on a track now that that we can't that we can't change well i think that the board absolutely has input on this so if there is something in there that you want to share with us questions that help us inform some of the action items very very happy to feel those thanks so much we can also i would say mr buckman we can also pivot this doesn't represent you know all the things that we do and anything that arises any specific need that we saw that was significant we wouldn't say like oh sorry missed the bell
165cap cycle it'd be something that we would address i mean this represents about 5 million out of 115 million dollar budget roughly for our district every year thank you mrs frame thank you um i guess following along with um mr buckman and you know there's so many things that are um changing and we've learned so much from our organization and our organization and from our teachers and our students you know pre-pandemic during the pandemic and after the pandemic so i guess you know when i look at our accountability piece and when i look at um the number of what we're looking at growth and this is a question i'm grappling with if we're looking at that growth the same way that we've always presented it you know prior to the pandemic and during the pandemic
166and after the pandemic and we're not really necessarily differentiating between groups in the document are we missing something and i think that's you know something you know might we explore in the next um topic because things are changing and we have gender we do have so much more information and so many more tools in our toolbox so um just an open kind of comment so thank you thank you though for all this work because it is really a huge document and a lot of stakeholder and a lot of people put a lot of time in this so thank you you bet one thing i would add is that we have reporting requirements in terms of data within the lcap document itself that we send off to the state but it doesn't represent all the data
167that we collect and use to track student progress so i would say right now with our mtss effort we've never had a higher level of tracking student progress and making sure that they're moving in and out of interventions as needed or if you go to the mtss teachers at sites and ask them hey show me some of the data you guys are using to do progress monitoring of student growth it's amazing and they have charts and they can show you exactly that the growth each student is making so that just wouldn't be data that we would include in an lcap type document but great question and great point i would say higher level of tracking student progress and monitoring student growth than we've ever had before i just want to say a couple of things
168first looking at looking at the lcap and then looking at the data that you provided it's pretty clear that the distance learning in the covid pandemic really did affect student achievement and that unfinished learning we talked about and in it you know not only are we trying to close the achievement gap we're trying to race ahead of what where we were prior to you know at least we we need to do better than get back to where we were prior to the pandemic because we had a huge achievement gap at that point and i think again this reminds me as i look at this the achievement gap that we do have on groups and how important it is for us to as i think mrs frame is talking about not only move kids forward but
169accelerate them and i know dr prater has talked about that as well the other thing i just want to say is i'm really this document is so much better than the old lcap document that was you know close to 200 pages a lot of jargon and gobbledygook that made no sense to people and i do hope that our parent community and our community in general our teachers take a take time to look at it it's a very readable document very sensible document so i want to thank you for that anybody else mr buckman and then mrs frame i just want to ask is this a a template change from the state so we're not looking at those enormous you know 200 i would like to say that there isn't uh some gobbledygook coming but there
170is so uh the template will be presented at the 17th and then the 31st meeting as well okay thank you i like this abbreviated version yeah okay um i don't know if i went did i go to the public on this mrs dawson i think i did i did not or i did let's go to the public again in case i didn't okay thank you there's no one from the public that wishes to address the board uh item 10.02 secondary english language arts curriculum adoption recommendation um let's see mr o'connor i believe is going to be presenting this good evening thank you for uh honoring me and jane this evening before i begin i want to take a moment to introduce jane holly jane is our secondary tosa and for those that you may not
171know jane jane was a teacher at san luis obispo high school in language arts we actually hired jane to fill the amazing loss that we had at our school for elder avery when elder retired and jane stepped into that position and then she moved from that position to be department chair and taking over from the amazing ivan simon and then she moved to the district this year with me as a district hosa for secondary i would like to let you know that jane started this conversation pre-covet with rick mayfield about our ela adoption process i would also remind you that our last time we had an ela adoption in our district was in 2002 so that's quite a while ago 2002 and jane informed me she was in eighth grade at that point uh so
172this evening jane is going to walk you through the work that has been going on pre-covet with all of our school sites at the secondary level i would take a moment and point out that one of our goals is to make sure that we have consistency systems and structures around expectation and curricular expectations in the classroom about first best instruction and that's part of our goal this evening to bring that to your attention jane thank you for having me today it's nice to meet you all in person as leslie said i'm the secondary oh share screen sorry i forgot we were on zoom here we go used to this from teaching okay and now [Music] all right thank you um it's nice to see you in person i did present to you as an avid
173district coordinator in the fall and we've been doing some amazing things with our avid program and i look forward to updating you later about that but today as we focus on the english language curriculum adoption this is a really um great moment i think for english and humanities departments and our students to be adopting instructional materials after 20 years of not having an adoption and just to give you a little bit of background this is a project that's been responsive to our staff and to our students it's been asked for for a few years by them even so recently in a slow high newspaper article from last month so this is a need for our students as the slow high student said in their presentation earlier today the students and senators talked about representation and
174their curriculum and so that is a piece of this but beyond that we're trying to align with our common core ela standards which were introduced between um 2002 and now so we're updating to that and of course we've been using those standards but this curriculum is more aligned with that we're looking forward to horizontal and vertical articulation between our teams of teachers at each grade level and then across the school site so looking at a programmatic approach from grade 6 at loans at least through middle school and into high school up to the 11th grade and then we'll hand it off to our erwc program in the 12th grade with that comes a scope and sequence and common assessment so we can really track student growth look at those things like the achievement gap and
175say this is where we need to grow with our students which standards we need to focus on and i think most importantly engaging our students i'll talk about the program that the teachers have recommended to you did have the highest engagement out of everything that we tried with students and when you can capture their engagement that's really when they learn and they're with you so that's one of those reasons we see a lot of relevant and diverse texts in the curriculum that we're recommending tonight much more english learner support in this curriculum than we've had with our one from 2002 also differentiation resources for students who may need accessibility tools who may be behind grade level in their reading and then also an opportunity to collaborate as teachers so these were the two pilot programs
176that our teachers used one was study sync from mcgraw-hill and we piloted that in the a semester and trimester at each of the secondary sites and then we piloted hmhs into literature in the b trimester and semester and teachers spent the full portion using this curriculum with their students every day and collaborating with each other to see you know is this what we really want to invest in and will this be a good curriculum for our students for multiple years i do want to thank our ela and humanities curriculum adoption team these are all of our teachers who've been involved and i'll let mr o'connor take part of this yeah it was important for us to make sure that we brought our teachers along in this process and i want to commend our middle schools
177specifically because they really jumped on board they were instrumental in this process and we also reached out to both high schools because we wanted to get a team of teachers and remember we started this process pre-covet so when we were thinking about starting this and then moving throughout the last two years it was incredibly important to bring our teachers along on this and you see some amazing talented dedicated teachers veteran teachers brand new teachers to our district on these teams and i also want to thank rick mayfield and chelsea smiley who's here today they listened to us and started this process during the pandemic and then leslie and i kind of took it on as we got here and we knew that this was a huge importance to our teachers and our students and it's
178not something we wanted to drop even during distance learning we did wait until we got back in person to use the materials with our students because we thought that would be best but our teachers are just amazing for kind of working through this throughout the pandemic and then as we've come back this year with everything we've experienced so we really wanted to highlight the work and effort they've put in can i ask a quick question um based on the chart you just had up is there i see that um pacific beach isn't on there was there were they invited to participate or yeah so pacific beach has one english teacher and we um spoke with stacey naren about it early on and at that time i think she was like i really need to focus
179on my students at pack beach especially with the pandemic so i've looped her in with the curriculum and we've talked about how it might work for her students needs because she serves three grade levels um so we're working on it with her and including her and that she just wasn't part of the pilot process thank you and i see she may be able to speak about it at home yes [Laughter] yeah mr niren was definitely involved in this too so okay i did want to talk about the timeline briefly because i think the process of adoption is really important the stakeholders that we included so we did form an ela curriculum adoption team we highlighted the teachers we did have administrators involved so principals and then assistant principals who work with the english and humanities
180departments and we selected those two programs to pilot in spring of 2021 so in that one year we spent time looking at multiple programs narrowed it down to two based on teacher assessments of the curriculum and then we chose the two that we piloted we piloted this year and then i visited each school site to offer support and also ask for feedback on from teachers on how do you want to see implementation happen once we do adopt a curriculum and how can we support you in doing that then in march and april we placed study sync into literature into the isla office for community and board review and notified parents at all of the secondary sites to to invite them to come look at the curriculum should they wish and then we discussed both pilots
181as an adoption team and actually invited every english and humanities teacher to come listen to that discussion and select a program to recommend to you for adoption today obviously we're at the presentation now and then once we move forward with an adoption we'll begin training teachers and planning for implementation um jane i one of the things when you were this is a great map and it really tells the story of of how this process works i'm curious just for my own advocation when the teachers were asking for support who are piloting the program which is really hard what were some common themes or threads that um you know that they needed that support with you know in viewing what our teachers may need who all teachers when they use it can you tell me a
182little bit about that i think they wanted a balance of being common and also having flexibility so as teachers we need to work together to give students a common experience to assess them commonly so we can have those professional discussions about where our students are and what we can do to get them where they need to go i think where they wanted to see flexibility was we do have um slow highs on the trimester more based on the semester that does affect the amount of curriculum and the speed at which you can teach humanities is obviously loans and lambs has an english and social studies separated program so i think they wanted to see clarity with what our common expectations are but then some support and where are those areas that they can flex as
183departments and then i think also time you know to to spend learning the curriculum mr buckman i think has a question for you yes hi thanks um this is great and it's been such a long time it's just it's wonderful to see we're going to have a new adoption two things can you explain more about the seeking of student input on this yeah i can so we did have a survey that teachers gave to students at the end of each pilot experience for both study sync and into literature that asked about various topics related to engagement rigor collaboration participation things that would make sense to ask students specifically and we did get hundreds of surveys back from students about their perceptions of each program and we'll get to it a little bit later but student
184engagement was off the richter scale comparatively on into literature versus study sync and just a second question is can you explain as a board member i seem to be hearing more about cross-curricular activities and so can you explain about maybe an approach that was taken was that added into the thoughts of of staff um you mean talking to the non-english and humanity staff well yes that's good right but also for the english teachers where are they aware of the cross-curricular needs so within the curriculum yeah so are we starting to look at a comprehensive almost adoption um well here let me try to give an example here so um in the 10th grade into literature curriculum there are some informational texts that are different differing supreme court opinions on one of the cases and then
185an added argumentative mentor text that's like essentially what would your opinion be here and so that obviously has connections to history to government to economics with the common core curriculum there's a push to have cross-curricular connection so you'll see more things like science writing brought into the english curriculum so it's not just all fiction and poetry anymore it's a broad range of um what we do is that what you're asking okay yeah so these were the elements by which each pilot program was assessed and this rubric was put together both with what was provided by the california department of education and then additional items from english teachers and this was actually done way back when tristan shawba was still around before pre-pandemic we all met as departments with him and we said this is what
186our wish list is this is what we're looking for what we want as teachers and we narrowed it down to these elements i just want to highlight a couple here one was that student engagement the coherent scope and sequence so we can work with horizontal and vertical alignment and then also we really wanted to focus on resources for english learners students with ieps and 504s students who needed accessibility tools differentiation essentially because so much has been done in the area of curriculum in the last 10 years with technology to help those student groups that was a big focus for us also common assessments so we we truly could be common and the intel literature curriculum has a digital growth measurement assessment that essentially measures where students are with each standard in ela so it provides
187us a lot of tools as teachers to track that growth and then of course assessments oriented to real world tasks and audiences i know that's a focus of our district to really say how are you applying your learning and how can we see what you're doing in the classroom help you in the outside world but also in your adult life so when we did meet um as a team finally to select a curriculum 95.2 percent of us selected into literature and percent with steady sync it was 20 people voted for into literature and one voted for study sync and i did follow up with a person who voted for study sync and they weren't opposed into literature um it was just a preference for them so it was overwhelming support for this curriculum and these
188this is what we're recommending to you today to adopt for these specific courses so i've listed english 6 and 8 because this is what is in our course catalog this is also humanities at loans for 6 and 8. english 6 through 8 advanced as well then english 9 through 11 college prep at the high schools and english 9 through 10 honors once we get to the high school level in the 11th and 12th grades we see some splintering off with ap literature and language and then in the 12th grade college prep we have expository reading and writing and so that curriculum is also already taken care of we've adopted that um so this is just for these courses these are some of the highlights of why we wanted to adopt this curriculum so we had
18985 percent of our students rating into literature at a three or above on a scale of one not engaging to five very engaging this is compared to study sync was which was somewhere in the 30 to 40 percent um so it was definitely or a student's choice um 65 percent of teachers rated this program as having strong evidence of alignment and learning objectives i can tell you 100 percent said it was aligned with standards but this was strong alignment 95 percent of our teachers felt that intel literature had curriculum flexibility for them to make the choices for their programs and students that they needed to make while also being common and then 65 percent of our teachers rated it as having strong evidence of diverse authors voices characters and texts and 100 rated it as
190having at least some evidence of diversity um and i do want to speak to that here with our nc literature teacher feedback you can see from beth meyer at slow high she teaches both 10th grade and our eld program and she's our eld coordinator an amazing teacher and she said diversity is the strongest feature of this program the literature is diverse engaging and relevant and you can also see naomi bush at laguna middle school said students were extremely engaged in these texts and as you know it can be hard to get middle schoolers to read and and this did it so i can say that we had great response from students here and then also we did take some student feedback students felt they were both engaged and challenged by the literature and that it
191made them think and i thought that was very fascinating when they responded to our survey that they focused on those aspects of the curriculum and really responded to them and then finally this is our timeline should you adopt into literature officially today we'll begin training teachers and then we'll have site plc collaboration with that common scope and sequence making curricular decisions as grade level teams and at sites in the summer we've planned for some summer pd teams to do this work together and also some publisher trainings before the school year starts next year and then ongoing but beginning next year some site plc collaboration in this area followed by our fall secondary pd day and a spring release day for teachers to be supported and working together and of course they'll have my support as
192a tosa throughout the year as well um thank you that's the end of my presentation um any other questions for me no this is roger thank you uh i noticed when i was going through this let me go back here in looking at the the different grade level um texts that were being proposed i noticed that all of um all of them were coming to us by way of digital licenses and that there's a teacher textbook and then there are some consumables but that there's not even a class set of books so i guess i am i am old school and this is the the new way of the world i'm going to grab one for you i'll be right back it's right here okay mr o'connor do you want to agree i'm old school
193well i wouldn't want to say that but you're old school i was old school because i was actually talking to the uh sales reps over the last couple of days with regard to that exact same conversation piece um it's the way of the world now in certain areas for curriculum adoption but yeah so we should not even have a classroom set this up yeah that jane is giving you right now is actually the student consumable this is not the los angeles county phone book phone book what the heck is a phone book yeah that's a real that's [Music] so this is what the consumables look like is that what you yeah so the point i wanted to make with it so you can see it in your hand is it has all of the text
194in it and in english we're really focusing on annotation so with a consumable they can write in that they can highlight it if a teacher wants to grade something it's perforated they can rip it out and turn it in and this is really where um textbook companies are going with english in particular because of that annotation focus so i had no idea uh i think this is terrific but i do want to also be sure that the for the digital portions that we um continue to pay close attention to equity for our students who may not have devices or wi-fi connectivity that shouldn't be a problem that's analyst coastal thank you mr pinkerton and thank you yes of course and i i did want to add with a digital component of this there's a lot
195more so you know a lot of teachers said i love the old school style of the consumable because i want to get my my kids off of chromebooks in class but then the kids can access a variety of accessibility tools through the digital curriculum so things like an audio reader that's a human reading it plus like a highlighted text as they read they can highlight definitions there's english learner support in the digital portion so it's really a blended learning model that i think is trying to serve the needs of our students best and has that flexibility it sounds it really sounds wonderful thank you mr buckman yeah so two two things i i really appreciate the comments um you had up and and when i read them before about the diversity and reflections of authors
196and even characters in the books because what i heard clearly from the student senators was that's something that the students are asking for so that was really important to me the second thing is i i i so appreciate marilyn's question and here's kind of so i happen to be dating right now a former textbook salesperson um i would guess that this textbook is probably over a hundred dollars each um it's in the executive summary that's okay that's okay don't worry about it off the top it's just my fear i hear what you're saying it's exciting that you can have tear outs that means we could only use it with one class in the past when we had the workbooks those could be replaced or we could cheat and we could photocopy them which is what
197we did one of my school districts say that okay it was it was a long time ago um not okay but it was in this really poor district um that that scares me that we're we're only going to have one student that's gonna be able to use this textbook so in the package they send um a consumable each year for students right so yes if a student writes and that uses it that one consumable would be per student but when we agree to the the package that we've negotiated they send a consumable yes each year and yes i i would say you know that is where textbook companies are going both study sync and hmh um did the same so there wasn't really an option to buy a static textbook that stays around for 20
198years um yeah that's just where it is right now may i get a good business model i i went to the executive summary to see um and and there really isn't a breakout per unit like this but it looks like the digital licenses are for six years so probably would be receiving six years of these consumables as well before we had to renew correct so i'd like to thank you for i also got supplied with some books upon request so i can see and it looks very diverse i retired as a teacher elementary in 2018 and we were already in a different district and we were already going this direction they were already in use this is nothing bombshell new you know so um yeah so you just reorder them again because actually that's the
199only way that the publishing companies are going to sell the packages isn't that right yes especially with english i'm not seeing that as much with other subject areas like math that's where we are with it yeah right and as a matter of fact just as an aside before i was a teacher of 25 years career i was working for houghton mifflin which i think provides is the yeah and uh that in living in boston as a cop as an editor of these educational books back to the roots i think um as mr buckman said we clearly heard tonight what our students want is to be engaged and challenged and so it seems like this this matches that and is an alignment with that one thing i think that is positive about this is a consumable
200it's hard for me to think about this as a consumable but you know what i read about what's the best way to memorize data and to synthesize data it's not to underline it it's to rewrite it in the margins of the book itself and i think that this is something that will allow our students to do that um mrs scheffer and then ms dobler drew and then we'll go to the public and there's no other board comments i was simply if we were done with this with discussion was going to make a motion to approve the into literature instructional materials as presented so we have we have a motion oh it's just good and there'll be more there'll be more discussion because we need to go to the public too so ms dobber drew do
201well first of all do we have a second second prime minister roger okay back to discussion ms dobler drew oh just you may have already mentioned this somebody in passing but just the idea of that we can still hold books in our hands and not only that we can write in the books and i think it's just a much more personal uh relevancy to the students than having them to be all digital because i did have the um question to out to somebody in the curricular department it might have been mrs mcgrath last year about whether we could purchase digital to save money or something but the answer was that no you you you get the textbooks and the digital but you don't do without the textbooks if you're gonna sign contract with these publishing
202companies and i will say our our teachers really wanted the ability to have that physical print book in hand um because students spent so much time online over the pandemic so i do think that blended approach is really helpful i do too okay so we have a motion a second but we do need to go to the public mrs dawson is there anyone from the public that wishes to address us on this okay seeing no one i'm going to bring it back to the board is there any further discussion okay seeing none well to bring it up for a vote mrs sheffer yes ms dobler drew mrs roger yes mrs frame yes mr buckman dr eisendrath rogers yes and i'm a yes motion carries 7-0 thank you very much really appreciate all your efforts i
203mean it's just shocking it's frankly shocking to me to think that we have books we haven't had any ela adoption in 20 years so i'm i'm glad we're able to do this okay uh 10.03 measure d design build modification number 11 setting the gmp for san luis high school building 500 restroom remodel and fire alarm upgrade project so it's part of our measure d projects um one of them is the 500 wing of salisbury high school at this time we are looking to have the board approve work for the summer which would basically renovate all of the restroom facilities which is kind of in the middle of the two 500 buildings um this will be a large boys and girls restroom as well as well as a gender-neutral restroom as well as a staff restroom
204um right now the current makeup is kind of funky you have to like for the staff they have to walk into the student restroom to get to the staff restroom so this will alleviate some of those issues um as we move forward out of the 800 000 price tag which is a large price tag what i will tell you is about 200 000 of that is the actual fire alarm work for both buildings bringing that up to code um there's approximately a hundred thousand dollars worth of potential ada work um that is currently as an allowance um in the gmp so we only we only use those funds if we need to but as you go in as you start to tear up the concrete around the front so um you know new entrances into
205those buildings new doorways those types of things when they get into the concrete work they just don't sometimes you don't know how far it's going to go in terms of the ada accessibility so the the gmp will uh has enough funds in it to make sure that all of that work is done of course if we don't need to do as much work we won't and we'll save those funds and be using those for other projects um into the future so our goal is to get this done over the course of the summer have it available for students in the fall and again this is kind of a central location in the campus and so this will be a really a nice addition a change to san luis obispo high school and in fact i
206think it's the last old restroom on that campus so they will have all been renovated modernized um and and new for students and staff okay questions from the board mr buckman and then ms dobler drew we do have mr halcomb as well as mr bonan here to help answer any questions if the board asked them so as we did this measure d work we we found and we knew we had things like having to redo fire alarms and so we have schools in the district that are even older than than saint louis high school um so hope hopefully in the future we can somehow take a look at those as well absolutely who is older ms dobler drew so sometimes parents are concerned um and you may have mentioned this i was over there finishing
207up a conversation um the all-gender bathrooms are they one-person bathroom it's a single stall singles that's what that means what so that there's a gender neutral bathroom which is basically a single stall bathroom that any student can use does that mean one little room it's one restroom yes okay one restroom and then the staff is a one restroom and then there is a boys restroom which has i think three urinals a couple of rest a couple toilets and then there's a female restroom which has i think like five restrooms it's actually a large size restroom area um for that place yeah that's true thank you okay um any other questions from the board yeah oh i'm sorry mrs roger and it's pretty much the same setup around the district now or around the the site
208itself los san luis bispo high school and morrow bay high that we've added these gender neutral restrooms we've added the staff restrooms we've you know updated all the restrooms uh throughout the campus which is nice okay mr pinkerton um i'm having a little difficulty reading this what is it number 12 number 11 modification um because it's the the ada work that you referenced of about a hundred thousand dollars i don't see that broken out is that wow it's distributed into a different few different areas so it's distributed because i i don't see it work not shown but required site content concrete south side ada about fifty thousand dollars is that in the allowance i'm sorry where are you um let me show you i see site concrete for fifty eight hundred dollars hang on let
209me mandy county cast in place oh yeah uh i mean i'm sure it works is it just distributed among several different lines there you go so these top this top area that you see the demo all the way through um you know up to subcontractors total 579 000 that's all work that's absolutely necessary included in in the scope of the job moving forward as you move down you'll see some things like exit now these are allowances the next section some of these are things are anticipatory because they've happened at other sites as you go in you don't know for sure but when you open up the wall you might have some dry rot you might need to change up some plumbing you might again in this case change some concrete now you'll see it you'll
210see there the remove replace 50 000 right um some cut and patch different things like that that that will go into that potential addition of the ada moving forward and again when you take that and you multiply it by the general conditions the insurance all those other things that amount grows right in terms of scope so maybe less than 100 000 you know but generally you kind of get the idea that's about what you think yeah there's some there's some expenses there okay and then the fire sprinklers you reference the fire sprinkler work but i see that the fire sprinklers um under allowances are not included because they're in the top they're called fire alarm okay building okay now it makes sense to me thank you very much um if there's no further discussion i'll
211move approval hold on just a second and second by evelyn and then we need to go to the public is there anyone from the public that wishes to address the board on this item okay see no one i'll bring it back any further discussion this is roger yes this is frame yes mr buckman this is sheffer is dobler drew dr eisendrath rogers yes and i'm a yes motion carries uh six zero i'm sorry seven zero thank you very much thank you very much let's move on to our action consent agenda please let me know if you want to pull an item all right i need to get a little organized here um [Music] 11.01 approval of secondary schedules for 2022-23 school year 11.02 acceptance of donations 11.03 approval of certificated and classified personnel items 11.04
212approval of furniture and equipment requests 11.05 approval of minutes april 5th 11.06 approval of purchase orders and cal card purchases and that was 11.06 uh 11.07 approval of warrants and payroll 11.08 authorizing continued use of remote teleconferencing provisions pursuant to ab361 and government code section 54 953 11.09 approved quarterly report on unity 7.09 uh uniform complaint filings williams settlement yep got it 11.10 proposed revisions to board policy 6142.7 physical education and activity second reading and 11.11 proposed revisions to board policy 61 46.1 high school graduation requirements second reading okay do we have a motion to approve items eleven mr unger i wanted to pull 11.04 i'm sorry 11.04 hold on just a second okay so do we have a motion to approve move on here 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.05 11.07 11.08 and 11.10 and 11.11
213okay all right hold on here motion second okay um any discussion okay mrs roger yes mr sheffer yes mrs frame yes mr buckman yes ms dobler drew dr eisendrath rogers yes and i'm a yes okay um let's start with evelyn you pulled 11.04 that is approval of furniture and equipment requests okay let me pull that up um yeah i am just you know look at um big ticket items and i saw the digital media studio for slow high school it sounds incredibly exciting and is that part of um see the cte kind of it's ct but also on peg funds so there's actually it's called peg funds and so we receive um cable tv there's actually a tax and that tax goes to the city of san luis obispo um and those dollars actually come
214to school districts to develop such programs as um the the tiger news network i think morro bay has one and we're actually starting um one of both la sources middle school and laguna middle school using those peg funds so this purchase um is the digital media studio for san luis obispo high school is actually part of those big funds and and so it's just a way of us to supplement the equipment that we have that comes from both cte in this case paid funds as well as the general fund for that program so yeah and we're going to have two beautiful new digital media labs at the top of the 100 building at san luis obispo high school along with a green room um you know place where they can do the tnn daily that
215news network um it sounds best buy that that sounds great do we have the the i mean we already have one existing at morrow bay high school oh yeah oh that's great okay often gets things before san luis obispo high school well let's see if you haven't noticed throughout the measure d process we've made a point of ensuring that the coast feels very representative this is this is great i mean it's absolutely for kids it's very kids right it's absolutely wonderful so thank you but you know the j-wing they so you've been through the j-words it has that beautiful green screen room right they have the computer lab right next to this is kind of similar that san luis obispo high will have as well awesome thank you and that's mrs hater's class um so
216and i just on this topic on this item um i i remember back when um charter communications actually had an education channel that actually put on tiger news network and more moral based network it was we did remedial algebra on that channel be nice to get that back yeah for adults so just a quick shout out to zach roper san luis obispo high school who put this whole plan together with me got it approved by the city council san luis obispo and um and is helping us implement it and kind of pass that on to los osos middle school to go into morro bay so we have that kind of articulation that goes through and is working with legume middle school to kind of set up a new digital media lab to get this started
217next year so i think it'll be really great for kids okay um we do need to go to the public on this um to see if there's any public comment since it was pulled this is dawson seeing no one i'll bring it back with some mrs frame would you like to make a motion so moved and would someone like to second that i'll second second by message okay any further discussion okay mrs frame yes this is roger yes uh dr eisendrath rogers yes this is dobler drew mr scheffer yes mr buckman yes and i'm a yes motion carries sick i'm sorry 7-0 i don't know why i'm stuck with 6-0 uh mr buckman you pulled 11.06 yes thank you chris um i was i was going through this uh several things popped out of me
218uh katie was uh gone today but took the time to respond to me which i thought was great um one of the things that jumped out was that we were sending some money to avila hot springs so i just wondered who was who was going there and uh it was the sixth graders they go there annually on field trips yeah i was you know i just got i was confusing that with sycamore minerals actually that's what i was doing so and then um the one that really stuck out for me was the uh 379 dollars for chromebooks because i felt i had been out in the public and you know my god within three weeks after we closed the schools our kids all had chromebooks and hot spots and it's like we need new ones
219so um i've heard several different versions of of what this money represents i like katie's the best which is this is this is a group of chromebooks that need to be refreshed and i think part of what's being refreshed are textbooks and i think the other thing that's partly partly being refreshed are state exams but this was a scary number and i'm glad we're not just going out and buying brand new text i think and did we not hear at one point that that when chromebooks become obsolete as defined by the manufacturer that we have to replace them that we can't refresh them yep so this is i this is katie's answer i'm hoping that this is this is correct she was not at her desk yes so what i will tell the board is
220that [Music] the chromebook manufacturers while cheap chromebooks are cheap what they've done is they have basically dated chromebooks so there's a date that they basically become obsolete and they'll no longer allow them to be like updated in terms of new service and so what happens then is the state of california state testing you have to have the update to be able to do the state testing so it doesn't make the chromebook obsolete mind you you can still use a chromebook for many years i mean i i still have you know my daughter has that 12 year old ipad she still uses right and it works but there's certain things right that you can't do if you don't update it so that's their way of making money right kind of like the textbook manufacturers we talked
221about moving forward so um this is something that is an issue because we have one-to-one for all of our kids i mean with 7 500 students and we have computers at our sites and our teachers have machines so um jeremy estimates because i had him do a whole update and how many computers we have and lay that out we could really put 700 000 on an annual basis towards updating machines if we wanted every kid to have the updated machine that can do the state testing those types of things what i will tell you is that we're going to have a plan to update a lot of machines but not all of our machines on an annual basis so you know there's no reason why the student can't have the chromebook that goes at home
222and we have certain ones for state testing and we make it work right so that's kind of what we're doing um i i went ahead and and had jeremy move forward with this purchase because we might not get those machines for six months i mean it's just like the it's crazy right now in terms of supply chain so we just felt it was important to go ahead and get it started right and move forward with it but but this this will be an annual expenditure because as we found out tonight i mean it's just computers are part of education it's it's a tool that all students have to have they have to be able to use um and and fortunately for us we have invested a lot in technology for our kids and and so
223we're in a good shape and again kudos to our techs as well as our library techs for doing all of that work to make sure kids get them and have them and inventory them and get them ready for the start of the school year and do all that right they collect them all in in june and then they hand them all back out in august but there's a lot that goes on uh during the summer months so kudos to them so as now i'm even more scared but um so i'll move approval of 11.06 and as evelyn just reminded me i'll be um contacting elon musk on twitter after he closes that deal because he's got 44 billion dollars to buy twitter and we're going to scrounge around for 379 thousand dollars to fix some
224chromebooks sorry for the political watch out you've got to get a response would someone like to second this a second okay seconded by ellen uh mrs dawson is there anyone from the public that wants to address us on this okay mr buckman yes mrs sheffer yes is dobler drew yes mrs roger yes uh dr eisenberg rogers yes mrs frame and i'm a yes motion carries 7-0 mrs roger you pulled 11.09 uh williams settlement i did and i'll be very brief about it it's just that we have never discussed it in my memory and the this is a quarterly report that we're required just to submit um as a result of the williams settlement having to do with deficiencies in textbooks and instructional materials teacher vacancy or mismanagement facilities conditions and cassie intensive instruction now i
225don't know high school x exam actually still exists i don't know why that's still there but in any case the total number of complaints in this reporting period which ended march 30 was zero across the board and in my memory four times a year we submit this we have never received a williams complaint and i think that's a testament to us and um let's keep it that way i just i just wanted to mention it because it's never been pulled or explained or discussed and um and we've been doing this uh i don't know 15 years 20 20 years so anyway that that's my explanation of the williams settlement uh report and i will move approval would like to second that a second seconded by dr eisendrath rogers mrs dawson is there anyone from the
226public to address us on this okay uh mrs roger yes dr eisendrath rogers yes dr dovernode miss dobler drew i'm giving you an honorary doctorate tonight was that a yes yes uh mrs scheffer yeah dr eisendrath rogers no i already did that did i did i call you all right okay i'm sorry mrs frame uh mark yes and i'm a yes motion carries 7-0 um is there anybody for 12.02 advanced agenda okay how about reports by board members who wants to go first mr buckman oh i don't like going first um so um i i kind of read the financials carefully and i noticed this month and i've noticed in past months that the district is still doing business with walmart um walmart is as as of this morning when i went online and checked
227walmart is still doing business with the um with russia and putin i'm sorry putin um and i just i just feel that um this district might want to consider not doing this anymore and this is coming from you know kind of where my heart is children and students because i'm watching those pictures of kids and families in that country and i just felt like i needed to speak out on this and i'm going to just go on with better stuff i was able to attend the coastal choir performance at this new san luis high school facilities it was a great performance one of the special things was that the choir director teacher katie bervante was able to introduce her daughter singing with one of the rock and roll bands that performed and i thought that
228that was just really sweet and special i also attended the open house at hawthorne um great teaching going on teachers are very appreciative i checked with the small class sizes and are recognizing it i got to speak with the office staff the custodial staff and especially the principal that was exciting i attended um pacheco's i'll say this wrong dia de ninos and it it was great there were booths everywhere that the kids were anyway it was great but the most exciting thing was there were 45 students from the middle school and they were walking around in yellow shirts and they were all because the back of the shirt it said event staff and i know for years i've gone to all these concerts and i just always wanted one of those t-shirts so these guys
229got it in middle school um i also was able to attend this st louis international film festival the student film presentation um stan lewis had um i think two two films in the final groups um san luis high school had uh let it be directed by ian hormontz and legend of the golden ruby which was actually one of the winners from hawthorne elementary school i um there were also two other students mason ritterback and mr kellerman that did a uh a film called mylar they were um graduates of zack roper's class which mr pinkerton just mentioned i was able to get i'm sorry zach was in the audience and um i was able to introduce him to everybody there and it was just great and i have to tell you i got to visit his
230classroom i have not seen a better example of science technology engineering art and math so that the um catherine can you the table that they they did do the announcing from is that got a special name i don't know anyway so the table that's in the tnn studio it was made by the metal career pathway so they designed it cut it welded it together i saw students doing electrical work right with the cooking up the cameras um all kinds of work with lighting and sound it was it was just great um so i um i'm really glad that we as a board adopted that um and so i've had a busy time and um it was it was all almost 100 percent positive um well my son's father-in-law and two granny's in law were able
231to get safely out of ukraine they owned their own houses there near kiev and uh that they owned them they're not never renting and uh their bombs have missiles have struck nearby but so far they the family hasn't lost any of their own property and uh they're now in montenegro um my son's mother-in-law will be live leaving with them and the new baby that they have she she stayed much longer because she couldn't get back because of february 24th uh invasion and so she's finally going to reunite with her husband in montenegro where they have also have other family so it's fairly safe there for right now but um they still don't know what they're going to do i mean they they speak russian and would love for them to come here their families here
232now um but you know they have to make a living and they don't speak english that well yet but they're very very clever so they'll probably figure out what to do and also i attended the um uh san luis high school um open house oh you forgot to say that okay um and uh enjoyed it very much and got to see the wizard of oz that i'd missed before that because of being out out of town they did the numbers in the theater there got to see a lot of good um tap dancing and everything boy they are skilled over there very skillful it was a very good production thank you yes other anybody else i just wanted to say that i also got to go to the morrow bay high school coastal choir at
233san luis obispo high and thanks to san luis obispo hype for for hosting that um i i must say though i look forward to the day when uh when morro bay high school completes their performing arts center i believe that's going to be in about a little bit less than a year i think is what we're looking at that's going to be really exciting and i think many of you know that i attended the csba axa coast-to-coast federal advocacy trip um you know advocacy is one of our responsibilities as school board members and i'm proud to be able to say that i was able to advocate there for special education funding funding for infant and toddler special education programs which hasn't seen basically an increase in funding in about 20 years just like our el
234ela adoption mental health programs reimbursement to district for student mental health services increased reimbursements for school nutrition programs children's online privacy flexibility on the timeline for spending our coveted monies and support for high-speed internet services and also programs to address the teacher shortage and i was able to share our district nutrition program with a usda deputy under secretary for food nutrition and consumer services and invited her to come to our district and she said she would love to do that sometime and then i also was able to talk to staff from the deputy under secretary of education cindy martens a californian about the things that we're doing here to use our coveted funds and then finally i was able to meet with uh congressman carbajal and discussing a number of educationally related issues with him
235um and again i invited everybody to come see our district because i think we're doing some phenomenal work so anybody else well thank you all um we have a study session a week from thursday i believe and then we'll have three meetings this uh may so thank you everyone