001And we are now live. Morning. Uh this uh Joseph Chen school members Manila Unified School. Uh right now uh at the 9 a.m. I like to open the section. Uh first of all uh I'd like to talk about the uh protocol to collect the public comment. All meeting of the board of education are open to member of the public and this publicly noticed as a confidential cross-section as allowed by the law. Member of the public may address the four as outlined in the public comment section of the agenda. The audio of all the meeting is recorded and a member of the public may be held liable for any selectance of the otherwise statement in consideration of the ball and a member of the audience. Please turn off silence your cell phone while in the p
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007Chang, members of the board of education executive team. Um we are here this morning to work to develop our goals for the 202526 school year. Um, and before we begin that, I just want to do a brief recap of what we accomplished yesterday. Um yesterday we had a facilitator from CSVA, California School Boards Association come in and um facilitate a session where the board of education was successful in developing their communication norms and protocols which will be incorporated uh into a governance handbook in the future and used as a reference um when we are communicating at the board level with one another. Um, and I'm really uh excited about uh having those communication norms put into place because I think that that's going to be a roadmap um for us which makes everyone's job a
008lot easier uh going into the future years. We were also able to identify what the board of education needs from the superintendent in order to uh facilitate clear communication and build trust. In addition to that, we were able to ascertain from the superintendent what the superintendent needs um from the board of education in order to successfully fulfill her duties and responsibilities in school district. In the afternoon, we had a comprehensive presentation delivered by our executive team members which basically outlined um each of the four goals that we had put together last year and the school district's uh ability to um meet or work toward each of those goals was reported in full detail. Um we reported uh data on each of these areas so that the board of education could get a good sense of
009uh where we are today with each of these. Uh I just want to go over them briefly. Goal A was provide an environment of safety and wellness. Goal B develop and implement fiscal health and sustainability. Goal C demonstrate a conscious culture of service value and appreciation. And goal D prepare students to be highquality global citizens. And as I recall last year, we had a lot of conversation about defining what it means to be a global citizen. Um, which really helped provide the school district administration with direction on how to uh work toward that goal and accomplish uh many of the components of that goal this year which was done. I also wanted just to share a couple of things um from the governance core. It is a book that most of you have read in
010the past. is authored by uh Davis Campbell who was a longtime serving CSBA executive uh board of directors uh president and he uh has a lot of experience in board governance and superintendent working together cohesively with boards of education. Um, it's a well-known research fact that that high-erforming boards are excellent communicators, that they have two things in common. They have a unity of purpose and they have a shared moral imperative. So, I just like to take some time to ask the board of education um what it means to you to have a shared moral imperative. And we talked a lot about this yesterday by the work of the board of education. Anybody want to offer their definition of a shared moral imperative? Doing the best that we can for the most. Absolutely. Serving the most
011students the most. Right. Every single one. Yes. Every single child, right? All children. Um, anybody else want to offer any variation to that or do you all agree with board member Gil's definition of shared moral imperative? Definitely, but also to kind of up uplift the idea that students are supported and that in unison we need to move in the same direction. So while we may not always uh see the how or how we arrive at a certain decision, we also want to support each other because it's that shared vision that's really important to guide our our work. Very good. That's our unity of purpose. Right. Right. But being students centered I think is right for our shared morality. Focus on the word imperative. When we use that word, when something is imperative, what does that
012mean? Right? It's absolutely essential. It's critical. We have to do it right now. Right? It's it's important. It's imperative. So, if we have a shared moral imperative, that is something that we need to be conscious of constantly um because it's essential, because it's important, because it's necessary, and that's something that that we have to have at the forefront. And it is important for all five board members to have unity of purpose. As board member Gil pointed out and as board member Ryan pointed out, uh, unity of purpose is really critical. It's essential. It's important. If you don't come to the boardroom with unity of purpose, um, there there's going to be a need to have discussion about the differences that you have. Um because nothing gets done right without a a a majority of the
013board agreeing to support an initiative, a goal. Uh it doesn't happen unless you have the majority of the board. And it's not important that you all agree all the time. Um you can have differences of opinion. You can have differences uh different ways of looking at certain situations and that's all okay. But if you can bring it back to a central point being a unity of purpose, what are we here for? And ask yourself that question, right? Why are you serving on the board of education? I assume it has something to do with your shared mor moral imperative, which is that you are doing the work of our students, of our kids, of all students, and you are representing what is best for them. I had a superintendent who was a mentor years ago tell
014me if every decision that we make is in the interest of the students we serve who can criticize that. Right? If you always ask yourself before you make a decision, how does this help or hurt children? How does this advance our shared moral imperative? How does this represent our unity of purpose? How does that how does this decision help us in the work that we're doing to ensure that every child in San Marino Unified School District gets what they need from us. You ask yourself that question, you will never go wrong. You will always make the right decision. And the board of education has to make difficult difficult decisions. Decisions that sometimes need to be explained. uh decisions that um not everyone agrees with, but those were important decisions and you were all basically given
015the information that you need to make these important decisions. Sometimes information is confidential and cannot be shared with members of the public. And it's a hard position to be in because you want to tell your story and you want to defend your position. And what makes that difficult is by virtue of your position, there are things that have to be done related to personnel matters that are done behind closed doors, right, and in closed session. And the law supports that for a reason. Personnel matters are private. They're personal and they should not be shared with members of the public. There are some exceptions to that and we all know what they are. Um, but for the most part, that work is done behind closed doors. And so being a board member is not easy. There's
016a lot of responsibility resting on each of your shoulders. There's a weight that this position carries with you. Uh even when you are away from the boardroom, it is a 247 position. Um, and I admire and respect each of you for your integrity, your strength of conviction, and staying true to your unity of purpose and to your shared moral imperative in always putting every single one of our kids first. That is incredibly rewarding work. It's difficult work, but it is rewarding. And there is intrinsic value in that. And every single one of you does it out of the kindness of your heart because you care about kids and because you care about doing the right thing. And I admire and respect that as does my cabinet and the community. The community values that. So uh
017before we launch into um our goals for the 2526 school year, um I just I I wanted to make sure that you had a foundation on which to build, right? uh some of these goals you may want to carry over into the next year because of the importance and value of those goals. You may want to create new goals. Um and we have given you all the information yesterday in order to deliberate on what what is the district doing well? Where can we improve? Um I think Dr. Richtor said it best. What are our lows and grows? Where are we glowing? Where can we grow? Um, and every school district has areas where they can improve. And we want to constantly look at how we can do a better job on behalf of of the
018students we serve. So, I just would like to keep that in mind as we move forward. Um, and so I uh want to take this opportunity to uh start with the first goal that we're going to put up on the board for 2526. Um, are there goals that you would like to carry over and maybe expand on for the 2526 school year for for me a is still very important. Um, physical safety and the social, emotional, effective, mental health aspect of that. So, um I think we do provide an environment. I I think that we could say um continue or um continue to innovate. I mean, we c you can always do more. We can always but we need to continue to support students in both those things. So that I would like that to
019stay at some capacity. Okay. Any other thoughts from uh the other three board members present? I like A and B. A and B. Okay. I like the A and B. Okay. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, I think A and B are important. But uh she we can have a working instead of current statement. Yeah. For B we go. I was just going to say for B we have developed and implemented. So I think um I think we've done a great job on our physical health and thank you Dr. Sho. Um but I think that um there there's some new wording for like next steps that I think we could definitely do. Um that's something I'd like to Okay. Maybe something around uh the bond perhaps. I don't know that's going to be something that is really I
020don't know if that's too specific. I mean it's up to the board but uh is our four member agreed we want continue to keep the A and B. So for so for me um it it has to do with keeping some of it but as subcategories right so I'll just give an example like D preparing students we're always preparing safe environment for students we're always preparing students to be high quality uh global citizens right but if we embed it if we embed in that box presentation yesterday on AI how does AI incorporate in this CI citizen uh digital world that they're entering and then again I'm going to harp on the fact that we already have initiated and implemented programs on our sites. So I want to integrate that. I don't want AI to be
021standalone. Okay, you teach this, teach that, teach cyber, you know, um uh uh you know, ethics or whatever. But I I really want to see it integrated into the curriculum that we're doing as we're preparing these students. So, I I don't want D to be standalone, AI to stand alone, but I want to integrate it throughout our program. integrate. Integration is a great word for um you know across all of our programs. So we're looking like we talked about holistically, right? Right. Um holistic child but also holistic approach and I think we should um you know and include that in some way. Um, I would love to see um, you know, like a transparency word somewhere here because I feel like we are very transparent and it's always one of our goals to, you know,
022nothing's behind closed doors that uh, unless it's obviously a confidential student, but um, the way that and that's and that's also integrated into everything into our financials into um you know other any other aspect of like Shel was saying really important that none of this really stands along right okay before we moving on we all you have to finish the question if we all yeah the spirit of spirit are going to carry over the language Linda's work will always incorporate all of that ABC and D. It's not necessarily like just her goal. It's all of our goal, right? But but at the forefront when we're developing these ABCDs, we need to make sure we go to a higher level, right? Because that may be the foundation level, but we need to go. Okay. So, um
023I'm I'm just taking some notes down here because I want to make sure that um when we're ready to do those bullet points that we capture, um what you're reflecting in your conversation this morning. So, um okay, let's start with A. Is that okay? Does everybody agree? We can start with A. Let's focus on that. Provide an environment of safety and wellness. What does that mean to you as a board member? What are your expectations for the district? And how can we take that to the next level and reframe that maybe with still the spirit of uh providing an environment of safety and wellness being intact when we said we are go to the next maybe higher level for the safety and awareness. I I I think uh right now this the good opportunity because
024we we just uh pass for the the major aim. So we we have some resource uh we can uh do on the safety issue. Yeah. Well safety issue I think divide to two category. one is you know the go through the upgrade or reate our hardware that that's and then uh relate to the those safety call even better one safety mean children they in study in the school we we make sure we create a very friendly and the cost but all my personal opinion safety is include this category. Right. Yeah. Right. So what we're looking for is um how we're going to frame our goal. And you'll notice we're using um action words to start each of our goals. Um provide, develop, demonstrate, prepare. Um so we want to be consistent with that. And our
025goals need to be both attainable and measurable. And so um provide an environment of safety and wellness. You can you can keep that language or we can keep it for now. Um provide um and still uh well provide really is I think the most important um for that goal. What do you what do you all think? I also like you guys. Yeah. To participate there. one have or also update actually ABCD but this mean already second year we say enhance and enhanced environment of safety and wellness you can say that enhance existing environment enhance environment of safety and wellness enhance and evaluate if it's already been implemented. A lot of the things like the framework right we have because it's not working if it's not working right enhance and evaluate an environment of safety among
026us. There's this kind of big bigger issue now because one of my friends going to Campbell I don't know if you see the news high school ninth grader they just died about Campbell Hall. Yeah. Campbell Hall. Yeah. Oh my god. just the safety is becoming more and more issues and okay so um let's think about the the types of things that the board of education really expects us to do. What does this mean? We're going to put underneath this this broad-based goal what it means to guide our uh staff and administrators on being able to work toward this goal. Okay. First of all, uh before we want to elaborate to the higher level, but at least I I didn't want to take a the first couple months review for the Californiaation call about the safety
027uh issue. So give the the ball a f about those we need to reinforce with that it mean we cover all the the the the fasic foundation issue and then the meantime we we want to enhance so so what I'm just say is like evaluate and then of this. What I was thinking about is um yes, thank you, Mr. Chang. What I was thinking about is um the way that we would evaluate is is taking just the the the safety side of the house is through inspections. Um and what I'm thinking about is the physical safety of the campuses, right? Conducting regular safety audits. Yes. And we have uh a riskmanagement firm that is contracted with our JPA that comes out as an example uh and looks through our science classes to see if we
028have any chemicals that need to be stored uh destroyed uh recycled, you know, whatever it may be removed. Um and they do that at least annually. And so we have ways of evaluating how safe our classrooms are in terms of the physical safety. Um when you're talking about student wellness, um there are surveys that could be done. I know that our uh wellness centers are collecting data uh that can be evaluated to assess how how often the wellness centers are being used. uh what what purposes it's being used for the efficacy of uh the the counseling that's being provided can be evaluated through uh the users surveys and feedback. Um so there are ways that we can do that. Um in terms of evaluating the education code for the safety and wellness um I think
029we're already there like we've got that done. um we're very solid on what we're required to provide. Um I think we're at the place now where we can, you know, take it a step further. Um and especially now with uh bond proceeds, we're going to be able to perhaps enhance some of the safety features that we currently have for lockdown, lockout, that kind of thing. May I um just make a word suggestion to put evaluate first because first we want to evaluate and then we will enhance um our safety because we were going to look at what we have and then grow from there. Um just as a action plan makes sense. Um so yeah the board agrees we could do that. You enhance. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I see it as a
030cycle right? You evaluate you enhance and then you evaluate again and you enhance and you evaluate again. It's a cycle. It has You want to put continuously? Yeah. Continuously evaluate and enhance environment of safety. So it's an or an ongoing ongoing or continuously continuously puts too much pressure upon. Now continuously is changing the consistency of what we've done. It's not really an action word, right? That's true. So we could say we could put that down here, right? Yeah. Like ongoing process on Yeah. safety audits, staff training, protocol handbooks for new employees, which I'm probably sure if you guys training maybe. Yeah, sure. I think I think some training um with regard to wellness could also be like if if we're looking at um sort of practices I think that if if a teacher flags something
031that that should be part of our integrated services too like that should then loop in our wellness center and loop in our school psychologist parents right parents probably first but or you know yes um but also the training on like crisis response I mean because you know some of those yes crisis response um so we're talking about two things we're talking about the physical safety of our campuses and we're talking about the uh mental well-being of our of our students. What about our staff? Yeah. Right. Most and we we when we because we we are going to evaluate. So we also need to evaluate we evaluate about the uh the access to the the help that you know the cancer or the referral eventually will more sick you know they have to refer to outside
032you know the agency or the the health provider outside referrals. Yeah outside referral. Yeah, I um I would like to touch on um the like condition classroom conditions. Um I think they should be clean and tidy. I think that we should if we have some sort of framework around that then it monitored right not you know restrooms campus cleanliness definitely goes into there Yeah. Yeah. Restrooms, classrooms, and uh playground. Yeah. All of our equipment should be made. Take a look at the parking lot. I know. I know. We don't have any problems, but Oh, yeah. They do have cameras. very clear cameras. I don't know how we going to eat that apart from that. You never have to supervision. Adult supervision. Well, I feel like there's some um there's some spaces on our campuses that
033are not currently covered by surveillance video, and I think we need to enhance and increase um the camera um footage or coverage um because we don't often get what we need um if it's not there. So, and we have done a lot of that work through Vicotta and through the grant that Dr. Choy was successful in acquiring. I I I really liked what um Peter Crab talked about uh customer servicebased safety approach. So I would love um an administrator every morning meeting the kids at every site. Nobody needs to be out there greeting them because that shows that they're seeing but also that she's still hinting that I go and open the door. Shel needs to be Shelley needs to be at every school site every morning. But uh I think I think that goes
034a long way just that first greeting in the morning. And I mean happy to do it too as a board member if that's something they wanted. But I think that when the when the principal sees the principal will see who's not supposed to be there too if that's an issue. Yeah. Well, we know well I know that at least Carper um you know principal Cwell is out there every morning. I don't know about the other school but is out there Mary is Mary's out there a lot when I drop this I mean I think we should lean into that practice. I think it's a healthy and safe practice. Okay. I think is there anything else that you think is missing up here? You think this is good enough to move on to the next one?
035To add the the conditions, I would say bathroom condition. Oh, okay. Yeah, we have that. Okay. All right. So, we're gonna move on then to Oh, last thing. I'm sorry. No worries. Still processing. Sure. So, one of the safety issues um that needs to always be considered are our special populations, our EL kids, whether you speak the language or you don't, um whether you have a disability, uh hearing, whatever. Yeah, we need to make sure that there are safety protocols in place in terms of not only a collaborative work with the nurse with playground supervision with all of that. That's really important. Um should we include we could put I mean safety and wellness um initiatives are like bond priorities the physical aspect of that seems like that's what our parents called for. Yeah. Say
036that again. The phrase that well measure M make it a priority in the measure M funding. Yes. Okay. projects. I don't know if that's right if you have put that in there, but I think it it should be. Um, okay. Anything else? Okay. So then let's move on to B, which you all agreed um and maybe we should check with uh Joanna um before you got here that the board was agreeing to carry over goals A and B. Uh basically taking it to the next level. Now we've already developed and implemented fiscal health. Sustainability is ongoing of course. So, um, we were talking about changing this goal to reflect where we need to go with this in the future. Um, so that's where we are. Do you do you like that language? You want to
037change that language? Ensure physical health. Okay. And sustainability with a focus on transparency. Yeah, I think it transparency needs to be in there. I think um do you say s sustaining fiscal health just and sustain we need to add transparency somewhere in there. Yeah with with transparency. How about increase? It's called transparency. Build on you like increase. Build on increase. I like insure. What about ensure fiscal health and sustainability through transparency and ease of access? Because what people are asking is that we have these dash and like what we're doing at clear gov which totally fits into this make sure it's measurable if it's a smart goal insure doesn't right yeah that's insured um like well I mean how do you if you increase or enhance or elevate that's a measurable yeah so um do
038you want to increase or elevate. Yeah, elevate. I like elevate. Elevate fiscal health and sustainab. But I think we should put through transparency and ease of access. Yeah, that's very elevate fiscal health. I mean, we we're already at a really great fiscal health. So, we're further elevating that. I feel like that's like that's what I thought. by the next year with the budget. I feel like you need to I feel like we need to elevate fiscal transparency. There you go. I like that. Fiscal transparency. There you go. Sustain sustain. Sustain fiscal Yeah. that sustainable fiscal health. No. Oh, it elevates fiscal transparency. Yes. Through sustainable That's I know that's that's Yeah. Um and that's why we can ensure make sure it happens. Fiscal transparency. Yeah. And sustainability. Sustainability is so important in the sense of
039right. We need to keep this district going year after year. And it's not a it's not a business where you're you're able to store profits and use. So it is sustainability is so important and that goes to like the sustainability of our various programs that we're implementing. We need to continuously evaluate like with the Mandarin doula language we have a waiting list. So that means it's sustaining itself like we are it valid and keeping that program going things like that. So through evaluation. So by the way know because I think uh the VE we are doing uh with this year but I would like you to suggest you know I know we have been talking a lot about transparency and the truth is we are fully transparent with our finances right our financial reports meet
040all of the requirements. Um I I think what's what we we can do better is not increase transparency but rather educate is to promote like make sure there's an increased level of understanding of the population because they don't really understand. I think that's what I'm at like ease of access because people can't people can see it but they don't understand it so they're not really accessing it. Right. Right. Um I kind of see ease of access as something we put underneath though. Right. because we're going that's what we're going to do to make sure it happens, right? Is to create ease of access. So, how do we write the goal so that it accurately captures? So, just what he said through education, elevate fiscal through community engagement, elevate fiscal understanding amongst community members through education.
041Yeah. Can we say like prom way of fiscal trans transparency? No, you don't want to go. Okay. So, my my issue is kind of like what um Stephen has said. I I agree I agree with like the using the word transparency I think is a is a very important word optically for people to see in our goal because it is something that is a priority, right? We we want everybody to see everything but they don't necessarily understand where it is like how to read what it means and evaluate it. Um that's why I go back to clear I think it's amazing because they can be you know um but but when we say increase it it sounds like we're not doing it because we are and you're right build like build what about exposure build
042understanding or develop a plan I like understanding that that builds Optimize the right word that optimize optimize fiscal resources. Optimize resources for community access. Come on. Now we're just barking. It's okay. So try this, right? It has to make sense to you. It has to make sense. What is a way to say something about like um layman's terms like something around that? Because like I kind of touched on yesterday sometimes in our shortorthhand we don't uh take the time to stop and explain to people who are not like at every meeting at like and sometimes it sounds like to us we're being overly repetitive. Yeah. But people drop in here and there and it's important. So, oh maybe something about clear. Yeah. And for a couple uh promote community awareness and understanding of the district's
043financial landscape, foster financial literacy and transparency. The regular updates foster. Okay. Say that again. Foster what? Community awareness and understanding. Sorry, what did you say? Foster what? Community awareness and understanding if that's what we want to go with. I mean, we can write it down for now. District's financial landscape or I have some work to suggest as well and this was taken from clearcut website. tool is designed to help school districts tell their financial story, right? So if if we can incorporate you know fostering um or sharing our financial story and then to build public trust that's really the goals of why clear exists understanding of uh what what was the rest of that and I'll pick up district the district's financial landscape for better understanding. Is that is she says understanding? Yeah. Foster community
044awareness and understanding of SMUSD's financial landscape. Is that does that operations and decision making financial planning? Yeah. Um, but it's a totally different goal to me than being fiscally sound, but we are fiscally sound right now, right? So, we've accomplished that. Um, and so maybe you need a new goal, right, that enhances where we are. By the way, this is always going to change in San Marino. I mean, if I die tomorrow, I want you all to know that this is going to change. We're not always going to be fiscally solvent in San Marino because of the way that we're funded and because of our circumstances. So, just know that that goal is going to change because when what goes up must come down and when it comes down several years from now, right, we
045need to be be building goals that address that reality, right? So this could be where you want to go because you already have fiscal sustainabil sustainability but for the the near future right for three years out. Um but what is it that you want to accomplish now that we have really met that goal because that goal was develop and implement fiscal health and sustainability. Did it. We have reserves right that speaks to the sustainability. Yeah. we have fiscal health. Um, we we really check those boxes. So then this makes sense to me. This is the next place you want to go. And you're saying that that's what the the constituents are, right? Yes. I I'm on board with that if that's good. Well, you know the the four uh I just keep the A and
046B the keep like the keep the B mean that we want contining fiscal health but in the meantime we find out that there's something we need to address in this community because people we we provide some data but they still don't understand I don't know that we went Another goal. This goal is uh fully address the how we can make the citizen or school parent understand more about how to read the uh physical health, how to read the safety, how how to read the how to create a curriculum because routinely you know this kind of question. Some some of of the parent they don't understand either they they haven't get kind of uh the background training so they they so so I don't know if we need have another go just have to understand each
047well okay so are you saying that this should go under under the existing goal No, I mean the it's another goal. Maybe create a new goal. Maybe just just offer a a vehicle for the the school community to understand the finance. Yeah. curriculum, our safety, how we But are you saying you want to keep being the way it is and you want us to do that? Thank you. Okay. You want to keep B? Yeah. And this becomes C. And we can have we can have the new world because right now if we just address this one look like we already miss the workers. We need a convenience. So you want to say fiscal health. So so B is sustain fiscal health. Fiscal health. Sustain fiscal health. Uh transparency or fiscal health and what? Because no
048the is not on the transparency. We don't need is the one I I I doubt maybe another law. This is like the education. Yeah. But what do you how do you want to change be? We need to change develop because we've already developed how you sustain or something. That's the last word in the goal. Oh, yes. So, how do you want to change uh the first word? Just maintain it, right? Maintain. Yeah. Are you guys good with that? Maintain. You can't miss it. Joseph wanted to do the and the one out which was like keep the B which which I can't agree. Well that's what I guess that's what my brain was sort of on to when I said that's a totally different goal. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I do think like you said it's ongoing
049for fiscal wellment. So the the things we need to change the wording and develop and implement because we need to develop but change the wording and maintain that that's way are we also going to evaluate in enhance like the other ones? Yeah. Yeah. We we go back to tea. No, no, no. I know. But say like those are good action words. Okay. uh maintain and implement fiscal health and sustainability. Right. Right. Right. Yes. Okay. And then we have foster community awareness and understanding of SMUSD's financial landscape. See, can we add more than just financial? Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Why don't we just stop after understanding of uh of like the district? Um this is somewhere where we could put you know your holistic approach that would be great of SMUSD's uh financial um season not
050just foster financial right it's everything all the US Yeah. Work, operation, work, purpose, goals, mission, vision, mission, and mission. mission. Your mission. Um I I just feel that's a problem. You want to really Yeah, but we can get into it underneath here because I know like fiscal landscape. Um, you know, I think it would be great to do lots of stuff where we have more community awareness and engagement. I think what about foster community awareness and engagement because uh okay the people who are always saying they don't understand what's going on don't count to or don't don't open the email or don't you know or right and and I know that we have to um overcompensate but we do a lot of different touch points with parent square we do emails. We do, you know,
051website, social media. I think we could put our PI under, right? Agree. That's a Yeah. Yeah. I think this way is the better otherwise we miss focus on the disc for transpar suggest the word from gold or former gold se which is appreciation so not just engagement but also appreciate all the things that are happening which one so for this goal using the word appreciation that there's a lot of things that the district is doing that people don't know we're doing. You know, there's a lot of work going on behind the scenes that people don't really know about, but I think that has goes back to the PIO. We don't have anyone constantly telling our story. I'm constantly telling the story. And every month when I meet with our PTA leadership, um, one of the
052things that I started this past year is having presentations from each of the uh, departments. So Ed service comes in and does a presentation. Business service comes in and does a pre a presentation. HR comes in does a presentation so that our PTA leaders boots on the ground can have a deeper understanding of what's happening in the district because they're out there talking to other parents constantly and so they can tell help tell our story and they can help educate because they know what's going on. Yeah. So basically delegating, educating the public and and empowering them to tell our story as well like with your with your student um advisory council. That's a great thing that we because this like having your the department had explained to them the inner workings of the district. They
053had no idea, right? And I think this is also where you elevate student voice. Yes. We really we want to stay student centered in all our goals as well. Right. Right. And second goal, make sure for the this year we need to focus on the shifting negotiation of all of this. Build a supportive network for for C. I think we should solicit feedback. on programs, you know, or just solicit feedback because that's something that um some people have mentioned as well. Why aren't there more surveys, you know, okay? Um about what they want. I think it's great to survey the kids. They feel they feel empowered too. started. Um, I guess maybe it says student advisor. We could say advisory councils or create advisory. You want me to strip student and put advisory council? What
054do you I think we're talking about the student advisory council now. Yeah, I was. But I was wondering if it's broader than just students, but I don't want us to have to create groups that are then not I think you've got that here. Solicit feedback from parents, teachers, and kids. Like we'll solicit feedback in different ways, either through surveys or, um, groups, uh, coffees with the board president or coffees with the superintendent. Um, we can do that a lot of different ways. Be responsive to It doesn't mean just the superintendent is responsive. We're looking at I want to again emphasize the various sites uh cabinet levels mid tier. I mean everybody has to respond right so it shouldn't be you right. No, but what I'm saying is oftent times it rests on her. So I
055want to emphasize that it's everybody in this room also, right? Including board members. So somebody's got some questions, we should be able to explain um and not always like, well, Lena can tell you. Well, yeah, Lena should be able to tell you, but I should also be able to use general. So like consistent unified message from us. I mean but I think there should be unity of shared message here. Yeah. Because because if the messaging is very important you know the messaging is important the measure our success I think can be credited to the messaging of smaller classrooms like and parents value that. So if we are all on the same message that we have agreed to as a board and cabinet, I think um that trickles down then to school sites as well. And
056that's really like who we are and it's our culture. Yeah. Right. As a school board, as a as a school district, go back to the B. Yeah. Any is uh still you think there's any opportunity enhancing the revenue we're always looking for opportunity well I mean that could be it continuously explore revenue stream and from the HR the retirement help for get them to go yeah um yeah I think that would go to strategic planning um it's very important that we don't just put out fires that we plan and much of our success in um having HR talk to business services you know the fiscal what we talked about yesterday is so important um and when those two departments because our biggest expenditure is obviously people so that should be integrated What about something like
057um holding more like coffees of a budget explanation? I thought the one that you did for um our senior residents was good and and decently attended at Valentine. I think uh can continue like um well outreach community forums for budget discussions outreach because that lends itself to transpar transparency of I mean [Music] Josh, cold jokes. Okay. And then the the the uh research about the cost of textbook. No. Yeah. Yeah, we're doing that as we go through maintain and implement how many is how much oil involvement how much do you have idea for the digital yeah from the transition the textbook to dig transparent budget you want to put transparent budgeting I don't know something like Yeah, I think that um programs need to be evaluated for sustainability, adaptability. you have to be able to
058adapt a budget because let's say for instance you uh you expect a student attendance to be a certain percentage, right? But all of a sudden you have some attacks on family through ICE, then a number of your kids are stressed and so now you've got to pivot a little bit because your attendance went down. Like we I'm just I'm not saying San Reno, but what I'm saying is it was happening in Pasadena and so we need to be mindful of that space. Our funding is um yeah and also I guess I think um incentivize increased ADA across school sites incentive state I I think incentivizing increased ADA across school sites. So say you know they could raise their ADA um know like they could be costf free rewards to students to um appreciation I I
059don't know but yeah really good attendance could be better. Yeah. Always could be better. Yeah. Yeah. is excuse absence still attendance like excuse yeah it's just whether it's excused or not um I have a case like I have to go like put my kids like just one day for the competitions whatever the middle school told me that oh it's just one day you cannot give the money because the studies you have to I don't know if there's a way that you can still even one or survey. I know that like in the um the high school um absence reporting it says for a sports event that is yeah like a college trip sports event it's you can always put personal I have [Music] Okay. Are we ready to move on? Yeah. Okay. So, look how
060much work we've done already. I know you guys are good. Appreciate that, right? Pat yourselves on the back. Um, that's why I'll finish. That's good. What about deep? We can go home. And look, we didn't even have to decide which kitchen appliance we would be. We could do that though. It' be fun. No. I could bring Legos and make offices bridge the bridge you know after Ryan's sation we can combine AI global oh for D yeah what about what about say more like uh prepare student student to be I think workforce success and character development. Yes. High quality or reactive. Yeah, it is. But that could be a bullet point, but it is. We're going to keep the the title though. Prepare students to be high. No, we I think we're done with global citizen.
061You're done with that? Okay. Right. Okay. So, so yeah, I mean I I have came up with one prepare students for workforce success and character development because workforce success I mean that could be through their next step is college but that everything is changing too. I mean um some people and that's okay like we need to encourage all paths well you know the since we we mention about city right now so we need the cabinet to give us the the idea is that this is the time where we are going more on the city and give the the the season for the future to work preparation equip with skills necessary in the work while found the first one you said that one prepare students for workforce success for college and workforce success I'm just wondering
062if some of our parents might say that postgraduate what about postgraduate okay say that prepare students. The kids don't want to go to work now for postgraduate success. Postgraduate success. What do you think? I mean I mean yeah they don't want to work. I mean they might not necessarily work or go to college. So yes. Yeah. Okay. So that mean the the kids design forcology. So we should track them how they pursuing after college. We kind of need to see some what do they do. But I think like like how we talk about AI. I think they need to you know learn an ethical usage. Um and that goes to charact building character and integrity. Last year, I know we talked about resiliency, which is great for kids, too, and adaptability. Resiliency and adaptability. The
063first one, I'm just throwing out words right now. First one I think society character is very important. develop high moral character. about um ethical behavior and high moral character and moral character if you also we also need to be aware of the not just political but the career um uh paths that are on right now like right now they're even saying in various studies that computer science and technology is at a wall like it's not moving like they thought and it's really in the health care that it's you know exploding. So we have to be aware of jobs or the successes or the achievements we're guiding the kids towards, right? Because it's our offerings, right? What we're offering and then whether or not it's doable. Like it's, you know, it's great to be a such
064and such major, but then you come out and after, you know, studying it throughout high school and then into college and then you're struggling. their first year kid. Even internships don't necessarily give them a leg up. These are the statistics or reports I'm reading and I I want us our kids to have worlds that are open rather than this is what we can you know um because a lot of our money should be poured into that because we are essentially preparing them for the next and that that goes back that goes back to what you were saying about CTE pathways. Um the state of California is really focused on an expansion of CTE pathways uh because they recognize future is not necessarily going to be in the traditional paths. And so I know that the
065state's investing heavily in that. We've been involved in conversations with the president at PCC um about expansion of CTE pathways and as a matter of fact they're building a gosh a huge new building at PCC that is going to be the headquarter for their regional CTE uh pathway program. Dr. director and I just went to um a sort of unveiling of plans for that building and they want to have partnerships with the high schools in the area um that could use that facility. One of the things that they're thinking about is uh building um a place where people can learn their trades because there's not enough people in the field of construction and they need to rebuild Pasadena. And so the mayor came forward. They all got together and decided we need to educate the
066future generations in the trade so that we do have enough workforce to be able to rebuild when these devastating fires happen. Um so they're going to be focused on that, but they're going to also be looking at a whole host of other areas. Um and I think one of those other areas is uh AI that you have all been focused on. Um so we should be looking at ways that we can build enhance pathways uh communities partnership or partnerships and um uh since Sherry mentioned about the the future jobs there uh focus on the healthcare. So I I like to share with with each of you what what what what's going on in the the last five year the 10 year you know the surrounding uh the graduate uh high school you you know 20
067years ago I think because we have some parent they are background they they like the physician. So the 20 20 years old they just want the kid to a medical doctor but because of the competition right now I think right now is more acceptable accept you know just work for the health care. So when you work for health care not just the medical doctor you know the the dentist like this year we have a one you you may not know you go to not the big name school but it's a five year pharmacy over they get a pharmacy on the chairman so so mean right now they finally because of the competition and because of the need so then the the the the parent or student they realize that even there's not for the medical
068doctor so they can choose a lot of the the health care or post so before I never heard like people choose for the nursing actually nursing also is a very good job. Yeah. So, so right now we have a you know the student they go to the nursing they go to the PP. Yeah. So, so I we also need to give them a uh I think the career center may have to share this kind of information as if you see the what they get to their idea school if we can divide to the two group you know some that the student look like they are easily to find the school. How would apply? How to prepare continue to explore expansion of healthcare education opportunities for students. I think that's great. And also the department of
069labor um has published that that that is still one of the number one um expanding rapidly expanding professions is within the healthcare industry. People are aging. It's a competitive style. Yeah. Right. Nurses make good money. Yeah. In no time. Yeah. Bishop, I I would I would like to um expand on that is um I would love to see um like a the creation of a work for like a job board and an internship board a website that the kids could access. Um, so if if the community submits various things or we could funnel through we could do some sort of AI search for jobs that would apply to student level, you know, can we somehow combine the talents to normal talents kind of offer the job? Yes, like somebody could post on a job board
070for the Marino students. Um, I mean, even down to just babysitting. I know that some people would would love that and I'm sure it actually would help parents too, but Exactly. Right. to have that resource. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, that's a great idea. Like, they provided internships for a number of students. Wow. But it was always through word of mouth. Just have a board or somewhere. That'd be great. It should be part of our because somebody asked. Yeah. Um I would there be liability issues? I think you could say it is not associated with you know advertising or I'll have to look into it. Yeah, that may be why we didn't do it in the past. But I don't know. It could go through C. I'm going to talk to the counselors possibly. It could be
071a standalone. um doesn't have to be through but it has to be deal it's part of their exploration into careers right you have to start you think you want to be attorney until you're in that environment you see what they go through you can filter by different you want industries and stuff I think that I would love a more integrated um student store experience I don't I don't know where that goes. Maybe that's in the goal C, but um like the high school student stores is totally separate obscure website that you have to search through like ASB. Um it's just hard to find. I would say the student store. Yeah, for all of them. Okay, I'm going to put that in the parking lot. Um I'm gonna put that you're not alone. Okay. No, no,
072no. I know. Just something to work out that way, too. Uh Dr. you have any uh I mean I'm the student or the post graduate. Yes. Thank you for asking. I'm wondering, you know, we talked about appreciating ourselves and what we've done in the last few years with regards to programs and services um and innovation. Do we want to include that term innovation? Especially if we're talking about moving towards AI um integrating AI into the programs that we currently have. Um I think innovation is a huge draw to prospective families and it speaks to the future. And and so speaking of that, do we want to put here uh integrated approach to AI? Yeah. Yeah. And um I'm sorry. I I would like What about integrating character education into the curriculum? Um we're doing that
073already at the elementaryaries uh and the middle school high school has an ethics program. Yeah. So we're already doing that through like second step curriculum um where everybody belongs the web program. I'm sure that link crew has that uh point that continue to support. Yeah. Yeah, because we can certainly find that character social emotional learning. Um, we have career readiness anywhere in there. Right. Uh, we had career ready. Well, I mean, prepare students for post-graduate success is career readiness, right? Yeah. Yeah. So with this four goal uh how we want to address for the last goal she well you don't have to have a goal C right I mean we do that and we're doing it well it's already implemented right we have employee of the month uh we are being more uh service oriented
074and then with this one we're say now that all all of our employees are going to be responding to emails and calls within 24 hours, right? So that actually incorporates some of the components of um uh service value and appreciation, right? Being more serviceoriented. So it's kind of in the other goals, education, responsiveness, uh fostering a culture of uh community. It's going to be trickling in through these four goals here. All right. So, anything else on AI for prepare students for post-graduate success? Integrated approach to AI kind of covers it, right? Okay. Are we good? Good. All right. Yes. Right now it's 10:25. I got she this most successful go for a little bit and then we'll come back. I have one more. Okay. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. This is one of my can we somehow
075I mean this is my thought. I mean I didn't discuss but can we somehow appreciate more through each step? Yeah, that that that's a previous four. Oh, that's reason I said that how we want to address that because because appreciating teacher is really important because if we appreciate teacher then we can potentially retain them in the know you know I don't need a goal for that I can do that without the goal I don't need a goal for that really well I will do that even without a goal I will do that without think about think about the the work that our PTA does to recognize our teachers during teacher appreciation week. Um, they get massages, car washes, um, gift cards, lunch, um, you name it. They hot dogs. Uh, I don't know. I don't
076know. That could be a suggestion for PTA. Uh, but we bought the jerseys this year, right? Um, with their start date. So, we feel like we are really doing our be our very best to appreciate and recognize teachers. We have a monthly um employee recognition program now under the direction of Dr. Rose. Uh we have really taken that to um new heights and we're going to continue to do that as part of our work. So that program has been implemented. The board has achieved its goal and we're going to continue to do that. But thank you. I love that you want to do that. That's so important. It really is. appreciated uh employees are hardworking, loyal employees. All right, Dr. Richard had a question. Um if I may, um our our department has done a
077lot of work around what Miss Ryan said about how are we preparing our students postgraduation. Um and we don't know what those jobs are going to look like. And so we've been doing a lot of work with particularly with our elementary because it's a lot easier with elementary do project based learning, inquiry based learning, constructivist learning to really they're not give it they're just given a problem and they have to work collectively to solve a problem and I I would love to see more of that happening. I don't know if we need a goal for that. I think that would fall under innovation as well. Um but I think that's really important as we think about how are we preparing our students for jobs that haven't even been created yet. I I think I I
078like to put in you know what country actually uh for this school district this way when they choose to stay in Sanino and they have a lot of expectation in the future on their feet. So so in the elementary lot of imagination what the trick can be one day. So I I I think also very important in the elementary and the middle school. In the meantime, we are teaching them that including the character, including the in uh build up their skill, go to the high school or those we need to promote and let the the the parent know otherwise instead the parent look like the elementary and middle school is like easy going and they're not sure what the the the go by and they still can learn instead of maybe just see the parent
079the fundraising event party. So I I think we need to promote you guys doing this. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's very important and then they they will realize there's the big difference between uh Mino school history uh the elementary and middle school and outside the school. Yeah. So, so I think okay um emphasize elementary education. You you mentioned Oh, I put that here. Prepare students for jobs that haven't been created countries specifically. Yeah. Yeah, it's here. Yeah. Prepare students for jobs that haven't been created yet. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. So, we finish the goal setting, right? Yes, we have. We continue. I I need to adjour the next we just uh Yeah, we're going to adjourn. And then yeah, some of us are breaking up to do different things. And then Jennifer is
080going to help me do massage. Okay. I have a massage. Thank you so much for all the board member and back at 11:00 for photographs. So don't like go home like I was suggesting. That's just me. Oh, they're me. You're going to finish. Okay. Okay. So uh we'll finish it uh this morning uh the goal setting for 2025 or 20 26. Thank you so much all of you and right now I'm going to adjude the today strate strategy planning and can I have a motion move to any second second roll call Mr. S. Hi. Uh Mrs. Lamb I Mrs. Ry I Mrs. Gear I Mr. Ch I a motion carry. Okay, let's adjourn the meeting. Thank you.