001Evening. The May 7th, 2025 meeting of the San Mo County Board of Education will come to order. As is our practice, this meeting will be recorded. I note that Superintendent McGee is joining us remotely this evening. Hi, Superintendent McGee. Good evening. The board provides remote access for members of the public and welcomes community members joining in person and remotely. The board is following the requirements of Assembly Bill AB2449 which enables remote participation by board members only under specific circumstances. We use simultaneous simultaneous um interpretation in Spanish for those attending virtually through the end of public comment. Translation will continue further into the meeting if people are utilizing the channel. Thank you to our interpreters, Anna Cruz and Kimberly Larios for joining us remotely. For meeting attendees wishing to access the Spanish translation channel on Zoom,
002please click on the interpretation button on the menu bar. We ask all speakers to be mindful of the Spanish interpretation and speak slowly and clearly. I ask board members to speak directly into the microphone and remind speakers wearing masks to remove their masks when speaking in order to be clearly heard by all attendees. Item 1B is the approval of the agenda. Is there a motion to approve the agenda? So move. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. There is a motion to approve the agenda made by Trustee Gerard and a second by Trusty O'Neal. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say no. The motion passes with the vote of 6 and the agenda for tonight's meeting has been approved. Item two is public comment. Guidelines for
003public comment are available on the SMCE website and in board docs as well as on the table outside the boardroom in both English and in Spanish. If there are speakers who require Spanish interpretation, our interpreters, Miss Cruz and Miss Larios, will interpret following each speaker's comments. At this time, members of the public may provide comment for topics not included on the approved agenda. The County Board of Education does not act upon any matter that has not been agendaized except under limited circumstances as permitted by law. It is the policy of the county board to refer matters raised in this forum to the superintendent for investigation and/or action were appropriate. Superintendent McGee, do we have any comments submitted prior to the meeting? We did not. Thank you. Speakers are also invited to make live comment and
004have three minutes to speak. The board's executive assistant, Jennifer Pererna, will keep the time and advise when the speaker has 30 seconds left. Please keep within the time limits. To make a comment over Zoom, members of the public may use the raise hand feature. Instructions for using this feature are provided as an attachment in the board packet. Once the hand is raised, please wait to be acknowledged by Superintendent McGee. Superintendent McGee, are there any members of the public attending remotely who wish to make a comment at this time? We have two hands raised and uh the first hand is Tara Knots. Tara, let me um move you over to speaking. Um okay, you should be able to to speak now. Good. You can hear me? Yes. Okay. Thank you. Um I have children in the
005Pacifica School District since 2012. I co-lead RCPAC. I'm on the CAC for the county. I have helped lead a parcel tax and I generally run a parent group that helps gives keep people a breast of school district issues. Particularly in the past, I've helped explain things, hard decisions by the school to help parents and teachers be less upset and understand things better. I I understand school financing relatively well. Right now, we are facing a situation where about 500 of our 2,700 kids are having to leave their school sites this next school year and merge, move, colllocate with another 600 kids. So about 50% of all of our students are impacted by a reorganization. And while I appreciate our school district has had to make several hard financial district decisions financial decisions. I mean we are
006always on the bottom of the barrel financially. It's not surprising we had to make a big decision. Um but what I cannot understand what I cannot explain is why and how our district was able to skip the parent involvement community input in this process of reorganization. We had had some meetings that were called budget collaborative meetings but in none of them were there anything specific about reconi reconfigurations consolidations. If you look at the slides you will see no no specifics about which schools were going to be impacted in any timeline whatsoever. There was a subcommittee between late December and early January where it only had principles, union leaders, a couple teachers from the most impacted sites and one single parent. That is not community input. They made a decision on January 22nd that has stuck.
007It has left um our f our community hurting, uh teachers sobbing, um parents mad at parents, etc., etc. Worse, I think they set a bad precedent for other districts that if they want to clear out a site, they just call it a collocation or something like that. They don't do a proper uh process of closing a school and it leaves people confused. I'm worried about the precedent this is set for your county. In addition, I see that you are thinking about getting community fe uh community feedback um for your own sake. Um and I hope that that kind of program helps districts like ours because we are out of levers to pull to get the district to listen to us. Thank you. Thank you. Um our second speaker is Janice Pelazari. Janice, hang on one
008second. and you should be able to speak now. Okay. Good evening, President Torres, board trustees and superintendent McGee. [Music] Um, sorry, Janice. I think I un I muted you by accident again. Uh can you I Let's see. I don't know happened. Can you hear me? Uh yeah, that was my uh fault. I I'll hang up and then we come in after I talk. Yeah, we can hear you now. So, if you wouldn't mind, let's start over. Okay. Good evening, President Torres, board of trustees, and superintendent McKe. I want to start by thanking the 17th district PTA for honoring the court and community staff with a lovely lunch today um for teacher appreciation. As always, they had a fabulous lunch for us and a raffle for the table decorations. We really appreciate all that they do
009for us. I also want to give a shout out to the Cornon community staff um for their hard work this year and dedication. We started the year uh two staff and one parent educator less than we did last year. We've had some long-term outs by teachers, not their fault, but for medical reasons. and everybody um most staff has uh taken on other roles and supported and covered while those teachers were out. I just wanted them to be recognized and I appreciate that all the hard work they've been doing this year. Um it was far from ideal or easy, but as a team we uh made it work out to um along with our administration who took gen um sorry took so who also had to step in to be teachers, principles and everything else. um
010and they rolled up their sleeves and I'm just proud that we were able to work on side by side with them. Sorry that got a little off. Um next, President Doris, Trusty mean trustee Alvaro and Trusty Gerard and Sarah, thank you for coming to visit Gateway. Um I always love when the board comes to visit President Doris. I love watching you engage with those kids and giving out your business cards and answering questions about what the board does and how they help the county office. Um, I hope you all like the lettuce or that taste the lettuce that tastes like horseradish. I personally have never tasted that before. They all got to go home with some horseradish lettuce. Um, I'm proud to say we have a principal next year and my fingers are crossed that
011he will last longer than a month. There are more than um, sorry, there are more uh, there's a lot more to do at Corn Community. It's a small program, but it encompasses and has a lot of moving parts and involve kids and it takes a lot to to get them doing what they need to do. Um, my last remarks are I'm looking forward to the comp study that's coming out in June. And I also need to give a huge shout out to related services, the preschool staff, infant staff, K22 staff, and the current community staff. Once again, happy teacher appreciation. It's all of you who help make the county look so good coming to work every day and making our students and families lives better. Thank you. Have a good evening. Thank you, Janice. And
012um President Torres, we have one more hand up. Great. Um and I'm gonna try and move just organize this. Uh see um okay. Uh Christian, I'm going to uh add you as a talker. Uh let's see. So, you should be able to talk now. Thank you. Uh good evening everybody. My name is Christian Morales, uh communications officer for chapter 887. Um I just wanted to make a quick comment. Uh the California legislature adopts the third full week of May of each year as classified school employee week by passage of SB552 in 1986. Classified employees perform a wide range of essential work including food service, maintenance and operations, transportation, instructional assistance and par educator services, office and clerical work, security, library and media assistance, computer services and more. Uh we provide daily care, transportation and instruction
013for California students guiding them from preschool all the way through community college. Uh the week of May 19 to May 23rd of 2025 will be celebrated by school districts and school workers across the state in recognition of the many contributions classified professionals make to the education community. Um our chapter here on the in the county office will be holding a uh lunch on Monday May 19th. Of course uh board me the board is invited. Um, we appreciate the board of members who did attend last year and brought a dish to share. We would like to see uh all of you again. And yeah, that's all my comments. Thank you. Great. Thank you, Christian. Any other comments? Uh, those are all the comments and everybody is uh back in their appropriate categories. Perfect. Members of the
014public may also provide live comment in person. Uh, Superintendent McGee, are there any submitted cards? Uh, I don't believe we have any cards. Is that correct, Jennifer? That is correct. Okay. Thank you. A public comment addressing a specific agenda item will be heard after the board's questions, comments, and discussion on the item. If members of the public wish to speak to a specific agenda item, please use the raise hand feature when the item is announced or if in person, submit a card in advance of the item. For item 3A, is there a motion to approve the minutes of the April 16th, 2025 regular board meeting as presented? So moved. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. There is a motion to approve the minutes of the April 16th, 2025 regular board meeting made by Trusty
015Benini and a second by Trustee Love. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. I. I abstain. I will say present. Thank you. All those opposed say no. Uh the motion passes with a vote of 50 and one abstension. Um and the minutes of the April 16th, 2025 regular board meeting have been approved. Um, for item 3B, is there a motion to approve the minutes of the April 25th, 2025 board study session as presented? So moved. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. There's a motion to approve the minutes of the April 25th, 2025 board study session made by Trustee Panini and a second by Trustee Gerard. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed say no. The motion passes with a
016vote of 6 and the minutes of the April 25th, 2025 board study session have been approved. Item four is the consent agenda. The consent agenda is not debatable and requires a unanimous vote for passage. An item may be removed from the consent agenda and placed under regular order of business for separate discussion and action of any member of the board, the superintendent, or the public so requests. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? So move. Is there a second? Thank you. There is a motion to approve the consent agenda made by trustee Gerard and a second by trustee love. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed say no. The motion passes with a vote of 6 and the consent consent agenda has been approved.
017For item 5A, Awini Hardy, executive director, teacher and administrator development, will provide an update on the teacher residency and induction programs. Executive Director Hardy. Uh, good evening, Board President Torres, members of the board, um, and Superintendent McGee. Hi, Nancy. Hi. Thank you for the opportunity tonight, um, to share a little bit about our teacher administrator development program. Uh, we house four accredited programs. Um we are very embedded into our strategic goal too about diversifying and sustaining our workforce. Well, there we go. There you go. Um we are very grateful to be nestled in this organization. Quite frankly, um the fact that an organization, our county office really names a strategic goal and really sets out a beautiful equity statement that we support educators to identify and assess and develop their beliefs about practices and how
018they impact student learning, students to the core. Um, and also acknowledging that change does need to happen to service all our students with the signaling of every student, every teacher in every school because we know that's not happening. Um, TAD likes to take it a deep further um to build that coherence across all our different programs. And this is our equity statement. Um, you've you've read it, but truly just um acknowledging in the bolded words the knowledge and practice about instruction, learning, and the interplay of school systems in order to serve all students. um and highlighting disrupting patterns of metquity proactive create a new system of equity and excellence. Really this idea of all of us are leaders and antibbias anti-racist uh educators and that at every turn we can interrupt and craft something new.
019We can stop the harm and we can craft a new possibility for our students and for our families. And so for us um the through line between all our programs is influencing um people's mindsets um how they think about things uh their dispositions, how we engage with one another as people and how we show up uh with uh humility and curiosity as well as actions. What we do and say which make a biggest difference. Sometimes for us we call it head, hearts and minds. How we think about it, how we um feel about it as well as what we do. And change happens um sometimes from the top down from how you think about it to your dispositions to your hands. And oftentimes change happens just by simply doing something different and going up towards
020how I what I believe about that. Um so first just really grateful to be part of the organization and really this morning um when we're in leadership seminar really just weaving the pieces of how we've spent time with Dr. Watson to talk about equity work um to unearth many different pieces and really to dive deeper into the uncomfortable space and then overlapping it this morning with leadership seminar with Dr. Parker with Trissy and to really ask the bolder question which is how does this align or not align to the work that we're doing because there's truth in telling those both sides so that we can come to understanding together. Um so first just grateful for that. Here we go. Uh so an overview of for our four programs and then I'm going to hone in
021um tightly to teacher reny and teacher induction. So we house four programs. Our first one is teacher resy in partnership with uh alder graduate school of education. And some of our stats we've been partnering with them for uh five years. Um and incoming cohort we have 23 that's a full cohort. So you'll see nine multiple subject uh five single subject uh math and science and then nine special educa ed uh educationists educ special education credentialists there. Um and then you'll see the numbers of graduates that we've had. The program is structured as a one-year intensive program and they do have a mentor along the way. They graduate with a master's as well as their credential. The second program we house we've started since 2003. Uh current cohort we we run a two-year program. There's 244
022teachers in the program. Um, it should say 7,000, my typo, my apologies, but it should be 7,000 teachers cleared so far since 2003. And that is also a two-year program with a mentor along the way. Our next program is our PAS, the tier one program to become an administrator. We started that since 2016. Our current cohort has 19 leaders. This is a 13-month accelerated program. Truly, we are talking about current educators in the classroom who come here Tuesday night from 4:00 to 9:30 to commit to learning about leadership from um democracy and public education, instructional leadership, transformational leadership, um special education, finance, governance, all the wide topics and what it takes to become administrator, but a full commitment every single Tuesday night from 4:00 to 9:30. Um and it's it's a wonderful program. Um, and
023we purposely structured it from February to February so that if they so choose to step into the arena, become an administrator that they're primed for the hiring market. I do want to call out and shout out um of people that teach in the past. Kevin Bolta teaches a riveting course in finance. And I joke about it, but it's not a joke. It really is a fan favorite of like revealing what is finance. And you could go very kind of bland about how finance works, but truly it is a fan favorite because they're poking and proddding with great curiosity like no really how does that play out? How do I shift the conversation? You know, and and to Mary Young who does um Mary Young, um Erica Ing and Kim Bamba that does instructional leadership and
024really focusing on UDL and math. I'm missing some other people, but it'll come to me later. But a lot of our appreciation lies with everyone willing to step in to shape these aspiring administrators and to bring to life these topics that are needed and necessary truly but carving out space for them to deeply understand and what it means to them in their current context. Um and that one doesn't have a coaching element. They have fieldwork um they have fieldwork supervisors but there is no coach or mentor. And our last final program, our CAST program. Um, since 2012, our current cohort, uh, we have 43 administrators. Um, so far we've cleared 350 uh, plus administrators uh, districts um, from across districts and we are the creditors for Santa Cruz County Office of Ed. Um, they run
025a single uh, cohort program and to date they have um, cleared 100 plus people. Yes. For those of us that are members of the public, what is all these MSS, SPEED mean in English, not education and site administrator? I assume that's a school principal. Thank you for the question. Yes. Um, so if we say multiple subject or single subject, so the MS stands for multiple subject in order to teach uh the vast array of the different subjects and then single subject like math and science. um sped special education uh credential uh and administrators uh broad category but we are talking about assistant principles and principles um we are talking about district office people that are maybe coordinators or directors as well and can you tell the public what's the difference between a single subject and
026multiple subject yeah single subject allows us to teach uh from case six TK oh excuse me thank you uh TK and up through a variety of different subjects versus single subject. Um, you are specialized in one specific subject. You mean like English in high school math or middle school math or whatever? Okay. And sometimes in middle school, you'll see somebody that straddles core because they actually have a multiple subject, but they're permitted to teach that. So, yes. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate that. And these are the wonderful folk uh 10 10 team 10 people team uh that support us um to make that happen in TAD. um really wonderful team uh truly grounded in the work itself and then kind and wonderful people and that always makes it a joy to come to work as well.
027Uh this little piece is kind of I'm going to show us a little bit of a jigsaw. On the left hand side in the orange boxes you'll see teacher induction 25 plus teachers. That's a lot of teachers where we uh look at um their individualized learning plan, offer feedback, offer professional development. Um the second box, teacher induction. In order to support our teachers, we do have 85 plus mentors. Um some of which we hire here and some of which the districts hire. But nonetheless, we calibrate what it means to be a mentor and how to support our candidates. We have our PAS, we have our CAS, we have TR for teacher residency. And the last box is something it's not accredited program, but we do offer services uh for coaching. Coaching is a throughine to
028all of our programs. And so we offer additional supports uh to districts should they decide to step in. So coaching programs and a big need out there is uh intern teachers and their mentors. How do you support them because they don't necessarily have that right now. Um I'm going to click and you're going to kind of see a web of things in this. I think one of the special things about TAD is that we are accredited programs and so we follow the state standards on how to run the program. But I think some of our secret sauce is that we chose to desilo it that we have interdependence with intentionality and purpose uh and with accountability for one another as well. And so I'm going to kind of go through like the web. You see
029Stacy Taiser and Griff Montgomery. You'll see two lines for them. Stacy supports teacher induction and she also contributes to teacher residency. She coaches candidates there. You'll see for Griff Montgomery, uh he he is the administrator for teacher induction, uh education specialist, and you'll see the arrow to CAS. He's a coach, um in the CAS program as well. I'm going to skip Vivian because she has four nodes. Um but you'll see Jen Ping Green, she's the leader of every Tuesday night for PAS and she's also a CAS coach as well. Rebecca Vun and I uh co-f facilitate. It's really important that we note that that we co-f facilitate CASS together, make all the decisions and plan together. Um she also teaches a course in PAS. She teaches the principal ship. Um I my hands are in
030in all the pots. Um but also I co-f facilitate CAS. I teach courses with I co-f facilitate with Jen on a few of the courses in PAS as well. Um and I support Viven with some of our additional programs. Um Carmen French is our our fearless leader for teacher Renzy. We want more nodes for her, but her plate is quite full quite frankly. Um but we would we would love to have her expertise in CAS. Um I'm going to lastly go back to the the the blue which is Vivian Matyama. Um she has a lot of beautiful nodes coming out of her. Um but the reason why is she it's important work. She does coaching for teacher induction for mentors. She teaches a course in PASS that talks about instructional leadership and also supports the
031state final assessment calipa the three cycles. Um she's a coach in cask and she also runs um the additional coaching program. And so in this way we we've built a lot of interdependence with one another of opening up our own practices and really pushing and pulling on what we're who our audience is and how to make it relevant for them. And the last and final bit on the very bottom something that is we've done for the last couple years. In order for us to uh be the change agents that we want to be and inspire others to be, we have to develop ourselves as well. And so we've created a structure for us to be continual learners. Every Monday u for about 90 no 60 minutes sometimes 70 minutes we focus on um two separate
032kind of learning communities. One of them we call it TAD learning space in which we unpack antibbias anti-racist practices. We step into in a learner orientation to check what we know and understand as humans and then we apply it to our programs and context and check one another. um that happens on Monday for 60 to 7 minutes uh twice a month and then the other time of month uh for the other two Mondays we do coaching community of practice. It is a craft that we all do and uh we are for the better for opening up our practice and being vulnerable because we've asked that of others and so in that coaching community of practice sometimes we'll do a fishbowl like hey I have a client that and I'm really struggling with I'm going to
033fumble I'm going to do it in front of you and offer me feedback right and so that's really important for us as well and the last and final insertion we have is peer coaching um the most powerful thing we can do is open our practice with vulnerability and being courageous to get that feedback and see how it feels feels like when we offer other feedback. So, we've inserted uh peer coaching as well as a structural element to facilitate um and nurture our environment together. Yes. Can you please say what is define teacher induction? What is PASC? What is CASC? What is TR? Yes, for sure. Uh let's see. Um I'm going to go down the list. um prelim uh pasque prelim preliminary administrator service credential before used to be called tier one people that want
034to become an administrator you go into the first year program where you learn the foundations of becoming an administrator and after you completed an accredited program um you get a certificate of eligibility that means you hold it in your pocket if I want to apply to become an AP I can um if I choose no I'm not going to use it right now we just don't have to initiate that so that's PAS cask ask uh is an induction program for administrators. Once you've been hired as an administrator, um the state offers a two-year program in which it's job embedded and you get induction services. You set six goals. Uh you get a coach to work alongside of you and essentially get a system of support to ensure that you sustain and thrive in in your
035work for two years. And TR is teacher residency. Um I'm going to go deeper into that in a little bit. Um but that's where uh we have people that um sign on to be a resident a fullyear program to get their credential and their masters. Um yeah. Is this like a successor to the BITSA program that used to be around? I see. Uh so for Bitsa that's teacher induction. Okay. That is teacher induction. That is BitsA formerly known as BITSA. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. And so honing on, I went really big and I'm going to funnel it down just to two of our programs. I'm going to spend a little bit more time on teacher residency because that's one of our newer programs. Um and then I'll conclude quickly with teacher induction and open
036it up uh to the floor for questions. So this is the current cohort. Um they're all holding little uh porcupines um as their mascot. So for TR or teacher residency, um this is what we offer. And those were those uh those letters MS for multiple subject um and with a bilingual authorization. Um special education is an option for people to sign up for uh single subject math and then single subject science. They get to choose which credential they would like to earn. Um and those are our numbers to date so far. And just really tracking through the years of when we first launched it in 21-22. um it was new and so it's spent a lot of time um creating entryways and knowledge and information about it and welcoming people in and continue to grow
037uh in that idea of what it means to have a resident residence the district commitment quite frankly uh the money and the energy and really to be a consumer of saying what is the best fit because at the end of the day we're seeking to sustain people in this profession and so we have to have that necessary conversation like hey does this really work is this really the time for the candidate as well as through the district. So, a lot of cross-checking on quality as well. Um you'll see here this graphic on the left side. We are in partnership with Alder uh school of education where they provide the coursework and all the theory about what it means to be in the classroom for teaching and learning and pedigogy. On the right hand side, they're
038nestled in their school which is a beautiful thing where they get to practice all those pieces. And right there in the middle is the heart of it all. We call it practice in which you get to practice the theory in there and you get to reflect on it. You're like, "What's working? What's not? Why is that? What can I consider? What am I going to hold on to and what can I let go of?" Um, and that's the beauty of having Carmen French there. She was the heart and soul of it all, pulling all those pieces together. Um, because it's a lot. It really is a lot. And so, a day a week for what it means for residents. Um, it's it's really intense. four days in the classroom with their mentor teacher that side
039by side uh teaching that modeling the gradual release to say hey do you want to try it today uh one day in um the seminar with a cohort again that practice piece to think about teaching and learning and what's the reflective piece because we learn by reflecting and not simply by doing. So really holding that time to be sacred to think about intentionality. What are we doing in the classroom? Um and then the last part is about you know once some uh one week online with uh courses also and to talk about what is our impact with diversifying the workforce. Um so right now we have 78% how we've increased um residents from historically uh currently in historically uh underrepresented groups. Uh and in the previous uh currently this year it's 70%. Where we've increased
040it and made an impact um on that. This is data offered um and shared to us from Alder highlighting on the first column on the left right there just um what our current population is right there. Um and then currently that's our our stats on our teachers. Um just highlighting uh what our numbers are and then through working with Alder just how we've increased the idea of diversifying the workforce um and making entryways for people to step in and really important is to stay in it as well. These are our partnerships. We have 10 districts that we are in partnerships right now. Um, right here you may be wondering, we have 23 districts. Why aren't all 23 there? And it really is a conversation to some folks with systems readiness. Sometimes really it's about the
041need. Do I need teachers? Of course, we need teachers. But at that moment, do I really know? No, I I need that need. Um, sometimes it is. Yes. And so, let's start talking about it. um it may transition into that year I get a resident and then at that moment maybe it's not the right fit and we pause and then transitions the following year. And so I just really commend Carmen for sharing the awareness piece really developing those relationship and partnerships and the honest and truthful conversations of this full commitment that we are asking from our districts and from our residents. And so what does it take uh to to make this happen? We do have two grants uh from the state right now for teacher residency um in addition to the district has an
042investment. So what is that amount? Um residents get a stipen of 41,250. Um you'll see 32 glasses don't work so well. Uh 32350 from the grants. Uh and the district contribution of $9,000. the district uh total contribution is 11,000 and the other 2,000 uh is a contribution towards the mentor stipen for their work as coach for mentors as well as attending uh workshops with Carmen. And so that's the investment from the district as well as from the um the grants uh with an understanding that residents will stay within the districts for additional four years. Um, and I didn't want to move forward without really highlighting at the very bottom it says mentors. Um, because really it's they're the core of the program. Like Carmen pulls it all together like a be tapestry. It's really the
043coaches or the mentors as well in what they do. Um, I'm going to show you some data on this idea of what the residents are saying about their mentoring experience. And what you'll see in the orange boxes are things that are really um, significant. And what I want to highlight is the blue just strongly agree and agree but the impact the residents have felt uh with having that mentor support um the feedback the sense of belonging like I belong in this nestled space which is really so important u when you're learning and growing and experimenting um all those different pieces in the orange that are really impactful for them. And then with all glows, we have some grows, the two in the red. This idea of it still looks is still good and significant impact.
044Um, but then also attending to what does it look like for that sacred time because they do have two hours a week of sacred time that they're not meant to be interrupted for other things, but we know how busy it can be at a classroom. Um, so that's something to grow on as well as um using of two adults in the room. Just some negotiating around that. And then lastly for this piece of data, the mentors experience during the residency um we do know that it is about job embedded and that you're learning but in true um teaching and learning it's reciprocity that the resident is gaining as well as the mentor as well when they step into the learner orientation and space. And so the mentors um also show a positive impact on themselves
045as well as on their students. And this is our grow. Um, we showed a lot of glows, some great things that we can hold on to. And there's some places that we can grow in. Uh, living wages for a year. When a teacher resident signs on, they agree to attending um to be a resident. Um, coursework, additional homework, planning, all those things. And they don't work for a full year. And so, while we offer a sip, it's not quite enough to live let you know in the Bay Area quite frankly or anywhere. So that's some place we're just trying to figure out and see. Um the second one pathway as an educator. We do the purpose of the residency is to tap who's in the community, expand that pathway. How are we thinking about it?
046Um and yet we know we're not reaching everybody. I think for those that think I thought about teaching but maybe now, but what about folks that haven't thought of themselves as educators at that moment? How do we expand that and just diversify it more? So we have cur curiosity around that. Um and the last part is the funding. We are grant funded. We still have two more years to use up the current funding that we have and past that. How are we thinking about teacher residency? What are we going to invest into it? Okay. So, if you know anybody who wants to do teacher resency, here's the information. Please um contact Carmen. And I'm lastly, I'm going to transition to teacher induction, formerly Bitsa. Um, I I can extend it a little bit longer should
047you have many questions, but I am going to keep it a little bit tighter because we've had this uh program for a while. Uh, I'm going to go back. It is a two-year program for teachers that earn their credential. And so, the the CTCA has um parameters for us that we create a two-year program for our teacher candidates uh to clear their credential. And what that means is they set goals and engage in cycles of inquiry around the CSTPs uh the California teachers um teaching standards, the CSTPs um and that they get to decide where their learner journey is. And the role of a coach or the mentor is to support them side by side uh so that they can reach those goals. Um and it also talks about creating a system of support. There's
048no one person that could be someone's mentor and know everything all the time. That's not realistic. And so the state highlights it's called a system of support. If I was coaching somebody and I really didn't understand how to do this science experiment, that's okay. But what my role as the mentor would be to tap in somebody, Marco, can you come on over here and help us out? Um, and that way it's that wraparound support. Here are our numbers for teacher induction. We've started uh since well 20 years. um you'll just see our numbers up and down. Uh I've been with TAD for five years. Um so I can speak to the previous numbers, but there is a little bit of up and down with our teacher enrollment numbers. It just is. And I also do
049want to note uh there's a little bit of variations as well. We are are a consortium and what that means is all 23 of our districts uh send their teachers to us. There are some districts in in the county that have their own teacher induction program. And so last couple of years there's some c some um districts that have written their own program submitted to CTC and got approved. And so we see a little drop in those numbers at times um but the last two years um we've had a lot of KIP teachers KIP as an organization enroll into teacher induction. So just recognizing some of the fluctuation in the numbers at a glance. Teacher induction again um there as a teacher what it looks like for them. They um they do an ILP, an
050individualized learning plan around the six um teaching um standards. They are required to receive 40 hours of coaching per year and oftentimes they get so much more. Um but that is a requirement for them and they get to have coaching um you know they can decide if they want to have it two hours in a week or you know nope I do better if I meet you know every Friday for an hour. But that's something they negotiate together. And lastly, the systems of support. Just making sure it's not just one person, the breath of the support that needs to happen. Going to the right, professional learning. Um Stacy Griff and Vivian run the teacher induction program. And so I want to highlight um n 19 sessions, 19 different sessions. In other words, they offer professional
051development on nine different many different topics that are most relevant and needed in teaching and learning as well as teacher feedback and generated. So those are a few of the topics that they run. Most of them are in person, some of their own online. Um and then closing to this piece on the very bottom, the participants. Right now we have 26 um districts and private and charter schools that we we service. Um average program size about 260ish. Um and we have 85 plus uh coaches, mentors along the way. The mentoring program is a big program as well with 85 different uh mentors. Um Vivian offers uh three coaching series, three hour three three-hour uh coaching basics, essentially how to be a coach 101. Um simply because you believe in nurturing and supporting others doesn't mean
052you have the coaching skills and knowledge. And so that's really just the immersion piece. Um and then after that she offers six different seminars, three hours each, 18 hours of coaching seminars um on how to enroll a client, how to disrupt equity in the conversation, how do we uh facilitate mindset, um what does it mean to be resilient because really it's really hard and intense out there. And so we're attending a lot to coaching of emotions as well as uh cultivating resiliency there. Uh feedback on coaching. Uh we do take great pride in what we do and so um we our coaches are are mentors. They submit videos of them coaching. We watch them. We annotate it. We give feedback based on what they want to learn and grow in. So it takes a lot
053of time but really honoring the learner's journey along the way highlighting what you're doing. Well, keep that up. Here's a possibility maybe. Uh and last and final one is with the 85 plus you're like who are these people? Some of them are full-time um full-time released mentors. Few and far between, not too many. Um about 20 odd so are retired former teachers that come back and and now are a mentor in TI. Um and some of them are partially re released. In other words, they work at a district um and maybe they're a TOSA, a teacher on special assignment. So, it's a mix of all of them. Um and the last and final piece about the TI mentors is the right side. uh other programs offered uh coaching, community of practice. Um I used to
054be a coach and when I first got hired, you just kind of threw out them like go coach. You're like, "No, I don't know what to do." And so it's really important to kind of support and nestle people. So we offer as an option for districts, would you like to join our coop, our community of practice? That's an option. Um another partnership we have is with early learning right now with early uh literacy coaching community of practice. Um Vivian's joining um their team as well to talk about what does it mean to create a again the system of support when you're trying to launch an initiative to have people do and think um same but also very differently too. So she's contributing to that. And then the last and final one about that is um
055intern teachers. It's we have interns uh in the county. Um they're they're teaching right away and so it's really hard to do and they do get a mentor. Um sometimes it's just you know the person next door is someone who's super caring and and we want to nurture them as well. We had a pilot program uh with one district and it's proved to be very successful. It was so successful that they wrote they applied for a grant and now they run their own program. But that is actually what we intend to do. It's really not about us. It's just really like what systems can we put into place to really service um our our educators. And our growth points is that we do continue to talk about UDL, universal div uh design for learning. How
056are we really nestling that in everything that we do with intentionality um supporting ed education specialists, it's a really hard and demanding part with really a lot of complexities um in the system itself. And so helping them navigate that piece. Um and no news to all of us, resilience is really important part all the demands that teachers hold and educators hold. um in what ways do we cultivate and nurture resiliency in them? Um and to that end, thank you so much for some time um to share about our program and love to open the floor should you have any questions. Thank you. Are there any comments or questions from the board? Trusty Adas, I think it's more of a comment. I just want to appreciate the um the way you explain and the needs that
057there are and how it kind of brought me back into like my own process. And when I hear you comments say too much about coaching and mentoring is I feel is the key for everything but especially for for teaching. You need someone to be there, someone with the experience. So the way that you describe it, I just want to say very proud to what's happening there. Thank you. Thank you. We think so too, Trustion. Um, have you looked at the statistics in terms of because I know I'm more familiar from my previous board service of the BITSA program and and how much more likely the the individuals is to stay in teaching. Have you looked at statistics to see what how more likely someone that goes through your program is is to make it a
058career, you know, 3 years, 5 years, whatever. Uh we do we attempt at that. Uh we do want to track that to say those that come through our program, are they still staying within the county as a whole? Um I'm pausing because it it has been a journey to follow people around um because they don't have to report back to us and we don't track people. Um we do want to understand that more to say who's still staying in the profession and really specifically who's staying in the county itself because we don't get when people move we actually don't get we don't get notified. Um but we we'd like to understand that better. So you really don't have any statistics as to the effectiveness of retention for teachers? No. Okay. Thank you. Any other comments
059or questions from the board? Um so as someone who finished their induction program yesterday, I will want to Oh, thank you. Um the the mentors and the coaches are such a huge part of making this um process easier. So, um, kudos to the mentors and the coaches and to you and your incredible team for for doing all of this work. Appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any comments from the public? Um, no hands raised. Thank you. There is no action to take on this item. Thank you. Um, item 6A is superintendent's comments. Superintendent McGee, do you have any comments to share? Uh, yes, I do have a few comments. I'm going to start with um teacher appreciation and classified employee appreciation month which is May. Um, Janice and Christian both did a really
060nice job of acknowledging all the work that our teachers and pareducators and um, administrators do to run our schools. Um, and ensure that our students get uh, all the support that they need to be successful. Um, I just want to express appreciation from uh from my um personal uh position as well as um core cabinet and cabinet. We spend a lot of time thinking about how we can support um our school staff and um I want to shout out uh those leaders that lead those teams. Um associate superintendent Chris Shou and Executive Director Sarah Notch. Um our principles um Dr. Jesus Jimenez uh in the court and community uh program. Uh Heather Logan in our um and Campbell Center which is related services early start and our uh two preschool programs, our special education preschool
061and our state preschool program, which as you know is new and growing. Um, and then Ellen Palino out at our special services center. Um, I think uh we've done a nice job of presenting information to the board over the last couple of board meetings about uh successes and challenges there in those settings. But um really it's our staff that makes it happen every day. And um I just want to shout out all of our um all of our SMCE school staff. Um we are celebrating their year on May 21st out at Gateway with a with an event um that will include uh delicious food and camaraderie. So, I think the board uh has received an invitation to that uh event. Um that's a busy day here at the county office. Uh May 21st is both
062our um end of year celebration out at Gateway and then we have our volunteer recognition event in the for the board meeting that night. So busy day. Um, I wanted to mention also on that day that we're having uh, Dowy Photography come out. I think Jennifer Pera has sent out a notice um, to all the board, but I want to make sure everybody saw the notice um, they are coming out uh, setting up around 6:15 6:30 and we will be taking group uh, photos of the board. It's been a while since we've had a seven member board that was all elected at the same time and in service at the same time. So, um it's been a while since we've had a viable group shot of the county board. So, that's our goal on May
06321st is to capture that photo. So, um please stay in touch with uh Jennifer Pera as far as your um schedule goes and try and be here by 6:30 that evening. Um I also wanted to shout out uh the business team um the um ERP process for as we switch over to this new financial system um has really ratcheted up the um requirements, training and effort and work going into that every single day here is pretty astounding. Um, our team just finished going through user training. So rather than work with um the technicians um in the business office on how the system works, they've been working with um folks that aren't as familiar with all the business systems, the the principles and um coordinators and things, those folks that will be logging in to use
064the system, but don't necessarily have to know everything about the back end. Um so that all that training has been happening. It's been a huge lift and um I shout out um Deputy Superintendent Kevin Bolta for leading his team so capably in all of this along with um executive director DA Uni who's been really uh leading the um the everyday work. Um, so congratulations to them and good luck to them as they try and bring us to live action uh by July 1st. So, um, it's a lot to take on the entire county, every school district. Um, and, uh, and they're doing a phenomenal job. And then finally, um, this week we had a really amazing, um, event here. On Wednesday, we hosted the, um, the state awards for Green Ribbon. Um, the reason that
065Sonteo County was uh providing that uh event was because of all the um applications that were put in across the state. Um the Sanonteo County Office of Education uh had the highest score of all other LEAs uh and county offices in the state. So that's pretty special. and is indicative of our um cross collaboration and our teamwork across um departments and divisions. Um certainly we have great leadership in this area, Julie Hillbornne as our coordinator. Um we have Ron Soer as our director in um green facilities. And then um everyone uh across the board, all those folks that I mentioned, school staff, school leaders, um coordinators, uh technicians, analysts in the business office, um facilities certainly leading the way. um everybody buying into our philosophy that we need to run a green as green an
066operation as we can to live up to our values of sustainability. So um it was uh uh Superintendent Thurman was here. um we had other uh you know um I don't mean to call them celebrities but you know leaders in the community who came to observe and then people from all over the state came to receive their awards. So it was a really amazing um day and I want to thank all of the people it took to put that together cuz it was a lot of work. So, and that concludes my comments. Thank you, Superintendent McGee. Um, for item 7A, the board will discuss and act on the suggested protocol for community members and groups seeking letters of support. Superintendent McGee, back to you. Yes. Um so at the last um the draft the first
067draft was brought to the last board meeting and um I wasn't here but I did read all the minutes and um the board uh had feedback for um suggestions to improve. Um, additionally, so we took that list of uh of feedback and applied it to this draft. Um, and then we also cross referenced it with the board minutes so that we didn't miss anything. Um so our hope is that we've captured all the board's um comments and that the draft reflects those comments clearly. Um once this part of um the protocol is uh approved by the board then we will insert it into the board governance handbook and bring the board governance handbook back for final approval at a subsequent meeting. So happy to try and answer any questions you might have um or any
068additional feedback. Any comments or questions from the board? Trusty Love. Yeah, this isn't to make any change, but just confirming that an alternative pathway um is to go through a subcommittee. For example, if there's legislate legislation that we may want to sign off on or sign something on, that would go through the advocacy subcommittee. So, okay. So, comment. Did we miss that in writing? I don't know if we need in writing necessarily. I just was saying it just so we're clear. Right. That that hasn't changed. Right. I don't know. Um if the board wants to support legislation, it would go through um the advocacy subcommittee. Um this is more about um requests from the community I think. Yes, it there was just mention of legislation or something on that. So that's why I mentioned it.
069Okay. Thank you. Trusty Beni. Um I just have um a question about whether so I'm very protective I would say about how long and what type of information is in the board governance handbook because I think yes it's a tool for us to hold each other accountable but it's also a a tool for the public to have an easy reference to um how to engage. So, I I don't disagree necessarily that it shouldn't be there, but I would like to kind of see like how long does that make it, right? I I I see this more as a kind of a regulation like the operations behind um what our policies are in terms of how we how we um advocate and I think we do have policy around that. So, um I just wonder if
070the board has any comments about that because I don't think we should just keep putting things into the governance handbook because we don't want it to be like this policies just like there and I don't know I don't want to be overwhelming I guess is my concern. So, I'm curious if anyone else has comments, but that's my concern and thinking right now about whether I would Yeah, but I guess we could see the draft. Yeah, I think for this one it's like a policy that's both the board and the community, whereas other policies would be specific to the board. So if they had a question of like, oh, if I bring this to them, what should I anticipate for the board to do so that I hear back? Because I I understand what you're saying.
071I'm Can I respond? So, we have handbooks for other things like our appeals and for other processes that happen. And so, I don't know that this is a handbook, a different type of a handbook, but I don't know if it's part of governance. Got it. Trusty George, did you want to add? Um, I'm I'm pondering that. Um cuz I I hadn't uh I hadn't thought about it exactly that way. Um because I thought it at least in part um could be in the governor's handbook. uh maybe not as detailed, but letting new board members or or existing board members or the public know that there is a process um for going through this. And I think at least that much should be in the governance handbook so that they know that um then if we
072want to do either some kind of a another document to have the whole thing or even a policy something like that I think that would be okay but I think something should be in there um letting uh board members know that there's a process that they need to followed or that the request the people that are requesting it also need to follow. Okay. Does that make sense? I like that. Um so I think keeping what we have here for us in detail and then for what we decide to put in the governance handbook would be like a one pager or something more condensed. I don't know that it all has to be in there because this is a lot. Yeah. Trusty Pini. Yeah. I mean, I think I just I would also Sorry, Beverly. I
073I just want to also say like in addition to what Trusty Love said, there are other pathways to communicate issues. So this is like very maybe specific to an issue that was raised by a by trustee O'Neal and that it was brought to us you know as a kind of a process like these these things are coming and raised and and I think that you know members of the community um yes it would be good if it was there but also there are like I said other ways that things can be brought to the board like contact a board member and then we can push it through the process right or we can consider whether we're willing to um you know raise it up or share share it um at a meeting or at you
074know what I mean request an agenda. There are a lot of different pathways I guess is what I'm saying for issues to be raised. This seems very specific to like a letter of support and honestly seems directed more to the uh advocacy committee in some way and I feel like it's maybe more related to that than governance per se. And I'm gonna just stop with that and I'll keep thinking about it as it comes back to us. But um yeah, I'm just trying to figure out where it should be situated and I I don't know that that I agree that the governance handbook is is the right place. Other comments or questions from the board. Okay. Um and then just to bring it back, I think the for today it's just to approve the protocol
075that we have in place and then um we can discuss whether or not we want to include or how we want to include it or whether or not we include it at the in the handbook. Um that's for the next board meeting. Um so if there are no other comments or questions from the board, are there any comments from the public? Um, there are no uh no comments from the public. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve the suggested protocol for community members and groups seeking letters of support? Is there a second? Second. Thank you. There is a motion to approve the suggested protocol for community members and groups seeking letters letters of support made by Trustee O'Neal and a second by Trusty Gerard. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say
076I. I. I. All those opposed say no. The motion passes with a vote of 6 and the board has approved suggested protocol for community members and groups seeking letters of support. For item 7B, is there a motion to approve resolution number 2531 implementing board policy 9250 to compensate Edith Adios for her absence from the April 16th, 2025 board meeting due to illness? So move. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. There's a motion to approve resolution number 2531 made by trustee Gerard and a second by trustee love. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed say no. I abstain. And one abstension. So uh the motion passes with a vote of 50. And the resolution for resolution number 2531 has been approved. Um, for item 7 C,
077when an ad hoc subcommittee meets or a representative attends a meeting related to their given assignment, uh, board members may choose to bring a report to the board at this time. Would any board members like to report out? Trusty Love, thank you. Um on April 21st, uh the advocacy subcommittee had a meeting with um districts superintendent and business officials and board members to discuss um sort of the first of a series of meetings on adequacy of funding for districts. And um it was well attended and um I want to thank uh board president Torres for being there and for helping facilitate that meeting. Superintendent McGee and um uh Deputy Superintendent Fultimma gave a fabulous report. I would love to I don't I don't know if it was recorded your words, but it was it was
078excellent and um learned a lot. And the next meeting is on May 19th and um San Bruno and we'll be hearing from districts on sort of what the impact of the um bonding inadequacies are. And then kudos to Trustee O'Neal again for all of his work pushing this along. Thank you. Um any comments or questions for Trusty Love or the subcommittee? Any other uh report outs? Okay. Um are there any comments from the public? No comments. Thank you. There is no action to take on this item. Um for 7D board members will comment. Um we'll start off with trustee Arias. [Music] Well um first of all I just want to say you know that it happened. I wasn't here last week but I did watch the the recordings and the minutes so I felt like
079I was here. But I want to say that the invitation to attend the Association of California County Boards of Education was um very right on time when I needed to hear about boardmanship and board culture that related so much with my um uh governance 2.0 book that I'm reading. I'm almost done. So just want to say that I it's a lot of great information. I appreciated this the way that it was um able to have conversations, hear from others and uh one of the points that stuck with me is about the board culture styles, different styles that there can be. But again uh I just wanted to say that uh being able to attend that meeting was very very helpful. So thank you. Thank you Trusty Benini. Um yes, thank you. Sorry, I was trying
080to figure out the order of my comments. Um so first I just want to also appreciate um all the teachers and staff and um especially the 17th district for doing the lunchon that's been happening for many many years. Um today I know um board members weren't able to attend today but you have been going the last couple of years and um so I hope that it went well. It sounds like it went well. Um I was able to drop off some cookies early in the morning. Thank you to um Charles for being there and having the door open so I could drop them off um before I went to work. Um so so I hope that was everything went really well. It sounds like it did. Um I also wanted to mention that um I
081think Trusty Gerard and I will be going to delegate assembly uh not this weekend but the next weekend after that so for CSBA. So I'm looking forward to that and also learning about what's going on with some of the county board issues. Um uh next I wanted to note um I know Bethany is not here this evening. I'm sure we'll see her again soon, but I wanted to note that her um resolution um uh thanking her for her service was on our consent agenda and she's been serving for two years and doing an amazing job and serving in other capacities on our committee. So, um that's really exciting. Uh I'm excited to hear what her decisions are around what she's doing next year. She mentioned some things last time, but I don't I don't know
082yet. Um, so I just wanted to thank her for her amazing service. Um, I wanted to um uh I guess congratulate the county office for having the Green Ribbon Awards being selected here. Um, I would um have liked to attend um but I I didn't know about it. But I I would think that that would have been a great thing for our board to be present at. Um, so I did want to just make a note of that. Um, but I know it was a busy day and um I think uh Trustee Love was there, but I didn't know it. So, um and then I uh I know it's not a space tonight for um board agenda items, but I did want to note that um for the next meeting, I I do have two
083requests or not for the next meeting, but in you know, when it's on the agenda, I'm not going to wait until then. um that I would like to have us start thinking about whether we might want to have a convening a joint meeting with the um Sanonteo County Community College District trustees. I know that our board did that many years ago and I think we have some intersectional issues that were addressing um whether it's regarding um project change or other things. I believe that was on the the agenda for the last time, but I would like to um have us consider that. And then um we did have our study session around uh lastly we did have our study session last when it was a couple weeks ago for the LCAP and for the budget.
084And we did receive an uh email with a link to sort of provide comments. But I was hoping and I didn't realize it until too late, but I was hoping that we would actually have more input on that um and get to hear the rest of the presentation and actually be able to have discussion. So my request is that that comes back on our um maybe regular agenda at a meeting with a brief recap for LCAP and then that we get to hear about goal number four and actually have live comment and questions and engage in that way. That's I think much more productive than me sending a list of comments um in the Google form which I can also do but I would really love that. I always feel like when we don't have
085enough time to go through all of the um uh the the content uh it's not um great for those who are preparing it and then also I feel like we really need to have time to have that discussion and there were things that I had took many many notes and I had a lot of questions myself so I'm guessing other people did as well so I'm requesting that. Thank you. Thank you Trusty Lev. Thank you. just on that last point. Um I asked about that as well and I it will be on the agenda next the next meeting I believe right for um so I just wanted to can I just uh interject that um Chris Shou and Sarah Notch are at a conference this week otherwise we would have had it tonight um Trusty
086Benini but um we're bringing it back um on the 21st. Okay. Okay. So, I just want to echo all the appreciation for the uh teachers, the nurses, the classified staff in May. This is time we celebrate them. We should be celebrating all year long, but I do want to call that out. Um I was at the Green Ribbon Awards ceremony. I was so proud when I worked on the county office. um the environmental literacy work was part of my team and so I was very involved in that and um just thrilled and so proud that the county office the reason they went from bronze really to um this gold green achiever the highest level was really that the whole office came together and supported this work. It used to be one person kind of poking
087can we do environmental literacy thing and then when this when superintendent McGee moved that program over to her office to the superintendent's office it really elevated the work. We have a green CBO here. We have a green facilities director and Rich Maldonado. So everybody in the county office is really embracing this work and I think that's why it showed. And then uh Julie Hillbornne's leadership was amazing and Anon who was in the communications helped her as well. So I just want to call that out. So happy and Kent awards were on May 2nd and congratulations and thank you to Trusty Bonini for her work in organizing it. It was wonderful hearing kids students voices talking about the impact of um like a music group that they were part of was like a highlight for me
088just hearing their voices. I'd love to hear that more in those events. So that was great. Um and um I did listen to the Association of California County Boards of Education's session that trustee um Gerard spoke and you were attended and you were also there. But I there were a lot of great ideas. I would love to talk about some of them for building culture, but one of them was just folks um on board self-evaluation. So, I kind of hope that we will make sure that that takes place sometime in the next month or two. Thanks. Thank you, Trusty O'Neal. Um, I did attend a couple of those um, county board education things and I was on one. It was just three or four of us, right? Yes. Yeah. And just to let you know
089is I as I told you I have two Monday nights a month I work and I was on my it was on my phone on my dashboard while I was driving and I could not when you asked me a question I could not figure out safely how to unmute myself. Okay. So I figured if you wanted to see me at this meeting I could not unmute myself for that one. All right. And then um that's why I also left early is because my other meeting was starting. Um I attended the progress seminar along with the president Torres and Trusty Benini and I did in one of the sessions. Well, there was two sessions I really feel were really important that will be applicable to the district. one is more immediate and I will be calling
090um Superintendent McGee about regarding opportunities for employment for some CTE people and some training and and stuff from that they're looking at. And so I got the business cards of the people that will actually be offering training and hiring jobs and then for the next year. Um, I also attended one time. It was the first time they've ever done this and it was actually really pretty exciting to see. It was um the farmers met at the Fairlon Room in Skyane College. I don't know if you've ever been there, but that has the absolute best view of Pacifica, but it's in San Bruno. Okay. But it is um the it's a fabulous setting and it was a consortium put on by the s San Francisco Peninsula Convention Visitors Bureau and the county um um office of
091agriculture for the farmers to meet uh the restaurants and hotels and they had over they had about 60 70 restaurants that came and met with the farmers and this and the reason I'm kind mentioning this is this is all in support of the Half Moon Bay High School future farmers and 4H program that they're trying to grow because at this point there's that is the only agricultural program in the entire Bay Area if I if I understood it correctly and it and it they're they're growing they need people they're you know there's actually more students that want to enroll in it and stuff. So, it was really kind of see because that is, you know, hundred million dollar a year industry here in Santo County. So, that was really kind of um cool to attend.
092And let's see, I think that was about it. Thank you, uh, Vice President Gerard. Um, thank you very much. Um, it's been a busy last couple weeks. Um, very busy last couple weeks. Um, and uh, I want to start out with our visit to Gateway and it was an excellent visit. Um, and we received homegrown lettuce right from Gateway's Garden and I took it home and I washed it and it made a delicious salad. So, um I have to say thank you and um the students were incredible and are working on amazing projects. It it was it was just a fantastic visit and they were so excited to tell us all about them and also ask us ask us questions about what we did and who we were and who are these people. Um and
093uh so it it really was um I thought an an excellent visit and uh I I'm so glad we went. Um we also visited Oxford Day Academy. Uh and I had not been there for oh my goodness it probably more than two years if longer than that. I had not been on their new campus which is beautiful. it it's so nice. Um and uh the students there felt really good about it as well. And uh we were able to not only visit the classrooms but uh we were able to talk to um a couple of the teachers and some students and uh they are very very happy there and said that it was a place that they felt were making them successful and that was really wonderful to here because um it it it's what
094it's all about. And the one young lady that came in, you know, when she came in, she seems so shy and I thought, "Oh my goodness, you know, she's so embarrassed to be here." Well, that was not the case. and she was thrilled to tell us her whole story and how successful she has been since she came to Oxford Day Academy and that's that's really what what we like to hear. So it was a very uh successful visit and I was thrilled I was able uh to do that as well. Um and we have had two ACCBE trainings. The last one was um last this past Monday and that was a budget workshop and we were so disappointed that we did not get more people attending because we had the um CFO of of Twalme
095County do the presentation and she just did an amazing job. And unfortunately we learned a lesson. you do not compete with Cinco de Mayo. That's that's all there is to it. Um, and so, uh, I hope that we can get her back next year and she can do another presentation. And we did also have one, um, on boardsmanship and board culture. And, uh, I was one of the presenters on that one along with Juliana Ferani. and uh um that one was very wellreceived and we had a lot of people that um participated and had very lively conversations. So, uh and that's what we like. So, that was great. We have a couple of other things coming up this month as well and then we're also planning for one more in June. Um I did um
096attend the green uh awards on Zoom. So I was watching I was not here but it was available on Zoom. So I zoomed in and uh and watched it and it was wonderful. I also was very very proud of our county office um and the award that they received. And uh last but not least uh I also was at the Kent Awards and uh uh Trusty Benini did do a beautiful job organizing that. It is a humongous amount of work uh to do that. And uh I was very fortunate to get to uh also visit one of the um programs which was um job fairs for middle school and it was South San Francisco. And I have to tell you, I I mean, a lot of high schools have job fairs, but I've never seen
097one necessarily for a middle school. And it wasn't necessarily um it it's not for kids to get jobs, but it is for kids to be able to hear what's out there and what's available and to get them excited about going to school. and they actually had 37 presenters at the last one they did in February. And it's a requirement for every student in the school to attend three sessions. So, and if they don't sign up, guess what? Somebody's knocking on their door saying, "Okay, I'm here. We're going to sign you up." So I uh I was very excited after talking uh to the principal and the coordinator and uh it it's a it's a really great program. So um I will be going as uh trustee Benini said to delegate assembly and uh should be
098very interesting because this is the first time that we will be there where we're going to be actually uh region 14. It was sort of in together last time, but this time it's we have a a director and we'll see what happens. And region 14 is county offices and their representatives. So, thank you very much. Thank you. Um, yes. So, just to echo uh Trusty Gerard's comments, uh, Trusty O'Neal, Trusty Gerard and I were all at Oxford Day Academy. Um, and I also had not been to the new campus, so it was great to see. Um, my favorite part about going was that the tour was led by one of the students and there's just there's so much pride um and happiness when the student is presenting and I think that's just um talks highly
099of um how the program is benefiting them. Um we were also able to speak to um a student and a teacher and their their love for ODH was um outpouring. So it was great to see and there's like an amazing team there um leading the way. Um Trusty Gerard and I were also able to go to Gateway and out of all the all my visits, this is the most engaged I've seen. The students, they had so many questions for us. Um and I loved it. Um, it was great to have those conversations with us. Um, I invited them to our board meetings. Uh, they didn't know that they were able to come. Um, and I did let them know that their teacher, Miss Pazaria, is at almost every meeting, so if they had any questions
100to ask her. Um, I didn't see any tonight, but hopefully in the future we will see um, some more. Um and then lastly um I was traveling for this was for my day job traveling with 20 students to Washington DC and New York. Um and upon my arrival I had a few hours to head over to progress seminar. So I made it um very little sleep but very glad that I attended. There were so many um great workshops um with great information um that I was able to attend and then it was just a great time to collaborate with um folks across the county and everyone doing amazing work. Um so I'm very excited for for next year to continue doing that. Um that Oh, and Trusty Love, thank you for bringing up the board
101self- evaluation. Um I recall you bringing it up also when we had um that study session to first look at the handbook. So thank you for reminding us and I will do my own research to see what um what other boards have or what's out there and hopefully we have something that we can use in the future to to get that going. Um so those are all my comments for item eight. We have the adjournment. The next regular meeting will take place on Wednesday, May. Yes, trust. You I know I usually screw this up because in comments I put additional items for the next agenda. I usually say that and this time I was trying to be a good boy but now it's not on the agenda but I would like to um see about
102having a discussion on the in an agenda future agenda um because I know finance is having a really rough time with their conversion about the um county office establishing a revolving fund for the pre-development costs for school districts building staff housing. Uh, thank you. Yes, I wrote that down. Okay. So, um, item 8 is the adjournment. The next regular meeting will take place on Wednesday, um, May 21st, um, at 7 p.m. And this meeting is now adjourned. Thank you. Good night, everyone. And I