001Go ahead. I'd like to call the meeting to order. This is a meeting of the Sanonteo Union High School District Board of Trustees. I'm calling the open session to order. Today is February 26th and it is 7:05 p.m. I'm going to do a remote roll call because we have a Trusty Andra Zuniga remote. Trusty Griffin >> present. >> Trusty Andra Zeneiga >> presented. >> Trusty Land >> present. >> Trusty Jacobson >> present. >> And I am present. Today we have a team from Hannah interpreting as our Spanish interpreters. For those who would like to attend the meeting virtually in Spanish, that option is available. Hannah interpreting, would you please communicate that for us this evening? Thank you. Just a minute here. Thank you. If you wish to view closed captions of this meeting, please view
002the meeting of the s please view the meeting on the Sanonteo Union High School Bo High School District board meeting YouTube channel. The link to the YouTube channel can be found on our website. You may view the captions in English as we live stream our meeting tonight and you may view the captions in a variety of other languages if you choose to watch after this meeting has ended. Viewers may request additional accommodations by calling 650-5582201. For our deaf and heart of hearing community, we have a team from Hannah interpreting services and they will be interpreting our meeting this evening. We would like you and everyone to speak at a clear and reasonable pace for our interpreters. Thank you. Would our board our student board representatives please lead us in the pledge of allegiance? >> Thanksg
003to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Before we be begin tonight's meeting, I would like to take a moment of silence to acknowledge the passing of one of our cappuccino students on February 15th. Sorry, our hearts are heavy as we reflect on this loss. On behalf of the board of trustees, we extend our deepest condolences to the students, family, friends, and classmates and the educators who knew and cared for them. The loss of a young person affects our entire school community. During times like these, it is important that we come together in compassion, kindness, and support for one another. We encourage anyone who may be struggling or need or in need of support to reach out to a trusted adult, counselor,
004or a loved one. Members of our community can visit our district website for mental health resources or reach out to their school site wellness team. At this time, I I invite you to join us in a moment of silence in memory of the student and in support of all who are grieving. Thank you. Please join me. Thank Thank you everyone. Thank you. Next, I'm going to report out of um the actions taken in close session. In close session, the board upon motion of Trusty Len and seconded by Trusty Jacobson move to approve the stipulated expulsion case 25-26-5 with a vote of 5 to zero. In close session, the board upon motion of Trusty Jacobson and seconded by Trusty Lan moved to approve approve the stipulated expulsion case 25-26-6 with a vote of 5 to zero.
005In closed session, the board upon motion of Trusty Len and seconded by Trusty Griffin move to approve move to approve to postpone the expulsion hearing case of 25-26-7 with a vote of 5 to Z. In closed session, the board with a motion of Trusty Lan and seconded by Trusty Jacobson move to approve to postpone the expulsion hearing of case 25-26-8 with a vote of 5 to zero. And now we're going to adopt the agenda. The board of trustees may either adopt the agenda as presented or make a change to the agenda through a motion, second, and a majority vote. The Brown Act prohibits any additions to the agenda without a 72-hour public notice for our regularly scheduled board meetings. Are there any questions or comments from the board of trustees or the superintendent with respect
006to the agenda? And if and if there's are any questions from the public, Miss Kina? No. Okay. >> So, I'd like to uh entertain a motion for the agenda. >> Sorry. >> Okay. Oh, there's three. So, so move. >> Okay. Trusty Griffin. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Trusty Lynn. Great. So, we'll do a roll call vote. Uh, Trusty Griffin, >> I. >> Trusty Andrade Janinea, >> I. >> Trusty Land, >> I. >> Trusty Jacobson, >> I. >> And I vote I as well. Thank you. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Welcome, board student board reps. How do you vote? >> I I thank you. Thank you. You guys are amazing. We're so happy you're here. You get to report out and tell us all about where you're from, what school. Okay, so now we're
007for the regular reports uh report of the superintendent. >> Thank you very much. Good evening everybody. Happy Thursday uh night as we're wrapping up uh February. Uh I'm going to talk a little bit about cell phones. We had discussions about that at our last meeting. Uh the district is seeking input via surveys from students, parents, and educators regarding student cell phone use during the school day to help guide the future direction of our district-wide mobile communication device policy. Over the past two years, student cell phone use has been an important topic of discussion across our district and throughout California. As you know, in 2024, the state passed AB 3216, the Phone Free Schools Act, which requires all school districts to update uh and adopt policies limiting or prohibiting student cell phone use by July 1st,
0082026. And as we continue refining our district-wide approach, we want to ensure that student, family, and educator perspectives are part of the decision-making process. We recognize that cell phones play multiple roles in students lives. They can support communication, safety, and access to information. And at the same time, educators and families have raised concerns about distraction during instructional time, social media pressures, academic integrity, and student well-being. Schools across California are adopting different models from restricting cell phones during class time to limiting use for the entire school days. Parents and educators across our district should have received their survey last night via email and students will be given the opportunity to take the survey at their sites in the coming days. The survey will close on March 13th and I look forward to discussing the topic further
009at our March 26th board meeting. So, lots to come there. Uh, career expo, the district-wide career expo is also happening tonight at Hillsdale High School. more than 35 organizations and programs will are on hand to speak about student uh students uh and apprenticeship programs, jobs in the trades, city government jobs, and more. And a couple of sports updates here. Uh baseball, experience the excitement of varsity baseball. Uh, the Hillsdale Knights take on Carl Montmont on Friday, April 10th, and the Berlingame Panthers take on the Cappuccino Mustangs on April 11th in thrilling games at the iconic Oracle Park, the home of the San Francisco Giants. If you want to be part of the action as these teams battle out on the field, um, to attend, you must purchase a ticket to one of the available regular
010season Giants games listed below. Uh, that's on the website. You can um your ticket purchase to a regular season game comes with a ticket to attend the high school baseball game on April 10th or 11th. And you can find out a lot more information on the Berlin game and Cappuccino High School websites. And finally, wrestling. We currently we have two student wrestlers, Kalila Johnson from Mills and Izzy Villa Realel from Sonteo High School who are at CIF California State Wrestling Championship in Bakersfield. Both girls won their day one championship matches this morning and have qualified to move on to day two individual wrestling championship matches. So, we want to wish them the best of luck. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Do we have a report from the district teachers association tonight? Oh, Craig.
011Hello, Craig. >> Hi. Good evening, uh, President Chavis and members of the board and district cabinet. Um, I apologize for my, uh, absence last time. Um, and so I do want to, uh, mention a few things, um, that I missed out on, uh, mentioning last time. I know Dr. Black uh recognized the retirees um at the last meeting, but I do want to just give a little uh anecdotal and somewhat quantitative uh uh blurb on on the folks who uh were announced last time. I won't won't be long belabor it but um Appleman Dowed Emanuel Flynn Johnson Lance Moss and Spencer Mills represent over 240 years cumulative uh devotion to this district and reaching and touching and uh impacting the lives of over 40,000 students. And I just want to say that that's an amazing
012uh achievement and it's something that we need to recognize. and also um a reason to really search for some new folks to fill the ranks and fill fill those spaces as they move on. Um uh want to also mention uh concur with uh uh Superintendent Booker about the cell phone uh outreach, cell phone policy outreach. I think it's really important as I mentioned last time uh that we get input from all the stakeholders uh on the particulars of how we implement this program. I think it's a very serious issue and um there are lots of important uh opinions on all sides. Um but to do really do what's right for the district and what's best for students and what's best for the community. I think it's really important that we get the feedback from from
013uh all stakeholders that are who are involved. Um the I'll take a point of personal privilege uh just to uh recognize um someone in the district with whom I've worked for a long time but in the last uh few months um have uh had the opportunity to work with her uh in a variety of capacities most importantly uh with respect to uh modifications to our teacher evaluation system. and that's uh Dr. Sabi Hopkins. Um Sabi is a principal in the um teacher induction program, a teacher evaluation system. Um she's a steadfast supporter of all students and teachers in this district. And the reason I wanted to mention her tonight is because we've been working on the seemingly mundane task of incorporating the new um particular tweaks of the California standards for the teaching profession uh
014into our evaluation system. And what you should know as as trustees and community members is that our teacher evaluation system and our teacher induction program is the envy of many districts in our um surrounding community. And that that is in no small part um due to the to the input of uh Dr. Hopkins. um when when she is charged with the seemingly mundane task as I said of incorporating new standards, she approaches it with a collaborative and inclusive perspective while maintaining and championing excellence for our educators and of course our students. Um I just want to point out that you know this could be done in a very top- down way and what I appreciate about her and her involvement is that she listens to all sides. We serve on a joint committee with administrators,
015teachers, classified staff as well um and have have moved forward in a really important and and informed uh implementation process. So uh throughout the years both the with the inception of our original evaluation system uh and then all the modifications throughout and now this challenging new uh implementation of new standards. I just want to recognize her work and and what she does uh for our district. And finally, um we'll we're going to see our annual report about enrollment and enrollment projections and uh transfer requests and staffing and capacities. Uh those are all important numbers and all met all important metrics that that we all look to to you know sort of project and and plan for the next year next year's and years on out the ongoing out years. Um I would just caution the
016board to always consider the as we consider uh looking at how we address specialized programs such as CTE or fine arts or different pro uh dual enrollment or different capacities at different schools that staffing decisions that we make now may have uh long-standing impacts for the future. Um, and just keep that in mind as we as we consider uh how we how we allocate staffing at the schools uh going forward. Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Mr. Childress. Next, we have a report of the C CSCA chapter 519 representative. It's good to see you. >> See you. >> Hello, President Chavez, school board trustees. Hello, Superintendent Booker, cabinet members, and especially student board members. It's awesome what you're doing here. Um, just blown away with what you guys do. It's important, and I hope
017everyone at your schools are proud of you. I am. So, good job. My name is Garrett Wolskill. I'm proud to announce that I have assumed the role of president of CSEA Chapter 519, representing the classified staff here, Sanonteo Union High School District. I have an amazing That word's not good enough. I was going to say I have an amazing team. Um but it's not correct. Phenomenal, stupendous, unparalleled. I don't know. I'm not a wordssmith. But I do know if you gave me a blank slate right now and told me to design my own dream team, I wouldn't come close to the quality of people I have working on my executive board. Um, so ladies, whether you're watching tonight or you check us out tomorrow morning, um, thank you and you are amazing. Um, CSEA is
018the backbone of public education in California. Without my union siblings, our students don't have access to healthy food, reliable transportation, or clean and safe facilities. The Wi-Fi crashes, the toilets back up, strangers walk onto our campuses. Without my brothers and sisters, the distractions mount and the learning stops. We paved the way for our teaching colleagues at DTA DTA to do the crucial work of educating our youth and shaping the future of the greatest state in our nation. And despite the current political climate, the greatest country on earth. Uh my family is here tonight. Um I'm married to a cappuccino graduate. My children are both fortunate future SMU students. I cannot wait for them to take full advantage of all the opportunities that will be presented to them. So thank you for all your support. Um,
019in my opinion, this school district, our school district, is top tier in all aspects of public high school education. I may be biased, but I do work here in the district office, headquarters, command center, the belly of the beast. I see the effort being put in and I see the results being churned out. I hear stories of success daily from all of our 10 campuses. I'm in awe of all the wonderful community events happening in our six cities and I'm proud to be part of this one district. Thank you all and have a great Easter. >> Thank you. >> And next we have the report of the Ceme School Teachers Association. >> Hello. Good evening. >> Good evening. Uh thank you board president, vice president, board members, and superintendent for the opportunity to speak tonight
020on behalf of the CFT union local 4681 and the staff of San Mato Adult and Career Education. Uh I'm here to share updates from our campus. I am Jesse Toiver, the uh local uh union president. And um I would like there are three things that I'm going to bring up tonight. We just recently had the CCA bay section winter conference. We hosted that on our campus and this was this past Saturday which brought in teachers from as far away as Martinez and Selenus. There were more than 20 sessions in our classrooms uh ranging from AI implementation uh in a literacy level classroom to know your rights training um in specific curricula and also traumainformed instruction for ESL students um in service to ESL students. Our student council as well as student volunteers were involved in
021organizing and setup and our very own union vice president Lynette Garcia led a packed session. the room was filled and that was done with Terry Krenshaw, our workforce consultant on developing a strong CTE program in an adult school as adult schools all over the area uh as well as the country are seeing the need for a robust career technical education programs in our communities. And that's just a little preview. Next week we will have some more in-depth sharing about the actual numbers as well as highlights of our student ambassadors and the student council who came through to volunteer. It was a great a great program. Uh we'd also like to have a recognition of excellence uh for Lisa Sparks. Uh huge thank you to her um our ESL coordinator for her leadership during our WASK
022midcycle review. Lisa was instrumental in ensuring a seamless and productive visit for Samontale adult and career education. Uh she distri uh it displayed operational elegant excellence, excuse me. Uh that where she was able to coordinate hybrid logistics, including Zoom links and schedules for both online and in-person class visits. My class had a special camera installed so someone was able to drop in and watch me teach my AB class in the morning. Um and that was that was quite a technical feat. I'd never seen anything like that little a little weird R2-D2 thing. Anyway, uh strategic leadership she displayed as well, organizing her the pre-prep focus groups to align our team and with uh our prior wasque goals and to ensure all stakeholders from educators to support staff were fully prepared. And this of course resulted
023in our pro our post visit focus groups that clearly demonstrated the positive impact of our action plan on student success. A quote from the report about Lisa, it says she didn't just organize a visit. She highlight highlighted a culture of excellence. We are particularly grateful to the teachers who open their classrooms, showcasing the engaged learning and hard work that Lisa helped document so effectively. We truly appreciate Lisa's ability to manage the technical and the logistical and the human elements of this process. And also we had uh well the union it was not the union's first meeting but it was my first meeting with superintendent Booker last week. It was a productive meeting where we were able to discuss the lockdown incident that occurred on our campus on February 12th. Um I do want to bring
024that up because there was an issue as far as emergency communications on our campus. I will give you a quick blow-by-blow from my perspective. At 9:19 on that day, February 12th, it was announced over the intercom, the in room intercom, that school was going on lockdown. In my classroom, my students, they all jumped up. They helped close the blinds, locked the door, um, get things set and got under tables, sat next to the doors and walls, out of sight, out of out of any kind of target range. My first thought as I sat there against the wall was that there was an incident actually at Sonteo High School because this has happened once before. Was it ICE? Was it a shooter? Was it a second thought was was it just somebody wandering onto campus that
025was potentially a threat? I heard later that in another classroom students were actually barricading the walls and the windows and the door with tables and chairs. 10 minutes after it was called, the lockdown was lifted and we had to go back teaching like normal. I'd like to point out that this was one day after the shooting that happened in British Columbia that killed nine people. Also, the next day, one of the first questions, actually, sorry, the first question that I was asked as I entered the room was what had happened. Did they ever say what had happened? I had to actually explain that it was a massive miscommunication. After the dust had settled, we had learned that no admin on duty on campus had been there. There was there uh our director and assistant director
026were away at a conference. The admin that was uh assigned to be on duty was actually on route because she was also scheduled to be there at night. Um so, uh Apha staff was left scrambling for info uh which created the information silos. I know that there's a larger chat that our director is a part of, but there was no one that was able to access those things. So we were getting things second and thirdand staff at SMACE in the office only learned of the threat through incidental contact a Zoom meeting while the neighboring bridge program had already received notice and secured their area. We're on the same campus. We share we share buildings. Office staff uh lacked the authorized user code for the phone's PA system. So on our phones PA system, we learned
027at the beginning of the school year in August that there is a way to make an announcement. you dial 888 as well to say this is what's going on. But they didn't have the authorized user code for the phone system in the office uh requiring a manual search for the instructions during an active crisis. 6 minutes after apparently the Sanato High School received their secure campus directive campus safety. Now they had received secure campus campus safety personnel announced a lockdown on our campus over the classroom intercoms. And literally a minute after that, the office was finally able to make an announcement over the phone's PA. Afterward, conflicting directives were issued regarding when to lift the lockdown, leading to a lack of synchronization between our neighboring programs. Bridge students were released while the adults were still
028on lockdown. There were mixed messages. Obviously, we want to acknowledge that this was not the fault of any one person, but a confluence of factors that exposes a serious flaw in how emergencies are handled. While we are grateful that there was no physical harm, no one was hurt, the lack of coordination between the Sanato High School and the bridge program and the SMACE campus created an unacceptable risk. The union wants to express that when we have no direct communication or even direction, it demonstrates a lack of care for our presence as a community in our district. When we receive an unclear message, it demonstrates to us that we are not a priority, but an afterthought. This is not the first time this has happened. uh the same person that was able to find out that
029Samato was on secure campus had also in a previous time uh had to go out and actually ask the police who were sitting in our parking lot why were they in our parking lot and it was only then she had discovered that oh that time it was also supposed to be a secure campus. Um so again lack of communication. Our students are adults, which is true. We can say that they know how to handle this. But among our adult students are immigrants who have experienced violence in their home countries. Adults who are refugees, adults with years, if not decades of trauma, both immigrant and US-born. Our students see campus as a safe place. They see it as a safe place. Their community and the teachers as the guardians of that. We need to maintain that
030trust. We want to make an acknowledgement of support that we appreciate superintendent Booker's willingness to sit with us and listen and to address these concerns. We value his acknowledgement of the current system shortcomings and look forward to collaborating on a more robust failsafe communication structure that prioritizes the safety of all students and staff. We want to push for a comprehensive overhaul of protocols to ensure every person on our campus is protected by timely actionable information when the admin when the administration meets next month regarding campus safety. We look forward to future discussions and collaboration with the district and space administrators to address this. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Next, we have our amazing uh student board representatives. Please introduce yourselves and give your report out. Thank you. >> Hello everyone. My name is
031Laya Edwa and I am a student board representative for Cappuccino High School. Um I am a senior and throughout my years at Capino I've been actively involved in multiple clubs as well as starting my own club called the Mena Club standing for Middle Eastern Northern African. um where I've been able to create a space dedicated to celebrating and learning about menaculture while also creating a sense of belonging and representation for those who don't might not feel like they have it. I've also been a peer tutor at my school um since I've been a junior where I support students through all subjects and through tutoring I've been able to work with students with different academic backgrounds which has given me a bigger understanding of the strengths and challenges within our school's community. Recently at my school
032at Cappuccino we're trying to combat hate speech. We've seen this issue grow throughout the years. So, our student equity council has been trying to find ways to respond through our discussions in the classroom. We figure that the main cause for hate and hate speech is the lack of understanding or exposure to different cultures and perspectives of others. As a way to educate people in a spiritful and light-hearted way rather than just focusing on discipline, we've wanted to help build community. We're currently planning on hosting a multi multicultural day where we'll be presenting different cultures through performances, games, food, and more. And all will be studentled. We figured this would be a good way to get everyone involved where we hope it would make those who feel less represented less represented more empowered and encouraged and
033others to learn more about differing cultures and perspectives. Recently, a proclamation that I've been working on is the here at the district is the National ArabAmerican Heritage Month Proclamation. As an Arab-American woman myself, I hope this proclamation will do the following. Create a community where that is willing to learn about different cultures and make the unrepresented feel more empowered in a community where they truly deserve to belong. Um, I'll now summarize the last proclamation. The National Women's History Month proclamation. Um, March is National Women's History Month. Women's History Month began as a local celebration in Santa Rosa, California for one week. The education task force of the Soma County Commission on the Status of Women first planned and executed a Women's History Week celebrated in 1978. The organizers selected the week of March 8th to
034correspond with International Women's Day. After years of advocacy by the National Women's History Project, Congress in 1987 officially designated March as Women's History Month. Women's roles as caregivers, whether as mothers, grandmothers, sisters, or aunts, biologically or not, have nurtured generations, helping to provide the foundation for countless advancements in justice, culture, and society. American women of every race, class, and ethnic background throughout our history have, despite hardship, exclusion, and discrimination strived and sacrificed for equity and equality in communities across the country and have served as early leaders in the forefront of every major progressive social change movement. Standing on the shoulders of the women who came before them, today's women's and girls continue to carry forward the mission of ensuring our daughters have the same opportunities as our sons. Women are leading to the fight for
035justice, opportunity, and equality and continue to lead groundbreaking civil rights movements for social justice and freedom. Smush recognized the importance of educating our community about women's history as a way to promote equity, ensuring that all students have equal access to opportunities and are represented in the achievements we promote. Furthermore, Smoosh understands its responsibility to share the history with our community, particularly with regard to honoring the significant and long-standing contributions when women have made in this nation, in California, and our local community. Schmoo acknowledges and it and is committed to the work that remains in order to achieve gender equality for our younger women students. We remain committed to empowering this next generation of leaders by instilling confidence in their abilities and supporting their successes. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, my name is Alexa Jun and
036I'm one of the student representatives from Sato High School. Um at San Mo I'm a peer tutor and help in running the crochet sax which stands for science accelerating girls engagement and the Bible study clubs. Um outside of school I'm super passionate about creating online content and sharing resources. So I have my own podcast called Behind the Career where I interview professionals in different careers so that other high schoolers can watch and explore different jobs. Um I was inspired to do so last year when volunteering at Firstep um a local homeless shelter. Um an update at Sonteo is that this week we are going through the breaking down the walls program. Um and students were um that participated were chosen because they were identified by staff members that identified the students um as having the
037ability to take a leadership role or who could benefit from um meeting more people in the Bearcat community. Um, I think I believe the program is different every day and I actually attended today and I learned a lot about um the Bearcat community and empathy and respect. Um, something else that's going on is we've also wrapped up Limiz, which is a huge production put on by the Bearcat Theater um, program for the past two weekends. I didn't even think to mention this, but Dr. Booker mentioned it. Um, Izzy's a dear friend of mine and we're also proud that she qualified for the wrestling state competition. Um, something that I've been working on as a student board member is the proclamations. I recently worked on the developmental disabilities and the school board proclamations and will also
038be working on the autism awareness proclamation. Um, I had spoke with Miss Chocolley about this. I really um hope to expand the autism awareness proclamation to be the neurodeiversity awareness proclamation. Um but understand that since it's not a federally observed holiday or month that it cannot be possible and I'm still very disappointed in that. Um, I would still like to recommend to the board that the neurodiversity awareness um proclamation can be added to the list of district proclamations for the upcoming 2027 um year and beyond. Um, I would now like to introduce a few of the student colleagues at Hillsdale High School and the Bay program um who they recorded a summary of the National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month proclamation. These students are Isabella Matthews, Dexter Walke, Matteo Escobar, Emry Tolantino, Emilyn Tolbert, and Luke
039Pantoia. Disability National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month DJM is in March. It is a time to learn about and support with pe support people with developmental disabilities. It also helps us think about how to make school and communities more welcoming for everyone. >> Developmental disabilities start start when the person is young. In the USA, about one out of every six children has develop developmental disability around the world with many people have disabilities too. GDAM reminds us to celebrate the strengths and talents of people with disabilities and make sure everyone feels included and respected. >> Recruiting schools all help us students learn kindness, teamwork, and understanding. When students learn together, they're better prepared to live, work, and diverse world. The San Hill Yin High School District believes that everyone belongs. We teach about disability history and the
040rights of people with disabilities so students can better understand respect differences. Disability is part of human diversity. >> District also supports students voices and help students with disabilities build skills for school friendship, jobs, and life after high school. Each year DDAM is supported by the National Associates of Councils on Developmental Disabilities. The color orange is used to show energy and positivity. Our school will encourage students and staff to wear orange support for inclusion. >> Thank you. Thank you. Sorry, I'm I'm the emotional one up here. Thank you. That was so beautiful and and touching. And thank I want to thank you both for your um report out. You're awesome. Thank you. >> I don't know how we can um go forward with our board comments because but anyway, let's let's start with Mr. Trusty Griffin.
041>> I'll make it easy. I have no comments. >> Okay. Thank you. Trusty Anda, right? Would you like to go next? I think you're >> I think you're muted. Maybe maybe she didn't hear you. >> Yes. Sorry. No, my my uh screen keeps freezing. Can you hear me? Okay. >> Yes. >> Great. Great. Great. Thank you. Okay. I'm going to read a land acknowledgement that was written by some of our students from Cappuccino uh now a few years ago. Um, our community acknowledges that one of our camp that all of our campuses lie on the ancestral homeland of the Rometo Aloney. The Rome Tush are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula whose land was stolen from them and whose native language was lost because of Spanish colonization. As settlers on the stolen land
042of the peninsula, we should be alongside the Romeous remembering and honoring their ancestors relatives. We thank the first people, the Rometo Shaloni, for taking care of the land we use now for education and activities. Our responsibility of caring for the earth is unique and personal to each of us, but should be rooted in allyship with a talon so we can work together to protect and preserve the land for future generations. Um, I am still recovering. I had surgery um a month or so ago. Um, but I was able to send some representatives of mine to um, attend some things that I didn't want to miss. Um, we attended the Hillsdale High School um, interviews, the mock interviews this week um, with the students that are juniors um, at Hillsdale and those were are always very
043fruitful. Um there are actually a couple of students that um the person that I sent um had told me about and one of them um was a student that didn't feel that they had a lot of a lot of things on their resume and they didn't know what to say. And these this is exactly why um this program is so important for students um to learn what to put on their resumes, to learn how to interview um to just I'm sorry. Oh, there you go. Well, you froze for just a moment. Sorry about that. >> Yeah, sorry. My um internet is a little unstable. Um but it I was saying that that particular event is important because it helps our students market themselves. So, um that was very fruitful. Um the adult school um had
044an event last uh I think a couple of weeks ago now um where there was a a woman that brought some quilts um to the adult school to present about African-American history and a lot of of the different um a lot of the different contributions um that black people have made in our communities. Um that was really amazing. my partner actually went and he took a bunch of pictures and some video. Um it it didn't do it justice the the pictures, but um what's really important is that we acknowledge our history and that we continue to um to encourage folks to learn about everything that um has happened here in our community and then across the nation. So I'm really grateful to the adult school for inviting us to do that. Um, I also want
045to just say thank you to our all of our educators that continue to show up for our students during these times that are very um distressing for families. Um, folks that show up every day to provide food and opportunities and support and services. Um on March 7th is the transition to independence fair for youth with disabilities in our community that are transitioning into adulthood at the office of education. It's from 10 to 3 and there will be a lot of different booths and different opportunities to meet with service providers that will provide different types of opportunities for our youth. Um the OYA conference is on March 28th. Um that's a conference for youth that are Latinos in our community that's at Kenya College. Um there's a Ramadan ifar on March 3rd next week at Mills
046High School. Um that is really important because it you you learn about um Ramadan and a lot of different um folks join it's a potluck and you can be in community with different people from the community that maybe um that aren't always um aren't always uh celebrated. So this is a very important event. Um lastly I wanted to mention that um with with the students that passed away um there is a behavioral health commission youth committee through the um Sanonteo County. They're always looking for youth to be commissioners and they always provide really important information about mental health. They're also tied to the suicide prevention committee that also hosts our youth um to learn about mental health resources and it's a definitely a an important resource. Um the last week I attended the juvenile justice
047commission um meeting online. Um there was an a really amazing um program called the Bay Area Creative and with that they have um a program called Unheard Voices where they um do journal journaling and there's students that will um that are now in the care of the juvenile justice um programs like kind of like we have here at Gateway and at the youth services center that will share um they were share their experiences through uh journalist uh journal excuse me journaling and through poetry. Um so if you can if you get a chance to hear um I know they had some on YouTube um with that with the commission meeting. It's called barriia creative unheard voices. Right now they're primarily I believe in the East Bay but I'm hoping that we can bring that here
048to our county. Um so that's all I have to share. I just want to share one last call, one last quote. Um, may we never stay silent in the face of injustice. May we never lose our humanity. And that's by Alexis Derasa, um, the previous director newspaper. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you very much, Trusty L. >> Thank you. Um, just really quickly, uh, a few weeks ago, I was I just want to say that we had Assemblywoman Pepin help with the community form, the electric bike community forum at Mills co-sponsored. It was great that uh, so many people were there and it was an important issue. Um, important legislation is coming through uh, to really help with the issues that ebikes have had in our in our communities. Um, I also want to
049welcome the board members, our student board members. Thank you so much. You guys did a great job today. Um, it's so nice to have you. I think the community has been telling and even our CSEA rep really pointed out how important you are to our committee and our board. So, thank you for being here and being part of it and I'm so happy the board you have a student board all together and that I'm glad that we have that in operation right now. So, thank you. Um, which transitions me to our cell phone policy conversation. I received the letter from our council which is awesome. Um I also want to say thank you to our uh district for really doing a survey for asking about getting student voice, getting staff voice, getting uh teachers involved.
050It is a complex issue. It is not a simple issue. It is something that we need to have uniformity on. Um, I do want to um acknowledge an editorial by the editor-inchief of the Sonteo Daily Journal um came out on February 13th, an article that discusses this issue. And I think, you know, I I just recommend my fellow board members to read um uh John May, John May's article on the Belltobell situation, what we think we need to do. So, um anyway, that's it for me. Thank you so much. >> Thank you, Trusty Lamb. Trusty Jacobson. >> Thank you. Um I just have a couple of things to report on. Last week I attended the district equity council meeting. Um we had great attendance and we reviewed data from our um information about tier three
051support programs. Um what stood out to me about that meeting was actually the beginning um when we all shared uh we were honoring women's history month and I'm grateful to the students who read uh the proclamation some quotes from it. We all shared about a woman who had influenced us for good in life. And I was moved by how many people there um honored or or recognized their family members like uh mothers, grandmothers, sisters, one mentioned her daughter. And I just I'm really um moved by the line in the proclamation that acknowledges women's unique and essential role as caregivers and nurturers. And um so I wanted to point that out. Secondly, I attended uh the production of lay miser rob at uh San Monteo High School with Trusty Chavez. actually um it was I brought
052my um my twin sons and so they could enjoy it with me. I'd been playing the music all over the house so that they could get and in the car so they could get familiar with the music and we we just had a great time. It was a wonderful production. I'm so grateful for the staff and everyone who excuse me helped make that production happen. And I also watched the TV spot about it and um Miss Waznjak who directed the show was saying that it was a no cut show. Um which means that anybody who wanted to participate could participate and I'm just so grateful to our district that we offer those opportunities to our students. Um and a lot of work goes into those those things. So I'm grateful. And lastly, on um Tuesday
053of this week, I attended the first meeting of the AI um artificial intelligence task force and we had a great representation from students and parents and staff members. Um I want to thank Julia Kempkkey and Brian Simmons for putting together such a great um introductory um meeting for that group. Um, and what what I was grateful for also is that they really emphasized that our goal here is to preserve the humanizing aspects of education. And um, we started out by everybody uh, naming something that AI should not replace. um as we move forward into this kind of wild west new frontier um it's it's still very much a value of our district to humanize our education. Um, we split up into groups of based on who we are, parents or educators or students, and identified
054what our needs are, um, the benefits, the limitations, what questions we have, and um, I think it gave uh, our leadership group team a lot to work with um, as we move forward and prepare for our study session in May. Um, so that's all I have tonight. Thank you. >> Thank you. I have a just a few things to share. I do want to say thank you to our student board reps. We're just always excited when you're here and thank you for your report outs and the video that staff put together. That was uh that was awesome. Um I also wanted to share about lay miz that I attended last Friday with Trusty Jacobson. I didn't know it was going to be that long and I don't know how those students can memorize 3 hours
055worth of songs and >> thought intermission was the end. And I said, "Oh, how could I know I was going to share that, but she stole my thunder cuz it was about 90 minutes, give or take, about 5 minutes." And I said, "How come we didn't have any intermission?" And she trusty Jacobson said, "This is the intermission." I said, "You're kidding." To then she just laughed really loud and everybody looked over at us. So then we got some snacks and everything. And then I said, "Is the second half just as long?" They said, "It's a little shorter. How do these students memorize three hours of lines?" I looked around. There's no nothing hanging with the lines and I'm just like amazed and amazed that every student who wants to be in the production. We have
056I'm sure there's a lot of stage hands behind and by the way there's also the amazing band performing right um live they're down there by the stage right so I just think the whole production is all student I just I'm amazed I've been we've also attended different productions uh together in the last few years but I think this might have been this might win the award for the longest but it truly amazing and I don't know how they can memorize all those lines um I just want to say a couple more things um we had a stu the San Bruno Lions Science Club has an annual student speaker contest and it was last week um on on February 17th and I was honored um to be one of the three judges and um the three
057students were from Cappuccino and Mills um and I would I thought they did they all three did an amazing job. I'm not really the best judge because I'll just give everybody an A+ but it was there was little I mean we had to fill in the boxes. So there was uh three judges. Um the speeches were 5 to 10 minutes. That was the that was their criteria and the topic was youth mental health and overcoming barriers to well-being. And I thought all three students were amazing. And so the student that received the most points they're going on and upward to a countywide uh Lions contest. So I, you know, I wish them well. I just wanted to say that they're all three of the students were were from our district and they were all amazing.
058Um the only other thing I want to mention is a reminder to everybody and my fellow colleagues here that our March 10th board meeting is going to be on Tuesday this year. Um so our next board meeting is on a Tuesday and that's so that we won't we won't have a conflict with open houses um in our district. And then we also just so everybody just so the public knows we voted on this um for our whole calendar of this school year. This is part of that vote. But this is a reminder because this is a one-off. So, our next board meeting will actually be on a Tuesday and it's Tuesday, March 12th. Thank you. And that's Oh, >> you know what? I totally forgot something. Yep. Go ahead. >> This is gratuitous gratuitous gratuitous
059marketing for my school. Um, but Trusty Jacobson reminded me. Um on March 10th in our BIS auditorium from 6:30 to 8:30 we have a very uh prestigious individual who's really knowledgeable about AI called his name is Po Professor Po Shenlow um he's from Carnegie Melon uh he's a professor there and he is going to be talking about how to address issues of AI with parents and all different aspects of upcoming AI companions and what do we need to do and how basically I'll say how can we help our children avoid the trap of AI companions and instead build the human communication skills and critical thinking necessary for a shifting job market. So it's an amazing talk. I'm going to promote it to all of you trying to get maybe our superintendent can you know participate
060and join in and maybe our assistant soups etc. What's >> it's March 10th? >> I know I'm putting that out there. >> Oh my god. Well, >> no. >> I will not be attending. So, >> you won't be attending the board meeting or or the >> correct >> because I'll be here. >> Oh my goodness. >> And on that note, >> wait, I'm confused. Are you attending the board meeting or are you attending that? Okay, >> you guys are missing out. >> Oh, but we agree on this date. Don't worry public, you could do both because this is always um recorded. No, um we're this our board meeting is March 10th because we have open houses on March 12th. So that's why I'm announcing this because our board meetings are usually on on Thursdays, but
061this our next board meeting is actually actually on Tuesday. Well, we'll have to we'll find somebody else to fill the seat. Can we get a third student rep? Just kidding. Okay, so yeah, so we we'll move on to um I know we have a lot of jokes tonight. We'll move on to public comments next. Um, if you're joining us in person and wish to make a comment about an agenda item or during the public comment section of that particular agenda item, please fill out the request to address the board form. It looks like this. It's blue and submitted to the secretary, Miss Aino. This form should be given to the secretary before the agenda item begins. If you are joining us virtually, please use the raise hand feature on Zoom to be recognized. When invited
062to do so, your camera must be on before you are called to make a public comment. We will call on you to begin your comment once we have promoted you into the meeting. If your camera is not operational, please email your comments to the board of trustees at board bard d smuhsd.org and we will always read your email. Please note that comments are limited to three minutes. The board president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public comment depending upon the topic and number of persons wishing to be heard. We will call upon inperson comments first. And I have one comment card. Are there any more? Just one. >> Just one online. >> Just one. Okay. >> No, you went online as well. >> Okay, great. Thank you for that, Mr. Aino. So, in
063person is um um Eddie Ortiz. Did I get that right? I'm sorry. I apologize. Oh, great. Would you like to come to the podium and you'll have three minutes? Let's make sure we have that. Oh, I think it's on. I think the microphone is on for you. Yes. >> Good evening, everyone. Honored to be here. Uh my name is Eddie Ortiz. I'm here to read uh something very important that everyone's um needs to know about this. I work at Cappuccino Specialist Campus Safety uh for over 28 years. And tonight I'd like you know that I was illegally forced to retire by Mr. Kirk Black. I had been a victim of Mr. Kirk Black threat and I was threatening by him and forced me to into retirement. After I dedicated nearly three decades of my life
064to the district, this had been extremely painful and difficult to deal with along with my family. I was informed that investigation was conducted by Jose Gomez and Diego Harris, but the process was not transparent. Both Jose Gomez and Diego Harris carry out an investigation that it was false just to get me rid of just to get me rid of me. I never had any previous complaint in 28 years. It is important for the district and community to be aware of the conduct that Mr. Craig Black and the manner in which he uses to his authority to threaten employees who have been dedicated their careers to services to the district. This situation was handling unfairly illegally and without integrity. My right my rights were also violated and former employees have forbidden and given had never had
065any complaint in my almost 28 years with the district. I'm here to let you know everyone that all the allegation was false and as this time there has been no evidence whatsoever. Good evening everyone. Thank you, Mr. Ortiz. Hey, next we have a um online comment. Mr. Aino, would you please promote them? Mr. Ing, I'll now promote you. You can turn on your camera and unmute. You can begin when you're ready. >> Good evening, President Chavez, Board of Trustees, District Cabinet, Superintendent Booker, District Teachers Association, California School Employees Association, Chapter 519, Santos Adult School Teachers Association and Student Board. My name is Walter Ing and I serve as a community engagement supervisor at Felton Institute's Peninsula Suicide Prevention. We are the leaders in the field of suicide prevention in Sonteo County, co-chairing the Sanonteo County
066Behavioral Health and Recovery Services Suicide Prevention Committee and providing services for all members of the community. We are accredited by the American Association of Suicideology and serve as the only crisis center hub in Sonteo County. Our primary mission is to provide a 247 safety net for all Sano County residents to contact us when they're facing mental health challenges. When someone calls 988, the nationwide number for the SAMA, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Suicide and Crisis Line, they are connected with a Peninsula Suicide Prevention Crisis Counselor, providing immediate life-saving support for calls, texts, and chats. Our dedicated and highly trained crisis counselors do more than just listen. They conduct rigorous suicide risk assessments, co-create personalized safety plans, and provide the compassionate connection necessary to deescalate individuals in their darkest moments. Beyond immediate crisis
067intervention, we are committed to communitywide resilience. Peninsula suicide prevention has an active memorandum of understanding with Santo Union High School District to facilitate a variety of educational trainings and clinical trainings tailored just for their schools. So at no cost to your district, we are always available to provide postcrisis intervention and post vvention support, helping the school community navigate the complex aftermath of a mental health emergency, sudden death or death by suicide. At Peninsula Health at Peninsula Suicide Prevention, we believe that through education and awareness, we can continue to foster a more supportive and informed district than it already is. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you, Mr. Ing, for your comments. Are there any other No, >> that is all. >> That's all. Okay. Thank you, Miss Aino. >> Okay. I see we don't
068have any uh going on the agenda. We have um no communications to the board and no recognition. Okay. So, next we'll go to consent. Do any of the trustees wish to pull an item from the consent for discussion or questions? No. Okay. Hearing none, do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> I move to approve the consent agenda. Second. >> Second. Okay. We have a motion and a second. We'll do a roll call vote. Um, Trusty Griffin, >> hi. >> Trusty Andrade Zunika. >> I. >> Thank you. Trusty Land >> I. >> Trusty Jacobson >> I. >> And I vote I as well. And student board reps, how do you vote? >> I. >> Thank you. Okay, great. Now we're um on special reports and appearances. We have three special reports and
069appearances. The first one is I'm introducing the OYA conference and I will introduce our guest speaker. Give me one second. I don't have I don't memorize this. So I want to introduce our guest speaker, Miss Jennifer Blanco. She's a former colleague of mine from the San Bruno Park Elementary School District. Um a former trustee and currently uh Miss Blanco is the vice chair on the Sanonteo County Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Commission. and she is also one of the co-leads on the outreach team for the OY LAN X youth conference and I did attend OYA um two years ago and I think it's it's a great conference for our youth so I welcome u Miss Blanco to come up and present thank you I'm sorry I just wanted to tell Lee Leah you spoke about
070a little bit about our JJDPC commission meeting thank you and also about Oh yeah, you might as well just do the presentation for Uh, it's all good. Much props. Thank you. So, good evening Samonte Union High School District Board of Trustees, administration, uh, student board, Miss Char, um, staff from Satellion High School District, and, um, thank you so much for giving me the time to present about OY. So, um, I will start with a little bit of history with OY. Um, not many folks do know what Oy is or what it means. So, with the history about OY, so it actually was born out of the Fair Oaks Community Center in the UN incorporated area of Redwood City. there were so we're in the 14th year but when this was just a conversation with community
071members they saw that there was a need um for to support our Latino youth at the time um but it has grown through the years and now Kanya College is home to Oy so this year's theme is resilient and strong you always carry on um sh I emailed the blers I was wondering if you can put them up Please, if you can, thank you. If you can't, no problem. Um, and so the theme is we well the theme was was what came was um was uh founded um who came up with the theme were the youth. We do have youth on our on our committee and they're the ones who came up with the theme. Um, obviously the theme for this year was because of what the national political climate is right now with um
072with ICE, the immigration raids. Um, our kids are not blind. Um, and they see what's happening. Um, they know that their families are in danger and the Latino community is under attack and we're being hunted. Um, >> oh, we're not ready for the we're not ready for the uh >> the video yet. Um, so it's this. So it's this year it's March 28th 8:30 to 2 and O means it has double meaning in Spanish it o um can either mean hear me or listen to me and O is the acronyms for oruo e edoc translation in English it's pride and education and o is for youth and for parents we have workshops some are in Spanish some are bilingual This year we are very fortunate to be partnering with Santel County Office of Ed. They
073have offered to assist us with transportation with the OY organization. We've tried to do our best to remove um barriers and transportation is a barrier. So what we've been doing with um partnering becoming strategic partners with all of the 23 school districts here in our county. And so we do know that there are districts that can afford to pay for transportation. We know transportation is very expensive, but for the districts that may not have that type of funding, we provide reimbursement to be able to have districts uh bring bus full of um the youth and their parents. So that's also something that's offered here to San Antonio High School District for any of the schools that would like to bring a bus full of um attendees that there is uh we can reimburse the schools
074for their transportation costs. Um and so I um what we've been doing with with OY as well, we've been trying to reach out to other school districts across the county to do presentations. We've been having a couple of one-on-one meetings with superintendent. Just on Tuesday, we met with Superintendent Crystal Leech from Scoya Union High School District and um uh Mr. Randall Booker. Uh Crystal sends a challenge to you that uh she's challenging your district to have the most students and parents attend OY this year. So, just wanted to put that out there for you. Um, I know that Lehi had mentioned that um, OY is just for Latino youth. Um, just wanted to just clarify it. Yes, that's what the targeted population was at the time because of the need, but it's open and we
075welcome all students, all parents from all um, all um, ethnic groups. So, it's open to everybody. And so we do I do have a video to show you and after the video please feel free to ask any questions. So was wondering if we can show the video now. Okay. All right. Today we're here at OY. Um it's the 13th annual conference here at college. I'm excited because we have over 500 kids that came out to hear from guest speakers to your power by connecting with others. >> Their story and their fight really inspired me. >> Our theme this year is together we rise. And I think that's a perfect summary about what this conference represents. We get to showcase our community do a bunch of different activities workshop come together and the academic identity of
076my student we have a large Latino population who are looking into what's next what's the next love this conference things that happen they are fired they're connected they need guidance and this is the place where we actually find Good morning and I'm a junior at this space open to my Vasco and I'm a junior at Middle College program. >> My name is Yam. >> I'm a freshman at Sequoa High School. My name is Juliana Garcia. I'm a sophomore at Woodside High School. >> OA to me means the opportunity to end Quincy. >> To me, OA means the opportunity educate and provide for you. >> To me, OA means an opportunity to get closer and connect to your community. >> To me means working together as a folks. >> First of all, it is such an
077honor and pleasure to be here. Uh I feel extra nervous because you are the community that I feel responsible. uh not responsible for responsible to >> is powerful movement of young people and adult allies that are ready to change the world. >> Times we have to create a world where everybody has an opportunity to succeed to get a good job to afford to go to college to afford to stay in the town that they grew up in. So, if we're going to save the environment or build a better world for our little brothers and sisters, then we have to do this together. And so, let's listen to one another's struggles. Let's stand up for one another and leave behind the things that divide us and set focus on the things that bring us together. Imagine
078if you know five years from now that you have a space that is holding thousands and thousands and thousands of young Latino and other types of community that are coming together and adults to change the world to set policy to make recommendations and ultimately to be the leaders that we need today. Oh, me. Oh, say me. Thank you. I love to see all of our youth students that many students get so passionate about. I I don't know if you saw it, but your logo was up there. >> Yes. >> Did you guys You guys want to know why? >> Yeah. You guys don't know. So, we have Adriel Espinosa. I believe he's shared between Cappuccino, I think, in Hillsdale instructional aid. So, he's on our planning committee. So, whatever organization or agency you're with, your
079logos make it up on our planning committee. So, I was kind of hoping you guys would see that. So, just some last um other um items I me I failed to mention. The day is studentled. We have MC's that the MC um is a application process where all students that would like to MC an OY there's an application process and once you chose you're chosen then there's training um after that. So the other thing is our keynote speaker is Dr. Emanuel Alejandro Perez. He's Conteo's CSM um CSM's president and the whole day is free. We also have we feed everybody. We have we provide a light breakfast and lunch. Last year we had papooseas. I don't know what we're having this year so I don't not sure. And we end the day with oya fest.
080And unfortunately I just found out tonight we just had a oya planning committee and the low riders are not coming this year. So uh that's how we ended it with last year with the oya fest which is new to the program. So that's the presentation for OY and we hope that Satell Union High School District becomes a strategic partner and we have more youth this year to attend OY. So any questions questions from the board? >> Do you know what I'm going to ask you? >> Yes, I do. >> Do you have any uh open resource slots table slots left? >> So I did forward your email to Vicki Aila who oversees. So, OYA, we have about seven or eight subcommittees. I'm part of the O out outreach. Vicki does the resource fair and I
081did forward your email and you were supposed to receive an application to confirm so you can table at OA. >> Okay. >> Let me know if you didn't get it. If you can let me know tonight and I'll make sure that you get that. >> Thank you so much. >> I think the deadline's the 20th. I just found out today. >> Okay. Thank you. I want to mention to everybody that there's a lot of tables and booths with community partners. >> Yes, we do have a we do have a resource fair. We partner we we just got a report earlier tonight in our meeting that we had over 50 uh um s um just requests, but it's limited space. So, as soon as you get your email, fill out that application, Jennifer, so you can
082make sure you get a spot. >> Thank Thank you. Are there any other questions from the board? Oh, student questions. Perfect. Great. Go right ahead. So, I'm not sure about the other schools in the district, but I know San Monteo has a large Latinx population. How are you promoting this event? Um, like what can we do as students to promote this? >> Okay, sure. Um, great question. So, your district already has So, every year I send out an e email. I direct it to the superintendent and I include all pre uh I was going to say presidents, all principles and members of the the administration team. And from there then that's something we don't micromanage. We just send that information and then we leave it on the district to how they want to promote it.
083But if you'd like to get access to our our uh flyers, a lot of our students who are on the OYA planning committee are taking it to social media. So that's how it's being promoted. >> Thank you. >> Go ahead. >> I have a question. Um, Miss Miss Blanco, um, can you give us maybe like examples of what type of workshops there are for the students? >> Okay. So, I know that I don't have the workshop list that we had from last year in front of me, but I do know that we have workshops about how to apply um, money for college. We have workshops on applying for scholarships outside of your school community and I do believe we have know your rights and that's all I can think of right now. I don't have
084the but if you likely I can send you the list from last year. Not a problem. >> Thank you. And there's also a website for OA. Correct. And there's information there. >> Yes. If you just type in OA, it should pop up. >> That's right. Thank you. Okay, if there's no further questions, I want to thank you for your presentation. >> Thank you so much. You guys have a good night. Thank you. >> Yes. Awesome. >> Okay. Next on our special reports and appearances is a professional learning feedback and update. Uh, Superintendent Booker. I >> think I'm going to hand this off to Dr. Kempkkey. We have a whole group of staff here. So, thank you for hanging with us tonight. I appreciate it. >> And I'm really excited to introduce Dr. Dr. Savvy Hopkins
085and Marlo Begs who will Bugs who will be um coordinating this big group of wonderful PDM MTSS administ and administrator I see in the the audience who are going to share um an update about professional learning as well as um some of the really good things that they're doing at their school to support their staff. >> The red light is on. Great. Thank you Dr. and I'm super excited to be here. Good evening, members of the board. Um I'm here with Marlo Bagsick and all of our amazing site PD and MTSS coordinators to share some of the highlights of our professional learning this year. And just to start off with a reminder that all of our professional learning is anchored in our instructional framework from our new teacher support program to collaborative professional learning, innovating
086and emerging practices, collaborative PLC learning and instructional coaching. Each one of these pieces operates as an ecosystem of professional learning that supports our teachers both in their roles and throughout their careers. And I am going to pass this over to Marlo Baxik. Good evening board um council and student board reps. It's lovely to be here. I have the lovely honor to really speak on the collaborative focus of site PD coordinators and MTSS coordinators. And at the beginning of the year, we launched a retreat and I shared an image of a thread and this thread was to be indicative and symbolic of the wonderful and amazing individual leadership that we each bring to our roles. But it also served as an image that when those threads are intentionally woven together, we build something much stronger and
087more sustainable. Um and that idea has guided how we've structured structured collaboration this year. So um increasing coherence in our monthly PD and MTSS collaboratives has really functioned like as a primary goal of ours. Um through structured consultancy and dilemma protocols, coordinators refine their work, receive cross-sight feedback and support one another in solving complex instructional challenges. This structure really strengthened their leadership capacity um and deepens alignment through site goals and even district goals. Um and it's data informed and centered on student impact. At the heart of this work is our collective clarity and together we are shaping and being shaped by our community. Um leading in ways that center the voices and experiences of students. And so additionally here are some comments of how it felt to be part of this group this year. um
088much appreciation in terms of how we operated and then also the focus on ML learners. But taking a deeper dive, I also like to lift up the amazing site professional learning that happens on our week or monthly Wednesdays and Friday collaboration schedules as well as our site PD days that are all day. um which is focused on data-driven inquiry, strengthening our tier one systems and applying the instructional framework very intentionally by centering the voices, especially students furthest from opportunity. Over the past three years, we've seen very steady growth in how teachers rate the relevance and helpfulness of the professional learning developments. But I want to have you look at this particular graphic of seeing back in 2024 we only had 44% of of teachers rating it at 44%. To now it's at 55 which is
089a really great metrics to see and how we're growing um and how educators are feeling the relevance of professional learning at their sites. So, I really want to take this moment to celebrate our leaders um that are really really intentionally building some relevant and meaningful work in our professional learning. I could stand here all day and pour affirmation um and praise to them, but I think it's worth noting to actually hear from them yourself. So, I'd like to invite up our first presenter, which is from Aragon, Alejandra Chver. >> Thank you. Good evening. Alejandra Chver from Aragon High School. I'm PD coordinator. Um, and at Aragon, we have centered on refining our systems and supporting our multilingual learners. Our work was grounded in three principles from sorry, three principles from the instructional framework starting with
090learners reality and trusting and caring caring relationships plus the domain of environment. This focus was intended to make every student feel seen and supported. In August, we focused on ensuring Canvas best practices for accessibility and then intentionally setting up our learning environment to be a welcoming space and designed to optimize learning. We utilized data to get to know our students and their needs and we gathered valuable feedback via a student experience survey which allowed us to center student voices during our September and October PD sessions. The third principle we focused on was relevant and meaningful learning and the domain of instruction. Um, we are building a culture of continuous improvement by refining our schoolwide practices. We collected information from PLC's about their goals and completed a mini cycle of inquiry. The results from that cycle
091of inquiry were highlighted at our PLC shareout in November. Here are some artifacts from our um highlights. Um so a highlight or glow from this year has been the success of the breakout sessions led by Aragon staff members on during our January PD day which focus on structured student talk note-taking practices and student engagement. Another glow is how we've used data to guide our work and open up necessary conversations about how we are meeting the needs of our learners at Aragon. A core instructional strategy we are refining is structured student talk as a schoolwide practice um to boost student engagement and comprehension for all learners. Looking ahead, an area of growth is to continue refining schoolwide instructional strategies at Aragon so they become universal practices ensuring consistency and equity for all students. Thank you. I'm
092going to pass it now to Stacy from Capin. All right. Thank you. I'm Stacy Kratavville at Cappuccino High School PD coordinator and uh as you know Cappuccino is an IB world school and so for years we've been working from the IB framework and learning more and more about IB philosophy and what that looks like. Uh the 10 attributes of the IB learner profile that you see at the top of our slide are kind of our northstar. We're trying to get all students to develop all of these um attributes and we do that through the what the IB program calls the approaches to learning which are five buckets that include communication skills, thinking skills, social research and self-management skills. So this year for professional learning, we've been really diving into self-management as our main focus alongside
093student agency from the district instructional framework. Um as a means of developing that self-management piece, we have been really diving deep into the AVID strategy of focused note-taking. Um so much of our professional learning has been around that hearing from different teachers on our campus how they do that in different content areas. Um, we have also added Mustang meetings which are built into the collaboration schedule. Um, just additional meeting times for our whole faculty to get together and discuss tier 1 MPD initiatives. Um, we've gained a lot of clarity around where we're going as an IB school and what instructional practices we're going to take on. Um, really building coherence throughout and our goal going forward is to continue to really build student agency and belonging through the ATL. And you'll see in our artifacts
094that uh we have been uh not only diving into ATL and what it means to be an IB school, but kind of always revisiting the district framework and all of the things that we care about the most. We've been focusing on coherence as a school. And so part of that has been making uh our coherence visible by putting posters in in the classroom so that you kind of feel that sense of coherence just walking in the room as well. And there's a link to more information about our IB program as well. Thank you so much. I'm going to pass it over to my friend Jenny from Hillsdale. Thanks Stacy. We're blessed as a district to have Stacy Kratville as a teacher. Hi everyone. We are very blessed and excited at Hillsdale to continue our work
095in relevant and meaningful learning in designing and creating student experiences that will make our graduate profile come to life at our school and in our classes. In fact, that is Sarah Burgerer, another blessing to our district chemistry teacher who is literally making our graduate profile come alive with pure joy. Um the five parts of the Hills graduate profile are literacy, effective communication, application of knowledge, sense of self, and sense of community. And as PLC's, we've been centering our multilingual learners. So, we've isolated literacy and communication as the bands of the graduate profile that will best serve our students. And that's been the focus of our work um moving forward with um our public learning showcase that we're going to be participating in in just a couple of weeks. You're all invited to that. I'm always
096shamelessly plugging um thank you Trusty Land for reminding me to shamelessly plug our equity visits in March. Um we're thrilled to share these practices that have helped us feel proud and inspired. Um in response to feedback from last year and as part of our shared cornerstone of uh shared decision-m we incorporated a consultancy protocol into our preparation for the showcase. So basically two PLC's served as thought partners for another PLC that isolated a dilemma. Marlo mentioned before we got these dilemma protocols. We modified a bunch of protocols that the district gave us and um teachers are working on really challenging each other to think deeply and um take on risks and challenges in services of in service of our students. We supplemented these very popular um consultancy groups with our own mini um conferences as
097you heard Aragon is also doing that um and a new student work analysis protocol that is our glow and that is what we are working on. We're very excited about that too. Um now next um this is some feedback that we've gotten. So this this is these are pictures of us doing our student work analysis protocol and also in our consultancies. Um I would go through all the feedback but look at that. Look at that. Amazing. So um I know we all want to get home. Thank you so much. Um I'll end by saying that I continue to be honored, proud, and inspired by the work that we are doing as a district as well as as a school. Um and now I'm very honored to introduce Kira Vajiraa from Middle College. Good evening. Our
098focus this year at Middle College is a year-long inquiry silent on community engagement, which is the one of the four pieces of our graduate profile. You can see there are three pieces on that puzzle. Within community engagement, we're working on helping all students develop in advocacy, intellectual humility, collective responsibility, and critical analysis. Our graduate profile was designed in collaboration with our students over the last three years and since then we begin intentionally connecting each part to the district framework. This ensures that our learning is aligned to district goals, coherent within our program and recursive over time. During a recent observation visit by district leaders, we structured our day so visitors could focus on our progress towards building skills of community engagement, including holding focus groups on each of those four pieces. One major glow from
099the feedback we received is the consistent evidence of a positive trusting environment across classrooms. Observers noted a strong teacher student relationship, high engagement, and positive peer-to-peer interactions. Students shared that they feel safe and non-judged, which allows them to advocate for themselves and others. They highlighted the importance of one-on-one's advisories, classroom circles as key supports that allow them to practice intimate intellectual humility in a safe space. Their connection to their teachers and classmates support their desire to share collective responsibility, showing the power of deep relational work we've committed to through the intentional design of our programmatic structures. At the same time, our grow pushes us to build more consistent and intentional classroom structures, things like defined group work, using similar sentence frames, and shared assessment practices. These structures help ensure that every student has access to
100deeper analytical skills across classes. Um here our artifact shows two things. You can see that each part of our inquiry cycle connects to the district framework uh in the bottom blue. The second artifact we included includes highlights of how staff are responding to this work. One thing to note is how important our staff feel about rooting all we do in student voice, which is something we center intentionally through empathy interviews and other forms of street data, as well as collaborating with our students on new instructional and programmatic design. Thank you. I bring up Candace Thomas. Good evening. My name is Candace Thomas. I'm the PD coordinator at Mills High School. Um, this year at Mills has been all about what does relevant and meaningful learning look like at our sites. To do that, we've gathered
101data through peer observations. We use this peer observation data to co-create our equity question for this year which is who is doing the thinking talking and sensemaking. This equity question was used to guide our equity visit earlier in the year um where we got feedback on this question and we were able to use that feedback uh to bring um opportunities for crossd disciplinary collaboration through self- selected PLC's. So teachers got a chance to choose who they wanted to work with um outside of content or grade area. One glow this year has been utilizing the expertise of our teachers so they could run their own mini PD sessions, incorporating teacher feedback, relevant meaningful learning was the principle our teachers chose to focus on and also prioritizing teacher self-care and uh and wellness. A grow is the
102need to balance content with universal professional learning and also just having more time for those cross-disciplinary um collaboration opportunities. What you see here is an activity from our October PD day called photovoice. Our teachers were asked to uh take a picture of relevant and meaningful learning at Mills High School. And then there was a gallery walk where each teacher identified aspects of relevant and meaningful learning in the photo. So this was just another data gathering and observation opportunity. And um from that really breaking down this principle, our staff identified four areas of emphasis. Um so co-creating authentic learning experiences focus on linguistic assets students reflected in the curriculum and curriculum serves as a bridge between dominant school culture and students culture and this uh spring we are conducting learning walks um which is another form
103of peer observations um and our look fors are going to be these areas of emphasis um and now I'll pass to my colleague at Samoa Hello. My name is Michelle Torres. I'm PD coordinator at Sonteo High School. Currently at Sonteo, we're actually navigating multiple goals. We have our WAS goals. We also have our site learning goals. Um, and so we've really decided to root our goals in the learner's reality. um really ensuring that when teachers know and understand who was in front of them, they can really tailor the curriculum to meet the needs of their students. Um our focus this year really is in implementing structures that support authentic and engaging opportunities for all students that students with IEPs, 504s, MLS, um learning disabilities, as well as all the other assets that students bring with
104them to school. um in in the interest of interaction, dialogue and learning from one another. Um in our PLC we are really focusing in sorry in our PD we really focusing on PLC's as well as department time so that teachers can engage in cycles of inquiry um to again tailor their curriculum to the students in front of them. Some of our glows um have been our attendance our attendance and RPDs have really skyrocketed this year. Um we have intentionally designed peer observation week um again tailored to each department so that departments can choose the feedback they are receiving from their peers. Um at our uh PD day where we prepared for this we had 80 plus attend attendants um which is really really great um to have almost all of our teachers present. Um, some
105of our grows this year have been in um implementing more practical tools into our PD um and staying away from theory. Theory is great, but a lot of teachers really want to see how does this look in the classroom. Good evening. I'm Alfonso Dunes. I'm MTSS coordinator at Satella High School. um in the spirit of our kind of our theme for a professional development at the district level, we really wanted to focus on humanizing our adults. And so what you see on this slide at the top is a staffult wall of positivity. um our Renaissance class, which is kind of our pre-ASB class, which actually Alexa was part of two years ago, um designed this wall and it gave staff the opportunity to write positive notes, um positive learnings or insights or something just that
106they felt was a highlight of an activity or the day and post it throughout the day um just to kind of spread some positivity. Um we took those down because we given back to our staff. Um at the bottom two charts, you have um our question. We asked our staff to rate the overall effectiveness of the professional development. And here we had an roughly 70% of our staff said that it was effective or highly effective in terms of the learning experience. And at the end, our hope is that uh this translates to our students learning exper experience, which is positive as well. And I'll pass the mic back to Marlo. And so it's great to be able to platform the majority of our schools, but um we have some other of our colleagues that are
107not able to be here, which are Bridge Academy, Berlinger Game, and Peninsula High School. And we just really invite the board and everybody else to kind of look at the artifacts that they supplied because they are doing some really really amazing and intentional work aligning to the instructional framework as well. So take a look at it deeper on your own and I'll pass it to Sabi. I can't emphasize the amount of time it takes each of our PD coordinators and their teams to really thoughtfully plan not just the um professional development days at the site, but to also thread their professional development themes throughout the year on those Wednesday and Friday afternoon collaboration times to create a cohesive and relevant learning experience. experience for the adults at their site. Um, I'm going to take a
108moment and transition us to the January 26th PD day, which is our all district, all staff PD day, which was at Sonteo High School District, uh, Samonteo High School this year. And we did a little bit, we took a different approach to preparation this year. Uh the first was we sent out requests for presenters earlier, a month earlier in October to curate um a list of interested teacher leaders and administrators um like what workshop ideas did they have that they wanted to present on. Those proposals were then reviewed by our instructional framework steering committee. This committee is made up of educators and administrators from across the district. Committee members provided feedback in alignment with the instructional framework as well as adult learning principles and gave that feedback back to the presenters for additional refinement and
109revision. Our presenters then attended a workshop the workshop moment where they got additional support on the design and facilitation moves in their workshop sessions. Some of the things that we did structurally were based on feedback that we have accumulated over the past two years for these PD events where we wanted to make where we shifted we're allocating more time to the workshop sessions so there are longer workshops for our educators we increased the total number of sessions so there's more variety we also made the move to embed content lead sessions so this ensured that there would be a content area focus for all of our educators attending the PD event. I'm now going to pass it back to Marlo. >> And so it's a this slide really represents um a lot of work over the
110course of many years. Um but this year the theme was housed under the or the theme was inspiring trust and humanizing learning. As Sabi had said, we had we were able to offer up the most learning sessions we've ever had. it was 32. But most importantly, what was done is who facilitated it. So over the past four years, if you notice in 2023, we had 100% external. And if you move us up to now in 2026, we have more sessions and more internally led expertise. Really solidifying that investment is important in our internal leaders, growing that capacity. They are leading the work, sharing the work and doing it for each other. Um, but more importantly too is we also still welcome external providers because we want to keep them up to date with any research
111or um h how things are changing academically and educationally. So we're always going to have a budget for that. But it's just a really proud I I look at this I'm like wow we're at like 62% of people facilitating for our people. So um the next thing we want to also uplift is on this day we continue to see really really high ratings in terms of relevance of PD presenter effectiveness and alignment very consistent if not even better this year. Um and it was a hard to follow from the previous years because of how well we were doing. Um but the session C which is our very intentionally designed like application session is we've designed it so that participants have agency and how do they apply their learning from the morning do they want to
112do it with the presenters themselves and deepen their learning in their content those are more informal spaces called like campfires do they want to work with their colleagues and PLC members or other rollife um communities that's our watering holes or maybe you just need a cave and you need just take a break and you're like, okay, there's a lot to learn and digest and I'm going to do that by myself here and apply to the beliefs of of my pedigogy. So, um, we continue to celebrate that and welcome all the feedback. We we're getting really positive feedback with that structure and hope to continue it in the future. So, that I'll pass it back to Sabbath. So this year we made a real effort to strengthen the support for our internal presenters. We redesigned the
113structure of our PD day. We ensured that there was strong alignment to our instructional framework. We saw attendance increase by 7% across both days which is a fairly significant gain. Um and I think notably the percent of percentage of educators who gave the effectiveness of the PD day um as highly effective or a five over 3 years went from 33% to 64%. And when a system is working really well, incremental improvements become really difficult to achieve. And so, you know, from some of the anecdotal feedback I've gotten and the qualitative feedback that we've received, I would attribute these gains to aligning to the instructional framework, increase in coherence and collaboration within our instructional team, and an investment in the capacity building of our teacher leaders to do this work. I also want to acknowledge that
114this would not be possible without Marlo's unwavering commitment to serving our students by providing educators with exceptional learning opportunities. There are always areas to grow and the first would be to continue to make sure our sitebased professional learning is tightly aligned or more tightly aligned to the instructional framework. And this is because as we have stronger alignment, it should be translating into more consistent student experiences across our school sites. So deeper with deeper implementation of the human of humanizing pedigogy and clearer alignment between the site professional learning and our elcott priority areas. For our second area, we want to ensure that our district professional learning will increasingly center on practices that directly support multilingual learners, students with disabilities, and our socioeconomically disadvantaged students. By aligning professional learning more intentionally to these student needs, we strengthen
115our ability to translate our equity commitments into measurable student outcomes. We also want to ensure that we are addressing sustainability. One of the most challenging parts of professional learning design is figuring out how to make it stick. So how do you support classroom implementation over time so that the learning actually makes its way into practice? And our hope is over the next couple of years we can begin to align structures that will support this sustained implementation. Thank you very much for your time and attention this evening and we welcome any questions around our professional learning events. >> Okay. So, uh we'll just You want to go first, Trusty? >> Whatever you want. >> Go ahead. >> Well, once again, I love your presentations. Um it just shows the growth. I I mean we are at
116the forefront. You guys are leading the way. This has got to go. You got to do a road show. I swear you got to get out and tell everybody what's going on because the magic is obvious. Um one of the things I want to emphasize is I love your need, you know, the grows and what we need to work on because we always need to look where we're going to go next. And I think your sustainability slide, which was at the end, is the most important because how do you make things stick? And I think you're doing an amazing job right now. And I think it's creating that sticking is just the popularity, the the everybody's getting satisfaction out of it. It's going to start, it's heading in the right direction. And so, however you
117guys can emphasize that stability and the sustainability is just going to keep growing. So, if you have any great ideas, let me know. Um, I want to say thank you to all the schools for the presentations. I'm stealing some of your ideas. I'm stealing some of your ideas. The photo gallery, the the photo learning moment was amazing, Miss Thomas. That was awesome. Um, just I just think you guys are doing an incredible job. Thank you so much. Um, I think PD is a bad word to some teachers, uh, to be honest in certain other districts. And so, you are making PD valuable and important and having high school teachers say the value of it regularly at this degree. You're doing some amazing things. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Trusty Griffin, would you like
118to go next? >> Taking my notes and consulting. No, I I >> a million questions. >> Yeah. Oh, I um >> actually I want to thank you for the presentation although everybody talked really fast although I'm sure that was to either a get out of here or let us ask our questions but I appreciate it. You know the trusty land talked about sustainability and I had a note here about it's a long horizon. you know, if you have something that's impactful and it's PD is, you know, it's here now, how do you sustain those practices that, you know, this group gets it? Does it lose its, you know, its impactfulness, if that's the proper term? Um, because they're really, you know, you've made some really good progress. And how do you keep that going? You
119know, you like you said about incremental improvement, it gets really, really, really hard. So there's a lot of things that you you're working against as you get better. Well, you're not going to get as good, but you want to get better than that. So, um I was just curious about the horizon. Um how you, you know, how you can sustain or build on your successes. I think a big piece of the s sustainability um I don't want to call it a formula plan is I I mean it's this amazing group of teacher leaders behind me. Each site works with um a particular demographic. It has its own school culture and whatever we do needs to be uh centering what students need. And we need to have teacher leaders with on boots on the ground experience
120engaging other teachers in work centered on the students that they're serving. And it's a process of ensuring all of the new hires that you onboard are on the same page with the important work that you've been doing as a district while engaging your school sites in these cycles of continuous improvement but particularly focused on student outcomes. And it's it's there is it's not a linear process. that's complex and multi-layered. Um, so to lay out a strategic plan would be an entire board meeting. >> You know, the other thing I really like the uh internally developed professional development and I think you know is there a correlation between us doing it ourselves and the quality and the retention and stuff or is it you know people take pride in it or what how does that correlate?
121I think there probably is a correlation um having our internal experts uh or internal presenters. One of the first boxes that checks is it helps fulfill what we've seen in a lot of the feedback data around I want professional learning in my content area. And we think that that was also one of the things that improved attendance. Um, I heard directly from some educators, this is the first time, for example, we've ever had a workshop that's really going to support our moderate to severe education specialists. And they felt really seen and heard in the catalog by having that offering. I don't know if that answer your answers your question, but I think that the internal presenters speak to some of the needs that we saw in the data. There will always be a place for
122us to bring in external experts because there are always going to be new things for us to learn. >> Absolutely. You know the the thing about internal development and like being an accountant we have professional development come you know just 80 hours every you know 40 hours a year of professional NY's over there. Yeah. Um you know it actually and I do a lot of it. It actually if you're developing a you know a class if you're teaching something it really forces you to develop your own skills and be introspective about what the practices are and what they should be and how you can make you know the educators better educators. How you know because there was a comment about delivering practical stuff things I can use. I want something in my tool tool belt
123when I go back to the classroom. And you know, I kind of find that challenging. It was kind of daunting when you first started, but you know, you know, once you really figure out what you're trying to deliver, it really will sharpen your skills and make you a far better educator. So anyway, thank you. I appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Trusty Andrea Jane, would you like to make some comments or questions? >> Yes. Um, I have some questions and then I'll I'll have some comments. Um, first, I am always so proud of this district and all of the wonderful things that we do and this is one of my favorites. I really believe in staff development. This is so important and I'm actually well I'm I work at a nonprofit but I'm gonna take
124some of this stuff and apply it to my organization. So, thank you. Um I wanted to know so in terms of some of the um some of the like specific things that we're doing for um ML students and uh students with disabilities, Pacific Islander students. Can you give us some examples of what that looks like in terms of like how is it bringing accessibility and how is it bringing new practices and how are the students improving? Um if you can give us some examples. I think like so a very practical example would be um we had one of our internal experts present on behavior intervention plans which sounds like a very technical a very technical workshop but it's a workshop that a lot of our ed specialists need in order to adequately support students in
125a humanizing and inclusive way in their classrooms. And what was beautiful is that it wasn't just ed specialists who attended that, but it was also open to general education teachers as well because many of them need to have information about and how do I follow a behavior intervention plan for those students in my classroom. Um with respect to supporting multilingual learners in the classroom, um we had both internal and external experts for this. Uh we brought in Dr. Lillian Ardell who uh gave a informative presentation around and interactive around trans languaging and trans languaging is something that we're coming to understand in our conversations with teachers and PLC's. um it's it's not really well understood. And so to have to bring in an expert to give teachers very practical examples of this is what trans
126languaging is. This is how it honors students linguistic assets in the classroom. This is how it engages and promotes student learning was incredibly valuable. We also have um one of our world language teachers present on you know these are strategies that I use to engage students um through student structured talk routines in order to help them develop their fluency through studentto student discourse. Both workshops were found valuable one um and both led to practices that teachers can use in their classrooms. I hope that answers the question. >> Yeah. No, thank you. It does. And um this is so important like uh Trusty Griffin was saying about the like the institutional well the work that we're doing here within our district. Um it's really important to continue that because people do still do feel proud and
127they do gain like an expertise in whatever they're you know showing their um their colleagues. Um, how are we documenting and protecting the institutional expertise? Um, like once people turn over, um, are there, you know, when it comes to folks that are, you know, ready to retire, things like that, practices that, um, you know, certain members have brought to the district, how do we document all of that? I think that's a great question for almost any organization because what you don't want to have is you don't want to have key institutional knowledge reside in any one individual. >> I think this practice of having our wonderful site PD and MTSS coordinators is one of the ways we ensure that we're spreading the love or the wealth and knowledge around what effective professional learning looks like.
128I think that's, you know, one of our strategies that I mean, we could call it distributed teacher leadership. We could call it a lot of different things. Um but by fostering the agency of our teachers who want to be in a stretch zone and to invest in their capacity whether that is by through a formal role as a teacher leader like a PDM MTSS quarter coordinator or an informal role like being a PLC lead. Those are some of the ways that we develop that capacity and institutional knowledge. I think >> thank you. Um, so it's wonderful that like 62% you know of of uh instructors are now instructors from our district. Um, so can you also just so the public and so our board knows like can you tell us what does this mean for
129like capacity and cost and long-term strength of our schools and turnover all of that? how has it improved um in those those areas in our district? >> Those are really great questions and to give you detailed answer, I I think we would need a little time to to prepare some of that information. Um but I I would say that we are very fortunate um to be able to have the resources to invest in our site. Teachers on special assignment needed to provide them some release time to do the work. Um, and you know, I part of this is having an instructional framework and an ongoing commitment to improving student outcomes districtwide that allows us to continue to make those investments yeartoear. So, I know that's not a super satisfactory answer, but I'm happy to follow
130up. No, that's okay. And I was I was considering not asking because I know it'd be more involved, but I would love some more examples, but anything off the top of your head? Um so you know this is so important also because I'm glad that you align um the students needs in terms of visibility in terms of representation in terms of what the students are experiencing. Um students feel seen and that is also what's going to help them be successful in their education and in their futures. Um you know this is in theory obviously there's research and there's uh there's there's proof that this is super important and it's helping our district. So, I just want to say thank you so much for all of the hard work that all of you have put in
131to really be committed to this and thank you to our leadership for for also being very committed and dedicated to pursuing and continuing this work. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty Jacobson. Thank you so much for the presentation and thank you for allowing me to participate in the PD day. I've been going to the January days for I think the last 3 years. And so I've witnessed the evolution of um moving from more external experts to more internal experts and the diversity of workshops that are offered. Um there it was noticeable. It's been noticeable for me even as an outsider and to I think it's really obvious that um the educators in our district value that opportunity to come together and learn from one another. Um there's so much expertise within our district that
132needs to be shared and needs to be um kind of amplified. Um and and also I'm proud of you for proud of you sounds weird but I'm impressed with you that um you've iterated and refined your workshop based on the teacher uh feedback in terms of um giving more uh options um lengthening the time of the workshops um having specific content workshops for the different content areas. All of this is you're you're very responsive to what the needs and um and wants are of of your audience. And I'm I'm impressed with it. And um I'm trying to think what else I wanted to say. Uh let's see if I have any other notes. Um, you have good statistics here about how, you know, the the response rate has improved over the years. Um, I always
133am curious if you find out from staff who didn't attend why they didn't attend and if um if there's any any learning that we know about that. Are is Yeah. Do you have a answer for >> the responses are pretty typically the same around some educators feel like what they need is they need a mental health day and they don't want to miss a day with their students and for them taking in a sick day or a personal necessity day on the PD day means it's not a day that they're missing in front of their their kids at school. And so it's I can respect that position. Um and I think many of us here here do. >> Um our hope of course is that they would come to the PD day and feel energized
134and and you know be in community with other educators. Um another is um for some um depending um I think that this is what we've been trying to address like they don't they don't maybe they don't see themselves in the learning yet. Um, for others I, you know, I think, uh, Greg Land said it best, for a lot of educators, PD is a bad word, and we're trying really hard to disrupt that experience. And I think that educators that do go to the PD days, whether it's our site PD days or district PD days, are beginning to experience professional learning as transformational instead of professional development, which feels like something getting done to you. Um, >> yeah. So it's >> I mean my experience of it is it's very restorative and collaborative and especially with
135what you were talking about Marlo with the session C how there's this opportunity to go into a cave and do your own reflection if you need to or join a campfire or I I just love I love that framework. Um, so I I I just really I think it's a I hope that the word of mouth spreads among the educators about um how the experience is elevated and elevating um year-over-year. I hope so. Um and I want to thank everyone for your site uh specific presentations as well. There's a lot to go through and I wish we had more time to to see more of that, but I appreciate it and I'll have to do that on my own time. Thank you. >> You I don't have any questions. I just have a couple of
136comments that I really appreciate all the work that went into putting this together and I really appreciate everybody coming. I know there were a couple of um sites that couldn't come for whatever reason and I and I know that that that um you guys um spent time every school site spent time putting this together and I just wanted to say that this is a great presentation and I also want to I don't want to underscore the amount of time it takes to put together the individual uh PD day sessions. I know that takes a lot of time and you guys are amazing coordinators at every school site. So I just want to give big kudos to you and I also wanted to to um mention that just what my other colleagues here have already said
137that the the the numbers the feedback the percentages here on the graphs they're steadily increasing and just like you had mentioned once you keep increasing it's hard to get that little bit of incremental further growth right because you've already you've already improved so much so I just wanted to say that that's this is amazing and I'm really proud of our district I'm really proud of everyone who's putting in this together. Who has their hand in this? You know, I mean, look, you want to say something else? >> I just had one. I You know what? Sadly, you you read my Yeah, >> you read my mind. >> The campfire, the water hole, the cave. Is it those three? >> Okay. I love that. I'm stealing that, too. So, >> Oh gosh. So, first of all,
138trademark everything. >> Copyright it and have it pay you something. >> You better do it soon because I'm going to just take things constantly. But I do have a challenge for you. Oh, >> you know, we have partner districts in middle schools that could do a lot of learning about this. We have the same problems. We have the same needs. Sometimes it'd be great to maybe try to reach out a little further in that challenge of trying to bring it and going on a road instead of a road show invite others to join. I don't know the capacity. I don't know how possible it is. But again, one thing that is really hard is articulation between our feeder district, our partner districts and the high school and education starts early and you're getting them on
139the end run. So if you can spread this wisdom that we have to our partner districts, that might be quite amazing even if we do it in a little bit. >> Yeah, >> I'm always interested in that kind of collaboration. And I also want to say I think our our middle school teachers maybe don't get as much love um as as they could. And >> I hear you. That's I'm trying to I'm as a principal as an educator for a middle school I'm Yes. >> We need to love up on them. And so um >> anyway, sorry that was it. >> And and I I wanted to mention about the attendance. That's clearly it's gone up and I think PD days have doesn't have to be bad a bad doesn't have to have a negative
140implantation. you guys have clearly turned it around and made everybody feel like this is great. And I know there's reasons why people might still miss it, right? Maybe somebody has a doctor's appointment and they'd rather not miss being with their students and but but it's great that the attendance is increasing and everything overall. It's it's great. So, thank you for your presentation. Thank you everybody for coming. Thank you so much. I love this presentation. Okay. Um let's go back to our reports and appearances. Next is um the projected enrollment in intrad district transfer lottery. Uh Superintendent Booker, >> thank you very much. I think we have Dr. Bernett here. Yes. So I'm going to ask her to come up to the podium. We have a brief presentation, but I do want to point the community
141to the memo as well because this has a lot of information embedded. um not necessarily a lot of changes from year to year to year over the last number of years but um important projections because they do drive FTE site allocation all those kinds of things. So with that Dr. Bernett, thank you. >> Okay. All right. Good evening everyone. Uh President Chavez, board of trustees members, um Superintendent Booker and Sonteo Union High School staff and community members. I'm here to briefly just go over enrollment projections. While the information is presented by me, I do just want to acknowledge uh Superintendent Booker um Mr. Yansancy Hawkins, Dr. Black for assisting um in enrollment. I'm going to steal some uh words from Savvy in the uh moment of of theft and I'm going to say that this
142is not a linear process. it is very complex and multi-layered. Um so these are projections that we have um coming up. So um for those that are watching online, let's just make sure that we orient ourselves to what we're looking um at. So we have uh breakdowns in projections grade 9, 10, 11, and 12. And right now we are in the 2025 year um and then we're going into the 2026 year. Okay. And so it just gives you overall numbers based on grade percentage of change um SDC that's special day classes and then totals. So, the good thing about our district in comparison to other districts in the Bay Area is that we are actually seeing a slight increase in in enrollment. Um, that was presented last year and it will continue um over the
143next couple of years as you see in front of you going into 26 and 27. And then following slight declines um in our feeder districts, we're going to see uh um a dip in enrollment beginning in 2028. Um so our capacity for the next year based on projections is um total capacity 11,581 with open seats at almost 3,000. Okay. So, um, enrollment recommendations. It's important to understand that we use a very conservative to moderate, um, system to use our to have our projections here. Um, you can see in front of you our board adopted capacities for the last school year broken down by our six comp sites in comparison with our present enrollment. And you can see that there's some slight differences, but for the most part, we are um right on board with what
144we anticipated. So, moving into the third column, we have priority one enrollment, which ended on February 9th. And you can see we're looking pretty good in terms of what we um have received in priority enrollment in comparison to what our present enrollment looks like. Um so the next two columns just give you projected enrollments um based on power school data. Um one includes uh special day classes and one excludes special day classes. But the most important column is the recommended board adopted capacities based on our six comp sites. You'll see here to the right of the screen what our recommended board adopted capacities are. Okay. We always want to make sure that we have some space for our peninsula and bridge uh groups. And so in total um we have um recommended board adopted capacities
145at 8,738 students for the 2627 school year. So just some general enrollment summaries for you. We are projected to see a very modest increase only about um 20 students. Um, Berling Game and Sanonteo High show increased enrollments. Hillsdale and Bridge show a decrease in enrollment. Um, but cumulatively we're set to be relatively flat. Um, again, our projected enrollments show a decline. Um, and this just gives you some information that 2019 to 2022 was really the apex for our enrollment and we will eventually see um, a decline based on a number of factors. um aging population, family trends, um so on and so forth. And you know, just just a really high cost cost of living um that's leading families to leave the area. This is likely of interest to lot lots of folks and that
146is our intra district transfer request. So again, just orienting orienting us to what we're looking at to so to the left of your screen are um this is for eighth grade students who submitted their information by priority enrollment date um based on where they are zoned. So Aragon, Berling game, so on and so forth. That's to the left of your screen. And to the right, it gives you data on um where are our families interested in going to? um if they are submitting transfer requests. Um so just one in particular, you'll see Aragon um is a school of residents of the eighth graders who are slated to go to Aragon. 14 of those families have requested to be in the lottery for Burling Game. Okay, so that's what that information tells you. And then at
147the bottom it it tells you in total how many families are requesting each individual school. Um so Aragon has 195 students at the moment who are interested in being transferred if they are not already in Aragon's district. Okay. We had almost 500 total family members to submit in our lottery. That's a lot of um lottery request and we already have had families after the priority enrollment to um you know reach out for consideration and we anticipate additional families will continue to request up until the beginning of the school year. Okay. So, some recommendations for you um is that we use again a moderate model for enrollment projections and allow more enrollment capacity staffing checks throughout the spring this um school year. Um very much like last year, um we had information presented, but based on
148information in real time, there were still slight adjustments that needed to be made. So overall staffing capacities, we recommend increasing staffing capacities at Berling game, slight decrease in staffing capacities at Hillsdale and Bridge and continue the same capacities at Mills Peninsula, Aragon, Cappuccino, and Samonteo. With the lottery, um we have gone ahead and run the lottery itself. um we still want to make sure that we are um assigning the um the acceptances accordingly. It's important to reiterate that all sibling transfers are automatically approved and based on board policy. We always allow at least 25 lottery seats for um our comp sites, 15 at Hillsdale because they are smaller learning communities. And again, these steps align with board policy. If there are spaces in addition to the lottery seats that we already grant, we are requesting
149that you allow us to continue to allow those transfer requests up into capacity. Um, and there will absolutely be an opportunity for our one-to-one requests. There might be one family at Aragon that's interested in Berling game and there's another family at Berling game that's interested in Aragon. That's all that means for anyone who's tuning in. Okay. And that concludes the presentation. >> Thank you. Any board comments or questions? you know, the it looks like it's working pretty well. You know, there's some nibbling around the edges and stuff, but uh I can think back when it wasn't where it was far more chaotic. Um you know, we're uh it really was, you know, pounding and hand ringing and stuff. And so I'm, you know, this is good. >> Thank you. We appreciate that. So in in
150that light, I totally agree. Are we having to deny any denials to >> any request? >> How many denials are we having to do? >> I'm asking. >> So complex and multi-layered. So let me give you an example. Um, of course we're going to start out with the 25 lottery seats, right? We al also have middle college coming down the pike and they're going to have their own lottery process. Um and so hypothetically if 20 students from Aragon are accepted into middle college 20 more families can then be um granted um their acceptances. We literally and I had this experience um this past summer. We are granting um transfer requests literally up until the first day. That being said, there are more requests than we will be able to honor. So, we do anticipate that
151um there will be families that we will have to um say no to and they will be disappointed, but we will do everything in our power to balance individual needs with the larger system needs. I don't need the details, but maybe in a email or a a weekly that would be great to get the update just like and by school. Yeah. >> And would you like that for now or like ongoing because you know what we give you now might change. >> Yeah. Yeah. Kind of give >> the end towards the end. >> Okay. Absolutely. >> Thank you. >> Trusty Anda has her you have your hand up. Go ahead, please. >> Yes. Thank you. I have a couple questions. So, um, thank you for your presentation, by the way. Always always great. Um, >>
152thank you. in terms of students that have IEPs um and that have more like more particular needs at the different sites, like how do we track like where those students are going in case that you know they are doing a transfer? How do we account for them to you know to make sure that they do get the services that they need um with the ratios? >> Yes, very good question. Again, it's a very complex process, but the sped department and student services work hand in hand. There's not a single day that I have fun that I have worked through the lottery and in general enrollment process without um working with Dr. hooks and the sped team to make sure before we offer a space um that the school can match the needs of the sped
153department so we don't ever make a move without consulting with the department and ensuring that access. >> Thank you for clarifying that. Thank you very much. Um, and then also for families that, you know, that don't really know the system, that don't that are maybe new uh to the area, to the country, maybe folks that don't speak uh English, um, and just don't really know the process here in this particular district. Um, how like what kind of support do they get um, if they are, you know, looking into this type of transfer? And then also like how do you ensure that everyone has that like accurate and available information um so it's you know so it's equitable for everyone. >> In terms of what we have done we have um taken a lot of recommendations
154from our DAC um group to make the enrollment process more accessible. Um I have to really seen the praises to the enrollment staff um for the number of things that they they have done to make enrollment accessible. They have had um multiple nights at the feeder school sites. So going to individual middle schools whether it's during the day or evening um to allow families to sign up on site and answer questions. Um we also have had multiple nights because of course many families work during the day so coming during the regular hours um is a challenge. We've had multiple um enrollment nights where families can come. We try to use a lot of um uh advertising to support families as well and working with our feeder sites. That being said, I wish that I could
155say with 100% that every family um is aware of the process, but we still struggle with the families who might not necessarily um be aware of the nights at their middle school or they might not be aware of the enrollment night. and we are always open to um additional recommendations on things that we can do to improve. What is the utmost importance is that when families come through the um student services enrollment um uh office that they get the utmost in customer service and support. And so with that in mind, we always have um uh staff members who will communicate in the family's um native language. Um so we have Mandarin, um Cantonese, we have um Spanish available and we use the language services line for any families who come in. We also have computers
156set aside so that for families who need um more help um than just telling them, we literally will sit down with them and walk them through every step of the process. >> Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Trusty Jacobson. >> No questions. Thank you so much for the presentation. >> Thank you, Trusty Jacobson. >> And I don't have any questions. I just want to say thank you for the data. This is super helpful. I think it's really important. And I know it sounds like a lot of a lot of um transfer requests, 492, but it's about five and a half% of of the total our total average um enrollment for the last two years. So maybe that's about average for large school districts that serve multiple cities. >> That's a very good point.
157I hadn't even thought about that. >> Yeah, >> maybe we can have some comparative data for next year. >> That would be good. >> Yeah, that's >> Thank you for your presentation. It's really a lot of information. Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right, everyone. Have a good night. >> We need this is an action item. >> Oh, >> I make a motion to approve the report, the enrollment report. >> Oh, someone tuck turned my microphone. Just kidding. >> Uh, it was Leia. >> Yeah. So, we have a we have a motion from Trusty Lan and a second from Trusty Andrade Zeniga. >> And I'll do a roll call vote. Trusty Griffin. >> I. >> Trusty Andre Zuniga >> I. >> Trusty Land >> I. >> Trusty Jacobson >> I. >> And I vote
158I as well. Thank you. I apologize about that. I was thinking it was a a present uh special report and presentations. Okay. So, moving on the agenda, it I see there's nothing for construction and so next we have Division of Human Resources personnel consent agenda. Dr. Black. >> Yes, thank you. We have the personnel uh actions and we have a um on the consent agenda and then we have the approval of the administrator manager salary schedule. We removed the behavior program manager position and its level because it's now represented by our ask me unit. Other than that, there's there was no changes to any of the figures, salaries, or work days. >> Are there any questions from the board? >> Are there any questions? Um, any hands raised online. >> And no comment cards in
159person. Okay. Would I >> motion to accept the human resources personnel consent agenda? >> Great. Is there a second? >> Okay, great. So, motion by trustee Land, seconded by Trusty Andra Zunika, and I'll do a roll call vote. Trusty Griffin, >> I. Trusty Andrade Zunika. >> Hi. >> Trusty Land. >> Hi. >> Trusty Jacobson. >> Hi. >> And I vote I as well. So that passes five to zero. >> Okay. Um, Division of Human Resources. Um, it's Dr. Kirk Black again. The personal actions addendum. >> Addendum. Yeah. And we have a recognition on this. Ammy Farley, English teacher at Berlingame High School, resigned effective May 29th after 15 years in the district. Other than that, we recommend uh or with that we recommend approval. >> Okay. And there's are there any board questions or comments?
160No. No comments online. Okay. Is there a motion? >> So move. Second. >> Second. Okay. So Trusty Griffin uh made the motion and Trusty Land seconded. And we'll do roll call vote. Trusty Griffin >> I. >> Trusty Andrade Zuniga >> I. >> Trusty Land >> I. >> Trusty Jacobson >> I. >> And I vote I as well. So passes five. Motion passes five to zero. Next is the second item, Dr. Black. >> Second item, the Yes, the WA the job description for the WASK report coordinator. All of our comprehensive high schools will be at the midterm next year in the Wasque accredititation cycle. A summary report is expected at the midpoint of the cycle. So, the district recommends this job description for a coordinator at each site to facilitate the report process. >> Is it
161a stipend or is it a >> It's a stipend. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Great. Are there any other questions from the board? >> No. Okay. And there's no public comment. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Um, is there a motion? >> I make a motion to approve the coordinator description. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay. So, Trusty Land motioned and uh, Trusty Griffin made the second. Seconded it. And I'll do a roll call vote. Trusty Griffin >> I. >> Trusty Andra Zeniga >> I. >> Trusty Land >> I. >> Trusty Jacobson >> I. And I vote I as well. So this passes five to zero. >> Okay. Next we have a third item. >> Yes. Third item is the regarding the Internal Revenue Code section 125 plans for employees which allows for pre-tax
162medical and childcare expenditures. Um we're required as a district if we're going to use these to approve these two documents number 501 and number 502. Um one is for certificated and one is for non-certificated employees. And again, these documents contain the details for our um flexible savings plan that allow for medical expenses and dependent care pre-taxed. >> Okay, thank you for that. Are there any questions from the board? And there's no questions online. Okay. Was there a motion? >> So move. >> Okay. Trusty Griffin. Is there a second? >> Second. Okay. Thank you. So we have a a motion from Trusty Griffin and a second from Trusty Andrada Zeniga. I'll do roll call vote. Trusty Griffin. I >> trusty Andrade Zuniga >> I >> trusty land >> yes >> trusty Jacobson >> I >> and
163I vote I as well so this passes 5 to zero and we have a fourth item Dr. Yes. The last item is a resolution of non reemployment of temporary employees. Each year, the board must approve a temporary teacher resolution that's required by the California Education Code in order to release teachers working on temporary contracts. This year, we have 49 individuals who make up the 24.8 FTE, which is on the resolution. And these teachers do not have reemployment rights for next school year, although they are able to apply and interview for open positions and in the 2026 27 school year. And we uh always hire a lot of them back. >> Great. Okay. Are there any questions from the board? Any questions online then? Okay. So, if there's no questions from the board, I'll entertain a
164motion. >> I approve the resolution. >> A second. >> Okay. So, we have a motion from Trusty Lan and a second from Trustee Andra Zuniga. I will have a roll call vote. Trusty Griffin >> I. >> Trusty Andrade Zunika >> I. >> Trusty Land >> I. >> Trusty Jacobson >> I. >> And I vote I as well. So the motion passes five to zero. Okay. I see we have nothing for division of student services and nothing for division of instructional services. Nothing for division of business services. And we have a couple of things for board operations. Okay. Uh I will ask uh Superintendent Booker regarding the first item for board compensation. >> Yeah, thank you very much. As part of the district's annual review of board compensation and consistent uh with the statutory framework outlined
165in education code section 35120. The district is recommending a modest adjustment to board member compensation effective January 1st, 2026. Education Code section 35120 permits governing boards to increase monthly compensation provided such increases remain within the statutory cap and annual percentage limitations. Accordingly, the district recommends the following. a 2.5% increase to the board's regularly monthly compensation and an additional $83.33 per month incorporated into monthly compensation. This approach ensures compliance with education code section and maintains total compensation below the statutory cap of $1,200 per month. If approved, this adjustment would be reflected in an amendment to board bylaw 9250. To avoid repeated bylaw amendments in the future years, the district recommends revising the bylaw to reference the statutory minimum rather than a fixed dollar amount. So, in essence, a 2.5% increase to the board's regularly monthly compensation
166and an additional $83.33 per month incorporated into that monthly compensation and that would total $557.91 per month. Thank you. Are there questions from the board? Questions or comments? Are there questions online? Any questions from the board? If there's not, I'll entertain a motion. >> So move. >> Second. >> Okay. So we have a motion from Trusty Griffin and a second from Trusty Land. And I will do a roll call vote. Trusty Griffin. >> I. >> Trusty Andrade Zuniga. >> I. >> Trusty Land. >> I. >> Trusty Jacobson. >> I. >> And I vote I as well. So this motion passes five to zero. >> Excuse me. Next we have um board operations agenda item number five. I'm sorry, board operations >> number two. The second item uh CSBA region 5 delegate assembly ballot. And so
167we have we have the ballot there that all school boards in Sonteo County are receiving. Um, and I would like to ask um, there are two folks listed on the ballot and we can vote up to three. And we can also have a writing candidate. So, I would like to make make a motion to write in candidate uh, trustee Mary Beth Alexander. She's from the Cababrio School District and she is currently an appointed delegate. So, she's currently an appointed delegate. So, I would like to ask my colleagues if we can write in that candidate since we're allowed to vote for up to three. Any any comments questions? >> So, they don't just have to be from our district. >> No, they No. So, it's it's countywide. Yeah. >> Can you say the name one more
168time? >> Okay. So, um, yeah, Mary Beth Alexander, >> and she's part of the documentation that's, um, uploaded on on the board on the board packet, um, regarding who the current delegates are. And so, she is a current when a delegate, but I like to to make to add her in as the writing candidate. >> So, you're asking us to vote for those three, the two, and the extra. That's right. >> And that would be our vote >> As a district. Yeah. >> That's my motion. >> Okay. Okay. Okay. So, that's >> I'll second. >> Okay. Great. Okay. So, we have a motion for that uh from Trusty Lan and a second from Trusty Andrade Zuniga. Um so, I'll do roll call vote. Uh Trusty Griffin. >> Hi. >> Trusty Andrade Zuniga. >> I. >>
169Trusty Lan. >> Hi. >> Trusty Jacobson. >> Hi. >> And I vote I as well. And I want to thank you everybody for voting for me. >> Yeah. Do you want some candy for that or something? Just kidding. I'm kidding, too. We don't buy boats. Um, okay. So, the last agenda item is future board agenda items. So, do any trustees want to um ask about putting ask about future agenda items at this time? >> I think we're pretty stacked right until the end of the year. >> We have a lot coming up. >> Okay. >> Requested items. >> Oh, no, no, no, >> no. This is just this is requested items for future board meetings from the board. Okay. And I just want to remind the public um that our next board meeting is actually
170on on a Tuesday because we have our open houses on a on a Thursday. So our next board meeting will be on on Tuesday, March 10th. Thank you very much. And I'll adjourn adjourn the meeting. Um, it is 9:37.