SPUSD Board Meeting 09/24/25

001[Music] Fall. [Music] Fall [Music] away. [Music] I feel [Music] Fall [Music] down. [Music] Fall away. [Music] Huh? [Music] away. [Music] Fall away. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Good evening everyone. Welcome to our September 24th meeting. And are we live? Do I need to repeat myself? Good. >> Okay. So, moving on to our agenda. I would like to open this meeting at 5:33. And do do we have any public comments regarding close session for this evening? Hearing none, we will adjourn to close session at 5:33. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] down. Heat. [Music] In this place, students will explore the possibilities within construction industry. and so much more. They'll leave not just with skills, but with certifications, confidence, and a sense of pride in what they've accomplished here. >> So, we used to say,

002you know, back in the day, you always heard this a saying, it takes a village. This could not have been possible without a lot of people doing what they did. And I'm very appreciative of that. It's something that when we can give our kids an opportunity and open their eyes to things that they probably never thought of, we know we're doing our job. I am so excited to be part of this moment today where we're not only celebrating the opportunity our kids have but hopefully the opportunity of me many building projects in this city and in this county where we're going to put these men young men and women to work and the one who's going to be leading the charge uh nobody has mentioned his name name yet but we are going to depend

003on him is is obviously our instructor. Uh I call him Gabe Diaz, but they corrected me. They say Mr. Diaz. So, I'm going to say Mr. Diaz. Thank you. >> Perfect example of a partnership that is truly going to benefit not only the this community, but the entire county of Ventura. And what Santa Paula Unified School District, the city of Sapala, and of course um the international trades and trades are are coming together to do, it's to do just that, to create these opportunities for our students and the community. >> Water infrastructure, the roads, the highways, all of that we need a lot more of. And because of these young people, they're going to be on those projects going forward. >> 1 2 3 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat.

004Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] In this place, students will explore the possibilities within construction industry and so much more. They'll leave not just with skills but with certifications, confidence, and a sense of pride in what they've accomplished here. >> So, we used to say, you know, back in the day, you always heard this a saying, it takes a village. This could not have been possible without a lot of people doing what they did. And I'm very appreciative of that. It's something that when we can give our kids an opportunity and open their eyes to things that they probably never thought of, we know we're doing our job. I am so excited to be part of this moment today where we're not only celebrating the opportunity our kids have, but hopefully the opportunity of me,

005many building projects in this city and in this county where we're going to put these men, young men and women to work. And the one who's going to be leading the charge, uh, nobody has mentioned his name name yet, but we are going to depend on him is is obviously our instructor. Uh, I call him Gabe Diaz, but they corrected me. They say Mr. Diaz. Someone say Mr. Diaz. Thank you. perfect example of a partnership that is truly going to benefit not only the this community but the entire county of Ventura and what Santa Paula Unified School District, the city of Santa Paula and of course um the international trades and trades are are coming together to do. It's to do just that to create these opportunities for our students in the community. the water

006infrastructure, the roads, the highways, all of that we need a lot more of. And because of these young people, they're going to be on those projects going forward. 1 2 3 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Here [Music] we go. [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music] In this place, students will explore the possibilities within construction industry and so much more. They'll leave not just with skills, but with certifications, confidence, and a sense of pride in what they've accomplished here. >> So, we used to say, you know, back in the day, you always heard this a saying, it takes a village. This could not have been possible without a lot of people doing what they did. And I'm very appreciative of that. It's something that when we can give our kids

007an opportunity and open their eyes to things that they probably never thought of, we know we're doing our job. I am so excited to be part of this moment today where we're not only celebrating the opportunity our kids have but hopefully the opportunity of me many building projects in this city and in this county where we're going to put these men young men and women to work and the one who's going to be leading the charge uh nobody has mentioned his name name yet but we are going to depend on him is is obviously our instructor. Uh I call him Gabe Diaz, but they corrected me. They say Mr. Diaz. So I'm going to say Mr. Diaz. Thank you. >> Perfect example of a partnership that is truly going to benefit not only the this

008community, but the entire county of Ventura and what Sopala Unified School District, the city of Santa Paula, and of course um the international trades and trades are are coming together to do. It's to do just that, to create these opportunities for our students in the community. >> Water infrastructure, the roads, the highways, all of that we need a lot more of. And because of these young people, they're going to be on those projects going forward. >> 1 2 3 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] In this place, students will explore the possibilities within construction industry and so much more. They'll leave not just with skills, but with certifications, confidence, and a sense of pride in what they've accomplished

009here. So, we used to say, you know, back in the day, you always heard this a saying, it takes a village. This could not have been possible without a lot of people doing what they did. And I'm very appreciative of that. It's something that when we can give our kids a opportunity and open their eyes to things that they probably never thought of, we know we're doing our job. I am so excited to be part of this moment today where we're not only celebrating the opportunity our kids have but hopefully the opportunity of me many building projects in this city and in this county where we're going to put these men young men and women to work and the one who's going to be leading the charge uh nobody has mentioned his name name yet

010but we are going to depend on him is is obviously our instructor. Uh I call him Gay Diaz, but they corrected me. They say Mr. Diaz. So, I'm going to say Mr. Diaz. Thank you. perfect example of a partnership that is truly going to benefit not only the this community but the entire county of Ventura >> and what Sopala Unified School District, the city of Santa Paula and of course um the international trades and trades are are coming together to do. It's to do just that to create these opportunities for our students in the community. water infrastructure, the roads, the highways, all of that we need a lot more of. And because of these young people, they're going to be on those projects going forward. >> 1 2 3 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

011Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] I [Music] don't [Music] In this place, students will explore the possib possibilities within construction industry and so much more. They'll leave not just with skills but with certifications, confidence, and a sense of pride in what they've accomplished here. >> So, we used to say, you know, back in the day, you always heard this a saying, it takes a village. This could not have been possible without a lot of people doing what they did. And I'm very appreciative of that. It's something that when we can give our kids an opportunity and open their eyes to things that they probably never thought of, we know we're doing our job. I am so excited to be part of this moment today

012where we're not only celebrating the opportunity our kids have but hopefully the opportunity of me many building projects in this city and in this county where we're going to put these men young men and women to work and the one who's going to be leading the charge uh nobody has mentioned his name name yet but we are going to depend on him is is obviously our instructor. Uh I call him Gay Diaz, but they corrected me. They say Mr. Diaz. So, I'm going to say Mr. Diaz. Thank you. perfect example of a partnership that is truly going to benefit not only the this community but the entire county of Ventura >> and what Santa Paula Unified School District, the city of Santa Paula and of course um the international trades and trades are are coming

013together to do. It's to do just that to create these opportunities for our students in the community. water infrastructure, the roads, the highways, all of that we need a lot more of. And because of these young people, they're going to be on those projects going forward. >> 1 2 3 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] In this place, students will explore the possibilities within construction industry and so much more. They'll leave not just with skills but with certifications, confidence, and a sense of pride in what they've accomplished here. >> So, we used to say, you know, back in the day, you always heard this a saying, it takes a village. This could not have been possible without a lot of people doing

014what they did. And I'm very appreciative of that. It's something that when we can give our kids an opportunity and open their eyes to things that they probably never thought of, we know we're doing our job. I am so excited to be part of this moment today where we're not only celebrating the opportunity our kids have but hopefully the opportunity of me many building projects in this city and in this county where we're going to put these men young men and women to work and the one who's going to be leading the charge uh nobody has mentioned his name name yet but we are going to depend on him is is obviously our instructor. Uh I call him Gay Diaz, but they corrected me. They say Mr. Diaz. Someone say Mr. Diaz. Thank you. perfect

015example of a partnership that is truly going to benefit not only the this community but the entire county of Ventura >> and what Santa Paula Unified School District, the city of Santa Paula and of course um the international trades and trades are are coming together to do is to do just that to create these opportunities for our students in the community. water infrastructure, the roads, the highways, all of that we need a lot more of. And because of these young people, they're going to be on those projects going forward. >> 1 2 3 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Hey. Hey. [Music] In this place, students will explore the possibilities within construction industry and so much more. They'll leave not just with skills, but with certifications, confidence, and

016a sense of pride in what they've accomplished here. >> So, we used to say, you know, back in the day, you always heard this a saying, it takes a village. This could not have been possible without a lot of people doing what they did. And I'm very appreciative of that. It's something that when we can give our kids an opportunity and open their eyes to things that they probably never thought of, we know we're doing our job. I am so excited to be part of this moment today where we're not only celebrating the opportunity our kids have but hopefully the opportunity of me many building projects in this city and in this county where we're going to put these men young men and women to work and the one who's going to be leading the

017charge uh nobody has mentioned his name name yet but we are going to depend on him is is obviously our instructor. Uh I call him Gabe Diaz, but they corrected me. They say Mr. Diaz. So, I'm going to say Mr. Diaz. Thank you. >> Perfect example of a partnership that is truly going to benefit not only the this community, but the entire county of Ventura. And what Santa Paula Unified School District, the city of Santa Paula, and of course um the international trades and trades are are coming together to do is to do just that, to create these opportunities for our students and the community. >> Water infrastructure, the roads, the highways, all of that we need a lot more of. And because of these young people, they're going to be on those projects going

018forward. >> 1 2 3 Hey, hey, hey. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Welcome back. Uh we will reconvene to open session at 6:11. First up, we will have roll call and we will start with our student trustees. Uh trustee Gonzalez >> present. >> Trustee Magna >> present. Trustee Torres present. and board trustee Kumazawa >> here. >> Uh trustee Sandival >> here. >> Trustee Fru >> here. >> Uh trustee Rodriguez absent and trustee Royo myself present. See? Um, and for close session, we have nothing to report. And if you could all join us. Pledge of allegiance. Please rise. >> Ready. Begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

019Thank you. And would someone like to make a motion to approve the agenda? >> So moved. >> It's been moved. Do we have a second? >> I'll second. >> It's been moved and second. Um, all those in favor? >> I. >> Yes. >> Passes. Moving on to item four, staff reports. First, we have our student board member reports. Would anyone like to start? >> Uh, I'll begin, please. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Um, for Glen City Steam Academy, they are having another attendance spirit week this week. Um, to promote the importance of attendance and to help attendance rates rise. Monday is mismatch Monday, so you can mismatch your style, but never miss a day. Tuesday, travel Tuesday. Pack your backpack and don't miss a stop. Wednesday, crazy hair/hat day. Show uh I'm sorry, crazy

020socks or wild hair. Just make sure you're there. Thursday, future me. Thursday, show up today, lead tomorrow. And Friday, favorite hobby Friday, show up and shine in what they love. Students are receiving a presentation from off from officers from the Santa Paula Police Department about social media safety and um social awareness, which is a need that is ever growing in this time. And they are also receiving many enrichment activities including dance lessons um that are being provided here on campus. For the Blanchard Academy of Visual Arts, um they had a practice fire drill this week. They are looking over their CASP testing scores with their team and they're also celebrating student attendance this week. For Santa Paul High School athletics, girls golf, volleyball, and flag football play this week, all actually all throughout this week.

021and boys. Um, JV and varsity is having a J is having games this Friday. Uh, for Isbel, I will have a report for them next week. That is all I had to report. Thank you, Trusty Torres. Firstly, Grace still congratulates second grader Mary Jane Perez for being honored as Optimus Club student of the month. Grace still invites all parents to join them this Friday for their first ELAC meeting of the year. Moving on to Mckvit Mckvitt kicked off their flag football season Saturday, September 20th with a special dedication to Miss Alice Pacheco. Students have been actively engaged in class and 3rd through 6th began band classes with Mr. Valdivia. Next, Renaissance Renaissance held a school picture day and their first night success session where 16 students stayed until 5:00 p.m. to catch up on their

022work and earn extra credits. We are excited to welcome our guest speaker, Martin Alberto Gonzalez this Friday. Martin is an author and college professor who grew up in Ventura County and students have been learning about him in their English classes with anticipation for his visit. Friday, Renaissance will also be hosting their first blood drive of the year where students donate blood for extra points in their classes. Independent studies had its first picture day and enrollment is still growing with many students completing courses and recovery credits. That is all I have for you. >> Thank you, Trusty Maga. >> Starting off with Bedell, they had their back to school night September 18th and it was a success. Moving on to Barbara Webster. Today they have their My Body Belongs to Me parent workshop through Zoom from

0236:00 to 7:00 p.m. where they will educate parents on how to talk to their children about keeping keeping themselves safe. They are also working on their 100th year anniversary celebration set for Friday, October 10th from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Fors performing arts. They had their auditions for their fall production of Real Housewives of Shakespeare and have begun to work on the production. They are also holding clinics for the musical that they have coming up. Some other phs events. Last Friday we have a we had a fall sports rally which was a success with many students enjoying the bead game played throughout the school day which was a game of rock paper scissors and if the loser had to give the other player the beads until the last person won and they got rivalry tickets. We

024have food day this Friday and homecoming is coming up with the rally and parade being Thursday, October 2nd. the game being Friday, October 3rd, and the dance Saturday, October 4th. And that is all I have. >> Thank you. Uh do we have any public I'm sorry, moving on to uh item B, superintendent's report? >> So, just one thing to report. I wanted to give the board an update on the first um student advisory council. For those of you who don't know, I have a student advisory council that we meet once a month through Zoom. um we go over some of the um items that our leadership is wondering about and we also ask students to tell us what the students that they are you know in their school are talking about and concerned about. So

025uh for instance we started out well how this how the um school start go compared to other years and they said it was very smooth smoothest they've seen in a long time. um last year they said went good but this one went really good. Then I asked the question of the hour. What do you think of the Monday start? And um surprisingly surprising I thought you know it was going to be very one way but it was about 50/50. Some liked the Monday start and some did not like the Monday start. Um they preferred the Wednesday start. Um so uh we talked a little bit about safety at school. Do they feel safe? do they, you know, do they think that um, you know, we're doing a good job of keeping them safe? And they

026all pretty much had a positive response to that. And then I talked a little bit about um, project-based learning and keeping students engaged in the classroom and uh, what they were doing in their classrooms, what they really liked that kept them engaged and what they didn't like so much. And then always like to check in on the cafeteria and the lines and the food selection. And so it seems that the lines are about the same as they've been each year, but the food selection, they said that um you know there's sometimes on a day that there's a popular item, there's a run on that item and by the time some of the students get to uh up to the front of the line, the item's already gone. So um the good news is I had

02772 students in this first meeting. So um which is which is great. We have about 90 students total on the list, but um a lot of times students are in class or they can't miss a class or whatever. So, um it went really well. And normally on the first meeting of the year, you have to really try to get them to talk because they're they you know they um are hesitant because they're not used to doing that. And but this group, they had no problem telling me their opinion. So, it was a really good meeting and the next meeting will be next month. >> Trusty Fru. >> All right. So, a couple updates. Uh um I have been attending the strategic planning committee. I did miss this past Monday. I apologize to our team. there

028was a small crisis in uh where where I was at in my my my school. Um but I I I I am reviewing the slides and and I I appreciate the uh uh the time and energy that's going into strategic planning. Um I look forward to the roll out to seeing what principles have to say, what leadership team um has to offer, school site council. So, I I look forward to seeing that being uh being pushed out um and hopefully soon uh given uh a timeline that we want to have uh our our plan in place before the year is out. Um I'm also on the EL task force. I I definitely want to um say, you know, congratulations, good job to um to the committee because we're having good discussions. um not always agreeing,

029but that's okay. Um I I'm I'm guess I'm that guy that just don't always want just straight agreement. I want uh good critical thinking to take place because ultimately what I want to see is what's best for our students. Uh right now our number one priority is uh criteria for redesignation or RFP. Um because what we do know in in data through dashboard and through state and county data that students who are are FEP students who redesate are carrying the load when it comes to uh testing uh and and data. They're doing a a really good job. So I look forward to also that presentation. Um the next Santa Paul Education Foundation meeting is Monday, October 6. So I I'll have something to report afterwards. And then we have our Venta County Board Association. We

030have our our first gathering which will be Monday, October the 13th. And on that day, we also we've invited um Senator uh Monnique Lemon to be one of our uh our guest speaker. And so I look forward to uh to hosting uh Senator Lemon and and having good discussions regarding our education needs in our area. Thank you, Trusty Sandal. >> Uh, I also attended the strategic planning meeting. Um, but trustee Fru, even though he didn't attend, kind of summed it all up. So, we're hoping to kind of wrap up the first draft, right? Uh, next meeting um so that and it's very rough, right? We're so we want to get that input, right, from people um to get their feedback and integrate that. So, so look forward to that process. Thanks. >> No like major

031topics, strategic, nothing, >> huh? >> No, like >> it would take a little while, >> but really all you need to seriously it was it's a lot of it or most of it is born out of the board workshop that we had that Saturday. Um, so if we can remember back back that back that far that far back in August Saturday >> August. Gosh, that feels Saturday. >> Anyways, bright and early and trusty Kumazawa. >> Uh, no, nothing to report. >> Thank you. Likewise, nothing to report. I think our first meeting is this week on Thursday. Tomorrow, I'm sorry. Yes, tomorrow. Our committee meeting. Okay. Um, so now we can move on to public comments. Do we have anything for this evening? >> No. None. Okay, thank you. Um, item six, recognition. Um, item seven,

032presentations. Item A, ethnic studies, and I don't know who's presenting this. >> Good evening, Superintendent Weinstein, members of the board, student uh, board members. I am Matt Buck. Um Brett Bandichi. >> We are the history social science department chairs at Sapala High School and we're presenting on the uh recently developed ethnic studies course at Santa Paula High School. Uh so we want to start with giving a little background on it. Uh this was a gradu the new graduation requirement from the state of California with the class of 2030 which is the current eighth graders. Uh but in 2023, we were the department was tasked with kind of getting this going early. Uh so we were prepared to go. Uh and starting last year is when the class uh began to get up and running. Um

033and so the way it's modeled after uh we we initially modeled it after uh Santa San Diego Unified and it is a one semester course that pairs up with their health uh class. So some development highlights. Um we the entire history social science department collaborated along with administrators and other stakeholders. Uh we did secure AG approval last year. So it is UC and CSU recognized. Um their uh curriculum guides and lesson plans and pacing calendars were developed. And most importantly I think that we uh worked with Dr. Zavala, Miguel Zavala of UC Riverside to help us develop the course. He does a lot of these um professional developments with schools to help them develop uh this course. So, we met with him uh three full days last school year uh multiple times over the summer

034as well. and uh he helped us develop uh with the ethnic studies team along with us as department chairs helped us develop the course. Uh many many hours uh were put into it. Uh as far as the pilot year goes, uh the teachers were Jovon Mosby and Brett Banduchi. And so it was like like I mentioned earlier very much modeled after San Diego Unified. um they kind of trying to get ahead of the state mandate and kind of get this off the ground and running and see what kind of tweaks could be made in the time being. Um we felt that the first year, the pilot year last year was successful. We had a really great field trip uh down to the A museum and with a guest speaker Dr. Roberto Vargas um built a

035resource bank for Latino, Native American, Black, and Asian-American Pacific Islander studies. That's the four ethnic groups that are meant to be studied in this ethnic studies program. Uh, and we also got a lot of help from our librarians to help us create or to help us access resources. Uh, this is a little clip uh that was displayed on Card TV last year about the field trip and we just cut out. Hopefully it I guess it's not going to play. I don't think it's going to play. Um, we were hoping it would play. Um, so little technical difficulties there. Oh, there it is. Awesome. It's only a couple minutes. [Music] Thank you everyone. Hi, this is Sophia with CARTTV and I'm here with Mr. Castanto. We are at the InFocus exhibit at the Agriculture Museum. Can

036you tell us a little bit more about it? >> Sure. The M focus exhibit is a brand new exhibition that'll be going on all year long and it focuses on indigenous folks from around the world that live here in Ventura County. It's both a celebration of culture and also an educational opportunity for our students. There's photographs of folks that live here right in Ventur County that have cultures from all over. It's about multiculturalism and celebrating people's strengths and the work they do here in our community as immigrants. >> Wow, that sounds really great. Thank you for doing this. How are you enjoying the info exhibit? >> Um, I I really like it. You know, it shows a lot of uh the culture in Santa Paula and all these pictures, they're very beautiful. They're not just

037like pictures. They're telling stories. Like as we look over here, there's some about the farms and Indian and native cultures and I think it's amazing. >> So, as part of our new ethnic studies class, uh we have a group of our freshmen who are out here at the A museum on an exhibit for Mexican indigenous cultures to learn more about the roots of uh a lot of the Ventura County uh Mexican indigenous peoples um that are all around us. And uh it's just been a great opportunity. Um, props to the A Museum for hosting us and just an opportunity anybody wants to come out here. Uh, open every day, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday to come out here to the, uh, to the museum and and check it out for free. Uh, Mexican indigenous cultures. >>

038So, what did you make for us today? >> Today, I made a flower made out of crepe paper. Miss Catalina demonstrated to us step by step how to make this flower. And she originates from Wajaka. She says that in her culture they use these types of flowers a lot for Mother's Day, Day of the Dead, and Christmas time. >> Thank you so much. Back to you. [Music] >> Uh, thank you to Mr. Lopez, uh, at Sopal High School for putting that together for us. So, moving on, uh, maybe moving on. >> Yeah. Okay, cool. I'll go ahead. Got it. There we are. So, one of the goals uh of the class that we're having is to allow students to see themselves reflect reflected in curriculum, but also learn about their own and other cultures. And

039you know, that's the main goal of the ethnic studies class as a whole. Um increased awareness of local history and community voices. As you just saw with the video, we thought that was a really powerful opportunity for all the uh students. As far as this year, uh our teachers for the ethnic studies course are Mr. Javon Mosby and Miss Sarah Schwarz. Uh Miss Schwarz received a cultural proficiency micro credential through practice lead equity, the Museum of Tolerance, and the Los Angeles County Office of Education. Mr. uh Mosby he was a tossa in the Oxnard elementary school district and he uh led the implementation of piloting of the middle school ethnic studies elective over two years he supported three social science teachers by developing lessons plans and uh modeling uh lessons tracking progress and facilitating district

040level PLC's to establish pacing guide and scope of sequence for the course so as this year has continued we have four sections uh that's per semester taught by two teachers. Uh, one thing that I did forget to add to this slide was that our health and uh, health, excuse me, human services academy does have a dual enrollment one for their students as well. So, that brings it to five. Um, expanded PD and collaboration. Uh, big goal. Uh, each of the teachers put in well over 50 hours over the summer to help develop the course. uh make some changes as they saw uh that they wanted to change from last year. And the biggest thing that we've been working on is the development of a reader. So instead of using a textbook, uh the goal was

041to put together a reader for our students that has various essays, poems, primary sources from each of the various ethnic group groups that are looked at for the course. Um so yeah, this has all been curated. the entire history social science department collaborated on this and then uh along with particularly with Mr. Mosby and Miss Miss Schwarz they were the ones who really put the finishing touches on it and then uh Mr. Banduchi and myself kind of helped to kind of uh finalize that as we're going and so uh we're hoping that that reader will be available to students uh as soon as possible. we've had some final things to do and it should be implemented by about midocctober and so then they'll be able to use that uh going forward and then starting next

042semester they'll have it from the uh from the very beginning of the course. Uh and so our goal we think we've created a really good ethnic studies course here and we hope that we could be a model for Ventura County program ethnic studies courses. We're really proud of the work we've done and believe that we've created something that other schools can be proud of. Uh looking ahead, I think continued refinement is something that all teachers are always trying to do with their courses, trying to make uh perfect their craft. Uh and expansion of resources, uh maybe adding changing things to the reader as it goes along. Um it is a continued work in progress. The biggest need would be funding for field trips. We think there's a lot of really great opportunities around our area

043for field trips. For example, the Sanz Chumash Museum and Cultural Center. Uh it was a desired destination. It's a really brand new museum, state-of-the-art. We think that would be a great opportunity uh for our students. We definitely would look for deepening community partnerships. Just as an example from last year with that field trip and uh how much the students were able to get a uh take away from that, we think we would love to continue seeing that partnership with our community. there are so many untapped resources in Santa Paula in the area that I I'm not always aware of and so we would love to be able to continue to do that. Um and then finally just a commitment to serving every student every day with the best possible curriculum and rigor. Thank you everyone.

044>> Thank you. Does anyone have any questions or student trustees as well? You have any questions? Did you miss the class? You guys didn't have to take it. Yeah, >> I they barely implemented it last year, so it wasn't for my school year. But for Asher, was it for you? >> Um, so actually uh for HSA, I took um a Chuco studies class, which would be the equivalent um at the high school and it it was a really good class and I love um how we're implementing that now at the high school. What I am though extremely excited about to see is that we're not just looking at Chuco studies. We're looking at um Asian Asian heritage. We're looking at African heritage. So we are looking now at a lot more different um heritages and

045ethnicities that are now being studied. >> Thank you. Anyone have comments or any questions? >> Uh first I just want to say thank you for the presentation. Um it does warm my heart to know that that we are truly trying to build diverse uh you know students in our you know in Santa Paula. Um the ex the presentation was excellent. Good job. My takeaway is the reflective uh practices the fact that we don't know it all and that we're always willing to improve upon what we've already you know experienced. So I really do appreciate that. um the partnerships that I saw in in the short video, you know, like La Espinosa, uh Lusma, um uh Dr. Vargas, there's, you know, Dr. Gabino, Agira, lot of u lot of resources and a lot of uh knowledgeable

046individuals in this community that we can tap right into. But, uh but again, thank you all for for your presentation. This has been long waiting, not because of you guys, but we've had some things that have kind of happened along the way where we've had to cancel um presentations in the past, but uh but I'm really excited to to hear and to hear you Asher re reflect on it as a student and knowing that we're moving in the right direction. So again, thank you. Appreciate it. >> Yeah, my apologies for keep moving it, but some agendas were very long and it wasn't fair for everyone. >> We're happy to be here tonight. So, just a question. Um, since the exhibit's still at the a museum, are all your students doing a walking tour to the

047museum? Are you setting it up for >> this year? Jovon and Sarah have been tasked with looking into that as well. So, it's something that I I spearheaded last year. Um, I'm no longer teaching ethnic studies class. It's something I know it's I've got my avid responsibilities. I've got my AP psychology and it's just, you know, sometimes things don't fit in. And it was a great class to teach. Um we we we love that um opportunity. >> Yeah, >> we want to build it out. Um and having the opportunity just myself learning a little bit more about the mural. Um I didn't know anything about the mural and so to have the presentation on the on the farm workers mural as a historian um was eye opening that this community created that and we're unique

048in this world in this country. We're having a farm workers mural. Um getting that to our kids was amazing. To answer your question, we're pushing Jovon, we're pushing Sarah, and we'll go right back to them that Yeah, we we want them to be doing that that field trip again. >> Yeah, definitely. It's right in our backyard. And so and so are other murals. I mean, if you're talking about history, just the Bank of America, I believe it's the Moneta Packing House, and you have a lot more murals that tell the history of Santa Paula. So, I would maybe, you know, recommend that as well as a walking tour and with the nonprofit groups that are in town that actually have like the history of it. The can't remember what group it is. Does anyone remember?

049>> Society. >> Historic Society. Thank you. Sorry, I should know that. >> That would be a really good group to get in contact. >> But there's just so much. And um yeah, we'll just ask for an update later on if that happened or not because it's it's beautiful the the photography that's in the a museum right now >> and having somebody actually explain it to you would is even you know a benefit to all of us. >> Yeah. And I'd also like to give a shout out to Dr. Cadro. He really helped out on that pro in that process of getting me in touch with the people that needed we needed to get in touch with because uh I'm I'm building from the ground up. Dr. Castro has been a huge help to uh our

050mission. Um I also want to get them we have Dia delos Mertos coming up on campus. I know Dr. Castaniro is doing it. I feel like it naturally aligns with ethnic studies but Rome's not building a day. And so how we make that alignment with our ethnic studies department and with our other departments who are running that program um is just uh where we're headed in the future with this. It's it's a great program to have. >> Thank you. >> Um I got a few comments, questions. Uh first uh happy Rashashana and Yon Kapoor. Right. So we're in the middle of uh the high holidays, the Jewish high holidays. Uh a shout out to the quality of that video. Right. I thought that that was done by the Museum of Ventur County when it first

051started and I'm like, "Oh, okay. We're going to see their spiel." And then it was like, "Oh, that's us." So, uh, hopefully Nilson doesn't get a big head. >> Mr. Yeah. Uh, um, question. Are you guys headed to the ethnic studies conference that's going to be happening at the, uh, county office? >> So, we have representation not only in our department, but >> Oh, by the way, make sure you get get go more into there so that the >> Yeah. So, we have representation. and Jovon and Sarah are going. Um, but our department, our history social studies department, even if you're not teaching that, we threw it out there and we're having, we got commitments from Megan Hernandez and from Maria uh Munoz as well. Um, outside of our department, Zuniga is going to Zuniga

052is heavily so it's like we find people on our campus who even though they're not in our department, um, have just been a hu like Castro Zuniga is another guy, um, who I've leaned on, um, just to get some input on some stuff. Um, so he'll be there as well. Um that's the five that I know of. Last year we had myself, Jovon, um Emily Held was there who works with our um special needs students and teaches the class as well. Um so we don't even mention that section, but we do have that other section of of those kids that are taking it. Um and then a few others. Um >> Christina Gonzalez was there and Danny was there. Um so so we've really that's not the only conference we've been to. Um it wasn't

053mentioned in the slideshow. We've been doing a lot of leg work on making sure that Ventura County is seeing Santa Paula represented and that if you know I there there's a there's there's somebody in Oxnard who I I can't place her name right now but she's doing a lot of great work and um Caly Channel Islands has really helped us out as well. Um there's a community here of educators who um me being like kind of ground zero on this um have have really helped out and then getting Joe von Mosby on the team has also been huge. Yeah, I was going to mention the CI programs because they have, you know, um, you know, Chuco studies, black studies, you know, a number of different, uh, programs there and it would be great for us

054to have a stronger relationship with there since I teach there. If you want a little bit of an end, let me know. Right. Um, have you worked with Jose Alamo? Because he's been kind of Yeah, he's a he's a great um, professor to work with. Uh so um so there's that. Uh the Museum of Ventur County, by the way, that exhibit is supposed to be there until January 2027. Hopefully they'll change it out before that, but in case not, right? A new batch of freshmen every semester, I guess. Um, I know that the the Museum of Inter County has a plethora of archival like um documents and uh oral histories, you know. I don't know. Have you guys seen their um ethnic studies reader? >> I haven't. They reached out to us about doing something

055with our students that we pushed out to our AP world history and our AP US history teachers about um this is a much higher level like so getting into those archives understanding how you um do the research. I don't know if that's what you're talking about but we have not seen their readers. >> Well, there's two things. One is that because I would love our students to experience how do you learn about history? like we get these stories in a textbook, but you know, where do you get that data from? Um, I mean, it sounds like a great project-based learning, you know, opportunity, right? Uh, the other thing is though, that this reader, so I'll give you the link to it. They've been working on um taking, you know, some of those oral histories and

056compiling it into a book. And you know it's throughout the county but it really touches on a number of different you know ethnic groups that have you know been part of Ventur County for generations like for instance the Japanese Americans that were a big part of you know Santa Paula um and they have some of those stories of people. So it's a really rich resource that you know I think we need to do right because I hopefully our ethnic studies program is very localbased right that they learn not just about you know overall like national or international trends but they also see how does that play out on the on the local level. >> Yeah that's definitely one of the goals and I think with that reader in mind it's something that maybe for future

057iterations of our reader we can maybe implement. So that would be a great resource. >> Yeah. Well, I mean, and it could be like uh, you know, a compliment too, right? I mean, you don't have access to those, you know, like oral histories, but maybe I, and I don't know what your reader's looking like, you know, that could be, you know, seinal, you know, uh, literature that's been, you know, that that you've just compiled, right, that that speaks to, you know, d the diversity of this country. So, I mean, I have, not knowing what it is, it probably doesn't overlap, right? So, there could be some synergy in there at least. So, um, there's that. Yeah, the the Santa Paul Historical Society, you want to get the we can set up a a meeting with

058them and, uh, you can tour what they've got. All right. I mean, they'd be more than happy to look at that. There are other, you know, resources in Lakesesh, uh, which is, I think, was doing the Vos Muertos because you guys went to Oxnard, right, to do that. I thought there was a program that >> I don't think he's a Is he a doctor? Dr. Rick >> program last year. They they did that along with Dr. Cast I believe. >> Yeah. >> Is it Dr. >> Castto? I don't know if is a He's a doctor. >> Yeah. Okay. Don't don't don't promote him. >> Um >> he hasn't worked for it yet, >> but like Yeah. Takes a little bit more work than that. Um, but in that is a is a group that would

059love to interact with us. Um, you know, in the Santa Paul Art Museum, you know, which I'm a board member of, you know, I would love to see more synergies between um what they do and what we do right now. They have and probably not even known by the community. We have an exhibition going on at the Mexican count consulate in Oxnard uh from our collection on um it's called anonymous heroes. So a lot of farmworker you know um uh paintings and uh other you know um artifacts from our uh ex from our collection. So, I've been trying to get them to bring it here, but you know that that those things exist and again, people are more than happy to to open it up to this the school district. So, >> and that's exactly

060to the point of like with the deepening community partnerships that we're not always aware of and that you know presenting here already creates >> there's your guy. >> Yeah. Right. We'll definitely >> to be continued. Thank you so much for your presentation. >> Well, quick question. Sorry. Before before you go, quick question for you. So um two questions a compound question um first how do you guys say student engagement in the class um that in the classes that have happened are and then also what are academics looking like are students excelling in the class are they not doing so well are they about average like how how are those two pictures um coinciding with each other >> on the on the data side we could get I don't know if Danny has that data I

061don't know the aggregate data um I know I taught one section of it last year and Jovon taught three But Danny Danny's like our data guy when it comes to aggregate data of what pass rates look like in ethnic studies versus in math versus in this versus in that. Um what does engagement look like? I for my class and for Jovon's class because we worked so closely together. Um I think that out of the four units that we had last year, the identity unit was um certainly the one that we got the most engagement out out of. It was it's a unit where you where we are all individuals and we all come with a unique experience to this world and we could uh allow our students to figure out who it was that they

062were and and from that I think that's that's something that we're all going to be engaged in is is is expressing ourselves. um if you were to go and I would love you guys to go back and and and talk to our sophomores and and ask them um what went well and what what didn't go so well and and was that identity unit your favorite unit or which units did you gravitate towards? You learned about Native Americans and Asian-Americans and you learned about um blacks and you learned a little bit more about um what Santa predominantly is, which is Latino. Um is there something that we could do better? Um you guys you guys are boots on the ground. um we we can get as much as we can. Jovon, myself, Sarah, Mr. Buck. Um

063I'm using their first names, the teachers involved in this. Um and we're really trying to do that, but we would very much appreciate you guys as the student leaders is just talking to the sophomores and the freshmen who are taking it. Now it's about half the student body and the other half will cycle in at semester. So appreciate the question, Asher, and u look forward to just 4 424. Come down and talk to me. 114 right here. >> We're there. Thank you guys. >> Thank you. >> Great presentation. Uh we have another presentation this evening. Surf Camp summer 2025. So, good evening board members, superintendent, um student board members. Um I we I'm here tonight uh with Matthew and Jasmine. Jasmine was our lead, Aspire lead, who really um took over and make sure that

064everything went well for our our surf camp this summer. But I wanted you to hear from them and hear from our students their experience and to thank you for allowing us to be able to provide this uh great program to our schools. >> All right, I guess they're going to put me on the hot spot. Uh thank you guys for hearing us out. Um as Dr. Ramirez mentioned uh we had the opportunity to provide what we call a flow surf camp uh for about 20 students in the Aspire program over the summer. Did a four-week program. I think we have a video as well to show Irving. Um overall, uh I think the program started off originally. I'm a school psychologist in the school district. I work at a couple elementary schools, but I'm very

065passionate about surfing and the ocean. I've done doing that for about twice as long. Um, so I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to bring that to the kids in Santa Paula. And so, u, Miss Dr. RmIrez allowed us to make that happen. Essentially, it's about wellness, uh, and bringing the ocean to these kids. And I'm going to let them speak mostly because I'm really proud that they showed up today. Um, but again, moving, uh, kids, uh, physically, um, having them socialize, uh, improving their mental health and and wellness, and you can see that in the video. um just be being in the ocean and having those benefits. Um I think we all bonded so we haven't known each other for very long but the experience was great for everybody um communicating with peers

066and everyone. Other benefits is we've grown some confidence. Um I think we made a a few lifelong ocean lovers. Um and um again it provides an opportunity of lifelong wellness for them. Um, so Irving, if you want to pop it off, [Music] Wave Warriors Academy is about bringing the ocean to Santa Paula, a community of kids that are just enjoying and embracing the love of the ocean. So that's what the Wave Warriors are doing right now. [Music] I like that you get to be in the ocean and it's like therapy. I like how like you get to feel free to play at the beach getting in the water. >> Before Oreos Academy, I've never surfed, but I wanted to. I wanted to surf, but I didn't know how. What I love about surfing is I

067get to enjoy the ocean and play with my friends. I love circles because it feels like I'm flying. Now this is his first server, too. >> Every single wave he's up, he's ripping. Now I just get to enjoy the experience with him. So that was a lot of fun. And we couldn't have asked for a better day. >> Before we warriors, I never thought I'd be such brother. [Music] >> My favorite instructor was Claire. My favorite instructor was >> I'm so stoked. surfing good. [Music] >> Oh, we're surfing with Olli and all the kids from Santa Paula and they're having a great time. Everyone's shredding, super stoked on the ocean. We're out here loving life. My favorite student was Maxillion cuz he had all those crazy cool dance moves on the surfboard like this and

068he's just moving around having a good time and he just really inspired me to want to surf like that. I'm so glad Flo exists. It's amazing. It's really cool to see how everybody's confidence has built in the past like two weeks I've been here. They're just like so happy to be in the water and it's such a special thing to get to like share with them because it's my favorite place and hopefully it's their favorite place now, too. There's no experience like surfing. So, it's really special to me and I think it's probably really special to them, too. >> And I just want to see more kids from St. Paul out here. The more the merrier. I think we can get the whole town out here and just again build that community of flow and

069it's just a mental enjoyment of being immersed in the water. So that's what it's all about. Water immersion therapy. [Music] >> I got good waves. [Music] Cool. So, that was pretty much it. Um, I'm going to let these guys speak because I think it's most important. Do you hear from the sorers? So, Max, do you want to talk about the program real quick and what it did for you? >> So, it was just really fun. I loved it. I got to get closer to my friends and it was just very fun. >> Perfect. Cool. I have another friend, too. She did pretty well. Um, I would really recommend it for next year and I would for sure do it again. It was a really fun experience and I got to meet new people and get

070closer to the water and stuff and it was really fun. So, >> in addition to being fun, we also were able to employ another Santa Paula student um that I had the opportunity to meet and work with. Noah, you want to come up and share your experience? So, this gentleman I met and did some work with and he got his grades up. So, we were able to employ him last school year in the summer and he's been working with Flo. Do you want to talk about your experience? >> Um, yeah. I've growing up, well, I've had struggles and all types of things that everyone deals with and water and nature has always been like a big thing for me. Like just dealing with like just even being out in the nature or water. You just

071get to sit with yourself and think and enjoy the moment, be in the moment and not think about other things. But it's really helped me being with Flo, getting to be able to work and kind of grow doing that and it's really great for the kids and it's good for everyone. Man, that was pretty good. Um, and then lastly, uh, the Aspire lead that helped out tremendously. if you want to give your input. I made her surf, too. >> As someone who doesn't know how to swim and has so many fears of drowning, I've tried it and it was actually really cool experience. Yes, I did fall in twice, but it made the experience a million times better. And it was really fun to get to see the kids that would never normally go to

072the beach, go in the water, get in the water. They were afraid. They had vests. They had we had to push them to go, but when they did it, they never wanted to get out. So, it was really beautiful to get to see those kids that had never been exposed to these things get exposed and just live their little best lives during the summer. So, I would totally 10 out of 10 do it again with these kids again. And Jasmine made sure that I went. She goes, "You have to come." So, even though I was dressed in regular clothes, I was able to see how much um fun the students were having learning how to serve and getting the water therapy. And the parents that were there were just like how thank you. They said

073thank the board, our superintendent, because he really worked with us to try to make sure that that we were able to get this opportunity to our kids. So, um it was just beautiful to see and everybody was so grateful and appreciative for this opportunity. So, thank you. But I'll let Matthew close because Matthew actually did all the hard work when it wasn't almost not going to happen because of insurance. He made it happen. So I just really commend Matthew for really wanting to give our students the best that they probably wouldn't have had if it wouldn't be for him. >> I'd love to take all the credit, but I'm not going to take any of it. Um, again, similar to what Dr. form meantment. You know, I thought it was just going to be a

074surf camp for for a month and and give these guys an opportunity to get away from maybe some of the headaches of regular life and and introduce them to the ocean, the benefits of that. But again, it's for full circle community. Uh the instructors, I have a lot of young instructors that we hired, they were excited, they're ready to go again. Um the owner Pat uh we typically do with excuse me with flow uh non uh neuro or neurodeiverse special education students is what our bread and butter is but uh really open their eyes to another group to help serve. So it was an amazing experience for me and I think pretty much everybody else. I just appreciate your guys' time and if you guys have any questions. >> Two questions. One, how do we

075scale up? And uh were there any cooks out in the water? >> Oh, you're allowed to be a cook anytime you want. That's one of my favorites. And yes, that would be a goal of ours is to scale up. We've been talking about how to make that happen for more of our Aspire students, if not all of them. So, uh definitely a work in progress and that'll be a discussion. >> I just want to say thank you for pushing and making it happen. Um, I agree with you guys. You know, being in the water and just forgetting about everything. I think it's great therapy. Um, even if you just walk out there, but you guys got to do it for a month. I'm jealous. So, did you guys all learn how to surf? You can

076do it on your own now. Yes. Great. Congratulations. >> So, they say one of the the best life skills a person can can have is learning how to swim. So, right on, guys. Um, Mr. Wagner, you and I go way back. You know, we worked in in in uh in Briggs District. So, and I know I knew then that uh surfing was a a passion of yours. So, for you to incorporate it into uh into your your uh your regular lifestyle right now, um that's awesome. So, uh Jasmine, thank you for for your leadership and uh and and our young scholars here. Thank you guys for uh for for taking uh taking the plunge literally, right? for for being brave and courageous because you just opened up you just opened up a door uh hopefully

077for others. So, thank you guys and uh thank you Dr. Ramire's first for for leading the charge on this. Thank you. >> And thank you students and parents for bringing them. We appreciate that very much. Thank you. >> Well, we're gonna information of open session. >> That's what it says right here. >> It's too small. >> So, notice of public hearing. So, we'll adjourn. >> Yeah. >> We're going to Yeah. Ajourn to public then come back. you turn to close session. >> Okay. Sorry, getting some some information on what I need to say next since it's not written here. So, we will adjourn to public hearing. Um textbooks. >> So, notice of public hearing on the sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials for educational code section 60119 for the 2526 school year. Do we have

078any public comments on the sufficiency of textbooks? >> Hearing none, we can return to open session. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Now moving on to item nine, action items. Item A, superintendent item, first item is school resource officer contract. >> So last meeting we in anformational uh sess uh part of the agenda, we went over their school resource officer contract. There has been no changes since that initial contract. The only change that is operational, but it's not in the contract, is that we are asking for the police department to supply us officers that are already working the hours after school rather than having just our resource officers because it's, you know, overtime and it's a lot more expensive per hour. So, so we're looking for an approval of the school resource officer contract. And is

079there a motion or discussion at this time? >> So move. >> Uh is there a second? >> Second. >> It's been moved and second. >> Yeah. >> So we can do a preferential vote on this. All those in favor? >> I. Board vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Passes. Uh 401 absent. Uh item two, memorandum of understanding with the city of Santa Paula crossing guards. >> So we have severalus with the city of Santa Paula. This one is an annual one for crossing guards. So um since co we've kind of started with 11 crossing guards and as they've um added crossing uh school warning crossing areas, we've slowly removed those crossing guards and so now we're down to seven. So hopefully they'll keep going. Um we are negotiating with um the

080city for the next school year. We're asking them to pay for half the crossing guards for the next school year. But this one we are paying for the seven. >> Any question, discussion or chef, you say there's seven, but there's nine in the exhibit. >> There was there was nine in the exhibit, but there's an um addendum that shows that two are being removed. So 3 years ago there was 11. Then we went down to 10. You had nine last year and now we're going down to seven. >> Okay. >> Uh estimate how much around the Because we're this year we're paying for the seven crossing guards. Yes. >> Oh, one more time. >> Uh this year we're paying for the seven crossing guards. Yes. >> Yeah. >> Uh around how much should that be?

081Well, the um idea is that public safety is part of the city's responsibility and although they are our students and we are responsible for them from when they leave the their home to come to school, we felt that part of that responsibility should be um shared with the city. And so we're asking them to pay at least 50% of the the contract. So, just for clarification, of the nine shown on the contract, do you recall which ones are going away? >> Yeah, I have it on the contract itself. >> I can't remember if there's with the cal all the CalR work on Ohigh Road are any of those going away? The only ones that are going away are the actual um ones where just recently the city put in the crosswalks. So, we originally started

082the crossing guards for uh intersections where there was no lights there. You know, kids were just trying to get across the street. And so, they've been slowly adding uh crosswalks with the flashing lights and the and everything for the school. And so, we removed those two going into this school year. and I see if they listed the actual locations. >> So, Jeeoff, the only question I have is um so so it looks like we're paying in full this year, but we also paid it in full last year and we paid it in full the year the year before that. Those are the only three years that I have um knowledge on and and whatever the history before that, you know, that information would be nice, but going forward um what's the what what is the

083city position at this point? Is there is there a negotiation process that's >> Yeah, we're we're in talking. So, when I first got here, um I wanted to know the history cuz in Glendora Unified School District, I kind of went through the same thing except it had to do with um access to the parks and different things like that. And so, back in the day, well before I got here, there was a lawsuit that was filed um against both the city and the school district. and it was determined from the city and the school district talking that the um that the school district should be the one paying. I happen to disagree with that. Um you know, public safety is not the school's concern, but safety of our students is. So I think there's a

084shared responsibility. Um and so that's why I'm pushing for them to pay for at least half the uh crossing guards. So then maybe I'll make the request at the end, but I want to make sure then um when we do have our first 2 by 2 meeting, can we make sure that that's on the >> Yeah, it actually is on the agenda. Dan and I um talked about it. We're putting that on the agenda and yeah, I think it I think it would be great for yourself and and Trusty Rodriguez to to >> kind of talk about your feelings about it too because um with me it's it's more of a business discussion with with think and I think there's more to it. there's there's a fiduciary responsibility of safety that the entire community should

085share. >> I mean, because we have to acknowledge I mean, the the the amount of partnerships and and how much we've grown as two entities and and collaborated together to to to meet the needs of our our students. You know, there's so much we can celebrate, but if this is we can't allow this area, this one issue to to sever the relationship, right? But business is business and I want to make sure that we are at least having that conversation. Um, and hopefully our counterparts would agree that at least having the conversation. Thank you. Um, I'm also a little bit concerned about trying to reduce um because I mean I know this is a lot of money, right? So, if we can figure out some more of the money piece, like sure. But, you know,

086I I worry about the crosswalk on Santa Paul Street right by the high school because, you know, whether or not those lights are flashing, you still have, I'll say it, morons that rip through it. You know, I just witnessed it again today. So, you know, especially with our littles and especially like, you know, they're they're working on a plan to try to do some of these crosswalks on Ohio Road. So, even if they had one at High Street crossing that, I don't think I would feel comfortable saying, "Okay, kids, you're cool, right? They got the flashing lights that'll save you." You know? So, I think we just need to be very um judicious about how we approach that. One of the good suggestions from the city for this contract was to start the school year

087with all nine because these were done over the summer pretty much. So, um and then the then have the crossing guards themselves and uh talk to the parents and the kids about the fact that they're going the crossing guards are going to be uh not there and that where else they can cross if they want to cross with a crossing guard. And would someone like to make a motion for approval? >> So move. >> Do we have a second? >> I'll second. >> It's been moved and second. Uh we will ask for a preferential vote. All those in favor? >> I. Passes. Board vote. All those in favor say I. I. >> I. >> Passes 40. Thank you. Uh item three, memorand memorandum of understanding with CSU Channel Islands for school counselor residencies. So, um

088we already have anou for teacher residencies. Um and we have been trying to strengthen our relationship with Channel Islands. Um and so, uh they proposed us to be the lab for their counseling program. And so we would have counseling interns just like intern teachers coming to here practicing and the and really the goal is to create that pipeline so that um once they graduate and they have their licenses or certificates and stuff that they want to stay here and work in Santa Paul because as an intern they had such you know they had a good experience >> and there's no cost to the district. >> Thank you. Any questions, comments? Only comment I have is I love seeing these kinds of partnerships, you know, because I think they're mutually beneficial, right? But, you know, I'm

089most excited about what it provides to our students. So, >> then you're going to like like next meeting too because I have another with them that I just negotiated I'm bringing to the next meeting. So, >> Oh, any preview? >> Um, it has to do with guaranteed admission >> Channel Island. Yeah. >> Yeah. Filmore has that sameou. Yeah, we've had it in the past. Um, so we've updated it and the criteria they list I think there's seven pieces of criteria for a student to meet and they automatically get accepted to CSCI. Um, and that criteria has just changed a little bit, but um, yeah, we're excited about that, too. >> So, would anyone like to make a motion? >> So moved. >> Um, do we do I hear a second? >> I'll second it. It's

090been moved and second uh preferential vote. All those in favor? >> I passes. Thank you. Board vote. All those in favor? >> I Yes. >> I >> passes 40. Uh moving on to item B, educational services. Item one, adoption of resolution number 2526.05 05 regarding sufficiency or insufficiency of instructional materials. >> So at the at the beginning of the year we have a Williams act visit where they come and they um uh audit us on our sufficiency of of textbooks and instructional materials which there were no findings. So we have we have not and that has a lot to do with our one-on-one devices that um that is considered instructional materials or one-on-one devices. So um so just like the public hearing we have every year at this time to uh we also adopt the

091resolution um regarding the sufficiency and insufficiency of instructional materials here at the district. So we'd like an we'd like to have the um resolution adopted >> with that. Do would anyone like to motion adoption of the resolution? >> So moved. It's been moved. >> Do I hear a second? >> I'll second. >> It's been moved and second. Uh, preferential vote. All those in favor? >> I passes. Board vote. All those in favor? >> Yes. >> I passes 40. Uh, item two, adoption of resolution number 2025 2026.06, Hispanic Heritage Month. So, at the suggestion of our board president, we thought it would be great if one of our student trustees could read the resolution into the record before we adopt it. So, Asher, uh, this is the sixth resolution of the 2025 through 2026 school year.

092The the resolution number is 2025-2026 recognizing Hispanic Heritage Month. Whereas each year from September 15th to October 15th, the Santa Paula Unified School District will recognize S Hispanic's heritage month to honor the history, culture, and contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans. And whereas the Hispanic community has significantly enriched our nation through their contributions in various fields such as education, medicine, art, culture, and public service. And whereas the theme for Hispanic month 2025 is quote collective heritage honoring the past inspiring the future end quote highlighting the impact of in and influences of Hispanic Americans in shaping a bad brighter future for all. And whereas 94.9% of the K through2 students in the Santa Paula Unified School District identify as Hispanic. And whereas understanding and celebrating Hispanic and Latino history is an essential part of recognizing the

093diverse fabric of our nation. And now therefore, let it be resolved that the Santa Paulie Unified School District hereby proclaims September 15th to October 15th, 20125 as Hispanic Heritage Month and encourages all students, faculties, administrators, parents, and members of the comm of our community to celebrate and honor the contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans. passed and adopted this 24th day of September, 2025 by the board of trustees of the Santa Paul Unified School District of Ventura County in the state of California. >> Thank you, Asher. Uh, preferential vote. All those in favor? >> I passes. Thank you. Board vote. All those in favor? >> Yes. >> I passes 40. Thank you. Moving on to item three, resolution 2025-2026.7, approval to submit continued funding application to the California Department of Education. >> Good evening everyone. Um,

094this resolution is part of the state funded preschool continuing funding application. It's done annually and it's one of the first steps in our application process to continue to receive um CSP funds. Certifying this um shows that the board is approving of us entering into this contract and the um transaction with the CDE and to authorize the designated personnel to sign documents related to the CFA. >> Thank you. Do we have any questions, comments, or a motion for adoption? >> Hearing none, I'll make a Oh, >> so um is this an annual um I guess >> applic Okay. So, okay, >> that's a good question because I didn't remember it either. >> It's the It's the first step in the process. I'll move to adopt resolution uh 20252607. Oops. I sorry I didn't I'll say that

095again. I move to adopt resolution 202526 07. >> I'll second. >> It's been moved and second. Preferential vote. All those in favor I >> I passes. Board vote. All those in favor I >> I passes 40. Okay. Uh moving on to item four, single plans for student achievement fiscal year 2526. So tonight we are here asking for your approval of all the nine actually 10 because we have independent study single plans for student achievement um that all um fall under title one and being able to use their title one money according to their uh plan. And uh at this point, do we have any questions or comments or more information about them? If none, is there a motion for adoption? >> A motion. >> Okay. And I'll go ahead and second it. So, it's been

096moved and second. Preferential vote. All those in favor? I >> I passes board vote. All those in favor? >> I >> passes 4 Z. Thank you. Item item five, approval of the arts and music and schools funding guaranteed and accountability act 2425 annual report and expenditure plan. So um each year we have to submit a report of how we spent this money from the previous year. So the 2425 school year is what we're approving. And as you can see from the actual uh expenditure that the majority of the funding goes towards um personnel. >> Just a question. This is the only report we have to do because it really doesn't say anything. Like is there more to it than this? >> Well, I know that our auditors audit it, but um other than that, uh

097Tom, do you do you know? No, there's no other report that we have to do >> because like you know, we have to spend that money by site. It has to be 85% on it. They don't >> All right. I mean our auditors do look at all that but and they are certified auditors from the CDE but as far as us submitting a report this is all they ask for. >> All right. So I guess that requirement is to give more money to Negro and Negro. So okay I move to approve. >> I think for future items we we can see how it's working. I mean I've always been a strong supporter of our arts since my kids were in elementary. Um, and now that we actually have funding, it's great. But I I agree

098with you. I I looked at the onepage report and I think it cuts off the square on item one as to all the information. If you looked at it, it it cuts off on the narrative description, but I mean, we think we all pretty much know how important the arts are. With that, did you motion to approve it? Sandival. Did you? Okay. Do we have a second? >> I'll second it. >> It's been moved and second. Uh, preferential vote. All those in favor? >> I. Passes. Board vote. All those in favor? >> Yes. >> I passes 40. Thank you. Um, moving on to item C, business services. Um, item one, notice of completion. Good evening. Um, tonight we're asking for the approval for the notice of completion for the Santa Paula High School McMahon gym

099floor. >> Any questions, comments, or is there a motion for approval? >> Happy it's finished. And I'd like to motion to approve this. >> It's been motioned. Do we have a second? >> I'll second it. >> Uh, it's been moved and second. Um, preferential vote. All those in favor? I >> I passes. Board vote. All those in favor? >> I passes 40. Thank you. >> U moving on to item 10. Wait, yes, I'm not skipping anything. So item 10, consent calendar action item. Consent items are considered routine and will be enacted by a single motion. None of the items will be discussed unless a board member requests discussion prior to the vote of the motion to adopt the consent calendar. Do we have a motion? >> I u madam president I'd like to pull uh

100curriculum associate R26-093 just for further discussion. >> Okay. And with that, do we have a motion? >> I motion to approve the consent calendar uh without the one contract just mentioned it uh for Curriculum Associates. >> Okay. Do we have a second? >> I'll second. >> It's been moved and second. Board vote. All those in favor? >> I I passes 4 and Okay. So now >> now we now we move on to the discussion please >> becomes an action item. >> Okay. >> So I mean it's not that I'm not in favor but I just wanted to know a little bit more about um you know under the the description type surface type of service excuse me it says E monitoring annual communication and instructional planning. Is this a program that helps us uh collect

101data or is this a reporting program? I'm thinking about like elevation. >> Well, it is elevation. >> This is elevation. So, elevation this year um you know, we're going to you are re we're going to do our reclassification. We met with the um through that platform and we met with the um vendors and they're able to help us create those uh reclassification forms as soon as students become eligible. So it will help us be able to be able to reclassify students throughout the whole year, not just at a specific time. Additionally, um we are purchasing strategies that come with elevation. So that's going to support our teachers as we're being very focused as what we're doing on a monthly basis. They're going to be able to gather the strategies from there as videos and um

102Myra, our ELD TOSA is putting um things together for them to help them streamline their instruction during the LD time. >> And the reason why I ask is because I know through the task force this was one of the the criterium is teacher recommendation. So would this meet that criteria? I think that's criteria two. >> Well, what's going to happen is that now um we are actually also working with Julie is to be able to have all the data that we need to have from the from the criteria imported into elevation. So the only ones that we're now working on is heerty and core. Um, so Julie is going to work with us and and see how they com how we communicate that information to performance matters so that we can communicate in the same

103way to elevation and that way it's going to ease a lot of the work so that that way the forms are going to be ready to go. So as soon as a student meets the criteria that we put into elevation, it will um uh let send a reminder letting us know this student is ready, please proceed with next steps. >> So that brings the next question. So is this more a elementary program? >> No, it's K it's K12. TK K12. >> Okay. >> So all teachers and Marisella, Dr. Fabila has used it. Principals use it to be able to monitor their students. It gives you a tab like a little square about all your LTEL so that you know exactly who your Ltails are. So that some of the teachers use it more than others.

104So our goal this year with Myra is to really educate a lot of our teachers of all the resources available to them so that um they don't have to go on teachers pay teachers or something else that everything's in one location for them that they can then be able to build upon. >> And then final question so this will be our formal um process on how teachers will will make their recommendation. >> Yes. >> Okay. So then that's something we uh when it comes to the ELD task force, this this will be presented to them. Yes. And no longer is it a discussion item because we're approving that tonight. >> Correct. Well, the discussion item still at the AL task force will be the criteria that we want to put forward and then the teachers

105and we said we were going to explore how we can be able to create forms so that it doesn't have so many and not be tasks for the teachers. But now this is going to create it for you. It's going to be ready. is going to be through that platform. >> No. And and again, I support I support the idea. I I thought we were looking at at an entirely new and separate program. I personally have have good experience with Elevation because it really does set it up for you. All you got to do is just input, copy and paste. if you're doing, you know, your report cards, it's just it's copy and paste depending on >> one good thing about elevation that they worked with um with us today that we asked them wanted

106to do a comparable between last year's scores and this year's course to truly be able to see how students are moving. And so the um I keep forgetting what they're called. The program manager was able to help me and create that for me, write it up so that that way I can just put the but push the button and it just just give you that information. >> Thank you, Dr. Oh, thank you. So with that, do we have a motion? >> So So move to approve the curriculum associated R26-0103 093. >> And I'll second that. It's been moved and second. Uh preferential vote. All those in favor? >> I. >> Passes. Board vote. All those in favor? >> I Yes. >> Passes 40. Uh, moving on to item 11, board member comments, requests for future

107agenda items. Um, Trustee Asher, >> um, I am very happy to see the, um, ethnic studies, um, program at the high school moving along, um, very nicely. Um, I would just like a little bit more data with, um, grades, but I'm very happy to see the student engagement, and I'm very happy to see, um, curriculum, how we're modeling it. Um, from everything I've heard from people who've taken it, um, they've liked the class. They thought it was nice. Um, so I'm very excited to see that, uh, moving forward. >> Thank you, Trusty Torres. >> No questions or comments. >> Thank you, Trusty Maga. >> Um, also on the topic of the ethnic studies, I also really like how we've implemented this program because I know in Santa Apollo we have a majority Hispanic culture. So,

108I think it's really important that we get our students to also know about all the other cultures for after high school if they for when they go out into like different cities to know about the different cultures and everything surrounding them. >> Good point. Thank you, Trusty Kumazawa. >> Uh, no comments tonight. Thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty Sandival. >> I just wanted to mention I went to the Limro Field Day. Uh it's an annual event. I know a lot of you can't make it because you're working. Um luckily my schedule allows that flexibility, but it's always good to uh hear where you know one of the biggest companies in our area uh how it's doing. So um and would really love to engage them with you know our a program. So anyways, just always

109a reminder this time of year. >> Thank you Trusty Fru. >> Um couple of things. Um last week I did last Thursday I did attend a uh cause event fundraiser. Uh it was an opportunity to to connect with um um just other activists and educators and community organizers um throughout Ventura County. And just to see the the the passion supported uh supporting our uh immigrant population. And I just think that's um that's it's always um a good event to um to be reminded of how lucky we are to to to have what we have and and how much we should always fight to protect what we have. So um I just I definitely want to request a little bit more information. I know Jeff, you and I, we've talked a little bit about uh a

110high school mural uh being put in at the the the gym. So I think want to continue that conversation. And I know that we have some there. So, a little bit of background. A community member, an artist in Santa Paula has has come come forward and says, "Hey, I'd like to to help beautify the the gym. The floor looks amazing. What can we do about the walls?" And so, he he brought forward a Joe Cardinal um uh like a like a a proposal holding a volleyball, holding a basketball um to add a little bit of color, a little bit spice to our our high school. And I think it's appropriate, but I want to see where where we're going with that. >> Yeah, we I approve the I'm sorry. I approve the actual drawings. Obviously,

111I I make sure that they meet the the same, um mascot look that we already have. Um and it was very well done, by the way. I was really impressed with it. And so, um, I've tasked, uh, Danny Guzman, the principal, to, um, ex to get a proposal of actual cost and then we can bring that proposal to the board for approval. >> No, it's it's a good thing. I mean, when you got talented individuals and community wanting to give back, I mean, I definitely uh I know there's a process and I definitely don't want to to to be a roadblock. And my final um comment more request is I know that the um CAS scores have been recently um have been posted. Uh I know that um I I love to see what the

112trends are. Are we making progress? Are we platforming? Do we take a dip? Um, I'm always always interested in seeing how did our RFIP students uh do and I definitely want to request that information maybe at at a future board meeting. Um, definitely at our next ELD uh meet uh task force meeting uh Dr. Ramirez and I know that's coming up next week, but I would like to see if that's if it's you have enough time to get that, but I I I want to see if our district is moving in the right direction. Uh, I know we've put a lot of time and investment into, you know, the science of reading, CGI, math. Uh, I'm I'm curious to see whether we're making the the right gains u with regards to CASP. Um, so again,

113I mean, I think you you'll know when it's time when it's best to present, but I'm definitely interested in in seeing the the trends and definitely seeing a little bit more on the um on the RFP students. Thank you. Thank you. Um so just my comments for this evening is again thank you as always for everybody's work and uh the Friday board updates and taking our phone calls and you know just doing the best for all our students. Um, and with that, I do not have any future agenda items. And our next meeting, um, we're changing location to celebrate the 100 year of Barbara Webster. So, our next meeting, which is October 8th, will be at Barbara Webster. So, hopefully we will ask Ela to send us a text to remind us to go to

114the right location because I think we're a lot of us are creatures of habits. We're just like on autopilot and we'll be here and then remember that. Oh no. So, um, just remember October 8th, put it on your ca on your calendars at Robert Webster. And wow, it's 7:34. I will adjourn this meeting. [Music]