001I'm gonna we're gonna have a call to order here at 502. Dr. Alderman, can you do the roll call, please? Miss Cindy Lopez, present. Miss Alvariano, present. Miss Sarah Turner, present. Mr. Neil Patel and Mr. Jacob Sandaval are not present. Thank you. Can we please stand for the pledge of allegiance? Salute. 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. 1.3. Could I have an motion to approve the board agenda? A motion to approve the board agenda. Second. All those in favor? I. Motion 30. We are about to adjourn to close session where we're going to have 2.1 potential litigation under government code section 54956.8 and 54956.9. Also, public employee performance evaluation government
002code 54957. Conference with labor negotiators 54957.6. Are there any uh public comments regarding closed session items? There are no public comments. Okay. Can I have a motion to adjourn to closed session? I motion to adjourn closed session. Second. All those in favor? I I motion 30. Thank you. We will be back after closed session. Recoming back into open session. Uh during close session, nothing was voted on, so there's nothing to report out. We're going to move on to item 5.1, which is approval of consent agenda items 5.2 to 5.6. If I can please get a motion to approve. Motion to approve. Second. Those in favor? I I motion 40. Um, Mr. President, we have a late request to correct item number 9.7. The backup um paragraph for the item indicates a salary range of 12
003and that should be 29 in that description. Everything else is correct. Um, it was just a typo. Can you repeat that again? It was one of the two changes, Claudia. Item what? 9.7. Item 9.7 in the written description, it indicates the position would be paid at range 12. It is range 29 and the backup documents are correct. Okay, perfect. Okay, we're going to move on to item 6.1. Anybody here from SRTA or comment submitted? No comments have been submitted. Uh 6.2 CSEA. Nothing submitted. Okay. Uh moving on to 6.3. Superintendent's cabinet. Uh for the most part, I think we're all going to hold because we have our state of the district report. Did anybody have anything? Okay. So, we're going to move on to the board and the superintendent. Starting off with Miss Cy Lopez.
004I don't have anything to report out today. Okay, Miss Elvariano, I don't have anything else either. Okay. Uh, Miss Arer, nothing to report. Thank you. Okay, me as well. Uh, Dr. Ardelman, I'll also hold. We have our report. Okay. Uh, 7.1 and 7.2, any public comments regarding non-aggenda or agenda items? We do not. Okay. And nobody in the public. Okay. Uh, 8.1, it's anformational item. the state of the district report. Okay, that's um while that gets set up at our last meeting, we tabled this um for the for the sake of time and so some of the comment or some of the content is carryover and then we added some additional things or updated accordingly. Um so you have here most of our cabinet who um are going to be presenting on some various aspects
005where we're at in quarter 4. So academic engagement, human resources, our student services and special education, uh engagement and climate, uh technology, health and wellness, and our business updates. Are we covering for Okay, we got it. All right. So, we're gonna uh we'll start with academic engagement. So, um our curriculum council did a great job evaluating and selecting a reading screener. And so, we um we had until June 30th to adopt one or more uh screening instruments as required by the state. And that is um intended to be part of like our comprehensive strategy for instruction to inform our instruction, measure progress, also to identify those uh learning needs and help parents and guardians um discuss that learning. And our results are supposed to be used as a broader process that helps evaluate student needs
006and progress and identifies those supports for classroom instruction. And so what our curriculum council brought to the board and that the board um adopted was through amplify is the company and it is the dibbles assessment and that screener is for grades this a pop quiz K6 and so we'll implement training um on those but curriculum council reviewed a few options and selected this one for K6 to meet our requirement for a reading screener. there. Um, we're doing just sort of a check-in towards the end of year one for our EUI, Hegarity, and phonics for reading programs. This was our first year of implementation of those. And so, at the bottom, you have some anecdotal feedback from the student perspective and about how that's going for them, which is always great. But um all of our
007elementary school sites have implemented those three programs. And so where we're looking for growth with these in particular is phenemic awareness, phonics, and then reading fluency and students expressing some additional confidence in their reading skills according to their LCAP survey, which I want to give a shout out to particularly our elementary teachers for um getting some quite a bunch more of our elementary students engaged in the LCAP feedback process than we've ever had before. So some of that feedback is, you know, the thing that helps me most is sounding out the words. And so our students are reflecting on their progress with their with their programs. We all kind of paused and waited for the next possible sound. I think we're good. Um, and so, uh, right now what Becky's working on with ED services
008is, um, and our teams of teachers who in got involved in got this process started for us for this year is our updates and revisions and refinements for our scope and sequencing. And so, the teams are getting back together. Uh, they've been getting feedback from their colleagues. We have 34 teachers working on those revisions right now and the updates. And so they've met with math curriculum representatives and um the author for Q&A. And then those revised plans, we're looking to have those updated and published by the end of this school year. And then next we're going to turn it over to Claudia for human resources. I don't have to be Yes. So as requested we are providing you with a snapshot of current um um and projected staffing needs that we have for next year.
009Um so as you can see on the left hand side you have the total of positions that we are expected that we need for next year and on the right hand side you get to see what we still have pending to fill. So, one of the things that I like to point out is that this is a moving target, right? This just a moment in time. As uh individuals make decisions to either stay with the district or move forward, uh this may change. So, um that's pretty much what I have with that. We have been really busy uh handling a lot of interviews. the administrators have been really busy handling a lot of uh uh rounds of interviews, conducting reference checks and and all of that kind of thing. Um we have an important um
010interviewing session coming up which is going to be for the principal position at McKinnon Elementary. Um I would like to do a shout out to the amazing HR team. It's just not me. But we have Adriana Albanil, HR analyst, and Milad Guen, HR specialist, and Miss Daisy Losa, HR coordinator. And without their um efforts and work, none of this will be possible. So, I I feel like we're making we're making progress, but never again nevertheless, this may change. I can report out on these sped number. So, this follows that same format that Claudia just mentioned. So we have the position projected vacancy and recruitment. So for our occupational therapists or OT's were projected for four based on student numbers. Um currently we have two district hired. Huge shout out. We have never hired an OT.
011So I was excited when we brought on two of our contracted employees that we've had for several years. Um and then we're going to continue with two additional contracts to fill that need. Then we have our speech and language pathologists or SLPs. Um we're projected for staffing seven based on student numbers. Currently um we have three and again just like she said snapshot right. So currently we have three district hired and four contracted. Um for our speech and language pathologist assist assist assistance or slipas these are um slippas support our SLPs with services. We're um projecting we'll need 2.4 and we currently I'll bring it tonight for your guys's approval are proposing um a 2.4 contract. We also and I just wanted to put it on here. We're also contracting with MCOE for physical therapy
012PT. Again, it's just for a handful of students that need that through their IEP or 504. And you'll notice here it says 0.3. And then we also contract with adaptive physical education or APE. And again, it's a handful of students. It's 0.1. Um, but we utilize those contracts with MCOE because we're able to partner with them and share um employees that are also in other districts, if that makes sense. Okay, moving on. And I know that you were uh wanting to learn a little bit more about the teacher residency program. This is a collaboration between the district Alder Graduate School of Education and MCOE. Um so in order for participants to be eligible to participate in the program, they have to have a bachelor's degree. Uh when they are in the program for one year,
013they earn a master's degree along with a teaching credential. And those are the different areas in which they can earn that teaching credential. So the apprentice or the resident is here four days a week with a mentor, one of our teachers. uh they complete online coursework with the cohort and they receive a living stipen. So the benefit to the district is that we get to recruit from within our community and um it gives us the ability to be able to hire and put teachers that represent our student population. Um district benefits. Yeah, it is right there. Uh we also give them hiring priority. This year we had three uh residents. Uh we had two at the elementary level and one at the um middle school. Um I can report that two of them will be
014coming back with us as regular teachers. And for the upcoming year we are projecting two participants to residents. All right. So, um, we had a great time last Friday with our countywide celebration for our, um, employees of the year. So, uh, we honored and really appreciate Ela Ariano making it with us on our on our trip to honor our employees. So, Miss Sulma Rodriguez at New Republic Elementary was our elementary teacher of the year and Miss Bonnet Garrettson at Gavlin View Middle School teacher of the year. I know. And then in the corner of the room, our very own Robert Rodriguez was our IT technology and Miss Norma Bazo for administrative services. She was our our nominee um for La Hoya Elementary, Miss Elizabeth Donado for health and student services for New Republic and Miss
015Gloria Cortez as paraprofessional services also at New Republic Elementary. and then Mr. Rudalfa Moreno for custodial services at Santaorita Elementary and Miss Maricella Estrada for security services also at Sanorita Elementary. So, hot off the we took our um our certificate uh pictures. Our a really fun one was at Sanorita because both of our Sanorita classified employees were in the middle of working in the multi-purpose room and so the students were really excited to help celebrate um as we went through that and you know Miss Kanig so she was back there ming what we were doing and really getting the students excited about it. So, it was really fun. And then on Friday, we celebrated with our employees at the at the big dinner with all the other districts in the county. And so we had
016some of our administrators join us. They were able to bring a guest. You may notice that's Miss Mary Stefan there sitting next to Anolia. Um so she came out to celebrate Miss Normabazo as well. Where is she? Had a good evening. Where's Where's Mary Stefen? Yep. He's right here. Right next to Nalia. She's tiny now. Oh, okay. Okay. Oh, that was great. Yeah. So, it was really fun. Nice. And now we're going to pass this back down. I won't hang on to the mic this time. I was told I was making some smacking sounds. Okay. So, um for our first slide under special education student services, so really wanted to highlight um coordination of services. So, we introduced the cost team at the beginning of the school year. Um we're implementing it across all six
017sites. We trained and coached assistant principles at each site in the cost process and procedures and really wanting them to step into that leadership um instructional leader role. Um, district administers have had the opportunity to observe cost process at each site. Um, we've been able to remmit with them and go over clothes and grows. Is my mic working? Oh, thanks. I'm looking at it, but you guys aren't. Problem. Okay. I'm sorry, you guys. Um, so anyways, talking about our coordination of service, um, that we were able to implement this this school year. um really doing ongoing coaching and support for school sites, really working with our assistant principles to have them running those meetings and that instructional leadership role. Um district administrators having the opportunity to observe, right? So we've um as cabinet team and
018other team members um at the district level being able to go and participate in them and then being able to give them um productive feedback and be able to grow from that. Right? So, we're really looking at that as an opportunity to catch um and work with students in intervention early and really be proactive. Um so, next steps that we're really looking at for moving towards summer and this next school year would be create a district-wide tracking system. So, we are working with the Aries team and really looking at what interventions and how can we document within our um Aries system. also looking at adding in um intervention documentation into areas and providing that ongoing training. So really looking at having that be a collaborative um process really working with summer and um the whole
019team to make sure that we have that social emotional um part, the behavioral part, the academic part, the attendance piece, and that we're looking at the whole student as we're coordinating our services and and providing service. Now I have to change it on both slides because I'm like what am I doing? Um I wanted to highlight a couple fun things that the special education team has had the opportunity to do in the last few weeks. So we did we were able to attend Special Olympics on Friday and I walked around the whole day saying this is my favorite day of the year because it really just was so heartwarming. um when students were leaving school school sites and getting on the bus to attend, there was parades and people were cheering and made signs and
020it was just the most special thing I've seen in a long time. When we got there, we had several students um participating in opening ceremonies. We got to go through the the parade and all um walk with all districts within Monterey County. Uh Monterey Peninsula Unifi's been hosting the event and just had it internal facing and this is the first year that they opened it up to the whole county and it was just so amazing to have all mods severe um special education classes be able to come together and celebrate our amazing athletes. Um we had two students win races which I also just was so tickled about. Um we had um one student win the 400 and then one student won the mile. So was very excited and um we've already gone back and
021reflected on you know all these things went great and here's things we're going to improve for next year when we get to attend. Um, we also had the opportunity, we did a with Summer's support, her team, um, we did a special education math night. Um, it was the night that we lost electricity, so the photos look a little dark, but we were luckily in a at JG they had, um, skylights and we opened all the doors and we actually had a pretty good turnout um, considering there was no electricity. So, um, really positive. We had about eight special ed teachers and staff um from the special ed team come and volunteer um and participate with that night as well. Okay. And then I'm going to pass it on to expanded learning to summer. just want
022to give you a little bit of an update on um what our ELOP program looks like. As you remember, we're hitting almost exactly a year since we've started implementation. Um and you can see there at the bottom, we're currently serving 974 students in expanded learning. So that's a huge growth in a year. We feel it some days. So, um, we're looking at, you know, 105% increase and then 31% of our district is enrolled currently in ELOP. Now, keeping in mind that, um, this doesn't currently include like afterchool sports. We're working around ways of funding that through ELP too. But, um, an update for summer academy. Friday is your last day to enroll, though we will take you after that. But, Friday is our enrollment deadline. Um, these are where we look, our numbers look like
023currently. So, at New Republic, we'll have our rising kinders to rising fifth grade because they'll be placed in the grade they're entering in for the following year. Um, and we currently have 251 students enrolled. Uh, at John Gutierrez, we'll be serving our incoming sixth through incoming eighth graders, and we have 145 as of today. And then at Sanorita, um, this year, we'll have two programs happening. One is an all day summer camp and that's for maybe those students who don't want to attend a traditional summer school program. Um, and this will be run by right at school and it'll be very similar to like a YMCA summer camp that families send their students to with lots of activities. Um, a focus around science as well, science enrichment and we currently have 35 students enrolled in
024that program. Also at Santaorita will be the migrant summer program and there's about 120 students who will be attending that. So currently um and the numbers will be much bigger in another week but uh 551 students projected to attend summer as of today. Um I'm very excited to add to our ELOP team. So uh as we've kind of worked to develop what it is that we need to make our program stronger and make sure that all students are supported because um well I'll share a little bit. When we went to the ELOP conference this year, we ended up being highlighted um as a district, which is great, in our first year of implementation for our inclusion of students with special needs, um lots of programs have just kind of closed their door and said like
025we can't accommodate that student. And of course, now the state is saying that's not an option. And so, u Michael Funk from the Department of Ed actually brought us up to share some of our best practices around how we are, um including students with special needs. And that's been a lot on the special education team because it requires a lot of coordination and support. And so um after a full year of implementation, we were able to add an ELOpsa. And what our ELOPsa will be doing, and then I'll share about who she is, is really working to coordinate with our special education team. She'll be attending the IEPs of students who are in the ELOP program to make sure that we're coordinating those services um from the very beginning and that that's not all put
026onto the special education team. We are very excited that internally um Amy Chot, who's been a teacher for nine years at La Hoya Elementary. She's also been our restorative practice lead um and she's finishing her masters in counseling, has accepted the position. Um and will begin with us as of July 1. Um she'll be supporting, she had a vacation planned already. She's like, "Oh, do I need to cancel that?" And I was like, "No." Um so she'll be supporting us for the end of summer school and then doing some additional training in July. um and just really excited to bring her on to help coordinate. It's great because her and Janelle Silva, who's one of our program specialists, have worked together really closely for many years. And so, um she's going to be a good
027addition both for our team and for supporting our students. Oh, that's me also. Um I was to pass it. So, just sharing where we're at with attendance. Uh this is just a quick graph of what our attendance looks like right now overall. You can kind of see that graph at the bottom. Um as of today, our overall attendance is at 94.6% which is is an improvement. We're improving and improving each year. Um Dr. Kise has put together an entire attendance manual that we've been slowly kind of rolling out pieces of, but next year will be shared um across the district for full implementation. And then we've been working with the clerks and secretaries uh around addressing chronic absenteeism and attendance. So, we're excited that our attendance is moving in the right direction. Some of what
028we've been able to accomplish this year is we've been able to um get ADA recovery through our Saturday program. Rosa and I were looking at it today. Um because it was our first year doing ADA recovery, our dates for our programming were not as good as they should have been to align to ADA recovery because we were really thinking academic recovery, which we want, but we also want to reclaim that ADA. So, we have modified our calendar for next year to be in more in line with our PE reporting periods. Um, but we were able to this year recover about uh 1,440 hours or days days of student time, like if you count it that way. Um, we developed that district-wide action plan. Um, we've brought together an alignment across our sites. Uh, we've calibrated
029our coding, so what the, uh, clerks are putting in for codes if a student's sick or it's a mental health need, those pieces. Um we've clarified those roles. We've identified attendance protocols. Um we've practiced we've done some best practice uh work across that space and then really looking at the data. So using our A2A data that we get on a regular basis to identify who's absent and why and then what supports we can put in and link in that space. The other exciting piece of um attendance is that now under the new regulations we can uh get ADA recovery during ELOP. So that wasn't there previous. So if Saturdays um phone is going off here, Saturdays last year or this year, Saturdays were funded through learning recovery and we were getting ADA but we were
030also paying for the program and so we were pretty much even like we were getting money back and we were paying money out which was great because kids got support. For next year we'll be able to we will do a 9-hour Saturday again. The way we'll do it because you have to offer nine hours for yellow P um is we'll do our traditional Saturday like we do now and then we'll have just like our after school program now right at school will come and extend that time for students who need it on Saturday so that we make that nine hours and then we'll be able to claim ADA there but now we can also claim ADA recovery during our afterchool period of time. So as long as we have a certificated teacher who will be
031supporting students directly um we can now start to log that and claim that. So, we're anticipating a substantial ADA recovery um funds for next year. School culture and climate. Melissa said it can't be 27 slides on school culture and climate, so I had to cut a bunch down. Um so, looking at restorative practices implementation, um I think Becky shared with you at the last or a couple board meetings ago at a retreat, I can't remember. We talked about the new standards for teaching which I was really excited when I saw those come in because it's work we've been doing for the last four years that are now embedded within those standards. And so restorative practices are part of that. Um when we're looking at the data across the district um for our alternative to suspension
032program, there's been 89 students suspended um who qualified for ATS because remember it's only fourth through 8th grade. Of those 89, 39 have attended our ATS program. And again, our goal is always to increase that number. We want more students coming into ATS. But again, if we didn't have this program, that's 39 students that would have been home and not getting the support of Miss Emory there. Um, so let me see what else is important down here. There's Oh, so here. So 50 students suspended without attending ATS, but 11 students receiving multiple suspensions. So again, when we look at that big number, remember that that number oftentimes accounts for one student who's been suspended several times. Um, our restorative practice TOSAM, Miss Haley Heron, um, she's been able to do case management and check-ins with
033students across the sites. I spend a lot of time calling her kind of going like, "Hey, can you run over to La Hoya and check in with these kiddos, create a plan?" Um, doing lots of conflict mediation and peer support. Um they're both are attending the cost meetings that Melanie shared about uh to make sure that they're there to support as well as get insight on students they may be serving. Um they've been sending out a monthly wellness and seal uh PowerPoint that can be teachers can use for themselves or with students. And then we're tracking all discipline data. um any discipline that's entered into Aries by a teacher goes onto a spreadsheet that we have and then daily they're tracking that and looking at it to kind of be proactive in supporting students so
034that a discipline issue doesn't lead to a suspension issue. Those are just some of those projects that they've done. Um this year building healthy communities were able to come in and do over a hundred classroom presentations. Um the feedback has been everybody's saying they're coming back next year. They're coming back across all of our elementarymentaries. So, they've done words matter and think before you speak. Um, and uh neither one of them are trained teachers. Uh, Mrs. Smith is a a social worker or counselor, but they have an amazing job of being able to support students um in this work and really addressing the issues. We had our black student leadership clubs at GV and at JG around building community, addressing antibbias, and building self-esteem. And then we've had several staff developments throughout the year around
035addressing the in-word discipline policies around hate speech as well has been a big one and developing a protocol for addressing hate speech within our sites. Um next year part of what you're going to see is we're going to be looking at um putting together an equity council. So that will be with Miss Emory and Miss Heron. We're going to be looking at student led summits. If you remember, we've attended, if you some of you have attended or seen our uh student listening circles and our family forums. We really want to turn those over to student voice and have students lead those for us as well. Family engagement nights around identity um and language use. And then we're going to look at um developing some tools around belonging, especially focus from our student perspectives and then
036our staff's p perspectives around addressing specifically hate speech used by students as well. still me. M mental health matters. Awesome. Um so I wanted to share with you a little bit about what our counseling um and I cut half of them what our counseling services look like because again our counselors um play such a vital and important role and I'll just put out there right now as you know mental health is being cut across the federal government and so we are starting to see the impacts of that already. Um, Project Reach, we submitted a letter of support this past week because Project Reach, which has funded our universal screeners. It's funded our safe first schools, which has brought in a team of school psychologists to support us with trauma-informed practices. Um, they've supported us in
037many, many ways. That grant was cut and so they're not currently funded for the upcoming year. So, we did submit a letter of support in hopes that that is overturned. Um, but this year you can kind of see, I'm not going to read them all to you, but all the work that our counselors have been doing from group counseling services to individual services to those risk assessments to supporting our administrators and we know that they play a really vital role in the work that we do here with our students. One of the areas that we've focused on with our counseling team, well, two specific areas. Just like in the academic world, there's been a focus on scope and sequence and really aligning the work that's happening. We've working um with our counseling team to do
038that as well. So, we've done two full day retreats where we've created a scope and sequence um and then looking at them uh scheduling for the year. Of course, not identifying the students, but using the data to really determine what the needs are and then having that in place. So as student needs arise, they're able to kind of plug them in rather than trying to build that ship as we go. Um and then we've worked on two documents. One is around wraparound mental health services. Um it's divided by grade level and it really looks at here's the role inside the classroom and here's the role outside of the classroom. So when we're looking at mental health, we know that it can't be just the job of the counselor because they have them for a very
039short period of time. That work has to continue into the classroom and into those other spaces. So we were able to develop this wraparound mental health and then a similar one for behavior as well. All right. Thank you some so our technology department um this is our amazing team. Um we have been very very busy this year and I really want to thank Husam and Gilbert and um Sam and of course Robert for all of their work and effort in putting everything together this year. So, our network and security, which is all the behind the-scenes um things that you don't necessarily see, but you hopefully feel in in in terms of being secure. Uh we've been doing a lot to deploy and train on our network. We brought in um our new security systems. Um
040and so our team's been training on that. Um watching our filters and um monitoring platforms that we've also brought in to make sure that we keep everything tightened up and also see what's coming and going within our network. Um we are upgrading as part of our -ate um our wide area network which means that's the data information that's coming in and out of our district. Um, we're going to be working this summer um with AT&T to bring that in to our district and it actually comes at a a discount which is really nice uh for our Google Workspace which is basically what runs our infrastructure um our Google suite as well as all of our onboarding for licenses for student access teachers um and our infrastructure. We've been doing a lot to clean up and
041organize that in our organizational units, making sure everything is secure. And we've also done um some other practices with um all that I'll talk about with our um mapping as well. And then for our security measures, we've made sure that we're implementing the resets of passwords more frequently. Um, we're also working on a way that uh teachers can log directly in or all users can log directly into their Google Chrome without having to have all sorts of different passwords to get into the device. For our cloud security system, we finalizing we're finalizing with our grant. We have all of our security cameras loaded um and ready to go. We have the maps that we're able to to see and locate where all the cameras are and um more trainings are coming for our staff as
042well and a lot of systems integrations. So what we're doing with that, we have a lot of equipment, a lot of things in our inventory, things to track and it's not just, you know, the computers and things. It's it's a lot of our servers, everything that we have. And so what we're doing right now is we've come up with a our procurement standards. So, we are getting the most up-to-date um technologies that we can um especially to run our networks. We're also have done what's called the network mapping. So, that way we've kind of bus proofed it in a way to where if someone's not showing up for work, we can track what's happening within our network. We know how things are set up. So, if something were to fail, we can see where it's
043happening. And so, we have a map for that so people can have a visual on how things are set up. And we've also come up with a replacement schedule to help streamline all our processes because we can't buy massive things all the time in bulk. And so when we purchase something, it has a lifetime to it. And so we're making sure, and you can see that procurement schedule a little bit there with the Chromebooks. We know when we've purchased them, how long that they'll remain in our system, time frames for us to be able to to budget and manage to be able to replace them, which I think Rosa will like. Um, for our supports and services, uh, a lot to do with device troubleshooting and repairs. We have our ticketing system, and that's what's
044kept our our crew very busy at each one of the sites that they're supporting. We also have our management with our radios, the camera systems, and phones within the network. As well as, like I was saying, we have a lot of um, user security practices. So, we have our high network security, but a lot of the security pieces, especially when breaches happen and things happen by the user. And so we've put in our password security practices, um, starting our user awareness for fishing when they're trying to steal information from our systems and our users, as well as securing our student emails, um, so they're no longer able to get out and have people send in. It's all within our domain. Uh, we've had 140 smart boxes installed just in the last few months um to
045our Samsung televisions that are over here. Um the view box you can kind of see if you want to look at it later I can show it to you. Um what those smart boxes do is they enable the device to have an onboard whiteboard and connectivity similar to what we have for the touchcreens and that's in place until we can get all touchcreens into our our classrooms. We also are piloting, we have had a pilot of some document cameras that are wireless so teachers can carry document cameras around the room so they're not just bound to one spot in the classroom. So a lot of this has to do with mobility around the classroom for teacher effectiveness. Um our network monitoring and filters of course I discussed um with device orders and supports for purchasing
046and on boarding. So, we've done a lot um not just within our schools, but also within our different departments um working with Chuck to bring in his um system for his points of sale. So, he's able to track everything and also monitor um the refrigerators and and all of that. Um working with the bus systems as well. And then we also are working with obtaining all the student data privacy agreements. Um, I've noticed that some states, especially Utah and some other ones, are really honing in and saying you can't have applications unless you have a student data privacy. So, I've kind of got ahead of that game. And I've been procuring those throughout the year as well. Um, for our educational technology, um, we're really continuing that use of the classroom displays. the V Sonic
047you see over there. We just had a technology carousel um at our last curriculum council meeting um where uh the curriculum council was able to see all the newer technologies that we're kind of looking at piloting or um are going to be purchasing so they have some more views of that as well as a review of some of our current applications. Um so that way we can pair some things down especially when it's redundant so it's doing a similar thing but maybe it doesn't have a full package to it. Um and so we've been looking on that and also the focus on the tools impact on learning itself as um as we also prepare for the integration of AI tools in our classroom. Um right now they're not technically available especially in with Google to
048Gemini for students 13 and younger but um we are opening up Google it's already open for teachers to use the chat and be for planning and those pieces. We've had one training um this year. We'll have continued training as it moves forward for AI awareness, responsible use and then also the Google uh Gemini suite for the staff. Um I'm working on p pulling together a pilot of that starting in the fall. Um we'll start with a cohort of 50 or so teachers um to pilot all the uses so that way we can start building capacity to help train others. So that's our educational technology business. Thank you. Thank you. So, we're almost to the end of the presentation and they told me to be quick. Um, they always say that to me. I had six
049slides and then when I look back it was only three and then I looked at Summer had like 13. So, I'm a little bit jealous all the time. All right, I'll be quick. I promise. Um, so I just wanted to give you a snapshot of the COLA for this year. And as you can see just visually, um, back in July of 2024, they were projecting at 293 COLA. And as we move forward, it's slowly coming down. Um, right now, just early this month, well, before in the January uh, budget proposal, they were talking about 2.43 cola for the July 1 budget. And now recently, early May, um they said it went down to 2.3. So, we're still waiting for more information on the May revise. But as you can see, it's moving constantly and um
050the budget as well as I'm presenting and moving forward towards the year is going to move as well. As you can see, there's a lot of instability in the financial side, not only in the statewide, but also with federal funding as well. So just wanted to highlight uh precoid it wasn't like that. Pre-COVID it was the chart will be the other way. They would start for example they would start with the lower rate and then slowly moving it up and now just things are are changing constantly but the opposite way. And right here I just want to show you um federal funds that we currently have districtwide. I know if you probably heard um few months ago they talk about putting a freeze on uh federal funds then that didn't happen. Um there is a
051proposal out there to eliminate um all the funding for English learners and immigrant um services for im immigrant students. Uh that would be our title three funding. Um, we have also our Jeep Mark, which is a a one-time fund as well that it is a one time right now that might get affected. So, this is just an overview of all the funding that we get through federal. And just to keep it in mind, there's nothing official yet. Um, it's just a proposal. We're not going to know until probably late October around there. So, I'm going to be providing more information as we move forward. Again, it's it's not a done deal. This is just an overview of what we have of federal funds, but as we move forward, I will bring more information. What is
052the district doing? So, we're working a lot on implementing ADA recovery as you know um uh reduction of LCFA funding. It's happening and is projecting uh another reduction of funding for the next year. So, we're implementing ADA recovery now through ELOP, which is we're not spending LCFA funds to implement this program, but we're spending or ELOP funds to recuperate um LCFF funding, which is on restricted funds that are um pretty much we can use it on on on more um on more expenses instead of the ELOP, which is more restricted. Um, like Summer said, we're implementing the Saturday school, which now it's going to help us with the ADA.