001Call the regular meeting of the San Valley Union High School District Board of Education, Tuesday, June 17, 2025 to order. Roll call, please. Please note all members are present. Thank you. Stand for the flag salute. I al to the flag of the United States of America to the standice. And now we'll move on to the approval of the agenda. Is there a motion for approval? Um, I'll motion to approve the agenda. A second. I'll second that motion. Roll call, please. Mr. Johnson, I. Miss Noble, I. Miss Grace Velasquez. I. Mr. Abara. Hi, Miss Sheep. I. Agenda approved. Now we can move on to our superintendence report. Good evening. Uh, hard to believe that we're in our third week of summer school already. So, uh, the kids are working really diligently and one week left after
002this week and then everybody's off for summer break. I wanted to remind everybody that June 19th, this Thursday is no school. Junth is in observance of the National Independence Day. There will be no school this Wednesday. Um Junth commemorates June 19th, 1865, a day when enslaved people in Galv Galveston, Texas learned that they were free more than 2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation. So we encourage our students, staffs, and families to take time to reflect on the significance of this day in American history. So that's Thursday. Um we are working really hard on school plans for next year. had a great meeting with ASB. Our new ASB president and vice president today. Our president is Laya Cassidy. Our vice president is Kendall Herfell and um Mr. Canantrell. The four of us met today and just
003lot of enthusiasm in the junior class. Like they're Yeah, they're not seniors, but there's there's a lot No, they're incoming juniors and they're president and vice president. So, there's a lot of enthusiasm, which is great. Um, I just want to remind everybody that of our professional development plans for next school year. We're working on our profile of a graduate, our school researchbased instructional strategies, cycles of inquiry, our AI policies and practices, and we'll be talking also a lot about grading practices. Um, just to follow up on grading practices really quickly. I know that that was one of the topics of conversation at our last board meeting and um, there isn't any current legislation. It's been paused. A lot of school districts were leading the charge on equity grading. San Francisco was kind of leading the
004charge on that and they have put that initiative on pause. So, um, right now the word is that, um, grading policies and practices are local decisions. So, um, maintenance is just well underway to doing a ton of projects. So, I just want to shout out to them. Again, if you are a student for next year, don't forget we need your residency confirmation and your data confirmation so that you're ready for pirate checkout. We have a couple more staffing decisions. Just a couple, but we're getting really close. And I just want to um close out my board report with just a thank you to the board. I've made it through a year of board meetings. So, thank you for being patient with me and um my growing pains and my first uh rodeo as a superintendent
005and all the foibless, but hopefully I'll be better next year even. So, thank you for that. Thank you for that, Kim. Uh, now we'll move on to the correspondence board comments and correspondence. Does anybody have anything they'd like to chat about? I just want to say I really like the U mural in progress. I think that it just it just I I keep thinking about it and it's just very makes it's just h it just makes me happy. So that's all it's pretty cool. I'll put something out there. It's something I've been thinking about is to thank the community for an amazing year. um PTO, we're going to get an update on that tonight. And the same as uh high school foundation, Py Foundation, and multiple others, a Gainy Foundation. I'm going to leave people
006out, but everybody that gives to us has really made an impact, and that positive feeling has been great. It's very helpful for us as a board and and I know for the superintendent and everybody that's involved. So, I just wanted to put that out there. Okay. I have to say one more thing. Um I just thank all the u professionals to the left of Mr. Johnson over here that are you know from Alisia that you know stepped in in the gap and Terry who like keeps everything together and and Kim you've you know we just really appreciate you know working with you and I think we're just I'm thrilled about how things are going. I just I'm just it's such a good direction. So, thank you. Okay, thank you guys. Um, so we'll move on
007to uh public comment and we have Brian Robinson. Thank you. Um, Brian Robinson with the PTO. I was going to say the same things that have been said here at the board. It's been a great year and it really is a testament to what you all do at the board level with Dr. Shehan and her staff, everybody. um the good feelings, you know, when I send my daughter here to school um and I'm feeling good about it, I do more for the school. And that's what's been happening throughout the school community. Parents want to chip in and, you know, provide time and resources to the PTO and it's really because everybody's feeling really good about what's going on. So, thank you all for what you've done. Um we had a great year. I meant to
008come last Tuesday or last board me that couldn't make it. Um and I I gave you updates on what had been happening. I think we had just Oh, it was right on the eve of um food for finals. That went great. Organized chaos. Thanks to everybody who helped. Um the kids love it. And um we are really excited this summer to work on reopening the Pirate store. So we plan on having that open for the first football game and we're really excited about it. So thank you. Thank you, Brian. Appreciate everything. And that's it for public comment. Uh now we'll move on to consent. Is there any discussion or a motion to approve? A motion to approve the consent agenda. I second. Thank you. Roll call, please. Mr. Johnson. Hi. Miss Noble. Hi. Miss Grace
009Velasquez. Hi. Mr. Abara. Hi. Misha I consent agenda is approved and let's see we can now move on to our uh action items. First action item will be the college and career access pathways agreement and with Alli Hancock College. Are we going to go over any more of that or sorry? No, that's okay. I'm on it. So, the CCAP agreement pathway was reviewed um and presented at the last meeting. It's just a requirement for us to have this in place in order to offer the dual and concurrent enrollment course offerings. And I don't believe there were any additional questions after last meeting. Um does anybody have anything further questions? Okay. Is there a motion for approval? I motion to approve the CC cap. I second. Thank you. Uh roll call, please. Mr. Johnson, I. Miss
010Noble, hi. Miss Grace Velasquez. Hi. Mr. Abara. Hi. Miss Sheep. I. CCAP approved. Um now we can move on to instructional continuity plan. The ICP supplemental to safety plan. Um Jasmine Day did a presentation on the ICP. Um, it will be part of our regular safety plan moving forward. So, at this time, I'll ask for a motion to approve the ICP. I approve. And is there a second? I'll second that motion. Thank you. Roll call, please. Mr. Johnson, I. Miss Noble, I. Miss Grace Velasquez, I. Mr. Abara, I. Miss sheep. I. ICP is approved. And now we can move on to the 202526 local control accountability plan, the ELCAP. Um yes. Um I just wanted to go over a few of our local indicators. Um our state academic standards. We continue to focus on aligning
011English language development standards with ELA instruction and expanding professional development and language acquis acquisition for the staff. Um under uh priority three, our parent involvement. We've strengthened parent voice through advisory groups like DAC and student leadership teams. But survey results show in they show increased trust and participation, but we still need to boost engagement for families of English language learners and students with disability and other underrepresentative groups. Um so we're going to improve our outreach and our offerings with more flexible meeting formats and support broader involvement. um school climate. Our school student survey shows most feel students feel safe and supported with strong access to counseling and academic services. However, meaningful participation is kind of low like to kind of get them to do it, especially among those English language learners and students with IEPs
012and our and some of our Latino students. So, we're addressing this with student advisory groups, increased e extracurricular opportunities, and clear communication about the supports and improve use of data to guide our efforts in those areas. And then under priority 7, all students have access to a wide range of courses, including arts, CTE, and college prep classes. Yet some groups, especially our English language learners and our students with disabilities, are still un underrepresentative in the advanced coursework. Um, we're responding with co-taught classes, expanding our dual enrollment, targeting our outreach towards those populations and our efforts to grow our course offerings through other staffing solutions. So, I'll give an example of a staffing solution, ensuring that one of our um teachers that's bilingual is in the class to be able to communicate in a higher higher
013level classes with those students. Um so, we're really committed to continuous growth and improvement, ensuring that every student feels connected, supported, and has access to meaningful and challenging learning opportunities. Does anybody have any questions or discussion? I I just had a question Kim um or Dr. Shehan for the the subgroups. Um I was just thinking you're talking about academics but is there lack of um engagement partially due to not necessarily the academics but maybe not going that uh college track or maybe looking at some type of um apprenticeship or internship. So in my experience um when students are e learners they they mandatory have to take two English courses and in an effort to take those two English courses then what it does is it kind of tracks them into not being able to take
014some of the other enrichment courses in which we'd like to see them take. So, um, we're offering more enrichment courses during seventh period now, so that it'll open up our seventh period day so that if they'd like to take, we're hoping to have like a band class seventh period or um, one of our auto classes seventh period. So, having more robust offerings during seventh period. So even though they need to take an English language arts class and a support class for that lang for those second language learners, there's more um flexibility throughout the day for them to also take enrichment. Great though. I had a thought as I always do. Um is it possible to double dip on that English support class to have it be in say autoshop or you know No, it specifically
015needs to be like language acquisition skills. Yes. A whole class. until they can exit the program. I don't know. Interesting. Yeah, th this over time has been an area of focus, right? It's it seems to be the uh where the strain is, you know, in so many ways, whether it's the engagement from the family members or the students or the students feeling like they can access or within their academic day. Um, I like the idea of having someone who is bilingual entering the spaces where some of these students are as a way to facilitate that. I'm wondering if they if you have other efforts in place uh or planned um to increase participation and engagement. Um, our counselors did a really good job this year of meeting one-on-one individually with each student and really how
016we built our master schedule in making sure that some of the courses that they would could be possibly very successful at making sure that they're not at the same times in which their eel courses are scheduled so that there's not a conflict in what they have to choose. They don't have to choose one or the other. Um so just and I think dual enrollment is extremely important. So Allan Hancock courses are extremely important for some of our um underrepresented populations because when they can see that they can be truly successful in one of those courses, it just gives them the confidence to continue their education and continue challenging themselves. Um we also want to continue in the pirate academic center to um have an additional support time um after school so that um the counselors
017or tutors or even um Alexandra from our student service from our um counseling center can give them that support in their primary language and help build them their confidence. So that's been helping as well. And a lot of kids go in, they're at brunch and lunch also to get support. So, I like seeing that because it shows that they know that there are people that care and that they're accessible. So, we just want to keep that going. So, I hope that answered your question. No. Yeah. No, I think that's great. I mean having been a second language learner myself and in an environment where there wasn't a lot of support in place necessarily. So it had to uh my I had to initiate that. Um but what I felt uh really helped was even the
018folks who were um employees of the school who weren't necessarily the teachers. um a sense of connection really helped with some of the advoc advocacy and perhaps weaving in uh a little bit of more um of the staff who are already here even if they are not primary teachers that may really help with making those connections you know in the past we've tried the um studentto student support you know and that goes well when it's organic um and what I would also um put on the table is the students that are already uh managing um learning language and integrating in other ways. Um there's a lot of work already there, you know, just being fully present and engaged. Um and oftent times when we add additional time for them to do even more work outside
019of you know the uh regular uh schedule um really can become overwhelming and students may just retreat rather than uh lean forward. So, just a thought. I just do love your um your philosophy and I've been using it recently of um what did you say um about communication like overcommunicate or whatnot. And I think that people don't understand how essential that is in every facet of either family life or school or business or whatever that you assume people assume, oh, they must know, but in fact they don't. and to overcommunicate, I think, which is something you just do personally. That's something in you that I think has been a tremendous gift to me and to the school and to everybody. Thank you. Um, so is there a motion for approval of the 202526 LCAP? Motion
020to approve. Second, please. I'll second the motion. Roll call, please. Chair. Mr. Johnson. I Miss Noble. Hi, Miss Grace Velasquez. Hi, Mr. Abara. Hi, Miss She I. LCAP is approved. Now we can move on to the 2025 2026 LCAP federal addendum. So, the LCAP federal addendum is an add-on to the overall LCAP that is required to receive federal funding like our title one, title two, and title four dollars. The addendum acts as a supplement by outlining how we use those funds to support goals for low-income students, English learners, and other student groups. Any discussion on that? Is there a motion for approval? I motion to approve. I second. Thank you. Roll call, please. Mr. Johnson, I. Miss Noble. Hi. Miss Grace Velasquez. Hi. Mr. Abara. Hi. Missap. I. LCAP federal addendum is approved. And now
021on to the 2025 2026 original adopted budget and 2526 through 27 28 multi-year projections. Okay, we presented the original adopted budget and the multi-year projections at our last meeting. We had some lengthy discussions about outy years and considerations for future planning. There were no questions after the meeting and there were no edits requested. So I I think we're good. Okay. Is there a motion for approval? I motion to approve. Thank you. And a second. I second the motion. Roll call, please. Mr. Johnson, I. Miss Noble, I. Miss Grace Velasquez. I. Mr. Abara. I. Miss Sheep. I. Motion approved. And on to excess reserves for 2025 26 through 2027 28. Like the original adopted budget, we went over this at our last meeting. It's mostly a housekeeping item as the excess reserves are already outlined in
022the budget. It just outlined, you know, how much we have, why we have it, and I don't believe there were any questions after the end of the last meeting and no edits requested to be made. Thank you, Alisia. Is there a motion for approval? I motion to approve. Second. Thank you. As I want uh roll call, please. Mr. Johnson, I. Miss Noble. Hi, Miss Grace Velasquez. Hi, Mr. Abara. Hi, Miss Sheep. I excess reserves approved. And now on to the 2025 2026 proposed EPA budget and resolution 2024 2025-11 resolution for education protection account. Again, another housekeeping item. As the EPA budget is included in the original budget and multi-year projections, there were no questions and no edits requested to be made with the exception of the $1 rounding that was off. That drove me crazy,
023but that will be fixed at first interim. Any discussion? I think we're good. Uh motion. Is there a motion for approval? I'll motion to approve the 2025 2026 proposed EPA budget and resolution resolution for education protection account. And I second. Roll call. Roll call, please. Mr. Johnson, I. Miss Noble. Hi. Miss Grace Velasquez. Hi. Mr. Abara. Hi. Miss Sheep. I. Motion approved. Action is complete. Uh now we can move on to discussion or do we have have any discussion items? I I have something if I may. Yes, you may. Yeah. So um I just wanted to take an opportunity to make public that per mandate I will be resigning from my seat uh district trustee district three because at the end of the month I will be moving from my uh trustee area address. and
024want to take this opportunity to really thank everyone who supported me since uh the very beginning. I really appreciate the the trust that you put in me uh to be here to be a voice for students which is core for me and that will never uh end. And uh over the last 5 years I've learned a lot about our community. You know I've been at the foothills of Figuro Mountain and a bubble and a priv private indep independent school. Uh yet I know the community pretty well and I've had over 36 family members who have been pirates or come here. Maybe some of them didn't finish but nonetheless uh they were in these uh in the in the bounds of these of the district. Um which is really what what inspired me to contribute as
025an educator uh to this here in the valley. And what I've learned most recently in this five years is that we do all belong to a very caring community. um one where people are filled with generosity and passion, passion about their beliefs, passion about their perspectives and um that leads with very rich um conversation and I think uh over time some of these conversations have not been easy and we've lacked a little bit of um nuanced skill uh to have conversations to keep people at the table to make a little space at the table you know, and um and nonetheless, we're moving forward and uh over time, Terry, one of the things that I really appreciate is that you've seen so much here. You've heard so much and your composure continues to be solid. Um
026I've just really appreciated to see how much you do. You are a pardon simple terms, a utility uh person. You are just all over the place. and I and I haven't met somebody with your ability to multitask, but to give yourself in such a neutral and caring way, I felt welcome right away the first interaction that we had. Uh, so thank you for that. And Alicia, I I I've learned so much from you. Um, your craft in managing numbers and distilling them in ways that I could understand them. I've gained so much u experience here on budgets because of you. I just want you to know that um what I had in experience was not at the same depth, but there's passion in the work that you're doing and so thank you for for tending
027to the finances of the school district. Um Kimberly, Dr. Shien, I I have full confidence in in your ability to keep uh this district student centered and active and proactive. I'd love that you are um going after the low, you know, the lower fruit uh and you know um going with the student suggestions. It's okay. Whenever you they feel a gimme, they feel heard and they see action, you're adding a lot of um credit to having hard conversations around accountability and so forth. And so that to me is is really great. It's a shift that I've seen in this uh district uh which I think is already after one year uh a really good um you know testament of the potential that you have and what you'll bring. Um and I really want to thank
028you uh colleague board members as volunteers. Obviously we're here because we care not because we are doing this for any personal gain. And I too see the uh that there's a center uh that is student um driven for each one of you and and I appreciate that. And I'm going to ask you to please uh work hard at being able to uh sense anticipate any sort of faith-based and political agendas that uh get in the way of what needs to happen here. And that is that administration should lead, teachers should teach, and students should learn. And when we talk about every a whole child, I'm hoping that you also agree that it's the entire child regardless of what their life circumstances, identities, abilities, and disabilities are and their their choice or their realities around who
029they are. And that um you welcome the community input to stay outside of this district, outside of this district so that it does not opaque the the site. uh the the new and updated uh mission and vision of the district and that is that every student graduates and I I am really hopeful that the resources and the time are allocated so that every student is met where they are and they do graduate from uh from this institution and and as proud pirates whether they have a a a a formal or informal or certificate whatever they're it's going to recognize their tenure as high schoolers at whatever age they Um that's that's just who I am. Um I I I am a product of second chances and I believe that everyone should have some this second
030chances including you as the adults. Uh so please um you know keep doing what you're doing. I I trust that you're going to do this. Um I just there's so much beauty in this place. Uh let's not let the noise uh break it down. It's been a pleasure to serve uh on this seat over the last five years and I'm not going far. I will continue to stay engaged and I'm always happy to have conversations um with anyone who's interested in in generating some perspective. And my last one is to please encourage um all district entities, affiliated organizations and clubs and the everyone through coming to with generosity to the table that they really make a concerted effort to ensure that their organizations, their entities are also mirroring or reflecting the demographics of our school
031district. Why? Because when kids see themselves in the people in front of them, when the families see themselves, the family members, the adults see themselves at the table or a reflection of themselves or representation of themselves, they will show up. They will show up. Look at their demographics. People will show up, right? Uh some people need more than invitation. They really need to feel welcome and included. And I'm not suggesting that there that that's not what's happening here. And we need to make sure that that is actually what is happening that our intent is materializing in positive ways. So, thank you again. And I know I've taken a little bit more time, but it just means a lot to me to have been able to be here the last 5 years. Well, Jose, I could
032I'll tell you we'll miss you and it's unfortunate and you've been a integral part of this board obviously for longer than all of us have and uh your service has not gone unnoticed and it's uh uh I'm sure you'll do bigger and better things. Maybe maybe you can get back on a board. Who knows? But unfortunately it didn't didn't work out. Uh but thank you for everything. Appreciate it. I wish you all the best. Thank you. Any other discussion? Okay. Um upcoming meeting dates. So it's August 19th. 19th. Thank you. And I there hasn't been any conflicts on our schedule since then. August August 19th. Well, that's the end of that's the end of summer. School starts. Yeah. So that Yeah, that one's our next meeting. So we have a month and a half off.
033Basically two months, something like that. Okay. If there is conflict, uh, let us know. And now we can move on to close session at 6 o'clock. I didn't drink this water.