001I'd like to call this meeting board of education Item three will be approval of agenda like every 10.2 which is our whiskey town environment school agreement shut down. Hi >> as well. Item four will take place during this time. Members of law take action. Right. Um, okay. You guys have parents and community members who have concerns about their kids being on campus and safety and all of that. And we have a county board and other county departments who are willing to partner with you and work with you if we Oh, and also we have a massive school prison pipeline in right all kinds of crime, drugs, bad stuff with our kids. Um, so we have an opportunity to work together. I understand that the large sum of money that you have to spend is a
002onetime thing, not an ongoing However, if we were to dump that funding into school resource officers for every single campus in Shasta County that does not already have a program installed, you would alleviate parents bringing parents to the table of trust for the for the board and the community. You would then give positive interactions with which will bring your future crime, your future drugs, all of that because kids who have positive interactions with law enforcement make better decisions. They have that positive. Otherwise, they're getting what's in video games, which is negative. They're getting what's in rap music, which is negative. They're getting what's in country music, which is negative. They're on Tik Tok. They're getting all this stuff that is like, "Oh, the cops are bad. The cops are bad. The cops are bad. The
003cops are bad." Where they have an officer that's there doing spirit days with them, walking with them on campus, truly caring about what's going on in their life, in their community, they have positive interactions. Our kids need more of that. So, that would be my ask. I'm more than happy to tackle the details, set up the meetings, organize bring everybody to the table on that so that those other organizations budget right in the sched and parents are scared and we have a recent situation which I also need to say thank you because pretty hard and that school district did everything they were supposed to. They were great. They were amazing. They were wonderful. I told them thank you. But thank you to your office that you had with it. But you have parents who now
004have legit consents that this might be closer to home. >> Thank you. >> Sure. I need help and resource officer. >> Our safety director. >> Yes, sir. figuring out how to help the president. My name is Darren Hale and here you just recently our director received email,000 in grant monies from SCO for services for services provided in regards to peer support and our trouble law enforcement school grounds. We really value this program. It really is like a and it's an opportunity to get exposed to what can be reality. So, um it's a really great program and we're we need every bit of funding possible. Community,000 and so when we got the email. So, we're we're committed to keeping this program going to accept referrals from regardless or the financial support, but we would like to
005encourage to continue collaborating options and we're asking if either that grant As of last year, last fiscal year had made 41 referrals. Seven were from Anderson High School District, one from Casia, three enterprise Gateway junction and union all of those referrals. Every one of these kids really speak our director Are there any other members of the public wish to address the board at this time? service. As we stated in the approval of the agenda, we are we were looking forward to recognizing our whiskey town, our west community and in conjunction with our National Park Service. Given the state of our National Park Service right now, we are going to be table recognition Josh and his team. But Melinda, thank you so very much. We can't do this without we can't do this this valuable work.
006We can't do any work without partnerships and West Community has been has become has been and uh the partnership that we enjoy with West Community has meant so much more post. We've always been there. scholarship and support of our west program with the loss of uh with the damage done in in the car fire your partnership took on a new role and you have become principal philanthrop philanthropic arm for bringing us back we just wanted to on behalf of the board on behalf of uh we want to thank your team for the work that you are doing and it's tireless. It's thankless that is taking longer than I think any of us anticipated but your team continues to show passion and commitment to bringing back West better than it ever has. So anybody that has
007anything if you've seen the vision for what is going to be with some of the renderings and work that your group has done very excited about. We know it's October and you have an event October 25th and we'd love to we'd love to have you uh promote that, but we would we just want to we want to say thank you to to all of your team, right? So, so Cassie Taliana, hey, breaking news. Taliana is educator, environmental educator of the year, Taliana. So, thank you very much. and then Franchesca as well. So, if you could accept our token of appreciation and you could just let us know a little bit about what's happening. >> Thank you, Superintendent Freeman, President Brown, members of the board, staff, thank you so much for inviting us this evening. Um,
008with me is Francesca Princ. She is the founding member of profit in 2011 markers and washing machine and other things for the campus and and rain. Yes. And places to hang up the rain. Many things would give us a wish list every year and we would work through that wish list. And with me today is our newest board member. Yes. educator of the year. And so we are delighted to be here. Sadly, some of our friends are on the board are traveling right now on the way home this evening. Absolutely. We are very close to 5.9 million in donations, in grants, and pledges. And we're hoping that our event on October 25th at the Sha District Fairgrounds um that we'll be close to $6 million. We have $1.5 million more to raise beyond that. Our
009goal is 7.5 million and there are five of us and we're all volunteers and we are immensely grateful to our community and the generosity of this board in allocating $1.8 to the administration safety building which was our big start. You gave us our first start and your encouragement encourage other donors to get behind us and we're almost to the end and I was just going to echo that that you know unfortunately we aren't able to take action on the$1.8 donation to the National Park Service. But if you remember, this board took action on a resolution designating those funds back in 2023, right? And the reason that those funds haven't been provided to the National Park Service because there was a whole lot of ground that had to be made up with the other fundraising and
010it's because of the efforts of West Community and the incredible fundraising efforts that they've done that we're at the point where we're ready to provide the National Park Service with those funds because they're ready to move forward with the project. So just applaud all the efforts of West they've support West forever. Thank you everybody. Um moving on to item seven. So, we will uh we'll go through this very quickly, but uh because I'm excited to hear from our friends at RTM, I just wanted to follow up. Usually at this at this point in our board meeting, we were in a cadence of hearing reports on initiatives. Uh so, I wanted to share out where where we're at of this, at least a little bit of uh some of the takeaways from our September 24th planning
011day and maybe discussing some some next steps. So, to summarize again, we were we were all day. So taking four points to summarize all day is not not realistic. But uh there was an interest in mainstreaming uh in maintaining the board monitoring of our of our initiatives. It wasn't just like okay cool literacy that was a fun phase. Substance use prevention that was a fun phase. Good luck with it. We want to continue to monitor that. Uh we also discussed some of the pros and cons. We we had a great discussion on lessons learned from our initiative work. One of them was that there were some some cons to having two and that there was some division a little bit division of ownership, division maybe of responsibilities or priorit priorities or importance. And so I
012think that um there's there's something about shifting both substance use prevention and literacy to staff ongoing work and focusing on one. And where we left it was this idea of we had a we had a robust conversation with other uh other concern areas as we look at trends around Shasta County. Where we landed was doing work around staff shortage. And I hope that that's that's everyone's memory. We don't have a robust proposal here tonight. Next month we are from here between now and the next time we are together we will be developing a robust plan to to bring and proposed to the board in this in this area. Uh but really quick on this first point of interest in maintaining board monitoring and of literacy and substance use prevention, I I wanted to just remind
013the board and maybe for those that were not able to make it like there was a moment where I was sharing a shared governance model from Pler County and uh in that in that conversation we landed on this idea of previous initiatives being focus areas and those focus areas could be assigned to a trustee to keep the pulse on and then to bring back and and bring and bring those reports. And so the idea is that we will be developing the focus areas for that for that shared governance and then we had talked about using those prior initiatives as focus areas. And then if you remember the next slide was kind of a cadence of what those meetings would look like where a board a board trustee would be connecting with with my staff on
014literacy connecting with my staff give me an update progress on how prog how substance use prevention is going and then we would have that brought before the board on a semi-regular basis if that makes sense so I thought that was a great idea just want to lose it uh the other needs that surfaced from our discussion or from feedback that we received after is this idea we we discussed math performance uh behavior concerns youth services safety positive childhood experience I thought was a was a highlight of the conversation as well. There's a lot of emphasis and focus on ACES. What can we be doing to be promoting positive childhood? Uh can you click on sorry Austin can you click on author's email? So author shared with us a proposal uh and and this is uh
015this was an email after the fact and so this is not agendaized at any point but I wanted to make sure that I will follow up and I will share this out with the board in the in the area of hope in the area of positive childhood experiences author had some thoughts and again it doesn't necessarily have to land on an initiative but I wanted to capture that thought and share share it with the board here and then in followup I can give it to you in more detail and we can have a conversation later on if you can jump back to but the idea is looking at high school targeting high schools in Shasta County giving them funds helping them develop positive childhood experiences in high school settings was the uh was the idea's
016proposal and that led me to bring this slide back to our attention from our September 24th Leslie, thank you for your public comment. We are looking at an income balance. We are looking at some surplus funds and how to be how to be good stewards of those funds, right? I don't think anybody uh is like we are not acknowledging that all of our problems are solved in Chasta County and we don't have any we don't have any needs. I think the idea is that we are looking from a Scoe team perspective, we are looking at a couple of different outlets. The first is that we are are on a listening tour. Listening tours like this and Darren, thank you for your public comments. So, when we think of what is it that we could add
017to our budget is ongoing. If funds were challenged that were used to to fund great programs like like uh peer court and those funds are not available, then how can we have conversations and and find alternative funding for things that are making a difference and having an impact? So working with and listening to our own programs, working with our district partners to identify ongoing services and expenditures that can live in our budget, right? Because you have our unodituded actuals in the budget in the packet tonight. we are there's a surplus and so how is it that we can identify those things to be able to spend those dollars so that we are not acrewing in an income balance that is uh those those dollars could have impact with students with our partners. Um so examples
018like that could include expelled youth services early childhood enrollment support we're hearing those are some of the things that are external and internal. In addition to that we're looking onetime expenditures to spend down our ending fund balance and that could those are those are we love the idea of some facility improvements right when we we have conversations and we look at safety concerns we are doing an incredible thing out there with the transportation building out in Caterpillar but that's going to have a busy yard and what does that look like to keep those buses secure so that our our fuel isn't siphoned off and our fences aren't cut right so like having those conversations And then also identifying the third one is just we have assigned allocations and we are coming we are doing the
019work and in our first interim budget we're going to be bringing back what these changes look like across these three outlets. So author gives us a proposal around hope and positive childhood experiences. we hear that it doesn't necessarily raise the level of an initiative, but when we get to when we get to first in you, you'll see fingerprints based on things that we've heard in the changes in those first budgets. We had talked about how some of our our allocations that we've set aside haven't been touched because our revenue has been adequate. Right? So if we have for example if we have a line item for succession planning with transition four out of five of my cabinet have retired with that succession with that transition there was some succession planning that was needed and there
020was additional cost there because we were bringing in people to shadow and to learn and to do some of those things. Well we had the revenue covered so we didn't have to spend that. So when you look at the succession line item it's not touched. We we can be better. James, so all of these changes were are going to be shared at that first interum. I just don't want things lost because you didn't see it in an initiative. I love the idea of a unifying initiative. I think as I've had opportunities to think about staff shortage as I've had conversations with with everybody that we're talking to shortage comes up in our number one number one concern on some of our department and division meetings is staff shortage and so that is putting a pressure
021on the system and Tiffany's over there nodding her head right we might hear from our stems report on the impact of staff shortage so I think that there's great progress on that front. What we're currently doing around staff shortage possibilities and next steps and we'll go we'll go cruising. My team has developed teacha.org. It's a remarkable website kind of choose your own adventure based on where you are and where you want to be. How do you get into classrooms? How do you get into other school jobs? We've developed a a website and I'll share that with the board in in my next update. Uh we have a classified grant right now. So if people are in classified positions in school districts, we actually partnerships and for a minimal cost they can actually get into a
022pipeline leading to a bachelor's degree leading to a certificated uh teaching position. And so this was that program that that Robert mentioned that he heard about at CSBA through Lake County. We we have this this program is growing. We put uh we put the person one of the directors in in front in charge of this program in front of superintendent to to help people understand what we have available to us. Some of the big districts have it, but some of the small don't. So, if you have an amazing pair of professional, if you have an amazing classified employee, they can get a lowcost bachelor's degree and then streamline into a certificated position. And so, it's as easy as that. And just for the sake of time, here's some partnerships. CSU Chico Simpsons on board, National
023University and Reach University. Again, we talk about low cost. I think that that's uh that's huge, right? When we're looking at the the the requirement to leave town, the requirement to acrue debt, like all of those things are deterrence to people becoming classroom teachers. So there's some there's some uh there's some streamline lowcost nature to our partnership with some of our universities that's that's helping the cause. And so that's that's a little bit of where we're at there. On the driver on the bus driver front, you might have heard us say it's not just about certificated positions. We do not have enough bus drivers in in Chassa County or in our neighboring counties or in the state. It's a nationwide challenge, right? So like here at Shast County Office of Education, recent things that we've
024done is there is a stipen when you when you join and the challenge we heard from we heard from drivers was that the training wasn't paid. So we worked with our association to develop a way to pay those employees in so that they can participate in training so that we can have a higher participation rate and completion rate in our training and people can get behind the wheel. And then we're striving to do everything we can to have competitive wages, but it's not enough. It's not enough. Right now, we are saying no to people that we do. We should not be saying no to. And that's a challenge, right? And our transportation director, we love her. She's amazing. Sam Dodson, he's amazing as well. They're not in meetings that we have with with other leaders
025because they're driving bus and they love it. They're passionate about it. They're amazing at it. But it is a strain on our on our system. So this is just an idea. This is just like the possibilities as we think about the dirt to dig in around staff shortage. We could be looking at doing throwing gas on what we're currently doing, right? Increasing it, promoting current efforts. We can be looking at new staff supports and in in the spirit of retaining. If they're in a classroom and they don't they're new and they don't have the skills that they need to control student behavior that is miserable existence. So what supports can we provide to new teachers? How can we promote retention? There's the residency model, right? Student teacher is one thing, but the residency model is
026showing promise where a new teacher comes ac comes along and spends a year with an with a master teacher. Not just the student teacher time, but like as an employee of the of the school is able to be incorporated other aspects of the work I'm just tonight here we go uh we're also looking at can we get in and and Simpson University is great they have an advisory board so can we work with and facilitate those partnerships to be able to make teacher preparation program is spot on with what teachers need today. Uh countywide recruitment campaigns and events championing school through recognition and storytelling. Every day amazing things happen in our school. Carrie Shy is working hard. Every Friday she grabs five Friday five amazing stories from schools in Shasta County and we're trying to
027help other schools, right? And so like how can we how can we tell those stories in ways that maybe sitting there in junior and junior or senior in high school and like I like school like maybe I could be a life changer and jump in. And when I say school, that is business, that is it, that is behind the wheel, that is administration, health. There's all different aspects of of staff shortage we can work on. And then uh how can we advocate? How can we tell Sacramento when they're wrong? How can we tell Sacramento, hey, the impact of that proposed legislation is going to make it for us to recruit teachers. So, please strike that down because that that comes up. So, next steps, we're we want to we're in the process of doing a
028data dive, identifying vacant positions. We are the holders of the short-term temporary. So, those authorization numbers, high need positions, and then developing the proposal. We'd love to be at this thing for three years, two to three years to to have the commitment. And then that going include in in the n the September 24th discussion we had talked about granting ourselves right so there will be a budget there will be reportables there will be deliverables and a reporting timeline and then we'll be sharing all of that with the board and that's kind of the breakdown of what September 24th look like at least from my Thank you, Mike. Yeah, I'm excited. that update. I I don't know why some reason I thought you were gonna have the whole proposal tonight and I'm thinking wow they are
029really really good. So >> if you remember I asked as >> Okay. Okay. So um so November we should expect like more packet for Okay. Yeah. But I'm happy with what I heard. Sounds like everything initiatives focus for so long aces. came up with and I'd like to get Jacob signed up right now because I know he wants to be an educator and we'll do it. So moving on to item seven presentation. Perhaps we'll get participated 35 years ago. Is that where it really started? I actually started. >> Okay. >> All right. We are bringing our student every Friday. We also have This gentleman paradise. And here We have our primary. They are This should be This project, >> rubber band. Our mission is to develop various skills learning program science. students experience our programs
030to selfm motivated competent lifelong learners. All right. So, Why did you go struggle? So, go back. previous slide shows I was just with that specific demographic. ELO is expanded learning. last year. Our school of our club This is sports. But we did have an area of growth that was So when last year we saw El on the left hand side of you can see on the left hand Right below our green tier one right figure redeem. the classroom interventions. What are those? What are your strategies? We have to touch. So, I have two pictures. Also, How are you? Fostering Got to move their bodies. Student leadership opportunities buddies. So we are offering question. Top picture down below have our social Happy campus. That was out of our school. Thank you. Um I do I have
031two questions. Um and you can get back to me. Um so your curriculum um I'm wondering did you incorporate all of those programs at the same time. And then what measurables are you using? What academic measurables are you using to to gau effect? What's your lumberjack? >> It's rockets. Okay. I know what he's saying. I know exactly what he's saying. >> Okay. But it doesn't stop. We do have a small Release signal. Wait for I think that just discretion partnerships that our estate I had a question about what that team was either football team and then another question you guys play football other schools each other. Generally speaking, All of this last year. It's fun. questions. Thank you very much. You're all welcome. Thank you. Moving on with the agenda, item number. Okay. So, you
032want to remove Motion to approve the remainder of the consent agenda. Hi >> yes. So As we look through that I think if we we were to go to the go to the item we would see that the name is associated with the district. So if you have concerns that regarding the professional standing or ability of that person to perform credentialed or certificated position, I would invite you to share that concern with their employer which would be the district listed there. I can I can assist in any way in that of course I would like my emails every time if there's anything I can do to help you serve. I think we're we are the holders of these, but in a lot of these cases, these are decisions that are being made by districts with
033superintendent with elected trustees monitoring their own hiring practices. I think that would be a question that I would take to either lawyer or our think we're not item approving vetoing the individuals on here. This is this is by consent. is routine in nature not requiring discussion. I don't know if we have the ability to approve this all in favor with the exception of I'd have to look into that because I will say that it agenda is there's no obvious reason So I don't recalls that I will say extremely temporary certificates only applies to the CTC apply for temporary certific Apply. So personally regularly CTC district are concerns. We do have so there is effective January 1st. There is legislation now that does require school districts uh hiring human resources leas to report to the California
034teaching credential uh commission of egregious misconduct. So the idea is that uh if there if there is egregious misconduct egregious conduct uh linked to any one of these individuals um from other positions after January 1st the California teaching credential commission will will receive that receive that notification conduct. Um I think that it's also important to note that as each of these names are affiliated with LEAs, those LEAs would have uh they are public entities and they have their uh this name maybe appearing here in our packet but hiring practices with districts would put these names on district agendas and we if we had concerns about their standing in a holding a credentialed position working Then you could then find that district and voice your concerns through their channel. Public comment complaint to the board to
035the superintendent. I can't sit where you are because over has certifications. I would be responsible for one person on this list. County, but I think we can explore the question of can we if there is a concern and this list is presented to this board, is it possible for us to make a motion to approve with the exception of one person that persons Yeah. So Tom, the archaic code you're talking about, is it 44332? >> The county board of education may issue temporary certificates. >> Yes. >> So it says May, so we don't have to. So if we didn't, where would they get them? And I probably already said this again, but I'm probably gonna say it every time that this is um on the agenda agenda. Um it just, you know, I mean, just
036to echo what you just said, it's an archaic ed why it's there, but then we're asking to put our fidelity into it and that's just a really uncomfortable You heard me say it all the time. You know, I take my votes very seriously. If it's just ministerial, tell me it's just temporary certificates of credentiing in my opinion big deal. So, and again, I think we are just at this point we are acknowledging that they have gone through the process and applied for the necessary temporary credential to be in a position and that position is under the supervision and responsibility of other I just wanted to say one thing. Source And at the same time a symptom item. Second >> Hi Moving on to item services. question instructional services. I'm sure you recognize policy regul instruction
037school. We need to hold on administrative regulation 61. Regulation policy policy. Tom, can you explain why we needed to have a public um public input on this policy regulation requires the agenda item? So short answering it's also just so you know surprising officer right checking all the boxes. I approve boardicul. Hi. >> Hi. You guys as we entertain and after graduation. Um yeah. Um, so at our last meeting Start seriously about their future. Students connect visit Also at the same time, not just these were has been particularly meaningful for students alternative postgraduation success like um also counselors and college advisor to provide critical support through workshops um students especially those colleges for the first have shared how impactful are in addition to college some of the issues. Yeah. So misuse of medication and also access
038to substances alsum. Yeah. So thank you and I look forward to continu. Thank you. Abby, if I could just ask real quick. We had an incident happen in front of our offices in Magnolia where there were large cans of like a gas with a It's a nitrous like nitrous oxide large cans whippets. But like we're not talking about like your fun like like uh misusing computer keyboard cleaner or whipped cream. These were large cans sold at smoke shops. Yeah. They were left there called RPD. Is that at all when you hear of students and substance use? Is this uh is this at all landing on your radar or among your among friend groups or peers? That's good. >> Oh, have you? >> Yeah. But personally in my school nitrous oxide, I don't know if any
039of you guys know gas. That's what it goes by. But I haven't heard anyone in our school using Seems pretty dangerous, but it's accessible in these shops. >> Very affordable and sold in flavor. What I can do is I have friends on the substance use. Uh since our last meeting, there's been a lot of excitement. Uh first and foremost, homecoming week is next week. We are excited and we have dress up days plans dress up days and we're hosting on Wednesday on the football field. going to be packed with fun activities and an amazing rally to end the week put on by our leadership team. And as we're just a few weeks away from that week, each class preparing their homecoming float for our second main. Our varsity football team is currently 4 and one
040and our most recent game against Enterprise High School was a huge victory. Our cheer team and band are crafting routines as well for our home games and especially for homecoming next week. Our varsity volleyball team is undefeated in league and both country boys and girls are ranked number one. Our student section remains strong and we're currently topping the voting of record searches poll for the best high school student sections in the wedding area. And then outside of all the fun sports and spirit students at West Valley are taking many opportunities. FFA tomorrow is attending the SHA college field day compete with other FFA chapters and they recently attended and organized a farm city event at the district fairgrounds teaching kids about Additionally, last year we started our after school program, Eco Vision, which consists of
041tutoring pods and fun activities that range from tutoring in subjects to all the way to robotics. And on the last Friday of September, we have 220 students in attendance and we're hopeful and confident that it improves student success. Our staff are working incredibly and incredibly hard to carry out our dreams and visions as students. In honor of September being suicide prevention month, our posted fun lunch activities and posted up signs across the school and staff were also participating in helping us make the best we can. And lastly, I know I shared a lot of fun things, but this month I sat down to write this report and ask students how they felt and I could not find an issue to report on. West Valley is at an amazing point and if there is an issue
042to report, I would say everything's going amazing. I can't complain about that. Thank you. What Jacob won't share is that he rejoined the football team. He has a lot going on. stepped away and coach the coach had other ideas and had persuasive ways to get Jacob back on team probably instrumental partic well in our meeting that week after but at the end we actually all came together and we did our we did our team together. So, it's pretty cool. >> Did you guys know that he's doing schools? Make sure you guys everybody know he's got I mean he's got fund out there so he's doing5 million scholarship funding so doesn't want to go into debt right out of high school but wants to go out and make football fields. I was at football game over
043here. >> We have Yeah, that that's that's our snack bar. So, we have our food snacks, hot drinks, pickup. We moved all of our snack bar from the back all the way to the front. That's that light with the seating that is right. throughout this year. Cheers. Moving on. by surprise. So I got out of the habit. I wanted to hit you just kind of with a wall of good times. I appreciate student reports. Exciting times in the fall, Friday night lights and all those things. Best of luck to I would love to know criteria for the choices that you have in front of you, Abby. If there's any support you in your senior year and any stress that you might be feeling. We got friends in us. We got friends in low places. Um
044we've just had all all kinds of all kinds of amazing opportunities lately. We did take over the Magnolia barbecue Magnolia Park behind our building there and had a staff family barbecue through some cornhole bags with families. A great time. Um we also have a transportation is broken ground in Caterpillar area next to our maintenance operations but we are moving a whole lot of dirt. remarkable things happening there. Uh we are obviously with our literacy efforts and now they have vending machine. Um that's just a little glimpse into some of the things that we've been up to. But from our last meeting I do want to I want to hold myself accountable. Last time I ended I'm ending every time uh our our time together with four things that I'm going to be doing across the
045priorities established and uh I I said I was going to establish a new board initiative on the 24th I don't know if it was necessarily established so I don't have to but we did get some good guidance and I think we'll be coming back proposal uh I was able to jump into the substance use prevention meet our new members on there. They're going to be doing some cool things there. So, we're going to check meet with stakeholder support partnership with Chaos Services. This is this is some slow work, but I do want to thank our team on the business front. Claudia, thank you for joining me uh catching up with the site administration and the director of Chiba. We're now pivoting into specific instructional services that are going to be needed to be able to
046meet the needs of also joining help them join SULA right as a charter they were part of a different SLPA different special education local so getting cha included quite a process but those check marks And then on the American Indian advisory front, we had a great work group where we have established uh language instruction programming. It's it's a it's such an important piece of the language. And so how can we how can we help promote uh win two language? What does win two language look like for elementary schools? Are there class visitors? Are there some things that we can do in middle school and help people get interested in some of those things? members of uh me members of our tribal uh members of the American Indian Advisory Council. How can we what are ways
047that we might be able to promote that language and then looking at improving student outcomes and uh and you know when we look at student outcomes we are about I believe tomorrow student data is public for last year's uh last year's information in November that the California SC school dashboard And so we'll have an opportunity to look at what does attendance look like? What does suspension look like? I appreciate Jackie your question to our cool. You're doing these things. What are you looking at for progress? So that's a little bit of what's happening with that group. Exciting times. I shouted out. I just wanted to make sure that everybody That was a statewide recognition. She is an incredible asset for our west for that environmental education, outdoor science education. It's cool to have excellence in
048that area on our team. I think I spilled the beans last monthly, but Maggie's Maggie and our dignity health partners that food pantry program has won as part of our December annual education conference with Uh Terry, we got this going on. October 14th, we are opening up the doors in Magnolia. So in the past, we've done a state of education breakfast and that was come to the early come to our early childhood services center on Hilltop and we had partners kind of share out impact stories. Now we are going to just be opening up our doors and having our departments uh literally holding holding booths to be able to share out what services like October 14th morning session and evening session 9 to 11 and then 5 to 7 after it's going to be it's
049going to be a great time for us to be able to share some of the great things that we're doing partnership across the On the excellent front, that's another transportation that that top picture does not scream excellence, but there is amazing things happening. It's just dirt being moved and it's not necessarily the most exciting. I actually didn't want to take pictures of the inside. Our team is working remarkably hard at some of the renovations inside. I just didn't want to spoil it. Eventually, when we get into ribbon cutting and those kinds of conversations, people can be shocked by the uh tomorrow night we're back here talking book uh book study in the power of moments and that's going to be for folks that have aspirations to grow and uh grow organization leadership capacity. So, power
050moments great to be able to have that conversation. Uh and the communication team is working on our annual report to the community that is going to be linked up that that is going to be synced up with our open house and that is a that is a publication that we do each and every year that just highlights the work that comes out of our of our team and then I was able to hang out with a couple of cool people representing Shast County Office of Education SHA College job fair and so Abby I heard you mention great opportunity for us to try to address that staff shortage Uh Tucker, our safety director has been busy. We talked visitor policy in this place. Uh as a board, you approved our visitor visitor policy. Now working is
051working with all of our departments in the implementation of that across our different facilities. Uh we are providing district support in lots of different areas in in the realm of safety. We have a safety newsletter that's called the sandbox that comes out of Ayah's office. Safer school coalition meetings are scheduled and then internal obviously we have internal department staff support as well. Can't say enough for the work that is coordinating folks safe. On the safety front we are and on the substance use prevention we are going to have a family night in for our program in the gym 4 to 6 is going to be hosting a family to talk to people about the dangers of substance there on the success front STEM career day I think I've mentioned this but career fair happening November
05221st at the district fairground that's all freshmen All freshman are invited to that and all freshman throughout the region are going to be there. So 2,000 freshman out of ground that's going to be exciting. Uh we have our cast public data I believe that's being released tomorrow. We are seeing significant areas of growth for so districts that have jumped that have kind of jumped all in on getting right in training with teachers will celebrate that because a whole lot of hard work is fun that u I don't know if you caught KCR's report with Wendy and Rose the community school report on attendance and academic growth was it's marked difference learning policy institute came out I will drop this into the next update but marked difference for those those schools identified providing those school resources
053and levels of support areing been everywhere. So, uh Darren mentioned pure court visit, juvenile justice coordinating council, not pictured here, state of the city, harvest dinner, uh oneon one. I want to thank for beating the pavement. Her and Wendy have been everywhere trying to across the county. One more One more So you can imagine the calendar but it is great because we are getting pixels to those more. We actually got an email saying thank you for listening. I'm not sure what they thought was happening before, but thank you for uh county superintendent. I had an opportunity to meet up with the 57 other county superendents across the state and that's just a great opportunity for for trends and things that are happening across the state might be responsive to that. Uh and and again, not
054every county. I'm not listening to every county, right? I'm listening to those counties that have our demographics. I'm I'm listening to everyone, but some of those are getting a little harder because they're more like uh I I just want to do a shout out. Um we have a countywide school nurse community practice that we are holding that space for. One of our nurses is facilitating and leading that. And I just think that that's great because I think a lot of times we have people that do important work, but they're on islands. They don't have an opportunity to connect Even just a basic job of like say school nurses getting together with other school nurses and talking about this is not rocket science but it really does go a long ways to say we see you
055and getting to real solutions. Uh big moment I thought uh for reading small school district association uh set up shop in Sher on Friday October 3rd and I think that that's just a nod to us the person jury called their own. The executive director of small school district association said county office of education is paying for the dues for every district that qualifies as a small in that partnership and there were like some like there were some districts that are not receiving that level of support and it felt good to be able to say that we are supporting that um you'd be interested in this. It's interesting we have 600 kids in various health care classes that need placement as part of their criteria. It's a CT class, it's a shast college class, there's clinic,
056there's hours of experience they need to log and we're trying to create we're trying to align a system so that the requests don't break the healthare providing community because you can imagine there's no organization and People are getting bombarded with calls here. Eventually, if we don't manage this healthare takes their go and they were almost nurses or they were almost doctors or they were almost medical assist more to come on that um I cannot thank my team enough for the communication support that has come out of our mighty communications department. A lot of times Friday at 4:30 in the afternoon, we get a text like, "Hey, I got a situation. I need some help." And a lot of times 5:30, 6 o' I'm seeing Carrie shoot at a football game and I'm thanking her for
057getting that to them, right? When you're talking about crisis, you're talking about emergency is so important. And I love the fact that they say, "Hey, So, thank you to our team for that math coaching curriculum adoption. I'm excited about the the hope and the promise of a math adoption coming up in this Friday. Thank you. Thank you. Thank to the team, our board of supervisors did put out a request asking for an internal review of our contracts the county that the Shasta County Office of Education holds with the with the Shasta County. Uh, and we've been able to we've been able to share that response and then I think that there's ongoing communication to be able to help answer those questions. I remember we had a public comment a couple months ago just inviting us
058to be open to the questions and we are open to the questions. I know that that's just that's another thing on that. Next up on the excellence, I would love to develop that initiative plan and bring it to you to address staff shortage uh to continue the conversation that we had on the 24th about board learning areas, identifying those areas where the board would like to learn more and agendizing those and bringing some amazing people in to talk to us about what does what to look for when we're looking at budgets, what differentiated. So the dashboard comes out. So what what do we do with what do we do with these things? So stay tuned for that. Uh safety um we're we're finalizing evacuation plans. If you're ever driving around a building and all of
059a sudden you see a whole staff walking somewhere, it's hopefully just a drill, but we're just practicing getting ready with our emergency preparation there and internally establishing our safety across Right. So if you're transportation, you're here in this building. If you're over in Magnolia, every department has a point of contact that's part of that safety support on the uh successful student programs. Uh we've got that student outcome data that's coming out and I'm looking forward to sharing that with developing takeaways and then the support of partnerships taking that nest with Trinity County. They are currently their authoriz. But the October 14th open house, the flyer was different. printed on our confirm but on our agend. >> Thank you. Going back to the transport he did that is that still happen >> great question. So we've
060had a few delays as we talked about in here about the transportation facility in terms of where we would have liked to schedule. Our transportation department is still occupying the facility that we would need to take to the 7-Eleven committee before we could move forward. We are working on putting back together the 7-Eleven committee to convene early next spring so that when the transportation department does move forward on those steps it's actually been beneficial for us because there are a couple of other properties that we're looking at through the 7-Eleven committee lots as well as a house that we will coming back this spring. That's a great uh will be providing food. Have you thought of >> I believe I believe that we are looking everywhere. So the the sentiment that I got uh specifically
061I mean obviously there's different levels of talking about the high school junior versus the Shasta College that needs commission. But I think that the challenge there is how do we collaborate and not compete because if somebody is looking to place and they have a lead somewhere, can we can we create an environment where people are sharing their it's almost like sharing your favorite fishing pole, right? Can we get to a place where we're not competing? We're collaborating because everybody has a vested interest in those kids getting those kids place. I think that there are some interesting I think that there is some new dirt to dig in that came out of the meeting. We look at like medical spas and we look at some of the things that might be able to also meet some
062of the needs that are not currently on the radar for I was just shocked at the number. I believe 682 student placement in some way to to encourage their healthare education and that does strain the system to college revamp the time that they do it to take the pressure a little bit off of off and we also are having conversations about reading standards right because it's not just hey here's a here's a kid they have basic skills that can help streamline the services that they that that medical provider is providing or is it a bottleneck in that student being in the program can't do anything and those are those are standards that need to be developed and consistent Going back. that I I would just love to I'd love to compliment my team. We actually
063at the next meeting with superintendent in October later this month, we will have representatives from both Adwick and Dolly's office meeting with superintendent to get direct feedback from them regarding legislation cleanup or perspective of proposed bills. I think California is interesting, right? Because something could be dead, but it's a twoyear cycle. So just because like just because something didn't make it it might be in a suspense file that can mean that that legislature has the ability to pull these things and we see it again next year right so twice a year we will have access to representatives from office once for hey what's needed and then in the spring for like hey heads up we need feedback because there's some crazy proposed legislation that's going to school directly from you. They'll hear from superintendents and
064then they'll go back to their they'll go back to their to to their committees and hopefully those those bills will be passed informed by superintendent are doing the work. hospital. Everybody wants to fac As far as I will I appreciate appreciate that feedback. I will definitely go back to the group and look at like emergency care and look at skilled nursing. I don't know if skilled nursing is nearly t Yeah, I just wanted to make a pitch for October, first grade, second years. The sign up. >> Thank you, Lord. October 14. November 12. Education include that. I'll include the link to the sha reads sign up and education service I'm just let you all know I'm happy If there are cancellations as promptly as possible so that we're not sometimes with the registration hotels there's
065penalties as we closer to the event. So if there are changes That's the ethics. I believe it's two hours of required training every two years. And it's a new rule. It's been in place for cities and counties for years. Is that for employees or is that for elected officials? Lots of options. I think that I'm good on it. We'll share what HR required with Tom. Next meeting with the county office of education. So no county committee to lead. Next month we will have prior to Oh, sorry. We got I'd like to call this meeting board of education Item three will be approval of the agenda. I would like to call everybody. Our whiskey town environmental school. I move we approve the agenda. Hi. >> Hi. not on the agenda. Members of the board hand Um,
066okay. You guys have parents and community members who have concerns about their being on campus and safety and all of that. And we have a county