February 20, 2025 Board Meeting

001e e e good evening trustees good evening superintendent staff community members um welcome to the meeting of the South Bay Union School District Board of Trustees today is Thursday February 20th and as a courtesy to others we ask that you please pleas silence your cell phones during this meeting your cooperation is appreciated um assistant superintendent Cooper could you please call the [Music] role espara here lier Lopez agino here Medina here here thank you to start the meeting we'd like to recognize a couple of special guests we have two students that are going to help leave the Pledge of Allegiance tonight um I'd like to welcome Evelyn Lopez and Julia caravantes to come and help Le the Pledge of Allegiance good evening um I am principal Salazar from Central Elementary and I'd like to introduce Julia

002caravantes a sixth grade student in Mrs Peralta's class and good evening I'm joio from bar I'm introducing my student council president miss Evelyn Lopez please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance place your right hand over your heart ready begin I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all um we're presenting the certificates to our student leaders just give them a round of applause and family and friends uh you're welcome to go up to the bulletin board and take a picture e let's give him another round of applause next on the agenda we have Community student and staff recognition and awards and I'd like to recognize executive assistant Amy Cooper for the presentation of

003outstanding Community Partnerships award good evening trustees superintendent espanosa staff and attendees it is my pleasure to once again recognize some of our outstanding community Partners throughout the year we will recognize individuals and organizations that have a CommunityWide impact on our students staff and families we are incredibly fortunate to have so many generous and caring community members and District Partners it is my honor to introduce them to you will Gina robbles please join me at the podium superintendent Espinosa and trusty Lopez agino Bella's House of Hope was created by Nadia Gastelum as a single mom after her special needs daughter Bella was born unfortunately Nadia could not be with us this evening over the past eight years her organization with the help of this team has expanded and is now a nonprofit organization with a singular

004Focus to assist and support single parents with special needs children they are sponsored by several organizations and host fundraisers including a golf tournament each year their program is designed to move parents from zero to fully sustainable their method in identifies each parent's issues and concerns their situation and current needs which allows them to assist with future success graduates of the program often return as members to pay it forward the House of Hope helps with housing accessing Social Services parent support groups funding assistance finding state and local resources financial literacy medical supplies legal aid advocacy and employment services most importantly they let parents know that they are not alone Nadia and her husband Ruben Silas also provide new shoes to students with the greatest need and have done so for the past five years they chose

005schools based on income levels and title eligibility last year 10 schools were selected including some in Mexico and our own Nester Language Academy in December all 1,086 Nestor students received a brand new pair of vans in total the House of Hope distributed 4,498 pairs of shoes last year I was so moved by Nadia's story when I spoke with her about attending tonight's meeting she is truly an inspiration for the power of helping others she spoke passionately about her commitment to making a positive impact on the community Bella's House of Hope on behalf of the Board of Trustees thank you for your commitment to service your inspirational leadership and outstanding Community Partnership with South Bay yes I would thank you so much everybody this is really a pleasure to be here on behalf of Nadia Gastelum

006um and her family who work so hard and they're so dedicated to committing to projects like this I I know all of you remember what it was like to get a brand new pair of shoes right before school and those kids and especially now we we we're going to see a big shift in our econ eony our our families are going to need us more than ever and being able to partner with all of you who work so hard parent volunteers administrators all of you we we look to partner with you all and continue to be committed to serving this population so much so thank you thank you so much thank you well mirinda kopo Belinda ly and truste kones please join me at the podium you can bring up the whole team if you

007[Laughter] want face outward the Snowman program was born 37 years ago when mirinda a community volunteer coordinator at Barry learned of a student who when asked what she wanted for Christmas said she wished for her own toothbrush Miranda unders I'm gonna cry I knew this is gonna I knew this was gonna happen mirinda understood that there were many needs in our community and she responded with the creation of a program that has become a South Bay tradition when mirinda moved to Mendoza she started the program there by now word had gotten around and snowman programs had sprung up at several other schools in 2019 mirinda and Belinda also a retired Community volunteer coordinator expanded the program into the community snowman program helping families from throughout the district they started with a small group of volunteers

008and a few dedicated donors the process is simple Community lezon teachers and other staff make referrals to the program students post wish lists donors select a child and shop items are collected sorted and distributed by a team of amazing volunteers at a pickup event each family receives a grocery store gift card and toys for each child in the household the program also provides wrapping supplies so families can decide how and when the gifts are presented over the past five years these snowmen have helped 59 children 189 families and provided an estimated 1,540 gifts they have they have been supported by 170 generous donors and 54 dedicated volunteers mirinda Belinda and the entire snowman team thank you for your work your commitment to our families and for your Visionary leadership of what a small team of

009dedicated people can accomplish [Music] it's bless we're GNA move forward look around I would just like to thank all of um the community who donate it's a lot of re irees from the district current um employees and we have a girl scout team who's been on board with us the last two years troop 9805 they wanted to pick a child the same age as themselves so it's just been a fantastic time and we look forward to continuing this program may I ask Leela Fox Mao and truste Medina to please join me at the podium Leela is the proud parent of three South Bay students her service to our district started 15 years ago when her family adopted another family during the holiday season seen a greater need three years ago and each year since she

010has provided toys clothing and other items for students throughout the district in consultation with the ReachOut Center in December she focused on our older students she and her family created 79 gift bags containing hoodies water bottles beanies plushies pajamas and hygiene items which were donated to students at all our schools knowing how brand conscience some kid can be she made sure to include popular brands like Nike and Hurley it is important to know that Leela and her family do not receive donations they do this on their own start when she has spoke when she and I spoke about attending this evening I really had to convince her to come her innate caring and generosity are what drives her and she has shared this commitment to community service with her children Leela we are proud to

011honor you and your family for your kindness thoughtfulness and support of our students and families please know you make a difference thank you so much thank you so much um I I didn't know this was goingon to be so emotional but I I feel so inspired by the others here that I know are doing so much for the community and um it's really like a full circle moment for me because I went to school here and I was thinking coming over here that I had my sixth grade prom out on this black top and all my kids have gone here now and it's just really um it's just an honor to be able to be here still and to give back and um I know that it's a fortunate position to be in to be

012able to give and it's just it's it's a gift to be able to do it so um I appreciate all the work that's gone into helping get our donations into the hands of people that we know need it and um and deserve it so thank you so much will the team from the Irish Outreach Center and the Gaelic Athletic Association and trustee lyer and trusty Esparza please join me at the podium I'm G just the Irish you a Merry Christmas program started in 2014 with the goal of bringing holiday cheer to Children and Families in Need the event is a partnership between the Irish Outreach Center and four Irish sporting organizations in San Diego in 2018 the event was brought to South Bay and hosted at the Bayside steam Academy as we expanded we moved

013the celebration to Mendoza in 2019 during the pandemic the organizing committee made safe home deliveries of food boxes toys bicycles clothing and sporting equipment in 2023 and 2024 we were back at Mendoza bigger and better the organizing committee encouraged us to include our critically unhoused families in the celebration as a reminder these are families living in vehicles shelters and motel wanting to make the most powerful impact on the students with the greatest need they customized the support to these families to include gift cards hygiene products clothing and blankets if you have not attended this event it is difficult to describe it's difficult to describe the campus is simply transformed it starts with Santa sorry it starts with Santa arriving via helicopter on the field a bag Piper leads families into the auditorium for lunch from

014Urban Plates kids visit Santa receive their personalized gift personalized gift bed and proceed to the library to shop for shoes clothing and blankets each year the event expands to include more activities like arts and crafts a hot chocolate station music and dance performances and a sing along to name just a few in the seven years that South Bay has hosted this event nearly 1,000 families and numerous children have participated and received much needed support the event provides an important and invaluable opportunity Unity for our district student families and staff from all schools to come together as a community to enjoy a meal and a holiday celebration I'm so proud to be a small part of this amazing program the event gets better each year and we receive such gratitude and positive feedback from attendees this

015planning committee is a dream to work with and whenever there is a decision to be made they always decide based on what is best for our families this event would not be possible without the amazing team of donors and volunteers including the District staff my deepest appreciation to everyone that works to make this event so memorable each year Kathy Tracy gr tra Kathy Tracy and Grana sorry Lis sorry Lisa on behalf of the South Bay Community thank you for bringing this much needed event to our district your hard work generosity and care for each one of our families is such a blessing during the holiday season thank you for your outstanding Community Partnership thank you good evening everybody and it Pleasures us and our community so much to be able to be a part of

016your community this is one of our beloved events every year we are the committee but we are supported by so many people because they just love this event and smiles on those little faces make all the hard work worthwhile we appreciate everything the district has done to facilitate this great event Amy come on you've been a right in there partner with us phone calls and lots of activity without your support and she really want wants to adopt us all so we are the newest Kids on the Block um but thank you our community loves loves this event thank you thank you all so much for taking time out of your busy SK weekday schedules to come here thank you Bor I will be back with more in April thank you thank you jusy Lopez agino

017for stepping in um while I tended some to some timely parenting matters thank you Amy can you guide me to where we're at we're at the Barry's school report thank you you're welcome um I'd like to recognize principal Jose prosapio Joseph prosapio my apologies good evening everyone I'm actually really excited to follow that everyone's in such a happy good mood right now this is gonna go nice and smooth also excited to hear that project snowman started at Barry so what a cool Legacy to follow up and then be able to share what's going on at Barry now so that was an interesting tidbit to learn so good evening um you can forward sorry do I forward can I forward oh excellent thank you Dr Angela Duckworth says our potential is one thing what we do

018with it is quite another my name is Joe parapio and I'm one of the members of The Fabulous Berry team I'm currently in my third year as principal and the one thing I know for sure is that the Barry Community has endless potential tonight's presentation is to help you see what we are doing with that potential who do we serve these are by the Numbers enrollment is lower than that but that's what comes off the dashboard 7 3.1% socioeconomically disadvantaged 53.1% English language Learners 7% Foster youth we tend to look more at this is who we serve these are our families these are the faces Barry doesn't tend to look at the numbers as much as we look at the faces of our families to understand their stories because that's really what it's about and

019who we serve as you know schools make databased decisions so let's look at some of our data and I definitely tend to be a good news first kind of guy so we're going to start with chronic absenteeism as you can see over the past several years Barry has declined significantly in our chronic absenteeism from 59% back in 36.2% last year we're currently in the yellow category with a decline significantly declined but it's a still an area of focus for us and I'll tell you a little bit more about that in a moment for English language arts we are in the yellow zone as well for English language arts on the California school dashboard we're also excited this is I believe the third year in a row of at least some level of increase in English

020language arts while as a school we continually and slowly are moving forward um it's important for us to take a look at the subcategories and we have students with disabilities and our multilingual Learners fall in the red category so we are keeping an eye on that and we're trying to work toward doing something for that math dashboard we're in Orange math scores have been a focal point at Barry since about a year ago for us we began doing number talks more often focusing on math problem solving last year while we're not seeing many gains yet we believe this work and the work we are doing this year will make an impact on the students Math and Science scores in the future our English language learner progress this is definitely an area of concern there's absolutely

021no doubt about it and no way to deny it last year Barry was in the blue in this category and this year we are in the red in this category it's very concerning it's something we must address this year and into next year I'm going to speak to the steps we are taking in just a moment let's look at how we have been and will be addressing what the data says Barry sips a goal number one Barry will further develop and create Partnerships with educational Partners through trainings classes and community events Barry held our first ever kiss Festival this year it was an idea that was brought to us by a parent and it was completely run by our parents in our PTA thank you Miss Stephanie our PTA president it was a huge success

022and it was a great celebration of our community culture we had a lot of parent volunteerism this year that's increased we had a welcome back breakfast as you can see in the pictures this year it was a great time to thank our parent volunteers build a team spirit and Inspire them to want to come and be a part of what we were doing at Barry there's a lot of different volunteerism going on on campus this year and I kind of need to point out that Blackboard up there or that bulletin board that was a bulletin board that was made for our Zombie Fun Run three um it's our third annual and it must be probably one of my favorite bulletin boards of all times it it's a bulletin board that was supposedly made to look

023like it was a new bulletin board but then damaged by zombies on purpose so we have like some serious creative families helping us make Barry look like a very special place building on our food backpack program this year we began food distributions twice a month through feeding San Diego um these events have become some of my favorite mornings of the month there are thank yous and God bless yous every morning when we're passing out the food according to the feeding San Diego numbers that I was just given they say we have given out approximately 7,000 meals since October our Barry steering committee for our community school effort was put together this year it's a large community effort including team members parents students and Community Partners all together we came together to look at data and

024write our school Community School Grant we are in the current stage of crossing our fingers and praying until May oh okay said she was going to mess with me tonight apparently she is oh there we go you said you said I'm going fast okay um so we also uh we also partnered with councilwoman Moreno's office near the holidays we gave out 134 turkeys and boxes of food the library was there um and this also bolds well I've been building a relationship with the people in her office for maybe future Partnerships with different things in our community we partnered with the county and gave away 80 air purifiers and then included registering other family members at that event to combat the air quality issues and we had a March for the uh National Night Out that

025we got together as a community walked the community together as Barry so taking part in all those things as a community Barry sips a goal number two Barry will Implement cycles of continuous Improvement to continue to develop a welcoming safe inclusive environment that promotes connectedness for all educational Partners the key phrase in that for me is cycles of continuous Improvement it clearly does not say completion of perfection we are at bar emphasize the idea that we need to keep learning to grow and to create systems which will help us repeat that growth as we learn and we do this in many ways Street data is one of them we listen to our students we interview them and we listen to what they say we're doing Equity walks with our p&l teams the principal teams so

026that we can learn what each other is doing in each other's School tools our PBIS work our uh excuse me positive behavior intervention and support work we're still in the early stages of this work but we were building on our rise expectations from a year and a half ago creating expectations for every space around campus and the next steps will be teaching explicitly those expectations how is that different in the classroom than it is on the black top the same expectations exist but that looks a little different if you're out playing at recess versus sitting in a classroom so that the next step for us is explicitly teaching what that looks like we participated in the district's Ian um ican program this year where we are participating in the IAM program um if you look

027at the graph this is right off the County website the blue line is last year's chronic absenteeism the yellow line is this year's chronic absenteeism like many schools we took kind of a little dip up in December because everyone was sick um but then we recovered very quickly in January's mbers we are currently down already this year 14 more per in chronic absenteeism and we are only one point away from our actual goal we set at going from 36% to 26% in one or to 20% in one year so we're only 1% away from that goal already in February the systems we put in place through this program we should support further Improvement in this area in the future and yes to answer your question that's probably the most pressing question so far tonight that

028is me in a care bear costume um Barry has many creative parents I already mentioned it these were some of the bulletin boards that were put up for Hispanic Heritage Month so again we were really excited about that and we continue to build leadership systems for our students one being student council we have them lead our assemblies and our programs like the winter assembly and we also have the Berry Bear crew people that maybe not want to be in student council or play sports but they want to contribute to to the school so they help us setting up chairs they help set stuff up they help set up for the zombie fund run things they do behind the scenes because they do want to participate helping their school all right really oh okay sips of

029goal number three Barry is committed to academic Excellence through the development of engaging first teach opportunities Hands-On learning and creating a learning environment that supports collaborative conversations across all subject areas as I stated this is kind of how we're handling a situation and our concern on our multilingual Learners we had data release days one last semester and a matter of fact the next one is next week um where we are specifically pulling out the data of our English language Learners their lpac scores really digging into that data and trying to figure out exactly what we need to do to support each level better we have two gen well we had two general education IAS one just recently resigned but we also trained them in the Glad strategies so they could support the teachers better while

030rotating through their classes one of our instructional assistants we paid 6040 between Title 1 and title three so that title three time was specifically spent supporting our multilingual Learners in the classroom and we also made a switch this year from having five days of el class at 30 minutes to four days of ELD class at 45 minutes which Nets us an extra 30 minutes of ELD time so we knew we had to address this in a very specific way so these are some of the steps that we are taking for for English language arts we're using I ready like the rest of the schools we've seen significant gains in a lot of our students from the first assessment to the second assessment we're using our library and imrt time to combine the expertise of our

031teachers with the creativity in the library and they're doing Library projects together um we oh that's it and math again we have had a soft opening of our maker space lab area um there's still a few things that we want to put in the place do a naming ceremony and whatnot we're excited we want to do a big ribbon cutting all of you are invited I'll tell Amy um but we are really excited about this space it's a Hands-On exploratory space for the students to really dig in and and expand their learning from what they are learning during their stem time that time is relatively limited and so here's some extra time and space teachers can sign up similar to lab time and our goal is to teach some parents how to facilitate that space

032so that we have consistent uh Volunteers in that space supporting that learning for them teachers have also begin to share lessons during our team meeting time so a second grade teacher will share a lesson that she has to teach with her students which helps her align with the third grade and the first grade and so they all each other are exploring what each other is doing in math I'm going to end the way I began with Dr Angela Duckworth we are studying grit this year at Barry grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals grit is having stamina grit is sticking with your future day in and day out not just for the week not just for the month but for years and really working hard to make that future a reality grit is

033living life like it's a marathon not a Sprint it's clear we are making strides at Barry in some areas and it's also clear we have a lot more work to do but this community has potential and passion to continue the work and focus on our long-term goals and push forward with Grit thank you do you have any questions clearly not members of my team over because they would have been on time any questions thank you principal rosap you uh really good presentation um it's good to hear The Chronic absentismo we would like to keep students in classrooms and you know keep up the one of the things that I did notice uh how did you get parents involvement in their kids education um with I mean like all of our schools we had to rebuild

034after covid so I I kind of came in in that second year after every body could start coming back so there was a lot that I think all our schools had dealt with parents couldn't come to campus um I'm generally speaking a culture and environment first person when I was a teacher it was always about how does my classroom feel and so that's kind of how I take over like a new situation I came into Barry and I said we need to make this place feel like a place everybody wants to be where everybody feels welcome and that's kind of been my focus since I started so we just continually reached out to parents telling them like come on come be a part of what we doing here come on come on our parent uh

035coordinator that we got last year was a big help in that having someone that specifically was reaching out for that and just telling parents you're welcome you're welcome to come that's a good idea you know the parent was really hesitant to come talk to me about having a ches festival and I'm like you know you could walk in there anytime come in my office I treat parents like that like hey you're part of our community you're part of our team so you you have something to say come and say it and I think that's starting to spread so the parents feel a little more welcome to come and and offer what they have I see some of the other schools um offer school with the uh coffee with a principal I think some of I

036think it's the most traditional way so what is the your way of bringing those parents um so I've done coffee with the principal um I offer it in the morning and the afternoon usually when I do it two different opportunities um but I think so I showed you like the parent volunteer breakfast um we built a parent Center last year we opened a parent Center and again I think it was a way that made parents want to come we get a lot of parent involvement when we do activities and events um I actually don't get a lot of parent involvement for my coffee with the principles um so what I try to do is feed Little messages for example today we had an awards assembly so I was able to slip a few things hey

037while you're here parents let me just tell you a few we have California healthy kidss survey we could use your help with and we're writing a site plan so please come help us so I kind of try to take advantage of the times when the parents are there and then kind of go from there thank you you're welcome I have a question looking at your English language learner um population and you mentioning that you were on the blue and now you're dropped to the red declining in uh 22 .1% what is your plan forward to make that dashboard go up again and stop declining so as a matter of fact I I reached out to director Flores and I said you know how how do we determine exactly why that happened because this is still

038relatively new data to us the dashboard's out a couple months um but it it was very shocking to say like wow how you just don't generally generally see that um so she told me a great idea is really do a data analysis you know H how first of all did we get so many kids to move levels a year ago that we moved to Blue you know who who Moved how many kids moved we'd really have to dig deep into the data and then take that information and say now let's look at last year's and and why didn't that happen again we need the time to do that and that's one of the things we're going to tackle next week so I'm actually using title three Monies to specifically do full teacher pullouts um to

039dig into that data next week so we can really see what areas are we missing are we doing too much in speaking during LED time and maybe we need to focus more on writing during e time so those that's at least the start of what we're going to do is next week data pull out days and then whatever that data tells us then we can say now let's plan around that area that we need to grow more does that make sense yeah thank you I look forward for the progress that you guys absolutely thank you um thank you for for the presentation um it's very clear that you guys have a really great culture and you do a lot of things to uh make school fun for the students and the family so it's no

040uh surpris to see the attendance improvements um when it comes to like the the English language arts um do you know if there's been like interest from parents around like this the Dual language immersing program um it hasn't been discussed with me at all but it also hasn't necessarily been something I've asked about um so I can't you know what I mean I don't have any data on that but it's not something we just did a big community outreach for the community school Grant um big survey we had I wish I could R off the top of my head like 170 parents I think so we got a lot of data um the stuff we got back was we want some English classes for parents we want some of this to so we got we

041identified a lot of the needs that actually was something that didn't come up in any of the surveys it's not to say that we don't have families that are interested in it um but it hasn't ever come up to me cool thank you you're welcome welcome back it's been a minute uh thank you for taking us on that Journey for the last year I do remember the parent Center and how welcoming that is parents have Barry go visit the parent Center because uh it is a unique space and anyone uh that has ever been a parent coordinator knows that it has to be a welcoming space for parents first so thank you for that for making that a priority uh I wanted to really quick ask you about uh when you do empathy walks what

042what what is constantly coming up what is the theme if there's one from students that keep keeps Rising above uh math Beyond a doubt yeah so an empathy talk is like a we gave teachers time to pull out students and talk to them individually so that's an empathy interview I'm sorry that's what it's called um but they they ask them questions what do you like about school what you know what's hard for you what what challenges come up you know and oftentimes it's we want better food you know that came up in the community survey I'm like well you know this is what it but but math undoubtly and again in the community survey when the students took it math is hard for us math is hard for us math is hard for us overwhelmingly

043when it talk about challenges in schools the students this year I'm not saying we've known this for a long time but this year with the data we've collected it it's math and so we really want to look at that at Barry and say we're hoping like the maker space like this is math like this is engineering that's part of math right so really helping the kids understand that math isn't something to be afraid of just something you have to learn so maybe you need your hands on so that is the the thing that comes up the most they they feel the welcoming environment the positives of the teachers are great the teachers like me you know the environment is fun um but as far as challenges it's ma well thank you I'm glad the kids

044are talking about how how important it is uh your maker space is beautiful and uh I know you've been working on it the past year so um I'm looking forward to that invitation we'll get it out not yet we're not we're not ready yet we're not ready yet we're we have to go through a naming process I want the students to you know name the space for themselves and what so we we'll get that done and do a formal family re well real quick um I noticed that you didn't share any I ready data and you did when we came to visit you so thank you for that and um it was a learning curve for I think it was trusty Medina and I that visited so uh from that visit we went on to

045other visits so I thank you for that introduction and uh has there been Improvement in that yeah so I believe you came before we had the second assessment right so um yes in I want to say every but I I can't say that with full confidence I don't remember all the different groups but we had significant gains from one test to the other and to be honest some of it was the first test kids you know getting used to the test but no I mean we share that data regularly with parents at like an SST meeting and and and kids have made some decent gains in that area and the the graphs and things that I ready gives you are really easy to look at and read you can really tell like you grew this

046much and this we've had some good gains in that program yeah perfect thank you so much I look forward to visiting your school site uh and hi Barry Bears got a great team thank you for the awesome presentation and all that you and your staff do to make Barry a fun and welcoming place so that we can get the kids there to learn thank you thank you all right thank you um now we're going to move on to Central School and we recognize principal Ed salad good evening president lyer trustee superintendent Espinosa and executive team thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today I am here to share an update on the current status of our school highlighting both our achievements and areas where we continue our focus and efforts for growth my

047goal is to share with you how at Central we're working together to create a positive engage engaging environment for our students and to ensure that we remain on track in meeting our goals I also would like to acknowledge and thank any of the representatives from our school that who may be in the audience here or uh on zoom and I'd like to start by uh sharing that at Central we serve a total of 355 students and their families of which 39% are multilingual Learners 22 of those who we serve participate in our special education program 61% are English only students and 37% are identified as socially economically disadvantaged as you can see we serve a very diverse population the most uh I also like to share with you our vision and mission statements because this

048is essential for creating an environment with everyone from students to staff to parents is aligned with the school goals and values and for that same reason our sysa goals are in alignment with our district elcab goals now I would like to share and reflect on the work that has been carried out at Central by examining our data and identifying successes but also reflecting on the areas where we see growth opportunities so let's dive in our greatest progress was in the area of English language art according to the California school dashboard student data in ela indicates an increase of 3.1 points moving from the orange in 2023 to yellow in 2024 I am also happy to share that we decline so declining in the area of chronic absente esm is is a good thing by 9%

049last year we were at 39. of students chronically absent which means that you know for two years in a row we showed decline in chronic absenteeism so that's good news on the other hand the area of greatest need indicated by data is in the area of English learner progress the data indicates performance declined by 18.9% in 2024 by eval valuating and reflecting on our current state I want to say that I'm confident that we can set our goals high to attain a more ideal State and show a more favorable growth in this area and I will talk a little bit about you know what are some of the steps that we're taking to uh get on track little more data for the 23 24 school year shows that 22% of our students met or exceeded

050uh the stand for ELA and 11.1% met or exceeding standards for math little more uh this slide shows that 88.3 33% of our students showed English language proficiency for the summative lpac And in regards to attendance data uh pretty much compare our rate of attendance from last year to the present year we continue to maintain relatively a consistent rate we know that our goal is to attain a 95% or higher uh which means that you know we need to continue working on that aspect as well so there's last year the date from the begin of the year to as of January 16 so very you know similar uh attendance rate now in alignment with the board's priorities in lcap Central Elementary will ensure that all students attain growth and academic excellence and Mastery of English

051language arts and math standards including multilingual Learners who will demonstrate measurable progress and achievement in their academic Pursuits so as a team Central Elementary is grounding its instructional focus on grade level Comm course standards for that purpose all classrooms must post clear and student friendly learning objectives during each lesson making learning transparent and ensuring that students understand what they're learning and why they're learning what they're learning but most importantly we continue to differentiate and support Scholars through a small group instruction to ensure we tailor instruction based on student areas of need with this Focus approach we were able to move the needle just a tiny bit but we moved it uh and I like to think about football games which football games are game are gain one inch at a time and we got to

052celebrate that every time but let me go back to the areas of opportunities for growth addressing the decline in English learner progress indeed a very painful sack speaking in the terms of football no doubt that is why we need to take action steps to get back on track as a team we need to evaluate analyze and make instructional decisions based on data collection to establish clear goals and objectives for students at promise building a responsive a responsive cycle of continuous Improvement in essence this is about reflecting redefining and rebuilding systems that focus on student academic acade academic achievement creating differentiated responsive and rigorous academic experiences for all of our students this action steps include that all teachers get opportunities to participate in PLC release days to meet with their grade level partners and analyze student

053data to develop interventions and support all of our students as shown in this graph we made some gains in both Ela and math when we compare the first I already diagnostic assessments to the second once again some growth in both areas teachers have analyzed and identified every single student using the following progress chart progress monitoring chart for this we have released teachers one at a time to meet with me and we use this tool to identify every single student students with ssts students with IEPs our English language Learners and then also how we use the data to group our students to make sure that we meet with them how many times a week do we see them in the small group instruction what is the data that we're collecting the assessments that we're using to

054show that progress monitoring and I like to share that we will be doing this two more times where we're meeting and we're going and analyzing and identifying those students to see how they're progressing towards meeting their goals I'd like to remind that when we meet again we will make an effort to reflect redefine and rebuild the systems that are conducive to academic achievement and social emotional growth thank you thank you for your presentation on the um elpac is that for this year that's a grand dat yeah this is your current data okay thank you and I have another question for you um can you talk a little bit about your SST students how how is the progress yes we identified you know during the progress monitoring we identified you know all of our students throughout

055our site and we're using our learning acceleration tutor to tailor instruction to the specific groups and the specific needs of the students so she meets with the students uh for half an hour in different groups throughout the day uh five days a week and are you monitoring the growth on this or poos definitely definitely Ely so like I said you know we we have the opportunity to meet with my L uh to talk about the progress you know constantly I walk in check in with the with the teacher see how the students are doing uh she's an amazing uh resource when it comes to use glass strategies uh to support you know students um and uh you know it's it's it's really going uh Fair very uh very good so she gives an assessment you

056know the first cycle when she meets with them and then at the end and then she turns into me that data and we go over and we see and evaluate you know that the students are actually in progress making progress that information also gets shared with the teachers thank you uh principal salar thank you for your presentation it's very thorough sometimes you want to see things to be better sometimes you can't but the fact is that you meeting with the teachers every teacher to discuss different ways of getting things done and what progress can they make I think it's it's something that it's uh it takes a lot of effort I I I commend you for that so is there anything that you see there's been improved based on those conversations with those teachers so

057our new newest uh data you know I ready data was released and you know we went over that data so first thing when we came back from the winter break uh you know they had a professional development on analyzing you know the iated data so we had a professional developer at the site that same week and I released the teacher so I already had planned for that uh and I met with them oneon-one uh 30 minutes uh and I got very positive you know feedback from teachers they really actually appreciated that opportunity to sit and to get to see every single student so that was a very positive thing that I learned and they were excited to know that you know money has been set aside to meet a second time and a third time

058uh yeah when I go into classrooms and do my walkthroughs like I carry my binder and I see you know I know the students um that are working with the teacher and and then we we have conversations about you know how it's going uh making sure that the students are you know where they're supposed to be you know we holding you know everybody accountable for for for making sure that the students are being served yeah so I'm I'm also going to be looking forward for the uh progress and Improvement for for your school but thank you so much thank you thank you for coming this evening I really like the strength in your voice tonight I mean it's powerful okay you had me sitting up in my chair it's like oh no uh so I'm

059really really anxious to to hear more as the time goes on about your datadriven decisions uh worksheets I haven't seen this since the 90s and and you're right on Target and I hope your teachers realize that this is a tool that is going to help every single child at your school to follow them what they need when they need it and and holding people accountable because students cannot uh um achieve uh their best without instruction so you in this list here uh and maintaining that and budgeting three meetings and release time is very important so I can just I can tell you right now you're gonna you're gonna soar next year or this coming Test season and uh and stay on this track okay please do thank you again thank I just want to say

060thank you for your your work and your passion and commitment um to the school and our district um thank you thank you for a great presentation and all you're doing to keep track of the data to know exactly how to help um your students so thank you very much okay next we have um report of action taken in close session Justa nothing to report thank you do we have any changes in the agenda I do I want to pull items first I would like to move the consent calendar then after Item B and item D um after approving our amended agenda please sorry first consent calendar then will it will be BSM boy and then letter d and so we're going to move that to uh right after we approve the amended agenda please okay

061any other changes I move to approve the February 20th 2025 regular board meeting agenda as amended second second call for a vote as sparza yes bker yes Lopez agino yes kones yes Medina sorry yes motion passes 5 Z consent so we have the consent calendar do I have a motion to approve excuse me we have a public comment on the consent calendar thank you Anthony milikin used to being on the other side of the podium um good evening I really just had a few questions in regards to the uh safety plans um given the last meeting that I watched online the concerns of a safety at a particular School my biggest concern as a spouse of a a South Bay Union staff member as a community member as a taxpayer is I'm wondering what kind

062of emergency preparedness is going on in our schools is there active shooter training if so when and how often are these plans signed off by the sheriff's department is there consultation with law enforcement secondly is your district office undertaking emergency Operation Center training this is hugely important I have a background um again my apologies to those that were professional peers and colleagues of mine but I'm now retired and I am a community member and I have the right as uh again a concerned spouse but also more importantly for the safety of the children in our system uh simply have these questions and want to know what plans are in place to adequately prepare staff in the event of emergency thank you thank thank you for your comment um can we make sure that we get

063his information over to assistant superintendent Regal laara who's in charge of safety safety in our schools mam president I I'm confused I thought that that comment was for the consent calendar but was that Miss Cooper for public comment like non-agenda no he specified it was on the safety plans which are in consent okay thank you so much I just want to identify that thank you any other public comment no not on consent no okay so now we move to approve the consent do I have a [Music] motion so moves second call for the vote my apologies who was who seconded Esparza yes lker yes Lopez agino yes Medina yes kenon yes motion passes 5 Z thank you so now we have um Item B board compensation correct yes thank you for clarification work Communications to

064the Board of Trustees oh my apologies okay so uh the board recognizes superintendent Jose Espinosa for discussion on board member compensation thank you president lyker um at our last board meeting uh this item was um brought to the board um and then uh the board asked for it to be sheld till uh this meeting um and so we are bringing this item back to the board uh for for approval um we did do some additional homework because there was a some questions around um how many times the board has given the eles a u an increase um and we know that uh the board has given themselves an increase although they're entitled to give themselves an increase every single year um they've only done this two times in the last 10 years twice in the

065last 10 years um so obviously um that's not something that that this board has done very often um we also compared uh some of the uh stiping from nearby districts um for example uh National which is a district that is very uh similar to ours uh their board members receive about $300 a month uh compared to about 250 a little bit over that uh that this board receives um so I just wanted to share that information with the board um as as we said we would look into and compare with some other districts we also have a public comment on this item whenever you're ready we're ready for public comment Anthony melin going to start with a thank you to uh Kelly lyer for standing strong for having uh Common Sense arguments and same with

066uh uh trustee agino uh I couldn't agree with you more on your common sense approach the reason I'm here is uh again out of professional respect I wouldn't normally be here at meetings but as a retired um School employee in a neighboring system I'm now kind of free to speak my mind so to speak again I'm starting with a thank you to you twoo for standing strong uh as a taxpayer as a resident as a member of this community I literally graduated if you will can call it that from Emery Elementary was appalled by your comments to propose a raise a 5% raise at at this juncture it's absolutely um ridiculous given that the staff are going to be you have two primary duties as board members fiduciary and then ensuring that teaching and learning

067is occurring you know and again it pains me to point out the appalling appalling student uh proficiency levels uh not gonna get into the individual scores tonight but the if you just Google Proficiency in math and Ela of South Bay Union is pitiful My Two children went through here uh when they were in our schools South Bay Union was right up there with the best in schula Vista now you're comparing yourselves to National City in San a Cedro That's How Far We've fallen and I apologize to the disrespect to our colleagues in San idro and National but somebody as we've learned as a country and Community somebody needs to start speaking up about what's going on have 70% uh of our kids not at proficiency you're sentencing them to Bleak Futures as they progress to

068Junior High and high school that's how old I am I remember Junior High that's what we used to call them down there um I humbly or maybe not so humbly suggest that you table your percent raises until your achievement Rises right and until you stop talking about cutting Kinder class classes at a time when you know again you're looking at other uh bargaining issues um to say that you're nominating yourselves for a golden fleece award is really just the beginning of I think a terrible slope you're under uh I do hope you know trusty kones um Esparza that you reconsider your actions the vote's really on you the other two did the right thing last time uh the motion failed last time the minutes are correct the agenda item it wasn't table till this meeting

069actually failed 22 so again it's on your hands Miss Medina I do hope you do the right thing this is not the right time for this kind of increase right thank you do we have any discussion regarding Madam president I move to approve the 5% increase in the monthly board member compensation effective March 1st 2025 is there still an opportunity for discussion no second I'll second that and now now the discussion thank you for clarification um appreciate the comments from the public um last time we had to have this discussion um we've had a lot of time to think about um what we said last time um I had heard a lot of good points since then regarding the importance of also making sure that the board is compensated in order to just as we

070want to have uh competitive pay for our teachers to recruit uh good teachers we also want to make sure that our board is getting uh compensation in order to attract people that are going to do a good job here in this board um so that is one of the reasons why you know today I I am supporting the the the increase in our in our compensation I'm really um grateful for my board colleagues um I think that we all have been working really hard to get us to a place where we all are going to um be successful um but we also deserve to be compensated it's like 12 bucks so um and we're working on on on making sure that our teachers are also continue to be competitive so those are my comments tonight

071pardon me um thank you chusty Lopez agino um I also agree that a $12 raise per month um understanding that we have working um we have we spend a lot of time and the compensation is very minimal and with a yearly small increase I hope that we can continue to attract um parents and people who are taking their time away from their families um to serve the community and recognize that um it's important work that we do so I I agree as well so we'll call for the vote oh I'm sorry I just want to make a a small comment um I thought about it uh when I joined the board I really didn't know that was getting paid $250 in addition I mean it I don't really get the money I give the money

072away it's it's not for me I've been putting ever since I came in in June I was appointed in it and I was elected uh I made a promise and that is to help the district um listening to the uh lcap results it it really brings I don't know the pride that I I feel that I wanted to bring this District to compete to other districts and that's my goal not for $12.50 this is this is nothing I believe if it's not me it's it's just it's all for the kids I know a lot of teachers a lot of them I met every single day I was in contact with them and that's the only reason I'm here my kids wanted me to be here teachers wanted me be here and I'm here for everybody

073I want what's the best for the District of course you know tough tough times right now but it is $12.50 this is not a discussion so um that's what I got to say so call for the vote as far as yes biker yes Lopez aino yes Medina yes kones yes motion passes 5 z um so then we also have item D correct yes thank you um director paa Flores hi good evening president ler Board of trustee superintendent Espinosa and S spusd Community this evening I'm bringing forth an updated uh revised um e master plan from the 20 20122 approved eel master plan the eel master plan really serves as two things one is compliance and ensuring that our Lea is in full compliance with California Department of Education and that's important but the most important

074piece is also um it describes educational programs and services for our English Learners I'm not going to walk you through the entire document as I'm sure you've already done that so what I did is you have a table in front of you that really emphasizes the eight major updates that uh a team of Educators who came together who have been meeting for goodness every month since last January so about 11 12 meetings we actually meet next week um we came together and uh we talk about the the urgency around supporting our EO students um and as we engage in those robust conversations we also talked about um and engaged in looking at our eel master plan so I'm going to go over some of the eight uh updates the revisions that we made and then

075after that then you know if there are questions of course I will answer them to the best of my ability me the first thing that was one of the things that was added to the master plan that did not um was not there before was uh a message from the superintendent that's a piece of new addition we also added the Mission Vision and values which were board approved in December of 2023 um our committee makeup has Chang changed uh we have principes and teachers on our multilingual learner committee and we wanted to make sure that um they're on on the master plan they deserve to be acknowledged they show up every month uh to engage in difficult conversations um in in a call for Action in order to support our English Learners so we wanted

076to make sure that they were acknowledged for their hard work uh we also included data um we included the elpac data and then we also included ined the lp and which is the English learner progress indicator it wasn't there before and it's important that if we're going to have a master plan that it needs to reflect what our current metrics are we also highlighted our long-term English learner data so you'll see in the master plan English learner data and then we called out long-term English learner data so there is a hyperfocus in ensuring that we monitor our metrics for our long long-term English learning earners not just in our Lea but in the state of California we also embedded our reclassification criteria which were board approved in 2024 so that's reflected in this master plan

077we included the domain exemption process for duly identified students this is the uh the department uh is guidance on reclassification of duly identified students so IEP teams have a significant role in identifying when domain exemptions on the lpac are necessary um and ensuring that assessment processes accurately reflect uh the students abilities in alignment with their IEP goals so I do want to make a clear distinction um there all English Learners must take the lpac so when I talk about domain exemptions um that means that if an IEP team deems that my area of learning need is getting in the way of me passing a piece of the elpac then the IEP team would come together and say well paa has scored a one on the lpac for two years consistently could it be that her

078learning need is impeding her her processing or her speaking piece um preventing her from passing this portion of the of the elpac so then as an IEP team they can um decide if that domain is Exempted for that student I want to remind you that there are four domains um and the students can only be Exempted from two okay but it's based on their need and it must be an IEP team decision um the other piece that was updated was Pathways to biliteracy the the prior master plan did talk about Pathways of biliteracy but what we wanted to do is highlight the different ways that we can celebrate uh the pathway of biliteracy we don't offer the Seal of biliteracy because that is a high school thing however the pathway of literacy serves as a

079foundation to serve ensure that we get our kids to high school and that they they obtain that seal of biliteracy so part uh biliteracy attainment recognition our eighth graders and our sixth graders our dual language programs receive that recognition after they complete their program at one of our dual our dual immersion schools and then the B the beauty of the biliteracy participation recognition is that it celebrates all students in the Dual language program so from TK to 8th grade I know that our schools do a phenomenal job in celebrating I already data PBIS and attendance this is just another way that we can continue to celebrate bilingual Brilliance and that we don't have to wait till sixth or eighth grade so that students receive some kind of recognition so and then last but not least

080um the appendices piece were they were all updated we used to be paper pencil uh reclassification was paper pencil our rfit monitoring was paper pencil um and now through our elevation data platform all of our forms are digitized so our annual notifications our initial parent notifications our arfit monitoring our recent classification forms they're all in the platform and elevation and we wanted to make sure that those forms were the same forms that were reflected in the appendices section of the eel master plan so I know I went a little fast so if there are any questions I would gladly um answer them to the best of my ability um I have a question um you mentioned reclassification is there anything parents could do when they get noticed that their child will be um classified as

081a long-term English learner is there anything that they could do to prevent that from happening oh absolutely so I what I heard you ask is what can a parent do if notified that uh their student is a long-term English learner and their not notifications are sent out at the beginning of the school year so to your point parents are informed whether your student is an English learner or if they're at risk of becoming a long-term English learner or they are an ltel um yes as a parent I think the first thing my piece of advice that I would do is write down all my concerns and wonderings that I have in regards to the progress or lack thereof that my child or my scholar you know the concerns that I have and then the second

082thing that I would say is like they say back in my PUO you know dialogue through conversations how we understand one another so I would advise our families to reach out to the school sites and meet with the Educators to talk about hey I have these concerns about paa um I'm noticing that she's struggling and I got this notice that she's still a long-term English learner how are we what types of supports are being provided in the classroom for paa um and that just opens up an opportunity for collaboration between our parents and our Educators to talk about um the types of differentiation that educators are providing in the classroom is this small group instruction are we providing um scaffolds and using sentence frames to promote um dialogue and discourse in the classroom so I

083would say that that happens and I think that that conversation really opens um an opportunity to really dive into data and for our Educators to share what what strong tier one instruction is happening in the classroom and what kind of scaffolds and supports are also being provided so that our students are making progress uh towards language development proficiency um so like principal um p no yes um he mentioned about the SS plans um are parents able to request an SST plan for their English language learner Yes actually so what I would say is after once we talk have a conversation with teachers and and data is saying look look I i' I've given my best teaching ever and I've done small group instruction and I've conferred and paa is not progressing then an educator can

084initiate an SS process and parents can also request an SS process however what I would just caution us is that when we're referring an English learner who is struggling we want to make sure that we're we're looking at the data and making sure that we're referring because of a learning need and not because of language those are two separate things so that's why I want to really emphasize the data analysis that happens that the teacher has that she's doing as a teacher leader in her classroom and then she's that that educator is looking through that assessment saying I've done X Y and Z they're still not making progress I'm going to go ahead and make this recommendation and even then the SST pro team would come together and do another data dive to say what

085are the strengths that paa has and then what are the needs like what are the supports that we need to provide in order so that they're providing language develop so that they're growing in their language proficiency so I know I said a lot but yes the short answer to your question is that an educator and a parent can initiate an SST process thank you you're welcome thank you for your presentation this evening and and thank you for the one sheeter but do we have this in printed in a book because I asked thank you Amy uh she printed it out uh our board do for me to read but it's so small even a magnifying glass so uh when we publish if we publish um so this would be an insert into the manual that

086we have now no we don't have it as an insert into the eel master plan so you reprint the whole thing no we have it we just did it as a separate attachment to so we can highlight the changes that we're gone through here that way I didn't have to go tab by tab on the eel master plan oh wellow send that to the print shop he makes a beautiful book but really seriously I would like it to be printed um parents have a right to know what the process is yes uh we need to know what the processes and uh be responsive uh to our parents who are asking why okay so uh in the why of it like I said I asked for that to be printed I look really hard at it

087and uh and then I went back to the computer to read it so I really need a hard copy and and it should be something that is available in school offices for parents in English and Spanish of course that would be my suggestion um regarding the children with the IEPs um being exempt um that would not include children with the 504s the SST holders they're not exempt no it would have to be in their ID correct and I misunderstood your question these will be printed yes so my my that's on me I misunderstood your question they will be printed um and part of this you know launching and giving having this updated master plan is not so that it just sits on a shelf we do have to take a system approach and ensure that

088there's system coherence um because this really is our Bible in ensuring that we provide professional development for our teachers and equip them so that they feel capable and confident in serving our English Learners and then turn our English Learners will succeed so there's a lot of work to be done around here there's a lot of work happening behind the scenes um but yes it will be printed and it is already translated in Spanish perfect well thank you uh I do have a concerned about the district process for the 504s the SST teams um we were sitting at Nester and it was shared that there is no District um plan for it SST folder and so I'm curious to hear you this evening uh identify a process yes and a principal telling you there's not so

089I look for it in your book it's small print so I'm sure it's there but could you elaborate on the process that the district has put in place so I I'm gonna I'm gonna speak a little bit on my um my colleague Tom balaka there is a an mtss handbook that really describes the SST process which is a little bit really what I described it really starts with tier one instruction in the classroom and I I've exhausted everything and paa is not making progress hey team let's let's take a data dive and make sure that we're providing the supports needed for this student so then the SST process comes about it's a six to8 week cycle in my experience as a principal and in our Lea that is the system and then the data the

090team comes together we analyze data we set goals for paa paa's probably going to need small group instruction for 20 minutes three times a week for eight weeks that we're going to come back and look at that support how did paa do did she make growth did she stride did she make any progress and if she did then we need to talk about like do we scale back scaffolds so we continue if I didn't then we would do another six to eight week cycles of interventions that are different from the first and then if Pro progress is not made there then maybe there's a conversation of evaluation um or maybe we go to cycle three it just depends every every student has unique needs unique strengths and it's really individualized for the students success but

091again I said a lot but we do have an mtss plan handbook that outlines SST processes and strategies um to support our students and there's a section on there that also talks about um our English Learners and ensuring that we're not referring students just because language because of language It's really because of learning needs thank you you're welcome again I'm I'm really U bothered by this statement by this principal um and I'm going to speak while the superintendent was sitting right there he said it so uh um i' hope to have that book printed so I can really read it because when a principal comes and says it's the district's fault you don't have a plan uh I'm glad he said that because now I can ask you and and look into further because our

092children are are failing and uh thank you to the public who brought that communication again tonight that we are uh we are not um where we need to be not even close so uh you know really need to look at that process and if the principles are not following the district process how do we hold them accountable superintendent thank you trusty kones um we have a process for doing that hold them accountable yes that's an HR process that I'm I don't discuss in open meeting well I'm holding everyone accountable um I lived in grew up in this community went to school here I'm holding everyone accountable we need to move this system forward we cannot go backward our students with disabilities 113 uh below standards that's just unacceptable I'm not yelling at you no I

093know I know I know you're passionate I understand passionate I'm Italian okay so um you know thank you and I look forward to reading your book you're welcome and then so you asked about a different document to be printed that was the mtss manual and the eel master plan two documents and I just want to clarify something that I comment it was not principal Pria who brought the SST plan it was uh principal Salazar and I want to thank him for following up on on those SST plans for um to be able to help those students thank you principal uh director Flores thank you so much for your presentation you're welcome okay if there are no further questions it is oh I'm no I just wanted to say thank you so much and thank you

094justice for your amazing questions and clarification about the different processes and what we need um and I love all of this and the biliteracy participation recognition and um attainment recognition I I love that too so that um it's not just at that higher level that we celebrate um bilingualism and biliteracy that we can um celebrate all along the way thank you you're welcome and I I do before I we go on to the next piece I just wanted to celebrate the multilingual learner committee because it was through their robust conversations and um and the our focus on eels that we were able to get this done together so um with that I would respectfully request superintendent to approve the updated English learner master plan so moved second call for a vote Esparza yes lker yes

095Lopez agino yes Medina yes kones yes motion passes 5 Z thank you I believe now we're at comments to the Board of Trustees okay on non-agenda item no no item eight comments to the board communication to the board oh thank you so much um so we have first the South Bay PTA Council um California Schoolboard employees Association chapter 59 good evening Board of Trustees superintendent espinos and all in attendance this evening I'm president Maya Leisure here are the current happenings for CA chapter [Music] 59 yes please lder during our last chapter meeting on February 10th we open the floor for nominations for secretary position we are pleased to announce that cone Bernell was elected he is now acting uh he is now our acting secretary for CSA chapter 59 we are still in search of

096a Communications officer so if any CSC members are watching from home and are interested and want more information please reach out to us in addition our 99th annual conference is coming coming up it will take place from July 20th through July 25th this year Lydia Ruiz was nominated to go as our fourth attendee and she accepted during the meeting our chapter members were informed that we have opened the sun shining process for negotiations on the 10th of February this survey has also been sent out to the members asking which articles they would like to open and uh for our next bargaining session so CSE members again if you are watching from home and you've re receive this survey please fill it out as soon as possible we need to record your responses by the 24th

097of February now I'd like to uh turn my attention to the board many of our members have been have deepening concerns about the impath between swata and South Bay CSAA members are troubled with the idea of plausible repercussions if an agreement isn't reached soon CCA chapter 59 would like to reestablish that we stand in solidarity with our [Music] teachers and agree that they deserve fairness we do so while bearing in mind that CA is still contracted as a separate bargaining unit and we will continue bargaining for what is advantageous to our classified members at the end of all of this we want the board to follow through on their promise outlined on the district mission statement you know the one it's posted publicly for everybody to see s spusd in partnership with our community educates

098and empowers students which your teachers and staff to every single day to develop a love of learning by providing safe Equitable environments that celebrate diversity and a firm language culture and identity by promoting Excellence social responsibility and well-being thank you thank you CCA next we have Southwest Teachers Association good evening trustees colleagues parents students and community members I stand before you with extreme sadness by the current state of the district we are deeply disappointed with the current state of negotiations sw's bargaining team was disappointed on January 31st when despite the progress made on January 14th session ESP USD abruptly and unilaterally declared inass claiming they could no longer move forward at the table this discussion is both unexpected and unjustified their lead negotiator Melissa gri Griffith acknowledged the productive discussion from our last session but

099stated that the district's team had no ability to take further action what a shame on February 6th after the district filed for inass herb contacted swata for clarification of our opposition to inass we told the perb attorney that we had an unfair labor complaint against the district for their bad faith bargaining bad boss additionally um this alone felt like we should bring back the parties together so that the district can correct their violation of a state law additionally based on the conversation at negotiations on January 14th we believed some movement was possible the remaining articles are interrelated with many moving pieces herb informed us that they were denying their inass declaration although in their La latest bargaining update s spusd claims SW was going to move on all six articles the fact is that swata

100did not state or agree we would make movement on each of the six remaining articles Su doesn't bargain with perb SWAT what Bargains with s spusd on February 7th perb informed s spusd that perb was denying their inass declaration or S spusd could withdraw their inpass Declaration on February 10th we were informed by perb that s spusd had withdrawn the request for inass again they didn't just do it out of their kindness of their heart their state gave them an option to withdraw or they were going to deny your team is acting in faith on Monday February 10th the California Public Employee relation board issued a formal complaint affirming that s spusd has failed to bargain in good faith has denied members our legal right to representation and interfered with the collective bargaining process herb

101also concluded that s spusd violated the education employee relations act the E by making unilateral and illegal changes to our contract when it refused to bargain in good faith over teacher discipline and public complaints having a union means we don't have to accept what management does and that we can fight back and that's exactly what swatted did and will continue to do I ask you the elected officials to do your your job as well to your direct the bad boss to do the right thing the state has cited with swata your team is not bargaining in good faith I do not think that you as a school board or that the superintendent is taking the current state of negotiations seriously the reality is that the majority of our members have taken a pay cut of

102between $100 and $300 per month while we have neighboring districts like Chula Vista who are offering a signing bonus of 15,000 lower special education caps and be better health benefit coverages districts like National City who accept all years of service and better health benefits and San Diego unified who will have a teacher shortage they're going to have a teacher shortage due to the Ser that they offered they accept all years of service and offer full full paid benefits for the employee and their families I'm afraid that in July I'm going to be standing here telling you I told you so when we can't find staff members to fill our classrooms you're not thinking about the consequences that are right around the corner trusty gones last month during the discussion of your race you cited your

103hard work dedication and Community contributions as justification do you not believe your staff deserves the same consideration president lyker today you stated the importance of your work does this imply that the work your staff performs is not important and therefore not deserving of a fair compensation truste Spa you stated that it's just $12 while it may be just $112 it that those $12 represent an increase to your pay an increase while your staff those that you were elected to represent are experiencing a loss not just of12 but between a100 and $300 per month so it's not just $12 suata is committed to seeking a fair deal and continues to propose language and negotiations that values both our work and our students needs I urge you to fulfill your duty as elected officials to address the

104current state of our district do the right thing thank you next we have district superintendent thank you president ler good evening board members community members staff members that are still with us um tonight I just want to take a quick really quick minute to acknowledge um the work of Miss Amy Cooper um tonight's recognition of all Partners is something that we we hadn't been doing um and I just want to acknowledge a lot of a lot of that work behind the scenes is done by Amy Cooper and often you know she is working behind the scenes and and all the things that she does are not always acknowledged but as we can see um from some of the uh some of the presentations tonight um her work touches a lot of our students and a

105lot of our families so just wanted to take a quick minute to say thank you to Amy um and appreciate everything that she does thank you Amy Cooper okay so um public comment on non-agenda items correct thank you we have two cards thank you Lana [Music] a um the board will take no action or discussion on any item not appearing on the posted agenda except to author except as authorized by law individual speakers are allowed three minutes to address the board on each non-agenda item speakers are not committed to yield their time to another person and the board limits the total time to 20 minutes good evening everyone I have two things to say first with all due respect this message is directed to you specifically Jose and please excuse my bluntness as I am

106not giving a lot of time to speak you are a problem Creator not a problem solver you choose conflict rather than peace you claim teachers are the biggest expense the district has well yeah there's 360 of us and only one of you yet you somehow seem to always find the way to fill your pockets first and for that there's always money without you ever batting a KNE we have yet to to see actions that benefit all not just you as the leader of our district for the past three years what example have you put in place motivating us to follow none repeatedly you have shown us that you are a taker repeatedly we have asked you to do the right thing point of order Madam president um when addressing the board um public speakers should

107be addressing the board not our superintendent thank you for bring thank you for clarification Jesse communis yes we have been asking you a grown man working in education to do what's fair for students families and teachers Jose Spinosa as our superintendent you are failing our district you are failing our students you are failing our families and you are failing teachers and second shame on you board for allowing this toxic behavior and rewarding him for it undermining the pleas my colleagues in this and previous board meetings have brought forth asking you to do what's fair you say you want South Bay Union School District to be the best District how can it be the best District if we don't have the best leadership thank you Janette Sanchez good evening everyone um I had a something else

108repaired but I think as the meeting has been going on I feel like I need to address a couple points and being that I am not going to be cut this time I want to make sure I address these things um at a meeting a couple months ago there was a comment about us teachers only showing up when we want to raise um I didn't appreciate that as superintendent knows cry as many of the colleagues that are here know that I I can speak for myself but I work my tail off I serve on many committees I serve on different positions to not you know to get make sure I get all of the information it would be unfair for me to come here and speak to you and just not know what I'm talking

109about but I'm a parent too and so this is very important for me I met with you too at the last elcap meeting um I am on that committee as well at that committee meeting I was really upset and I shared this information at that meeting when we received this chart that we all received there and it had our scores way at the bottom every other District around us is pretty much outperforming us it was a slap in the face because I know that we're working hard sorry I have my notes here um there was a conversation ear earlier about Els I'm also on that multilingual committee that helped create that plan so bear with me here but um based on our elap notes it said that 80.1 our Ela scores for our e are

11080 80.1 points below standard math for Ells 95.6 points below standard 43.3% chronically chronically absent for our ltels which was an increase of 12.9% and this is straight from our minutes that thank you for you know we have to have these honest conversations and the truth is is that we're not doing what we need to do there was a comment earlier about making sure that we're supporting the ltels by having small group instruction differentiation strong tier one what scaffold and supports are being provided how are we supposed to do this I have a class of fifth grade students I am teaching second through fifth grade standards I have a couple kiddos who are exceeding I don't have time to push these kids because I'm trying to teach everything behind I'm one person with 30 students

111when we come up here and ask you for help I know sometimes it could feel like it's being aggressive is because we are frustrated and just like you we are working really hard we deserve to be compensated it is important work that we do the frustration is level is there because we're desperate and I'm cut off but my name is Janette Sanchez I'm a fifth grade teacher at emry if you would ever like to come to my classroom please come watch what we do I'm proud of emry I'm proud of the work that we're doing and there is a lot of change happening it's just not happening soon enough my students my own children they're not getting what they need right now and so I do question should I just leave should I pull my

112kids I could get better pay elsewhere and I know I'm a hard worker I deserve it just as you deserve the heart the compensation so do we at least give me the basic tools to do my job effectively that's all thank you thank you um so we have uh General functions next um balloting for California Schoolboard Association delegate assembly seats uh we recognize superintendent Jose Espinosa for discussion on filing csba deleg assembly seats on filling pardon me filling seats thank you president ler Belling for California school boards Association delegate assembly seats each year the California school boards association association conducts an election to fill open positions for the delegate assembly each board member May cast no more than one vote for any one candidate writing candidates may also be listed on this ballot it is

113respectfully requested that the board cast a ballot for no more than six candidates to fill the vacant region 17 csba delegate assembly seats and so at this point do we take recommendations from the board for do we vote one at a time or as a you could vote one at a time if you'd like it's really up to the board do we have any recommendations yes it's important to note that there's some with asteris what our incumbents correct okay so um we won't be voting on them or are we the aster means that they're an incumbent but they'll still need to we still need to votee on them yes okay so this is my recommendation Madam president and I hope the board uh would um agree if not please share um um Barbara Avalos national

114uh let's see here Ela Lopez zpa Sweetwater and um I don't know how to say her name Z zelina Rosario from Santa Cedro and uh I don't know how to say her first name you can call me Kevin if you want but last name is varus from this so how many is that four so we need two more any other you said what I was gonna say no I'm just do we can do up to six up to six and we don't have to do six did you want to recommend anyone no okay um I'm okay with voting on to not to have the for yeah I I agree so uh motion I mean I move the following four names forward for the cord school boards Association delegate um if you can repeat them please

115so we have Barbara aalos Elva Lopez zapa Rosario ciano Vargas I second there thank you call for a vote Esparza yes lyker yes Lopez agino yes Medina yes kones yes motion passes 5 Z so next we have educational leadership um the 24 to 20 2027 local control and accountability plan um thank youp assistant superintendent Pamela reikart Manel good evening president ler superintendent Espinosa Board of Trustees colleagues and community um this evening I bring before you the midyear update for S spusd as well as our two Charter Schools just a reminder that our lcap is a three-year plan we are in year one of three years so the good news about that is that we are not doing a a rewrite of an entire lcap the upcoming year um it does describe the goals actions services

116and expenditures to support positive student outcomes that address state and local priorities um you heard this evening from both of our school presentations how our school plans for student achievement align to our lcap the district lcap so therefore tonight's update will include a midyear update for s spusd that will be the um bulk of my presentation as well as a couple of highlights for IB charter school and Nestor and you have the full documents um for the updates and can ask any questions at any point in time so just a reminder that the midyear update is a requirement in the past this was required sort of sporadically um now it is an ongoing requirement that every year we will bring forward an annual update or a midyear update um before February 28th it is not

117something that you approve it is simply an update there is not a requirement for the format or any of the information that is necessarily shared we choose to use dtst because they have created an update um or a midar update that is it's it's nice it populates our goals it populates the action steps and then we're able to go in there and look at the Baseline data and give a midyear where are we at this point in the year so all um three s spusd Imperial Beach Charter School and Nestor have used the DTs template so you'll see those similarities but yet there are some differences so starting with the sbusd update um all of the goals are going to be the same in the sense of effective organizational systems that's goal one for all

118three but you'll see some variation in the site level goal um as well as action steps so again it might be that they've made some slight changes to the language in the goal but what you'll notice more than not is the action steps so we have our six action steps for goal one in s SP usd's elcap and in action I'm going to share a couple of updates you have the entire plan but I'm not going to go through every single metric and every single um action step the one that I wanted to highlight from action one point or um goal one was action 1.5 which is around educational partner engagement so in 1.5 um this was the one that outlined that we wanted to make sure that we had educational partner engagement in all

119sorts of different committees both at the site and the district level and I think you've really heard about that this evening um being that we brought forward our El master plan and that is a committee that is also listed here um we do have our elcap advisory committee we have the superintendent advisory committee so again this was the action um Step 1.5 to make sure that we had committees and opportunities and this photo is actually from daac that occurred at bar Elementary in goal two we have district and school climate culture and connectedness so for goal two I want to highlight action 2.4 and this is school connectedness and this is measured by Metric 2.9 so this is um when we talk about school connectedness and I know that was a little bit different in

120the new lcap is we had numbered metrics and we had to link those to the action stats so in this case we talked about doing empathy interviews student fishbowls Equity walks and student shadowing um and so we had that ba Baseline data which is the first column and then we have the far right column tells us what our goal is for June 2027 which would be the end of our three-year lcap and then that sort of highlighted yellow column is our midyear data so this will not be in the end of the year El Cap when you're approving for next year because we'll actually put the end of the year um there for year one but right now you can see that the goal is the total number of participants of students 510 and you

121can see at the midyear point this year we are at 655 so remembering that the goal is for June of 2027 we've already reached that goal midyear in year one of implementation for staff the goal is 158 we are at 94 and our Baseline which is that that second column or third column I guess is this the Baseline was 79 so when we wrote the L capap the end of last year we determined that our Baseline was 79 what we had participating at the time and then for our parents as of January 31st first we had 49 if you can look at the Baseline was 35 and our goal is 70 so definitely inching towards that that end goal as far and those are the empathy um interviews to oh I'm sorry those are total

122participation in any of these um these empathy interviews fishbowls um or Equity walks if you look at the fish bowls conducted 38 have been conducted our Baseline was 39 and we'd like to see 78 by the end in June 2027 and so forth so you can take a look at how we are definitely increasing our numbers interviews conducted 339 and our goal was 324 for the end of three years so that doesn't mean we can't increase our goal that doesn't mean we want to we don't want to increase every year but again this is metric 2.9 which is used to measure how well are we doing in action 2.4 which is school connectedness and at the very po bottom I did put the questions so the questions that are asked during Street data and you

123also heard from I believe it was from Principal um procopio when the question was asked what are you hearing from students during interviews and they're doing their own interviews we're doing the these related to um our work but the the question about what what's the subject matter that you like or what do you find most difficult or challenging in this case one of the questions is what would you like to see or feel in our school to make you want to be here because again the question for Us is around connectedness not necessarily the subject matter okay but a lot of different questions can be asked in goal number three it is academic Excellence for all students and so this is where we see our goals set for our student per performance in English language

124arts and Mathematics as well as our progress with English Learners I highlighted actions 3.1 and 3.2 tonight because this is a weird area where the data is a year behind so our Baseline data even though I was writing the lcap in the spring of 2024 the Baseline data was really the 2223 pass results so when you're writing the l cap that's the Baseline and then you project out what will our scores look like the desired outcome for 2026 but the year one outcome is actually going to be the 2324 P data it's not going to be the end of this year's data so it's the end of one year of the lcap but we won't have that data so I'll actually be putting in there the data we already have so the midyear outcome is

125the 24 past results or D dashboard data so even though it's midy year you're going to see that again in the year one outcome so at the end of the year that's going to be the same because I will not have new data yet to put in there and it's just a little it feels a little bit behind that doesn't mean that when I write the narrative and um answer the questions in the annual update or the analysis that we can't address some of the newer data that we have but it's just a timing it's a timing issue because the lcap comes forward in June for approval and the work is really being done in April and May and our students are just taking the CP at that period of time so we've gone over

126this data in our past meetings but again it shows that our goal that we um have our the Baseline right here for ELA is 3.17 our midyear outcome which is really a year later outcome um for the 2324 is 32.581978 that we can then inch towards and celebrate of course we'd like to see greater than that but always the recommendation is that five to seven increase um over time we did a 5% each year so that we moveed from the Baseline of approximately 30% to 45% I'm sorry I'm gonna go back and then math so you have your math up there as well so the math is 2.71% was our Baseline um we really flatlined in math so even though it says mid year that is the end of the year for year one is

12721.6% and our goal in math is 37 again an 15% increase over three years as far as our Charter School updates we really just wanted to come before you and share um that they have the same goals but you can see that their action steps are slightly different so they have um things such as oncampus activities working in conjunction with PTA um salaries supplies and other basic services and so I'm currently on Imperial Beach Charter School um and when you look at Imperial Beach Charter Schools under goal one there's a lot of work that has been done regarding the um steering hearing committee for the Community Schools application and um an involvement for students and um families so that is under their goal one so um in their action or I'm sorry in their mid

128year they indicate that the steering committee has attended trainings from the from the community engagement initiative as well as as we've heard they have submitted their application for the Community Schools Grant so that is all in their midyear in their goal two um they as well indicated that they are working on um Equity work restorative prati practices trauma informed care and a lot of year or go 2 Go 2's data around connectedness comes from our California healthy kids survey so you'll see in the mid results that it really talks about the California healthy kids survey currently being administered so we do not have that data at this point so even though we give a m your report some of it you will see the na or we're currently in that process we just do not

129have that data yet and then in goal three um they indicate around the academics and so their um Mid mid year data is going to be the same as ours it is their end of the year CP data and um and that will be that will remain the same just like the districts so I will share with you for example in ela um they scored in 2023 on orange indicator and in 2024 they are a yellow indicator and there was a slight or a decrease in points on the Casp data and then on the um math they were an orange and again dropped to a yellow so saw that decrease so that will not change that'll be the same in their end of the year um LC cap when it comes before you moving on

130to Nester you have a separate document for Nester Nestor has the same um lcap goal with the actions being family education and engagement and um salaries supplies and other basic Services um when you look at their um one of their actions action step 1.1 they talk about family engagement and ensuring that families have opportunities to engage in development um parent education so they set the goal to have have parents attend the mini cab conference and their goal was six parents and um I'm sorry their goal was to have parents and they had six parents that attended that mini cab conference in goal two again this is the same around the social emotional learning um schoolwide positive behavior equity and inclusion and so the healthy kids survey again is not going to be popular ated yet

131since we're currently administering that so at the end of the year they'll be able to put that data in but something that um we did do was also look even in the in the South Bay if we're talking about attendance for example or chronic absenteeism we can take a look right now as a dipstick of how we're doing so at Nester their chronically absente their chronic absenteeism rate for 2023 was 13% and right now they're tracking how students are doing in chronic absenteeism and is it decreasing or increasing currently it's at 16% so you see an increase but again we're at the midyear Point chronically chronic absenteeism is 10% of the school days so if it's 180 school days that would be 18 days absent if it's 90 school days that would be nine absences

132so it's a little bit of a moving Target through the year and so we would hope that their chronic absenteeism at the end of the year actually decreases compared to um the year before and lastly in goal three which is around the academics um we also have the dashboard data it will be the 2024 dashboard data that's already been presented um but they also have in here one of there's the learning acceleration tutor for math and reading interventions and um they do indicate that they were able to hire all three they had three positions and they were able to hire all three who are supporting primary upper and middle school in ela math and multilingual Learners through pullout um in small group instruction so that's what they indicated in their midy year of how they're

133doing in meeting that particular action at this point I would be happy to take any questions that you may have again I know it's a lot of information because it is three separate documents so you have a mid your report our update for S spusd which is the the bulk of the work that we do the charters are very much aligned to that but they are monitoring their data collecting how many parents are on committees things like like that just like we are doing at the district level thank you so much um thank you Pamela um got a lot of work to do um regarding our uh committees our district level committees I'm really excited about that I am concerned uh um by a comment tonight by a teacher parent um when we when you

134have District level committee meetings um parent teacher staff You Know M management staff um how how is it recorded if a teacher is a also a parent how do you how do you uh I know I read this and it said like we had four parents in the parent advisory so um could you explain to me how how that was determined so I first of all I want to say that um we encourage and welcome and want as many parents as possible at our elcap parent advisory committee um it's been a challenge um we have been working over the last couple of years to um try different times try Zoom versus in person um feeding dinner babysitting so lots of different strategies and um unfortunately we are not getting the numbers that we would like

135to get we get a lot of interest parents that say they would like to be on the committee but then ultimately will notify us the day of the meeting or the day before saying I I cannot attend um as a parent in this District what is important to me is that they come know acknowledging that they're there as a parent so in the case of any parents who are also staff members or staff members who are also parents they they are there with that parent hat they have the the expertise and the background of having knowledge that perhaps by working in the system that a a parent may not necessarily have but they are there as parents and they do count as parents perfect thank you thank you madam president thank you um so when

136we're looking at our our student achievement and um with from what I understand we're moving away from balance literacy more into structured literacy and standards-based instruction how are we supporting our teachers to make sure that they have the the the materials the PD everything uh with a sense of urgency because our children need to learn how to read and it how are we how are we doing that for our teachers and our students um yes and that's probably the most important question right um and so the work and and I think you also heard it this evening we we are doing many things but it does not feel like it's enough and it does take time but right now our primary focus is on the primary grades and the lower grades in respect to supplemental

137resources so as you mentioned this moving in a different direction making sure that we are providing specific instruction in phonics in phic Awareness so that's something that we're doing in primary grades um with the purchase of materials that we did not have um and certainly did not have in our prior adoption um the diagnostic assessment of I ready was also something that is for all grade levels I it's not the end all be all and it's not going to solve all of our our concerns or needs but what it does provide is data um that we can dig into and see specifically what challenges students are having around the areas that are assessed and I think that we shared that a little bit when we came up um about I ready was that idea of

138you can see that growth that's happening in some cases but what you may see is is bumps and phonics um but the and high frequency words because we are focused on that but we're not seeing necessarily the increase in vocabulary development which obviously even speaking about our English Learners and our ltels that vocabulary de development is essential um learning of language so those that's the work that we need to continue to do is is identify what is still needed and what resources are needed um so yes there is definitely a lot more if you want as far as concrete Prim grades we do have our finey MC awareness program now um we do have the youly I ready um we do have tier two programs as well um so so when students are the tier

139one is not working and that's all in the mtss handbook that we' heard mentioned a couple of times tonight um that students do have access to do the math Lexia so there are programs out there um one of the things that we talk about and and you'll you hear us a lot say consultation Council but what we talk about in consultation council is that professional development and as much as we want to move more quickly we also recognize that with hegerty with youly um with some of our existing programs that we're looking at um Raz kids for example is a program that we had but there's so many parts of the resource that we haven't been maximizing but the professional development for that seesaw is another platform that we've had in the path but there's

140all sorts of additional resources available that the professional development is now highlighting so we have teachers out for a lot of professional development but for sure the focus has been on primary grades and I know that what we hear is from our upper grade teachers about what they need as well so it's not that we haven't had those conversations we just haven't identified our resource um thank you and I just hope that like with you fly that we are giving all our teachers like all of our teachers the things that they need to do that because we know that when you are teaching fifth grade you're also teaching to some second grade standards and things like that so I just hope that there's a sense of urgency to get um those materials and those skills

141in the hands of our teachers um to Fidelity so that it's it's the and and um with all due respect I I I hope that we can do one thing really well you know what I mean like when when when we have this broad scope of things that we're looking at and we're looking at this and this and this and this like I mean in my own personal life I know that I'm not doing the best but I I just hope that we can um do our best to to teach reading really well and to and to have our teachers be skilled and um in that because that's not what they've been asked to use for so many years and that's not what their trainings have been based on so I just hope that we

142can really support the teachers um again with a sense of urgency so that it doesn't matter if it's the end of coming up to the end of the year that if if we have these materials to give like just as soon as possible and let me just clarify when I talk about the professional development that we have provided it really has been program based and I think what you're referring to and we've talked about in consultation is how all teachers need professional development and how to teach reading and the they're two different things so you can give me the ufly resource and I need professional development on how to use it and I need beyond that I need some coaching um support in my classroom Maybe model lessons I saw a model lesson today from

143one of our tosas doing um youly in a in a second grade classroom so we need that ongoing so that teachers feel equipped to utilize the resource but what we also need is that all teachers know how to teach reading because as you mentioned a resource that's developed for a first grader isn't NE necessarily going to work well with a fifth grade fifth grader because again you need High interest you can't give them something that looks babyish um and but a teacher in fifth grade does need to know how to teach some of those skills because our students are across a very broad range um we are doing that with our TK teachers our TK teachers this year have been attending letters training um and I know that there's an interest in many teachers that

144in Kinder and first grade to attend a similar training it is is quite intensive and it's a two-year program so when you say you know do something well we're just trying to I know it's it's it we don't want to do baby steps but we're also seeing the impact that a lot of that professional development and pull out and being out of the classroom is doing for our TK teachers as well so I do want to acknowledge that and the all the hard work they're doing to learn about the changes in their grade level and attend the many professional development um that they that they have to um and I do want to also acknowledge that as a consultation team when we come together these are the conversations that we are having and they are

145huge huge proponents in let's make sure teachers are trained in how to teach reading because programs come and go we know that thank you for the question thank you so much thank you for your presentation pela um alone what president L ler was saying in touching on those on those lines as I after seeing the lcap reports as you know in I even have parents come up to me said you know what I had actually three parents my kid is in six grade doesn't know how to read you know she doesn't know this or he doesn't know this in as I'm looking at the programs as I'm looking at the presentation that you give us in South Bay Union School District to me it's something that is really important for me to be competitive to

146other districts is there any way that you take any feedback from the teachers saying you know what this program may not be working or there's something else different materials that can be presented what you tell on that so absolutely and and I think what you're referring to is what we've heard teachers say about our prior adoption that it did not work it's not working for our students and that's why we're in this process of returning to standards and that instruction is driven by standards the challenge in that now is which resources are we using to teach the standards um so absolutely we hear from teachers and the consultation committee is made up of of five teacher repres representatives and five district representatives and so I know that they meet with their unit members to talk

147about what's working what's not working and what do they bring forward as well as a number of surveys that we do um asking teachers input I think the the thing is is we're we are in this unique place where we have new resources and New Direction that we want to make sure we give it time to show results because sometimes we do we try something and then we dump it and then and we don't give it the time that it needs to really show results but absolutely we hear teacher feedback um and also as we're walking through classrooms as I walk through classrooms and and particularly with our newer newer resources is I asked teachers how did the I ready assessment go or how do you feel about I ready or maybe it was two

148days ago when I was a classroom in a classroom and and the teacher was using youly and again it's new so when I'm in a classroom and a teacher feels like I'm reading the manual and I'm sorry I'm still learning like no no no no we're all still learning and then the next sentence was but I love it and and so we we get that feedback every day that were're that were're in schools and in classrooms and in in in meetings and committees um and yes we we do we do listen and we adjust and we modify as we go forward right thank you thank you for your presentation okay and I think my next slide is just future updates just to let you know that I will be here in April again with educational

149partner input to start to share some of that it's an ongoing process but I will share what I have at that point and then um in June we will have the elcap public hearing so you'll see it twice and then the following week the cap approval um we're in we will be going into year two of a three-year all cap so it's not huge huge changes but all of the data will be populated and an analysis will be done in what has gone well what has not gone well what feedback that we've received um and whether we're purchasing something different or didn't do something that we said because we found it to not be effective sorry thank you real quick Pamela I don't know if this is the right time to ask but when you

150look at what works and what doesn't work especially in our primary grades I've always advocated for instructional assistance in those primary grades for the reasons that you stated tonight the upper grade teachers are having difficulties because our kids are at different levels um I agree that we need to to support that Primary in order to support the upper grades so um if we have the money find the money so we can hire some instructional assistance for all schools thank you thank you so much okay um I saw a assistant superintendent Rara ready on deck for our facility Asset Management superintendent advisory committee good evening president lyer Board of Trustees superintendent Espinosa staff in community tonight I'll be updating the board and community on the last two um um Sac meetings that we had one in

151December and one in February just a reminder on the background the advisory committee was created in 2023 to assess our facilities and the impact of declining enrollment in the district it is serving as an advisory role to the superintendent and to you the board uh so far this FIS this year 2425 we've already met six times and I will be like I just mentioned focusing on the December 10th uh 2024 meeting and the meeting that we just had on February 11th the December 10th meeting really was the the majority of the time was spent on the group activity uh we had four groups each focused uh on a specific um part of the concept and facilitated by by the people that you see there so declining enrollment by by Michael Taylor academic achievement by by

152by our assistant superintendent um rker Montiel our instructional programs was uh Tom and um the Nester facility group was LE by by principal um Kim principal Gonzalez um so the group group activity the four groups were formed and they discussed the following questions the they focus on the following four questions how many schools does South Bay need in the next five plus years which school should remain or be Consolidated and why if grade grade level configuration is not an option and and the reason we formed that question that way is because through the group discussions and the feedback we weren't really hearing um much you know of a desire to do that uh so we didn't want to just say if that's no to something like that but if it's not an option then what

153other initiatives can the district Implement to improve student achievement specifically literacy group three what are the specialized program that the district should focus on and group number four again the Nester staff if Nester is not split what will be the plan to address the facility needs so the majority of that time was focused on the group work the the groups getting together and and groups and the committee members they had the option to go to whichever group um they wanted to uh we just wanted to make sure there was a good amount of people in each of the groups uh so they spent the majority of the time discussing that it it took a good while and um let me before I go there is they shared out their recommendations at the end um but

154we also asked the committee members to put that in writing for us as far as specifically everything they discussed in order for us to take that take that as feedback and then prepare us for for the following meeting in February so what the group shared out again they shared out and also provided in writing were uh group one they recommend these were their recommendations uh to close Central and in their minds the the price tag is just too high to to modernize the school um second emry staff and students to to be moved to Mendoza and emry would be repurposed to house the district office potentially and potentially expand the district warehouse at the same time uh this would allow the expansion of um a drop off and pickup area for IB Charter uh improving

155uh traffic uh before and after school again this was the the specific group's recommendation and the group was not ready to identify in December a third school for consolidation or closure uh they shared out that they weren't ready to to close Barry and and Sunny Slope group two the academic achievement recommendations um similar to what you just heard right now uh solid professional development and structure literacy for all teachers yes there should be a focus in early literacy uh but that doesn't mean that all professional development or the or the specific professional development should be just for those teachers it should really be for all teachers so that we're all experts in in literacy and not that this work is not happening now but the group is saying let's continue to S of that professional

156development and and learning for all uh using standards to drive instruction rather than a particular curriculum again standards being the driving force around instruction that's not to say we do not provide a curriculum but really that it starts with standards and that we utilize the the adopted curriculum um to drive that instruction around the standards and to continue to focus on benchmark assessments to assess learning and then to provide next steps for uh what kids need next in order to achieve success group three the specialized programs recommendations and well what are the specialized programs that the district should focus on really what you see here is just a a big list right of things that schools can can focus on uh multiple programs integrated throughout a comprehensive campus so students would have access to and

157again this is an example they provided students would have access to three different rotations throughout a school year being could be music vappa stem you know different different type of programs throughout the year where all kids within that School site would um receive that type of program uh stem dual language immersion again we have those uh already in the district But continuing to explore possibly other languages uh besides just Spanish uh Visual and Performing Arts the committee did recommend that we we focus on that and the districtwide focus and events they would like to see some of those continue some some school sites have specific um Parts there uh but the Athletics we know is districtwide uh they recommended things such as Battle of the Bands can we do dance theater music productions throughout the

158district a robotics League academic de cathlon debate team so they really thought um outside the box they looked at what other um you know schools do not just necessarily just in this District but uh other schools including a lot of those things you see happen like in middle school and high school but really bringing that to the elementary level and as a possibility for for schoolwide programs group four the Nester facilities recommendations if Nester is not split then what how can we you know the the facility uh challenge is not going away uh by not making a decision something needs to be decided on as far as a plan regarding the the the challenge with the facilities um so bond funds uh removing using Bond dollars to remove and replace Portables with a permanent building

159um still out there move to another site that would would be uh more space in buildings that can sustain the current enrollment and staff and then downsizing eliminating one Kinder uh Garden class to begin year one and then each year that would be one less class which eventually would lead to seven less classrooms and and seven less Portables to have to try to maintain and replace over a seven-year period so those were the recommendations that were shared out in December now we didn't have enough time to have the entire committee really discuss and and provide their input regarding the recommendations by each group um so that's what we focused on in February you're really there it came down to a vote at the end so the groups met again just a couple months had passed

160and the groups met again to kind of talk again about what their recommendations were and what they wanted to share out again to the groups and this provided another opportunity for everybody else to ask questions uh to even give their own opinion on things and really finally when they were prepared and ready is com down to to a vote and that's what I'll be sharing right now the February 11th voting just an example what the actual ballots look uh look like so for declining enrollment is yes basic easy yes or no do we close the following schools and you see the four there Central and Emory because those were the the recommendations in December but we also wanted to make sure that um the committee actually voted on the uh components of the concept uh

161we didn't want to just say because we we didn't hear much about them throughout the discussions um that we weren't going to put this to a vote but we want really wanted the committee to say yes or no regarding the different uh areas of the of the concept the ballot for academic achievement question one since the current District instructional focus is on literacy and P NPD should we postpone any focus on other magnet programs specialized programs until that work is yielding results so continuing our current work around literacy do we want to continue to focus that on that before we start implementing other programs throughout the district question two districtwide grade configuration changes uh in focus on early literacy as um this as shown on in the concept again yes or no vote specialized magnet

162programs should sites focus on the programs as presented in the concept question number two if future specialized magnet programs are created so again that's not necessarily year one but if we were to then you know continue that focus on literacy and bring uh the the idea of implementing programs throughout the district in the future should the focus be determined at the site level vers a districtwide plan so should we allow sites to identify what program what Focus they would like to have um or do we as a district kind of say these are the different programs that that we will have at each School site ballot uh question number four or yeah question number four or questions up for part four is uh for Nester yes or no should they move to another site do

163use Bond dollars to replace the Portables downsize by one class to reduce the amount needed to maintain and replace the current Portables and question number four um there is the concept piece splitting Nester where 48 remains at Nester and tk3 moves to Barry yes or no so those were the ballots we discussed what the questions would be we allowed um the committee members to ask questions and we clarified uh specifically what those questions meant if they had any questions about them and then we we had people vote anonymously um and I'm going to share the results now and again and the committee members voted we collected the the ballots and then in front of everybody we counted the the votes we had somebody share we had a couple people looking at them together and believe

164me everybody was checking my my uh input as uh that I was doing in front of them um I had the spreadsheet up and as they were voting I was inputting the the data and you can see there in real time how the results were and so the results for declining enrollment you see the blue um the blue um bars will be the yes votes the darker uh bars are the no votes uh so when it came down to closing um the following schools you can see there the the results uh was unanimous vote for Central now you may see that 29 um votes there for Central and if you look at Pence there's 27 votes some people just decided not to vote for certain ports they they felt like I had had no I

165don't have a yes or no Vote or they just didn't want to vote for whatever reason um you see the emery votes they 19 of 10 uh Pence 1017 and you see Barry and sunny slower kind of uh you know in the 45 yes almost 5050 there decisions um I mean voting results uh the academic achievement uh as far as postponing uh the focus on Specialized programs magnet programs it was a 4 to four so pretty overwhelming the committee recommendation again recommendation other they're serving as an advisory role this these are the recommendations they're providing to the to to the board and the superintendent uh grade level configuration and early literacy as defined in the concept you see a three um yes 26 no vote there and I'd like to um apologize regarding the printouts

166with the to the community uh those that slide is actually incorrect I did provide the board with an updated um slide so the ones the the community has those um are incorrect I take responsibility for that I prefer to blame Amy Cooper for this but uh it's actually my mistake so um this is actually the the correct results the results again that you see in the community um copies are incorrect so we will make sure to provide the correct one uh specialized magnet programs should they focus uh on the programs as presented in the concept there's a four to 24 vote there and should the programs in the future be determined at the site level uh again in the future when when we reconsider uh having programs throughout the district uh 21 28 to1 vote

167uh yes to no the Nester facilities there again the four questions moving to another site using Bond dollars uh to help main uh replace and replace the Portables uh whether or not to downsize and whether or not to split nest um to Berry and you see the results there I'll give everybody a some time to look at them the overwhelming vote there would be in the 18 to 10 to downsize um the 722 to to not split Nester and I would say the bond dollars that that did get the that got more than a 50% uh yes there and moving to another s did not so in summary uh regarding the four uh different groups and the voting around their recommendations uh for the declining enrollment group it's Central being the first school to close

168um it looks like their recommendation is for Emy to move to Mendoza and becoming the district office uh group number two is to postpone any focus on Specialized magnet programs continue to focus on on on literacy uh especially that professional development and St standards based instruction uh future specialized programs to be determined in the future uh to be determined at the site level um and for Nester to downsize and to use some Bond um dollars to replace the portable so what's next again a reminder these are just recommendations at this time um no decisions uh have been made just yet uh we do plan uh to have a similar format like we did last time to have two Town Hall meetings uh the idea is to have one here at burus on February 27th although

169the says there site to be determined for March 4th it is looking like we're going to choose a East School a a school that's kind of a neutral site that's not actually um hasn't been part of the discussion a nicoloff elementary school and in order to um make sure our families can attend specifically those that are nearby Pence and Sunny Slope we will be uh providing Transportation at the school sites for the families in case they need um transportation there so I'm working with the director Flores on ensuring we have buses there uh picking up the parents and and also bringing them back if they need it so we'll have a couple you know just couple like the hotels and the airports just have that rotating uh Transportation there uh during these Town Hall meetings

170we'll be gathering input and our superintendent will be reviewing that input and then bringing forth a a a full plan to the board um possibly in April I I believe there's two board meetings in April so if not maybe the first meeting in April the second one uh but at the very latest we envision that coming to you in May and that is the update for the last two meetings again it really focused on the four uh groups the four questions the four parts of the concept uh the alternative concept and then we putting some final recommendations to a vote be happy to answer any questions thank you rioo for your presentation excellent presentation I mean it's uh it is what it is right it's it's we have to look into to see what the

171recommendations are and that's like an i opener um see it from a a different perspective when they're talking about a dual language immersion programs and explore other languages is there besides Spanish what other other languages can we adopt even though this is a diverse Community we live in I know they're they discussed some options I'm trying to remember was okay to would be one um there is challenges with getting um having the Personnel the staff to be able to to teach that but that's not to say it hasn't been done at other schools other districts um it would take some planning and and um Reach Out out and um to get to get that going but that could be an option other languages yes okay thank you thank you for sharing the process and um

172I especially love that there'll be transportation to our East school so that all of our families can can make sure that they're there and they hear what's happening and have a voice as well thank you the town halls um we're going to have interpretation Services there and uh uh the materials and multiple languages yes we'll have that actually we've already ensured that we have our two translators available U or at least we've communicated it to our two translators we for sure we'll have one the plan is to have both and definitely to have the final presentation final slides translated and when um when we have these Town Halls how like how open are they like for example like new ideas right if we have community members parents who have not participated like in this process

173and like somebody shows up and they're like oh we want to see like a montor program at our school right um is there still room to make some of those decisions um how would something like that happen you're right there will probably be people that are not too familiar or have kept up with the last six meetings and they may be providing input that are completely new to everybody and something we haven't thought thought of really we're going to take that input and again uh our superintendent will be taking all that input and looking at all possibilities and and and bringing a a plan forward um but the possibility of those type ofas coming up are are are pro are probably going to happen um as far as can we then all of a sudden

174change a plan because one person recommends something um I would say unlikely but that's not to say we might not get an idea go hm that actually sounds pretty good that you may see in a future plan to vote on and then my last question is like when we are thinking about these events is it possible to make them um some sort of like a kind of festive right where we're like celebrating our community and have like opportunities for like the schools to have like the students perform like the music programs the dance programs that we have like guess there are we thinking about kind of like making the town hall like something like that that would like invite parents and families and make it like something like people are going to be excited to

175go to or there's like maybe there's some food that's being provided that's like delicious and culturally appropriate yeah so I'll be honest I have not thought of having performances for the town hall meetings uh can we provide something that maybe I don't know if you want to call it delicious but maybe some snacks some pastries and coffee um I think that's that we can definitely look into that Co thank you just quick question is there at time for the um meetings schedule is it at time yet or not we we we have identified five o'clock is the time okay thank [Music] you thank you so much um so we're gonna just go right into to the resolution I think I'm going to be up here for a bit yes let me just grab those notes

176I hope it's okay just to say good evening again uh without going through the whole good evening everybody but um now you know what I'm I'm used to it already so it's okay so good good evening uh president lyer Board of Trustees superintendent Spinosa uh staff and community um I'm going to ask you to adopt two resolutions related to the certification of the two measures that passed in November um the district has received a formal certification of the election um from the county of San Diego it confirms the passage of both measures PP and QQ uh following receipt of such notification from the county the board um is required to adopt a resolution certifying the election results and notifying the county superintendent of the adoption of the resolution so that is resolution 2414 is also

177connected to the election and that is um after you certify the election results under Proposition 39 uh we are required to establish the citizens Bond oversight committee and um approve the bylaws of the cbok and also appoint the members um with this resolution we will actually be appointing um the current members again uh they have all agreed to be part of the committee um except for two members so we will have to um put out two applications after today uh to have uh two new members uh be part of the the citizens oversight committee um so again uh the current cbok members except for two will serve as the initial members of the committee again to provide that oversight for the two new um Bond measures so those are the two uh resolutions that I'm

178asking uh the board to adopt if there are any questions before you take action I move to adopt resolution 24-13 certifying to the board of trustee uh supervisors of San Diego County all proceeds in the November thir number 5th number November 5th 2024 General obligation bond election on measure PP and measure QQ second call for the vote espara Yes lyker Yes Lopez agino yes Medina yes canones yes motion passes 5 Z Madame President I move to adopt resolution 24- 014 establishing a Citizens oversight committee for a measure PP and measure QQ bonds adopting bylaws for the committee and appointing a commit committee members uh second that call for the vote Esparza yes lier yes Lopez agino yes Medina yes kones yes motion passes 5 Madam president I move to adopt resolution 24-15 and 24-16 authorizing

179the filling the filing of applications for the state allocation board administered programs on behalf of the South Bay Union School District uh second call for the vote aspara Yes lker Yes Lopez agino yes Medina yes kones yes motion passes 5 Z I'm on a roll here Madam president I move to adopt resolution 24-17 authorizing the filing of applications applications for naming District representatives and authorizing participation in the Sab administrated programs second call for the vote my apologies who seconded that thank you Esparza yes lker yes Lopez agino yes Medina yes kones motion passes five oh sorry kenon yes motion passes 5 Z One More Time Madam president if I may adopt resolution 24-18 acknowledging five certifications required to submit modernization and new construction funding applications to the Office of Public School construction I second that

180all for the vote sparza Yes lier yes Lopez agino yes Medina yes kones yes motion passes 5 Z thank you and then before I go I just do want to add that we are eligible for State matching funds which is why you adopted these four resolutions uh to allow us to actually we are currently in the process of applying but to actually receive those funds uh currently we are eligible for $33.5 million meaning that that's in addition to the bond dollars that we have the state will be matching at a 6040 if it's modernization uh so as an example we have a $10 million project the state will match us if the schools eligible up to that amount $6 million where our local funds would be $4 million so again passing adopting these resolutions will

181allow us to to move forward Madam president I have one question um rioo uh in the information I was reading it states um based on the capacity of the schools for the monitization money or the money from the state um our SARS Reports say there schools are at capacity which I know they're not so what number would you submit upstairs is it classrooms and how many children can fit at a school or the number that are enrolled The Bu bless you uh when we apply when we submit the applications they are looking at current they look at both okay they look at the space uh but they also are using our enrollment data to to see what we are eligible for and we are working with King Consulting who's assisting that the application process is

182very bureaucratic and and long process and and we want to make sure we don't lose out on $1 um so they're ensuring that they're um everything will for and all the data they need from us that is there it's being submitted yeah because I think that's really important because schools have a lot of classrooms that are empty but the facility the sou really needs work so I I hope that you really I don't know how you determined capacity but you know the school has 43 classrooms you know we can got a report when we have 43 classrooms the capacity level is here you know so good luck and we had a lot of help to pass the Bond as you know um and a lot of of our employees here assisted but there is someone

183in attendance I want to acknowledge Miss Linda poras who was very instrumental in getting our signs out uh she was recruiting parents to assist um so since I see her here I just do want to acknowledge her work in in all the bond work back in November so thank you thank you so much um um we're GNA do a department update I'd like to recognize director Jennifer Olivia for a presentation on the technology department all right good evening president lyker superintendent Espinosa trustees colleagues and guests um I will start with a joke because I always start my communication with a joke we need to wake up a little bit because we got couple more minutes left what did one piece of toast say to the other you're my butter half Little Valentine joke there um

184all right okay I am very proud tonight to review uh the work of our department with our current projects and initiatives just a reminder about our vision uh we are using technology as a tool with kids to create collaborate communicate and critically think using a safe and robust infrastructure I have two goals myself are kids safe and are they creating I wanted to also remind you about our our mission for our department that is really focused around customer service in service of and support of student learning um we have two values that we hold dear which are teamwork and security as you know we support all facets of District business and have ongoing projects with each division right now I wanted to also remind you of who's on the team and their roles we have

185our Network team Gary mulhern and Mark Wagman we have our information systems team Casey Simons and Veronica Del Rio we have our technician team Carlos Jimenez Davis skiro Jessica Kion and Ryan Rosita and we have our imrt team which is our tier one support out at our school sites and we have an amazing Administrative Assistant that keeps us all together so it's basically three mini departments and then our tier one support out of the sites and the lovely and talented Daniela keeping us on our toes um we always have a lot of current projects happening so this is not an exhaust list um our Network team right now is really focused on removing Reliance removing our Reliance on on premise equipment so you know over the years we've made a lot of moves to the

186cloud um which can be secured in a variety of ways where and those vendors are really taking the ownership of securing a lot of that so Microsoft for example takes a lot of ownership in securing all of that um we have some current projects with our Maintenance and Facilities Department uh we value their partnership we are working with them on the um security cameras and uh some other projects with them we've recently uh completed early early fall um an updated phone service project and of course just ongoing maintenance and troubleshooting of those Network assets our information systems team is really um focused on data right now they're kneed deep in the Civil Rights data with our Ed Services Department um they are always working and getting ready for it seems like calpads reporting which is

187our bottom line and gives us our money um and then we're getting ready to start online registration so prepping for online registration working with the attendance secretaries um making sure the system is ready for parents and then of course you know they're constantly doing troubleshooting of our um digital platforms our Tech technicians besides being out and about at school sites which is really their primary role we've we've also um they also take on other tasks like um our ups maintenance which is our Universal our uninterrupted power supplies in each of our Network rooms at each of the school sites making sure those are healthy we do have some uh fishing training that we're doing throughout the year and some C campaigns we're running so um that is part of our lcap um um and one

188of our technicians is in charge of that they're always updating documentation and we're working on a student device refresh right now both iPads for TK through 2 and some Chromebooks for third through eight at three of our schools um got a digital signage project and of course their daily tasks our imrt team like I said our tier one support they do a lot of triage for us um they do it really well and they're also working on making sure all the assets are accounted for on their campuses and providing digital literacy Les lessons for kids um our admin assistant she and I have been working on a project together to get all of our old report cards out of illuminate into our new um document retention platform which is lasure fish she has done a

189ton a ton of work on asset management for us and she's also involved in a couple of the projects for with HR um my current projects I am um work really working closely with my new division human resources and organizational development on a couple of big implementations um one is a Frontline implementation we're moving away from I Visions into Frontline more and trying to use some more of their uh features um we are working on a new employee orientation project right now we're at the very very beginning but we're Gathering a lot of feedback from people people who've been recently onboarded and um how that experience has gone for them we're also working on uh a subt trining project also very early on we're in the beginning stages of getting feedback from our current substitutes

190and anyone who's ever used a substitute so we're kind of getting feedback from both sides um we're going to take that feedback and kind of figure out where we need to go next but we we've got some great ideas and then we'll start involving other stakeholders and that other educational Partners um lots of project projects with Business Services um this document retention we're taking old micro fish microfilm and digitizing it so it's easier and that we don't pick it up and have it fall apart um we're doing a broader Destiny fallet implementation with purchasing we've always used Destiny fallet for our library system but now we're really expanding that to include purchasing and everything that purchasing does for inventory management um we're very excited about getting close to starting to think about upgrades for IB

191and uh working with um maintenance and operations and Ed services on the west view project getting that ready um working I've been working on a staff and student recruitment video with the County Office of Ed they've got a draft for me by the end of the month by next week so I'm excited to take a look at that and then uh one of the big things I've been working on is the emerging Technologies task force so I want to talk a little bit about the emerging Technologies task force um we have a committee that is made up of a variety of of educational Partners we have some classified folks certificated folks the management um some of the fiscal team some of the HR team some of the Ed leadership team has been on there um

192our topics have included things like what is AI pros and cons of artificial intelligence we're going to talk a little bit next time about ethics and responsibility um we got to think about some policy updates that we want to work on and really um figuring out what the board policies look like and what does professional development look like so when you think about a emerging Technologies or artificial intelligence in a preschool to eth grade system um a lot of the tools that are out there are really for 18 and older so what that really looks like for us is a productivity tool for our staff for everybody in the system really the adults in the system um it's not that we don't want to teach kids about it we want kids to know it's out

193there and how to use it and how to deal with it responsibly but the actual tools that are out there are really geared toward um adults so as I've been learning a lot over the last uh two years a year and a half um we really are going to focus this is sort of my my game plan it focuses on policies what do we already have in place what do we need to adapt I got the recommendations from csba so I plan on uh amending some of our current board policies so that they reflect the recommendations of csba um making sure that tools are available to our staff and our um you know in all departments because this is not a just an instructional tool it's really a tool for all of our all of

194our staff what we really hope is an educational Community is that we kind of push our vendors to supply a fact sheet or like a nutritional facts kind of document that says here's how we use AI here's how we're going to protect your data here's how we're going to benefit you know make your make your lives better um I would love to see that I don't know if that's going to happen but we're going to hope for that um we also need to make sure as a system that we've got the robust infrastructure to support this because AI takes a lot of juice um and then we have to have an incident response plan which we already do uh in the event that something goes wonky so that's kind of the the larger plan of

195how we kind of incorporate emerging Technologies into our system um every year I like to do a survey of staff to find out how we're doing I threw this question in last year so this was last spring um describe your interaction with artificial intelligence tools so this was early spring last year mid spring last year and you can see that about 50% 48% have never that they're aware of used an AI tool um and then 2% have said can't live without it so I'm really really interested to see how 2025 shows something different it'll be interesting to see um and as we get into going into some of the tools that we can provide for staff um it'll be interesting to see how that number changes so I'm I'm excited to to kind of go

196forward with that uh just another road map you know we um we've been doing a lot of work with the leadership team around a foundation I've got the task force that I've been working on and then it's really sort of educating the broader Community um making sure people know how they can use the tools how they can use them ethically and responsibly um and then do some assessment about how that's working for us so part of that Foundation is really an introduction of The Guiding principles uh last summer this is a draft of guiding principles um and last summer I think it was the leadership Sy Leadership Retreat um we did some work around building some guiding principles as a leadership team um the the emerging Technologies task force reviewed them kind of offered some

197suggestions I wrapped those in there and then now it's time to take it to the broader community and get some feedback from the broader Community um but really this is about how do we use it responsibly how do we embrace the power of it and how do we really um keep the human at the center of things so um our next steps like I said is really to uh as the task force we're going to have an interesting discussion about ethics and responsibility um we'll take a look at some of the changes that csba has um recommended and then it's time to start a start to propel out and and get everybody involved for our department uh like I said this is not an exhaustive list because we have a lot going on all the

198time um but like I said the uh Chromebook and iPad refresh is really one of the big things we're working on right now um and you know just getting us getting us off of our on premise infrastructure is a big is a big move any questions thank you so much for your presentation we've come a long way and I I don't want to tell you how many years but a long long way and so the district should be uh very proud of ourselves for the work that our technology and our technology people that support everyday learning does for us so thank you and um recently I heard you say uh that you had uh that you go to the county and you have County meetings and they present different things to you and you take

199it personal when uh something doesn't work for you because you are the district when you're sitting there in our technology world so I just want to commend you for that statement I was very proud of you when I heard you say it because uh it takes ownership of your position and and thank you thank you and the work behind that you're doing is is just wonderful and and the AI thing you know anybody that ask sir anything okay uh is AI so thank you again for your work uh Jen thank you so much for your presentation excellent presentation um so you're looking at your 24 technology survey I believe there's there only six people actually 2% the people are loving it using the ey artificial intelligence oh it's going to be much much more uh

200I believe people once they know how to do it they're going to be hooked on that so yeah I'm looking forward for that yeah we just had an interesting um presentation by Microsoft for the leadership team and I'm excited to bring what we what we did there out to the broader Community because I think there is a little bit of reputation about how to use it and what if I do something wrong am I you know speaking to the Moon I don't know so um what Microsoft offers is a very secure place to to to to build some things and to create some things so it's going to be an interesting um I think it's an interesting opportunity for us for sure so yeah I'm excited to see the difference thank you thank you for

201so much for your presentation the AI stuff is very exciting and and so that we're not afraid of it but know how to use it properly to make our lives easier and um yeah we have a lot of work to do so that's it's nice to know that there's something on the horizon that will make some aspects easier thank you oh we have we already did the consent calendar um future agenda items [Music] correct um at this time we have we can suggest one topic for a future board well thank you for um the future agenda I do have um a would like to have a request and I know it's something that we talk about this and we just take it for granted uh for the last few months um talking to some of

202the uh School principles you know one of my questions is how can we get parent involvement how can we get parent participation you know it's one of those things that it really impacts me because I believe a child or student can benefit tremendously by just having the parents be present so I would just like to see if I can have some sort of um update or see where we at I know we have someone who is a representative to work on that subject okay thank you um just to clarify so Maria Osborne is our parent parent um and I can't remember exactly her title but she's basically our parent engagement um specialist support coordinator thank you um and so what we could do is we could have her give an update on um you know

203what what she's doing in that role um we also have a parent um that used to be the community coordinators um their part of the work that she's doing um so I think giving an update or a presentation from her might answer some of the questions you may have can I piggy back on that idea um maybe if we we just if we if we look at what schools are doing parent engagement really well like what we saw with Barry today was amazing um I know we have some really great ideas and things already happening out there so how can we utilize what we know works or what we see is working to to implement that at more schools yeah absolutely it it's something that what makes a parent attend participate it just come to

204you know whatever the principal teachers have to say I think it's something that you know you know a coordinator can probably tell us a little bit more since she's been to just give us an an update and we can work on that perfect thank you okay and also um I noticed that uh I did ask for the school garden uh policy I think it's it's in the works I'm not sure if we can also request for an update on that yeah we will um update as soon as I believe it's complete you go here you go is the garden is that complete okay y so we will we will bring it uh we will bring an update to the board oh excellent than thank you can I uh double piggyback on that idea um if

205Maria Osborne is going to present can she present also on like Community Schools and where are on that because there's like a parent engagement piece to it yes she can definitely add so if that could be incl part of it thank you and I'd like to recognize superintendent Jose espinos and provided Direction and next steps on future agenda items from the previous board meetings we have the trusty canun requested the thank you cards to be sent to Imperial Beach and San die fire departments and she requested that the Imperial Beach Fire Department present to the board about the district related activities thank you madam president I'm happy to report trustees that we did send out thank you cards to the fire departments so yay thank you uh Amy um my request is that the Imperial

206Beach Fire Department present to the board about District related activities they have with our students so that is my request and I would hope that um you would uh support that request where's your thumb there you go okay thank you so much okay um um I have a question trusty Kon are you gonna be re reaching out to the fire department or did you want the district to reach out to the fire department I have talked to the captain um um in December when I went um for as a representative for our second graders and he said he'd be happy to nobody's ever asked him so uh maybe talking to Tyler and um get something together thank youate thank you thank you um Communications from the board um if I can just express my gratit

207attitude to my fellow board members for the hard work and dedication um that you put into this um I'm really proud to serve on this board and I'm excited for us to continue to work together and learn together and um we will see improvements and we will come up with a resolution to the bargaining and and yeah we're moving on uh moving forward little by little one inch at a time like uh Mr the principal from Central said earlier and we're going to score a touchdown at some point okay I'll just keep it short trustees um uh trusty Medina and myself did visit Nestor we had a nice visit it was they were so welcoming this when you open the front door uh uh there uh Terry is her name and she was all smiles

208and in hugs and welcome Janet and I I just can't tell you how how we felt and the principal and the vice principal were so gracious and and uh during our tour uh we went to a kindergarten classroom and then because of the schedules we went to Upper Grade and I had not um I was part not I was not part of that but I knew what was happening in the seventh seventh eighth grade um quad area when they were doing it you know 15 years ago uh but I had never seen it so uh the principal and the vice principal took us on a little tour of the Quad area I was really impressed with the area that um they have uh created for a seventh and eighth grader so I just want to

209share how proud I am of uh Nestor and uh and the staff there uh I believe it was a fourth grade class and I have to share this with you because it took me back I stepped back in my in my shoes um the teacher had a book and she was talking about uh voter rights fourth grade you would loved that okay and uh she had a book in her hand okay and the kids had their Chromebooks open so I asked the student what is that and she goes it's the book that the teacher has in her hand and I says it's on your Chromebook she says yeah that's my ebook and then the teacher says okay she asked questions they gave feedback and then they automatically all of them I hadn't seen that since

210I was a kid all went to oral reading all of them in the same time okay I stood back it gave me chills so you know thank you I think it was Sandra Alvarez's class okay uh what an experience it was um tomorrow we go to nicolov so that's the travel uh I want to thank all the committee work I I've been attending all these committees so I appreciate um that that area of work and um I want to we always miss this part and I thank you HR for unboarding and unboarding and uh all the new hires we we we don't say anything about that trustees you know Welcome to our new hires all of them okay welcome to South Bay um people that get promoted get promoted without us even saying you know

211yay you got promoted because to be promoted you you have to be qualified so somebody took the extra step to get uh uh more skills to be promoted and uh so I just want to bring that to to the board's attention that uh maybe in the future we can look closely at recognizing uh HR in their work and with that I close thank you well i' would like to thank everybody to come in today you know as a presenter um teacher I don't think I see any parents but I would love to see parents here to see the information is being provided crucial and is essential for their kids for you know for everybody so um that being said I know it's getting late so have a good night thank you um so this month

212um trusty espar and I we had a coffee meet up with a couple of our amazing teachers to learn more about about um structured literacy versus balanced literacy and where we're headed with that and how we can support that and then I also met with um the superintendent and a couple of teachers from Nester to discuss some things that were unclear I guess and to make sure that our messages were um received with the the understanding of its in intent and so thank you for having an open door for people to come and talk because we we see a lot of things on social media saying this and that and this and that and uh it's nice to know that your door is open for any clarification um for our community and our teachers and

213everybody so um thank you and with that thank you everyone and good night