001telephone. foridentific Fore if school meetings much gracias. What is this? Item D, land acknowledgement statement. We acknowledge that the South San Francisco Unified School District is located on the unseated ancestral homeland of the Ramya Aloney peoples who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramy community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. E reporting out from close session in accordance with government code section 54957 and in reference to close session agenda item number one public employee dis discipline dismissal release. The board unanimously voted to release one certificated administrator in accordance with education code section 44951. Thank you so much. F, review of agenda. Any changes? Okay. Item uh G, PTA council remarks. I'd like to write
002invite up John Baker from the Altaloma PTA. Thank you, President Anthony, uh, trustees, Superintendent Moore, Cabinet, and members of the committee. As you may have noticed, I am not your usual representative. Laurel Lauren Kitchen has deputized me to present on our behalf tonight. My name is John Baker. This is my ninth year as a member of the PTA in South City and my second year as the PTA treasur at Aloma. Thank you to Mr. O and Trusty Murray who attended the council meeting last week. We appreciated hearing from them. The biggest questions from PTA leaders were about the relocation plans for Los Cerritos. The PTA hopes that the district will include Los Certos and Sunshine Gardens families at all decision points in this process and collaborate with parent leaders on meetings that are language accessible,
003clearly advertised, and plan for times of day when families can actually attend. Around the rest of the district, about half the elementary schools will have their science festivals this month. Thank you to Parkway Leadership students and parent volunteers for supporting those events. Speaking to Parkway, yesterday they had a family night and PTA supported by selling food. El Camino PTA will host the final PTA meeting of the year on April 22nd. 8th grade families are invited to attend and hear from students about clubs on campus. I think I have to make a personal note about that as my daughter's metriculating up to El Camino next year. Ponderosa had a restaurant night on April 23rd at California Fish has a restaurant night on April 23rd at California Fish Grill. On April 25th, they will have the writing
004gold ball. Sunshine Gardens is having a fun run on April 18th at a talent show on the 25th. South City High School is supporting the drama production of MMA Mia this weekend. And if you haven't seen a musical at South City High, I hardly recommend. They have a great program there. At this time, I'd like to share a little bit about the Altaloma PTA. We're really proud of all our school community and parent volunteers. We'd also like to thank the excellent teachers and principal Mendes for supporting students and families at the school. While Principal Mendes will also do so later, I'd like to recognize the members of the Aloma community in the audience. Our biggest event of the year was the Thanksgiving time turkey trot. We were able to raise funds to cover all of
005our expenses for the entire year. With these donations, we were able to pay for activities and community events that support the portrait of a graduate aims of thriving and impact. We paid for $100 grants to each teacher for supplies, money for each grade level celebration at the end of the school year, the eighth grade promotion dance, cultural assemblies for young audiences, support for the drama program, and a large donation to support school improvements, hopefully leading to inviting outdoor learning spaces and potentially an outdoor stage. We're proud of the excellent collaboration between the PTA and school administration to support Altoma students. Thank you. And if there's no questions, that's my report. Thank you so much. Item H, staff association representatives remarks. Uh, first up, South San Francisco Federation of Adult Educators. I think she's here. South
006San Francisco Classroom Teachers Association. Good evening, dear President Anthony, school board trustees, Dr. Moore, Cabinet, and SSFUSD community. Happy spring. Spring is a time for some to participate in the tradition of Easter egg hunting. Ah, who can afford it? Instead, I thought I'd look for a few treasures in our unodudited actuals budget report presented in March. First, to set the stage, I would like to remind all those listening who may not know that SSFUSD is a basic aid funded district. In 2024, only 80 of California's 10,000 school districts were classified as such. Being a basic aid district means that our SSF property tax revenues allow SSFUSD to surpass the 120 per student minimum provided by the state. The bonus for our district is that we get to keep any surplus from the these dollars. In
007the past three years, in fact, the percentages of growth from property tax dollars in SSF were 11%, 11%, and 9%. When you consider that business services only budgets for a four to 5% growth in an effort to be conservative, it sparks curiosity as to where the extra money is going. Or maybe it is not going anywhere. Maybe it is multiplying like rabbits. I understand the need to save money for a rainy day. Basic aid school districts can increase their rainy day funds if they want to. Where ADA funded districts have a reserve cap at 10%, our basic aid school district has saved 10 million in reserves, which is 27% of its 37.6 million projected ending fund balance. We classify this 10 million as a reserve for economic uncertainties. I may only deal with first grade
008math, but I do understand that these millions are not being spent. Let's look at some current numbers. The projected actual ending fund balance this year is 37 million, 33.8 8 million in 2526 and 31 million in 2627. These would be dollars left over after expenditures. This year, SSFUSD projects certificated salaries to account for only 31.9% of its expenditures and this is down from last year of 46.4%. Only 1.6% 6% of the district's actual expenditures went towards books and supplies, but this year's projected expenditures are expected to reach up to 13%. It is important to keep in mind that we currently have $27 million budgeted for books and supplies. This total is five times what an expensive language arts adoption costs and SSFUSD is still a few years away from that. If the district goes through
009with the math adoption, the current program being piloted would not use $27 million. The figure makes me curious if the other projected expenditures are accurate. 40 million in services seems high as well, especially since spending went from 12.9% of the expenditures last year to an expected 19.4.4% this year. A list of concerns was also presented, but I have doubts about some of them. I know that 8 million is set aside for possible property tax repayment due to litigation, but I believe this is no longer necessary. Mr. O mentioned that stirs and pers increases would be coming but they are listed as less than 1 million3 years out. Declining enrollment is listed as a concern but actual dollars per student should be more not less due to this decline. A similar situation occurs during a teacher
010shortage. and I don't believe the best answer is to hire people from costly agencies to fill the empty seats. Some of the concerns listed in the financial report are situations that may never materialize like a possible COVID variant and the cost of goods and services due to the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration. SSFUSD, we need to stop acting like the sky is falling. We have real concerns that need to be addressed. overcrowded classes, teachers looking elsewhere to teach due to our salary schedule being misinterpreted, or to higher paying districts nearby. A lack of true decision-making power. Concerns that have led to climate surveys that have gone unanswered. Investigations surrounding complaints that don't get resolved. Changed working conditions and teachers feeling powerless about them. People getting denied TK enrollment. A lack of safe environment for
011our staff and students. expensive administrative changes that don't reach the classroom. Being a basic aid district means you can afford to prioritize what is important to you. So, please start prioritizing your staff and students. What real changes have we made in the classroom? Are class sizes smaller? When was the last social studies adoption? How are the visual and performing arts dollars from the state being spent? When was the last time we had professional development chosen by teachers that helped improve instruction? At the last board meeting, it was suggested that teachers come with ideas for solutions. But we are and we have been. We have offered voices in meetings with cabinet members, climate surveys, district surveys, BEAD fund meetings, focus groups, guiding coalition meetings, and staff meetings. Listening is not enough. We are burnt out waiting
012for action. The time is now. Teachers have been denied a grievance for fair treatment for our TOSAs. We have been denied our salary placement grievance and we have yet to hear back from our appeal. We attached evidence that HR has changed how it's interpreting the salary schedule placement. We have just filed a grievance regarding student discipline records we feel are tied to teacher safety as well. Meanwhile, the SSFUSD's educator turnover rate persists, particularly in schools that require the most stability. Where are educators going? They are relocating to a different district where they can earn higher wages, have a lower cost of living, or at the very least afford eggs. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Uh, California School Employees Association, Chapter 197. I don't see here today. Okay. Uh, item I, Personnel Commission.
013Our next personnel commission meeting will be held on April 21st, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. in the district office boardroom. Thank you so much. Items from the board uh board calendar. Did you want to mention the We got a meeting tomorrow. Yes, we do have a meeting tomorrow, the bylaws subcommittee meeting with Trusty Murray and myself at 1:30 p.m. at the district office. And next Thursday, we have the district subcommittee on facilities meeting at the district boardroom uh at 4 p.m. All right. Item K, uh superintendent report. I don't have a report this evening. Thank you. Thank you so much. Item L, student trustee reports. We'll start with Josephine Harana, spring student trustee and ASB president from South San Francisco High School. Good evening, board, cabinet, and community. My name is Josephine Harana and it's my
014pleasure to represent South San Francisco High School. Spring break sure flew right by, but I hope you all had a restful break. Before we headed into spring break, our students enjoyed Day on the Green, our annual carnival event on the football field. Students played various carnival games and won prizes for free, while the lines for both the Kona Ice and Taco Truck stayed long throughout the entire event. Thank you to all the teachers who volunteered for the dunk tank and were all dunked at least once. After the students of South City enjoyed a restful spring break, we came back to school and into the fourth quarter hitting the ground running. Our spring sports are continuing on with our baseball team going 8 and4 right now with the recent win against Harker at Harker School on
015Tuesday. Tonight they're playing against Harker again but at South City. The badman team matches will resume next week on Tuesday and Thursday in the big gym. The swim team also won their match against Teranova two weeks ago and tomorrow they'll be competing against our rivals El Camino at 3:30 at South City's very own pool. The boys volleyball team faced off against El Camino yesterday, and although they didn't win, we're proud of their accomplishments this season. Cheer triyouts for next year's team will begin next week from the 14th through the 16th, where a clinic will be held from 400 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. The final tryyout date will be next Friday, April 17th. There is anformational meeting for tryyouts tomorrow at 4 via Zoom, and the link can be found in the Instagram bio at SSFHS
016cheer. Congratulations to our winter percussion for placing first at the NCPA percussion championship at Stockton last Saturday, April 5th. They placed first against six other schools in California. Great job, Warriors. The juniors and seniors are currently selling prom tickets outside the cafeteria for $130. Tomorrow is the last day to buy tickets for 130 before the price increases by $10 next week. There is also a mandatory informational meeting for all those interested in running for prom royalty tomorrow during lunch in room E6. The ASB school community commission is holding an Inside Out themed dodgeball tournament next Friday, April 18th during lunch in the big gym. Sign up to join a team by scanning the QR code or visit visiting the link both found on the SSFHS ASB Instagram. Teams will be based on grade level and
017there will also be one teacher team all competing for the extremely coveted prize of a $100 Roblox gift card. Tomorrow, AVID is holding their semianual taco feed from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. in the cafeteria. Tickets are available for purchase for $20 at the door. Come support our AVID program and enjoy all you can eat tacos. Earlier today, the Earth Club and a few students in AP environmental science went on a field trip to the blue transfer line station and tooured the facilities as they learned more about the waste management process. They were even granted the opportunity to smell the 21-day old trash and compost and see the waste sorting process in real time. Thank you to the SSF Scavenger Company for allowing our students a look into this complex process. Be green and keep our
018planet clean. Calling all dancing queens. You can dance, you can jive, but only if you see South City's production of Mamma Mia live, come support the South City Drama Department as they put on their spring musical, Mamma Mia. Showtimes are tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday at the South City City Auditorium. House opens at 6:30 p.m. and the show will begin at 700 p.m. Ticket prices are $8 for students and $10 for the general public. And finally, I wanted to express my support to the members of the CTA that are here tonight. Um, since I was a freshman attending these board meetings, I've seen countless times over and over again teachers coming up here and asking for the same thing over and over that they be fairly compensated for their work. Um, I think it's time we
019listen to our teachers because quite frankly, they are the backbone of our school district. [Applause] Um, they are the ones who are actively shaping the young minds in our society every single day. And I'm incredibly fearful that if there is no change, we are going to lose the members who make our South City community thrive. If there are no further questions, this concludes my report. Thank you. Thank you so much, Justine. Number two, Jamie Wong, fall student trustee and ASB president, El Camino High School. Good evening, board members, cabinet, and audience at home and audience president. My name is Jamie Wong, and I'm currently a senior serving as the ASB president at El Camino High School and the fall student trustee. I hope you all had an amazing and restful spring break. Over spring break,
020our advanced placement dance team went on a career immersing trip to New York City. They took classes at Alvin Eiley and Broadway Dance Center where they learned the foundations of Vogue and Afro as well as taking classes from and dancing with people who worked with artists such as Janet Jackson, Pink, Harry Styles, and more. They also had the opportunity to watch two shows on Broadway, which allowed them to witness a possible career path for those who wish to pursue performing arts. Overall, this trip granted them the privilege of experiencing the professional and rigorous setting of dancers/performers in New York City firsthand. The team came back as stronger dancers mentally and physically, and we want to thank all those who helped support this trip. It's that time of year. APD auditions for the 25 to 26
021cast are just around the corner. Auditions are used to skip to a higher level in dance, and more information and pre- audition videos are posted on the Google Classroom given to students. This will be held next Friday, April 18th, in dance room starting at 3:45. Good luck to all of our Colts who are auditioning and we can't wait to see our new dance team. Rhythm and Moves, our annual dance show is coming up quickly. Pre-sale tickets have begun and will end on April 30th. Pre-sale tickets will be starting at $15 and will increase at the door. Make sure to get your tickets to see your favorite dancer or to enjoy a night of fun and grooviness before it sells out. We hope to see you there. CASP testing officially began on Tuesday with our juniors
022testing from Tuesday to Friday and seniors will be taking their sign tests as well on Friday. We want to recognize their efforts to come to school and take their state test and we wish and we wish them the best of luck on their last final day. Keep pushing on. All members of the community, you're invited as El Camino proudly welcomes the entire board and all assistant superintendent to join us for our super PA senior passion project expo tomorrow, April 11th, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. The special event will showcase the hard work and dedication of our seniors as they present their communitydriven passion projects. The expo will be held at El Camino in the academic building. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out and we hope to see you all there.
023And lastly, once again, I want to show support for all of our teachers and adults in the building tonight. Um, just hopping off of what Joseph said, I think it's really, really important to listen to the adults in the room. As students ourselves, we understand how much time and effort they have really put into shaping our lives. And as seniors ourselves, we're about to go off into college and whatever post high school plans we have. And these individuals here have shaped all of our lives. So, I want to thank you all for always showing up and speaking what you want to say. And yeah, that concludes our report. Unless there are any other questions or concerns, I'd like to thank you all for listening. I have I hope you all have an amazing rest of
024your week. Thank you so much. Moving to item M, public comments. Um, public comment for items not on the agenda should not exceed 30 minutes. We currently have 12 speaker cards, so uh we will do two minutes per speaker. Um public comments are limited to 1 to three minutes. Uh name and address cards are placed in the back of the room to be completed and given to the secretary. The board president will call upon individuals in random order who have requested to speak. Each person may only speak once and is required to address the board from the p podium. The meeting is recorded and streamed live. Individuals may address the board concerning school business not on the agenda, but public comment cannot be acted upon or discussed by the board unless placed on the agenda
025at a subsequent meeting in accordance with the law, the Brown Act. The board may request staff to respond orally at the meeting or in writing at a future time. With that, we will start into our public comments. I'll start with Rosemary Broman. Hi, I prepped for three, so I'm talking really fast. Okay, good evening. My name is Rosemary Broman and I'm a six-year teacher at Spruce Elementary, CTA rep and a 24-year veteran teacher. I am speaking on behalf of the Spruce Elementary teachers and I am pleading with you tonight. Thank you. to advocate for an increase in teacher salaries. I want to start with a quote from one of my colleagues when asked why she continues to teach in South San Francisco. Working in the Bay Area is everything to me. I don't see myself
026anywhere else. It means family, culture, and community. This location is everything I hold close to my heart. The work I do at Spruce is in alignment with that. In today's American society, it is no secret that teachers are paid less in less in comparison to their peers in other fields. I am finally earning after 24 years in teaching the same salary that fellow classmates at my university made their first year out of school. It is no secret that the income necessary to purchase a home and raise a family in the Bay Area is well over three times the highest paid salary in our district. I can guarantee that every teacher in this room can attest to a friend or family member suggesting they find a better paying career or move out of the Bay Area
027when they've seen us struggle financially. Myself personally, it is not an option. Come on. It is not an option for a single person or a single parent such as myself to purchase a home or even put away for emergency savings without an additional income in the household. To share my experience from 2010 to 2021, in order for me to rent a house for my sons and I, we had housemates. Other colleagues of mine continue to live in their family home with parents, commute across the bay, and rent small apartments to stay local. These are the lengths educators go to to remain teaching where they call home. Can I continue? You cannot. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. All right. Olivia Porerilskin. [Applause] Good evening. My name is Olivia Pogarielski and I'm a second
028grade teacher at Burie. I'm speaking today on the subject of teacher salary. You might recognize this visual from last year. You will notice a large swath of yellow. These are the teachers who according to Sonteo County are considered lowincome. To reach medium status, a single household would have to make over 1,9,700. I will have to work for this district for 17 years to get out of low income status. For my colleagues who are in other columns, they are looking at 22 years before they can claw their way out of low income. What if I wasn't a single household? Let's say I had a kid or was a single parent. No amount of education or work experience will get me out of low income. This is worse than the data that I shared last year. Last
029year, a single parent could make it out in 22 years. This year, they will never get out. This is with the 2024 numbers. It is only getting worse for teachers. I think the district is aware of how hard it is to find people willing to work in these conditions. Just this year, HR unveiled two new programs designed to further the strategic plan by empowering educators. A direct quote from the program is that as teachers, we can share the value of working within our district. Look at this data and ask yourself, are these numbers a reflection of our true values? Because when I look at them, it doesn't add up to much. This district prides itself on making bold change. So, I asked you to make your boldest change yet. Thank you. Thank you for your
030comment, Megan Connory. Good evening, President Anthony, school board trustees, Dr. Moore, cabinet, and the community. I'm Megan Connory, Al Camino High School, and your union secretary. I hope I have so many topics tonight, and I'm now down to two minutes. So, we're going to talk. So, everything ties that I'm going to talk about tonight into hiring teachers. First of all, I want to talk about my own family situation. My daughter's 24. She's a nurse. She makes $20,000 more a year than I do after 23 years. It's a little heartwarming. Um, you will hear my colleagues discuss the difficulties they face due to lower pay here at the at the district as compared to new ride districts. You might even hear about how some of my colleagues are still not getting paid correctly due to convoluted
031interpretation of M's units and teaching credential dates for placement on the salary schedule. Maybe this district should deal with the issues of the current staff first. I participated in one of the staff focus groups earlier this week. The purpose of the focus group was to gain insight and feedback into the experiences of those closest with our students as the district reflects on year one implementation of the strategic strategic plan. I'm sure you will see the report. The overall takeaway of the focus group was not very positive towards the district. Definitely not towards the strategic plan. As a participant in one of the community sessions way back in the beginning, I find it disappointing not and not surprising that most staff don't support the portrait of a graduate. My involvement was completely voluntary. I gave up
032a Saturday to intend a community session. Most teachers were not involved until after the portrait of a graduate was completed. I just want to point out that maybe we should be spending less money on portrait of a graduate, less money on consultants, and more money on our teachers. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Okay. a spirit to Gonzalez. I originally was going to wing it, but someone told me not to. So, my name is Katis Piru Gonzalez and I'm currently the lead counselor at El Camino High School. I'm also a first generation Filipino woman born and raised here in the Bay Area. I graduated from Elma. I graduated from El Camino. I interned at Elma. I started at Westboro and now here I am at El Camino. six years in the district, fourth
033year at Delco, first year as a lead counselor. So, it's crazy to see all the changes firsthand being a South City resident and how the cost of living has been affecting everyone. You know, ideally, I would love to stay in this community until the day I retire, but with how much the cost of living is, I don't know if that is possible. I actually just got married in October and hoping to start a family soon. Thinking about the cost of a child and how maternity leave is unpaid is really scary to think about. Like, how do y'all expect us to stay within our district with such low pay, it's unfair to even have bordering school districts paying counselors 30k plus more than we do? Like, how is that fair? I have thought about it many
034times if it's worth staying in this district, especially this year when I lost my entire counseling team. One of the factors is because of low pay. Like everyone encouraged me to leave too, but I decided to stay because I love this community. And now my new counseling team, same possibility of jeopardy of losing them too due to low pay not being in the right bast the the right bracket. Like our students deserve the stability of having the same counselors all four years. Like listen, I love South City. I love this community. I don't want to leave, but there's a point where I have to choose myself and my future family. Thank you so much, Melody [Music] Bingham. Good evening. My name is Melanie Bingham and I'm a teacher at Burberry Bur. I have been there
035for 31 years now and I've taught an estimated total of 828 students. I enjoy my job even though my salary is considered living with a lower class salary. Teachers work is too often taken for granted while the impact we have is immeasurable. Education is the foundation of our society's future. Teachers are out there truly shaping the minds of tomorrow. But we are not compensated in a way that shows our contribution to society. Teachers continue to receive salaries that are unacceptably lower than other professionals who have similar levels of education. This speaks volumes to the lack of appreciation and value of teachers. Salaries in our district do not reflect the dedication, talent, responsibility, and value of teachers. It is very sad that our salaries barely cover our basic needs. Many times teachers here need to get
036a second job just to be able to survive. This pay disparity leads to teacher burnout, increased turnover, or leaving the field altogether for other professions where people have learned that teachers have quality skills and talents that they are actually willing to pay for. This instability affects our community and compromises the education of all our students. Let's create a ripple effect in our district. Raise teacher salaries to retain the incredible teachers that our district has now. Raising salaries will decrease the stress level and increase the energy of our teachers. Increases to energy will increase motivation, passion, and enthusiasm for teaching. This will affect every child in every classroom which in turn will create more enthusiasm for learning. Thank you so much Naelli Molina. Good evening. My name is Naelli Molina. I am a math teacher at
037El Camino High School. This is my sixth year in the district as a teacher, but I attended South City Schools my entire life and graduated from South City High many years ago. Um, I'm here to speak about my improper salary placement. I currently have a total of 77 postbachelor units of which only 21 are being counted towards my salary placement. 56 of my units are not being counted because they are dated before the issuance of my credential. This is the only district that interprets units this way and it is very different than how Paula Campbell explained this to me in 2019 when I was hired. It is so inconsistent even within the district because I have co-workers that are placed correctly and all of their units are counted but mine are not. All of my
038classmates from my program who work in SFUSD or San Monteo Union with less units than me are all placed on their highest column while I am still 24 units short of reaching column F. According to Jennifer Smith and Mr. Hanan 24 units would require me to go to school full-time an entire year. If I have to return to school full-time, I will definitely not be returning to this district. Maybe I'll just apply to one of the 11 math openings posted on Ed Join since my current 77 postba units would already place me on their highest column. I hope that as a district you all support your teachers in feeling appreciated and worth their talents by making things right. Pay me what I am owed. Thank you so much Harney Gold. Hello everyone. My name is
039Carney Scold, esteemed members of the board, my fellow peers and community members. I have been a teacher at South City for nine years now and I am the science department chair and I was one of those teachers in the dunk tank before spring break. I have planted my feet on the ground and I want to stay at this district. I am teaching a new EMS course, emergency medical services course next year at South City and people are excited. Over 170 students have signed up to take this class. But unfortunately, because of the science teacher shortage, only a handful will be able to take the class as we do not have enough teachers to cover biology. Even with 25% of our staff working at 120% class load, it feels like the ground beneath my feet is
040eroding. I have spent countless hours training fellow peers about our campus and district. I have made lifelong f friends, but unfortunately many of them no longer live here. Many of them attended my wedding last year and I'm happy for them. It's wonderful to see them get the pay they deserve, but I can't help feel that we have lost priceless assets losing these team members. The ground continues to erode. As a department chair, I participate in many interviews for open positions. So, so, so many open positions. I've fallen in love with these applicants. I've seen so many that look like the perfect fit only for the inevitable email that they cannot afford the price cut to change districts that we will not count their credential uh sorry their pre-credential uh units towards their salary. The ground
041continues to erode. We need a strong foundation at this district and our teachers and support staff need wages that respect their time and effort that they give our students. I am expecting my first baby in June. Please help support my family and thank you for your time and consideration. Thank you so much, Amy Lambonia. [Applause] Good evening everyone, board trustees, superintendent, members of the cabinet, and members of the community. My name is Amy Lamb Banila, and I'm a parent of two children, a first grader, and what I hope a TKER in the fall. I am here tonight to advocate for a TK spot for every four-year-old in South City uh SSFUSD this fall. We are currently still on the wait list and I have since discovered weight lists are not allowed by law according to
042the California Department of Education. We also know that this law is not new and we've had years to prepare, build up, and grow the TK capacity. Many neighboring Bay Area school districts have made it happen and I know our school district can too. As of now, I'm still hoping maybe another parent will decline their spot so that I can get one. I learned that another new update to the ed code was to decrease the teacher to student ratio in the TK classroom next year. This the district was able to make that change. As a result, opening up the additional classrooms have not changed the overall number of TK spots by much. And my question now is, do we get to follow one part and not another part of the ED code? If so, could it
043be the other way around and we wait until we have enough spots to then decrease the ratio? While I am here tonight, I also want to advocate for the teachers here at the school district. As someone who has benefited from public schools all my life, I have I give credit to the quality teachers that I have had over the years. As a parent and a payer of property taxes, I am heartbroken tonight to learn that our teachers today need not just side hustles, but second jobs to make ends meet. With the school district receiving nearly half of my property taxes each year, we need to prioritize paying our teachers what they deserve. I would love to be part of the solutions as noted in the last board meeting to help with the TK spots. However,
044parents are not given very much information at all other than to wait and maybe remain hopeful. They deserve a chance. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Lucy Bradshaw. [Applause] Hi, everyone. This is my two-minute edit. Okay. My name is Lucy Bratchaw. I'm a 20-year veteran. I'm a teacher at JS. We are a site with no TK. Um, we have less kids enrolled in TK than other sites. And I want to remind you about equity. So, I started attending these board meetings to speak in defense of teachers whose pay is incorrect. Sadly, the more I attend, the more I learn. The more I research, the more disappointed I get with the direction the district is headed. We're negotiating for an increase in our salary schedule, and we really deserve it. I went and looked at 50
045other school districts, all of the ones in our county. I could not find one that said BA plus credential plus units. It was all BA plus units every sing 50. I looked at I Googled it and I understand we go in and we negotiate, but this is embarrassing that we're doing this. Not one stipulates, oh, it's only the units after you get your credential. Not one. Only us. And you're nickel and dimming us. And it's humiliating and it's disrespectful and you think you're saving money, but it's gonna cost you. It's going to cost you in the teachers you lose, the trainings you have to provide for the new people you bring in who are just going to leave for a better paying job. Fremont school district, their starting pay is 83,000. Ours is 67. They
046are about to strike for a pay raise. They're about to strike for a pay raise. And their district went in with their union. They negotiated for 17 hours. That is respect and that's what we deserve. Thank you, Barbara Han. Hello, Dr. Moore, board cabinet. My name is Barbara Han and I'm a math teacher at Altoma. I want to talk about the math pilot. Uh, after a year, that program hasn't changed. It's still the same one that Altoma's seventh, 8th, and algebra teachers found missing core standards at every level. However, Iel prides itself on aligning beautifully with a new math framework. That itself is troublesome to me since math professors at universities nationwide have issues with the new math framework criticizing it with concerns about deemphasizing calculus and underpreparation for STEM fields. They also argue that
047it places too much emphasis on conceptual understanding at the expense of foundational skills and the importance of math facts. The IL curriculum is good for what I call grocery store math. There's a difference between grocery store math and the math that you need for a STEM career. And I'm and I'm not saying that one is better than the other. However, if you're one of those kids who want a career in a STEM field, the ILE curriculum will not get you there. And I'm not saying that everyone wants a career in STEM, but we shouldn't wipe out the math prep for the kids who do want it. President Anthony, at the last board meeting, you said you wanted solutions. I'm offering you several tonight. One, offer two math curriculums for our students. We can have an
048AP math curriculum for the kids who do want a STEM career and a college prep math curriculum for the kids who do not. They do not have to share the same textbook. The back and forth of should we or should we not adopt IEL math. The solution is no. It's ills suited to prepare our students for a career in STEM. It strips standards at every grade level. At the next board meeting, direct us to find a math program or programs that fit our district's identity. And three, our identity should be that we offer and provide all of our graduates the proper prep in math for any career. And that includes both a curriculum for those kids who want a STEM career and a pathway a curriculum for kids who have no interest in in a
049STEM career. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Uh Alexis Lamea Rosenbomb. This is my third year as the wellness counselor at El Camino High School and the third year I haven't been paid on the proper step of the salary schedule, let alone getting paid what I'm worth. I pour everything into my work because I do it for the passion I have to support the students and community. I have taken on more and more and more responsibility over the years while the district fails to listen to the feedback of those of us actually doing the work at each site who are screaming for more support and resources. Mental health is highlighted as one of the four priorities for the direction of the district next year. Yet, as the sole full-time mental health staff for
050the general population of over a thousand ECS students, I'm forced to look for other opportunities to think about how I'm going to provide for me and my family and be valued for what I do. In fact, I received an offer letter today. At the heart, I do not want to have to leave the community that I love so dearly. But my husband has seen me come home a burnt out shell of the person I was because I am not getting the support I deserve and left to worry about how we're going to pay for a future growing family. I'm sick of being asked to waste my time to provide feedback that will never be acted on. I'm sick of being treated unfairly getting paid less for more education background because of an asinine interpretation of
051the salary schedule. I'm sick of having so many staff members have my back, who unfortunately don't have any power to make necessary changes, who have helped me realize I'm being paid less than a colleague fulfilling all the same responsibilities as me, presumably because the district hoped I'd never find out. If we want our students to embody the portrait of the graduate that has been such a focus of late, we need to provide the proper resources to help them get there, including compensation for the staff who are the ones doing the work. How much would you pay for a magic wand that made every student successful? Now, use that really high number and invest it in your educators who work really hard to make the magic happen. Thank you, Christina Ponita. All right. Good evening board
052members. My name is Christina Boniti. I teach first grade at Martin School. I'm coming tonight to speak on a few things. First thing is the EL teacher. I remember way back when when I joined a group, Mr. Hernan and Mr. Kavacha and a few other teachers. We sat down. We spoke about our concerns for our school. We gave him a few of our major concerns. We were told that we know that they know we need an EL teacher and we're working on it. We He put it on the list we gave him. That was one of our major concerns because we have quite a few newcomers at our school. We have 42 newcomers and 241 EL learners. Now, my main concern is when we told Mr. Hernan at our meeting that this was important, where
053did that information go? It is a complete disservice to our students to not have an EL teacher. We talk so much about equity and equality in this district. Well, how is that one that one title one of the title one schools will have an EL teacher funded by LCAP next year and we are not that title one school. That shows something about where we are being equitable and we here and here we are we are not are 42 newcomers not enough for to qualify for an EL teacher. Help me understand this. I don't understand it. My other concern is the frozen steps on our salary schedule. I am 15 years in of teaching. I will be frozen on my pay my pay scale till my 17th year, which is when, no surprise, when you'll freeze
054me again until my 20th year. Who in the world say stays at a job for 15 to 20 years and is rewarded by freezing your pay scale? We do. Janentech, they work seven years straight and get a sbatical. Does the cabinet get a frozen pay schedule when they hit 15 to 20 years? I'm just looking for the equity in this all here. And we need to rethink about that equity word that we use all the time. Help me understand this. 15 years in and you're going to freeze me for the next five years. It's wild. Thank you so much. Moving on to item N, information only presentations. Item one, uh, educational services a, teaching learning presentation, Aloma Middle School. Principal Nina Menddees will present the educational priorities and programs at Altaloma Middle School. Will you
055introduce her? Yeah, it is our pleasure to introduce Principal Nina Mendes who will talk about Aloma Middle School's priorities and goals this evening for the boarding community. Welcome, Principal Mendes. Good. First, I lost my voice, so this is going to go really fun. Good evening, President Anthony, board of trustees, cabinet, and the South San Francisco Unified School District community. Principal Mendes, do you have written notes? I kind of do. I mean, I have enough written out. Would you like somebody else to I really want to tell my joke. Okay. Okay. So, let's start with that. Did you hear about the equestrian with laryngitis? Now she's a horse whispering. I think Dr. Pledo is going to step in for me when it gets like too much. But there's like I I also I'm gonna let her
056talk, but I'm it's really hard for me to not talk because I wasn't here last year for this presentation and I love Aloma and I love our teachers and our students and everything that they do. So, I'm having a hard time letting go, but I will let her talk. But I'm gonna cut in. [Music] [Applause] I am really, really sorry, but I will not do justice to this presentation just by reading the notes, but I will do the best I can. I will step aside when I know Miss Mendes has something to add because I know her voice comes in moments. Um, just tap me when you want to say something. As she said, we are very proud of our school. We're very proud of our learning community which sits on the backs of our
057teachers, our parents, and our students. So, Aluma Middle School, we're excited to be here to share our work with you. Um, when we finish today, you will see how amazing our learning community truly is. To start and understand although community, we'll begin with our school mission statement. Our mission is to ensure our students grow into lifelong learners who can express their thinking and show social and emotional intelligence. Our school, if you look at the breakdown of our community, is very diverse and we're proud of our diversity, which adds to our richness. Our largest student group at Altaloma is the Hispanic Latinx community with 44% of our population. Other special populations are as follows. 14% of our population are English learners. 25% of our students have learning challenges or disabilities. 38% are socioeconomically disadvantaged. The total
058population at Altaloma Middle School is 652 students. We have a three-year trend going and slowly and steadily we are improving the issue of chronic absenteeism which decreased 10% in the most months from 2022 to 2023 giving a 34.4% improvement when looking at 2023 2024. So we're on track for another jump. This year, our ADA is much more consistent with a higher average than the previous years. The average ADA for 2024 to date is 95 and 1900s% while it was 94 and 2700% in 2023 and only 93 and 2900s% for 2022 to 23. We believe using everyday labs, it's helping us to make a difference and our families are recognizing the link between academic success and attendance. Before I move on to other aspects, I'm going to see do you have anything you like to add?
059No. So far so good. Again, I'm just reading the notes that she prepared. The next slide that you are seeing is a current screenshot of our CASP ELA data since 2019. I want to bring to everyone's focus to the portion highlighted in green. Last year, we improved overall in the sixth and eighth grade with our CAST data scores. We surpassed our goal that we set to reach the 2024 2025 CAST testing. We would also like to point out that if you look at the individual cohorts, even through 7th grade is red for 23 24. It is important to note that the cohort increased 7% from their sixth grade year. The next slide is just a visual of these results overall in relation to the district as a whole. Here you see our cast math scores.
060They have remained fairly consistent but again if you look at our sixth grade they have surpassed the 2425 goal in our site planning. Of course we will take this into consideration when planning for next year. Again this next slide is a visual of aloma in relation to the district math scores. When breaking down the data by student groups, you can see we still have a lot of work to do, but we are slowly making progress and we're proud of the progress we are making. Our site takes a lot of pride in our three-year work on the sense of belonging and wanted to post some data as well. In the 10th week of school, we asked our students if they felt a part of the Altoma community. 70% of our students that responded named that they
061felt a score of three which was more each day or four absolutely a part of the ALMS community. The image on the left is a screenshot of the average emotion of our students during their sewn to grow reflections. The average fluctuates between 2 and 8/10 and 3 and 9/10 throughout the year but has consistently remained high this year. We are hoping to meet our schoolwide goal for the end of the year survey. The next three slides relate to our site goals. We've included the connection to our district priorities, core values, and graduate aims. For each site goal, our first goal is focus on exceptional instruction and equity centered systems. We want to improve our math and ELA cap scores by 10% across the student body. Our entire site is working hard to reach our goal.
062We specifically want to point out our ELA and social studies department for their strong focus in their cycles of inquiry. Social studies focused on writing and ELA on academic discourse. Additionally, as a site, we have created systemic supports for our multil- language learners and our students with IEPs. We have teacher cohorts in each subject, meaning a math and ELA teacher are designed to focus on support for students with IEPs and a different group of teachers that focus on accommodations for our multilanguage learners. This allows students to have a variety of classmates and learn from one another while still allowing our teachers to differentiate and support the needs of each student. Our second goal is focused on empowered teachers in equity centered systems. By 2027, the Aloma staff will demonstrate the ability to support our district
063priority standards and initiatives for all students and create a safe and positive learning environment. We have really leaned on our teachers this year to reflect and modify site practices to increase student performances. And I'm just going to add, it's amazing to see how our teachers have risen to the challenge. Our teachers have observed one another, engaged in cycles of inquiry as a school site, schoolwide, looking at grading and testing data, crosscurricular department, and by grade level. We have faculty-led committees focusing on mental health, community, and culture. A strong focus of the portrait of the graduate. We want to ensure every parent and student can articulate the portrait of a graduate and identify how each aim is implemented here at Altaloma Middle School. We've started with lots of community events and studentled projects. A list of
064few of our events above are also but we also have our school yoga drama and numerous clubs that are not listed as it's embedded into our everyday life. We are focusing on student agency and have many active student groups creating change on our campus. One such group is squad students quest for unity and diversity. our schoolside ambassadors, our service club, the National Junior Honor Society, and leadership. These are all groups making changes on our campus. And here are some of the changes they're working on. The student le projects of change are as follows. Food service recommendations. Facilities field improvements recommendations. Recycle trash and compost campaign. water conver conservation beautifification. They are truly taking ownership of our community. We appreciate your time and are open to any questions. And now she would like to speak. A
065few slides just got skipped. So, I just wanted to also add that we have a lot of the San Francisco community altoma grads who are currently staff on our campus. So, I've listed them above, but you can see we have a pretty pretty nice list. We even have some Panther Converts that came over to Altaloma. Um, and just if you look at that number, our staff, um, we have 32 teachers. So you can see we have, you know, just about like a third that are alumni went to Altaloma or South City South City Schools. So that's pretty awesome as well. Um I just wanted to point out a couple of things on the pictures as well. So um we h part of what we are what we do when we build our school community is
066we have every month we have a cultural assembly. So that's some of the pictures that you see sort of matches um the cultural like the cultures we're celebrating for the month. In addition to that, you can see I was like taped to the wall. Um that was just like a fun activity that the students got to do. And surprisingly duct tape actually stuck me to the wall. Like I didn't think that would work but it but it did. Weird. Um and then the picture of our turkey trot. Uh and then the just some of our students working. And then this picture is just like a picture of our squads in action as well as our students who um requested a meeting with food services, nutrition services because they were very specific about what they would
067like to see going forward. And we had an excellent meeting with nutrition services. we're and the students were excited to know that the um main kitchen was being remodeled and so it was possible that their timing of bringing all of their ideas was working. So I just want to give a shout out to our students who are really trying to make a difference now. Thank you. Any questions? Thank you so much. We did hear from Mr. Shan about their about his meeting with your students. Um comments or questions from trustees? Dr. Shay. Thank you. Thank you so much uh Principal Mendes and uh Dr. Pledo for your great presentation and your insights were both inspirational and very valuable. And I also want to uh deeply gratefully to you and uh to you and Dr. PTO
068and your teachers uh Barbara Grace, Avarado, Mary Kay for allowing me to observe the uh their classrooms and witnesses their teaching methods and engaging learning environment teachers have created was an incredible reaching uh very rich enriching experience. And so I observe the dedication and passion of your teams that are uh evident and I feel fortunate to have that opportunity. So I really appreciate you gave me that opportunity to observe and I also want to thank uh Jason and Carrie for their coordination. So I was able to be there with uh to see all the great work that your team are doing. Of course. Anyone else? You can come come observe. Thank you. I'm actually gonna come tomorrow. So, I'm actually really looking forward to it, especially after this amazing presentation. So, uh yeah, thank you.
069Um, Principal Mendes and Dr. Paleo. I just also wanted to mention my husband um Mark Naggles is also a uh Aloma alum. So just shout out to all Aloma community members and uh yes look forward to getting to know the school and the community and um yeah thank you. Thank you so much Jesse Richardson. Just just briefly Principal Mendes I appreciate all the effort you make to have our kids uh take the financial literacy class. You said that was one of the uh most popular ones. And uh I I visited your school when they were just about just out of COVID and the kids were pimped up and everything and they had these circle uh I forgot what they called it but community circles. Yeah. And I thought that was so good because you know
070you force the kids to confront each other and that was uh very productive. Um, and I I we were hearing a lot of things during CO, but it seems like there's no police calls over there. You know, we've changed everything. We have restorative justice. I I understand that, but it just seems like everything is calmed down now at Aloma and um, you know, that has to be the leadership, too. So, thank you so much for your leadership and um handling a very tough uh population. You know, the adolescence aren't easy. Thank you. But clearly I could never do any of this with and and my teachers. Yes. Your staff, your supportive staff who are here some and your kids. And I love I love the fact that you have families there. You know, it's a
071real family outside of our own. I call, you know, it does feel more like a family the more I I'm here. I've, you know, it sure does. It just grows. I don't know. I just see so many positives happening. Uh I know you must, you know, have running shoes. I mean, all all middle high school teachers do, but I I understand it's quite a challenge. But thank you for hanging in there. Thank you. and your voice too. Thank you so much, Trusty Richardson, Trusty Murray, and also I want to give you a chance to honor your uh community who are here, but we'll do Trusty Murray and then I want to thank you for your report and your voice sounded very good in the end here. Um, very comprehensive. You're doing a great job. Um,
072I'm wondering about the historical and current data sense of belonging. That's a survey that you send out or we use a program called SWN to grow. And so what it is is it's um students are registered and then in their advisory class um every other week they click an emoji to express like how they're feeling for the week and then in addition to that they answer a question. And the nice part about it is the questions we get to create. So they help us sort of develop what what action steps we need to do to create a stronger sense of belonging. So like the one of the questions was the one we used which was like how do you feel a part of the Altaloma community? And then a little bit later we asked students
073like uh is there anybody that has supported you on the Altma campus? If so who? And then we were able to track this the few students who couldn't identify a person on campus that supported them. And then we were able to connect those students with a teacher that they that had and the teachers were able to see who those students were. And of course teachers immediately wanted to make connections with those students. I love that. That's perfect. So the the five kids that are feeling awful here and the 25 that are feeling not so good, are you able to identify them? We know who they are immediately and we know like the moment they submit their answer, we are flagged. So teachers, we don't have to wait till you get to read every single one.
074Anyone who is feeling awful is immediately sent um to the teacher and to the other adults on campus who have been identified to reach out and support with that student. And do you follow up so next time to see if they're No, we're in our third year of implementation and we did learn from our first year that the follow-up needed to occur as quickly as possible for the student to feel supported. Because if we asked a student how they felt, they told us they weren't feeling great and we waited three days to respond. That just made them feel worse. Oh, thank you very much for explaining that. That's I think this is wonderful. Thank you. Thank you for coming and thank you. Yes. Thank you so much for being here. Um really wonderful to get
075an insight into your school and welcome back from maternity leave. Um, would you like to honor your uh staff? Yes, I think I my No, they're right here. I'm not sure how many are here. But first, can the Altaloma staff stand so everyone can see who they [Applause] are. Thank you. And then we have some parents, but I don't see most of them in the crowd, but Tiffany Chu, Carla Cisneros, they're not here, but I'm gonna read everyone's names so that their name is right. Kimberly Melino, John Baker, and then Michelle Brookke. my hair. Do you do you want to do a picture? Okay, super. Thank you so much for your time. Have a wonderful rest of your week. Thank Thank you. You too. All right, moving on to item two, administration strategic plan community
076dashboard. Dr. Moore, will you introduce this item? Thank you very much. Yeah, it is my pleasure to introduce Dr. Maryanne Hugh who will be presenting this evening just an overview of the district strategic plan and community dashboard that uh we want to show our progress to date on this dashboard to the board and the community. So, welcome Dr. Hugh. Thank you Dr. Moore. Good evening board of trustees, cabinet South San Francisco unified uh community. I am here tonight to talk a little bit about our strategic plan community dashboard. This is part of our uh efforts to show our community about our progress. So I'm going to do a quick overview of the purpose of the strategic plan community dashboard and then go into the scorecard metrics and then I'll go into how we designed the
077architecture. So the architecture of the dashboard itself and then I'll go into some dashboard preview slides. Um, just a caveat, none of this data is going to be live. This is all screenshots. Sometimes the Wi-Fi gets a little iffy and so I didn't want to take that chance during a presentation. Um, so here we go. Our first uh first I wanted to just talk a little bit about the purpose of the community dashboard. So this is public facing to our community to explain to everyone how our strategic plan progress is going according to the metrics that we've identified as a district for our implementation. So we're looking at how are we doing in these measures uh according to our strategic plan priorities. Uh so it's looking at a way to report on progress and impact.
078uh it is a snapshot in time because again this is data that it takes a while for the data to get in and it's also going to be updated by annually so twice a year uh once in the summer after we have kind of our end ofear data and then again in the winter because a lot of other accountability data comes in around October November. Some of the things that we want to keep in mind as far as design principles for the data that we are using, we want to make sure that we are using verified standardized data sources so that we can be very clear to our community. This is the data that we're talking about and we know that it's accurate. Uh we have protections in place for students and staff privacy. And
079so you'll see summary data. It will never go down to individual students. If it's down to very small numbers, we will not display that data in order to protect student privacy. And then we want to include both qualitative and quantitative items because we know that some of the work that we are doing is not so easily measured uh in a chart or reported in a chart. Sometimes we need some narrative comments uh in order to tell the story of the work in our district and the experiences of our students, staff and families. Bless you. Bless you. Uh so the scorec card is another term you might have heard. This is a list of the metrics that we have identified as a district uh to measure the progress of our strategic plan. So we are looking
080at things like our CASP scores, our graduation rates. Uh those are some of the ways that we are measuring. Are we providing the cor the adequate supports to our students to make sure that they are meeting graduation requirements? Are we making sure that students are making progress on reading goals and math goals? Are we seeing enough of our students make their progress toward A throughG or college readiness? And so we're looking at all of those different metrics. And again, these are both qualitative and quantitative. And this is again district level data. So this is an example of what our scorecard metrics uh spreadsheet looks like. Uh so it is organized by strategic plan priority area. So exceptional instruction is priority one. There are a number of metrics listed under that and then under that uh
081there are different ways that we are measuring and reporting out on that. We expect that our scorecard metrics are going to evolve as our strategic plan gets implemented. So year one scorecard is going to look a little different from year two and year three and year four. Mostly I would anticipate that it's going to become a longer list, but it might at certain times we might decide that it's not the right measure that we have listed and we might decide that we need to change it out for whatever for for whatever reason. And of course that would all be uh kind of shopped and talked about with our district leadership and with our district as we are moving forward with those measures. So for year one, our strategic plan and the scorecard are really focused
082around uh two things for the dashboard. One is simply putting up our baseline. This is what we have. This is what we this is who we are and here's what our baseline data shows. So there will be a lot of data that you will see in here that's just kind of a a start. This is the data that we have. A lot of that is our state metrics right now. So graduation rate, cast scores, things of that nature. Um and then as we evolve again we will see more of those metrics come into place as we're implementing deeper into our uh strategic plan. So the overview will be this is what our strategic plan is. This is the work that went into defining these priorities and then a quick highlevel summary of what the strategic
083plan areas are. And then under each each priority area will have its own section. So it'll have a page that's dedicated to inse exceptional instruction and then under that the metrics that are under exceptional instruction. So CASP scores, dibbles, which is our literacy, our reading assessment, etc. And then for strategic plan priority to engage students, the measures that are under there. So this is just a quick level to kind of orient you to the the way that our struct that this dashboard will be structured. So this is a screenshot of the overview slide. This would be the landing page that users would see when they first come to our community dashboard. So you'll see there are our our district logo, the strategic priorities and the and their core or care values. Uh the strategic priorities
084are there and the portrait of a graduate. Underneath all of those, you can't see it in the screenshot, would be explanations of how these were developed. So what does care stand for? How did we come to these as our core values as a district and as a community? How were those priorities developed? etc. So each one to orient our community to our strategic plan uh so that they know what the history is, how we came to all of these priorities. And then as we move forward again, this is the overview page. So you'll see some overview slides. So this is who we are as a district. You'll see some demographic data about our student population, about our community, uh some some data about our staff, uh and then you'll see our numbers in terms of
085enrollment trends, etc. You'll also see on our strategic plan on this slash page kind of a highlevel summary of each of the strategic priority areas. And then we move into the specific areas for each of our strategic priorities. So for goal one, exceptional instruction, some of the metrics that we've already put in the dashboard uh based on data that's already available are the things that you've seen before, right? So our CASP scores, our CAST science scores, dibbles, u math. Uh we did the um SVMI Mars assessment this year as part of our pilot. So, we're starting to gather some of that data and we'll see some preliminary data make its way into our strategic plan priority uh community dashboard by the end of the school year. Uh and then English learner performance. Other things that
086we are working on that we're kind of looking toward are things like the portrait of a graduate awareness. So, a lot of that is data that's collected sort of in focus groups or through surveys or through anecdotes and walkthroughs and things of that nature. So, we're developing our plan for how we're going to report that in a dashboard. Is that going to look like numbers? Is that going to look like pictures? Is that going to look like anecdotes? And then we'll be putting we'll be putting that into our strategic plan uh community dashboard as well. So those are some of those other areas, learner progressions and learning walkthroughs as well. So those are the things that we're looking toward. Here's an example of the strategic pri priority one um page. So you'll see an overview
087of the goal itself. You'll see the priority or the focus areas for the current school year under there. I know it's a little too hard to read right there, but this is again just to show you an overview of what it would look like. And then we start getting into a highle view of the data sets that are included or the metrics that are included under exceptional instruction. This is just the highle view. And then for those who want to get into the details of all of our CASP data or all of our Dibbles data, then we have detail pages that would be focused on each of those. So the detail pages is where you would see the ability to filter to grade level spans. So if I only want to look at elementary across
088our nine schools, if I only want to look at English learners, uh those are where some of our filtering comes into place. Some of the things that I want to point out back to kind of our design principles is you will notice that we're using very similar color schemes across all of our slides or across all of these um pages. And the reason for that is because we don't want to confuse people. So in California, red always means the lowest area. Uh blue always means the highest performance area. And so we're keeping those colors because that's something that our state has kind of trained us to look for. So we wanted to model that and and have that in here so we have that consistency. Uh so we're using very similar language for how we
089report on levels of achievement uh and for grade level spans etc. so that it's easy to orient our users as they're going across the different pages. This is an example of dibbles data. So, uh, this is actually two different screenshots, uh, because the data is pretty hard to put into one little slide. Uh, but again, with Dibbles, because that's an assessment that we give three times a year at our youngest grade levels, uh, that is data set where we can provide a snapshot. Here's how students did at the beginning of the year. And then at the end of the year, we can also show growth data. Here's how students did from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. Here's the percentage that grew. here's the percentage that um stayed the same
090etc. So a couple of different things ways that we can present that data. Strategic priority two engaged students. The some of the metrics are on the left there. So this is our school climate healthy kids survey. We are just getting back our healthy kids survey. It was administered in January. And so that's an area that we're starting to put for some metrics into place. and then chronic absentes and suspension rate, graduation rates, all of those are areas that you've seen the data on before. And then other areas that we are working on um the focus groups, survey data, etc. This is an example of what one of the pages would look like. This is healthy kids data. Again, just sort of playing through what some of those slides would look like. chronic absenteeism, graduation outcomes,
091purposeful partnerships. Right now, some of the metrics are uh really about lists. So, it's more narrative in nature. So, we have our healthy kids survey results that we are currently analyzing having just gotten back that data. And then we have a list of the partners that we are the partners in our community. So, I will show you the next slide and it's really a rotating list of all of the community partnerships that we have and how they are supporting our schools and our students and then some of the other areas that we're building out as we form more partnerships. empowered educators or goal four. This is a lot of our staff data and then work in progress. As we develop our as we go further in our implementation of our strategic plan with empowered educators,
092there are more data sets that we expect that we'll be able to include. And then goal five, equity centered systems. This is a lot of the work about how we resource. And so some of the metrics that we're including here are about how we're providing additional targeted supports uh for areas where we have uh some opportunity gaps and achievement gaps in our student date outcome data. So that's an overview of our dashboard. Just a high level again this was not about showing data itself. This was more show showing how we're planning on presenting it to our community. Uh some of the areas that we're looking toward for next year are some additional data sets as I mentioned earlier and then our next steps are really you continuing to load all of the data. We're working
093on adding more user friendly data so that the cognitive load is on us not on the user to figure out what this means for them and for their schools. And then uh our plan is to have this ready to publish this summer as we head into summer and then start the start of next school year. Thank you so much for the wonderful presentation. We are due for a break for our captioners. So, I'm going to have a break and then we'll come back and ask any questions or comments. Thank you. So, please uh we'll reconvene at um 8:39. We are back. We are We started 30 seconds ago. I'm going to start with our comments. Mina. All right. Um, you know, this is a granular uh report and I appreciate it, but is there going
094to be a like a summary that the public could um just look in there and say, you know, we've advanced from the previous year without showing all the graphs. so that they could just sort of get a summary and idea whether where our strengths are and how we progress over the year. We're in our second or third year. This is our first year of implementation. Oh, okay. So that I didn't know, but that would be nice because some of us try to talk up the strategic plan and they look at you funny and after they finish looking at you funny, they expect you to explain it to them and I said it's a goal and things like that, but what I've been told. So um do you have any thing I could share with the
095public when some when I get a question like that? Yes. So we have been thinking about that again goes back to the user friendliness. There are people who want all the details and all the data and in every which way and there are people who just want the bottom line, right? And so we want to be able to attend to both. So I put up this is the architecture slide and you can see here in the overview there is well that doesn't work. Uh in the overview there is sort of a high level of here's our strategic plan priority areas and then we go into each of the priorities. I would think that moving forward one of the things that we've been talking about is another page that says here are our priorities for the
0962425 school year and here's how we did. So that if you don't want to go into further details, you could stop just there and say like, "Oh, okay. I see we made progress in reading. We're still working on it in math and our graduation rates are a little bit better than they were last year. Great. I'm done." And then for those who want all the details of the data, then they can go into SP1 and then go into CASP and graduation rates, etc., if they want to. So I think that's the direction that we're going where we needed to start with. Here's all the data. Let's put it up. Let's see what it looks like and how we can organize it in a way that makes sense. And then we're going back to say now
097that we have all the data there. Whoa, it's a lot. How do we make sense of it for our users who just want the high level? This is how it this is what's going on right now. So, I do I hear your concern. I think we a lot of us share that same concern. We want to make sure that it's accessible for our families and our community. And so we are actively thinking about and testing out ways that we can do that. Thank you. I appreciate that. All right. Thank you, Trusty Richardson. Trusty Lamb. Yes. Uh, thank you, Dr. Hugh. Um, I wanted to just uh I guess go into uh some of the goals of the dashboard. You did talk about purpose. Um I and I was just thinking maybe like stepping back you
098know as a parent as a newbie also on the board just trying to understand the data and how to interpret it myself. I think that's great that we are building this dashboard and and you mentioned you know bringing in narratives uh to help uh to u I guess bring more context to the data. Um could you talk a little bit more about how we will um I guess uh like well promote the dashboard and to the community and uh help people to kind of know know what to do with it or make sense of it. Sure. Absolutely. So, as I mentioned earlier, we are expecting or we're anticipating a summer roll out. Uh, so once we have all of our data from the end of the year in, so as part of that rollout plan,
099we expect that we usually have community newsletters in the summer. And so, that would be one CA one way that we would showcase this is our community dashboard. Take a look at how we did with year one of our implementation with data from the 2425 school year. We also expect that my team is planning or I'm planning for my team to help me develop a video introduction that would help people understand with somebody sort of going through the some looks at the dashboard. Here is what the dashboard is. Here's where that data comes from. Here's why these are the metrics that were in that are included. And then here's how you can navigate if you want to see different types of data. If you're interested in how we're doing around school climate, this is where
100you would go, etc. So, short video, but we think that that would help to orient our community to what the dashboard is and how to go about using it. Within the slide or within the screens themselves, there are uh areas where if you hover over something, you're like, "What is dibbles? I don't know what that is." You can actually hover over it and you would get an explanation of what Dibbles is, what it stands for. It's an acronym and here's who takes it. Here's when they take it and here's how our teachers use that data. That that sounds really cool that the I feel like that that too. Sometimes I'm forgetting what what is the acronym again. So that very good feature. Uh yeah, thanks for thinking of all these, you know, user interface user
101friendly uh things to put in there. I guess I just wanted to step back to in terms of uh like just thinking overarching purpose. Um yes, it's uh I'm I'm glad that you have you know we it feels like we have all this data, all this information that's coming in. Um, and it is uh just communicating that to the public is um something that uh is just I I hope that really helps uh to make it clearer or at least just to have at least another uh thing we can point to to to communicate uh what we're doing, how how we're doing and you know to hold maybe in some way it holds ourselves accountable but just by the act of like okay we're putting this data together and uh putting a narrative to it.
102But hopefully I I really do hope that it helps uh people on the outside understand uh what we're doing in the district. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much, Trusty Lamb. Trusty Shay, thank you. Thank you for um the great presentation and I really like the way the direction we are going. So I want to commend uh this great work and then this is as uh trust uh Amy mentioned this is a a accountability tool for us as well since we spend so much time effort and everything on our strategic plan that we need really need to know how are we doing. So this is a great direction that we are heading. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Trusty Murray. Thank you for the report and thanks to to you and the rest of
103the staff that worked on it. I think this is amazing and um I think that well I guess it would be accountability for us but I think the parents would love this. Um you know we talk about the strategic plan and and here it is and you're actually breaking it down for them. So I I love it and I I thank you for it. Thank you. Thank you. All right, Trusty Trusty Moore and Dr. Moore. Trusty Moore. All right, I thank you very much. I I wanted to just remind the board about two years ago in a board governance workshop, we talked when we did our board self- evaluation, we talked about some of our opportunities of growth and one of the things was how can we make our data more visible to our community?
104Knowing that we were launching into a strategic plan, we wanted to couple that with something that the board had asked. Can we get something like this? One, to make it more visible to our community, but also, yeah, the board has invested a lot into the strategic plan and its success. So, we want to be able to show how we're making progress along the way. And so, I'm really grateful to Dr. Hugh and her team and um all of the thought partnership that has gone into this to help breathe life into it. But I also wanted to remind the board that it was a conversation that we had as a result of the self-evaluation that we did a couple of years ago. So I'm glad that you guys seem pleased with the result. So thank you.
105Great idea. Yes. Um I want to echo echo that. I mean I I am excited about this. Um I spoke yesterday at the youth and government breakfast kickoff um Tuesday. Um, and one of the things that I said that I think about a lot, um, is that we do a lot, um, in our schools. We do a lot in our communities, we do a lot as government administrators, and we're really pretty bad about talking about what we do. Um, and so I I think this is one piece. I I generally think that we could do more in communicating with parents and teachers about changes that we're making, reasons behind it, thinking um and I think this is a really good piece to fit into to part of that. But um I will also say it's
106not like uh a field of dreams. If we build it, they will not come unless we tell them they should come. So I I do hope that we also have a communication strategy to um communicate that we have this thing Absolutely. We've been thinking about that too. Um not only telling people that it's there but also making it accessible to them once they get there. So that's where again how do we make it user friendly? Can we provide a highle view that if you just want the highlights, you just want the bottom line, you can get that and not go any further, but still provide the detail for those who want to go in and filter and and look up all the different, you know, charts and everything. So, I think it'll, you know, hopefully
107we're we're doing enough to appeal to all parties. I I think it'll be a work in progress and I think that that's just generally how these things work, but I think we'll learn more as we keep doing it. So, keep keep it up. Thank you. Thank you. All right, moving on to item P, consent agenda. The following items are submitted for board approval. One motion will authorize action for those items so designated. Do we have any questions or comments on these items? Do we need to pull anything? Sounds like no. Um, can I get a motion to pass this? Second. All right. Um, that was a first by Trusty Murray, second by Trustee Sheay. Great. Trusty Shay. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Motion carries. 5. Oh, another information discussion item. Um, one
108business services bond program project update. Yeah, thank you, President Anthony. We have Lori Shelton, our bond director, here tonight to provide an update on the status of various uh bond projects in our district. The bond team has been working really hard to get the bond program up and running. So uh so welcome uh Rich Shelton. [Music] Good evening board and cabinet and uh South San Francisco Unified community. Um today is just a a brief update on where we are with our current projects. Um I don't have a presentation for you, so I'm just going to be speaking. Uh so I wanted to let you know that um just as a reminder uh in 2024 we did another presentation and we outlined the fact that we were going to group our projects into basically five groups.
109So um and that was the way we were going to roll out the school. So I'm going to take you through the projects by groups. So, one of the things that I do want to remind you is when we talked about that original presentation, part of the priority um that we've established was to start with schools that never received any uh construction during the previous bond program and then the remaining schools were identified for by their basic needs. So for the first group um we I'll start with Sunshine Gardens. Um that project has now entered into the second phase of our two-phase uh process. The first phase was the project assessment which we completed. Now we are beginning to work with the school community for the first design portion of the project. So um we
110have uh meetings scheduled with the community um in the next few weeks and we will start that process uh uh very soon. Um so just basically um as a reminder uh the design phase uh is in uh several components. It uh will last about 6 to9 months. Um some of the things that will occur after uh we've complete design is that we'll have to get uh approval from our state agency which is the division of uh state architect. Some of the other agencies that may require uh approval include, but I'm not limited to um the county health department, the California Geological Survey, the Office of Public School Construction, and that's just a few of some of the agencies that we may have to interact with and and receive approval from. So that's why the process
111takes uh longer and that's before we even go out to bid. So um so following design and following review and approval, the bid process usually takes about two months and then um uh construction depending on the scope of work usually uh for modernization includes about 18 uh to 24 months. And so we anticipate that construction for Sunshine Gardens will actually start the summer of 2027. Um, and just to give you a synopsis of what the scope of work looks like at this stage, um, that includes modernization of classrooms. We are planning a new exploratorium. Um that also includes HVAC upgrades, security upgrades, restroom upgrades, utility infrastructure upgrades such as the storm, sanitary, gas, fire, electrical system upgrades, site uh accessibility improvements, roofing, and then of course we would also need interim housing for swing space.
112So um I know that's a lot. We as we move through the various stages of design that uh scope of work will be paired to match the existing budget. Uh the next school that we started with that I spoke a little bit about the last board meeting was Los Certos modernization. Um as I had stated before that project had been placed on hold because of the issues that and challenges that we were trying to work through. Um I met with the architect firm this week so that we can at least start the process of discussing discussing how we're going to um address the immediate need of how to do the construction and then uh once we have uh that aspect solidified then we'll be able to restart the design process with them and I don't
113have a time frame for that as um we just began that conversation But I wanted to let you know that it's it's in progress. Excuse me. Um and then we have the uh central kitchen and the El Camino cafeteria. That project um is underway from preliminary services that we've had with the architect that was identified. Um construction will uh is planned for this summer and should continue through to summer of 2026. Um we are still we have DSA approval on the cafeteria aspect. We are still waiting for DSA approval for the kitchen. Um we anticipate that we will have it by uh some somewhere in the week of April 14th hopefully. Um but DSA marches to their own beat. So that is our goal and our hope. Um we are uh also we we we're
114doing the project as a lease lease back. So we have a contractor on board. They are uh receiving bids from their subcontractors between this week and next. So we will have a good idea of how much the construction project will be. very shortly. Um let's see. Uh one of the other components to the central kitchen project is the temporary um meal area that we are preparing at the district offices. that project was uh bid out that'll be coming forward to you um for board approval for the contractor on the next board meeting. And um and then as a reminder, our nutrition services director had is partnering with a third party vendor uh for services during the construction period. So we are all moving forward to uh have this construction underway this summer. Then the other
115project that will uh kick off this summer will be the Westboro uh field and pavement improvements. We just were notified uh this week that we have unofficial DSA approval. So basically they've done their review, they just haven't done the paperwork. So hopefully that will be coming within the next day or two and we will have that uh in front of the board for uh approval for the contractor as we have done uh the bidding for that already. So that will be shortly and then um just a a piece of note that we did do the bid opening on March 19th and uh the contract will be at the April 24th board meeting for approval. Right, group two. Um, so group two includes four schools. Uh, we have the South San Francisco High School, we have
116the El Camino High School, we have Spruce Elementary, and we have uh Manet Verde Elementary. Uh, South San Francisco High and El Camino High are very deep into the project assessment phase. Um, our architects are finalizing the data that they have collected. They've been on site during the spring break to do uh additional um assessments. Um, so they are in the process of putting together our project assessment report and making recommendations, helping us define what the priority facility aspects are um, and putting together the um, final analysis of understanding the programmatic aspects and needs of our community. And then we obviously we've been meeting with the site communities to try to get their feedback on what their prior priorities are. So all of this is being um data inputed so that we can determine at
117the end of this process what the scope of work will be and what the estimated construction um costs will be. So, and then for excuse me for Manet Verde and Spruce, we've just um uh received board approval for the architects. So, we are just now having the kickoff with the design teams and then we'll be working with the school communities to move through that process. So, very early stages for those two projects. And then I just wanted to remind you the schools um in the next three groups and who they are. We have not started work on these but I just wanted to give you a a reminder. So group three which would be the next phase of schools that we move into are Altoma Middle School, Parkway Heights Middle School and Ben High School.
118Group four includes the Juniper Sarah Elementary School, Ponderosa Elementary School, Skyline Elementary, and Westboro Middle. And then in the group five, it's a lot of variations in this one, but we have Bur Bur, we have Martin Elementary. There are um projects to be determined for district offices, for the children's center, for Hillside Preschool, for the Sarah Vista campus, and then uh workforce housing. So, that kind of rounds out all the projects that have been identified, excuse me, um in in the uh measure T bond program. So, some of the other projects that you may recall were the HVAC projects that happened at um various school sites. They fell into three packages. Package A was um the HVAC systems under the the bomb program. Just wanted to let you know that that construction has been completed.
119We have uh we're working on uh getting DSA certification um and so we are in the closeout phase and hopefully we will have um notification from DSA that they're all certified closed very shortly. Let's see. Um, speaking of uncertified uh, closed projects, part of what we've been doing as a team is trying to return to um, some of the projects that were closed and were uncertified. Um, we're going through the process of having them certified. So, it's a long process. We've had 23 projects that fell in the uncertified category. As of today, we have eight projects confirmed that were certified. We have five that are at DSA waiting to receive um the certified close. And then we have 10 schools or projects that will need more work um to evaluate how we'll be able to
120close those projects. So they're a lot more complicated. We don't each one will have a very unique process to determine how to get certification. Some include um getting an another um inspector on board to do some evaluations. We might have to do some destructive testing so that they can see behind the wall of what was constructed. Some things might have to be removed and redone in the modernization project. It just depends on the scope of every individual project and what we can do and and and move that forward. Um fortunately to date DSA has not uh held us um prevented us from moving into the the new modernization projects which they are well able to do if we have uncertified projects associated with a particular site. So, um, and then some of the future items
121that you will see coming up at the future board meetings are, um, quite a few RFQ for pools of various, um, services like commissioning and moving, construction management services, leaseback, contractor, pool. Um we have some commissioning services for very for El Camino uh high school and cafeteria project um and some very specific projects that are coming forward so that we can create those pools and then those are the firms that we will draw from for those various services and I won't list the whole list but um they're quite a few so don't be surprised um and then uh just ongoing. We are documenting and creating our district standards and then uh we have IT standards that we have been working with um our IT director and one of our consultants to put very specific IT
122standards done. So the standards have been uh created. They're under review and hopefully very soon we will have them approved by um our IT department and be able to have u a standard format that we can share with all our design teams on how we want our uh it designed and implemented. Um that is my report. Any questions? [Music] Jesse Murray. Um, do we have a website so that the community can see where we where we are and what we're doing? Um, we have a page that is not upgraded that one of the things that we're we're we need to do is work with uh a provider to help us develop our page. I understand we have a website under uh design. So once we have that consultant, we'll work with them to uh create.
123No one on my staff has the ability to do any web design. So that's something we need a a special consultant to help us with questions. Jesse Lamb, trusty Richardson. Trusty Richardson, just go ahead. It's fine. Okay. Um, so many questions. You said all the HVAC units are completed for for all. What am I understanding? So, there were three HVAC packages. Excuse me. Sorry. There were three HVAC packages A, B, and C. um HVAC package A which consisted of five schools uh were only the ones that fell under the bond programs. So I can't speak to the other two packages but the packages the schools that were in in uh bond related those are done. Oh okay. So, it's kind of hard to follow and I would agree with one of my board members that
124we need something to make something some sense of the progress because it is convoluted. You'll agree. I mean, I was trying to follow you with uh let's see, you said group one, group two um and the next group. And did I hear you say one of the projects is going to start like this is the um um one of the projects is going to start in 207 2027 construction uh I was referring to the Sunshine Garden actual construction that will likely start in uh summer of 2027. But from now until then, we will have the design process as well as the review process with the state agencies. Yeah, I know that the bureaucracy could be daunting and I I I understand that's the hangup and um here's a sensitive subject. Okay, we have we cashed
125in 150 million. Mr. Oh, this might be from Miss for you. We have 286 million left. Have we do we have a need at this point to cash out more of another tr another 100 million trench? Yeah, I'll try to answer that question. So, the state law only allows us to take out sufficient funds for the current project. So as the cash flow goes down as we start we're using the funds for like the central kitchen cafeteria and the westboro paving you know that will evaluate you know the when is the ne the next time we'll be drawing another or selling bonds for the second series of bonds which is another likely another 150 million but the law doesn't allow us to to you know sell the bonds and get the money in advance and
126try to earn interest on Oh, that makes sense. Okay. The way, you know, we have these issues that we have to consider. I'm starting to worry that we're running out of money and, you know, these projects already being hung up for one reason or another will be further, you know, delayed. And I guess we got to have to be patient on it. And I appreciate really what you're doing, keeping us on track and meeting every required measurement law, finding out if we have the correct permits because really we've been suffering from the last bond which is a fiasco and I do not want to see repeat. We want to see down done even though the it's you know the union phrase on time on budget and all that probably doesn't make sense for school construction
127but I'll be happy we did it on done right and on budget. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you so much. I just wanted to add though actually for construction we we we strive to be on time and on on schedule all the time. That's our goal. All right. Trusty L. I ask a question just as Yeah. Again, as a new person, I was just curious about the five groups in terms of um I guess the pacing. So like it seems like we're I mean we're in middle of group one. Um and uh I guess would you like and we've kind of started on group two in terms of like the very early phases. Is that correct? Yes. And then how do you foresee like the the following groups kind of yes starting those initial phases?
128So, one of the things we're working on right now is uh revising our master schedule that that will show what the phasing and the pacing uh will be based on the information we have to date. Uh part of the process is looking at what we're capable of handling. Um and if you recall and it well you may not recall but in the initial stages we actually had to just build the program and we are still building the program. Um a lot of things that we need uh ed specs district standards um just various uh things didn't exist. Yeah. Our the previous bond program was several years ago. Um all of these things have lapsed. Um so we're basically starting from ground zero. So initially we had to try to get these in place and we
129continue to do that. Um but we are trying to pace it not just with the labor capacity that we can hand but also the cash flow. I mean the cash flow dictates how uh we can lay out uh and how quickly we can uh progress with our projects. So um we're working on that master schedule revision but on you know there is a time what we're looking at that we may have 10 projects going at the same time in various stages and I also want to add you know yeah part of the reason it takes a while because you know when we passed the bond in November 2022 you know we're not it takes about four months to actually you know do go through all the steps to sell the bond and actually receive the
130money and we didn't even get that till like uh I believe April of the following year and then on top of that you know we're starting from scratch so we're you know it took some time also to hire the staff for the whole department and so you know so all that takes a bit of time and it was very challenging to hire the staff because you know a lot of the staff that we hire you know they also can get jobs for architect firms and private firms which pays actually a lot more so so it's that's another challenge that districts So that took a while to hire the the right staff, you know, the for the team for to go forward the bond. So that's also the reason too. All right. Comment. Yeah. Thank you.
131Thank you for the uh the update. So may I ask next time we have the update, can we have a report? So since we we don't have a capacity to have the information on the website as our uh trustees mentioned to you then the a report that it's going to be a a a report then it's transparent to our public and it's a little bit easier for us to follow. Certainly. Thank you. Oh Dr. Shade actually we do actually provide uh updates to our citizens bond oversight committee. you know that that happens about four times a year, four or five times a year and as well as the facility subcommittee meeting. So usually all minutes are actually on the website for those two committees. So you go into actually those two committee website, you can
132read up the minutes, you'll get all the up information that we that she just shared. Yeah. So that's also there too. So but but we're actually looking at you know having a separate web page for the bond that we we'll be working on in the future to to have that. But when you go into the website right now, you know, we have one uh icon right on the main screen for bonds where you go in there and you can select each of the committees of the bond committees and you could get actually their minutes from there. Yeah. All right. Thank you so much. I don't have any questions. Great. Thank you. All right. Moving on to action part of our uh agenda number one, administration a resolution 2511 for Earth Day. Staff recommends the adoption
133of resolution 2511 in support of Earth Day. Um Trusty Richardson, would you read this into the record? Thank you. I will. The South San Francisco Unified School District Resolution 25-11, Earth Day, April 22nd, 2025. Whereas environmental groups have sought to make Earth Day a day of action to change human behavior, prompt policy changes, initiate environmental reform, promote ecology, and encourage awareness of the growing problems of air, water, and soil pollution. And whereas the first Earth Day celebration was held on April 27 2nd, 1970. And whereas this year's theme, our power, our planet, advocates for widespread awareness of the health risk of plastics and encourages individuals, businesses, and governments to take actions such as eliminating single-use plastics, saying no to straws, plastic bags, utensils, and water bottles. And whereas according to Earthday.org, or Gen Z is
134providing inspiration with 45% having stopped purchasing certain brands because of ethical or sustainability concerns. And whereas schools have the potential to create significant environmental change while teaching the students to be stewards of the communities, the earth, and its resources. And whereas El Camino High School's ecology club is dedicated to educa educating students on the importance of the environment by focusing on conservation of the unique ecosystems of El Camino High School, the Bay Area, and California. And whereas South San Francisco High School Earth Club has created an outdoor learning space with gardens, manages the school's recycling program, participates in annual cleanups, and lobbies lawmakers to support NOS's fighting climate change and whereas districts staff and several US schools are committed to beautifying campuses through gardening projects, recycling, efforts and waste management initiatives. Now therefore, be it
135resolved that the South San Francisco Unified School District Board of Trustees hereby recognizes the ongoing efforts to sustain a global movement that embraces nature and its values, adopts measures that increase conservation and sustainability, and nurtures respect for the environment in all students in observation of Earth Day 2025 regularly. ly passed and adopted this 10th day, April, 2025. Thank you so much. Any questions or comments? Can I get a motion to approve this resolution? So move. Trusty Richardson with the first. Trusty Murray with the second. Can I get a roll call, please? Trusty Richardson? Yes. Trusty Sha? Yes. Trusty Lamb? Yes. Vice President Murray? Yes. President Anthony? Yes. Thank you so much. Mary measure cat measure passes 5-0. Um, educational services approval of SMC CCD for the middle college program for 2025 2026. Staff recommends the
136approval of theou with Sanonteo County Community College District for the middle college program at Skyline College for the 2025 2026 school year. Uh, Trusty Shay, I will recuse uh myself because of potential conflict of interest. So I'm an employee of SMCCCCD. So I strongly recommend the board approve thisou this program benefit our student greatly. I recuse myself but I'm still going to speak in favor. All right. All right. Um any questions or comments about this program? I mean, I had a few, but did Sure. just Well, I Yeah, I just um want to I know it asked about just the general overall enrollment in the program and um I understand there's been changes at least recently in terms of how many students they're able to accept. Could you speak to that? I've actually invited the
137director of the program, Martina Goodman, to give is with us virtually. Um Miss Cter Goodman, are you there? Hi. Yes, I'm here. Thank you for being here. So, the question is, can we speak to just the overall enrollment of the middle college program? Yeah. So, um enrollment is pretty good based on the numbers that we have been able to um that has been approved through theou. So, like back when middle college first started, we were approved to have about 100 students. it was 50 in each um grade level. But then as time went on, it's kind of decreased um with the different boards and with Mr. Irish who was kind of in charge of theou like with us coming to an agreement. So at one point it was 45 students per grade level and now
138we're at 35 students per grade level. So we're just right at um the mark, but now that we are incorporating other school districts, it's limiting some of the spots. So, we're trying to um increase which this school year many students from South San Francisco Unified have um applied for the program and we'll take in Oh, we can only take in 35 of them, but we've had more than 35 apply, but we can only take in 35 to equal the 70 that were allowed to take in. Okay, great. And so, and I I didn't realize that. Um, so you're what you're saying is that other now as other school districts are also participating then that's just sort of affecting their capacity to take on like more of our students as well. We could take in more
139but we're not allowed to from your from based on theou. So like right now this school year we have um 53 that applied right new students that want to join our program but we have 35 that are continuing. So out of that 53, we can only take in 35 more students. And I can speak a little to that, Trusty Lamb. I think part of the conversation early on was the overall costs of the program in align and looking across the board at all of the programs that we have. So decisions were made to look at uh capping the total enrollment to also make space for other programs that the district wanted to make sure that we had enough funds to to support. Yeah. No, that's great context, too. Thank you. And then I just was
140curious um It's about uh so I know I realize that we you know I guess in a way paying tuition for these students to attend which I think is of course fair in terms of their you know needing to compensate for their teaching services and and such but um I guess I I guess I I didn't quite get an answer in terms of like was is there a particular um uh way that that the amount that's in theou is calculated. I realize there's like a colar increase, but just in terms of generally how that that cost was determined. Go ahead. So I know if on the form kind of the page that I um had submitted it shows, you know, like for the first two years it was for free and then for over um
141a significant amount of years it was like at one set amount. And so just recently in 2023 is when we finally increased it um by 3% which was um negotiated like I said about the cola the cost of living but basically um the funding that comes in helps you know supplement the cost of everything that it takes to you know run the program as far as you know the field trips and the different things that we do with the students in our program. So all the money that comes in is directly mostly going back to the students. Okay, great. Thank you so much. I I have a just one brief comment and question for Mrs. Goodman. I understand that other school districts participate. Um how would are they figured into the program? Because I know
142Samonteo High School District has sends stools school sends students to that program. Am I wrong or No, no, no. You're correct. So, we do have students that come from So, South San Francisco was the first school school district that we partnered with and then um Samuel Union High School District. we only get a few of their students because they um based on like uh I guess it's called like county lines they um send most of their students to CSM's middle college. So for us we take in just a small amount of their students but now we do have anou with Jefferson Union High School District as well and so then they have allotted a certain amount of their students to be able to come into our program as well. So now we serve the three
143school districts, but South San Francisco is the one where most of our students um that are in our program come from. Oh, thank you. That's good to know. Yeah. Right. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for being here, Miss Senator Goodman. Um make a motion to approve this. So move. Second. Thank you. First by Murray, second by Lamb. All in favor? I I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 5-0. Approval ofou with core districts for the 2025 to 2027 school years. Staff recommends the approval of theou with core districts for data analysis, reporting, and professional learning services for 2025 through 2027 school years. Um, any questions or comments? Yeah, I had a question and I um I guess in I just wanted to know a little bit more about the professional uh development or trainings
144that are offered um through as part of this agreement that also I as I've believe may also inform our work uh in terms of uh presenting data to the community. Yes, I'd like to invite Dr. Hugh who can who's still present with us who can address that question. Hello again. Uh so the core data collaborative is part of the core districts. So there are eight now nine uh school districts in California. And the data collaborative is a much broader group. So that group includes I want to say close to 200 school districts. And it's really designed as a way to provide some opportunity for the data people to network and learn from each other about different strategies for sharing data and teaching others in their communities to use the data. So uh one of the
145things that um living in my world in data world um there isn't a whole lot of professional development for my team. So, as the administrator and as a certificated member, I have opportunities. I sit on research uh boards, uh research groups and things, but for my team, there really aren't any. And so, this is one of those rare opportunities for them to learn about how to uh use data and design different ways to visualize that data for our consumers, our teachers, our administrators, our community. And then they're able to grow in professional in their professional development as they're learning how to do these things for like our strategic plan community dashboard. Trusty Murray, I was going to make a motion. So move, did you have any other questions? No. Okay. So move. Second. Thank you.
146Oh, I got a motion to pass thisouou from Trusty Murray, second by Trusty Shay. All in favor? I I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 5-0. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right. Item C, approval of new course implementation at SSFHS. Staff recommends the approval of the percussion ensemble course for implementation at South San Francisco High School for the 2025 to 2026 school year. Any questions or comments on this? I'm super excited. This is out of our Prop 28 funds. Um was a question from earlier, I believe. Prop two. Prop Prop 28 is the arts uh was Oh, okay. I got it. Prop 2 last year was the school bonds fund. Um anyway, uh very exciting. Um fun fun. Should be fun. Uh any uh can I get a motion to approve this new course? So
147moved. Second. All right. First by Trusty Murray, second by Trusty Shay. All in favor? I I. Any opposed? All right. Motion carries. 5-0. Item D, the approval of reallocation of funds for stepping stones. Staff recommends the reallocation of funds to increase stepping stones agreement to pay the cost of school psychologists covering leaves of absences. Any questions or comments about this? I'll make a motion. All right. I have a motion from Trusty Lamb. Second. We got a second from Trusty Sheay. All in favor? I I. Any opposed? Motion carries 5-0. All right. Human resources A. Resolution 2510 for classified school employee week. Staff recommends the adoption of resolution 2510 designating May 18th to 24th, 2025 as classified school employee week. Trusty Richardson, are you up for reading another into the record or? I've asked. All right.
148Trusty Lamb, if you would read that into the record. What a what a wonderful pleasure. Thank you. Okay, so uh resolution number uh 25-10 classified school employee week May 18th through the 24th 2025. Whereas the third full week of May has been designated as classified school employee week by the California State Legislature. This year, classified school employee week will be May 18th through the 24th, 2025. This year's theme is trusted, inclusive, united. Whereas classified school employees provide valuable services to the schools and students of the South San Francisco Unified School District. And whereas classified school employees contribute to the establishment and promotion of a positive instructional environment. And whereas classified school employees play a vital role in providing for the welfare and safety of South San Francisco Unified School District students. And whereas classified school
149employees employed by the South San Francisco Unified School District strive for excellence in all areas relative to the educational community. Now therefore, be it resolved that the South San Francisco Unified School District Board of Trustees hereby recognizes and wishes to honor the contributions of the classified school employees to quality education in the state of California and in the South San Francisco Unified School District and declares the week of May 18th to the 24th, 2025 as classified school employee week. Regularly passed and adopted this 10th day of April, 2025. Thank you so much. We love our classified school employees. They are also educators and we are happy that they are part of our community. Um, can I get a motion to move? All right. Move. Motion by Trusty Murray. Uh, second by Trusty Shay. Can I
150get a roll call, please? Trusty Richardson, yes. Trusty Shay, yes. Trusty Lamb, yes. Vice President Murray, yes. President Anthony, yes. Motion carries 50. Human resources B. Resolution 2512 for Day of the Teacher. Staff recommends the adoption of resolution 2512 designating Wednesday, May 14th as the California Day of the Teacher. And I will ask Trusty Murray to read this in if you don't mind. Is that okay? Great. Okay. Um, resolution number 2512, California Day of the Teacher, May 14, 2025. National Teacher Appreciation Day, May 6th, 2025. Whereas Wednesday, May 14, 2025, is designated as the day of the teacher with a theme, we are the ones we've been waiting for. And whereas an educated citizenry serves as the foundation of our democracy. And whereas today's teachers mold the minds and train the workforce of the future.
151And whereas no other profession touches as many people with such such a lasting effect. And whereas good teaching grows in value and pays dividends far beyond the classroom. And whereas excellence in our state begins with California teachers. And whereas California's teachers are among the best educated, most credentialed, and hardest working educators in the country. Now therefore, be it resolved that the South San Francisco Unified School District Board of Trustees recognizes May 14, 2025 as Day of the Teacher and wishes to extend its sincere appreciation to the teachers in the South San Francisco Unified School District who day in and day out affect the lives of our students in limitless and lasting ways, regularly passed and adopted this 10th day of April, 2025. Thank you so much. Any comments or questions? Say we also love our
152teachers. So move. I'll second. Great. Uh that was a first by Trustee Murray and a second by Trusty Lamb. All right. All roll call, please. Trusty Richardson. Yes. Trusty Sha. Yes. Trusty Lamb. Yes. Vice President Murray. Yes. President Anthony. Yes. All right. Motion carries 5-0. Uh, moving on to business services. Approval of amendment number two with ProTek Consulting and Engineering, Inc. for the ECS central kitchen and cafeteria project. Staff recommends the approval of amendment two with Protek Consulting and Engineering, Inc. for additional services related to construction phase asbestous and lead abatement monitoring as well as insitue soil characterization for El Camino High School central kitchen and cafeteria project in the amount of $48,899. Any questions or comments on this? Motion to approve. So move. Great. Second. Okay. Motion from Trusty Shay, second by Trusty Murray.
153All in favor? I I. Any opposed? Great. Motion carries 5-0. Uh B, approval of amendment number one with Cornerstone Earth Group, Inc. for the ECS central kitchen and cafeteria project. Staff recommends the approval of amendment number one to the agreement with Cornerstone Earth Group for additional geo services for construction phase geotechnical engineering and observation for the El Camino High School central kitchen and cafeteria project in the amount of $21,500. Any questions or comments on this? All right. May I get a motion to pass? Make a motion. Great. Second. All right. First by Trusty Lamb, second by Trusty Murray. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Motion carries. 5-0. Review of future agenda items and meetings. Any questions, comments, thoughts? All right. Uh, summary of board directives. There are none. All right. And we move
154on to good and welfare. Anybody want to start? Trusty Lamb. Sure. Um, as I mentioned, uh, I'll be visiting Altoma Middle School, uh, tomorrow, uh, to observe, um, the math pilot and, um, really looking forward to that. Uh, just want to thank, uh, Director Brockmire for helping me with that. Um, and I also attended the another CSBA uh training um this past weekend and um looking forward to three more for the governance course. And there's also the South San Francisco Chamber of Commerce scholarship lunchon coming up uh April 17th and I will try to make that you trusty Richardson. I briefly want to mention um last night in relationship to the government youth in government lunchon or no that's the chamber but we're also invited the whole board is to um the youth and government
155sha shadow um but last night at the city council the um the city council recognized four of our students from South City High who are completing that uh program and we I plan to attend it's next week. I don't have the date in my mind but that I was so proud to see our students. They were intently listening to everything that the speakers were talking about and that's the business of the of running the city that was being um discussed and I I was so happy to see that our ch our young students are very aware of their role in government. And um also what did I said I do? I did. Oh, this this afternoon we went to the TOSA workshop. We got an invitation. and I went and got a chance to sit
156and listen to the tossas at uh Spruce STEM lab and they were talking about all the programs that they teach the rest of the um our our teacher our teachers our teaching community with new programs and I learned certain things that the plan coming for the new students that We will have through a program that they are teaching that the children will learn to type by second grade. Incredible. I thought it was something fifth grade. I thought that's amazing. So that is what's happening in our schools nowadays. that just going fast and our teachers need to keep our toes are so dedicated to teaching the rest of the staff about all these programs on Google's classroom platform and so I was happy to attend and I went to something else but I've drawn a blank
157oh we went to visit two schools Ponder Rosa with Dr. Moore and Trusty Murray and we went to see um Losertos. Um so that was very productive and I was happy to see it was a bright sunshiny day and our staff everything in La Ponderosa looks sparkling clean. You wouldn't know that they had a fire not too long ago, but I'm happy everything tiny back to normal. And their only problems is they have dogs running around sometimes and they All right, that was Thank you. Thank you, Trusty Shay. Trusty Murray. Um, I did a lot of things this week, but um, what I wanted to to actually talk about are my site visits. We visited Los Cerritos and we visited Ponderosa. Both wonderful schools. I I loved my visit. Um I wanted to say Los
158Certos. Um Karen Hong is their principal. She's a first year principal and she's wonderful. She she gave us a presentation and and I it was the first time that I actually spent any time with her and she was amazing. So um so that's what I wanted to say. Thank you. Great. Thank you so much. Um yes, as I mentioned, I spoke at the kickoff for the youth and government breakfast uh youth and government program and I was really um appreciative that I was invited to speak. Um we have a a lot of really amazing students who are part of that program and I'm excited to have them shadow our um South San Francisco staff this next week. It'll be a great opportunity to see a day in the life. Um, with that I don't think
159we have anything else.