3/9/23 Regular Board Meeting

001it doesn't happen anymore let's have a full Windsor knot is coming back we're running late presentation yet you can stay we're about to do this we're about to do our next question um [Music] we are recombining from our blog session and it's 6 58 and Thursday went to apologize it was a very difficult space and we had to do diligence And discussing all the matters of these uh a session a divorce agreed to the to a stipulated exposure accusations they were ordered to expel student do I see the number amen number the number is 141557 and to suspend the exposure and to approve a stipulated agreement for the duration of the 22 to 23 whole year again I'm sorry that it because that normally was very important for us to go through that is so

002and with that we reconvene to open session and we are now in item 6A with a study extension and what you're gonna do a study session on the technology plan okay and for that we are going to listen and get the presentation from it's again superintendent on human resources usually you do your presentation first [Music] good evening board and audience tonight we're launching our study session on technology Plan update tonight's going to be a little bit less of a traditional study session because we're going to present to you a little bit of snapshot of where we are but where we're going to go is a little more yet to be determined so would love just any feedback basically I brought some other help tonight and we're just going to kick out ideas because uh we

003don't quite know where we're heading now into this great new um unknown of the future so tonight I'll be presenting along with I have three co-stars with me if you want to stand I have the coordinator of curriculum instruction Jonathan Watts we'll be talking a little bit our it lead technician Albert also and then Paul Slaton our director of student services will be um uh commenting as well so I want to start off and again now I get to do the back piece here for the benefit of the board and and the audience just wanted to do a quick look back so we originally adopted our our yield Tech plan and if you notice that is a little bit yeah thank you Michelle appreciate it's the humor in the sense that it aged quite rapidly

004um we adopted back in October of 2019 and it held enough framework for us to get through on the covid-19 pandemic when we had to deploy technology one-to-one ratio out into the community which served us quite well um then we had the year of virtual learning so I want to say that we accelerated basically everything in the tech plan devices went out hotspots went out um uh instructional technology professional development for classified and certificated staff and management um and so we swung the the pendulum went way that way then last year we returned to in-person instruction and I want to say there was a large emphasis on returning in person um social emotional learning connecting as humans again um and being in person so a little bit the pendulum swung back the other way technology

005was still present but the focus was really on you know returning in person but we were utilizing that time to really do three things and so I want to point to the uh the three icons in the corner um where we were focusing on cyber security so just a quick side note and able to I was able to go to the educational technology conference this year from site and I really enjoy going to just like csba you kind of get a sense of the trends okay so the top three Trends this year of the sessions offered were number one cyber security number two was equity and number three cyber security so they were really kind of hammering that down so we've done a lot to shore up our work behind the scenes and I want

006to just give a lot of shout out to our student information staff um and our I.T um we've been deploying um trainings about phishing attacks and those types of things I'm getting some kind of weird feedback yes [Music] you could just be the nice yeah how about that a little too close um sorry I'm a prop here we were recognized um by the uh schools Insurance Group on our cyber security we are a cyber security Champion however we know we have a long way to go but because just that's the um right there um and so yes we that's just recognizing staff's hard work and the fact that we've been utilizing um this time to to Really Shore that part up the second icon there is device ratios and certificate uh centralized support our ratios

007right now we are at a one-to-one device the take home though is at the middle school there was a question about that and our ultimate goal which we should be hitting by next year was in T grades TK to one we focus on the use of iPads for students and then grades two through eight are reassuring Chromebooks and there's some logic behind that but that's kind of the structure that we had in place it took us two or three years to get there because we were coming from an environment where individual School sites four or five years ago were kind of left to their own devices sorry um that time there um and so we've been utilizing our refresh cycle to make us get to those ratios which has been super helpful and then hot

008spots we were being able to deploy those and we still have those in our school sites um as needed they kind of come back and go as we as we have that resource available but again one uh byproduct of the pandemic is that we were able to push those resources out and then the last one is with the district support of the devices and the district ratios we've actually been able to support the school sites better because we have a more similar environment that we can support centrally to our ite help desk and those types of things and Al might touch on that in addition though we took the uh uh what is it a load off of the principals who every year prior to this we're having to kind of see what kind of

009budget they had if they were an iPad school or if they were a Chromebook school if they were both there's been a lot of time actually taken on that so we've kind of pulled that off of them because we're now centralizing purchasing and deployment from here so that's a quick look back before we jump into kind of The Guiding questions and and the timeline of our our new tech plan planning process I do want to invite the guest speakers up to kind of give you just the flavor of the what's happening from the field so I would like to invite Jonathan watts to initially kick us off with some kind of his take on a little bit of uh some anecdotes about the instructional use of technology in our school sites now oh you're here

010okay right here we go okay um so kind of as he mentioned the pandemic definitely kick-started a lot of things where we thought maybe some of the things that we had set out to do device ratios even just getting teachers on board and providing professional development for some of the apps Google classroom and things that we had imagined like it would be great if all upper grade teachers were using Google Classroom we see the value in it some just hadn't really wanted to jump in yet and had you know their own systems and everything else the pandemic really kind of just threw everyone right into it so instead of having the option to like dip your toes in it was like everyone was kind of pushed into the pool and we provided tons of supports

011like we had the office hours every day and we were creating PDS constantly and a lot of teachers that had never used any of this technology were then actually during office hours sharing and leading some of the professional development um so now the other thing that came out of that was all the companies that normally you have to pay and you'd have to go through this whole pilot process to be able to try out these apps to see if they're even beneficial they were freely giving them away to school districts so we got to try a ton of different apps that we would have never been able to try without spending a bunch of money um so now the job that we have is really refining those and looking at okay so what from the

012pandemic is still being used that was able to be kind of transitioned and still be used as an instructional tool in the classroom and now an in-person scenario um and there's quite a few but a couple of the ones I mentioned Google Classroom which is pretty like well used now across most upper grade classrooms um Ed puzzle's another one that I see especially at the middle school so during um during the pandemic Ed puzzle was used all for distance learning you can create videos send videos out to students that they're going to watch and then put stopping markers in there so that they um discuss and they can interact with it as opposed to just saying hey here's a video at five minutes I want you to press pause and then I want you to

013write this little you know write a summary or write some questions you have you can embed it right in the video which works really really well for distance learning but I was in a middle school classroom not that long ago and they pivoted and I saw I think it was on one of their slides that they were using I saw something some little marker that made me think like oh that's a leftover thing from the pandemics I think it said 2020 they forgot to remove it or something so I went afterwards and chatted with the teacher and I was like Hey are these is this like resources that you built during the pandemic that you just came and she's like yeah and the conversation that I had with them was really exactly what we're looking

014for which was yes this this fit my need during the pandemic and I saw that it had a really good benefit here but what the way that she approached it was what components what do I get out of them being here so it's the discussions that I want so she just tweaked little parts of the lesson so it's still being used as a tool it's still you know able to carry over a lot of the hard work she put in but she was thoughtfully then thinking you know where does technology fit as an instructional tool here and where do I stop that point and actually have them talk so a lot of it was it still stopped in the video the question was there but instead of typing it in they then had sentence frames

015and we're discussing with each other so I think that's kind of what we're looking for is what kind of apps are continuing to be used and have pivoted well from there so the others are like seesaw and Class Dojo which we use a lot for distance learning but are now still been used in the classrooms but also to a larger degree for just communication with families so we saw that the translation features being able to message families back and forth in one language and then they can message us back in their home language we found that that's really useful so that's kind of where we're going moving forward looking at refining what we have getting good at that and then also you know what shift do we need to make from how we used it

016in the pandemic to how are we using it now um and then also related to that it's ow and our collaboration with it and how we really support the management of these apps um and then how he goes out to the school sites and is able to make all this actually happen okay thank you uh so um so it has been actively engaging with uh instruction um in supporting our staff and teachers and our students uh with deploying applications across the district um we've also worked with doses in deploying um certain applications that they needed to do trial runs we basically had to make sure that um we we put those applications and a vetted process just to make sure that they're in compliance with our security and safety features um they run well on

017our Chromebooks and iPads there's a technical specifications are on point and um basically um the sustainability of the the application say if it still aligns with just a global goals in uh in the future or if it's still going to be working in the next couple of years or so so those are the kind of things that we look into um so in turn that we've come a long way in finding a process we're basically working with technology being in remote learning uh with covid two or three years ago that was like our Proving Grounds in terms of refining our process and making sure that we learn from it and we've come a long way with that so um so and the other component as well is that at that time we were so away

018there was distance basically but we've always promoted communication that was the one thing that we had to um push um we had to uh basically talk with instruction all the time we do meet a certain amount of time like every two or three months just to touch base with what's going on with um uh the current trends and our challenges in the district and hopefully uh future proofing our stuff for future projects um so um also um just to give kudos to our department as well um the guys are pretty good with supporting our staff um very knowledgeable uh technically Superior in all terms and stuff but the other component as well is the customer service side of things uh we um we promote our interpersonal skills to work with people because after all you

019know we work with kids students teachers parents to some extent uh so I think it's our approach of being empathetic towards um people around us you know just to promote that well-being in a sense of um to get in this so um speaking of the emotional component um Paul will touch base with them we worked on those motion so um when we gave students devices we also needed to incorporate a way to be aware what they were doing with them and to support positive use as much as possible this is terrifying because we think of this kind of Big Brother spy component there's two kinds of things there's passive thing content filtering is what most of us think well you just block words you don't want kids searching and that's how you create a safe

020environment online that doesn't work when it's an educational instructional device for example if you block the word firearm or gun you think okay that's the right direction unless an 8th grader is doing a report for their teacher on gun laws in California then you've created a situation where that child has to either not use their device that we've issued them or that they there's a way to request that that be unblocked temporarily and it's just undoable so we're fortunate we found a company that does this and is intelligent it's called securely we still have passive content filtering filtering usually terms that would be you know obviously inappropriate securely has grown quite a bit it was over filtering some pretty appropriate terms in 2021 for kids that would be Googling things about their family situation uh

021their sexual identity their socioeconomic status a student may only have the school device so we had to make sure they could use it to look for something personal without it being flagged and then being approached you don't want to put a student in a situation where they were doing something appropriately private and then because we noticed it got they were questioned about it so a delicate however it's successful what we have now is active filtering if a student searches firearm and school campus that we would notice it it would be brought to the there's a team at the school district that gets those alerts and what we're doing now is there's a team at the school site that would be able to talk to that student a good example of this is a student searching

022symptoms of depression the students search that it would trigger an alert not an alert that said oh my gosh this is urgent we all need to drive to the school but a social worker would connect with that student before the end of the school day to make sure they were okay that would go either to the site social worker if they were available it could go to an assistant principal or principal as well given the gravity if it was a couple of searches on things like symptoms of symptoms of depression and do students kill themselves we would it would escalate we'd have a more urgent alert and we would make sure that a social worker from another school deployed if they had to this escalates all the way up to threats of self-harm or threats

023of harm to a school site those alerts come pretty loud in the system there's people in this room that would get them no matter when they occurred and there's people at the school site that would also get them who responds kind of depends on what the alert is about a threat to the school or a threat to a student's personal safety is usually responded to initially by a school administrator that makes more sense because we have a little more a social worker we want to use that if it's like a depression thing or something that's more of a socio-emotional situation but we don't want one person talking to a student who had an alert and then saying after they talk oh I need to go get someone else because this is a bigger deal so

024we want to make sure the person responding is like that's like that no wrong door thing we talked about it's one person that's the safe adult that isn't saying we caught you but is saying we're we're concerned because you searched for something that's kind of scary parent contact happens on a discretionary basis we don't notify every parent of every alert because some alerts can reveal something that a student may not be ready to reveal obviously student safety danger things like that would go directly to a parent as well the frequency of disciplinary interactions off of security alerts security alerts is very very low intentionally a student repeatedly searching something that's dangerous or harmful more often results in a counseling intervention than a disciplinary one however we do have the option of contacting disciplinary support at

025the school if a student's doing something inappropriate clarifying question yes so the app automatically sends it to someone there's no like person on the apps and that does it it's just like a question correct there's an AI the AI function is looking for the trigger terms the frequency of searches and then this is Al going that's not how it works Paul and then it sends it by email to the people at the district office we get all of them for all 10 schools and then each team each site principal has their securely team as well that gets those alerts themselves yes so that's how securely works it's healthy monitoring without it being so restrictive as to make the devices useless and I had a great transition that is gone I completely forgot so heading back

026to Jeremy thank you we rehearsed that all week no I'm just kidding so now um I appreciate the securely component and Paul kind of gave him at the right exact right time because again coming out of the virtual environment we deployed devices into the hands of the students in a short amount of time and send them out into the world so we really I think we are continuing to work with our site teams now that everyone's back but not not just throwing away and forgetting the lessons that we learned during that virtual environment but to try to make sure as an elementary school district that we're balancing the use the appropriate use of the device um the age-appropriate monitoring and then support for for the students as best we can so all right moving on

027so the proposed technology planning timeline is we are here tonight March 9th board study session to kind of kick us off this spring we have some l-cap uh goal overlaps one of them is an instructional technology staff survey that John Watts and I are developing um there's the 95 network uptime uh explicit lcap goal now that everyone's on site we wanted to make sure that's in place there's a related item tonight on the board um of that e-rate piece that those are steps in that direction to kind of support our back-end Network and then Common Sense Media lesson deployment that is our uh what is that called cyber citizenship um curriculum currently in play then um over this from the spring into the fall we wanted to continue to outreach to our education Partners regarding

028the technology plan elements um you know we want to try to utilize our existing meeting structures be it our principal meetings ilt um d-lac built like to kind of Leverage those in addition to our survey components so that we're not carving out um another separate process like we did last time we're trying to just kind of keep everything um integrated because technology now is a tool that's throughout and so it should be viewed through those lenses of what we're trying to um deploy and then um technology board update in the fall the kind of was it the other bookend of this conversation and then hopefully bring a potential board adoption in the spring of next year it might sound like well Jeremy that's a year-long process and it's a year-long process however um I did

029want to say that the technology now that we're back in session in person is changing completely because we achieved our vision through because of necessity of the code 19 pandemic but so we have this infrastructure we had devices out on cautioning us that we want to just live in this space of so what does this mean now instead of saying now what are we going to do with our next tech plan we're going to write so we want to take that time to really be able to embrace technology as a tool for instruction as a tool enhancing our Equity our equity and mission and vision of the district are as a tool to assist with parent Outreach that's where we kind of want to live um I'll I'll close in saying that I have a

030prediction not a very bold prediction that the next you know that the next Tech conference that I'll go to the number one topic will be anyone among us AI okay so AI is going to probably be the next piece that we want to try to make sure that we're taking that information as well to incorporate this to make this document um uh work for us all right so here's the framework that I'm proposing I I previewed this a little bit last time when we talked about this actually the study sessions we're going to try to package the tech plan in these three pillars the difference one difference would be um the ratios used to be would be called out in a whole separate section of the tech plan or the network infrastructure would be called

031out and so I'm trying to say these are the three n friendly end user language uses of technology in our district instructional use as a learning tool but so I would submit to you I don't know why I'm submitting to you the um the like the devices and standards that ratios that we maintain for the school sites that should fall because that's in place because of the instructional use right we need coherence around it and students you know accessing typing or something to that effect at the right age so does that make sense we're not trying to have a plan with 18 different sections we're going to take the network put it under a cyber security acceptable use we're going to take the ratios and devices under the instructional instructional technology heading um and then

032the big unknown I think is the parent Guardian engagement this is the um opportunity for us to be able to lean into so I plugged in the starter points here because these are some of the elements that we wanted to extract from the prior Tech plan and then put them into these three pillars so then my transition to myself would be now kind of just opening it up um I don't want to run through this by any one you know question by question um my team here or the team here will help me take notes and it's just kind of like wonderings right now and there's no wrong wondering uh because we just need kind of time to make meaning if I could be so bold I will kick us off um one of the

033topics that came up last time was media literacy and so we know that is definitely something that we need to kind of focus on um in this day and age uh John Watts and I actually pre-pandemic attended in the fall of 2019 there's a group called news literacy project which is trying to focus on that so there are resources out there there is elements of what is that called uh sources in the Common Sense Media but if this we probably would want to take a you know a good look at this and I would say that it would fall under two parts of the tech plan it would fall under the instructional use pillar because there's a way to be able to do that in citing your sources within the the instructional confines but in

034addition there has to be a strong component under the appropriate use of section as well making sure that we know the difference between news and propaganda fact opinion those types of things so I'm going to kick us off because I know that came up I think Michelle that was your your wondering that's where it would appear we've already made notes of that but I just wanted to kick us off so now uh Isabelle I'm going to turn it over to you to just guide like if you want to say well what about AI Jeremy and then we'll start adding that to the list and then we're gonna try to give us some time to make meaning so um take it away board and you guys come up so I do it yeah okay for that

035um for public comment of this particular item please um if you are here oh well let's start with the line then please use the right hand feature online if you like to comment and if there is any public comment related to this particular item here we're gonna so please comment and before we do that at times we need timing is allocated to topic testimony are three minutes per person and 20 minutes for the whole probably comments speakers are asked to give their names and their affiliations so that we can accurately record us and reflect in minutes a parable by laws 9323 the board shall not prohibit public criticism of its policies procedures programs Services act or omissions during public comments we encourage the speakers to discuss issues with civility to treat people whose opinions differ

036from their own with respect and to focus on ideas policies and values so thank you you may now star and as a reminder you have three minutes for your comment and there will be there is a club right there okay thank you all right and just hi I'm Dan Carlos hiham and I am a Sunnyvale Middle School alumni and alumnus and I'm here speaking on behalf of people who both couldn't make this meeting and who may or may not have left this meeting because of closed session um we are just concerned both because of the AI aspect of aware and whether or not it might perpetuate any systemic racisms that exist in you know internal biases of the developers say if somebody searches up a term whiz like African-American vernacular language or AV it might

037be flagged more often than if somebody searched it in a small white way of searching it and or if names and student profiles have to do anything with that we are also concerned because 24 like the district last board meeting has adopted 24 on call which is something entirely new and that has not been wrote out in this District yet which basically just at least from what I've read allows somebody starts from like some team from somewhere entirely remote to handle and like manage cases and like wasn't they might have the power to say call police on the students which has happened in at least one case in Wisconsin and just the fact that middle schoolers also do deserve privacy at their homes and we are also concerned that since this is their only device

038that the district may be monitoring their personal use of the only device that they have at home outside of District jurisdiction thank you thank you okay so now a we can online person questions okay everything Jeremy wanted to say something no I think thank you to the speaker um and thank you for sitting through an hour of our uh just a lot of bantering with the administrative staff um no I I we made notes of everything on the speaker um said and I think we want to always try to balance um the the access to information but the fact again that we're we're an elementary school district so I'm open to that um before you leave let me grab you my card too because I would love to kind of continue that conversation that'd be

039awesome um but again it kind of feeds directly into that first question that we had to make sure that the tech plan then is in alignment with our Equity statement of inclusion um and diversity in an age-appropriate way um so I think um yeah that's all I kind of want to say at that moment because they have great points big you know meta questions about that uh I guess the I will say though that the AI for the moment is under our control in the sense that we do configure the settings and the flags um a flagging alert and to um director slayton's point is that we're really focusing on self-harm and violence against the school those are our our top monitoring for for uh the use of securely so um yeah that'd be great

040so back to Nancy and then we'll take some notes so now it's time for the Bold comments so Airport is ready to write yeah so um I appreciate the three big pillar concept um I think that that makes sense um for having better alignment with art with our overarching goal um I think you're correct that AI is going to be the um it be an area that uh is the next Wild West of Technology from my perspective as a board member um I have a concern that involves all it involves those three pillars with respect to Ai and I want to make sure moving forward that we thoughtfully consider while a I might be uh best understood in its usage with children and students in the classroom knowing if or when it's appropriate to you

041that kind of information to make sure that we do not have that being the primary originator of papers and assignments and I think as a parent that is that would also be a common concern um so that's some that's a link that kind of looks with everything going through with with regards to um AI um and I appreciate the speaker's comments about understanding unintended um bias that may come up in what we choose to select um as areas that would be flagged um but we always need to um any kind of bias in any kind of interactions that we are having as we move forward with equity okay um thanks for the conversation um I just was I was just thinking um for the technology pillars since you were talking about student um use of

042like not necessarily instructional use but almost personal use or extracurricular use maybe you know we talk a lot about developmental whole child so um you know and I remember during the pandemic there were kids who were using their Chromebooks to figure out like when they could come and pick up food from school right so there was there there's um resources on there and you know we're pointing kids to find resources about um things so maybe maybe there might want to be another pillar there um I don't know what it would be called but especially if you're talking about like what the agreement is for monitoring not use and what the expectations are that you know for student privacy and what kinds of access that provides to a student you know especially if we're talking about

043equitably Distributing them right so that um whether it's hot spots or other things and then I also was really thinking that we've maybe we haven't really touched I know that you're talking about systems but I feel like there has to be a topic under technology where we talk about our website and our outfacing resources so maybe it's communication it's not necessarily just parent Guardian student engagement but it's also Community engagement how we present ourselves to the world and people have a very high expectation for communication and response time so I know that there Nancy and I had been to an equity Summit a few years ago there was a district in the Sacramento area that had created a system where people had questions or like things for the district that it was cattle captured at

044the website space cataloged it could be like I could as a board member I could ask a question on behalf of somebody and it would like just inform you later that it was resolved so there was there were some systems that maybe we could improve for families um as an idea and then you know as long as we're just sort of spitballing things um I was also thinking that I I have heard from teachers that when they talk to parents slowly I know everyone loves the apps and that maybe we will standardize on one as a district but I I have heard that like many families rely on texting and so if the teacher asks the families like Hey how do you want to be contacted the teacher is thinking phone call or email and

045the person just says text and they're like well I really can't text you with my personal phone you know so if there's any systems that could be integrated into our email where the teacher can you know where you're typing what you're you're sending a text um and then also for parent workshops and things I really think that there needs to be even maybe for staff I think there needs to be more on demand training more on-demand workshops and resources I know Nancy has mentioned a few times about um linking to standards to tools like that um but I I really believe that there are some you know especially if you're rolling out Equity training or we're rolling out some other things there's there's an opportunity to use our websites or our communication tools to have

046parents easily access that on demand um even though there's a benefit so you're saying on demand what are you well like you know when you register for a webinar but you can't make it because you're triple busted or you know you gotta drive your kids in the car somewhere but you can watch it later so that will be on demand oh yeah so um like for example like parents right now teachers still I think do a fair amount of training with with parents on how to use things and kind of work their way through tools so let's say a parent has a question about how to use Google Slides they're trying to help their kids with people's lives and maybe Jonathan Watts has already created an awesome tutorial on Google slides for people who don't

047usually use Google slides and so he could you know we could have that and it might be a good refresher for a teacher or it might be a good refresher for you know us or a student or something like that I think there could be some more on-demand things that we regularly use um so like a resource on the website yeah exactly look like but it would then be right like if you want resources related to this or put that and then there's some different videos or Resources with this you click that right yes and some of it might be towards stuff that we use all the time and some of it might count on topics so anyway those were that's my random it just like those I wrote of stuff that I think would

048be cool okay sorry I was paying attention but the the guy was very excited to give a card to like just ran out the door so um okay I understood I was excited to give a card away okay no uh made those notes on demand training perfect very first thing I know those three colors what was the Edition well because he had been talking about personal abuse right so there's like these are instructional use of the computers and Technologies cyber security acceptable use like how are we securing our information I wasn't here acceptable use because I'm thinking of like what if we want to create like a a space that isn't necessarily instructional use but we want to like think about the students uses for it other than I don't know I mean you're not

049using it for a classical with the community yes a idea that the school is the center of all the family life and Community yeah maybe the student or the student is exploring other topics that aren't related to school or instruction but we're giving it to them to take home I'm thinking of middle schoolers and right I don't know I just didn't see anything in here that talked about students personal time yep no yeah so I think I noted I think I can make meaning of it yeah I'm curious where it would go like an acknowledgment about the personal use the other use you know that doesn't fall under instructional okay okay I think I know what I want to I won't I have an idea right I have a question about security very often mentioned

050how they were they were able to unblock Amnesty International because apparently that was blocked by people who I was not blocked by people can we control the things that are blocked by people it really blocks a lot of stuff my kids all the time were like securely blocked it securely blocked it yeah yeah so there's been like a couple of like Falls Flags sometimes because it's a AI is learning constantly learning all those different websites we have like gazillion websites out there so you know they can't really track every in each one of them so uh usually when that happens a teacher or staff or even a parent don't just you must say hey um this is legit though so we do our due process of just making sure it is that actually legit so

051if it does we just unlocking white listed the other site I wonder if there's a question of course we can actively unlock some things like maybe Amnesty International or things that kids might be using too right so um yeah like I said so it's Pro actively learning yeah so whatever that they had in the past like you know those things that you mentioned they should be on block right now okay good yeah well if they don't live now okay my AI isn't perfect right it does a lot of great things for us right and then I guess I just wanna I should have reminded everyone that again we're beholden to certain rules given our fact that we could jeopardize Title One funding on the federal government if we're not in compliance with um you know

052uh uh the federal like for like there's there's these federal and state guidelines that we need to be and when it comes to technology that we're always balancing against so but um great question I would say well while we're on literally one of my way to build s were like like pornography right pornographic words I think that's another area like I would almost put that I mean not as severe as self-harm but like it is very harmful right there are tons of studies about the harm of pornography um and so for me that's an area that I'm concerned about and I didn't hear it mentions I'm just curious like what how is that monitored and how is that addressed yeah so um yes it's part of the algorithm on the security AI we do block

053uh what you mentioned uh so there's different categories in that um the AI has been really smart with trying to figure out which categories are uh false Flags or relating to um like sex health for middle schools it is a tricky space yeah it's pretty tricky sometimes they do get like a false positive than that but I mean we tweak it a little bit the AI learns and then everybody's happy at some point but the margin of error is pretty low when it comes to like distinguishing distinguishing um uh like educational stuff versus you know actual porn stuff uh so um yeah it's quite the progress that I've seen so far since it was first implemented back in 2017. yeah um and then to 12 and this might be a little bit more of a

054Paul question kind of like how you answered like if stuff is being flagged about depression right or something being flagged about harm what the process is I'm curious when this pornographic stuff is flag what's so yeah that would be one of the social worker soft contacts it would fall under a socio-emotional issue uh not a disciplinary a message was something a student was doing in class showing to friends then it crosses over into creating a victim on campus that we need to address their rights as well but that would be a soft and a soft response socially emotionally as a compared to a disciplined response parent contact discretionary definitely not something we go um we usually use contextual Clues with the student or family history with the student to decide if the parent contact's appropriate

055usually it is but it's definitely not an automatic yeah okay so not to be a total bummer but um you know there's been a rise of depression addiction so I'm just wondering if when you are shopping around for apps or things that you want to recommend for families to use for kids to have on their phone I know a few years ago right before the tremendous YWCA um was promoting an app that was like to do the peer-to-peer support so like you know if they hurt you know kind of like see something say something but it was very much like that was partnering with um counselors and stuff like that and so I'm just if you know of any that have developed since then maybe we could vet them as a resource I'm not done

056this delay not that we would necessarily manage them but I think there's a piece where we will be educating the kids about that and then totally not related to what she was saying but what she was saying just made me think about an interesting space under the parent engagement could be um I'll just give like the example right so a while ago one of my kids was in fourth or fifth grade and the teachers in that grade level were like seeing right like kids doing things on their phones that weren't super great and so they didn't have a parent night but they gave us all like a one-pager I can't remember everything on it but I remember it talked about like different athletes we should talk about apps right like like most parents don't even

057know what the apps are that the kids are using and like the good from the app and the problems that come from those apps right so that could be an interesting space like some parent education engagement and education on hey these are the apps that are most commonly used with third through fifth graders see these are the apps that are most commonly used at the middle school here are the things that you should be looking for or concerned about or you know um I also because you know like technology and the pornography stuff is important to me like I will listen to webinars right that like talk about hey like you know just reminders like you don't need to just give your kid you don't give your kid a phone and say well I guess

058if you don't give a kid a key to the car right and say just go drive a car right away you don't say anything you don't give a kid a phone with with full access to everything and say go play with this film right there's like incremental stuff and I think some parents don't realize that they don't realize like oh I actually like I should do this lower just like a kid learns how to drive a car there are steps there are things you do right even when you get your license there are still restrictions you notice there anyways I just like that analogy I think that could be an area that could be rise between current engagement and really detect that could be it so it when you when you say before that the

059part about media literacy and media yeah all that falls into this plan the inside of pillars we do give the kids then and uh an account on the public library so they can have a online and ebooks and audiobooks from the Chromebook yeah we have a partnership with the City of Sunnyvale Library and it's the middle schools middle school students are um as soon as they hit Middle School are provided resources to those um I would say reputable databases that the the Sunnyvale Library maintains we do trained in families who may need some training about how to use all these tools if you wanted to check that we are working on find collaboration and then we do have a say yes we don't need it to come outside you answer this on the package review

060that you have a district Common Sense Media and citizenship lessons so they can understand between a reliable source and not so that's all part of our Tech plan that's correct we need some sort of curriculum and that's part of the federal guidelines for us to be maintaining and receiving and again not to make everything about funding but um yeah we need to have an adopted Common Sense Media again I keep getting mixed up with cyber security it's cyber citizenship with a number of lessons in there I know Mr Watson his team free pandemic repackaged the the Common Sense Media but I think knowing that um we're going with the tech line we would want to definitely take a look at it especially with the emphasis on everything that we're kind of talking about tonight media

061literacy and what you're saying as well so legislators just legislature mandated that K-12 students learn about information literacy that they on their focus on activities they talk about the research process how information is created and produce critical thinking and using information sources research methods the difference between facts points of view and opinions assessing accessing peer-reviewed print and Digital Library resources the economic legal and social issues surrounding the use of information and the ethical deductions information and I think all of those things are important things to talk about and I would like for us to have something like that in America yeah so you think all of those I keep looking like though all elements are in the Common Sense Media curriculum but we might need to either emphasize yeah and I'm always looking for other

062additional resources so I took that down so I could look up I'll look up afterwards to see if that's something open source or if that is um but it's a state level initiative right so I give other options also we have we have a scope of sequence using Common Sense Media of which lessons uh appropriate And Timely like we looked at what kind of what pops up at each grade level during different times in the year and then we made the lessons fit those themes but there's also I also have additional resources so some teachers if they want to go further and they want to integrate like Google has an entire program called interland where it's like an interactive gamified it kind of so it feels like you're playing a game you're going to these

063different worlds and one is about like protecting your personal identity and understanding what's online another one is informational literacy so there's a lot of different resources and we've been using Common Sense Media for a while because they're a large organization partnered with a lot of people very reliable and they have a ton of lessons covering a lot of different topics but I'm definitely going to look at yeah the New Jersey one and just see kind of like what are they developing what themes might be in there that we aren't possibly incorporating in our lessons right now let's see to have pictures of the humans that work here of the district people who are in charge you know when you go to some other school websites they have that it's a fun photo you guys take

064photos every year every few years um and some of them are funny and some are just very serious but it would just be great for people to see the people who are and like what they do right so um and they're I think even for um you know there have been there are new people in our district and there are new roles in our district it would just I don't know that everybody knows how everybody fits together so even even some employees might be going like wait what what department is that you know what I mean like so I think it would just be great for the public and for for parents and families to like have an understanding of just the basics of like hey no this is observing you if this is who

065we are this is his team and this is what they do like I just think I would be friendly and is he is the easiest raise your hand or it was from before I haven't I have another comic question I wanted to piggyback all his comment about um parent engagement um and Community I think we need to be able to share platforms of activities as a district um and let um activities from one site to be shared with other uh sites in a little bit more transparent thing especially if they're if they're speakers or meetings that are open um that other parents would want to know about and to go to and I'm specifically thinking about fundraisers I appreciate how the foundation is just elevating opportunities for the community as a whole to participate in

066fundraisers that support all of the schools and I would like on a different calendar to be able to celebrate um these kinds of activities and let the community know as well so I think there's something very important coming for that you guys would you want to talk about it right now I just wanted to Second Bridget's like under that third pillar you know so website interfacing can be another piece of that like an engagement I think that was something I think right before coveted we kind of were like one of those things was like oh let's kind of refresh that and then that was definitely not guarding it for years um and then I just appreciated um um Eileen I was talking about the media literacy and I just wanted to relay I know short

067on time but I just wanted to share a little piece um I thought it was timely today on one of the education emails that I get there was an article um by a person who like studies that right so this person is over in Albany yeah Albania um creating like guidelines for their schools and universities and she was giving like a presentation um and it was all through this part so that I had just given my my spiel about fake news and its corrosive effects on Democracy in the United States Professor who was listening to her when he asked in halting English but we looked to the US for leadership if the U.S can't protect itself from fake news what will become of us and then she said I was speechless for a moment suddenly

068aware of the gravity of this missions is the question this haunted me we're not doing we're not doing enough and the stakes are too high for a lackluster effort so I think like not that we were like I realized like that's why I feel like media literacy is so important like I almost would put it like second to like in education worlds like like the achievement Gap and that we have underserved students is number one and number two is I think Michael talks about this like like the public education system is fundamental to democracy and like this piece of media literacy like is the answer to like helping democracies stay so anyways that's just I feel like it's a number two priority is and then like yeah Mike did forward that on the edsource article

069you're referring to and I've already had a chance to read it while I was eating my uh tonight so that was great no thank you Isabel this was perfect again just I appreciate it just would you call spitballing and just throw it at it we're gonna put it in there um and I and I yeah uh uh this is super we'll come back and make a meeting I keep wanting to tell I think I think I know what to call that third pillar but yeah I'm super excited so but I'll I'll stop talking all right we'll let Bishop uh continue the conversation thank you everybody foreign [Music] yes [Music] to move public water to um next to Jen items before a foreign yes yes and uh so board we have more than that and we

070have a vote on that everybody who agrees in that we say I I okay if we well then we have a chair full of eyes so it's compass and so in that case now we are switching and now we're gonna have a comment from the public before uh the board the Sunnyvale discount Association and the School Employees Association so this is the time for comment about things that are not on the agenda and there are policies this portion of the agenda provides an opportunity for members of The Profit to directly address the governing board on any items of interest to the public however provision of the Brown net government calls 5494.28 country produced any action been taken on any item not appearing on the post agenda in plain speaking terms the world can only receive

071information during this time we cannot speak or to or about items that are not on or agenda if you would like to comment on any items that are known again that and you're in person please submit that speaking part we have a rule or public comments and if you are online please use the raise hand feature right now and we have people names okay so a time is allocated to public testimony an hour three minutes per person and 20 minutes for public comments so speakers are asked to give their names and applications so that an accurate record is attracted in a minute if you are a person and provide whether you will provide you to pick the car and I have right now you would like to speak to any session remotely about that again

072as a reminder a the board by the board by low 9323 devotion not prohibit public criticism of its policies procedures program services at four weeks issues with civility to treat people whose opinions differ from their own way perspective and to focus on ideas policies and value and then we have the conference right now and we're going to start with Camila Santos when you come in and you're gonna have to stand over there when you start go ahead thank you for coming thanks for waiting thank you sorry for the back and forth of my kids my family you're here to support me [Laughter] okay hello hi everyone my name is Camila Santos and I'm a parent of two amazing children they go to Fairwood Elementary School fourth grade and second grade and I'm also a member

073of the Sunnyvale equity and education so thank you for having me today um lpac what is Alpac according to their website Alpac is a mandated state test test for determining English language proficiency it is given as an initial assessment to newly enrolled students whose primary language is not English as indicated at on a home language survey however today I'm here to share with you that lpac is a flawed and discriminatory assessment practice against american-born bilingual children and it should be removed from the state education curriculum I believe Alpac is discriminatory because it separates children who are immigrant descent from those that are not american-born bilingual children feel singled out Simply for speaking another language they're not being tested they're they're being tested more than their monolingual peers by not passing the lpac students are prevented

074from taking elective classes in middle school and high school as a result many students who are being subjected to take out back may feel discouraged and unmotivated by their task scores which can further hinder their language development and lead to feelings of isolation exclusion and low self-esteem I believe elpac is flawed because introduces a pass or fail hurdle for american-born bilingual students under vague criteria called English proficiency these tasks do not accurately measure a student's language proficiency and cultural and linguistic diversity which may not capture the use of the language in real life situations plus it doesn't consider children's learning disability and test taking skills in the school application form parents can lie about their kids being bilingual which lets them skip lpac altogether it takes away Focus from teaching English to newcomers more than

075ones in real need for learning new a new language elpac puts a burden on students teachers and schools do to its inaccurate measurement of language proficiency it's it's it's actually not not praising our children for their multiculturalism in conclusion if we want Equity then Alpac tasks should be removed from the state curriculum for the American Born By legal bilingual students or every English speaking student should also take this test so thank you appreciate your time with your time thank you and the next one will be a penny booster thank you hello how are you guys forgive me I'm a little um scattered with my notes here but I will do my best to communicate what I'm here to talk about um hello my name is Peggy Shen Brewster I'm the parent of a second grader

076at Bishop Elementary I'm the grants administrator at the Sunnyvale Education Foundation as well as the founder of SCE which stands for Sunnyvale for equity and education tonight I'm not speaking on behalf of any of those either of those groups but my comments are informed but what I had observed as being part of these groups and also my experience is teaching um I'm strangely grateful for the pandemic which pulled me and my family from the from teaching and taking my kids to Mountain View schools and um and and we were placed in and we signed up for our neighborhood School of Bishop um I was so pleased I have been so pleased with our experience there um such a wonderful Community for the teachers to feel truly uh supported and the admin is very positive um

077it was a little different in Mountain View um in my experience I also loved that my school my son goes to a school where not every student is exactly like him I love the diversity of the families at Bishop which was on full display at our Multicultural Festival last month but it is true that many times immigrants particularly Spanish-speaking families don't feel that schools are really theirs the school experience is very different for children all across this District as you know some schools have low uh have low SES percentages of 11 while at hours at 60 percent some schools have you know 18 21 of students are language Learners well at some other schools like ours in San Miguel it's it's over 50 percent um at some schools we have hundreds of parents that can

078sign up and volunteer and while at others it's just you know a solid eight um at some schools we have three unirrigated garden beds and others it's 27 that are fully irrigated and have classes visiting every week with three Garden volunteers from each classroom um so when we see that there's such disparate experiences in the district where inequities often fall not often they do fall along classes and racist lines I believe that it's our job as a district and perhaps our job as an educational foundation and Community to acknowledge that these gaps are there while also putting in systems to close those gaps so I couldn't get a seat to our Equity Summit last month but what I do know is that Equity should not be a one-day conversation we need a systematic approach to

079recognizing injustices identifying how our decisions affect specific populations well while approaching these conversations with humility and respect for people in a culturally affirming way I think it's important to be aware of the tendency towards hegemony and be wary of the colonialist mindset in which people Empower people of privilege make decisions that they deem best for others it's complicated and I don't think it's fair to task this with everyone to keep in mind instead I encourage the district to establish an equity task force with specific Personnel responsible for ensuring that Equity is addressed thank you thank you very much if you have some more you can give it to us thank you very Lord everybody so thank you very much and if we don't have any Online skills then you know well you're also welcome to

080leave you are not demonstration here not you know okay the next item will be well now that was the number but then for us was seven now it's gonna be eight eight comments and we're gonna go down the line starting by Nancy um yes um I'm here today um in Florida um I wanted to let the public know that I may need to step out um at uh different points in time of the meeting to um share for my father who had a procedure today and I apologize in advance um uh but I'm the caregiver who can provide some medication for him at specific times and one of those probably be in five minutes uh so if you see my camera go off that's just to let you know that I'm briefly stepped away and

081I will read and I plan to return um I I yeah and I said I will send in my comments about my other um activities of the week but I'm excited that we're having um is um more public feeling comfortable and coming to meetings and um I thank you for your patience and understanding um tonight of my unplanned breaks thank you I'm really excited that we're having people coming and feeling comfortable to talk to us about pretty heavy issues um and coming in person and taking the time to do that so I think it's great um I sent in most of my comments so I just had a couple of quick notes um I wanted to let you know that um the city of Education Foundation board at their meeting they went over after school

082programs and they briefly looked at through their lens this school needs so they were reported by site Representatives not necessarily by the principals or other people who work for the district but some of them were but mostly it was talking about after school programs in the district and they were noticing that there were some schools that had one or two and there was one school that had over over 20 after school programs going and so they had some recommendations they had some ideas they had some more questions because their survey was pretty straightforward and some people offered more information so they didn't ask the same they didn't follow up with anybody so I forwarded that information to Mike I know he's met with some people or is meeting with people from the foundation about um

083you know a bunch of different issues and um so but it was an interesting starting point and I think Steph has been pretty instrumental in like doing some groundwork and questioning and not necessarily um you know just to kind of bring back to the district like hey we found this out so um they're gonna have that conversation and then the other news I went to the health and wellness meeting and a few things they're they're trying some new things this year they're going to have um two weeks where everyone across the district is going to do the same activity like for that particular week so for example we're going to have the eat the rainbow challenge March 27th through 31st and so everybody all across the district they're going to implement this idea they're going

084to have try to get all the students in the whole District to eat the rainbow that week um and then playworks week is going to be a week of play May 8th through May 12th and that's going to be almost like a field day that arranged by the playworks coaches or the PE coaches um and they're going to fill in for a site here and there but in general everybody's pitching in so that they kind of will all be doing the same activities that week and then they have a couple of things where like a jump rope Challenge and a Hulu challenge where they just kind of go side to side so everyone does the exact same activity but at different times um and the other thing is they give a lot a lot of

085information about stuff they're doing with on the health side of things with the school nurses are implementing a lot of communication with families and programs and so they don't have a newsletter this year for health and wellness so I think the idea was to work together to create articles for Aaliyah to push out either as notices or updates or in a digest or something like that so it's maybe we'll get one article this year like for sure about the whatever chefs them what do they call them not the baby chefs whatever the future um so they're gonna they're gonna have something will be about that but then there's other programs they're like 5210 so anyway there's that and then um last but not least I did ask Dr Goodwin I don't know if I mentioned

086it last time because it's been on my notes for a while but I did ask the county because there are some when we talk about equity and like holding ourselves accountable for the equity work that we're doing as a board and as a governance team um there are some districts in California that they have um they've granted voting rights for trustees to the parents in their community so um and I don't know if it's by age or how would they know if their parents did attend the school only or whatever but I thought that would be very interesting for us because we have um on all over town we have parents who are not eligible to vote in a general election but they send their kids to our schools so whether they're here on H-1B

087or they don't have documentation I thought well maybe that would hold like put the put our little feet to the fire about really doing the equity work and representing everybody so that's just an idea I asked the county like hey is there any data on that has it really increased participation or are people comfortable to vote like what have you got Marianne Dewan and Dr Dawn said she'll bring it back to us I believe it I occasionally refer to her as Marianne and sometimes this doctor and go back and forth so anyway um that's who I asked and she's hopefully going to get into some data on it okay okay I'm sorry I just it's the second one okay so myself in second grade so when he was in kindergarten he was online and I

088remember the first day he met his teacher and his teacher asked him what's your favorite book and he said separate but is never equal and I was like oh that's a little bit heavy it's a book about Sylvia Mendes and how her family sued at the state level to make to make desegregated schools within the state of California it's a it's a picture book but it's like a lot of tax and I think I just like read that in the day before but the thing about that book is that it ends there and it doesn't talk about how we made segregation legal again because in 1979 California decided that you don't actually have to bus in order to promote to promote racial diversity as long as it wasn't on purpose and so I was thinking

089about that because at the equity Summit I was sitting with Tara And also with Dr Benson who shared with me that when he went to Cupertino people asked to take pictures with him because they hadn't seen a black person before and I was like really because I've heard of that happening in Korea in Japan and then I thought about it a bit and I thought to myself well if it's going to happen anywhere in the continental United States I guess Cooper came into place and I've been thinking about that ever since and I've been like doing some research and looking at like maps of how race is is separated in this area and UC Berkeley has a great map about the Bay Area and our segregation and the top part of Sunnyvale is my custody

090area and it includes Alviso as well is very heavily Hispanic the middle part of Sunnyvale has a pretty good distribution of races and then as soon as you go south of that it turns it's all red it's either yellow red or green and it's all red down there because lots of Asian people down there and the thing is that no one did that on purpose it just is that's just how it is it's not de jury segregation it's de facto segregation and so I feel like so many of our conversations about Equity really come down to how do we fix that how do we fix the fact that apparently people you know don't see black people and it scares me like what do we do about that that's not a thing that we can fix

091as individuals or a school district or whatever but if we as a society have already decided that separate is never equal then what are we doing we're putting a bandage on a hemorrhage it's so difficult to me as someone who sees these disparities in where my school my son goes to school and some of these other programs offered by other schools and I feel like that needs to be top of money for us when we talk about these things it's not just Equity it's segregation it's racial and class of segregation and these are the things that we need to keep in mind when we try to find solutions for them um okay I also went to I sent Jesus to my activities I also went to the press conference for Summit Denali there were so

092many parents there who were so upset about the school being closed one of a lot of the speakers talked about the need for closer monitoring of charter schools so they closed down because um their budget didn't allow them but also their board is unelected they're just people chosen by the company and so there's a lot of there were a lot of people there who are calling for closer monitoring especially since that building that they are going to have a school anymore they're sending real estate agents through there while kids are studying there and that building is going to be sold they cost 30 million dollars of taxpayer money and now it's going to be sold not nice I'm not going to go back to taxpayers and so that was that was an eye opener for

093me as well but so many parents were saying that um they wish that the school district offered something like this offered a program like this that public schools for one reason or another didn't work for their child and I asked them like what do you mean what specifically are we not offering and someone said parent crucipation it used to be hot actually we have that and then they said um different curriculum and I was like we could have had that and I feel like that one is a little bit more um teacher dependence but my son also needs pretty differentiate math curriculum and I felt in Sunnyvale that we did a pretty good job with that I'm not under the impression that a lot of these parents are going to go back to the local

094public school they were saying that they it didn't work for them they might do homeschooling might do another charter school a lot of parents were saying they would go to another Summit site one in South San Jose and they would just make that commute and that kind of breaks my heart that they don't feel like we're serving their children and that is sad for me because I feel like we should be serving everyone's children because your neighborhood school should be should offer what you need one of the parents suggested that we or said that at a previous School her child was at that they scanned for giftedness for everyone and I thought that was an interesting suggestion because I feel like there are some kids who don't fall outside the bunker and we see them

095as unmotivated they might actually just be bored and I know we don't do gay anymore but I thought that was an interesting suggestion it might capture some of these kids who otherwise be losing I have a complicated relationship with the word gifted especially with someone who believes very strongly in the concept of a growth mindset but I understand that there's studies and things about this but I feel like we need to give these kids that opportunity if they need it as well okay thanks Michelle um I had a few thoughts but I can I'm going to save them for next meeting because it's so late so I will share them next time well thank you um I well I will send and this is my list which is also too long to talk about but

096there were a couple of highlights during the last couple of weeks we have been talking when I have been talking with the other two districts that we share a lot of kids in high school and also with Cupertino and then we talked at least with the high school district that we are gonna try to find a way during to go together to talk about how we can serve each other and help each other in serving our kids better and sometime in May we just need to find a date that works for everybody so but sometime at the end of the year and then we can you know work together as a board in some strongly philosophical cultures how to work together as good as we can and probably all still existed superintendent and maybe other

097key people who want to like we want to be sure that we encourage communication and collaboration for the kids as much as we can and in the best way and also for English learners and then they were I also have been in a lot of acceleration for the women's day which it was yesterday and one of them was a well during first I talked a little bit with a doctor Marianne the one during our legislation action about a general idea that I had also with the high school district to come together and try to find out a way to encourage our girls and work towards or girls and students how to support them in a better way and to show them their importance yesterday was woman's day and you know a lot of things came

098more to light and one of the events I was here in the community was the makers the makers Nexus had a big event where the interest first to come and use them workshops but everybody was welcome and we had a very interesting lecture from a doctor that is on the board and she was presenting us with all her studies about uniquity and about racial profiling and gender profiling on Internet on the on the tech companies and in a society in general and she has some pet dogs that are very interesting also about that but um you know again yesterday it just last week we had many things happening related with women's rights which are being trumped every day more and more and we feels like we're coming back to 50 years ago and one of

099them was that the 28 amendment is been challenged a lot of proven that they've only scale last week we have a a CDC report that just came a couple of weeks ago a highlighting a um like a really high uprise of that suicide and depression involves which is 60 higher in girls and boys and coming in the last two or three years and that might also be related somehow I don't know they didn't say this specifically but all the environment against women that has been coming more to flourish in the last few years and you know a lot of these things just come in the last few weeks as a part of our reminder of the women's month so that was yeah interesting dinner with it yesterday and another thing that we've been able to

100talk with the city during the last couple of weeks too and they wake up in legislative action with some of our represented with County wise is to Advocate and talk for the need of a better arrangement for the families and children in our city that are suffering for homelessness and the city did approve their study for next year we went another career that did happen and so they're gonna open a new study for the a way to open a family and children's homeless shelter inside or city that will help our families and also I think we are getting we're still communicating getting support from the county and other agencies and that was pretty much my report for today okay just a couple of quick things first of all uh Narcan has been in the media

101you probably saw the Mercury News article um I can report that we have narcon Narcan in all of our schools we have at least one person trained to administer it in each of our schools and that's just the Baseline we're going to be planning to train all the principals and assistant principals the nurses the health assistants to make sure that we have a good um response and I can just say that I understand some apprehension about that because I had that at the beginning too and then the more I learned about it this is a completely safe response sort of like a first aid response and anyone who administers it is considered like under a Good Samaritan laws and so it just makes sense to have it um so anyway we've done a good job

102getting that into all of our schools with the help of the County Office of Education which has been a real leader on that today I was at least for the morning principal for the day at Lakewood which is um a wonderful opportunity for me to just be in a school and more than just the regular business just to see things how things operate differently than I do in my normal ways and so one thing that I want to call out is the um and this is going to be obvious to the Educators who are listening or the ones in the audience just the professionalism of the staff um on a rainy day schedule so um these are things that like unless you're there maybe you don't realize it um so the kids went out for

103recess because it wasn't raining and then it started raining during recess and the way staff adjusted and everyone wants their break but they made it work for the benefit in the city of the kids and they're during lunch time that is very very difficult um but the way that the adults work with the kids and we're understanding with the kids one teacher at least one teacher that I saw came in to get her kids from the cafeteria to say like hey my kids need to be active so I'm going to pull them out of the cafeteria gave up her own lunch time to do that so um just the professionalism of our kids the main thing I want to say about the Lakewood visit is the reason I was there was to facilitate the administrators

104we're doing these new teacher um program culturally responsive walkthroughs that I think I've talked about and I'm going to emphasize again that is the key element the key element to our anti-racist work nothing is more important there's no more important function that we have as a school district than teaching and learning and what I saw today because I got to watch some of that while I was or watching kids and everything else was administrators working with a coach look working looking at focused students who are identified for whatever reason English Learners who were behind and looking at how the instruction was affecting those students in particular and then debriefing it and talking about how they can then support uh the teachers the classroom teachers to support those kids and that is the core of our

105work so I'm really excited about that and that's my report so now we are moving to the next item which I think is eight yes a comment from the Sunnyvale Education Association is no they're here but they're not right okay okay a comment from the California School Employees Association if there is any member that wish to speak about them please raise your electronic hand yeah okay thank you and now we move or we already have come in front of the problem so we moved to 11 and thank you for your patience okay today and we have the vision School presentation and for that we are gonna listen to it around or the principal and Rob Feliciano sorry for assistant principle okay good evening board cabinet community members it's a privilege to be here on a

106very Rainy Night I did not pay Peggy Tuesday any of those nice things about Bishop but I do appreciate it I have no idea so so um yes I am the principal at Bishop Elementary joined by Rob bellicano our assistant principal and I thought oops is this gonna work yeah okay it is working okay okay there we go I thought I'd start us off tonight with just a few quotes um from students and about what they say about this show so uh one student says my teacher is really nice and we get to celebrate our hard work using the funnel meter oh my I'm not gonna be able to do that from here um my my teacher makes me feel happy because sometimes we have a wrap we'll take a part party he helps me

107learn about math writing social studies if you get a raffle ticket then you that means you're paying attention and you did a good job and that was from a third grader my teacher makes me feel happy when I have sad feelings she makes me feel happy from a kindergartner my teacher is kind to each of us and I like the way she teaches fifth grader my teacher makes me feel happy because when we did addition she let us eat the gummies I'm a kindergartner so those are just a few quotes from our our kids um but I want to jump over just to talk about might not know all the different things that are going on at Bishop we do serve approximately 452 students which is about 70 more students than we had last year

108um we have approximately 237 English language Learners which is about 52 which I think um Peggy alluded to earlier having over that 50 mark on English language learners uh 188 students or approximately 83 um almost 84 speak Spanish so majority of our English language Learners are Spanish speaking and I think this year is probably the greatest number of newcomers we have had at least in my time at Bishop and uh we have 59 newcomers so that means that they've been in the country less uh 12 months or less so that being said there's the delay so when we're looking at just the general makeup of our school community so we have 19 just general education classrooms but then we have many different additional programs that happen at Bishop and so they're just listed here I

109won't necessarily read through each one of them but I just want to draw attention to most of these programmings our special education related other than the intervention at the very last one um but we serve 70 students that actually have on the receive those types of services and 27 of them are English language learners just to give you a little snapshot and I always wanna talk about data and how our kids are doing in fact um just being a leader in me school and always have it to um we believe in the seven habits of highly effective people and have it to be begin with the end in mind and so we want we know we want our kids to be successful we know we want our kids uh to be proficient enough all areas

110all content areas including social emotionally um behaviorally we believe in educating the whole child and so I just want to quickly review like just a snapshot of what our um try mustard want to try mustard true data looks like I will say um because of the way that our trimester ended this is um not exactly if you look at trimester truth the the data that is now there was a class that hadn't that was missing data so it did change a little bit um but the slide deck had already been submitted so I thought I would just call attention to it now but I do want to just focus in on that Kinder um the Kinder class because we have seen some gains not quite as many gains as we as pictured in this picture

111be due to the fact that the um we were right on that line when the trimester two we were gathering all that data so I do want to 31 percent in trimester one were considered proficient which is a total I know about approximately 21 students uh trimester II it did increase to 44 which is uh approximately 30 students and then just looking at math and drawing attention to our fourth grade um students so trimester one performing in the the proficient bucket with 30 we're at 36 persons uh which is a total of approximately 22 students and then in trimester two um looking at fourth grade it was 48 more proficient so that that's a total of approximately 29 students and I know there was a question from the board um it was about the you

112know third and fifth grade seems to be decreasing and not increasing uh the number of students being proficient and that is that is hard because what happens in the um with the data so everybody comes in at the same level right everywhere a different um places when entering and then as we're assessing we're expecting them to move at a certain rate and when they're not moving at that rate then that's what shows in the data by them not necessarily being proficient because the Benchmark keeps moving so if we expect them at a certain place in October and they're not there but when we reassess them for trimester two that Benchmark continues to move some they should be at a different rate and if they're not there then they're considered not proficient so I just want

113to draw attention to some of our site goals that we had this year and then we're gonna very quickly kind of review the things that we have done because we there's been some amazing things happening that we're excited to share with you tonight um one of our goals as a as a district and as a site is really zoning in on our multi-tiered systems of support I would really focused this year on family involvement which we're excited to share about tonight as well and our writer's Workshop which is just really about writing instruction and I'm going to talk a little bit about that but we wouldn't be doing any of this unless we were really focused on that Equity piece and our conversations are repeatedly about um what does that child need it's not about

114what we're giving to all students but like really what does that child need and it looks different for different students so at this time I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to Rob and he is going to just talk us through on the multi-tiered systems and support and how we've been able to address that you know at Bishop this year thank you transition music okay okay good evening everyone my name is I have the pleasure of telling you a little bit more about bishop and some very specific information forgive me as I look at my notes I just would want to do the best justice as I can as I um I'm very excited to share the information with you so there's a lot of different caveats behind it so first and foremost

115I have the pleasure of being able to describe what mtss is or Educators we love our acronyms and so that stands for multi-tiered systems of support and ultimately what this is It's a framework right of different tiers focusing on different levels of support right so we focus I know Bridget had mentioned earlier about the whole child and so ultimately that's what MTS is is in regards to the framework so this might not just Encompass academic growth this is also a social emotional growth this might be absenteeism and ultimately this might be again behaviors that are impacting learning and so all of those components really put together that whole child aspect that we are proud and Bishop to have continually honed in on what our process looks like and so with this the different support systems

116of mtss may change so they may start like rather small and then grow more intensively and the Beautiful part of the framework and the tiers is just because the child moves up the tears and gets rid receives more support as we find their success and their motivators and give them exactly what they need we can exit them out of those tiers and then likewise continue to assess their academic progress so just keep that in mind as I brag a little bit about the things that Bishop has done for the mtss process all right so Bishop's MCS process can be observed in several different ways which I hope you are able to see in your visits to our campus first and foremost we have a designated intervention block that we have dubbed win and it's not

117just an intervention Block it's also an enrichment block so we really focus on having that advocacy of student voice and choice reflected in the work that our classroom teachers do daily and so with this we have a huge Focus during trimester three on Phonics and that's in order to meet the varied needs of our population utilizing our teachers on special assignment also again known as tosas we service students within strategic pull-up groups within the mtss process and this represents at this time about 64 different students needing either tier 2 or tier 3 intensive supports these groups are created through data meetings in collaboration with teachers and other support staff throughout our campus again because we believe in that shared leadership model as part of our leader in me program interventions are also represented in classroom

118work within teacher groups and so ultimately those would be our tier one instruction because everything starts with our teachers who see their students each and every day and know them best with that in mind professional development is a huge component of our MTS Pros mtss process that enriches our daily work for this year we have been focused on math modules culturally responsive teaching in particular we're focusing on that win aspect what students need and so advocating student voice in order to make sure that they have those skills to go from dependent Learners where adults do so much of the heavy academic schema lifting to Independent Learners where they can advocate for self and again demonstrate those skills as lifelong learners furthermore we know that Bishop represents a huge population of newcomers as well as individuals

119of multilingual backgrounds and so we are developing our English language development or ELD curriculum in order to best serve those rotational needs between the strengths of our teachers and so if you were to come and visit you would see our students rotating between different students and different teachers in order to make sure that we group them appropriately for their needs now the fun part more data right so on this particular side right we want to be able to look at some intervention data about our mtss process and so on your screen you see Ela Cycles showcase about the different goals between reading and math and I'm pleased to be able to share this snippet with you because here we see that 74 of the goals were met and within our math Cycles 83 percent of

120those goals were met and this work here represents 37 individual students within a tier two or tier 3 focus and so I want to call attention that this is a diagnostic and so with this testing it doesn't necessarily mean that the students are at grade level yet which is again where we are always striving to make sure that they end there may be other factors But ultimately we want to be able to celebrate this work with you because these are students making the academic progress always our English language Learners remain a highlight of our focus and within this grouping 70 showcase progress on their reading goals and 87 showed math progress on their proficiencies yeah okay so as we move forward definitely want to talk more about our English language Learners I'll reference the quote

121in a little bit because it's so fun the bishop is home to many newcomers and as Mrs LeBron mentioned right what those newcomers represent a huge number of our population but what is a newcomer according to our current definition that continues to change and evolve a newcomer or students who have been in the United States for under two years right in our previous public speakers mentioned a little bit more about English language as well as their assessments and I'll touch on that as well currently at Bishop we have a total of 28 newcomers currently within what we call a newcomer Group which is again a very fun space that some of us have some of you have been able to visit within that group we were able to exit 10 due to space limitations and

122overall student progress meaning that they didn't necessarily need that small group instruction within a newcomer group overall Bishop has 25 of our El population represented or classified as newcomers and that would be a total of 59 students our total English language Learners as Mrs LeBron mentioned is about 237 and this is a shifting population so as individuals may leave our community we always have new individuals come in and so it continues to shift as you can see our newcomers value their small group time and it gives them success within their oral language as well as their comprehension for example one student commented thanks for teaching me that I really needed it or I really needed that yeah and if you were to come and visit you could see the newcomers they tend to pull and

123eat lunch together and that they support newcomers coming in and it's a really truly student-led engagement we didn't ask them to do those different groupings they found their Community from our newcomer group as well as the dedicated obstruction of some of our support staff which I'll mention just a little bit okay and so on this particular side I get to be able to explain a little bit more about what Mrs labrano mentioned about at Bishop we are our leader in me school and so we have different habits a total of seven of Highly Successful People and habit number two is about beginning with the end in mind and we know that so many of our Learners we want to get them to that great level of proficiency and so really that's a passionate emphasis behind

124our teachers work and we know that our English language Learners especially need that additional support within reading as well as again that careful monitoring to ensure that they reach those accolades in regards to reading I'd like to pay a particular Focus to our progress between trimester one trimester two for our youngest Learners our kindergarteners specifically within this time frame our English language Learners increase their reading from 17 to 29 from trimester one to trimester two which is very exciting and I'll do graphics and then another group that I'd like to be able to also highlight would be the English language Learners within our fourth grade of these students and trimester one's math assessments 17 of them showcase their proficiencies however by 12 by trimester two 28 showed proficiencies how this correlates in terms of numbers

125is six students at trimester one and then 10 students in trimester two Bishop is committed in order to be able to support English language Learners develop their skills and to be reclassified by displaying their English language proficiencies and so here's where we get to share a couple numbers from 2019 to 2020 we reclassify only 10. as we move forward during 2020 to 2021 we reclassified 22. most recently last year we were able to reclassify 35 and ultimately we are very excited to be able to celebrate our continued growth in achieving English language proficiencies of due to the hard work of our teachers most recently our lpac assessment window closed we were able to successfully test 237 or more students and we were able to do so within eight days with minimal interruptions to our robust

126Staffing because we wanted to make sure that our staffing went back to making to doing that tier two and tier three intervention in enrichments so lastly transition we have different layers of support within our team in order to have made all of this progress so far and the progress be yet to be celebrated so first and foremost we have a wonderful motto so Teamwork Makes the Dream Work and so with that Leader in Me focus and that shared leadership model we are actively believing that we can each make a commitment and each make a difference within our students lives so ultimately we would be remiss without calling out our instructional coaches our bilingual parents as well as our full-time social worker as well as all of the individuals who meet regularly to discuss data and

127make sure that our students are receiving this the services that they require at Bishop also we focus on our lower socioeconomic status students which are targeted alongside our English language learners for enrichment opportunities right after school so for example we have choir we have Club code we have a ukulele class cooking classes focusing again on real life math and recipes the cookies are delicious these opportunities have been structured to provide not only enrichment but additional teachable moments that are memorable with real life applicability during these events that parents are able to attend Child Care is provided for families attending our family involvement classes run by our team social workers and with that in mind I'd like to transition Mrs LeBron back to continue to tell you more about the work that we're accomplishing at Bishop

128Elementary this year thank you thank you excuse me okay so moving on to our one of our second goals uh family uh involvement has been a key area of uh Focus for us this year so I'm just going to briefly kind of over give you an overview of what that looks like this year we um were able to identify we kind of put it in two different buckets and I'm going to kind of go through here just so you can see that so we identified family education and then family engagement and we separated them too to be a little more strategic about how we wanted to focus on on families and so that um we chose as a School site to really put a lot of attention and effort on the family education piece which

129I heard a lot about tonight as well um and then our PTO actually took on more of the family engagement opportunities and we'll briefly talk about that too but our family education this year we've um set up some different pieces to be able to help our families as they're trying to navigate being parents friends and so we've partnered with our social worker which I cannot say enough she's done an amazing job she's such a wealth of knowledge and a resource and having her five days a week has been absolutely phenomenal and what she's able to do she's partnered with us in uh facilitating some of these education events such as we did a first six weeks for family so the first six weeks of schools and this was open to everyone not just tkdk but

130we did Target TK 2K just because they're entering the school system and trying to navigate that but opening it for everybody and it we didn't continue that throughout the year we transitioned to a different format after those six weeks um and so we just called it a strong start and we had different topics that parents could opt into the first one was just knowing yourself as a parent right because we tend to parent the way we had been parented and so sometimes we need to analyze what that looks like and is that what we want for our own family and so just helping parents understand that about themselves and then we transition to some different topics like establishing routines like what does that look like um and then eventually we switched over in November to

131doing monthly parent cafes where parents are learning from one another um and then also driving the conversation and we wanted to be responsive to the needs and the questions they had um and so that's still ongoing we tried last week we tried Zoom I think we're the parents had some good um feedback about how they actually liked it better in person just because they live in a smaller um environment and so their kids are just in the next room so they didn't feel like they could be as open in having conversations with their children right next door when we offer these parent uh event education we always offer child care and for the parent cafes we also offer dinner to make sure that instances during that time just to really help us Target those families

132um and then the new thing that we added this year too is teach classroom teachers um hosted two education opportunities and it had to be an education opportunity it could not be like an art class or it needed to be something a tool that families could use at home um so how am I going to support my child in math how am I going to support my child in Reading um and so that way we were just really trying to be very strategic and those have actually been very well attended um this year and teachers had a lot of agency over how they did it they could do it during the school day if they wanted to invite parents in to join a lesson that they were doing in the classroom that was absolutely okay

133they could do it right after school they could do it in the evening we got we gave a lot of um just room for development and so that was a focus that we will probably continue because it was definitely um yielded some great I think gains and just building community we this year our family engagement has been like hour after our PTO events have been very well attended in compared to the past I was their pre-pandemic and I remember having our Multicultural events and our picnics and having maybe 20 30 people maybe we are in the hundreds parents I mean and I have I don't know I have a parent here with us tonight uh she can probably attest to the well-attended events um that is just it's definitely shifted uh you can tell after

134especially after um you know coven and being out they're craving community and so it's just been refreshing so um one of the things we've launched this year was a parent passport uh to help guide making it a little more fun and engaging for families to attend family education so that every time they attended an education event they got a parent a stamp um and so the stamps led up to you if they got three stamps by January they their child got a free book to take home if they got if they get six book six stamps by May then they are invited to a dinner and a movie at um bishop and so we'll have that in our Auditorium and it will be an invite only for those families that participated for the um that

135time so just trying to make it a little more fun and you know attract some more people um but it's definitely been a learning process too because this is the first year and sometimes I'm sure as you know it takes a little bit of time to get things up and going and so we're finally starting to see uh the fruit of that okay uh so writers through transitioning into our last uh goal that we've been really focusing on this year as a site a writer's Workshop um is a framework so if we really had to frame it this is really about writing instruction and deepening our understanding as Educators and how to teach writing and that being said we know when we're reclassifying students and just thinking of our Els uh specifically they tend to

136struggle in reading and writing there's four components that they have to meet and master to be able to be considered proficient the first two listening and speaking are they tend to um become proficient faster in those areas reading and writing are where they actually struggle uh to be reclassified so this is really a push to be able to deepen our understanding about teaching writings writing so therefore hopefully in the next you know as we continue our work around this we'll see the the effects that so this year we were able to participate in some professional development with an outside facilitator outside um developer that came into our School site uh two times this year so they they come to us they did demo lessons for teachers teachers got to um participate in small group just

137like we want kids to do small groups sometimes the teachers having a small group of collaboration time with a little bit guided is really impactful as well and so they were able to meet with her and learn from her over a half a day and then also she would actually go do demo lessons and they would be able to visit or watch her and um be able to take that back into their own writing instruction and then we've had some Zoom meetings throughout the year as well so we've kind of alternated it um just to be a little more flexible and that has worked out well and we're hoping to continue that next year but transitioning it a little bit to again pushing our teachers managing them forward and their their own writing instructions and

138so kids have been very excited about writing they've had publishing parties so after they're finished they publish their work and that's been really exciting to see because they're starting to really embrace the writing process and we're really pushing teachers to not just stick to certain genres that we're going to teach this genre for this amount of time but that they should be able to be kind of go in and out so um that is what we've been doing around writing and I kind of just want to wrap up tonight too uh just with it does take a village I mean we have some dedicated individuals um at our school sites including our families and including our support staff and our teachers and our students and so our social workers our Outreach we really could not

139do that the work that we do without them and I also wanted to just to shout out a big thank you um to SEO as well because they have supported us in some of our endeavors um and provided some funding um uh Assistance League of Los Altos as well hasn't really been an integral part um and even some of our District staff members our social worker and our coach they set up this Giving Tree during the holiday season to really meet the needs of some of our neediest families and they put little gift our cards and even District staff when they would come into our um our office would take one and just give back so I just we just want to say thank you and by the end all of them were taken and

140they were able to give those to our family our families so I just want to say thank you um and take it from Bishop so now it's time for a public comments is if there is a member of the public holiday exciting and we have a Carver here is please and if there is a member of the audience online who would like to speak about this particular item please use the raised hand feature now [Music] [Laughter] hello my name is Peggy Brewster I have a second grader a bishop and I wanted to also chime in about what's special to Bishop um some things that maybe weren't addressed in the presentation but also that were firstly our admin has our admin Tara and Rob have specifically sought out to hire more male teachers and staff and

141it really makes a difference um including like my sons he's a first year teacher and he's amazing having constant role models in children's lives is so important to you know social emotional health or self-confidence and their educational outcomes going forward and I was so pleased this was my first year on campus to see so many men you know on campus um also um as part of our work with SCF that we um we collected data about extracurriculars at all of the different School sites and what really stood out about Bishop was the way that the staff the teachers provide so many of those opportunities for example the kindergarten teachers just started like a cooking and math after school thing so a kinder teachers are working with the fifth grade students that need help with fractions

142you know and making rice krispie treats and breakfast burritos we have our amazing kindergarten teacher who he and his wife are also amazing Kpop dancers um teaching ukulele um and also um like Miss Lou does this club code and um bossy with um with Miss chocolate and you don't see that we didn't see that at the other school sites and so I really want to point out how unique the staff is and how dedicated we are um also um I do want to mention though that we have such a rich community and so many Spanish speakers but on the PTO it is very hard to engage Spanish speakers and this kind of come back and comes back to that um issue of equity this work that I think we have a responsibility to really bring

143in those those families and I know that we've talked we've like talked about how to engage more how to bring more families in and I don't think it's just a School site problem you know and we know that we see the outcomes with the um with the test um you know as we follow with Spanish-speaking um students so that's where I'd really like to lean in with the district and work with this on this aspect of equity and bringing in the community and maybe even like be a little more radical but the way that we think about what a school might look like I've been looking at happy to talk with you further about you know like perhaps like making our school a performing art school or maybe making our school a campus that has

144this like like a college or post-secondary you know like a focus on this is these are your opportunities and modeling that throughout the campus throughout the um throughout the kids lives you know they see that okay that a path forward from me because our population is very different than a lot of other populations but that's something that's really rich about us and that's something that should be celebrated and like Camilla was saying you know I feel like there's a lot of othering and distancing and not inclusiveness that comes um along when you when you have different kinds of populations and certain people making decisions so anyways I would like to work together on that and thank you thank you today oh okay I have a couple comments um first of all I loved going to

145see I loved going to Bishop for the site visit after I did it I came back and I said it was just amazing um so you know I really appreciated like the interaction but with you know the in the library just how active that space is now I know some of it is because the books were donated but it's also the librarian just the culture you can just see it's like a real heartbeat there in the in the school site um I loved you know we happened to be there on a day when they were parents volunteering and doing a math like a math project like in the in one of the rooms and just the students it was hands on it was like super engaging um and it was like creatively funded I mean

146it was just like very very inspiring um and you know we got to go in and talk to the teacher who works with the newcomer groups and you know I always see that like one thing that um you know I brought back to the board at that time was the fact that during the Alpac testing how those groups really shut down and I think you said it was pretty much all hands on deck so I'm not sure if the other ptosis also shut down in groups but it seemed like all of the admin staff was really required to do that testing so um you know I hope that I really hope that the district can fund some sort of support for schools that have like a high population of newcomers like whether it's a floating

147support or something so that the intervention work can come through and you know as we look at that old pack or in the budgets for next year yeah I hope we see something like that in there I don't know if we're just bishop or well I can say something about that so Bishop has the largest number of English Learners large number of students to be tested and yes before that started there was a lot of I mean I was feeling it too like my gosh we don't want to be interrupting the interventions um and yet there's this required test that we do have as the previous speaker said we have some different feelings about the relative value of it except to know that it's required yeah um but um Rob referenced how quickly they got

148through the students was it eight days eight days eight days 230 37 students what he didn't say is that was largely due to his organization um so I want to publicly congratulate Rob for that um and also his leadership and terrorist leadership and pulling the whole Community together let's get this done so it was done before the February break so I would rather as you're saying not lose any days to this test um but to get it done that quickly I don't think I've seen that before and some of the other schools have did a really really nice job too Lakewood did a fantastic job as well but yeah we need to be mindful of that just to support that voice I'm really glad about that and that's great um and then I love the

149idea of the current passports yeah um you know I just wanted to say like in in one of my committee meetings it came up about the situation that's happening with the um the early the early like TK and kindergarten brunch situation and so I just hope that we can you know like so it turns out that the cafeteria isn't open till 10 and they're scheduling things and those kids go to recess earlier because there's so many little people there you have like a gajillion TK and kindergarteners I think you told me you told us there was like a whole kindergarten class overflow to another school site right so you just have a lot of little people um so I think it's great it's tremendous that you're very flexible um but you know like the federal

150government the state government this you know our district we spend a lot of money really wanting to get student nutrition for those very early Learners so their little brains work and and can grow and so like I just really I really hope that the district leans in on correcting that scheduling issue because I personally feel and I believe that the word feels out as well and it's just so incredibly important and you know we're you know I'm sure it's been going on since the beginning of the year and I know it's like I understand that everyone that there's contracts and there's things that are tied but it's just um you know it's one of those things where we just can't throw our hands up I really I really hope we can lean in on that

151so that's my comments so but thank you for everything and I just love your school so much [Music] I was so impressed by the variety about their school programs I've been able to put together and be um the engagement you have with the parent Community I think that's such a high such a high bar in in North Sunnyvale generally trying to engage parents who have jobs and other things that I'm sorry sorry I keep bringing my microphones and someone request by your after school programs the level of Engagement from your parent Community I think that's especially difficult in one Sunny Bell where so many parents have multiple jobs and so many different things to do um and yeah I just love that um I am curious about some of this data um so a lot

152of the fifth graders graduate not meeting standards and then they just they go into Columbia and then Columbia Gas and they just continue from there and there's some like these aren't exactly the numbers I would expect given covet I think I would have expected second or second grade to be further behind because they had or the grades that have the online learning years to be further behind do you have any insights on from that or is it just that's just the way numbers felt I think there's probably many factors that um play out in knowing that our community is a very transient so it's a little bit hard to contract I don't necessarily know I the contents in and of itself tends to be once you hit that third grade and then moving on to

153fourth and fifth grade the content definitely gets much more challenging and I'm sure you probably have heard the phrase you know um learn to read and then read to learn so that also I think all transitions into those in Upper grades too second grade and third grade which are like if you're a little bit behind in Reading those are super critical years to gain that back so I would say that actually probably is yeah partially coveted right yeah does it make it okay but like yeah yeah and then their access during that time right not just the covid right and being home but then what would it access look like um for them because some of it was challenging and I'm especially impressed with how your level of family engagement after covid like Brisco you

154know everybody back and that's amazing thank you so are we yes that was my quick comment I was just gonna say like that's great to hear that like you know one that it's one of your focuses which is also like a district Focus too and that you are like seeing some results right so like some areas you're still trying to figure it out right I appreciated Peggy's comment about right like there's a huge chunk of our community who we're not seeing represented as much drain how do we right just we can always improve but it is exciting to see that like the first step is people coming to events right like once they're coming right then the next step is empowering right like there's steps and so um that's exciting and then just right it's

155like we all flip like some of those numbers right like it's just it's so hard right just a reminder like everyone's intentions are so great like our teachers work hard but like we've got to figure out something different right we just and it's not just you guys right and it's not just our district right but like those numbers are not okay and we all have to figure it out and thank you for the presentation okay so yeah thank you for work for the tour was great and I always you know this school the school environment and I can see the love and they care yeah from everybody for the kids to really enjoy to be there and you can see it and feel it and I love the newcomers classrooms and and the passion of

156the teacher and you know all the work in their walls and how how evocative it was at the good time they were having which was great I I do I yeah I was thinking that most of the numbers that you say you have more than half of the population that is senior surrender so it makes sense that if you don't know how to read in English you're gonna do very badly in Reading in general so but how long does it take normally a kid in Bishop to to go over and and get reclassified I think that's a great question it's one of those questions that um it's hard to track uh because of our coming in and going out and some of our families and when they when they come in so some of our

157kids don't come to us you know from another country till fourth grade and so then for us to be able to track them makes it really challenging or some of them don't come to us till second grade and then they don't stay with us maybe not the whole time and so when we're trying to analyze data like that it's a it's really challenging so what we do analyze then is that like the rate that we are reclassifying like what Rob had shared with okay like the year 1920 that was a year of covid right we only classified tent reclassified ten um so that is something that we can track at the number that we are reclassifying each year but um finding what the average rate of an El to that reclassifies and that's a little

158bit um challenging to isolate if you don't know this number it's okay but do you know how many transient families in general you have or before 100 kids or the 200 there are learning because that's that's huge if they cannot yeah it is huge right and I will you know like we have lots of diverse diversity on our campus as you know Peggy was even talking about earlier um and yeah it's hard because you don't always know when they're going to leave um you know we have some families too when they're they have unstable housing and then find stable housing right you don't necessarily always know when that's going to to happen um and then sometimes they it goes they leave and you don't even know they left because they didn't even say goodbye right

159you know so it's it's one of those things that is a little bit challenging tricky to attention to the monitor and how do we how do you guys use the theater is The Great theater I love it we love it too especially on rainy days but we use it for our leadership rallies so we have leadership rallies once a month we use it for any large Gathering um so I right now we're even our KR choir that are after school choir is using it for their time we'll have a theater a three five theater class starting up as well in the next few weeks and they're going to use that space as well um we use it for district events we tend to you know get a call and um and um and host those

160types of things as well um but those are some of the big things that we do like our end of year promotions and um ceremonies and reclassification and um oh yes movie night yes movie nights are very well attended in there oh yes it's like going to AMC cool cleanup is not fun just saying we have like blowers that we have to blow popcorn not kidding do you want to come we'll invite you to the next one but you have to clean up that way yes yes but you have to volunteer thank you uh thank you for adding the numbers of the the peer support system like how how it's working out for you guys to the slide with the non-person is very interesting because one of the things that we've been talking is like

161what kind of the things that we gain during during pandemic the new things which was the doses we should actually keep or increase or what do we do with that like what are we learning so it's good to know what are the results are yeah the police besides thank you yeah thank you thank you thank you is there any other final thing okay I think we can move on and I'm sorry that I have to get you into this place your time and thank you for you know caring so much and this is the wonderful ever okay [Music] button break very quickly it is 9 50 and we'll be back in afternoon hopefully by family [Music] excited I'm here to you if it cooperates so these are the major Revenue assumptions built into the second

162internal report based on the latest projection from the county assessor's office our property tax revenues projected to increase eight percent over 2021 which is approximately five million dollars our lcf uphold harmless remains at 2.9 Million and that's held constant with no Cola at the 12 13 rate our EPA is projected at 1.2 million our partial taxes projected at 1.1 million our one-time cares act funding which is part of the coronavirus relief package is projected at 5.8 million this funding is to be used for student classroom Support Facility improvements to reduce buyer's transmission educational technology and students social emotional and learning loss support based on the latest projection from the county office of State special education is projected with no cohort all federal categorical revenues projected at the 2021 level restricted unrestricted Lottery are projected for

163a combined total of 237 dollars per Ada which is approximately 1.4 million dollars and based on the latest estimate from the county office our RDA revenues projected at 4.1 and finally our lease Revenue based upon our current year contracts is projected at 6 million dollars so this is an overall look at the general fund budget by a major component parcel taxes and state property taxes and state aid are our major component at 104.1 million dollars which is a low over 78 of our budget personal tax and EPA are combined 2.3 million dollars for a 1.7 percent of the budget our lease Revenue as I said is six million dollars that's 4.5 percent of the budget our cares act Revenue at 5.8 million is 4.3 percent of the budget total federal revenue is 2.3 million which

164is 1.7 budget our state revenue is 10.1 million at 7.6 and our local revenue is 2.5 million at 1.84 for a total revenue budget of 133.1 million so these are the major general fund expenditure assumptions built into the budget certificated s FTE which includes SDA and certificated scam units has decreased 4.3 FTE for teacher and Tulsa ft since the first interim budget classified FTE which includes csca and classified stamp units has increased 2ft repair Educators FTE since the first interim budget certificate and classified compensation changes including step and column increases as well as negotiated salary schedule increases have been recognized and included in the budget 2223 stirs rate is projected in 19.1 percent which is a 12.1 percent increase over 21.22 hers is protected at 25.37 which is 10.7 increased over 21.22. based on the

1652023 Health and Welfare rates United Healthcare has increased six percent over 2022 and Kaiser has increased 15.6 over 2022 and based on the new rates the projected increase in Health and Welfare estimates is six hundred and thirteen thousand dollars all carrier carryover funds have been budgeted which includes our category and vocal funds so this is a look at our expenditure budget in the general fund by a major component salaries and benefits are the largest portion of that at 111.8 million dollars which is approximately 85 of our budget 5.5 million for books and supplies which is four percent of the budget and 14.6 million for services and other expenditures is approximately 11 in the budget included in this category are additional support for Child Nutrition and state preschool the transfer of funds from the unrestricted general

166fund to the Special Reserve fund Tuesday for future technology upgrades the purchase of software licenses professional development as well as contracts to support student social emotional health and transportation services for a total expenditure budget of 113 131.9 million so this is a multi-year look of the ratio of Revenue to expense in the journal fund 22-23 Revenue as I said is projected at 133.1 million dollars which is an increase of 9.2 million over 2122 at the 2223 expenditure budget is projected at 131.9 million which is 15.8 million higher than 21.22. the 15.8 million increase in the expenditure budget over 21 22 is being driven by salary schedule increases Health open welfare increases an increase in the contribution to other funds contracted services and maintenance projects based on the projections in the second interim budget are 2223

167revenue is expected outpace expense by 1.1 so this is a multi-year look at the general fund beginning and ending balances the 2223 ending fund balances predicted increase over first interim to do in part to increase in the revenue budget to account for the receipt of one-time funds FTE changes and a projected decrease in the current year support to Child Development and student nutrition sewing benefit savings for vacant positions have been recognized and incorporated into the budget and these factors combined contribute to the 2.1 million dollar increase in the ending fund balance since the first intern budget this is a look at our unrestricted reserves this is a combination of the unrestricted general fund and the Special Reserve funds of the team 2223 projected Reserves at second interim are slightly higher than 21-22 but because our

168projected unrestricted expenditures have increased 15.8 million dollars over 2122 the reserve balances percentage of total general fund has declined 2.4 percent over 2122 so just to quickly summarize our unrestricted general fund any balance is 31.4 million Special Reserve fund any balance is 14.2 million dollars for a total unrestricted Reserves at 34.6 percent we have a positive ending balance in the multitude projection then we will maintain our basic Aid status yes thank you thank you for your work on this is right now is there any member of the public who wishes to speak on this item please raise your a hand electronic hand in assume right now anyone um okay thank you for that board and any comments and questions make a question for approval yeah yes so I'll move that we approve um the oh

169no the second interim the 2223 second Instagram fiscal solvency report I'll second that okay so I bought it if you just totally say aye yeah [Music] um okay any comments or questions thank you you're welcome and one question sure the interest this was in the pack and I asked the question um it said we received one of Point uh 108 000 in interest that that can't be the interest of 45 million dollars no it's just the general fund doesn't get interest only Special Reserve fund 17 uh accrues interest so that's what that 108 000 is for so it just so it the so our money is in a bank account it's in the County Treasury okay my questions [Music] thank you thank you for your work and for staying together for the approval of the

17020 20 22 20 23 seconds during physical Society report if everybody we already have an emotions so at least if you are through it please say aye good with that uh of course all right now we move to 12 fee approval of this statement condemning condemning anti-asian bigotry and uh well we have actually two content personalities to the previous question or about to see which is also like work a lot so okay so this is the statement that we wrote in advance of the March 16th event at Lakewood [Music] I think for my systemic issues sorry um this is the statement that the I wrote in conjunction with the rest of the team in uh before the March 16th event it's something that I'm asking other boards to sign on to as well as well

171as the city council we chose to capture to keep it localized Sunnyvale so it's going to be us the city council and the high school district but this is something that I am asking other boards to sign on to in advance of the event system right no no Naomi specifically and also so does Cupertino you're right so I think that like for the City of Sunnyvale yeah we should do it I think you're right okay but anyway but anybody could sign on push that back roll back yeah I'll roll that back in we'll see and see what we can do yes and Santa Clara has Santa Clara unified has students as well thought about that about that because I think like especially like borders like part of our neighborhood has like a cutout for sale

172unified so I will bring that back to people in my in my quest for signatories so so I'm asking people to sign on as individuals and also for forced to sign on so that's why this is on the agenda today thank you okay so a board can we have a motion so we can do it oh we're gonna start up before then is there any member of the public who will like to speak on this item please raise your hand right now on the original picture we don't have any so for the we have a motion because we approve the statement of condemning anti-asian bigotry I'll second okay so we can discuss now if there is there are any questions extra comments or what discuss no I think it's good thanks okay I'm excited about

173signing it and I appreciate you bringing it to the board I know Isabelle could have signed it on behalf of the board because we've talked about this week it aligns with us but I like it that we can all chime in and and vote to support it so so I did have one comment and packet um review in um I would have appreciated the district what the congressional district actually being given its number because we redistricted it we don't think people in Sunnyvale yet have in a specific identity I don't understand in Sunnyvale we are um have one of the highest minority majority um Asian population in the country and it would have been nice had me actually named the the 17th Congressional okay well good feedback next time round two this is a very

174important issue and thank you for following through I mean it's very important to do with that and it's also very important that is follow with actions like is it has been following it by the city and other partners and I'm looking forward to living next week yeah so thanks for working with others to help organize a lot of them yeah so this is this is important I think for the community that we don't just have a statement but that we have these events as well in the community especially is excited for um or asked for by Center intervention training which we're penciling in for more for May 11th but we're still there'll be more yeah um I think the event modeling a previous business no and I appreciate the facilitators uh at that event which

175are the same facilitators that you have at this event so I I feel that people will feel welcomed and uh it will be inclusive okay so all in favor please say aye okay the motion has been passed careful eyes and that with that we will do the next item which is the approval of the resolution in the matter of national women's History Month is on for this one the contact is me I also work with this with Widget and it did come to my attention uh well it has come to itself in the news and everywhere about all the issues related with women issues in general and this is their history women's history month and other boards that I have talked about this issue and about the the hard time that our girls are having

176in general and not just a good thing you know which has been having a lot of mental health issues lately but also in particular our girls which seem to be coming in a way higher range and everybody who identifies a girl in a bigger race so I talk with other members in all these events that we or other boards you know the events that we've been visiting and I found that that's also happening a lot in the world in other areas and a lot of people have these resolutions and but of course with the resolutions we not just wanted to make a statement but we also want to add in some actions behind that and we've been also talking I've been also talking English with Mike about some presentations that really brought to attention about

177the administration right and about providing by by law last year there was a new law providing that we need to provide enough free Administration items and again items for everybody who identify well for girls actually and then there is an extra representation that it came from another board that and from the county boards where kids were as came to go a little bit farther and not just following the law but following the intentions behind it also not just making the fair minimum but trying to actually serve the actual needs of our community and our goals and so we're going to be working on on checking on that and also I've been talking with uh well I talked briefly with our company superintendent but also with the high school to see if there is anything else

178that we can do as a or we can start this month working on it and if we can do some other event to highlight uh the the importance of our girls and everybody who identified as Birds is so and there are many things that are happening that are undermining the importance of women and the importance of course in our society and I think it's affected a lot our youth this is the way our juice be to be a woman and what it matters and how important a woman about our equal rights and I think with our quality Equity lens and it is very important that we pass resolution like this is so with that being said I think that the resolution itself it we explain a lot of why we think it's important what we

179mean about what is the thought behind that uh we and I work on this but it did come from other boards the the initial part we just added View and research all the points that were made to be every point was actually to the point and we had some over there it also quotes and other gives other information only so we can actually check on the numbers from the CDC and all the things that the Congress has been doing and so with that say then I'm gonna first go to public comments before we make a motion so if there are any public comment on this particular item please please raise your a hand feature right now no one against him no one then boy can we have a motion to discuss and talk about this

180I moved to improved resolution r2322 in the matter of national women's History Month any second oh second okay um yeah I'll second thank you so yeah open discussion about it hello yeah okay um I feel like as a follow-up to this one of the concrete actions that Leo support should do and that has been one of our board focuses as we've talked about is pursuing the matter of equity in after-school care I feel like women are often the people who upon whom the child care burden Falls and especially in the aftermath of covet I think this is something that a good concrete thing that we should pursue in the spirit of this resolution as well it's a great idea look at that so um so I would like to following up on what Eileen said

181as because it isn't agenda specifically I just want to have a placeholder that we should really be discussing about resolutions and and in general what are our guiding principles about them not only communicate the community but also with what concrete actions are we going to take Beyond just alerting and codifying our beliefs around us around this statement what are our next steps um so at another point in time I'd like to have a further um so um I've shared with a few people that were uh five women bored and they were uh kind of interested in that they're like oh that's going to be interesting you know okay what's gonna happen so um I'm really hopeful we passed this resolution because if we don't know I feel that I personally feel that would be kind

182of sad so I hope we do um but I just also like yes he's kind of I'm I'm happy to have that discussion I'm hopeful that like as there's an equity um index or plan for next year maybe this is something that the board would want to do like as far as like not not the poor but that maybe the district could put together for us is like a recommendation of some things that might be appropriate would be an equity work forward um but I think you know when I came on the board I was not super fond of resolutions they sounded super wordy and um you know they just sounded like just something that I just was not comfortable really being a part of in any way which is like whereas and Heritage for

183and I was like oh my goodness this sounds silly but um you know now that I'm kind of used to the language um I see it as just a way of stating a system of beliefs or a lens at the board that this particular board as we're norming is having right like we are we're stating this resolution is I mean I personally thought we were speaking of the resolution is sort of like this is a lens and this is one aspect of the equity lens that we are going to take the opportunity to talk about and it's not saying that other Equity lenses couldn't be talked about later or whatever but um anyway I'm I'm comfortable with it um and you know I hope I hope we can support it as a board okay yeah

184what I yeah what I wanted is like well where here is a women's month so we're gonna start with this but also as we've been talking about it like what other actions can we add around it oh sorry I didn't get it oh sorry like sorry about that like it's not just about you know making the resolution which I like and I was very proud of a couple of resolutions I've been past this year and and there was one that I was very proud with actually there was nothing we can do but at least this is something that we can this is one that we can do something about it like the a the previous one that there are little things and if we can bring these kind of things that come together with our

185Equity lens and about the costs that we we care and that will be just for children's their community they might be like little things here and there that may not cost money for us and may just add another layer of care for our children in our community like this one we can for example renew your policies about that thing and we can maybe see if we can partner together with other people's too bring more stems to growth in an event or something like that or as you say like if they're important after care and it is something that we're gonna be changing this year in a study session it will support women's because you will Empower them to to do other things in the afternoon I mean will it you know support kids at the

186same time be safe so with that um I do not recall in my understanding of the history of the district that they have ever had and all women board so I am very excited about that happening now in our community so um I I just wanted to let you know how exciting it is after all this time to have uh um have the opportunity of working with outstanding similar community so thank you thank you okay so please all in favor hi yes so with all chairs both eyes so with other solution passes and now our next item will be 12C the no sorry 12d which is the matter of discussion in both of the 2023 csda delegate assembly and our contact person footage will be previous ones okay so last board meeting we discussed possibly

187doing this another way so we have paper here and Nancy can um text in her ideas if we all agree but the idea that we talked about last time was um to do it the way a few other boards that I've heard of did it to kind of get around any accidental hurt feelings is a huge but it is a huge slate it is 11 people um and so for six seats uh we have one open spot of non-incumbent um we have several you know we have four potential writing candidates and everybody's I mean I think everybody who's a candidate is pretty great you know so I'm super grateful that the board has you know put our put our names forward as our board has done that um you know we could just quickly go

188through the candidates and say things but are we all still agree that we're going to vote that way from last time okay the other thing is at some point we need an emotion and a second okay so why don't you make a motion that can we make a motion that we're improving or do we have to have the names to make a motion hello no but probably I think we need to I don't know maybe at the very end yeah it does on the agenda say discusses so I think we discussed we can we can do the vote we do is not like an official because about somebody I'm assuming Jesus is going to tally he gives it to us and one of us will make that motion and we can talk about it there

189you go okay so I mean we could just kind of go through the um the ballot really quickly um so it's in the it's in the document online but um the the candidates who are officially on the ballot is Teresa Bond who's from Los Gatos um seroto lead Union High School District before she's been on that board for several years and before that she was on the Lakeside board so she's she's for like eight or 12 years before that so she has like 20 something years in service and she's the currently the vice chair of the option committee um and she goes to everything and she speaks up and she's really great Danielle Cohen is a very experienced trustee and delegate and she's held a lot of leadership positions in [Music] um in the association

190she was the treasurer for seven years she was a Hoffman chair for five years she's been a delegate for like a dozen years so she she's extremely um knowledgeable and you know very articulate um and she uh you know she's just very empathetic person Von lay is a trustee from the East Side High School Union High School District which is a huge District like running for that office is like a major production and um she's very organized she's the only Asian American on our delegate assembly right now and um as you might have known uh as you might know the csba in general has reported last year that there's only five percent of Trustees are Asian so our County um is an anomaly we have a lot of Asian trustees most of us the episimal

191board most of them are from our area and there's a lot of activity and support for Asian trustees but she having her on there I think is a good voice uh Kristen Norwood is extremely accomplished he won he's from a Milpitas board I think this is his third term that he's been elected um he would be our only African-American trustee for that representation he's on ledge action he's on the Metro Ed board he's uh he's I think he's like the Outreach coordinator for the Ed Foundation um he's super articulate I think he wants the sba's trustee of the year in 2019. I mean um and he's a bit critical of csba like he's not just a yes person he's kind of like and tell me why you're doing that so he's he would be great

192to be you know and I think he presented it three different um on three different like speaking times at ABC last year so he's he's very articulate he'd be he'd be great throw for sunka did a Hoffman Awards last year she's an incumbent she's from the Cambrian District which is like a little bit different lens so they're um they're an average daily attendance District their entire District except for maybe except for one school they're all charter schools in their District to try to because they have such a low enrollment they wouldn't be able to really operate without destroying in other people from other schools so she's very sensitive about um is uh the lcff formula and she's she's really thinking about small districts and Shelley circuit would be our only Indian representative on there and

193she's currently on the mayor's she's like the Bonnie Mace of the mayor's Association so she's the executive director but she also files their taxes so she's now very connected to the Mayors and all the city government things she sits in on those meetings and she's now feeding me and um Jessica like ideas for integrating just like what Nancy was talking about several years ago integrating opportunities to overlap with the cities and then there's me you know I really appreciate if you would vote for me for lots of reasons um and then our write-in candidates we have Nancy yeah sure Nancy we really appreciate if you voted for her um and I don't know I mean I don't we don't really need to talk about ourselves um but you guys know who we are um and

194then the writing candidate the other writing candidates it's like Jorge Pacheco who's basically the president of uh the California Latino school boards Association which you know as someone said to me at lunch the other day at the um trustees lunch for Santa Clara County they said if csba we were doing their job we wouldn't even need a California let you know School boards Association you know and that's a huge organization with a lot of people in northern and southern California um and then the other American candidates Catherine Vonnegut um she is pretty new um she but she would I think Mountain View Los Altos has been on delegate assembly like for the last 20 years and now that it was Fiona Walter was on their first well almost the whole time almost all of her

19512 years and then someone else was on there before so I don't know I can't remember if there's another High School District on there but the idea was well we've always had a spot we should have a spot now um so I don't know that she's as well known in the overall organization as everyone else so um but she's a lovely person um and then George Sanchez George Sanchez has been doing this for a really long time he's an incumbent and he is the one person who he actually did fill out his form he didn't even submit he sent in all his stuff he got it approved by his board he did everything and their admin just didn't send it in like it wasn't like everyone else had an error right like someone didn't read

196the packet thoroughly someone didn't you know the process is cumbersome they didn't hit submit or someone didn't know there were pieces people didn't understand because there's so many people applying understandable but George did absolutely everything right he's on the aec planning committee for next year if he doesn't get to be delegate he doesn't get to be on that committee and I think having someone on that committee is really good for us as a County um so that's 11 awesome people for 16. that's that's how we roll so I mean we can also I'm not trying to I don't want it in any way to cut off discussion or if you have questions we can all talk about stuff but I just wanted to figure out there that no matter who we vote for it's going

197to be a good vote so there's like no one to be significant there's no one to be like oh they're lazy they're annoying they don't say anything they never show up there's no one like that on there everyone shows up and someone at the lunch asked why we have so many candidates when it seemed in the past like we had to like beg people to do this the opinions well I've been recruiting people and telling you all these people you should run for delegate assembly you'd be great you know um so I know that's happening it's been a longer history though too because when that person said that I was like the time I know that I've been on a super long time but the time I've been on there always have been more people

198than what so like but that may be a longer history got on through an appointment she got on his appointment for a full term because that particular cycle there were more seats available someone rolled off decided not to run again also people run for things like they run for other organizations they lose their seat like when he Sullivan's off because she lost her seat but but if they if or like people run for um supervisor or city council or they run for other stuff and then they're no longer a school board Christie but but also I think the other thing might be I mean it's just my thought is that now delegate assembly is actually actually has a mechanism to input on policy there's supposed to be the policy arm they were always just the

199rubber Stampers and then they get get mad at csba because they were never included on the decisions and so then they just wouldn't approve things so people like people would go through all this trouble and they they make up all these plans and then delegate assembly would be like no we don't like that and it has to go through delegate assembly for the approval it's just the way the structure is set up but now they have the four pillars where you know mine was improving the lives of children so I can go in there and I can say csba with other people with like 100 other people in a room in a really crazy process you can say reading csva should pay attention to English Learners and mental health and these things because of this

200this and this go work on that csva and there was never a way for them to do that so this is the very first year that there's a chance to actually inputs so I don't know and also I think that that with the pandemic many many board members have become more um more doing more advocacy than ever before and so I think people are just maybe more comfortable like stepping up for that it is a low time commitment it is one day it's two days a year um it's like an add-on to more than two days a year because don't you do it twice two or three days two times a year okay oh two times a year so it's two days two times a year so it's an add-on to the aec like a

201day and a half there and then it's one time in the spring and it's all in person so you cannot do this remote at all um go ahead Nancy oh I was gonna say so the other unique thing about this this cycle coming forth is that um we have someone from our County who will be in leadership position for csba in the in um this next delicate cycle though it's always much more exciting when you know who the president of um csba is and so it gets you excited about being engaged in the organization yeah for for filing that that is um Albert Gonzalez um so uh and I and I think um having a Pacer that change in Paradigm is also awakened people to possibilities and that's happened within the past um year or

202two um hey Bridget so just before we like kind of do our like you know unofficial both things um I appreciate because you know you know them really well I think it's the most like you know read you know because she was she could help us like I know some of these people a lot of us but I don't know they're working styles for different things so one of the things I would appreciate is they all would be great there's no choices it's like oh I don't think they're very engaged but if there are people that you feel like yeah they're great but I haven't really seen them as engaged recently right that would be a helpful piece or like people who were like yeah they're really engaged it's not transfer people on bus because

203they're all great but I right like I don't know that piece because I'm not active the way you are you know yeah so there are people that you think like they are great and they bring an out of value but they're maybe less so what I would ask is what do you mean by what do you mean by engage is it being engaged as delicate assembly if they are delegate or do you mean engaged as far as attending through FDA and activity um so I just remember like one of the times when read was kind of going through them and talking about them she shared like she felt like this person is really like there's nothing this person was really great but she was like in the last few years like they're going to delegate

204something but they're not really speaking up they're not really doing much at it right so like not that they were bad but they weren't adding value right so like that's kind of what I'm that's what I'm saying like if there's someone that's like yeah they're great and maybe they I don't know right but just if they show up if they're not drinking they're not really right um yes there have been delegates to um uh are more interested in engaging other activities than the core one of um I can't speak to the Dynamics currently that are in um assembly I know that from my perspective some of the members have um done a lot in the past but are not necessarily shortly um engage in attending meetings or being a part of um other activities something

205so that's who I want to know because I don't like I don't really care right and I'd rather pick somebody who's going to be more active and someone who's gonna be less active or maybe like Bridget and Nancy if you just know the things you're going to vote for I don't want to put you on someone else I would say I definitely I I would say like I am I'm it's really hard for me because I like all these people right yeah they are really all great but I would love to be able to find a way to make a room at the table for for the chico for Chris Norwood and for Charlie and I don't think I don't think I want to know Von or George right so then I mean personally I'll

206probably vote for myself so like those are the people who even though I love everybody on there like I really feel like we I would I'm personally like thinking of leaning in for a diversity and I'm I'm you know and it's like I don't know what's happened I don't know what other people in the county are doing because many board members are very conservative and they just vote for the encumbents and they don't really care but I think that like Jorge because of his position as Cs clsba and Chris because of all the work he's doing in the county um I mean and at the state level and how connected he is like I just feel like I would want to support them and so that question because I love everybody else you know um

207but that's a hard decision to make for sure it really is so so you know that's just mine that's what she says yeah is anyone who stands out to you as someone who is especially aligned with our particular districts focus on everybody like I know well that's a good question Jorge is very into uh shoot what's it called the the curriculum for I think studies ethnic studies and I know that vishali is very involved in um I want to say the justice justice you know Justice um is there anything and Jack and she and she's been on the chat um whatever board the things so she's very involved she was on El Camino Health third before school I think they all I think they all do honestly and I think oh I think like um

208Danielle Teresa and Carol all have um children adult children and uh and younger children one who has high school children but they who have special needs Theresa Von lives in a is lives in a one of our outlier districts where they're Rural and they're dealing with like rolling blackouts and she has a migrate a lot of Migrant children in her District I mean this is like an impossible choice so I would just say like you know feel free to like if you have someone you're advocating for you feel really strongly about like this is when you should say that like I definitely want you guys to consider this person or that person um like do you have anybody that you're really okay other than me my only comment is and I don't have probably a

209mattress I don't know but when I was reading through their like answers her answer to like there was a question of something about like what's the biggest need I care exactly what it was but I was just very I really liked your answer so like who's that Teresa so I don't know anything on the doctor but I'm just saying like oh I lost her answer to that yeah gave me a statement for and then what were you saying Jorge Jorge Jorge yeah he is the you know he teaches he started one of the first people in ethnic studies and he is part of also a Korean group because his parents are Korean and his mom is a Central American who got exactly which country and he's also an indigenous the same so easy yeah he

210got it all in one TV universal so yeah I don't know I don't know if well he's not African-American as I can say yes and he's a school teacher right he's a middle school teacher and he's real ambitious and he's you know he's real like dedicated he's very passionate so okay any other comments before we just write our stuff well before I would say um [Music] currently active in the communities I can't understand you could you speak up well Danielle Cohen um demographically um Nancy I don't know if like something has changed but we can't understand you right now I heard Danielle Cohen and I heard very little I'll talk about very lovely I'm I'm sorry I don't have to wear this mask um uh Danielle has not been as active in um csb at

211the county level with meetings as much as he was in the past um you know as far as being a rep and attending meetings and those kinds of things yeah okay so we're writing it down and we're handing it to Jesus so what are we doing yeah okay this is hard so to whom am I texting this cases there's there's just no wrong decision here so everyone you used to be on the bathroom let's take my glasses off [Music] yeah and it's really Lori's fault and Maury now good quality chocolate that's something I don't bring his fancy months I just bring you these for a while and no one was taking himself the other day and I was just like yeah where does this come from it came from the movie thing thank you [Music]

212yeah I talk about all these people in the heart like um it is nice to like no matter who ends up winning or not and the thing like they're all going to be great they're gonna be great yeah so if an opening comes up is it like the next person in line well then the Region 20 director gets to appoint somebody and so then what she does is she calls she pulls in all the delegates for feedback of like you know what do you know and really the other thing is is if you haven't applied for delegate assembly or aren't in the process of applying or haven't expressed interest in it they're not going to appoint you so even if you didn't even if somebody from here didn't win they would be considered for another

213question I'm sure in the in the researchers is uh Devin yeah [Music] she just got back from the Trinity but then um she overdid it a little yeah she's taking a little rest again too much yeah yeah I didn't know she had a baby Jeremy Q Jeopardy music [Music] that doesn't help so all right we have a top five but there's a type or six okay tiebreakers or your Teresa and Van Lee okay that's your number pair number six so now we just have to reboot so who's who who's in the five so the top five is Chris Bridget Jorge George and bazami Masali thank you you said Chris Bridget Jorge George besides her call Teresa and um Teresa and Bounty have to reach [Music] well there's five of you like two of them so

214yeah seriously yeah look serious tops agreement s so um so the question before us is um do we want to think about geography yes to who represents I think so do I want to discuss they just voted Nancy yeah so we're waiting for your vote um okay because right now it's a tie oh my God so Nancy's the tight breaker it's gonna happen so what happens after 10. yeah because you know like after four plus hours so both of those this is to me represent very important areas of robots Despereaux East Side Union is a low a very big and very low income High School District and I feel like that is a a population that deserves representation but also what services does too I mean it's a it's a small rural District but also

215deserves application that's Teresa Teresa Jerusalem and she's from like the Los Gatos um yeah and especially what she was commenting on during the meeting about these specific challenges faced by uh they're facing because of climate change and I thought that was the unique and important Insight they have all these storms now they have their blackout they're rolling blackouts they have snow they don't know how to deal with and those were and that was really hard I voted for Bob but um so that's those are the things I was considering yeah fun is fun is from the East Side High School District but it's the southern part of the district and almost all the trustees in the next cycle are all on the south side so even though it looks like there aren't that many from

216the south I mean the Jorge is from the South but and um Teresa San Jose Unified has a seat appointed so they're guaranteed [Music] um so it's just you know it's tough okay I just touched it right now I texted you but I'm happy I'm sorry I have low bandwidth it's just circling for our six candidate vote to be Chris Bridget Jorge by Charlie George and fun I accepted and fourth and 8th board they say if you are you want to approve please say aye aye aye cheers and now we can move to consent agenda items that's the item number 13 if any any item of the consent agenda is subject to review on discussion prior to be approved by the board if necessary any items may be removed or separated a as a separate

217action if the public May address the war regarding any items on the concern if there is any member of the public who wishes to speak on this identity is called the race and feature now we'd like to call Item e okay so not for discussion but we'd like to just table that one okay we're gonna say well item D and any comment okay so please can we have a motion to talk to discuss and everything from the consent again that without item e which will detail for next meeting okay second all second okay any discussion again as not right there okay so then we moved to a approve we need to vote sorry we cannot approve it yet we need to vote about these consensus and the items to approve them without item e please

218everybody who is okay when they say aye aye okay and I I do those fancy also say ISO with that and then we can move to the next one which is a 14 informational items and this e-rate alleged eligible products and service the contact person for this is superintendent and human resource and information system yes thank you thank you [Music] the description holds true um we have submitted two bids um or received two bids for our category one uh internet access and category two um I guess that's connectivity components for the from the state e rate I mean sorry the federal b-rate program The District are our eligibility based off of our student um I think Title One title three is 50 reimbursement so we are trying to leverage um funds so we will be

219bringing back at a future board meeting the selection of the of the of the bidding process but needed to front load this to you about our rfps regarding the projects presented so this is again just for information and our opportunity to leverage Federal and rate funds to uh build out our connectivity infrastructure hey thank you so I don't think there is any a vote or motion on this one so okay then with that thank you very much and we can move to a item 15 the future meeting is going to be in Thursday March 23rd in 2023 at 6 pm and it will be a regular board meeting with a governance part in the meeting and with that this meeting is being adjourned at 10 20 and thank you for your Awards stay here